Lakewood, NJ - A 2-year-old Lakewood boy was hit by a car when he darted into traffic from between two parked cars in the township tonight. The toddler was struck on Whispering Pines Lane, Sgt. John Stillwell said. The driver of the car, Lakewood resident Mordechai Porges, 28, was driving west when he spotted the boy and applied his brakes, but he was unable to avoid striking the toddler, the...

Brooklyn, NY - Large mobilization by the NYPD at 36th Street and 2nd Avenue due to a suspicious vehicle with Haz-Mat explosive material inside the vehicle. NYPD ESU, Bomb Squad, ATF, EMS and Fire Department are all on the scene. Area closed off at this time. U/D July 4 6:30AM Below is the report from today's NY Post He's a criminal, but he "did the right thing" when it mattered - alerting...

Chicago, IL - A man was found guilty in Cook County Circuit Court of a hate crime and assault after he threatened three Jewish teenagers with a gun and called them anti-Semitic slurs during a confrontation in Lincolnwood last year. John Fiorentino, 20, of the 2300 block of Chase Avenue in Chicago, was convicted of a hate crime and assault after a two-day jury trial, prosecutors said. They...

Brooklyn, NY - The NYPD are calling for a Level One Mobilization due to a bank robbery of the Sovereign Bank at 1302 Avenue "J". Police are searching for a white male with a green T-shirt who was seen running eastbound on Avenue "J" towards the subway...

Lviv, Ukraine - The Holocaust memorial in Lviv, Ukraine was vandalized, according to UCSJ's local monitor. The plaque at the Kleparov train station informs passersby that the Nazis shipped 500,000 Jews through the station to death camps in Poland during the war. A group of Jewish tourists noticed that someone had painted a hangman and a Star of David on the plaque. It is not clear if...

Postville, IA - Federal authorities arrested two plant supervisors at the Postvillle-based Agriprocessors, Inc. this morning for allegedly helping many undocumented employees work at the kosher meat-packing plant illegally, according to a federal complaint unsealed today. Immigration agents arrested Martin De La Rosa-Loera and Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza and were driving them down to Cedar...

Borough Park, NY – Councilman Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn), Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), and United Community Services (UCS) are hosting a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Mobile Outreach event on July 22, 2008 at the UCS office at 1575 50th Street in Boro Park. Participants should RSVP to Yitty at (718) 854-9300 by July 17, 2008 for an opportunity to apply for non-drivers IDs, renew...

New York - Gov. David Paterson is reviewing legislation that would authorize state troopers to plea bargain traffic tickets in local courts, reversing a nearly two-year-old ban on the practice. The measure, passed by lawmakers before they adjourned, would undo state police policy implemented Sept. 1, 2006. Before then, troopers in some courts discussed with drivers reducing tickets to lesser...

Norwich, NY - Three teenagers involved in the vandalism of the Norwich Jewish Center received the maximum sentence allowable in Chenango County Family Court. Chenango County Judge W. Howard Sullivan began by reiterating the seriousness of the crime committed by the three youths. “If these crimes were committed by adults, the sentencing would result in a lengthy prison term,” he said...

Ashkelon, Israel - The violent murder of Ziona Samin, 62, a prominent rabbi’s wife who was found dead after having been allegedly strangled during a robbery in her home, is now accompanied by a difficult legal struggle and the Orthodox community’s revolt. Rabbi Samin, head of the Yemenite congregation in Ashkelon, found his wife tied and beaten on the floor of their home. The court received...

New York City - The NYPD will launch two new high-tech, radiation-detecting boats Friday as part of its defense against sea-borne terror attacks, the Daily News has learned. The boats, the first of a fleet of 10, will circle Manhattan Island over the holiday weekend to safeguard against "dirty bombs." They look like most police harbor patrol boats, but carry sophisticated equipment that...

London - A Jewish school has been cleared of an accusation that its entry criteria racially discriminated against an 11-year-old boy it refused to admit. The JFS in north-west London rejected him because his mother was not regarded as Jewish, the High Court heard. The boy - named in court only as M - has a Jewish father. His mother converted to the Jewish faith before he was born but had...

Lakewood, NJ - The Ocean County Prosecutor's office has taken over the investigation of a yeshiva student who was arrested last month on charges that he scammed an elderly Clifton man out of $33,400, investigators said Wednesday. The 23-year-old yeshiva student fromBeth Medrash Govoha, was arrested by Clifton police June 11 and charged with theft by deception. He has not been indicted yet...

Orange, Sullivan Counties - Police say motorists should give themselves extra time to reach their destinations, as holiday traffic will make the region’s chokepoints worse than usual. Mix in a violent thunderstorm or two – the forecast calls for them Thursday afternoon - and going could be really slow. “It’ll be nasty today and tomorrow, and nasty coming home Sunday,” said Sgt...

Lakewood, NJ - The Lightstone Group Value Plus REIT is taking a minority interest position in 20 factory outlets as well as receiving rights to four development projects in a $456 million deal. The REIT acquired the package from Arbor Mortgage, an affiliate of Arbor Mortgage REIT--a structure that puts Lightstone REIT on the same co-investor footing with Lightstone Group in the deal. Lightstone...