Goshen, NY - The long-stalled debate over the location of religious retreats downtown might simmer once again, as completion nears on a law to regulate religious land use. Village consultant Stuart Turner said his office would have a final draft of the new law within two weeks. Public hearings would then be held to discuss the proposed changes as the Village Board decides on the details of...

Berlin, Germany - Police say a man has been arrested after spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on Berlin's Holocaust memorial. A police statement says a security guard caught the intoxicated 28-year-old from eastern Germany as he was spray-painting four of the slabs that make up the vast memorial. The guard alerted police. The statement says the man had sprayed "words and figures, some of...

Israel - A group of ultra-Orthodox passengers delayed for about 90 minutes the takeoff of a scheduled flight from Kiev to Ben-Gurion Airport because their rabbi was late in getting to the airport. "The passengers were in their seats. The flight attendants were ordered to close the doors when a Haredi passenger suddenly came running from the back of the plane to the front," a passenger...