New York City - Thousands are expected to join Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) and activist groups at the Grand Hyatt Hotel to protest the invitation by the World Council of Churches, Mennonite Central Committee, and other religious entities to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "Would WCC invite Bin Laden and Hitler to talk about peace? Ahmadinejad is the ‘little Hitler.’ The WCC...

New York, NY - The New York Times Blog received an e-mail message from a concerned father who was alarmed by the number of taxi-tops with voluptuous ads. “It strikes me as grossly inappropriate,” said Alex Yanos, a father of three children — ages 5, 7 and 9 — who lives in Harlem. “The cabs are everywhere. As a parent, that means they are constantly in small children’s...

New York - Even a week later it remains unclear to us how the addition of Governor Sarah Palin to the list of scheduled speakers at the Ahmadinejad rally at the United Nations Monday somehow tainted the event as partisan. Senator Hillary Clinton famously used the planned appearance of the Republican vice presidential nominee as an excuse to back out of the event. Perhaps more famously, the...

Queens, NY - You may have seen the official looking placards on some car dashboards. Many of them seem to scare ticket writers away. But wait until you see what Fox 5's John Deutzman found out went he checked out just one of those suspicious signs. Click to Watch below Video ...

Washington - A dozen Jewish members of Congress sent a letter to Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin, the President and Director of Agriprocessors, the major kosher slaughterhouse and meat distribution firm whose plant was the site of a major immigration raid in August. The letter expresses deep concern over the company's alleged mistreatment of its workers and animals and the violation of U.S. laws and Jewish...

Jackson, WY -When Rabbi Zalman Mendelsohn arrived in Jackson, Wyo., in May, the first thing he did was open up the phone book in search of Jewish-sounding names. "After making a few phone calls, I realized I wasn't getting anywhere," Mendelsohn says. "I was finding a lot of wonderful German people living here in Jackson." But none was Jewish. Finding Jews in Wyoming — and bringing them...

Belgrade, Serbia - Serbia's war crimes prosecutor's office says it has requested an investigation of 94-year-old World War II suspect Sandor Kepiro, who lives now in Hungary. The prosecutor has filed a formal request for an investigation of Kepiro with the Belgrade war crimes court. The move is the first step toward a possible indictment and trial. In a statement the prosecutor says...

Jerusalem - Israel's population has grown to over 7.3 million people, the country's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said in figures published today ahead of the Jewish New Year. Of those, more than 5.5 million (75.5 per cent) are Jews, while just under 1.5 million are Arabs, who make up 20 per cent of the total population. The remaining 318,000 "other" inhabitants are neither Jewish nor...

Paris, France - The fashion is more Brooklyn than Paris, with young Muslims and blacks in low jeans, sunglasses and hoodies, often with a kaffiyeh knotted carefully around the neck, and sometimes, now, with guns. There is a large Jewish community, too, many of them Lubavitcher, with kosher butchers and delicatessens, a large religious school and synagogue, close to the Medina Hammam Center and...