Washington – New Pandemic Fear: Shortage of Surgical Masks
Washington - The surgical face mask has become perhaps the most recognizable symbol of the H1N1 pandemic threat, but if the currently circulating flu virus does in fact reach full-fledged pandemic pro...
New York City – Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust
New York City - Sometimes it takes a family, and a persistent one at that. So it was with Mayer Kirshenblatt, a reluctant painter and accidental memoirist whose words and images form an extraordinary ...
Jerusalem – Israeli Supreme Court: Equal Funding for Reform Conversions
Jerusalem - The Supreme Court has ruled that the State illegally discriminates against conversion-to-Judaism institutes of the Reform movement, and that the government’s refusal to fund them violates ...
Albany, NY – Governor Pushes for Calorie Counts in Chain Restaurants
Albany, NY - Claiming that 60% of New Yorkers are currently listed as overweight or obese, Governor Paterson is pushing for chain restaurants to come clean about their calorie count.
First, there was...
Washington – Credit Cards Companies to Go After Those with Sterling Credit
Washington - Credit cards have long been a very good deal for people who pay their bills on time and in full. Even as card companies imposed punitive fees and penalties on those late with their paymen...
Miami Beach, FL – Police Consider Vandalism of Rabbi’s Home Hate Crime
Miami Beach, FL - What was smeared on the walls at the home of a South Florida rabbi has left a community outraged, and police are calling this a possible hate crime.
"We saw, on the window right h...
Ashdod, Israel – Court Requested Dayanim to Justify Conversion Annulments
Ashdod, Israel - The High Court of Justice took a dramatic decision today, giving the dayanim of the Higher Rabbinical Court and the Ashdod District Rabbinical Court 90 days to explain why they had re...
Israel – Arab Terrorists Searching Facebook for Sensitive Info of Israelis
Israel - The Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) said today that terrorists are using the Facebook internet-based social network to try and entrap Israelis and gather sensitive security information.
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New York – U.S. Stocks Climb
New York - U.S. stocks rose, helping the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index erase half of last week’s loss, as analysts recommended Bank of America Corp. and Lowe’s Cos. beat earnings projections. Oil cl...
New York – Privacy Activists Asks Department of Homeland Security Not To Use ‘whole body imaging’ at Airports
New York - Privacy advocates plan to call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to suspend use of "whole-body imaging," the airport security technology that critics say performs "a virtual strip...
Berlin – German Jews See Cultural Revival as Proof ‘Hitler Didn’t Win’
Berlin - A country once booming with Jewish life and culture is finally seeing a renaissance after decades of post-war fear.
Munich's new synagogue, museum and community center, unveiled in the hea...
New York – The Anti–Red Bull: A Drink to Calm You Down
New York - The success of energy drinks like Red Bull, Monster, and Rockstar have proven that consumers are constantly thirsting for a boost. But will they ever want to come back down, and reach for a...
Richmond, Virginia – Laid-off Religious Workers Can’t Claim Unemployment Benefits
Richmond, Virginia - God may provide, but the state may not when it comes to unemployment benefits for employees laid off by churches, synagogues and religious groups.
Carol Bronson discovered that...
New York, NY – Prominent Columnist Maureen Dowd Caught in Plagiarism Row
New York, NY - It is an axiom of the new digital media age that high-profile political columnists should generally avoid copying other people's words without attribution. Nobody wants to have the p-wo...
New York – Jetblue Airlines Extends Its Job-Loss Guarantee For Travelers
New York - New York based value airline JetBlue Airway today announced the extension of The JetBlue Promise Program for customers booking air travel or Getaways vacation packages by Dec. 31, 2009. The...
Tehran, Iran – Rabbi in Speech to ‘Palestine Duty of Nations’ Urges Global Sanctions on Israeli Goods
Tehran, Iran -Rabbi Aharon Cohen from the anti-Zionist movement of Neturei Karta today called for global sanctions against Israel.
"Sanction against Israeli goods must become global," Rabbi Aharon C...
Brooklyn, NY – The Wonder of ‘kindertransport’ And The Facinating Story Of The Woman Who Lived Through It [video]
Brooklyn, NY - Her ordeal began on December 1st, 1938. It actually began much before that, but this was the day that ten year old Sessy (now Jakobovits) was separated from her beloved mother. It was...
New York – Woody Allen In $5 Million Settlement With American Apparel
New York - Woody Allen agreed Monday to a $5 million settlement in his lawsuit accusing a trendy clothing company of using an image parodying him as a rabbi without his permission.
Both sides annou...
Maryland – Baltimore Sun Editorial: No Reason For Orthodox To Protest JCC, It’s A Reform Org. [video]
Maryland - The controversy over plans to open the Jewish Community Center in Owings Mills on Saturdays taps into a deep current of tension in Jewish communities stretching from Maryland to Israel.
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Washington – Court: Top U.S. Officials Can’t Be Sued for Post-9/11 Abuse
Washington - The former U.S. attorney general and the FBI director cannot be subjected to a lawsuit by a Pakistani man claiming abuse while imprisoned in New York after the September 11, 2001, attacks...
