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London – A Shoe Flies, a Leader Ducks … a Trend Is Born

By admin on August 23, 2010

London – For a few days, he was famous the world over — an Iraqi TV journalist who became an instant hero for millions when he hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush’s head and called him a dog.
Little has been heard out of Muntadhar al-Zeidi since he left Iraq and started a charity [...]

New Haven, CT – Rabbi at Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding Has Been on a Spiritual Journey

By admin on August 4, 2010

New Haven, CT – Rabbi James Ponet, who last Saturday co-officiated at the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky, will henceforth be known for presiding at the most publicized interfaith wedding in recent American history. Yet not long ago, the wedding that put him in the spotlight is one he would not have performed. [...]

New York – The Latest Fad In America: Cupcakes

By admin on July 29, 2010

New York – Much like in the fashion industry, the food industry goes through fads. An excellent example of this is Jamba Juice. Seemingly overnight, these stores popped up in cities all over the country. Then suddenly one night, poof, they were gone. Now we wake up to see dozens of Cold Stone Creameries where [...]

Washington – U.S. Cuban Spy Gets Life In Prison

By admin on July 16, 2010

Washington – A federal judge has sentenced a former State Department worker to life in prison without possibility of parole for spying for Cuba and sentenced the man’s wife to 81 months behind bars for helping her husband steal U.S. secrets.
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers betrayed the United States and [...]

United Nations – NPT Nations: Israel Must Submit to Nuclear Inspection, US Rejects

By admin on May 30, 2010

United Nations – After 15 years, Arab nations finally won agreement from the United States and the other nuclear powers to take the first step toward banning nuclear weapons from the Middle East. Now the next move is Israel’s.
But the Israeli government rejected the resolution Saturday, calling it “deeply flawed and hypocritical.”
Although the U.S. joined [...]

Italy – Rabbi Of Turin Removed For Being Too Frum

By admin on May 16, 2010

Italy –
According to a report in La Repubblica Torino The Jewish community in Turin has dismissed its chief rabbi for being too rigidly Orthodox.
In an unprecedented move for Italian Jewry, Rabbi Alberto Somekh was removed following three years of acrimonious debate and more than a year after the Turin Jewish community, which is [...]

Op-Ed: Life, Interrupted (Sholom Rubashkin)

By admin on May 14, 2010

[By Naftali Salomon] Until today I didn’t cry. Until today my eyes did not water nor shed a tear. Until today my heart did not skip a single beat. Until today I did not lose a moment’s sleep. I am not a friend or relative of the Rubashkin family and I’ve never met Sholom Rubashkin.
Until [...]

New York – Sheldon Silver to Eliot Spitzer: Shut Up, Will Ya?

By admin on April 26, 2010

New York – Memo to former Governor Eliot Spitzer from Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver: Pipe down, will ya?
A day after former Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer attacked Andrew Cuomo, his successor in the AG’s office and the presumptive Democratic candidate for governor, in the pages of The New York Times Shelly Silver had a [...]

Barak Seeks to Grab the Spotlight

By admin on March 14, 2010

Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday afternoon hosted US Vice President Joe Biden in the Defense Ministry, where the two met for about an hour, bringing the vice president’s three-day state visit to an end.
Undoubtedly Iran and the PA (Palestinian Authority) were on the agenda, and Mr. Barak proudly announced that he is working to [...]

Liberty, NY – Martin Grossman To Be Buried in Sullivan County At Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery

By admin on February 18, 2010

Liberty, NY – A murderer who was executed in Florida Tuesday evening for the 1984 murder of a 26-year-old wildlife officer was to be buried in Liberty Wednesday night.
Martin Grossman, 45, was convicted of first-degree murder for killing Margaret Park when she found him with a stolen gun in a nature preserve.
The funeral for Grossman [...]

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