Toledo, Spain - A school expansion project is imperiling 85 tombs at an ancient Jewish cemetery in Spain, a Barcelona-based organization said. Representatives of The Center of Studies Zachor, which protects Jewish heritage in Spain, met at the site with the archeologist in charge of the excavation, as well as the director of landmarks in the region, to explore options to protect the site. The...

Atlanta, GA - Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship. "It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just...

New York, NY - The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Steven Byers, the former President and Chief Executive Officer of private equity firm WexTrust Capital, LLC, and Joseph Shereshevsky, a former principal and Chief Operating Officer of WexTrust Capital, LLC, were indicted today on charges stemming from a scheme to defraud WexTrust Capital investors by...

Fallsburg, NY - The manager of the Valero station in Loch Sheldrake has been indicted by a Sullivan County grand jury on charges of conspiracy for attempting to hire someone to blow up the rival Mobil station. Manhar Patel, 34, of Fallsburg, is accused of paying a person $100 to put a lighted cloth down the gas tank of the station. The two stations, which are less than a mile from each other on...

Borough Park, NY - Events in a Washington D.C. hospital prove that the divisive controversy over the question of when human life begins is matched by equally complex issues over the determination of when it ends. As a father, I can not fathom the pain of parents watching their child die. And the case of Motl Brody, a 12-year-old Hasidic boy from Brooklyn, NY being treated for brain cancer at...

New York, NY - Mayor Bloomberg's drive to get New Yorkers to bike to work geared up today with the city's plan to require bicycle parking spaces in new office and apartment buildings. City officials say the proposal, if approved, would be among the toughest in the nation. Under the plan released today, a 20-unit apartment building would have to provide at least 10 bike parking spaces. Office...

Washington - A judge heard arguments today in the case of a 12-year-old boy who was declared dead by Children's National Medical Center, but he held off making a decision until he can hear from the family and medical experts Thursday. The parents of Motl Brody, who remains in the hospital's intensive-care unit, did not attend a hearing this morning in D.C. Superior Court. Motl has been at the...

Berlin, Germany - The chief Nazi war crimes investigator said today he had asked prosecutors to extradite John Demjanjuk from the United States and charge him with involvement in the murder of 29,000 Jews in a death camp. The investigator, Kurt Schrimm, said his office had evidence that Demjanjuk, 88, had been a guard at the Sobibor death camp in Poland and had personally led Jews to the gas...

Plantation, FL - Package delivery company DHL may have conquered the world, but it admitted on Nov. 10 that it couldn't conquer the U.S. The unit of Germany's Deutsche Post (DPWGN.DE) announced it will stop making express deliveries within the U.S., close all of its 18 main distribution hubs there, and lay off all but a few thousand of its remaining 13,000 U.S. workers. Although DHL will...

Israel - President Shimon Peres today made a remark in an interview with Israel Radio that appeared to some to draw a comparison between recently defeated US presidential candidate John McCain and Hitler, and between members of McCain's Republican Party and the Nazis. When asked by the show's host what he thought of Barack Obama's victory in the US presidential election, Peres said that he saw...

New York - Arkady Gaydamak, the enigmatic Jewish-Russian billionaire, thought he had his campaign for mayor of Jerusalem all gamed out. He was hoping that a win by his Beitar football team last week would boost his chances in the Nov. 11 vote. Indeed, Beitar started strong against rivals Ha'poel from Tel Aviv. Twice, his players sprinted up field, shaking off defenders to take cannonball shots at...

Brooklyn, NY - Police from the 73rd Pct responded for a Meals on Wheels worker who was fatally shot while making a delivery in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Police say the 55-year-old worker was shot in the lobby 341 Dumont Avenue. He apparently rang the bell to Apt. 1D moments before he was shot. The man was shot in the chest, according to sources. He was rushed to Brookdale...

New York - A key Wall Street analyst slashed his target price for General Motors (GM) shares to zero on Monday, saying the company could run short of cash by December and that even with government aid, shareholders are likely to lose their investment. "Even if GM is able to secure immediate U.S. government support, we believe that GM's predicament has the potential to set in motion a sequence...

Debrecen, Hungary - A Jewish group says windows of a synagogue in eastern Hungary were smashed on the eve of the anniversary of the Nazi-incited riots of Kristallnacht. The Rabbinical Center of Europe says the incident took place in a synagogue in the Jewish Community Center in Debrecen, some 230 kilometers (140 miles) east of Budapest. Sunday was the commemoration of the 70th anniversary...

Jerusalem, Israel - The High Court of Justice today ordered Israel's largest bus company to immediately put up a political advertisement on the sides of Jerusalem city buses showing the portraits of women running for the city council. The company responsible for advertising on Egged buses had refused to put up the ads of the women who are running in Tuesday's municipal election on a joint...