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The Nation’s Largest Jewish Classifieds 2 Nisan 5769
Vol. 9, Iss. 12
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IN THIS ISSUE: Deported Former Nazi Won’t be Tried ........ p g . 3
LABOR VOTES IN FAVOR OF JOINING LIKUD-LED COALITION
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The Freeman Fight: Was it All About Israel? ...... pg.11 The Companies that Survive the Crisis Will End Up With Larger Market Shares ......... pg.17
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Kosher Dog Fight on 13th Avenue ..................... p g . 9
Before the vote, chairman Ehud Barak vowed that his party would have a significant position in the coalition. BY SHELLY PAZ Labor members voted in favor of chairman Ehud Barak’s proposal for the party to join a Likud-led government during Tuesday night’s convention at Tel Aviv’s Exhibition Grounds.
1,071 party members attended the convention, with 58 percent voting in favor of joining the government and 42% voting against it—a margin of 173 votes. Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu called Barak to congratulate him on the vote’s outcome, while Infrastructures
Venezuela Jews Rebuild After Synagogue Attack BY JASMINA KELEMEN The quiet on a residential street in this eastern Venezuelan city is shattered by construction crews as workers perched on a scaffolding place panels of marble on the external wall of a two-story synagogue.
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15 MILLION RAISED AT “FRIENDS OF THE IDF” EVENT Guess Who’s Back! .. p g . 1 8 Remember These Tax Breaks...................... pg.32 Candlelighting for NY, NJ & FL
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he construction occurs under the watchful eye of local police, who monitor the street around the clock. From their post on the corner, the police van has kept surveillance over the site since late January, when an older synagogue in the rundown Mariperez district of Caracas was attacked and desecrated. Committed to their future here, the city’s Jews are building a new synagogue to replace the 50-year-old Sephardic synagogue that was attacked. They must do so under police protection. On Jan. 30, more than a dozen assailants invaded Tiferet Israel, overpowering two security guards and disabling the surveillance system. They desecrated holy objects, stole a computer database with the congregation’s personal information and put this city’s Jews on edge. “It’s something that is really shocking and that has never been seen before in Venezuela. Never ever,” said Federica Palomero, who curates a small museum at Tiferet Israel. “In Venezuela there’s a tradition of coexistence, tolerance, respect and mutual admiration.” Synagogue members say that anti-Semitic graffiti began to appear on the temple’s exterior walls in January, after President Hugo Chavez expelled the Israeli ambassador from the country to protest the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip. As Chavez ratcheted up his rhetoric against Israel, calling it a genocidal state, the
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