Petah Tikva – An Israeli supermarket today looked to cash in on the infamous surveillance camera footage showing suspected assassins stalking a Hamas operative in Dubai with a new advertising campaign.
The commercials for the “Mahsaney Kimat Hinam” supermarket chain shows actors carrying tennis rackets, and wearing hats, glasses and wigs — the same disguises worn [...]
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Petah Tikva – Dubai Assassination Inspires Supermarket Commercial
Middlesex, UK – A resident living near a school set up without planning permission in a synagogue in 2006 have welcomed restrictions to the way it is allowed to operate.
Councillors agreed to allow the school in Mowbray Road, Edgware, to continue to operate but put a raft of strict conditions on it to prevent further [...]
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Middlesex, UK – Edgware Synagogue School Approved but with Restrictions
New York – Would-be jetsetters took advantage of a free ticket giveaway by JetBlue Airways all across Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon.
“We’re out of tickets for the day! THANK YOU ALL for playing with us and congrats to the winners!” read a note from JetBlue’s Twitter feed around 3:30 p.m., just three-and-a-half hours after the contest [...]
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New York – JetBlue Hands Out 1000 Free Plane Tickets Throughout Manhattan
Tuscaloosa, AL – U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama’s first State of the Union address was “very troubling” and that the annual speech to Congress has “degenerated into a political pep rally.”
Responding to a University of Alabama law student’s question about the Senate’s method of confirming justices, Roberts [...]
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Tuscaloosa, AL – Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts: State of the UnionHas ‘degenerated into a political pep rally’
Sacramento, CA – Anyone observing the state Senate of late may have noticed Sen. Dave Cox, the Fair Oaks Republican, is wearing a patch over his right eye.
Cox says the patch was prescribed to treat an eye condition, temporarily, and he likes to think he looks a bit like a certain Israeli general who once [...]
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Sacramento, CA – Sen. Dave Cox Explains Eye Patch — It’s The Moshe Dayan Look
New York, NY – Garbage in, garbage out — but less frequently if the city decides to replace street litter baskets with solar-powered compactors that go for a hefty $4,000 each.
Eighteen months after rejecting one version of a high-tech street garbage compactor as impractical, the Sanitation Department is quietly evaluating whether a new model with [...]
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New York, NY – Solar Powered Garbage Cans $4,000 Each
Buenos Aires, Argentine – An Iranian accused of masterminding the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed 85 people dismissed the allegations as “lies” on Tuesday and said he won’t appear before an Argentine court.
Moshen Rabbani, Iran’s former cultural attache in Buenos Aires, was interviewed on Radio Cooperativa by Argentine protest leader Luis [...]
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Buenos Aires, Argentine – Suspect: Charges in Jewish Center Bomb Case Are ‘Lies’
Williamsburg, NY – Despite some community unhappiness over the relatively few units of affordable housing it will offer, a big mixed-use development on the Williamsburg waterfront called Rose Plaza moved one step closer to becoming a reality.
It came when the city Planning Department, in a narrow 7-5 vote, approved the rezoning necessary for the three-building [...]
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Williamsburg, NY – Rezoning of Rose Plaza Clears Hurdle
Barcelona – A Spanish court has sentenced a bookshop owner to two years and nine months in prison for spreading racist propaganda, justice officials said Monday. Pedro Varela spread ideas favourable to genocide that denigrated Jews, blacks and other groups, the court said.
He apparently did this through the books he sold at his Barcelona bookshop, [...]
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Barcelona – Spanish Bookshop Owner Given 33-month Prison Sentence for Incitement Against Jews
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
