Thursday, March 28, 2024

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Budapest, Hungary – Vandals Desecrate Holocaust Memorial with Pigs Feet

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Budapest, Hungary - Demonstration called after vandals used pigs' feet to desecrate the Holocaust memorial in Budapest. A senior Socialist Party official has called for a broad protest against the ...

New York – Food Addiction A Real Affliction

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New York - A lot of men and women have been turning up in my office lately because they haven't been able to lose weight through diets or exercise. Some are only 10 pounds overweight, whereas others a...

Washington – Taking Bush’s Position, Obama Blocks List of Visitors to White House

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Washington - The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes ...

Jerusalem – Bombs Defused Planted to Blow up Carter Convoy; Wants Obama To OK Hamas

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Jerusalem - FOX News is reporting that roadside bombs, planted near a crossing between Israel and Gaza, were intended to hit the former US president Jimmy Carter as he exited the Palestinian territory...

New York – Bitterness [“Farbissen”] Might Become Sanctioned As A Mental Disorder

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New York - No one could accuse the American Psychiatric Association of missing a strain of sourness in the country, or of failing to capitalize on its diagnostic potential. Having floated "Apathy Diso...

New York – Mazal Tov Its A Boy! NYC Moms Sue, Say Baby Gender Tests Wrong

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New York - Congratulations -- it's a boy! Or a girl! A group of New York moms has filed suit against the makers of a "99.9-percent accurate" baby-gender test, claiming the results they got were 100...

Manchester, England – Hero Who Defied the Nazis

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Manchester, England - A Polish pensioner honoured for risking his life to hide Jews during the Holocaust told his remarkable story on a visit to Manchester. Jozef Mironiuk, 85, joined the ranks of ...

Boston, MA – Airline mix-up Sends 10 year old Jewish Girl To Wrong State

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Boston, MA - Imagine putting your child on a plane to visit her grandparents. The plane lands and the grandparents are waiting, but your child is nowhere to be found. That just happened to Jonathan...

Monsey, NY – 113 Yemenite Jews Won’t be Absorbed by Satmar

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Monsey, NY - The head of a New York Jewish organization that will help to absorb some of the last Jews of Yemen has rejected accusations that the community he represents - Monsey, New York - is "anti-...

Jerusalem – New Bill Wont Eliminate the Import of Shtreimels to Israel

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Jerusalem - A member of parliament decried a proposed amendment banning the import of fur, which would eliminate the traditional fur hats worn by ultra orthodox Jews. Knesset Member Menachem Eliezer ...

Tehran, Iran – Iran to Hold Election Recount as Seven Are Killed

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Tehran, Iran - Iran's Guardian Council has announced that it will recount disputed votes from Friday's presidential election, as the huge protests against the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad contin...

Tehran – Experts Predict Iran Will Quell Protests By Mass Force [Video of paramilitaries firing on crowd]

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Tehran - Iranian leaders will probably take decisive action to quell opposition protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election, said Richard Bulliet, an Iran expert at Columbia Universit...

New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg Restores Vouchers Program

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New York, NY - According to VIN News sources, and also being reported now by the NY Times, Mayor Michael Bloomberg agreed today to restore the full funding of Priority7, after-school vouchers, for the...

Jerusalem – Survivor Donates Gems Smuggled from Nazi Death Camp

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Jerusalem - A 95-year-old Auschwitz survivor donated jewellery he took from the clothing of Jews who were gassed to death at the Nazi camp to Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on Monday. Polish-...

New York, NY – Bloomberg, City Council Reach 2010 $60 Billion Budget Agreement

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New York, NY - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council have reached an agreement on a budget for next fiscal year. The $60 billion budget includes a sales tax hike of .5 percent. It also means...

Manhattan, NY – 113 Madoff Victims Describe Their Pain to Judge

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Manhattan, NY - New York City prosecutors have submitted statements from 113 victims to a judge ahead of failed financier Bernard Madoff's sentencing later this month. The statements submitted on M...

New York – Avoiding the Risks of Summer

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New York - The Catskills! About as close to Gan Eden as we can get! Fresh mountain air, no congestion, wide open spaces. We can hardly wait for those summer months. But during these months, parents...

Bermuda – Guantánamo Four Stir Up Tropical Storm

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Bermuda - The four men in short-sleeve shirts looked like ordinary tourists, enjoying a Sunday lunch and butter pecan ice cream afterward as they observed the sparkling waters surrounding this Atlanti...

New York – Stocks Finish With Losses As Investors Worry About economic Recovery

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New York - Stocks tumbled Monday as a key manufacturing gauge came in weaker than expected and the dollar made a comeback. Major indexes were down more than 2 percent, with the Nasdaq the hardest h...

Syracuse, NY – Jewish Family Wins $35 Million In NY Mega Lotto

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Syracuse, NY - Abraham Silverbush is the luckiest man in Syracuse: The 77-year-old shop owner will share his $35 million Mega Millions jackpot with his wife Celia and five kids. Silverbush was reveale...