Manhattan, NY - NYPD on the scene at 7th Avenue and 53rd Street at the Transit "B" Line with numerous people in the station complaining of burning eyes and throats. Station has been evacuated and all emergency personnel waiting outside for Haz-Mat units arrival. NYPD has shut down 2 block radius. U/D: 1027 NYPD ESU advising there is no fire or any other suspicious activity, incident was...

Jerusalem - The windmill built by Jewish philanthropist Sir Moses Haim Montefiore in 1857 in Jerusalem’s Yemin Moshe neighborhood will produce flour once again. Renovation of the windmill, one of modern Jerusalem’s symbols, was made possible by a contribution of a half a million dollars given by a Jewish American donor to the Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski. The windmill was built in...

Yemen - Yahya Joseph Mossa, the Rabbi of the Jewish community in al-Salam, has claimed that al-Huthi’s followers stole his car from his friend and local sheikh Bin Daji’s house in Sa’adah province on July 26. Mossa also claimed that the Huthis looted valuable manuscripts and many other belongings from his home in al-Hayd village on April 6 and then proceeded to destroy it. He demanded...

Suffolk County, NY - A New Jersey eye doctor is accusing an off-duty NYPD detective and his two buddies of pummeling him after they mistook him for a flasher as he walked to a Fire Island synagogue. David Campeas, a New Jersey ophthalmologist, says the cop and his pals spewed anti-gay epithets, slammed him to the ground and threatened to drown him. The doctor was freed only after two young...

Liberty, NY - This past Sunday morning, Tisha B'av, Chesed shel Emes organized and led a very emotional and moving ceremony of Hakamas Matzeivos, which took place in their newly acquired cemetery in Liberty, N.Y. Chesed Shel Emes is an exemplary organzation whose goal is to ensure that every Meis Mitzvah is buried in a Jewish cemetery with the maximum Kavod Hameis. Monuments were placed on the...

Brooklyn, NY - In response to the crisis caused by the Russian invasion of the fledging Georgian democracy this past weekend, an emergency meeting was called on Monday evening by the Vaad LeHatzolas Nidchei Yisroel and Agudas Yisroel at the home of the Vaad Chairman, Barry Hertz. The situation was evaluated by those who attended the meeting who heard a report from Rabbi Ariel Levin, the official...

New York, NY - The New York City Police Department wants to photograph the license plate of every vehicle that enters Manhattan, according. Operation Sentinel would include radiological scanning at the bridges and tunnels that link Manhattan to New Jersey and other parts of the city. "Data on each vehicle — its time-stamped image, license plate imprint and radiological signature — would...

Saskatoon, Canada - Damages must still be tallied after an early morning fire struck Wild West Steelhead, a fish farm located on the banks of Lake Diefenbaker. The incident won't sink the company, however. Its most prized possessions were safe from the blaze, swimming 400 metres offshore in linked pens. "We still have to figure things out but we still have all of the fish," said Stuart...