Madrid­­­— A top American Muslim leader and American Jewish groups formed an unlikely alliance this week against a fiercely anti-Zionist chasidic group at an interfaith conference in Madrid, spearheaded by Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah. Dr. Sayyid Syeed, national director of the Islamic Society of North America, said he was upset by the planned participation in the conference, which...

Berlin, Germany - A publishing house has released a card game featuring 32 dictators, including Adolf Hitler. The creators wanted to make an ironic statement about the tyrants but not everyone appreciates the joke. The game, called Das Fuehrer Quartett, the cards present pictures and information on notorious historical figures such as Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler. "We...

Jerusalem - Israel has posted a clip on the video-sharing Web site YouTube detailing the crimes committed by Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar, who was freed on Wednesday as part of a prisoner exchange deal with Hezbollah. The Prime Minister's Office produced the video and released it on Tuesday as part of a campaign to tarnish the image of the Lebanese guerilla group in light of the victory...

New York City - Merrill Lynch & Co Inc has agreed to sell its 20 percent stake in Bloomberg LP back to the news and financial data company for about $4.5 billion, a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. Bloomberg was founded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who is now New York's mayor and still owns about 70 percent of the company. It is not immediately clear what role, if...

New York - A growing concern is what could happen away from the airport: Terrorist firing a shoulder launched-missile just outside the airport's property. The light weight weapons are becoming and more available on the black market, as many as 150,000 are believed to be in circulation and can easily bring down a plane. But now American Airlines is flying with new defensive technology on some...

New York City - Investors cheered positive financial reports from the banking and airline sectors Wednesday, sparking a strong stock market rally. Wall Street also got a lift on another large drop in oil prices. According to early tallies, the Dow Jones industrial average closed up 276 points at 11,239...

Brooklyn, NY - Two people a male and a female were found shot dead inside a home at East 33rd Street and Avenue "S". The couple was found with gunshot wounds to their heads, by a cleaning lady inside the home at 1961 East 33rd Street. NYPD of the 63rd Pct and NYPD Homicide Division are on the scene and setting up a crime scene, some shell casings were recovered at the scene, Assistant Police...

Poltava, Unkraine - The Holocaust monument in the Ukrainian city of Poltava was smeared with paint, Ukrainian national symbols and anti-Semitic graffiti. The JTA is reporting, that some Poltava Jews believe that Ukrainian nationalists committed the vandalism, but others believe it was organized by anti-democratic forces. The monuments memorialize more than 3,000 Poltava Jews killed there on...

Brooklyn, NY - FDNY on the scene for a working fire at the fifth floor of a five story 150 by 100 occupied multiple dwelling building at 143 Classon Avenue and Park Avenue, searches underway. U/D: 03:54pm Fire will probably hold, all searches are negative and fire department are requesting now a 2nd Alarm for relief purposes...

Brooklyn, NY - Ten individuals associated with a Brooklyn-based medical clinic -- including the clinic’s owners and several of its medical practitioners -- were arrested yesterday and today on charges of conspiracy to commit health care and mail fraud. According to the three criminal Complaints unsealed earlier today Samuel Vilshanetski, a/k/a “Dima,” Sviatoslav Jadan, a/k/a...

New York, NY - A 637-foot cruise ship carrying approximately 1,200 passengers and crew is being detained in New York Harbor after a routine safety inspection revealed significant hull damage and numerous discrepancies. All passengers were let off the boat. The ship is the Clipper Pacific which is based in the Bahamas, but was inbound from Greenland. A six-person examination team from Coast...

Israel - A Jerusalem woman recently learned she was born Chava Margules in Sosnowiec, Poland, in 1942 and that her parents were Avrohom Margules and Leah Guterman Margules. She is hoping to find a relative. During an aktzia on July 22, 1943, Leah Margules stole out of the Dabrowa Gornicza ghetto and pleaded with passersby to save her child. Eighteen year old Genia Bartusz, a Polish girl...

New York City - Public reaction was fast and furious to a surveillance video shown last year on local news broadcasts in New York City. It showed a 101-year-old woman on a walker battered and bloodied in the vestibule of her apartment building by a mugger who made off with $33 and a set of house keys. Who could watch the attack on Rose Morat, headed home from church in broad daylight, and not...

Orange County, NY - The 911 operations shifted from their former facilities in Chester to a new, high tech center in Goshen. The $46 million state-of-the art Emergency Services Center and 88,000-square foot complex will now house all facets of emergency preparedness for the county from natural disasters like flooding to a radiological facility related to the Indian Point nuclear power...

Deerfield Beach, FL - Police are investigating a hate crime in a South Florida trailer park, and a resident believes it stems from an undercurrent of anti-Semitism at the residence. Albert Serra, a resident of Tidewater Estates, woke up Tuesday morning and found the words, "Get out Jew or die," spray-painted on the exterior of his trailer home. "When I saw that, my reaction was immediately...