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Israel: CBS Stats Regarding 2008

By admin on May 5, 2010

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics has released many interesting facts and figures pertaining to 2008.
There are 7.4 million people living in Israel, with two-thirds classified as Jews, 16% Muslims and 2% Christians. The average Jewish family has two children, and lives in a three or four bedroom home and has two cellular telephones.
Jewish women average [...]

Shomrim In Passaic? Rash Of Break-In’s Has Jewish Community Concerned

By admin on May 4, 2010

Passaic, NJ - A cat burglar who has crept into about 10 city homes while people slept has sparked a neighborhood watch group and set off a police investigation into whether the incidents are related to similar break-ins in Clifton, police said.
Someone has broken into 10 homes in the 3rd Ward and in the northwest part [...]

US Army Intelligence Planes Led To Suspect’s Arrest

By admin on May 4, 2010

In the end, it was secret Army intelligence planes that did Times Square terror suspect Faisal Shahzad in. Armed with his cell phone number, they circled the skies over the New York area, intercepting a call to Emirates Airlines reservations, before scrambling to catch him at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
There were many developments in [...]

PHOTOS: Lag B’omer Fire, Hachnosas Sefer Torah & Sruly Williger

By admin on May 4, 2010

On Sunday Lag B’Omer, Yeshivas Ruach Chaim held a dual celebration at the yeshiva building on Avenue Z.
First was a Hachnosas Sefer Torah procession that started at on Ave Y & E 27 Street and ended at the Yeshiva. The Sefer Torah was donated in part Lezecher Nishmas of Reb Yehuda Grunwald, a grandparent of [...]

Rubashkin Complains About Treatment In Jail

By admin on May 4, 2010

The following article is from the Des Moines Register:
The state trial of former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin will move forward, a judge said, despite concerns from defense attorneys about the local jail not meeting their client’s religious needs.
Black Hawk County District Associate Judge Nathan Callahan also denied a defense motion Tuesday to delay Rubashkin’s trial [...]

Visa, MasterCard Face New Assault by Congress on $40 Billion ‘Swipe’ Fees

By admin on May 4, 2010

Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. face a renewed threat to one of the credit-card industry’s biggest revenue sources after Senator Patrick Leahy backed legislation to curb fees charged to merchants on each transaction.
Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will co-sponsor a measure by Senate majority whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, [...]

Tennessee Man Convicted of Illegally Accessing Sarah Palin’s E-Mail Account

By admin on May 4, 2010

WASHINGTON—David C. Kernell, 22, was convicted by a federal jury in Knoxville, Tenn., for intentionally accessing without authorization the e-mail account of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and obstruction of justice, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney James R. Dedrick for the Eastern District of Tennessee announced.
After a [...]

Livni Joins Critics Who Oppose Chareidi Standards

By admin on May 4, 2010

Kadima party leader MK Tzipi Livni, who is the opposition leader in Knesset, joined the growing list of prominent personalities expressing criticism against the chareidi community and lifestyle.
Addressing a party faction meeting in Knesset on Monday, Livni stated that the chareidi lifestyle results in “being pushed to the rear of the bus, halting the construction [...]

Koch Regrets Backing Obama ‘A Little Bit’

By admin on May 4, 2010

Former Mayor Ed Koch said this morning that the Obama administration’s hard-line stance on Israel has caused him to regret “a little bit” his support for the Democratic president.
“I’m not off the bus yet,” Koch told The Post’s Fred Dicker on WGDJ 1300-AM. “But I do regret the fact that he sent me down to [...]

Mumbai Terrorist Found Guilty

By admin on May 4, 2010

Ajmal Kasab, the only Mumbai terrorist involved in the fatal attack against the Chabad house still alive, was found guilty for his role in the attack. The 22-year-old Pakistani terrorist now faces the death sentence.
166 people were murdered in the attack, which spanned the course of three days.  The court handed down a 500 page [...]

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