A city police officer is recovering after being shot in both legs in Jamaica, Queens last night, and police say they are talking to a person of interest in the case. Sergeant Craig Bier is a 15-year member of the NYPD who has earned 65 medals over his career. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. […]

As the international community continues debating the merit of economic sanctions against Israel, Saudi Arabia has passed a message to Israel via the United States that any IDF planes crossing

The largest collection of Torah scrolls is not somewhere in New York or Jerusalem. Instead, it’s in Baghdad. In a basement in Baghdad, there are 365 Torah scrolls, apparently taken from the Jewish community over years of brutal treatment at the hands of the Iraqi populace. An Anglican priest, Canon Andrew White of Baghdad, discovered […]

Tnuva has issued a recall for one liter cartons of milk after learning a cleaning agent became mixed into the product. The announcement was made on Wednesday, telling consumers the

Police are back at the site of the SoHo shop where Etan Patz was allegedly murdered in 1979. Now an eyeglass store, the former bodega is where 51-year-old suspect Pedro

The kidnapping and murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky sent shockwaves around the world. For Leiby’s family, the loss of their only son has been almost too much to bear. On

The 2012 presidential campaign has been a strange one so far. But things got a touch more surreal for Mitt Romney and the press corps covering him as they traveled

The Holocaust Memorial Park is the latest victim of anti-Semitic vandalism in Brooklyn. The anti-Jewish graffiti, which was placed on the memorial, was discovered this morning at the West End

The following is via the Politicker: Earlier this week, a reporter for WPIX asked Mayor Mike Bloomberg about a report that the city was selling spent shell casings to a

“The federal government administers nearly 80 different overlapping federal means-tested welfare programs,” the Senate Budget Committee notes. However, the committee states, the figures used in the chart do not include

The state prosecutor has handed down an indictment in the Beersheva District Court against a Jewish female who was romantically involved with an Arab male and allegedly gave him a

A suspected Nazi war criminal described how Jews ‘screamed like geese’ when they were shot, in a documentary set to be shown for the first time. Jonas Pukas, a 78-year-old Lithuanian immigrant, even laughed as he said Holocaust victims ‘flew in the air’. He gave the disturbing police tape interview at his home in New […]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly today announced a new partnership with Microsoft designed to bring the latest crime prevention and counterterrorism technology capabilities to New

The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during July was 77.6°F, 3.3°F above the 20th century average, marking the hottest July and the hottest month on record for the nation. The previous warmest July for the nation was July 1936 when the average U.S. temperature was 77.4°F. The warm July temperatures contributed to a record-warm […]

Residents of the Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach Community’s woke up Wednesday morning to yet another hate crime. Vulgar language was painted on the “Magen David” at the Holocaust Memorial Park in Manhattan Beach. Holocaust Memorial Park, which is used throughout the year to commemorate those that perished in the Holocaust, is located on Westend Avenue […]

Councilman David G. Greenfield and Sephardic Bikur Holim have joined together to launch a memorial fund in support of the family of Yitzchak “Izzo” Kadare, who was murdered late Thursday night. Mr. Kadare, a 59-year-old father of four and member of Ahava V’Achva Sephardic Synagogue who learned daf yomi daily at the Bnei Yosef Synagogue, […]