Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee visits Jerusalem
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and ew York Assemblyman Dov Hikind leave a Jewish housing project in an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem, August 18, 2008.Huckabee said Republican Presidential nominee John McCain has a better understanding of Israel's security needs than his Democratic opponent. He is on a 48 hour whirlwind tour of Israel sponsored by Ateret Cohanim, a group that works to acquire property in east Jerusalem and settle Jews there. (UPI Photo/Debbie Hill)
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Jewish New York state lawmaker Dov Hikind, criticized for his blackface basketball player costume for a Purim party, said Monday he's not prejudiced.
A judge sentenced a hardware clerk to 40 years to life in prison for killing and dismembering 9-year-old Leiby Kletzky last summer in New York City.
A manager at Bejeweled, a New York City jewelry store, said the swastika-shaped earrings her store is selling are not a Nazi symbol.
A lawyer for a New York man accused of killing Leiby Kletzky has caused an uproar by blaming the crime on "inbreeding" in the close-knit Hasidic community.
A New York City lawmaker has completed a survey that shows a lack of upkeep at subway station restrooms in the city.
New York police said a Brooklyn senior center and synagogue was vandalized with a spray-painted swastika and an anti-Semitic message.
Several New York-area leaders reportedly support a "terrorist profiling" bill allowing the use of race and ethnicity to stop or search a person.
About two dozen people demonstrated outside New York's headquarters of Time Inc. to protest a Teen People profile of a musical hate duo.
A New York state legislator has called for police to use racial profiling in random searches of people using New York's transit system.
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