Queens, NY - The White House says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has broken her ankle after an airport stumble in New York City. Sotomayor fractured her right ankle Monday morning at New York's LaGuardia Airport before boarding a shuttle to Washington for an afternoon of meetings with senators. She'll keep her six appointments on Capitol Hill Monday despite the injury, which has her...

Washington - Hobbled with age, weathered with time, the World War II veterans stood at attention. One by one, a two-star general delivered flags flown over the Pentagon in their honor. He looked them in their eyes and snapped his right hand in salute. "National treasures," Maj. Gen. Vincent Boles said Saturday evening. It marked the first time in history the U.S. Army recognized 350...

Washington - For 7½ years, Lakhdar Boumediene was known simply by a number: "10005." These were the digits assigned to him when he arrived at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, swept up in a post-Sept. 11 dragnet and accused of plotting to blow up the U.S. and British Embassies in Sarajevo. In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Boumediene said the interrogators at Gitmo never...

Jerusalem - The police stopped a Jew from taking a handful of Temple Mount earth for his friend’s wedding. The Jew in question is a student at the Elon Moreh hesder yeshiva in the Shomron.  He had been asked by his Rosh Yeshiva (dean) to bring back a handful of earth for an upcoming wedding of another student, so that the rabbi could fulfill the usual custom of remembering Jerusalem during...

San Antonio, TX - Friends and colleagues of an Israeli-American intelligence contractor killed in Afghanistan saw him laid to rest on Tuesday JUne 3 at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Shawn Pine, a former US Army Ranger working as a contractor training Afghan army soldiers, was killed in a roadside bomb in Kabul last month. A lieutenant-colonel in the US Army Reserves, he also served...

Portland, OR - A pregnant 21-year-old found dead with her baby no longer in her womb met the woman charged with killing her through Craigslist, her mother said yesterday. Police said they found Heather Snively's body Friday in a crawl space in Korena Elaine Roberts' home in Beaverton, a Portland suburb. They'd been called there because a newborn wasn't breathing. Roberts told officers she'd...

Poland - “One two three – every German person is stinky” or “Naked Jew came out of school so he is very poor” – these are examples of rhymes published in a book for children by publishing house “Sonia Draga” from Katowice. The publisher wanted to show new and trendy rhymes for kids. The book by Joanna Furgalińska titled “Entliczek, pentliczek...best Polish rhymes” has just...

Washington - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that elected judges must step aside from cases when large campaign contributions from interested parties create the appearance of bias. By a 5-4 vote in a case from West Virginia, the court said that a judge who remained involved in a lawsuit filed against the company of the most generous supporter of his election deprived the other side of the...

Libya - Libyan leader requests reconciliation meeting with leaders of community expelled from Libya after Six-Day War in possible first step towards granting restitution for property confiscated. Meeting at risk of cancellation, however, if date not changed from Shabbat Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has requested a reconciliation meeting with leaders of the Libyan Jewish community living in...

Monroe, NY - Rabbi Adam Kligfeld ponders the arrests of four Newburgh men on charges of plotting to blow up two synagogues and shoot down aircraft at Stewart Airport and wishes he could call it an aberration. But he cannot, and so he is deliberately vague about the security improvements that have been made at Congregation Eitz Chaim since the FBI arrested the four men on May 20. Later this...

Crown Heights, NY - A top Jewish leader of a new Crown Heights, Brooklyn, neighborhood patrol group created to improve racial harmony has a criminal record for beating a black girl 14 years ago, the Daily News has learned. Leib Skoblo, 33, who appeared with Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at the group's launch last week, spewed racial epithets and punched a black girl in 1995, court records...

Washington - New York Sen. Chuck Schumer has crafted a role as one of the White House's go-to legislators. That doesn't mean they have to like him. Schumer's marquee clout is on display these days. The administration tapped him to guide Sonia Sotomayor through the Supreme Court confirmation process that began last week. A week earlier, he convinced President Obama to help clear the New York...

Paris - As the bodies of several passengers who were aboard an Air France plane which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris last week were recovered over the weekend, the Jewish community in the French town of Boulogne-Billancourt began a halachic debate over the fate of one of its member, who is believed to have died in the crash. The debate was sparked...

Brooklyn, NY - A plan to honor gays and other non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution in Brooklyn's Holocaust Memorial Park was blasted Sunday by critics as political pandering. Politicians and community activists gathered at the Sheepshead Bay park Sunday to demand Mayor Bloomberg block a plan they contend undermines the memorial's core message. "The Holocaust is a uniquely Jewish event,"...

Israel - The Supreme Court considered annulling the Tal Law which allows hareidi religious rabbinical students to postpone army service while they continue their studies. Five human rights groups appealed to the court claiming the law discriminates against the rest of the Israeli population, which serves for a mandatory three years. The Defense Ministry claims that the law is in fact designed...