Tel Aviv, Israel - Is Ramat Aviv becoming ultra-Orthodox? It depends who you ask. The Tel Aviv neighborhood’s veteran inhabitants have recently taken notice of a few incidents causing them to fear for their secular lives.   One of the local movie theaters turned into a "kollel", a Histardrut (labor federation) clubhouse on Reading Street turned into a Haredi kindergarten, and a Jewish...

New York, NY - The next casualty of the Wall Street Meltdown may be the Bloomberg Administration's plan to build 165,000 units of affordable housing. This is because "a $240 million fund that was a key element of the mayor's housing plan relies on some of the country's most troubled banks and securities firms." Relying on Washington Mutual, Wachovia and Fannie Mae, pillars of finance for...

Thompson, NY - The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office interrupted a possible attempted break in Tuesday afternoon in the Town of Thompson. As a result of several burglaries and a recent suspicious fire, sheriff’s deputies have had the Sackett Lake section of town under surveillance for the past week. Shortly before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sheriff’s Detective Jason Gorr observed a suspicious...

Montreal, Canada - How much jail time should a firebomber targetting the Jewish community get? That's what a judge will be thinking about over the next month in sentencing a young man who pleaded guilty earlier this summer to the crimes. Crown prosecutor Mario Dufresne says 25-year-old Azim Ibragimov should spend four years in prison for firebombing the Snowdon Y in April of last year, and an...

New York - The Obama campaign responded quickly today to an instant flap over purported comments that the Rev. Jesse Jackson made to the New York Post over Sen. Barack Obama's foreign policy plans. The McCain campaign seized on the remarks to suggest Obama would not be a strong supporter of Israel if he is elected president, while Jackson issued a statement saying his comments had been...

Safed, Israel - A 7-year-old boy was killed by a falling rock while playing with his friends near his home in the northern community of Or Haganuz. The rock fell from a pile that had been heaped up during construction work in the town, and police are investigating whether the contractor responsible for the work was guilty of negligence. The incident occurred shortly before 9 A.M., when Meir...

New York - Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) & Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) met Oct 16 at 9:00 PM for the third and final presidential debate to discuss domestic and economic policy. CBS chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer was the moderator. the event from Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. The debate,comes as Obama continues to make gains in the polls. To watch a replay click below ...

New Haven, CT - A New York man pleaded guilty to possessing explosives after he was linked to three vehicles in Connecticut and Brooklyn packed with weapons and explosives. Yung Tang, 38, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in New Haven to one count of possession of an explosive during the commission of a felony, one count of possession of an unregistered firearm silencer and two counts of...

New York - Stocks plunged Wednesday as worries about a possible recession rattled a market already worried about whether or not government efforts to rescue the financial system will work. Investors were wary after a slew of dismal economic reports, comments from Fed officials and a profit warning from JPMorgan Chase, sending major indexes on their way to retesting their Friday lows. The...

Israel - An Israeli Arab man was put under house arrest on Wednesday and his driver's license was suspended for a month, after he drove in a largely Jewish area on Yom Kipper. Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Tawfik Jamal may also be charged with reckless driving and violating religious sensibilities for the incident last Wednesday that sparked several days of riots in the ancient Israeli-Arab...