Israel - The Education Ministry is threatening to withdraw the license of the Beit Yaakov girls' school in Immanuel unless it halts its policy of separating Ashkenazi and Mizrahi students. Until recently the ministry tended to accept the position, according to which the separation is based on educational and religious, not ethnic, factors. In February the nonprofit Noar Kehalakha, which...

Israel - Four hundred religious Zionist emissaries will be sent around the world to promote aliya and love of Israel, all within the framework of Torah and the observance of mitzvot. The Jewish Agency's Religious Zionist Shlichut Center, an umbrella organization uniting different organizations from within modern Orthodoxy, is sending off its emmisaries (shluchim) at an event at Yeshivat Netiv...

Monticello, NY - Hatzolah responded to a head-on motor vehicle accident at 350 Broadway at the Fialkoffs Colony parking lot, requested Medics on a rush and a chopper to respond for a patient with serious head and eye trauma from object inside the vehicle. Chopper Life Net-75 responded landing zone at the Apolo Mall on East Broadway ...

Kerhonkson, NY - Hatzolah on the scene and Medics are responding to Camp Rav Tov at 380 Cherry Town Road for a 19 month old that was struck by a vehicle and sustained no serious injuries, Chopper Stat Flight Air-2 has been launched ETA 11 minutes landing zone will be at Cherrytown Road near the scene. U/D 7:30 PM Child was taken as a precaution to Weschester Medical Center...

Albany, NY - Governor David A. Paterson has signed into law a bill that helps to ensure a person's end-of-life wishes are followed whether the person is at home, in a nursing home or in any other non-hospital setting. The new law makes permanent and statewide a program piloted in Monroe and Onondaga counties called Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (MOLST). Seriously ill patients...

New York City - The NYC Department of Transportation is asking experts to examine the possibility of creating a bike share program in New York City. If feasible and adopted, such a program would create a network of publicly accessible bicycles at minimal cost, and could provide an important transportation link at transit hubs and commercial and social areas - greatly increasing mobility...

Palo Alto, CA - An unknown number of people broke into Terman Middle School to steal property and commit a hate crime, Palo Alto police said.   The suspects allegedly spray-painted anti-Semitic graffiti over a Star of David, stole a laptop, digital camera and $60 in cash. Staff at the Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center's summer day camp, which operates at the campus, reported that...

VIN News was just informed regarding the serious motor vehicle accident reported here on Friday on the Saw Mill River Parkway at Roaring Brook Road in New Castle, NY, that the 5-year-old Mordechai Alter Ben Chana Milka Herzog has passed away. ...

Kiryas Joel, NY - KJFD are on the scene for a gas main that ruptured in front of 3 Yoel Klein Blvd, Orange & Rockland Utility Co. requested to respond on a rush...

Tempe, AZ - US Airways will stop showing in-flight movies on its domestic flights, a move that the carrier says will save it "about $10 million a year in fuel and other costs." "The video systems add about 500 pounds to a plane's weight, increasing fuel use." That, coupled with a drop in the number of customers willing to pay $5 for headsets, led to the airline's decision. "We simply can't...

Oyster Bay, NY - Jews for Jesus has dropped a lawsuit against the Town of Oyster Bay, New York. The lawsuit had been filed against the town for illegally stopping the group's missionaries from handing out gospel tracts in a public park. Jews for Jesus missionaries did not even make it into John J. Burns Park in July of last year before being confronted by city officials who told them they...

Chicago, IL - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama lamented legislative pushes to make English the official language of the United States and said Americans should instead focus on making sure their children learn Spanish at a recent campaign stop. “I don’t understand when people are going around worrying about, we need to have English only. They want to pass a law, we just, we...

Berlin, Germany - Germany's main Jewish group rejected today criticism of kosher slaughter practices, and was immediately backed by a Turkish group in Germany speaking on behalf of Moslems. Judaism reject the stunning of animals before slaughter and prescribe that animals be killed by a swift throat cut. Germany's federal chamber of veterinarians had earlier called kosher and halal...

Brooklyn, NY - Avraham K., 28, of Bergen Beach, attempted to stop an agent from scanning the vehicle registration of his car, which was parked on 38th Street and 14th Avenue. While doing so, Avraham allegedly broke the cord that attached the scanning pen to the main unit, and tossed the pen into the street. Then he repeatedly shoved the agent, police said. He was arrested on charges of...

Albany, NY - New Yorkers will no longer be able to simply mow a neighbor's lawn for 10 years to claim the property as their own. A law signed yesterday by Gov. David A. Paterson says "adverse possession" of another's land also will not happen simply because a fence, hedge, shrub, shed or other minimal, nonstructural item is placed across the deeded property line. Under New York law, an...