A group of four Lakewood, New Jersey Yeshiva students were arrested earlier this week and have been charged with bias intimidation for harassing their black school bus driver. The four teenage boys allegedly stood behind the driver after she objected to their conversation, and used racial slurs and "praised the Ku Klux Klan." And in case you were wondering, yeah, the KKK probably aren't huge fans of Yeshiva students either. more ›

Tiferes Yisroel, a Jewish all-boys school in Flatbush, really wants to make sure their students concentrate on their homework when they're at home. That's why they're asking parents to buy software to monitor their internet activity at home, and then get their Web-browsing histories emailed to a chaver, or friend. And if the parents think this is a violation of their privacy, the school is arguing that the rabbi says it's kosher. The school wrote to parents, "We are following the dictates of our [rabbis]—that as human beings, we cannot trust ourselves. This is proper education." more ›

Who knew that in Port Authority bus terminal, romance (as well as vermin) is alive? Adam Frohlinger, a 21-year-old Long Islander enlisted the help of a terminal employee, who led his girlfriend, Leora Feigenbaum to the back of the 7174 bus. There, the 20-year-old, who was on her way home from work in Manhattan, was surprised to find flowers, decorations and her boyfriend offering up an engagement ring. Most amazingly, she accepted! "I'm definitely impressed," the bride-to-be told the Record. According to the AP, he says he picked the bus "because he knew it was the last place his girlfriend would expect a proposal." Both he and his betrothed are juniors at Yeshiva University. more ›

One of Borough Park's Yeshiva school buses struck and killed a young Orthodox boy today, after he slipped and fell on an icy patch of pavement. Different sources have reported his age to be either 4 or 7, but according to one witness he was tiny. "The child was so small," said Rocco Botta, who who was working on a construction site nearby. "The person who hit him may have thought it was snow and just kept going." more ›

Yesterday's grating collapse outside a Brooklyn yeshiva left 34 students injured. Dozens of schoolgirls, ages 10-14, at Yeshiva Shaare Torah had been posing for graduation pictures when the grating over shaft gave way. A witness told the Post, "These kids were like clinging on the side of the building. They were screaming and panicking." more ›

A grate over a window shaft collapsed, injuring over two dozen children at a Brooklyn yeshiva. According to NY1, "Fire officials say several students fell after a grate collapsed during a class photo shoot outside the Torah Elementary School in Kensington." Yikes! 1010WINS reports, "At least five students...were rushed to hospitals, two of them with serious injuries." Twenty-seven others were treated on the scene; the students were all girls, ages 10-12. The collapse is being investigated. Two years ago, a woman fell through sidewalk grating in Midtown; while that grate protected Con Ed equipment, it seems a private garbage truck may have compromised the grate's integrity by driving up on the sidewalk over it. more ›

An overflow crowd packed an auditorium at Yeshiva University Tuesday night to debate whether it's acceptable to call something "kosher certified" if it's produced under unethical conditions. The panel discussion was prompted in part by the high profile prosecution of the Rubashkin family, who operate a major kosher-meat-processing plant in Iowa. Federal agents raided the plant in May, arresting 389 illegal immigrants, who, according to this damning cover story in the Village Voice, were paid some of the lowest wages in the nation, and were allegedly forced to work up to 17-hour days with 10-minute lunch breaks "in a freezing-cold, dirty hallway." more ›