New York – Haunted By Motherhood
New York - Women are most vulnerable to mood disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period. If depression or anxiety is going to surface, it typically happens at this time. Postpartum depressi...
Haifa, Israel – Car-Bomb Could Have Collapsed the Mall
Haifa, Israel - The car bomb that did not go off on Saturday night in a Haifa parking lot could have collapsed the entire three-story shopping mall above it.
The car was parked in the Cinemall park...
Brooklyn, NY – 30 Leading Rabbis Sign Religious Ban Prohibiting Passover Price Gouging
Brooklyn, NY - Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) and Mr. Alexander Rapaport of Masbia Soup Kitchen have joined forces to draft a religious ban prohibiting Passover price gouging in the Orthodox Jewi...
Des Moines, IA – Today’s Agriprocessors Auction Closed to the Media
Des Moines, IA - A spokesman for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee for an embattled kosher slaughterhouse in northeast Iowa says an auction of the company will move forward today.
Gary Lewi says the ...
Jerusalem – Matza Exports Seen Falling 5-10% Due To Economic Crisis
Jerusalem - Last year was good for matza exports, which rose 31% to $12 million, the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute reports.
Top matza export destinations in 2008 were the US...
New York – Swedish Study Finds Fish Diet Boosts Intelligence Scores
New York - A regular intake of fish appears to boost intelligence scores in teenagers, according to a new Swedish study. The research suggested that 15-year-old males, who ate fish at least once a wee...
Albany, NY – Gov. David Paterson’s Senate Minority Leader’s Tenure Marked by Chaos, Dysfunction
Albany NY - A bombshell secret report sizing up David Paterson's leadership when he was Senate minority leader found his office mired in chaos, lacking clear lines of communication and hobbled by dysf...
Israel – Yiddish GPS Device Makes Schlepping Around Eretz Yisroel Easy
Israel - Oy gevalt! You can sure feel like a schlemiel getting around Eretz Yisroel sometimes. Especially if you're a kvetch who doesn't have the chutzpa to ask for directions because you only speak Y...
Sydney, Australia – Second Teenager Pleads Guilty to Attacking Missionaries Storefront
Sydney, Australia - A second teenager has appeared in court and pleaded guilty to a charge of causing malicious damage to a Jews for J.’ storefront in Bondi Junction in January.
Terence Abrams, 19, o...
Beijing – Israel Concerned Over ‘SS-style’ Logo Ad Campaign in China
Beijing, China - Israeli diplomats have raised concerns over a national business awards contest with a logo that looks similar to the Nazi SS insignia.
Billboard posters for the China Top Brand awa...
Sanaa, Yemen – Man Condemned to Death for Email Contact with Israeli Prime Minister
Sanaa, Yemen - A Yemeni court today condemned an Islamist to death for establishing contact with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and offering to collaborate with the Jewish state.
Bassam al-Haid...
New York – Officials: Unlicensed Child Care a Growing Problem
New York - When 2-year-old Olivia Raspanti choked to death at Carousel Day School, the Hicksville day care center became the unlikely face of what state and local officials say is a persistent, growin...
Jerusalem – El Al Says It’s Proud to Fly Pope Back to Rome After Visit
Jerusalem - El Al will be flying Pope Benedict XVI and his entourage from the Holy Land back to Rome on May 15, when his historic visit to Jordan, the Palestinian-controlled areas and Israel ends.
Th...
Manhattan, NY – Most Famous Szyk Haggadah Up For Auction
Manhattan, NY - Swann Galleries' April 2 auction of fine books will include a copy of one of the most famous versions of the Haggadah. The Szyk Haggadah was illustrated by Arthur Szyk in Poland in the...
Albany, NY – Governor Rethinking Plan to Charge Taxpayers who File on Paper
Albany, NY - Governor Paterson says his administration is rethinking a plan that would charge taxpayers $10 for filing income tax returns on paper instead of e-filing.
Critics say the policy would ...
Lviv, Ukraine – State Historical Archive Returns 14 Torah Fragments to Jewish Community
Lviv, Ukraine - The Central State Historical Archive in the Ukrainian city of Lviv have returned 14 Torah fragments to a local Jewish congregation.
Mordehai Shlomo Bold, the chief rabbi of Lviv, sai...
Washington – ACLU Says Bureau Of Prisons Again Attempting To Illegally Ban Religious Material
Washington - The American Civil Liberties Union today filed formal comments opposing a proposed rule by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) that would illegally empower prison officials to ban vital religious...
New York – Madoff Victims Flood Judaica Market With Treasures
New York - Sometime in January, the e-mails started coming more frequently, describing an 18th-century Polish silver candelabra here, an Italian bronze Hanukkah lamp there.
Jonathan Greenstein, cha...
Jerusalem – Software Program to Help Student Create Chiddushim
Jerusalem - Ami Zrien, an Ashdod computer programmer and baal tshuva, has written a program to help students of Talmud write their chiddushim.
Zrien had written the program for himself, but at the ...
New York – New Yorkers Still Waiting for Their State Tax Refund Checks
New York - Queens therapist Tracie James filed her state income tax return last month.
Brooklyn customer service rep Marcia Clement filed hers a few weeks later.
And Sharon Jenkins, a Manhattan rec...