A Brooklyn man visiting Ukraine says he witnessed masked men handing out leaflets ordering Jews in eastern Ukraine to register with authorities.
Yosef Gurevitz, who is from Crown Heights and is in Donetsk visiting family, told NBC News he saw the men outside a synagogue earlier this week.
"There were about 100 of us outside the synagogue after Passover eve prayers [on Wednesday] when we saw three masked men in the crowd who started to hand out letters," Gurevitz said. "One of them tried to tape one on the synagogue door. Then they ...
An agreement struck by the U.S., the European Union, Russia and Ukraine has raised hopes for defusing the Ukrainian crisis, which has strained East-West ties to a degree unseen since the Cold War. The deal Thursday in Geneva came after the four parties held talks together for the first time since Ukraine's turmoil began nearly five months ago. A look at how the Ukrainian crisis has ...
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Community leaders are praising the leadership at the NYPD's 70 Precinct, after police apprehended 21-year-old Kareem Potomont, Thursday afternoon.
Cops arrested Potomont in Queens, just hours after releasing his photo to the public.
Potomont is the suspect in the shooting of 13-year-old Gamma Droiville. A stray bullet struck him in the eye as he waited for a bus on Flatbush Avenue on ...
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Election-year memo to Democratic candidates: Don't talk about the economic recovery. It's a political loser.
So say Democratic strategists in a blunt declaration that such talk skips over "how much trouble people are in, and doesn't convince them that policymakers really understand or are even focusing on the problems they continue to face."
In addition, Stan Greenberg, James ...
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On the first day of Chol HaMoed, the Five Towns/Far Rockaway community was privileged to hear a shiur from Rav Mordechai Stern, the newly installed Rabbi of the W Shul in Lawrence, New York. Rabbi Stern is the son-in-law of Rav Moshe Brown Shlita, the son of Rabbi Stern Shlita from Mesivta Chaim Shlomo (Darchei Torah’s high School) and is an alumnus of BMG. The Shiur was delivered to ...
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Traffic signals will be retimed for 25 mph along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx to reduce dangerous speeding.
The city's Department of Transportation says the 5.2 mile-corridor from East 140th Street to Mosholu Parkway has seen 12 fatalities between 2008 and 2012. Seven of those involved pedestrians.
It says the Grand Concourse is the second of 25 planned Arterial Slow Zones to ...
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An avalanche swept down a climbing route on Mount Everest early Friday, killing at least 12 Nepalese guides and leaving four missing in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak. Several more were injured.
The Sherpa guides had gone early in the morning to fix ropes for other climbers when the avalanche hit them at about 6:30 a.m., Nepal Tourism Ministry official Krishna ...
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A new Obama administration privacy policy released Friday explains how the government will gather the user data of online visitors to WhiteHouse.gov, mobile apps and social media sites, and it clarifies that online comments, whether tirades or tributes, are in the open domain.
"Information you choose to share with the White House (directly and via third party sites) may be treated as ...
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An Egyptian imam who led a London mosque more than a dozen years ago was portrayed in opening statements at his terrorism trial as an enthusiastic supporter of al-Qaida by a prosecutor and as a reasonable man who helped authorities in England keep people calm by his defense attorney.
The openings Thursday at the trial of Mustafa Kamel Mustafa came after U.S. District Judge Katherine ...
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Officials are advising commuters who use the Pulaski Skyway that this past week was the exception, not the norm.
No major traffic problems have been reported since northbound lanes were closed on Saturday to repair the 81-year-old span on which 74,000 vehicles travel daily between Newark with Jersey City.
Officials say that's because Jersey City schools were closed and traffic was ...
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A doomed ferry's captain delayed evacuation for half an hour after a South Korean transportation official ordered preparations to abandon ship, raising more questions about whether quick action could have saved scores of passengers still missing Friday and feared dead, according to a transcript of the ship-to-shore exchange and interviews with a crewmember.
The order by an ...
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Thousands of PA (Palestinian Authority) residents on Thursday, 17 Nissan 5774 marched in Ramallah in observance of Prisoners Day, a day of solidarity with terrorists imprisoned in Israel. Similar protests involving thousands of residents were held in Shechem and Hebron as well.
In Hebron where over 2,000 people took part in events pelted Israeli security troops with rocks. Marchers ...
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Secret Service investigators say they are close to gaining a full understanding of the methods hackers used to breach Target's computer systems last December.
But the agency says it could take years to identify the criminals who stole some 40 million debit and credit card numbers of Target shoppers and other personal information from as many as 70 million people in the pre-Christmas ...
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Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford acknowledged "rocky moments over the past year" but vowed to fight harder than ever to win re-election at a rally he dubbed the official launch of his campaign.
Ford, who was the first to register as a candidate in January, invoked the spirit of second chances during a speech in front of supporters on Thursday. Ford is seeking re-election on Oct. 27 ...
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A federal judge has approved plans to sell a 36-story Manhattan office building and other properties owned by Iran nationwide in what will be the largest terrorism-related forfeiture ever, a prosecutor said Thursday.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Judge Katherine Forrest approved the deal between the U.S. government and 19 holders of more than $5 billion in terrorism-related ...
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The ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) arrested Israeli Arab journalist Majd Kayyal on Shabbos, 12 Nissan 5774 when he returned to Israel from Lebanon. He was in Beirut for three weeks according to reports.
He was taken into custody for visiting a hostile country. Majd, a resident of Haifa, was imprisoned and prevented from meeting with his attorney. There was a gag order on ...
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Hopon is Israel’s new smartphone app that will permit payment and ticketing for public transportation. The app is currently available for iPhone and promises to soon be available to android users as well.
Persons interested in becoming the first to use the application may register and download it.
(YWN – Israel Desk, ...
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Steve Silvenchev was heading to India for his post-IDF service hike but his dream vacation quickly became a nightmare. Security at Ben-Gurion International Airport failed to detect a single bullet that was in his backpack from his IDF service days but security in India did. He was imprisoned for carrying the bullet and remains in prison for months, awaiting trial.
Speaking with Galei ...
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Binyamin Richter, who is suspected of taking part in a price tag arson attack in the village of Farata, has been ordered held without bail. The Supreme Court on Thursday, 17 Nissan 5774 accepted an appeal from the state. The prosecution sought to overturn a district court ruling permitting Richter’s release on bail.
Among the charges being filed against Richer are conspiracy, ...
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Eight million people have signed up for health care through new insurance exchanges, President Barack Obama said Thursday, besting expectations and offering new hope to Democrats who are defending the law ahead of the midterm elections.
Obama appeared in the White House briefing room to trumpet the new figures, which beat initial projections by 1 million people. Equally critical: ...
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Using smartphone technology to spread the propaganda message, the Zochrot organization is announcing the launch of its new iPhone app called I Nakba. Nakba is the term used by Arabs to mark the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, hence the app details the areas destroyed by Israel as a result of the creation of the state. The app, which will be free of charge, operates in three ...
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Motorists will face detours as work continues on the Helix leading to the Lincoln Tunnel.
The next phase of the roadway improvement project is set to begin on Tuesday when westbound lanes will be closed.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says commuters will still be able to travel westbound through the tunnel and onto Route 495 by detouring onto eastbound lanes. ...
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According to a report released from the Hizbullah affiliated al-Manar agency, IDF soldiers operated 100 meters inside southern Lebanon and arrested five shepherds, three women and two men, releasing the women. This reportedly occurred near Sheba Farm.
Lebanese media sources on Thursday, 17 Nissan 5774 reported the soldiers crossed into Lebanon on Thursday and made the arrests. The ...
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A Berlin-based researcher says he has managed to fool the fingerprint-based security system on Samsung's new Galaxy S5 smartphone using wood glue and a picture of the original print.
Ben Schlabs, an American who works for German firm Security Research Labs GmbH, says the trick is identical to the one hackers used to unlock Apple's iPhone 5 last year.
The flaw is potentially more ...
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U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer released the following statement calling on President Putin to denounce pro-Russian forces’ push to register Jewish citizens in Eastern Ukraine
“President Putin has accused the Ukrainians recently of being anti-Semitic, but now it is pro-Russian forces that are engaged in these grotesque acts. President Putin should strongly denounce these acts and ...
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Today, there are numerous reports from Ukraine that "flyers in Donetsk said all Jews who are 16 years old and above should register at the government building" and that the local Jewish population is "required to report any real estate and automobiles."
"The reports coming out of Ukraine about anti-Semitic flyers that make chilling demands of the local Jewish community are deeply ...
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Was this a prank in poor taste or an anti-Semitic act? Swastikas were drawn on a wall on the Beis Yaakov Shteiblach in the Beis Yisrael neighborhood of Yerushalayim.
It should be pointed out the neighborhood is adjacent to an Arab neighborhood in the eastern capital. Police were summoned and interviewed mispallalim. Crime scene investigators operated at the shteiblach as ...
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Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed Thursday a report that Jews in one restive Ukrainian city were sent notices telling them to register, a development he called "grotesque."
Kerry's comments follow a report in Israel's Ynet News that a leaflet was circulating in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, demanding that Jews register -- as well as provide a list of property they own ...
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The NYPD is asking for the public's help in catching a pair of bank robbers who struck four times in Brooklyn Monday.
Now, they're releasing surveillance photos they hope will lead to arrests.
All of the robberies took place between 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. on April 14.
The spree started at a Capital One Bank on Ralph Avenue in the Flatlands section. The pair then hit a Chase Bank ...
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Authorities are continuing the search for the terrorist who opened fire near the Tarkumiya Checkpoint on erev Pesach, murdering Israel Police Chief Superintendent Baruch Mizrachi HY”D. Officials are looking at PA Chairman Mahmoud ... Full Story » 
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