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| Shreveport,LA - Six Cups of Coffee Lower Risk of Death, Not Cancer Posted: 11 Aug 2008 11:36 AM CDT Shreveport,LA - Drinking up to six cups of coffee a day may lower the overall odds of dying, mainly because it cuts the risk of dying from heart disease, suggests a new study. However, the study found that heavy coffee drinking doesn't cut your chance of dying from cancer. "Our results suggest long-term, regular coffee consumption [...] |
| Monticello, NY - New Casino Will Have A Huge Imapct On Sullivan County Posted: 11 Aug 2008 12:01 PM CDT Monticello, NY - Life is going to change in the Catskills when 5,000 cars come rumbling down Route 17 at peak hours to visit the hotels and racino at the Concord. Guests will consume an estimated 1.4 million gallons of water a day, pump 1.2 million gallons into a sewer system each day and throw away [...] |
| Lakewood, NJ - Orthodox Pressure on Landlords Raises Concerns of Bias Posted: 11 Aug 2008 09:41 AM CDT People walk along the main street in Lakewood, N.J.Lakewood, NJ - While house-hunting here some time ago, Nancy Cedeno and her daughter Tammy stopped to consider a rental on Caranetta Drive. It was in fair condition, spacious enough for a family and in a relatively quiet part of town. They liked what they saw. But [...] |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2008 09:28 AM CDT Tel Aviv - I chuckled bitterly when I saw the bogus shock of newscasters in the wake of reports about a girl forgotten by her parents at the airport. I saw the newspaper headlines and the journalists who made sure not to mention that this was an ultra-Orthodox family, but also made sure to note [...] |
| New York - CNN Profiles The Jewish Community in Yemen. VIDEO Posted: 11 Aug 2008 09:08 AM CDT the door that opens to the Jewish School in YemenNew York - Jewish culture is preserved just outside of a city in Yemen, known for its devotion to Islam. CNN reporter Paula Newton visits with the Jewish community in this fascinating interview. see below |
| Kiryas Joel, NY - School District Sued Over Request for Copies of Employees Contracts Posted: 11 Aug 2008 10:45 AM CDT Kiryas Joel, NY - An Albany-based think tank is suing Kiryas Joel's public school district for ignoring a document request that 730 other districts fulfilled. The Empire Center for New York State Policy claims Kiryas Joel never responded to six letters since March 31 asking for copies of the contracts for its superintendent and teachers union [...] |
| Queens, NY - After Four Years in Iranian Custody, Jewish Man To Be Back in U.S. Posted: 11 Aug 2008 08:35 AM CDT Yaghoub KhezriQueens, NY - Nearly three decades had passed since Yaghoub Khezri fled his native Iran in 1978, on the eve of the Islamic revolution, to begin a new life in Forest Hills, Queens. It was in New York that he watched his children have children of their own, as his past receded further and further. But [...] |
| Tbilisi, Georgia - Jews Warn of Impending Disaster, American Rabbis Cancel Kiruv Summer Camps Posted: 11 Aug 2008 08:41 AM CDT Reuters: Soldiers run near a blazing apartment after a bombardment in the town of Gori, 50 miles from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008Tbilisi, Georgia - Jews spending what was a rather uneventful summer vacation in the Caucasus found themselves in the middle of a war zone in the past few days, and are now desperate to [...] |
| Dawson City Yukon, Canada - A Century-old Jewish Cemetery Uncovered Posted: 11 Aug 2008 07:33 AM CDT Dawson City Yukon, Canada - It was a clear, hot June afternoon 10 years ago when Rick Karp and two friends crunched their way through a tangled, dense web of bushes and trees. But this is where their research indicated it was supposed to be, somewhere near what was now a horribly overgrown patch of [...] |
| Woodcliff Lake, NJ - Mayor Refusing to Apologize for Anti-Semitic Slur Posted: 11 Aug 2008 07:28 AM CDT Woodcliff Lake, NJ - Mayor Joe LaPaglia is refusing to apologize after making what council members and residents are calling an anti-Semitic slur. Republican Councilman Jeff Bader and Democratic Councilman Robert Rosenblatt say LaPaglia crossed the line when he referred to them as the "temple twins." The councilmen demanded a public apology, but the mayor refused. The brouhaha [...] |
| Jerusalem - Border Guard Uses 'Skunk' as New Crowd-Dispersal Means Posted: 10 Aug 2008 11:00 PM CDT Jerusalem - Out with rubber bullets, tear gas, shock grenades; in with new, stinky means to scatter violent rioters. After using new tool during Naalin riot, officers report Palestinians ran to shower, changed clothes The Border Guard has begun using a new means of contending with riots coined "Skunk". The police developed this new method for [...] |
| Mexico - World's Fattest Man Goes on Outing With The Help Of A Forklift Posted: 10 Aug 2008 09:45 PM CDT Going up ... a forklift carries Mr Uribe on his bed to a truck which will take him to the beachMexico - A 700-pound man once considered the world's most obese person left his home for the first time in five months Sunday with the aid of a forklift and a platform truck. Manuel Uribe traveled [...] |
| Kiryat Shmona - Man Bludgeons Wife To Death, After Returning From Shul Tisha Ba'v Prayers Posted: 10 Aug 2008 08:10 PM CDT Kiryat Shmona - A man bludgeoned his 70-year-old wife to death with a rock yesterday morning. Binyamin Avraham, 72, confessed to police that he had killed his wife Yocheved, but gave no motive. However, neighbors suggested he had a history of assaulting her, and family members said she had complained to police two weeks ago. The Acre [...] |
| South Fallsburg, NY - Missing Children Found Posted: 10 Aug 2008 07:06 PM CDT South Fallsburg, NY - Hatzolah EMS are requesting all units to respond to Whitiger Road at the Ger'a Camp for the search of three missing children ages 6, 7 and 9. U/D: 07:54pm Search has been canceled, all missing children have been found. |
| New York - NYC MTA Buses Rated Best in Nation For Keeping You Cool Posted: 10 Aug 2008 06:42 PM CDT New York - The nation's largest mass transit system can boast a new distinction: A survey shows New York has cooler buses in summer than many U.S. cities. NYC Transit workers recently took buses' temperature 2,200 times, in the agency's largest such effort to date. Less than 5 percent were considered unacceptably hot _ more [...] |
| Brooklyn, NY - Sephardic Neighborhood Insular and Diverse Posted: 10 Aug 2008 05:43 PM CDT Photo Credit: Kate Glicksberg - WIDE RANGE Homes in the Sephardic area of Gravesend tend to be the largest, with elaborate hedges and porches. Outside of this zone, demand for homes is less intense and the neighborhood's quiet hominess is more affordableBrooklyn, NY - Itsik Zeitouni, a young man with big ambitions, was living in [...] |
| Portland, ME - City Orders Chabad Rabbi to Halt 'Shul' Services At His Home Posted: 10 Aug 2008 03:54 PM CDT Photo Credit: Michael Barriault - Rabbi Moshe Wilansky outside his home at 101 Craigie St., where the city wants him to stop conducting Sabbath worship services.Portland, ME - An ultra-Orthodox Jewish leader has been ordered by the city to stop conducting religious services in his Craigie Street home, prompting the Maine Civil Liberties Union to [...] |
| Jerusalem - Israeli Soldier In An Emotional Plea Asks Forgivness For Evacuating Gush Katif Posted: 10 Aug 2008 03:21 PM CDT Israeli soilders force out residents from Gush Katif in August of 2005Jerusalem - To the people of Gush Katif, I'm sorry that I evacuated you. I took families out of their homes forever, I put them on buses that took them to nowhere. I sinned against them. I remember every picture that I took down from the [...] |
| Beijing, China - Israeli President Peres spends Tisha B'av night with Chabad Posted: 10 Aug 2008 03:04 PM CDT Rabbi Freundlich giving President Peres a kipaAs already reported that Israel's President Shimon Peres who is in Beijing for the opening of the Lympics attended Kinos and Megilas Eicha at the minyan organized by Chabad led by the shliach there, Rabbi Shimon Freundlich. Also attending were staff of the embassy, representatives of the Jewish community and [...] |
| Ashdod, Israel - Haredi Boycott Spreads to All Stores Owned by Dudi Weissman Posted: 10 Aug 2008 03:30 PM CDT Shefa Shuk store in Jerusalem is owned by businessman Dudi WeissmanAshdod, Israel - An announcement was made by Ultra-orthodox Ashdod rabbis to the entire Shabbat-keeping public, to ban all stores owned by businessman Dudi Weissman for not sanctifying Shabbat. Last March, the ultra-Orthodox community launched a campaign against Weissman's AM:PM chain of 24/7 convenient stores which [...] |
| Denver, CO - OU Orthodox Rabbi To Kick Off Interfaith Democratic National Convention Posted: 10 Aug 2008 01:59 PM CDT Rabbi Tzvi WeinrebDenver, CO - For the first time at a Democratic National Convention, a public interfaith service of Christians, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists will help kick off the event at 2 p.m. Aug. 24 at the Wells Fargo Theater inside the Colorado Convention Center. Included in the service is Rabbi Tzvi Weinreb, executive vice president [...] |
| Los Angeles, CA - Orthodox Jews Prefer Arranged Marriages Posted: 10 Aug 2008 01:39 PM CDT Los Angeles, CA - The sound of laughter can be heard from outside a Los Angeles home as seven matchmakers sit around the dining room table taking notes, shuffling through papers and pitching match ideas over water and fruit salad. Attractive young single women donning ankle-length skirts and long-sleeved shirts sit in the living room, [...] |
| Tel Aviv - Israir Under Investigation For Hiding Plane Damage Posted: 10 Aug 2008 01:33 PM CDT Tel Aviv - The Transportation Ministry is investigating whether an Israir plane that flew from Eilat to Ben-Gurion International Airport took off with a small hole in its frame, a flaw which could have caused the plane to explode on its next scheduled flight to Rome. Ministry official Yitzhak Raz has been charged with checking whether [...] |
| New York, NY - With Congestion Pricing Out, Mayor Bloomberg Likes Tolls on Bridges Posted: 10 Aug 2008 02:03 PM CDT New York, NY - With his congestion pricing plan dead for now, Mayor Bloomberg said he'd support putting tolls on the bridges into Manhattan. "Tolling the bridges actually makes a lot of sense," the mayor said. "It's easier to do. It is bigger. It includes upper Manhattan." A commission last year said $4 tolls on every free [...] |
| Winnipeg, Canada - Life Support Lawsuit of Golubchuk Family, Dropped Posted: 10 Aug 2008 02:08 PM CDT SAM GOLUBCHUK died June 24 2008 after being in a hospital on life support in the city of Winnpeg, CanadaWinnipeg, Canada - The family of a Winnipeg man at the centre of an end-of-life medical dispute is dropping its lawsuit against the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. The move ends any possibility that the continuation of the [...] |
| Pikesville, MD - First Orthodox Jewish Woman Fire Lt. Elected Posted: 10 Aug 2008 11:44 AM CDT Pikesville, MD - History has been made at the 110-year-old Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company with the election of its first ever Orthodox Jewish lieutenant. In fact, Lt. Andrea Lavine is the first in the history of Baltimore County. "I have wanted to ride in a medic unit ever since I was seven and watched the TV [...] |
| Lithuania - Tisha B'Av in Vilnius: Swastikas Sprayed on Jewish Building Posted: 10 Aug 2008 11:15 AM CDT Photo Credit: S.Gurevičius for VIN NewsLithuania - "Jews get out," said the graffiti found by Israelis on Sunday, on the wall of the Jewish community center in Vilnius, Lithuania. The building, in which Judaism is taught, and the community's museum adjacent to it, were both covered in swastikas, a Star of David on which a [...] |
| Gori, Georgia - Jews Evacuated from War Area Posted: 10 Aug 2008 12:36 AM CDT Gori, Georgia - Since the outbreak of hostilities between Georgia and Russia, the Jewish Agency for Israel has assisted some 200 Jews living near the town of Gori, on the South Ossetian border, who have been evacuated to the Georgian capital. Most of the Jews have heeded warnings and are en route to Tbilisi, where the rest of the [...] |
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