Shackled in handcuffs and leg irons, Eliyahu Weinstein, the Lakewood real estate developer charged Thursday by federal agents with having “masterminded” a $200 million scheme to defraud his investors, listened in federal court as an assistant U.S. attorney detailed charges that could net him more than 50 years in prison. At the conclusion of his first appearance, U.S. District Magistrate... 

Dothan, Alabama — one of many Southern U.S. towns that has seen its Jewish community wither. Stephanie Butler had not seen Reggie Wilson in almost a decade and then there he was, standing beside her, at a grocery store in St. Petersburg, Fla. Reggie was new in town, so Ms. Butler invited her old college pal over to watch what every other University of Alabama alumnus watches in early September: Alabama’s... 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is urging Americans to send money to Democrats – or Republicans could take back the House and launch “endless investigations against President Obama.” In a fundraising letter for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Pelosi also warned that a Republican win would “bring back the days of Ken Starr and the politics of personal destruction,”... 

An 18-year-old man is accused of a robbing a woman at gunpoint Wednesday morning before counting the stolen money outside a Chicago police station on the West Side. Jermaine Howard, of the 4800 block of West Adams Street, was charged with armed robbery with a firearm, a felony, police said this morning. The man allegedly robbed the woman at the Kedzie Avenue CTA Pink Line station near 19th Street... 

The survey's findings underline suspicions that the new Chancellor, George Osborne, will have to firefight a full-blown crisis in Britain's biggest trading partner in his first years in office The single currency is in its death throes and may not survive in its current membership for a week, let alone the next five years, according to a selection of responses to the survey – the first major... 

Jim Rogers Jim Rogers, Chairman of Rogers Holdings, has once again made a bold prediction and that is the British Pound could quite possibly collapse within the coming weeks. Jim Rogers, co-founder of the Quantum Fund and founder of the Rogers Commodities Index, was quoted in a recent press release that the United Kingdom Pound is on the brink of utter collapse, which could happen within the coming... 

Holocaust survivors protest In demonstration outside Bank Leumi, survivors claim bank holding NIS 300 million (about $76.2 million) deposited before Holocaust; Bank Leumi: Protest organized by public relations agents. Holocaust survivors brought their protest effort Thursday to Bank Leumi headquarters in Tel Aviv, where the bank’s board of director’s was meeting. Dozens of survivors and... 

While America is suffering under a terrible economic recession, Barack Hussein Obama demands G8 leaders to commit huge financial aid to Africa. Most people in the world feels pity for Africans when they see photos of poor hungry children but it is time for Africans to grow up and become responsible. They simply make too many children. Europeans and Americans do not make children if they don’t... 

Recently, the U.S. Congress approved of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) selling 400 metric tons of its gold for around $13 billion. Something’s very fishy here. For starters, it’s not clear how much gold the IMF has and where it’s located. Last year, a rationale for the IMF selling its gold was that the IMF should be investing in financial securities with positive yields. But none of these... 

Russia is losing its positions on the Indian arms market. Russia has lost a billion-dollar tender for the delivery of fuel aircraft to this country in spite of the fact that India is one of the key buyers of Russian arms. It was not the first time when Russia failed to sign contracts with India. Experts say that Russia may entirely lose the Indian market if it continues to offer outdated defense technology... 

In Iran today, the country’s Jewish minority unanimously rejected cash offers from supporters of the state of Israel to leave Iran and move to Israel. The Israeli government promised to provide a package of housing and jobs for the twenty-five-thousand Iranian Jews. A special fund created by Israel supporters promised a ten-thousand-dollar cash award for any Iranian Jew who moved to Israel. The... 

In a sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN, President Obama boldly told Americans: “We are out of money.” C-SPAN host Steve Scully broke from a meek Washington press corps with probing questions for the new president. SCULLY: You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money? OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now. We are operating... 

The Jewish Claims Conference said it won a promise Thursday from the German government to increase funding to elderly Holocaust survivors in eastern Europe. Jewish survivors of WWII use… German officials promised to increase monthly payments from €178 ($235) to €240 ($315) for survivors in some of the poorest eastern European countries, such as Ukraine, said Roman Kent, a negotiator for the...