Moscow – Millions of Georgians wrongly thought their country was being invaded after a spoof prime time news broadcast showed Russian tanks heading towards the capital Tbilisi and said the president, Mikheil Saakashvili, had been killed.
The spoof was broadcast on Imedi, one of Georgia’s biggest TV channels, and most viewers missed a brief announcement [...]
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Moscow – Russia Invasion Spoof Report Spreads Panic in Georgia
Washington – The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness directive demanding that airlines check a mechanism that controls tail flaps on about 600 Boeing 737s.
The directive was issued Friday and concerns flaps on the horizontal tails of the jets. On March 2, a Ryanair 737-800 en route from the Netherlands to Madrid, Spain, [...]
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Washington – FAA Directs Airlines to Check Tail Flap of 737s
Newark, NJ – When Guy Catrillo reports to Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution in southern New Jersey on Monday at noon, he will begin spending the next 18 months as inmate 30121-050.
The 55-year-old Catrillo, a former Jersey City planning aide and City Hall employee who ran for City Council last year, has been saying his [...]
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Newark, NJ – Man In Corruption Bust: Rabbi Kassin Said Dwek Was ‘an Instrument of God Sent to Us For a Reason
New York – He was Israel’s most valuable spy inside Hamas – and certainly the most unlikely.
For more than a decade, Mosab Hassan Yousef disrupted dozens of suicide bombings and assassination attempts by the militant group, saving hundreds of lives.
Infiltrating the upper echelons of Hamas came relatively easy for Yousef: He is the son of [...]
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New York – Radio Show: Israeli Spy Son of Hamas Founder To Disscus How He Saved Rabbi Yosef From Terror Plot
New York – America is springing forward.
Most Americans trade an hour’s sleep this weekend for more evening sunshine to enjoy after work.
Officially the change to daylight saving time occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday, local time, though most folks set their clocks and watches ahead an hour before going to bed on Saturday.
In areas that observe [...]
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New York – Daylight-saving Time: Springing Forward
New York, NY – City officials have discovered a widespread scam in which thousands of taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million.
The Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday that it had found at least 1.8 million trips over the past two years where passengers were ripped off.
Officials say drivers overcharged by illegally setting [...]
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New York, NY – Taxi Drivers Robbed Public of $8.3 Million-Plus
Jan Ellen Spiegel reports in The New York Times:
Rena Gold raced into Westville Kosher Market here and headed straight for the cold case just beyond the front door. Then she all but shrieked.
“I don’t believe this,” she said. “I can’t believe it. No kugel.”
In fact there was kugel, a classic Jewish casserole of innumerable variations [...]
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NY Times Reports On “The Evolving Challenge of Keeping Kosher”
A soldier was lightly injured on Friday and three Arab demonstrators were arrested while protesting the Israeli decision to limit access to pray on the Har Habayis. Disturbances in the eastern part of Yerushalyim continued yesterday. Dozens of young Arabs who were not allowed to enter the Har Habyis caused a disturbance around midday prayer time.The [...]
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More Violence in Feared Ahead of Churvah Shul Dedication
The Associated Press reports: In the long and painful debate over whether he should have done more to halt the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II, Pope Pius XII has an unusual defender.Gary Krupp, who is Jewish, says he grew up hating the late pontiff. Now, [...]
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Long Beach Jew Creates Stir Defending Pope Pius
The US State Department summoned Israel’s Ambassador in Washington Michael Oren for a meeting Friday where he was reprimanded by a US official. The meeting was called in the wake of Israel’s plan to construct 1,600 new housing units in east Jerusalem, which was announced during Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel.
During the meeting, Deputy Secretary [...]
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Ambassador Oren Slammed in Washington Over East Jerusalem Construction Announcement
