St. Louis, MO - Police in University City, Mo., are increasing patrols after reports of harassment at Jewish synagogues. Police said more than 10 incidents occurred around worship centers, and some synagogues have added security cameras and officers during services. Nine of the incidents involved passersby yelling racial slurs, but last month someone threw eggs at a family that was walking to a...

New York City - State law enforcement officials announced on Tuesday that a crackdown on unemployment fraud has led to the arrests of 126 New York City residents who received $930,000 from the state's unemployment insurance trust fund in the last year. The arrests are the result of a stepped-up enforcement effort, using data-matching and more coordination among agencies, to identify New...

Lakewood, NJ - A Jackson woman remained in critical condition following a three-vehicle crash at North Hope Chapel Road and New Central Avenue which claimed the life of her mother Saturday night. Beverly Hyman, 50, of Jackson was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash which happened just after 8 p.m. Saturday, said Patrolman Trevor Crowley of the traffic safety bureau. In critical...

Monsey, NY - A sex offender is making a second stab at challenging the constitutionality of a Rockland law that limits where he and other classified abusers can live in the county. Yoel Oberlander, 28, of Monsey argues in court papers that the county law preempts state law and therefore should be voided. The Rockland County Attorney's Office is defending the 2007 law as valid, since no New...

Saxony, Germany - Heads are shaking at the Central Council of Jews in Germany. "Unworthy" is how Stephan Kramer, the Council's general secretary, describes disputes over how to mark the coming 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht in the eastern German town of Görlitz. "There can't be a competition over who makes the better and more beautiful ceremony," he said. How best to commemorate the night...

New York - The gap between Barack Obama and John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Saturday through Monday has narrowed slightly, and Obama is now at 49% of the vote to 47% for McCain among likely voters using Gallup's traditional model, and at 51% to 44% using Gallup's expanded model. Both candidates continued vigorous campaigning on Monday. One forthcoming event with the...

Vienna, Austria - A Vienna streetcar driver says it was all a joke, but his "Sieg Heil" to passengers has cost him his job — and could potentially land him before a judge. Officials at Wiener Linien, which operates the Austrian capital's subway, bus and tram system, said today the man has been fired after uttering the Nazi greeting over the tram's public address system over the...

Ohio - A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that counties must allow homeless voters to list park benches and other locations that aren't buildings as their addresses. U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus also ruled that provisional ballots can't be invalidated because of poll worker errors. Monday's ruling resolved the final two pieces of a settlement between the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the...

Los Angeles, CA - John McCain's campaign is demanding that the Los Angeles Times release a video of a party for a prominent Palestinian activist that Barack Obama attended in 2003. The Times described the going-away party for former University of Chicago professor, and Obama friend, Rashid Khalidi, in a story in April. The story reported that Palestinians thought they might have a friend in...

New York - Investors went on a late-day buying spree, scooping up shares of beaten-down stocks and sending the major indexes soaring It was clear from the opening bell that volatility would reign once again: The Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up more than 200 points in the first minute of trading and kept going to about 300. A confidence report chipped away at those gains until there was...

Meron, Israel - A 30-year-old man from Yokneam suffered from light injuries after being stabbed and a family sprayed with tear gas after a man described by police as religious went on the rampage over mixed seating arrangements of men and women who arrived to celebrate a 3-year-old's birthday at the grave site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron, near Safed, this evening. Safed police said...

New York City - Thousands of apartments at nearly two dozen public housing complexes will be rented out to tenants with federal Section 8 vouchers under a new plan by the New York City Housing Authority that has drawn criticism for reducing the city’s already dwindling supply of privately owned subsidized housing. The Housing Authority’s plan will remove 8,400 units at 21 of its complexes...

New York - What do the super-wealthy do with their money when both stocks and bonds take a nose-dive? Buy antique artifacts, of course. From goblets to jewelry, manuscripts to menorahs, connoisseur collectors of antiques are still raiding the treasure trove of the past. They are doing so, however, with modern tools, as the long lost world of antiques comes alive on the Internet. Take New York...

Paris - France is to try three suspects -- one of them currently held in the US prison in Guantanamo Bay -- for a 2002 bomb attack on a Tunisian synagogue that left 21 dead, judicial officials said today. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is regarded by intelligence experts as the top planner behind Al-Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001, is one of three men accused of complicity in the Djerba...

New York, NY - Stung by a series of gruesome deaths blamed on faulty elevators, the city Housing Authority plans to spend millions to fix the lifts that often infuriate and injure its 406,000 residents. NYCHA will spend $5 million to hire new elevator inspectors and maintenance teams. An additional $107 million will go to replace 630 of its 3,335 elevators over five years. NYCHA is...