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New York – or more than 30 years now, sharp-eyed New Yorkers have been finding them on ledges, windowsills and store counters — poker-chip-size coins that reveal themselves to be something far more mysterious than loose change.
The inch-wide ceramic discs, painted in iridescent colors, have the rough, weathered feel of ancient treasure. Each is embossed [...]

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New York – It Is All Over NYC: For More Than 30 Years Handmade Tokens Into Artistic Currency

Toronto – Just in time for the big pre-Passover cleanup, SpongeTowels Ultra have been certified kosher.
Many standard paper towels are glued to the tube with an adhesive containing starch that is not kosher for Passover for Ashkenazi Jews. They would have to avoid at least the last sheet, but now they don’t have to worry [...]

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Toronto – Canadian Factory Gets Kosher Certification For Paper Towels

Washington – New York Rep. Anthony Weiner is adding his voice to the criticism of the White House’s response to an ill-timed Israeli construction decision, and in sharper terms than his colleagues.
“The appropriate response was a shake of the head – not a temper tantrum,” Weiner said in a statement to be released shortly. “Israel [...]

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Washington – Weiner: Enough Already, White House Should Stop ‘temper tantrum’ on Israel

New Jersey – A defendant in the state’s largest corruption probe is alleging that the investigation and dramatically staged arrests were engineered by then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie to boost his campaign for governor.
Former Assemblyman Louis Manzo, who ran unsuccessfully for Jersey City mayor, held a news conference to denounce the conduct of the U.S. attorney’s [...]

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New Jersey – Pol Blames Dwek Corruption Probe Engineered By Now Gov. Chris Christie

Brooklyn, NY – An 83-year-old grump who faces seven years in prison for giving a 99-year-old an old-fashioned whipping turned down a no-jail plea deal Monday.
Gersh Gofman sniffed at a prosecutor’s offer of probation for allegedly using a steering wheel lock to pummel Steve Pulwers in a dispute over a Borough Park, Brooklyn, parking spot.
Gofman [...]

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Borough Park, NY – 83-Year-Old Turns Down No-Jail Plea in Alleged Assault Of 99-Year-Old

Brooklyn, NY – Council candidate Joe Lazar expressed outrage today at the Governor’s plan to divert $25 million away from New York City’s Department of Aging – a merciless budget maneuver that could lead to the closing of a whopping one-fifth of the City’s 321 senior centers.
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Brooklyn, NY – Candidate Lazar To Halt Closing Of Senior Centers As Top Priority

New York, NY – The NYPD is regularly towing unmarked police cars – leaving detectives stranded on the street with no way to transport suspects in handcuffs, the Daily News has learned.
Michael Palladino, head of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, said tow operators working for the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau are meeting their daily quota – four [...]

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New York, NY – NYPD Unmarked Cars Towed Away While Making a Bust

Jerusalem – Dozens of masked Palestinians were hurling rocks at Israeli police and burning tires in the east Jerusalem neighborhoods Wadi Joz, Issawiya and Abu Tor on Tuesday.
More than one hundred policemen, some of them on horseback, were trying to disperse the crowd at Wadi Joz, where some two hundred Arabs were throwing rocks at [...]

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Jerusalem – Rioting Palestinians Clash with Israeli Police

London – A borough has suspended an assistant director responsible for housing after a Sunday paper claimed he leads a ‘secret life’ as a Nazi.
Hammersmith and Fulham has suspended its assistant director of housing options, Gareth Mead, from his £90,000-a-year job, pending a disciplinary hearing.
The move comes after the Sunday Mirror published an article claiming [...]

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London – Housing Chief Suspended for Dressing Up as Nazi and Sending Racist Texts

New York, NY – The city’s Finance Department has asked the IRS to provide the names of wealthy tax evaders snared last year in an investigation of Swiss banking giant UBS, suspecting that a “disproportionate” number live here and also dodged local taxes, The Post has learned.
“We are going to do everything we possibly can [...]

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New York, NY – City Asking IRS for Names of Swiss Bank Tax Evaders