Queens, NY - Investigators believe the theft of eight torahs - worth up to $400,000 - from a synagogue was an inside job, according to police sources and religious officials. Bernard Newman, past president of the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills, said not only was there no sign of a break-in but the thief would have had to use four keys to open the ark containing the torahs, donated to the...

New York, NY - Several New York City Transit workers are claiming that they contracted cancer from the city's bus engines. Diesel exhaust from the engines caused lung cancer, throat cancer, and heart disease among the workers, according to a lawsuit filed in state court. The manufacturers are accused of concealing the engines' health effects and disabling emissions safeguards. "The...

Melbourne, Australia - Victoria Police are to receive extra instructions about racial discrimination as part of a legal settlement over the abuse of a Jewish man by country footballers. Today, Menachem Vorchheimer formally announced the settlement of various legal actions taken against the State Government and police after he was racially vilified and assaulted. Mr Vorchheimer was punched...

Brisbane, Australia - A FATHER of six who allegedly punched a man in the face at a petrol station was trying to defend his daughter-in-law, a court has been told. Wilson Daniel Lee, 37, appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court today on a charge of grievious bodily harm following an alleged unprovoked attack at a Caltex Woolworth's petrol station at Carindale about 4.25pm Sunday where he...