Brooklyn, NY - Councilman Simcha Felder is taking advantage of the fact that he doesn't have an opponent this fall to spread some of his considerable campaign cash around to his less politically fortunate colleagues. Felder has contributed a total of $10,000 to six of his fellow Council members since last February, maxing out ($2,750) to two of them - Robert Jackson and Tom White - and giving...

New Square, NY - County reviewers have disapproved of a proposal to build a large poultry slaughterhouse in the village on Route 45 across the street from New Hempstead. In reviewing a special permit, site plan and variance applications for Heritage Park - the proposed 50,730-square-foot facility that would be erected on vacant land situated across the street from residential communities in...

Jerusalem - A closed-door Jerusalem court hearing on the remand of a woman suspected of abusing her child remained ended in stalemate Thursday, amid a disagreement between psychiatrists over whether she posed a danger to her children. Haredi mother is healthy, stable, says psychiatric evaluator An attorney representing the woman said Thursday that a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation has...

Coney Island, NY - Forty-eight severely disabled children taught in trailers for the last month will be moved back into their specially equipped Brooklyn classrooms today as a result of an inquiry by the Daily News. For lack of an elevator, the students - many in wheelchairs - were moved out of the second floor of Public School 329 to three trailers in the schoolyard. Some parents at the...

Brooklyn, NY - One of the men arrested this morning in the massive FBI Raid is accused of to acquire, transfer human organs for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation. The FBI in a press briefing explained that Issac Rosnebuam of Brooklyn, is accused of offering $10K for kidney donations, and then resold it for $160K profit. The FBI strongly stressed that none of the raids...

New York - Part of the FBI raid this morning are 11 man from Brooklyn NY. About 30 other officials from New Jersey were arrested in a wide-sweeping corruption probe by the FBI. The criminal complaints allege that the suspects were involved in corruption and money laundering. some of the suspects are Rabbis, and operators of Check cashing business in NYC. Due to many rumors, VIN News has...

Morgantown, WV - A camper died at Emma Kaufman Camp, after a tree fell onto a tent the teen was staying. The 14-year-old girl, whose identity has not been released, was injured when a tree fell at the Emma Kaufmann Camp, located outside Morgantown. According to a news release from The Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, NY, heavy rains weakened the tree, which is why it fell. The...

New Jersey - Bayonne sources say law enforcement officials raided the home of state Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Josph Doria this morning at around 6:45 AM. The raid comes as the FBI has arrested mutiple public officials across Hudson County and other parts of New Jersey as a part of a corruption investigation. Sources say they did not arrest Doria, whose daughter could be...

Deal, NJ - We don't want to be involved. That was the general sentiment outside Deal Yeshiva Jack and Rachel Adjmi Learning Center, where a few children were still being shuttled out of buses and parents' cars into the religious school this morning shortly after arrests in a federal probe involving the school. Parents said they'd heard nothing of the arrests and didn't want to comment. One...

Deal, NJ - Disgraced real-estate mogul Solomon Dwek is apparently a key witness in the FBI corruption cases today, which have led to the arrest of about 30 officials and religious leaders from New Jersey and New York. In court documents, the FBI referred to a "cooperating witness" who was arrested in May 2006 on bank fraud charges. Dwek was charged with bank fraud that month when he tried to...

Washington - A new group focused on strengthening Muslim-Jewish relations has come to Washington this week to bring Jewish and Muslim power brokers in government together. But one prominent Jewish member of Congress who wasn't invited to participate in the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding's activities is Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) -- arguably Washington's most prominent present example of...

New York - The Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 551:16) records a custom practiced by Ashkenazim of not bathing or showering during the Nine Days, from Rosh Chodesh of the month of Av until the end of the Tisha B’Av mourning. Rav Moshe Soloveichik explained the custom as follows: When someone’s relative dies, there are three periods of mourning he may have to observe: “Shivah,” the week of...

Spring Glen, NY - The state plans to serve a Hasidic sect today with an order to leave the former Homowack Lodge, the state Department of Health's district director, Mark Knudsen. The sect, based in Rockland County, runs a camp at the old hotel without a permit and continues to ignore requests to evacuate voluntarily in spite of warnings the buildings are firetraps. The Department of Health...

Deal, NJ - Dozens of arrests are taking place across New Jersey this morning and  many public officials -- including the mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, the deputy mayor of Jersey City -- are among those being taken into custody. FBI and IRS agents are making the roundups all across the state in what is being described as one of the biggest investigations of its kind in Jersey's scandal-plagued...

Germany - Paris residents Michael and Dvora Sitbon flew with their four children from France to Israel. During their layover in Germany, they claim they were subjected to degrading and racist treatment by one of the German border officers. Once the border officer saw 26-year-old Dvora's Israeli passport, he spat on it and made a gesture with his hands as if he were trying to shoot her, the...