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5770: May You Be Written As the pages of the book recording 5769 closes, completion of this past problematic year, punctured (not a mistake) by difficulty and distress, angst and adjudication, scandal and sadness, is considered by many to be a relief. uring this troubled year, we as a community, as a people collectively lived through personal and public tragedies. In New Jersey, a young child, virtually an infant lost his life under the wheels of a car. We quoted the words of a local rabbi who memorialized him as “a sacrifice for all of us.” As an international community of Jews, we close the year mourning, weeping with Rona Ramon, the widow of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who now faces life without her first born, Assaf. The young IDF pilot dedicated his life to the protection of the State of Israel - and of each of us. His sacrifice takes from all; the example of his life and deeds shines as stars in the heavens. G-d saved Isaac in the wilderness. Who can understand the death of these children – of any child? Who can fathom the workings of G-d? Ours are souls on loan. Each of us, someday, must return the principal to its source. No one can predict the “terms” of this loan. For all the days that are ours, we have an obligation, an opportunity, to enhance the value of the base, adding “interest” that makes our earth and the time we spend upon it, better, more valued and more valuable to those with whom we share humanity. As we recite the prayers of s’lihot, day by day coming ever closer to G-d, we look to quintessential new beginnings. We have an opportunity to participate in tikun olam, not only of the physical world, but of the world of the neshamah, the soul. As Rosh Hashanah draws near, we at The Jewish Voice quote the words of a dear one who begins 5770 as a new resident of Israel. “May you love and be loved. May you have the time and good health to enjoy and appreciate the important people in your life.” We add wishes each of us may follow the direction of the great Rabbi Hillel whose simple summary of Tanach “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” May we each of us, and all of the People Israel, find shalom bayit in each of our worldly homes, and add to the goodness of the world in which we live. Shana Tova! Ketivah Hatimah Tovah David BenHooren, Publisher Maxine Dovere, Associate Publisher The Jewish Voice
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Anti-Israel Rally Moved Due to Threats BY JONNY PAUL
An anti-Israel demonstration scheduled to take place on Sunday afternoon in central London was forced to change venues following threats by a far-right group. olice made the decision to move the annual Al Quds Day demonstration in London an annual anti-Israel event held at the end of Ramadan to oppose Israel's control of Jerusalem - following the call from far-right
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organization the English Defense League (EDL) for its supporters to oppose the event. The London commemoration had been scheduled to take place in Trafalgar Square in central London, but police, working with the Greater London Assembly, moved it to a smaller area in Waterloo Place, off Pall Mall. The EDL had called on supporters to mount a counter-demonstration to the Iranian-sponsored, pro-Hizbullah event. On its Web site, the far-right group, which claims to be "peacefully protesting
against militant Islam," posted before the event: "The Home Off ice bent over backwards to ban us from Luton, yet Hizbullah, a Muslim terrorist organization's supporters, are due to march through London this coming Sunday. We urge everybody who can to come to London to oppose this." In recent weeks, violent clashes in London, Luton and Birmingham between anti-Islamist demonstrators and Muslim counter-protesters have broken out, leading to a cabinet minister to raise fears of a
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Former U.S. Envoy To IAEA: Syria May Have More Nuke Sites BY JPOST.COM
Syria may be operating more nuclear sites, apart from the reactor at Deir Azour which was bombed by Israel on September 6 2007 in what came to be known as Operation Orchard, former US envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Gregory Schulte told Channel 10 Thursday evening. think there were other activities that gave us concern, that gave the IAEA concern… IAEA inspectors actually
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asked to go to a number of other sites, and the Syrians wouldn't let them go there; they claimed they were military sites. They claimed the uranium particles that the inspectors found at the destroyed reactor came from Israeli bombs," Schulte said. In the past, the Syrian accusation was brushed aside both by the IAEA and Israel, as the uranium used to strengthen the metal of shells is of a different type than the uranium used in producing nuclear energy . Schulte went on to criticize the conduct of Mohammed ElBaradei, the Egyptian-born outgoing IAEA chief who has been accused by
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Israel many times of being biased. "I tell you Mohammed ElBaradei was not happy ... he was mad at Israel, he was mad at the United States; he didn't express any discontent about Syria." Schulte added that ElBaradei issued a statement following Operation Orchard, "where he sort of deplored Israel's unilateral action, he deplored the late provision of intelligence which was a direct slap at the United States." Moving on to the issue of Iran's nuclear pursuit, Schulte said the Islamic republic was using
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U.S. Mideast Envoy Pushes for Settlement Breakthrough BY DJALLAL MALTI
US envoy George Mitchell urged Israelis and Palestinians to show "responsibility for peace" on Tuesday as he sought to wrest a compromise on settlements and pave the way for the resumption of stalled negotiations. e've been asking all of the parties to take the responsibility for peace through concrete action in order to create an encouraging context for the prompt resumption and early conclusion of negotiations," he said after talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the West
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Shortly after arriving for his latest regional trip, he said Washington shared a "sense of urgency" for peace talks to resume before the end of September. Standing in the way are Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land, home to half a million Israelis, viewed as illegal by the international community, and one of the major obstacles in reaching any peace deal. Washington has been demanding for months that Israel halt all settlement activity in the West Bank including annexed east Jerusalem, but hawkish Netanyahu has refused and the Palestinians are insisting on such a moratorium
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 The Jewish Voice Netanyahu: We Want to Make Peace, Global Jihad Group Likely Behind But We Won't Be Taken Advantage Of Katyusha Attack on North Israel PAGE 4
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A small-scale Global Jihad terror group was likely behind the firing of at least two Katyusha rockets into northern Israel , military sources said.
Israel is willing to make concessions for peace, but not to be "taken advantage of," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday night. e have shown time and time again that we're willing to make compromises for peace, but we won't lead ourselves astray, we won't be suckers," the prime minister said during a Likud event in honor of the upcoming High Holidays. Speaking amid heightened tensions over his settlement policy, with international pressure to halt all construction, Netanyahu specif ically addressed West Bank settlers: "To our brothers and sisters in Judea and Samaria. You are loyal citizens of the State of Israel." He said they "deserve to live normal lives," and promised to work towards this aim. In the new Jewish year, he said, Israel has a government which "strengthens the country's security, brings the economy from crisis to recovery, and advances diplomatic processes responsibly." He vowed that Jerusalem would forever be "the capital of the Jewish peo-
he rockets landed in open fields near the city of Nahariya. No casualties or damage were reported, and the IDF responded by firing some 15 artillery shells towards the source of the fire near the Lebanese city of Tyre. IDF sources said that the rockets were 122 millimeter Katyushas, a short-range rocket known to be in the hands of Hizbullah as well as other smaller Palestinian terror groups that operate in southern Lebanon . The IDF released a statement, saying that Israel holds the Lebanese government responsible for terror attacks that originate in its sovereign territory. IDF sources said that the incident was likely isolated and would not develop into a larger conflict. Military forces were however put on high alert along the northern border. A senior Lebanese military official said that the rockets were fired from the town of Qlaileh, near the Lebanese port city of Tyre. "The rocket attack could be connected to a number of events - the eight anniversary of 9/11, the large IDF exercise in the North this week of some small terror group's discontent with Hizbullah," a defense official explained. The attacks also could be con-
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gives a speech during a Likud Party meeting to celebrate the Jewish new year in Tel Aviv. ple," and to keep f ighting for "unequivocal recognition of the right of the Jewish people to the State of Israel." The statement was released following much tension from Netanyahu’s actions on settlement freezes.
Katyushas prepared for launch by Hizbullah. nected to the political tension in Lebanon following Sa'ad Hariri's announcement on Thursday that he had failed to establish a unity government with Hizbullah, the official said. Following the attack, the IDF filed an official complaint with UNIFIL. UNIFIL, in coordination with the Lebanese Armed Forces, deployed additional troops and reaction force in the area around Tyre to prevent an escalation. The peacekeeping force also launched an investigation into the incident. The last time rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon was in January during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. Then too, the IDF assessment was that a small radical Palestinian group was behind the rockets which it fired into Israel out of solidarity with Hamas which was fighting the IDF in the Gaza Strip at the time.
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IDF May Reserve Some Top Posts for Women
Thousands of friends, family members, public figures and private citizens attended the funeral of Assaf Ramon Monday afternoon at the military cemetery in Nahalal. Ramon died Sunday afternoon when his Israel Air Force F-16 jet crashed in the South Hebron Hills.
Facing a drop in the number of female soldiers interested in military careers, the General Staff is currently considering making available - exclusively for women 15 different senior positions throughout the IDF Operations Directorate and the Ground Forces Command.
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ssaf was buried next to his father, Ilan Ramon, who died in the Columbia space shuttle disaster six years ago. President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, IAF commander Maj. -Gen. Ido Nehushtan, as well as ministers and MKs arrived at the Nahalal ceremony. In his eulogy for Assaf, President Shimon Peres said that "every heart breaks today because the son of the Ramon family was the son of us all today we are all the Ramon family." Peres began by praising the fallen IAF off icer, saying that Assaf "was one of the best of our sons. He carries with him a rich heritage of patriotism, wisdom and generosity - a heritage deeply rooted within a family that was connected to the Jewish people's history and the courage of the state of Israel." The president then spoke of Assaf's father Ilan, saying that both father and son were "honorable, brave and courageous, always ready to serve. They were
A A brave woman in the Israel Defense Forces. months ago to designate nine positions - that come with a promotion to the rank of lieutenant-colonel - for female officers who have served in combat positions. The problem, the officer explained though, is that there are currently 140 female officers with the rank of major who are interested in receiving a promotion to lieutenant-colonel. "The average ratio in the IDF is that there are three officers who compete for every available job at the level of a lieutenantcolonel," the officer said. "In the case of the female soldiers, the ratio is currently 14 candidates competing for every available job." The General Staff is scheduled to make its decision on the issue in the coming months.
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he initiative to create staff positions exclusively for women was started by Lt.-Col. Shosh Raban, who serves as the head of the Field Unit Branch in the GFC. The Field Unit Branch was established earlier this year with the aim of assisting female soldiers who serve in IDF combat positions - mostly as combat trainers and soldiers in the Karakal Battalion, which is responsible for border patrols in the South in creating military careers. "The problem was that while men who become officers know that they have a career track and go from the commander of a platoon, to a company, then a battalion and maybe a brigade, women have no such track," explained a senior GFC officer. The result, the officer said, was that female soldiers were becoming less interested in becoming officers and signing on for more years of service. "In the current graduating class at the Bahd 1 Officer's Training School, there are only 25 female cadets," the officer said. "There used to be over 50." As a result the outgoing head of the GFC, Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrachi, decided several
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prepared to take on any task. They both grew up as high achievers and fell for their country as the highest achievers," Peres said. Peres addressed bereaved wife and mother Rona Ramon personally, praising her strength in the face of tragedy. "Rona, you were already brave and you will remain brave. Our broken heart is with you in every tear that falls, in every memory that causes you to smile, in every moment of stinging pain," he said. "I know that words that can heal this wound have not yet been created, there aren't proper words of consolation when an entire nation is aching and crying there is nothing that can replace the heartbeats when one hears the steps of a son returning home from his base at the end of the week, nor is there anything that can f ill the empty bed, the closet, the military shirt with the wings, the laughter, hugs and kisses, the 'Hello' and 'Goodbye'," the president concluded. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu postponed a meeting with US Mideast envoy George Mitchell until Tuesday in order to attend the funeral. Ramon, 20, was promoted to the rank of captain after his death. The cause of the accident was under investigation and was complicated by the extent of the crash scene, but an initial probe indicated that he blacked out
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Polls Show Israeli’s View Germany Positively BY ZE'EV BEN-YECHIEL Seventy years after the outbreak of World War II, an unprecedented public opinion poll reveals a surprising picture of Germany as perceived by Israelis: Roughly two-thirds of Jews in Israel expressed a high degree of satisfaction with the level of accountability accepted by Germany for its role in the Holocaust, and Germany's relationship to Israelis. he results of the comprehensive study, the first of its kind, were presented as part of Thursday's "Eye of the Beholder" Conference on German-Israeli relations, held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The poll, which showed 61% of Israeli Jews as being satisf ied with the level of responsibility taken today by Germany for the Nazi annihilation of European Jewry, was the f irst comparative survey taken of Arab and Jewish attitudes toward Germany. The poll results indicated that Israel's Jewish population was twice as satisf ied as its Arab sector with Germany's political involvement in the region. The survey, in which 1,200 people participated, examined among other issues the question of whether Israel exploits the memory of the Holocaust to influence Germany's involvement in the Israeli-Arab conflict. The poll also appraised the relative degree of Israelis'
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trust in Germany, Britain and France. The study also investigated whether the population of Israel was boycotting German products, and the extent to which Israelis consume German books and movies. The survey showed that the respondents' attitude towards Germany was influenced by political aff iliation and religion observance. The Right expressed more reluctance than the Left to view Germany favorably - only 3% of the respondents who identif ied themselves as lef-wing said they had no trust in Germany's political activities in the Middle East today, compared to 30% among supporters of right-wing parties. As for the impact of religious observance, 83% of secular respondents def ined Israel's relations with Germany as normal, compared to only 48% of the ultra-Orthodox. "The f indings revealed that contrary to the off icial position and the attitude of the media, the Israeli public, especially the Jewish public, relate to Germany not only in a neutral but in a sympathetic way," explained conference organizer Prof. Moshe Zimmermann, head of the Hebrew University's Koebner Minerva Center for German History. "The past is casting a shadow on the present attitude towards Germany, and the Israeli public believes that Germany has faced its past properly," Zimmerman said.
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Hariri Steps Down as Lebanon Prime Minister-Designate BY RANA MOUSSAOU Saad Hariri announced on Thursday that he was stepping down as Lebanon's prime minister-designate after the Hezbollah-led opposition rejected a team he proposed earlier this week. "Given that my commitment to forming a government of national unity has run up against diff iculties that everyone now knows about, I announce that I have informed the president of the republic that I have abandoned trying to form a government," he told journalists in Beirut. "I worked for 73 days to achieve this objective but each time the rounds of negotiations were hampered one way or another," added Hariri, saying the team he had proposed would have been a "real opportunity" but was "frittered away through conditions imposed" by the minority. Hariri and his allies won a healthy majority of 71 seats in the 128-member parliament in the June election, while the Hezbollah camp got 57. "I hope that this decision will be in the interests of Lebanon and will permit a relaunch of dialogue," he added. The announcement comes after more than two months of fruitless efforts to form a government. The rejection of Hariri's proposed team sparked fears of new political crisis in a country where bickering led to deadly f ighting only last year. On Monday, Hariri proposed a 30-
The former prime ministerdesignate Saad Hariri speaks to the press. seat coalition cabinet to President Michel Sleiman but Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah quickly accused him of proposing a line-up that would only complicate the situation. "I do not believe this way of doing things will lift Lebanon from the crisis over the formation of the new government," Nasrallah said. "It will make the problem more complicated." Hezbollah accused Hariri of trying to impose a "de facto government" contrary to the spirit of a national unity
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US Jewish Day Schools Mostly Hanging On BY E.B. SOLOMONT As schools across America opened their doors for the new academic year this month, in a corner of Orange County, California, the Morasha Jewish Day School stayed dark. ast spring, it failed in its last-ditch effort to raise much-needed cash through the sale of land. In April, the school's fate was sealed and the board sent a letter to parents outlining the grim financial situation. "It is with much sadness, therefore, that we share that Morasha Jewish Day School is a casualty of the economic downturn," the letter read. When it shuttered its doors for good in June, Morasha was not alone. Since the economic collapse last fall, day schools with fragile f inances and dwindling enrollment have been forced to close. Others have seen dips in enrollment and signif icant increases in f inancial assistance. While there have been no mass closures, about half a dozen schools did not reopen this fall, including the recently closed Solomon Schechter Day School of Palm Beach County in Florida. Other schools "are sort of hanging in there," in the words of a longtime education professional. To be sure, the crisis did not emerge suddenly. For years, parents and school administrators have been grappling with a crisis of affordability, with tuition ranging from $6,000 to $30,000 a year. But before the recession hit, most
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A scene from the last day of school at the Morasha Day School in Orange County, California, which shut down in June due to financial problems. day schools were on a growth trajectory, according to preliminary f indings from a 2008-09 census of American Jewish day schools, recently published by the Avi Chai Foundation. Among the key f indings, there were 228,174 students enrolled in day schools, an 11 percent increase from 2003-04. But while Orthodox and community day schools grew, the Conservative Movement's Solomon Schechter schools saw a 25% decrease in enrollment. That decline - attributed to economic pressure, changes in the Conservative
Movement overall and a tendency among non-Orthodox to consider options other than day school - was worsened by the unraveling economy. Jewish community day schools found themselves under similar pressure. "My colleagues across the country were saying to me in June, 'You could go out of business in September because community day schools is not where committed Jews go,'" said Marc Kramer, executive director of RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network, which includes 102 schools. As of this fall, two schools have closed and there were two sets of mergers. Kramer said the biggest question now is enrollment. "If a school closes, it's, at least for now, the end of the story," he said, offering a somewhat bleak outlook. According to Kramer, enrollment at community day schools in the US and Canada is down by about 7%. But despite the numbers, he said enrollment is actually better than he expected when the economy started to unravel. At that time, he and colleagues anticipated that as much as 10% of schools would close, with remaining schools seeing enrollment drop by 25%. "We were really panicked," Kramer said. Instead, schools have had a wide range of experiences. Somehow, some have grown, even as others have lost as much as 30% of their student body. The majority have remained relatively stable. "The majority are those who left for
economic reasons, actual or perceived," he said. His theory is that many stayed because of three factors: previous efforts to retain students, proven value in community day school education and a commitment by families to the community day school model. "Anybody can leave a school, it's not that hard," he said. "Leaving a community is heart-wrenching and some would suggest totally untenable." That philosophy is what has led to huge increases in f inancial aid requests. Scott Goldberg, director of Yeshiva University's Institute for UniversitySchool Partnership, said there has been a 20% to 25% increase in the amount of f inancial aid doled out. By and large, those seeking assistance are middleclass families who traditionally did not need or ask for help. "I have heard the word 'millions' in the context of f inancial aid in the past 90 days in the way I have never heard the word 'million' used before," said RAVSAK's Kramer. Jewish education has been marketed to the "Jewish everyman," he noted. "We've taken an elite product and marketed it broadly to a diverse community that is largely middle class," he said. "There's ramif ications for that. Not everyone can afford it. As costs go up and the availability of family cash goes down, there's a gap. The local and regional leadership had been worrying
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NYPD Boosts Security For Jewish Holidays
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
New York City Could Face $40 Million Loss In Atlantic Yards Plan BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF
BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF As Jews around the city prepare for the high holidays, the New York City Police Department is ramping up security around houses of worship. he heightened security measures, precinct commanders will be putting extra measures in place and extra officers on ground, especially near synagogues during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. While there have not been any specific threats that would put anyone in danger, these protective measures are being implemented to assure safety, should a problem arise. .In May, the FBI thwarted a plot to blow up a synagogue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Deal, New Jersey residents were also alarmed this summer after receiving bomb threats for two local synagogues. Luckily the threats were deemed false. However, during a time when the Jewish community will be spending time in synagogue, the NYPD has ruled it appropriate that security measures be taken and that they are on duty and at hand should anything arise.
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The Atlantic Yards arena could potentially cause New York City to lose $40,000,000, according to the findings from a new report. New York City is giving $169,000,000 in subsidies to Bruce Ratner, the developer’s new Nets arena over a span of 30 years. The city, however, will only recover $130,000,000 through tax revenue increases, according to data from the Independent Budget Office report. he Independent Budget Office issued another report in 2005 saying something quite different; the report issued in 2005 claimed that New York City would make $25,000,000 more in tax revenues than it would spend on the arena’s construction. This reversal of financial fate is caused by the city’s increased contribution to the building of the arena, office Deputy Director George Sweeting said. "The arena conceivably would make money for the city if you weren't doing the subsidies, although, then it might be hard for Ratner to finance it," said Sweeting. According to the results of the report, NYC would also suffer the loss of $180,000,000 in opportunity costs; the arena is exempt from paying property taxes which would amount to that number. Another property that would pay taxes would have provided the city with that revenue. Yet New York still might come out ahead by $25,000,000 on the deal since it has the ability to tax the
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Barclay’s center design of the Atlantic Yards. incomes of non-New York City residents, such as visiting NBA players. The total package of subsidies and tax breaks from the state, city, and MTA amounts to $726 million, the report found. Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn spokesman Daniel Goldstein said the report reveals that "the project is the result of a corrupt and illegal process and is a financial disaster that destroys our community." NYC officials and developer Bruce Ratner argued against these findings. "The report is sloppy and inaccurate," said NYC Economic Development Corp. spokesman David Lombino. "They're looking at the costs of the entire project, but they're only looking at the benefits
associated with the arena," he said. "Our investment in this project is based on thousands of housing units, office space, and multiple towers being built." He said the whole project will boost the city's coffers by hundreds of millions of dollars. Mayor Bloomberg denied the validity of the Independent Budget Office's conclusion. "I don't know what the IBO studies would have shown back when they tried to establish the value of Central Park or Prospect Park or anything else," said Mayor Bloomberg. "These are the kinds of projects you have to do because without that we don't have a future."
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Halal Mafia Uses Threats to Maintain Street-Eatery Dominance BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF Newcomers to the foodcart business are having a rough time surviving on the streets. The streets of New York are more cruel than ever, thanks to a group of food vendors who are determined to stomp out competition. When new foodcart vendors try to park their carts on a busy corner, they are threatened by a group of experienced streetfood vendors they have nicknamed the “Halal Mafia,” according to the New York Post. hey had their friends park a truck in my location because they were trying to much me out," Clive Dennis, who manages the Little Ochi Hot Spot Jamaican-food cart, told the Post. "It's like a mob thing -these halal guys think they're the only ones who should be selling food on the street." Most of the time the Halal Mafia resorts to threats, but if their warnings are not daunting enough to chase away and shut down their competition, the Halal Mafia also uses another more sinister tactic. They call 311 and begin to make health code violation complaints to the city. After putting up with three months of hazing, Clive Dennis finally got the group to give up and leave his Jamaican food-selling cart alone. "You have to stand firm with these guys," he said. Olivia Cardosa has not had such luck with her own Mexican food truck, which resides on West 43rd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, not far from Manhattan’s
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crowded Theatre District and Times Square subway station, which has heavy tourist and commuter traffic. As soon as she pitched her truck there, another street food vendor with a Greek-food cart approached threateningly. The Mafia gets physical, too. Sometimes threats are not efficient enough scare tactics for them. "She said we couldn't put our cart here,"
So-called Halal Mafia Threatens Competing Street Food Carts. said Cardosa. "Then she jumped on our cart's hitch trying to prevent us from putting it on the sidewalk." A pedestrian caught the action on video and uploaded it to MidtownLunch.com. When she got to her usual location a few weeks ago, Cardosa said that three giant planters had been cemented into the sidewalk where she would normally put her food cart. The landlord of the building called it vandalism. Cardosa said it was "the halal guys." Erez Ella, who just recently started to sell food from his Kosher-food truck on West 46th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, told the Post he has been threatened since the beginning. "They told me they were going to bring 10 carts and block my spot," reported in the paper. The following day a worker at his parking garage said to him that they did not want him to park there and that he should sell his cart to them. Two days after, Erez Ella discovered that someone had dented his entire truck.
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Brooklyn College Completes New West Quad Building BY ERNESTO MORA Brooklyn College will hold the ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open the West Quad Building, a state-of-the-art athletic and student services facility designed by the renowned architect Rafael Viñoly. The event, which starts at 12:30 pm, will mark the first public ceremony headed by the college’s new President, Karen L. Gould, who took office in August. New York State and City elected officials will be in attendance.
The Brooklyn College West Quad Building will be hosting its ribbon cutting ceremony on September 22, 2009.
inanced by state funds, the building is the first construction project completed at Brooklyn College in 50 years. Construction began in the summer of 2006. The recreational facilities include a swimming pool, two fitness centers, and three racquet ball courts, all accessible to the Brooklyn community. The new building, which completes the harmonic vision of the original design by architect Randolph Evans, houses the College’s Department of Physical Education and Exercise Science and offers a one-stop
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solution for student services departments, including the offices of admissions, financial aid, scholarships, registration, and the bursar. In addition to President Gould, other participants are: Iris Weinshall, the CUNY Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning; Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz; NY State Assemblyman Joe Lentol; and Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs, who represents the Flatbush/Midwood section of Brooklyn. A reception after the ceremony will be followed by a tour around the new complex.
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WAR ON TERROR “Justice, justice shall you pursue” (Deutoronomy 16:20)
Al-Qaeda Damaged but Still a Threat to the U.S. BY DAPHNE BENOIT Eight years after the September 11 attacks, a weakened Al-Qaeda remains a tenacious enemy, US officials say, but Americans are growing weary of the fight against terror.
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he Al-Qaeda network is still very capable of attacking the United States and very focused on its goal, top US military officer Admiral Mike Mullen said last month. Despite a change of leadership in the White House, the campaign launched by George W. Bush remains a top priority, with his successor Barack Obama vowing to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat AlQaeda" sheltering in neighboring Pakistan. The fight against those who staged the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York and Washington has deprived Osama bin Laden's terror network of a safe haven in Afghanistan, after the US-led invasion toppled the Taliban regime at the end of 2001. The organization has suffered serious setbacks, with several key figures captured and 11 leaders or associates killed since July 2008, including Abu Khabab al-Masri, chemical and biological arms expert, and Baitullah Mehsud, head of the Pakistan Taliban. The terror network has not managed an attack in the West since July 2005 and the group's decline has some experts arguing the Qaeda threat is starting to recede.
Members of Congress participate in a remembrance ceremony to honor the victims of September 11, 2001. "Twenty-one years since its founding, Al-Qaeda is on the defensive, even running out of steam," Jean-Pierre Filiu, professor at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, told AFP. "It tried to regain the initiative after the US invasion of Iraq but its local branch lost ground... and left in 2006-2007," he said. US intelligence agencies, however, disagree that Al-Qaeda has faded as a threat. "Al-Qaeda is feeling some intense pressure at the moment, especially with the loss of several of the group's top leaders," said a US counter-terrorism official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"But make no mistake about it: they remain a serious threat to the United States and our allies," he said, citing the group's ability to recruit terrorists and plan and finance operations. "This is a resilient, determined, and adaptive enemy." The network has regrouped in Pakistan's tribal areas, where bin Laden and his deputy Ayman Zawahiri have taken refuge, and where it helps direct the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. US officials are concerned meanwhile about Al-Qaeda's transformation into a network of small terrorist "franchises" spread
over Asia, the Middle East and Africa, particularly in unstable countries such as Yemen and Somalia. A cell in Yemen organized a suicide attack this summer against Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who leads the country's anti-terror efforts. The Saudi prince survived the attack, in which only the bomber was killed. Despite US government warnings of the lingering danger posed by Al-Qaeda, the public's focus has begun to shift to other concerns amid fatigue with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have claimed the lives of more than 5,000 soldiers. Recent polls show public support declining for the Afghan mission. "Many people are tired of fighting terrorism, they've been exhausted both in terms of money, in terms of patience, in terms of loss American lives in Iraq, and therefore don't have the fortitude to carry on especially at a time of economic downturn," said Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University. "So now Americans think we have exaggerated the threat, it is not so serious," he said. But Hoffman said that "if we withdrew from Afghanistan there would be a massive attack against the United States." "Unlike the Vietnam war, where the Vietcong were not going to pursue us back to the US if we left Indochina, this is different. They will pursue us."
Former US Envoy To IAEA: Syria May Have More Nuke Sites BY JPOST Syria may be operating more nuclear sites, apart from the reactor at Deir Azour which was bombed by Israel on September 6, 2007 in what came to be known as Operation Orchard, former US envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Gregory Schulte said. think there were other activities that gave us concern, that gave the IAEA concern… IAEA inspectors actually asked to go to a number of other sites, and the Syrians wouldn't let them go there; they claimed they were military sites. They claimed the uranium particles that the inspectors found at the destroyed reactor came from Israeli bombs," Schulte said. In the past, the Syrian accusation was brushed aside both by the IAEA and Israel, as the uranium used to strengthen the metal of shells is of a different type than the uranium used in producing nuclear energy . Schulte went on to criticize the conduct of Mohammed ElBaradei, the Egyptian-born outgoing IAEA chief who has been accused by Israel many times of being biased.
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“Iran needs to "show a willingness to suspend these activities.” "I tell you Mohammed ElBaradei was not happy ... he was mad at Israel, he was mad at the United States; he didn't express any discontent about Syria." Schulte added that ElBaradei issued a
statement following Operation Orchard, "where he sort of deplored Israel's unilateral action, he deplored the late provision of intelligence which was a direct slap at the United States." Moving on to the issue of Iran's nuclear pursuit, Schulte said the Islamic republic was using a tactic of stalling to the West while continuing to work on its program.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ruled out negotiations over uranium enrichment, the UN's central concern regarding his country's nuclear program. Iran is always trying to buy time," he said. "The question is, can you sort of convince them to stop doing that, convince them that they have to negotiate seriously... so the trick is to convince them that the opportunity to buy time is running out and the need to negotiate seriously." Iran needs to "show a willingness to suspend these activities," he said, referring to enrichment of uranium, a process which can serve to produce electricity but also to build a nuclear weapon, Schulte added. Earlier Thursday, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Teheran's envoy to the IAEA, suggested that any negotiations with Western powers would not address the Islamic republic's nuclear program, according to a report carried by Iran's
state-run al-Alam television station cited by Reuters. "Teheran is prepared to have fair and substantive talks about various problems, including the guarantee of access by all countries to nuclear energy and preventing the proliferation of nuclear arms," Soltanieh reportedly said. "But these talks do not include Teheran's nuclear program and legal activities in this connection," he was quoted as saying. His came just a day after Iran presented world powers with a proposal for new talks, facing a US threat of harsher new sanctions if it fails to begin negotiations in earnest by the United Nations' General Assembly meeting at the end
of September. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ruled out negotiations over uranium enrichment, the UN's central concern regarding his country's nuclear program. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday gave a package of proposals to diplomats representing the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany in a meeting in Teheran attended by journalists. The proposals came as the UN nuclear watchdog agency was holding a meeting in Vienna, Austria.
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Iranian Threat U.S. Voices Bomb Fears As Iran Submits Nuclear Proposals BY SIMON MORGAN Iran may have enough nuclear material to put together an atomic bomb, the United States said, as Tehran submitted proposals to resolve the international standoff. While the head of the UN nuclear watchdog sought to downplay fears over Iran's nuclear programme, the US envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Tehran's enrichment drive was moving closer to "breakout capacity". The White House added to the pressure on Iran, saying President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government must show progress towards ending its "illicit" nuclear activities. Iran has dominated an IAEA board meeting in Vienna which heard for the first time on Wednesday from Glyn Davies, Washington's new ambassador to the agency.
"The offer by the U.S. is an offer that should not be refused, that cannot be refused, because it has no conditions attached to it," "Iran is now either very near or in possession already of sufficient low-enriched uranium to produce one nuclear weapon, if the decision were made to further enrich it to weapons-grade," said Davies. "This ongoing enrichment activity, prohibited by three UN Security Council resolutions, moves Iran closer to a dangerous and destabilising possible breakout capacity," the US envoy told IAEA governors. "Taken in connection with Iran's refusal to engage with the IAEA regarding its past nuclear warhead-related work, we have serious concerns that Iran is deliberately attempting, at a minimum, to preserve a nuclear weapons option," Davies said. But IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who last week alleged the Iranian threat had been "hyped", said there was no need to panic. "We have serious concerns but we're not in a state of panic, because we haven't seen diversion of nuclear material and we haven't seen components of nuclear weapons," said the Egyptian official, who stands down in November. Even if it now possesses sufficient quantities of enriched uranium to begin the process of making a bomb, there is still scepticism whether Iran has the know-how to turn it into weapons-grade material, analysts said. In its latest report on Iran, the IAEA ascertained that Iran had at least 1,430 kilo-
grammes of low-enriched uranium. Estimates vary, but analysts calculate that anywhere between 1,000 and 1,700 kg of enriched uranium would be needed to convert it into highly-enriched uranium suitable to make a single bomb. The Islamic republic has consistently refused to cease its enrichment activities, in direct defiance of Security Council resolutions. Western governments and Israel have accused Iran of trying to develop atomic weapons under cover of its civilian programme, a charge Tehran vehemently denies. World powers have threatened to impose a fourth set of UN sanctions if Tehran fails to hold talks by the end of this month. While Iran says it has non-negotiable nuclear "rights", it says it is willing to hold talks with international players. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday handed over a new package of proposals to envoys of six world powers at the foreign ministry in Tehran, but officials did not reveal its contents. Iran "is ready to discuss political, security, economic, cultural and international issues with the other parties, on the basis of respect for the sovereignty and rights of nations, and without pressure and threats," Mottaki said in a statement carried by state news agency IRNA. "Iranians have always used their abilities toward the establishment of peace, calm, stability and progress in the countries of the region and of the world," he told the assembled ambassadors. The six powers are Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- all veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council -- plus Germany. Their political directors were to hold a conference call Wednesday to discuss the new Iranian proposals, a US official said. Iran's ambassador to the European Union also handed a copy to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana. "It's being analysed," an EU spokeswoman said. ElBaradei said that "dialogue is absolutely key" to resolving the impasse as he urged Iran to take up a US offer of talks. "The offer by the U.S. is an offer that should not be refused, that cannot be refused, because it has no conditions attached to it," he said. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs meanwhile said it was time for Iran "to live up to its responsibilities and end its illicit nuclear programme." "That's not just the opinion of one country, that's the opinion of the world. Let's hope we see progress in them doing that," he added.
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U.S. Jews Push Obama To Act on Iran BY HILARY LEILA KRIEGER US Jews are pushing for Congress to quickly pass an Iran sanctions bill sponsored by US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman and otherwise take serious economic and diplomatic steps to pressure Iran to abandon its pursuit of nuclear capabilities that threaten Israel. ongress is back, legislation is on the agenda, and this is September, when at some level decisions are being made in connection with Iran," Anti-Defamation League Washington Director Jess Hordes said of the planning of the event. His organization will be joining the United Jewish Communities, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the National Conference of Soviet Jewry and several other groups as part of the effort. "A government that has so little regard for human life, truth and human rights as does the current Iranian regime must not be entrusted to possess the most powerful weapons known to humankind," the event organizers said, in a statement announcing the advocacy day. So far, the group is scheduled to hear from Berman, House Minority Leader John Boehner and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor at an open forum and then meet with an administration official before breaking up into groups to lobby individual legislators on Capitol Hill. Berman's Iran legislation would sanction companies providing Iran with refined petrole-
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um as well as insurance for such trade and other related measures. The legislation was originally introduced in May, along with a similar Senate bill, but Berman has held off on advancing it to give the diplomatic process time to work. However, Berman indicated this summer that he would be looking to take action on the legislation pending the late September deadline that the Obama administration gave Iran to respond to its diplomatic overtures. At the same time, the Senate is looking to hold hearings and otherwise build momentum for its legislation. It's not clear at this point how the Obama administration feels about the sanctions bills, though it has threatened "crippling sanctions" against Iran should diplomatic engagement fail. The White House would not comment on whether or not it supported the proposed legislation. Though the sponsors of advocacy day have a wide coalition of groups working with them, some Jewish activists have taken issue with the approach. "We urge rejecting deadlines imposed by outside parties, or deadlines that are the product of anything other than assessments by the Obama administration of the state-of-play of current diplomatic efforts," said Americans for Peace Now President Debra DeLee in a statement. "We also believe that additional sanctions aimed squarely at the ruling regime and its members may make sense, but that the US must not make the mistake of pursuing sanctions that target the Iranian people - like the 'crippling' sanctions currently under consideration."
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BY AFP President Barack Obama on Monday warned Wall Street it must not return to the "reckless behavior" and "unchecked excess" which he blamed for unleashing the global financial crisis. he president, in a major economic speech at the heart of the mighty US financial system just blocks from the New York Stock Exchange, laid out a wide ranging prescription for rebuilding the US finance system. He said the crisis was a "collective failure" of Washington, Wall Street and across America, vowed to press G20 powers for action on regulatory reform, and cautioned top executives not to squander public trust with huge bonuses. One year after the fall of Lehman Brothers sparked global f inancial contagion, Obama warned that there were those in the f inance industry who were misreading the lessons of the crisis. "They do so not just at their own peril, but at our nation's," Obama said at historic Federal Hall in Manhattan. "So I want them to hear my words: We will not go back to the days of reckless behavior and unchecked excess at the heart of this crisis, where too many were motivated only by the appetite for quick kills and bloated bonuses. "Those on Wall Street cannot resume taking risks without regard for consequences, and expect that next time, American taxpayers will be there to
BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF A group of U.S. lawmakers is expected to unveil a health care reform bill with hopes that it will attract both Democrats and Republicans.
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embers of the Senate Finance Committee have been discussing a new version of the bill, but opposition Republican lawmakers have argued that Democrats are not seeking bipartisan solutions.
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President Obama warned that there were those in the finance industry misleading the lessons of the crisis. break their fall." He also called on senior Wall Street moguls to promote a new culture of responsibility in their f irms, before approving massive bonus payouts. "You don't have to wait for legislation to put the 2009 bonuses of your senior executives up for a shareholder vote. "You don't have to wait for a law to overhaul your pay system so that folks are rewarded for long-term performance instead of short-term gains." The president said that in years leading up to the crisis, Washington had
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Many urged less government involvement in the lives of Americans. Others deplored the amount of taxpayer money spent on government programs. During President Barack Obama’s address to congress regarding health care reform, he described his $900 billion proposal that would include a government-run insurance option to provide competition to private companies, a so-called "public option."
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said that the president's address showed little sign of compromise. Graham and other Republican lawmakers have criticized the reforms as costing too much and amounting to a government takeover of health care. In separate interviews, President Obama's spokesman Robert Gibbs and advisor David Axelrod said a government-run "public option" is not the only way to provide health insurance to the estimated 45 million Americans without it. Echoing that sentiment, Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill said concerns about any "public option" are distracting from the debate on how most people will receive their coverage. Thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C., to protest the Obama administration's spending practices and health care reform initiative. A succession of conservative speakers addressed the crowd. Many urged less government involvement in the lives of Americans. Others deplored the amount of taxpayer money spent on government programs. A counter-protest was organized for Sunday near the Capitol in support of health care reform. Mr. Obama has pledged to pass health care reform before the end of the year.
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Brooklyn Heights Luxury Condos Complete with Free Car and Parking Spot BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF In New York there is a tradition of landlords taking advantage of struggling tenants by charging sky-high rents. With the struggling economy and the reduced purchasing power of New Yorkers, now landlords are taking a big hit. In order to lure condo buyers, the developers of One Brooklyn Bridge Park, a 14-story, $500 million waterfront building in Brooklyn Heights, are including a free car and parking spot with the purchase of an apartment. The first ten people who spend two million dollars or more on an apartment before September 30th with get a free 2010 Audi A4, with parking included for free!
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e chose the Audi because it's luxurious and it's a vehicle for all seasons," said developer Ian Levine in an interview with NY Daily News. Levine estimates that the parking spots being given away are each worth $150,000. The Audi sells for around $32,000. ”You are in one of the most beautiful and historic neighborhoods in
A rendering of a $2 million dollar condo on the Brooklyn waterfront. Purchasers of these condos will receive a new Audi4. Brooklyn where parking is a scarcity. Now you get to enjoy the benef it of a car and a parking space, so you don’t have to worry about f inding a spot,” Levine said. Residents of One Brooklyn Bridge Park collectively contribute $3 million per year instead of taxes for upkeep of
Brooklyn Bridge Park. Real estate broker Chris Havens doubts that the cars will actually motivate any deals but they could bring the building some much-needed attention. “It might get people in the door. And once they are in there and they see the view, they see the building, they
see the amenities, maybe they’ll see something they like,” he said. In 2007, the renovated, upscale apartments at 360 Furman Street with high-end appliances and 9-foot windows reopened. The property was originally built in 1928 as a 1.2 million square foot warehouse. The condos have gorgeous views of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, and the Manhattan skyline. The property broke real estate price records for Brooklyn when a $6,000,000 penthouse was purchased by real estate mogul Elizabeth Stribling in March 2008. Despite drastic price cuts and decisions to allow condo rentals, the property is still at only 30% capacity. Levine says the free car and parking deal is not an act of desperation but a strategy to remind New Yorkers that finding parking is difficult and their building offers a perfect solution. "It's more about showing an amenity we offer that other buildings in the area don't." People in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood were skeptical of the promotion. "For $2 million, you've got to give me something nice like a BMW 650i," said Alonzo Pollack, 24, of Flatbush. "That would sell me."
Leasing Shows More Improvement in August BY PAUL BUBNY Manhattan’s office leasing market showed continued signs of improvement in August, with CB Richard Ellis reporting that Midtown’s monthly tally reaching more than one million square feet for the third month in a row. A Colliers ABR report on class A office noted an uptick in leasing activity that pushed the sector’s vacancy rate down to 11.8% from 12% in July. "This is only the second decline in the past year and the most significant," according to Colliers.
he Midtown leasing tally of 1.19 million square feet, while seasonally off from the July figure of 1.58 million square feet, was nonetheless up from the August 2008 total of 830,000 square feet, CBRE says. Midtown South’s tally was also up year-over-year, from 110,000 square feet in August ’08 to 180,000 square feet last month. Downtown’s year-over-year gain was even more notable, according to CBRE f igures: the 430,000 square feet leased there in August of this year was more than triple the monthly tally of 130,000 square feet registered for the same month last year. However, the submarket’s availability rate climbed 400 basis points to 11.4% from July, whereas the
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availability rates in Midtown and Midtown South saw a month-to-month decline. However, Downtowns vacancy rate of 7.5% is still the lowest in town. A Newmark Knight Frank report paints a slightly bleaker picture for Downtown. "Conditions in the Downtown submarket continued to weaken, as the year-to-date total net absorption reached negative 1.1 million square feet with the addition of 128,484 square feet of space to the market" in August, according to Newmark. "The availability rate increased to 12.6% from 12.5% in July and was up from 10.1% reported one year ago." For Midtown, Newmark cites "considerable improvement in August" as
441,000 square feet of space was removed from the market, bringing the year-to-date net absorption total to negative 6.7 million square feet. Newmark also reported a 200-basis point drop in Midtown’s availability rate from July, although it was from 15.1% to 14.9%, compared to 9.6% a year ago. Midtown South experienced its eighth consecutive month of negative net absorption, as 18,594 square feet of space was returned to the market. That brings the year-to-date net absorption total to negative 4.7 million square feet. The availability rate increased slightly to 13.3% from 13.2% in the previous
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Construction on Magnificent Pisgat Ze'ev Apartments to Begin Shortly New apartments set to be built in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev will be larger and more expensive than existing housing units in the area, and while the project is only in the preliminary planning stages - construction is expected to begin within the next three months - eager buyers are already lining up. here's an enormous demand for these apartments, and they haven't even started building them yet," said a spokesman for Dona Engineering and Construction Ltd., one of the three construction firms that were selected as final bidders for the highly-coveted plots of land. "Our plot will include 46 apartments, mainly between five and six rooms for families but others will have more units and even cottages." The spokesman also explained that because the apartments were newer and larger, they would likely sell for higher prices than other apartments in the area. "We don't have exact figures yet," he said. "But it will definitely be more than NIS 10,000 per meter." "And it's not just buyers who are so interested in this property," he added. "Many contractors were also extremely interested in the land because there's such a lack of apartments in Jerusalem, and Pisgat Ze'ev is such a desirable place to live."
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and local politicians for a few months, but were put to rest on Tuesday, when the Israel Lands Authority - which together with the Housing Ministry owned the plots of land - announced that the final bids for the land had been awarded. The ILA's official announcement of the final bids stated that the reason for the delay was rooted in a drawn-out legal battle with the contracThe Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood in northern tors, who were upset when their Jerusalem seen next to the wall separating it original bids, made in October 2008, had been rejected by the from the Shuafat refugee camp. government. After a series of hearings and legal appeals, three of The spokesman also said that his firm had received building permits for the land on those contractors won the rights to the old Tuesday, and that construction was expected bids, which now encompass three areas of Pisgat Ze'ev - one in the neighborhood's north, to begin "within two to three months." But the Pisgat Ze'ev apartment projects are and the other two in the east. However, because the prices agreed on for not simply a breakthrough for the ongoing Jerusalem housing crunch. Rumors that the the old bids are likely considerably lower than what brand new bids would fetch for the same project had been frozen due to American pressure began surfacing in late July after it was plots of land, some have speculated that the reported that Prime Minister Binyamin move to revive the original contracts was rootNetanyahu had agreed to halt construction in ed in something more nefarious than builders' the over-the-Green Line neighborhood after rights and legal decisions. "There is only one reason why the governmeeting with US Middle East Envoy George ment of Israel would prefer to revive the origMitchell. inal tenders, rather than issue new ones," read Those rumors circulated among residents an article written by Daniel Seidemann, an
attorney for the Ir Amim organization and Lara Friedman, from Americans for Peace Now. "It allows Israeli officials to say, 'What are you getting upset about? There is nothing new here - these are old tenders. We are just following through with something that was already approved.'" "There can be no question," the article continues, that "this decision to go ahead with the Pisgat Ze'ev tenders is a deliberate decision by Netanyahu to poke a finger in the eye of President Obama and Special Envoy Mitchell. It is the latest effort by Netanyahu to use settlement-related developments in east Jerusalem to challenge and undermine President Obama's peace effort." While a spokesman for the prime minister derided the article as "irrelevant, because Jerusalem is the subject of negotiations," Kurt Hoyer, a spokesman for the US Embassy in Tel Aviv , told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that the American administration was "trying to avoid reacting to everything that happens on the ground," and that their main focus at this point was, "about getting [Israelis and Palestinians] back to the negotiating table." However, Hoyer said, while that meant cracking down on terrorism for the Palestinians, it also meant curbing settlement construction for the Israelis. Hoyer did not elaborate on where east Jerusalem stood in that context.
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Jobless Claims Fell to 550,000 Last Week
Commercial mortgage defaults, which are projected to reach unprecedented levels in 2011, pose an even greater risk for smaller, regional lenders than the nation’s more high-profile large banks. So says Dr. Sam Chandan, president of Real Estate Econometrics. f you look across the banking system, commercial mortgage loans represent about 14% of banks’ net loans and leases," Chandan said. However, he says, banks that have assets of $10 billion or more typically see a less than 10% exposure rate to commercial real estate. On the other hand, smaller institutions with assets between $100 million and $1 billion see exposures as high as 30%. And therein lies a very big problem and more pressing calls for policy interventions. "Some of these smaller institutions that have not been the direct focus of policy interventions are seeing a tremendous deterioration of commercial mortgage performance," says Chandan. "If default rates continue to rise in the way current trends suggest, and if low rates of recovery on exposures worsen, some institutions will be impacted in terms of their viability, not only in their terms of their capacity to lend for commercial real estate, but also in their capacity to participate in the market." The handwriting is on the wall, according to data from federal bank regulators. During the second quarter of 2009, the FDIC issued 151 regulatory orders. Nearly half of those orders were "cease and desist," which often precede a bank’s closure. Already this year, the FDIC says there have been 89 bank failures with assets totaling $91.6 billion. A spokesman said that the FDIC is looking closely at commercial real estate, but adds, "we do not have any projections to make regarding its future impact." But the alarm bells were ringing in July testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress from Jon D. Greenlee, associate director of the Federal Reserve’s Division of Banking and Regulation. Greenlee told that committee, "A high proportion of small- and medium-
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BY AFP New US jobless claims fell to 550,000 in the past week, the government reported Thursday in a sign of further healing in the critical labor market. he seasonally adjusted number of claims fell by 26,000 in the week to September 5, the Labor Department reported. The figure for weekly claims was better than analyst expectations for 560,000. The four-week moving average, which smooths out week-to-week volatility, was 570,000, a decrease of 2,750 from the previous week's revised figure. The insured unemployment rate was 4.6 percent for the week ending August 29, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week as the number of people receiving jobless benefits fell by 159,000 to 6,088,000. The weekly report offers one of the most up-to-date snapshots of the job market, critical to economic momentum. The monthly report for August showed unemployment hitting a 26-year high of 9.7 percent with 216,000 jobs lost.
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Real Estate Exposure Poses Great Risk To Small Banks BY CODY LYON
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sized institutions continue to have sizable exposure to commercial real estate, including land development and construction loans, built up earlier this decade, with some having concentrations equal to several multiples of their capital." Those would be the banks with names like Platinum Community Bank of Rolling Meadows, IL; First Bank of Kansas in Kansas City, KS; and First Coweta Bank of Newnan, GA, to name three of the casualties in the past two months, according to FDIC data. According to local news reports, each had bet heavily in the commercial real estate market. The now defunct First Coweta Bank’s web page read, "Let First Coweta be your business partner! For construction and real estate purchases, call one of our commercial loan officers today for rates!" Another regional bank, United Bank Corp. of Barnesville, GA, has assumed First Coweta’s deposits and loans. "The difference is, we’re not talking about the biggest banks right now," Chandan says. "It’s not the TARP recipients: the JPMorgans and Citibanks. Instead, it’s the hundreds, perhaps thousands of smaller, community and regional banks that provide liquidity to people in smaller markets across the nation." He says "the failure of any one of these smaller banks will not impact financial stability on a national level. Individually, the failures do not get the same degree of attention as the large institutions, whose failure would present systemic risk for the entire financial system and economy."
Chandan says policy makers have paid significant attention to conditions in the CMBS markets. But, he says, there has been little in the way of support for banks struggling with a deterioration of mortgage performance. The outstanding pool of commercial real estate mortgages on the balance sheets of banks is "much larger than the CMBS universe," Chandan notes. And, he says, REEcon’s view is that the banking system will play the dominant role in the commercial real estate marketplace, as it has historically. Ultimately, Chandan says, "there can’t be a normalization of credit conditions without a healthy banking system." As the latest Federal Reserve Bank Senior Loan Officer Opinion survey noted, 40% of lending institutions indicated that standards for investment-grade commercial real estate lending would remain tighter than their longer-term average levels for the foreseeable future. About 55% expected this outcome for non-investment-grade loans. Chandan says that so far, there does not seem to be consensus on how policy makers and banks themselves will alleviate some of the strain on smaller and regional banks. He says banks are being encouraged to modify balances, so that loans can become performing again. But, he says, modification of loans implies significant cost to banks. Ultimately, Chandan says, the costs to capital reserves are where policy needs to be focused. He says that to achieve that goal, there should be some sharing of the costs associated with writedowns.
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BY DANIEL SEIDENSTEIN In the wake of the recent settlement agreement between the United Bank of Switzerland (“UBS”) and the U.S. Department of Justice whereby UBS agreed to release the identities of 4,450 secret Swiss bank account holders, the IRS has offered individuals, corporations, partnerships, trusts and all taxpayers with unreported offshore accounts the option to voluntarily disclose any such accounts, by September 23 2009, in return for a reduced and more lenient set of penalties. ith the deadline rapidly approaching, taxpayers with offshore accounts holding unreported income must soon decide whether or not to take advantage of the IRS’s limited amnesty offers before UBS releases the names. The penalty framework set forth under the IRS’s proposed voluntary disclosure program is that the disclosing taxpayer would be required to pay all back-taxes and interest on the foreign accounts for the past 6 years along with a delinquency penalty of between 20% 40% on those amounts. In addition to those penalties, the disclosing taxpayer would also be required to pay 20% of the highest aggregate value of the foreign bank account(s) from the past six years. The benef its of making such a voluntary disclosure are (i) a clear and straightforward penalty calculation; and (ii) the avoidance of severe civil penalties and possible criminal prosecution. A voluntary disclosure can only be made by taxpayers who have not yet
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been subject to investigation by the IRS. In order to take advantage of the program, a taxpayer must provide the following information to the IRS: (i) taxpayer identif ication information; (ii) account information and balances; (iii) unreported income; (iv) sources of the funds; (v) reason for setting up the account; (vi) names of people with access to the accounts; (vii) contacts at the f inancial institution; and (viii) names of any individuals who advised the taxpayer regarding the creation of the accounts. Should a taxpayer choose not to make a voluntary disclosure and is subsequently investigated by the IRS and found to have failed to report offshore accounts, the non-reporting taxpayer could potentially face criminal prosecution for tax evasion, failure to f ile a tax return and f iling a false return, which could subject the non-reporting taxpayer to a prison term of between 1 and 10 years as well as f ines of up to $500,000. In addition, a non-reporting taxpayer could also be subject to numerous civil penalties, including but not limited to delinquency penalties, failure to f ile foreign accounts penalties and fraud penalties representing up to 75% of the back-taxes owed. Our Firm is intimately involved in monitoring these events and will continue to provide you with pertinent updates as more information becomes available. In the meantime, if you have any questions about the matters covered in this client alert, or wish to schedule a private consultation, please contact Terrence A. Oved, Esq. at Oved & Oved LLP, 212.226.2376 or terry@ovedlaw.com
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BY PAULA PINTO Back-to-school has long been a time when retailers are confidant that sales will increase. From early August to midSeptember, nationwide retailers had usually been successful to attract students from elementary school to college to purchase the latest trends of Fall fashion. ontrary to year’s p r i o r , the retail industry has now witnessed an increasing downturn in sales, due to consumer’s lack of shopping during these hard economic times. Some of the companies that once dominated the back to school shopping rush, have now been affected by declining sales. The few that did see an increase in this year’s sales were retailers such as Aeropostale, Kohl’s, Marshalls and T.J. Maxx, unquestionably because of their deals which bargain shoppers found appealing. “Higher customer traffic at places like Kohl’s and Target, while not yet translating into vigorous sales, was a sign that consumers were considering making discretionary purchases again,” said Bill Dreher, a Senior Retailing Analyst for Deutsche Bank Securities. Dreher also added that these retailers will likely bring in the highest sales during the holiday shopping season because
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of their affordable gift selections. Economists agree that until the job market improves, retailers will continue to feel the absence of its consumers who are hardpressed when it comes to spending. Among the clothing chains that suffered the largest declines were Abercrombie & Fitch, American Apparel, Hot Topic, The Children’s Place, American Eagle Outfitters and Limited Brands. Companies such as the Gap saw improvements in this year’s sales, as opposed to the decline that the company endured last year. The retailer’s Old Navy division, also saw a turnaround is sales as opposed to last year’s decrease. While of the retailers opened their doors as early as 4:00am during the first week of September and had an array of discounted items, many were still challenged to attract the many customers they had hoped to. In response to companies that suffered decline despite storewide sales, John Morris, a Senior Retail Analyst at BMO Markets said, “Retailers have to take on a more creative approach. “They can’t just offer the 30 or 50 percent off deal. They need something more exciting. This is why stores, such as Old Navy, are saying ‘have 30 per cent off everything you can stuff into one of our bags.” With the holiday season soon to be approaching, retailers are urged to implement ways that will attract consumers.
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THE PEOPLE’S VOICE EDITORIAL
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A New Begining for the New Year Someone once commented on his diet, saying I only eat foods that begin with “a!” hinking that the fellow would list apples or avocados or even antipasto, the listener was soon corrected. “No, No, No, I’ll only eat ‘a f ish.’ ‘a steak,’ ‘a cake,’ ‘a candy’ “and on and on he continued. In the beginning of Jewish history, G-d enhanced both Abraham and Sarah in many ways, including nominally. To their names was added the letter “a,” - a small symbol of a very great change in every aspect of their lives.
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“As children, we are guided to say “thank you,” a small conversational act, yet one that co-joins the giver and the receiver...” With the approach the hagim, Jews everywhere have the opportunity to recognize the minimal changes that can make major differences in life. As children, we are guided to say “thank you,” a small conversational act, yet one that co-joins the giver
and the receiver, adding dignity to the actions of each. We can – we must continue the “tradition,” offering kindness in our actions and applying truth to our dealings.
“Throughout the holiday season, we are supplicant to G-D, asking forgiveness...” Throughout the holiday season, we are supplicant to G-D, asking forgiveness and hoping that our contrition will both bring us closer to the heavenly ideal and assure us of continuity in practical life. All, conditional on seeking the forgiveness of those we have wronged during the waning year. With the hope that each of us can give and receive “a” thanks, “a” prayer, “a” bit of goodwill, we at The Jewish Voice wish each of our readers and their dear ones joy in the New Year, and extend our best wishes for health, wealth and happiness. Shalom al Yisrael! Shana Tovah! MBD
The Jewish Voice Wishes You and Your Family a Happy and Healthy Rosh Hashanah!
Dear editor, I was extremely grateful to see the story about the “Jewish version of EBay”. There has been many instances where I have been looking for articles of clothing online and could not find what I was looking for. The clothes I found were not only overpriced, but they were not at all modest. Upon checking out the oybey website, I did not only find the items To the editor: I was appalled at the amount of negative spotlight the president has received in regards to directing a speech to our youth. The “antiObama” coverage most of the media is currently publishing greatly disappoints me. It was a very big relief for me to see that the Jewish Voice simply informed its readers about the issue rather than criticize our president and compare his tactics with those of socialists. Such accusations are not only preposterous but have no foundation behind them. If anyone was to encourage my child to stay in school and focus on education, I would not only thank him, but I would tell my child to listen and follow his advice. It almost seems silly for parents to NOT want their child to watch the president’s speech. Who in their right mind would not want to listen to one of the most genuine and realest success stories of our time. People pay
I was looking for, but I found things that I was not aware I needed. It is also a huge relief to not have to worry about the kashrut of an item. I can say I had never had such a great and quick online shopping experience before. Thanking you, Sarah Kahn
hundreds of dollars to listen to Donald Trump and other moguls who have rose from nothing but when a the president chooses to motivate our youth to succeed, people opt out. A motion which is not only makes sense but is completely puzzling to me. I felt as if the congressmen were more interested in trashing Obama and the media was focused on the drama aspect of the speech to focus on the core of it. Not enough information was given to the public regarding what it was about and the message he was trying to get across. I was relieved to see that unlike the other papers in my area the Jewish Voice actually informed their readership of what the speech was about and did not waste anytime with the nonsense comments other periodicals were publishing. Sincerely Jeffery Goldstein
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America's Exceptional Ally BY CAROLINE GLICK There has been much talk in recent months about the prospect of Syria bolting the Iranian axis and becoming magically transformed into an ally of the West. Although Syria's Presidentfor-life Bashar Assad's daily demonstrations of fealty to his murderous friends has exposed this talk as nothing more than fantasy, it continues to dominate the international discourse on Syria. n the meantime, Syria's ongoing real transformation, from a more or less functioning state into an impoverished wasteland, has been ignored. Today, the country faces the greatest economic catastrophe in its history. The crisis is causing massive malnutrition and displacement for hundreds of thousands of Syrians. These Syrians - some 250,000 mainly Kurdish farmers - have been forced off their farms over the past two years because their lands were reclaimed by the desert. Today shantytowns have sprung up around major cities such as Damascus. They are f illed with internally displaced refugees. Through a cataclysmic combination of irrational agricultural policies embraced by the Ba'athist Assad dynasty for the past 45 years that have eroded the soil, and massive digging of
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some 420,000 unauthorized wells that have dried out the groundwater aquif iers, Syria's regime has done everything in its power to dry up the country. The effects of these demented policies have been exacerbated in recent years by Turkey's diversion of Syria's main water source, the Euphrates River, through the construction of dams upstream, and by two years of unrelenting drought. Today, much of Syria's previously fertile farmland has become wasteland. Former farmers are now destitute day laborers with few prospects for economic recovery. Imagine if in his country's moment of peril, instead of clinging to his alliance with Iran, Hizbullah, al-Qaida , and Hamas, Assad were to turn to Israel to help him out of this crisis? Israel is a world leader in water desalination and recycling. The largest desalination plant in the world is located in Ashkelon. Israeli technology and engineers could help Syria rebuild its water supply. Israel could also help Syria use whatever water it still has, or is able to produce through desalination and recycling more wisely through drip irrigation - which was invented in Israel. Israel today supplies 50 percent of the international market for drip irrigation. In places like Syria and southern Iraq that are now being dried out by the Turkish dams, irrigation is primitive often involving nothing more than water trucks pumping water out of the Euphrates and driving it over to f ields that are often less than a kilometer
away. Then there are Syria's dwindling oil reserves. No doubt, Israeli engineers and seismologists would be able to increase the eff iciency and productivity of existing wells and so increase their output. It is certainly not beyond the realm of possibility that Israeli scientists and engineers could even discover new, untapped oil reserves. BUT, OF COURSE, Syria isn't interested in Israel's help. Syria wants to have its enemy and eat it too. As Assad has made clear repeatedly, what he wants is to receive the Golan Heights and through it Israel's fresh water supply - for nothing. He wants Israel to surrender the Golan Heights, plus some Israeli land Syria illegally occupied from 1948-1967, in exchange for a meaningless piece of paper. In this demand, Assad is supported by none other than Turkish Prime Minister Recip Erdogan, whose country is drying Syria out. It is Erdogan after all, who mediated talks aimed at convincing then-prime minister Ehud Olmert to give up the Golan Heights and it is Erdogan today who is encouraging the Obama administration to pressure Israel to surrender its water to Syria. Beyond demanding that Israel give him the Golan Heights, Assad is happy associating with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hassan Nasrallah, Khaled Mashaal and various and sundry alQaida leaders who move freely through his territory. Hanging out with these murderers affords him the opportunity to feel like a real man - a master of the
universe who can kill Israelis, Iraqis and Americans and terrorize the Lebanese into submission. As for his problems at home, Assad imprisons any Syrian engineer with the temerity to point out that by exporting cotton Syria is effectively exporting water. Assad doesn't fear that his regime will collapse under the weight of f ive decades of Ba'athist economic imbecility. He is banking on the US and Europe saving him from the consequences of his own incompetence through economic handouts; by turning a blind eye to his continued economic exploitation of Lebanon; and perhaps by coercing Israel into surrendering the Golan Heights. THE SAME, of course, can be said of the Palestinians. Actually, the case of the Palestinians is even more extraordinary. From 1967 through 1987 - when through their violent uprising they decided to cut their economy off from Israel's - Palestinian economic growth in Gaza, Judea and Samaria rose by double digits every year. Indeed, while linked to Israel's, the Palestinian economy was the fourth fastest growing economy in the world. But since 1994, when the PLO took over, although the Palestinians have become the largest per capita foreign aid recipients in recorded history, the Palestinian economy has contracted on a per capita basis. The one sure-f ire path to economic growth and prosperity is for the Palestinians to reintegrate their econo-
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It’s All in the SPIN – Be Safe, Be Prepared, Be Informed, Be Effective BY PROFESSOR ASHER J. MATATHIAS Many Jewish families reside in affluent suburban areas. There is heavy reliance on County Police Commissioners (in Nassau County, for example, the position is Lawrence W. Mulvey’s). In cooperation with Jewish community leaders throughout this and many other areas, meetings are actively underway to "discuss policing strategies for the coming holidays." In my own Nassau County, I joined representatives of a number of area congregations and local Jewish media for just such a pre-holiday discussion. he substantive agenda was well organized. The meeting’s chair, Det. Sgt. Gary S. Shapiro, is wellknown in his area as the department's bias crime coordinator. He welcomed both lay and religious representatives, lead the Pledge of Allegiance, and introducing the local Police Department Chaplain. Evoking the memory of that dark day, 911-01, eight years ago, he extolled the service of our society's first, and expressed the continuing appreciation of all citizens are to be able to live and pray in peace every day. Statistics regarding area safety - reduction in hate crimes; decline in acts of antiSemitism; the production of a teaching video for organizations and schools on ways youth can “skip the more dangerous phases of growing up,” and avoid involvement with
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intolerance and violence were introduced. Local politicians – in my own Nassau County, County Executive Tom Suozzi, and District Attorney Kathleen Rice – brought greetings and listed several promising initiatives: a gun-buy-back program that has taken 700 guns out of circulation (paid from forfeiture funds); programs to curb the rising incidence of illicit drug use by teens, especially robust attempt to combat the reemergence of heroin.
“Throughout the region, in both urban and suburban areas police awareness is heightened and ever-ready for action.” In most areas covered by The Jewish Voice, this is, baruch haShem, an underlining absence of viable threats, (Deal residents will remember the recent late night bomb threats against two area synagogues: both, happily, proved false). In Nassau County, security is enhanced by the establishment of a dedicated 24-hour telephone line available during the High Holiday period (September 18 to October 11). The line is a resource intended to “give and take: information about terrorism or bias-related threats. (Emergencies should always be referred to 911.) Throughout the region, in both urban and suburban areas police awareness is
heightened and ever-ready for action. Enhanced technology, including surveillance cameras, should be examined for effective use. High Holidays security reviews are under way in many places. Synagogue tickets of admission can be used to help control traffic inflow; alarm system should be checked, and population control methods whether better to have in-site protection or crowd dispersal in the event of an emergency – should be actively considered. Puts quite a SPIN on things! SPIN, the Security-Police Information Network, "seeks to increase public safety through the sharing of important and timely information." While this program is specific to Nassau County (516-573-8440 or SPIN@pdcn.org) each of us should check
with local police departments or precincts to learn about similar programs. Know your local precinct commanders and their deputies. Have forthright discussions about the challenges of supervising areas that have multiple houses of worship and schools. Know who are the Auxiliary Police, often seen around key locations. They serve as an important deterrent against would-be perpetrators of crime. There is great satisfaction when one has when a community and its officials have “a meeting of minds and purposes, in mutual respect and understanding.” The protection of life and limb, is after all, a prime demand of civilized society. May we all enjoy a New Year 5770 in health and wealth, and, of course, for shalom!
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Paris Theater In Manhattan to Host Triumph of The Spirit: The Life of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis BY: FERN SIDMAN Holocaust films and literature are, to say the least, depressing and devastating - how else can they be? Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis' new film entitled, "Triumph of the Spirit," however, stands alone in the genre of Holocaust documentaries. While it depicts the Holocaust in all its horror and savage brutality, its dominant theme is hope, faith, and the triumph of the Jewish spirit. he film demonstrates that the spirit of man is infinitely more powerful than Hitler or his mighty armies and that the flame of faith is more intense than the fires of the crematorium. This long awaited film is a must see for the secular, religious, young and old as it speaks to every heart. While the vintage photos, the music and the images are all captivating, it is Rebbetzin Jungreis' personal story and voice that penetrates the soul and touches the deepest recesses of the heart in this compelling documentary. In twenty minutes, the Rebbetzin conveys the history of this most satanic period in the annals of mankind in all its horrific detail, but remarkably, at the film's conclusion the audience is left inspired rather than despondent. This was recently evidenced at special screenings at the Pierre Hotel in New York City and at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel in Jerusalem as the audience responded in unison. The Jerusalem screening saw an overflow crowd of over 1000 people and those who could not get a seat sat on the floor. Tears welled in every eye and the hushed silence in the room spoke volumes. The tears and the silence, however, were not tears of despair, but tears of pride - a determination to build a better world. This film dedicates itself
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Triumph of the Spirit will premiere for the general public on Tuesday evening, September 22nd at 8:00 p.m. at the Paris Theater in Manhattan. to re-creating a new generation of Jews who are devoted to G-d and Torah by serving as a joyous inspiration and moral compass on the trajectory of life. "Triumph of the Spirit" can only be defined as an authentic testament to the triumph of the soul in the face of unspeakable adversities. As such, this stellar documentary has been accepted as an entry in the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival and has been entered in over 30 international film festivals.
Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis' personal saga is a welcome and urgently needed contribution to the corpus of films on the history of the Holocaust. Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis' personal saga is a welcome and urgently needed contribution to the corpus of films on the history of the Holocaust. Among the few survivors of that evil period who can still relate the story it is Rebbetzin Jungreis who has been blessed with the ability to speak to the hearts and souls of our generation. Said Rebbetzin Jungreis, "The screening of this film comes at an important time. Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the premiere Holocaust denier
and rabid Jew hater may be coming to New York to speak at the same time that this film will be shown. We consider this film to be a counter protest of sorts to the venomous lies that will be spewed forth by this hater of America, Israel and the entire western world." "Triumph of the Spirit" will premiere for the general public on Tuesday evening, September 22nd at 8:00 p.m. at the Paris Theater in Manhattan. The theater is located at 4 West 58th Street, near 5th Avenue. Following the film, the Rebbetzin will address the audience. For tickets and information, please call Hineni at 212-496-1660 or visit Hineni on the web at www.hineni.org.vals. Among the few survivors of that evil period who can still relate the story it is Rebbetzin Jungreis who has been blessed with the ability to speak to the hearts and souls of our generation. "The screening of this film comes at an important time. Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the premiere Holocaust denier and rabid Jew hater may be coming to New York to speak at the same time that this film will be shown. We consider this film to be a counter protest of sorts to the venomous lies that will be spewed forth by this hater of America, Israel and the entire western world," said Rebbetzin Jungreis, "Triumph of the Spirit" will premiere for the general public on Tuesday evening, September 22nd at 8:00 p.m. at the Paris Theater in Manhattan. The theater is located at 4 West 58th Street, near 5th Avenue. Following the film, the Rebbetzin will address the audience. For tickets and information, please call Hineni at 212-496-1660 or visit Hineni on the web at www.hineni.org.
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Synagogues Feel the Pinch of the Recession As High Holy Days Approach BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF Synagogues’ congregations are quietly disappearing as humiliated members cannot afford synagogue dues. Promised donations are going unpaid along with unpaid mortgages and all-around tightened belts. Those affected try to go quietly, to spare themselves the humiliation of becoming others’ objects of pity. have had more of those conversations in the last year than I've had in my 31 years here," said Rabbi Charles Klein of Merrick Jewish Centre on Long Island, where many members have been laid off from the financial industry and are suffering as a result.
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"I'm calling up universities and talking with admissions officers, trying to advocate for scholarships for kids because the parents can't pay the tuition," Klein said. The Jewish High Holy Days begin September 18 and people are increasingly depending on their synagogues for help. Rabbis are telling the most unfortunate members they hold off on paying their dues until their f inancial situations improve, even though the synagogues themselves are suffering as a result. Congregations have taken it upon themselves to offer aid that ranges from counseling to money for medicine. Fundraising appeals during the holidays will be directed towards keeping the service programs and the synagogues afloat. The Merrick congregation established a fund that pays for members' bills, and draft-
ed volunteers to help those who are currently jobless with writing and improving resumes and polishing their interviewing skills. A social worker assists the community in need by providing counseling, free of charge. Temple Israel in West Bloomf ield, Michigan, a suburb right outside Detroit, formed a job network and a support system for teenagers who are stressed by their parents' financial problems. Many people in the congregation of about 3,300 families were previously employed by automakers or had jobs linked to the industry. At Beth El Congregation in Baltimore, some members, often the elderly and retired who are on fixed incomes, started bringing bags for leftovers to the community reception held after Sabbath services. They take home extra food to make the most of what is available to them. "I know the food they're taking home is probably going to be their main meal for that afternoon and the next day," said Gil Kleiner, Beth El's executive director. "That's OK. If they come to services and they eat, that's fine. That's part of what Judaism is all about." Many synagogues across the nation are struggling for funds. Investment income and donations have been drastically reduced due to hard times, while Jewish philanthropies are providing fewer grants than before. Many Jewish organizations had been affected by financial losses due to investing in the Ponzi scheme of Bernard Madoff, although the scam has had minimal impact on synagogue life. U.S. Jewish organiza-
tions are predicted to have lost 25 percent of their wealth in the recession, according to Steven Bayme, an expert in contemporary Jewish life at the American Jewish Committee in New York. Still, the most significant losses for congregations come from members who are unable to pay dues, which can run into the thousands of dollars per family. (Unlike churches, synagogues don't pass a collection plate and instead charge a fee that covers much of a congregation's budget.)
“Rabbis say they are making concessions so that no struggling member is turned away.” Rabbi Brian Zimmerman of the Union for Reform Judaism, who works with synagogues in the South and Southwest, said that clergy in the worst-off states report that as many as a quarter of their congregants can't pay full dues. Dues are an especially sensitive issue around Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when congregants are often required to be paid up to get seats in packed sanctuaries. Nonmembers who wish to attend holiday services usually must buy tickets, which can range from $200 to $650 for the 10-day period. Rabbis say they are making concessions so that no struggling member is turned away. Separately, some synagogues seeking
new members offer free tickets to nonobservant Jews. "There will be members of the congregation who we just have to continue to consider members who can no longer afford to pay," said Klein of Merrick. At Congregation Har Tzeon-Agudath Achim of Silver Spring, Md., whose membership comprises mostly retirees, some are so embarrassed by money problems they try to leave without saying why. "We very sensitively try to find out," said David Sacks, president of the congregation, who has suspended dues payments to keep members. Those adjustments, along with the other drops in income, have left synagogues with painful spending decisions of their own. They have frozen or reduced salaries, put off repairs on their buildings, cut jobs and eliminated programs. The High Holy Days are usually a period when synagogues can make up for shortfalls. Many fundraise on Yom Kippur, when Jews recite the Yizkor memorial prayer, in which they pledge charity in the name of the deceased. Several congregational leaders said they must make the appeal despite the economic climate. Temple Israel doesn't seek donations on Yom Kippur, but has started a charity campaign called No Family Without High Holy Days. "There are days I honestly go home depressed," said David Tisdale, Temple Israel's executive director, "but we try to be optimistic."
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JEWISH CORNELL STUDENT DIES OF SWINE FLU COMPLICATIONS
WJC URGES BOYCOTT OF AHMADINEJAD SPEECH
A 20-year-old Cornell University student died of complications from swine flu. Warren Schor, a Jewish student from Clinton Corners in upstate New York, died at the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca. He had been hospitalized since Sept. 3 with flu-like symptoms. Schor, who was majoring in economics and management, lived in a fraternity house on campus, according to the Ithaca Journal. More than 500 students at Cornell have reported experiencing flu-like symptoms since the new school year began early this month. WCBS-TV Channel 2 in New York City reported that a separate medical condition contributed to Schor's death, according to published reports. Cornell, which has about 20,000 students, will hold a memorial for Schor sometime this week.
The World Jewish Congress is urging a boycott of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the United Nations General Assembly. The organization is calling on representatives of U.N. member states to "leave the room when Ahmadinejad speaks" this month and is collecting signatures on a petition at its Web site to General Assembly members. "Although the rules of the U.N. require that he must be admitted, we believe that in view of his past performances, he has relinquished the moral right to speak from that pulpit," WJC President Ronald Lauder said in a statement. "Member states have an obligation to show that the U.N. cannot be hijacked for the purposes of spreading the kind of racist diatribe and bigoted views which the organization was founded to combat and overcome."
KOSHER DELI OFFERS NEW YEAR MEAL TO GO A kosher deli in Queens, Brooklyn that is known for its home style cooking is preparing for Rosh Hashanah with a special deal that is sure to impress. The celebration of Rosh Hashanah is here and if you are looking to chow down on some holiday favorites, Ben's Kosher Deli in Bayside has a special package ready for you. Ben's holiday meal package, which serves 10, starts with stuffed cabbage and a choice of chopped liver or gef ilte f ish, as well as matzo ball soup. Entrees include roast chicken, and whole turkey, and you get a choice of sides ranging from noodle pudding to cole slaw. They also throw in some rugalach for dessert -- all in healthy portions.
JETER TOPS GEHRIG, SETS YANKEES HIT RECORD Derek Jeter broke the New York Yankees' hit record held by Lou Gehrig for more than seven decades Friday night. He did it with a single to right f ield in the third inning. That gave Jeter 2,722 hits, one more than Gehrig, whose Hall of Fame career was cut short by illness in 1939.
BIN LADEN TAPE BLAMES 9/11 ON ISRAEL SUPPORT American support for Israel led to the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden said in an audio message. The message, purported to be from the al-Qaida leader in hiding, was released by al-Qaida and posted Monday on radical Islamist Web sites. "The time has come for you to liberate yourselves from fear and the ideological terrorism of neo-conservatives and the Israeli lobby," bin Laden said in the message. "The reason for our dispute with you is your support for your ally Israel, occupying our land in Palestine." Al-Qaida planned and carried out the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 people. In his last message, released at the beginning of June, bin Laden disparaged President Obama's Cairo outreach speech to the Muslim world. Bin Laden is believed to be hiding in the mountains along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
SEATTLE SYNAGOGUES DEFACED WITH SWASTIKAS Unknown vandals swastikas on two synagogues.
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The swastikas and the phrase "4th Riech" (sic) were painted late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, police and synagogue members told the Seattle Times. The word Nazi and at least eight other swastikas also were painted on a sidewalk and driveway in the area, Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath member Sarah Rivkin told the newspaper. Congregants at Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath and the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation were attending Selichot services during the incident.
WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL TAKING AUSTRALIA ENVOY POST President Obama appointed the cochair of his presidential campaign in California as U.S. ambassador to Australia. Jeff Bleich, 48, was selected Friday to replace Robert MacCallum, who left the Canberra post in January. Bleich met Obama in 1991 and was co-chair of his campaign in California. He has been senior counsel to the White House since March. Bleich, who is Jewish, scheduled to receive the Anti-Defamation League Jurisprudence Award in San Francisco later this month. In 2007, he received the Learned Hand Award from the American Jewish Committee for his outstanding leadership in the legal profession.
GAZA ACTS AMOUNTED TO WAR CRIMES A United Nations report issued Tuesday says both Israel and the Palestinians committed actions amounting to war crimes during Israel's military incursion into Gaza from December 27 to January 18. Although the U.N. investigation found that Palestinian militants also committed war crimes, the overwhelming majority of the criticism in a summary of the 574-page report targets Israel. Israel "committed actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity," the report says. The f indings were revealed by the head of the U.N. Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, headed by Richard Goldstone, a South African judge. Israel did not cooperate in the investigation. The Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying Israel "did not feel able to cooperate with the Fact Finding Mission because its mandate was clearly one-sided and ignored the thousands of Hamas missile attacks on civilians in southern Israel that made the Gaza Operation necessary."
EARLY RELEASE POSSIBLE FOR IRAQI SHOE-THROWER, ATTORNEY SAYS The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at then-President George W. Bush at a news conference in December could be released from jail as early as next week, his attorney told CNN on Friday. Muntadhar al-Zaidi is serving one year in prison after his original threeyear sentence was reduced by an appellate court in April. Dhiyaa al-Saadi, head of Iraq's Bar Association and al-Zaidi's chief defense attorney, said he had submitted a petition about two months ago to authorities requesting the release, but no decision has been announced yet. Under Iraqi law, a "conditional discharge" allows for the release of a prisoner after he serves three-quarters of his sentence and is based on good behavior during detention. Al-Zaidi has been in jail since the December 14 news conference at which he threw both his shoes at Bush and called him a "dog" two of the worst insults in the Middle East. Bush ducked the shoes and was not hurt in the incident. Al-Saadi was optimistic about his client's release happening as early as Monday.
ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE FOUND IN ISRAEL JERUSALEM In what was slated to be the site of a new 122-room hotel, archaeologists say they have discovered one of the world's oldest synagogues in Northern Israel. The site, which was unearthed as preparations were being made for construction of the hotel near the Sea of Galilee, is believed to date back some 2000 years from 50BCE to 100CE. In the middle of the 120 square meter main hall of the synagogue archaeologists discovered an unusual stone carved with a seven branched menorah . "We are dealing with an exciting and unique f ind," said excavation director and Israeli Antiquities Authority archaeologist Dina Avshalom-Gorni. The menorah engraving is the f irst of its kind to be discovered from the Early Roman period according AvshalomGorni who said the site joins just six synagogue locations that are know to date from the same time. She said synagogues from this period were extremely rare in part because many Jews during that time were in the habit of visiting the main temple in Jerusalem three times a year as opposed to attending local houses of worship.
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A Guide To International Cuisine For Rosh Hashanah BY LINDA MOREL What does a typical Israeli family eat on Rosh Hashanah? It’s hard to say with certainty. Like any question you ask two Jews, you’re likely to get three opinions. In a sense, it’s an unfair question because no two families in Israel, or in any country, celebrate Rosh Hashanah in the same way. owever, Janna Gur, author of “The Book of New Israeli Food: A Culinary Journey” (Schocken Books, New York, 2007), offers insight into Rosh Hashanah entertaining. Gur, who was born and raised in the former Soviet Union, immigrated to Israel in 1974 and has been joyously consuming its cornucopia of local food ever since. Her cookbook is a coffee table-sized collection of recipes as stunning as the Mediterranean Sea. She says that in most Israeli homes, one will find a combination of Sephardi and Ashkenazi dishes at Rosh Hashanah. This is characteristic of the explosion in Israeli cuisine in recent decades. Gur describes Israeli cooking as the product of diverse cultures. During the 20th century, Jews from all over the Diaspora settled in a homeland that was new to them. While they brought their recipes from far-flung places, they also looked to their Arab neighbors for inspiration with ingredients, such as chickpeas, that many of them had never seen. At first the Jews from abroad clung to their culinary heritage, in part to preserve their identity and to savor the foods they
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The book of New Israel Food. adored. Sometimes through exposure to Jews from distant lands and sometimes through exploring ethnic restaurants, they liked what they tasted and adopted new recipes. Delicacies from every continent have become the stockpot of Israeli food. Time has seen a blurring of Ashkenazi and Sephardi cuisine. “But there are certain items that are almost mandatory on the Rosh Hashanah table,” Gur says. In most Jewish homes around the world one will find a round challah, sliced apples and a pot of honey. Other foods, however, are surprising either for their appearance or absence at New Year’s celebrations. “Fish is one of the most important items on the Rosh Hashanah menu,” Gur says. While gefilte fish is served in Ashkenazi homes, Moroccan Jews savor a spicy fish cooked casserole style with hot peppers and garlic.
Carrot dishes, symbolizing prosperity in the coming year, are wildly popular in Israel.
Cake baking is extremely popular in Israel in both Sephardic and Ashkenazi households.
Traditionally made with grouper, the hot fish dish, reddened by paprika, is much easier to prepare than gefilte fish. Gur says you can go a little lighter on the chili peppers, but the dish is meant to have a kick. “By the way, many families serve both the spicy fish and the milder gefilte fish,” says Gur, explaining how Israeli food has become a melting pot of international cuisines, a menu of exotic flavor combinations. Israel’s climate plays a part in Rosh Hashanah fare. Summer is still going strong by the Jewish New Year, so many families wait for cooler weather to serve piping hot chicken soup. The same is true for potato and noodle kugels. Brisket is often bypassed, too, with Gur noting that many families opt for chicken or
lamb casseroles. Usually the main dish contains some sweet elements, such as dried or fresh fruit, honey, pomegranates or molasses. Lamb and Quince Casserole is typical at Israeli Rosh Hashanah dinners. Quince is a tart fruit adored by Bulgarian Jewish cooks. Gur, too. “I personally love quince in cooking,” she says of a fruit similar in appearance to the yellow apple and available mostly in the fall. Those who avoid red meat can substitute chicken for lamb. Israelis insist on a salad with almost every meal, Gur says, and this is true as well at Rosh Hashanah. But the typical Israeli salad of chopped tomatoes and cucumbers is not common at New Year’s celebrations.
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A Better Understanding of The High Holidays BY RABBI EMANUEL FELDMAN Tishrei, the month of Rosh Hashanah, is the first month of the universe, and just as when G-d completed His Creation He contemplated and evaluated it, so does He do every Rosh Hashanah, which means that Rosh Hashanah is actually the Day of Judgment for the universe and for mankind collectively and individually. hat explains why, more than any other Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah's liturgy is not limited to Jewish themes exclusively, but contains so many universal themes as well. On no other occasion, for example, is G-d referred to as "King over all the earth," and at no other time is G-d's Holy Temple called a "house of prayer for all the nations." This is all a reflection of the universal judgment of this day. G-d evaluates us collectively, just as a shepherd looks over his flock with one glance. And individually, He also judges us like a shepherd who looks at each single sheep as it files through a narrow opening in the gate. So Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are more than just a Jewish version of New Year's Day. It's a time of great introspection, of teshuva/repentance, of stocktaking. According to an ancient Jewish tradition, it marks the creation of Adam and Eve -- who were created, who sinned, and who were judged all on the same day. All of these traditions underscore the idea that Rosh Hashanah is the time of beginnings. For example, the Talmud states that a number of other events took place on Rosh Hashanah: Abraham and Jacob were
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born on Rosh Hashanah; the three barren with Rosh Hashanah, a Jew has the opporwomen -- Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah (the tunity to return to G-d, to perform teshuva mother of the prophet Samuel) -- were all - which literally means to turn around, to remembered by G-d on Rosh Hashanah, return, to start all over again. Rosh when He decreed that they will give birth. Hashanah and its companion, Yom Kippur, On Rosh Hashanah, Joseph was freed from are Divine gifts in which we are given the the Egyptian prison and became viceroy of opportunity to reopen our relationship with Egypt. And on Rosh Hashanah, slavery G-d, when we have the chance to wipe away ended for the Jews in the past as if it did not Egypt and they waited exist, and to start over for the ten plagues to again with a clean slate. be completed so that The slate is not wiped clean automatithey could go out to cally. The process has to freedom. begin with us, with a Thus, Rosh sense of true regret, Hashanah is a time for with contrition for past significant initiatives. misdeeds, and with a As such, it is an opporserious resolution not to tunity for us to recreate repeat them. The opporourselves, to return to a tunity is given to sinrelationship with G-d, cere returners, not to to strengthen our ties to pro forma ones who are our faith‌ just going through the On the one hand, motions. But once the Rosh Hashanah is an process is properly extremely solemn day, done, once the catharsis the most solemn of the of Rosh Hashanah and year after Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur make their Because Rosh Rosh Hashanah is a time impact on us, what Hashanah begins the to strengthen our ties to could be more joyous Ten Days of our faith. than that? So, yes, it is Repentance, we stand at the bar of judgment on those days. It's as solemnity filled with awe, and also filled if we were in a courtroom pleading for our with spiritual joy. Remember that in the religious context very lives. Our tradition gives us a vivid image: joy is deeply inward, and is not necessarily "The Books of the Living and the Books of manifested by laughter and smiles. As such, the Dead are open before Him," which religious joy and religious awe are not means many things -- but one of the things contradictions. In fact, they go hand in it means is that we pray that our names be hand. In the second Psalm, King David inscribed by our loving and understanding says, "Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling." G-d in the one book and not in the other. The liturgy of Rosh Hashanah, especialOur tradition also tells us that beginning
ly the additional "musaf" service, is the most magnificent prayer the world has ever seen. It's like a symphony, perfectly balanced, divided into three separate movements, devoted to the themes of: a. making G-d our sovereign and acknowledging Him as our King; b. remembering His intervention in our history, and underscoring our belief in Divine Providence -- the idea that He listens and cares for us; c. recalling the numerous Biblical events where the shofar heralds G-d's presence and protection, and longing for the time when the shofar will herald the redemption of all mankind and the coming of the Messiah‌ Bear this in mind: the overarching theme of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is "change:" to change from what we were before and to become new individuals. The motif behind it all is accountability. We are responsible for our actions. We do not live in a vacuum. What we do or say has an impact and a resonance in the world. Yom Kippur represents the potential for a human being to change and return: we are not eternally condemned to follow a certain habitual path; we do have the ability, if we so choose, to change our ways. It is amazing: in the Talmud (Nedarim 39b), the Sages tell us that teshuva, repentance, was created before the world was created. That is to say, the idea of repentance, of a person changing himself and changing his course, is an integral part of Creation -- and the world could not exist without it. An excerpt from "On Judaism," conversations on being Jewish in today's world. Published by Shaar Press, Inc. Distributed by ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications Ltd.
Self Reflection: Can We Stand Before Hashem With A Clear Conscience? BY RABBI SHRAGA SIMMONS Every person has one thing that they are living for. Let's call it a "personal bottom line." For some it is money, for others prestige, for others pursuit of pleasure. Now let's imagine that you're faced with a situation where you are about to lose everything -- your job, your house, your car, even your health and your family (G-d forbid). But... you are given the choice to hold onto ONE THING, only one thing. What would it be? o get started, let's first ask the question: What is Rosh Hashanah all about anyway? Imagine that you are a scientific researcher who is funded through a philanthropic foundation. Each year, you are required to appear before the Board of Directors and present a summation of your achievements during the past year. How much money the board grants you for the coming year will be based on how well you utilized last year's grant -- and how solid is your plan for the coming year. Of course, if you've squandered past resources and are unprepared for the future, your chance of receiving additional grant money is slim. So, too, on Rosh Hashanah. Ever since the creation of Adam and Eve, Rosh Hashana has been the day when every human being (so to speak) is created anew.
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We stand before our Creator and say: "This is how I have utilized my resources, and this is my plan for the future." APPRECIATING THE GIFT This is indeed serious business. Life is not to be taken for granted. Life is a precious gift from Above. It is delicate and tenuous and can be taken away at any moment. The story is told of a sculptor who was commissioned to design a bronze statue of a horse for the town square. After many months of work, he produced a sculpture with perfect detail -- showing every sinew and hair follicle. It was truly a masterpiece! However, when the statue was proudly placed in the town square, everyone walked by and completely ignored it! The sculptor was very disappointed to find all his hard work going unappreciated. Finally a friend said: "I think the problem is that the horse is so perfect that people think it's real! But if you would make a crack, then people will notice it as a work of art." The point of this story, explains the Chasan Sofer, is that our lives are full of blessings. Our eyes alone are worth many millions of dollars! But we mustn't take our "funding" for granted! A person's relationship with G-d is similar to that of a parent to a child. For example, what happens when a child asks for a cookie? The parent is glad to give one. But if the child would show a lack of appreciation (like refusing to say "thank you," or throwing the food on the floor), do you think the parent will give the child another cookie? No way!
Now imagine that the child takes the cookie, and says something to the effect of: "Thank you so much. This cookie is sweet and fresh and delicious. I really appreciate your efforts to get me this cookie." What will the parent say when the child looks up gingerly and asks for a second cookie? "It's my pleasure!" This Rosh Hashana, will we be able to stand before G-d with confidence? Only if we have first done significant soul searching -- who we are and where we are headed. Because if we don't have such clarity, then how can we expect G-d (the Board of Directors) to grant us another year of life?! PERSONAL BOTTOM LINE There are a few special customs that Jews perform during Elul, to help awaken us to the task ahead. One is the daily recitation of Psalm 27. There, King David exclaims: "One thing I ask... is to dwell in the house of G-d all the days of my life." King David tells us a tremendous insight: If I was stripped bare and could only choose one thing, it would be You, Gd. That's the bottom line. A relationship with G-d supercedes all else, for He is the source of everything. No if's, and's, or but's. Coming to this realization is what Elul is all about. Not long ago I was sitting and learning Torah in a synagogue near my home. This synagogue is located in the basement of a large apartment building. (In Israel, the basement of every building is a bomb shelter.) So I'm sitting in this bomb-shelter-
turned-synagogue, and I'm thinking that if ever (G-d forbid) there should be a war, this bomb shelter would be a good place to be stranded. There's Torah books, scholarly rabbis and holiness permeating the walls. I could gladly spend weeks here! Then I recalled a time in my life when I was keeping less mitzvot. I had gone out one evening with some friends to hear music at a local tavern. As we were leaving to go home, we discovered that the winds were howling at 100 kilometers an hour and a meter of snow had just fallen. It was a full-fledged blizzard! The streets were shut down and the entire city had come to a grinding halt. Nobody was going anywhere. We were stranded. Snowbound. I spent the next 48 hours in the tavern with a group of strangers, and I recall at the time considering myself fortunate to be stranded there and not elsewhere. There was so much to keep us entertained: Video games, a pool table, a superb sound system, etc. How grateful I was not to have been stranded in the dentist's office or a gas station! So recently, when I imagined being stranded in my synagogue bomb shelter, that snowstorm came to mind. Tavern versus Synagogue. The qualitative difference is astounding. Could there be any question? King David's words rang like a bell: "One thing I ask is to dwell in the house of Gd..." May this Elul be a meaningful time of growth for us all.
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Friends of The IDF Hosts A Spectacular Rosh Hashanah Party for Combat Soldiers BY MIRIAM SEGAL Nearly 400 IDF soldiers joined Friends of the IDF supporters from America and special Israeli guests to celebrate at a spectacular Rosh Hashanah Party sponsored by FIDF’s Western Region. ore than 550 total guests dined and danced to the music of Haim Bear’s Sky High Band and enjoyed the mystic e n t e r t a i n m e n t o f a m a g i c i a n wh o passed through the beautifully decorated reception area and ballroom at Tel Aviv Por t’s Hanger 11. During the evening, each combat soldier was also provided special Rosh Hashanah cards to write to family and friends that were then sent on their behalf by FIDF. The party was the personal gift of FIDF Western Region Chairman Leo David and his wife Ruth who had previously hosted parties in Israel for IDF soldiers and sup-
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Ruth and Leo David (FIDF Western Region Chairman) with Rabbi Isaac Jeret Raising a Toast at the Party.
Soldiers Celebrating at the FIDF Rosh Hashanah Party. porters in 2005 and 2008. During a short formal program, Rabbi Isaac Jeret, Chairman of FIDF’s National Rabbinic Council and Vice President of the FIDF Western Region, welcomed the soldiers, supporters, and special guests on behalf of the more than 80,000 Friends of the IDF in the United States including those throughout California. Maj. Gen. (Res.) Yitzhak (Jerry) Gershon, FIDF’s National Director, thanked Israel’s brave soldiers for their
commitment, dedication, and sacrifices they make each and every day. He then presented Leo and Ruth David with a personal letter from IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, expressing his gratitude to Leo and Ruth for their 30 years of generosity to Israel’s soldiers, including the recent dedication of the new auditorium at Reim Base, donated by the David’s. Friends of the Israel Defense Forces is a United States not-for-profit organization
unique and innovative programs. Providing financial aid to soldiers in need, granting academic scholarships to former combat soldiers, helping bereaved families, and sponsoring fun days for combat battalions are just some of FIDF’s endeavors.
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Remove the Cataract: Changing Our View On Things For The New Year BY RABBI JACOB EISEMANN Mankind in general and Jews in particular have been plagued throughout the ages by physical and more so by mental cataracts which has unfortunately reached its climax at the recent election when Jewish voters were seduced by outspoken lies and promises of irresponsible elements who should have never been on the platform of this country. he numeral of 70 is a magic one. The Midrash states that the pillars of the world, especially t h e J ew i s h p e o p l e a n d t h e torah, are each blessed with 70 different names. Besides being named among the twenty two numerals of the Jewish f igures, there is an additional meaning of the word . , besides being the number 70, namely the limb of sight is called
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“In order to arrive at the right decision we must be indulged in intensive Torah study.”
EYE The Jewish “EYE” has a different sight from the rest of the world because our microscope is the holy TORAH which gives us a completely different OUTLOOK on everything in life. It makes us look at all areas of life from “seven” different angles. This is the reason why the high court during the times of the temple consisted of 70 members which were called “the eyes of the nation.” This title was given to the members of the High court since they would enlighten the Jewish nation with their variety of wisdom in order to bring them to the right conclusions. In order to arrive at the right decision we must be indulged in intensive Torah study. Torah Study is our only remedy in these orphaned times. When there is no longer an indisputable leadership, recognized universally, the Torah is our last resort. The Torah answers each and every problem but only with indulgence in Torah study will we arrive at the right decisions. This is the double message of the year. We the people of Israel belong to Hashem and the Holy Torah. Consequently, we will look with a Torah like EYE at all aspects of life.
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The Fever Theory and Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder BY LINDA RUGGIERO, PH.D There is currently a great deal of interest in the role of fever in alleviating symptoms typical in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Until recently the evidence for fever as therapeutic has mostly been anecdotal, however, current research has provided more conclusive data. A working model has been proposed which theorizes that dysregulation within the locus coeruleus (LC), an area of the brain implicated in both fever and attention, may be a site requiring more extensive research. SDs are disorders of the brain that diagnostically fall within 3 more specified disorders based on symptomatology. Autism, in which symptoms appear during early childhood development, is characterized by deficient social interactions, repetitive and limited behaviors and impaired language and communication skills. Asperger Syndrome displays the impaired social interactions seen in autism, however differs from autism in that does not always involve impairments in language and cognition. The third, less well-defined of the ASDs is Pervasive Development Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS). PDDNOS refers to disorders in which children present problems with communication, but do demonstrate impaired social abilities enough to be considered autistic. Though a number of theories about the potential causes of ASDs exist, the pathophysiology of the disorders is unclear. While there is no cure for ASDs at present, scientific research is
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cussing similar observations among children with autism at the Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York. During an outbreak of viral upper respiratory infections, the children with elevated temperatures were reported to exhibit longer attention spans and increased social interactions than was typically observed in their behaviors. Later evaluations suggested that the improvements, though variable among children, were best observed when temperatures were increased by 1.5 – 2.5 C (2.7 – Though a number of theories about the potential 4.5 F). The symptom causes of ASDs exist, the pathophysiology of the remission occurred at the onset of fever and disorders is unclear. persisted for 1 – 3 days following when the fever diminished. unremittingly working toward discovering Years later in an attempt to more ways in which to treat the disorders and alleviate symptoms in these children until a cure closely examine the changes in symptoms of ASDs in children with fever, is identified. Over the past few decades, anecdotal Curren et al. conducted a study in which accounts have suggested that children the parents of 30 children with ASDs with ASDs show improvement in social were asked to report the severity of spebehaviors and have increased clarity in cif ic symptoms seen in their children verbal communication during febrile during and after febrile episodes. The episodes, or episodes of fever. These observations focused on the degree of accounts were given little attention until irritability, hyperactivity, repetitive 1980, when a report was published dis- behaviors and inappropriate speech dis-
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played by children with fever compared to behaviors during healthy states. The results were compared among children within the same age and gender categories and among children with a similar severity of the disorder to control for variability within the study. Interestingly, the majority of children showed a diminution of symptoms in at least one of the behaviors, suggesting more conclusively that improvements in symptoms occur during febrile episodes. The implications of these results pose additional questions and theories about the underlying mechanisms of ASDs, and the potential role of fever in alleviating symptoms suggests interactions between the nervous and immune systems. Fever is the body’s natural immune response to an infection. It is believed that fever enhances immune function because the increase in temperature can speed up processes involved in f ighting off an infection. For example, fever may increase the proliferation and migration of immune cells to the site of infection, may increase the rate of removal of pathogens, and may activate certain proteins that are involved in combatting infection. Through its effects on immune function, fever may impact gene transcription, cell signaling and overall neural networks. Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, Drs. Mark Mehler and Dominick Purpura,
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The Secret to Good Nutrition Atkins… Zone...South Beach…Slim Fast… Nutrisystem…Jenny Craig…And the list goes on BY JOSHUA KATZ All of these diets have 3 things in common: They are popular, they will be temporarily effective for only some of us, and they are all labeled as ‘Diets’. So what’s the problem? None of these diets actually explain in detail why they are effective. And if we don’t know why they are effective then it becomes extremely diff icult to sustain the improvements we make when we When we push the limits of our physical cease to follow their abilities through exercise we damage skeletal strict guidelines. Now I’m going to share 2 muscle. things with you. First, muscles, basically everything inside the way you should eat if you desire our bodies. Without fat the friction our physical, mental, and emotional bodies create in daily life would invarihealth. Secondly, the reasons why it ably and very quickly lead to inflamwill be effective and much easier mation and breakdown of every single then you may think. It comes down joint in much the same way as an to one word…MACRONUTRIENTS. engine without oil will overheat and seize up. These are the reasons why acronutrients? Years ago when I we need all three of these macronutrif irst heard this word I thought ents in our daily nutrition. And every “What in the world are meal you eat should contain a balance Macronutrients?” As I came to learn, of these three macronutrients. The this was not only a good question, but its specif ic amounts of these nutrients answer allowed me to understand how needed in each meal will be different simple good nutrition can be and how for different people but all three must important it is for achieving and main- be present to ensure what we refer to as taining good health. The Macronutrients a “balanced meal”. are Protein, Carbohydrates, and Fat. Now if you ask my wife, my parents, And much like the parts of a well oiled my brother and even my students they machine, each one of these macronutri- will tell you that I am NOT a numbers ents plays a pivotal role in getting and guy. But one number I know for sure is keeping you healthy. But lets’ explore 70%. Good nutrition is responsible for what each of them does for us. 70% of the progress you will make When we push the limits of our with your training/nutrition program physical abilities through exercise we which is why following the information damage skeletal muscle. Proteins role in this article is key to your progress. is the repairing and strengthening of So my friends, remember that your the damaged muscle tissue in much the body is an engine, give it the fuel it same way as cement goes to rebuild needs! and strengthen a damaged building or structure. Carbohydrates car ry the protein molecules through the bloodJoshua D. Katz has over 20 years of stream to the damaged muscle f ibers. experience in the f itness/nutrition They are essentially a taxi service that industry as a personal trainer and fittakes the protein where it needs to go. ness coach/nutritionist. He is also a And last but not least comes fat. proud public school teacher and Fat provides both insulation and accomplished amateur bodybuilder. lubrication for our vital organs, bones, Joshuakatz8@netscape.net
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Newly Found Stem Cell Causes Prostate Cancer BY MARLOWE HOOD Scientists in the United States, working with mice, have found a new type of stem cell in the prostate gland and shown that mutations in it can cause cancer, a study released said. he discovery boosts evidence that cancers can be caused by modifications in stem cells, the dynamic precursor cells that develop into and replenish the body's specific tissues, it says. It also appears to resolve a mystery about the origin of prostate cancer, and could open new pathways for treatment of the deadly disease. "This is a new stem cell in the prostate, and our research shows that it can serve as a cell of origin for prostate cancer," said Cory Abate-Shen, a professor at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York and a co-author of the study. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men, claiming half a million lives each year worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The new stem cell, known by the acronym of CARN, is found inside a type of tissue called the epithelium, which is also present in other parts of the body. More specif ically, they are located in a region called the luminal layer, where cancers of the prostate are known to occur.
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But until now, the only stem cell found in the epithelium were in the socalled basal layer. Hence the conundrum: if stem cells were implicated in the growth of cancerous tumours, as growing evidence suggests, how the cancer moved from one layer to the next remained unexplained. To see if mutant versions of the newly-found cell can cause tumours, scientists deleted a cancer suppressor gene called Pten in laboratory mice. "Pten is a very critical gene for cancer. It is a major tumour suppressor and is especially important for prostate cancer" in humans, Abate-Shen told AFP. Male mice with the mutant version of the luminal stem cells all developed tumours, but "control" mice whose Pten gene had not been suppressed were all healthy. The study, led by Abate-Shen's husband, Michael Shen, of Columbia Medical Center, is published in the British-based journal Nature. The f indings should help scientists better understand the link between stem and cancer cells, the authors said. "Alterations in most cells in a tissue may not be a problem for carcinogenesis," or the rise of cancer, said AbateShen. "But if those alterations occur in stem cells, then they give rise to tumours because those are the cells that
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Brooklyn College Graduate Receives Prestigious Writing Award Brooklyn College alumna, staff member and writer Helen Phillips, an adjunct lecturer and administrator in the English Department’s Creative Writing Program, will receive a 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award at a Sept. 24 reception to be held in New York. The honor includes a $25,000 award.
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“Phillips plans to use her award to take time off from teaching to concentrate on a collection of short stories and a novel...” The Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award is not the f irst writing honor that Phillips has received. She is also the recipient of the 2008 Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction, the 2009 MeridianEditors’ Prize and a Ucross Foundation residency. Her work has appeared in Salt Hill Journal, Mississippi Review and Faultline, and will be included in American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers (2010). Another of her works, And Yet They Were Happy, which she describes as "a book composed entirely
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hillips, who received a B.A. from Yale University in 2004 and an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 2007, is one of six women writers to be honored with the award this year. The awards are now in their 15th year and are presented annually to a half-dozen women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their career. "As much as I love teaching at Brooklyn College, I’m grateful to have an opportunity to focus more on my writing," Phillips says. "It’s exhilarating to know that I’ll have the luxury of time and energy that will enable me to delve more deeply into my creative work."
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Phillips is has been the winner of two prestigious award since last year. of one-page linked stories," will be published by Leapfrog Press in 2011. Phillips plans to use her award to take time off from teaching to concentrate on a collection of short stories and a novel, tentatively titled The Beautiful Bureaucrat. The f ive other winners of this year’s Rona Jaffe Writers’ Awards are Krista Bremer, Vievee Francis, Janice N. Harrington, Lori Ostlund and Heidy Steidlmayer. Best-selling author Rona Jaffe established The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards program in 1995 as the only national literary awards program of its kind dedicated to supporting women writers exclusively. Since the program began, the foundation has awarded more than $1 million to emergent women writers, including several who have gone on to critical acclaim, such as Judy Budnitz, Lan Samantha Chang, Rebecca Curtis, Rivka Galchen, Frances Hwang, Aryn Kyle, ZZ Packer, Tracy K. Smith, Mary Szybist and Julia Whitty.
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Rosh Hashanah, 5770, 2009 “Understanding Sin and Teshuvah” BY RABBI DAVID ETENGOFF overcome and he sinks into the dismal and dark depths of his being. Perhaps it is a forbidden desire that has overcome him. Perhaps it is more than this. Either way, man has lost the battle. He has been unable to emerge victorious against his passion for immediate pleasure, and he has succumbed to his base and lowly instincts. Pleasure has become a goal in and of itself and it has mastered him. Avon takes place when man loses control of himself and is controlled by raw desire. Yet, man has not forsaken his relationship with G-d. Rather, he has forsaken his relationship with himself. He has violated his holiness and descended into the pit of sin and its partner despair. Pesha is a far more grievous type of sin. Rashi teaches us (ibid.) that this category refers to those acts of rebellion that a commits in order to revolt against G-d and anger Him. This is not an instance of man being overcome by his passions and desires. This is far worse. In an act of pesha, man challenges G-d and rejects Him. Man acts as if G-d is not the Master of the Universe. Man, in a word, repudiates G-d’s hegemony and power and instead, places himself on His throne. With knowledge and forethought, man declares that he, and no other, is the f inal authority in the universe. Chataah is different in kind and degree than the other two types of sin. Herein, there is no desire to do wrong. There is no pleasure-seeking urge run amok or a desire to dethrone the Almighty. Instead, man has failed himself. He has allowed himself to remain in a state of ignorance that is the opposite of bliss. His lack of Torah knowledge has led him to violate the commandments of his declared and recog-
Dedicated to the sacred memory of my sister-in-law, Ruchama Rivka Sondra aleah hashalom and the refuah shalaimah of Sarah bat Rachel and Yosef Shmuel ben Miriam. n a few days we will all be standing before Hashem on Rosh Hashanah. We will all ask our Creator to grant us forgiveness for the many and varied sins we have committed over the course of the preceding year. Since this is the case, the first question we must ask is a deceptively simple one: What is sin? The answer, as well, appears to be quite straightforward: Sin is any form of violating Hashem’s will. Careful examination of the question, however, leads us to another conclusion. It seems that there are at least three different kinds of sin. We learn this from the verses in Sefer Shemot, Parashat Ki Tisa that are found soon after the most grievous sin we committed as a nation, the Sin of the Golden Calf (Eigel Hazahav): And the L-rd passed before him and proclaimed: “Hashem, Hashem, G-d, Who is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and truth, preserving loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and rebellion and sin…” (34:6-7, translation, The Judaica Press Complete Tanach, with my emphasis and emendations for the purpose of clarity) In this pasuk, Hashem forgives three distinct types of sin: iniquity, rebellion, and that which is labeled “sin.” The corresponding Hebrew terms are ”avon,” “pesha,” and “chataah.” In verse 7, Rashi (1040-1105) explains avon as a purposeful sin, a sin performed with full knowledge that it is wrong. Nonetheless, man’s better judgment is
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nized Creator. His lack of awareness of the essential and fundamental principles of the Torah has inadvertently led him to violate G-d’s will. Chataah teaches us that man is guilty for failing to learn Torah so that he can live Torah. In his foolishness, man has pursued that which is utterly false. He has allowed himself to believe that perception is reality, even though the Torah demands that man develop his ability to separate truth from falsehood, emet from sheker. As a result, his own veils of ignorance have blinded him. Man has tricked himself into believing that his actions have been both just and justif ied. In a word, chataah is man failing to live up to all that he could have been - if he only would have listened to Hashem’s voice, and studied and lived His Torah. Teshuvah, repentance, is man’s greatest weapon and antidote against the poison of sin. It is one of G-d’s greatest gifts to man. Teshuvah enables us to return to the correct path and to make amends with Hashem. It enables us to become someone else, someone who demonstrates fealty and loyalty to our Creator. It enables us to reestablish our relationship with G-d. My rebbi, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zatzal (19031993), contrasted teshuvah to sin in the following manner: What, therefore, is teshuvah in con-
trast to sin? Ascent versus descent. Through sin one is an object, while teshuvah allows one to again become a subject. Through sin man is acted upon, while through teshuvah man can act once again. Through sin he is a thing, while through teshuvah he becomes a person. Through sin gravity overwhelms, while through teshuvah gravity is overcome. (From a 1974 lecture, summarized by Dr. Arnold Lustiger in Before Hashem You Shall Be Purif ied: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik on the Days of Awe, page 34) May Hashem grant us the ability to honestly encounter our sins and recognize the evil inherent in these actions. May He help us to always ascend, and never to descend. May He help us to become the masters of our actions, while always recognizing that He is the Master of the Universe. Most of all, when we stand in prayer on this Rosh Hashanah, may we always remember Yermiahu’s stirring words in Megilat Eichah 5:21 and beseech G-d to help us return in teshuvah shalaimah unto Him: Hashiveinu Hashem alecha v’nashuvah chadash yemeinu k’kedem (Restore us to You, O L-rd, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old, translation, The Judaica Press Complete Tanach) V’chane yihi ratzon. Tizku l’shanim rabot
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People and Places BY PAUL STEINER On Sep. 6, 1941, Jews age 7 and up in Nazi German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David. e r b e r t L . H u n t n e r a presidential A r t s A d v i s o r a n d 4 t h husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor d i e d D e c . 7 , b u t N Y Ti m e s d i d n o t r u n h i s o b i t u n t i l 1 3 d ay s l a t e r, o n Dec. 20. Mark Levin, Conservative ABC talk show host and author of the NY Times bestselling book "Liberty & Tyranny" plays a judge in Jackie Mason's upcoming spoof movie "One Angry Man."
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Hariri Steps Down as Lebanon...Continued from page 6 cabinet.Hariri, the son of assassinated ex-premier Raf iq Hariri and head of the Western-backed parliamentary majority, was named premier on June 27. Tough negotiations led to a deal on the number of ministers each political camp would have in the cabinet, with 15 going to Hariri's alliance, 10 to its opponents and the president appointing the remaining f ive. However, the various factions have been unable to agree on just who gets what ministries. Without naming names, Hariri said on Thursday "it seemed to me that certain people had no intention
of moving forward or of leaving behind this opposition to change by wanting to impose extravagant conditions." The details of Hariri's cabinet formula have not been made public, but a source from the ruling alliance told AFP the proposal fails to meet the demands of Michel Aoun, Hezbollah's key Christian ally. Free Patriotic Movement leader Aoun -- who holds 27 of the Hezbollah-led group's 57 seats -- had made a number of demands the Hariri faction was unwilling to accept. One is for Aoun's son-in-law, Telecommunications
Minister Gebran Bassil, to get a post in the next cabinet. Aoun has also been seeking a number of prized ministries for his party and four out of the seven cabinet posts reserved for Maronite Christians. A source from the ruling alliance said "the formula includes all parties but does not grant Aoun the interior and telecommunications ministries." In the end, pro-opposition newspapers called on Hariri to step down, with As-Saf ir saying his naming of ministers on behalf of the opposition was a step too far.
A political crisis erupted in 2006 after all Shiite ministers resigned from the cabinet. It degenerated in May 2008 when sectarian f ighting broke out in Beirut, in the worst bloodshed since Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war. The crisis was resolved the same month when Qatar brokered a deal for the formation of a national unity government. The press speculated on Thursday that if Hariri did renounce efforts to form a government, Sleiman might reappoint him after f irst consulting with MPs.
Obama Warns Wall Street: No More Reckless Behavior...Continued from page 12 failed to properly regulate the finance industry, allied with reckless mortgage lending which had helped trigger the crisis. "It was a collective failure of responsibility in Washington, on Wall Street and across America that led to the near-collapse of our financial system one year ago."
Days after slapping duties on Chinese tyres, in the first trade dispute of his administration with the Asian giant, Obama denied accusations of protectionism. "When, as happened this weekend, we invoke provisions of existing agreements, we do so not to be provocative or to promote
self-defeating protectionism, we do so because enforcing trade agreements is part and parcel of maintaining an open and free trading system." Officials now predict a possible return to economic growth in the third quarter this year, a moment that will mark a political
milestone for the administration. Though the White House argues its policies are working, officials admit there is much economic pain to come -- and predict that even in recovery, unemployment will hit 10 percent.
Leasing Shows More Improvement in August...Continued from page 14 month, and was up from 8.3% reported one year ago, according to Newmark Asking rents continued to decline month-over-month in all three submarkets. CBRE put the average f igures at $57.94 per square foot in Midtown, versus $59.30 in July; $42.68 per square foot in Midtown South, compared to $43.49 in July; and $40.20 per square foot Downtown, off from the July aver-
age of $41.19. The sharpest year-overyear decline on a percentage basis was for Midtown, where the August tally was down more than 30% from a year ago. However, Colliers says class A asking rents in Manhattan actually "squeaked out a slight increase" in August, climbing to an average $64.36 per square foot, up 19 cents from $64.17
per square foot in July. Summing up the evidence of greater vitality as "welcome news," Colliers’ director of research, Robert Sammons, notes in the report that "it does not necessarily mean the Manhattan real estate market is out of the woods yet." For one thing, several major blocks of space are expected to become available over the remainder of the year. In
addition, writes Sammons, "the economy in general has not yet righted itself as local and national job layoffs continue. Expect an unsteady market for the remainder of the year with Manhattan leasing activity somewhat stronger, due primarily to tenants pushed against lease expirations and/or tempted by lower rents, but net absorption remaining deep in the negative column."
US Jewish Day Schools Mostly Hanging On...Continued from page 7 about the economic factors for a very long time." According to Goldberg and a colleague at Yeshiva University, Harry Bloom, schools are being hurt by faulty operating models that rely heavily on donations and often lack long-term plans. According to Bloom, among 65 schools recently surveyed, a quarter were relying on donations for half of their operating costs, he said. "In a recession, when donors are under pressure, that is a precarious position to be in," he said. Come spring, some of those schools could be living hand to mouth in terms of compensating their faculty and other costs, Bloom said. "We expect that the situation in schools will get worse in the second half of the year as the tuition deposits they got and the tuition payments get used up," he said, adding that it was important to work with these schools. "Literally, they could run out of cash." On New York's Long Island, the YU Institute convened 16 schools and focused on energy-conservation measures. It turned out that in one part of
Long Island, schools were spending up to $400 a year per student on energy. The institute is also consulting with schools on an individual and communal level, putting out white papers and offering Webinars that address things from operations to teaching skills. Bloom said the quality dimension is critically important because otherwise people tell themselves, "See, it's not worth it." Bloom and Goldberg touted community collaborations, as well. In January, multi-denominational schools and educational institutes will come together for a conference emphasizing collaboration. "We've been doing parallel processes," said Kramer, noting that schools were being asked to do more with less. "Full steam ahead became a risky game." Now, people are asking themselves, "Is there someone who does a program in another sector?" he said. Other solutions also have come to the fore. Attention is being paid to two Hebrew charter schools, one in Florida and one in New York City. Earlier in the
year, the Orthodox Union proposed a bare-bones model of a day school that gained little traction. "There's no shortcut to running a good day school," said Rabbi Josh Elkin, executive director at the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education. "What happened last year is simply the number of people who needed f inancial assistance to be able to deal with the tuition grew dramatically. "Despite the challenges they've felt, there's been a remarkable resiliency," Elkin said. "The day school model is not broken." Indeed, he described several strategies used by schools: broadening the donor base; tapping alumni; establishing community endowments; and using federation and foundation gifts in addition to planned giving campaigns. "If you add it all up and you see what was done in communities, is it enough? No," he said. PEJE is investing more heavily in community endowments, he said. But for now, schools are relying on philanthropic gifts, such as a $10 million scholarship endowment funded by
the Helen Bader Foundation, and $11m. in emergency grants to families by the Jim Joseph Foundation. But Jonathan Woocher, chief ideas off icer at the Jewish Education Service of North America, recalled attending a conference a few months ago and meeting families strained by day school tuition. "I don't want to be cavalier about this, it has severely strained the day school world, but to this point hopefully it has not been the kind of real disaster that some people had feared," Woocher said. "What that doesn't account for are the individual families." "It's one thing to talk about the impact on the school. They're hanging in there. It's another to talk about the stress on individual families," he said. RAVSAK's Kramer echoed the sentiment. "For every kid who we lose from the system, it's an extreme tragedy by my measure," he said. "The family who leaves a day school, it might be a hard journey to come back."
In U.S., Some Students Buy, Not Try, ...Continued from page 34 see if the essay was written by the student who submitted it. "I take a selection of the text of a suspicious paper and paste it into the Google search box or turnitin.com," said Marilyn, who withheld her last name.
"If it is a copied paper from the Internet, the exact paper service is one of the hits on my search," she said. Zoref agreed that it would be easy for a teacher to tell if a term paper were a student's own work or the product of a paper mill.
"Every student has a musical quality to their writing. Passing off someone else's writing as your own -- it's like Ella Fitzgerald trying to sing like Aretha Franklin. "They have different musical qualities and their own unique voices and
when they start to sing like someone else, you know it's just not their tune," she said, adding: "Like the president said, there's no excuse for not trying."
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America's Exceptional Ally...Continued from page 21 my with Israel's. But to do this, they must f irst end their involvement in terrorism and open their economy to free market forces and the transparency and rule of law and protection for property rights that form the foundations of those forces. The very notion of doing so, however, is considered so radical that supposedly moderate, pro-peace and free market friendly Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayad rejected the economic peace plan put forward by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu out of hand. After all, how can the Palestinians accept free market forces when it means that - horror of horrors - Jews might buy and sell land and other resources? The Palestinians and the Syrians are not alone. From Egypt to Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and Indonesia, the Arab and Muslim world has preferred poverty and economic backwardness to the prosperity that would come from engaging Israel. They prefer their staunch rejection of Israel and hatred of Jews and the economic stagnation this involves to the prosperity and political freedom and stability that would come from an acceptance of Israel. As American economic and technology guru George Gilder puts it in his new book The Israel Test, "The test of a culture is what it accomplishes in advancing the human cause - what it creates rather than what it claims." Gilder's book is a unique and necessary contribution to the current international debate about the Middle East. Rather than concentrate solely on Arab claims from Israel as most writers do, Gilder turns his attention to what the
nations of the region create. Specif ically, he shows that only Israel creates wealth through creativity and innovation and that today Israel is contributing more to the human cause through its scientif ic, technological and f inancial advances than any other country in the world except the US. The Israel Test describes in riveting detail both the massive contributions of mainly Diaspora Jews to the US victories in World War II and the Cold War and to the scientif ic revolutions of the 20th century that set the foundations for the computer age, and the massive contributions of Israeli Jews to the digital revolution that def ines and shapes our economic realities today. But before Gilder begins to describe these great Jewish contributions to the global economy and the general wellbeing of people around the world, he asserts that the future of the world will be determined by its treatment of Israel. As he puts it, "The central issue in international politics, dividing the world into two fractious armies, is the tiny state of Israel." In his view, "Israel def ines a line of demarcation," between those who pass and those who fail what he refers to as "the Israel test." Gilder poses the test to his readers by asking them a few questions: "What is your attitude toward people who excel you in the creation of wealth or in other accomplishment? Do you aspire to their excellence, or do you seethe at it? Do you admire and celebrate exceptional achievement or do you impugn it and seek to tear it down?"
By his telling, the future of civilization will be determined by how the nations of the world - and particularly, how the American people - answer these questions. Gilder's book is valuable on its own accord. I personally learned an enormous amount about Israel's pioneering role in the information economy. Beyond that, it provides a stunning rebuttal to the central arguments of the other major book that has been written about Israel and the Arabs in the US in recent years. Steve Walt and John Mearshimer's The Israel Lobby has two central arguments. First, they argue that Israel has little value as an ally to the US. Second, they assert that given Israel's worthlessness to the US, the only reasonable explanation of why Americans overwhelmingly support Israel is that they have been manipulated by a conspiracy of Jewish organizations and Jewishowned and controlled media and f inancial outlets. In their view, the nefarious Jewish-controlled forces have bamboozled the American people into believing that Israel is important to them and even a kindred nation to the US. Gilder blows both arguments out of the water without even directly engaging them or noting Israel's singular contributions to US intelligence and military prowess. Instead, he demonstrates that Israel is an indispensable motor for the US economy, which in turn is the principal driver of US power globally. Much of Silicon Valley's economic prowess is founded on technologies made in Israel. Everything from the
microchip to the cellphone has either been made in Israel or by Israelis in Silicon Valley. It is Gilder's own admiration for Israel's exceptional achievements that puts paid Walt and Mearshimer's second argument. There is something distinctively American in his enthusiasm for Israel's innovative genius. From America's earliest beginnings, the American character has been imbued with an admiration for achievement. As a nation, Americans have always passed Gilder's Israel test. Taken together with the other reasons for American support for Israel - particularly religious aff inity for the people of the Bible - Gilder's book shows that the American and Israeli people are indeed natural friends and allies bound together by their exceptionalism that motivates them to strive for excellence and progress to the benef it of all mankind. Today Americans commemorate the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Those attacks were the greatest confrontation to date between American exceptionalism and Islamist nihilism. On this day, Gilder's book serves as a reminder of what makes the US and its exceptional ally Israel worth defending at all costs. The Israel Test also teaches us that so long as we keep faith with ourselves, we will not be alone in our f ight against barbarism and hatred, and inevitably, we will emerge the victors in this bitter f ight.
working hypothesis is crucial in the search for the effects of fever in ASD patients. With a model in hand, scientists can work more diligently towards understanding the mechanisms by which fever eliminates ASD symptoms. All of the researchers involved in these studies stress the dangers associated with attempting to induce fevers as therapeutics in children with ASDs. References Aston-Jones, G., Raikowski, J., Cohen, J. Role of locus coeruleus in attention and behavioral flexibility. 1999. Biological Psychiatry 46: 13091320. Cotterill, R.M. Fever in autistics. 1985. Nature 313:426. Craven, R. and Hirnle, C. 2006. Fundamentals of nursing: Human health and function. 2006 4th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA. p. 1044 Curran, L.K., Newschaffer, C.J, Lee, L., Crawford, S.O., Johnston, M.V., Zimmerman, A.W. 2007. Behaviors
Associated With Fever in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders. Pediatrics 120: 1386-1392. Linthorst, A.C., Flachskamm, C., Holsboer, F., Reul, J.M., 1995. Effect of bacterial endotoxin and interleukin-1 beta on hippocampal serotonergic neurotransmission, behavioral activity, and free corticosterone levels: an in vivo microdialysis study. J. Neurosci. 4: 2920-2934. Mehler, M.F., Purpura, D.P. 2009. Autism, fever, epigenetics and the locus coeruleus. Brain Res. News 59: 388392. Ovadia, H., Abramsky, O., Weidenfeld, J. Evidence for the involvement of the central adrenergic system in the febrile response induced by interleukin-1 in rats. 1989. J. Neuroimmunol. 25: 109-116. Sullivan, R.C. Why do autistic children . . . ? 1980. J Autism Dev Disord 2:231-241.
The Fever Theory and Children ...Continued from page 32 suggest a working model involving the LC in order to understand how fever may affect symptoms in children with ASDs. The LC is an area of the brainstem involved in the production and transmission of noradrenaline (NA) in the brain, particularly during the stress response. In addition to its role in the stress response, the LC-NA system is believed to be involved in attention. The NA neurons of the LC project to and terminate in different parts of the brain and form extensive networks, while also receiving diverse inputs from other brain areas. sue to the extent of the projections, changes in this system can have profound effects including affecting cognitive function. Interestingly it has been shown that fever activates NA terminals, and that loss of function within the LC leads to decreases in febrile episodes. The LC-NA is now of interest in ASDs because it is the only known area of the brain which is implicated in both fever and behavior. It may, researchers believe, be involved in the
mechanisms underlying the effects of fever on ASD symptoms. The work that has been conducted in this area so far has set the stage for future scientif ic research. In order to better understand why symptoms of ASDs subside during febrile episodes, the LC-NA system is a place to start. With the hypothetical role of the LC-NA system in ASDs as a working model, a number of questions may be addresses: Is there dysregulation of the NA-LC system in children with ASDs? Does fever enable restoration of the LC-NA system? Does fever affect the LC-NA pathways involved in attention in children with or without ASDs? What processes in the brain might be activated or inactivated during fever that might affect the LC-NA system? Do changes within the NA during fever underly the attenuation of symptoms in children with ASDs? These are only a few of the many questions that could be examine in furture studies.. Though there are many unanswered questions, having a
Newly Found Stem Cell Causes Prostate Cancer...Continued from page 33 proliferate and give rise to the rest of the cells." The researchers cautioned against drawing hasty conclusions for humans on the basis of mouse models. It is
unclear whether CARNs exist in the human prostate and if, so, whether they unleash cancer. The next step is to compare normal and cancerous cases in mice, and then
relate those f indings to human cancer, said Abate-Shen. The main function of the prostate gland is the secretion of a slightly alkaline fluid that helps semen neutralise
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What Not to Buy for Babies mouth. Plus he's a bit squirmy and slippery. But don't worry: It gets easier, and you'll soon f ind yourself enjoying this wonderful time with your baby. In fact, as he grows and the bathroom becomes just another playroom, you might f ind yourself longing for those early, quiet baby baths.
BY CONSUMER REPORTS Baby bath seats. These seats attach to the side of the tub; older models may attach to the bottom with suction cups. Either way, they can give parents a false sense of security. They've been associated with roughly 120 drownings and 160 injuries since 1983. Nearly all those deaths occurred when a parent or caregiver left the baby unattended momentarily. ote that baby bath seats are different from baby bathtubs, which have a steeply angled back or sling insert that helps the parent support the baby during baths. Baby bathtubs are useful, provided caretakers don't leave the child unattended. Consumers Union was among the first organizations to call for a ban on baby bath seats, in 2000. A new design emerged in early 2005; our tests found it to be unsafe. Soft bedding. The ads in baby magazines suggest that if your crib isn't spilling over with frills and fluff, you're somehow shirking your parental duty. In fact, the safest crib is one that has a f irm mattress, a snug-f itting mattress pad, and a f itted crib sheet, and nothing else; no puffy bumper guards, no stuffed animals, no pillows, no quilts. Experts have long recognized that such soft crib bedding creates the risk of suffocation. For bedtime in winter, dress your infant in a one-piece bunting. If you insist on a blanket, keep it at waist height, tucking ends f irmly under the sides and bottom of the mattress.
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They've been associated with roughly 120 drownings and 160 injuries since 1983. Sleep positioners. These are wedgeshape pieces of foam meant to keep infants in a secure sleeping position. But we believe they're a suffocation hazard and our medical experts don't recommend them. Changing tables with only three side rails. Changing tables are associated with 2,000 to 3,000 injuries per year, especially ones with only three side rails. The latest industry standard requires flat changing tables to have barriers on all four sides. Buy this type. 6 Tips For Bath Time Safety 1. Have everything in reach. Bathing your newborn in a sink can be a bit nerve-racking at f irst. You're worried about keeping his head up, soap away from his eyes and water out of his
2. Take your time and have everything at your f ingertips, such as baby soap, shampoo, washcloth and towel. You don't want to f ind yourself reaching for anything. If you forget something like shampoo, skip it this time. He's not exactly playing in the dirt just yet. 3. Check the temperature. Before putting your little one in the bath dip your elbow in the water; it should be comfortably warm. Your elbow is more sensitive than your hand, so it will give you a better sense of whether the water temperature is in a good range for your baby's sensitive skin. Some baby bathtubs come with a temperature indicator, but some of these indicators are too slow, hard to read and diff icult to use. 4. Test the waters f irst. If you turn on the faucet while bathing your baby or toddler, always make sure you test the water temperature before it touches your child. If you have a toddler who can sit on her own, you can use one hand to test the water while the other hand keeps her secure. You'll need two hands for a baby, so it's a good idea to keep a separate tub or other container of rinse water handy along with wash-
cloths. This way, you won't have to turn on the faucet once your child is in the bath, and you can always keep one hand on your child. 5. Prevent scalding water. You can reduce the risk of a burn by setting your water heater at 120°F, or, if you live in an apartment building, ask the superintendent to do so. If the super can't help, you can purchase an anti-scald device that screws into place between the shower pipe and showerhead. The device senses water temperature and blocks the flow if the water becomes too hot. There are also anti-scald valves for the shower and tub that stop the flow by sensing water pressure changes. These are best for new construction, but a plumber can use them to replace existing valves. 6. Stay vigilant! Allow nothing to distract you when you are bathing your child. The phone is ringing or someone is at the front door…what are you going to do? The answer is simple—nothing! It may seem safe enough to slip away for just a moment, especially as your child gets older and can sit up and play without assistance, but don't do it. It takes only a second for tragedy to occur when water is involved. Bathtime can be as long or short as you like, but whether it's 5 minutes or 20, you need to be within arm's reach and forget about the outside world.
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Anti-Israel Rally Moved Due to Threats...Continued from page 3 return to 1930s fascism in Britain. Pro-Hizbullah and anti-Israel group the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), the main organizer of Al Quds Day, working with other Islamist groups, accused authorities of "bowing" to pressure. Responding to the decision to move the rally, the group's spokesman, Reza Kazim, said: "At the last minute, after months of negotiation, the GLA
[Greater London Assembly] told us two days ago we are not allowed to go ahead with the rally in Trafalgar Square. We are very annoyed. It seems they have bowed to the pressure from people like the English Defense League." Last year, Kazim was caught f ilming participants at celebrations for Israel's 60th anniversary in Trafalgar Square and was led away by police. At an antiIsrael protest in London's Hyde Park
during the 2006 Lebanon war, Kazim and IHRC chair Massoud Shadjareh both wore Hizbullah flags and chanted pro-Hizbullah slogans. Among the speakers at Al Quds Day on Sunday were Ahron Cohen of the anti-Israel Neturei Karta sect and Daud Abdullah from the Muslim Council of Britain. Abdullah is a signatory of the Istanbul Declaration, which celebrated,
in the name of Islam, the Hamas "victory" in Gaza and condemned the Palestinian Authority for negotiating with Israel. At last year's Al Quds Day in London, Abdullah claimed Israel was attempting to destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Over 100 far-right protesters turned up to protest Sunday's event, and heavy police presence held the two sides apart.
Former U.S. Envoy To IAEA: Syria May Have More Nuke Sites...Continued from page 3 a tactic of stalling to the West while continuing to work on its program. Iran is always trying to buy time," he said. "The question is, can you sort of convince them to stop doing that, convince them that they have to negotiate seriously... so the trick is to convince them that the opportunity to buy time is running out and the need to negotiate seriously." Iran needs to "show a willingness to suspend these activities," he said, referring to enrichment of uranium, a process which can serve to produce electricity but also to build a nuclear weapon,
Schulte added. Earlier Thursday, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Teheran's envoy to the IAEA, suggested that any negotiations with Western powers would not address the Islamic republic's nuclear program, according to a report carried by Iran's state-run al-Alam television station cited by Reuters. "Teheran is prepared to have fair and substantive talks about various problems, including the guarantee of access by all countries to nuclear energy and preventing the proliferation of nuclear arms," Soltanieh reportedly
said. "But these talks do not include Teheran's nuclear program and legal activities in this connection," he was quoted as saying. His came just a day after Iran presented world powers with a proposal for new talks, facing a US threat of harsher new sanctions if it fails to begin negotiations in earnest by the United Nations' General Assembly meeting at the end of September. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ruled out negotiations over uranium enrichment, the UN's central con-
cern regarding his country's nuclear program. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday gave a package of proposals to diplomats representing the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany in a meeting in Teheran attended by journalists. The proposals came as the UN nuclear watchdog agency was holding a meeting in Vienna, Austria.
U.S. Mideast Envoy Pushes for Settlement Breakthrough...Continued from page 3 before they will resume peace talks. One day before his talks with Mitchell, Netanyahu repeated that he had no intention of implementing a complete freeze, saying any halt would be temporary, would not extend to mostly Arab east Jerusalem, and would exclude some 2,500 units already under construction. Following the Abbas-Mitchell talks, sen-
ior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said that "we are doing everything we can to show our responsibilities, hoping Israel will show its responsibilities" and halt settlement activity. Mitchell has been seeking a compromise that would pave the way for a three-way meeting between Netanyahu, Abbas and US President Barack Obama at the UN General
Assembly later this month. Obama's administration has been working towards a comprehensive peace package that would see Israel strike deals with the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon, and Arab states normalise relations with the Jewish state after more than 60 years of conflict. "I am here because President Obama... has deeply and seriously committed to com-
prehensive peace in the Middle East, beginning with a two-state solution," Mitchell reiterated on Tuesday. Israelis and Palestinians resumed their peace negotiations in November 2007 after a nearly seven-year hiatus. But the talks made little visible progress and were suspended in late December after Israel launched its war in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
continue working." Atias spoke of the grief of the family and the nation, saying "we all hurt, we are all human, we must remember that at the end of the day the people flying these craft are also just human." He said Ramon's colleagues in the squadron vehemently insisted to be
those to carry his coff in. Media reporters remained outside the cemetery perimeters, honoring a request by the Ramon family to stay out of the funeral itself.
Peres: Every Heart Breaks,...Continued from page 5 during a sharp turn - possibly at 9 Gs or experienced vertigo. A less likely possibility is that the plane may have had a mechanical failure that Ramon could not solve, but he was not able to report on his condition. "Today we share the family's grief... this event is bigger than the squadron,
bigger than the air force, it is a national event," Nevatim air base commander, Brig. Gen. Eden Atias said at the beginning of the funeral. "But tomorrow, we take the young ones back in the sky, because we must continue their training. This machine," he said, referring to the air force, "must
A Guide To International Cuisine For Rosh Hashanah...Continued from page 25 Many Israelis prefer a green salad sprinkled with pomegranate seeds. With their abundant seeds, pomegranates symbolize the 613 commandments of the Torah. Gur raves about the Beetroot and Pomegranate Salad from her cookbook. “I first made this salad last Rosh Hashanah, and it was a big hit,” she says. “I received the recipe from Erez Komarovsky, a
dear friend and very talented chef. I would never imagine combining these two ingredients in one salad, but they work extremely well together.” Carrot dishes, symbolizing prosperity in the coming year, are wildly popular in Israel. They appear in the form of an Ashkenazi tsimmes or a spicy Moroccan carrot salad. In most Israeli homes, you’ll see at least two
vegetables on the holiday table, whether they be fresh, baked, sauteed or pickled. As in America, on Rosh Hashanah you can expect apple cakes and desserts oozing honey. Often the pastries are homemade. “You know, cake baking is extremely popular in Israel in both Sephardic and Ashkenazi households,” Gur says. “But even Sephardic cooks rarely confine themselves
to Middle Eastern pastries.” Her recipe for apple cake is perfumed with cinnamon and exudes the crunch of walnuts. It’s a kosher baker’s dream because the cake is meant to be made with oil rather than butter. The following recipes are from “The Book Of New Israeli Food: A Culinary Journey,” by Gur.
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BRONX Co-op for sale/ Bronx Co-op sale! Newly renovated 1 bdrm, Nr, Yankee Stadium, gated building, No brokers. Please call 718-793-1331 Barry or Lillian @ 718-993-3446, $175K
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QUEENS BEECHHURST/WHITESTONE: On site agents. Doorman, pool, pkg, pet friendly, dock. 1BR, priced to sell! $210,000. 2 BR, ren kit/bth $389,500. 2 BR, terrace, bridge/ waterview $415,000. 3BR, 2 bth, bridge/ waterview $550,000. 4 BR, 3bth, den, bridge/ waterview$774,000. www.stationrealty.com 718-279-4800
LONG ISLAND Oakdale/55+ Condos. New construction on Oakdale Bohemia Rd. 2 BR, 2 ba, models now open from $385,000. 631-472-2242
CO-OP FOR SALE L.I. Cedarhurst: FALL IN LOVE, beautiful large 2 Bd, 2 bth, co-op. All new kitch+baths. W/D in Apt. locked storage, balc, gar. Just reduced moving $369K Call: 516-812-9160
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135 East 57th Street Premises: Alice Kwartler, Pierre Michel Salon Space A: 2,500 sf Ground lvl; 600 sf Basement lvl Space B: 4,730 sf Ground lvl; 3,125 Upper lvl; 600 sf
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622 Third Avenue Premises: Wild Salmon 22,000 sf of Exquisite Tri-level Restaurant Space 6,000 sf Grnd Lvl 3,000 sf Mezzanine Lvl 13,000 sf Lower Lvl
Space C: Approx 5,000 sf 3rd Fl Retail/Showrm/Office
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222 East 59th Street Premises: Scalamandre D&D Building Showroom Space 2,675 sf Ground Lvl 2,475 sf Mezzanine Lvl 7,070 sf Second Lvl 1,000 sf Outdoor Terrace
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STATEN ISLAND
Sidney NY: Large 4 bdrms, historical hom,e on 2 acres, near schools, places of worship + college needs TLC,. Great investment. $85,000. Ernie 607-563-1020
Hewlett. Hi Ranch:4 BRS, 2 full baths, 2 kitchens, huge yard. Det gar. Nr park, shops & LIRR. Make your best offer! Call owner 516-817-9979
POCONOS LAKEFRONT- BEAUTY 4-5 BR RANCH, PLAY ROOM, HOT SUB, DOCK + BOAT, GIGANTIC SCREENED IN PORCH 160 FT OFF SHORELINE IN AMENITY FILLED, GATED, HOMELOCK FARMS COMMUNITY, A PLEASANT COUNTRY, WALK TO CHILDREN’S PLAY AREA, PICNIC TABLES AND OLYMPIC SIZED POOL, NEAR SKIING, HIKING + MORE. PERFECT FOR CHILDREN AND ACTIVE RETIREES. $475K. FURNITURE OPTIONAL 410-730-7265
UPSTATE NY TROUT STREAM! 5 acres – was 32,900, NOW $24,900 Apple trees, pines, 300 ft stream front! Gorgeous setting! No closing costs! Hurry! 888-354-5006
Bklyn House for sale Ave P/E 7, 1 fam s/det, LR, DR, EIK, 3 BR, 2 ½ bath, lg bsmnt, driveway, garage. Price rduced $715 K. NO BROKERS! Please call: 718-998-7231
Staten Island-Condo for sale 2 bedroom, 1 bth condo, Rossville, bottom Floor, corner unit, central air, eat-in kitchen, living room, washer, dryer, pool, tennis court, parking space, $189k 917-693-8239
WESTCHESTER Apartment for sale 101 Old Mamaroneck Rd. #S11 White Plains, NY Sunday 07/12/09 from 1-4, Gorgeous co-op, flexible 2 bedroom located near Young Israel or Hebrew institute. A truly one of a kind completely renovated apartment, that feels like a house. Nancy Rein-Raphael, Sotheby’s International Realty Licensed Salesperson. Certified Home Buyer’s Representative. (Cell) 914-588-8705
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NY STATE Albany Area: SUPER LOCATION, beautifully restored 1840 s farmhouse with 16,000 sq ft barn on 15 park like acres. Turnkey business available. 15 minutes from Downtown Albany. Call Betty at 518-732-2436 or 518-423-9996. Must see to appreciate.
S FALLSBURG, NY Lg, 3 Br house, 3bth, Brand new, pvt in ground pool. Avail July. Call: 914-737-3915
Lawerence: Builder’s home, near golf course, yacht club, great location! Asking 1.35M. Call owner 516-239-0051
Sacandaga Lake in Upstate NY 184’ of sandy shoreline w/ gradual grade/ gorgeous panoramic views, 2 BD/ 1.5 bth, ranch on level lot. Close to Marinas/ yacht club, 3 hrs from NYC, nr Saratoga + Albany. Own a piece of paradise for $525K. Contact 518-661-5358 View@ www.426lakeside.com WOODSIDE, NY 2 family brick house detached. Property is 4000 sq. ft. 5 bdrms, 3 bths. CALL ANNCURRAN @ WAGNER&KELLY REAL ESTATE 646-508-3292 GREAT BUY Amityville Village Legal 3 fam. (1)2BR (2)1 BR units, det’d gar, Low taxes, good cond, fully Occupied. $409K 631-905-6189
4 bdrm, 2bth, large living room Family room, kitchen, den Two Story detached garage. New windows, insulation, siding and roof on all Please contact Michelle 716-462-6478 Or look at the website: GIL8.com under Village Gem Asking $129,500.00
MONROE Grand Mansion estate. 33 acre lake front parcel w/7k square foot mansion, pool, tennis court, 2 guest houses and more. 1 hour from NYC. $3.5M CALL: 212-206-9939 www.camelotrealtygroup.biz
WOODMERE/ WOODSBURGH: 5 mins, 5 BR, 4.5 bth, fin bsmt, HW flrs, C/AC, kosher gourmet, granite kit, new bths, den/frplc, cul-de-sac. In eruv, walkable to all shuls. Must see! $1299M. Please Call 917-687-0754
Monticello Area for sale Lakefront home 8,000 sq ft with full Apartment, separate entrance on 200 lake Frontage w htd mikvah or swimming pool Across from shule nice jewish community Lake OK for motorboating. 845-794-8510 845-798-4805
Monticello Monticello: Beaut ranch, 4 Br, 3 bth, kosher kit. ½ acre, bkyrd. Walt to dist to falkof. For pesach Summer. Call 718-679-4339
Homes for sale 4 Bedroom, 3 bthm only $55,000!. Priced to sell!! Won’t last!! For listings call: 800-366-0412 xT472
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HORTON & COLLEGE Spacious 7 BR,3 BTHS, 6 yr young, Huge DR/LR, 9 ft. ceilings, eat in kosher kitchen, C/A, appliances,deck,closets galore,ideal mother/ Daughter or home/business. MIC Price Reduced Call Owner 845-356-5566
Root/ Montgomery Co. 70 Acres + Trailer Hse with barn, water + electricity. 3 hrs from Man $250K. Call Owner 718-617-7799
HORTON & COLLEGE Westchester Rockland, NY-Townhouse 3 Br + 2 extra rms bsmt, d/washer, dryer, a/c kit, leisure rms, nr local trans. $289k 845-426-0836
NEW HEMPSTEAD: Open house, Sunday 1-3 pm; $407K. MIC home, ¾ BR, 2.5 bths on cul-de-sac. Renov in ’08 on .57 acres. Yaacov (Milch) Miller: 914-414-3619; Rivky Kagan: 845-6592056 KAGAN RLTY GREAT BUY! Two family house 4 sale, one acre of land w/horse barn. 1 & ½ hourse to NYC. Income $1,300 per mo. $275K Neg 914-512-4361 or 914-393-6759
Forshay/ Suffurn: Home for sale by owner, owner relocating, needs to move soon. 6 BR colonial on parkway, cul-de-sac, new windows, basement apt, deck, pool + hot tub, near shuls $630K. Call Bruce 845-494-3919
Vacation homes for sale Catskills: Seeking partner to buy 2 fam home in Woodbourne (2 Floors-10 rms) Must have good credit. Approx $20,00 investment 718-972-1552, 718-972-0161 or 917-971-8357
Small Bungalow colony 70 beautiful acres to buildings, a ring around swimming pool, needs TLC. Features a small lake with historic store den, waterfalls, streamhills, valleys and lots of trees. Less than 35 miles from the George Washington Bridge in scenic Sullivan County (Mountaindale) Asking $579K. Call Joyce David 718-875-2000
Newburgh: 2500 expandable to 4200sf. Walk out basement. New 4BR loft, style home, 5 acres, nr thruway. $384,900. Owner 914-213-3902
Fallsburg: New 3 BR, 2.5 bath, 3 acres w/ lake + waterfall. Near shul. For sale by owner. 718-938-4130
Vacations homes for sale Liberty/ Loon/ Sheldrake: Open house, June 28th, noon to 4 pm, 2 BRs, 2 bths, CAC, deck, YD crowd, heated pool, extras. 845-436-9212
Lawrence: Causeway Builder’s Home, near golf course, yacht club, tennis club. Great location. $1.35M 516-239-0051 Vacation homes for sale Sackett Lake: Totally renovated 3 BRs, 1 bath, deeded lake nights, walk to orthodox shul. 516-662-3045
Hyde Park, NY: beau brick house, 3 BR, 2 bth, fin, attic, bsmt, reno kit, $300,000. Nader 845-742-2762
Wesley Hills/ Pomona, SALE/RENT: New construction. 5 BR, 3 bth, C/H col, large kitchen, DR, great rm, C/A & heat. Deck, 3 car garage. Near shuls/ shops. Priced right. 914-260-4094
Forshay: Home for sale by owner, owner relocating needs to move soon. 6 BR colonial, park like property on cul-de-sac, new windows, bsmt apt, deck pool + hot tub near shills. 6.30K Call Bruce 845-494-3199
MONSEY exclusives: Large Home with Shul. Beaut 8000sf, 80 acres, Bais med seats 150-200. Comm’l kit, parking 30+ cars, 6 BR’s, 4 bths, lrg EIK, pvt study w/ sep entr. Large DR, LR, Mbth w/jcz, huge succah rm w/retractable roof, intercom, surveillance, alarm & much more! Must see! NEWLY RENOVATED HOME, Spectacular 4000sf high ranch, 60 acres, nr R’Schlessingers shul, 7 br, 4bths, new granite EIK, heated flrs, SS applncs, sky lites, deck, sparkling above inground pool. All new windows, heating, AC, boiler & roof. 2 car att gar. Must see! $779K CHOICE RESIDENTIAL BLDG LOT 1.02 acres, quiet cul-desac, near R’Schlessingers shul, this one of a kind loc will not last! THE WORLD REALTY GROUP 908-355-1717 OR 845-356-6088
Shilo Rd.: 4 Bedroom, 2.5 baths, CAC, fenced yard with a large patio and hot tub on ¾ acres. Reduced 4,400,000 Please Call:l 732-536-4767
OPEN HOUSE 09.13.09, 12-2pm 24 LARK AVENUE, White Plains-House for sale in prestigious area. Hi ranch, 5 bedrooms, central air throughout, walk to temple. Solomon Schecter 1/3 acre. $625K. Contact Betty Imperial Realty. 914-592-9562
COUNTRY CUSTOM RANCH HOME 3+ -3 Opt, Inlaw apt. DBL Garage, 4+ acres, Handicap friendly. $309,900 Neg. 607-286-9074 www.realestatecooperstown.com
SULLIVAN COUNTY, LAKE Huntington. 15 mins west of Monticello. 6 BR, 7 bth on 5 acres. City sewer, well water. $265K Neg. 914-237-9653 or 914-894-8794
Catskills: Camp and bungalow colony-For Sale Brand new, kosher kitchen, stunning grounds for sale by owner. Call evenings 347-576-4712 or 718-782-4742
MASSAPEQUA, MERRICK RD: 3400 sf, High Visibility Sale for rent 516-798-9338
Owner says sell~ Upstate, NY! 7 acres/BARN/POND-Was $149,900, NOW $69,900! 40x200ft barn, spring fed pond, gorgeous, Catskill mountain views, unbelievable setting! MAKE AN OFFER! HURRY! 888-620-0738 For sale in Catskills, Fallsburg NY. 48 Unit townhouse. Project on 15 acres. Town water and shovel ready. Call 845-798-7397
UPSTATE NY COUNTRY FARMHOUSE 7 acres - $129,900. Reduced from $159,900! Greek Revival, beautiful setting with trout stream, views, barns! Call now! 888-675-7521
ESTATE SALE UPSTATE NY! 34 acres - was 64,900, NOW $49,900 Woods, fields, views! Super deer Hunting, nearby trout stream! Seller pays closing costs! 888-698-6617
BROOKLYN BORO PARK: 53St/ 10th Ave. 5 fam house. 23x71, 3 stories + fin bsmt. Can convert to 3 fam. Ask $1.288M. Mint Cond. 917-509-6154
Clinton Hill: 2 Bdrm/ 2 bth coop “Wilouby Walk” Built in AC Doorman, full security Nr Pratt Institute, close to all. Nr subway $415K Neg. Contact 718-857-3036 or 646-644-6436
Boro Park, 53 St 10 Ave: 5 fam house, 23 x 71, 3 stories + fin bsmt. Can convert to 3 fam. Ask $1.288M. Mint cond 917-509-6154
Ave J/ East 15th: 2 BR apt with new floors, 2 flights up, near all. Call 718-692-4181 Ext 110
FOR SALE BY OWNER Brick 2 family, 2 bedroom duplex, wa;l-in. 2 bedroom apt. totally renovated. Sheepsead Bay, Gravesend Area. 646-644-8802
Boro Park: 53 st/10 Ave 5 fam house. 23x71, 3 stories + fin bsmt. Can convert to 3 fam. Ask $1.288M. Mint Cond. 917-509-6154
Boro Park: OPEN HOUSE SUN Noom- 4 pm 115049th Street. All brick 2 family 20x52 building 20x100 lot. Khalid Ahmed 917-753-5422 Joanna Pavlatac. Exit Top Properties. 443-856-8386
CANARSIE, 1 FAMILY 30X100. EXCELLENT CONDITION. PERFECT FOR PROFESSIONALS, INVESTORS OR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY, SEMI COMMERCIAL STREET. 347-260-7838
Ave J/ Low East 2 family 30x100, detached 6/5 rooms, 3/2 bedrms, Den, Full Bsmt, Driveway, Granite kitchen Call Shirley Hanan 917-771-7447 Small one family house with extra lot for sale. Lot is ideal for building. Call 718-927-0600 Or 646-753-1400 Marine Park brick attached 1 family, 2 bath, Large yard, garage. Won’t last. Asking $430,000 Many other properties available. Mill basin, Marine Park, OMB, BR. Ask for Miriam. NATIONAL BROKERAGE. 718-377-1500 BORO PARK, 2-3 fam hse, central Loc. New heating system, upgraded Elect system, fin bsmnt, $1.3M Serious bids only. Appts for Sunday only No realtor: 201-669-1779 Boro Park, 20 Av 53 St. Newly renov 1 fam, 3 Brs, new kit, bsmt, drv. Nr Stores, shuls, F train. 718-258-4824 Ave L/E 17th St 1 fam det, 20x100 Lot. 4 Brs, 2 car garage. Priced to Sell. By owner. Call 732-278-9780 House for sale in the heart of Sephardic community, Gravesend. Please call: 718-755-6349
Boro Park: 53 St/ 10 Ave. 5 fam house. 23x71, 3 stories + fin bsmt. Can convert to 3 fam. Ask $1.288M Mint cond. 917-509-6154
Boro Park: Webster/ Seton: Corner brick house, 21 x 10, six 2 BR apts $075K. Call after 8pm 347-576-4712 or 718-782-4742
Crown Heights 2 family, move-in condition large backyard, 1 Br/1 Br/1 Br, finished basement. $425 neg. Call Owner: 917-880-9839
East 27th/Ave R, family 33.4x100 3 brs plus den, private drive, large backyard, asking $799. Call after 7pm 718-376-7735 No brokers please!
LOGAN STREET: Brand new 3 family house, beautiful 1.5 BA, wood floors, porch and driveway. Call: 347-683-1923
2 family detached, 1. 2 bedroom, 1 bth. 2. second floor, 1 bedroom, 1 bth w.porch, close to trans and synagogue. Call now, asking low 600’s 646-217-8252
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599K Oceanside, 1Family+Dr.office+swi mming pool Det. Colonial: Lot Square Footage: 6000, Building Size: 2565Sqft, 6 Bedrooms, 3 full Baths , 1 Garage, 4 cars parking Driveway, Full Finished Basement for legal Dr. Office, back yard with Deck & Pool. 3 blocks to south Nassau communities hospital; 10 min to long beach; best school district. Must see!!! Open house: 8/16/2009 (Sun. 2:004:00 PM) Contact: Leah 917-642-2773 liutaoli@yahoo.com Marine Park: Brick house semi detached, 3 units, 7.5 rms, 3 Br duplex-2x4.5 rooms. Rentable apts. 2 2brs in each apt. Call owner 718-377-1536
Boro Park, 53 St/10th Ave: 5 fam house. 23x71, 3 stories + fin bsmt. Can convert to 3 fam. Ask $1.288M. Mint cond 917-509-6154
2626 E. 14th St. Brand new executive suites available 2002500 sq ft. FREE ELEC, HVAC, INTERNET & MORE! Beaut completely renov prof’l & medical office bldg. Across bus stop & Q/B trains. All inqs Email: Daniel@hampshieprop.com or call 718-692-4181 x110
NASSAU / L.I. House for Sale Long Island LITTLE NECK-For Sale By Owner2 br ranch home, 1 bath, detached garage,$650K, builders welcome. No Brokers, Call Owner 917-930-0497
BABYLON: With high ranch. 3 over 3 BR, 3 ba, or income of 2 apts $2700, hdwd flrs, newly updated. Beaut design. Great for investors. 1 GS $385,000. call owner Liz direct and say where you saw the ad. 631-671-1289
House for sale LI Spacious 200 sf. 1 bdrm, 1 bth. Dining area, balcony, out door pool, Custome kitch and bth. Prime doorman, Building and loc, walk to shul, shopping, LIRR. Shown by apt only, $375k 954-558-3133 Floral Park Open House, 27 Lesior 4 Br, 3 bth, 2 car gar, new kitchen Sun 3-4 pm FSBO www.livehere-now.com Call: 516-364-2033
New Hyde Park: Herricks, 4 BR, 1.5 Ba, huge fin bsmt, IGS, prvt lg yard, updated, MINT $535K. Neg. 516-698-1650
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STATEN ISLAND
Vermont, Benson: incredible mountain views, 3 BR, 2 BA, 2700 sq ft chalet, on 4.5 wooded acres, 5 years old, close to ski areas, many amenities. $265,000 802-236-2923
Bristol, CT-31 unite RR $250k. price $2mil. Great potential and opportunity. Owner: 718-258-6096 Leave msg, Frank.
Berkshires, Mass, Unique New England B+B 7 BR w/ baths can also be used as a restaurant or residence, energy efficient additional/ 12 acres land can be subdivided, plus building with antique shop nr Norman Rockwell Museum/ Jacobs pillow + much more contact 413-329-8090 $849,900.00 Email: Jespos7249@aol.com
Boro Park, 20 w/53 St. Newly renov 1 fam, 3 BRs, new kit, bsmt, drv. Nr stores, shuls F train. Asking $3000/mo nego. Call 718-258-4824
Forshay: 13+BR mansion for rent for the summer. Heated indoor/ outdoor pool, large backyard ALSO Forshay: 2-4 BR bsmt apt for rent, reasonably priced. Call 845-354-4845
E. 14/ Ave N 3 Fam. Brk s/alt 19 years old, landlord. Apt, east KIT, CAC 3 Br 1 ½ bth. Split. EIK W/D fin bsmnt. Car port, many Extras no Bkrs. Asking $1,250 516-791-1566
Dongon Hills: 1 fam, S/D, 4 Br, 2.5 bths, solid oak cabinets throughout kitchen, CAC, fin bsmt, hwd flrs, attic, deck, lg backyard, plenty of storage space, pvt drvwy. $470K, owner. 718-980-0587
Westerleigh: 1 Bdrm, all new appl + upgrades, EIK, close to bus & shopping. Priced to sell. $274,900. Negotiable 917-658-5462
BAY TERRACE Fully renovated detached high ranch. 4br, 2.5 bath. 2 ktchns w/ new appliances, central AC garage. 40x105 crnr ppty. 4 blcks to park, beach, bus, train. MANY XTRAS!! $649K 718 980-4273
Staten Island 1869 Richmond Terr. M1 Zone. 26,947 sq ft. Please CallFor more information: 718-258-4222
QUEENS/BRONX Rockaway Blvd: Near JFK, fully renov, 1+2 BR apt, 1 bnth each in pvt home. Near shopping, trans and more! No smoking, refurnished, reasonably priced. Please Call 917-873-5561 Deep Dale Gardens, Little Neck: Rare upper corner unit, fully renovated, 2 BR, 3 ACs, DW/WD, newly caroeted, low maint. 960 sq ft, brand new 1.5 bths. Contact Felice 718-631-8913
Kew Garden Hills: 2 story det house. Recent renovation. Excel loc. 718-261-4156
Kew Garden Hills: Fully renov 1 fam det home. 4 BR, 2.5 bth, fin bsmt, bkyrd, drvwy. $770K. 917-519-6110
BAYSWATER: Top location! Immac det 1 fam, 4 br, 3 ½ bth, LR, DR, EIK, fin bsmnt, pvt drv, newly blt, 1 blk to Shul. $559K/ neg. Owner 917-577-6811
Bayside, Windsor Park: 2 BR, 1 Ba, school districtr #26, pool, tennis courts, near shopping, great location, low maint. A/C, 24 hr sec. asking 259k. Owner 718-776-0080 leave message.
Kew Garden Hills: 3 BR, 1.5 bth, LR, EIK, fin bsmt, sep entr, 2 car drvwy, fin bsmt, sep entr, 2 car drvwy, central loc. new gated front porch. 917-916-8421
OUT OF STATE 250 Acre farm in SOUTHVIRGINIA, Bland county + (I) Home + A old farm house which was built in the 1900’s. beautiful views. Hunter’s Paradise. Please contact 276-496-5200 WEST
Puerto Rico Anguilla, BWI: 1995 built large ground level house. 2100 sq ft interior, 2100 sq ft terrace & veranda. Property on 0.6 acre. 3 bdrms, 3 bathrooms, etc. US $1,750/neg. Never underestimate the power of local knowledge! Phone: 264-497-6221
Waterburry, CT: 1 family Victorian, great area, 2,600 sq ft, totally renovated, 4-5 BR, 2.5 baths, hardwood flrs, granite, large yard, 80 miles to NYC. Asking 22K. Call owner: 917-418-6421
PA SALES Harvey’s Lake: 5 BR, 5 full + four ½ baths, 8000sf home + two 2 BR condos, (1700sf each) 2.2 acres, 215’ of lakefront, 2 finished docks (total 2600sf), tennis court 11 garages. Can be subdivided. $2,197,000. 570-714-9234. MLS#09-2791 tour at: www.lewith-treeman.com
Waterbury, CT: Cozy 1 family, split level, have totally renovated home area, 3 BR, 1 bth, granite hardwood flr, garage, 80 miles to NYC. 139,900. Call 917-418-6421
CARIBBEAN/ Lots & acreage. Belize-Caribbean Pvt Isl for sale: 30 acre island, crystal clr blue water, exotic coral reef. Great snorkeling , diving and fishing, water sports$1.5 mil. Also for sale 5,000 acre ranch, 5 miles scenic riverfront, $2000 per acre. Can sell 50 acre lots. Great fishing, boating, horseback riding, hunting-A tropical paradise. For more info, please see website: www.belizewaterfrontprope rty.com or call 646-732-2669
Virginia, Randolph: 52,29 Acres Cut-over, road frontage on 2 sides. Includes well + septic. Nr Hwy 746 + Hwy 750 quiet & peaceful. $135K. Contact 434-454-6374
Poconos Lakefront Beauty: 4-5 BR ranch, plus game room, hot tub, dock and boat, gigantic screened in porch. 160 feet off shoreline in amenity filled, gated community, a pleasant country walk to children’s play area, picnic tables and Olympic sized pool, near skiing, hiking + more. Great for children & active retirees. $475K, furniture optional. 410-730-7205
PA, for sale All one acre house, 3 homes, 3 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths each, 2 homes have 4 bedrooms, 2 ½ bths each. Three ranch style. Two log homes. Price 255,000825,000. ALL BRODERING CAMP D. GOLDEN
Delaware County GREAT BUY!!! Delaware County, 21.8 acres. Three bedrooms, 2 full bths. Full size bsmt. 40x56 Barn w/a stream. $339,900. Must sell, owner 607-265-3431
Out of State Lots Sale/N. Carolina NC Mntns- 2 ½ ac homesite, spectac vu. High alt, easy access, paved rd, secl, Bryson city, $39,950. owner financing 800-810-1590 www.wildcatknob.com
Charming 3 Story Chateaux: Secure, private, scenic area. Ideal for busy, CEO, designer, author. 4 BDRM, 2 family rooms, 3 FP, 2-1/2 BA, office, atrium, 3 decks. Excellent access to POCONOS, PA Turnpike, NE extension, 1-809, Blue Rt. 476. Avail Immediately. Private sale $499,000 reduced. Elegant furniture negotiable. Phone/ Fax 610-543-0711
MARTHA’S VINEYARD Beautiful 3 bedroom contemporary home. Near beaches and town. Affordable weekly rental. 800-356-3210 New Hampshire, Washington 24 wooded acres, Town Rd w/electric & access to boat launching ramp for half moon pond. $5000 per acre 914-592-8414
Butler PA: Single fam $575,000. 4 large BRs, high & EIK, DR, great rm, LR, office, Laundry rm, Fin bsmt, in-law apt, CAC, all totally redone, basement garage + new 2 car heated garage/workshop, large lot on quiet street, near shopping & schools, spacious home in mint condition. Asking 575,000. Make offer, Call 570-785-2305
PA HOUSE FOR SALE TROUT RUN 2 CABINS/HOMES ON SAME PARTIAL WITH GARAGE ON 3 ACRES OF LAND. LARGE MAN MADE WELL STOCKED LAKE. EXC HUNTING. $94K OBO. OWNER 570-327-1305
House for sale North Carolina Certified energy star home Arts & Crafts Classic construction. New green home, 3 BR, 2 ½ bth, contemporary, 2100 sq ft, 7 acre. Additional acreage avail. 2008 Asheville Parade of homes$682,508 828-545-4931 or 828-545-8086
House for sale PA Pocono Lakefront beauty 4-5BR ranch + game rm & giant scrnd-in porch, deck, dock, boat & hot tub; excel pvcy w/160’(l) of shoreline in amenity filled hemlock Farms gtd commu, ideal for grandkids & active retirees; 1:40 to GWB, 475K + furn opt 410-730-7205 pocono-lakefronts.com/hemlocl.htm
VACATION RENTALS 5 star resorts nationwide. We have the greatest rates. Time shares-With no time share tours *Rentals for the upcoming Olympics/ Dayona in Feb + The PGA. Disney World + many spectacular events. *Call for our vacation booklet* Contact Vacation Property Liquidators 877-897-2288 www.vpliquidators.com
BROOKLYN Furnished room for rent for middle aged man, Bensonhurst, reasonable. No smoking. 718-259-1970
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Ave T & Ocean Ave: 2 BRs, plus garage. E 13 st bet I & K, walk up one bedroom, 1st & 2nd flrs. No broker-Owner 718-236-3199
E 28/Ave J. 3 lrge BRs, 1.5 bths, EIK, attic playrm. New scraped flrs. Pvt drv. 718-338-6935 or 917-837-9062
Brooklyn Ave S/E17. Newly built 3 br apt. Lrge LR & DR. Call: 718-902-7375 347-587-7944 THREE 3 FAMILY HOMES ON 80X100LOT ASKING $975K ALSO 3 BR APT FOR RENT. R7A ZONE. CALL BROKER 646-207-7151
BoroPark49Stcorner12Ave: New on market 400 sq ft $1650 neg. Owner 718-435-2603
6920 13th Avenue: Store + 2 family, excellent condition, 3 BR apts. Call Albert. Remax Metro. 917-733-7230 or 718-439-1110
GRAVESEND: 3 Room ultra mod $1000 & studio $750. Call Fran Rizzo agt 646-207-5087
House for rent Gravesend/E 4th street: 3.5 room, walk in yard, absentee landlord. Utilities included $1,200. Also 5 rm yard garage. Call agent Fran Rizzo 646-207-3087
OUT OF STATE Beautiful 24 acre standard Breed horse farm. Located in central Delaware with 22 stalls. Pond & Track included. Visit www.sandielanefarm.com 732-634-0712, Lisa
NASSAU / L.I. NASSAU/ SUFFOLK Huntington/ Melville: Newly décor 2 BR, A/C, Ceramic Bath, SS EIK, DR, LR, full bsmt, workshop, fam room, W/D, garage. $2275+. Please Call: 631-948-3400
QUEENS Kew Garden Hills. 2 STORY DET HOUSE. RECENT RENOVATION. EXCEL LOCATION. 718-261-4156
Kew Garden Hills House for Rent K.G.H 1 Fam, 3 Bdrm, 1.5 Bths. Kitchen backyard and furnished Bsmt Gorgeous Deck $2,400 Call 917-669-9676 Amagensett Dunes 400 feet to ocean beach Access. 5 bedrooms, 2 baths. AC. Labor Day. $50, 000 or avail monthly. Call: 631-655-9319
House for rent Hamptons Hampton Beach House: On the ocean, Dune Rd., 3 BR, 2 BA, lrge deck on top w/ 360 degree views, newly renov. Available now. For details, 914-490-5115
Vacation property Southampton Waterfront Estate7BR w/5 master BR suites, pool, tennis, volleyball courts, boat/dock, elev, game room/gym. 917-418-6872. View website homerentals.com Property ID 40506
WOODMERE: 1 BR, 1.5 Bth, newly renovated, private garage w/ separate entrance includes all utilities gas + electric. Near all shopping, transportation and shuld. Call 516-524-8378 or 516-612-4656
N.Y. STATE Goshen, NY: Restaurant for lease. The ground floor incorporates a magnificent restaurant and cocktail lounge. Includes large windows overlooking the Gosher Kitchen historic track first turn. For details contact 845-394-6911 FORSHAY: 2-4 BR bsmt apt for rent. Reasonably priced. Call 845-354-4845 White Plains rentals Rentals/Westchester White plains-4 BR, 3 bth all renov (11/08) 1 fam home on cul-de-sac in quiet fam oriented nghbrhd, near xpways, good shls, great parks, 25 mins to NYC, $4200/mo. Godfrey 914-345-3141
MA, BERKSHIRES: Beautiful lots, prime building lots. Great views, undergrnd util + sewer. Check www.kingsmontlanesite.com or call 413-442-5445. Judith King
Greenwich, CT: 203-661-7777, All rental offerings, homes, land + condos. Engle + Voeikers. www.engelvoeilkers.com/greenwich. Search all properties online
Vacation properties Delaware:Dewey beach4 BR, 2 ½ bth, deck, hrdwd flrs, balcony, ocn vu, 1 block to beach, 629,999k rentals. 610-888-5866 www.whisperingpalms-db.com
Pennsylvania/ Townhouse for rent East Strausberg Townhouse for rent 2 bdrm, 2 bath, fireplace, updated kitchen, cathedral Ceiling, garage bsmnt. Avail now. $1,150/mth + util Call: 570-223-0578
East 4th St/ M&N: 2 BR basement apts, ceramic flrs, 1 BTH, LR, near shuls, shopping, tran and more! $1200 including utilities. Call 718-382-0623 Ave L/E 12: 2 family + basement, 2 car garage. 20x58 (25x90lot). REALTOR 646-391-4211 Foster Ave, East 30th: 2 fam, 4 BR, 2 bth, bsmt. 17.83x40 (17.83x82 lot)
Apt for rent-Bklyn DYKER HEIGHTS2 BR w/terrace Modern, LR, EIK, new fridge, W/D hookup $1750. NO Fee.Call 646-734-6053 718-238-3200 Ave. L-M/Ocean Pkwy 1 BR (full sized) EIK,LR,DR. Move in cond. 6th flr. P/T drmn bldg 917-771-6923 E. 2/Ave Y. Newly renov 2 BR apt. Mod luxury kit, bath w/Jacuzzi. Lg LR & DR. Dishwasher,Wash & Dry. Unfurnished 718-902-7375, 347-587-7944 Sheepshead Bay. 1 BR remodeled Apt. No section 8. No washer/dryer Call after 6 pm. 718-769-1318 APTS TO SHARE Looking for frum girl to share 2 br Apt in the heart of Flatbush. Ave J/Coney. Call 718-252-0263
Los Angeles: Lrg 2 story, 5BR, 4bth home avail for summer. Granite kosh kit. Lg bckyrd. Nr shuls. 310-735-3310
ROOM FOR RENT In busy area in Flatbush (On Coney Island between J & K) Call 718-253-0493
North Putnam, renov, 2 story 3 BD/ 1 ½ bth, Vermont log cabin on 7 acres plus full bsmt 3 acres, Lake+Garage-Must see to believe. Contact 845-225-6630. asking $2100 per month. Email Paul@oneclickbuttercutter.com
Pkwy Ave L +M, 2nd fl elev, small 2 br, 1 bth, LR/DR, great bldg, near all transportation, gas included $170k. No Broker, building. Call Owner: 718-252-5802
BROOKLYN Huge building Approx 4000 sq ft, large parking lot, ideal for drive in bank, fast food restaurant, office, convenience/ drug store, pizza shop. 347-693-6189
East 35th St/ Kings Hwy: 1 BR bsmt apt, freshly painted, private entrance. Gas & electric included. $850 718-677-5759 or 347-262-3853
Sheepshead Bay: 1 BR apt, private entrance on ground floor, modern kitchen, fully tiled bthrm, close to shopping & trans. Move in condition. Avail Sep 1st. Call Sue 917-648-4112 Credit check req.
Greenspring: 2.5 bths, kosher kitchen, deck, large backyard, beautiful home. 3 years young! Call 718-338-8712 or 901-255-2794
KENSINGTON: 3 room apt, 1 bath for rent. Freshly painted. Near shopping and trans. Call: 424-202-1152 Bklyn Apts unfurn. Bensonhurst- Apartments 6 rooms, 2 large bedrooms, 1 ½ bathrooms, refrigerator included, small pet ok, house avail. Now, roommates preffered, no programs. Call owner: 917-805-8324 Ave U-Brand new luxury 2 bdrms, 2 bths granite custome kit, walk-in closets, sep laundry room, DR, LR, elevator. $2,500. Call: 917-757-5060 Apt to share furnished: Ocean parkway K/L Super sized master bedroom, EIN Kitchen, Elevator, laundry room, air condition, young senior to share refrences on request 1 month rent, 1 month security Avail Now! Owner 917-771-6105 Bklyn Unfurnished Coney Island brand new 3 extra large bedroom apt w/ 3 balconies, Cair, elevator, 2 baths, ocean view, blck from subway, hookups, $2,300/mo Owner 908-418-4563
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Boro Park: 49 St Corner 12 Ave New on market! Completely renov 1 BR. New kit, all new applncs. 400 sq ft. $1,650 neg. OWNER 718-435-2603
NYC, Brooklyn, Williamsburg theater w/ lot size of 17,500 sq ft for investors (1) option is to use 58,000 BSF for commercial community + residential BLDG Zoning is R6 with C1-3 Perfect for condos, co-ops or a renovated theater architectural drawings will be provided. View www.renellirealty.net or call Rene at 917-657-2090
Aruba Divi phoenix on Palm Beach/ Ocean Frnt/ 2 Br penthouse-sleeps 8, weeks 51 & 52, Dec.19-Jan 2. asking $11,000 for 2 wks or $6,000 per wk. Plasma TV/ Wahser/ Dryer. Just built. Mitchell 732-259-5525 or montagtex3@aol.com
Office for rent Bensonhurst, good for services, good condition, close to subway, shopping & schools. Block off 86th St. Price negotiable. 646-944-5209
KINGS HIGHWAY, BROOKLYN COMMERCIAL SPACE FOR RENT BY OWNER IN A NEW BUILDING. *PLAZA* 2ND FLOOR. 1500 SQ FT, 2 BTHRMS, PARKING, CENTRAL HVAC. EXCELLENT FINISH, PRIME LOCATION, BUSY AREA. EXCELLENT FOR ANY PROFESSIONAL OFFICE. RENT NEGOTIABLE 917-295-7529 OR 347-992-2722
Boro PK/Prime, large beaut Professional offices w/reception area & 2 conference rooms. Fully wired, DSL, & much more. Move right in. Call: 718-972-2828
SPACE FOR RENT-BROOKLYN 51st Street close to 18th avenue Basement suitable for storage High ceilings Call for more information: 908-330-3677
Crown Heights/ Nostrand & Easter Pkwy 900+ sf store for rent asking $2500 (718)-498-3200
Office for rent: 83 Avenue O / BTW WEST 7th and west 8th/2nd fl , 1000 sf available priced reasonable, near subway Mr. Anthony 718-375-4750
Park Slope 781 4th Ave Corner of 27th St 1000 sqft Hi Traffic Area. Good for: Attorney, MRI, Mail Box Store, Hair Salon, NO FOOD, No Grocery. Reasonable & Negotiable. Call Owner 718-788-4331
Medical office for rent/ PARK SLOPE 36 PLAZA STREET EAST. NO FEE. 2000 SQFT PROFESSIONAL OFFICE. Ground floor of luxury 12 story residential elevator bldg. Great space with 10’ ceilings. Ideal for medical, dental etc. (previous long term tenant was physical therapy service.) $7000/mo negotiable. Call Alan Kalish 718-633-7586
QUEENS/BRONX FRESH MEADOWS: SPAC 3BR, 1.5 BATH, MOD KIT, 2ND FLR, WASHER/DRYER. NR SHO[ & CALL 917-687-9928
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Roommate wanted Seeking female roommate, ages 30-60 to share Kew Gardens apt. Asking $500/mo. Call 718-441-0403
LONG ISLAND Babylon West 631-376-1510 COUNTRY LAKE VILLAS ADULT COMMUNITY, New Large 1 & 2 Bedrooms, washer/dryer in each unit
OUT OF STATE SOUTH NORWALK WATERFRONT BRAND New luxury 1 and 2 br APTS*Starting at $1800 call 203-899-9924 for appointment Jefferson@5577water.com Includes specials
Property for sale by owner, 25 ft x 100 ft, 2500sq ft warehouse, 20th Street and 3rd Ave, Brooklyn. 4000 Net lease. Neg. Call 718-238-2352
BROOKLYN: 11th Ave/63rd St: beautiful, flexible space for rent. 3000 sq ft office/ showroom/retail. Call 718-869-2005pm.
NICE INVESTMENT PROPERTY: Woodhall St. Detriot, MI 48224. 3BR, 2 bth, 2000 sf colonial, multi-family home. Asking $27,500, current family $85,000 Property management. Referral Avail Mike 313-330-7563
Restaurant For Sale Main St. Queens. Prime Location10 Years in Business 718-763-5717
Lakeview restaurant, lounge & campground resort on 175 acres w/devel. potential. Spectacular views of 6000 acre Long Lake. ATV & Snow mobile trails converge. Excellent income. 2.5 million. Call Barbara 207-227-0556 aroostookrealestate.com
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SULLIVAN COUNTY HOTEL FOR SALE. CALL JOHNATHAN AT THE SUNSHINE. 845-796-1200
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QUEENS
Office Space, Brooklyn Avenue M: Corner of East 13th, small available lite, airy, reasonable rent. Call 718-336-4351 or 718-336-8995. Cell 718-490-5170. Leave message
Anguilla, BWI: 995 built large ground level house. 2100 sqft interior, 2100 sq ft terrace & veranda. Property on 0.6 acre. 3 bdrms, 3 bthrms, etc. US $1,750,00/neg. 1-264-497-6224 Ludgerprinz@gmx.de Bennies@angaillent.com
West Islip Prof/ Med Space For rent 1295 sq ft., pvt 1st flr entr, 4 rms w.2ba, complete hi end reno. $2995/mo. Owner 917-648-5966
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Commercial Property/ Nassua Cedarhurst: Beautiful bldg near JFK, showroom offices and warehouse, loading dock, approx. 16,000 sq ft. Call 516-448-4393
2626 E 14th St. Brand new office space available 200 to 1000 sq ft. FREE ELEC, HVAC, INTERNET & MORE! Beaut completely renov, profl & medical office bldg. across bus stop & Q/B trains. All inquiries, Email: Daniel@hampshireprop.com or call 718-692-4181 x11
Rhode Island Commercial Property for sale FOR SALE Exceptional Subdivision Route 1, South Kingstown Preliminary approval on four prime lots near water, 5+ acres each! Rolling meadows with trees. Rural but close to town. High and dry, standard septic. Horses allowed. Some second-story water views. Walk to water, beach and marina. $1.895M 314-414-0070
Park Slope Area: building for rent for new 5000 sq ft 40x112 + mezzanine. 23 ft ceiling, oversized electric door, 3 offices, 2 bths, CACm 10 min from battery tunnel. Call 347-452-4179 or 845-255-6595
BROOKLYN For sale in Bensonhurst: Grocery/ Deli 10,000 Neg. 7 year lease, $1200/mo. In building, everything. Call Mario, 917-340-8489
Pizza shop for sale, great location, Boro Park area, large store, heavy traffic. Call 646363-8425 for more info.
Busy dental practice in heart of boro park 3 networked, fully equiped ops, seller motivated best offer accepted 917-416-3681
Boro Park, 16th Ave: 5 room office for rent, private bathroom, 1 flt up. Front exposure. 718-338-6433 Med office for sale Bensonhurst Busy dental office for sale in Bensonhurst Area 4 chairs in medical facility. For more information please call: 212-430-3888
FREEPORT: Industrial Park Machine Shop & Warehse w/ ofc space. Loc in Empire- Hub Zone FOR SALE-CALL 516-623-0865 36-Hole golf course, excel cond; 18-hole par 72, 6900 yards: 18-hole par 67, rated best in Niagra Falls, ONTARIO, CANADA, $7.5M 904-910-1126
OUT OF STATE
Commercial Property for Sale Garage/Warehouse for Sale/Rent. 20,000 sq. ft. E. 15 St. off Ave. L 917-554-5640 lv msg if no answer
Periera, Columbia Appx 50,000 mtrs Best lux residential area. La Julita close to Pinares de San Martin $12M US 860-514-1813
PROFESSIONAL SPACE FOR SALE CO-OP. NEWLY RENOVATED. MOVE-IN CONDITION. PARKING SPACE AVAILABLE. UPPER BAY RIDGE AREA. PRINCIPALS ONLY. CALL BETWEEN 10 AM & 5 PM 718-490-1263
MA: CAPE COD-WELLFLEET Harbor/ Marsh view, 3 BR, 2 ½ BA, walk to beach, marina and shops. Only week of 8/22. $1600. 413-519-2216
E New York: 1 Story warehouse!!! 20,000sf divisible for two. $6/sf. L Train. 14’ ceiling. Nice offices. Oren 516-398-2368 imir.oren@gmail.com
FUNERAL HOME for rent/ sale in the heart of Wlmsbrg 197 Franklin Ave corner of Willoughby. For info pls email es@almod.com or Call 718-801-0341
Office Space BROOKLYN SUITE OFFICE SUITES FOR RENT. Hi End luxury suite, beaut conference rm, furn ofc, new phone & internet sys, prkg & 24 access.200200sq ft avail. Call Israel 646-233-6336
OFFICE SPACE KngsHwy Between East 3rd & 4th St Entire floor/ one flight up 4 rms/ 1 bth Private entrance, contact 718- 243- 2748
Large school building for lease $14,500, move in, excel con, large classrooms, office space & playground, lrge kitch + dining area, lead & asbestos free, handicap accessible, suitable for special ed. 718-483-9665 or 917-282-4855 Boro Pk, 12 Ave 43 St, store frnt office for rent. Approx 60x20, good for prfsnl or store. Call: 917-435-9274 BORO PARK NEW UTRECHT/47TH ST 450 sf good for both store and office 19800 sf also available Call: 718-437-3126 lv msg
16th Ave, 49th Streetbrand new bsmnt, For professional use, 860 sq ft, 9 ft, ceiling, Central A/C, many windows. Call: 718-435-9366
Brooklyn near 4th Ave. 1700 SQFT All open space: suitable for light manufacturer Or warehousing 1 passenger freight elevator. Nr all trans. Avail. Immed. 718-541-4997
Garage for Rent Brooklyn Bedford. Garage avail. For storage. Ave S+T, secure w/alarm, AC and heat. 917-295-5166
SPACE BROOKLYN Brooklyn Navy Yard, 2000 Sf Storage/Warehouse space for rent Freight Elevator 917-678-8269 Ave N/E 14 St. 1600 sf 1st flr priv Entrance 15 s. freshly painted, move in condition. Call: 718-908-7764
Space for rent 5 TOWNS VIC, Classroom/spc avail for rent, within shul, easy access to public transp. 20 min to Bklyn, 2 min to 5 towns, reas price. 516-825-5566
STORE FOR RENT BROOKLYN Hair salon for rent Ave. U Close to Q+B subway, very convenient access. Asking $2,200 Call: Benny Wong 917-774-6586 718-375-5180
Office for rent Boro Park, 16th Ave: 5 room office for rent, private bathroom, 1 flight up, front exposure 718-338-6473 STORE FOR RENT IN VERY BUSY AREA IN GRAVESEND. NEWLY RENOVATED, PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS: 718-998-7600
Ave U 2 Stores For Rent 700 sq ft and 1000 sq ft top location reasonable price call owner 917-797-1427
Boro Park-Professional Ofc spaces, prime location Newly renov. 917-494-7987
REFRIGERATED WAREHOUSE Court St. Brooklyn, 3rd flr, 900sf. Offices 2 refrigerated 800sf. Each 2 Freezers 800sf each 5000 sf. Storage, 15 ft high, Fright elevator Ground Floor 2000 sf., with loading dock, Total 11,000 sf. Call 917-407-4006
Boro Park. Corner 15 Ave/48 St Newly renov medical ofc approx 1,200+sqft. Reception +5 offices+ Kitchenette. Gloria: 212-725-6481
Office for rent Ave M, Corner E 19th St. Large office, light, airy, reaso nable. Please call: 718-336-4351
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Costa Rica tour business. New 110ft Catamarran all permits, 150 day and 60 overnight. Net over 1 million/yr. professional crew. Operating now. Buyer or investors needed. 1.2 M. Call 800-797-5759 for info John Peterson
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HI RETURN, LO RISK Long term investment grade annuity-Type cash flows. 8-10% IRR. Top Insurance and utility credits. 888-254-2102 NEWFOUNDLAND Portauxbasque 2 large buildings. 135,000 s/f floor space 24 acres of land. 1500 ft. Ocean frontage. Can have public or private seaport. Next to Marine Atlantic Ferry Terminal. Contact: Harold Fitz 1-888-532-9335 judefitz@yahoo.com www.haroldfitz.com Win big in this community! Get quality bank owned properties (REO) for cents on the dollar. Nationwide, unlike others-By us you get what you order. RARE OPPURTUNITY. Call Hillel at 551-580-0857 INVESTORS WANTED! Looking for potential producers, investors, executive producers for an upcoming television show filmed right here in Brooklyn, NY. Contact Daniel H 646-934-8558 pureashismaker2009@gmail.com For safety, Invest in Gold. Operating mine needs larger equipment. Call mine owner 702-501-4267 IF
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Architect seeks financial partner for 114 Room Hotel/ Restaurant in Western NY. Project near completion. Lend or equity position. 631-451-7799
Obgyn Practice for sale: Brooklyn, ideal for Orthodox Jewish MD. Receipts 700k. Call Mr. Weissen at 631-281-2810 or email gnw1@buysellpractices.com
A breakthrough in Parnasa. Have the time and money for whats vital in your life. Worj from home simple system training and support. www.behappylivelife.com 888-415-1474 Capital wanted $2.5M To facilitate a 413 acre oceanfront liquidation, Puerto Rico USA. Land MAI Appraised @ 186M, July 2007. Earn $6M from equity participation in sales. Secured 1st lien. 202-756-4808 Business person to negotiate. I have 2 inventions. Great money making opportunity. Interested? Call Janet 347-439-8968
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Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent
Boro Park, 12 Ave/43 St. Storefront office For rent Approx 60x20 good for professional or medical offi. Call 917-435-9274
Baldwin Warehouse/ Auto garage. Prime location 2000+ sf, fenced parking, OHD, lg office, 16 ft ceiling, near RR lease/ Owner 516-807-6307
Gravesend Location Busy area. Beautiful storefront, approx 40x60, High ceilings, full bsmt, ideal for cooperate offices, Ins co, med, bank branches, ETC. For info: 718-966-0230
NASSAU REAL ESTATE Cedarhurst New Construction by Rami 4200 s.f corn, top quality $900’s Call Builder 917-541-7013
QUEENS/BRONX Retail space for rent/Queens Laurelton Merrick Blvd, 2000 sq ft for rent, 6000 sq ft air space available. Call owner 917-750-0966
NY STATE Commercial Property Sullivan county, NY. Cold Storage Facility. 20 min No of Middletown, 90 min From GWB, Rt 84 &17/86. Nr proposed casino. 1000 pallets cold storage (18-) (38) w/ofc space, Approx 4 acres , sep maint facility. Poss development. Also 2 smaller props, Main ST, Falls.845-798-1306
STATEN ISLAND (New Dorp) 2000 sq ft office space. Near train.Convenient to all. Pat 646-369-9457 Port Richmond-3 office suites w/reception area. All brand new, fully renovated C/A. full bsmt 2,700ft w/dual bthrms, new carpet. Please call: 347-424-7809
OFFICE FOR RENT/ STATEN ISLAND-Guyan Ave.1500 sq, ft of comm. space excellent for prof. office. Busy area-near transp. Easy access to major roads, highways. Call Gus: 917-750-3898
NASSAU / L.I. Great Neck: Commercial office space in prime great location, unmits from 13738000 sq ft; Parking; Walk to Train/ Village. Call 516-996-2263
Madison, Flatlands/ East 35th. 2600 sqft storefront, high traffic area, ground level, Central a/c & heat. Available now $2200. 917-330-6929
Commercial Property/Nassau CEDARHURST beautiful building Near JFK, showroom offices And warehouse, loading dock, approx 16,000 sq ft Call: 516-448-4393
OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT/ L. ISLAND Office available one large bright room with Waiting area available on Maple in Cedarhurst With parking $800 p month Call: 800-388-9299 LIC Proff/ Retail Spaces Beautiful brand new storefront. Completely finished w/ ceramic flrs. Ideal for proff office space, retail a commercial, each unit separate entrance. 900 sf each. Commercial/ residential area..Near Vernon Blvd. Call for details, Bonnie 917-751-8239
Brooklyn Lot For Sale Midwood 1472 E. 19th St. 35 x 100 R-6 zone Plans Fully Approved foundation35 x 95 Owner renovated, planned with broker Coldwell Banker Mid Plaza Kim Stavrach 718-646-3600 FOR SALE FAMILY PLOT (4 PLOTS TOGETHER) IN BETH MOSES CEMETERY LI. BELOW MARKET PRICE OF $2,000 EACH OR $7,500 FOR ALL FOUR, OBO. CALL: 786-378-7174
Bethel, NY. Approved 28 lot, subdivision in Sullivan Cntry. Existing house in one lot + 27 -1/2 are lots 3 acre pond, 30 acres of common area $1.5M. By owner 631-692-9878
Tutoring New voice studio in Upper Manhattan, Inwood, private classical voice lessons. www.christina-asher.com 212-304-0242
VOICE TECHNIQUE & COACHING NATURAL VOCAL PRODUCTION; PROPER POSTURE & BREATHING PRODUCE SUPERIOR RESULTS; VOCAL PROBLES QUICKLY ELIMINATED; SINGING IS SIMPLY AN EXTENSION OF SPEAKING; ONE VOICE (NO BREAKS) THROUGHOUT SINGING RANGE. ALL LEVELS & STYLES 212-481-9144
I offer MATH SUPPORT for HS and College students, I lecturer in math at Yeshiva University, & prepare students for PSAT/SAT 718-869-9034
Talmud Tutor + Coach Available for your sons. Bklyn and SI only. Contact Josh 646-498-7830
AFFORDABLE TUTORING Prep for Math & Science Regents With outstanding tutors who cover all The material & strategies students Must know. Very affordable rates! Online & Flatbush locations. Call Perry: 718-377-0015 Professional tutoring Are you Worried About your child passing the 2008 NYC math test? Service is offering test prep qualified tutors Individualized attention amazing results references available. We cover All of the topics outlined by NYS Dept of Education. Homework help also Avail. Help your child Excel in Math. Call 347-247-4258
Piano lessons,-all levels. Instrument provided free of charge. Reasonably priced. Call: 718-207-5981 Call: 212-496-9148
Playgroup: Madison age 2-6. Morah Leora, early/late dropoff. Quality care. Summer/all year. 718-646-9368
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Caregiver, seeking fulltime position, many years experience. Excellent references. Live in/ out. Call 718-645-5128 or 347-495-2773
ELDERLY CARE GIVER Able, energetic, industrious, shows initiative. Has lots of experience. 917-496-7701/ 718-699-1920
ZEVULAN partner to support my Learning for one year, only $20K Call: 646-385-2259
AID/ COMPANION/ CHILDCARE with more than 12 years experience, seeks position. Excellent checkable references. Please Call: 718-284-7637
NEED A RABBI !!! A dynamic experienced Modern Orthodox Rav will lead your shul. Baal Koreh and more, great speaker and educator. Email : evereadyrav@yahoo.com Or call 702-673-7180
ATTENTION JEWISH COMMUNITY, A WRITER + DIRECTOR TEAM FROM BKLYN, LOOKING FOR ORTHODOX ACTORS + ACTRESSES, EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS AND INVESTORS FOR POTENTIAL TV SHOW. DANIEL HULKOWER. 646-9348558 pureashismaker2009@gmail.com
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Caregiver/ Babysitter: seeks employment 3+ years experience. Excellent references will live in/ out. Call 201-640-9126 or 973-523-0146 Skilled & compassionate home care nurse seeking private work for elderly or a personal asst/ companionship, 8 yrs exp. Ref Avail 516-263-3800 LOOKING TO HELP THE ELDERLY. EXPERIENCED Nurse Aid. Help is at your doorstep. Experienced & Certified nurse’s aid available to care for the elderly + homebound or hospice. Please contact CLAUDIA SHWEKY 732.829.6716 or 732.222.5841 I am a responsible, honest person seeking position as home health aide for elderly or housekeeping. Ref avail. Call Barbara 718-926-1414 Companion/Caregiver Companions/caregiver available Exp. compassionate caregiver seeks position. Live in/out. Excellent ref. Call Beverly: 917-757-5363
Help Offered Mature multilingual available Private driver w/ car avail to service all your needs. Local and long distance-Servicing NY, NJ, CT + LIServicing weddings, airport, mountains, etc. Reasonably priced. Call: 646-331-9229 Eldercare caring experienced , home aid/Companion, daily or live-in Excellent Ref. Jean: 347-678-5836
DEVOTED CAREGIVER w. 18 years exp caring for the elderly will provide trans, days or nights, peal prep, housekeeping, personal care & much more! Exc work & character refs. Call Phyllis @ 732-851-5894
Positions wanted I am a MAN with nursing home exp Seeking position to work with elderly. M-F day/evenings. Ref avail upon Request. Call 718-931-8632/ 917-428-7635
Certified nurses looking for p/t work as companion or chauffeur with over 10 years experience. References available. Call Marie 516-469-8410 CAREGIVER/ COMPANION: I am looking for work to care for elderly or disabled. Experienced willing to work wherever . the job may be located in/out. Driver’s license. Call 609-672-5984 EUROPEAN TAYLOR Custom made suits I can copy any style you want Ladies and men’s Anything you want Any kind of alterations Specialists in leather & fur 212-355-2936- John
CHRISTY’S SERVICES Professional, screened, hard workers for housekeeping, nanny, companion, live in/out. NO FEE. 718-523-4200 OR 718-523-4213 Reliable HOME HEALTH CAREor housekeeper. Ref avail. Looking in all 5 bros. 718-380-0736
Need a Rabbi? Recently retired, excellent speaker, superb cantorial skills. Available fulltime or part time. 610-348-9965
RETIRED CONSERVATIVE RABBi Available for high holy holidays. Warm and engaging personality. Dynamic and eloquent speaker. Timely and relevant sermon. Torah reader. Rabbi1826@gmail.com
Baal Tefillah for Yamim Noraim/ Baal To Keah + Baal Koreh, many years experience. Israeli accent. Call David 718-878-5678 or 917-224-3303
Available for repair and installation of telephone and computers. Call Isaac at 718-213-7533
I AM A CARPENTER LOOKING FOR WORK. Spackling, sheet rock, tile, doors, bathrooms, kitchens, painting etc. Call @ 718-363-8994
HAMPTON SWIMMING INSTRUCTION (LIFEGUARD FOR PARTIES) ALL AGES: INFANTS, TODDLERS, SWIM TEAM, HANDICAPPED ENERGETIC INSTRUCTORS, 33 YEARS EXPERIENCE. RESULTS GUARANTEED. CONTACT KIM *82-631-681-6042, VICKI *82-631-839-7946 VLBONAGURO@OPTONLINE.NET Research study Upscale senior Jewish males wanted to participate in research study for book about male sexuality. All interviews will be conducted personally by young female author. All responses will be private and confidential. Contact 646-387-3801
Position Wanted Chauffer/ House Manage looking for F/T position/ great with children + pets. Flexible schedule. 8 years experience with travel companion. Excellent references, contact 908-534-6790
Legal secretary P/T or F/T, Must have legal experience. Short-hand or speed-writing preferred. Salary negotiable. Sheepshead Bay area 718-646-2600 Help wanted Secretary f/t Sun-Thurs Midwood, phones, Filing, comp, lit, photoshop knowl A+ Hebrew A+ Call: 718-998-9301
MAN WITH CAR/ VAN NEEDED For newspaper delivery service. Call for more info: 718-998-6602 Medical Help Wanted/Brooklyn Dental assistant receptionist F/T Midwood Bensonhurst area. Please call: 718-339-1122 HELP WANTED Saleslady with some sales exp needed for fabric Store. Call 718-436-5849 or 347-743-7339
HARD WORKING LADY SEEKS JOB FOR BABYSITTING, HOUSE KEEPING & MORE. LIVE IN POSITION, MANY YEARS EXP. EXCELLENT REFS. PLEASE CALL 917-771-8214 OR 347-777-9712
Dental Lab In Bensonhurst looking for office help with dental office experience. Good computer skills helpful Call 718-331-2241 or fax resume 718-331-2251
Home attendant Fulltime or part time. Felxible hours. Live in or out. Experience required. Good salary. Call 917-676-1309 or 347-512-8229
Cook to run small kosher kitchen in Bronx nursing Home, will move to Queens facility in 2 months.Knowledge of Buchanian cooking a plus. Benefits. 718-519-5878
Cosmetician Stay smooth by Galit Avigail. Waxing, electrolgins and infrared laser/low prices Georgetown Location. 718-214-5046
NAILS TECHS AND MASSAGE THERAPISTS 10 min. manicure Is Hiring Technicians, Massage Therapist. Must be licensed. New JFK Airport location. Apply at www.10minutemanicure.com or call Mary Beth. 866-663-0802
Help Wanted KEL NAH REFA NAH LAH PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME Frum woman, mother of two children, four grandchildren, in desperate need of Kidney-Type B G-d gave us two kidneys, so we can donate ONE. And Gd will bless you for saving my life. Call 732-996-0036
KOL HAOLAM NEWS SEEKS ADVERTISING REPS % BASED. CALL 347-678-0925. E-mail/text kolhaolam@yahoo.com Cook Wanted LAKEWOOD Restaurant looking for experienced cook Please call 917-453-6776, 845-893-3719 or 732-363-3636
Manager Wanted LAKEWOOD Restaurant looking for heimishe manager. Please call 917-453-6776 or 845-893-3719 Help Wanted Chef, P/time for new upcoming Catering hall, in queens, exper pref, Call bet 10-6pm. 917-696-7879 HELP WANTED/ BKLYN Dental hygienest Boro Park dental office. P/T Fridays 718-854-3333
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Account Exec-Seeking dynamic persons to sell advertising for newspaper & TV. High commission, no exp necessary. Please call 718-523-1870
HANDYMAN: Complete bathroom and kitchen pluming…construction, electrician and repair! FREE ESTIMATE. Nathan Nachum 646-267-1207
Exact Masonry. All types of Masonry Specializing in stone & concrete Residential & Commercial Restoration work *Steps *Foundatations *Chimneys *Patios *Pool decks *Sidewalks, and much more! Over 25 years Experience! 732-785-7767
Help wanted-Secretary SECRETARY FOR YESHIVA in Queens. Must be computer literate. Call: 718-644-4048
All types of work, small or big jobs, many yrs exper, free est, sh shab. Call Itzhak 917-365-3340
Help wanted Cosmetician, exp’d-F/T knowl of selling cosmetics & fragrances a must. Sal + commish. 718-645-0166
All types of work, small or big jobs, may years exp, free est, sh shab. Call Itzhak 917-365-3340
CABLE INSTALLERS 2-7 years experience in commercial/ residential installation. Must be familiar with voice over IP/ Digital Video and internet protocol. We provide competitive salary & some medical coverage. Contact Reginald Lane or Andrew Castagnetti 973-785-9283 Btwn 8-3 M-F
Salesperson Hardware/ Lumber, Inside/ Outside salesperson needed for hardware/ Lumberyard/ Manufacturer of metal studs. Located in Astoria. Call 718-726-4040 or Email info to: hiringservices555@hotmail.com
Cleaning Services Cleanout commercial & residential. Big or small odd jobs we do it all Call for free estimate Mark 917-682-2247 1st Class Cleaning Services. We do it all- All organic, Insured & Bonded, references Passover Special $129.95 (4 Hrs) Servicing: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens 718-408-9244 or 646-213-3012 www.1stclasscleaningnyc.com Heaven’s Best Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Hardwd, Tile & Grout Dry in1 Hr. Prompt, Reliable Svc, House Special: 5 Rms + Hallway & Stairs $189.00 . 2 Rms + Hallway $89.00 3 Rms + Hallway $119.00 Sofa & Loveseat $139.00 (718)696-9117
Handyman Electrician All electrical needs. New lines Trouble shouting fixtures. Call Yahuda: 347-631-0481 AAA Construction. Remodeling apts, bsmts, kits. Will beat any price. Free estimate. 646-250-3613
RAJA Appl repair. All major brands, Frig, A/C, micrwv, oven/stove, D/W, W/D, reas, reliable 718-377-1428
*HANDYMAN* Give me a call, I do it all! •Kitchens•Ceilings•Bathrooms •Dry Wall•Painting•Tile Work www.QualityDoesCount.com 20years Experience. FREE ESTIMATES. Call Steve 718*614*4916 HARPER’S HANDYMAN SVC. All types of home repair A-Z Done with pricle by dependable, reliable craftsman Call 732-216-7323 D.L.M CONSTRUCTION Licensed and Insured New Construction, Extension and Complete Renovation, 25 Years Experience Free Estimate 917-968-6809 PEST CONTROL RESCUE PEST CONTROL Rats, mice, roaches, ants, silverfish, termites. Contact Keith 718-348-71441/ Cell 718-930-9393 Fax 718-348-1141 AAA construction. Remodeling apts, bsmts, kits, bths. Will beat any price. Free estimate. 646-250Giannotti Contracting All pases of home improvements INC. * Finished Basements * Sheetrock * Taping * Extensions * Masonry * Kitchens * Bathrooms * Roofing * Siding * Windows & more. Call Dominick 718-256-9393 509 McDonald Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11218 (corner of Church and McDonald Aves) 159-03 Hillside Ave, Jamaica Queens. 718-206-4202
BATHTUB, TILE REGLAZING + WATERPROOFING Unbeatable price guaranteed. 10% off with ad 718-866-6124/ 917-335-3798
For plumbing snd heating repair mechanic, reasonable rates. 24 hour serv. For free estimate Call Mose 718-813-4154 J Newman, full service construction and violations removed. *Kitchen & Bathroom renov *Basement digouts *Extersions and more. Licensed NYS professional engineer. Fully Lisc and Insured. For free estimate call Steve. 917-9751752 NATURAL GINESIS NO MORE BUGS! 100% NATURAL PLEASE CALL: 800-807-9357 www.naturalginesis.com
AUTO Donate your car 100% tax deductible & a great mitzvah! Help many Jewish causes: -Holiday Programs -Students & Elderly -Children & Education -Outreach Programs -Jewish Background 718-365-770-5463 ALL YOUR TRUCKING/VAN NEEDS. RELIABLE DISCOUNTED RATES. CALL RAM: 917-696-0000
1997 Lexus SC 400 gold package 93,000 miles, clean 8500. Contact: 631-944-1669
Autos/ Police Impounds!! $500 Police Impounds!! Honadas, Chevys, Toyotas & more!! Please call for listings 800-366-0124 x 2305 Auto for Sale MERCEDES 2003 ML500 Blk, 59K, fully loaded, excel cond. $35,582 917-498-1716
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PAGE 52 Auto Autos for sale. Mercedes Benz, C220, 1996, black w/tan interior, power windows/doors/seats goodtires, good condition, moon roof $3,200/obo Call: 646-234-4477 CARS FOR SALE $200/$500 cars 4 cash. Any model, any condition. Call: 347-234-8566 Auto Buyers Cars, Trucks, Any condition Cash on the spot highest $$$ Fast, Free Pick up, anywhere, anytime 732-298-4539
MUSTANG 2006 ROUSH GT, STAGE I, W/ROUSH STAGE II SUSPENSION, OFF ROAD EXHAUST, 5 SPEED SHORT THROW BILLET SHIFTER, GT 40 RACING START BUTTON, DRIFTER RIMS, GARAGED, TRIPLE MINT COND. SIGNED BY JACK ROUSH HIMSELF. $21,900 13,000MI 516-633-9500
DONATE YOUR CAR! Free vacation + $1,000 gift car. 24/7 free pickup tax deduction. HELP CHILDREN IN CRISIS. Se habla espanol. 877-829-9633
SELL YOUR VEHICLE FREE QUOTES!!! ANY CONDITION NEW OLD JUNK NOT TITLE NO PROBS SAME DAY PICK UP. FREE TOWING!! CALL 718-864-2872
GDG Towing-$500-$10,000 Car + Trucks, Running or not. 732-961-7000
GDG Towing: $500$10,000 cars & trucks. Running or not. 732-961-7000
All your trucking/ Van needs Reliable discount rates. Call Ram 917-696-0000
Moving & Storage Shalom moving Best Service, best price. Can help you move anytime, anywhere. Call Alex: 646-407-5950
E & J MOVING Lowest Rated from NY to Florida and in between. www.ejmovers.com USDOT T37637 877-445-4111
Shalom Moving Best service, best price. Can help you anytime, anywhere. Call Alex 646-407-5956
Personalized: Its all about caring. Local / long distance, full sevcs, licensed, insured, moving members of the BBB, professional, reliable, fast + efficient discounted rates, free boxes, no hidden exp. Locations in BK, SI. Please Call 718-954-0119, Free estimates, no hidden expenses. Website www.personalizedmoving.net
MAZEL TOV Moving and Storage Special rates for the holidays Lic & Ins DOT # 10587 718-443-7700
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Health/ Fitness Board certified psychiatrist: Sun hours65 CPW 66 st, NYC. Dr. Klien. Call 516-662-4722 Clip & Save HEALTH CARE SERIE$ at 310-902-1031 IV. Rock bottom price$ HEALTH DIABETIC- Low sodium-Senior MEALS. Good food enjoyed by 12,000+ Daily FREE std. Nationwide delivery. www.mkmeals.com 1-877-516-2442
HEALTH INSURANCE for the self employed or sole proprietor. Doing business in any of the 5 boroughs of NYC & making at least 15K per year? Please call me to obtain highly competitive HMO or POS comprehensive health insurance quotes at group rates for yourself and your family. Stanly Samms, CFP Licensed Insurance Broker (NY, NJ & CT) T: 201-227-7676
HEALTH + FITNESS Tired, listless or stressed out? + Reiki, energy blanket, SCENAR and cold laser can provide an energy makeover. 347-570-2126 or visit www.energymakeoverservices.com
Change your life for the better with quick, powerful & natural healing. Dissolve stress trauma, anxiety, low self-esteem, ocd, post partum depression, Miriam Langsam MS, EFT-AdvCH www.chooseemotionalfreedom.com 718-854-3808
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123 Wellness Home, LLC-Holis Institute Educate + design your ecohome for health certified organic skincare/ cleaning living/ water/ sleep technology. 123wellnesshome.com 212-501-3827 holisinstitute.org
Licensed Master Reiki, Professional massage T:718-236-5861 C: 917-292-6075 Body Work Sport & Swedish massage Shiotsu, foot reflexogy Stress relief & relaxation.
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JUNE’S HOME DOG SITTING: PRIVATE HOME, 1 DOG AT A TIME (NO CAGES) WITH A FAMILY. MANY YEARS EXPERIENCE, EXCELLENT REFERENCES. CALL 718-351-5386
Judaica Store out of business! SELLING ALL MERCAHNDISE AND CONTENTS OF STORE. 347-713-5340/ 646-210-7174
Mattress & Box spring Queen, Pillow top Still In Plastic $350 (631) 716-0174
Black Bombay princess cats and kittens, seeking responsible home, friendly, personal + loving. Good with pets and children over 7. Shots, spade and altered. Please Call 718-859-7274 or 917-941-6854
Puppies for Sale Cockapoo’s/ Yorkiepoos/ Puggles/ Chorkie/ Lab ShiChow/ Shihtzt/ Morkies $300 & Up CC pet 717- 548- 2989
Puppies for Sale Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Puppies Descended from the UK’s most winning whole color bloodline genetic guarantee offered. $2000 Call for Health Info: 309-736-7951
Pets for sale Irish Wolfhounds Born 06/12/09 Home raised First shots Call 518-568-5817
Merchandise Order any 2 cartons of Seneca cigarettes only $49.00 Buy any 10 cartons, get one-half Seneca carton FREE! http:/www.3brands.com 1-800-931-9451 All brands available. Must be 21+ Must Sell ATLAS STORAGE: 40 Cindy Ln, Ocean TWP. Magnificent mantle for frpl, 60 Orig. $4000. Must sell $300: Queen Anne Chairs $200, Carved hand-made mahog chairs $100; Magnificent bookshelf orig $4500 now $600; rare Persian carpets & original oil paintings Mahog basees to beautiful home & corbels + onlays on all for a fraction of cost. Call Jack for appointment. 908-489-4675
HOME + FINE ARTS-WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE FURNITURE SALE. SUN THRU FRIDAY. BEDROOMS, DINING RMS + LIVING ROOMS + MUCH MORE. LOCATED @ 14-B 53RD ST. BROOKLYN NY 40K SQ FT SHOWROOM. 10 PCT discount w/ad. Contact 917-776-5743 OR 718-567-0155
I BUY OLD PAINTINGS CALL ART 732-261-3269
Valley thrift store: (Nonprofit.) 949 Amsterdam Ave. Men, Women & children; House wares, books, videos, DVD, CD, many other items. Mon-Fri 10am5pm, Sat noon-4pm. 212-222-2600
Position wanted Reliable home health care aid or housekeeper available. Ref avail. Looking in all five boros. Please call Pauline 718-380-0736 CHEETOH CUBS The look of the jungle in your lap. $500-$700 Call 530-519-9582
DR Set included: China closet, 6 hrs & tbl. Get a crystal chandelier for free. 2 fabric, matching love seats with sleep. Custom made. Seforim Shrank with fireplace in center 130” max. 917-577-7621 For pictures: mgreenwald@ydwusa.com
LOOK! Old watches & watches wanted. Toy collector, regardless of condition. Highest prices paid. 212-517-8725
Sifrei Torah, newly written 6 inch w/ aron kodesh ready for siyu, ktav ari + bais yosef. Very reasonably priced. Call 718-336-6866 or 917-499-6125 Merchandise Wanted Urgently looking for any: CANTOR LEIB GLANTZ Live/ prvt recordings, concerts, weddings, radio, lectures, services, etc. Video & photo material; letters, newspapers, posters, music scores and manuscripts, stories anecdotes. If you have or know somebody who has any such materials pls contact me at 845-228-8577 or 347-833-3050 leibglantz@gmail.com
Sports + Tickets Buy/ Sell tickets/ Yankees/ Mets/ Knicks/ Rangers/ Giants/ Jets and all concerts sports and theater. 800-764-1560 www.arentix.com
Merchandise wanted COLLECTOR LOOKING FOR JEWISH/ISRAELI ART. 201-575-0055 Do you have merchandise you can’t sell? We’ll buy entire warehouse. Please call: 347-496-1626
Piano, Baldwin Concert Grand, 7 ft, selling $12,500, appraised $25,000 631-277-1937 Lost hse in NJ fine furnishings, collectibles, coins, paintings, rugs. Cents on the dollar. 646-379-3566
MUST SELL Atlas Storage 40 Cindy Ln, Ocean Twp. Magnificent mantle for frpl, 60” Orig $4000. Must sell $300; Queen Ann Chairs $200, Carved hand-made mahogany chairs $100; Magnificent book shelf, orig $4500, now $600; corner cabinet w.rounded glasses shelves orig $2500: $300; rare Persian carpets & original oil paintings fraction of orig cost. Call for appointment 908-489-4675 ask for Jack.
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Career training Become a certified bartender in under a week day/evening classes. Available in Manhattan + Brooklyn. View website for special discounts www.empirebartendingaca demy.com or contact 646-320-9846 or 917-645-8651
VESPA FOR SALE CLASSIC PALE PINK VESPA, LIKE NEW! Barely used (235 miles) 2004 ET4 150 PIAGGO VESPA CUSTOM PAINTED has small offering $2900 FABOLOUS! Black leather travel case included on back. 203-247-9738 Devon@DevonFleming.com
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$17 Monthly Business owners Up to 50 employees $20 monthly. Call 24/7 and ask for Rabbi. M&M’s world at: 310-907-1031 4 sale. My IMAGINATION. Ideas for movies, songs, inventions and everything in between. Would like to build house 4 MOM. Call 505-908-0743 7-11pm MST. World Wide Psychic Karen, Free reading by phoneGuaranteed to Reunite lovers. Are you confused? Unhappy? Results in 24 hours. Contact Karen for a better tomorrow. 214-434-8869
Machine Shop: Machine Tool and die repair, turning, milling, drilling, grinding. Custom tooling machine fixtures. Enrique: 718-840-7241 enrique.425@hotmail.com VESPA FOR SALE CLASSIC PALE PINK VESPA, LIKE NEW! Barely used (235 miles) 2004 ET4 150 PIAGGO VESPA CUSTOM PAINTED has small offering $2900 FABOLOUS! Black leather travel case included on back. 203-247-9738 Devon@DevonFleming.com Send old or broken laptops to be recycled for free!!! On site remote tech support for business + consumer. We can transfer all data on all computers + computer repairs, Contact 866-848-0756 EGT Network, INC. www.egreenetech.biz
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Mother Daughter Ranch style home, 2 apts, single family, two new kitchens, ceramic tiles, 2 full baths, new deck, fully insulated. All new windows, gas, hot water, base board heat, hrdwd flrs, wooden lot, quiet neighborhood. 359K. 732-899-4821
Leisure Towne, a 55+ community, for your privacy it is gated. This Walden model home with 2 BR, 2BA and finish garage is better than new condition, with new upgraded appliances. These include a new washer and dryer, hot water heater, dishwasher, fridge, countertop stove also with solid oak cabinets. The whole home has been freshly painted outside in beautiful yellow with a new roof and siding. Inside has all new carpeting. All the windows are new, energy efficient, tilt to clean for ease of maintenance. The large living room has a beautiful brick fireplace that has recently been roof sealed, waterproofed and the chimney has a stainless steel cap. There is zoned heat and central air. The sprinkler system has new heads and nozzles keeping a lush lawn. Both baths have new marble top vanities with Moen faucets. There is a large attic with pull down stairs. The back porch has a new screen. There are 2 new back storm doors. Yearly Taxes are $2,667.08 856-988-0594
For sale, beautiful townhouse in Basking Ridge, Patriot Hill. 3 BRs, 2.5 baths with Jacuzzi, 1 car garage, big basement, beautiful area. By owner $594,500. Call Owner 908-226-0884 or 908-753-6743
House for sale or rent to own-Newly renovated ranch, ceramic tiles in kitchen, 2 bths, 4 brdrms, one master sweet, family room, c/ air throughoutGas Heat, double driveway, large deck, wood burning stove, hrdwd flrs, quiet family neighborhood, close to shopping, min to beach and Atlantic City, Owner. 609-978-8313 349K
Branchville, NJ: 25 acres 5 acre pond. 3 BR + bilevel, 2.5 baths, $450K Firm owner 973-9485-4762 or 201-317-6766
Condo for sale NJ HUDSON + NY VIEWS 1200 sf, 2 BR,/ 2 bth condo, renovated, pogenpohl kitchen, new baths terrace/ parking $349K. Photos at Weichert.com MLS ID # 90007942 (Condo) Contact 917-319-4321
If your planning to purchase or rent a home in Northern New Jersey, please call me with your requirements or visit my website to see and select property listings. Website: www.stanleysammsrealty.c om Tel: 201-227-7676 Stanley E Samms, Realtor
ELIZABETH: 2 Fam, Handyman Special. Asking $95K. Owner 347-234-3922, More properties available
Condo for sale Hudson + NY views 1200 sf, 2 BR/ 2 BTH condo, renovated, pogenpohl kitchen, new baths terrace/ parking $349K. Contact 917-319-4321
Oak Manor, Lakewood: 3 bedroom, 2 ½ bath, natural gas fireplace, updated, newly renovated, kitchen & bathrooms, carpet & tile throughout the entire house. All new windows, great location, boys school near ridge ave. Easy commute to NYC! Asking $219,900. Call 732-370-5758 After 6pm
Wayside Deal Area, NJ Charming 1928 Dutch Colonial, 1 acre corner lot, 4 BDRMS/ 2 ½ baths/ lrg family room (Den) Dining Rm/ Large Living RM/ Sun Room + office/ New AC + electricl service/ new furnace, finished basement/ attic 20x40 Inground pool w/cabana and pool deck. Nr Hillel Yeshiva + congregation. Mogen David + other temples. 15 mins from beach/ nr major rds $1.275 million. RSBO 732-695-1046 or 908-421-6464
Brodentown: Single family 429,900 4 B, 2.5 bath Allegheny Lane finished basement, full baths, office, exercise room + family room, a world of beauty awaits you in this 4 BR/2.5 Bath, house kitchen w/granite counter tops. Call Obi 973-943-8025
Condo for sale Newark: 2 BD/ 2BA, 1000 sq ft, next to New Prudential Arena Downtown, Luxury hi rise, health club, valet parking, 10 ceilings, upgraded kit, CA closets in BRs & hall closet, near trans, $269,500. 973-273-0688 after 6pm, no agents!
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Mountclair (Upper): Charming + Elegant, 8 BDRMs, 5.2 Bthrm, 9 fireplaces (Albaster/ Marble/ Wood) Original woodwork/ Inground pool + extra large patio/ 4 car gar. Kio pond, totally reno. 1890 s Victorian views of NYC + separate carriage, house rental, reduced by $300K to $1.699M. Contact 917-846-3101 or 973-934-8881
Long Branch: Unique 5 BR/ 5 bath charming home. Includes gourmet kitchen w/ top of the line appliances/ granite countertops/ terracotta frls. 2 sunrooms, outside porch/ sunroom off master bdrm. Open floor plan. Custom wood work throughout. Backyard w.fishpond/ shed/ swingset. Back up generator/ close to ocean. House of worship/trans. $949K. Contact Burke + Manna Real Estate Agency 732-455-5420
OCEAN COUNTY Memorial Park: Private sale, mausoleum crypt, bldg 11, west patio, Row E, Crypt #18 (single) Family has moved to Atlanta $4700. 770-856-5999
Commcl Prop Newark, NJ: Nice commercial gated-in building, safe area in iron bound section FOR RENT, 16ft ceiling. Up to 120,000 sq ft can be easily divided. 1st flr also available. Big parking lot, easy access & loading. Plenty of space wired & ready. Surrounded w/ heimishe businesses, daily minyonim, close to highways & transportations. Excellent prices. Call 917-771-3140, If no answer, lv msg.
Lakewood Enclave: Buckingham, 2 yrs old. 3 b, 2.5 ba, baseboard ht, screened porch, 2 car gar, EIK, Coria counters. 732-534-5859
Deal Lake Jersey Shore Home Lake views throughout the house. A beauty on the outside; Needs work On the inside. 5 bdrms, 3 ½ baths. Located on Senic Edgemont Drive in Loach Arbour. 4 blocks to Ocean. $1,200,000 Call Owner 732-918-1216
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, DAYTON: BY OWNER. 55+, 2 BR, 2.5 BA, DENS/STUDY, LOFT, CAC, FIREPLACE, HARDWOOD FLRS, PATIO, 2 CAR GAR. LOW $400’S. CLUBHOUSE, POOL, WALKING PATH, PUTTING AREA, GREEN TENNIS COURT, CLOSE TO NJ TURNPIKE. MUST SEE, CALL 732-329-9631
LIVINGSTON: By owner, 973-900-2143, 5 BR, 2 BTH, FAMILY ROOM, OFFICE, LAUNDRY ROOM, KITCHEN, DR, LR, RECENTLY RENOVATED. BEST PRICES FOR BIL EVEL HOME. BEST IN TOWN, LEVEL LOT. ASK 519K. CALL OWNER.
Linden: 824 E St. Georges Ave. 2600SF. Good exposure w/40 FT front & drive-in. $1950/mo. Loc on busy Rte 27. Call Victor 610-248-0044
Residential/Commercial Howell, NJ Near Lakewood, 20,000 sq ft asking 650k. Reasonably priced! Call now Dominick 908-415-2299 or Sal 718-853-3629
House for sale, Rockland County Wesley Hills, Powderhorn area: Nearly new 4 BR, 4 Bth C/H, 1 acre Lot on culde-sac. Porch, deck, maids rm, 2 car gar, beaut 3 rm walk-out fin bsmnt. Many extras. Principals only. 845-354-1495
Livingston: Very desirable location. Totally renovated, 4 BRs, 3 full baths, move in condition. Includes large office/ finished basement/ playroom, oversized deck. Eat in kitchen, new roof & windows throughout. Close to houses of worship + NYC buses. Goes to the highest offer, starting @ $585,000 Bids start now and ends on 8/26/09. To view photos email Sam2652@gmail.com
Are you looking for a clean remodeled 3BR, 2 ba shore house colonial 2.5 blocks from the beach. New roof, kitchen & bath, parks 5 cars. Asking $339,900. Call 973-464-5561 AAA New homes, no closing costs. All price ranges & home styles. www.needacustomhouse.com Realtors welcome 845-206-5220 Fairlawn: $409,900, 5 BR, 2bth colonial c/c updated MEIK, also 695,000 new construction, 4 BRs, 4.5 bths. Help pick out your new MEIK. Family room + recreation room & office.--Elmwood Park: $359, 4 BR, 2.5bth, S/L Home, new MEIK, beautiful family room and office. Call Carol WeissmanWeichert Realtors201-794-7722 ext.249 Old Ridge: Rural 3+ ac custome 5 br, 2 ba, full base, deck, walk to NY bus, $535, 000. Owner 732-207-8869
Jersey Shore/ Country Club: Seashore living at a fraction of the cost. Park model home, fully furnished $40,000 sept 6. Beach house 20,000 pots, pans, dishes, living 10,000 at resort country club, seasonal part at 561 corsons tavern. Call 800-982-3404 or 609-624-3222
Marlboro: 3 BR, 2.5ba in Millponds, pool, rent. $2000/mo 732-583-6244
WORK IN MANHATTAN, LIVE AT THE JERSEY SHORE: 2,900 sq ft house, 5 BDRM, 3.5 BA, finished basement, extraordinary landscaping, many extras. One mile to harbor, one mile to ferry to ferry to NYC, four miles to Sandy Hook National Park. $649,900. Call : 732-291-1357
Open House Sun 7/12, 1-3PM 393 Harper Ave 2 BR, 1 BA ranch w/2 car gar in desirable Herbertsville. Close to GSP $254,900. 732-840-1553 or 908-361-9742
Apt for rent Oradel: Renov Victorian 3 BR/ LR/ DR/ EIK, 1.5 bth sun room/ 2 car gar + includes aupare apartment w/ EIK full bath/ mini kitchen/ LV Bdrm. Close to trains/ Bus. $3300.00 Contact 203-241-2243
Multi family-Great area-fullincome! Only 1.2 million! *Warehouses for sale/lease. Nr Lkwd Only $69 sq ft Buy!!! * 24,704 sq ft whse Toms river lease NOI 204,230, reduced to $2,650,00!7.7 cap! Will Talk! Home on 130 x 150 lot Irreg Woodland 279,900 2 homes one on Ridge Ave, one on E 5th Street only $259,900. Crystal Lake Realty 732-905-3800
Lease RE: Meadowlands Area 8100 sq ft Warehouse/ office (2) 12 ft Overhead doors (1) Loading Dock Heavy power 10 Miles to NYC $5.00 Triple Net Lease1st Year. Call owner 201-835-2040
STONE HARBOR Beach block, Victorian Beauty, 8 BR, 5BA, sleeps 24, A/C all amenities. Wireless Inter net. Avail Aug 23-30, Labor Day Weekend, Sept and Oct Reasonable rates 609-425-6206
Apartment For Rent Middletown- 3 Br, 2 Ba, frpl, full fin bsmt, 2 car gar, c/ac, gas heat, all appls, walking distance to red bank & NYC trans, Avail now. $2500. 732-739-3879
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Winter Rental West Deal Area: Walking distance to WD shul, 4 BR ranch, full fin bsmt w/recreation rm, yearly/ winter/ summer rental. Call 732-438-5573
Apartment for rent, NJ, 2nd floor in private house. 2 BR, Lrg LR, lrg kitchen. Includes heat & hot water, lrg closets. $1,150 201-659-5574 Office Approx 4500 sq ft divide + construct to small units to your need. Second floor, elevator bldg, close to all major highways. Many incentives! 201-934-1600
Apartment For Sale Condos/Co ops/NJ Hoboken-$1.15 m secluded carriage house, 3 firplaces, luxury, appliance package, patio +w/trellis+hot tub, terrace 3 flrs 201-400-3986
FOR SALE, LAKEWOOD 4 CONDOS AVAILABLE 2,000-2,400 sq. ft. $335,000- $345,000 1st St. & Madison Ave. Please call for info/appt. 718-974-5550
Office Space Wall, New Jersey, add before number ¼ mile south garden state parkway. Exit 98. Call 732-223-9112
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CEDARHURST: DENTAL OFFICE THUR-SUN. ALSO SUITABLE FOR PODIATRIST, PSYCHOLOGIST OR SPEECH THERAPIST. CALL 516-316-3360 Linden: 824 E st GEORGES AVE, 2600 sq ft. Good exposure w/40 ft front & drive in. $1950/mo. Loc on busy Rte 271. Call Victor 610-248-0044 4 cemetary plots, 2 graves: per lot at George Washington Memorial Park, PARAMUS. For prices and more info, Nancy Kemp 570-654-0863
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St Lucie, FL: Large modern home, built in 2005. 6 Bdrm/ 3 full baths, corner lot. Large master BR/ includes bath/bidet + his/ her, close to large living room + 2 dining rms/ kitchen with granite counters/ fully tiled flrs throughout house, accordion hurricane shutters. Solar water heater/ solar screened pool/ Jacuzzi. Front/ back porch. Driveway, with private fence. Sprinkler system/ well with fruit + palm trees + much more. Close to St. Lucie with synagogue. $295K. Contact 772-409-4110
Condos for rent Kosher condo Sarsota, FL Fully equip. kitchens, 3 Br, 2 BA, Sleeps 6, washer, 1 dryer, walking Distance to worship, near pool, whirpool, Fitness & business center. Avial now December 2008- 3k/mo special rates July–Oct 2008 Call: 612-220-2382
Commercial prop FL Ft Lauderdale: adj ftl, exec airport, bay/whse industrial, 30’ ceil zoned M3 mfg, remod 7000sf whse/mfg area+ 1000sf ac 954-610-6362
FT. PIERCE/ SPANISH LAKES FAIRWAYS RENTAL, 2 beds/2 bath, open & airy, Huge Florida rm, new furniture, pool shopping all over. Plus much much more!!! Avail Oct-March. $2K/mth 631-369-6468 2/2 WATERFRONT CONDO COCONUT CREEK (WYNMOOD VILLAGE) NORTH BROWARD COUNTY, FL Furn’d optional. Glass encl, terrace. 2d of 4 flr elevator. Gated comm.. Laundry storage, mail rooms, pools. Jacuzzi. Fitness center. Tennis. Free buses. Eligible for golf club. Cable TV available now annual ($800/mo) October seasonal ($1,800/mo) Photos apartments.com Karen 305-794-6387 karen@orlnlaw.com MICCO- LIVE + WORK IN GATED PRIVATE PROPERTY
10,000 SQ FT UNDER AIR CUSTOM HOME WITH SEPARATE 8,000 SQ FT WORKSHOP/ GARAGE. HOME HAS EXTENSIVE GRANITE + TILE- FEATURES THE NICEST HOME THEATER THAT YOU WILL FIND. A DEAL @ 1.1 MILLION. CONTACT 321-431-8120 VIEW: WWW.EXTREMEFLORIDAHOME.COM
2/2 WATERFRONT CONDO COCONUT CREEK (WYNMOOD VILLAGE) NORTH BROWARD COUNTY, FL Furn’d optional. Glass encl, terrace. 2d of 4 flr elevator. Gated comm.. Laundry storage, mail rooms, pools. Jacuzzi. Fitness center. Tennis. Free buses. Eligible for golf club. Cable TV available now annual ($800/mo) October seasonal ($1,800/mo) Photos apartments.com Karen 305-794-6387 karen@orlnlaw.com
Naples, FL: Condo, seasonal, 2 BR, turn key finished. Avail Oct 2009 to June 2010. Except March. $2000/mo negotiable 973-3265
AUCTION 60± New Luxurious FLORIDA Ocean View Condos-20 Units sold ABSOLUTE to the highest bidders, regardless of price. 3 Bedroom UnitsBeach Access-Guard Gated Golf Community-Buy One or More! Ocean Dunes Condos 110 Warsteiner Way, Melbourne Beach, FL 32951 3% Broker Participation Sat., Oct. 10th @ 11 am fisherauction.com 800.331.6620/ 954.942.0917 Preview Center Open 10am to 6 pm daily Subject to all terms of sale Lamar Fisher/ AU93;AB106
Boca Raton, Century Vil. Lux 2 BR, 2bths, lakefront view, short wlk to orthodox shul & clubhouse. New kitch, new A/C, upgrade 561-487-3711 North Myrtle Beach for sale1 bdrm, 1 bth, pool. Asking $85,000 Call: 718-661-1286
POMP: Palm Aire, 3/2 corner unit, 100% renovated w/ new open kitchen & granite counter tops. New kitchen cabinets & appliances. New tile bathrooms, tile flrs throughout. Owner asking $219,000. 954-675-7219 North Myrtle Beach for sale1 bdrm, 1 bth, pool. Asking $85,000 Call: 718-661-1286 Properties for sale Florida Jax Bch-Atlantic Beach & Ponte Vedra Bch, ocean front in/or golf course living, 350k to $3M+ 904-710-3468. WWW.MarthaVidal.com
Tampa: 3 BR, 2Bth condo. 2nd floor , Built 2006 Clubhouse pool,$150k Nego. 813-390-5008 Orlando: Furnished Condo 2 BR, 2 Bth, 2nd floor, club house, pool tennis court $150k negotiable 813-390-5008
Miami beach, Tower 41, 2 BR, 2 bth, kosher, huge balc. Lg corner Ocean front, newly updated. 305-534-4442
MIAMI BEACH: Mimosa 47 & Collins Ave. 1 BR, 3rd flr, for winter seasons & Pesach. 905-534-4442
3/2.5 Glorious sundronched country, Club home, w/ soaring ceiling, frplc, stunning kitchen, huge yard, screened patios. 325K. United Realty Group. 954-520-1896
Hallendale: La meron, beautifully furnished 1500 sf condo, 2 BR, 3 bth, restaurant, beauty salon, state of the art gym, pool. Reasonably priced, negotiable, asking $325k. Near Diplomat Hotel, shopping, trans and more. ALSO 1 BR, 1,000sf furnished and ready to move-in. Call: 954-458-2280 Atlantic Beach 2BR, 1.5 bth Condo, Patio CAC Walk to Private Beach, Boardwalk + Temple Private parking, Low Main. $399K 516-596-7305
For Rent or Sale in Florida 2BR, w/ amazing bay view Sleeps 6 Comfortably 2Bths Walking distance to Shul Beautiful Gym, Jacuzzi, Boat and Fishing Dock Tennis Courts and more Incl. completely furnished apt Washer Dryer, Sheets, blankets, towels, etc. Ready for Rent or Sale Immediately Come stay for a few days, weeks, or more. Call917-686-4824 For Serious Purchase Inquiries
CONDO FOR SALEFLORIDA NEWLY RENOV FURN, 2 BR, 2 BTH, LR/DR AREA, CLOSED IN, SUN-ROOM, 3 WALK-ON CLOSETS, GRANITE FLRS, NEW TILE FRLS, A/C. 55 GATED COMMUNITY, 2 POOLS, MANY AMENITIES. WALK TO SHULS, SHOP, LOW MAINT. REDUCED FOR QUICK SALE. BY OWNER, $99K FIRM. 305-877-6927 Condo for sale FL Naples: TARPON BAY CONDO 2 BR/2 BA; Tiled, clubhouse, pool, gym, Comm. Office, pets OK $185K. Call: 239-777-4952 or 239-254-7633
Florida Condo for sale Orlando New 5 star resort, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bath townhouse. All Amenities, 5 minutes to Disney/universal. $125/night. Chuck 908-874-7018
Condo for sale FL Jupiter/ Ocean BluffsN: Gated 2 BR, 2 bth, condo, steps to pool, bch, kitchen, DR, LR, FL/R, Ldry/R titled porch, nice view/RED. Lowest in Bluffs $270k. Contact 561-746-6446
Palm Coast FL: New home construction located along northeast Atlantic coast and intercostals waterway. Custom home builder (FL License CGC 151265) Review floor plans and features at www.stoughtonluxuryhome.co m Summer building incentives apply through August 31st 2009. Call for details 386-586-5665, ask for will or John, M-F 9-5pm w/e 10AM-4PM
Kings point, Delray Beach: 2 BRs, 2 baths, main floor completely upgraded & furnished. Call Shirley 561-752-4923
Boca Raton/ Boca Lago: 2 BR, 2.5 bth townhouse, lakeview from (2) glass enclosed porches/ new tile/ furnished/ all community amentities. Motivated seller. Price reduced to $114.5K. For sale or rent by owner. Must see 561-852-7090
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FL WESTERN ST. LUCIE COUNTY: 51 ac, improved land, fenced w/pond. Includes farm animals, cow pens, goat houses & sheds.$210,000. 772-409-4110
Kings Point- Delray Beach: 1 BR, Upper, new furniture A/C & Carpets, walk in shower, photos online. $19,900/Best offer. Ellen 919-872-5452
BAY HARBOR ISLAND Large 1/1.5 Pool, 4th Flr, A/C, Long term Available Walking Dist. from Bch 914-960-6789
Pesach Rental in Miami FL Miami Bch: Indian Creek, King David Towers. Lux Apt, 2 BR, 2 bths, beaut beach view $2500 718-677-9825
FL Summer Rental Furnished 3/2 Beach House, 4 blocks to beach, pool, newly renov, clean,. Comfortable, safe, dogs OK. Available on May 9th – Dec 27th. Short term OK. Has everything you need and more. 954-224-9315 or whwcz@att.net
MIAMI BEACH, Portugal Towers, Ocean view, 2 BRs. Weekly or monthly Rental. Call: 718-753-4479
Hallandale: 1817 S. Ocean Dr. Large, 1 BR, 1.5 bth, unfurn, Bay&Ocean views. $950 a month, yearly. Call owner: 954-457-8570
Condo for rent Dadeland: 2/2 condo in the beautiful towers of Dadeland, 5th floor east view of the dadeland area $1800. 786-512-7068
Pesach Rental in Miami FL Miami Bch: Indian Creek, King David Towers. Lux Apt, 2 BR, 2 bths, beaut beach view $2500 718-677-9825
Miami Beach, FL carriage house. Lg 3 Br, 3 Bth, magnify apt 14th fl shab elev, newly renov, lg terr, ocean front, fitness club, overlooking ocean, tennis courts, shul on premises 347-804-1666
RABBI recently retired from large congregation, outstanding orator, cantor + torah reader. Available for high holidays. 561-638-7601
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Condo for rent Fountain Bleau Hotel: Miami Beach, magnificent 800 sq ft studio, sleeps 4, renting daily/weekly, short term/ long term. Avail now for success! Call 347-804-4666
Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent Fort Myers: Restaurant/ Night Club, large entertainment area with outside bar. 3 acres + 15000 sq ft bldg, excellent location in S Fort Myers nr Cape Coral. Contact Mr. Anulli 239-810-1806 Tudor Villa Realty
Office for rent FL Miami Area- Pembroke Road, busy shopping center retail, office. 6675 Pembroke Road, 800 or 1600 sq ft. Contact 786-506-7895
CAREGIVER, FL COMPASSIONATE, HONEST, EXPERIENCED CNA WITH LOTS OF REFERENCES WILL TAKE CARE OF YOUR ELDERLY PERSON IN MY BEAUTIFUL HOME IN ORLANDO FL, CAN BE SEEN ON REQUEST. 407-461-8383
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Israel Apartment For Sale Kiryat Shmueal in the heart of Tibenas. Real Estate developers, builders & private investors are welcome 700 sq.m ready to build. $299K avail July 6. 954-899-5885 Sales@yalebusinesscapital.com
For sale Israel KIryat GAT Near Beersheva- 2 Brs, KItch, L/R, 400 sq ft, front yard, playground.$80K Call 917-804-4158
Jerusalem: Private suite in 5 star Ramada. Sleeps up to 8, in/ out pools. $250/night. Albert 514-803-8838 www.5starjerusalem.com
NEAR GREAT SYNAGOGUE, 3 rooms, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkos, 1st floor sukkah. Call 011-972-2-641-4752
Apartment For Rent One of a kind luxury penthouse in DAVID’S VILLAGE for sale, 3 BR, 140 sq meters 40 sq meters, private roof w/best view to the old city. Private parking, security, elevator, plus storage room. Call 212-444-1013
Apartment For Rent Summer rental Shaarei Chesed/ Rechavia/ Morasha/ Geuia. Lovely apts/ homes for sale/ shrt/ long term, summer/succos. MS Rlty & Mgmt. 972-50-4146979 Shnapp!barak.net.il
Jerusalem: Private suite in 5 star Ramada, sleeps up to 8. in/out pools. $250/night. Albert 514-803-8838 www.5starjerusalem.com Jerus, central. New 4 BR lux apt in 18 unit bldg. incl all linen, applncs, Kitch ware. Kosher & sh shab. Short Term rentals. 416-782-6791
For holidays + year vacations Penthouse in Ashdod, fully furnished on the beach. 4 rooms, good for 6 people. From 2 weeks to 3 months. 646-413-3826 jacomogador@yahoo.com
Lev Yerushlayim: Renov 1 BR furn apt. Sleeps 4. All amens. Avail 9/7-10/16, part or all. 937-304-4026
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