Brooklyn, NY – A Well-Connected Nonprofit.
Brooklyn, NY - An invitation for an April 29th "political banquet" in support of Rep. Ed Towns, featuring appearances by Michael Bloomberg and City Comptroller Bill Thompson.
The event is being orga...
Little Rock, AR – Huckabee’s Son Arrested With Loaded Gun at Little Rock Airport
Little Rock, AR — David Huckabee, a son of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, was arrested at Little Rock's airport Thursday after a federal X-ray technician detected a loaded Glock pis...
Bogota, Colombia – An Entire Country Hit with Massive Blackout.
Bogota, Colombia — Colombia was hit by an energy blackout on Thursday that disrupted business, trapped people in elevators and darkened traffic signals, causing chaos on urban streets, officials said....
New York, NY – Suit Opens New Front In Fight For Nazi Reparations
New York, NY - As Polish gov’t sells off businesses to American companies, heirs of Shoah victims want value of their stock shares.
As one of his last acts in 1943 before he was forced into Majdanek,...
Brooklyn, NY – More Backlash Against DOS Ticket Blitz.
Brooklyn, NY - Tired of watching residents receive tickets from the city’s Department of Sanitation (DOS) for having litter on their sidewalks blown or dropped there during the workday, Community Boar...
Marseille, France – Woman Suffers Vicious Anti-Semitic Attack
Marseille, France - A 22-year-old Jewish woman suffered a vicious anti-Semitic attack by two men of Middle Eastern appearance in a train station.
The attackers tore the Star of David chain from aroun...
Trenton, NJ – Gov. Corzine Speaks Publicly For First Time.
Trenton, NJ - Gov. Jon S. Corzine, speaking publicly for the first time since he was seriously injured in an automobile accident two weeks ago, said Thursday that feels blessed to be alive.
"I'm the...
New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg Doesn’t Cave In To JP Morgan’s Threat.
New York, NY - One of the nation's largest banks has threatened to leave the city if it doesn't receive bigger tax breaks to develop one of five planned office towers at ground zero, government offici...
Washington – Sen. Chuck Hagel: My Support To Israel is not Automatic.
Washington - U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel told an Arab-American audience that his support for Israel was not "automatic." Hagel (R-Neb.), who is considering a run for the presidency, told the Arab American I...
New York, NY – NYC Has a Massive 4.4 Billion Surplus.
New York, NY - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said higher than expected tax revenues will leave the city with a massive $4.4 billion budget surplus for fiscal year 2007.
With large deficits predicted for 2...
United Kingdom – Pony In Swastika Attack.
United Kingdom - A tiny pony had to be scrubbed and shaved after yobs daubed two swastikas on her coat.
White Shetland pony Lucy, who is just 34in high, was left with the Nazi symbols on her forehe...
Germany – German Party Forms First Jewish Caucus Since Nazi Era.
Germany - A Jewish caucus has been set up within Germany's centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), the first Jewish organization within a major German party since the Nazi takeover in 1933, the Fra...
Brooklyn, NY +Partial Building Collapse+
Brooklyn, NY - NYPD ESU division and Fire Department are all on the scene for a 200 foot wall from a 5 story vacant building that collapsed in Brooklyn. Several cars are buried under the ruble. New Yo...
Tel Aviv, Israel – Knives Found In Bag at Ben Gurion Airport
Tel Aviv, Israel - Security personal at Ben Gurion Airport discovered a number of knives hidden inside a DVD player, which was inside the bag belonging to a passenger heading to Moscow.Immediately fol...
New York – Executive Vice President Weinreb to Stay at O.U.
New York - The Orthodox Union reversed course and extended the contract of Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, its executive vice president, for two more years.
Weinreb's contract was to expire this summ...
Columbus, OH – A $10-a-Seat Airline Launches
Columbus, OH- Skybus an airline offering $10 seats, launched this morning, and by midday, it had sold 97,000 tickets. The American appetite for bargains seems as strong as ever.
Skybus doesn’t have ...
New York – U.S. Energy Secretary: Upstate NY Needs More Energy.
New York — It's the news that New York Regional Interconnect has been waiting for. U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman will announce this afternoon that his department considers much of New York State...
Australia – Israeli Police To Question a Prominent Australian Billionaire.
Australia - A team of Israeli police will leave for Australia next week to question a prominent billionaire about suspicions that Ehud Olmert tried to help him in a bank sale before becoming prime min...
Estonia – Russian Rabbi Warns Authorities Not To Excavate Grave
Estonia - A Russian chief rabbi warned Estonian authorities that the planned excavation of a common grave of Soviet soldiers in Tallinn could embolden global extremism.
"We know that extremist forces ...
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY +Working Apartment Fire+
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY +Working Apartment Fire+ Fire Department are transmitting all hands call for an apartment fire at 1650 President Street and Schenectady Avenue, fire is at apartment 1-F in ...