New Zealand has become the fourth country to outlaw Jewish ritual slaughtering, authorities said Sunday, after Iceland, Norway, and Sweden took similar measures in the past. Under the newly instated Animal Welfare Commercial Slaughter Code, announced by Agriculture Minister David Carter, commercially killed animals would have to be stunned before slaughter, making kosher slaughter, or shchita, illegal,... 

An emotionally charged case of he said, she said is brewing Wednesday. And at the center of the issue is New York City’s first Hasidic police officer. A woman from Brooklyn is angry because she says police didn’t want her sick dog in the subways. She is accused of making anti-Semitic remarks to the cop, and she says she didn’t do it. Chrissie Brodigan had one of those days Monday....