Mayor Michael Bloomberg sees little standing in the way of his controversial plans to ban super-sized soda. “Compared to smoking, this is an easy battle to win and nobody’s going to stop this,” Bloomberg told reporters at the Ryan-NENA Community Health Center in Alphabet City, where he spoke a day ahead of a Board of […]

The following is part of a CNN Exclusive: Iran is in an “open war” with Israel, President Shimon Peres said Monday, as he pointed the finger at Iran and Hezbollah

Wide-eyed, swaying and despondent – the gunman suspected of brutally slaying 12 people during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado has appeared in court for the

After vandals desecrated 57 tombs containing the remains of around 250 people at a Jewish cemetery in Hungary and a neo-Nazi Website in Hungary offered money for information about protesters

The Ministry of Communications has informed cellular telephone providers in Israel that the long standing practice of roaming for cell clients near the Egyptian and Jordanian borders is no longer

New York’s Board of Health usually deals with topics like lead paint and tuberculosis, but this week is expected to draw heated arguments on the possibility of babies contracting herpes through a circumcision ritual. On Monday, the 11-member panel is set to hear public comments on a proposal to require parental consent for circumcisions practiced […]

Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is under increased police protection after a New Jersey man threatened her, the New York Post reports. Abedin, who

Vandals have desecrated 57 tombs containing the remains of around 250 people at a Jewish cemetery in Hungary, Jewish groups said Monday. “This is clearly motivated by racism,” Laszlo Rona, who heads the association of Jewish communities in Kaposvar in southwest Hungary where the incident took place over the weekend, told the MTI national news […]

Last week was accompanied by renewed social justice protests in Israel. The week began with Moshe Silman setting himself ablaze at a motzei shabbos rally. His act, which left him

A New York City judge has been removed from the bench over a ruling on how police determine if someone has been drinking in public, a court spokesman said. Judge

The British Broadcasting Authority (BBC) has omitted to identify Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel on its Olympic website. The BBC has established a special web page containing basic information about each country taking part in the 2012 London Games, featuring details about the nation’s athletes, map, population size and capital city. […]

The Arab League will offer Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “a safe exit” if he resigns quickly and leaves the country, a senior Arab League official said, marking the latest attempt

Aurora police chief Dan Oates was once a high ranking officer with the NYPD, according to a published report. A New Jersey native, Oates started out as a street cop

Israel Radio quoting official Bulgarian news reports on Sunday morning states that the bombing attack in Burgas was intended to be far more serious. In fact, experts theorize the bomber

The wealthiest people in the world have exploited loopholes in international tax rules, evading the taxman and sheltering a staggering $21 trillion or more in offshore accounts, according to a

According to a Maariv report, a half year after the government decided to implement a free long school day the list of municipalities in which this will be available shows that only the chareidi tzibur will benefit from the law, “davka in communities where chareidi parents do not work” the report states. Last summer many […]