New York, NY - Chag Kasher V'Sameach to all our readers, and your families. Because of the Passover Holiday The Site will not be updated until April 4 9:00 PM...

Monsey, NY +Kitchen Fire+ Fire Department and EMS were all on the scene for a kitchen fire at a 40X20 wood frame private dwelling at 5 Debra Road...

Brooklyn, NY - Twenty-five years ago this month, statistics showed that the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park was one of the fastest-growing areas in the city. It's today home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish populations in the world outside of Israel. Borough Park's growth began to pick up steam in the late '70s as more Orthodox Jews, who often have large families, migrated to the area...

Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY +Disorderly Crowd+ Fire Department Engine-282 requesting NYPD to 45th Street between 12th Avenue and 13th Avenue, FD reporting an altercation between units on the scene and a large disorderly crowd around a large bun fire in middle of the street...

New York, NY - At least five states, eager to stem losses of millions of dollars a year in unpaid tolls, are cracking down on scofflaws through highway patrol stakeouts, stiffer fines and even the loss of driving privileges. Denver, CO - TSA missed 90% of bombs at Denver airport. Chicago, IL - How would you like to fly from Chicago to Japan or India in 40 minutes? Some local entrepreneurs are...

Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY +Victim of Explosion+ Hatzolah responding BLS and ALS to 53rd Street and 15th Avenue for reports of a child aided from an explosion into the childs face from a fire burning bread...

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY +Burn Victim+ Hatzolah ALS has been requested to respond on a rush for 4-year-old child that has sustained burns to the head after an explosion of a bottle during a fire of bread burning at Clymer Street and Wythe Avenue...

Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY +Burn Victims+ Multiple Hatzolah members responding to 1967 54th Street, Hatzolah sending two ambulances and additional ALS units to respond...

Brooklyn, NY - Residents of a quiet Brooklyn block were up in arms yesterday after a cop plastered their cars with nine parking tickets in five minutes. A quick-handed officer from the 70th Precinct unleashed his ticket-writing fury between 8:10 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. Saturday on East 23rd Street between Farragut Road and Foster Avenue in Flatbush. All the parking citations claimed that motorists...

United Kingdom - Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed. It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial. The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into 'emotive and controversial' history teaching...

Albany NY - Governor Spitzer is aiming to rebound after a grueling budget battle, with plans under way to consolidate local government, to announce a commission on public higher education, and to push legislation — including his proposed $1,000 private school tuition tax deduction — that was excluded from the final budget. The Spitzer administration is looking forward to resuming the...

London - The captain of a Virgin Atlantic flight was hauled off his plane in handcuffs for being "drunk".The incident happened in front of shocked passengers of a New York bound flight from Heathrow Terminal 3. The pilot, 47, was breathalysed and arrested behind the controls even as more than 300 people on board the Airbus 340 flight, VS003, waited for take off to JFK in Queens, NY. The...

Washington, DC - Hungary's ambassador to Washington Andras Simonyi has sought to calm fears expressed by a congressman over anti-Semitism in the central European country. Simonyi held a meeting with Edolphus Towns (Dem), who had sent a letter to Hungary's embassy expressing his deep dismay over reports of anti-Semitism. "Hungarians are not anti-Semitic and every good-intentioned...

Chicago, IL - Chicago police say that they are investigating the vandalizing of a synagogue on the city's North Side as a hate crime.State Senator Ira Silverstein, a Chicago Democrat, says someone spray painted derogatory messages on the front door of the Ner Tamid Ezra-Habonin Synagogue of North Town, near California and Rosemont Avenues, and also sprayed anti-Israeli slogans on signs in...

Monsey, NY +Serious Fire+ A Serious working fire on all three floors of 102 N. Saddle River Drive. Fire Department on the scene. M/A Spring Valley, Hillcrest and Tallman with tankers. U/D: 20:31 Fire Department requesting a 2nd alarm, dwelling fully involved. O&R Utilities are requested on a rush for live wires down. U/D: 20:37 Numerous explosions are coming from the house. U/D...