After enjoying their city’s Holiday event, Portland, Oregon, residents felt a twinge of shock and then a rush of gratitude on Saturday when they learned that law officers foiled a plot to set off a bomb in a state the suspect says “nobody ever thinks about.” Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a 19-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia, […]
The investigative arm of the Homeland Security Department appears to be shutting down websites that facilitate copyright infringement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized dozens of domain names over
The Paris City Hall has mobilized its employees to remove wall posters making publicity for an anti-Semitic book denouncing the “Jewish mafia”. The move followed a complaint by the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA), a body monitoring anti-Semitic incidents in France. According to BNVCA president Samy Ghozlan, these posters are regularly placed on […]
The White House says President Barack Obama has received 12 stitches in his lip after being hit during a pick up basketball game. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says
A Sydney man living in the U.S. and en route to Sydney for a friend’s wedding, died when his single-engine plane crashed near Hollister Airport in California. 28-year-old Benny Glattstein was heading back to Sydney for the wedding of close friend Jamie Enoch to Miriam Vickers. Glattstein, a former Moriah College student, had planned a […]
King Hamad of Bahrain on Thursday appointed a Jew and a Christian among four women to the 40-member upper chamber, following a parliamentary election last month, state media reported. The
New York City’s taxi regulators are planning a new dress code for cab drivers that requires them to “present a professional appearance.” Taxi and Limousine Commission chairman David S. Yassky tells The New York Times on Thursday that proper dress can’t be enforced easily. He says the new code is an attempt to communicate standards. […]
Federal Express says it is looking for a package containing radioactive material that might be in Tennessee. The package is safe as long as its packaging is left intact, CNN
A new operation will begin next year to find the debris of Air France Flight 447, which mysteriously crashed into the southern Atlantic Ocean last year, French officials said. The
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has a secret doomsday plan that spells out who would succeed him and Chief of Department Joseph Esposito should either die in a terror attack or
New Zealand – In an 11th hour settlement, shechita (kosher slaughter) of poultry will continue in New Zealand, after agreement was reached on Friday afternoon between the New Zealand Jewish community’s lawyers and the country’s Minister of Agriculture. Negotiations are continuing over the shechita of lamb, but until these negotiations are completed, or the matter […]
A defense attorney has filed what is almost certainly the first ever “writ of possible ‘simcha.’” But first, a little background regarding all the meshugas that has since ensued. In 2009, Bennett M. Epstein, a Manhattan solo-practitioner—and, as is relevant for this story, a Modern Orthodox Jew—was assigned to represent Mark Barnett, a loan officer at […]
Manni, 28, opens his front door in Stamford Hill and invites me inside for a tour. “I live in a five-bedroom house and I’ve got six children,” he explains. “I cannot pay the rent if I’m not receiving the benefits.” Manni (not his real name) works full-time in a local Jewish organisation, but his low […]
An all new Season Two of “A Jewish Star” – the world’s first Jewish music singing competition – was launched today, November 25, 2010 with many seeing the contest as the next obvious step in the recent evolution of the Jewish music industry. Career musicians and music enthusiasts from around the U.S., Canada, South America, […]
Woburn, MA – The unembalmed body of a widow mistakenly laid to rest next to another woman’s husband in Woburn was dug up and driven back to a Brookline funeral home in a pine box that was not even airtight, according to the state board investigating the macabre mixup. The allegation surfaces as a fifth […]
Authorities have found a second homemade explosive and more of a type of explosive previously discovered in a house in an unincorporated area near Escondido, California, officials said Thursday. The
In his first public statements on the recent maelstrom raging in Shas around MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem, party chairman and Interior Minister Eli Yishai for an hour lashed out against the lawmaker who is refusing to return his mandate to Shas, despite its spiritual leadership’s recent decision. “Nobody knew who he was a minute before […]
A new program to teach Arabic language and culture to all Jewish children in Israel’s north – as a means of promoting closer ties between Jews and Arabs – could lead to an increase in the already alarming rate of intermarriage, warn activists who have been combating the problem. The program, which was launched this […]
A new study shows a sharp decline in the proportion of New Yorkers who have health insurance through their jobs. Just 58 percent of New Yorkers are covered by employee-sponsored
A West Rogers Park man was sentenced Wednesday to 25 months in prison for mailing a letter threatening to blow up a Jewish high school. A half-dozen friends and neighbors
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