New York, NY – Surveillance Cameras In Subway Cars
New York, NY - An initiative to put surveillance cameras onboard subway cars took another small step forward today as the MTA announced a pilot program to install cameras on two subway cars. The proto...
New York, NY – New Bill will Require Every Parking Permit to Be On Public Website
New York, NY - Earlier this year, the Bloomberg administration decided to crackdown on civil servant parking permits by 20 percent.As a follow up, Councilmember Tony Avella introduced legislation (Int...
Israel – Rabbi: Give Israeli Citizenship To All Jews Worldwide
Israel - Prominent Religous-Zionist Rabbi Zalman Melamed suggests conferring Israeli citizenship on all Jews worldwide while stripping rights of 'gentiles striving to undermine the country'
"There mu...
Borough Park, NY – Hikind Distributing Cell Phones For Emergency Use For Senior Citizens
Borough Park, NY - For some seniors, going to the corner grocery or to synagogue or church becomes overwhelming because they don’t feel secure outside of the confines of their home.
Assemblyman Dov H...
New York – Gas Will Go As High As as $10 a A Gallon
New York - A virtual doubling of prices at the gas pump to as much as $10 a gallon.
That’s the message from a couple of analytical energy industry trackers, both of whom, based on the surging oil pr...
Wichita, KS +Lakewood Convert Ted Floyd Pleads Guilty, Faces 10 Years Prison+
Wichita, KS - Theodore Riley Floyd, 28, Lakewood, N.J., pleaded guilty Monday to one count of making a false statement on an application for a passport and using the passport to assume another man’s i...
New York – Time to Stock Up on Forever Samps
New York - With a postal rate increase just two weeks away, Americans are buying 30 million Forever stamps a day.
The cost of sending a first-class letter will rise a penny to 42 cents on May 12, bu...
Bratislava, Slovakia – Glass Memorial of Chasam Sofer Vandalized
Bratislava, Slovakia - Three teenagers have vandalized a memorial to a Jewish scholar in the Slovak capital.
The teens threw stones that damaged the monument's glass structure, All three were d...
Bari, Italy – Police Confiscates Fake “Extra-Virgin” Olive Oil
Bari, Italy - Italian police have arrested 39 people and seized truckloads of fake olive oil destined for the United States, Germany and Switzerland.Tipped off by restaurateurs cops have confiscated 5...
Washington – U.S. Issues Travel Alert For China
Washington - The U.S. government issued a travel alert for China, citing a higher risk of attacks within the country in the near future, including possibly at the Olympic Games in August.
"Any large-...
Washington, DC – Supreme Court Upholds Photo ID Law for Voters
Washington, DC - The Supreme Court ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.In a...
New York – Alert System Now Covers Entire Region
New York - How do you warn people of an impending disaster at 4 a.m.? Firefighters could knock on doors, but that would have taken forever. A message could have been broadcast on radio stations and te...
Washington – New Troops in War on Terror: 80 Million Boaters
Washington - As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist the country’s 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances that a small boat could deliver a nuclear or...
New York – Top Court Clarifies Role of Buyers Real Estate Agents
New York - New York's highest court says a real estate buyer's agent can represent only one bidder for a property, but their agency can represent many competing bidders.
The unanimous Court of Appe...
New York – Quebec and NY to Exchange Border Information
New York - Quebec and New York have intensified their battle against terrorism and crime, agreeing to exchange information about people who cross their borders.Michael Balboni, New York's deputy ...
Washington – U.S. Solider Starts Religious Freedom Group, After Claims Of Anti-Semitism.
Washington - In the U.S. military today, if you wanna get ahead, well, you're promoted by who you pray with," Mikey Weinstein said.
You'd be hard pressed to find a family more dedicated to military s...
New York City – City Increase In Parking Tickets
New York City - Traffic agents are painting the town orange - issuing more than 2.5 million tickets so far this year.
The 2,535,308 summonses between January and March represented an 8 percent uptick...
Brooklyn, NY +Working Fire at Jewish Center+
Brooklyn, NY +Working Fire at Jewish Center+ Fire Department are on the scene for a working fire in the basement hallway of a 2-story Jewish center housing a synagogue and a school at 1981 Homecrest A...
London – Man Held for Stab Attacks on Jews
London - A 37-year-old man is being questioned after two Orthodox Jews were stabbed within minutes of each other in apparently random and unprovoked street attacks in Golders Green, north-west London....
Jerusalem, Israel – Western Wall Stones in Danger of Falling
Jerusalem, Israel - A routine inspection of the Western Wall's stones has revealed that some of then are falling apart.
The stones in question, are those atop the upper wall – an addition buil...
