The recent visit of the Mosholu Rebbe, shlita, on Shabbos Parashas Vayeishev, and the subsequent Chanukah Party on Wednesday evening, the second night of Chanukah, has left an indelible impression on the Five Towns. The Rebbe’s stay energized the atmosphere and elevated spirits. (more…)

A 48-year-old woman is being charged with scamming illegal immigrants in Rockland County - by taking money to get them with green cards and citizenship. (more…)

“I came back from a trip to Israel in November convinced that Israel would attack Iran,” Bruce Riedel, a former career CIA official and senior adviser to three US presidents - including George W. Bush - on Middle East and South Asian issues, told Newsweek Thursday, citing conversations he had with Mossad and Israeli defense officials. (more…)

Chabad launched its first Mitzvah Mobile in Moscow. (more…)

The recent appointment of Chabad Rabbi Dovid Gutnick opens a new chapter for the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation’s synagogue. (more…)

Fourteen Islamist extremists were being held Friday on suspicion of planning to use explosives to free an Al Qaeda sympathizer from prison, the Belgian Interior Ministry and federal prosecutor said. (more…)

Gun-toting carjackers made off with an 18-wheel FedEx delivery truck after accosting the driver at a stoplight in Manhattan early Friday, police said. (more…)

The Bush administration’s decision to deny California the right to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles exploded like a grenade in California. But it was hiding in plain sight for weeks. (more…)

The leader of an Orthodox Jewish group was arrested Wednesday morning along with several others on suspicion of tax fraud and laundering money through an Israeli bank and several business in the jewelry district in downtown Los Angeles. (more…)

State police issued seven tickets yesterday to motorists after observing ice flying off their vehicles on Interstate 684, Sgt. Joseph Lutz said today. (more…)

A federal judge is hearing arguments challenging New York’s law requiring airlines to give passengers food, water, clean toilets and fresh air when they’re delayed on planes for more than three hours. (more…)

A television reporter in Sacramento, California, apologized for making stereotypical comments about wealthy Jews. (more…)

At 25, most people are starting to build their résumés - not multimillion-dollar hotels. (more…)

A man held up two banks on a street near his home four times in the last week, including one of the banks twice in one day, before he was arrested on Tuesday apparently while on his way to make another illegal withdrawal, police said. (more…)

After three weeks of trial, it took the jury less than a day to decide the death of a 350-pound man from Borough Park was not at the hands of his doctors. (more…)

Jewish worshippers Tuesday were stunned to find Arabs had desecrated the graves of the Biblical Joshua, Caleb and Nun (Joshua’s father). (more…)

Two New York City narcotics cops were arrested and charged with falsifying records from drug seizures Wednesday. (more…)

Alcides Moreno was hurtling downward at a speed up to 124 mph, clinging to a 1,250-pound scaffold that acted like a surfboard in the sky. (more…)

Though PA leader Mahmoud Abbas has taken no steps to stop terrorism against Israel, he is being greeted at an international conference in Paris with admiration - and money. (more…)

Ramapo police yesterday identified a village man accused of trying to prevent an officer from investigating a report of a fight and two men armed with knives inside a house. (more…)

At least one person is dead after a downtown fire in Gloucester destroyed an apartment building and synagogue. (more…)

The Rabbinical Commission for Media Affairs, established by leading Haredi rabbis, published in the Monday’s Haredi press an announcement permitting the use of the internet “solely for business purposes, through kosher means.” (more…)

After laying the groundwork for two years, Orange County will soon begin auditing pharmacies and health-care providers to root out waste, fraud and abuse in its $400 million-a-year Medicaid program. (more…)