Friday, March 29, 2024

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Little Rock, AR – Huckabee To Air TV Show From Disputed East Jerusalem Site

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Little Rock, AR - Former U.S. presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee plans to broadcast his weekend show on Fox News from the site of a disputed Israeli construction project in East Jerusalem. New York...

Jerusalem – El Al to Introduce Low-cost Economy Class

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Jerusalem - Israeli airline El Al announced Monday that as of next week it will offer its passengers a low-cost economy class on flights to Europe. If the new service proves successful, it may also ex...

Vilnious – Lithuania Won’t Repay Full Value of Jewish Properties’ Seized at World War II

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Vilnious, Lithuania - Lithuania will not amend a plan to compensate the loss of Jewish property seized during World War II, despite criticism from Jewish organizations that it fails to repay the prope...

Scottsdale, AZ – Survey: Stutterers Suffer from Discrimination

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Scottsdale, AZ - A U.S. survey indicates speech therapy helps the majority of people who stutter but those who stutter are discriminated against. Thirty percent of parents participating in the surv...

New York, NY – Driven Mad by Park Tix Blitz! Councilman Says Enough is Enough

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New York, NY - Merchants and elected officials are blasting what they call a parking ticket blitz in the borough that's driving customers away from local businesses. But the NYPD says ticketing has ...

Washington – Obama Authorizes Extended Secret Service Guard for Former VP Dick Cheney

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Washington - Former Vice President Dick Cheney's Secret Service protection has been extended for at least another six months, beginning Tuesday. Normally, ex-veeps only get six months of protection...

Jerusalem – Religious Large Families Are Joy, Ignore The Evil Feminist Anti-Motherhood Terror

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Jerusalem - The evil winds of secular, anti-motherhood terror are blowing in our sector. "Taliban mom" and the "starving mother" are just twigs in a fire that has been burning for a while. During the ...

Dearborn, MI – Univ. of Michigan Has More Than 300 on-line Holocaust Survivor Testimonies

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Dearborn, MI - With some 300 interviews in its collection--more than 100 of which are online at http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu--the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive at the Univers...

Spring Valley, NY – Gilman Health Center Reopens Following Violations

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Spring Valley, NY - A health center for the poor that was closed nearly two months ago because of unsanitary conditions reopened yesterday. Patients were told yesterday that they could start seeing...

India – Mumbai Massacre Judge Confronts Hard Choices

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India - A day after a stunning confession by the lone surviving gunman from last year’s terrorist attacks here, the judge presiding over his trial confronted some tough choices on how the court should...

Lakewood, NJ – Biking For a Mitzvah, Chai Lifeline

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Lakewood, NJ - It is an inspirational story. One sees a family in turmoil. Cancer has taken hold of a child or of a loved one. We see their agony and want to do something. But we are powerless. C...

New York, NY – $100 Gets You Bed on Top of Williamsburg Building

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Williamsburg, NY - Just my luck. It rained buckets on the night I decided to sleep on the rooftop at Hotel Toshi in Williamsburg. Luckily, the hotel had put up a tent. "It only keeps out some of t...

Russia – Kosher Chicken Supply for S. Petersburg Jews

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Russia - Thanks to arrangements made by the Jewish community of S. Petersburg with a nearby farm, there are now kosher chickens for local Jews. The Roskar Farm agreed to have a team of 30 people come ...

Israel – Chief Rabbi: Obama ‘Settlement’ Stance Opposes Torah

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Israel - Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar called on American Jews to explain to the Obama administration the religious obligation of every Jew to live in every part of the Land of Israel. The Jerus...

Bucharest – Police Raid Of 30 Israelis In Romanian Fertility Clinic Were Harsh

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Bucharest - The police raid on the Romanian fertility clinic that ended in the arrest of 30 Israeli doctors working on the site has caused no small amount of stress for the families of the detained d...

Brooklyn, NY – Sen. Kruger You Are Overblowing It, Bloomberg Never Uttered Hitler In Remark

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Brooklyn, NY - A fuming state Sen. Carl Kruger and other city pols yesterday demanded that Mayor Bloomberg apologize for referring to the failed policy of appeasing the Nazis when he was describing h...

New York City – Bloomberg Complains Of Bad Cell Service

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New York City - You'd think cellphone dead zones wouldn't be a problem for Mayor Bloomberg, who travels at all times with all sorts of sophisticated communications gear. But it is. "I keep losin...

New Square, NY – Unsanctioned Firefighters Respond to Blaze at Rebbi’s House

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New Square, NY - A continuing dispute over fighting fires in this small Hasidic village once again boiled to the surface when firefighters from Hillcrest yesterday responded to a blaze at the grand ra...

New York – Health Hazard In Diet Soda

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New York - Coke is apparently not It in Venezuela. The government there recently took the step of banning Coke Zero "to preserve the health of Venezuelans," as a government minister put it, leaving ev...

Jerusalem – Accused ‘Child Starving Mom’ Undergoes Psychiatric Evaluation

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Jerusalem - The mother suspected of starving her toddler son underwent a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation Monday night. The woman was examined close to midnight at the private clinic of Dr. Yaakov...