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Germany – Authorities Stopping Public Funding to Berlin’s Shul

By admin on September 3, 2010

Berlin, Germany – German authorities have stopped the flow of public funds to the country’s only independent Jewish congregation, reportedly due to the failure to submit audited accounts covering 2001-2006.
Adass Yisroel, a traditional congregation in Berlin, is also facing a demand by the Berlin Senate that it repay about 204,000 euros in state subsidies.
Almost every [...]

Borough Park, NY – Multiple Shooting Involving Shomrim Members

By admin on September 2, 2010

Borough Park, NY – NYPD of the 66th Precinct are on the scene for shooting that involved a Boro Park Shomrim member.
Police are calling for a level-1 mobilization for the shooting at 46th Street and 10th Avenue.
Hatzolah on the scene, sll injuries are minor, mobilization has been called for crowd control, police have perpetrator in [...]

United Kingdom – Tony Blair: ‘I cried for Iraq war victims’

By admin on September 2, 2010

United Kingdom – Tony Blair regrets banning fox hunting, but not invading Iraq. He was captivated by Princess Diana, intimidated by Queen Elizabeth II. He heaps praise on President George W. Bush but calls his close colleague Gordon Brown a man of “zero” emotional intelligence. He acknowledges that some find him delusional, and says he [...]

Washington – Hamas Among Intractable Issues in Mideast Talks

By admin on September 2, 2010

Washington – To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas — the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations.
But Hamas let it be known with its bullets that it would [...]

France – U.S. Officers Take Up Posts at Paris Airport

By admin on September 2, 2010

France – American officers are taking up posts at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport on Thursday to help identify potential terrorists or other high-risk passengers heading to the United States.
Officers from the US Customs and Border Protection’s Immigration Advisory Program joined French airport personnel and are working at airports in seven other countries under the [...]

Washington – Feds: No Link Between Dry Max Diapers and Rashes

By admin on September 2, 2010

Washington – Government safety officials have not found a connection between a new kind of Pampers diapers and the severe skin reactions reported by some parents’ groups.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday that it has reviewed 4,700 complaints, but found no specific cause linking Pampers diapers with new Dry Max technology to diaper rash.
“We [...]

Germany – Library Seeks To Reunite Nazi Theft Sefurim With There Jewish Owners

By admin on September 2, 2010

Nuremberg, Germany – Nuremberg’s city library is turning to the internet to reunite Jewish families with 10,000 books stolen under Nazi rule in Germany, the head of the library announced Thursday.
The library has published a list of the books’ original owners and their addresses online, in the hope that descendants would get in touch.
The books [...]

London – Investigation of Girl that Died from Painkillers She Mistook for Jelly Beans

By admin on September 2, 2010

London – A five-year-old girl died of a drug overdose after mistaking painkillers for jelly beans, an inquest heard this week.
Hanna Collins was believed to have climbed onto a chair to reach what she thought were sweets in a cupboard where her father kept his medication.
Hanna would have been unable to read the “keep [...]

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Chciago, IL – 11 People Indicted on Honey Smuggling Charges

By admin on September 2, 2010

Chicago, IL – Federal prosecutors in Chicago say 11 people and six corporations are accused of conspiring to smuggle $40 million worth of Chinese honey into the United States.
An indictment accuses them of smuggling honey contaminated with antibiotics that aren’t approved for use in the United States.
Federal officials on Wednesday said the illegal imports between [...]

Munich, Germany – Airline Stops Rabbi for ‘Suspicious’ Shofar

By admin on September 2, 2010

Germany – An Israeli rabbi narrowly escaped arrest after being stopped by security officers at Munich airport for carrying a shofar.
Airport officials pulled aside the man, in his late 50s, and asked him to explain the religious article while arriving on a flight from Tel-Aviv on Monday night. He was visiting his daughter who lives [...]

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