While authorities were concerned that a man suspected of bombing a California synagogue was headed to NYC, the 60-year-old "transient" was found in Ohio—at a Jewish Center in Cleveland Heights—and arrested. And it turns out the FBI got the tip thanks to NYC-based Orthodox news blog: The tipster told Vos Iz Neias that their site "is my favorite. It’s the news on VIN that made me aware of this story, so from the photo of the story posted earlier today, I recognized Ron Hirsch and called the FBI immediately." more ›

Yesterday, it was reported that Brooklyn Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka (pictured, left) "are among the westerners taken hostage at the Mumbai headquarters of the New York-based outreach group Chabad Lubavitch" during Wednesday's terror attacks in Mumbai, India. Terrorist gunmen had entered the Chabad house, and reportedly took a number of people hostage. Commandoes just stormed the building, and CNN-IBN reports that "5 hostages killed at Mumbai Jewish center." (More details on the raid at the Times of India.) more ›