Israel - A Rabbinical Committee on Communications and the telecommunications provider Bezeq have agreed on the activation of a separate internet servers for the ultra-Orthodox public in order to block access to porn sites and additional 'forbidden' content in haredi homes. According to the agreement, ultra-Orthodox households will receive a separate ADSL line, and the rabbinical...

Orange County, Kiryas Joel, Monroe, NY +Brush Fire+ KJ fire Department on the scene requesting M/A from Monroe for a brush fire in a Cul-De-Sac near 13 Raywood Drive, a 10x10 area is effected...

Cleveland, OH - The American imigration board has ruled that John Demjanjuk, a former Soviet citizen believed to have served as a Nazi guard during the WWII, should be deported to Ukraine from the US. The decision followed a 2002 ruling that Demjanjuk be stripped of his US citizenship and deported. He appealed but the appeal has now been rejected. Demjanjuk argued that his life would be in...

Kiryas Joel, Monroe, NY - Every year since 2000, when New York opened the Small Cities office to ladle out block grants from the federal government, Kiryas Joel has sought a piece of the action, competing with hundreds of towns, villages, cities and counties around the state. And every year, Kiryas Joel has come up a winner, the fifth highest total of 1,282 eligible communities. This...

Albany, NY - Gov. George Pataki, with one foot out the door, appointed a number of longtime allies, donors and several of his few remaining staffers to lucrative government posts, none of which require Senate confirmation. One of the people that Pataki appointed, is Michael Fragin, who served as his Jewish liaison and outreach director, and also worked for NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg in 2005...

Athens, Greece - An Israeli passenger plane carrying 230 people landed safely at Athens International Airport after experiencing technical difficulties. Pilots on board the Isr Air Boeing 757 plane had requested to make an emergency landing, saying they were experiencing technical difficulties in Greek airspace. The plane, on its way from Tel Aviv to Paris, had been circling above Athens'...

East Ramapo, NY - Two East Ramapo school district administrators who have spent a combined 36 years in the district will retire next month. Janet Hardwick's last day as district clerk will be Jan. 12, while David Fried, the district's assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, will retire at the end of January. "I will miss them both terribly," said...

Iraq - The death of a Texas soldier, raised the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq to at least 3,000 since the war began. Spc. Dustin R. Donica, 22, of Spring, Texas, was killed by small arms fire in Baghdad, the Defense Department said...

Monmouth County, Tinton Falls, NJ +MVA with Pin+ A motor vehicle accident with two aided that are trapped in the vehicle and are unconscious on the south bound of the Garden State Parkway at M/M 111 near Exit 109 at the express lanes, NJ State Police on the scene requesting Fire Department to respond, H Base requesting Lakewood Hatzolah to head out to the scene, one EMT was injured at the...

Brooklyn, NY +Bias Crime+ NYPD are investigating vandalism what they classified as a hate crime. Police were called by a resident on Ridge Boulevard in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, NY after he discovered swastikas scrawled by black magic marker on an apartment door. Police are asking anyone with any details to come forward...

Suffern, NY - Good Sam Hospital hopes to open an ambulatory surgery center in a new medical office building as a way to recapture business lost to other free-standing facilities. The hospital has applied for permission from the state Health Department to open the facility, where doctors could offer patients tests and procedures that once had to be done in hospital operating rooms. "It's a...

Sydney, Australia - THE Holocaust survivor who was brutally murdered in Sydney last week and found in a bin, as was reported by VOS IZ NEIAS, will be buried on Tuesday. The Sydney Chevra Kadisha retrieved Katherine Schweitzer's body on Sunday after an autopsy revealed she was strangled to death last Wednesday at her Bellevue Hill apartment in Sydney's eastern suburbs. Rabbi David...

Lakewood, NJ - The hunt is on for a place big enough for thousands of people to gather for a public lottery, for affordable-housing. Lakewood officials will hold the lottery to determine who will get the three- and four-bedroom homes, to be built by a nonprofit developer. "We're trying to find a big area to have this happen," said Ervin E. Oross Jr., Lakewood's director of...

Beit Shemesh, Israel - Railway investigators are on the scene of a collision between a train and a bulldozer near Beit Shemesh. The bulldozer had attempted to cross the tracks against a red light, causing the accident that injured 31 people. The train's conductor spotted something from a distance and managed to slow down sufficiently to minimize the damage from the accident. All the...

Brooklyn, NY +Perp Search+ NYPD of the 66th Pct have called for a level one mobilization for a perp search after a robbery of a food store with shots that were fired at 15th Avenue and 36th Street, ESU, K-9 and Aviation above all on the scene for the search, perimmiter has been set u...