It appears that there are some residents of the Meah Shearim and Geula community that are unwilling to continue sitting back and accepting the presence of the sikrikim as a

Powerful assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has had enough of Occupy Wall Streeters going to the bathroom on the streets – and drumming all day. Silver, Rep. Jerald Nadler (D-Manhattan) and

A Republican senator is calling on President Obama to cancel the $12.8 million in bonuses that were approved for 10 executives at the government-seized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that received a $170 billion taxpayer-funded bailout. �I am calling on the president of the United States to cancel those bonuses and explain to […]

Tokyo Electric Power Co. detected signs of possible nuclear fission at its crippled Fukushima atomic power plant in northern Japan, raising the risk of more radiation leaks. The company, known

Powerful New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says public support for a �millionaire tax� to avoid more spending cuts is growing and he thinks Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Senate�s Republican majority may yet support it. Silver has continued pushing the idea despite the Democratic governor and the Senate Republicans flatly rejecting his bill to […]

Atlanta – Frederick Thomas, 73, of Cleveland, Ga.; Dan Roberts, 67, of Toccoa, Ga.; Ray H. Adams, 65, of Toccoa; and Samuel J. Crump, 68, of Toccoa, were arrested today

The military lawyers for the 9/11 suspects, in what is believed to be an unprecedented legal move, are accusing the Defense Department of sanctioning �practices that are unlawful� that will �effectively stall this case.� In a letter to the head of detainee affairs obtained by Fox News, military attorneys for the 9/11 suspects, including the […]

Border and Yassam police on Tuesday, 4 Cheshvan, destroyed three structures in the Ramat Migron outpost located in the Binyamin Regional Council of Shomron. The troops arrived armed with sledgehammers

More people die in America every year from prescription drug abuse than die from heroin and cocaine combined. That stunning finding comes in a new report Tuesday from the Centers

Town of Ramapo Supervisor Christopher P. St. Lawrence today called on the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) to suspend a rate hike request from Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) pending an investigation into O&R�s failure to provide adequate information to the thousands of families who remain without power several days after the […]

Vandals targeted the office of the weekly HaEida newspaper located in Meah Shearim. It appears the break in occurred during the night, Monday-to-Tuesday, 3-to-4 Cheshvan. �Until when the wicked Eida� and �Eida� graffiti was painted on walls and furniture. In Meah Shearim, it is believed the vandalism attack is related to the article that appeared […]

Former President George W. Bush waited until his eighth year in office to touch down in Israel. His father, George H.W. Bush, didn�t go at all. Neither did Ronald Reagan. But for President Barack Obama, the call of Israel has always been more urgent. Jewish leaders have been pressing Obama since he took office to […]

WCBSTV Reports: The Occupy Wall Street movement, which says its goals include improving the economic lot for 99 percent of Americans, may have some explaining to do to some cafe

Federal prosecutors and the FBI are set to join the inquiry into what happened to hundreds of millions of dollars invested with a securities firm headed by former New Jersey

New York City � Today the New York City Council’s Transportation Committee held a hearing on a bill proposed by Councilman David G. Greenfield (D-Brooklyn) that would change the city’s approach to punishing drivers for alternate-side parking infractions.� Intro No. 546 would end the practice of placing hard-to-remove neon stickers on drivers’ vehicles when a […]

At approximately 5:00am today, Tuesday, 4 Cheshvan, Israel Police Yassam (Special Forces) troops raided the home of a family residing in Beit Hadassah, Hebron. The father of the family passed

MK Yaakov Katz was interviewed by Kikar Shabbat on Monday, 3 Cheshvan, coinciding with the opening of the Knesset winter season. He was asked to comment on the sikrikim. Katz sponsored a bill against the sikrikim, calling them �terrorists� and calling for ousting them from the community for the good of the residents. The bill […]

A United Airlines employee suffered minor injures after a battery shipped in a bag exploded at O’Hare International Airport, officials said. The employee was taken to Resurrection Medical Center in