New York, NY - Car owners could be given exclusive parking rights within their neighborhood if the city institutes a proposed residential parking program. City Council Member David Yassky, a likely candidate for comptroller, is renewing a push to enact the program, which was originally included as part of Mayor Bloomberg's failed attempt to pass congestion pricing. Under the proposal...

A commotion broke out in Tsfas today: Temimim who set up a booth near the Arizal's gravesite with Igros Kodesh and were attacked by extremist thugs from Jerusalem who are aligned with the extreme faction of the Eda Hachredit.. First these extremists hung up signs warning people who will be visiting the gravesite of the Arizal today 5 Av (his yahrzeit) to make sure to pray that G-d remove...

Las Vegas, NV - The Metropolitan Police Department's no-beard policy violates the First Amendment right of religious freedom, a federal judge ruled today. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt resolves portions of a lawsuit filed last year by Steve Riback, 31, a police detective and observant Orthodox Jew who sought the right to wear a beard and head covering at work. ...

Poland - Pinchads Zlotosvsky, 32, didn't always live as an Orthodox Jew. In fact, quite the opposite. Zlotosvsky, who continues to live in Warsaw, Poland, with his wife and two children, was a skinhead before discovering his Jewish identity. Zlotosvsky joined up with local Polish skinheads when he was 16 years old as a political statement and adopted the racist and anti-Semitic contempt of his...

Wawarsing, NY - A motor vehicle accident with a teenager that fell out of a truck near Route 52 and Dairyland Road Hatzolah on the scene and Chopper Life Guard-18 is responding for aided thats unconscious. ...

Spring Valley, NY - Monsey Hatzolah on the scene at Lawrence Street and 2nd Avenue for a motor vehicle accident with a car into a pole with serious head injuries to aided, 2 ambulances and multiple BLS and ALS on the scene. Aided being transported by ground. ...

Clarkstown, NY - A man in his 30s apparently hanged himself on the grounds of a yeshiva near the Spring Valley village border, police said today. Police were called to 100 S. Central Ave., the site of the old Singer's building and which now houses the religious school Noam Elimelech. Clarkstown Police Sgt. Nicholas Lafasciano said a student at the school was walking the grounds while...

Washington - The FBI just announced that the doctor that committed suicide last week Dr. Bruce Ivins, was in fact the only suspect in the investigation of the anthrax case of 2001 that resulted in the death of 5 people and injured 17. The anthrax case has grappled the nation for 8 years without any break in the case until now...

Forest Hills, NY - A troubled teen who got behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz high on marijuana sped through a red light into a busy Queens intersection yesterday, slamming into another car and killing the husband and wife. Jacob Chubashvili, 17, briefly slowed behind an SUV that was stopped at the light at 69th Road and the service road of the Grand Central Parkway in Forest Hills. But...

New York City - David Gurwitz, a New Yorkbased Jewish pianist, is donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of one of his songs to the American Red Cross China Relief Fund to help Chinese children injured in the Sichuan Earthquake. The quake, which occurred May 12, had a magnitude of 7.9, according to the United States Geographical Survey, and left over 69,000 dead. The song...

Williamsburg, NY - There was a time when one month's rent was enough to pay a broker to close a deal on a rental apartment in Williamsburg. But times are changing. As more Manhattanites cross the river, brokers in that Brooklyn neighborhood have capitalized on their new clientele's bred-in-Manhattan willingness to shell out cash for finding a prime rental. In the last few years, brokers at...

New York City - New York City is fighting back against subway passengers who can't keep their hands to themselves. People who get groped on crowded subway trains will be encouraged to report it as part of an anti-groping campaign being launched by New York City Transit next month. The agency expects to distribute 2,000 posters throughout the subway system that tell people who are sexually...

Brooklyn, NY - A man broke into an often-attacked Remsen Street synagogue, but this time it was common thievery, not anti-Semitism that appeared to be on the crook’s mind. A neighbor called the cops after the break in around at 4:05 am at Congregation B’Nai Avraham, which made international news last fall after swastikas were painted on the door and anti-Semitic fliers were left on area...

Yonkers, NY - Due to a water main break, all Northbound lanes on the Bronx River Pkwy. are closed. One left lane is closed in the southbound direction. Traffic is being diverted on both sides to Exit 11, Cross County Parkway. Expect heavy delays, and use caution...

New York - Federal prosecutors have charged 11 people with stealing more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers, cracking what officials said on Tuesday appeared to be the largest hacking and identity theft ring ever exposed. The thieves focused on major national retail chains like OfficeMax, Barnes & Noble, BJ's Wholesale Club, the Sports Authority and T. J. Maxx — the discount...