Washington - Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV. The request, by the group Little People of America, was prompted by an April episode of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" in which contestants created a detergent commercial called "Jesse James and the Midgets."...

Tel Aviv - The Israel Police have arrested 10 residents of central Israel on suspicion of being involved in a wide-range, worldwide scam known as the "Nigerian sting". The suspects operated out of offices in Tel Aviv offices and allegedly defrauded elderly American citizens, who had been led to believe they had won the lottery, of millions of dollars. According to the suspicions, the gang...

Jerusalem - A 2,000-year-old stone quarry, likely used by Herod the Great to build the Second Temple, was uncovered in a Jerusalem neighborhood outside the walled Old City, the Israel Antiquities Authority said today. “The dimensions of the stones that were produced in the quarry that was revealed are suitable for the Temple walls,” Ofer Sion, excavation director, said in an e-mailed...

Brooklyn, NY - Williamsburg is ground zero in the growing scourge of stalled construction that has left the neighborhood littered with 18 vacant lots and rusting steel building frames -- more than in all of The Bronx, The Post has learned. Block after block in the trendy Brooklyn community and a few adjacent streets in Greenpoint have been declared stalled construction sites by the city. A team...

Route 17, New York - The line of cars began to form on eastbound Route 17 early Sunday afternoon. It began in Circleville, then stretched west through Fair Oaks and finally, up into Sullivan County. "It's up to the top of the Wurtsboro hill," said state police Sgt. Kevin Reyes at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Welcome to the mid-Hudson's summer driving season, where the highways are flooded...

Crown Heights, NY - A serial  groper may be on the prowl in Crown Heights, slapping and pinching at least a half-dozen Brooklyn women in recent weeks, cops said. The latest attack happened on Carroll St. Sunday when a skinny man hit a woman in her 20s around 1:45 p.m., police said. Cops are investigating a series of complaints from several Hasidic Jewish women who said they were groped by...

Long Island, NY - Rep. Peter King Sunday said people clamoring about Michael Jackson's death should just beat it. The Seaford Republican posted a two-minute YouTube video Sunday blasting the late King of Pop as "some pervert" and blaming political correctness in the media for the wall-to-wall coverage of Jackson's death. "Let's knock out the psychobabble," King said in the video, which was...

Kostanai - Living on the far edge of the Jewish world can be difficult. Small communities eke out a barebones existence consisting of little more than a Friday night service or a club of Jewish friends. Without education, synagogues, kosher food or a connection with the huge Jewish civilizations in Israel and the US, there is little future in these shattered bits and pieces of a long-gone...

Rockland County, NY - The East Ramapo Board of Education is seeking to move next year's school board and budget election up a week because the state-designated day conflicts with a Jewish holiday. The request, which must be approved by the state education commissioner, would not affect any other district. "A large segment of the population that votes would be affected were the date to...