Sullivan County, Loch Sheldrake, NY +Fire In Private Dwelling+ A working fire at a private dwelling at Cambridge Circle, Loch Sheldrake FD responding...

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY +Pedestrian Struck+ A motor vehicle accident with a pedestrian that was struck at Lynch Street and Harrison Avenue, Hatzolah on the scene reporting aided is in and out of conscious...

Israel - The world's largest chipmaker Intel started work on a massive 3.5 billion-dollar semiconductor plant in southern Israel, its largest-ever investment in that land. Some 3.5 billion dollars will be invested in building the facilty, while another 1.5 billion dollars will go toward upgrading an adjoining facility. The 200,000-square-foot (19,000-square-metre) manufacturing facility, due to...

Brooklyn, NY +Motor Vehicle Accident+ A motor vehicle accident at 18th Avenue and East 7th Street, Hatzolah on the scene...

Rockland, Monsey, NY +Serious MVA+ A serious motor vehicle accident with entrapment at W Maple Avenue and Viola Road, Hatzola BLS units are on the scene requesting ALS Units to respond with a rush, als FD for extrication...

Bronx prosecutors investigating former Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik obtained a court order to tap his cellular telephone last summer and listened to his calls.For more than a year, the prosecutors, along with lawyers from city's Department of Investigation, have been investigating who paid for several hundred thousand dollars in renovations on Mr. Kerik's apartment in the Riverdale...

Northfield, N.J. - A Shore Road synagogue is reconsidering a controversial proposal to host a 130-foot-tall radio tower on its property. The president of Beth Israel Congregation, said based on feedback from 450 members, “We may reconsider our position and ask out of the contract.” He said the offer from T-Mobile, the cell-phone company, to host the tower would bring the congregation about...

Manhattan +Suspicious Substance In Tunnel+ FDNY and EMS are staging at the Lincoln Tunnel in regards to a suspicious substance found in the tunnel...

Israel - Study shows that more and more ultra-Orthodox Jews are consulting "virtual rabbis" via the Internet. The survey found that 25 percent of respondents regularly consulted a "virtual rabbi", 7 percent checked Internet forums for answers to religious questions, and these numbers are on the rise. Traditional methods were still more widely used, however. Another statistic on the rise was...

Palo Alto, California - A $250 million, 8.5-acre Jewish village will break ground in Palo Alto in late fall. The main features of the Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life will be the 130,000-square-foot Family Jewish Community Center and a 193-unit continuing care retirement community...

Moscow - The man accused of a knife-wielding attack on nine people in a central Moscow synagogue on January 11th, 2006, pleaded not guilty in an outspoken attack on the Russian judicial system. "The Criminal Code has been written by Jews and the Jewish mafia, therefore, I plead not guilty," Alexander Koptsev, 20, told the Moscow City Court. Prosecutor Kira Gudim said it had been Koptsev's...

London - A High Court judge has frozen the order suspending London mayor Ken Livingstone from office. The mayor was due to begin his four-week suspension for bringing his office into disrepute by making a Nazi jibe to a Jewish reporter. But a judge, sitting in private, ruled in an 11th hour decision that Mr Livingstone was entitled to have the controversial sanction stayed pending his...

Ramapo - The developer of a yeshiva with adult-student housing has been issued a violation for using a construction trailer for a pre-school program. Mosdos Chofetz Chaim is due in Ramapo Justice Court on March 20 to answer charges that the trailer had been occupied by children without a certificate of occupancy. "We're not going to permit a school to operate in the middle of a construction...

Some are concerned about the Kashrus of frozen cauliflower and broccoli and say that they could no longer be marketed as kosher. Lab tests of cauliflower and broccoli samples from some areas, show high levels of infestation of insects and worms, and there is practically no possibility of removing them, on the home level, and certainly not on the industrial level. The main reason is due to...

New York - Gov. Pataki, still in the hospital 13 days after an emergency appendectomy, is receiving intravenous antibiotics because he's now at risk of developing an abscess.and Pataki, who is being treated at New York Presbyterian Hospital, has experienced only "a slow return of normal digestive function" and, as a result, "is eating small amounts of food, but remains on intravenous nutrition." ...