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With just about eight weeks to go, organizers of Passover programs throughout the world are betting that the slight boost in the economy will help them fill rooms quicker this year.
Last year, say the organizers, it pretty much came down to a last-minute surge. For some it meant renegotiating room blocks and downsizing their programs in [...]

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Nail-Biting Time For Organizers Of Passover Programs

Israel – The Chief Rabbinate in Israel recommended that hotels and restaurants in the country should refrain from displaying Christian symbols.
The Rabbinical “Lobby for Jewish Values” started recently a campaign targeting restaurants and hotels that decorated their buildings for Christmas, and its chairman, Ofer Cohen, said that the lobby is considering a boycott campaign against [...]

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Israel – Chief Rabbinate Demands Not Displaying X-mas Symbols

Jerusalem – A new front for religious battles: Hotels and restaurants. The “Lobby for Jewish values” this week began operating against restaurants and hotels that plan to put up Christmas trees and other Christian symbols ahead of Christmas and the civil New Year.
According to the lobby’s Chairman, Ofer Cohen, they have received backing by the [...]

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Jerusalem – New Front For Religious Battles: Jewish Lobby Wages War on Christmas Trees

Mumbai – It’s a plot that could be straight out of the bluff-and-double-bluff worlds created by John le Carre and Frederick Forsyth. Only, it seems to have played out in real life, to the tragic misfortune of hundreds of innocent people. The tantalising possibility that David Coleman Headley may have been a US undercover agent [...]

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Mumbai – Indian Newspaper: American Supect Eyed In Chabad House Attack, Might Be A CIA Double Agent

Jerusalem – Unless a last-minute solution is found, a massive haredi demonstration will take place Saturday morning in Jerusalem against Intel’s desecration of the Shabbat.
Leading rabbinic authorities from all the major haredi groups are expected to call on their faithful to converge on Intel’s Jerusalem-based International Die Press (IDPj) to protest the computer chip producer’s [...]

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Jerusalem – Charedim Plan To Demonstrate Against Intel

Kampala – Israel’s Foreign Ministry asked all Israelis in Kampala, Uganda to remain in the hotels in which they are staying because of the fatal riots that broke out Thursday.
Some 100 Israelis, mostly businessmen, are currently staying in Kampala. As of now, none of them has been injured in the riots. News agencies reported that [...]

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Kampala – Israelis in Uganda Ordered to Remain off Streets Because of Riots

New York – Recently, an investigative journalist posted an article that appeared on a number of blogs, which was critical of OU supervision of hotels and restaurants in Israel. Within a few days, the OU arranged for me to visit Israel and determine if the criticism was valid.
I spent one week in Israel and [...]

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New York – OU Responds To Critique About Its Supervision Of Hotels And Restaurants In Israel

Sullivan County, NY – The public auctioning of the Nevele Grande hotel was canceled Tuesday after a wealthy man reportedly signed a contract to purchase the classic resort and its roughly 500 acres.
The mysterious purchaser is not from the United States — and he’s wealthy enough to buy and refurbish the property into a four- [...]

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Sullivan County, NY – Mysterious Foreign Millionaire Buys Nevele Grande Hotel

South Jefferson, NY – Residents in and around southern Schoharie County are being offered free used ski equipment this Sunday by the new owners of the former Scotch Valley Ski Area.
Oorah Inc., a religious organization that operates two summer camps on property the company purchased in Gilboa in 2006, purchased the 404-acre ski area in [...]

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Jefferson, NY – Oorah Charity Giving Away Ski Equipment

For some of the tourists in the lobby of the Tel Aviv Sheraton Hotel on Wednesday, the scene was somewhat confusing if not frightening.
Agents of the Ohz immigration unit entered the hotel and began rounding up employees, in this case, African employees. Eleven people were detained and questioned, and three were released when officials learned [...]

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Ohz Officers Raid Tel Aviv Sheraton