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New York, NY – Gov. David Paterson this morning blasted his hand-picked US senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, for throwing him “under the bus” during his recent scandals, the DN’s Glenn Blain reports.
During an appearance on Don Imus’ radio program on FOX Business Network, Paterson took a swipe at Gillibrand, who earlier this month said the governor [...]

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New York, NY – Governor Paterson Drags Senator Gillibrand Under His Bus

New York – A Queens accountant says it will take $4 million to even the balance sheet after he was anonymously smeared on Craigslist, court papers reveal.
Two ads attacking Whitestone CPA Leo Kehoe were published March 5 in the online ads, the suit alleges.
One ad was headlined, “CPA FRAUD ALERT! (BEWARE OF CROOK),” and went [...]

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New York – Queens CPA In $4M Lawsuit Over Posting On Craigslist

Turnersville, NJ – Two black South Jersey women are boycotting Wal-Mart as authorities investigate a public announcement targeting black shoppers at the Turnersville store over the weekend.
Wal-Mart officials said they’re reviewing security tapes to find out who asked “all black people” to leave the store in a message over the public-address system shortly before 7 [...]

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Turnersville, NJ – “All Black People” Asked to Leave S. Jersey Wal-Mart

Washington – In an attempt to buttress the tarnished credibility of Rabbi Menachem Youlus, the Washington, DC , area Torah scribe who boasts that he has “rescued” over 1,000 Holocaust-era Torah scrolls, Save a Torah, Inc., Youlus’s 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt organization, has now issued a report by two allegedly “independent” scribes to the [...]

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Washington – Editorial: Torah ‘rescuer’ Should Be Held Accountable

Pennsylvania – A series of US children’s textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as hostile and deserving of suspicion, according to a US Muslim civil liberties group.
The Pennsylvania chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is set to begin what it calls a public awareness campaign [...]

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Pennsylvania – Muslim Group Decries Textbooks on Islam as Inflammatory

Washington – Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.
The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. According to [...]

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Washington – Scottish Newspaper: U.S. Shipping Arms Ahead of Strike on Iran

Albany, NY – New York has stopped paying income tax refunds until after March 31, meaning hundreds of thousands of taxpayers will have to wait an extra two weeks for their money.
Gov. David A. Paterson’s budget director, Robert Megna, said Tuesday that tax refunds were suspended last Friday after they hit a $1.25-billion cap. The [...]

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Albany, NY – Governor Delays Income Tax Refund Payments Until April


Son of prime minister and wife Sara wins prestigious quiz in Kiryat Shmona.

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Netanyahu Jr. wins National Bible Quiz


US Jewish leaders slam report by Presbyterian Church USA that blames Israel for the “Palestinian resistance.”

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‘Report demonizing Israel risks Presbyterian-Jewish ties’

Wedding of SUKI FRANKEL & CHANI LOWY