NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly warned Thursday that the city’s budget woes will plunge the number of cops on the street to the lowest levels since 1990.
Kelly told a City Council budget hearing that financial constraints will trim the NYPD to a 20-year low of 32,817 officers in the 2011 budget.
The NYPD would lose 892 officers through [...]
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NYPD Commish Kelly: Police Will Have To Continue To Do More With Less
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 [...]
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Barak Seeks to Grab the Spotlight
New York – The head of the Port Authority wants you to dig deeper in your pockets for the billions the agency needs to fix up its airports, bus terminals, bridges and tunnels.
“We need to find new creative pricing schemes that pull wealth out of that economy and reinvest in the infrastructure that we know [...]
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Sullivan County lawmakers and officials are making it clear they are not locked into building a new $80 million jail, or even a smaller facility, at lower cost, until all possible options are explored.
County Manager David Fanslau updated legislators during committee meetings, Thursday, detailing meetings in the past week with officials in neighboring Orange and [...]
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Sullivan County Looking Hard At All Jail Options
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday with a stomach virus.
“He is getting hydration and holding his food down,” Dr. John Linton of Yonsei Severance Hospital told CNN. “All his signs are normal. We hope to send him on his way tomorrow, but he [...]
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Henry Kissinger Admitted To S. Korean Hospital
Two Givati Brigade combatants are facing charges for their actions in Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s counter-terrorism offensive against Hamas in Gaza launched in December 2008.
The soldiers are alleged to have compelled a 9-year-old Arab boy to open a bag they suspected may contain a bomb. The soldiers are facing charges of endangering the young civilian’s [...]
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Givati Soldiers Indicted for Actions During Cast Lead
“Traditional and new forms of anti-Semitism continued to arise, and a spike in such activity followed the Gaza conflict in the winter of 2008-2009,” the US State Department said in an annual report.
“Often despite official efforts to combat the problem, societal anti-Semitism persisted across Europe, South America, and beyond and manifested itself in classic forms,” [...]
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We all have an increasingly difficult time balancing our budgets when yomtov arrives, especially Pesach with the added expense to merit the fulfillment of the special mitzvos of the yomtov.
That said, some, unfortunately as well-intentioned as they may be, seem to have difficulty learning from the bitter experiences of others, yet alone the total disregard [...]
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Some People Never Learn; What Can Happen By Hiring Arab Laborers
The Jewish community of Jaffa in Tel Aviv does not have an easy life and local Arab residents frequently exhibit their hostility by targeting area shuls.
The latest incident occurred two weeks ago, on shabbos, when a local Arab resident fed a fire hose through a shul window and turned on the water, during davening, leaving [...]
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Arabs Continue to Target Jaffa Area Shuls
Israeli leaders are tripping over themselves with apologies and explanations for daring to announce planned construction in Ramat Shlomo in the presence of US Vice President Joe Biden.
Perhaps it is time to learn from the terrorists, for in Gaza, they are concerned with one thing only, their primary objective, the destruction of the State of [...]
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Rocket Attack During VP Biden’s Visit; Silence Is Deafening
