Tiberias Israel – Rabbi Asks For Segregated Bus Line
Tiberias Israel - A prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi has asked a Tiberias bus company to launch a line similar to the ones in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak that segregate women from men.
Rabbi Asher Idan f...
Jerusalem – Former Israeli Cardiologist to Release Pork Cookbook
Jerusalem - A retired Jewish cardiologist is set to make history - and generate a bit of controversy - with Israel's first ever cookbook devoted to pork.
While that may not sound interesting to th...
Oswego, IL – LED Traffic Signals Seen as Potential Hazard In Winter Storms
Oswego, IL - Last April, the driver of a pickup truck approaching an intersection in the far western suburb of Oswego went past a red light obscured by snow and struck a 34-year-old woman turning left...
New York – How Do You Say ‘2010’?
New York - TV news anchors are grappling with a New Year's problem -- how do they say "2010"?
Is it "two thousand ten" or "twenty ten"?
If you speak on TV for a living, it's not a small issue, s...
Mahattan, NY – Meter Moron Issues Tickets to String of Cars on New Year’s Holiday
Manhattan, NY - Stupidity didn't take a holiday on E. 38th St.
A traffic agent inexplicably hit at least 10 cars parked along a block in Murray Hill with $115 tickets Friday, even though rules were...
Illinois – Feds: Chicago Immigration Service Center A Front For Terror Plots
Chicago, IL - Nestled among the restaurants and sari shops that anchor Devon Avenue in Chicago's South Asian community, First World Immigration Services Inc. has operated as a welcoming walk-in center...
Washington – U.S. and UK To Fund anti-terror Police Unit in Yemen
Washington - Britain and the US are to jointly fund a counter-terrorism unit in Yemen, it has been revealed.
Downing Street said PM Gordon Brown and US President Barack Obama had agreed the move as...
London – British Intelligence Knew Of Detroit Bomber’a Radical Links
London - The security services knew three years ago that the Detroit bomber had “multiple communications” with Islamic extremists in Britain, it emerged this weekend.
Counterterrorism officials sai...
New Jersey – Newark Airport To Receive Full-Body Scanners
New Jersey - Newark Liberty Airport is getting full-body scanners that reveal all - and could keep terrorists like the undie bomber from boarding planes.
The gizmos, which cost about $170,000 apiec...
Candor, NY – New York Man Finds His Kitchen Faucet Spews Flames [video]
Candor, NY - Fred Mayer has a special feature in his kitchen: a faucet that spews fire.
Mayer says that about three years ago the well supplying water to his home in Candor became polluted with na...
Egypt – Ministry Takes up Residence in Cairo Synagogue
Egypt - Working among Hebrew inscriptions and Stars of David, the staff of the Ministry of Social Affairs in the east of Cairo are, effectively, squatting in a disused synagogue.
Up until the 1952 ...
New York – Today’s DAF: (Bava Basra 134a) Prophecy, Rabbi Riskin, and “Rabbi” J-sus
New York - This week a report appeared in the Jewish media about Rabbi Riskin’s having released a video tape where he states that he had always had a deep admiration for “Rabbi J-sus” and that the dif...
Washington – Newsweek: Obama Got Pre-X-mas Intelligence Briefing About Terror Threats to ‘Homeland’
Washington - President Obama received a high-level briefing only three days before Christmas about possible holiday-period terrorist threats against the U.S., NEWSWEEK has learned. The briefing was ce...
Washington – Editorial: A Terrorist War Obama Has Denied
Washington - Janet Napolitano -- former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security -- will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Det...
Tehran – Iranian FM Gives West Ultimatum
Tehran - Iran warned on Saturday the West has until the end of the month to accept Teheran's counterproposal to a UN-drafted plan on a nuclear exchange, or the country will start producing nuclear fu...
New York – FAA Keeps Close Tabs on American Airlines After Three Botched Landings in 11 Days
New York - The FAA said Friday it is heightening scrutiny of American Airlines after the carrier had three landings go wrong in December.
"In situations where there may be several incidents involvi...
New York City – Mazal Tov It’s a Chasidic Boy: First 2010 NYC Baby
New York City - Just 13 seconds after the ball dropped, baby "new year" came bouncing into the world.
"We're proud, very happy, very excited," said proud mom Brucha Strulevich, who hasn't even pick...
Israel – Shin Bet: 2009 Had Lowest Terror Levels This Decade
Israel - The past 12 months have seen the lowest number of terror attacks this decade, and the least number of Israeli casualties of terror, according to a report from the Shin Bet.
The Shin Bet cr...
New York – New York City Mayor Bloomberg Sworn In for 3rd Term
New York - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg struck a humble tone in his inauguration speech on the first day of his third term.
Mr. Bloomberg said he understands his third term is a "special o...
Paramus, NJ – 12-Year-Old Completes Entire Nach In 2 Years
Paramus, NJ - - The Orthodox Union’s Nach Yomi program, in which a chapter of Nach – Nevi’im (Prophets) and Ketuvim (Writings) – is completed every day, just had its youngest participant ever complet...