Hungary - The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on the government of Hungary to pursue an “effective and comprehensive” investigation into the brutal beating of a Jewish man in Budapest, and to take steps to root out anti-Semitism among law enforcement and within society. The beating of a young Jewish man, a kosher restaurant supervisor who was followed home on June 30 by three men who...

Washington - US President Barack Obama will meet on Monday with over a dozen heads of influential American Jewish organizations and is expected to respond to concerns that the White House is pressuring Israel over West Bank settlements while it is soft-pedaling with some of Israel's worst enemies. "American Jews more or less agree with the president on settlements, but it's the focus on...

Manhattan, NY - According to NY Post PageSix, Ruth Madoff was overhead at California Pizza Kitchen gushing about how happy she is Bernie is going to Otisville: Ruth Madoff was with a friend at California Pizza Kitchen, the East Side eatery. According to one witness, Ruth had just learned that her Ponzi-schemer hubby, Bernie Madoff, will be locked away in upstate Otisville, the prison his lawyer...

Tiberias, Israel - Police divers found around on Sunday the body of a 15-year-old bather who drowned in the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), after the body washed ashore. Divers and volunteers of the police searched throughout the night for the missing youth who decided to go swimming with friends late motzei shabbos at Tiberias’s separate beach, near Lido Beach, a place not manned with...

Washington - President Barack Obama says slavery is a terrible part of U.S. history and should be taught in a meaningful way. Obama compared the legacy of slavery to the history of the Holocaust. He said both are horrible parts of history but shouldn't be ignored. He says in a CNN interview that their lessons must never be forgotten. Obama returned to Washington early Sunday morning from a...

Peru - Officials are fearing for the life of a 23-year-old Israeli tourist, who is missing after losing her balance and falling down a 200 meter cliff into a gorge near the ancient Incan city of Cusco, southeast of the Peruvian capital of Lima during the predawn hours of Sunday morning local time. The woman's friend informed local authorities of the incident, and rescue teams were dispatched to...

New York City - Mayor Bloomberg has burned through $36.6 million in his campaign for a third term, a spending pace so torrid that one political analyst said yesterday there's little doubt he'll shatter the $100 million mark by Election Day. At this time in 2005, the billionaire mayor had spent a comparatively measly $23 million in the race...

Israel - More than 30 percent of junior high and high school-aged haredi youths are "hidden dropouts" who are technically registered in an educational framework but are dysfunctional students, according to a Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) - ASHELIM estimate released. In response to the findings, ASHELIM, an arm of the JDC that helps at risk youth, launched an NIS 5 million project designed...

New York - A month after Melanie Blocker-Stokes gave birth, she stopped eating and sleeping. She had convinced herself that she was a terrible mother, and she was paranoid that the neighbors thought so too. Over two months, Blocker-Stokes was repeatedly hospitalized for postpartum psychosis; prescribed a cocktail of antipsychotic, antianxiety and antidepressant drugs; and treated with...

New York - One local man fielded two calls asking to update his business's online yellow pages listing, but it sounded suspicious. Now the Better Business Bureau, Frontier, and the attorney general's officer are looking into scam calls. Michael Bloch's home business places lawyers in jobs. Last week he received a call that sounded fishy, the second time he received the same call this week, he...

Jerusalem - Fifteen tapes were recently discovered containing thirty hours of interviews by Rav Amram Blau, the founder and head of the Neturei Karta, to an American journalist several months before his death in 1974. The article contains fascinating insights into the Neturei Karta's struggle against the Zionists and life in Yerushalayim at the beginning of the twentieth century. The following...

Spring Valley, NY - A couple is suing the county alleging prosecutorial misconduct over their arrest and indictment on charges of attempting to steal a house from a retired school bus driver. County Court Judge Victor Alfieri dismissed the charges on Feb. 9, citing "prosecutorial misconduct," but those words were deleted from an amended ruling filed Feb. 13. Despite the deletion, Howard...

Brooklyn, NY - After years as one of Washington's most eligible bachelors, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn, Queens) is engaged to Huma Abedin, a glamorous top aide to Secretary of State Clinton. A source close to the couple confirmed that Weiner, 44, proposed to Abedin, 33, over Memorial Day weekend. No date's been set, but the power couple is "thrilled" about the upcoming nuptials, the...

Brooklyn, NY - The Oceana condominium complex in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach is an idyllic place. Inside the gated beachfront community, where apartments go for as much as $2 million, retirees take in the fresh sea air as they play with their grandchildren in manicured gardens, while younger residents tool around town in their Range Rovers and Mercedes SUVs. It's also home to a most unlikely...

Manhattan, NY - Furious faculty at Columbia University claim administrators skirted rules by granting tenure to a controversial Arab-studies professor -- and angry alumni are threatening to withhold donations. Joseph Massad -- a professor of modern Arab politics who has called Israel a "racist Jewish state," reportedly intimidated Jewish students, and even asked one Israeli student attending...