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New York – Brooklyn Democrat State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz has introduced a bill that would ban the use of salt in New York restaurants – and violators would be smacked with a $1,000 fine for every salty dish.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the [...]

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New York – New Bill to Ban Use of All Salt in Restaurant Cooking Called ‘Absurd’

Staten Island, NY – New York City’s oldest resident, Staten Island supercentenarian Jane “Jenny” E. Gilsenan, died yesterday in the Presentation Convent Mother House in Woodrow. She was 111.
Gilsenan was one of the oldest people in the world.
“I’m lucky to live as long as I have so far,” the super-centenarian told the Post in February [...]

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Staten Island, NY – NYC’s Oldest Dies at 111

New York – Internet con men appear to be targeting victims of the Bernard Madoff scandal.
The Securities Investor Protection Corporation warned Tuesday that someone had set up a bogus Web site in an attempt to trick Madoff victims into turning over confidential financial information.
The site mimics the legitimate one set up by SIPC, with the [...]

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New York – Web Scam Targets Madoff Victims

It is ironic that in order for me to get this message out I have chosen to use your service, an Internet site no less, but one that many feel is the last vestige of normalcy left in the kosher electronic media world. It is well known that insulting and demeaning comments are moderated and in [...]

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Op-Ed: The End Of Our Innocence

New York, NY – New Yorkers can smell a con from a mile away.
Federal statistics show city residents are among the least likely to fall victim to fraud.
Scammers successfully ripped off more than 1.3 million consumers across the U.S., but the city didn’t even make the list of the top 50 complaint centers.
The most vulnerable? [...]

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New York, NY – City Residents Among Least Likely to be Scammed

Nashville, TN – Nearly 65 years ago a group of American soldiers advancing through Germany came upon a train loaded with 2,500 starving Jewish prisoners.
For Frank Towers, who was serving as the liaison officer in the 30th Infantry Division, the day he organized a convoy to take those people to freedom was just another day [...]

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Nashville, TN – Reunion Puts Holocaust Survivors Together With Liberator

Israel – All 11th graders will take part in preparations for Holocaust-education trips to Poland, not just students who are actually going on the journeys, an Education Ministry committee has decided.
The director of the International Institute for Holocaust Studies, Aya Ben-Naftali, said that the move would redress an imbalance in the way Holocaust-education resources are [...]

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Israel – Ministry Orders Holocaust Education for All Students, Not Just On Poland Trip

Haredi concerns about the dangers of Internet would be shared by most parents if they had not thrown in the towel on guiding their children.

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Think Again: Haredim declare war on the Internet

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Toronto, Canada – Just months after Ontario decided not to charge a Toronto man with hate crimes, partly because he was undergoing rehabilitation, he is again being investigated over his online writings on a website called Filthy Jewish Terrorists.
Police are probing Salman Hossain’s recent postings on the Arizona-based Internet site on which he writes harshly [...]

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Toronto, Canada – Police Probe Man’s anti-Semitic ‘Filthy Jew’ Site