Balad MK condemns 34 to 16 vote as "punishing her out of revenge."

Coney Island, NY – Mayor Bloomberg just announced he signed the law lifting the 500-foot limit on amplified sound near religious services that threatened to block Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz’s summer concert series at Asser Levy Seaside Park in Coney Island. He planned to sign it yesterday but held off when dozens of nearby residents [...]

[PHOTO LINK BELOW] Community Leaders along with top NYPD brass got together at the Misaskim headquarters to congratulate newly appointed Chief Philip Banks, as chief of the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau. Banks, a 24-year veteran, is the highest-ranking black uniformed officer, and served as a Executive Chief in Brooklyn South, and most recently as Assistant Chief [...]

New Delhi, India – Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, who has confessed scouting targets for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist strike, has told Indian investigators Pakistani militant leader Hafeez Saeed was the mastermind behind the attacks in which the ISI played an active and key role. A team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) interrogators questioned Headley for 34 [...]

New Jersey – Legislation designed to protect New Jersey consumers from unscrupulous car dealers has cleared another legislative hurdle. The Assembly recently passed the measure, which targets dealers who fail to pay off loans on trade-in vehicles they accept. When that happens, the person who traded in the vehicle remains responsible for the loan, even though [...]

Leaders claim measure would harm ties with non-Orthodox Jewry.

The pharmacy company that makes Avandia knew more than a decade ago that the blockbuster diabetes drug caused an increased risk of heart problems but covered up the information, according to a report published Tuesday in The New York Times. In a 1999 trial pitting Avandia against its competitor, Actos, the drug company, then known as [...]

Penniless and stranded in Omaha with no ticket home, an Israeli woman left at a gas station by con-artists who lured her to the United States with the promise of work finally found shelter at a local Chabad House.

Islamic Movement leader's time reduced from 9 months.

President Obama today has tapped Jacob Lew as the new director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Jack Lew has been serving to date as the Deputy Secretary of State for Management, but he won’t need much time to prepare for his new, cabinet-level post – Lew served as the last OMB Director [...]