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Monsey, NY - A Hasidic Jewish congregation that ran an illegal school on Route 306 where a calf was slaughtered has received zoning variances from Ramapo to build a two-story yeshiva on the same property. Area residents were disappointed that Bobover Yeshiva of Monsey passed muster with the Zoning Board of Appeals ... Full story

New York, NY - The NYPD is regularly towing unmarked police cars - leaving detectives stranded on the street with no way to transport suspects in handcuffs, the Daily News has learned. Michael Palladino, head of the Detectives' Endowment Association, said tow operators working for the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau are meeting their ... Full story

Williamsburg, NY - A local frequent straphanger -- has started a campaign against the worst behavior underground, using a sharp wit and a fast camera phone shutter. Williamsburg resident Tom Sibley has snapped and received photo submissions of people partaking in some obnoxious subway behavior: clipping their nails, putting their feet on ... Full story

New York - Last week, Louis Biderman turned 99. Yet he can recall, in perfect detail, the trip he took to Los Angeles in 1938, 72 years ago. "I drove 3,000 miles to the coast, 3,000 miles back - all that within six weeks,? he said by phone from his Yonkers, N.Y., home. He ... Full story

New York - In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has endorsed "healthy relations" between Iran and Syria, mildly rebuked Syrian President Bashar Assad for accusing the U.S. of "colonialism," and publicly apologized to Moammar Gadhafi for treating him with less than appropriate deference after the Libyan called for "a jihad" ... Full story

Washington - Israel’s ambassador to Washington Michael Oren convened Foreign Ministry consuls for an emergency briefing, and told them the crisis between Israel and the US is the worst since 1975, Army Radio reported. Oren was referring to a crisis that evolved when Israel refused to sign a treaty to withdraw forces ... Full story

Norway - Oslo Jewish leader Anne Sender says that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are no more beneficial to the State of Israel as suicide bombings are to the Palestinian Authority's being legitimate. She also criticized Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, and in a move that shocked her own community, slammed ... Full story

Mea Shearim - The hysteria that took place Friday on the main street of the Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood over a new kosher ice cream parlor was as big as the excitement surrounding the arrival of the international chains the people of Israel have been longing for. More than 6,000 people gathered outside the ice cream store, waiting for a free ... Full story

Newark, NJ - When Guy Catrillo reports to Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution in southern New Jersey on Monday at noon, he will begin spending the next 18 months as inmate 30121-050. The 55-year-old Catrillo, a former Jersey City planning aide and City Hall employee who ran for City Council last year, has ... Full story

New York - I am a big Joe Biden fan. The vice president is an indefatigable defender of U.S. interests abroad. So it pains me to say that on his recent trip to Israel, when Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s government rubbed his nose in some new housing plans for contested East ... Full story