Williamsburg, NY - A motor vehicle accident between Williamsburg Shomrim Patrol and another vehicle, with one vehicle that overturned and some trapped at Marcy Avenue and Rutledge Street. Multiple Williamsburg Hatzolah members BLS and Medics and East Side Hatzolah are all responding, also requesting NYPD ESU to the scene for two people from Williamsburg Shomrim who are pinned inside the...

Monsey, NY - In a letter published by Journal news, two orthodox Jews Henny Lee Bick and Joseph E. Bick, strongly defend the officer who caused a controversy by asking a woman that was arrested for welfare fraud, to remover her wig for a mug shot. see below. We have known Ramapo Police Officer Jonathan Quinn both personally and professionally for many years. He has always been fair and...

Bnei Brak, Isral - Jews are not allowed to smoke, and they are required to observe a healthful way of life, said Rabbi Moshe Shaul Klein, rabbi of Bnei Brak's Ma'ayanei Hayeshuva Medical Center and representative of the halacha committee of one of the city's leading rabbinical arbiters, Rabbi Shmuel Wosner. Klein was addressing a conference of rabbis and hospital staffers on the subject of...

New York, NY - The NYPD declined to pursue more than one-third of substantiated complaints brought by civilians against cops last year, according to the Civilian Complaint Review Board. In 2007, the NYPD chose not to discipline cops in 102 out of 296 cases where the CCRB found misconduct by police - an unprecedented 34%. Just 3.3% of cases were rejected in 2006, 2.3% in 2005, 2.9% in 2004...

New Jersey - Prescription drugs will soon become costlier for many poor New Jersey senior and disabled citizens. The state announced Monday copays in its drug assistance program will increase Aug. 1. The copay for generics will go from $5 to $6. It will go from $5 to $7 for brand names. They're the first increases since 1992. The program has 168,000 people, but about 50,000 with the...

Sullivan County, South Fallsburg, NY - Hatzolah responded Code-1 ALS and Medics to a person in cardiac arrest in the pool area at Brook Cottages at 67 Laural Avenue. U/D: 05:04pm Hatzolah transporting the 88-year-old man to Catskill Regional Hospital...

Iran- The Iranian sentenced to death after being convicted of spying for Israel tells of his dealings with the Mossad in an interview with Iranian television on Monday. The spy, Ali Ashtari, detailed the demands made of him by his Mossad handlers, who he said took advantage of his occupation as a computer broker whose clientele included top Iranian military officials. "I was given a...

Borough Park, NY - Hatzolah EMS transported to Lutheran Medical Center an elderly woman who was found by Chesed Shell Emes and BSSP in the bathroom of a basement apartment at 54th Street and 18th Avenue, unconscious with multiple wounds to hear body which according to Medics on the scene was most likely from an assault. NYPD from the 66th Pct were requested top the scene...

Buenos Aires, Argentina  - Representatives of a Jewish human rights organization say an Israeli delegation is traveling to Chile and Argentina to hunt for the former SS doctor Aribert Heim.   The Wiesenthal Center in Buenos Aires says Efraim Zurrof is visiting the Chilean city of Puerto Montt with other officials today. Zurrof is the director of the Wiesenthal Center's Israeli office and the...

Queens, NY - Air traffic controllers say two planes — one departing and one landing — came within about 100 feet of a collision at New York's Kennedy Airport.   FAA officials said today they could not immediately confirm the report; airline officials said they're looking into it.   National Air Traffic Controllers Association spokesman Barrett Byrnes said Cayman Airways Flight 792...

New York - The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines that call for testing at-risk children’s cholesterol levels from the age of 2, and advise giving some children cholesterol-lowering drugs from the age of 8 in hopes of preventing heart disease later in life. Writing in the journal Pediatrics, doctors say that the recommendations have taken on “a new urgency, given the...

New York - Alex Payne, a 24-year-old Internet engineer here, has devised a way to answer a commonly asked question of the digital age: Is my favorite Web site working today? In March, Mr. Payne created downforeveryoneorjustme.com, as in, “Down for everyone, or just me?” It lets visitors type in a Web address and see whether a site is generally inaccessible or whether the problem is with...

New York City - A concerned mother this spring sent a frantic e-mail message to a person she hoped could help. Days later, her child had a spot and the problem was solved. Her hero was not the Department of Education, the school principal, or an elected official: It was Eduwonkette an anonymous academic researcher who for the past year has been writing a Web log about education news and...

New York, NY - The number of construction sites the Buildings Department has shut down this year has skyrocketed - especially in boroughs outside Manhattan that have seen a surge in development by small contractors. As of the middle of June, the department issued 5,948 stop-work orders citywide - a 44.8% jump from the corresponding period last year. The jump was 65.6% in Brooklyn and 67.2% in...

Monticello, NY - Hatzolah responding units to reports of a 16-month-old child that was knocked over by a golf cart in Satmar Ichud Bungalow Colony Rt 42 South, Medics also requested due to numerous calls. U/D: 11:59 Medics on th scene requesting for chopper to respond. Landing zone will be set up by Monticello Fire Department at the Monticello High School. U/D: Child is conscious and alertd...