While the blizzards play havoc with flight schedules in Europe, the ZAKA organization – best known for its immediate response in times of emergency and tragedy – moved into high gear late Friday afternoon. Word came in of a Swissair flight, delayed several hours by the snow, that was due to arrive in Ben-Gurion Airport, […]
Police temporarily shut down Terminal A at Newark-Liberty International Airport on Monday as a precaution. A suspicious package was found at a security checkpoint at about 8 a.m. The suspicious
British counter-terror police arrested 12 men early Monday in a “large-scale, pre-planned, intelligence-led” operation, they said. The suspects, aged from 17 to 28, were arrested in London, Cardiff in Wales
Hempstead, NY – A major Long Island township’s appeals board has rejected a cell phone company’s proposal to install six wireless antennas on the roof of a Jewish community center.
The U.S. government on Friday proposed prohibiting commercial truck and bus drivers from using cellphones while behind the wheel. The Transportation Department rule would affect approximately 4 million drivers, who
The following is from the BBC: About 10 million turkeys are expected to be eaten in the UK the next 3 weeks with most people unaware of how the bird
An ex-con was busted after cops stopped him for running a red light in St. Albans, Queens, early this morning and found his vehicle was stuffed with a whopping 513
Clifton, NJ – After months of legal wrangling, a state judge on Thursday ordered the Clifton Zoning Board of Adjustment to hear an application by a Passaic-based synagogue on whether
Beginning early next year, security cameras will begin appearing on MTA New York City Transit buses. The $9.75 million project will equip 426 buses with advanced video surveillance equipment and nine depots with equipment capable of digitally downloading captured images. Video surveillance is viewed as a vital element of the MTA’s ongoing effort to maintain […]
Weather dependent, North America will be treated to a total lunar eclipse early Tuesday morning. What makes this eclipse rare is that it coincides with the winter solstice, a feat
An Indiana University employee accused in at least one incident in a rash of anti-Semitic vandalism on and around campus turned himself in Friday morning, police said. Mark Zacharias, 54,
The following is a NY Post exclusive: A Manhattan lawyer with ties to the Saudi royal family is sounding out officials and community leaders about a plan to move the
An armed mugger — who had stolen cash from a victim on Long Island last night — was killed moments later when a car struck him as he walked along
Mayor Bloomberg Friday offered a simple explanation for how the bloated CityTime project became a nest of fraud. Stuff happens. “You can’t look every place,” the mayor said on his
Bernie Madoff looked “like someone had shot him in the stomach” after he got word that his eldest son had committed suicide, a recent inmate at the federal lockup here
The following is a Politico article: It’s been a while for Sen. Joe Lieberman, but tonight, he’s Democrats’ man of the hour. The Democrat-turned-independent from Connecticut drove the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy from sponsorship to the final push across the finish line in a 65-31 vote today, winning over liberal hearts, […]
Chicago, IL – Mariusz Wdziekonski was sentenced to seven years in prison for desecrating graves at a Jewish cemetery. Wdziekonski denied during his trial that he vandalized the graves in January 2008. But several Cook County sheriff’s officers testified that he ultimately admitted during questioning that he had desecrated the headstones and grave markers. Prosecutors […]
Alter Communications Inc., which publishes the Baltimore Jewish Times, will soon say “shalom” to bankruptcy. According to the Baltimore Business Journal, Judge James F. Schneider of the Baltimore bankruptcy court approved the company’s Chapter 11 exit plan Thursday. Alter’s unsecured creditors will divide 85% of the company’s earnings over the next five years. The plan […]
The United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet. Establishment of such a group has
Federal prosecutors and the trustee charged with recovering assets in the Bernard L. Madoff bankruptcy, announced a settlement Friday that would add $7.2 billion to the cash available to compensate victims of Mr. Madoff’s global Ponzi scheme. Details of the agreement with the estate of Jeffry M. Picower, a Palm Beach philanthropist who died in […]
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