The following is from the NY Post: Prominent New York Jewish activist Jack Rosen is hosting a fund-raising event tonight for President Obama, who hopes to get as much Jewish

Britain’s Foreign Secretary says the U.K. has withdrawn its entire diplomatic staff from Iran following attacks on the country’s embassy and a residential compound in Tehran. William Hague told the

A Lakewood man accused of fatally gunning down a police officer early this year had previously told someone that he would “kill a cop before going to jail,” a prosecutor

Montreal – The City is in court this week to shut a 30-year old Hasidic synagogue in the central-Montreal borough of Outremont because it’s operating in a residential zone –

David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, white supremacist and Louisiana politician, was arrested and taken into custody in Cologne on Friday, prior to a planned speech to a

A state judge says a lawsuit seeking to overturn New York’s marriage equality act can move forward. Acting State Supreme Court Justice Robert Wiggins ruled the State Senate may have

The Israel Defense Forces will inaugurate the first military mikvah in history on Thursday, at the southern Air Force base in Ovda. The ceremony will be attended by the donor

Up to 2 million public-sector workers walked off the job in Britain on Wednesday, potentially the biggest nationwide strike to hit the country in a generation. Teachers, border patrol agents,

Los Angeles – Police dressed in riot gear moved in on protesters camped outside City Hall early Wednesday and arrested more than 200 protesters who refused orders to leave, police

Three events will converge in New York tomorrow that will contribute to epic gridlock, making travel in and around the city impossible in spots. The tree-lighting at Rockefeller Center, in

In a Facebook post announcing, “Consider the gauntlet thrown,” the Bay Ridge Democrats indicate that the club is ramping up a possible primary challenge to Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind (who

Three City Council members introduced a resolution Tuesday that would formalize support for Occupy Wall Street and its message condemning economic inequality. “The Occupy movement is more than occupying a

The percentage of school-age children living in poverty has grown in Orange and Ulster counties and leaped ahead in Sullivan County since the recession took hold, according to figures released

Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday for a surprise visit to mark the close of the U.S. war in Iraq as troops prepare to return home by

Federal authorities have arrested a Brooklyn lawmaker on fresh corruption charges just weeks after a jury acquitted him on unrelated bribery charges, according to the FBI. An indictment unsealed Tuesday