West Palm Beach, FL - Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office need's the public’s help identifying two men wanted for burglarizing a local Jewish School. The two white men burglarized a portable classroom at the Hillel Day School located on the Jewish Federation campus in Boca Raton on Saturday. The suspects took a laptop computer, two ceiling mounted video projectors, a computer docking station...

Williamsburg, NY - NYPD detectives from the 90th Pct. are on the hunt for what they described as a Hasidic woman who snatched two sets of earrings from a Lee Avenue jewelry shop on Nov. 11. The crook snatched the gold and diamond trinkets — which are valued at about $1,400 — at around 4:10 pm, then fled from the shop, which is between Hooper and Hewes streets. ...

Omaha, NE - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. fell the most in at least 23 years, dropping for the eighth straight day since reporting a 77 percent decline in third- quarter profit. The stock plunged $11,550, or 12 percent, to $84,000 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading and has slipped 41 percent this year, compared with the 45 percent drop in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index...

Des Plaines, IL - A northwest suburban Jewish congregation will install a security system at its synagogue after a small bomb exploded at its doorstep earlier this month on the anniversary of a World War II atrocity. The Jewish congregation of Lubavitch Chabad of Niles has a synagogue in unincorporated Des Plaines, which was the target of a “MacGyver” type fire bomb, authorities...

Postville, IA - A federal prosecutor warned Wednesday that if a judge releases Sholom Rubashkin from jail, the former Agriprocessors executive could quickly flee to Israel. “The risk of flight here is acute, it’s too great,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan said in court. But Rubashkin’s lawyer said his client is tightly tied to his family and the community of Postville, where...

Washington - Rep. Eric I. Cantor became the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House Wednesday, winning an uncontested election as the party's whip. "Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good," Cantor said before the 175 Republican members of the House unanimously elected him. Cantor is the first Virginian ever to hold the post in either party. As whip, he will work with Republican Leader John...

New York City - As cold weather sets in, New York City officials say they are tightening inspection procedures for delivery trucks in a move to prevent consumers from being overcharged for home heating oil this winter. Already, some 60 trucks have been taken off the road until their metering equipment complies with the city's standards. In a statement on Wednesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg...

Miami, FL - An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in Miami said on Wednesday. The doctors said they knew of another case in which an adult had been kept alive in Germany for nine months without a heart but said they believed this was the first...

Warsaw, Poland - Polish officials marked the border of the former Warsaw Ghetto with plaques and boundary lines traced in the ground to preserve the memory of the tragic World War II-era Jewish quarter. The markers were inaugurated with speeches by the Warsaw mayor and other officials. A group that included Holocaust survivors and members of the Jewish community then made their way in the rain...

New York - U.S. stocks sank and benchmark indexes slid below their lowest closes since 2003 on growing concern over the fate of the nation's car industry and economic data signaling the recession is deepening. General Motors Corp. tumbled as much as 18 percent to its lowest price since 1942, while Ford Motor Co. lost 24 percent. Citigroup Inc. slid 17 percent to $6.46, a 13-year low, on a plan...

Boston, MA - A painting forcibly auctioned by Germany's Nazi government should remain with the estate of a late Jewish art dealer who lost it when his gallery was liquidated, a federal appeals court ruled today. The ruling by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston blocks an attempt by German baroness Maria-Luise Bissonnette to recoup the painting "Girl from the Sabine Mountains,"...

Washington - We’re not entirely unsympathetic to the big auto makers’ request for emergency aid from the government. But we were struck — and not in a good way — by one detail of the car companies’ plea to Congress on Tuesday for a bailout. The CEO’s of GM, Ford, and Chrysler, ABC news is reporting, flew to Washington in luxurious private jets. The jet GM CEO Rick Wagoner flew...

New York - The days leading up to November 4, not to mention the hours of election day itself, were hectic ones for Betzalel Wolff. The coordinator of Agudath Israel of America’s Voter Registration and Get Out the Vote campaign, he was fielding constant – sometimes concurrent – calls from constituents in need of information or assistance in casting their votes. The voter registration ...

Washington - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant...

Washington - Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) has been offered the job of Health and Human Services secretary by President-elect Barack Obama and has accepted the job, according to a Democratic source close to Daschle...