Sloatsburg, NY - As in recent summers, tens of thousands of Orthodox men are expected to use the popular minchah/maariv area along the northbound New York State Thruway on the road up to the Catskills. The start of using the area will be this afternoon. The New York State Thruway Authority last year moved the “prayer zone” from the first to the second level of the parking structure that...

New York, NY - The NYPD will get $10 million for a program to protect the city from dirty bombs and additional federal stimulus money to hire another 128 cops. The "Securing the Cities" program, which would place radiological detectors in rings outside the city, had been scrapped for the coming year, despite the $73 million already invested in the detection plan. Reps. Peter King (R-L.I....

London - During the first of three communal functions in the space of eight days, David Cameron last week promised that he would "never turn his back on Israel" as prime minister and would "stand firm against anti-Semitism in all its forms and wherever it occurs". The Tory leader's pledges came during Conservative Friends of Israel's annual business lunch at The Dorchester. "I passionately...

New York - As popular as bariatric surgery has become — each year, more than 200,000 people undergo stomach-shrinking procedures in an effort to lose weight — the reality is that there is still little information about which patients should be getting the surgeries or how effective they really are as a treatment for obesity. That may change with BOLD, the Bariatric Outcomes Longitudinal...

New York City - The millionaire wife of Bernard Madoff, who ruined the lives of thousands of trusting friends and innocent investors, yesterday took a stroll through Rockefeller Plaza and rode the F train beneath an ad promoting a 99-cent cellphone bargain. And she might need it. The once-stylish Ruth sported the oversized jacket and unfashionable flats she's been wearing in public since...

Jerusalem - The Capital's District Court ordered the Old City's Karta parking lot to remain open over the weekend instead of the disputed Safra lot. Following the Jerusalem riot sparked by the City's decision to keep the Safra parking lot open on Shabbat, and following a court order to that effect, Mayor Nir Barkat announced today that he intends to open the city's Karta parking lot in...

Long Island, NY - A Long Island woman was arrested for allegedly trying to torch her husband's waterfront mansion, authorities said today. E H, 49, will be arraigned this afternoon on five counts of attempted murder, attempted arson, burglary and other charges for trying to set a fire inside her estranged husband's home in the exclusive enclave of Hewlett Bay Park. Nassau County police said...

New York - Does this sound familiar? You attempt to go through a subway turnstile, however the machine tells you to swipe again and refuses to let you through. But the reader indicates you still have an available balance? Sounds like you have a damaged Metro Card -- good luck trying to get refunded. The MTA requires the owner of a damaged Metro Card to fill out a multi-page form that asks...

New York - A hedge fund that managed money for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been linked to the pay-to-play scandal at an Empire State public pension fund. Cuomo, a Democrat, has recused himself from any investigation of EnTrust Capital, in which Cuomo had invested both personal and campaign funds. The son of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo has led the investigation into illegal...

Jerusalem - A former Soviet dissident and political prisoner has been named head of a quasi-governmental organization that helps Jews immigrate to Israel. The Jewish Agency says it elected Natan Sharansky as chairman on Thursday. Ukrainian-born Sharansky was sentenced to 13 years in a Soviet Gulag in 1978, after applying for an exit visa to Israel. His plight made him a symbol of Jewish...

New York - I am the son of a Communist victim. I am the brother of a Holocaust martyr. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe. I am a voracious talmid chochom. I am versed in the secular. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe. I am the Old Country. I am the New World. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe. I am a Rogachover musmach. I am a college graduate. I am the Lubavitcher Rebbe. I am European. I am...

Albany, NY - Senate Republicans say they might file criminal and ethics charges against Sen. Kevin Parker, the violence-prone Democrat who allegedly threatened a GOP lawyer. "We're looking at both those possibilities," GOP spokesman John McArdle told The Post. Attorney John Conway, 59, said he was on the Senate floor when Parker, who faces felony assault charges for allegedly attacking a Post...

Washington - Despite fervent denials by Obama administration officials, there were indeed agreements between Israel and the United States regarding the growth of Israeli settlements on the West Bank. As the Obama administration has made the settlements issue a major bone of contention between Israel and the U.S., it is necessary that we review the recent history. In the spring of 2003, U.S...

Albany, NY - Gov. David A. Paterson raised the possibility on Wednesday that the State Police could be summoned to compel state senators to return to work if necessary, after they defied him and refused to take any action during a special session he convened. Senate Democrats, who in a rare rebuke of Mr. Paterson, their party leader, spent only five minutes in the Senate chamber on Wednesday...

London - A Jewish school which prioritised applications from children whose mothers were Jewish discriminated unlawfully, the court of appeal ruled today in a decision on discrimination admission criteria used by faith schools. The ruling follows an appeal brought on behalf of a 12-year-old boy known as "M" who was refused admission to JFS, previously known as the Jews' Free School, in Brent...