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"Hundreds of families including children and infants" waited for buses from Bnei Brak back to their homes in Bet Shemesh, Ashdod and Yerushalayim, the...

The billboards that sprung up in Hollywood and New York in 2007 depicted Woody Allen as a Chasidic Jew -- long beard, Peyos, black...

Police in Argentina arrested at least five people after anti-Semitic demonstrators clashed Sunday with members of the Jewish community marking the 61st anniversary of...

The following article arreas in todays Baltimore Sun: (Video posted below) For Yoel Benyowitz, setting aside work at sundown on Friday, lighting the shabbos candles and...

Chabad Chassidim, primarily from NYC, will on Monday travel to Washington, DC to protest outside the White House against any efforts to establish a...

11 eastern Jerusalem Arab residents, all juveniles, were arrested by Jerusalem police on suspicion of vandalizing gravestones in Har HaZeisim. A number of weeks...

A 5.0 earthquake struck south of Los Angeles International Airport this evening, causing significant shaking across Southern California. The temblor hit about 8:30 p.m.,a...

The Queens assistant principal stricken with swine flu succumbed to the deadly virus today, the first person to die in the city from the...

More than 800 first responders have staged a disaster drill at the World Trade Center PATH station. The mock explosion happened Sunday morning on in...

If you are one of those concerned shoppers who are careful to read nutritional information before buying breakfast cereals and other products, you might...

Three more schools in New York City will close over swine flu concerns, starting Monday. Health Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden and Schools Chancellor Joel I....

The MTA has quietly revived efforts to run more subway trains without conductors - a controversial cost-cutting move it shelved three years ago, the...

St. Louis, MO - Family members say I.E. Millstone, the legendary St. Louis builder and philanthropist who went missing Saturday, had been suffering from...

A lawyer representing John Demjanjuk, the Ukrainian-born Nazi accused of herding Jews HY"D to the gas chambers in a Nazi death camp, said today...

Brooklyn, NY - A proposed law may give only residents who live in certain neighborhoods the right to park there. But there's a catch. Our neighborhood...

The Journal News reports: The village and developers of a proposed rabbinical college will be in federal court Wednesday to air their sides of...

The UN IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) director, Mohamed El-Baradei, warns against an Israeli offensive against Iran. The senior official believes the matter should be...

Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of...

A full scale emergency training exercise was scheduled to begin at the World Trade Center site Sunday morning. More than 800 first responders were to...

A Hatzalah Paramedic's vehicle was stolen last night in Boro Park. If you see a 2006 black Chevy Impala (newer model) with license plates...

Health Ministry inspectors on erev Lag B’Omer and on Lag B’Omer visited chessed tents set up in Meron, tents preparing food, thousands of portions...

HaGaon Rav Mordechai Eliyahu Shlita on Friday underwent a catheterization process on his leg on erev Shabbos and today, Sunday, is reported to be...

One mehadrin commuter traveling on motzei Shabbos from Bnei Brak to Haifa on Egged’s 970 bus had enough, prompting him to report the bus...

Hagon Chacham Ovadia Yosef Shlita telephoned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on motzei Shabbos to wish him well as he prepared to leave for the...

NYC may need a new area code within the next several years. Assignable numbers for the 718 and 347 area codes will run out by...

The swine flu outbreak spread from schools to jails with the hospitalization of a Rikers Island inmate, prompting the jail to cancel some weekend...

The Asbury Park Press reports: Defense attorneys are seeking to have a 38-year-old Lakewood man declared incompetent to stand trial on charges that he...

High on the list of people taken by Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme was Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and holocaust survivor. On...

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has already spent $18.7 million on his re-election campaign, far ahead of the staggering pace of his spending in the...

Three more public schools were shut down Friday after more students reportedly tested positive for the swine flu or H1N1 virus, bringing the total...

Federal prosecutors today filed a 142-count criminal indictment against former managers at Agriprocessors Inc., the struggling Postville slaughterhouse, and increased the number of immigration...

After the long painful process that began with the realization that many of the Turkish talleisim used by the Belzer community contained shatnez, the...

New Yorkers will get soaked with a 12.9% jump in their water rates and tough new penalties for broken water meters, a city board...

The Journal News reports: Nearly 150 people jammed the Zoning Board of Appeals meeting to object to a proposed yeshiva and dormitory on the former...

General Motors began notifying 1,100 dealerships Friday that their franchises would not be renewed as the company also revealed it likely would sell most...