New York City - New Yorkers are saying yes to a third term for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but no for members of City Council. A Quinnipiac University poll conducted this week showed that a majority of city residents now favor a proposal to extend term limits from two to three terms. Bloomberg said this week he would seek to change the law and run for re-election next year. The poll says 54...

New Jersey - State Assembly members have passed a new bill that will allow the state Department of Education to reschedule special school elections if they fall on religious holidays. Co-sponsored by District 11 Assembly members David Rible and Mary Pat Angelini, the new bill authorizes the state Commissioner of Education to change the allowable dates for a special school election if that...

Jerusalem - Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem. The diary belonged to Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut and one of seven crew members killed when Columbia disintegrated upon re-entering the atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2003. Part of the...

London - AN international conman who faked a jet-set lifestyle was behind bars last night in Britain after a decade cheating his victims out of hundred of thousands of pounds. Master conman Anthony De Clerck, 39, made fools out of businessmen, evaded justice by using different aliases. In Paris he was an international lawyer, in Monaco a rich businessman, in Brussels a dashing entrepreneur and...

Two Iranian-born British men are accused of being part of a network supplying components for the roadside bombs which are killing coalition soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The network, uncovered by American investigators, is alleged to have illegally shipped more than 30,000 electronic components from the United States to Iran via other countries. The components are said to be identical...

Postville IA - Crucial testimony could be lost in the investigation of a kosher meatpacking plant accused of labor-law violations. That's because government lawyers apparently miscalculated when to gather sworn testimony from potential witnesses. According to court records, a Department of Labor attorney initially believed that nine workers the agency wanted to gather depositions from were not...

New York - Governor David Paterson will be appearing this Sat night at 12 Midnight on Talkline with Zev Brenner in honor of the Jewish New Year. Please tune in to: WMCA 570 AM or via internet Amongst the issues the Governor will discus, will be the recent economic problems facing New York, and the presidential election...

New York, NY - The UN General Assembly's head Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann apparently annoyed several western countries when he dismissed West's negative propaganda against Iran at a time the Islamic Republic is seeking to become a UN Security Council member. ‪Brockmann dismissed western propaganda about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's anti-Israeli remarks, saying that some other...

Israel - A new phenomenon has emerged during the penitential prayers held in the southern city of Kiryat Gat after midnight: Young girls arrive in masses at the synagogues' women's gallery, and while seeking forgiveness for sins they committed over the past year, they search for potential mates among at the young men praying in the synagogue. Meanwhile, the boys appear to cooperate, many of...

New York City - New York City - As the earth cracked open on Wall Street with the landscape marked by the bankruptcy, emergency sale and federal bailout of some of the nation’s most venerable financial companies, a more abashed version of some realized that you cant define security by the number of zeroes on your paycheck. As the United States staggers from its credit binge to a straitened...

Washington - A Washington Post article on 9-28-2008 by Geoffrey Wheatcroft recalled that in the 1920s, Congress slammed the door on "immigrants (even desperate Jews fleeing Nazi Europe)." That's true, as far as it goes. But immigration quotas were only part of the story. Many more Jews could have been saved if President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- without changing a single law -- had simply...

Monsey, NY - The organizer of a kapparot ritual involving live chickens was fined by the Rockland Department of Health yesterday for leaving the site littered with feces, feathers and trash. In response to a complaint about bad odors, inspectors went to the privately owned land off Route 306 where the kapparot ceremony was held. No chickens -or people-- were at the location, said Judith...