New York, NY – Bloomberg Refuses to Send Sanitation Reps to Outer Borough Snow Meetings
New York, NY - Mayor Bloomberg is - again - throwing snowballs at the outer boroughs, City Council members say.
He's refusing to send Sanitation Department reps to a series of Council hearings that...
Jerusalem – Rav Amsalem Pens Editorial: I Was Right, And I Forgive
Jerusalem - In an editorial that appears in Israeli news service Kikar Hashabbat, R’ Chaim Amsalem not only defended his plan to ease the conversion of Israeli soldiers who are descendants of Jewish i...
Jericho, West Bank – Russian President Calls For Israeli Freeze
Jericho, West Bank - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gave a political boost to the Palestinians on Tuesday, backing their claim to east Jerusalem as a capital and their demand that Israel must free...
Jerusalem – Freed Bochur Meets With Reb Chaim Kanievsky
Jerusalem - Yosef Bando, the youngest of the three Israeli bochurim who were jailed in Japan in April 2008 after inadvertently bringing drug laden suitcases into the country, visited with R’ Chaim Kan...
Munich – Court Rejects Raft of Demjanjuk Defense Motions
Munich - John Demjanjuk's attorney is accusing a Munich court of acting on the assumption that his client is guilty after judges rejected a raft of defense motions.
Ulrich Busch said Tuesday that t...
New York – Lawsuit of Man Who Ate 1,434 Cans of Tuna is Fishy: Canners
New York - A Westchester man's tuna pig-out could help Bumble Bee Foods get off the hook over claims it gave him mercury poisoning.
The seafood-processing company charges in court papers that Lee...
Newark, NJ – FBI: 2 Charged With Stealing iPad Users’ Information
Newark, NJ - Federal prosecutors in New Jersey are announcing the arrests of two men accused of stealing e-mail addresses and other information from more than 100,000 Apple iPad users.
Daniel Spitl...
Brooklyn, NY – Lack of Funding Forces MASK to Relocate [video]
Brooklyn, NY - MASK, the Brooklyn based organization helping families prevent at risk behaviors, has been forced to cut many of their programs and to relocate from their Nostrand Avenue headquarters, ...
New York, NY – Bloomberg Seeking More Power from Albany over City’s Work Force
New York, NY - Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is pessimistic that Albany will come through with enough money to allow the city to avoid layoffs, wants Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to give his a...
Jerusalem – Israeli Orthodox Rabbi: Lower Marriage Age To 15
Jerusalem - The Lobby for Jewish Values and Director of Jerusalem-based Kol HaNa'ar Rabbi Asher Idan has presented a new initiative to lower the marriage age allowed by law.
In the past few days, ...
Jerusalem – Israel Arrests Man Wanted in Srebrenica Massacre
Jerusalem - Israeli police on Tuesday arrested a former Bosnian Serb soldier suspected by Bosnian authorities of involvement in the killing of 8,000 Muslim men in 1995.
The Israeli Justice Ministry...
New York – Snow, Freezing Rain Create Treacherous AM Commute, And Walking
New York - Tri-state drivers and commuters beware as a dangerous combination of snow and freezing rain is making Tuesday morning's commute particularly treacherous on the roads and rails.
A winter ...
New York, NY – Officials Blast DOT Chief over NYPD Blizzard Slap
New York, NY - Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, who icily pointed the finger at top cop Ray Kelly for not declaring a snow emergency after the Christmas blizzard, outrageously overstepp...
New York, NY – Commissioner to Speak on State of NYPD
New York, NY - Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly is set to give a speech on the state of the NYPD.
Kelly is the keynote speaker at a Tuesday event for the nonprofit Police Foundation.
...
Israel – Chevra Kadisha Announces Strike No Burial Services to be Held
Israel - Jewish burial services in major Israeli cities will be on hold from Tuesday morning until 2 p.m., head of the forum of Hevra Kadisha burial services Ze’ev Rosenberg announced Monday.
The l...
Washington – Palin Explains ‘Blood Libel’ Comment
Washington - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, defending herself against criticism following the Tucson, Ariz., shootings, said Monday that she used the term "blood libel" to describe comments made by t...
Phoenix, AZ – Starbucks Rolls Out Goliath of Coffees
JPhoenix, AZ - The bigger-is-better concept seems to be striking a chord among some Starbucks customers.
Starbucks will begin a phased-in nationwide rollout Tuesday of its Trenta cup size that can ...
Harlem, NY – Bloomberg Met with Boos at Sharpton’s MLK Celebration
Harlem, NY - Mayor Michael Bloomberg got a decidedly mixed reception before an overflow crowd celebrating Martin Luther King Day at Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network headquarters in Harlem.
...
Lakewood, NJ – Vigil Honors NJ Police Officer Slain in Patrol Car
Lakewood, NJ - In the frigid air on a plaza outside police headquarters, a patrol car sat alone. On its windshield was an oversized photo of Patrolman Christopher Matlosz, who was cut down in a hail o...
Washington – Poll Shows High Marks for Obama on Tucson
Washington - Americans overwhelmingly describe the tone of political discourse in the country as negative, verging on angry, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, but more than half say th...