Borough Park, NY – Cops from the 66th Precinct are attributing almost half of all the major law breaking committed inparts of Borough Park, Kensington and Midwood to one crime: burglary. “We’re up about seven percent total for the year, and burglaries are about 40 percent of our crime right now in the 66th Precinct – [...]

Borough Park, NY – Mrs. Feige Francis, a”h, a Brooklyn speech therapist who volunteered at the Masbia soup kitchen one day a week, was niftar on Tuesday after a short illness. She was approximately 54. Rabbi Chaim Yosef Steinberger, the mashgiach at Masbia, told Hamodia that Mrs. Francis lit up the place every Thursday as she [...]

Plainfield, IN – A body of North American Islamic scholars has issued a fatwa, or religious decree, forbidding Muslims from passing through the devices. “It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women,” the ruling, issued by The Fiqh Council of North America, states. [...]

Sullivan County, NY – Monticello Mayor Gordon Jenkins on Friday said he would not resign his position and vowed to fight a felony charge that he sold counterfeit merchandise from his store on Broadway. He called the charges trumped up. “I am not going anywhere,” Jenkins said. “I am not going to resign. I am going to [...]

Brooklyn, NY – The borough’s real-estate bust is now a booming Web site. Councilman Brad Lander (D-Park Slope) unveiled a searchable online database called stalleddevelopment.com to show off all the vacant, stalled or abandoned development sites in his district, which sprawls from Borough Park to Cobble Hill. Lander said that he and other staffers traversed the district [...]

New York, NY – Celebrities and their maladies are a boon to public health. They put a well-known face to a medical condition and they give doctors (and medical reporters) an excuse to spotlight a disease and educate the public. Today, it’s Bill Clinton and his heart. Experts aren’t overly concerned about the former president’s [...]

New York – This was a direct quote from Yeshiva of Philadelphia Rosh HaYeshiva Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky Shlit’a who took precious time from his busy schedule and shared his da’as Torah with listeners on Thursday night during the Project YES conference call titled, “Purim Parenting: Keeping Our Children Safe and Sober,” Rabbi Yakov Horowitz asked [...]

Cleveland, OH – Purim should be festive and fun, say entrepreneurs Stuart Rubin and Brad Kleinman. In that spirit, these two “nice Jewish boys” from Cleveland plan to celebrate their peoples’ salvation from the evil Haman with “Grogger Factory,” a “synagogue friendly” application the pair launched last month for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. The mobile [...]

Yerevan, Armenia – In the small former Soviet republic of Armenia, now an independent country, the Jewish community numbers only a few hundred people. Nevertheless, local Jews enjoy a rich selection of various kosher food and food related products, which are not only for local consumption, but also intended for export to outside markets. Armenia began [...]

Frankfurt – Thousands of Jewish books and cultural objects are to be placed online after a European project received 1.5 million euros (2 million dollars) of EU funding, Frankfurt’s Goethe University announced on Friday. The initiative, led by the London-based European Association for Jewish Culture, will be coordinated by Frankfurt’s university library which holds one [...]