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Israel – Op-ed: Many Charedim Would Love To Work, Time To Help Them

By admin on August 26, 2010

Israel – In recent years we see a growing understanding that without creating a work environment that is suitable for the haredi sector, Israel’s job market will have to contend with a growing rate of people who don’t work. The haredi participation rate in the workforce at this time is very low, at 29%, compared [...]

New York – Ground Zero Imam: U.S. Worse Than Al Qaeda

By admin on August 24, 2010

New York – The Islamic cleric who wants to build a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero once claimed in a jaw-dropping speech that the United States has killed more innocent civilians than al Qaeda.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s remarks five years ago have set off a fresh firestorm of controversy, dumping fuel on the already [...]

Sugarcreek Township, OH – 100 MPH Crash Caught on Tape

By admin on August 24, 2010

Sugarcreek Township, OH – A spectacular crash was caught on video by a police cruiser in Green County, Ohio.
A car police say was going 100 mph is seen hitting the center divider of a highway, then going airborne and slamming into an overpass.
The 19-year old driver survived, but is in critical condition.
I-675 was shut down [...]

New York – Brooklyn Sen. Kevin Parker Blows ‘Shofar’ [video]

By admin on August 19, 2010

New York – Brooklyn Senator Kevin Parker met yesterday at the home of Mr. Alexander Rapaport the Director of Masbia Masbia soup Kitchen with over 50 Borough Park Chasidic residents.
After a two hour conversation on a range of issues, he was offered to perform the blasting of the Shofar, a ritual performed by orthodox [...]

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New York – The Six Figure Fish Tank Catches On

By admin on August 19, 2010

New York – KARIN WILZIG has a hard time choosing a favorite color from among the 64 that she and her husband can use to illuminate the 14 1/2- foot, 450-gallon aquarium in their TriBeCa town house. The default is fuchsia, which turns the dozen koi a deep pink.
“Not pink,” said Mrs. Wilzig, 40, an [...]

Albany, NY – New OTB Boss To Be Paid $125,000 …A MONTH

By admin on August 9, 2010

Albany, NY – The controller’s office is trashing the lucrative deal that pays the city’s new OTB boss a whopping $125,000 a month.
The contract signed by Greg Rayburn to take over the bankrupt horse racing parlors, and close nearly a dozen of them, is “one-sided and unfavorable to NYC OTB,” writes Charlotte Breeyear, director of [...]

California – Bay Area favors iPhone, Mac, but New Yorkers like BlackBerry, iPad

By admin on August 6, 2010

California – In the Bay Area, the iPhone is king, while in New York, it’s the BlackBerry. E-readers are bigger in Boston, but in L.A., it’s Blu-ray.
And the Windy City has more TVs per person than in D.C.
Those are some of the results of a new Retrevo Gadget Census, a report done by Sunnyvale’s Retrevo [...]

Jerusalem – 18-Course Dinner Shakes Up The Kosher Kitchen

By admin on July 29, 2010

Jerusalem – The men behind a unique six-hour eating marathon in Jerusalem want diners to know two things about locusts: First, they taste great stir-fried, and second, they’re kosher.
When 240 observant Jews sat down to the 18-course dinner earlier this month, they were served a veritable zoo of animals that were unlikely candidates to be [...]

A New Trend; Jerusalem Weddings Without Hechsherim

By admin on June 21, 2010

This is perhaps a preamble to what may become my next obsession, but since I am not certain how things will develop, and if time will permit me to probe this in depth as quickly as I would like, or more correctly, as the situation demands, I feel a need to advise readers – to [...]

Berlin, Germany – Chabad Converts Electricity Into Spiritual Energy

By admin on June 10, 2010

Berlin, Germany – The Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Berlin has transformed a former electric power station into a different form of energy generator.
The group created a gleaming new Jewish community center from the 1922 building, originally a voltage transformer station and subsequently a laboratory for street illumination. The impetus for the project came from a Jewish society which [...]

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