September 30 Pinned News ...

Vilnius, Lithuania - British Jewish leaders met with the Lithuanian ambassador to protest desecration of Vilnius' Jewish cemetery. The delegation of the umbrella Board of Deputies met with Lithuania's Ambassador to Britain Vyguadas Usackas and his counsellor, Ernestas Grabazis. The discussion centered on construction work at Vilnius' 600-year-old Snipiskes cemetery, estimated to...

Manchester, UK - Four men, thought to be strictly Orthodox Jews, spent Yom Kippur in custody at Manchester Airport. Yehuda Cohen, 23, Yehonadav Ades, 18, Hananel Eliyahu, 19, and Avraham Wales, 19, were arrested on Kol Nidre night for trying to smuggle 65,000 cigarettes into Britain. The four men arrived in Manchester on a flight from Tel Aviv. The cigarettes would have attracted a duty of...

New York, NY - Three NYPD detectives are accusing their sergeant of spewing bigoted comments. Sgt. William Planeta, who is white, allegedly disparaged blacks, Jews and Hispanics, according to the detectives who worked with him in the department's documents fraud squad. Allegations in a suit filed by one investigator include Planeta calling Hasidic Jews "curls" and...

Israel - A collision between two cars on Israel's Arava highway claimed the lives of four people - including three members of one family. Magen David Adom paramedics pronounced three victims - Chuck (54) and Roberta (49) Bernstein and their daughter Batsheva, 18, - DOA. The Bernstein's son, 11-year-old Moshe, was evacuated to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba. The Bernsteins, originally...

Brooklyn, NY +Pedestrian Fatally Struck+ NYPD of the 63rd Pct on the scene requested NYPD Highway AIS for a confirmed A.I. job of a 40-year-old pedestrian that was fatally struck between two vehicles at East 66th Street and Avenue "U". Aided expired at Brookdale Hospital. Volunteers of Misaskim are provides its assistance...

New York, NY - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday he never considered running for U.S. president and any suggestion he had was concocted by the press. Bloomberg was at the centre of speculation earlier this year when he left the Republican Party that he planned an independent bid for the presidency in 2008, although he denied it. Asked if he had ever toyed with the idea, Bloomberg...

New York, NY - Monday will mark the entrance of a new taxi logo on New York cabs, in a move to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the iconic yellow cab. Cars that appear for their annual inspection will be required to sport the new logo, so the sooner you see a cab with the new look, the more recently they've presumably been inspected. The redesigned graphics feature a checked motif that is...

New York, NY - Thousands of  poor New Yorkers wrongly stripped of their food stamps will receive their lost vouchers thanks to a settlement reached in federal court. About 30,000 of the city's least fortunate had lost roughly $71 million worth of stamps because of a mistake by the city Human Resources Administration. Four years ago, an advocacy group determined that a glitch with...

Montreal, Canada - The Quebec Council on the Status of Women has asked the provincial government to ban public employees from wearing religious clothing.Christiane Pelchat, the council president, said the only religious symbols that should be allowed are those that can be hidden. She said headscarves worn by Muslim women and yarmulkes worn by some Jewish men should be banned.Teachers, especially...

Brooklyn, NY - The 20th Senatorial District in Brooklyn is home to more than 35,000 people, and it boasts an unusual diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, and religion. The needs of such a district are many and varied, and satisfying them demands a particular talent and a special set of skills. The office of New York State Senator Eric Adams is pleased to announce, therefore, the appointment of...

Sebastopol, Ukraine - Rabbi Binyamin Wolf, the head of the Jewish community in Sebastopol, Ukraine, was hospitalized with a broken nose and concussion after four thugs taunted him with anti-Semitic slurs and then severely beat him on his way to synagogue. The police have yet to arrest the perpetrators despite the fact that they know who they are.As he was on his way to synagogue services, two...

Phoenix AZ - A woman late to her plane became irate, was put in handcuffs and was later found dead in a holding cell, police said. Authorities were investigating Saturday if the woman choked herself while trying to get free from the handcuffs. Carol Ann Gotbaum, 45, of New York, was arrested at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after a conflict with gate crews who refused to allow her to...

Mumbai India - A new line of bedspreads called the "NAZI Collection" has provoked fury among India's Jewish community. Jews in the financial capital Mumbai are now looking into legal options to block the sale of the product line, the promotional material for which features swastikas, the Times of India newspaper said Sunday. "We Jews believe that the best part of living in India is that it is a...

Washington - More than $24 million was sent out Friday to mostly Jewish nonprofit organizations in major cities nationwide because the federal government considers them to be at high risk of a terrorist attack. The Homeland Security Department decided which nonprofits would receive these 308 grants based on threat and risk information. Organizations in Chicago and New York were the top...