New York - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said consumers need to stop using certain Zicam cold and allergy products because they can cause permanent loss of smell. Zicam is sold over-the-counter, primarily as a cold and allergy remedy. The products are sold in various forms including internasal products meant to be used in the nose. The FDA said consumers should stop using the...

Manhattan, NY - A top New York City correction official suspected of approving a bar mitzvah at a Manhattan lockup has submitted his resignation. Department spokesman Stephen Morello says Chief Peter Curcio told the department that he plans to retire. Curcio is responsible for security in the city's jails. His resignation comes after a convict was allowed to hold a bar mitzvah for his son...

Budapest, Hungary - Demonstration called after vandals used pigs' feet to desecrate the Holocaust memorial in Budapest. A senior Socialist Party official has called for a broad protest against the anti-Semitic manifestations after the Holocaust memorial was vandalized. Unidentified persons placed pig's trotters into the cast iron shoes constituting a monument on the embankment of the river...

New York - A lot of men and women have been turning up in my office lately because they haven't been able to lose weight through diets or exercise. Some are only 10 pounds overweight, whereas others are overweight by 30 pounds or more. The diets have plenty of recipes and the gyms have plenty of equipment -- but those resources still haven't been enough. Diets and gyms require motivation and...

Washington - The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions. Despite President Barack Obama's pledge to introduce a new era of transparency to Washington, and despite two rulings by a federal judge that the records are...

Jerusalem - FOX News is reporting that roadside bombs, planted near a crossing between Israel and Gaza, were intended to hit the former US president Jimmy Carter as he exited the Palestinian territory after sympathetic talks with its Hamas rulers. Nevertheless. Its also being reported by Haaretz Fox is also reporting that Carter said he will urge President Barack Obama to remove the...

New York - No one could accuse the American Psychiatric Association of missing a strain of sourness in the country, or of failing to capitalize on its diagnostic potential. Having floated "Apathy Disorder" as a trial balloon, to see if it might garner enough support for inclusion in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the world's diagnostic bible of...

New York - Congratulations -- it's a boy! Or a girl! A group of New York moms has filed suit against the makers of a "99.9-percent accurate" baby-gender test, claiming the results they got were 100 percent wrong. The product was advertised as "infallibly accurate in foretelling the gender of a healthy baby," and its Web site said the "prediction of your baby's gender is unmistakably correct...

Manchester, England - A Polish pensioner honoured for risking his life to hide Jews during the Holocaust told his remarkable story on a visit to Manchester. Jozef Mironiuk, 85, joined the ranks of Oscar Schindler - the inspiration behind the film Schindler's List - when he was awarded the title `Righteous among the Nations'. The honour is given by Israel to those who saved Jewish lives during...

Boston, MA - Imagine putting your child on a plane to visit her grandparents. The plane lands and the grandparents are waiting, but your child is nowhere to be found. That just happened to Jonathan Kamens, who put his 10-year-old daughter, Miriam, on a flight to Cleveland Sunday morning. As required by the airline, Kamens walked his daughter through airport security to the gate area, spoke...

Monsey, NY - The head of a New York Jewish organization that will help to absorb some of the last Jews of Yemen has rejected accusations that the community he represents - Monsey, New York - is "anti-Zionist." "It saddens me that the rumor mill has claimed they're moving into an anti-Zionist community," said Yisroel Schulman, a New York attorney who is involved in the resettlement. "Our...

Jerusalem - A member of parliament decried a proposed amendment banning the import of fur, which would eliminate the traditional fur hats worn by ultra orthodox Jews. Knesset Member Menachem Eliezer Moses, chairman of the Haredi-religious United Torah Judaism party, has found that an animal welfare bill supported by the government could make his shtreimel an endangered species. The shtreimel is...

Tehran, Iran - Iran's Guardian Council has announced that it will recount disputed votes from Friday's presidential election, as the huge protests against the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continue. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have protested since the election over allegations of vote-rigging. Ballots will now be recounted in disputed areas but the council ruled out a rerun of the...