Cooper City, FL - Rabbi Shmuel Posner hopes to reopen the Chabad of Nova in Cooper City. "It's gonna happen," Posner, after a federal judge ruled Cooper City violated the rights of his Orthodox synagogue. "The city is not above the law; they're trying to play above the law, but no one is above the law." On Tuesday, Miami U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga ruled against Cooper City on...

Kiryas Joel, NY - KJ Fire Department on the scene at 2 Shineva Court and Van Buren Drive for a gas line that ruptured at location. Orange and Rockland Utilities are being requested on a rush...

Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine - The chief rabbi or Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine announced that an agreement has been reached with a construction firm to halt a building project on the site of a defunct Jewish cemetery. Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky did not disclose all the details of the agreement with the ATB firm, but praised its leader, Gennady Butkevich, for his understanding of the Jewish community's...

New York City - The United States Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations, New York field office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that ANTON DUNN, was arrested today on charges that he caused videos of himself to be posted on the Internet in which he claimed to have directed others to poison Gerber baby food with the intent to kill babies. On April 20...

Lvov, Ukraine - Two adult workers at a Jewish youth center were severely beaten with metal rods. According to the JTA, several assailants burst into the Shalom Chaverim Center for religious Jewish youth in downtown Lvov and beat the victims. They also shattered windows and shouted anti-Semitic slogans, including "Kikes leave Ukraine." Local Jews and police identified the alleged attackers...

New York - I am writing this letter because I feel that something must be done about the nightmare that Camp Visiting Day has become. It is a situation that needs an airing, and while we may not be able to influence events on the world scene, this is something that is definitely in our hands and could ease the burdens of many families, and G-d knows, people have enough to contend with nowadays. ...

Aspen, CO - A Miami man died Wednesday while trying to rescue his wife, who had fallen into the Cascades, a turbulent stretch of the Roaring Fork River that cuts through polished rock at the Grottos recreation area nine miles east of Aspen. Steven E. Chaykin, a respected and accomplished attorney with the Miami law firm of Akerman and Senterfitt, was pronounced dead at the scene by medical...

New York - Home foreclosures in New York state rose 14 percent in the first quarter from the 2007 fourth quarter, with 82 percent of the foreclosures concentrated in the New York City metropolitan area. In addition, 59 percent of the foreclosures involved subprime borrowers, with African-American and Hispanic communities twice as likely to take out subprime mortgages. Two New York City...

Gateshead UK - Local history librarians at Gateshead Central Library have helped Manchester University historian Dr Yaakov Wise discover that the first Jew in Gateshead lived on an estate that later became Saltwell Park, Bensham, a popular leisure area for today’s local orthodox Jewish community. Dr Wise made the discovery in the archives of the London Jewish Chronicle and Hebrew Observer...

Haddonfield, NJ - Derogatory comments aimed at a Jewish police officer in Haddonfield by co-workers and supervisors created a hostile work environment and violated the state Law Against Discrimination. It all started when in 2003, Jason Cutler sued a fellow officer in the Haddonfield Police Department, the Township of Haddonfield, and its then director of public safety. He charged that...

Washington - Hundreds of people working in the military, government and education are on a list of almost 10,000 people who spent $7.3 million buying phony and counterfeit high school and college degrees from a Spokane diploma mill. The complete list of buyers, which the U.S. Department of Justice has refused to release to the public, has been obtained by The Spokesman-Review. "There are...

Sullivan County, NY - Perhaps you have seen the story on the Jewish news sites. [www.vosizneias.com] A 19- or 20-year-old man in a bungalow colony in the Catskills drinks too much on a Shabbos afternoon, gets keys to a car, drives out on Route 42, loses control of the car, and crashes into a fence; then he tries to flee. He is apprehended by the police after a brief chase on foot, arrested...

New York City - A software glitch that snarled air traffic and caused baggage pileups at John F. Kennedy International Airport stretched into Thursday, with more flight cancellations expected. American Airlines planned to cancel at least five flights scheduled to depart from Kennedy and said others could be delayed, a day after the malfunction led to headaches and angry...

Williamsburg, NY - Congressional hopeful Kevin Powell promised constituents that he would “bring home the bacon” if he wins a House seat — but unfortunately he was speaking before Hasidic community leaders who all keep Kosher. Powell made the goyish gaffe at the most inopportune time: he was attending a July 28 dinner to introducing the 42-year-old hip-hop writer and MTV “Real World”...

Jerusalem - Owner of Sderot factory offers employees who agree to observe mitzvahs pay raise, in effort to bring them closer to religion Is it moral to offer payment for observing mitzvahs? Felix Bilik, who owns Bilik Felix Metal Industries in Sderot sees nothing wrong with the practice. Over the past two years, Bilik has offered to add NIS 400 to the wages of any employee who starts...