An El Al plane nearly hit another plane on the ground in Zurich earlier this week � but miraculously was able to avoid the other plane. On the plane was Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin. According to reports, the pilots of both planes � one of them an El Al plane and the other a Swiss […]

A 15-year old boy from Oak Park High School has been arrested and police say will be charged with assault after lighting a student’s hair on fire. The victim is a 15 year old girl who attends the same school.� Police say that on Nov. 18th the suspect allegedly used anti-Semitic slurs against a Jewish […]

A 9-year-old Wesley Hills boy suffered a broken leg and a head injury when he was struck by a car while trying to cross Route 306, Shabbos afternoon. The boy

Motorists are seeing lower prices at the pumps in New Jersey. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of regular gasoline in New Jersey on Friday was $3.19, down 4 cents

The rise in tolls on Port Authority of New York and New Jersey bridges and tunnels in September may have caused many commuters to leave their cars at home and

Posek HaDor Maran HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv did not feel well this Shabbos, and his doctor arrived at his home on Motzei Shabbos to examine him. It appears that

An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search on Tuesday by agents at JFK Airport. Lenore Zimmerman, who lives in Long

Herman Cain, the insurgent populist whose candidacy has been ensnared by allegations, said Saturday that he is leaving the race for the Republican presidential nomination, saying that the allegations have

The White House on Friday urged Cuba to immediately release jailed U.S. contractor Alan Gross and accused Havana of trying to use him as a �pawn.� �It is past time for Mr. Gross to return home to his family where he belongs,� White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters in response to a question. Carney […]

France is temporarily downsizing its embassy in Iran and will bring some employees and their families home, a French official said Saturday. The move is the latest fallout from protesters� storming of the British embassy in Tehran and adds to the international pressure on the Iranian government. The French diplomatic official described the decision as […]

Residents who use the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel should be aware that the MTA has shut down one of the tubes in order to replace electrical switches and feeder cables. The

A gunman wearing a fake beard open fired on two rookie cops in New York City, sending a bullet flying into a nearby dental office packed with kids, authorities said.

Washington, D.C. � Following the news that Patrick Cave, a fundraiser for Mitt Romney, has served as a lobbyist for the Arab Bank which was investigated by the Treasury Department for funneling money to Palestinian terrorists, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement: �I am deeply disturbed to hear that Mitt Romney�s re-election […]

Two people were injured after an explosion was heard between the southern Lebanon towns of Srifa and Deir Kifa Friday � a blast that may have been caused by an IDF drone, the Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star reported. � A website associated with Hezbollah said that the IDF bombed an Israeli espionage facility that […]

In what has become almost a ritualistic rite of passage during the 2012 GOP presidential primary, Newt Gingrich, who has surged to the top of nearly every national and state poll, will meet with Donald Trump on Monday, the day Trump�s book, Time To Get Tough, hits stores. Gingrich has filled the populist space in […]

Jon Corzine, the former head of bankrupt commodities brokerage firm MF Global, has been subpoenaed to testify about his role in the collapse before a congressional committee. Corzine hasn�t been heard from publicly since MF Global imploded in October, the result of bad bets on European sovereign debt, a risky gamble reportedly pushed by Corzine […]

Lakewood Mayor Menashe Miller announced Thursday evening at the Township Committee meeting that he will be deployed to the Middle East to be with Troops this Holiday Season. The Mayor

Rabbi Menachem Stern has wanted to be an army chaplain since August 2008, when he came across a Jewish news site that got him thinking it was the right job for him. Halfway through an introductory meeting, he texted his wife to tell her, �I think I�ve found what we�re looking for.� Several years and […]

Mitzpe Jericho – Oded Hamdi, a 19-year old yeshiva student, was killed in a trailer fire shortly after midnight on Friday in Mitzpe Jericho, near Jerusalem. His funeral will be

Some New Yorkers may have wondered what Mayor Michael Bloomberg was smoking when he proclaimed he has his “own army� and admitted he “smoked up” in college during an unscripted speech at MIT Tuesday. During that speech, Bloomberg let down his guard on a wide range of topics � including his own drug and alcohol […]