A member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s security detail has been released on bail after he was arraigned on charges of shooting an acquaintance. New York City Police Detective Leopold McLean, 46, was released on bail Friday after pleading not guilty to a number of charges including attempted murder and assault. McLean is accused of shooting Lepaul […]

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 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 […]

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 […]