Mayor Bloomberg is headed to primary battleground New Hampshire Friday, fueling speculation he�s planning a 2012 presidential run. The mayor will be the first speaker in a presidential lecture series at Dartmouth College, alma mater of gal pal Diana Taylor. The speech comes as the third-term mayor has been raising his political profile, including making […]

The Charedi leadership is considering a significant reduction in or complete prohibition against holding protests after a trash bin shoved onto Route 1 during a Jerusalem demonstration seriously injured a

Fifteen people were injured today in a collision that involved a city bus, an ambulance and two other vehicles. It happened at 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in

New Jersey would close its centralized car inspection lanes and motorists would pay for their own emissions tests under a sweeping set of recommendations set to be released by the

In a seeming flashback to the cold war, Russian and American officials traded prisoners in the bright sunlight on the tarmac of Vienna�s international airport on Friday, bringing to a quick end an episode that had threatened to disrupt relations between the two countries. Planes carrying 10 convicted Russian sleeper agents and 4 men accused […]

A new type of religious certification has been launched in Sderot: A modesty standard. Businesses that commit to ensure modest dress and modest advertisements are to be granted a “modesty

Gov. Paterson warned yesterday that the state could run out of money “in a month and a half” and threatened to cut short the Legislature’s summer vacation if lawmakers don’t

Millions of straphangers would be hit with a $1 surcharge when they get a new MetroCard from a vending machine instead of refilling an old one under one of the

A white former transit police officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black man last year in Oakland, California, sparking a wave

A year and four months of going home empty-handed, the Shalit family has returned to the protest tent outside the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has

In a third trial, three men have been convicted in a 2006 plot to blow up commercial airliners over the Atlantic Ocean, the head of Britain’s counterterrorism prosecution told CNN

(Click on image for exclusive photo) A deranged man stabbed four people – including one Jewish person – in an apparent random attack in Chelsea this afternoon. The mayhem began

A light aircraft crashed this morning by route 38 near Beit Shemesh after it got tangled in a high-voltage power line. MDA, Ichud Hatzolah volunteers, Bet Shemesh Hatzalah, and firefighters

As the Atra Kadisha activists ponder ways to halt ongoing excavations in Jaffa, there is talk of arriving at Herzl�s Tomb with shovels and other digging equipment, to announce they plan to exhume the body to relocate the grave, hoping to drive the point home. Eida and Atra officials are unwilling to permit the continued […]

Thousands of people convened at Binyanei HaUmah in Yerushalayim this week to attend the shloshim of HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu Z”TL. Additional halls were connected to the main venue via video

Hundreds took part in a Beit Shemesh conference attended by members of the tzibur and professionals alike, addressing the education network in the city. It was revealed that in 2010,