New York - German doctors seeking a cure for leukemia see promise in an unexpected source - methadone. The drug, used to treat people addicted to heroin and other opioids, kills leukemia cells without harming healthy blood cells, University of Ulm researchers report in the journal Cancer Research. And methadone may attack other cancers, too. "[It] also can kill solid tumors," said study...

Australia - Rebbetzin Pnina Feldman has announced her decision to withdraw all of her claims against Kesser Torah College (KTC) president Meir Moss, bringing to an end a dispute that has bitterly divided Sydney’s Orthodox community. Her unexpected decision last Tuesday evening encompasses both her proceedings against Moss in the NSW Supreme Court and her claims against him in the Sydney Beth...

Israel - Chief Rabbi of the Kotel Shmuel Rabinovitz said today he will fight "the despicable phenomenon" of removing personal notes of prayer from the cracks in the Western Wall. Rabinovitz's official announcement comes after such a note written by Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the presidency, was removed from the Wall and its contents were published by a Hebrew...

New York, NY - The union boss may look cool and relaxed in his white Mercedes, golden tan and trademark pink polo shirts, but for Peter Stein, summer is no vacation. Mr. Stein, 63, is the enigmatic union chief who has been a towering figure in New York City's lifeguard system since the 1960s, when he helped unionize city lifeguards and later became president of Local 508, which represents...

North Bellmore, NY - Nassau police said a bias incident occurred in North Bellmore. When workers opened the concession stand at the playground of the Sawmill Road Elementary School, they discovered graffiti written on the ground directly in front of the stand, according to detectives. The graffiti consisted of a swastika and an anti-Semitic statement. The investigation is continuing. Anyone...

Postville, IA - The embattled Agriprocessors meatpacking plant is making steady progress in rebuilding its business, and it will survive under its current ownership, an executive said here last week. Chaim Abrahams, the plant's purchasing manager, said the company has seen no decline in demand for its products, which include kosher and nonkosher meat. The main stumbling block to rebuilding its...

Washington, DC - Congress and the Senate passed a higher education law with provisions for reporting campus hate crimes and encouraging diverse views. The measure now goes to President Bush for his signature. The JTA is reporting that one of the provision requires the Department of Education to collect information on hate crimes according to FBI criteria. Jewish groups say campus hate crimes...

New York - Council Member Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) was joined by Sustainable Flatbush and Brooklyn homeowners and tenants at City Hall to celebrate the long-awaited enforcement by the Department of Sanitation of a law prohibiting the distribution of unsolicited advertisements on properties with approved signs. “Finally, New Yorkers can say ‘Stop the Junk’ and have the force of the...

Tel Aviv - Ben Gurion Airport authorities on Sunday discovered in the departure terminal a 3-year-old girl whose parents had accidentally left her behind when they boarded their flight to Paris. The parents were identified in a computer check, but they did not respond to calls over the loudspeaker. She was the youngest of five children in the family, which was running late and made a mad dash...

Staten Island, NY - A witness called police to report that a white male parked his Honda at the Verrazano Bridge, walked to the edge and jumped off the bridge, NYPD ESU and Aviation are on the scene. Harbor units advising they have the jumper floating face down in the water under the bridge with massive head trauma, likely to die and will take him on board. U/D: 12:16pm USCG has the aided on...

Denmark - With a tight grip on his flashlight, Tommy Cassoe looks like a Danish Indiana Jones as he crawls out of a bunker buried under the sand, one of 7,000 the Nazis built along Denmark's western shores to fend off an allied invasion. "Mission accomplished. The bunker is empty," Cassoe exclaims, showing off his bounty on the Krylen beach to a crowd of onlookers: rusty cans, a plastic vial...

Colorado - Denver law-enforcement authorities are searching for a warehouse where they believe urine and feces are being stockpiled to throw at police by protesters at the Democratic National Convention. Denver City Councilman Doug Linkhart told The Post a source has "told me that he knew of a house where protestors were accumulating urine. We are trying to ban these things in advance, so we...

Canada - A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked on the Internet Saturday. In the tape of radio transmissions, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer refers to the attacker as "Badger" and says he is armed with a knife and scissors and is...

Australia - Qantas flight attendants want assurances from management that the Australian carrier's planes are safe after a third mid-air incident in two weeks, a union official said Sunday. Attendants are concerned about media reports about maintenance practices at Qantas and do not have the specialised knowledge to assess the incidents, said Steven Reed, president of the Flight Attendants...

Jerusalem, Israel - A Jerusalem branch of Bnei Akiva was badly vandalized by suspected Jewish assailants. The assailants in the attack on the Bnei Akiva chapter in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev hurled a Torah Scroll on the ground, destroyed the holy ark, where the Torah Scrolls are kept, threw holy books on the ground, and scrawled English and Russian language graffiti on...