Jerusalem – Non-Jewish School Dropouts Quit Their Rebellious Lives While Living With A Jewish Family
Jerusalem - Two non-Jewish teenage school dropouts quit their rebellious lives in Britain for a week-long obedience lesson with a firm religious-Zionist family for the BBC reality TV show World's Stri...
Norway – Jewish Cemetery Desecrated in Oslo
Norway - The Jewish section of an Oslo cemetery was desecrated with swastikas and graffiti painted on headstones, Norwegian media reported on Friday. Television images showed black swastikas and the ...
New York – Torah Lending Provisions Are The Basis For a Balanced Economy
New York - To avoid transgressing the Torah law against usury, in Israel loans are structured so that the lender becomes an investor rather than a usurer. But this is more than just a loophole in the ...
Baltimore, MD – Thousands Attend Rally To Promote ‘Kedushas Shabbat’
Baltimore, MD - For Yoel Benyowitz, setting aside work at sundown on Friday, lighting the shabbos candles and spending the next 24 hours in prayer and fellowship with family and friends "recharges our...
Williamsburg, NY – Shomrim Credited In Helping Cops Nab Hit-and-Run
Williamsburg, NY - Members of a community patrol joined with cops to catch a hit-and-run motorist who plowed into a man in Williamsburg.
After the 8:23 p.m. accident at Flushing and Marcy avenues, th...
Tlamim, Israel – 5 Arrested for Holding Rabbi Captive 3 Years to Purify Him from Sin
Tlamim, Israel - Five residents of the Tlamim community in southern Israel were arrested today on suspicion of kidnapping and extorting Rabbi Nir Ben-Artzi, head of the "Talmei Geula" non-profit organ...
Monticello, NY – Building Inspector Driving Without License Suspended
Monticello, NY - The Monticello building inspector was suspended indefinitely on allegations she has been driving a village-owned car without a valid New York driver's license. Police say it was revok...
Jerusalem – Justice Minister Pushes Bill To Empower Rabbinic Courts
Jerusalem - Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman is moving forward with a government bill that would significantly expand the rabbinical courts' authority.
Under the bill, the rabbinical courts would hav...
New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg: Obama’s Doing Great – by Copying Me
New York, NY - Mayor Bloomberg thinks President Obama did a great job during his first 100 days - largely because he followed a Bloomberg-like approach to governing.
The Democrat turned Republican tu...
New York – Google Challenged by New Rival With All the Answers – WolframAlpha
New York - A revolutionary new search engine that computes answers rather than pointing to websites will be launched officially today amid heated talk that it could challenge the might of Google.
W...
Queens, NY – Jewish Assistant Principal Is First NYC Swine Flu Death
Queens, NY - The Queens assistant principal stricken with swine flu succumbed to the deadly virus today, the first person to die in the city from the disease, hospital officials said.
"We were trea...
Manhattan, NY – World Trade Center Disaster Drill Scenes Echo 9/11
Manhattan, NY - More than 800 rescue workers have staged a disaster drill at a commuter rail station at the World Trade Center site in scenes that echoed images from the Sept 11 attacks on New York.
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Argentina – Five Arrested in Anti-Semitic Protest
Argentina - Police arrested at least five people after anti-Semitic demonstrators clashed today with Jews marking the 61st anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel.
During the Jewish grou...
New York – Brooklyn Woman Objects To City Tree Gets Threatened With Jail
New York - The million trees program should be cut to 999,999.
Or maybe the city could just move the tree it planted outside Marion D. Smith's home on 11th St. in Park Slope on Friday.
The Brooklyn ...
St. Petersburg – New Website Helps Russian Jews Track Ancestors
St. Petersburg - A new Russian language website – www.Jekl.ru – is helping Jewish families discover their ancestors and visit their gravesites in St. Petersburg’s Preobrazhenskiy Jewish Cemetery.
T...
St. Louis, MO – Search On For 102-Year-old Jewish Philanthropist Missing After Man Seen Jumping From Bridge
St. Louis, MO - Family members say I.E. Millstone, the legendary St. Louis builder and philanthropist who went missing Saturday, had been suffering from anxiety after taking pain medication for a shou...
Jerusalem – Rav Amar: Strawberries Kosher And May Be Eaten
Jerusalem - During a visit to a Hesder Yeshiva in the Yesha town of Karnei Shomron, Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar gave a shiur on the permissibility of eating strawberries.
He claimed that the recent psa...
Jerusalem – Netanyahu Sees Iran as ‘Amalek’, Advisor Says
Jerusalem - When the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, visits the White House on Monday for his first stage-setting visit, he will carry with him an agenda that clashes insistently with that...
California – Court To Decide About Privacy Rights After Death; Huge Impact For Online News Industry
California - A battle between a California family and the state’s legal system could see a resolution in the coming days, more than two years after controversial photos from a teenage girl’s fatal car...
Washington – Storm of Taxation Threatens to Swamp Internet Stores
Washington - A perfect storm is brewing that could end the days of the Internet as a relatively tax-free zone, threatening to wash away one of the last remaining redoubts of economic enterprise in th...
