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Jewish,Breaking News Roundup 01/12/07 #1

2007-01-12T13:05:00.001-05:00

Man who shot cat is given 300 hours community service
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--catshooting0112jan12,0,2573418.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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Police are looking for two masked men who mugged a couple at gunpoint in Central Park on Thursday night. Police said two men confronted the couple on a park road near West 63rd Street Thursday night. They turned over their cash and weren't hurt. This was the second armed robbery in Central Park this week.
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Car salesman shot dead outside Long Island auto dealership
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--dealershipshootin0112jan12,0,3787489.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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Abbas: Only Kill Israelis
Jan 12, 2007
The Jerusalem Post has <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467711961&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull " target="_blank">more details</a> on the <a href="http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2007/01/moderate_abbas.html " target="_blank">story we reported yesterday</a> of Abbas urging Palestinian Arabs to only kill Israelis. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday called on Palestinians to refrain from internal fighting and to direct their guns only against Israeli "occupation." How "moderate" is Abbas
http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2007/01/abbas_only_kill.html
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Bilingualism may delay onset of dementia: study
Jan 12, 2007
... bilingual. The bilingual speakers spoke a combination of 25 different languages, the most prevalent being Polish, Yiddish, German, Romanian and Hungarian. Researchers found 132 patients met criteria for probable Alzheimer's while the remaining 52 ...
http://topix.net/r/0yYp0xIuADaKZNhMvxumY2UwJIwP95SSSNmI1l=2BcADmmHVBM7luWpwqjGbDX51H2O=2F19PEitJI1F5usC3xHuZqVggHNhLqLJkUEQwj7MsgxQ0SiQxDcKFiJq=2FhonDs9el6CNeZbSH=2FSVOi8iS80oVaynIp4SxdwOOd5QwkTqyx9fUcr4JpL=2BfcY=2FOhA3MEMHL
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County says every teen driver will get DVD to promote safety
Jan 12, 2007
Monticello - Sullivan County officials announced yesterday that every teenage driver in the county will receive a driver safety video.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070112/NEWS/70111018/-1/rss01
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Criticism Western Wall bridge plan
Jan 12, 2007
... the ancient remains completely, preserve them and present them to the public as part of the Archaeological Park." The rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovich, who has promoted the plan, says that from his point of view, the Mugrabi Gate could ...
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Democrat John Hall sworn in as congressman from 19th District - The Journal News.com
Jan 12, 2007
The Journal News.com, NY - 9 hours ago
Hall's well-wishers included four members of the Orange County Hassidic community Kiryas Joel. Ari Felberman, government relations coordinator, ...
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20070105/NEWS01/701050369/1026/NEWS10
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Ex-Stark sheriff J. Babe Stearn dies in Canton - Akron Beacon Journal
Jan 12, 2007
Akron Beacon Journal, OH - 33 minutes ago
Stearn became the first Jewish officer hired when he joined the Canton Police Department in 1937. He spent 10 years on the force before he began his ...
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/living/community/16443733.htm
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First-graders receive first prayer book, and well-rounded ... - The Journal News.com
Jan 12, 2007
The Journal News.com, NY - 48 minutes ago
During a song-filled ceremony at the yeshiva's auditorium, dozens of beaming parents presented their children with a copy of the youngsters' first siddur, ...
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20070112/NEWS03/701120396/1019/SPECIAL02
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Jewish Community Of Vienna Bars Radical Rabbi - Playfuls.com
Jan 12, 2007
Playfuls.com, Romania - 15 minutes ago
The Jewish Community of Vienna on Friday barred a radical ultra-orthodox rabbi who participated in December's Holocaust conference in Iran. ...
http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_8676-Jewish-Community-Of-Vienna-Bars-Radical-Rabbi.html
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Jewish House For Addicts Moving - Baltimore Jewish Times
Jan 12, 2007
Baltimore Jewish Times, MD - 47 minutes ago
The House of Hope opened in 1996 for Jewish addicts in a crime-ridden section of Baltimore City where drugs run rampant, said Dr. Dressler. ...
http://www.jewishtimes.com/News/6208.stm
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Joseph Bernstein, 84
Jan 12, 2007
... designing roads and highways, and retired in 1984. Mr. Bernstein was a founding member of the Randallstown Synagogue Center, served on its board and was its volunteer cantor for 15 years. After moving to Pikesville in 2000, he joined Beth Tfiloh ...
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London Mosque DVD: Jews Face Mass Extermination (12 January )
Jan 12, 2007
A leading mosque in London is selling DVDs that proclaim the coming mass extermination of Jews around the world on a "day of judgment." It also attacks Christian groups and the United Nations.
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=119330
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Number of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany hits 5-year high
Jan 12, 2007
BERLIN - The number of incidents involving Germany's extreme right has increased sharply in the past year, a banner year for the neo-Nazi and xenophobic movements, according to figures from the German Ministry of the Interior. ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=812608&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1
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Over 30 Prague schools scoured for bomb after anonymous threat - Radio Prague
Jan 12, 2007
Radio Prague, Czech Republic - 30 minutes ago
It is the biggest security operation in the Czech capital since last September when there were fears of a possible terrorist attack against Jewish targets. ...
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/87189
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Pomona to get rabbinical college plan - The Journal News.com
Jan 12, 2007
The Journal News.com, NY - 1 hour ago
From Savad's perspective, the development was a natural progression on Route 306 from Orthodox communities in Monsey. "The character of the immediate area ...
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20070112/NEWS03/701120397/1019/SPECIAL02
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Rabbis and politics - Ynetnews
Jan 12, 2007
Ynetnews, Israel - 8 minutes ago
As a rabbi who at times writes about current events and politics people often write to me saying that rabbis should keep out of politics and stick ...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3351409,00.html
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Rockland panel releases report suggesting improvements to anti ... - The Journal News.com
Jan 12, 2007
The Journal News.com, NY - 30 minutes ago
Another issue of concern is the lack of security plans by ultra-Orthodox Jewish- and Hasidic-run schools in Ramapo, the report states. ...
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20070112/NEWS03/701120356/1019/SPECIAL02
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The Aroma of McDonald's - Jerusalem Post
Jan 12, 2007
Jerusalem Post, Israel - 36 minutes ago
... but the main issues are permissible ingredients, separation of milk and meat and being closed on Shabbat and Jewish holidays), most kosher restaurants ...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fc%3DJPArticle%26cid%3D1167467712456%26pagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull
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UK Muslim drug addicts to get help from Jewish-run crisis fund
Jan 12, 2007
"Drugsline" founder saw that Jewish, Muslim communities share the same cultural taboos about drugs.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
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While world counts – Israel keeps Shabbat - Ynetnews
Jan 12, 2007
Ynetnews, Israel - 25 minutes ago
Margi agreed that the ultra-Orthodox public's educational curriculum focuses on Torah studies and that most activities which are not included under this ...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3351473,00.html
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Community Responds to Hatzalah
Jan 11, 2007
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=" http://bp0.blogger.com/_-WN7GbL2vrY/Rabw6yypBlI/AAAAAAAAAbE/ZPCFjpl7ZLA/s1600-h/patch3.bmp"></a>Hatzalah of Waterbury's first annual Shabbos Hatzalah was a major success. The Jewish community pledged over $12,000, over half the annual budget, to the organization. "We did not fathom such a response, and were elated with the turn out" said Asher Leiser, Hatzalah's office manager.
--- WaterburyNews.blogspot.com
http://waterburynews.blogspot.com/2007/01/community-responds-to-hatzalah.html
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Firefighter dies in station blaze
Jan 11, 2007
An off-duty firefighter dies after suffering severe burns at a fire station in North Yorkshire.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/6252143.stm
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For sale: One U.S. Army base, well used
Jan 11, 2007
For sale: 1,100 acres with office buildings, townhouses, 20-lane bowling alley and 18-hole golf course. Fitness center with indoor pool, strip mall and 600-seat chapel also available to the right bidders.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/philly/news/16432860.htm?source=rss&channel=philly_news
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Jewish response to climate change
Jan 11, 2007
The Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation's new building in Evanston is expected to be the first certified "green" synagogue in America.
http://topix.net/r/0yYp0xIuADaKZNhMvxumY2cQqnpPiDSRjWDtIhkGY40EPhIbJ0cMXVPYC8Wlkgn4SD1GOTz8fSMRAznlUPz0ZVZBWTNJSAHdKL2KNUImO6NdzwU3GD=2FGpsmEpBHtQaBRK
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OU Welcomes US House Passage of HR 3 The "Stem Cell Research ... - Jewish Action
Jan 11, 2007
Jewish Action, NY - 1 hour ago
The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the nation's largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, welcomed today's vote in the US House of ...
http://www.ou.org/public_affairs/article/9415
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2007-01-12T12:53:00.001-05:00

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Jewish,Breaking News Roundup 01/11/07 #2

2007-01-11T17:54:00.001-05:00

106-Year-Old Dies in New York
Jan 11, 2007
In Brooklyn, they called her Bubbe Maryasha _ a 106-year-old Jewish grandmother who survived the pogroms of czarist Russia, Soviet anti-Semitism and Nazi terror.
http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=2033515&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1
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A man stranded by history - New Jersey Jewish Standard
Jan 11, 2007
New Jersey Jewish Standard, NJ - 1 hour ago
We set the time for a graveside service, and I asked Rabbi Aryeh Gotlieb, rabbi emeritus of the Jewish Community Center of Paramus to officiate at no cost. ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/8-0&fd=R&url=http://www.jstandard.com/articles/2133/1/A-man-stranded-by-history&cid=1112623402&ei=5oCmRdroLJP2oALJ3oC4DA
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David Malnick, attorney and Technion booster, dies at 62
Jan 11, 2007
... Valley firms. Many became life-long family friends. Along with his wife, Malnick had also been very active at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, where he was a regular at Saturday morning Torah study. In recent years, he took up Modern Hebrew, ...
http://topix.net/r/0yYp0xIuADaKZNhMvxumY2cQqnpPiDSRjWDtIhkGY40GjuO=2FddhqqigsC=2FJ74wv06QjgG6nKJr=2FZoiUMrTEoKEdvBcwuXnBZZjiGDEmCCGEzy0hXyCqAgx9NmlCoy1wrsV67lQQ1LuqHCc=2BWCt4GgnzOF7VSfdobL8wCNC1SLV9o=3D
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Battling Purim Pyromania
Jan 10, 2007
Forget Brooklyn
<a href=" http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3350877,00.html">Police seize dangerous toys ahead of Purim</a
http://atowncrier.blogspot.com/2007_01_07_atowncrier_archive.html#116846695571708541
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'SKILL'-DRILLED
Jan 10, 2007
... colleagues said Bloomberg has a point. "To manage a city like this, I would tend to agree with him," said Councilman Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn). "I think to do a job like this, manage a city with a budget that it has, with the number of employees, ...
http://topix.net/r/0yYp0xIuADaKZNhMvxumY2WS2WN81g7JUt5Er8hEF1BDkwUb8WsUmwJhgDLaCcd7HT6mrEJr0SdjzXtSvzsid8UYVefWXgBpafa2N1uOwR=2BP=2BQpvfzc7ZHc4LrrxIscljsXIuI28uQiWIklNWH5Jly8Yb3QjOP3E=2BXHt=2BfzC8mhleGEsTh=2BSlNSQhJ7=2BfRFzC
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450+ Rabbis, Rabbinical Students Call for Federal Minimum Wage Hike - Religious Action Center (press release)
Jan 11, 2007
Religious Action Center (press release), DC - 44 minutes ago
... yesterday to Congress, signed by more than 450 rabbis and rabbinical students, calling for an increase in the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://rac.org/Articles/index.cfm%3Fid%3D2064%26pge_prg_id%3D7037&cid=1112564621&ei=2LumRZSoBqTQoAKQwOXnDg
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[sun-sentinel.com ] FLORIDA - White powder scare shuts parts of Palm Beach County courthouse
"mysterious letter containing a contaminating substance"
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-111whitepowder,0,644311.story?coll=sfla-news-palm
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Jewish,Breaking News Roundup 01/11/07 #1

2007-01-11T15:13:00.001-05:00

A Special Thanks To 'The Town Crier' for doing a fine job in giving us his daily jewish news dump
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Girls Convicted Of Bus Attack
http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/national/?content_id=5294
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Navy Helicopters Make Emergency Landing (Jacksonville, FL)-- Two Navy Helicopters flying in formation this morning around 8:10 had to make an emergency landing. We are toldthe blades of the two choppers touched. One landed on the Northbank by the Shipyards.The second helo landed on the Southbank near the School Board building.
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The Uniformed Firefighters Association will hand out 10,000 American flag stickers to every one of its members on Thursday. It's the latest in a fight over what personal items can be displayed in the locker rooms of city firehouses. New York City Firefighters are fired up over a new department policy, banning them from posting personal decorations on their lockers, including American flags, "Support Our Troops" stickers, family photos and pictures of firefighters lost on 9/11.
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Adirondack water testing finds clear water, nitrogen concern
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--watertesting0111jan11,0,883296.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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National Democrats will announce today that they have picked Denver over New York for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, according to several sources close to the process.
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NY Marine honored with posthumous Medal of Honor at White House
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--medalofhonor0111jan11,0,2287123.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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Runners' chai: Local women in charity marathon - New Jersey Jewish Standard
Jan 11, 2007
<a href="http://www.jstandard.com/articles/2109/1/Runners%2592-chai:-Local-women-in-charity-marathon
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New Jersey Jewish Standard, NJ - 49 minutes ago
According to Ari Weinberger, who came up with the idea for Team Lifeline, "Last year 26 runners and walkers raised over $140000 for Chai Lifeline, ...
http://www.jstandard.com/articles/2109/1/Runners%2592-chai:-Local-women-in-charity-marathon
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Shul is at home in rabbi's Richmond District apartment (J. the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California)
Jan 11, 2007
Rabbi Isaac Fineman opted for a minyan instead of a couch. Because his family room accommodates weekly Shabbat dinners and religious classes, he has no need for the usual television and La-Z-Boy.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/Orthodox+Jewish/SIG=139m5ckf3/*http%3A//www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/31331/format/html/displaystory.html
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Some Items from the jWeeklies
Jan 11, 2007
Larry Gordon at the 5 Towns Jewish Times <a href=" http://www.5tjt.com/news/read.asp?Id=575">offers his analysis of Jewish Blogging</a>. Though he give mention to 5 Towner <a href="http://orthomom.blogspot.com">Orthomom</a >, he surprisingly omitted mention of <a href="http://mochassid.blogspot.com">MoChassid</a> and <a href=" http://www.5tjt.com/lgblog/">his own blog</a>
Due Process? <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/print.do/20340/The_Need_For_Due_Process.html">The Jewish Press publishes editorial board uses the Duke rape case to make an arguable subtle point</a>
The Forward on <a href=" http://www.forward.com/articles/ou-leader-being-pushed-out/">Rabbi Weinreb being "pushed out" of the OU</a>
Jewish Star: <a href=" http://www.thejewishstar.com/JewishStar.pdf">All those tax dollars yet bad upkeep at Lawrence Middle school</a>
Jewish Week on <a href=" http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13527">the Wesley Clark "Controversey"</a>
Jewish Week also <a href=" http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13530">discusses legal issues with Dov Hikind's latest shenanigans</a
http://atowncrier.blogspot.com/2007_01_07_atowncrier_archive.html#116853752133721618
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The Five Towns Jewish Times on Blogs (and Orthomom)
Jan 11, 2007
Check out Krum's take on the Five Towns Jewish Times' cover feature on Jewish blogs <a href=" http://krumasabagel.blogspot.com/2007/01/krum-makes-headlines.html">here</a>.
http://orthomom.blogspot.com/2007/01/five-towns-jewish-times-on-blogs-and.html
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UN Secretary General's First NYC No-No
Jan 11, 2007
Score one for the Daily News for noticing UN Secretary General transportation habits. During a breakfast with business leaders, Ban said he wanted diplomats to do take the subway like Mayor Bloomberg. But Ban himself was <a href=" http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/487637p-410616c.html">driven "the mere eight blocks" with his driver parked illegally</a> in the "No Standing" zone outside the Grand Hyatt.
His spokeswoman told the News, "You say 'illegally parked,' but I'd say 'illegally stopped.'" Ha! She continued, "He did take the car to work. But he has a driver in it at all times, so it's not abandoned on the street. When it needs to be moved, they move it." Well, Gothamist just hopes that if he gets a parking fine, he pays it and sets an example for other diplomats who don't pay up their parking fines. At this point, the UN only apologizes about gridlock it <a href=" http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/09/07/un_advertises_its_apologies_to_nyc.php">causes during General Assembly</a>. Man, remember when <a href=" http://www.cnn.com/US/9704/11/un.bye.bye/">Giuliani got into a fight with the UN back in 1997 over parking tickets</a>? Gooliani said, "I'm not a mayor who is easily threatened, so if they'd like to leave New York over parking tickets, we could find another use for that area of town. It's the most valuable real estate in the world."
Ban's spokeswoman also said he walked to the UN his first day of work. And welcome to the Big Apple, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Photograph of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon eating in the UN cafeteria on his first day of work by Frank Franklin II/AP
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Helicopter rescues man from M4
Jan 11, 2007
A helicopter is called to take a heart patient to hospital after an ambulance broke down on the M4.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6253277.stm
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14 Carter Center advisers resign in protest over book - Access North Georgia
Jan 11, 2007
Access North Georgia, GA - 1 hour ago
... announced Thursday, are the latest in a backlash against the former president's book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," which has drawn fire from Jewish ...
http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp%3FID%3D85856
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Oakwood planners hear details about Sugar Camp
Jan 11, 2007
... Group and Versant. The Oakwood Investment Group's property would include office buildings and the Beth Abraham Synagogue. Versant plans to build upscale homes and condos, which range in price from about $400,000 to $750,000, and are geared toward ...
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Israelis Dressed as Arabs Nad Top Terrorist
Jan 11, 2007
"Border policemen dressed as Palestinian Arabs infiltrated a Jenin refugee camp Thursday morning and arrested Khaled el-Haj, a senior Hamas commander in the northern West Bank, along with one of his lieutenants. El-Haj was released from an Israeli prison only two moths prior to Thursday's arrest operation, military sources said," the Jerusalem Post <a href=" http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467712503&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank">reports</a>. Palestinian witnesses said the daytime arrest raid was executed quickly, and no shots were fired during the course of the operation. According to the witnesses, the border policeman arrived in a civilian vehicle to a building in refugee camp just after noon. Quite the daring raid -- these type of actions are (or at least used to be) the hallmark of Israel's elite units
http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2007/01/israelis_dresse.html
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I Can See My House From Here!
Jan 11, 2007
Yesterday marked the official release of <a href="http://earth.google.com/earth4.html" target="_blank">Google Earth 4</a> (the public beta has been available since the summer), a free product with a cleaner interface and a beefed-up focus on 3-D architectural imagery.
Part of the appeal Google Earth holds is "flying" through three-dimensional terrain as if in a 90s-era flight simulator, and Google wants to map bridges, skyscrapers, and landmarks as well. Television news networks have relied on the paid, enhanced version Google Earth for most of their whiz-bang map animations. Google even updated the resolution and some terrain photos of the area involving the the tragic James Kim search last month (<a href=" http://www.torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_marcl/kim_family_car.kmz">.kmz file</a>), which made it easier to comprehend the Oregon terrain the family was lost in.
Though cities like New York and San Francisco are extensively mapped in the 3-D buildings layer, Toronto is not. To accelerate the process, Google is calling for users to help create accurate renderings of architecture using the free <a href=" http://www.sketchup.com/" target="_blank">Google SketchUp</a> application, which can save files compatible with Google Earth's overlays. Previously grey blocks and shapes, the renderings can now be textured and photo-mapped.
As it stands now, the Rogers Centre is well-rendered, whereas the CN Tower is a boring monochrome frame. Most of Toronto's important structures are missing from the 3-D layer, although there are some strange exceptions. The Days Inn (<a href=" http://www.torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_marcl/Days_Inn_Toronto.kmz">.kmz</a>) stands alone beside a flat Maple Leaf Gardens, and the unbuilt Uptown Residences on Balmuto and Bloor (<a href=" http://www.torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_marcl/Uptown_Residences.kmz">.kmz</a>) are accurately rendered. It seems like the features will be first mainly co-opted by condo developers like the Uptown's Pemberton Group, whom are taking advantage of the high visibility of their modeled structures on the currently flush terrain.
Google also offers Toronto building SketchUp models at their <a href="http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=toronto&btnG=Search&styp=m " target="_blank">3-D Warehouse</a>, including a rendering of the original Eaton's College Street unbuilt skyscraper above College Park, which was nixed when the Great Depression hit. Old City Hall is there, as is Pearson's new terminal and the under-construction Metropolis complex at Dundas Square. A few users have even crudely rendered their own houses.
As far as overhead imagery goes, Google's Toronto patchwork hasn't been upgraded in years and is out of date in some areas. Newer condo towers don't exist, the Pantages hotel is under construction, and the old CBC radio tower on Mutual and Alexander still stands.
Wider views are taken from satellite imagery, while closer, higher-resolution views are usually taken from aircraft. Upgraded in March, the Las Vegas strip (<a href=" http://www.torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_marcl/las_vegas.kmz">.kmz</a>) has the highest resolution imagery of any city at a staggering three inches per pixel. That's so clear that street signs and parking space numbers can be easily read. We suspect that the same detail for Hanlan's Point would do wonders for Toronto's Virtual Tourism.
A word of warning, however. Enabling the 3-D layer is a processor crunching task, so it's still virtually unusable for anyone without a newer computer.
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Rabbi M. Elon in Good Condition (11 January )
Jan 11, 2007
Contrary to reports circulated by email and on the internet, Jerusalem's popular Rabbi Moti Elon underwent slipped-disc surgery in Tel Aviv this week, and his condition is reported as good.
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=119265
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Top of the form - Hackney Gazette (makes you proud no?)
Jan 11, 2007
Hackney Gazette, UK - 1 hour ago
Yesoday Hatorah, a Jewish faith school in Stamford Hill, and Our Lady's Convent in Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, topped Hackney's results with three quarters ...
http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/content/hackney/gazette/news/story.aspx%3Fbrand%3DHKYGOnline%26category%3Dnews%26tBrand%3Dnorthlondon24%26tCategory%3Dnewshkyg%26itemid%3DWeED10%2520Jan%25202007%252013%253A11%253A49%253A053
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Congregation turns to laughs for first fund-raising effort
Jan 11, 2007
LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Chabad of Bradenton will host a night of charity and laughter as its first community event to kick off the new year.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070111/NEWS/701110362/-1/RSS
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College Age Students have Bar Mitzva in Ukraine - Federation of Jewish Communitites of CIS
Jan 11, 2007
Federation of Jewish Communitites of CIS, Russia - 37 minutes ago
... and had a Bar Mitzva in the local Synagogue. Rabbi Mendel Cohen was pleased with the outcome, since these young men did not have a Bar mitzva at thirteen.
http://www.fjc.ru/article.asp%3Fmedia%3D80052%26NewsType%3D80052%26aid%3D465788
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Charity sets up faiths drugs line
Jan 11, 2007
... based in Redbridge, east London, will be providing specially designed drug intervention programmes. Drugsline director Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin, an orthodox Jew, said both communities shared similar taboos about drug abuse. The charity's services include ...
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Jewish Music Cafe in Park Slope
Jan 11, 2007
... Cafe is located at 401 9th Street - right across the street from Barbes. In the synogogue. Klezmer, Israeli Trance, Hasidic Rap, Avante Garde Jazz - it's all there with Hebrew Beer, cheesecake, and Kosher cappuchino. 12 bucks gets you in. This ...
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First Time: Arab Minister in Israeli Government - Arutz Sheva
Jan 11, 2007
Arutz Sheva, Israel - 37 minutes ago
Rabbi Zalman Melamed, Rabbi of Beit El and a leading yeshiva head of the religious-Zionist public, said, "I don't see this as something revolutionary. ...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3%3Fid%3D119243
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Judge: No tuition for Dwek kids - Asbury Park Press
Jan 11, 2007
Asbury Park Press, NJ - 48 minutes ago
... may "face imminent irreparable harm" if the children were unable to attend the yeshiva, an orthodox Jewish school in the Sephardic religious tradition. ...
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20070111/NEWS/701110391/1004/NEWS01
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Jews, MPs blast police - Australian Jewish News
Jan 11, 2007
Australian Jewish News, Australia - 14 minutes ago
As investigations into separate assaults on Orthodox Jewish students continue in both states, Jewish leaders said there was growing community concern over ...
http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp%3FpgID%3D2386
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Study: Jerusalem twice as poor - Ynetnews
Jan 11, 2007
Ynetnews, Israel - 1 hour ago
The study further showed that amongst the ultra-Orthodox and Arab populations, the poverty rate has reached 70 percent. In 1999, the rate of poor families ...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3351067,00.html
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Synagogue Gets New Identity as Wine Bar (is this my local mikvah yid?)
Jan 11, 2007
... give new meaning to "bar mitzvah." That's because an upscale wine bar will open in April inside a deconsecrated synagogue and yeshiva on Atlantic Avenue. Religious groups have long sought to capitalize on their appreciated real estate by selling off ...
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One week, two incidents, no suspects - Australian Jewish News
Jan 11, 2007
Australian Jewish News, Australia - 1 hour ago
Police have not suggested any link between the two incidents, but Jewish officials, among others, are appalled by the severity of the incidents – both ...
http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp%3FpgID%3D2399
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Sullivan County tries again for a sales tax hike
Jan 11, 2007
Monticello
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070111/NEWS/701110321/-1/rss01
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Mildred Resnick mourned as 'true Yiddish mama' at funeral services ... - Times Herald-Record
Jan 11, 2007
Times Herald-Record, NY - 23 minutes ago
Ellenville — Rabbi Abba Gorelick wanted no misunderstandings. The woman he had come to praise was a Jewish mother — but nothing like the stereotypical ...
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20070111/NEWS/701110317/-1/NEWS
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Dr. Watson: Anti-Semitism Justified
Jan 11, 2007
... dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society." Apparently a firm believer in eugenics, Watson also feels "Ashkenazi Jews" - Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities in the area of Germany - have higher intelligence than other people. ...
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Black and JewishDespite pride in double-minority status ... - Washington Jewish Week
Jan 11, 2007
Washington Jewish Week, MD - 49 minutes ago
... that 99 percent of his friends are Jewish. But he never forgets he's black. If he does, "the police always remind me," said the Silver Spring resident. ...
http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp%3FSectionID%3D4%26SubSectionID%3D4%26ArticleID%3D6496%26TM%3D113.596
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City Cracks Down on Dangerous Scaffolding - WNYC
Jan 11, 2007
WNYC, NY - 19 minutes ago
At a diner in Williamsburg, he said he's become more selective about who he works with. A lot of contractors are cutting corners because of intense ...
http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/71866
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Cloning and kashrut ‹ to be or not to be? - Washington Jewish Week
Jan 11, 2007
Washington Jewish Week, MD - 24 minutes ago
The "plain vanilla answer" is yes ‹ for now, at least, according to Rabbi Yitzchok Breitowitz, rabbi of the Orthodox Woodside Synagogue-Ahavas Torah in ...
http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp%3FSectionID%3D4%26SubSectionID%3D4%26ArticleID%3D6523%26TM%3D113.596
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A prayerful projectOhr Kodesh creates supplemental prayer book - Washington Jewish Week
Jan 11, 2007
Washington Jewish Week, MD - 24 minutes ago
Rabbi Lyle Fishman said that he and many congregants at the Conservative Chevy Chase shul believed the traditional text needed something more to "enrich the ...
http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp%3FSectionID%3D4%26SubSectionID%3D4%26ArticleID%3D6524%26TM%3D113.596
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Iranian Jews Reject Outside Calls To Leave
Jan 10, 2007
... them, for instance, from securing government jobs or becoming army officers. Seven years ago, a group of 13 Orthodox Jews in the southern city of Shiraz were accused of spying for Israel. The case prompted an international outcry that led to the ...
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Evening JNews Roundup
Jan 10, 2007
From UJA to Satmar, <a href=" http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2007/01/a_kiryasity.php">Jews are kissing up to Congressman Charles Rangel</a>, ways and means committee chairman Besides being tasteless and inappropriate, NYS Assemblyman <a href=" http://thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13530">Dov Hikind's ad camapgin against Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert might also be illegal</a> (<a href=" http://thepoliticker.observer.com/2007/01/elsewhere-member-items.html">Via</a> and <a href=" http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2007/01/the_daily_round.php">Via</a>) First ever Arab Israeli gov't Minister - <a href=" http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3350893,00.html">MK Raleb Majadele named Minister</a><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3350893,00.html "> of Science, Technology, Culture and Sports</a> <a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00070.htm">Shulamit Aloni says there is Apartheid in Israel</a> Secretary of State Condi Rice shall embark on <a href="http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6362">yet another fruitless whirldwind trip to Israel and several other Middle Eastern destinations</a> Napels Chief Rabbi is <a href=" http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6346">boycoting a concert by the artists formerly known as Cat Stevens</a>
http://atowncrier.blogspot.com/2007_01_07_atowncrier_archive.html#116848507863969292
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Haredi prisoner chooses jail over security bracelet
Jan 10, 2007
... of Shabbat. Ron, himself an observant Jew, cited the opinion of the modern Orthodox Zomet Institute, headed by Rabbi Israel Rosen, which approves the use of the bracelet on Shabbat. Zarbiv refused to recognize Zomet's halachic authority and appealed ...
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$100,000.00 Raffle Tomorrow
Jan 10, 2007
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As <a href=" http://waterburynews.blogspot.com/2006/12/10000000-raffle.html">previously reported</a> on Waterbury News, Yeshiva will be holding a raffle, with the grand prize of $100,000.00. The deadline for the raffle is TOMORROW, so if you would like to be included in it, call 203-756-1800 NOW! Additionally, tickets are now at 10% off
http://waterburynews.blogspot.com/2007/01/10000000-raffle-tomorrow.html
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The Daily Rounds
Jan 10, 2007
Brooklyn Assemblyman <a href="http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=048">Dov Hikind</a> is taking some <a href=" http://thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13530">serious heat</a> over his <a href=" http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2006/12/international_p.php">provocative ad campaign</a>, in Israeli newspapers, calling on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign.
Spitzer's 69% mandate either grew or shrank, depending on how you <a href=" http://blogs.timesunion.com/capitol/?p=3282">count</a>.
Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno <a href=" http://blogs.timesunion.com/capitol/?p=3283">attacks the media</a> at a Albany Chamber of Commerce meeting -- and gets 23 seconds of applause.
War clouds are gathering quickly over that Nassau Senate seat vacated by Michael Balboni. Updates <a href=" http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2007/01/consultants_line_up_in_battle.html">here</a >, <a href="http://blogs.timesunion.com/capitol/?p=3273">here</a> and <a href=" http://blogs.timesunion.com/capitol/?p=3278">here</a>.
In explaining Albany pork barrel spending, a <a href=" http://www.thealbanyproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=198">graph</a> is worth a thousand words
http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2007/01/the_daily_round.php
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Go for the gelt - The Phoenix
Jan 10, 2007
The Phoenix, MA - 47 minutes ago
... and of making statements sure to get attention among conservative Jewish voters — including his refusal to offer State Police protection for Mohammad ...
http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid31383.aspx
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'Bleach Underground' campaigns against immodest clothing in Bnei ... - Ha'aretz
Jan 10, 2007
Ha'aretz, Israel - 33 minutes ago
Thousands of men, including several Torah sages and their entourages, advance slowly down the main Bnei Brak traffic artery in the funeral procession of the ...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/812103.html
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A Kiryasity
Jan 10, 2007
The invitation to a Jewish tribute breakfast in honor of <a href=" http://rangel.house.gov/">Charlie Rangel</a> lists <a href="http://www.kjvoice.com/default.asp">Kiryas Joel</a>, the predominantly Hasidic village in Orange County, as a cosponsor of the Jan. 21 event.
Which is curious, since the other three sponsors are non-profit social service groups -- the <a href=" http://metcouncil.brinkster.net/index2.html">Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty</a>, the Sephardic Community Foundation and the <a href=" http://www.yeled.org/">Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center</a>.
There's nothing unusual about the non-profits choosing to fete Rangel, a longtime friend of the Jewish community who, as the new chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, is superbly positioned to help with government grants.
But it would be highly questionable for a village to spend tax dollars on a politically loaded event like this.
Not to worry. Breakfast organizer Ezra Friedlander assures me it's actually the "elected leaders" of the village who are fronting the sponsorship money, not the village taxpayers -- though he said he has not yet received the check. He further emphasized that the event was a tribute, not a fund-raiser for Rangel or anyone else.
"Whatever funds will be spent will be according to both the letter and the spirit of the law," Friedlander said. He wouldn't tell me what sponsors were spending, other than to call it a "relatively insignificant amount of money," enough to put on a breakfast for maybe 150 people at the Center for Jewish History on West 16th St.
KJ spokesman Joel Patlin further clarified that the sponsor is Mayor Abraham Wieder, using his personal funds.
Still, the invitation lists Kiryas Joel -- described as "a unique Hasidic community where everyday life revolves around traditional values and the centrality and customs of Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish life." Imagine if Mike Bloomberg kicked in money for a tribute to President Bush, and the City of New York was listed as a sponsor.
A KJ sympathizer said this should written off as a gaffe by a community that is still learning the game of politics.
Two months ago, KJ found itself the middle of a <a href=" http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2006/11/kiryas_joel_al.php">political</a> <a href=" http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2006/11/pelosi_called_k.php">controversy</a> after throwing its endorsement -- and <a href=" http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2006/12/the_power_of_ki.php">most of its votes</a> -- to Democrat John Hall, who went on to oust GOP Congresswoman Sue Kelly (and thereby helped put Rangel in his chairmanship).
Rangel "has been a friend to the Jewish community since his first day in Congress," Friedlander said. "Now that he's reached this important milestone in his career, this is an opportunity for the community to celebrate with him.
http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2007/01/a_kiryasity.php
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PEP/CSR to Offer EMT Course
Jan 10, 2007
Community Services and Resources(CSR), an organization formed in the community to asssist and act as a liaison between the hospitals, Medical Examiner's office and the Jewish Community, together with Yeshiva's PEP program will begin their first EMT course. The course will be given by American Medical Response (AMR), the City's emergency medical response. AMR is known to work together with the Jewish Community, and had trained their EMTs and Paramedics with the customs and sensitivities towards the Jewish Community. We contacted Chaim Gewirtzman, a co-founder of CSR, he said "This is a real asset to the City and will offer the students much knowledge. We look foward to continue working with AMR in the future."
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Raising Kosher Food Awareness - WFMZ-TV Online
Jan 10, 2007
WFMZ-TV Online, PA - 13 minutes ago
Rabbi 2:30-45 {Biggest misconception I get is that Kosher food means blessed. If that were the case I could walk in and say everything is Kosher and that is ...
http://wfmz.com/view/%3Fid%3D47222
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Paris: Jewish youths suspected of hate crime - Ynetnews
Jan 10, 2007
Ynetnews, Israel - 54 minutes ago
The incident occurred on Sunday in the Marais district, a major Jewish hub of Paris. According to a French police source the youths belong to the Jewish ...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3350969,00.html
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Five Signals That You May Be a Workaholic
Jan 10, 2007
... thoughts about their jobs may prevent them from being "psychologically present," says Dr. Robinson. "I can be in synagogue supposedly praying and repenting on holidays, and I'm thinking about work," says Irv Flax, 63, a director of Gorfine, Schiller ...
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Threats Painted on Murmansk Jewish Center - Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
Jan 10, 2007
Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, DC - 1 hour ago
In July 2006, vandals painted "Death to the kikes" on the building. The local Jewish community has not yet reported the incident to the police.
http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/011007Russ2.shtml
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Jewish, Breaking News Roundup 01/10/07 #2

2007-01-10T18:22:00.001-05:00

Watch the Yosef Shpiel with Lipa
http://www.tsofar.com/zofar/mashtap/show.asp?id=5745 - pt. 1
http://www.tsofar.com/zofar/mashtap/show.asp?id=5760 - pt. 2
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Giuliani's businesses could make a presidential bid messy
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--giuliani-20080110jan10,0,2897412.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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Central Park snowflakes are latest winter snow in 129 years
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--firstsnow0110jan10,0,61209.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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NYC firefighters ready to defy order _ with 10,000 US flags
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--firefighters-flag0110jan10,0,7962171.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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New York City firefighters were called to investigate a strong gas smell at Curtis High School on Staten Island this afternoon. A Fire Department spokesman says it's unclear whether the smell is related to Monday's mystery odor that swept through New York City and parts of New Jersey.
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[IsraelNN.com] JORDAN - Jordanian Security Forces Kill al-Qaeda Suspect, Capture Another
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=119164
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[Porterville Recorder] CALIFORNIA - Officers destroy pipe bomb near fairgrounds
http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2007/01/10/news/local_state/news2.txt
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[NBC6.net] FLORIDA - 163rd Street Closed In North Miami Beach; Suspicious Package Found
http://www.nbc6.net/news/10714643/detail.html
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Two military helicopters from RAF Shawbury collide over Shropshire, killing one person and injuring two others.
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Volunteer firefighter accused of setting barn fire
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny-brf--firefighterar0110jan10,0,832550.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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Detectors in U.S. cities check air for germ and chemical weapons
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--terrorismdetector0110jan10,0,937258.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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2nd Avenue Deli Update #2: Hello Chase Bank
Jan 10, 2007
The 2nd Avenue Deli saga has entered into its final stages. After the recent <a href=" http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/12/26/2nd_avenue_deli_update_plywood_confirmed.php">plywooding</a>, we knew the new tenant would soon reveal itself. Today, it became official: The former site of monstrous kosher sandwiches will soon become a bank. A tipster wrote: Walked by the 2nd Avenue Deli Space this am and it is official: Chase bank is on its way! There are big posters announcing their imminent appearance. Obviously, this branch is for the people too lazy to walk to the Chase at the Gwathmey building on Astor Place or the branch on Broadway and 9th Street. I'm sure the North Fork branch right across the street will be happy to have some competition! With a Coldstone, Max Brenner's, Starbucks and 2 banks, this East Village block has officially joined the ranks of Manhattan 2.0.
· <a href="http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/12/26/2nd_avenue_deli_update_plywood_confirmed.php">2nd Avenue Deli Update: Plywood Confirmed</a> [Curbed]
· <a href="http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/12/18/storefronting_daffys_returns_2nd_ave_deli_activity.php">Storefronting : 2nd Ave. Deli Activity!</a> [Curbed
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/curbed/BHBe/~3/73493413/2nd_avenue_deli_update_2_hello_chase_bank.php
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Captured Israeli soldier's father says he is willing to trade himself for son. (ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS, 1STLD-WRITETHRU) 2007-01-10 15:12:02
Jan 10, 2007

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Captured Israeli soldier's father says he is willing to trade himself for son

Eds: AMs.

AP Photos JRL102-103, 110, 113

By ARON HELLER

Associated Press Writer

JERUSALEM (AP) — The father of a captured Israeli soldier confronted one of his son's captors in a dramatic joint radio appearance Wednesday — pleading with the Hamas-linked militants to release his boy and take him instead.

The militant rejected the plea from Noam Shalit, saying the soldier will be freed only when Israel releases large numbers of Palestinian prisoners.

Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 20, was captured in a June 25 raid by militants who tunneled under the Gaza-Israel border and attacked an Israeli army post, killing two soldiers and taking Shalit with them.

Negotiations through Egyptian mediators have failed to win his freedom, with the two sides blaming each other for the breakdown.

Frustrated by the six-month stalemate, the elder Shalit said that if his son's captors sought assurances, he was willing to offer himself up as collateral until a final deal could be secured.

"I, myself, am prepared to be guarantor for this and, if needed, I am prepared to travel to the Gaza Strip, and to stay with Hamas' security forces until all of their demands are answered," said Shalit, 52.

After the radio appearance, Shalit told The Associated Press: "If I could switch places with him, I would gladly do so."

Shalit faced off against Abu Mujahid, the representative of the kidnappers, on "Radio All For Peace," an independent station run by both Jews and Arabs in Israel.

Abu Mujahid told Shalit that he'd be welcome in Gaza only as an official negotiator. He assured Shalit that his son was well and was not being tortured.

Shalit spoke in Hebrew and Abu Mujahid in Arabic. Their words were translated to each other by the moderator.

The broadcast exchange came a day after Abu Mujahid gave the first official account on Shalit's condition. The militant said the soldier was in good health and was being treated "according to Islamic standards."

Abu Mujahid did not elaborate on the "Islamic standards" of treating a prisoner, and he did not furnish proof that the soldier was in good health. Israeli officials did not react to the report.

The impasse over the soldier has held up peace efforts in other areas between Israel and the Palestinians.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he is prepared to release some of the more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners Israel is holding, but only after Shalit returns home.

Also Wednesday, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas called on the Palestinians to prevent internal violence from exploding into a civil war.

"We stress the necessity of sparing the Palestinian people any internal confrontations and to avoid using weapons as a medium for dialogue and to focus on dialogue only to solve our differences," he said before a Cabinet meeting. "The differences exist, they are there, but this does not mean that they should be solved by gunfire."

Haniyeh's Islamic Hamas group, which controls the Cabinet and parliament, and the more moderate Fatah of President Mahmoud Abbas have been engaged in bloody street battles that have killed 35 Palestinians over the past month.

Haniyeh said the fighting "will please enemies of the Palestinians, who want to see civil war."

Abbas aide Rafiq Husseini said talks among the factions would resume soon and continue for two weeks, with a goal of establishing a unity government. If the talks fail, he said, Abbas would proceed with his plan of calling an election.

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Eruv To Be Constructed Near Boston
Jan 10, 2007
... built eruvim in Boston, Brookline, Newton and Malden in Massachusetts and one in Newport, R.I., serving the Touro Synagogue. Congregation Ahabat Sholom was established in 1901 in the Diamond District and was the first Orthodox synagogue north of ...
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German Jewish leader sharply critical of new comedy about Hitler
Jan 10, 2007
A new German comedy film about Adolf Hitler treads on dangerous ground and could inadvertently lead to increased anti-Semitism, a top Jewish leader said Wednesday. ...
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New Williamsburg Condo-Price Record Set: $3.8 Million
Jan 10, 2007
Williamsburg, we hardly knew ye: Lest anyone doubt that the Brooklyn neighborhood has jumped the shark — at least as an unpretentious, un-yuppified (read affordable) place to live — today there's word that an apartment at the Aurora, the 51-unit glass-and-brick condo overlooking McCarren Park marketed by the Developers Group, has sold for $3.8 million. That's supposedly a record in these parts. The previous high price in the area — slightly under $3 million — is said to have been set at the Gretsch, the first high-design project in the area and, some would say, the match that lit the condo explosion in the neighborhood. (Coincidentally, both the Aurora and the Gretsch bear the ultraluxe mark of starchitect Karl Fischer and Andres Escobar.) Über-condo marketer Michael Shvo <a href=" http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Real_estate_made_sexy/1572.html">predicted last spring</a> that certain swaths of Williamsburg would "look like the Miami skyline in five years." It seems we're now that much closer. —S. Jhoanna Robledo
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/01/new_williamsburg_condoprice_re_1.html
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Sullivan casino high on Spitzer's list
Jan 10, 2007
Monticello - A Monticello casino will be at the top of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's list, his point man on casinos says.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070110/NEWS/701100367/-1/rss01
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Tatarstan Government Gives Major Grant to Rebuild Historic ... - Federation of Jewish Communitites of CIS
Jan 10, 2007
Federation of Jewish Communitites of CIS, Russia - 1 hour ago
Ten years ago Rabbi Mrs. Gorelick were sent by the Chabad Lubavitch movement to rebuild Jewish life in the city, and have successfully established various ...
http://www.fjc.ru/article.asp%3Fmedia%3D80052%26NewsType%3D80052%26aid%3D465340
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Thugs Shout Death Threats, Smash Windows Inside Ulyanovsk Jewish ... - Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
Jan 10, 2007
Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, DC - 17 minutes ago
Police arrived 20 minutes later and soon afterwards detained a college student. Police are investigating whether this attack is connected with a December 25 ...
http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/011007Russia.shtml
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Wis. police: Drunk postman crashed truck (talk about going postal)
Jan 10, 2007
A mail carrier had a blood-alcohol level nearly four times the legal limit when he was arrested for driving his delivery truck into oncoming traffic and crashing into a sign, police said.
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2007/01/10/wis_police_drunk_postman_crashed_truck?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News

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28 injured in bus wreck near Kiryat Shmona

2007-01-10T14:15:00.001-05:00

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פצועים חרדיים בתאונת האוטובוס בצומת גומא?
Jan 10, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2125910

28 injured in bus wreck near Kiryat Shmona
Jan 10, 2007
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ברכב פלסטינים - שלטי חברה קדישא ובגדי חרדים
Jan 10, 2007
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Engine trouble forces jet to return to Toronto
Jan 10, 2007
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Jewish,Breaking News Roundup 01/10/07 #1

2007-01-10T13:28:00.001-05:00

Clinton's reception was attended by quite a few Hasidic Jews, in traditional broad-brimmed hats and garb. Although most Orthodox members of that sect won't even shake hands with a woman, the ones who were paying political homage didn't refrain from pressing close for photo opportunities. Nothing improper, of course, but shoulders definitely touching as they crowded in for the pictures, just like everyone else.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/09/DDGRJN7H251.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment
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Swastikas spray-painted on Jewish buildings - Canadian Jewish News
Jan 10, 2007
Canadian Jewish News, Canada - 1 hour ago
Similarly, Freedman said the police were called as soon as the graffiti were discovered early in the morning of Dec. 28. Overall Jewish community security ...
http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp%3Fid%3D10984
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Cloned Cow's Calf Born In UK - Claim
Jan 10, 2007
The Government has promised to investigate reports that a calf from a cloned cow has been born on a British farm.The Daily Mail said the calf, named Dundee Paradise, was evidence that clone farming had arrived in Britain.
http://www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=2016171&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1
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Ex-trooper chief missing after crash
Jan 10, 2007
Alaska State Troopers plan to continue searching today for one of their own -- retired Col. Randy Crawford, who went down in a cargo plane he was piloting over Cook Inlet after radioing that he was in trouble.
http://www.adn.com/front/story/8550962p-8444810c.html
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Poll: Barak leads rivals in party race
Jan 10, 2007
JERUSALEM (AP) - Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who announced his return to politics this week, enjoys a wide lead over the Labor Party's current leader and would win the party's leadership race if elections were held today, according to a poll published in an Israeli daily Wednesday.
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-36/1168419003209880.xml&storylist=international
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New Torah Ark Dedicated at Hebron´s Tomb of the Patriarchs (10 January )
Jan 10, 2007
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=119167
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People who believe in an afterlife want one for pets
Jan 10, 2007
... Segal, a professor of religious studies at the University of Calgary in Canada. One of those exceptions would be the Hasidic tradition, which believes in reincarnation -- hence its exacting laws of animal slaughter, to ensure that fellow souls are ...
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A frustrated flier lands on `watch list'
Jan 10, 2007
Somewhere out there is a man the Transportation Security Administration believes should get greater scrutiny at America's airports.
http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~r/chicagotribune/news/~3/73404883/chi-0701100028jan10,1,654117.column
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[Interesting] Hamas leader acknowledges existence of Israel. "I looked behind me, and there it was. I didn't see it until just now"
Jan 10, 2007
Yahoo...
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2530565
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Aide: Israeli PM does not know of reported police plans to question him. (ISRAEL-OLMERT) 2007-01-10 07:07:53
Jan 10, 2007
By STEVE WEIZMAN
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) — An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday the leader had no knowledge of reported police plans to question him about allegations he gave favors to business associates in the 2005 privatization of a major Israeli bank.

A newspaper reported that Attorney General Meni Mazuz had ordered police to interview Olmert next week, after he returns from a trip to China.

"We have no knowledge of such an inquiry," said Jacob Galanti, an Olmert spokesman traveling with the prime minister in Beijing.

The Yediot Ahronot daily newspaper reported Wednesday that police want to hear Olmert's account of events before deciding whether to launch a criminal investigation into suspicions that as finance minister he tried to help his friends win a controlling interest in the country's second-largest bank during the sell-off of the government's stake.
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Sorry dude! No hard feelings after whale hits boat. (NEWZEALAND-WHALE/) 2007-01-10 02:02:47
Jan 10, 2007
SYDNEY, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A sailor whose yacht was destroyed by a humpback whale off New Zealand said he had got a good "vibe" from the giant mammal and thought it was trying to say sorry, local media said on Wednesday.
Lindsay Wright was sailing his brand-new 10-metre (30-ft) trimaran, named Loose Goose, about 80 nautical miles off the west coast of North Island on Tuesday when he hit the whale.

Wright said he had been sleeping when he was awoken by a loud noise and rushed up on deck to find himself staring at a whale's head about a foot away.

"I got good vibes off him. I thought he was trying to say sorry mate, I didn't mean to," Wright told New Zealand television.

He said the whale, a large male in a pod of about six humpbacks, had hit his yacht with its tail, opening a large hole in one of the boats's three hulls.

"When I first saw him I thought he had come back for the coup de grace," Australian Associated Press quoted Wright as saying.

Wright activated a distress beacon as his yacht took on water and lost electrical power. He was winched to safety aboard a rescue helicopter about five hours later, Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio said.

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Another Airplane Scorpion Attack; Vermont Passenger Stung Multiple Times
Jan 10, 2007
Passenger stung multiple times on leg, now plans to watch 'Snakes on a Plane'; scorpion possibly came from Houston.
http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=2017841&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1
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Jerusalem's new tourism initiative - Ynetnews
Jan 10, 2007
Ynetnews, Israel - 1 hour ago
With all due respect to Western Wall, Jerusalem has lot more than that to offer tourists. At least, that's what StartUp Jerusalem believes, ...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3350599,00.html
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A case of deadly road rage? - 7Online.com
Jan 10, 2007
7Online.com, NY - 20 minutes ago
(Jackson Heights- WABC, January 10, 2007) - A corrections office is hospitalized this morning, following a road rage shooting near Laguardia Airport last ...
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story%3Fsection%3Dlocal%26id%3D4921727
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CIA to Take Covert Action Against Hezbollah
Jan 10, 2007
"American agents are poised to take covert action against the terrorist group Hezbollah. The Central Intelligence Agency has been authorized to move against it as part of a secret plan by President Bush to help the Lebanese government halt the spread of Iranian influence," the Daily Telegraph <a href=" http://www.nysun.com/article/46392" target="_blank">reports</a>.
Glad to see America stepping in to stop Hezbollah because <a href=" http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2007/01/intelligence_ch.html" target="_blank">the United Nations certainly isn't doing its job in stopping Hezbollah</a>. Of course to really stop Hezbollah and the spread of Iranian influence America's top focus<a href=" http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2007/01/strike_at_tehra.html" target="_blank"> needs to be on Tehran itself</a>.
Hezbollah is a threat to America, not just Israel. Hezbollah kicked off their terrorist operations and suicide bombing by killing American marines in Lebanon. <a href=" http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2006/09/nypd_terrorism.html" target="_blank">Terrorist experts say New York</a> is on Hezbollah's target list.
Prime Minister Olmert would do well to take a leaf from President Bush's playbook. Because Hezbollah is certainly a threat to Israel as well
http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2007/01/cia_to_take_cov.html
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Mea Shearim posters denounce city police chief
Jan 10, 2007
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
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India: Airports on high alert after hijack threats
Jan 10, 2007
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
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Arrest made in Bay Shore menorah vandalism
Jan 10, 2007
A Bay Shore teenager Tuesday became the second person charged with damaging menorahs over the holidays when he was arrested for destroying a display on Dec. 25 outside the Jewish Center of Bay Shore, Suffolk police said.
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Calling all shoppers! AT&T building stores OKd
Jan 10, 2007
The stunning lobby of AT&T's former headquarters in lower Manhattan soon will open to the public - but visitors had better like to shop.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/487275p-410273c.html
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a Shtickl for Everyone at Film Festival
Jan 10, 2007
... are Jewish with the exception of Emilio Savinni, who plays Moishe's grandson, a young drug dealer turned Orthodox rabbi. "I did have to train him," Springall says. "I asked my rabbi friends to teach him all the prayers, and he'd go at 6:30 in the ...
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Airport Screeners Get Lessons On Islam
Jan 10, 2007
With as many as 20,000 American Muslims returning to the U.S. in the next few weeks from the pilgrimage to Mecca, the TSA is ramping up cultural-awareness training for all 43,000 of its airport screeners.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/09/national/main2340632.shtml
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Iraq official says plane from Turkey not shot down - Reuters AlertNet
Jan 10, 2007
Reuters AlertNet, UK - 24 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A plane crash that killed 31 people flying from Turkey to Iraq on Tuesday is believed to be the result of a "technical failure", ...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10242616.htm
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Selling kosher
Jan 10, 2007
Nowadays people who eat kosher don't have to look farther than the local supermarket. That's the message Rabbi Mendel Bendet of Chabad Lubavitch of the Poconos and Weis Markets/Mr. Z's want to send this week. They're calling it "A Poconos Week of ...
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SJC: Paralyzed Man Can Sue Bars
Jan 10, 2007
A man paralyzed in a car crash after a night of underage drinking can sue the bars that served him alcohol, the state's highest court has ruled.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Thebostonchannel/local/~3/73374370/detail.html
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Close Call On DIA Runway Blamed On Snow
Jan 10, 2007
The parent company of a cargo plane that got lost on a Denver International Runway in a snowstorm and nearly caused a crash is apologizing.
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NJ: Blame Game For Mysterious Odor Stinks
Jan 10, 2007
There is no proof that the foul odor that hung over Manhattan for several hours on Monday originated in the Garden State. But that hasn't stopped New York officials from accusing their neighbor across the river.
http://www.wnbc.com/news/10712482/detail.html?rss=ny&psp=news
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Finally, Snow Falls In NYC
Jan 10, 2007
New York City has recorded its first snow of the season.
http://www.wnbc.com/weather/10714002/detail.html?rss=ny&psp=news
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Boro Park: Fire at Nitra Bais Medrash
Jan 10, 2007
Late last night at approximately 1:15AM two Yungerleit were learning in Nitra BM in BP on 15th Avenue and 50th Street when they smelled smoke. Shortly after - the boiler exploded. FDNY and BP Shmorim B"H managed to get all the Sifrei Torah out of the BM.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=4546
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$2.5M fire damage to top kosher meat shop - Toronto Town Crier Newspapers (a old story, just a oped)
Jan 9, 2007
Toronto Town Crier Newspapers, Canada - 37 minutes ago
The fire started at about 4:30 pm on Nov. 10 at the two-level Bathurst St. landmark store, just south of Lawrence Ave. Like many Jewish businesses in the ...
http://www.towncrieronline.ca/main/main.php%3Fdirection%3Dviewstory%26storyid%3D5931%26rootcatid%3D8%26rootsubcatid%3D%2523rootsubcatid
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Hate crime suspect turns himself in - Milford Daily News
Jan 9, 2007
Milford Daily News, MA - 1 hour ago
King's ex-wife is Jewish, and he has said he was "offended" by the markings drawn in green paint. After reviewing crime scene photos, police said they ...
http://www.milforddailynews.com/homepage/8999013765324210175
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New Ankle Bracelet Could Detect Alcohol; Alert Police (or how about calling police b4 i start drinking)
Jan 9, 2007
Deadly drunk driving crashes happen more frequently in D.C than in any of the 50 states. The next time you have a drink and reach for your keys, think about this, the cops could already be on you. Fox 5's Road Warrior Steve Chenevey explains.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=2012057&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.1.1
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Historic passenger lists of ships go online. (BRITAIN-PASSENGERS/) 2007-01-09 19:01:13
Jan 9, 2007
By Matthew Jones
LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - People looking to track ancestors who emigrated from British ports will from Wednesday be able to search online passenger lists of the ships that carried them to new lands.

Released by Britain's National Archives, the passenger manifests give an insight into all long-distance trips made by 30 million travellers from the country's ports between 1890 and 1960, including that of the Titanic which sank in 1912.

"We hope the digitisation will open up a hugely valuable resource for genealogists and social historians all over the world," said Dan Jones, National Archives' head of business development.

The records, available via commercial Web site findmypast.com which was licensed by The National Archives, also show the passages of trans-European migrants.

Many were Jews fleeing persecution, who began their journeys in continental Europe and travelled to British ports like Southampton and Liverpool to catch cheap sailings.

During this period, thousands of Britons were propelled by economic reasons to seek new beginnings abroad. Between 1890 and 1914 an estimated 125,000 Britons emigrated every year to the United States, with 50,000 going to Canada and 25,000 to Australia.

Trips to all continents are covered with sailings to South America, the Caribbean, West Africa and all parts of Asia.

Initially only the period from 1890-1900 will be available but subsequent decades will be put online over the next few months.

The lists provide an intriguing glimpse of individual voyages. What, for example, did 40-year-old Glaswegian spinster dairy maid Elizabeth Barr make of New Zealand when she arrived in 1923 on the steamship Remuera?

Did she perhaps strike up an onboard friendship with John Woodrow, 21, a rabbit-catcher from Warwickshire or maybe she built a new life with another fellow passenger, 33-year-old London fireman Rufus Workman?

Although the passenger lists have been available at the archives' offices in Kew, southwest London, for some time they are indexed by port of departure only and not name, making it difficult to find a particular individual.

The passenger lists, which are available online in their original form vary. Some are typed, others are handwritten. Some record tantalisingly little detail while others give occupations, address and ultimate destination overseas.

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Comment on Miracle in Boro Park by ny100k (some people got major issues)
Jan 9, 2007
I am amazed at the amount of misinformation this site generates. The child was actually removed by Shomrim. It was a shomrim member working for Pupa that requested backup with a jack, and requested Hatzolah and FDNY to respond. ...
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=4528#comment-5832
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'MOMMY MEANEST'
Jan 9, 2007
A Manhattan mother is charged with stealing her 8-year-old daughter's $186,000 inheritance - and using at least $50,000 of the money on a fancy new black Infiniti for a now-AWOL younger boyfriend.   Zhane Thomas apparently has no idea that her...
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01092007/news/regionalnews/mommy_meanest_regionalnews_laura_italiano_and_john_mazor.htm
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LEGISLATIVE FORUMS HELD ACROSS MARYLAND - Jewish Action
Jan 9, 2007
Jewish Action, NY - 1 hour ago
Last night the Maryland Non-Public Schools Legislative Coalition, of which the Orthodox Union's Institute for Public Affairs is a founding member, ...
http://www.ou.org/public_affairs/article/9375
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Mayors expected to officiate civil unions - Edison Sentinel
Jan 9, 2007
Edison Sentinel, NJ - 1 hour ago
It's not something that's accepted by the Jewish religion," said Rabbi Levi Azimov, of the Chabad Jewish Center in South Brunswick. The Rev. ...
http://ems.gmnews.com/news/2007/0110/Front_Page/026.html
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New toilet is flush with fish (dont belive me look at the pic)
Jan 9, 2007
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2007-01-09T234517Z_01_N09332298_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-FISH.XML&WTmodLoc=HP-C13-Oddly-2
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Daily rounds (nothing major here, does the name 'Ravi Batra' ring a bell?)
Jan 9, 2007
Azi comes across another Albany figure facing <a href=" http://thepoliticker.observer.com/2007/01/da-jimmy-meng-aide-surrenders.html">criminal charges</a>. We're well into the double digits by now, aren't we?
If you're feeling crowded in NYC, there's plenty of <a href="http://www.empirecenter.org/2007/01/report_shows_ne.php">room</a > upstate.
Republican candidate Maureen O'Connell launches what looks to be a very expensive ad war over that Michael Balboni Senate seat in Nassau, and Liz has the <a href=" http://blogs.timesunion.com/capitol/?p=3269">video</a>.
Someone purporting to be <a href=" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9500E3D81E39F932A25752C1A9659C8B63">Ravi Batra</a>, legendary hooked-in Brooklyn lawyer, has been gracing The Daily Politics' comments section with his <a href=" http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2007/01/probing_the_pro.php#comments">unique</a > <a href="http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2007/01/painting_with_a.php#comments">commentary</a >. A thing of beauty
http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2007/01/daily_rounds.php
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Teen Critical Following J Train Stabbing
Jan 9, 2007
A teenager was stabbed in the chest on a subway train Tuesday, and police found an apparently bloody knife nearby. The 17-year-old victim was in critical condition at a hospital, police spokesman Officer Martin Speechley said following the 3 p.m. stabbing on a Manhattan-bound J train at the Norwood Avenue station in Brooklyn.
http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_009181159.html
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Montreal appoints new Av Bais Din tonight
Jan 9, 2007
Rav Yonasan Binyomin Weiss will be appointed to the position of Av Beis Din of Montreal, at a function this evening, taking place at the Vaad Ha'ir of Montreal. The function will be attended by leading Rabbonim and Baalei Batim of the entire Montreal community. Rav Yonasan Binyomin Weiss replaces the late Chief Rabbi Avrohom Dovid [...]
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=4532
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"אתרא קדישא" במכתב גלוי ללב לבייב
Jan 10, 2007
חרדים ללב לבייב: בנה גשר בקטע בכביש 6 בו נמצאו קברים    חברי הארגון החרדי 'אתרא קדישא', הפיצו מכתב גלוי ברחובות ירושלים בו הם קוראים לאיש העסקים, לב לבייב, שלא לבנות את קטע 18 של כביש מספר 6 העובר על הקברים שנמצאו במקום. חברי הארגון קראו ללבייב לבנות גשר עילי במקום.   במכתב כתבו חברי הארגון: "הינך שומר תורה ומצוות. אם לא תתעשת ותביע נכונות לבצע את פסק הרבנים הרי חרם חמור מצד כל גדולי ישראל יונף על כל החברות שבבעלותך".
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17296016
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אדם נפל מקומה רביעית בצפת
Jan 10, 2007
אדם נפצע באורח קשה לאחר שנפל מקומה רביעית ברחוב דוד רמז 103 בצפת, צוות מד``א מפנה אותו לבית החולים זיו בעיר.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17291721
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הרב אלישיב חש ברע: אינו מקבל קהל
Jan 10, 2007
מרן הגאון רבי יוסף שלום אלישיב שליט``א חש אתמול בצהריים שלא בטוב, רופא הוזעק לביתו שבשכונת מאה שערים בירושלים, הוחלט להשאירו בביתו, אך בימים הקרובים לא יקבל קהל וכן לא ימסור את שיעורו היומי הקבוע.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17295478
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חתונה בחצר סאסוב
Jan 10, 2007
הערב תתקיים שמחת הנישואין לבתו של כ"ק האדמו"ר מסאסוב עם נכדו של האדמו"ר מליטאויסק ארה"ב באולמי כתר הרימון בבני ברק. בשמחה צפויים להשתתף רבנים, חסידים, אוהדים ואנשי ציבור, בסידור הקידושין יכובד האדמו"ר מקרעטשניף רחובות.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17299127
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י-ם: אוטובוס ממוגן ירי נגנב הבוקר (wow, who know it might show up on ebay)
Jan 10, 2007
אוטובוס ממוגן ירי של חברת ביתר תור נגנב הבוקר מחניון תלפיות בירושלים, האוטובוס בצבע ירוק-לבן, לוחית זיהוי 9287315.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17295918
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ועדת הרבנים דנה אמש בהסכם עם אל-על
Jan 10, 2007
ועדת הרבנים למען קדושת השבת שע``י מרנן ורבנן גדולי ישראל שליט``א, קיימה אמש דיון ארוך ומפורט, ביישומו של ההסכם שנחתם עם חברת ``אל-על``. בישיבה הובעה שביעות מההסכם שנכנס לתוקפו, ולחברי ועדת הרבנים נמסר דיווח מפורט על השיחות החיוביות עם ראשי חברת ``אל-על``, המצהירים, כי הם מביעים את הערכתם ליהדות החרדית, על עמידתם האיתנה והעיקשת על עקרונות חשובים כשמירת שבת-קודשינו וההסכם המחייב שנחתם בעקבות כך. שלשום נפגשו נציגי ועדת הרבנים עם הרב הראשי, רבי שלמה משה עמאר שליט``א, יחד עם מנכ``ל אל-על, ומסרו לו את המינוי הרשמי כסמכות אשר תשמש כתובת עבור חברת אל-על, במקרים שבהם תתעורר בעיה של שמירת שבת. אתמול נערך מפגש בין הנהלת אל-על לבין סוכני הנסיעות במגזר החרדי, הראשון לאחר חתימת ההסכם בעניין שמירת השבת, במהלכו הביעו סוכני הנסיעות את ההקרבה הגדולה שנעשתה מצידם, בכך שצייתו, ללא עוררין, להוראותיהם של מרנן ורבנן גדולי ישראל שליט``א. בדבריו בפני הסוכנים הדגיש מנכ``ל ``אל-על``, חיים רומנו, כי הציבור החרדי הוא אחד הלקוחות הטובים ביותר שיש לחברה. ``בניגוד לדעה שהושמעה בתקשורת, לאחר ההסכם שנחתם, אין מנצחים ואין מנוצחים, יש כאן הסכם שלא נחתם מעולם עם אף חברה פרטית, ואני עצמי לא האמנתי בתחילת הדרך שנגיע להסכם שכזה, לפי דרישתם של גדולי ישראל``, אמר. מזכיר ועדת הרבנים למען קדושת השבת, הרב יצחק גולדקנופף, שיבח את סוכני הנסיעות במגזר החרדי שוויתרו על רווחיהם, וצייתו באופן מוחלט להוראותיהם של גדולי ישראל ולא מכרו כרטיסי טיסה של אל-על, לא בארץ ולא בחו``ל, והפסידו מדי יום סכומי כסף גדולים. בסיכום המפגש פנה מזכיר וועדת הרבנים להנהלת ``אל-על`` שתחשוב על דרך נאותה לפיצוי הסוכנים שנשמעו להוראתם של גדולי ישראל שליט``א,   בתשובה אמר מנכ``ל אל-על, חיים רומנו, שהוא נענה לבקשה, ויודיע בקרוב על הדרך לפיצוי הסוכנים במגזר החרדי.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17290515
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נא לעורר רחמי שמיים על אשה בחודש ה8
Jan 10, 2007
אשה בחודש השמיני להריונה שפנתה לביה"ח לאחר שחשה ברע ולאחר זמן קצר התדרדר מצבה וכעת היא במחלקה לטיפול נמרץ ומצבה קשה. לא ידוע במה לקתה. נא להתפלל לרפואה יהודית בת רחל ולרפואת עוברה. שנזכה לשמוע רק בשורות טובות.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17302642
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תאונה רבת נפגעים בין אוטובוס ורכב פרטי ליד קרית שמונה
Jan 10, 2007
תאונת דרכים רבת נפגעים התרחשה הערב בין אוטובוס לרכב פרטי בצומת גומא הסמוך לקריית שמונה. אמבולנסים של מגן דוד אדום פינו לבתי החולים זיו בצפת 9 פצועים, ביניהם שלושה פצועים קשה ו-6 קל. 17 ילדים שנסעו באוטובוס קיבלו טיפול רפואי ראשוני בשטח ולא נזקקו לפינוי.
http://www.tsofar.com/show_NewsFlash.asp?id=10410
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Daily Terror Alerts
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[Reuters] PHILIPPINES - Three bombs explode in Philippines ahead of Asian summit
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/latestnews/2007111/43603.htm
[dpa] PHILIPPINES - Five dead, scores wounded in bomb blast in Philippines
"Five people were killed and scores injured Wednesday when a homemade bomb exploded in a public market in the southern Philippines, police said. The blast occurred at a lottery outlet inside the public market in General Santos City"
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Five_dead_scores_wounded_in_bomb_bl_01102007.html
[CBS] CALIFORNIA - Hazmat Team Called To Palm Desert City Hall [False alarm]
"The manner of delivery was suspicious, so the Hazardous Device Team was sent to evaluate the package"
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_010084518.html
[Frederick News Post] MARYLAND - No dangerous substances found in package
"opened the package and discovered a white powdery substance in a small envelope"
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyid=55533
[Dawn] PAKISTAN - Suspicious material near gas pipeline found
"what possibly was an attempt to blow up a pipeline supplying gas to Karachi, Hyderabad and six other cities "
http://www.dawn.com/2007/01/10/local35.htm
[Mid-Day] INDIA - Lashkar threat to Mumbai airport
"The anti-hijacking unit of Mumbai airport has been put on high alert"
"The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has warned of a possible hostage situation or serial blasts at the Mumbai airport by terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). No clear reason has been given for the same"
http://www.mid-day.com/news/city/2007/january/149914.htm
[AP] ALGERIA - Algerian Terror Group Linked to Al Qaeda Threatens Attacks on U.S. Interests
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242605,00.html
[Alor Star] MALAYSIA - Four soldiers injured at border post bomb blast [Thai border]
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/10/nation/20070110160108&sec=nation
[Reuters] FRANCE - French police seize explosives, arrest two Serbs
"One of the suspects was a bus driver regularly driving from Belgrade to Paris"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3350451,00.html
[AP] SRI LANKA - Sri Lankan army captures truck with explosives
http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/January/subcontinent_January308.xml&section=subcontinent&col=
[WLBT] MISSISSIPPI - Chemical Scare at Jackson-Evers Airport
"chemicals were ammonia and bleach which becomes hydrochloric acid when combined"
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=5915935&nav=2CSf
[WLS TV] ILLINOIS - Security scare at suburban hospital
"man wearing a white lab coat and stethoscope apparently followed an employee of Advocate South Suburban Hospital into the building "
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=politics&id=4921415

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Jewish,Breaking News Roundup 01/09/07 #2

2007-01-09T19:10:00.001-05:00

Shabbos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ULvT_ddnM&NR
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Teenager critical after NYC subway stabbing; knife found nearby
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--subwaystabbing0109jan09,0,6812500.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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Williamsburg: The new, unnamed space on North 6th Street and Wythe will have a media lounge in the storefront and a performance space out back. [Brooklyn Record]
http://www.brooklynrecord.com/archives/2007/01/wburg_perf_space.html
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980 Units to be Built at Har Homa - Arutz Sheva
Jan 9, 2007
Arutz Sheva, Israel - 4 hours ago
(IsraelNN.com) Jerusalem's Local Committee for Planning and construction approved the building of 980 additional housing units at Har Homa (Homat Shmuel ...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3%3Fid%3D119092
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Hundreds of Israelis visit tomb of Jewish holy man in Egypt - International Herald Tribune
Jan 9, 2007
International Herald Tribune, France - 2 hours ago
NEKRAHA, Egypt: Hundreds of Israeli pilgrims motored in police-escorted convoys across the Nile Delta on Tuesday to pray at a 19th century Jewish holy man's ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/09/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Israel-Pilgrims.php
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Ramapo rabbi loses tax exemption
Jan 9, 2007
RAMAPO - A bid for a tax exemption for a synagogue and rabbi's residence was rejected by a state Supreme Court judge.
http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070109/UPDATE/701090418/1197/rss01
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Report: Olmert to be probed over 3 affairs
Jan 9, 2007
Channel 10 reports Attorney General Mazuz plans to instruct Israel Police to launch investigation against prime minister over illicit affairs he is allegedly connected to, including selling of Bank Leumi shares, purchase of Jerusalem apartment, illegal political appointments
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3350441,00.html
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Synagogue Bulletin Bloopers: (each and everyone is suger sweet)
Jan 9, 2007
My dad was kind enough to send me this list. Funny s*it. SYNAGOGUE BULLETIN BLOOPERS All the mistakes in spelling and typing were left in.
http://topix.net/r/0yYp0xIuADaKZNhMvxumY2Um8TdB=2Bq1bS4hxz7C6lkoyJDdI13w3nw4jqnzU1tdNF=2B2TF=2BhMP1Gqu=2BTNSXPiN6DWd0QpOH=2FJrXpnyjXXrOcY=3D
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The Bug Stops Here: Meet "Dr. Bug," the Newest OU Kashrut Consultant - Jewish Action
Jan 9, 2007
Jewish Action, NY - 30 minutes ago
Up until he received a phone call from OU Rabbinic Coordinator Rabbi David Bistricer, Dr. Bukiet admits he never thought seriously about bugs in his lettuce ...
http://www.ou.org/index.php/jewish_action/article/9229/
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Williamsburg Update #1: North8 Gets Brick, Glass
Jan 9, 2007
Some Williamsburg developments that broke ground last year are starting to actually look like buildings rather than steel frames. One of them is the ever popular <a href=" http://north8condos.com/">North8</a> on Kent Avenue, the Toll Brothers project that established a <a href=" http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/09/05/toll_brothers_establish_bedford_avenue_beachhead.php">sales presence on Bedford Avenue</a> last summer, resulting in doofy-looking groups of potential buyers walking from Bedford to Kent wearing or carrying hard hats. Going to be fun keeping those windows clean with all that construction dust blowing around on Kent Avenue, including North8's big brother, <a href=" http://www.curbed.com/archives/2007/01/05/parents_away_toll_bros_want_to_party.php">Northside Piers</a>.
· <a href="http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/10/12/how_do_you_sell_williamsburg_to_nonhipsters.php">How Do You Sell Williamsburg to Non-Hipsters</a> [Curbed]
· <a href=" http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/12/19/williamsburgs_northside_piers_getting_big_in_a_hurry.php">Williamsburg's Northside Piers Getting Big in a Hurry</a> [Curbed
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/curbed/BHBe/~3/73020088/williamsburg_update_1_north8_gets_brick_glass.php
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Williamsburg Update #2: 55 Berry's Friend Gets Bigger
Jan 9, 2007
We're almost to the point of feeling really, really, really sorry for <a href=" http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/11/16/curbed_rentchopper_55_berry_unit_takes_a_tumble.php">55 Berry</a>. That steel rising next to it is its growing new friend at <a href=" http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/05/23/55_berry_meet_125_north_10th.php">125 N. 10th</a>. While that bit of ongoing construction goodness (and loss of views, shadows, etc.) is a big part of what one might call the Curse of 55 Berry, there's also a big development site on the SW corner of 10th and Berry where an old zipper factory was recently torn down. And, there's also newly-erected plywood around a small lot on the SE corner, though no permits. Not to mention the pretty freaking big construction site at 148 N. 10th, of which south facing 55 Berry residents will have an excellent view until, well, their new friend gains a few more stories.
· <a href="http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/12/12/55_berrys_friend_shows_up_for_the_party.php">55 Berry's Friend Shows Up for the Party</a> [Curbed]
· <a href="http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/05/23/55_berry_meet_125_north_10th.php">55 Berry, Meet 125 N. 10th</a> [Curbed]
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/curbed/BHBe/~3/73046492/williamsburg_update_2_55_berrys_friend_gets_bigger.php
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Jewish groups call for wage hike
Jan 9, 2007
Jewish groups called on the U.S. Congress to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25.
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6350
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Boro Park Accident 47st Child Under A Car4

2007-01-09T18:39:00.001-05:00

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Jewish,Breaking News Roundup 01/09/07 #1

2007-01-09T14:38:00.000-05:00

'Swift reversal': No ads for Geico on GWB toll booths [NYT]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/nyregion/09bridge.html?ref=nyregion
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Diamond Dealers Club won't move to planned 47th Street tower [NYT]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/nyregion/09mbrfs-diamond.html
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[CP] CANADA - Montreal's Concordia University evacuated after suspicious package reported
"employee reported seeing a man wearing camouflage and carrying some kind of weapons case"
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=69661e68-209e-4bc2-9365-efa125778acf&k=52541
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[Associated Press] IRAQ - 50 militants reported killed in Iraq
http://www.onelocalnews.com/akronfarmreport/ViewArticle.aspx?id=41079&source=2
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[AP] ILLINOIS - Suspicious package, hazardous material reported at O'Hare [False alarms]
"Authorities investigated two separate incidents Monday at O'Hare International Airport today involving a suspicious package and possible radiation contamination"
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4916983
See also http://www.nbc5.com/news/10698643/detail.html
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[ABC News] NIGERIA - ABC News Exclusive: Online Interview With a Terrorist
"Messages from the leader of the group that threatens to disrupt one-fifth of the U.S. oil supply"
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/story?id=2778701&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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[Daily Times] PAKISTAN - Railway track blown up
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\01\08\story_8-1-2007_pg7_22
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[BBC] CHINA - China 'anti-terror' raid kills 18
"in a raid on an alleged militant training camp in the western autonomous region of Xinjiang"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6241073.stm
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Spitzer's Sense of Smell
Jan 8, 2007
Up in Albany today, Gov. Eliot Spitzer did not appear overly concerned about the smell that obsessed Manhattan this morning. Asked about it in the early afternoon, after the mayor’s new conference, he said that he had not heard about it. [...]
http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/spitzers-sense-of-smell/

Nineteen hospitalised after gas smell hits New York
Jan 8, 2007
NEW YORK - A powerful, mysterious smell of gas wafted through much of Manhattan and parts of New Jersey on Monday, forcing building evacuations and a temporary suspension of commuter train service before dissipating by mid-afternoon.Officials...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10418322&ref=rss

OK, start the New Jersey jokes - NYC eyeing Garden State as source of mystery smell
Jan 9, 2007
The gas-like odor that hung over Manhattan's streets was gone Tuesday, but city officials were still trying to pinpoint its source -and eyeing New Jersey. Charles Sturcken, a spokesman for the city Department of Environmental Protection, said Tuesday that his agency was pretty sure the source of the smell was along New Jersey's industrialized waterfront, just across the Hudson River from New York. "The way we tracked the dispersion of the smell and the prevailing winds indicates that it came from New Jersey, somewhere near Secaucus,'' Sturcken said. The strong odor, detectable from Manhattan's southern tip to well past Central Park, led to some precautionary evacuations, and about a dozen people were taken to hospitals complaining of difficulty breathing, Fire Department spokesman Tony Sclafani. There was no indication that the air was unsafe, though, and no indication of terrorism, city and federal officials said. "It may just be an unpleasant smell,'' Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a midmorning news conference Monday. Complaints about the odor also came from Bergen and Hudson counties in New Jersey, but no air sampling was done there because the state Department of Environmental Protection had no specific locations to test, spokeswoman Elaine Makatura said. Sturcken said that the odor could have been caused by mercaptan, the chemical added to normally odorless natural gas to make it easily detectable, but he added, "Nothing has been confirmed.'' "We're left with a mystery, although we know it's not harmful,'' he said.
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070109/NEWS/70109014/1001/rss

When New York City Stinks, Blame New Jersey (pics)
Jan 9, 2007
The Big Apple Mystery of the Week: Why did NYC have <a href=" http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2007/01/08/maple_syrup_was.php">bad CO (city odor) of natural gas with mercaptan yesterday</a>? The malodorous bouquet freaked out people from all over Manhattan (even parts of Brooklyn) and parts of eastern New Jersey. The city's various agencies determined it was not a terrorist attack and that the odor was "not dangerous." So most of the blame fell to our neighbor, New Jersey.
The city's Department of Environmental Protection said <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/487006p-410015c.html">they were "pretty sure it came from New Jersey."</a> DEP spokesman Charles Sturcken said, "The way we tracked the dispersion of the smell and the prevailing winds indicates that it came from New Jersey, somewhere near Secaucus." The NJ Office of Emergency Management <a href=" http://www.nypost.com/seven/01092007/news/regionalnews/n_j_s_p_u__ripens_apple_regionalnews_tom_liddy__dan_kadison_and_andy_geller.htm">confirmed to the Post</a> that the hypothesis of an odor traveling from the NJ swamp land to the noses of not just Garden State resident but New Yorkers as well was within "the realm of possibility." Still, there's no clear conclusion to put this mystery to bed.
Yesterday morning was disrupted for some. People <a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/46319">were nauseous</a>; PATH train service was suspended at 34th Street, Macy's evacuated its employees while other office workers voluntarily left their buildings, and residents worried that their buildings had gas leaks. <a href=" http://www.wnbc.com/news/10694568/detail.html">Con Ed explained</a>, "There are no abnormal changes in the gas flow in our gas transmission system. If there was a big leak, we would see a change in the gas flow." Heh, gas flow. But imagine all the kids (big and small) who will now be using the new "The city was so smelly I got sick" excuse!
And mercaptan, my captain, is a chemical <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/nyregion/09smell.html?_r=1">added to natural gas</a> to give it an odor so it can be detected. Mercaptan is also created when things naturally decay - and <a href=" http://www.amny.com/news/local/am-merc0109,0,844844.story?coll=am-local-headlines">naturally occurs in nuts and cheese</a>. That actually explains a lot.
Gothamist <a href=" http://www.google.com/custom?domains=gothamist.com&q=maple+smell&sa=GO&sitesearch=gothamist.com&client=pub-6614671546553649&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23333333%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A666666%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3AF0EFEF%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BLH%3A50%3BLW%3A174%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.gothamist.com%2Fimages%2FGothamist.gif%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.gothamist.com%3BFORID%3A1%3B&hl=en">on the maple syrup smell mystery</a>.
Photograph of the empty PATH station at 34th Street by Pete Morgan/AP; photograph of Con Ed workers testing a manhole in Greenwich Village by Sacha Lecca
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New York Officials: New Jersey May Be to Blame for NYC Stink
Jan 9, 2007
A mysterious gas-like odor that covered much of Manhattan, had residents flooding emergency call centers with worried queries and caused rail disruptions most likely emanated from New Jersey, a city environmental official said Tuesday.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242526,00.html

The Way We Were
Jan 9, 2007
Yesterday’s lingering odor was attributed in part to a temperature inversion settling over the New York region. Of course, that wasn’t the first time this has happened. Before the Clean Air Act, such inversions were linked to hundreds of deaths, as they trapped the deadly toxins from the city’s factories and other agents of pollution. Time [...]
http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/the-way-we-were/
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Blood Center: NYC Blood Supply At Emergency Level
Jan 9, 2007
The New York Blood Center said it has less than a two-day supply of some blood types. It's asking people to donate.
http://www.wnbc.com/health/10705434/detail.html?rss=ny&psp=news
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Mother Of Missing Baby Charged With Murder
Jan 9, 2007
Investigators smelled something fishy in the story of a woman from The Bronx who told them her baby had been kidnapped. Lucila Rojas, 28, later confessed to throwing the one-month-old boy's body in the garbage because she thought he was dead. Detectives are searching frantically for the body in a dumpster in Pennsylvania. Rojas is now charged with murder. Watch the video for more details.
http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=2008936&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.1.1
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Gaza: 3 Hamas members kidnapped
Jan 9, 2007
Fatah gunmen kidnap 3 Hamas activists near Beit Hanoun, where gun clashes took place; 2 Fatah men also supposedly kidnapped during incident
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3350392,00.html
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Bloomberg Goes To Bat For Emergency Radios - NY1
Jan 9, 2007
NY1, NY - 43 minutes ago
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in Washington today, calling on the federal government to change its rules about emergency communications. ...
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp%3Fstid%3D3%26aid%3D65749
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Trade a car for a bus, save a chunk of change: study
Jan 9, 2007
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-01-09T162802Z_01_N09404378_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENERGY-TRANSPORT-SAVINGS.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C5-domesticNews-3
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Rabbi launches civil action against synagogue (Townsville Bulletin)
Jan 9, 2007
A SPLIT has emerged in Adelaide's Jewish community, with the city's rabbi launching civil action against his governing board to prevent it from evicting his family and interviewing people for his job.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/Orthodox+Jewish/SIG=12rg8qm6e/*http%3A//townsvillebulletin.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,21035516%255E421,00.html
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OU Commends PM Olmert for Restoring Funds in Support of Religious ... - Jewish Action
Jan 9, 2007
Jewish Action, NY - 29 minutes ago
Today, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America – the largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization in the United States – commended Israeli ...
http://www.ou.org/public_affairs/article/9363
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NYC, N.J. To Get $7M Boost In Transit Security Grants
Jan 9, 2007
Homeland security officials will announce Tuesday that they will boost transit security grants to the New York and New Jersey area by $7 million, an increase of 13 percent.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/New_York/WNBC_4/SIG=12k6qkvjl/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wnbc.com%2Fnews%2F10704448%2Fdetail.html%3Frss%3Dny%26psp%3Dnews
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LaGuardia dreams big - Myrtle Beach Sun News
Jan 9, 2007
MSNBC</a><a href=" http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/business/16417250.htm
Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - 7 hours ago
NEW YORK - Jet airplanes may be able to defy gravity, but even the most powerful craft can't escape the cruel physics that govern LaGuardia Airport. ...
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/business/16417250.htm
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Urinal thief comes clean with British police. (BRITAIN-URINAL/) 2007-01-09 10:57:25
Jan 9, 2007
LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - A British man caught on camera stealing a urinal from a pub gave himself up to police after media reports of his antics attracted global attention, detectives said on Tuesday.

The 42-year-old man carefully removed the toilet from the bathrooms of the Royal Oak Pub in Southampton, on the English south coast, stuffed it into a rucksack and walked out.

Last week officers released photos of the bizarre theft, which was captured on closed circuit television, and reports of the crime appeared around the world from as far afield as India, Australia and China, Hampshire Police said.

The man handed himself and the urinal over to police, saying he had taken it as a "souvenir".

Detectives decided to let him off with an "official caution" after interviewing him.

REUTERS Reut10:57 01-09-07

Relief All Round - Pub Toilet Returned
Jan 9, 2007
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1246645,00.html
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Good News? Sharpton Says He's Seriously Considering Running for President, Blasts Obama
Jan 9, 2007
"Civil rights activist Al Sharpton said Monday he is seriously considering a run for president. 'I don't hear any reason not to,' Sharpton, 52, said in an interview during an urban affairs conference sponsored by another civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse Jackson," the AP <a href=" http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SHARPTON_2008?SITE=NYNSN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_blank">reports</a>.
"If we're talking about the urban agenda, can you tell me anybody else in the field who's representing that right now?" Sharpton asked. "We clearly have a reason to run, and whether we do it or not we'll see over the next couple of months."
Sharpton mounted a long-shot bid for the White House in 2004, in which his wit and fiery denunciation of President Bush often enlivened Democratic primary debates. He dropped out of the race after losing several state primaries and endorsed the eventual nominee, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry.
Despite widespread interest in the likely candidacy of another influential black Democrat, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, Sharpton said he's heard little substantive discussion of issues that might influence his decision about running. "Right now we're hearing a lot of media razzle dazzle," Sharpton said. "I'm not hearing a lot of meat, or a lot of content. I think when the meat hits the fire, we'll find out if it's just fat or if there's some real meat there." Alot of "razzle dazzle" and "no meat" <a href=" http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2006/12/after_reading_u.html" target="_blank">is a criticism</a>, not in those exact words, heard alot about Obama. But it's quite telling coming from Sharpton. Obama is meant (or so the white Democratic elite claims) to be a leader of the black community.We've heard more than enough <a href="http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2006/12/barack_hussein.html" target="_blank">of his policies</a>.
We'd strongly encourage Sharpton to run. Firstly it will force the rest of the Democrats to take a position on his policies (he's also had some "interesting" things to say about the Jews of New York). It'll be fun to watch the "centrists" try to appear moderate while trying to please the party's leftwing. Secondly, after he loses badly, again (he's run for Senate repeatedly, he's run for New York mayor, and he's sought the Democratic Party presidential noination, -- and lost all of those races), perhaps his reputation as a leader of the black community will be revisited. As <a href=" http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2006/11/who_elected_sha.html" target="_blank">we've written</a>: Sharpton has run for mayor, for Senate, and sought the Democratic nomination for president. He lost every time. Jackson too has tried to run for president -- and failed. Shouldn't leaders of the black community who have been elected and hold office -- says Rep. Charles Rangel, be speaking up instead? Are we missing something?
http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2007/01/good_news_sharp.html
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Yesha Rabbis: Cancel All Administrative Orders Immediately - Arutz Sheva
Jan 9, 2007
<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3%3Fid%3D119084
Arutz Sheva, Israel - 27 minutes ago
(IsraelNN.com) Rabbis in Judea and the Shomron attacked the continued expulsion of Jews from their homes. Over twenty men have been given administrative ...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3%3Fid%3D119084
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Israel says it's arrested Muslim cleric
Jan 9, 2007
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel is holding the former imam of Ohio's largest mosque, deported last week by the U.S., the Shin Bet internal security service said Tuesday.
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-35/11683499673730.xml&storylist=international
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URGENT. (TURKEY-IRAQ-PLANECRAS) 2007-01-09 08:48:01
Jan 9, 2007
30 killed in cargo plane crash near Baghdad, Turkish FM says
     ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — A cargo plane carrying Turkish workers crashed Tuesday during its descent at an airport near Baghdad, killing 30 and injuring two, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
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Run Robber Run
Jan 9, 2007
A prisoner has escaped police custody for the third time. Joe Farnan, 27, <A href=" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6242497.stm" target="blank">fled from the back of an ambulance</A> aided by two masked men, one of them armed: A Prison Service spokeswoman said: "The ambulance had driven to Hammersmith Hospital around 300m away and when it pulled into A&E, armed men with balaclavas approached the ambulance. They forced the three officers to uncuff the prisoner who escaped in the vehicle." The officers were unhurt, but are being treated for shock. No shots were fired.
Farnan was at Wormwood Scrubs serving a sentence for crimes that already included escaping from lawful custody. The public are being advised not to approach the men but to contact the police if they are seen.
The whole thing as you'd expect has kicked off an <A href=" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6244365.stm" target="blank">inquiry</A>. High on the list of questions will be why the prisoner simply didn't wait for his brother to break into prison with an escape plan tattooed on his body.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Londonist/~3/72928656/run_robber_run.php
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Jewish settler population grows 6 pct in 2006. (ISRAEL-SETTLEMENTS) 2007-01-09 08:33:55
Jan 9, 2007
JERUSALEM, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The Jewish settler population in the occupied West Bank grew by nearly 6 percent in 2006, more than quadruple the rate of increase a year earlier, Israeli government figures showed on Tuesday.
      The Interior Ministry statistics did not indicate how many of the new arrivals were children born in the 126 settlements Israel has built in the West Bank on land Palestinians want for a state, or Israelis moving to the territory.
      According to the Interior Ministry, there were 268,379 Israelis living in the West Bank at the end of 2006, compared with 253,748 in 2005, a 5.8 percent increase.
      The settler population grew by 1.4 percent in 2005. The figures did not include Israelis living in Arab East Jerusalem.
      Israel has continued building in settlements in violation of a U.S.-backed peace "road map" that contains a call for a freeze in settlement construction.
      Some 2.5 million Palestinians live in the West Bank. The World Court has ruled that settlements built on land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War are illegal.
      Israel drew protests from the United States and European Union last month by announcing it would turn a former army base in the West Bank called Maskiot into a settlement to house 60 families evacuated more than a year ago from the Gaza Strip.
      The vast majority of Gaza's 8,500 settlers chose to establish new homes in southern Israel, the YESHA settlers council said.
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Did Yonkers Police officers beat a man?
Jan 9, 2007
A man says he was beaten by a police officer while another cop wrote him a traffic ticket. Now, Yonkers Police have launched an internal investigation.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/New_York/WABC_7/SIG=12fu2bq5s/**http%3A%2F%2Fabclocal.go.com%2Fwabc%2Fstory%3Fsection%3Dlocal%26id%3D4916408
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Intelligence Chief: U.N. Making No Effort to Disarm Hezbollah
Jan 9, 2007
"Military Intelligence head Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin announced Tuesday that Hizbullah was rebuilding itself and rearming, and that UNIFIL forces were making no effort to disarm the terror group," the Jerusalem Post <a href=" http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467693530&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank">reports</a>.
Indeed. And the <a href="http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2006/11/french_seconds.html" target="_blank">only threats the U.N. making is against Israel</a>. Blame does lie with Prime Minister Olmert who decided to trust the U.N. with Israel's security and those world leaders who assured him this was a good option
http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2007/01/intelligence_ch.html
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Peretz halts work on separation fence in Judea desert
Jan 9, 2007
... sent a letter on Wednesday to IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz and Defense Department General Secretary Gabi Ashkenazi. In the letter, Lashem warned that the planned route of the fence would prevent animals from moving freely and would destroy food ...
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Dwek asks to dip into assets to pay tuition
Jan 9, 2007
... In November, the yeshiva obtained a new $4.7 million loan to pay off the debts, but neither of Dwek's parents, Rabbi Isaac Dwek and Raizel Dwek, were listed as yeshiva officials. Rabbi Dwek is the communal leader of the area Sephardic community. ...
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Training rabbis with business savvy
Jan 9, 2007
... was sitting in Rabbi Gordon Tucker's book-lined office at Temple Israel Center of White Plains, a small city of a synagogue with 850 families. 'How did the sermon go?' Tucker asked. 'A lot of people told me, 'I really liked what you had to say,' ' ...
http://topix.net/r/0yYp0xIuADaKZNhMvxumY2UmkJjVXukvfUSSFXepTCq6u35qnA4=2FWRPgQEPAx7kA8hur83Orl0P9t=2FcDOOm5AM9rzN=2B=2BHEWW6SvI3dVMaTl=2FEICBmlKZgOBxXQ7F2pCIb
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Israel police arrest anothe tax official - Prescott Herald
Jan 9, 2007
<a href=" http://www.onelocalnews.com/prescottherald/ViewArticle.aspx%3Fid%3D41007%26source%3D2
Prescott Herald, AZ - 45 minutes ago
JERUSALEM - Israeli police arrested the US representative of the Israel Tax Authority as part of a bribery and influence-peddling probe that has so far ...
http://www.onelocalnews.com/prescottherald/ViewArticle.aspx%3Fid%3D41007%26source%3D2
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Spring Valley block demolished to make way for shops, apartments - The Journal News.com
Jan 9, 2007
The Journal News.com, NY - 1 hour ago
The town of Ramapo is also reviewing plans for a Wal-Mart to be built off Route 59 in Monsey, about a mile from Spring Valley's downtown. ...
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20070109/NEWS03/701090371/1019/SPECIAL02
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Proposed Law: Give Legal Authority to Kashrut Inspectors (11:08 9.01)
Jan 9, 2007
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=119065
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Meals And Memories: First Local Chabad Cookbook Published -- Can...
Jan 9, 2007
Cookbooks cost $18.00 and may be purchased online at www.ourshul.org or from the synagogue office at 926-3632. All proceeds will go to synagogue programs.
http://topix.net/r/0yYp0xIuADaKZNhMvxumY2cQqnpPiDSRjWDtIhkGY40FU6tEVrSPykyC2=2By1iMTP3n1225QlI9H5i=2FwVUrd=2FBHw=3D=3D
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Holocaust survivor recounts painful stories to help others understand - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Jan 9, 2007
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 37 minutes ago
His father, a devout Orthodox Jew, earned a living as a traveling salesman of Singer sewing machines but came home every Thursday to celebrate the Sabbath. ...
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07009/752245-51.stm
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Man jumps from ambulance, then hit by truck
Jan 8, 2007
A MAN who suffered minor injuries in a car crash was critially injured when he jumped out of the ambulance and into the path of an oncoming semi-trailer.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21031869-5005941,00.html?from=public_rss
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Arizona residents see rats in toilets
Jan 8, 2007
Residents of a neighborhood next to the University of Arizona say small white rats have been swimming through sewer pipes and into their toilets.
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2007/01/08/arizona_residents_see_rats_in_toilets?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News
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Police bust criminal ring smuggling Palestinian workers - Jerusalem Post
Jan 8, 2007
<a href=" http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fcid%3D1167467689271%26pagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull
Jerusalem Post, Israel - 58 minutes ago
Border Police revealed Monday that investigators had uncovered a criminal ring responsible for a multimillion shekel industry in smuggling Palestinians to ...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fcid%3D1167467689271%26pagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull
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Passenger bites airline employee in Norway
Jan 8, 2007
http://washtimes.com/upi/20070108-042514-8196r.htm
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Probing the Probers
Jan 8, 2007
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has <a href=" http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2007/jan/jan08a_07.html">named Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes </a>to investigate the Medicaid Fraud unit left behind by now-Gov. Eliot Spitzer. It's a prelude to a revamping/upgrade of the office, as Cuomo <a href=" http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=549154&category=OPINION&newsdate=12/31/2006">promised </a>on the campaign trail.
While Hynes has taken his share of<a href="http://www.r8ny.com/blog/maurice_gumbs/joe_hynes_my_greatest_disappointment.html "> lumps </a>for the way he's been prosecuting courthouse corruption, Cuomo's release invokes the days when Hynes did ground-breaking work rooting out and smashing Medicaid mills
http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2007/01/probing_the_pro.php
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300 Broward DUI cases could be tossed out
Jan 8, 2007
About 300 drunk driving cases in Broward County could be thrown out, following a state appellate court ruling that improper maintenance of the alcohol breath-test machines renders the results inadmissible.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/16410846.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_news
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Would-Be Subway Bomber Sentenced Monday
Jan 8, 2007
A man convicted on conspiracy charges in a scheme to blow up one of the city's busiest subway stations in a dense shopping district could get more than 30 years in prison during sentencing Monday in federal court. Shahawar Matin Siraj was either a naive stooge lured into a phony bomb plot or a homegrown terrorist determined to inflict misery on New Yorkers as revenge for wartime abuses of Iraqis, according to court papers filed in the Brooklyn court in advance of his sentencing.
http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_008052510.html
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NEW YORK (AP) — Google is the new Number One on Fortune's list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.
The magazine says Google employees can enjoy free gourmet meals, do laundry, drop off dry cleaning, get an oil change or a massage -- all onsite.
Dropping from first place is Genentech, which comes in second for both the overall list and for Best Medium-Sized Companies.
Network Appliance, a medium-sized data storage company based in McLean, was named Number Six. Other Virginia companies on the list include Booz Allen Hamilton, based in McLean; Capital One Financial in McLean and Richmond; CarMax in Richmond; MITRE, based in McLean; S-R-A International in Fairfax and Arlington; and Stanley, headquartered in Arlington.
Two-thirds of a company's score is based on a survey of employees about things such as attitudes toward management, job satisfaction, and camaraderie. The remaining third comes from their evaluation of things like pay, benefits programs and opportunities.
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14 percent of suicide bombers Israeli
Jan 8, 2007
Thirty-eight out of 272 suicide bombings in Israel were carried out by Palestinians who had obtained Israeli citizenship through family unification, the Shin Bet security service said.
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6341
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Silver to DOT: Take Down the Median (yah shelly good job take it way, put up a toll booth instead lol, pic)
Jan 8, 2007
The Offending Median
Assemblyman Sheldon Silver has sent by special messenger the following letter to Iris Weinshall, Commissioner of the City's Department of Transportation:
Dear Commissioner Weinshall:
As per our recent discussion, it is with great urgency that I contact you regarding the concrete median recently built in the intersection of Grand Street and the FDR Drive. This median poses a great danger for both pedestrians and vehicles and I strongly recommend that it be removed immediately.
Over the years, our offices have worked together to improve safety conditions at the intersection at Grand Street and the FDR Drive for both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Most recently, I contacted your office in October 2006, after the tragic fatal accident of one of my constituents, who was struck while crossing Grand Street. At that time, NYC DOT began an investigation of the safety of the intersection and the surrounding area. The remedy that DOT has put in place, a small concrete median at Grand Street and the FDR Drive, has proven to hinder safety conditions rather than help them, causing this intersection to be more dangerous than before.
As I have mentioned in my previous letters, the light at the intersection of Grand Street and the FDR Drive is a three-way light (eastbound traffic on Grand Street, westbound right-turn off the service road and right turn off the southbound FDR Drive off-ramp). Yet, there is no safe opportunity for pedestrians to cross Grand Street free from oncoming vehicular traffic.
I urge the NYC DOT to conduct a more comprehensive investigation of the intersection, to explore other safety options and, again, to immediately remove the concrete median. Please feel free to contact me to discuss this matter. I look forward to your reply.
Sincerely,
Sheldon Silver Member of the Assembly
http://loho10002.blogspot.com/2007/01/silver-to-dot-take-down-median.html
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Giuliani™ Not *
Jan 8, 2007
Not so old, only by a few months but oh so relevant. Real conservative Joseph Farrah on only a few of the reasons why the republican party will <a href=" http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49595">never nominate a guy named Rudy Giuliani</a> <a href=" http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-pfriendly/story/486469p-409552c.html">®</a> <a href="http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49595 "> for president of the United States.</a>

*(® Rudolph Giuliani™ is a registered trademark of Rudolph W. Giuliani, inc. llc)
http://atowncrier.blogspot.com/2007_01_07_atowncrier_archive.html#116829099566330550
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**INFANT CAR SEAT ALERT**
Jan 6, 2007
The government crash tests many vehicles at 35 mph. Side crash tests are at 38 mph. Consumer Reports just crash-tested 12 infant car seats at those same speeds.
Nine of the seats failed some or all of Consumer Reports' tougher tests. During those tests some of the seats twisted violently and 4 actually flew off their bases.
Consumer Reports' crash tests are more rigorous than the government currently requires for infant seats. The government calls for a 30-mph front crash and no side crash. All but 1 of the 12 infant seats Consumer Reports tested passed the government's crash test. The one that didn't is the Evenflo Discovery. Consumer Reports rated it "Not Acceptable" and urged federal officials to order a recall.
The following four infant seats did not perform well in Consumer Reports' tests using the LATCH system. But they did fine when tested with seatbelts. If you own one of these seats, Consumer Reports recommends installing it using seatbelts.
They are the:    Chicco KeyFit Peg Perego Primo Viaggio SIP Compass 1410 Evenflo Embrace   If you are in the market for an infant seat, Consumer Reports recommends choosing one of the two seats that passed all of its tests. They are the Graco SnugRide with EPS and the Baby Trend Flex-Loc. Both cost $90.
The complete findings on Consumer Reports' infant seat crash tests is available free at <a href=" http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/babies-kids/child-car-booster-seats/car-seats-2-07/overview/0207_seats_ov.htm?AFFID=wtnh.com">http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/babies-kids/child-car-booster-seats/car-seats-2-07/overview/0207_seats_ov.htm</a >.
   Consumer Reports has no commercial relationship with any advertiser or sponsor appearing on this Web site.
(courtesy of WTNH www.WTNH.com)
http://waterburynews.blogspot.com/2007/01/infant-car-seat-alert.html
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Smoking Ban In Motor Vehicles Proposed (think about it you are mixing gas and smoke)
Jan 6, 2007
An East Hartford lawmaker wants to stop people from smoking in their cars when children are inside. Democratic state Rep. Henry Genga submitted his bill Friday. He said a 9-year-old constituent e-mailed him with the idea. Arkansas and Louisiana passed versions of smoking bans in motor vehicles last year. Both prohibitions are limited to cars in which children below certain ages are riding.
Genga's bill awaits action by the Select Committee on Children. It comes nearly four years after the Legislature voted to ban smoking in bars and restaurants.
(courtsey of Channel 3 News
http://waterburynews.blogspot.com/2007/01/smoking-ban-in-motor-vehicles-proposed.html
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הרב מרדכי אלון עבר בהצלחה ניתוח בצווארו
Jan 9, 2007
הרב מרדכי אלון עבר בהצלחה ניתוח בצווארו הרב מרדכי אלון, מחשובי הרבנים בציונות הדתית, עבר הבוקר ניתוח בצווארו. הניתוח, שנמשך כ-3 שעות, התקיים בבית החולים אסותא בתל-אביב ועבר בהצלחה.   ניתן להתפלל לרפואתו - מרדכי בן רות.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17273369
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מת מפצעיו פעיל חמאס שאושפז באיכילוב (the more the better)
Jan 9, 2007
מת מפצעיו פעיל חמאס שאושפז באיכילוב   בבית החולים איכילוב מת הבוקר פעיל בזרוע הצבאית של חמאס שנפצע בעזה מידי חמושים של פתח, לפני ארבעה ימים. האיש, תאמר נאסר, אושפז בבית החולים במוצאי שבת במצב קשה.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17275557
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ניסיון שוד בבני ברק
Jan 9, 2007
סמוך לשעה 12:30 אירע ניסיון שוד מזויין בעסק להמרת מטבע זר ברחוב הרב עזרא עטיה 8 בשכונת רמת אלחנן בבני ברק על ידי שני רעולי פנים חמושים שאיימו על לקוח שהיה במקום. משיצא לעברם בעל העסק נמלטו מבלי שלקחו דבר. משטרת מרחב דן פתחה בחקירה.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17274507
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דיווח: ישראל ניסתה לחטוף את סגנו של נסראללה
Jan 8, 2007
מקורות לבנוניים: ישראל ניסתה לחטוף את סגנו של נסראללה   "ישראל ניסתה לחטוף בשבוע שעבר שני בכירים בחיזבאללה" כך טוענים מקורות לבנונים. לדבריהם, ישראל ניסתה לחטוף את סגנו של נסראללה, מ"מ מזכ"ל התנועה נעים קאסם , ואת מוחמד פניש, אחד ממנהיגי התנועה הבכירים. ניסיון החטיפה היה ביום שלישי שעבר כאשר היו בדרכם חזרה בטיסה מהבירה הסעודית ריאד לביירות, אחרי שסיימו את מצוות החאג' – הביקור הדתי במכה. (חגי הוברמן)
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17258901
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פרסום ראשון: חייל חשוד בנסיון חבלה במטוס (another story that didnt make the news yet, i wonder y)
Jan 8, 2007
פרסום ראשון: חייל צה"ל נעצר בחשד שניסה להטמין חומר נפץ במטוס קרב מסוג אף-16 חייל צה"ל, המשרת בחיל האוויר, חשוד כי ניסה לפוצץ מטוס קרב מסוג אף-16 ולסכן את חיי הצוות שעליו. המשטרה הצבאית עצרה את החייל ופתחה בחקירת האירוע. "מדובר באירוע חמור", אמר גורם בכיר בצה"ל, "החבלה הייתה עלולה לסכן עשרות חפים מפשע".
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17259022
החשד: חייל בחיל-האוויר ניסה לחבל במטוס (here is another one)
Jan 8, 2007
חייל צה"ל המשרת בחיל האוויר נעצר אמש בחשד שניסה לחבל במטוס אף-16 על ידי הטמנת חומר נפץ במבער האחורי של המטוס. גורם צבאי בכיר ל-nrg: "החבלה הייתה עלולה לסכן עשרות חפים מפשע"
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/528/037.html
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אלפי מאמינים בקבר אבוחצירא במצרים
Jan 8, 2007
למעלה מאלף מחסידיו של רבי יעקב אבוחצירא, אבי שושלת רבני משפחת אבוחצירא של הדורות האחרונים, פוקדים בימים אלה את קברו שבעיר דמנהור במצרים. מחר זהו יום השנה לפטירתו של רבי יעקב אבוחצירא המכונה "האביר יעקב‭."‬ הרב אבוחצירא נפטר בשנת 1880 והוא סבו של הבבא סאלי. אתמול נחנך במתחם בית העלמין בו קבור הרבי, מבנה חדש שהוקם על קברו על ידי אחד מחשובי האדמו"רים של משפחת אבוחצירא - רבי דוד אבוחצירא מנה־ ריה. זאת לאחר 28 שנים בהן השלטונות המצריים לא אפשרו את שיפוץ מתחם הקבר ולא נענו גם לבקשתם של שרים ישראלים בכירים.   בנוסף בוצעו במקום עבודות שיקום ושימור של מתחם בית העלמין היהודי כולו. עלות השיפוץ כחצי מיליון דולר אותם תרם איל ההון האמריקני יצחק לייב רעננערט, אשר שלח למצרים את נציגו הרב אהרון בינה, ראש ישיבת נתיב אריה. מנחם גשייד, מי שהיה אחראי על השגת הרישיונות ועל עבודות השיפוץ שנעשו בדמנהור אמר כי "השיפוץ יאפשר את קליטתם של אלפים מכל העדות, ספרדים ואשכנזים שבאים להתפלל ולהשתתף בהילולה‭."‬ האדמו"ר המרוקאי דוד אבוחצירא אמר כי "מטרת נסיעתו המרכזית השנה להילולה הינה תפילות להסרת הקטרוג והאיום האיראני על ישראל‭."‬ דובר ש"ס לשעבר איציק סודרי, מצאצאי משפחת אבוחצירא השווה את היציאה ההמונית למצרים לנסיעות לקבר רבי נחמן מברסלב באומן: "קבר רבי יעקב אבוחצירא זה האומן של המרוקאים, בכל שנה נוהגים לפקוד את הקבר אלפי אנשים‭." מעריב
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17258555
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מזעזע‎: רכבת מתחת למתים!!!
Jan 8, 2007
רכבת ישראל אמורה להתחיל בזמן הקרוב בעבודות לחפירת מנהרה מגינות סחרוב עד התחנה מרכזית בירושלים. המנהרה אמורה להוות קטע הסיום של קו הרכבת המהיר תל אביב ירושלים. באופן מפתיע מתברר כי תוואי המנהרה העתידית מתוכנן לעבור מתחת להר המנוחות!!! מעבר לביזיון המת תהיה‎ ‎בעיה קשה לכהנים‎...‎
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17254878
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האברך אשר ולס ישאר במעצר בית
Jan 8, 2007
י-ם: אשר ולס, שנאשם בהריגת בנו, ישאר במעצר בית שופטת בית המשפט המחוזי בירושלים, קנפי שטייניץ, דחתה את בקשתו של החרדי אשר ולס, הנאשם בהריגת בנו, להשתחרר למעצר בית.    בהחלטה כתבה השופטת: "העבירות המיוחסות למבקש הינן חמורות מאד ומקיימות חשש להימלטות מן הדין. מעצר הבית שהוטל על ולס בשעות הלילה מאפשר, מחד, מידה של פיקוח על תנועותיו ומאידך - אין בו אלא פגיעה מידתית בחירותו".
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17254513
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העדה החרדית אוסרת על הרב אבינר לפסוק בדיני טהרה
Jan 9, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2124991
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דרמה ברחוב שמואל הנביא בי-ם
Jan 9, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2125020

י-ם: אמא מתבצרת עם ביתה בבית
Jan 9, 2007
י-ם,רחוב שמואל הנביא דווח על  אמא עם בתה בבית מאיימת להתאבד.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17273750
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Reb Cheskel Roth Mitzva Tanz

2007-01-09T11:13:00.001-05:00

i love that song, cant help it, i call it the 'wedding crasher' whenever a chasuna is in full high gear some rebbe will come in and start this song

p.s. if u get this via email here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BspKE_iQrSo

Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss DENIES Again

2007-01-09T09:32:00.001-05:00

got this today, still working on todays news list

Corrective: Iran Holocaust conference story. (IRAN-HOLOCAUSTCONFERE) 2007-01-09 08:51:23
Jan 9, 2007

Eds: Members who used BC-Iran-Holocaust Conference, sent Dec. 12 under a Tehran, Iran, dateline, are asked to use the following story.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — In a Dec. 12 story about an Iranian-sponsored conference on the Holocaust, The Associated Press erroneously attributed a claim that Zionists have exaggerated the number of Jews killed by the Nazis.

Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, who attended the conference with members of the group Neturei Karta, denied making such a statement. He said the claim, reported by Iran's state news agency and television, does not reflect his group's position. He opposes the state of Israel, and believes Israelis have used the Holocaust to gain sympathy and advantage but doesn't believe the Holocaust toll is exaggerated.

AP-ES-01-09-07 0851EST

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Jewish/Breaking News Roundup 01/08/07 #2

2007-01-08T19:06:00.001-05:00

[Ynet] ISRAEL - Bomb detonated against IDF force near Nablus, no injuries
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3349927,00.html
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[AP] MONTANA - Man on Denver-Great Falls flight arrested for unruly behavior
"at one point knocking on the cockpit door"
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10696214/detail.html
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[WHIO] OHIO - Caller Reports Placing Bomb At Apartment [Hoax device]
http://www.whiotv.com/news/10694879/detail.html
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[AP] TEXAS - Downtown Austin closed after dead birds found
"As Many As 60 Were Found Overnight; Authorities Say No Threat to Public Health"
http://cbs11tv.com/pets/local_story_008120838.html
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[AP] NEW YORK - Suspicious Gas Like Odor In New York
"Bloomberg says he is "very confident" that the smell is not dangerous, and a Homeland Security spokesman says there is "no indication of terrorism"
http://www.wifr.com/news/headlines/5118516.html
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[Iran Daily] IRAN - Bomb Suspects Arrested
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2753/html/national.htm#s201648
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[Reuters] BANGLADESH - Six Islamists with explosives held in Bangladesh
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=DHA140470&WTmodLoc=World-R5-Alertnet-6
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[Reuters] SRI LANKA - Bomb blast destroys electricity transformer
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21028667-38197,00.html
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Keep an eye on our children
Jan 8, 2007
Too many American yeshiva students in Jerusalem are running amuck.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
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Monster drone to be unveiled by Israel
Jan 8, 2007
JERUSALEM - Israel is developing what is believed to be the largest-yet unmanned aircraft, for long-range operations and destroying ballistic missiles as they are being launched.Israel Aircraft Industries' Eitan has a wing span...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10418216&ref=rss
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Yeshiva student attacked in Sydney - Jewish Telegraphic Agency (update)
Jan 8, 2007
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY - 42 minutes ago
Following a review of yeshiva security footage, a police spokesman told the Australian Jewish News that "new facts had come to light and that they were ...
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp%3Fintid%3D6339
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Kosher Deli- Severe Trauma
Jan 8, 2007
Severe Trauma at The New Deli (Kosher). An employee at the Kosher Deli
on Willow Street cut his hand; partial amputation. WPD and AMR
responding for the trauma. Hatzalah of Waterbury on the scene.
Update: Hatzalah (Supervisor-4 and WY-5) treating the patient on the
scene- minor laceration; WPD canceling AMR
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Finger Building Getting Hip Black Exterior
Jan 8, 2007
Residents of the Burg worried that <a href=" http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/08/07/the_finger_building_now_flipping_33_percent_more_bird.php">Ye Old Finger Building</a> would sit there unfinished forever can breathe easy. Our special Williamsburg correspondent captured the above photo of workers continuing to putter around on Williamsburg's most notorious condo. They've already transformed part of the Bedford Avenue-facing side of the building from cheerful yellow to a more hip shade of black. We don't know the outcome of the <a href=" http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/11/06/judge_to_give_finger_to_the_finger.php">Finger Building litigation</a> as it concerns the building's height, so they may just be holding down the fort. If you have insight, please send it along to our friendly <a href=" mailto:tips@curbed.com">Curbed Tip Line</a>.
· <a href=" http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/11/06/judge_to_give_finger_to_the_finger.php">Judge to Give Finger to the Finger?</a> [Curbed
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/curbed/BHBe/~3/72488302/finger_building_getting_hip_black_exterior.php
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Comics for Chinuch? - Jewish Action
Jan 8, 2007
Jewish Action, NY - 1 hour ago
Touting itself as "The World's Only Kosher Comic Book," Mendy and the Golem followed the adventures of the Klein family (Mendy and Rivky and their parents, ...
http://www.ou.org/index.php/jewish_action/article/8845/
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94% of Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Sector Gives High Importance to ... - Israel Ministry of the Environment
Jan 8, 2007
Israel Ministry of the Environment, Israel - 3 hours ago
The findings of a new survey, conducted in December 2005 among a representative sample of 505 respondents from the ultra-Orthodox sector, were among the ...
http://www.environment.gov.il/bin/e_sviva.jsp%3Fz%3De_news%26o%3DNews%255El3318
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Area Jews cheer arrival of city's new Torah (The Naperville Sun)
Jan 8, 2007
Naperville's first newly inscribed Torah scroll – a painstakingly handwritten transcription of the Old Testament etched on 54 parchment sheets with a feather quill dipped in special ink – is a cherished acquisition. An overflow crowd in the Riverwalk Community Center's community room conveyed its reverence for the event, which was arranged by the Chabad Jewish Center of Naperville.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/Orthodox+Jewish/SIG=12s1p51c5/*http%3A//www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/202109,6_1_NA08_SCROLL2_S1.article
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Film documents Ireland as Nazi haven
Jan 8, 2007
Ireland knowingly gave safe haven to some of the Nazi regime's most notorious criminals and collaborators, according to a new film.
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6332
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Jews blamed for Polish archbishop's demise
Jan 8, 2007
Some supporters of a Polish archbishop who resigned amid controversy claimed Jews were responsible.
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6331
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Solomon Schechter Schools May Revise Admissions Policy to Allow Non-Jews (18:43 8.01)
Jan 8, 2007
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=119014
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That Smell (love the last line)
Jan 8, 2007
That curious <a href=" http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-nycgasodor0108jan08,0,7086235.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork">gas odor</a> hovering around Manhattan and some parts of New Jersey is nothing to worry about, Mike Bloomberg said at a press conference at City Hall.
More details <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/nyregion/08cnd-odor.html?hp&ex=1168318800&en=b688635a7be2e78d&ei=5094&partner=homepage">here</a >.
As a side note, one of the reporters at the press conference apparently came up with a suggestion for new city motto:
"If you smell something, say something."
-- Azi Paybarah
http://thepoliticker.observer.com/2007/01/that-smell.html
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Poll: Americans Biased Against U.S.-Made Cars
Jan 8, 2007
Americans have a bias against cars made by U.S. automakers, but an AP-AOL Autos poll found flickers of loyalty that could offer hope.
http://www.wsmv.com/automotive/10694414/detail.html?rss=nash&psp=news
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China visit marks 'homecoming' for Israel's Olmert. (ISRAEL-CHINA/OLMERT) 2007-01-08 08:43:49
Jan 8, 2007
BC-ISRAEL-CHINA/OLMERT
   China visit marks 'homecoming' for Israel's Olmert

By Dan Williams

TEL AVIV, Jan 8 (Reuters) - When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert makes his first official visit to Beijing this week, it will be a homecoming of sorts.

Olmert's parents belonged to a Jewish community that fled persecution in Russia and resettled in the northern Chinese city of Harbin almost a century ago.

Mordechai and Bella Olmert were ardent Zionists who eventually moved to then-British Mandate Palestine and helped found Israel. They also bequeathed to their children a lifelong appreciation for the country that first gave them refuge.

"Chinese culture became a part of our family's tradition. It is my first memory from my childhood in Israel," Olmert told China's Xinhua news agency in an interview published on Sunday.

"We maintain a profound love for the Chinese people."

The Olmert family saga reflects a cultural rapport between Chinese and Jews which, experts say, existed long before Beijing normalised ties with Israel in 1992 and has flowered since.

Despite, or perhaps because of, the lopsided demographics -- 13 million Jews to 1.3 billion Chinese -- many in China profess admiration for the achievements of the Jewish diaspora and of Israel. Jewish observers of China, in turn, respect its ancient culture and status as a growing industrial powerhouse.

"Both Chinese and Jewish civilisations are brilliant and have long histories," China's ambassador to Israel, Chen Yonglong, said in an address last year.

"The entrepreneur spirit and business talent of the Jewish people are well acknowledged all over China."

Harbin boasted Asia's largest synagogue and a Jewish community that grew to more than 20,000 in the 1920s. Olmert's parents spoke Mandarin; according to family lore, Mordechai's last words on his deathbed were in the Chinese dialect.

One of Olmert's grandfathers, Yosef, is buried in Harbin.

The central city of Kaifeng is still home to a handful of descendants of what was a thriving community of Jewish merchants who arrived on the Silk Road 1,000 years ago.

Shanghai was settled by Jewish merchants and traders who came from Iraq via India throughout the 1800s, and whose numbers swelled during World War Two when Jews fled Nazi Germany.

At its height, the community there numbered about 24,000.

"In China, they found peace and happiness, as Chinese people respected Jews and treated them equally," said Fu Mingjing, director of the Jewish Research Centre at the Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences.

"Economically, they promoted trade and business there ... and culturally, they built schools and ran several newspapers. They inspired local people in the field of arts and they helped develop the medical industry as well."

In the Olmert family's case, such cooperation continues to this day. The prime minister's brother, Amram, has worked for more than two decades as an agriculture consultant in China.

"With Ehud going there now, I guess you could say it gives us all a sense of the circle closing," he told Reuters.

(Additional reporting by Lindsay Beck, Vivi Lin and Kirby Chien in Beijing)

Reut08:43 01-08-07

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Yiddish's Lithuanian Comeback
Jan 8, 2007
... school's Israeli sponsors and faculty relented and will permit Yiddish to enter the curriculum. The Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi in Vilnius, Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky, and his wife speak Yiddish to their eight children, he says, "so they will know the ...
http://topix.net/r/0yYp0xIuADaKZNhMvxumY2fOoBcSIYkoRI0XgVbx4V8zA=2FFU3PXyhFxmqd3GPtfWiKEAaJUPsZ66G4ni8qPr2m0jA2UPaWgH6=2BS4WKsOBsIKrjWw5R86BLV9AaiZDFtgrN1Xv6Lkhf11q1ShgMDFcDA=3D=3D
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Father: Costumed 'Tigger' Hit My Son
Jan 8, 2007
http://www.courant.com/news/custom/topnews/sns-ap-tigger-trouble,0,4245472.story?coll=hc-headlines-topnews
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Metal Found in Search for Missing Jet
Jan 8, 2007
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/08/ap/world/mainD8MH1K600.shtml
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14 Survivors From Indonesian Ferry Found
Jan 8, 2007
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/08/ap/world/mainD8MH1C9G1.shtml
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Negev Jews help Muslims with Christian cash
Jan 8, 2007
RAHAT, Israel -- In Israel's vast Negev Desert, an Orthodox rabbi is helping impoverished Arab Bedouins with money collected from American evangelical Christians.
http://topix.net/r/0yYp0xIuADaKZNhMvxumY2VPWynbUy=2FFLo9=2FH9YoTAj8gnjgmQ9BJ1TCYeUQyZa8iL7EA=2FxrfPgttxg3YSvLz=2F=2BKo=2FBEmEh7cWGAQLrLx74fhuhiAoZf0OR75YveMQ=2B9a
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KAIT - Jonesboro, AR: Reflections of Faith
Jan 8, 2007
... Religion Roundup - Jewish Veterans Sue to Remove Cross from War Memorial ...
http://www.kait8.com/Global/category.asp?C=77830&nav=menu67_20
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Conflict besets Andover High - Boston Globe
Jan 8, 2007
Boston Globe, MA - 1 hour ago
One Jewish teacher said two colleagues harassed her when she refused to sign a petition to bring in the Wisconsin-based group. Many parents are supporting ...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/01/08/conflict_besets_andover_high
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More Jews Opt to Serve in German Military - Deutsche Welle
Jan 8, 2007
Deutsche Welle, Germany - 26 minutes ago
Rabbi Walter Homolka, an army reserve officer who advises the armed forces, said that the Germany military is almost too afraid of offending Jews. ...
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2299443,00.html
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GM's New Car You Can Plug In At Home
Jan 8, 2007
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/07/eveningnews/main2335281.shtml
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Anti-Neturei Karta Protest Videos

2007-01-08T10:43:00.001-05:00

a few more links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTq-d77FVHY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-LHGAn0wFk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-fzKz7V1v4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAq8QYupwmI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak67DpDDIdo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENd7UqN53I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V0CIq1N-h8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My0C7QGoOfo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMhalPYG-nc

p.s. to the ones getting this via email, you have to go to bnnreports.blogspot.com to view it
or goto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My0C7QGoOfo

BoroPark 2nd Alarm 42nd St

2007-01-08T08:40:00.001-05:00

BoroPark 2nd Alarm 42nd St, originally uploaded by ליפא שנילצער.

goto http://www.flickr.com/photos/deryid for more pics

Monday #1 Jewish News Links

2007-01-08T08:23:00.001-05:00

lipa concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkH48rwSTmc
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60 Million to Yeshivot and Ulpanot (8 January )
Jan 8, 2007
The one-day strike of the religious-Zionist high schools two weeks ago appears to have been effective: Prime Minister Olmert has approved a 60-million shekel budget allocation for the institutions.
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=118975
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A family's grief overflows - New York Daily News
Jan 8, 2007
New York Daily News, NY - 26 minutes ago
"Ari's death is a tragedy, beyond the ability of words to describe or understand," said Rabbi Albert Thaler of Temple Gates of Prayer, the synagogue Ari ...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/486576p-409688c.html
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Aaron Pearlman
Jan 8, 2007
... of whom are poor, elderly and in ill health. He got the idea while doing some volunteer tutoring of students at Congregation Beth Shalom, where he will become a bar mitzvah in June. Although he wanted to donate his time, the temple gave him a check ...
http://topix.net/r/0yYp0xIuADaKZNhMvxumY2VPWynbUy=2FFLo9=2FH9YoTAj9d9xi92ub9n40lauPNwlVUyRPCuA8dz6tmV4jrQmqLvm25ns=2FZshSHkkF=2FGAa2eNSXZsdHNiV1Ofd9zIdNLx4qa0vYtTRH2MLB6uV9nokVrhpDUPC1wc5IhlrfGbt0=2BqI=3D
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Accident or assault? Dispute over Yeshiva student's injury - Australian Jewish News
Jan 8, 2007
Australian Jewish News, Australia - 3 hours ago
That's the contested question regarding Nitzan Zerach, an Israeli-born student at Sydney's Yeshiva Centre who was hospitalised last Thursday with a brain ...
http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp%3FpgID%3D2361
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Bikers Ride To Remember Those Killed by Motorists - New York Sun
Jan 8, 2007
New York Sun, NY - 58 minutes ago
Before crossing the Williamsburg Bridge into Manhattan, about 100 riders gathered on the corner South 4th Street and Roebling Ave. in Williamsburg where 34 ...
http://www.nysun.com/article/46251
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Conflict besets Andover High - Boston Globe
Jan 8, 2007
Boston Globe, MA - 1 hour ago
Rabbi Robert S. Goldstein of Temple Emanual, Andover's largest synagogue, had tried to get the school to ban the group. Unsuccessful, he held a forum last ...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/01/08/conflict_besets_andover_high
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Gaydamak upgrades Israeli sports – for Jews and Arabs - Al-Bawaba
Jan 8, 2007
Al-Bawaba</a><a href="http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Palestine/208189
Al-Bawaba, Jordan - 26 minutes ago
The Russia-born businessman had decided to sponsor and purchase the most popular Jerusalem-based sports teams - Hapoel Jerusalem basketball team and Beitar ...
http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Palestine/208189
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Jews rally vs. Jews - New York Daily News
Jan 8, 2007
New York Daily News, NY - 1 hour ago
There were a few hand-to-hand skirmishes but no arrests, police said. The protestors, mostly members of the Jewish Defense Organization, ...
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/486721p-409766c.html

Hundreds Protest Orthodox Jews' Attendance At Anti-Holocaust Conference (WNBC)
Jan 7, 2007
Hundreds took to the streets in Rockland County to protest Orthodox Jews' attendance at an Iranian conference that denied the existence of the Holocaust.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/Orthodox+Jewish/SIG=121eqc9vf/*http%3A//www.wnbc.com/news/10690579/detail.html?rss=ny&psp=news
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Please say tehillim for Yackov Ben Miriam Leah
Jan 8, 2007
Please say tehillim for Yackov Ben Miriam Leah. A Meshulach from Eretz Yisroel who was involved in a major accident on the Garden State Parkway last week. He has bleeding in the brain, and is currently in Jersey Shore Trauma Center.   Please don't be the one to break the chain!   (Please get this to as many people as possible whether it's by IM, E- mail, Text Message or any other way to let them know and then pass it on!)   ... cut and paste this message when you forward it so as not to have great blocks of addresses Please send this email to 10 people  ..don't be the one to break the chain .   Tizku LâMitzvos   Thank You _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This email and any files sent with it are intended to create a smile on the named recipients face. If you are not the named recipient please DO NOT telephone/email the sender. But you should disclose the contents and take/retain/distribute all the copies. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jokes & More Jokes The Aim Is To Get You To Smile
http://letz.blogspot.com/2007/01/please-say-tehillim-for-yackov-ben.html

Lakewood: Tehillim gathering tonight
Jan 7, 2007
There will be an urgent Tehillim gathering tonight in Lakewood in the Satmar Bais Medrash at 10:45PM; for a Meshulach from Eretz Yisroel who was involved in a major accident on the Garden State Parkway last week. ...
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=4510
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Portus's Manor in court as gem case drags on - Globe and Mail
Jan 8, 2007
Globe and Mail, Canada - 2 hours ago
Yesterday, lawyers acting for Mr. Toib -- an ultra-orthodox Jewish businessman said to conduct deals in the secretive diamond industry on the strength of a ...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070108.RPORTUS08/TPStory/Business
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Rabbi takes legal action against Adelaide shul - Australian Jewish News
Jan 8, 2007
Australian Jewish News, Australia - 24 minutes ago
THE rabbi at the centre of a dispute with the board of Adelaide Hebrew Congregation (AHC) has taken out a court injunction to prevent the shul board from ...
http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp%3FpgID%3D2366
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Released Terrorists 'Always Returned to Terrorism'
Jan 8, 2007
"Palestinians released in prisoner exchanges 'always returned to terrorism,' a high-ranking officer in Central Command warned Sunday, ahead of a planned swap for kidnapped Cpl. Gilad Shalit. Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank are "infected" with terrorist elements, he added," the Jerusalem Post <a href=" http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467682668&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank">reports</a>. The officer said there had been a major increase in Palestinian terrorist activity in the West Bank in 2006, and warned of an outbreak of a new intifada. Releasing terrorists signals to the terrorists that they've won: They can kill and plan murder, and then they are still released early. And releasing terrorists in exchange for a captured Israeli only encourages them to kidnap more Israelis.
As <a href="http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2006/12/israel_criticiz.html" target="_blank">we've written</a>: Keeping terrorists locked up is the only way to ensure peace. Abbas should in fact hand over terrorists to Israel as a sign that he wants peace.
http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2007/01/released_terror.html
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Rockland-purchased buses sit idle, awaiting paperwork - The Journal News.com
Jan 8, 2007
The Journal News.com, NY - 48 minutes ago
Andrea Klein and some of her fellow Monsey Trails commuters have been wondering about the three new buses they were supposed to be riding in by now. ...
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20070108/NEWS03/701080326/1019/SPECIAL02
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S. Florida police chaplains are missionaries in a world of stress - Sun-Sentinel.com
Jan 8, 2007
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - 1 hour ago
A nice Jewish boy from Chicago normally saw people showing respect to an officer, not battling him. "It was an alien experience -- from nice to nuts in a ...
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cchaplainsjan08,0,1357172.story%3Fcoll%3Dsfla-news-sfla
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Talk on the Street: On 'Day One,' more double talk - Times Herald-Record
Jan 8, 2007
Times Herald-Record, NY - 4 hours ago
The political upheavals in Washington and Albany last week provided a packed itinerary for the political leaders of the politically active Village of Kiryas ...
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20070108/NEWS/701080320
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Wash your demons down: Bottled holy water for sale - Tri-Valley Herald
Jan 8, 2007
Tri-Valley Herald, CA - 59 minutes ago
... before consumption by any member of the faith, but "I can't bless the water for someone else," said Rabbi Avrohom Brod of the Chabad of Stockton. ...
http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/ci_4970334
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American Jews Confront Interfaith Burials - Baltimore Jewish Times
Jan 7, 2007
Baltimore Jewish Times, MD - 59 minutes ago
That's not acceptable to him as an Orthodox Jew. Lifshitz said it's a priority for him to raise money to open a Jewish cemetery that will operate according ...
http://www.jewishtimes.com/News/6201.stm
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B'nai Torah Breaks Ground To Rebuild Synagogue Destroyed In Fire
Jan 7, 2007
There was a long-awaited groundbreaking for the congregation of B'nai Torah. Their synagogue went up in flames more than three years ago. They lost their building and all their holy possessions in an electrical fire.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/New_York/WNBC_4/SIG=12k8aqulj/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wnbc.com%2Fnews%2F10690586%2Fdetail.html%3Frss%3Dny%26psp%3Dnews
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Empty chair as "Saddam" trial resumes. (IRAQ-SADDAM/) 2007-01-07 18:10:57
Jan 7, 2007

BC-IRAQ-SADDAM/

Empty chair as "Saddam" trial resumes

By Alastair Macdonald

BAGHDAD, Jan 8 (Reuters) - All eyes will be on the empty chair in the dock on Monday when the genocide trial of the ousted Iraqi leadership resumes in Baghdad.

Nine days after Saddam Hussein was hanged, the former president's cousin "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majeed and six other Baath party officials are back in court accused of trying to wipe out Iraq's ethnic Kurds in the northern mountains in 1988.

Many Kurds regret the chief suspect can no longer face justice for his role in the Anfal campaign against them, thanks to an earlier trial for crimes against humanity for killing Shi'ites -- but they hope others share his fate on the gallows.

For supporters of the U.S.-sponsored High Tribunal, Monday will be a day to return the focus to sober judicial process after the undoubted embarrassment that illicit video of Saddam's execution has brought to a court judging Iraq's former rulers while its current government is struggling to avert civil war.

Yet controversy over Saddam's last minutes and the sectarian taunts he faced from Shi'ite officials on the scaffold goes on.

Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government has yet to complete an investigation into the jeers and the video -- one court officer has accused a senior official of filming the event -- and Maliki has offered a robust defence of the execution.

But his government has found itself on the receiving end of one of the first public appeals by the new United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, whose chief of staff has written to Baghdad urging "restraint" in the use of the death penalty.

British finance minister Gordon Brown, the likely next prime minister of Washington's main ally in occupying Iraq, called the execution "deplorable". A spokeswoman for outgoing leader Tony Blair has said he believes the way the hanging was done was "completely wrong".

"LOGISTICAL" DELAY

Impressions Maliki rushed the hanging through in haste ahead of the New Year, at the start of a Muslim holiday, were reinforced on Sunday when lawyers and an official said two of Saddam's aides, now on death row, were meant to hang with him but were spared at the last minute for "logistical" reasons.

Saddam's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and former judge Awad al-Bander were moved to a special wing at the U.S. military jail and told to write their wills at the same time as Saddam in time for an execution at dawn on Dec. 30, their lawyers said.

Bizarrely, Iraqi state television read an official pronouncement in the hour after Saddam was hanged saying all three men convicted on Nov. 5 had been executed. Officials only later said that Barzan and Bander were still alive.

They are likely to hang any day now, though no date is set. Maliki signed their death warrants at the same time as Saddam's.

Late-night negotiations with U.S. diplomats who, Maliki's aides said, wanted the hangings put off for two weeks eventually produced an American agreement to deliver Saddam by helicopter to the gallows in northern Baghdad. Only this Sunday did it transpire that transport problems may have spared his two aides.

"For logistical reasons they were postponed, because the Coalition could not provide the logistics on the same day as Saddam was executed," Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie told CNN, eight days after the execution.

(Additional reporting by Suleiman al-Khalidi in Amman, Sherko Raouf in Sulaimaniya and Ibon Villelabeitia in Baghdad)

REUTERS Reut18:10 01-07-07
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Israel foils double bombing
Jan 7, 2007
Israeli security forces foiled a Palestinian double suicide bombing.
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6324
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Jerusalem: Network smuggling illegal aliens busted
Jan 7, 2007
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3349548,00.html
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Jury is Still Out On New Bus Shelters
Jan 7, 2007
Since we've still got the old bus shelters in our neighborhood, we were interested in the <a href=" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/nyregion/thecity/07shel.html">rider reactions to the new shelters</a> article in the NY Times City section.
The new shelters <a href="http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/12/20/gimme_bus_shelt.php">started to be installed late last month</a>, and there are 10 new steel shelters in each borough so far. By 2011, there will be 3300 new shelters. Some riders had some suggestions about placement of bus schedules, while others wondered if there will be eventually be benches (there will be for 3,255 shelters - the materials just haven't come in yet). But a rider Boerum Hill rider had some thoughts about the stainless-steel port frame and tempered glass structure: "I think it makes it a little bit mall culture-ish. But I like it." Well, stainless steel and lots of glass is pretty rampant in most new construction, so maybe Manhattan is just becoming a mall.
If anyone has seen the new shelter, tell us what you think. And later this year, outdoor company Cemusa will start to replace newsstands and build the new public toilets.
<a href=" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/gothamist05?a=7xMWi6"></a>
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gothamist05/~3/72087001/jury_is_still_o.php
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Screams ignored as girl, 12, is attacked - This is Local London
Jan 7, 2007
This is Local London, UK - 36 minutes ago
Police are treating the attack on the girl, who is Jewish, as a racially aggravated robbery. A spokeswoman for Metroline said: "It was a nasty incident. ...
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/mostpopular.var.895777.mostviewed.screams_ignored_as_girl_12_is_attacked.php
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Upper West Side A Bagel-Shaped Hole on an Unexpected Strip - New York Times
Jan 7, 2007
New York Times, NY - 1 hour ago
But any street where a person can buy kosher barbecue, kosher pizza and kosher sushi, not to mention brisket, latkes and matzo ball soup, would seem to have ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/nyregion/thecity/07bage.html%3Fem%26ex%3D1168318800%26en%3D186708de5f1d65be%26ei%3D5087%250A
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Grandpa dies 31 times in one day - lives to tell about it.
Jan 5, 2007
"A man who had a series of heart attacks was brought back to life 31 times in an hour by paramedics. During the 27-mile ambulance ride to Norwich and Norfolk University Hospital Derek suffered an attack every minute and was revived again and again with a defibrillator. Most patients don't survive after two or three shocks"
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Grandpa_dies_31_times_in_one_day_lives_to_tell_about_it
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Mop Pads Wreak Havoc On Modesto Sewer System
Jan 5, 2007
Cleaning mop pads flushed down toilets in Modesto are clogging sewer pump stations, leading santitation officials to urge the public to avoid the practice.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/kcra/local/~3/71389605/detail.html
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Neighbors Creeped Out From Snakes In House
Jan 5, 2007
Dubuque fines a couple for possession of snakes, reptiles and rats and mice inside their home.
http://www.kcci.com/news/10682675/detail.html?rss=des&psp=news
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Stringer Awards Giant Check to UJC
Jan 5, 2007
by <A HREF="mailto:Tibi@loho10002.com">Tibi Z. Singer</A>
At a recent ceremony, the Borough president's office presented the United Jewish Council of the East Side with a $10,000 grant. Pictured (left to right): Norma Klein, UJC comptroller, Justin Walter of the Borough President's office, Joel kaplan Esq., UJC executive Director, Betsy Jacobson, Director of the UJC Luncheon Club, David Weinberger, UJC community Coordiantor and Borough President Scott Stringer.
http://loho10002.blogspot.com/2007/01/stringer-awards-ujc.html
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סדאם חוסיין מן התורה מניין?
Jan 8, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2124307
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משאית עמוסה בחיטה התהפכה ליד אשקלון (i would love a pic of this)
Jan 8, 2007
משאית עמוסה בחיטה התהפכה סמוך למושב בית עזרא על כביש אשדוד-אשקלון. המשאית פגעה במכונית פרטית, וכתוצאה מכך נפצעו נהג המשאית ונהגת המכונית באורח קל. החיטה התפזרה על הכביש ויצרה עומסי תנועה. המשאית פונתה מהמקום וכעת חוזרת התנועה לסדרה.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17245826
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י-ם: בן שנתיים נמצא ללא רוח חיים
Jan 8, 2007
ברחוב חברת ש``ס בשכונת מאה שערים בירושלים נמצא פעוט כבן שנתיים ללא רוח חיים, ככל הנראה כתוצאה משפעת חריפה. הושג ויתור נתיחה.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17241729
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תמונות מהלווית האדמו"ר מז'מיגראד
Jan 8, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2124297
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צוואתו הקדושה של כ"ק האדמו"ר מזמיגראד זצוק"ל
Jan 8, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2124232
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kidnapped and released

2007-01-07T19:07:00.001-05:00

here is something you might wanna know about

חרדים מביתר עילית נחטפו, זה לא דווח בתקשורת, למה?
Jan 7, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2124115
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/topic.asp?topic_id=2123717
http://news.walla.co.il/?w=//1036978

didnt see any other links about it, i guess they didnt make a big deal of it

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Sunday #1

2007-01-07T18:55:00.001-05:00

chazon shepsil kanarik (make sure, dont go to sleep before you see this)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-680337333793699968&pr=goog-sl

a small crane collapse in Williamsburg
http://www.curbed.com/archives/2007/01/05/williamsburg_crane_goes_tippy_the_photos.php

some more pix here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/noneck/sets/72157594461710794/
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Another Daytime Burglary in Crown Heights
Jan 7, 2007
The incident took place yesterday, Wednesday at around 3:30 in the afternoon, one of the residents of the house on Carroll St between Schenectady and Utica entered the house and encountered the thief who pulled a knife on him and fled out the back door through the kitchen.

He described the perp as a Male Black around the age of 15 or 16 with a medium build. He had already been trough the house and had stuffed various times in his backpack. The items ranged form silver candlesticks that were on the dining room table, wallets and some jewelry. The perp knew what he was looking for avoiding the things that weren't of significant value, such as a knockoff watch and some real looking jewelry.
Police were called and arrived on scene pretty quick and took a report and informed the victims of the burglary that member from the NYPD's Crime Scene Unit will arrive at the house later in the day to 'dust' the place for finger prints.

This is another incident in the string of burglaries that have been taking place in our neighborhood. We implore homeowners to secure their houses, what can be a simple burglary can quickly turn havens forbid a much more serious crime. And we turn to the police to ask for additional patrols to prevent these crimes from happening and to pursue these cases once they do happen.

If you see a suspicious person hanging around a certain house or car don't hesitate to call 911 and Shomrim at (718) 774-3333 24/7.

http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=4414
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UPDATE 1-Helicopter kills three during French Sunday lunch. (FRANCE-HELICOPTER) 2007-01-07 14:56:32
Jan 7, 2007
(Adds details)

MARSEILLE, France, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Three people died when a helicopter ferrying their luncheon companions crashed on them in the garden of a French restaurant moments after they had all dined together, French police sources said.

The pilot, the helicopter's owner and two friends aboard the aircraft were unharmed. A woman had her leg severed in the crash and three other fellow diners, including a two-year-old child, were treated in hospital.

The helicopter crashed during takeoff after the group trooped up the garden of the Chez Bob restaurant near the village of Salin-de-Giraud in the southern Camargue region to bid farewell to their departing friends, sources said.

It was not clear what had caused the accident.

REUTERS Reut14:56 01-07-07
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FBI Detains 3 Men Trying To Enter Port Of Miami
Jan 7, 2007
The FBI detains three men who were caught trying to enter the Port of Miami.
http://www.local10.com/news/10689907/detail.html?rss=mia&psp=news
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Teen Says She Was Forced to Rob Bank
Jan 7, 2007
On Friday, a 16 year old girl was arrested for <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/486254p-409414c.html">attempting to rob the First Central Savings Bank</a> on Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria. Chrystie Almestica used a note to demand money from a teller and passed the money to an accomplice. Now the teen says <a href=" http://www.nypost.com/seven/01072007/news/regionalnews/pro_thugs_made_me_rob_bank__girl_regionalnews_georgett_roberts____________john_doyle________and_erika_martinez.htm">other robbers threatened to kill her parents if she didn't rob the bank</a>.
The Post spoke to Almestica's Legal Aid lawyer, who said, "She was approached by two known bank robbers. They pulled a knife on her and told her to pass the note. She was scared and her conduct was due to coercion." Apparently other robbers had taken her ID and told her what to say. A Sprint store manager helped chased her after the robbery; from the Post: "I just sprang into action," said the Sprint store manager, who would only say his name was John. "I yelled, 'Freeze - police!' She got nervous. She stopped. I told her, 'Get on your knees, put your hands behind your back.' She didn't put up a fight."
The teen initially claimed she hadn't done anything, but after being told she was caught on tape, she said someone put a knife to her throat and forced her to commit the robbery, the manager said.
"In the beginning, she looked confident, as if she was told what to say," he said. "When I told her she's looking at federal time and she's going to be tried as an adult, she got nervous and started crying." The Post says Almestica faces 9 years in jail. A friend wrote on <a href=" http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=30126946">her MySpace page</a>, "YOOO IS MARY IN JAIL???? DATS THE WORD ON THE STREET"
Recently, the <a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/45905">NY Sun reported</a> that robberies by bank note far outnumbered bank robberies with guns.
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NYC Shipyard Worker Crushed By Metal Plate Dies
Jan 7, 2007
A 51-year-old ironworker who had gone to work on his day off to earn extra cash died Saturday when a massive metal plate weighing thousand of pounds fell and crushed him, police said. Christopher Thomas, of the Bronx, was working at the GMD Shipyard in the Brooklyn Navy Yard just after 10 a.m. when the plate, which was being used to repair a dry-docked barge, came loose and fell.
http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_007132514.html
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Israel rejects report it may attack Iran's nuclear program — with nuclear weapons. (ISRAEL-IRAN-NUCLEAR, 1STLD-WRITETHRU) 2007-01-07 13:03:30
Jan 7, 2007
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Israel rejects report it may attack Iran's nuclear program — with nuclear weapons
Eds: AMs.

By DAVID STRINGER

Associated Press Writer

LONDON (AP) — A British newspaper reported Sunday that Israeli pilots are training to possibly strike as many as three targets in Iran with low-yield nuclear weapons, aiming to halt Tehran's controversial uranium enrichment program.

Israeli officials swiftly denied the report, which comes amid growing global concerns over an Iranian project that Washington and other governments believe is secretly intended to build atomic weapons.

Israel has never confirmed it has nuclear bombs itself, although analysts widely believe the Jewish state possesses a significant stockpile and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates referred to the Israeli atomic arsenal during his recent confirmation hearing.

Citing multiple unidentified Israeli military sources, The Sunday Times said plans had been drawn up in Israel for a potential attack using "bunker-buster" nuclear weapons against atomic facilities at three sites south of the Iranian capital.

The U.S. and its allies suspect Tehran of trying to produce atomic weapons there — and the issue has taken on redoubled urgency because of Iranian leaders' statements calling for the destruction of Israel as well as their recent hosting of a conference at which the Holocaust was questioned.

Though Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has not explicitly ruled out a military strike on Iran's nuclear program, he says the issue should be dealt with diplomatically — and stresses that an Iranian nuclear bomb would be a problem for the entire world, not just Israel.

Some view Israeli officials' occasional implied threats as a means of pressuring the world community to take action itself, building on the recent U.N. Security Council decision to impose some economic sanctions on Tehran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.

Iran claims its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes, including generating electricity, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has condemned the U.N. move as invalid and illegal.

The Sunday Times said Israeli military officials believed Iran could produce enough enriched uranium to build nuclear weapons within two years.

It said Israeli pilots had made flights to the British colony of Gibraltar while training for the 2,000-mile round trip that would be required to reach the Iranian targets.

Israeli pilots conducted a similar raid on Iraq in 1981, destroying a nuclear facility being built by Saddam Hussein's regime.

But Iran's program may be far more difficult to cripple as it is believed to be distributed over many sites and in part deep underground.

Olmert's office and the Israeli military declined to comment on report by The Sunday Times.

But Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev denied the report, saying Israel was supporting diplomatic efforts. "If diplomacy succeeds, the problem can be solved peaceably," he said.

Some analysts viewed the report as another element of a delicate diplomatic dance.

"I refuse to believe that anyone here would consider using nuclear weapons against Iran," Reuven Pedatzur, a prominent Israeli defense analyst and columnist for the newspaper Haaretz, told The Associated Press in Jerusalem. "It is possible that this was a leak done on purpose, as deterrence, to say: 'Someone better hold us back, before we do something crazy."'

Ephraim Kam, a former senior Israeli intelligence official who is now at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Strategic Studies, also suggested the report should not be taken literally.

"No reliable source would ever speak about this, certainly not to The Sunday Times," he said.

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Associated Press writer Matti Friedman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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A minyan in the Senate and three more in the House
Jan 7, 2007
Jewish political activists celebrate largest-ever number of Jewish legislators on Capitol Hill.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1167467675063
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Ehud Barak Enters Labor Leadership Race (7 January )
Jan 7, 2007
Israel's 10th Prime Minister Ehud Barak wants to return to Villa Aghion, the Jerusalem mansion which since 1974 has served as the PM's official residence.
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=118921
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האדמו"ר מזמיגארד זצ"ל
Jan 7, 2007
בבית החולים לניאדו שבקרית צאנז בנתניה נפטר הערב האדמו"ר מזמיגארד זצ"ל, שם היה מאושפז בתקופה האחרונה. האדמו"ר, בן 98, היה נינו של בעל ה'דברי חיים' מצאנז, בן אחר בן. הוא היה נכד בנו הגה"ק רבי ברוך מגארליץ, ובן דוד ראשון של בעל ה'שפע חיים' מצאנז-קלויזנבורג.
http://www.tsofar.com/show_NewsFlash.asp?id=10178
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דחלאן שבר צלע לאחר שההמון עט עליו לחבקו (this is good one didnt find english version)
Jan 7, 2007
מוחמד דחלאן, ממנהיגיה הבולטים של תנועת פתח, שבר היום את אחת מצלעותיו לאחר שעשה את דרכו אל מחוץ להפגנת התמיכה ההמונית ביו"ר הרשות אבו מאזן. ביציאה מאיצטדיון בעזה התגודדו סביב דחלאן רבים מתומכיו שרצו לחבק אותו ולהביע את הערכתם אליו. כתוצאה מהצפיפות הרבה סביב דחלאן הוא נפגע והופל ואחת מצלעותיו נשברה.
http://www.tsofar.com/show_NewsFlash.asp?id=10179
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צרפת: מסוק התרסק לתוך חצר מסעדה והרג שלושה סועדים
Jan 7, 2007
שלושה אנשים נהרגו ורביעי נפצע אנושות, כאשר מסוק התרסק לתוך חצר מסעדה בו ישבו, בכפר סאלן דה ז'ירו, במחוז קמארג בדרום צרפת. טייס המסוק ושלושת הנוסעים שהיו בו יצאו ללא פגע, כך נמסר משירותי החירום שטיפלו בפצועי התאונה. (רויטרס)
http://news.nana.co.il/Common/GeneralModules/Ticker/PopUp.asp?ServiceID=126&ArticleID=421226&FromList=1
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Haredim hop on trend – buy more health products - Ynetnews
Jan 7, 2007
Ynetnews, Israel - 58 minutes ago
Manufacturers Association of Israel: 51 percent of ultra-Orthodox households purchase health products in past year. Twenty percent of them purchase more ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3349295,00.html&cid=0&ei=bSmhRdHMK7iYHJaa3egM
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Yeshiva Bochrim get mugged on Shabbos
Jan 7, 2007
On Friday night five Black males mugged a Yeshiva bochur in Yeshiva Gedolah of Woodlake Village (Lakewood NJ). On Friday night on 15th Avenue and 56th Street. A Yeshiva bochur was attacked by a Spanish male. B"H numerous people held him until police arrived.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=4504
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High Court: Mazuz shouldn't have requested that Metzger resign - Ha'aretz
Jan 7, 2007
Ha'aretz, Israel - 50 minutes ago
High Court of Justice judges on Sunday criticized Attorney General Menachem Mazuz for demanding that Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger resign from his post ...
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Man dies after parachute fails
Jan 7, 2007
A MAN has died after his parachute failed to open during a jump from a helicopter at a dance party in rural NSW.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21025580-5001028,00.html?from=public_rss
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Lawyer Trips Up Escape Attempt
Jan 7, 2007
A quick-thinking assistant city prosecutor uses his quick feet to slow down a defendant trying to escape from court. The defendant was eventually caught and the incident was caught on the court's video surveillance system.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/10682411/detail.html?rss=atl&psp=news
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Rabbi ripped for embracing Ahmadinejad
Jan 7, 2007
... to speak against the unjust Zionist regime." That stance only further infuriates his neighbors in Rockland's massive Hasidic community. Malkie Zamore said she and her husband will be at today's 1p.m. protest outside Neturei headquarters in Monsey. ...
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Jewish community decides to ruin lives of Neturei Karta - Israel Today
Jan 7, 2007
Israel Today, Israel - 23 minutes ago
... "Rabbi" Yisroel Feldman, David Feldman - son of Rabbi Feldman, William Mordechai Weberman, Nachmann Deutsch, Chaim Lefkowitz, Anshy & Chazy Schwartz, ...
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Operation Screwball - Ynetnews
Jan 7, 2007
Ynetnews, Israel - 19 minutes ago
"'Operation Screwball' will legally bring to the attention of the Orthodox Jewish community that a group exists in their midst, claiming to represent them, ...
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Yeshiva expansion plans due for hearing in Cortlandt - The Journal News.com
Jan 7, 2007
The Journal News.com, NY - 31 minutes ago
CORTLANDT - A yeshiva built on the grounds of an old dude ranch is seeking town permission to build new housing and classroom space. ...
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SONY UNIT NAILED FOR 'BIAS' AX
Jan 7, 2007
Sony BMG, the star-studded music giant, discriminated against black employees by laying them off from a Manhattan sales office while keeping all the white employees, a federal agency has found. The company, whose superstar artists include Elton...
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01072007/regionalnews/sony_unit_nailed_for_bias_ax_regionalnews_susan_edelman.htm
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In a high-tech world, Rabbi advises observant Jews how to stay kosher
Jan 7, 2007
... my head to work. I don't want the computer to do the work for me," the white-bearded man says. Yet make no mistake: Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Halperin is the go-to guy for many observant Jews around the world, for he is the man who reconciles the demands ...
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Rotorway Exec Down In Kansas, Two Injured
Jan 7, 2007
Pilot Hears Loud Noise Just Before Mishap A pilot, with a reported 20 years experience flying similar aircraft, and his wife suffered non-life threatening injuries Wednesday in the crash of an experimental, amateur-built helicopter in rural Douglas County, KS.
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?contentBlockId=30a7dd7d-239a-4ac6-9da7-eb4b8918c3ec
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Cops: menorah vandal busted
Jan 7, 2007
A 20-year-old man caught on video delivering a flying kick to an 8-foot menorah in St. James was arrested and charged with a hate crime, Suffolk police said yesterday.
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Israel rejects Hamas video of soldier - source. (ISRAEL-PRISONER) 2007-01-07 03:10:52
Jan 7, 2007
JERUSALEM, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Israel has rejected an offer from Hamas militants of a videotape to prove a soldier held captive in Gaza was alive in return for the release of more than 200 Palestinian prisoners, an Israeli political source said on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he was willing to free Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel for Corporal Gilad Shalit, who was captured last June in a cross-border raid by gunmen from the ruling Hamas movement and other factions.

The source said Hamas had made the offer and that Olmert replied that "for the price they wanted for the tape we said, we would rather receive the person (Shalit)".

The mass-circulation Israeli daily Maariv also said Olmert had refused to free prisoners just for a video of Shalit.

It said it was not the first time the Israeli leader had refused to pay for a sign of life of the soldier, who is widely believed to be alive.

Miri Eisin, a spokeswoman for Olmert, would not comment.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who has been mediating to arrange an Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap, said at a summit with Olmert last Thursday in Egypt he hoped an agreement would be reached soon.

Palestinian armed factions have demanded Israel release more than 1,000 prisoners for Shalit. Israel holds some 11,000 Palestinian prisoners in its jails.

Israel and Western countries have boycotted the Hamas-led Palestinian government that rose to power in March because the Islamist group refuses to recognise the Jewish state.

Last week Israel denied a Hamas assertion that there had been a breakthrough in talks to free Shalit, and would release Palestinians jailed on charges of attacking Israelis.

Israel has in the past refused to free prisoners with "blood on their hands".

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Paradise man pleads not guilty to making terrorist threats
Jan 7, 2007
... Jewish History in Philadelphia. _ A Hilton Hotel in New York City. _ A Weston Hotel in New York City. _ A Jewish synagogue in Southern California. The charges claim there were a total of three calls threatening to set fire to or blow up the Hilton ...
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Bus Rolls Near DIA, 18 Hurt
Jan 6, 2007
A bus slid off the highway sending all passengers to an area hospital Saturday afternoon.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10685840/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news
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Woman Survives Bus Crashing Into Apartment
Jan 6, 2007
Only KFOX can show you what the inside of Carolina Ramos' home looks like now. Slideshow: Bus Crashes Into Apartment Building
http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/10683020/detail.html?rss=elp&psp=news
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Medics 'on break' as man died
Jan 6, 2007
Ambulance crews could not attend to a man who suffered a fatal heart attack as they were on "rest breaks", it emerges.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6237307.stm
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Suspected suicide bomber attacks Sri Lanka bus
Jan 6, 2007
A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew up a bus in Sri Lanka's south coast resort area overnight (NZ time), killing herself and 10 passengers and wounding 50, police said of the second bus attack in as many days.The blast...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10418043&ref=rss
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Castro 'has only months to live'
Jan 6, 2007
THE US intelligence community still believes Cuban leader Fidel Castro is terminally ill and has "months, not years" to live.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21023271-5001028,00.html?from=public_rss
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Athlete stripped of Bahraini citizenship for competing in an ... - International Herald Tribune
Jan 6, 2007
International Herald Tribune, France - 45 minutes ago
Most Arab states do not recognize Israel, and the Jerusalem Post newspaper said Jawher was the first athlete from an Arab country to compete in an Israeli ...
<a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/8-1&fd=R&url=http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp%3Fintid%3D6315&cid=1112432158&ei=fgagRZjdHr-UHImOrOcM">A Bahraini runner won the Tiberias Marathon on Thursday.</a> Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Haredim stone vehicles on Akko-Safed Highway
Jan 6, 2007
Ultra-Orthodox youths hurl stones at vehicles traveling near Bar Yochai community; no suspects detained. 'I wasn't traveling inside an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood or community, so I was startled by the attack,' one driver says
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3349028,00.html
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DENVER AP — Colorado highway officials say a massive avalanche buried several cars in Berthoud Pass about 60 miles west of Denver and sent other vehicles over the edge.. (APNEWSALERT) 2007-01-06 13:30:22
Jan 6, 2007
DENVER (AP) — Colorado highway officials say a massive avalanche buried several cars in Berthoud Pass about 60 miles west of Denver and sent other vehicles over the edge.
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Seeking revival, synagogues embrace the nontraditional
Jan 6, 2007
Rabbi William Gershon of Congregation Shearith Israel says Synaplex is about creating 'points of access.' Instead, they went for a bike ride, talked about Kabbalah or took a yoga class.
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Graffitti Tragging 13 Year Old Killed by LIRR Train
Jan 6, 2007
A young Queens boy was <a href=" http://1010wins.com/pages/178277.php?contentType=4">hit and killed by an oncoming LIRR train</a> near the Forest Hills station yesterday afternoon. Ari Kraft and his friends had been tagging signal boxes when a train headed to Huntington hit him. The police say they had been taking pictures of their work before they crossed the tracks to leave. According to the Daily News, Kraft managed to beat one train on a third track and he thought he was in the clear, but "that train had blocked Ari's view of the eastbound train on the last track."
Friend Diana Samudio who was at the scene spoke to the Post: "We just heard the explosion of the can, and then the ambulance came," said Diana Samudio, 14. "Ari was known for his graffiti. He was really good at it."
Samudio said she often spray painted the walls with Kraft and often did large murals like "Remember 9/11" under the tag name "Corporal."
"He was a good kid. He didn't deserve this," said Samudio. "He did some nice pieces. He was talented." Kraft lived in Rego Park and was apparently <a href=" http://nydailynews.com/front/story/486224p-409322c.html">trying to head home for Sabbath dinner</a>. A neighbor told the Daily News, "[Mother Yaffa Simantov]was very protective. He had a cell phone so she could keep in touch. She would wait outside for him to come home. He was basically a good kid. He was a little wild. . . . Hey, he was 13."
The train had been going 45 miles an hour, with the impact "scattering" the remains. LIRR service was suspended during the investigation for three hours and passengers were reportedly angry about needing to turn back to Penn Station .

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2 accused of sabotaging L.A. traffic lights (what an idea)
Jan 6, 2007
The high-ranking city transit engineers allegedly disabled signals at four busy intersections Aug. 21 during a union contract dispute.
Who greenlighted this traffic-signal project?
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http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/local/~3/71512805/la-me-trafficlights6jan06,1,3113813.story
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In Tel Aviv's Secular Yeshiva, young adults have made Torah study their profession.
Jan 6, 2007
I had known three rosh yeshivas before in my life. I was awestruck by the first, Rabbi Chait.
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From Auschwitz to a lonely end in Newark - Newark Star Ledger
Jan 6, 2007
Newark Star Ledger, NJ - 56 minutes ago
There were prayers from his rabbi, Samuel Bogomilsky, and remembrances from a grand nephew, Dov Mayer Kreitzman, a rabbinical student from Lakewood. ...
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Democrat John Hall sworn in as congressman from 19th District - The Journal News.com
Jan 5, 2007
The Journal News.com, NY - Jan 5, 2007
Hall's well-wishers included four members of the Orange County Hassidic community Kiryas Joel. Ari Felberman, government relations coordinator, ...
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Astronomers discovered 10 billion trillion trillion carat Diamond
Jan 5, 2007
The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. The diamond star completely outclasses the largest diamond on Earth, the 530-carat Star of Africa which resides in the British Crown Jewels.
http://digg.com/space/Astronomers_discovered_10_billion_trillion_trillion_carat_Diamond
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links from all over hydepark (some links can be outdated or broken as hydeparks dates in the rss feeds is screwed up somthings)
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תדהמה: המת נשם בעת הקבורה.
Jan 5, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2122417
הכנסת ס"ת לבית דוד ושאול - בעלזא
Jan 7, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2123325
ניגון "אשת חיל" בערבית
Jan 7, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2123499
מסע כ"ק אדמו"ר מקראטשין ללונדון
Jan 7, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2123380
ברית לנכד הגה"צ אבד"ק באבוב שליט"א
Jan 7, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2022149
04:30 תאונה מחרידה בכביש 6 (horrific pics, they say it was an arab)
Jan 5, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2120030
נס גדול באחוזת ברכפלד - שריפה בדירה ללא נפגעים
Jan 5, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2110089
מנכ"ל חברת אל על בבית הרה"צ רבי ישראל שליט"א
Jan 7, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2123435
11000 ספרים בנט + מנוע חיפוש
Jan 7, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2124109
חתונת סלונים - ראדזי'ן
Jan 7, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2121161
"לא אשרת בצה"ל בגלל בעיות צניעות"
Jan 7, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2123837
הומור תחת החופה :הכלה השיבה לא ,והחתונה בוטלה
Jan 7, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2123741
שוב מלחמה של 'יתד נאמן' במרן הגר"ח קנייבסקי וגדולי ישראל
Jan 7, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2123699
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Shauly Schwarts Chazunas

2007-01-07T11:45:00.001-05:00

all the guys who clapped in the end deserve to be spanked

actually i great chizuk from something like this if i ever lose my job i have something to fall back on

Wednesday #3

2007-01-05T18:42:00.001-05:00

Bar Ilan University "Responsa Project" Goes Online (3 January )
Jan 3, 2007
The world's largest electronic collection of Torah literature is now available online.
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=118692

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ש"ס הצביעה נגד חוק שיאסור טיסות של אל על בשבת (to me this is a bombshell rest assured the local newspapers will milk it for what its worth)
Jan 3, 2007
שס הצביעה נגד חוק שיאסור טיסות של אל על בשבת    דווקא מרצ תמכו בחוק של יו"ר יהדות התורה הקובע כי אסור לחברות התעופה לטוס בשבת  יו"ר סיעת שס: "החוק לא היה עובר ממילא"  רן כהן: "הצבעתנו נבעה מטעות"    פרשת החרדים ואל על מסרבת לגווע. בעוד נציגי הרבנים מנסים להגיע לפתרון עם ראשי חברת התעופה, הביאו היום (ד', 3.1.06) חברי סיעת יהדות התורה לפתחה של הכנסת הצעת החלטה לפיה לא תוכל אל על לטוס בשבת. הקואליציה התנגדה וכך גם נציגי שס. דווקא מרצ תמכה. עולם הפוך, כך כינו הערב בכנסת את ההצבעות בנושא. במסגרת חוק ההסדרים, ניסה יו"ר יהדות התורה ויו"ר ועדת הכספים של הכנסת, ח"כ יעקב ליצמן, להעביר הסתייגות לחוק ההגבלים העסקיים שהייתה אמורה לפתור אחת ולתמיד את סוגיית אל על והשבת. "לא יינתן רישיון למי שמפעיל כלי טיס בטיסה מסחרית ביום השבת", כך בהסתייגות. במידה שהכנסת הייתה מאשרת את הצעת החוק לא הייתה יכולה שום חברה תעופה ישראלית לקיים טיסות בשבת. במידה שהכנסת הייתה מאשרת את ההסתייגות, היה נכנס החוק לתוקפו מייד עם אישורו של חוק ההסדרים, בניגוד להצעת חוק רגילה, שצריכה לעבור את אישור הכנסת בשלוש קריאות. אלא שנציגי סיעת שס, המפלגה החרדית המתנגדת לקיום טיסות בשבת, הצביעו נגד ההסתייגות של ליצמן. יו"ר הסיעה, ח"כ יעקב מרגי, הסביר כי "ההסתייגות הייתה נופלת בכל מקרה. החלטנו להצביע נגדה, כפי שמחייבת עמדת הקואליציה, כיוון שזה לא נכון לעשות את הדבר בכפייה". מרגי, שהוסיף כי הוא נציגו של הרב עובדיה יוסף בכנסת ולא נציגה של אל על, הוסיף ואמר כי "מובן שאנו מתנגדים לקיום טיסות בשבת, אך בימים אלה מנסים הרבנים לעשות זאת בהסכמה מול ראשי אל על". יו"ר יהדות התורה, ח"כ יעקב ליצמן, אמר כי "זו בושה שמפלגה חרדית מצביעה נגד ההסתייגות שהייתה יכולה לשים סוף לפרשת אל על והטיסות בשבת". ההצבעה ההפוכה של מרצ אלא לא רק שס הצביעה בניגוד למה שאולי ציפו ממנה בוחריה. חברי סיעת מרצ הצביעו בעד ההסתייגות, ולמעשה בעד חוק שאמור למנוע טיסות בשבת. חבר הכנסת רן כהן ממרצ הסביר כי סך הכול מדובר בטעות. "הצבענו עם האופוזיציה בכל סעיפי החוק וההסתייגויות ורק לאחר מכן הבנו שהצבענו נגד טיסות בשבת. אנו כמובן מתנגדים להסתייגות הזאת, פשוט לא שמנו לב", דברי כהן.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17137928
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POLICE HUNT GUNMAN IN TACOMA, WASH., SCHOOL SHOOTING THAT LEFT ONE STUDENT DEAD
**Watch FOX News Channel or go to http://foxnews.com for more
Officers have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of a student at Tacoma's Foss High School, says the Tacoma Police Department
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In the face of a billion-dollar surplus, Gov. Eliot Spitzer will nonetheless use his first State of the State address Wednesday to call on the Legislature to reduce spending. "Now is the time to rein in spending and exhibit fiscal restraint, so we can afford these long-term investments for our future," Spitzer was to say, according to an excerpt of his speech.
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הלווית האברך הרב צבי פישמן ז``ל
Jan 3, 2007
הלוויתו של האברך ר` צבי פישמן ז``ל שנהרג הבוקר בתאונת דרכים בסמוך לבית שמש, תצא בשעה 20:30 מישיבת רוז`ין ברחוב מלכי ישראל 40 בירושלים להר המנוחות.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17132066
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Lakewood: Chalitzah takes place
Jan 3, 2007
Yesterday a rare incident took place in Lakewood. Hundreds of Yungerleit gathered to watch a very rare and uncommon Maamed Chalitza take place in Rav Blechs Shul. The Chalitza was done by Rav Blech Shlita.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=4461
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Morgan Stanley sued for age bias. (MORGANSTANLEY/DISCRIM) 2007-01-03 13:15:07
Jan 3, 2007
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Morgan Stanley managing director has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Wall Street bank of firing him because he was too old.
      Edward Sullivan, who worked in Morgan Stanley's retail operations, accused two human resources executives of substituting a "made-up, poison-pen critique" of his performance for legitimate evaluations.
      He said they did so to create a paper trail that ultimately led to his firing last May 13, 10 days before his 56th birthday.
      The Connecticut resident said he had worked for Morgan Stanley for more than 24 years, rising to managing director in 1999, and had been paid as much as $1 million a year.
      Sullivan filed his lawsuit this week against Morgan Stanley and the executives in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
      He is asking for his job back with seniority and benefits, and at least $30 million of actual and punitive damages.
      A Morgan Stanley spokeswoman declined immediate comment.
      Wall Street banks regularly face discrimination lawsuits. In 2004, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $54 million to settle bias charges filed on behalf of hundreds of women.
   REUTERS Reut13:15 01-03-07
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תקלה במסוק גרמה לנחיתת אונס
Jan 3, 2007
אסון כבד נמנע, אחרי שמסוק קרב של צה"ל נאלץ לבצע נחיתת אונס ליד קרית-שמונה. לא היו נפגעים
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/526/411.html
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Survivors from Indonesian ferry accident found alive on oil rig (still finding people)
Jan 3, 2007

Eds: AMs.

AP Photos XVT101, JAK102

By IRWAN FIRDAUS

Associated Press Writer

SEMARANG, Indonesia (AP) — Suyatno spent four days at sea, clinging to his 6-year-old son and praying rescuers would reach them after an Indonesian ferry packed with hundreds of passengers capsized in a violent storm.

"Even though I was weak, I never let go of my boy," said Suyatno after a navy search team found him, his son, Anggi, and 10 other exhausted survivors on an offshore oil rig and brought them to shore Wednesday.

They survived on dry bread and emergency military rations found drifting in the stormy Java Sea, until being picked up some 120 miles from where the ferry went down late Friday.

Authorities say more than 600 people were aboard when the ferry sank after being pounded by waves for 10 hours on its way from Indonesia's section of Borneo island to the main island of Java.

More than 200 people have been found alive, most of them plucked from life rafts or clinging to debris, said Col. Jan Simamora, the head of the search and rescue mission.

People who have something to keep them afloat can survive for days in Indonesia's warm tropical waters and — with only a dozen bodies found so far — Simamora held out hope more people would be rescued.

The exhausted and dehydrated survivors had little to say as they returned to land Wednesday.

Though Suyatno managed to save his son, his 27-year-old wife disappeared in the dark, raging waters as the vessel submerged.

"Where is mother, where is mother?" Anggi cried, sitting on his father's lap but getting no answer.

It was not clear when the father and son reached the rig or how they managed to get there. Many of those rescued clambered into liferafts and took to the sea as the ferry sank.

Survivors recalled the horror of the ferry's last minutes and the struggle to stay alive — and at least two said many of the victims were trapped after 16-foot waves crashed over the deck. The ferry then capsized, taking nearly two hours to go down.

Ribut Rahardjo, 35, a plantation worker, said he smashed a cabin window to escape.

"A crew member gave me a life jacket, I saw my bloody hand before I jumped into the sea," he said from a hospital bed in East Java's provincial capital, Surabaya, after several days adrift at sea without food or water.

"I tied my stomach up very tightly with my belt to reduce the pain from hunger," he said.

Indonesia has been wracked by seasonal storms in recent weeks that have caused deadly landslides, flooding and at least six maritime accidents in different parts of the sprawling archipelago.

Several planes and ships were recalled Wednesday due to poor conditions and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cautioned transportation officials to exert caution in coming days because more high winds and waves were forecast.

He appealed to rescuers to mobilize all possible resources to locate any remaining survivors from the ferry sinking.

Evi Susilowati, a 23-year-old computer student, was the only woman rescued on a raft with 30 men.

She was given the job of rationing the craft's supply of drinking water and sago palm flour, which ran out after two days. On the final day, two exhausted people fell overboard.

"We could not save them," said Susilowati, whose mother and father are missing. "They were young men; I just hope they survive."

Relatives of the missing have converged on hospitals and ports along Java's coast, hoping their loved ones will turn up alive.

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חברון: בסמוך לישוב היהודי נתפס ערבי ובכליו סכין באורך 23 ס"מ - נעצר לחקירה
Jan 3, 2007
http://www.hnn.co.il/index.php?module=news;task=view;id=21446
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National Guard Assists in Haylift for Snowbound Livestock
Jan 3, 2007
Rescue and aid operations were to continue Wednesday as thousands of people still were without power and thousands in Colorado and Plain states; hundreds of cows were reported dead in Kansas.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,240958,00.html
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תפילין גנובות מחפשות בעלי (this is the perfect chaim walder story)
Jan 2, 2007
"גנב האוטובוסים" לא שיער כי מה שיעלה בחכתו בשעת הציד יהיה התפילין  כעת משהתחרט, מבקש הגנב לשעבר להחזיר את ה"אבידה" לבעלים מאת: עידן יוסף   |     |  www.Nfc.co.il   (לתמונה אין קשר לכתבה) תפילין גנובים מעיקים על מצפונו של גנב שהתחרט. הגנב לשעבר היה בעל משפחה, שלפרנסת משפחתו עסק בגניבת חפצים. את החפצים יקרי הערך היה "מוצא" בדרך כלל בתאי המטען של האוטובוסים בהם נסע, ומוכר לסוחר לא יהודי מאזור ירושלים. באחת מ"נסיעותיו" נתפס בשעת מעשה על-ידי אחד הנוסעים שלבש מדים, אך הוא הצליח להתעשת ברגע האחרון ולהימלט מן האוטובוס לא לפני שמרוב בהלה חטף ברגע של אינסטינקט "משהו". משנמלט מהמקום הבחין שבידיו תפילין. סוף גנב לתלייה, ובסופו של דבר נתפס הגנב. האיש ריצה מאסר של חודשים אחדים שבמהלכם התחרט על מעשיו, אולם נושא התפילין הגנובות הטרידו במיוחד. על אף ש"סחר" בעבר בחפצים יקרים, מעולם לא עלה בדעתו, כמי שאמונה בליבו, לסחור בתשמישי קדושה. בבוא יום שחרורו, כך החליט, יעשה הכל להשבת הגניבה, וישיב את התפילין לבעלים. כעת, לאחר שחרורו, מבקש הגנב לשעבר לתקן את אשר עשה ולפצות את קרבנותיו, ובפרט להשיב את התפילין, שאמנם אין עליהן שם, אך בהצגת סימנים יוכל הבעלים לקבל את ה"אבידה" במפעל תפילין בית אל. מייל למסירת פרטי הגניבה: daniel@tefillin.co.il
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Friday #2 (gut shabbos)

2007-01-05T12:59:00.001-05:00

Some of the jewish bloggers might need your help with the shabbos shopping as they are too busy pondering the post article

its time for the post to setup a "Page 7" with yeshiva gossip

[AFP] AUSTRALIA - Australian police say Sydney targeted in terrorist plot [Rocket Launchers]
"Australian police have arrested a man for allegedly supplying five rocket launchers stolen from the military to a suspected terrorist for use in an attack in Sydney"
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/250817/1/.html
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BUSH NAMES RETIRED VICE ADM. MIKE MCCONNELL TO REPLACE JOHN NEGROPONTE AS NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR
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[UPI] EGYPT - Egypt may develop nuclear weapons
"Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that while his country does not want nuclear weapons, it must have the ability to defend itself against nuclear states"
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/17899.html
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[Sapa] SOUTH AFRICA - Railway security guards shot dead at Umlazi
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=294977
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[Dawn] PAKISTAN - Pipeline blown up; 24 held in Dera Bugti
http://www.dawn.com/2007/01/04/top8.htm
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[breakingnews.ie] SPAIN - Basque Airport receives bomb warning
"Basque police searched Bilbao's airport today after receiving a warning call that a bomb had been planted there"
http://www.breakingnews.ie/2007/01/05/story292066.html
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[Sri Lanka Ministry of Defence] SRI LANKA - A Bus bomb kills at least 5 civilians , injures over 50
"The LTTE terrorists exploded a powerful bomb inside a civilian bus in the Nittambuwa town this evening (Friday the 5th of January). According to the available information four civilians have been killed and over 50 others were injured in the explosion"
http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070105_07
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[Argus Leader] MINNESOTA - FBI called after I-90 stop uncovers written threats
"A Minnesota semi truck driver stopped on Interstate 90 last weekend had a journal that made references to shutting down the Minnesota Capitol and sinking an aircraft carrier"
"He was wearing sunglasses while it was still dark," Marienau said. "He would not talk about where he had been the last several days."
"bypassing the port of entry at the Minnesota state line"
"but the truck driver was not arrested"
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070105/NEWS03/701050320/1001/NEWS
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[EuroResidentes] SPAIN - Police find more explosives in Vizcaya
"A metal drum containing 70 kilos of explosives has been discovered next to a parked vehicle in Atxondo, near Durango in Vizcaya"
http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2007/01/police-find-more-explosives-in-vizcaya.html
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[Reuters] AFGHANISTAN - Fifteen Taliban killed in Afghan clash: police
"The chief of police of Helmand province, Mohammad Nabi Mullahkhail, said 15 Taliban, including a district commander, had been killed in the battle on Thursday evening. No NATO or Afghan troops were hurt, he said"
"In a separate incident in Helmand, three Taliban were killed when explosives they were planting went off accidentally"
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-01-05T131115Z_01_SP149508_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-AFGHAN-VIOLENCE-COL.XML
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[The Advocate] CONNECTICUT - Man charged after suspicious package found
"Police arrested a Stamford man last night after employees at a UPS distribution center opened a package and found explosives"
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-nor.ups5jan05,0,2438741.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines
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[Times Union] NEW YORK - Train tanker blaze forces evacuations [Cause unknown]
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=550739&category=REGION&newsdate=1/5/2007
See also http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/your_news/capital_region/default.asp?ArID=201991
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[Villages Daily Sun] FLORIDA - Officials treat 29 for respiratory problems after Summerfield Wal-Mart evacuated
"several people were complaining of itchy throats, breathing difficulty and other symptoms inside the store"
http://www.thevillagesdailysun.com/articles/2007/01/04/news/news01.txt
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[IANS] INDIA - Suspected Kashmiri militant nabbed near Bangalore
"Bangalore police Friday nabbed a suspected Kashmiri militant as he was alighting from a bus near here and seized arms and ammunition from him"
http://www.teluguportal.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=27344
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[AP] NEW YORK - Women facing terrorism charges for white powder incident
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--powderarrests0105jan05,0,379605.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut
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Police seize phony police car in suburbs north of NYC (now thats a real buff)
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--mysterypolicecar0105jan05,0,1578822.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
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[Tampa Bay's 10 News ] FLORIDA - Suspicious explosion at St. Pete food market
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070105/NEWS01/301050010/1075
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Urine Trouble: Thief Nicks Pub Toilet
Jan 5, 2007
A thief who stole a urinal from a pub toilet is being hunted by police.The man went into the Royal Oak pub in Southampton, ordered half a pint of lager then spent 40 minutes expertly taking the white toilet bowl off the wall.
http://www.myfoxal.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=1974020&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1
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Street names a dividing line for Israeli town. (MIDEAST-STREETNAMES) 2007-01-05 06:08:27
Jan 5, 2007

MCT NEWSFEATURES

(HAS TRIM)

By Joel Greenberg

Chicago Tribune

(MCT)

RAMLA, Israel — In this mixed Israeli town of Jews and Arabs, changing a street name can be a loaded subject.

After a group of Arab residents recently wrote to the mayor, Yoel Lavi, asking that Hebrew street names in the old heart of town be changed to Arabic ones, he erupted when pressed on the subject by a local newspaper reporter.

In an outburst laced with expletives, Lavi, who is Jewish, insisted that he did not have to change a street name "because some Jamal or Muhammad wants to change the name."

The Jamal in question is Jamal Salameh, director of a local advocacy group called A-Dar, or The Home, which lobbies for improved housing for Arab residents. The group is leading a drive to change street names and preserve buildings in the old city of Ramla, which was an exclusively Arab town before most residents fled or were expelled in the war that followed Israel's establishment in 1948.

The debate is more than just about street names. It is also about collective memory, heritage, and the place of Ramla's Arabs, who, like the rest of Israel's more than 1 million Arab citizens, are caught between their country of citizenship and ethnic identity.

"I am a Palestinian Arab and want to express my Arab, Islamic, Palestinian culture in the place where I live," Salameh said. "We want recognition as a national minority."

Lavi calls the effort part of a broader challenge to Israel's character as a Jewish and Zionist state.

"Whoever wants to put down roots in this place comes with names and claims rights here," Lavi said. "In a democratic state they have rights as individuals, not as a nation. This is a Jewish state."

The case of Ramla has particular resonance for Arabs because it is the only town in Israel that was founded by an Arab ruler, Suleiman Ibn Abd al-Malik of the Ummayad dynasty, in 716.

After Ramla was captured by Israeli forces in July 1948, most of the Arab residents who had not fled were expelled, and Israeli authorities later settled Jewish immigrants in the empty homes, naming streets after prominent Zionist and Jewish personalities.

Today Ramla has a population of about 70,000, nearly 16,000 of whom are Arab. They are mostly concentrated in two neighborhoods and in the old city, near crumbling centuries-old structures that remain from the town's Arab past.

A-Dar is pressing to renovate the buildings and rename streets in the old city to honor leading Arab literary and historic figures and revive the old Arabic names of two larger roads.

The neglect in the old city is part of an "attempt to erase history," said Dr. Auni Khahil, a physician who is active in A-Dar. "We have an extreme rightist mayor who is not interested in the Arab history of Ramla or in the Arab presence here."

Lavi, a former career army officer, readily acknowledges his right-wing roots, noting that he was reared on the ideology of the Herut movement, the precursor of the rightist Likud Party.

But he asserts that in his 14 years as mayor he has invested in the city's Arab areas, building water, sewage and street lighting projects, upgrading schools and drawing up neighborhood expansion plans.

Lavi points out that in the two Arab neighborhoods outside the old city, streets and schools have Arabic names and that he agreed to alter the name of one road because it runs by a Muslim cemetery. But other changes of street names that commemorate prominent people in Jewish and Zionist history are unacceptable, Lavi said.

"From the Arabs' perspective, this is a stage on the way to establishing Arab autonomy in the State of Israel, and the names are the cradle of autonomy," Lavi said.

Lavi cited a recent policy paper published by Israeli Arab leaders that called for educational and cultural autonomy for Israel's Arabs, and their recognition as an indigenous national minority.

Salameh says Arabic street names would strengthen a sense of belonging among Ramla's Arabs, who have long complained of discrimination in housing plans and in municipal services.

"I lived my whole life on Ghetto Fighters' Street," Salameh said, referring to a street in the old city honoring Jews who took part in uprisings against the Nazis in World War II. "I thought to myself, this is an area with Arab residents, in a city built by Muslims, and the Arab population has no cultural expression. Names, in a symbolic way, can tie people more closely to the place.

"We demand to take part in running the city and in planning the Arab neighborhoods. We want to feel that we are partners, and this can be a first symbolic step."

Although Arabs make up about 20 percent of Ramla's population, there are only two Arab members on the 17-member City Council, a result Salameh attributes to voter apathy, Arab voting for Jewish parties and a large percentage of the Arab population that is under voting age. None of the Arab council members serves on the committee that approves street names.

Changing such names in the old city would not necessarily mean erasing Hebrew ones, because many of the streets are numbered, designated with Hebrew letters that have numerical values. The numbers were assigned because most streets were unnamed when Ramla was exclusively Arab, and neighborhoods were designated by the clan living in the area.

Khahil, the activist from A-Dar, said the name-changing initiative is not meant to deny the historical memory of Israeli Jews but to acknowledge the Arab past lost in 1948.

"I recognize that the Holocaust was one of the greatest crimes in the history of humanity but I ask that Jews living next to me understand that a catastrophe happened to the Palestinians that lived here," Khahil said. "This has to be recognized. If we deny it there won't be a solution."

(EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE)

Although A-Dar made no specific proposals for name changes, Salameh said he would like to see one street, where Arabs live beside a mosque and church school, named after Suleiman Ibn Abd al-Malik, Ramla's founder.

But that would require a change of the current Hebrew name, Hama'apilim Street, which honors tens of thousands of Jews who escaped Nazi persecution in Europe and were smuggled onto the shores of British-ruled Palestine as illegal immigrants.

Lavi, who said his parents came on one of those immigrant boats, staunchly opposes the idea.

"The illegal immigrants risked their lives — some drowned on the way, some were arrested by the British and some were expelled — and because of their courage and devotion I live in a sovereign, independent state," Lavi said. "Why should I change the name? We respect the minority, but our past has to be respected."

Khahil said he wants Ramla to follow the example of Haifa, Israel's third-largest city and a mixed community, where some streets have been renamed to honor prominent Arabs, and cultural activities reflect the city's diversity.

"We're not talking about a revolution," Khahil said. "I just want to preserve my national identity in the State of Israel. Here in this town, I need to feel that I belong."

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Older Dads May Have Autistic Kids
Jan 5, 2007
On Tuesday, December 19, 2006, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University will host an international symposium featuring the foremost authorities in the field of autism presenting on the latest research in the field. ...
http://www.channelhealthdirect.org/2007/older-dads-may-have-autistic-kids/
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Academics fight Iranian threat with new campaign - Jewish Advocate (subscription)
Jan 5, 2007
Jewish Advocate (subscription), MA - 11 minutes ago
Orthodox Rabbi Dan Rodkin of the Shaloh House in Brighton has confirmed that he will conduct a Shabbat sermon on Ahmadinejad's incendiary actions because ...
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A new prayer book has completely sold out since its publication in ... - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jan 5, 2007
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY - 31 minutes ago
The Authorised Daily Prayer Book, or "Singer's Siddur," as it's known, took four years to develop and has a new translation and commentary by UK Chief Rabbi ...
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הרב מצגר: שמח על ההבנה שגילתה אל-על כלפי החרדים
Jan 5, 2007
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Friday #1

2007-01-05T09:10:00.001-05:00

there is a lot more stuff on my list, just didnt get around to check it, will send it later or sunday bli neder

Chassidic teens injured in attack - Australian Jewish News
Jan 4, 2007
Australian Jewish News, Australia - 58 minutes ago
POLICE are investigating an alleged attack on two ultra-Orthodox teenagers, including one who was already on crutches, which may have been motivated by ...
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Houston ten year old accidentally hangs himself while mimicking Saddam's execution - KTRK
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Temple Israel of Hollywood will hold a special service on Jan 12th to celebrate Martin Luther King Day - Jewish Journal
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Cops say Lovee Green was showing anything but love when she swiped a worker's pocketbook in a Port Richmond synagogue.

Green, 41, walked into an office in Temple Emmanu-el on Post Avenue, where the 51-year-old employee and a rabbi were doing clerical work at about 6 p.m. on Dec. 20, cops said.

After Green started begging for alms, the rabbi left the office to get some cash while the worker excused herself to the bathroom.

Green allegedly snatched the worker's purse containing two cellphones, earrings, a necklace, a heart-shaped pendant and a Visa credit card.

She then fled and sold one of the cellphones to an unidentified man.

When the worker called her cell, the man answered and offered to sell it back to her for $45.

She agreed and reported the incident to police, who tracked down Green Tuesday.

A spokesman for Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said Green was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.
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some pics of this weeks mva in monsey
http://www.monsey.mysite.com/small_photo_page_3.html
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Israeli police 'beat' Jew for protesting Arab violence - Jerusalem Newswire
Jan 5, 2007
Jerusalem Newswire, Israel - 16 minutes ago
A Jewish woman was allegedly beaten repeatedly by Israeli police Friday for participating in a march to protest endemic Arab terrorism and criminality. ...
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Sabbath blessing planned for clergy
Jan 5, 2007
Adath Emanu-El synagogue has planned a special Sabbath blessing for its rabbi, Andrew Bossov, and Methodist minister Karen Onesti as the two prepare for their Jan.
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Haredi rabbinic leadership agrees to end unofficial EL Al boycott
Jan 5, 2007
... to not flying on the Sabbath, which has been its policy since 1982. According to the agreement, El Al will appoint a rabbi to decide on instances of a perceived need for flights on Shabbat. The Shabbat flights the first week in December were unusual ...
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ISRAEL: AIRLINE AND ULTRA-ORTHODOX RABBIS END SATURDAY FLIGHTS DISPUTE - AKI
Jan 5, 2007
AKI, Italy - 1 hour ago
In terms of the agreement El Al will appoint a rabbi who will be responsible to approve a Saturday flight only if he regards it a life-saving measure, ...
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El Al, ultra-Orthodox on verge of deal over shabbat flights - Ha'aretz
Jan 5, 2007
Ynetnews</a><a href=" http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/9-0&fd=R&url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/810030.html&cid=1112456878&ei=5kKeRZuvE4rSwQHe2NCzBg">El Al, ultra-Orthodox on verge of deal over shabbat flights</a>
Ha'aretz, Israel - 3 hours ago
El Al airlines executives and representatives from the rabbinical committee for shabbat are very close to signing agreement which will bring the current ...
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El Al Won't Fly on Sabbath Without Rabbinical Dispensation (5 January )
Jan 5, 2007
An agreement has been signed between El Al and representatives of the hareidi-religious public regarding Sabbath flights.
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=118837
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Gush Etzion Residents March Against Hostile Arab Village (5 January )
Jan 5, 2007
Some 150 Jews marched towards the hostile Arab village of Tzurif this morning. "If the police and army won't protect us, we'll have to do it ourselves," they said.
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=118844
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OO cleared of police deception - Optician Online
Jan 5, 2007
Optician Online, UK - 47 minutes ago
... had responded to a Jewish newspaper's interview with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair calling for more Jewish recruits to the force. ...
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Bobover Rebbe in London - Jan 2007 (nice pics)
Jan 5, 2007
http://letz.blogspot.com/2007/01/bobover-rebbe-in-london-jan-2007.html
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El Al Flight Turns Back to JFK Because of Technical Problem - Arutz Sheva
Jan 5, 2007
Arutz Sheva, Israel - 1 hour ago
Since the flight to Israel is a long one, El Al decided, in honor of the Jewish Sabbath, to have the passengers wait until Sunday before boarding a new ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2-0&fd=R&url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3%3Fid%3D118833&cid=1112454267&ei=hzKeRfGOD4WuoQKorbzACw
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E. Village noshery may be reborn as a 3rd Ave. deli - New York Daily News
Jan 5, 2007
New York Daily News, NY - 1 hour ago
The owners of the 50-year-old East Village kosher institution shuttered last year have bid on a new venue near Third Ave. ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/485799p-408994c.html&cid=1112454006&ei=HzGeRcysIIWuoQKorbzACw
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AN ISRAELI BOCHUR IS IN HOSPITAL (never saw this blog but the story sounds legit)
Jan 5, 2007
Thursday afternoon an Israeli bochur who Leann's in the yeshiva was seen walking around the dorm a bit out of it. when a bochur asked if he was OK he saw he had a big black eye so hatzolah was called when they came they realised that it ...
http://yankykop.blogspot.com/2007/01/israeli-bochur-is-in-hospital.html
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2 teens arrested after Jewish school defaced - Denver Post
Jan 5, 2007
Denver Post, CO - 37 minutes ago
... teenage boys in Arapahoe County were arrested on suspicion of spray-painting graffiti, including a swastika, at a Jewish private school, police said. ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2-0&fd=R&url=http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_4953704&cid=1112444086&ei=9w6eRZbBC7-UHJrEzYQI
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Police Clash With Hasidim in Tel Aviv Suburb
Jan 5, 2007
Security officers were assaulted this week by dozens of Orthodox Jews as they attempted to enter a Hasidic-owned hotel in the Tel Aviv suburb of B'nai Brak to track down a Jerusalem man under house arrest ...
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Kalaghoda Encounter (i hope the 2 are not members in the shul)
Jan 5, 2007
... in surprise on hearing the gunfire, only to find an overturned motorcycle near the gates of the Kessenet Eliyahoo Synagogue and the body of the gangster by it bleeding to death. The synagogue is located in a quiet lane behind Rhythm House. The area ...
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Jewish community blooming as Cuba eases restrictions
Jan 4, 2007
... so vital that the Bush administration's tightening of restrictions two years ago on U.S. travel to Cuba have hurt synagogue coffers. 'Before, we'd get maybe 20 visits a day from Americans who'd put money in the donation box. Now, we're lucky to ...
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Baruch Dayan Ha'emes - Rabbi Nosson Vogel OB"M
Jan 4, 2007
With sadness we inform you of the passing on of Reb Nosson (Bobby) Vogel of London at the age 82.

Reb Nosson was a pillar of the Jewish community in England. He was the founder of the Yeshiva Gedola Lubavitch on Kingsley way in London and was known as a Baal Tzedaka and Baal chesed throughout the world. He devoted his life to strengthening Torah and Yiddishkeit everywhere he had the opportunity and with his special warmth, touched the lives of many people. He merited tremendous kiruv from the Rebbe, spent long hours in yechidus and received special assignments to accomplish on many of his travels. In particular, he exemplified the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel and was someone who dearly loved doing a favor for another Jew.

He is survived by his wife and children yibadu l'chaim tovim: Mrs. Freida Zisel Vogel, sons: Dovid Sholom Vogel (London), Nechemiah Vogel (Rochester, NY), Chuni Vogel (Wilmington, DE), Chaim Vogel (London), Nuchi Vogel (London), Moshe Vogel (London) and daughters: Mrs. Hadassah Shur (Yerushalayim), Elyan Vogel (London)

The Levaya will take place on Friday morning in London.

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim. Vehukeetzu Veranenu Shochnay Ufur vehu besochom!

http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=4388
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Decoding Agudah (dov bear has spys its a pity he is using them for agudah stuff)
Jan 3, 2007
A guy I know sweeps up at Agudah headquarters. He was at the door, eavesdropping, when the latest Agudah statement was being written. Here's the subtext according to him: The gedolei harabbonim in Eretz Yisroel (WE DON'T AGREE WITH THEM) have asked us to inform you that they feel that since the lead...
http://dovbear.blogspot.com/2007/01/decoding-agudah.html
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Thursday #3

2007-01-04T18:13:00.001-05:00

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Chile's Jews part of the larger community in Santiago - The Jewish Journal of greater L.A
Jan 4, 2007
The Jewish Journal of greater L.A, CA - 41 minutes ago
In keeping with the Chilean custom, this is an all-volunteer bomba (fire brigade), and each of the company's firefighters is Jewish. ...
http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php%3Fid%3D17059
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State of the State of the State - LoHo 10002 (check the pics, if you do reporting for a while you know yuri yanover, looks like he has a new site, thanks turi love the stanton street shul pics)
Jan 4, 2007
LoHo 10002, NY - 2 hours ago
The local Democratic club (David Weinberger Presiding) arranged for a bus to take local folks up to Albany as guests of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for ...
http://loho10002.blogspot.com/2007/01/state-of-state-of-state.html
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HARRIET MIERS, FORMER BUSH NOMINEE FOR THE SUPREME COURT, RESIGNS AS WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL
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The brilliant streak of light that raced across the sky west of Denver Thursday morning was a Russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere, NORAD and U.S. Northern Command reported.
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Navy plane spots American adrift off Chilean coast, trawler headed for rescue
Eds: UPDATES with Chilean navy plane spotting Barnes, changes dateline, byline.
By EDUARDO GALLARDO
Associated Press Writer
   SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean navy search plane has found an American solo sailor on his disabled yacht off the southern tip of South America and reported his position Thursday to a trawler that was heading to rescue him, the military said.
   Ken Barnes of Newport Beach, Calif., ...
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California Democrat Nancy Pelosi was elected the first female speaker of the U.S. House.
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PRESIDENT BUSH WILL NOMINATE ZALMAY KHALILZAD AS THE NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N., ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED
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PRES. BUSH TO NOMINATE ADM. WILLIAM J. FALLON TO REPLACE GEN. JOHN ABIZAID AT CENTRAL COMMAND; DAVID PETRAEUS FOR GEN. GEORGE CASEY IN IRAQ, ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED
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A rabbi as superhero - the wacky premise of a hit video game - Jerusalem Post
Jan 4, 2007
Jerusalem Post, Israel - 26 minutes ago
To start, Stone attends the congregant's shiva, the traditional Jewish mourning ritual; and, like a Talmudic scholar, he begins to question the widow. ...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fcid%3D1167467664967%26pagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull
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Is Yiddish Becoming More Yiddish? - Algemeiner
Jan 4, 2007
<a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/generic.asp%3FID%3D2776
Algemeiner, NY - 37 minutes ago
In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Yiddish is the language in which one buys milk and says good morning. In Lakewood, New Jersey, Yiddish is the language in which ...
http://www.algemeiner.com/generic.asp%3FID%3D2776
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אולמרט סיים את ביקורו בשארם א-שייח
Jan 4, 2007
אולמרט סיים את ביקורו בשארם א-שייח 22:1304.01.2007 ראש הממשלה, אהוד אולמרט, סיים את ביקורו בשארם א-שייח ועלה על המטוס בדרכו חזרה לארץ. גורם בכיר בלשכת ראש הממשלה, שנמצא אף הוא על המטוס אמר כי אולמרט "לא מתכוון לפטר את עמיר פרץ או להעבירו לתפקיד אחר. הנושא כלל לא עומד על הפרק".
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17165349
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Palestinian security officer killed
Jan 4, 2007
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) - A senior Palestinian security officer was killed in an attack Thursday just moments after pleading for help by phone with a TV station: "They are targeting the house, children are dying, they are bleeding."
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-35/1167942559255350.xml&storylist=international
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PHOTO: CALF WITH TWO FACES BORN IN VIRGINIA...
Jan 4, 2007
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeedPalooza/lwDu/~3/70806419/vabri60101041808
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קרית יואל הצלה באדאנקט זיך פאר ליבאוויטשער
Jan 4, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2122013
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Philly-Bound Plane Makes Emergency Landing
Jan 4, 2007
ALLENTOWN, Pa. The pilot of a Philadelphia-bound airplane reported smoke in the cockpit and landed at Lehigh Valley International Airport, officials said.
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NORAD: 'Meteor Shower' Was Actually Russian Rocket
Jan 4, 2007
What looked to be a meteor shower streaking across the Colorado sky may be man-made. The light show was caught on tape by Airtracker 7 early Thursday morning.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10669866/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news
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Vandals Deface Jewish Cemetery In German Town - Playfuls.com
Jan 4, 2007
Playfuls.com, Romania - 1 hour ago
... Nazi symbols on the wall of a Jewish cemetery and a memorial to euthanasia victims in the eastern German town of Brandenburg, police said Thursday. ...
http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_7459-Vandals-Deface-Jewish-Cemetery-In-German-Town.html
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Messianics Target German Jews - Baltimore Jewish Times
Jan 4, 2007
Baltimore Jewish Times, MD - 4 hours ago
Recently the congregation she visited, Beit Sar Shalom, took a step forward in its mission. Supported by the US-based Chosen People Ministries, ...
<a href="http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/11749/
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Ex-treasurer of ambulance service pleads guilty to theft
Jan 4, 2007
The former treasurer of a Montgomery County ambulance service pleaded guilty this morning to charges that he masterminded the theft of $2.23 million from the nonprofit company and used it to pay for everything from home repairs to his daughter's bat-mitzvah.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/philly/news/16383217.htm?source=rss&channel=philly_news
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Airport battles some Muslim cabbies
Jan 4, 2007
Officials at Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport are proposing stiffer penalties -- including suspension of an airport taxi license -- to Muslim cab drivers who refuse service to passengers toting alcohol or service dogs.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/01/04/airport_battles_some_muslim_cabbies?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News
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מה עשה פרץ אצל המקובל הירושלמי?
Jan 4, 2007
השר שמטפל בנושאים אולי החשובים ביותר בממשלה, מצא זמן לקיים מפגש חשאי עם מקובל ירושלמי מוכר. שר הביטחון עמיר פרץ נפגש היום (יום ה') בחשאי עם המקובל הרב דוד בצרי. הפגישה התקיימה בישיבת המקובלים "השלום" סמוך לשוק מחנה יהודה בירושלים וארכה כחצי שעה. השר פרץ התעקש כי הפגישה תתקיים בארבע עיניים. הגעתו של השר לישיבה עוררה עניין רב באזור החרדי בו התקיימה הפגישה וגררה גל שמועות אודות נושאי השיחה. שיחות ועתיד עם ישראל. השר אורח בישיבה - הבוקר. זוהי הפגישה הראשונה בין השניים. בחצרו של המקובל בישיבת "השלום" אמרו כי יוזם הפגישה הוא השר, וכי בפגישה שוחחו השניים "על המצב של עם ישראל ודברים רוחניים אחרים". הרב בצרי הודיע לפרץ כי הוא מעוניין להתפלל למען עם ישראל בשל המצב הביטחוני. לדברי אנשי החצר לא דובר על שום נושא פוליטי - "לא על מפלגת העבודה או תפקודו כשר או עצה להמשך דרכו הפוליטית".    המקובל הרגיע את השר: גם אריאל שרון נהג לבקר   הרב בצרי גילה לפרץ כי "בעבר גם אריאל שרון נהג לבקר בישיבה פעם בשלושה חודשים, בתקופה שהיה ראש ממשלה" וכי "מאוד חשוב שהעדכונים ימשיכו, לגבי המצב הביטחוני של עם ישראל כדי שיוכל להתפלל לשיפור המצב". אחד הנוכחים בפגישה ציין כי הוא ראה "איש מאמין שמקבל את ברכתו של הרב ואף מנשק את ידו".    המקובל הירושלמי המוכר סרב להגיב לידיעה.    שר הביטחון אישר את קיום הפגישה הבוקר וסיפר: "אין לי היכרות מוקדמת עם המקובל. הוא ביקש לפני חודשיים להכיר אותי ולפגוש אותי והסכמתי". לגבי שמועות לפיהם בשיחה עלתה התייעצות בשאלות ביטחון או פוליטקיה ענה השר: "לא התייעצתי איתו. אין לי מה לעשות? בשום פנים ואופן לא אבקש עצת רבנים לעניינים האלה".
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3348467,00.html
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האדמו"ר מלעלוב בביקור בלונדון
Jan 4, 2007
האדמו"ר מלעלוב שליט"א עושה כעת את דרכו לביקור בזק בלונדון. האדמו"ר טס בטיסת "בריטיש איירויס" למרות ההטבות שמקבל ב"אל על", בעקבות פרשת חילול השבת.   גיסו הגאון רבי שלמה ווסרמן שליט"א, רב חסידי לעלוב, מצטרף לביקור.   הוא ישהה בלונדון עד יום ב' הקרוב.    חסידיו המתגוררים בלונדון ממתינים ושמחים לבואו.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17159127
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Hamas Wants to Swap Video for Terrorists?
Jan 4, 2007
"Ahead of the much-publicized summit between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday afternoon that were due to focus, among other issues, on captured IDF solider Cpl. Gilad Shalit's release, a senior Hamas official said his group was ready to give Israel a videotape of the soldier if it agreed to release Palestinian women prisoners and other detainees," the Jerusalem Post <a href=" http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467656424&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank">reports</a>.
A video in exchange for terrorists? What a joke. Giving a prisoner in exchange for terrorists is bad enough -- it encourages the terrorists to kidnap more Israelis. Giving a video in exhange for terrorists is just a mockery.
So much for Shalit <a href="http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2006/12/is_israels_kidn.html" target="_blank">about to be freed</a>. More <a href=" http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2006/10/soldier_to_be_r.html" target="_blank">"imminent"</a> talk
http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2007/01/hamas_wants_to.html
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60 years after Israel's establishment, only a few dozen Jews remain in Lebanon.
Jan 4, 2007
The Magen Abraham central synagogue is located in the heart of Beirut, not far from the offices of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
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מי זה האברך שליוו היום מישיבת מיר למנוחת עולמים?
Jan 4, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2122154
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מחר בבוקר החלטה סופית בפרשיית אל על!
Jan 4, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2122150
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רובין נגד לנדא: אוסר שימוש במשקאות 'קוקה-קולה'
Jan 4, 2007
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=2118580
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Thursday #2

2007-01-04T12:16:00.001-05:00

[nbc4.com] WASHINGTON D.C. - FBI Envelope May Contain Diet Powder
"Second Incident In D.C. In Two Days"
http://www.nbc4.com/news/10669656/detail.html
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[Reuters] KENYA - Kenya on alert as fighting nears border
"Kenyan soldiers and helicopters bolstered defences at the Somali border yesterday to stop fighting from spilling over after Ethiopian warplanes attacked fleeing Islamists on the other side of the frontier"
http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=247997
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[Arutz Sheva] ISRAEL - Fatah Calls State of Alert as Blood Runs in Gaza
"as killings and kidnappings by Fatah and Hamas terrorists escalate to their former levels. Fatah has declared a state of alert among its ranks"
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=118733
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[Reuters] INDIA - Kashmir militant kills self trying to plant bomb
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-01-04T115521Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-282237-1.xml
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[dpa] AFGHANISTAN - Five Afghan security forces killed in roadside bomb blast
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Five_Afghan_security_forces_killed__01042007.html
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[KUNA] PAKISTAN - Bomb explosion in Pakistan wounds five
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=939422
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[KUNA] IRAQ - 16 people killed in two bomb blasts
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=939365
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[AP] SOMALIA - U.S. on the alert for terrorists trying for escape by sea from Somalia
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/03/america/NA_GEN_US_Somalia.php
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[The Australian] AUSTRALIA - Teacher's 'threats' to attack police
"high school teacher has been accused of threatening to attack Queensland police with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles during raids by al-Qa'ida terrorists"
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21008317-2702,00.html
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[Haaretz] ISRAEL - Four killed, 20 wounded in clashes with IDF in Ramallah
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/809619.html
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[J.M. Berger (opinion)] OKLAHOMA - Congress Investigates Oklahoma City Bomber's Links to Muslim Extremists
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_j_m__ber_061223_congressional_invest.htm
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[Merced Sun-Star] CALIFORNIA - Bomb scare a hoax
"Police ultimately determined a suspicious-looking device found behind a Merced motel Wednesday afternoon was a hoax, probably perpetrated by a homeless person, and not a bomb"
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/multimedia/story/13165364p-13809368c.html
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[KFSN] CALIFORNIA - Teens Caught Throwing Homemade Explosives at Fresno's Federal Building
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=local&id=4902626
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Basque police say they have found car bomb in northern Spain By DANIEL WOOLLS Associated Press Writer
   MADRID, Spain (AP) — The prime minister toured the bombed wreckage of Madrid's airport parking garage Thursday and warned the Basque separatist group ETA that neither the Spanish government nor its citizens will be intimidated.
   Basque police, meanwhile, found about 200 pounds of explosives in an abandoned car near the town of Amorebieta in northern Spain, a police spokesma ...

[Reuters] SPAIN - Car with 90kg of explosives found in Spain
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0104/breaking56.htm
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CITY'S BRAVEST SMOKIN'
By PATRICK GALLAHUE

January 4, 2007 -- The FDNY is burning rubber.

New York's Bravest got to the scene of emergencies a blazing 15 seconds
faster on average last year than in 2005.

In fact, the department celebrated a banner 2006, in which several
statistics, including fires, fire fatalities and false alarms,
dropped............

http://tinyurl.com/yan3ql
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CHIEF OF FDNY'S FLEET PROMOTED
By PATRICK GALLAHUE
January 4, 2007 -- A 38-year member of the city's Bravest who helped bring
the Fire Department's battered marine fleet back to life after 9/11 was
sworn in yesterday as the chief of the FDNY's elite Special Operations
Command.............
http://tinyurl.com/yglj8j
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מטוסו של ראש הממשלה נחת בשארם
Jan 4, 2007
מטוסו של ראש הממשלה, אהוד אולמרט, נחת בשארם א-שייח שבמצרים. אולמרט יוועד בעוד זמן קצר עם נשיא מצרים, חוסני מובארק. (רועי נחמיאס)
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17157743
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an active ongoing search in bnei brak
חיפושים אחר בן 9 שנעדר מספר שעות
Jan 4, 2007
חיפושים נערכים אחר ילד בן 9 שנעדר מהשעה 13:00, החיפושים נערכים בבני ברק ובמקומות נוספים מחשש שהילד עלה על אוטובוס ליעד בלתי ידוע. הילד עם פיגור שכלי קל, שמו יהושע, לבש מכנס חום ומעיל שחור, פיאות ישרות (לא מסולסלות), בתקשור ראשוני ניתן להבחין בפיגור הקל. כל היודע דבר על מקום הימצאו מתבקש להתקשר 1220 מכל טלפון.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17157619

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Thursday #1

2007-01-04T09:23:00.000-05:00

some of you have asked me if its possible to translate the Hebrew parts to english, so the answer is:
obviously not as i am not in the translation business, but i do try to take and english if available or even both if the Hebrew version has more details

something relaxing to start your day with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chexcgrlEVA
some other good ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvOs8A-RTNs
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Winter gives us a cold shoulder
Jan 4, 2007
The city's 22,000 tons of rock salt are languishing, joggers are running through Central Park in shirtsleeves and Brooklyn cherry trees that usually come to life in April are already in full bloom.
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Mullah Omar says hasn't seen bin Laden for years
Jan 4, 2007
Taliban chief adds to mystery over al-Qaeda leader, saying he hasn't seen his ally and fellow fugitive since US-backed forces ousted the Taliban from Afghanistan in late 2001
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3348356,00.html
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Break-in turns out to be sleep-in
Jan 4, 2007
A would-be burglar was busted by a homeowner Tuesday after he allegedly broke into a San Jose house, helped himself to dinner and some booze and then fell fast asleep on the floor.
http://www.broward.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/16380990.htm?source=rss&channel=mercurynews_local
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Spitzer calls for Stewart to be fourth NY Metro airport - Mid-Hudson News
Jan 4, 2007
Mid-Hudson News, NY - 1 hour ago
Albany – Governor Eliot Spitzer Wednesday called for development of Stewart Airport at Newburgh to become the fourth New York metropolitan area airport. ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/3-0&fd=R&url=http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/SWF_Spitzer-04Jan07.html&cid=1112415537&ei=Ef2cRbbnPIKsoQKQqc3SBw
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Which flights are always late? Delta partners, NYC airports top ... - USA Today
Jan 4, 2007
USA Today - 30 minutes ago
In fact, 78% of the nation's most-chronically delayed flights were either to or from the three New York airports -– Newark, LaGuardia and JFK. ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2-0&fd=R&url=http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/2007/01/delays.html&cid=1112400288&ei=Ef2cRbbnPIKsoQKQqc3SBw
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Israeli Knesset passes 2007 budget - Monsters and Critics.com
Jan 4, 2007
Monsters and Critics.com , UK - 27 minutes ago
The two parties respectively received another 260 million shekels for ultra-Orthodox religious seminaries, and some 190 million shekels for the Jewish ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1239594.php/Israeli_Knesset_passes_2007_budget&cid=0&ei=XvacRduWEsySHfG4jewG
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What Postal Privacy?
Jan 4, 2007
Think you're the only one reading your mail? Think again. The federal government reportedly now has the authority to open your mail without a judge's warrant under emergency conditions. President Bush signed the bill into law last month.
http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=1959993&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.1.1
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NTSB: Pilot Error Caused Blair's Plane Incident
Jan 4, 2007
http://www.local10.com/news/10668982/detail.html?rss=mia&psp=news
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No date for hanging Saddam's aides
Jan 4, 2007
By Ibon Villelabeitia (04/01/2007 12:31:39)
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=5054&articleid=1956204
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Two die in coach crash near Heathrow
Jan 4, 2007
LONDON (Reuters) - Two people died and nine were seriously injured when a coach overturned on a motorway slip road near Heathrow airport, police said on Thursday. (04/01/2007 12:31:39)
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=5054&articleid=1955532
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Libraries' homebound services bring joy to users - The Journal News.com
Jan 4, 2007
The Journal News.com, NY - 1 hour ago
Since she broke her hip four months ago, Dorothy Mayhew has been restricted to her home in Monsey. As tiresome as that is, it could have been worse if ...
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Wheel scare halts Fung Wah bus trip
Jan 4, 2007
A set of rear wheels loosened on a Boston-bound Fung Wah bus yesterday, barely hanging on the coach after it had traveled nearly 200 miles at highway speeds on an early-morning trip from New York.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/01/04/wheel_scare_halts_fung_wah_bus_trip?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News
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How Fast?! Cabbie's 420mph Ticket
Jan 4, 2007
A cab driver has been accused of speeding in his Vauxhall Cavalier - at 420mph!Tom Matthews was snapped in his 12-year-old car in a 30mph zone.
http://www.myfoxaustin.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=1959631&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1
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Mystery deepens over missing plane
Jan 4, 2007
... a top aviation official said Thursday, adding to the mystery surrounding its disappearance. A Singaporean air force plane joined the massive land and sea search for the Boeing 737, which got off to a bad start when authorities wrongly stated Tuesday ...
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Indonesia Jet Did'nt Send Distress Signal (how many times can you change a story?)
Jan 4, 2007
0103dvs-ind-plane-crash An Indonesian jetliner that vanished with 102 people aboard did not issue distress signals or report any mechanical problems, a top aviation official said Thursday, contradicting earlier reports. Meanwhile, a fleet of aircraft ...
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US, Singapore join search for missing Indonesian plane
Jan 4, 2007
... hampering the search for the plane, officials said. A helicopter was forced by poor conditions to make an emergency landing Thursday, a day after a plane did the same. Four navy warships carrying divers were using sonar to try to detect any plane ...
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Rockland's Holocaust Museum and Study Center hires new executive ... - The Journal News.com
Jan 4, 2007
The Journal News.com, NY - 33 minutes ago
SPRING VALLEY - The Holocaust Museum and Study Center's new executive director is a rabbi, an attorney and the leader of a West Coast Jewish organization. ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20070104/NEWS03/701040380/1019/SPECIAL02&cid=0&ei=t-acRZGCF4vCwQGH3vn-Bg
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NYPD Heroes Deliver Baby In Subway - WCBS-TV New York
Jan 4, 2007
WCBS-TV New York, NY - 50 minutes ago
(CBS/AP) BROOKLYN A newborn baby girl has some New York City police officers and a bystander to thank for a safe delivery -- in the subway. ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_004052600.html&cid=1112429047&ei=tOacRdGaEcPkwgGCyYyDBw
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פרשת חילול השבת ברכבת ישרא
Jan 4, 2007
ערבים יבצעו עבודות רכבת ישראל בשבת זאת, בעקבות קריאתו של הרב יעקב יוסף להחרים את רכבת ישראל: "חילול השבת גורם לתאונות הרכבת" פיתרון זה עשוי לפתור גם את בעיית חילול השבת הקבועה <a href= http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=16929247 target=_blank>שנחשפה</a> כאן ב'און ליין חדשות בזמן אמת', במידה ואכן יבצעו אותו גם לעניין זה.    ברכבת ישראל הוחלט להעסיק ערבים לביצוע עבודות מפלסיות בשבת, לאחר שבתחילת השבוע אמר בנו של הרב עובדיה יוסף, כי תאונות הרכבת נגרמות בגלל חילול שבת. הטענה באה בעקבות הידיעות שברכבת ישראל הוחלט לעבוד גם בסופי שבוע, <a href= http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=16785646 target=_blank>בשביל לבנות הפרדות מפלסיות</a> בעשרות אתרים.   בגלי צה"ל דווח, כי הרב יוסף, שנחשב לאחד מחשובי הרבנים בירושלים, אמר בשיעורו האחרון, כי מאז שרכבת ישראל החלה לחלל שבת היא הורידה את ההגנה והשמירה ולכן מתרחשות התאונות. לפיכך, טען יוסף, הנסיעה כיום ברכבת ישראל היא בחזקת סכנה ואסור להשתמש בשירותיה.   בשל איומים אלו של הרב יוסף וההשלכות הצפויות בעקבותיהם, חתרו בימים האחרונים ברכבת ישראל למצוא פתרון לבעיה שתמנע חילול שבת ברכבת ישראל. לבסוף, הושגה הפשרה ומנכ"ל הרכבת עופר לינצ'בסקי סיכם עם שרי התחבורה והתמ"ת שעובדים ערבים יבצעו את ההפרדות המפלסיות בסופי שבוע.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17149679
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FLA.'S GOV. DENIES RUDY 'LEAK' ROLE
Jan 4, 2007
Aides to Florida's new governor confirmed yesterday that a Rudy Giuliani staffer left a bag behind on their plane last fall, but insisted they had no role in exposing the ex-mayor's secret campaign dossier.   "The bag was left on one of our planes...
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01042007/news/nationalnews/fla_s_gov__denies_rudy_leak_role_nationalnews_maggie_haberman.htm
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9 MORE BONES IN WTC HUNT
Jan 4, 2007
Nine more human bones were found yesterday in the city's ongoing search for remains of Sept. 11 victims missed in the initial cleanup after the attacks.   Five bones were found in debris from the World Trade Center site at a Brooklyn facility...
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01042007/news/regionalnews/9_more_bones_in_wtc_hunt_regionalnews_.htm
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Odds and Ends
Jan 4, 2007
Students in a Hebrew class in Akron, Ohio, are hoping to collect 13 million pennies – one for each person killed in the Holocaust.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/16381586.htm?source=rss&channel=journalgazette_news
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משפטו של ולס יתחדש בחודש הבא
Jan 4, 2007
משפטו של ולס יתחדש בחודש הבא ישראל ולס, בן 19 מירושלים מואשם בהריגת בנו בן ה-3 חודשים. המשפט יתחדש לאחר ששופטת קבעה כי הליך הגישור נכשל   משפטו של הצעיר ישראל ולס המואשם בהריגת בנו התינוק יתחדש בחודש הבא בבית משפט המחוזי בירושלים. כך החליטה השופטת חנה בן עמי לאחר שנכשל הליך הגישור הפלילי בין התביעה להגנה. בקול ישראל דווח כי פרקליטיו של ולס חושבים שהליך הגישור טרם מוצה.    ולס שהה במעצר בית אצל סבו וסבתו מאז ששוחרר ממעצר.    ולס, אברך חרדי בן 19 מירושלים, מואשם כי הרג את בנו בן שלושת החודשים במכות בחודש אפריל האחרון. לאחר מות בנו הודה ולס כי התעלל והיכה את בנו, ואמר כי ייתכן שהחבלות בראשו של התינוק, אשר גרמו ככל הנראה למותו, נגרמו עקב טלטול התינוק.    מאוחר יותר חזר בו ולס מהודאתו, בטענה שההודאה הושגה באמצעים פסולים. ולס טען כי חוקרי המשטרה הפעילו עליו מערכת לחצים קשה ואיימו עליו כי לא יוכל לבקר את בנו, שהיה מאושפז אז במצב קשה בבית חולים, אם לא יודה.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17148528
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אגד: צמצום זמני הנסיעות למנוע חילול שבת
Jan 4, 2007
אוטובוס מוקיר שבת    בעקבות דרישת החרדים החליטו באגד לצמצם את זמני נסיעות האוטובוסים בסוף השבוע, כדי למנוע חילול שבת     הכוח הצרכני של החרדים שוב מוכיח את עצמו. בעקבות דרישות החרדים החליטו באגד לצמצם את זמני נסיעות האוטובוסים בירושלים בסוף השבוע כדי למנוע חילול שבת. בעקבות ההחלטה יידחו זמני יציאת האוטובוסים במוצאי שבת, וביום שישי הם יסיימו לפעול מוקדם יותר. מעכשיו, קווי האוטובוסים העירוניים בבירה יחלו לפעול כ-45 דקות לאחר צאת השבת - רבע שעה מאוחר יותר ממה שהיה נהוג עד כה. ההחלטה התקבלה לאחר שהחרדים דרשו כי נהגי אגד לא יחללו שבת ולא ייצאו לתחנות לפני צאת השבת. המועד החדש נקבע מכיוון שהוחלט שזהו פרק הזמן המינימלי הדרוש להגעת הנהגים לחניוני אגד לאחר צאת השבת, הכנת האוטובוסים לנסיעה והיציאה לתחנות האיסוף. אוטובוסים בקוויים בין-עירוניים יחלו לפעול כשעה ו-20 דקות לאחר צאת השבת-20 דקות מאוחר יותר ממה שהיה נהוג עד כה. בנוסף הוסכם גם על הקדמת מועד סיום פעילותם של האוטובוסים הן העירוניים והן הבינעירוניים בימי שישי כדי למנוע מצבים שבהם בעקבות תאונות או עיכובים אחרים בדרכים ייגרם חילול שבת. בעיתון החרדי "המודיע" דווח כי הנסיעות בקווים מירושלים ייפסקו שעתיים לפני כניסת השבת. דובר 'אגד', רון רטנר, הסביר כי "המשתמשים החרדים מהווים נתח גדול מכלל הנוסעים באגד" וכי לא הגיעו תלונות של נוסעים חילוניים בשל צמצום זמני הנסיעות. "אינני מתעסק בדברים היפותטיים", אמר רטנר, "אם תהיה תלונה של מאן דהוא, פלוני חילוני שייטען שההקדמה של דקות ספורות פוגעת בו אנחנו נמצא את הדרך להעביר לו את הדברים כדי שיבין שהדבר כלל ועיקר לא פוגע".
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17148372
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בת 4 וחצי מבני ברק מתה הלילה מחנק
Jan 4, 2007
ילדה בת ארבע וחצי מבני ברק, שלקתה בקוצר נשימה חריף, מתה מחנק של הפרשות. אתמול מת בנסיבות דומות פעוט בן שנה וחצי מגן יבנה.
http://www.tsofar.com/show_NewsFlash.asp?id=10048
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רכבת אווירית למצרים:
Jan 4, 2007
תצא מיום שלישי ואילך לציונו הקדוש של קדוש ישראל ותפארתו מרן האביר יעקב רבי יעקב אבוחצירא זצו``קל זיע``א בראשות רבני משפחת אבוחצירא ובראשם האדמ``ור רבי יחיאל אבוחצירא רב העיר רמלה ובנו של בבא חאקי זי``עא*שופץ קבר הצדיק במצרים ע``י המליונר רייענט בתיווכו של כ``ק האד``מור רבי דוד חי אבוחצירא מנהריה שלי``טא.*בישיבת אור דוד בבני ברק תתקיים ההילולא במעמד הרב דניאל זר שלי``טא *בישיבת אור החיים בירושלים במעמד הרב ראובן אלבז שלי``טא.במעמד גדולי ישראל פרטים בהמשך*
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17148149
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Religious MKs vs. Israel Railways Construction (4 January )
Jan 4, 2007
The religious MKs are steaming at Israel Railways for massive Sabbath desecration, discrimination against Sabbath observers, and the use of old-fashioned and dangerous construction methods.
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=118745
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טיסה מנתב"ג לבריטניה מתעכבת
Jan 4, 2007
טיסת נוסעים של חברת התעופה 'בריטיש איירוויס' שתוכננה לצאת הבוקר מנתב"ג לבריטניה מתעכבת ומאות נוסעים ממתינים, כך נודע ל'<a href= http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/userCommunaMsges.asp?Communaid=2986 target=_blank>חדשות און ליין</a>'.   טיסה 162 של חברת התעופה 'בריטיש איירוויס', שתוכננה לצאת הבוקר (ה') מנמל התעופה בן-גוריון ללונדון שבבריטניה, מתעכבת ומאות נוסעים ממתינים במקום, כך נודע ל'<a href= http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/userCommunaMsges.asp?Communaid=2986 target=_blank>חדשות און ליין</a>'.   לנוסעים נמסר כי הטיסה מתעכבת בשל תקלה באחד מחלקי המטוס, וכי רק בשעה 20:00 בערב יוכל המטוס להמריא לדרכו. נוסעים סיפרו כי רק כאשר הגיעו לנתב"ג ועברו את הבדיקות הביטחוניות והחתמת הדרכונים נאמר להם על העיכוב הארוך. לדבריהם, כעת אמנם הוצע להם מחברת התעופה אירוח במלון עד לטיסה, אולם כל זה אינו יכול לפצות על העיכוב בכ- 12 שעות - בהתראה כה קצרה.   יצויין, כי בטיסה המתעכבת ישנם ישראלים רבים, ובתוכם חרדים שהחליטו לטוס הפעם בחברת התעופה הבריטית בעקבות פרשת חילול השבת של חברת התעופה 'אל-על'.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17147617
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FDNY finally fine-tunes its radios
Jan 4, 2007
Firefighters, cops and the Office of Emergency Management will finally be on the same channel, thanks to a new radio that was shown off yesterday by city Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/485530p-408790c.html
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Millennium bomber changes story about friend
Jan 4, 2007
... stopped cooperating in 2003. As a result, federal prosecutors said, they had to dismiss indictments against two alleged terrorists: Samir Ait Mohamed, who Ressam had said once planned to detonate a gasoline truck in a Jewish neighborhood in ...
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Land-use plans demand guidance, cooperation - Times Herald-Record
Jan 4, 2007
Times Herald-Record, NY - 1 hour ago
... for a community that has a clear and consistent vision of how it believes land should be developed, look no farther than the Village of Kiryas Joel. ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20070104/OPINION/701040303&cid=0&ei=PrmcRdvFJ4WkpQKR9rDXBw
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Chabad women's group looks to build on its success - Times Herald-Record
Jan 4, 2007
Times Herald-Record, NY - 1 hour ago
She is a talented mother and wife who is married to Rabbi Pesach Burston, who leads a Chabad group in Orange County. She welcomes new members. ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2-0&fd=R&url=http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20070104/LIFE/701040323&cid=1112424982&ei=PbmcRdqUBYKsoQKQqc3SBw
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2nd Avenue Deli May Move Uptown on 3rd - New York Sun
Jan 4, 2007
New York Sun, NY - 2 hours ago
Mr. Levin said he did not know if the new establishment would be kosher. "The applicant provided an extensive menu to show us this would primarily be a food ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.nysun.com/article/46093&cid=0&ei=KLmcRfWdCYXOpwLYk5zaBw
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ים רח אחינועם 18 שריפה בדירה
Jan 4, 2007
ללא נפגעים.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17143778
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Iran leader: I believe Israel will soon collapse
Jan 4, 2007
Ahmadinejad launches new verbal attack against Israel, says 'The Holocaust was fabricated by the West in order to reach its goals'
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3348185,00.html
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One Dead And Dozens Hurt In Coach Crash
Jan 4, 2007
One person has been killed and dozens injured in a coach crash on the M4 motorway.Fire crews used cutting equipment to free 36 people from the National Express bus, which overturned.
http://www.myfoxaustin.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=1958385&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1
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Doctor donates millions again, this time to Jerusalem - KGET 17
Jan 3, 2007
KGET 17, CA - 1 hour ago
Levan donated $5 million to a hospital and university in Jerusalem. His donation will help build a pediatric ophthalmology unit and a humanities center at ...
<a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2-1&fd=R&url=http://www.bakersfield.com/102/story/92405.html&cid=1112421724&ei=EoWcRcvQO6LIwAH544iEBw">Doctor donates another $5 million</a> Bakersfield Californian (subscription)
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Two Mikvehs in Works for Dayton Community
Jan 3, 2007
Jewish Dayton Elevation of Ritualarium Society mikveh
Dayton, OH — Plans are underway for two new mikveh buildings in the Miami Valley: one in Harrison Township, the other in Oakwood.

At the Oakwood Planning Commission's public hearing on Dec. 13, the owners of Sugar Camp, Oakwood Investment Group, presented their site plan for the property, including a new building for a mikveh. The proposed site of the 1,000- to 1,200-square-foot mikveh building — within the area zoned for religious use that includes Beth Abraham Synagogue's future home — is near Sugar Camp's west gate at Schantz Ave.

This comes just weeks after the Dayton Ritualarium Society cleared land for its new 2,300-square-foot mikveh building in the parking lot of Beth Jacob Congregation on North Main St. in Harrison Township.

In accordance with halacha (Jewish law), a mikveh is a ritual bath where observant, married women cleanse themselves after their monthly cycle. The mikveh is also used for conversions to Judaism. Though not required by Jewish law, some men immerse themselves in the mikveh as a spiritual exercise.

The Ritualarium Society announced in January 2005 that it would move to Beth Jacob's campus; this was based on a vote of its members in 2002 to relocate its mikveh from the current Dayton View site to a location in the suburbs north of Dayton. The society has entered into a 50-year lease with the congregation, with payment of $1.00 a year.

Chana Fox, a volunteer with the Ritualarium Society, said she expects to receive a building permit for the north mikveh from the Montgomery County Building Department in early January.

"The ground-breaking is weather dependent," Fox said. "We want to have the permit in hand." She hopes the mikveh will open in time for the High Holy Days.

Development of the Sugar Camp mikveh is dependent on the site plan recommendation of the Oakwood Planning Commission and site plan approval by the Oakwood City Council.

Earl Reeder Associates of Dayton is the architect for the Ritualarium Society's $300,000-plus project. The Sugar Camp mikveh's architect is Larry Norris of Cincinnati; its cost is estimated at $250,000. Both facilities' plans include separate baths for men and women.

It is not known at this time who will have ritual oversight of the mikveh planned for Sugar Camp.

Rabbi David M. Sofian of Temple Israel said he has been involved with Rabbi Nochum Mangel of Chabad of Greater Dayton in the development of a Jewish community board to possibly oversee the mikveh at Sugar Camp.

"I support the idea of a mikveh at Sugar Camp," Sofian said. "I'm all for a mikveh that is more central to the entire Jewish community."

Sources close to the projects hope that one Jewish community board will ultimately oversee the two mikveh buildings.

"Hopefully it will be worked out in a way that is best for the community," Sofian said.

"The Dayton Ritualiarium Society would be happy to start on a second mikveh project when we get finished with this one," Fox said.

Preliminary rendering of proposed mikveh at Sugar Camp

http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=4369
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Gourmet Glatt Reopens - New York Jewish Week
Jan 3, 2007
New York Jewish Week, NY - 1 hour ago
And in a rare acknowledgement, one prominent Orthodox rabbi admitted there had been "missteps" by the board and that it should "take stock in what we did. ...
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IAF Helicopter Forced into Emergency Landing (04:52 4.01)
Jan 3, 2007
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=118714
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Tax Authority head, senior officials probed over bribes - Globes
Jan 3, 2007
Globes, Israel - 2 hours ago
... The police recommended indicting Karashi and his associates for forging hundreds of documents with the names of yeshiva students in order to promote their ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1-0&fd=R&url=http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/DocView.asp%3Fdid%3D1000168529%26fid%3D1725&cid=0&ei=0GucRa7yN4zMHMycsMYG
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Saddam's execution a warning to Ahmadinejad, says chief rabbi - Australian Jewish News
Jan 3, 2007
Australian Jewish News, Australia - 1 hour ago
... He also affixed a mezuzah to the new $1.5-million kitchen at Sydney's Yeshiva in Bondi, as well as attending several other Yeshiva-related functions. ...
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Rabbi David Barbalatt, 70 - New York Jewish Week
Jan 3, 2007
New York Jewish Week,  USA - 48 minutes ago
Rabbi David Barbalatt, an educator and cantor for four decades at several synagogues in the New York area, died last week at 70. ...
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No sanction on officer who gave false information on missing plane: Indonesian military
Jan 3, 2007
... Wednesday. "He only carried out his duty. He just gave information on search and rescue efforts to find the missing plane," Antara news agency quoted Indonesian Air Force (TNI AU) headquarters' information office head Commodore Daryatmo as saying. ...
http://topix.net/r/0yYp0xIuADaKZNhMvxumY2UwJIwP95SSSNmI1l=2BcADmnJrULPVxHqiFUEQJzMVlFsoYKEoYPcvgJ2vTu3LXKn6ohFt532osueVOhUAiqtK=2F=2B44=2Fog1eZXCFNVFDXQKllUF9ZnOwV7vMwajX0TEtReHCZ9Wjezjw8ydYnR=2ByMfai2QqcFcBzw=2BcqjC5V87j=2B7v5sBpI7h1u31Yse7vaFBq9Q=3D=3D
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Five injured in accident involving ambulance
Jan 3, 2007
An ambulance carrying a mother and her newborn baby crashed into a minivan on the way to the hospital. Five people were injured, but the baby was unharmed.
http://www.news10now.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=91077
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Hirchson suspected of fraud cover-up - Globes
Jan 3, 2007
Globes, Israel - 1 hour ago
Investigators of the Tel Aviv Police Fraud Unit today arrested five former employees of the Jewish Youth for Israel NGO ("Nili" in Hebrew), affiliated with ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1-0&fd=R&url=http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp%3Fdid%3D1000168668%26fid%3D942&cid=1112383409&ei=KEecRZT0OYrSwQHT9N3GDg
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Schmaltzmobiles Coming Soon
Jan 3, 2007
In Missouri two nice boys, Jerry Bagby and Harold Williams, are making biodiesel from schmaltz, Yiddish for chicken fat, which used to be considered a yummy treat to spread on toast.
http://topix.net/r/0yYp0xIuADaKZNhMvxumY2Z1T1s2Xbp8DCC2VIWjs8wWAcINgw9t6MNpjh5IE82B4MKmUSr5oMQBEDmTXqUTeTGDURXW90=2BCwhxQuIRD2l9wNhsGpFXimYIMK9s1eqP2h
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Grandmother surfs to YouTube stardom - Montreal Gazette
Jan 3, 2007
Montreal Gazette, Canada - 14 hours ago
The clip was taped and posted by Tennenhaus's grandson, Shmuel, over the holidays. The 26-year-old Florida-based Internet-marketing consultant was visiting ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4-0&fd=R&url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html%3Fid%3D795f0a03-200d-4452-8eba-b40dbaefc5a9%26k%3D77455&cid=1112403665&ei=Jz-cRcLjOMSGwwHX6tnJDQ
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Game over - Newton TAB
Jan 3, 2007
Newton TAB, MA - 1 hour ago
Over the summer, Hannon tried to sell the property to a Hasidic Jewish organization for use as a camp and when the deal fell through, Hannon looked to the ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.townonline.com/newton/homepage/8999027936300367871&cid=0&ei=IT-cRazMJYuOwQGDvOG-DQ
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Thieves target ambulance as crew answers 999 call
Jan 3, 2007
POLICE condemned the "appalling" behaviour of thieves who broke into an ambulance to steal a satellite navigation system while the crew was answering an emergency call. (03/01/2007 08:08:57)
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=1084&articleid=1953122
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Toyota Developing Breathalyzer To Automatically Shut Down Car If Driver Is Drunk...
Jan 3, 2007
Toyota Motor Corp. is developing a fail-safe system for cars that detects drunken drivers and automatically shuts the vehicle down if sensors pick up signs of excessive alcohol consumption, a news report said Wednesday.
Cars fitted with the detection system will not start if sweat sensors in the driving wheel detect high levels of alcohol in the driver's bloodstream, according to a report carried by the mass-circulation daily, Asahi Shimbun.
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http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/huffingtonpost/LatestNews/~3/70110086/toyota-developing-breatha_n_37675.html
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Wednesday #2

2007-01-03T11:35:00.000-05:00

(please help me with this one is this a joke or what? i am sure you all know or heard from "Itzhak Schier"
if not check frumspace.com, now about the article i agree with 2nd half the 1st part i dont understand yet
i can only wish him lots of luck)
The Million Word Site: An Unlikely Revolutionary and his Online ... - PR.com (press release)
Jan 3, 2007
PR.com (press release), NY - 1 hour ago
Itzhak Schier, a/k/a ZiQui Million (pronounced in Cuban revolutionary style as Zee-KWEE mil-YONE), is a Chabad-Lubavitch Chassid from Crown Heights, ...
http://www.pr.com/press-release/26130
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White House Orthojew Special: The Presidential Negiah Police
Jan 3, 2007
<a href="http://www.ou.org/public_affairs/weblog_single/9232">Lauding the religious sensitivities White House Neginah Police</a>: The event is a true testament to what a welcoming country the United States is for Jews. As if having such a party were not enough, the reception is catered fully kosher and finds a military band playing appropriate Chanukah music. Also, in a remarkable act of religious sensitivity, an aide asks of the men and women standing in a receiving line to meet the President and First Lady whether they wish or do not wish to shake hands their host of the opposite gender. "Only in America" as the cliche goes. Actually, I would have less difficulty reaching back to shake the hand of the First Lady than to shake the hand of her husband
http://atowncrier.blogspot.com/2006_12_31_atowncrier_archive.html#116783443311953209
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Borough Park Riot Lawsuit Over Police Brutality (same story with all the history)
Jan 3, 2007
Remember last year's <a href=" http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/04/05/protest_over_ce.php">crazy Borough Park riot</a> when police arrested a 75 year old Hasidic man for talking on a cellphone while driving? The police tried to arrested Arthur Schick, who resisted, and other Hasids got involved, started a protest and fires and trapped a cop in a car? Many Hasids were arrested, two cops were injured, and there were claims that <a href=" http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/04/06/borough_park.php">police used racial epithets</a> ("This is how we treat niggers" and "Get the f---ing Jews out of here") during the incident. Well, now one of the Hasidic men arrested is <a href=" http://www.nypost.com/seven/01032007/news/regionalnews/11_mil_in_torn_beard_arrest_regionalnews_alex_ginsberg.htm">suing the NYPD for $11 million</a>.
The Post reports that Chaim Appel's court papers say "he was tossed against the hood of a car, his face bruised and his glasses smashed, before he was cuffed and hauled off to jail while his 9-year-old son looked on." And what's more, a sergeant allegedly partially yanked his beard off (ouch!). Apple's lawyer, who says Appel and his son were pushed into the crowd, added that everyone points him out as the man who got "arrested during the riots," causing him great embarrassment.
The police contended that Appel tried to trip the sergeant, Thomas Gulotta, but the Brooklyn DA's office ended up dropping charges against Appel. And since discussions wiht the Civilian Complaint Review Board led to nothing, Appel is suing.
Last year, the Observer's Jason Horowitz had an <a href="http://www.observer.com/20060417/20060417_Jason_Horowitz_politics_newsstory1.asp">interesting article about the Hasidic community after the riot</a>.

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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gothamist05/~3/70240424/borough_park_ri.php
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Big fish behind mining minnow - The Australian
Jan 3, 2007
The Australian, Australia - 49 minutes ago
Mr Scheinberg once famously had a dispute with Joseph Gutnick, himself a well-known mining entreprenuer, over debts owed by the Yeshiva College in Sydney. ...
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21008573-643,00.html
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New in Tehran: Female bus driver, but only for women
Jan 3, 2007
In city in which men and women only allowed to ride on bus together if it is separated into two distinct sections, it is decided to employ female bus driver who will transport only women in order 'to make their movement and security easier'
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3347927,00.html
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Security forces clear bus used for living near Hebron (i am sure bus had a toilet)
Jan 3, 2007
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3347933,00.html
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Arabs Attack Israeli Bus (14:22 3.01)
Jan 3, 2007
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=118665
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Ntl. Guard Helicopter Crashes near Border
Jan 3, 2007
A California National Guard helicopter ferrying Border Patrol agents crashed near the U.S.-Mexico border, injuring all nine people aboard. The helicopter, one of the older models in use by the Guard, was on a routine mission, transporting agents either to or from a remote site along the border. It went down in the Otay Mountain area. Authorities wouldn't speculate on the cause of the crash.
http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=1948254&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.1.1
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Mesa, Tempe lead E.V. in hate crime reports
Jan 3, 2007
... police departments." He said most hate crime incidents go unreported. For instance, if a swastika is found on a synagogue, the person who finds it may try to deny the perpetrator the attention he or she seeks. "Ninety percent of the time, whomever ...
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Israir: Worse then El Al?
Jan 3, 2007
Last week Yeshivaworld posted an article regarding the announcement by Israir Airline, that they now have a Sefer Torah (”Sky Torah”) on one of their planes. YW also posted an article about an israir flight which made an emergency landing in Paris. Aside from the fact that the Israir flight that emergency landed in Athens was a Mechalel [...]
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=4432
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ירי לעבר עמדה במיתחם קבר רחל
Jan 3, 2007
ערבים יידו מטען לעבר עמדה במתחם קבר רחל י"ג טבת התשס"ז 03/01/2007 17:12    המטען לא התפוצץ והמתפללים נאלצו להמתין במקום עד שטופל ע"י חבלני מג"ב   ישע ניוז
http://www.tapuz.co.il/Communa/ViewmsgCommuna.asp?Communaid=2986&msgid=17129453

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