White Lake, NY - The Town of Bethel remains in a showdown with a Hasidic bungalow colony over the use of a newly built shul and community center. The town this week ordered the colony to vacate the building and stop work for safety reasons, but on Friday, a steady stream of people entered and exited in defiance with the town supervisor looking on. "The stop work order and order to vacate is...

Israel - Member of Knesset Ahmad Tibi expressed his wonder and satisfaction at the fact that the police has yet to kill any protestor during the haredi riots in Jerusalem. This, he said "despite the fact that protestors have hurt policemen and disrupted life in the capital". He also added, "this is the restraint expected of the police". ...

London - One of the most respected figures in the British Jewish community has called on David Cameron (leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom) to cut all links with the Polish MEP chosen to lead the new centre-right group in the European Parliament, which includes the UK Conservative party, because of his attitude towards a massacre of 1,600 Jews in Poland during the Second World...

Munich, Germany - Prosecution lawyers in Germany have 22 witnesses lined up for the trial of Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, the judge has already approved eight of them during the accessory-to-murder trial of alleged Nazi guard John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk, who is accused of working at Sobibor death camp and is detained at a Munich jail, has already been indicted. While lawyers have been...

New York - Walter Cronkite, the legendary newsman dubbed 'The Most Trusted Man in America' died Friday night after a long illness, with his family at his side. He was 92. For half a century, Walter Cronkite told it the way it was, delivering the news straight and unvarnished. Among the pioneers who built television news from the ground up, he forged a special bond with audiences He was...

Spring Glen, NY - A Shabbat-morning fire destroyed an abandoned building near the former Homowack Lodge. Also did firefighters respond to the lodge’s main building early in the day for a false alarm. The fire, about 5:10 a.m., was at a building that used to house staff for the hotel. It has been abandoned for many years, fire officials said. The three-story structure was completely engulfed...