Albany, NY - Buffalo Sabres owner Tom Golisano says the turmoil in the State Senate this week is a good thing, showing that change can come to Albany. The billionaire businessman says the next goal is changing the State Assembly. "These reforms are revolutionary. These reforms are going to happen. They don't need the Governor's signature. They don't need Shelly Silver's signature," Golisano...

England - Two Orthodox Jews have launched a legal battle over a decision to install movement sensors to control the lights in their Bournemouth flat block. The couple claim they cannot leave or enter their property at Embassy Court, Gervis Road during the Sabbath because of the motion sensors that have been installed in the hallways. It’s understood they are observant Jews who refrain...

Manhattan, NY - An accused Dead Sea Scrolls scammer learned he'd been indicted -- but insisted that he was just exercising his freedom of speech. Raphael Golb, 48, faces charges of identity theft, impersonation and forgery after, Manhattan prosecutors said, he tried to promote his historian father's work on the Dead Sea Scrolls by going online in the name of rival scholars, notably Dr...

New York, NY - Mayor Bloomberg and housing advocates launched an ad campaign to remind people that the city can help prevent foreclosure. "When homes go into foreclosure, everyone, not just the families losing their homes, are affected," Mayor Bloomberg said as he unveiled the campaign. "Vacant foreclosed homes can become derelict eyesores but also bring down the values and threaten the...

Washington - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that the man who opened fire at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. was suspected of having more Jewish targets. The FBI decided not to publicize their names but said that, for the moment, the targets were not considered to be in danger. James von Brunn will be charged with murder for shooting security guard Stephen Johns on...

New York, NY - He's the Jewish Johnny Cash. But instead of singing for a raucous crowd of inmates at Folsom Prison, as Cash famously did in 1968, Orthodox Jewish singer Yaakov Shwekey was the headline act for a group of about 60 non-inmates invited into a Manhattan jail to celebrate the bar mitzvah of a prisoner's son last December. The bar mitzvah boy -- whose dad is former fugitive...

Bermuda - Talk about an upgrade. The four detainees freed from Guantanamo Bay prison left behind one of the most hellish places on Earth for one of the most idyllic - Bermuda, a fabled isle of pink sand beaches and clear, cerulean waters. Old neighbor: terror mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. New neighbor: Mayor Bloomberg. Bloomberg, one of the island's more notable homeowners, won't be...