If you don’t want to pass through an airport scanner that allows security agents to see an image of your naked body or to undergo the alternative, a thorough manual
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says the subway’s signal system is safe, despite allegations that workers faked inspections of hundreds of signals. The New York Post first reported Friday that city
New York City will lay off thousands of workers, eliminate many open jobs, shutter some firehouses at night, and fill fewer potholes in the next year and a half to
A suspicious piece of luggage that was about to be loaded onto a flight in Namibia was a “test device” from a U.S. company that tests alarm and security systems,
A 32-year-old Malaysian man was arrested shortly after his arrival last month at John F. Kennedy airport in New York City. His crime? Authorities say he hacked into the Cleveland
More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year, and 11 million had a serious illness, U.S. government researchers reported
A camouflage-clad Florida dance troupe desperate to make it to a live TV talent show set off a rush-hour terror scare when they ditched their cars in merciless Lincoln Tunnel
Seven mortar shells were fired from the Gaza Strip at the western Negev and Gaza vicinity communities on Friday afternoon. Three of the mortars hit open areas in the Eshkol
Overzealous police officers wearing bulletproof vests who were enforcing the letter of the law swarmed an upper Manhattan park and busted seven men — for playing chess. A group of
New York — Today on the steps of City Hall, Councilman David G. Greenfield was joined by Council Members Gale Brewer, Fernando Cabrera, Debi Rose, Robert Jackson, Jumaane Williams, and Brad Lander in support of legislation that would ban the use of full body scanners in New York City, including New York’s two airports – […]
WCBSTV reports the following: The New York City Parks Department is considering a proposal to bring border collies with trainers to scare away the geese in Prospect Park. After rounding
The “test case” against New Zealand’s ban on the kosher slaughter of animals will be heard in the High Court in Wellington later this month. New Zealand Jewish Council president Stephen Goodman told the JC on Wednesday that the case, which was not expected to be heard until next year, will be closely watched around […]
The Jewish Star reports: The Long Island Rail Road’s special “Sundown Service” train got off to a very rocky start last Friday with the train arriving 34 minutes late, right at candle lighting. The train, which began its special service that day, left Penn station at 2:39 p.m. and was supposed to arrive in Far […]
Drivers now have a $115 reminder that bus lanes are for buses. Five cameras have been installed along the new express bus lanes on First and Second Avenues in Manhattan,
Israel’s two state-run radio stations refused to broadcast Yad L’Achim advertisements on the grounds that they offended the “religious sensibilities” of the missionaries. Last summer, Yad L’Achim received information that
Rejecting a plea for leniency from Rep. Charles Rangel, the House ethics committee voted to censure the New York Democrat, marking the first time in more than three decades that
Today, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D – Queens and Brooklyn) and 39 of his colleagues announced they are sending a letter to President Obama urging him to pardon Jonathan Pollard, who received a disproportionately severe sentence when he was convicted of spying for Israel, one of the United States’ closest allies. “We write to urge you […]
2:55PM EST: For the second time in two weeks, the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit has been sent to investigate a bias crime in the heart of Williamsburg’s Chasidic community. Numerous swastikas were found by a resident Thursday afternoon scrawled onto the walls of an elevator in a residential apartment building located on Penn Street just off of Marcy […]
A terror attack was thwarted in Jerusalem on Thursday, after a 50-year-old resident of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya tried to stab a young Jewish woman near Hadassah Mount
The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) today condemned a report issued by the U.S. Department of State that criticizes the State of Israel for alleged religious discrimination against non-Jews and non-Orthodox Jews. The Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor set forth numerous criticisms of Israel’s practices in its 2010 International […]
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