Police are hunting a con-man who pretends to be a cop while stealing from at least seven businesses in four boroughs, cops said. Bension Mamedov, 36, sports an imitation police shield and NYPD jacket as he swipes items off the shelves and then returns the goods to the cashier as though he had previously purchased them, [...]

Rabbis are set to ban the burka for a small group of radical Jewish women who have taken to wearing it. Two years ago, it emerged that around 100 women in the city of Beit Shemesh had begun to cover their faces with a veil and wear numerous layers of clothing to obscure their body shape. [...]

Anti-Toeiva protesters gathered Thursday next to several hundred Toeiva activists preparing to march in the eighth annual Jerusalem Shame parade, calling them to “get out of Jerusalem.” The protesters, led by extreme rightist activists Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben Gvir, hoisted banners reading “sick perverts – get out of Jerusalem.” “It is a disease of choice, and a [...]

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On Thursday IDF forces have begun to return home to Israel from Romania. Some IAF Yasur helicopters are on their way back home to Israel. The return of all troops will be completed in a gradual manner over the next few days. An IAF Boeing aircraft took off a short time ago from Israel to the IAF [...]

The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual’s Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. The administration wants to add just four words — “electronic communication transactional records” — to a [...]

The wife of Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, together with well-known evangelical preachers, is actively promoting a massive Christian educational campus to be built on the shores of the Kinneret. The complex, designed to include a hotel, congress center and educational campus, is to be built on 60 dunams at a cost of $76 million. The [...]

The following is from Business Weekly A project of the Business Halacha Institute Hotline Under the auspices of HaRav Chaim Kohn Submitted by A. Dahan Robbed!Unfortunately, I was robbed recently. As I was thinking about all the different things that were taken, it occurred to me that ma’aser money that I had put aside was also stolen. Q: Am I responsible [...]

The sacred rule at Agudas Achim temple near Washington, DC, is, don’t talk to Rahm Emanuel. President Obama’s chief of staff is a longtime member of the congregation, where Rabbi Jack Moline keeps Emanuel close to the vest. The whisper is that he doesn’t want to be bothered about politics. “People there understand that he’s a public [...]

New York Congressman Charles Rangel has reportedly cut a deal to admit to ethical wrongdoing and avoid a potentially humiliating public trial. Harlem friends of Rangel tell CBS 2 they have been told that the details could be unveiled when the House Ethics Committee meets Thursday afternoon. “Sixty years ago I survived a Chinese attack in North [...]