Westport, CT - Lawyers in Florida say they are investigating the role that a Connecticut bank may have played in steering money to Bernard L. Madoff, the Wall Street trader accused of operating a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. According to the lawyers, their clients believed for more than a decade that they had an account at the Westport National Bank, a division of Connecticut Community Bank in...

Fort Lauderdale, FL - The below video speaks for itself. What you’re about to watch in this video is not in Gaza City. It's in the United States of America in the peaceful city of Fort Lauderdale. ...

Moscow, Russia - A building manager in Moscow allegedly used antisemitic abuse against a Jewish family that lives in her building The head of the Jewish household asked Irina Ustinova to fix deteriorating electrical wiring on his floor. In response, she allegedly burst into his apartment and told him to, "go to Israel" and: "You live in Russia, not Israel... you will crawl on the floor before me...

New Jersey - Stop & Shop, the supermarket chain with 10 stores in Monmouth and Ocean counties owned by Royal Ahold NV, said it will offer some antibiotics for free to attract customers grappling with the recession. The free-prescription program covers 36 generic antibiotics from Jan. 2 to March 21 at all Stop & Shop pharmacies, the Quincy, Mass.-based company said in a statement. Wal-Mart...

Amran, Yemen - A group of tribesmen in Amran assaulted and threatened reporter of NewsYemen and Abwab magazine over following the trial sessions on the murder of the Jews Community’s member, Moshe Yaish Nahari, who was killed by a Muslim extremist few weeks ago. The reporter Mahmoud Taha said that some tribesmen deliberately teased him and threatened him outside the Amran Criminal Court today...

Gaza - The head of Hamas' government in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniya, called for an unconditional end to the five-day old Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip as the first step toward ending the violence. Haniya, who gave a speech while in hiding that was broadcast by the pro-Hamas al-Aqsa television, also demanded and end to the blockade of Gaza, the reopening of crossings, and talks on...

New York - Inspector General Joseph Fisch says the state's child abuse hot line lacks sufficient safeguards to protect the identities of callers, also noting it took five months to have a record erased after an investigation found no abuse. In a 33-page report, the inspector general says a man, trying to find out who reported him, obtained a confidential list of hot line callers from Verizon...

New York, NY - When the NYPD gets its grip on a car, it's as good as gone. Of the 3,062 vehicles confiscated in 2008 - for crimes such as drunken driving, drug buys, transporting weapons and prostitution - just 20 were returned to their owners. But it's not for lack of trying by motorists. Even the most obviously guilty have argued to get their car back - none more so than Milton...

Albany - As Americans, we are blessed to live in a democracy which embraces different religions, cultures and ethnicities. More than seven years ago, New Yorkers’ faith in that democracy was tested when we suffered our own tragedy at the hands of terrorists. But we did not let that dark day in our history diminish our resolve to fight for our freedom. We continue to stand in solidarity with...

Odenza, Denmark - A group of Arab youths opened fire this evening on a number of Israelis working at a mall in the Danish city of Odenza, located about 125 miles north of the capital city of Copenhagen. The Israelis, who were operating a stall in the Rosengarden shopping center, were lightly wounded in their legs. There is no apparent danger to their lives. The Israeli Foreign Ministry is...

New York - The article adorning the front page of the 26 December Jewish Week, "Group Charged with 'Playing God' Over Genetic Testing" presents a biased representation of Rabbi Eckstein, Dor Yeshorim, medical facts and community sensitivites. In addition, the article also overlooks potential financial conflicts of interest as discussed below. Replacement of the enzyme defective in cases of...

Jerusalem - It has been well documented that the so-called Palestinian people and their presumed soon-to-be-official nation are in fact mythical entities that have been fabricated to suit various political agendas. This lie assumes that there is a legitimate struggle for statehood by a people that has a historic national identity. Obviously, the recognition of such a claim is a great threat to...

Passaic, NJ - Police in Passaic are cracking down on day laborers who solicit work anywhere but at a city-sanctioned hiring center. The police held a meeting on Monday to warn the day laborers that anyone found approaching cars to solicit work outside the center's jurisdiction will be ticketed. They say local residences have been complaining that the large groups of workers who gather daily...

Sana'a, Yemen - The primary court of Amran resumed today in the trial of the suspect accused of killing a Jew citizen, Moshe Yaish Nahari. The court delayed the hearing until 12th January, 2009 as the suspect Abdul Aziz al-Abdi could not attend the session due to measures of making the medical check up were not finalized to know medical condition of the suspect. The lawyer of the murderer...

New York City - Perhaps the most famous living controversial Apikores in the world is professor James Kugel, formerly of Harvard University, and now teaching at an Israeli University. Dr. Kugel is the author of a book that proclaims that the Torah is not of Divine origin, and attempts to demonstrate that later authors purposefully invented and supplemented the entire Torah. Thus for example, in...