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The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society received a gracious $1 Million dollar gift from Google co-founder Sergey Brin. r i n , wh o i s J ew i s h , s h owe d h i s a p p r e c i a t i o n t o H I A S f o r helping h i s f a m i ly t o f l e e t h e S ov i e t U n i o n 3 0 ye a r s a g o . “I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that’s what this organization does,” Brin said. The oldest refugee agency in the U.S., HIAS has helped generations of families escape violence and repression in their homelands and resettle in the United States, Israel and elsewhere. Since its founding in 1881, HIAS has assisted more than 4.5 million refugees and migrants, including the vast majority of American Jewish families. “As a refugee himself, Sergey Brin knows better than most about the value of living freely in a country that allows people to dream and, through vision, creativity and hard work, fulfill those dreams. He and his family were able to build a new life in the United States and, as a result, he was able to create a new industry by changing the way we process and use information. His contributions literally have changed the world,” said HIAS Chairman Michael Rukin. Brin hopes that his gift will help others to have the same opportunities that he has been given.
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An Israeli Dolphine submarine capable of carrying nuclear warhead (top) sails near a US Navy war ship USS Decatur (DDG-73) at Israel's navy port in Haifa. BY GAVIN RABINOWITZ
A massive air defence drill under way in Israel joined Israeli and US systems to create the world's most advanced anti-missile umbrella to protect the Jewish state, officials said. he Juniper Cobra 10 exercises, the fifth in a series of joint air defence drills between the allies, began this week and comes amid heightened tension between Israel and arch-foe Iran. Some 1,000 US soldiers will take part in the two-week exercise combining Israeli and US systems to "create the world's most advanced air defence system to protect our citizens and homes from attack," the commander of Israel's Air Defence Corps, Brigadier General Doron Gavish, told reporters. Israeli and US commanders refused to describe the scenarios they are simulating, but said they would practise merging different anti-missile systems
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that defend simultaneously against long, medium- and short-range missiles. Israeli media reported that the exercise would likely include a scenario of a combined attack from Iran together with shorter range barrages from Syria and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Rear Admiral John Richardson, the commander of the US forces, said systems used would include the American THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence), the ship-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defence System, and the Patriot anti-aircraft system, as well as the Israeli Arrow (Hetz) II. Israel and the US have cooperated in missile defence since the US sent batteries of Patriot missiles to Israel during the f irst Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein f ired dozens of Scud missiles at Israel. Israel's air defences have since been further tested. Hezbollah f ired hundreds
n his eight years at the helm of City Hall, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has managed the city of New York with a directed and efficient hand. He brought the city through the post-9/11 recession, practiced f iscal conservatism during economic boom times, and continues to maintain the “ship of city” on a remarkably even keel, even during challenging economic times. New York benef its from the considerable skill and dedication to excellence of its 103rd Mayor, Michael Bloomberg. When compared to the balagan in Albany, his administration’s effectiveness is even more apparent. Michael Bloomberg’s re-election bid, though born in term limit controversy, has gained wide support throughout the city. He has earned another four years. Comptroller William Thompson, the
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OCTOBER 30, 2009
BY HAVIV RETTIG GUR The Jewish Agency has laid the cornerstone for a new Israel Cultural Center in Budapest that could serve as a testing-ground for similar IsraelDiaspora centers worldwide. odeled on other nations' foreign cultural services, such as the British Council or the Alliance Française, the center
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will "bring under one roof a wide range of activities connected to Israel, and will expose visitors to a many fields of Israeli culture," according to a statement issued by the Jewish Agency on Sunday. The center is being built through a cooperative venture of the agency and Israeli and local Jewish donors, including Israeli industrialist Moti Zisser and entrepreneur Arik Yom Tov. But its signif icance could be broader.
A series of meetings held by the Olmert government to investigate new ways of connecting between Israel and Diaspora communities raised the possibility of bringing Israeli culture into scattered Jewish communities through centers of Israeli culture run by Israeli educators. The Budapest center will serve both functions: as a bridge between Israel and
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Ayalon Faces Call for Arrest in Britain BY JONNY PAUL A government minister has been the latest victim to face arrest on alleged "war crimes" charges after an official visit to the UK. eputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Daniel Ayalon is returning to Israel on Tuesday evening after a two day visit to London during which there was an attempt by proPalestinian activists to use a section of British law to arrest the minister. The International Criminal Court Act of 2001 and the Criminal Justice Act of 1998 allows for private individual complaints of war crimes to be lodged against military
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personnel, even if they are not British citizens and the alleged crimes were committed elsewhere. The news was broken to Ayalon and his advisers on Monday evening before he was scheduled to give a keynote speech at a London university. Ayalon's team took the necessary precautions and after consulting with the Israeli embassy in London, decided that he would continue with his trip. On Monday night, Ayalon spoke at London School of Economics and Political Science. Its reputation as one of the UK's f inest learning institutions was tarnished after students disrupted the event. At the event a student wearing a kaf iyeh
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held up proceedings by shouting at the minister as soon as he took to the podium to deliver his keynote speech "The Situation in the Middle East: the view from Israel." Despite appeals from the chair of the event, Professor Michael Cox, head of LSE's International Relations department, the student refused to stop hurling abuse at Ayalon. Eventually, the student audience turned against the student, after the chair lost control, and the minister was able to deliver his speech and engage in debate afterwards. An LSE spokesperson apologized for the unfortunate disruption saying it was a
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Obama Declares Swine Flu A National Emergency BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF President Barack Obama has declared the spreading H1N1 swine flu virus to be a national emergency. In accordance with the announcement, Obama signed a proclamation which gives U.S. hospitals more flexibility to handle large umbers of flu patients.
White House statement said the proclamation permits hospitals to call for waivers of some government health-care rules on a case-by-case basis. U.S. off icials said that over 1,000 Americans died from the flu since the H1N1 outbreak began earlier this year. Millions have been infected with the virus. According to the World Health Organization, 5,000 deaths have been attributed to the H1N1 influenza. The Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate panel that $3 bil-
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OCTOBER 30, 2009
Sderot Residents Present a Letter to UN Requesting Hamas Be Brought to Trial
Israel and US Start State of The Art Defense Drill
BY BENJAMIN SPIER A group of 35 young Sderot residents got on a bus to Jerusalem to present a letter to the United Nations demanding that Hamas leaders be brought to trial for war crimes. he letter was signed by 90,000 people from 50 countries across the world with the help of the Take-A-Pen organization.
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Brig. Gen. Doron Gavish, commander of the Israeli Air Defense Corps, at left, with U.S. Rear Adm. John Richardson in Tel Aviv. Continued from cover of rockets into Israel during the 2006 conflict in Lebanon and Palestinian militants have lobbed thousands of improvised rockets from the Gaza Strip. The exercises were purely defensive and, planned nearly two years in advance, were not in reaction to any current world events, the generals said. But they come amid heightened tensions between Israel and Iran. Israel, the sole if undeclared nucleararmed state in the Middle East, has never ruled out a resort to military
action to stop Iran's nuclear drive which the West suspects is aimed at making nuclear weapons but Tehran insists is only for peaceful ends. Iran for its part has recently tested missiles that put Israel within range and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that the Holocaust was a "myth" and that Israel was doomed to be "wiped off the map." Juniper Cobra will take part in three stages, deploying US forces, simulating attacks and f inally a live-f ire testing of the Patriot system, Richardson said, adding that all US forces would leave the region once the drill ended.
“Youngsters held up signs and sung the national anthem meters away from the UN headquarters.” "We wanted to present the letter today because of the urgency in which the Goldstone report is being adopted," said Batya Katar who is one of the organizers of the letter and the demonstration. "We know that the hearings in Geneva are about to end, and in just a little bit it will move to a UN committee in New York.
We will also go to New York and do everything that is necessary there." No UN official came down to the gates of the United Nations headquarters in Jerusalem to receive the letter, and it was instead taken by a secretary. However, organizers of the demonstration claimed that they had received indication that they would meet with a UN representative in the near future.
“We are the people of Sderot and we want to say that for nine years we suffered...” Youngsters held up signs and sung the national anthem meters away from the UN headquarters. The rally was purposely held at night so none of the demonstrators would miss school or work. "We are the people of Sderot and we want to say that for nine years we suffered," said Lilach Nissim who was one of the Sderot residents presenting the letter. "Enough is enough; we were the ones who suffered because of violations of human rights ."
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Tax Authority Raids Maccabi TA Offices Seeking Evidence
Ashkelon: US Tourist Stoned After Asking for Quiet BY BEN HARTMAN
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Police detained several local teens last week on suspicion they brutally attacked an American Jewish tourist in Ashkelon, hitting her in the head with a paving stone and leaving a gash more than five centimeters long.
Tax Authority investigators raided the offices of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball club on Sunday, nearly a week after former team manager Moni Fanan committed suicide and it was alleged that he had run a "private bank" used by a number of Maccabi players.
he victim, a 28-year-old mother of three, told Channel 2 her family had considered immigrating to Israel, a plan they have now canceled. Amber and Segiv Medmoni were toward the end of their three-week visit to Israel and were staying at Segiv's parents' home in Ashkelon. Late into the night, a group of youngsters riding go-karts up and down the residential street were keeping the couple awake. Segiv, 33, an Israeli citizen, reportedly went with his father to the house next door, where one or more of the youngsters live, and asked if they could quiet down. Segiv said the youngsters threatened to kill them and burn down their house if they did not leave immediately. About 40 minutes later, around 20 youths gathered outside his parents' home and began screaming insults at the family. The family called the police and shortly thereafter, a paving stone reportedly struck Amber in the head. Paramedics took her to the hospital, where she was given stitches to close the gash. Police arrested a number of suspects and have asked the Medmonis to delay their
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A view of Ashkelon. return to the United States to testify against the alleged assailants. An Ashkelon police source told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that police held the suspects for 24 hours on Wednesday, but released them due to lack of evidence. The police source added that it was a problematic case because there was no way to prove from where the stone came. She said that the couple did not see it thrown and there was almost no way to connect the paving stone to the youths. The only thing investigators were able to confirm so far was that the couple had an argument with the youths, who in turn threatened them, the source said. This was not the first time that the Medmoni family had had issues with the neighbors, she added. Segiv told Channel 2 this week that he's "never felt like this. I am a strong man, I served in an IDF combat unit and was a combat medic in Lebanon. But to come here and see the people you love hurt is very difficult."
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wo investigators could be seen carrying boxes of documents and speaking to Maccabi Tel Aviv club employees. The offices were locked and visitors and the press were not allowed to enter the building. While he wouldn't comment on the specif ics of the investigation, Maccabi Tel Aviv spokesman Nitzan Horesh said the club "is transparent" and has nothing to hide. Earlier on Sunday, Maccabi Tel Aviv's operations manager Ami Biton was questioned by investigators at the Tax Authority off ices in Tel Aviv. Biton was a close conf idant of Fanan, who hanged himself last Monday in his Ramat Aviv home. Many expected Biton to be among the f irst people questioned by the authority. The Tax Authority would not comment on the investigation. The investment scheme was widely believed to be linked to London investor Nick Levene, a 45-year-old Briton who has relatives in Tel Aviv and Eilat. Levene, who reportedly owes clients
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Moni Fanan committed suicide and it was alleged that he had run a private bank used by a number of Maccabi players. hundreds of millions of dollars, has denied any connection to Fanan's fund. "I've only met this gentleman once in my life. That was by walking through the lobby of a hotel in Prague prior to the Euroleague Final Four. I've never met him any other time. I've never had a phone call with him. I've never had an e-mail from him," Levene told the Yisrael Hayom daily. "I can only believe that because of the high-prof ile media that I'm receiving at the moment due to some of the losses I've taken on the stock market in the UK, they've used this opportunity in the media to associate [us]. I never met the guy, never done any business with him and never had any communication
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Vice President Joe Biden Pays Tribute to Jewish Fighters in Warsaw BY SHMUEL BEN ELIEZER US Vice President Joe Biden last week paid tribute to Jewish fighters who battled Nazi Germany in the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, which has come to symbolize courage against overwhelming odds. lanked by a Polish army honor guard, Biden solemnly laid a wreath at the foot of the imposing monument unveiled in 1948 near the site of the fighters' last stand in their ill-fated revolt The wreath of red, white and blue flowers -- the colors’ of the US flag -bore a ribbon reading "In Memory of the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising". Biden then stood with his right hand over his heart as a bugler played a salute, before a choir of children sang a Jewish song and he spoke with dignitaries including Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich. After invading Poland in 1939, Nazi Germany isolated Polish Jews inside ghettos across the country, before beginning their systematic campaign of mass extermination. At its height, around 450,000 people were crammed into the walled Warsaw ghetto, including Jews brought from other European nations. About 100,000 died inside from starvation and disease. Most of the rest were sent to the Treblinka death camp in northeast Poland in mass deportations in 1942.
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A handful of Jewish paramilitary groups, mostly made up of people in their teens and twenties, were formed in the Warsaw ghetto. The poorly armed f ighters f irst clashed with Nazi troops on January 1822,1943, managing to hinder the deportations. n April 19, the Nazis began liquidating the ghetto, where just 60,000 people remained, and the f ighters rose up again. "We knew perfectly well that there was no way we could win. It was a symbol of the f ight for freedom. A symbol of standing up to Nazism, and of not giving in," the uprising's last commander, Marek Edelman, told AFP in a 2008 interview. Edelman died in Warsaw on October 2 aged 90. The insurrection lasted three weeks, until the Nazis razed the ghetto, killing and deporting the vast majority of those who had been unable to flee. Mr. Biden was also shown the beginning of the construction, in front of the Ghetto monument, of a museum aimed at reviving Poland's near millennium of Jewish heritage obliterated by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Asked when the museum would open, he was reportedly told by Sigmund A. Rolat, chairman of the North American Council of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews : “Mister Vice-President, in 2012 just after you 'll be re-elected”.
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Bronfman Faces Trial For Vivendi BY MATTHIEU RABECHAULT Vivendi's ex-boss Jean-Marie Messier and six others face trial here on charges they misled investors as they transformed the French water utility into a global media giant, court documents showed Friday. dgar Bronfman Junior, Vivendi's former vice-chairman and now Warner Music chief executive, will also be tried for insider trading for selling stock options in 2002 while withholding information about the company's troubles. Messier, already on trial in a US case that may see Vivendi f ined billions of dollars, will appear in a Paris court charged with making false statements about f irm f inances, share price manipulation and misuse of company property. He faces up to f ive years in jail and heavy f ines if found guilty, legal sources said. Investigating magistrate Jean-Marie d'Huy believes Messier issued false or misleading information on Vivendi's debt levels and its f inancial situation for 2001, according to court documents seen by AFP. The magistrate's decision to put Messier and the others on trial overrules a January call by Paris prosecutors to shelve the case, which was instigated by a 2002 complaint by a French small shareholders' association.
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The association alleged that Vivendi had misled investors into buying or holding stock in the company. Messier had to leave Vivendi Universal in 2002 after the f irm lost 13.6 billion euros. D'Huy wrote in court documents seen by AFP that the former chief executive is suspected of issuing false or misleading information about debt levels at the f irm around the time of its merger with Seagram and Canal Plus. Those mergers led to the creation of Vivendi Universal Entertainment and made the group one of the top global media groups. D'Huy also wrote he considered that Messier had behaved illegally by obtaining "for his personal prof it, without the previous accord of the board of directors," a "manifestly excessive" severance package of 20.5 million euros. Messier's lawyer, Olivier Metzner, said the judge's decision was "incredible" and said he particularly regretted the charges relating to the severance package because he said his client had in the end renounced it. Vivendi's former chief f inancial off icer Guillaume Hannezo will stand trial for issuing false or misleading information, complicity in share price manipulation and insider trading, according to the court documents. Former managing director Eric
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A Boost That Will Aid Small Business, Community Banks in US BY MIL ARCEGA President Obama wants to make more money available to small businesses by allocating some of the billions the government set aside to rescue giant financial institutions and making them available to smaller community banks. The president is asking Congress to increase the maximum size of small business loans and provide low interest capital to smaller banks in a bid to get credit flowing again to small businesses. or some workers, construction and development is the sound of money. Sometimes it's the sound of a cash register, or the opening bell on Wall Street. For small business owners, it's about establishing good relations with the neighborhood bank. Although the battered US economy is beginning to show signs of improvement, people are still losing their homes, unemployment is still rising, and many banks are still reluctant to lend. President Obama says when credit is tight, small businesses suffer. "Our small businesses have been some of the hardest hit by this recession," he says, "From the middle of 2007 through the end of 2008, small businesses lost 2.4 million jobs." The president wants to increase the cap on small business loans. And he's
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asking Congress to make billions of dollars -- previously allocated only to the big f inancial institutions -- available to community banks - typically banks with less than a billion dollars in assets. "If these institutions put forth a plan to increase lending to small businesses, we will help them get the capital they need to do it at rates that are more affordable than the ones offered to our largest f inancial institutions," Mr. Obama said. "Community banks are really going to be the drivers of the turnaround in this economy and whatever support we can get from the government will be very helpful," Dorothy Bridges said. Bridges is chief executive at City First Bank of D.C. She says it's a challenging time for banks and the businesses they serve. She believes the president's proposal will help level the playing f ield and allow smaller banks to reach more people. "We know the people in the community, we know the businesses, the main street kinds of mom and pops, independents that make up the beautiful fabric of our community," she adds. And they also seem to have a pretty good sense of what people like to eat. Small businesses like Pete's A Pizza in Washington DC create the bulk of new jobs in the United States, about 65 percent. And when they need credit, more often than not they turn to community banks for help.
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US Religious Freedom Report Hits Speech Curbs BY DAVID GOLLUST The U.S. State Department's annual report on world-wide religious freedom, was critical of what it says are international efforts to limit free speech in the name of combating defamation of religion. The Organization of the Islamic Conference, or OIC, has been pushing such anti-defamation measures in U.N. bodies. he State Department report says the United States deplores actions that show disrespect for religious traditions, including Islam. But it says the broad anti-defamation measures being sought by the Islamic Conference would have the effect of curbing debate about religious issues and should be discarded in favor of outreach and government defense of religious freedom and free speech. The comments were the most prominent to date by the United States on efforts led by the OIC to get antidefamation resolutions approved in the U.N. General Assembly and the U.N. Human Rights Commission. In comments introducing the annual report, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States will always stand against religious-based discrimination and persecution, but that it strongly disagrees with those who would combat such problems by curbing
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free speech. "The best antidote to intolerance is not the 'Defamation of Religions' approach of banning and punishing offensive speech, but rather a combination of robust legal protections against discrimination and hate crimes, proactive government outreach to minority religious groups, and a vigorous defense of both freedom of religion and expression," said Secretary Clinton. The Congressionally-mandate report covering 189 countries and territories includes sharp criticism of the record on religious issues by countries also listed by the United States as major human rights violators, including Iran and North Korea. Iran is cited for creating a "threatening atmosphere" for nearly all nonShi'ite religious groups, notably Baha'is, as well as Suf i Muslims, evangelical Christians and Jews. It says Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues a "virulent antiSemitic campaign," questioning the existence and scope of the Holocaust, the Nazi extermination campaign against European Jews. The report says there has been no change in the extremely poor level of respect for religious freedom in North Korea, where some of the as many as 200,000 people held in political prison camps are reportedly there for religious
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Brooklyn College’s MFA Program Four Brooklyn Houses’ of Worship Nominated For Historic Distinction Ranked 15th In The US BY ERNESTO MORA Brooklyn College’s prestigious M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program was ranked 15th in the Poets & Writers article "Top Fifty MFA Programs in the United States: A Comprehensive Guide" in the November/December 2009 issue. The program came in above highly acclaimed curricula at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. oets & Writers polled more than 500 current and prospective M.F.A. applicants to compile the list. There are currently 140 f iction and poetry M.F.A. programs in the country. English Department Chairperson Ellen Tremper says of the achievement, "We were very pleased to be named one of the five 'upand-coming' M.F.A. programs in the country in the summer 2007 issue of The Atlantic. We are now even more thrilled to have been ranked among the top 15 programs by Poets & Writers. We knew we were terrific all along, but it’s great to know that the world concurs!" The Brooklyn College Creative Writing M.F.A. was started in 1974 by Jonathan Bambach, Peter Spielberg, and Mark Strand. The two-year program offers degrees in fiction, poetry, and playwriting. According to Professor Emeritus Louis
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Asekoff, former coordinator of the M.F.A. Poetry Program until he retired last spring, the limited enrollment workshops, one-onone and small group tutorials, interdisciplinary seminars – led by a cadre of accomplished and widely-acclaimed poets, fiction writers, playwrights – balance tradition with innovation, a respect for what has gone before with a desire to "make it new." "The program has always prided itself on being an intimate and affordable one, whose first commitment is to its students. The goal was to give our diverse student body the time and space to develop, and to discover, through imitation and innovation, the writers they each individually can be," Asekoff adds. "Brooklyn College offers a supportive program in a borough brimming with creativity and diversity, a hotspot for writers," agrees Helen Phillips, an adjunct lecturer in the English Department’s Creative Writing Program who recently received a 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. "Students celebrate one another's successes, and the overall feel is one of encouragement rather than competition." Marc Wellman, winner of two Obie awards for Best American Play (1990, 1991), also remembers fondly his MFA students at Brooklyn College.
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BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF Four Brooklyn houses of worship were nominated for listing on the State Register of Historic Places, a nomination that could award the houses of worship grants and tax credits, according to the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. mong the nominee’ were three synagogues including the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center located at 550 Ocean Parkway, Shaari Zedek, 767 Putnam Avenue and Kol Israel, 603 St. John’s Place. The Congregational church of the Evangel located at 1950 Bedford Avenue, was also among the nominees. “These nominations highlight the diverse forces that have shaped New York’s history,” said Park Commissioner Carol Ash. “Listing these landmarks will give these physical reminders of our past the recognition and support that they deserve.” If these properties are listed on the State and National Registers, it can greatly help the owners to refurbish the aging structures, which will make them eligible for various public preservation programs and services, this includes matching state grants and state and federal historic rehabilitation tax credits. According to the Parks spokesperson Dan Keefe, the state is currently in the process of f inalizing the nominations on the state registry. The Ocean Parkway Jewish Center,
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Ocean Parkway Jewish Center located at 550 Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, NY. rich in history, was founded by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and was built in 1924-1926. It was designed by Brooklyn architects Samuel Malkind and Martyn Weinstein. “It dates from a period when Brooklyn had emerged as one of the world’s major Jewish population centers,” reads the draft for the National Register nomination. At its peak, the center’s synagogue had 1,000 members, today there are approximately 200 left. Still, the Chairman and Director of the center Allen Michaels said that the modern Orthodox institution reaches out to everyone.
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Mayor Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Walcott, and Chancellor Klein Announce Enhanced 311 Service for Public School Families BY STU LOESER Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development Dennis M. Walcott, and Chancellor Joel I. Klein today launched an enhanced 311 service for public school families which provides an easy-to-use resource for parents and guardians seeking answers about their children’s education. arent coordinators at each school will continue to be the first point of contact, but families can now select a new option on 311’s main menu to reach an expert trained in responding to educationrelated issues, including questions pertaining to enrollment, transportation, and admissions. In the past, families seeking information had to know which of several Department of Education hotlines or offices could answer their particular question—there were distinct numbers for elementary school, middle school, and high school enrollment, for example, and a transportation hotline. All of these questions can now be addressed by specially-trained experts at 311. The Mayor, Deputy Mayor Walcott, and Chancellor Klein made the announcement at a new 311 call center in Brooklyn set up specifically to answer parents’ calls, and were joined by the Department of Education’s Chief Family Engagement Officer Martine Guerrier, and Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT)
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This enhanced 311 service fulfills the Mayor’s promise in the 2009 State of the City address earlier this year to make it easier for parents and guardians to get information and find answers. Commissioner Paul J. Cosgrave, Council Member David S. Yassky, State Senator Daniel L. Squadron, and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. “The City’s 311 service has been a tremendous success, and now we’re extending its reach to our public school families to make it easier for them to get answers about enrollment, busing, and other issues that affect their children,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “Since 2002, we’ve focused on providing fami-
lies with the information they need to be full partners in their child’s education— from placing a parent coordinator in every school to giving families online access to their child’s attendance, grades, and test scores. Adding this new service to 311 further ensures our families can stay well-informed and engaged in their children’s education.” This enhanced 311 service fulf ills the Mayor’s promise in the 2009 State of the City address earlier this year to make it easier for parents and guardians to get information and f ind answers. Education experts dispensing information at the enhanced 311 have already handled nearly 60,000 calls during a four-month pilot of the new service, during which calls to Department of Education off ices were routed to 311. In the past, many calls would have required families to leave messages and wait for return calls; some issues were not resolved for days or longer. Today, more than 80 percent of questions are answered in one call averaging four and a half minutes. The MetLife Foundation donated some of the initial private funding to the The Fund for Public Schools for this initiative. “The enhanced service at 311 is one more way the City is being responsive to public school families’ desire to be informed and engaged about what matters to them most – the education and success of their children,” said Deputy Mayor Walcott.
“Thanks to the enhanced service at 311, public school families will no longer have to wonder which number to call or worry about getting passed from one off ice to another,” said Chancellor Klein. “The 311 representatives can help address many more issues related to our public schools, from high school admissions to school bus pickup times.” “Families want to be able to get answers to their questions quickly,” said Department of Education Chief Family Engagement Off icer Martine Guerrier. “And with the enhanced 311 service, they can. It is just one more way that we are improving communication and engagement with our parents to make them true partners in their children’s education.” “Whatever the hour, whatever the language, 311 is at the service of New Yorkers,” said DoITT Commissioner Cosgrave. “We are proud to have worked closely with the Mayor’s Off ice and Department of Education in delivering this important enhancement for the City’s public school families. In addition to the hundreds of 311 representatives trained to handle basic education inquiries, 311 and the Department of Education have trained specialists to handle a wider range of questions from families who are inquiring about public school. Calls to existing Department of Education hotlines
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WAR ON TERROR US Announces Crackdown on Mexican Drug Cartel
War Crimes Suspect Surrenders to Police in Australia
BY JIM MALONE
BY PHIL MERCER
U.S. law enforcement officials say they have launched the largest single strike ever at a notorious Mexican drug cartel operating inside the United States. The crackdown resulted in the arrest of more than 300 people in 19 states.
An Australian man accused of killing a Jewish youth in Hungary during the Second World War is in jail, awaiting possible extradition. Charles Zentai denies the murder accusations and has been f ighting extradition to Hungary for several years.
he target of the combined federal, state and local law enforcement effort is the notorious Mexican cartel known as La Familia, a major supplier of cocaine and methamphetamine to drug dealers in the U.S. The crackdown was announced at a news conference in Washington by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. "We are taking the fight to our adversaries and in so doing, we are making our communities safer and more secure," he said. Holder said 303 people have been arrested, and law enforcement has seized money and drugs as part of a sweep that reached into 19 U.S. states. "In the last two days alone, we have seized $3.4 million in U.S. currency and nearly 730 pounds of methamphetamine as well as other narcotics," he said. U.S. officials describe La Familia as the newest and most violent of Mexico's five major cartels. La Familia is based in southwestern Mexico and has steadily spread into the United States. FBI Director Robert Mueller said the drug cartel has transformed itself into what he called a sophisticated criminal organization. Michele Leonhart is the acting administrator for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which played a major role in the latest crackdown. "We are fighting an organization whose brutal violence is driven by so called divine justice. Accordingly, La Familia's narco banner declared that they do not kill for money and they do not kill innocent people," he said. "However, their delivery of that message was accompanied by five severed heads rolled onto a dance floor in Uruapan Mexico."
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harles Zentai, 88, is accused of beating a Jewish teenager to death in November 1944 in Budapest. He was serving as a soldier in the army of his native Hungary, which was allied at the time with Nazi Germany. Zentai surrendered to police in Western Australia Thursday after exhausting legal efforts to stay out of jail while his case is decided. Zentai, who moved to Australia after the war, denies the murder accusation, saying that he left the Hungarian capital the day before the teenager was killed. He has undertaken a series of challenges since being ruled eligible for extradition last year. He told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that he is worried about
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Attorney General Eric Holder during a news conference. Leonhart says La Familia is philosophically opposed to selling methamphetamine to Mexicans, but eagerly exports the drug to the United States for consumption. U.S. officials say the heavily armed cartel often carries out murders, kidnappings and assaults to further its reach. Attorney General Holder said U.S. officials are closely cooperating with Mexico in the battle against La Familia and other drug cartels, a battle he compared with the one waged by law enforcement agencies against organized crime. "I think we have to keep hitting them," he said. "To the extent that they do grow back, I think we have to work with our Mexican counterparts to really cut off the heads of these snakes and get at the heads of the cartels." "Indict them, try them either in Mexico or extradite them to the United States. I think we have to use the same techniques that we used effectively against the Mafia here in the United States where you attack these organizations at all levels," he added. U.S. officials have been targeting La Familia for nearly four years in an investigation known as Project Coronado, and in that time have arrested nearly 1,200 people on drug charges and seized more than 11 tons of narcotics.
what the future might hold. "I'm concerned about what's going to happen to me there in the f irst instance," he said. "Where are they going to put me? Which kind of a jail or what sort of a treatment I've going to have? What sort of protection or representation I'm going to get?" The accusations were made by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Jewish human rights organization known for tracking down suspected Nazi war criminals. Rights activists say it is time for Zentai to answer the charges in court back in Hungary. According to the allegations, Zentai murdered the young Jewish man because he was not wearing a yellow star, as required by the Nazis. Zentai was living in the western Australian city of Perth before the Hungarian government began extradition proceedings against him in 2005. His lawyers say that key witness statements are tainted and may have been made under coercion or the threat of torture. The Australian government is considering the extradition request.
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Iranian Threat Israelis, Iranians Discussed Nukes Officials Fear Iran is 'Buying Time' BY JPOST Israeli and Iranian officials discussed nuclear issues in the Middle East during a Cairo conference last month, according to media reports. srael Radio, however, quoted an Iranian nuclear official as denying the report. He said that there was no meeting, direct or indirect, between Israeli and Iranian officials. Reuters had reported that the brief meeting took place during at a Middle East disarmament conference on September 29-30. An Israeli off icial quoted by Reuters said that the exchange had taken place during an open session, when Iranian delegate Ali Ashghar Soltanieh had asked his Israeli counterpart, Meirav Zafary-Odiz a question about Israel's nuclear capabilities. "She gave her answers, and later the Israeli delegation addressed a question in the same vein to the Iranians, which was answered," the off icial was quoted as saying. AFP quoted Israeli Atomic Energy Commission representative Yael Doron as conf irming the meeting, which she said took place during a session organized by Australia. "These meetings were
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held behind closed doors," Doron was further quoted as saying. She did not give any additional details. Also Thursday, French Defense Minister Herve Morin said that the French and Israeli armies regularly swap information on Iran's nuclear program. "We have to know what's going on, so we exchange our information," Morin said. Morin was responding to a question on RTL radio about a reported Paris meeting two weeks ago between the French, Israeli and US armies. He did not respond directly to that claim, saying only that France consults "happily" with its partners. Morin's comments, and news of the Israeli-Iranian meeting, broke a day after reports that Iranian negotiators had expressed support for a deal that - if accepted by their leaders would delay Teheran's ability to build nuclear weapons by sending most of its known existing enriched uranium to Russia for processing. Both the Prime Minister's Off ice and the Foreign Ministry had no comment on the development, saying it was premature to discuss, since all that was being talked about at this time was a draft.
as Inner Cabinet Mulls Strategy BY JPOST Israeli assessments regarding a nuclear deal under negotiation with Iran is that it benefits mainly the Islamic regime as it allows Teheran to "buy time" and gives the republic legitimacy to enrich uranium, Israel Radio reported. n Jerusalem, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened his seven-member inner cabinet to mull Israel's strategy regarding the deal, which, if accepted by Iranian leaders, would delay Teheran's ability to make nuclear weapons by sending most of its known existing enriched uranium to Russia for processing. However, Iran's deputy parliament speaker Mohammad Reza Bahonar was quoted by the off icial IRNA news agency as saying Iran "doesn't accept" the offer, drummed up at a nuclear meeting in Vienna. Bahonar's remark marks the f irst response on the draft in Teheran. But he was not speaking for the government, which is yet to decide on the matter. Iran proposed the deal on the presumption that in exchange for transferring what it considers to be a relatively small amount of uranium to be enriched abroad, it would gain legitimacy to enrich uranium on Iranian soil, off icials reportedly told Israel Radio. The unnamed off icials were quoted as saying that they believe that under the cover of this legitimacy, Teheran would be able to pull off almost any trick, as Iran knows that international supervision is not eff icient enough to reach every underground facility and every hidden batch of centrifuges. In this way, the off icials maintained, Iran hopes to gain more time and support from the public in Western countries. But Israel fears that at a certain point, the Islamic republic could return to enriching uranium at full capacity because according to the deal, the arrangement is limited in both time and
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting. amount. The Israeli assessment is that the Americans are supporting the deal although they are not naĂŻve and are aware of the Iranian deceptiveness, the radio station reported. But Washington is apparently interested in taking conf idence-building steps and in engaging diplomatically with Iran until this option is exhausted. The administration of US President Barack Obama is taking this path to ensure that eventually, it will be able to demand extreme measures and supervision of Iran to prevent it from attaining a nuclear military capability, Jerusalem off icials reportedly said. According to the report, off icials have refrained from publicly commenting on the subject because the government's policy was to maintain contact at the inter-governmental level, and not issue public statements that could potentially harm the complicated American campaign.
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Inaugural Legislative Breakfast Hosted At The JCC of Marine Park
OCTOBER 30, 2009
Upcoming US Governor's Races Pose Test for Obama BY JIM MALONE In addition to the pressing issues of Afghanistan and health care reform, President Barack Obama has been squeezing in a little campaigning on behalf of Democrats running in state elections next month. 009 is not a big election year in the United States. But the governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia on November 3 offer opposition Republicans an opportunity to weaken Mr. Obama and his fellow Democrats in advance of next year's midterm congressional elections. The president made a recent campaign swing to New Jersey where the state's incumbent Democratic governor, John Corzine, is locked in a tight race with Republican candidate Chris Christie and independent contender Chris Dagget. "Your voice can change the world," he said. "Your voice can elect John Corzine governor once again of New Jersey! I need you! John needs you!" After losing control of Congress in 2006 and the White House last year, Republicans are looking to rebound in this year's governor's races, and they seem to have the advantage in Virginia where Republican Bob McDonnell leads Democrat Creigh Deeds in public opinion polls. Political analysts say Republican victories in both Virginia and New Jersey would encourage party activists and energize Obama opponents, setting up a major battle for control of Congress in next year's midterm elections. "Republicans were very down after the 2008 and 2006 elections and really,
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(L-R) David Greenfield - Master of Ceremonies, Shua Gelbstein President of the JCCMP, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Rokeach, Brooklyn Borough Presidnet Marty Markowitz, Jeff Leb - Chairman of the JCCMP, Shea Rubenstein - Executive Vice President of the JCCMP, Yossi Sharf - Treasurer of the JCCMP, Avi Spitzer - Secretary of the JCCMP. BY SIMCHA EICHENSTEIN The Jewish Community Council of Marine Park (JCCMP) hosted their Inaugural legislative breakfast on Sunday Morning. The breakfast, which was called to begin at 9:00 AM was filled to capacity by 8:45 AM. Among the honorees were Rabbi Chaim Halberstam, Congressman Anthony Weiner, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, New York State Senator and Finance Chair Carl Kruger, Senator Marty Golden, NYS Assemblyman Alan Maisel, NYC Councilman Lew Fidler and NYC Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler.
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urprise “Hakaras Hatov” awards were presented to JCCMP Chairman and Co-Founder Jeff Leb as well as JCCMP Executive Vice President and CoFounder Shea Rubsenstein. Also in attendance were Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein, Councilman Simcha Felder, Councilman David Weprin and Councilman Jim Gennaro. The Keynote Speaker was Israel’s Consul General Asaf Shariv. David G. Greenfield, Esq, the Director and Counsel of TEACH NYS was the Master of Ceremonies for the event. The crowd in attendance was also grace by the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, Yitzchok Pindrus. The breakfast had the support and approval of all 15 Shuls in Marine Park. Some of the Rabbonim in attendance presented the awards to the recipients. Among the Rabbonim in attendance were Rabbi Yecheskel Eichenstein, Rabbi Chaim Halberstam, Rabbi Baruch Pesach Mendelson, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Rokeach, Rabbi Benzion Shiffenbauer, Rabbi Yoseph Vigler, Rabbi Elisha Weiss. The breakfast was arranged by The Friedlander Group, with the help of Ezra Friedlander and Simcha Eichens and was beautifully catered by The Mydass Touch run by the fantastic father and son team of Julie Whiteman and Meir Whiteman. The JCCMP’s f irst breakfast was attended by well over 400 people from the greater Marine Park area and throughout Flatbush. Shea Rubenstein, the Executive Vice President of the JCCMP said that “it is truly astounding to see what a group of volunteers has done for Marine Park and beyond. From
Project Mazon to Special Education seminars, to help obtaining Food Stamps and other government support, through our large group of volunteers, we are always ready to be of assistance to our constituents”. When asked if he was surprised by the incredibly large turnout, Jeff Leb, Chairman and Co-Founder of the JCCMP, remarked that “I am pleasantly surprised by the turnout, though I really shouldn’t be. Our organization provides our community with an incredible array of social services and governmental resources. People recognize that and were more than happy to come out and show their support”. Since its inception, Shua Gelbstein, the President of the JCCMP has overseen the administration of the various programs that the JCCMP is involved in and makes sure that a constant level of quality is always upheld. Whenever there is any new program that is released by any agency, Shua makes sure to get the JCCMP involved. Yossi Sharf, who is the Treasurer of the JCCMP has spent hundreds of hours meticulously administering the f inancial accounting of the organization and has made it so that the JCCMP has a perfect accounting of exactly how every penny is spent. Avi Spitzer, who volunteers as Secretary for the JCCMP when not working in the off ice of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and who presented an award to NYC Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler said that “from a totally objective point of view, I have been to hundreds of events throughout my career, but I don’t remember the inaugural event of any organization coming to close to what we witnessed today”. This sentiment was echoed by JCCMP Board Member and perennial perfectionist Aharon Laufer, who took care of every aspect of this breakfast from start to f inish. Although Aharon likes to be “behind the scenes” he allowed himself a moment of satisfaction when the event was over and said that “this truly was an unbelievable event celebrating a period of remarkable accomplishments for the JCCMP. I look forward to trying to top this next year”.
Dorothy Bridges, chief executive at City First Bank of D.C. meets with a customer. polls numbers are not so good for them today as a party," said John Fortier, a political scholar with the American Enterprise Institute. "But President Obama is starting to show that he is not quite as popular, or that he does not walk on water in the way that many people thought at the beginning of his term and his popularity has come down." Democratic-leaning analysts take issue with that notion. Simon Rosenberg is president and founder of the New Democrat Network, a center-left political organization based in Washington. "I think the Republicans, if they end up winning both - and I don't know that they will - I'm sure that they will crow that there is a whole new day dawning and that there has been a rejection of Obamaism and all that," Rosenberg said. "But they have to be a little bit
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REAL ESTATE
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Solaria Condo’s To Be Auctioned Off, A Hard Hit For Developers BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF The Solaria, a sleek 20 story condominium located on West 237th Street in Riverdale, Bronx, masters over the other buildings in the low-rise neighborhood. The building dressed with a glass-wall façade, is somewhat a replica of what one is accustomed to seing throughout Manhattan, where luxurious and sheik condominiums reside.
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he Solaria condominium has a rooftop with an observatory telescope, a children’s playroom, a fully-loaded entertainment center with a lounge, massive balconies, parking on premises; however, the beautiful complex has everything buy buyers. Following the condominium going on the market in the fall of 2006, the developers announced that 64 apartments had been sold; however since then the developer offered a variety of incentives such as a one-time $30,000 educational credit, promises to make mortgage payments for up to a year if a buyer were laid off, and a free iPod for everyone that showed up at the marketing event. With offers such as these, the developers were certain that buyers would flock to the condominium, but a dwindling economy and real estate market have proved otherwise. As of last week, only 10 buyers had actually closed on apartments, the last in September 2008, before the financial crisis.
Now the developer is offering the remaining 54 units at auction on Nov. 22 in what Jim Corum, the president of REDC, the California auction company that is handling the sale, called an “accelerated marketing plan.” While it is not unheard of that large blocks of homes in distressed parts of the country are auctioned off, this will be the largest auction in the downturn in the Northeast. Joseph Korff, the developer, said he was not facing pressure from lenders, but was disturbed because buyers who seemed to like the project were uncertain as to where the economy is headed and how much the properties are worth. “Now that we have bottomed out, according to the experts,” Korff said, “the approach is, Let the market speak. Price discovery will come out of the process.” Mr. Korff said the minimum bids would be about 55 percent of current asking prices, with the lowest-priced unit, a lowerfloor one-bedroom, offered for a minimum of $299,000. The lowest asking price preauction was about $660,000. A large upper-floor three-bedroom now has an asking price of more than $1.5 million. The auction will take place at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers on Seventh Avenue and 53rd Street in Manhattan. The on-site Solaria sales office, at 640 West 237th Street, is open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The developer of Solaria is offering the remaining 54 units at an auction on Nov 22, 2009
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Multi-Million Dollar Investment Transforms “Limelight” Into Retail Marketplace BY MAXINE DOVERE “It will be like being on the streets of Paris! Imagine the fragrance – fresh olives, cheeses, everything in open display.” Jack Menashe is exuberant about the transformation of the historic , 163year-old former Episcopal Church – once home to the legendary Limelight Nightclub – into a fantastic indoor “street of shops,” complete with elaborate facades designed to “invoke the feeling of a stroll down a marvelous European street.” enashe, a creative force in the fashion world, says the “Limelight Marketplace delivers an innovative shopping experience for customers who have ‘seen it all.’ The more than 10 million dollar renovation will provide “an unprecedented opportunity for visionary merchants - something for everyone – affordable fashion, unique artwork and home décor, a candy shop that would impress Willy Wonka himself, and an organic market offering the ultimate selection of international specialty foods including caviar, cheese, foie gras and pate, gourmet chocolates, oils and vinegars, specialty meats and many other gastronomic delights.” The Limelight Marketplace will feature a full service spa, creations by some 50 jewelry designers, a “cutting edge apothecary”, and a “street-smart” boutique for NYC’s “skater” culture. Visitors to the Limelight will be able to
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Jack Menashe, developer of the Limelight Marketplace, seen here with architectural renditions displaying the project's design. indulge their gastronomic imaginations, selecting from a wide selection of gourmet and organic ingredients for at home cooking or enjoying a delicious meal at one of Limelight’s charming restaurants. The Marketplace will feature a gallery displaying the work of new artists in the same place visitors can discover some of the most compelling elements of Manhattan, all under one historic roof. The Limelight Marketplace, scheduled to open March 1, 2010, is designed to be a
Combining the old and the new: developers of the Limelight Marketplace are creating new retail spaces placing state of the art retail construction within the shell of a land marked New York city building.
The creative force behind the multi-million dollar retail mall, Jack Menashe is leading a project that will bring more than 60 new merchants to the historic "Ladies' Mile" shopping district. “shopping destination.” Construction is actively underway. Extensive effort is being made to preserve many of the historic components of the structures throughout the building including the famed stained glass windows which still shed their glow over an interior space replete with original arches, vestibules, and nooks and crannies that will soon house a multitude of “innovative shopping” venues. Outdoor space is being created that will encourage visitors to “come and stay awhile,” perhaps enjoying their Marketplace food and beverage purchases. More than 10 million dollars is being invested in the extensive renovation. The Marketplace will be a vibrant addition to the historic Ladies Mile district, renowned as a premier shopping district for over a hundred years. It is an economic engine for the neighborhood, expected to creating hundreds of jobs in the more than 60 planned shops and restaurants. Renowned designer James Mansour is restoring the unique building to its “original glory” creating “a space that is exciting visually, sensually, spiritually, and intellectually.” The atmosphere is “theatrical and fun – a merges of uptown and downtown, street and
luxury.” Menashe is conscientiously concerned about being a good neighbor. Aware of problems that earlier occupant had had with area residents, he stressed that Limelight Marketplace intends to be a positive addition to the area. “There will be no dancing, no loud music. We have had the zoning usage changed,” he emphatically noted. “The Limelight Market is good for business,” says Menashe. It provides an economical alternative for boutique retailers and entrepreneurs - space is available at a fraction of the cost of a local street-front address, and the “mall” setting provides “a turn-key solution for startups or established brands looking for a presence in the New York City retail market.” Participants will enjoy state of the art Point of Sale (POS) systems, the latest retail technology, efficient store buildout and maintenance support, branded materials and marketing, PR and visual merchandising services. The Limelight Marketplace: 656 Avenue of the Americas, New York; will be open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., beginning March 1, 2010
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BY PAUL BUBNY In a major setback for the owners of Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town, and potentially the landlords of thousands of rent-stabilized apartments across the city, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday that the massive complex’s ownership improperly raised rents while also receiving J-51 tax incentives for renovations. The closely-watched ruling from the New York State Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court decision issued earlier this year.
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Thousands of Executives Salaries Slashed BY AFP The Obama administration's corporate pay czar will impose slashing cuts of up to 90 percent on cash salaries of top executives of firms bailed out with billions of dollars of taxpayer funds. n a dramatic government intervention, Treasury official Kenneth Feinberg was due to target corporate titans from seven firms rescued with government bailouts, amid a growing public backlash at outlandish executive pay. Some 175 top executives at firms including Citigroup, AIG, Bank of America, and Chrysler are expected to suffer an average pay hit of up to 90 percent to bloated cash salaries which will mostly slump to below half a million dollars. Other firms propped up with taxpayer support and facing salary cuts under the scheme include General Motors Co., GMAC Inc, Chrysler Financial, a government source said. The White House did not immediately comment on Feinberg's moves, due to be rolled out later on Thursday. But on Wednesday, White House deputy spokesman Bill Burton praised him "for doing what the president put him in place to do." Obama appointed Feinberg to the new post of "special master" in June, with powers to reject salary plans from firms getting tax-
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liberty to discuss the matter further at this time," a spokesman said. For many of the 175 executives targeted under Feinberg's moves, the cash they would have received will be replaced by stock that will be restricted from immediate sale. Total compensation for the top earners, including stock and bonuses, was expected to drop on average The Obama administration's corporate pay by about 50 percent under czar will impose slashing cuts of up to 90% the plan. on cash salaries of top executives. The Wall Street Journal said Feinberg would also payer help if they are deemed "excessive or demand a series of "corporate-governance" inappropriate," officials said. changes at the firms. Critics of the scheme have complained at They included splitting the positions of government interference in the free market, chairman and chief executive officer and or warn that the pay cuts may see already requiring boards of directors to create a comstruggling firms loose top executive talent to mittee to assess risk. competitors not subject to pay curbs. Some of the toughest pay restrictions will General Motors said in a statement that it come at the financial-products unit of AIG, was in talks with Feinberg's office regarding blamed for the insurance giant's near-colexecutive compensation. "We will have fur- lapse at the height of the crisis, the Journal ther information once those discussions have said. concluded," a spokesman said. No employee within that unit will receive Chrysler Group said was also working compensation of more than 200,000 dollars, with Feinberg's office. it said, citing people familiar with the matter. "We are awaiting public announcement of Leaders from the world's biggest the findings and recommendations of the economies pledged during a Group of 20 'special master' and his team. We are not at summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in
Barclays Snaps Up Standard Life Bank Division BY ROLAND JACKSON British bank Barclays bought the home loans and savings arm of insurer Standard Life, pursuing its expansion strategy after the part-purchase of failed US titan Lehman Brothers last year.
British bank Barclays has bought the home loans and savings arm of insurer Standard Life.
arclays, which has avoided state control unlike rival British banks that were beaten by the credit crunch, said in a statement it will buy Standard Life Bank for 226 million pounds (246 million euros, 369 million dollars) in cash. Around 270 Standard Life employees will transfer to Barclays upon completion of the deal, which was expected in the f irst quarter of 2010 subject to regulatory approval. The news comes more than one year after Barclays clinched a deal to acquire the North American investment banking and capital markets businesses of collapsed Lehman for 1.75 billion dollars (1.24 billion euros). Barclays added Monday that it would also explore further strategic opportunities with Standard Life in the savings and investments sector. "The acquisition of Standard Life Bank is a good f it with Barclays existing UK retail banking business," said Frits Seegers, chief executive of Barclays Global Retail and Commercial
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Banking, in the statement. He added: "This transaction brings to Barclays high-quality savings and mortgage books, and an attractive customer base. "We also look forward to working together with Standard Life in the longterm savings and investments sector. "We believe that we will be able to drive signif icant value for customers and shareholders -- both through this acquisition and through the strategic initiative." Standard Life Bank, which has no retail branch network, was launched back in 1998. The division had posted underlying pre-tax prof its of 26 million pounds in the year to the end of December 2008. It also saw pre-tax prof its of 15 million pounds in the six months to the end of June 2009. "Barclays Bank plc has agreed to acquire Standard Life Bank plc from
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September to tackle the issue of executive compensation in the financial sector, which many say played a role in encouraging reckless behavior by rewarding excessive risktaking. In a communique issued at the end of the summit, leaders pledged "to implement strong international compensation standards," but the impact of the executive salary cuts imposed by Feinberg was expected to be less significant than some had hoped because the average cuts are skewed by a few individual cases. The Washington Post reported that among the cases used to calculate the average cuts was the 100 million dollar bonus that Citigroup intended to pay star trader Andrew Hall. Ultimately, Citigroup opted to sell Hall's unit to another company and defer his payment until 2010, when it will not come under Feinberg's mandate, meaning his 2009 bonus is listed as zero. Another case that may skew the average is the salary that Bank of America's outgoing Chief Executive Ken Lewis has agreed to forfeit. He will still be paid 70 million dollars in retirement money by the bank, which received 45 billion in government aid. The Post said Feinberg will also seek to curtail some of the most extravagant corporate perks offered to executives, including the use of corporate jets for personal travel, drivers and reimbursement for country club membership.
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Mayor Bloomberg Announces 30 Initiatives to Grow New York City’s Green Economy BY STU LOESER Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced a comprehensive plan to grow New York City’s green economy. he 30 initiatives that comprise the plan will support and attract green businesses and entrepreneurs and provide specialized training to prepare New Yorkers for green jobs. The initiatives – which build upon PlaNYC, the City’s comprehensive sustainability plan – will support the creation of 13,000 new jobs, doubling the City’s green sector workforce. Together, they will help foster a supportive environment for the green sector, focused on four target areas that will account for 70 percent of green sector jobs in the City over the next decade: green buildings, onsite renewable energy, carbon trading and finance, and greener neighborhoods. The City is investing more than $7.5 million to implement the initiatives while also leveraging existing City, State and federal stimulus funds. Strengthening key industries and diversifying the economy is an important part of the City’s Five Borough Economic Opportunity Plan to create jobs for New Yorkers today, implement a vision for longterm economic growth, and build affordable, attractive neighborhoods. “We hear a lot about the potential of green jobs as a driver of future economic growth, but often the rhetoric is not matched with a real plan to capitalize on opportunities,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “The initiatives we’re announcing today
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will take advantage of the progressive sustainability practices we continue to put in place in New York City, and will create real green jobs by attracting and growing green businesses and helping the City’s workforce be prepared to meet the demand for green skill-specific jobs.”
“With its talented workforce and legacy of innovation, we believe New York City is well-poised to become a leader in green technology.” “In the past few months, we’ve announced initiatives to bolster key sectors of the New York City economy, including tourism, bioscience, media, technology, nonprof its, entrepreneurialism and industrial businesses along the South Brooklyn waterfront,” said Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert C. Lieber. “Today, we’re unveiling the latest strategy – one to grow green jobs. New York City has the most forward-thinking sustainability plan of any city in the nation – PlaNYC, a cutting-edge real estate industry and an unparalleled, diverse workforce. Combined, these strengths put us in terrif ic position to capture the growth of a green economy, and our initiatives will
capitalize on them.” Over the past two years, the City worked with more than 20 agencies, conducted 145 stakeholder interviews, and consulted with numerous experts from across the industry to determine the scope of the City’s green sector, identifying a cluster of between 12,000 and 14,000 existing jobs. In addition, the City received over 60 responses to a Request for Expressions of Interest on renewable energy projects it released last year, which led to the development of the renewable energy strategy embedded in this plan. The plan seeks to capitalize on New York City’s inherent strengths and facilitate its transformation to a green economy by (1) driving demand for green products and services through innovative policies; (2) catalyzing economic development through job creation; (3) ensuring that workers have the skills needed to succeed in the green economy; and (4) providing workers and businesses with the information on incentives, technology, and programs they need to spur growth in the green economy. “With its talented workforce and legacy of innovation, we believe New York City is well-poised to become a leader in green technology,” said New York City Economic Development Corporation President Seth W. Pinsky. “These initiatives are designed to capture the jobs created from this emerging sector and ensure a diverse and thriving local economy, which in turn will secure
New York City’s position as one of the most sustainable cities in the world.” “Through PlaNYC and the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan, the City is driving demand for green businesses and jobs,” said Director of the Mayor’s Off ice of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability Rohit Aggarwala. “These efforts in conjunction with the plan released today will create jobs, reduce energy consumption, generate new green spaces throughout the city, and produce cleaner energy, helping us meet our goal of reducing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2030 while strengthening the economy.” “The skills of our workforce will be integral to the advancement of our City’s green economy,” said Philip Weinberg, President of the New York City Workforce Investment Board, which is leading the City’s green workforce development initiatives. “We are making signif icant training investments to ensure that New Yorkers have the skills needed for these emerging green jobs.” For a complete list of the 30 initiatives, visit nyc.gov. Highlights of the initiatives include: Develop Urban Technology Innovation Center To address the lack of a major green technology research and development center, the City will partner with an academic institution or NGO to develop an Urban Technology Innovation Center. The Center will drive
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THE PEOPLE’S VOICE EDITORIAL
Mayor Bloomberg, The Better Choice Continued from Cover Democratic nominee, is a competent, accomplished civil servant. In another contest, at another time, he could have proven a strong opponent. In this election, he is however, unable to catch the tail of Mike Bloomberg’s comet. Given, it is difficult to argue against Bloomberg’s success in handling the issues with which New Yorkers are concerned – crime is radically down, education success much improved – still, Mr. Thompson has focused more on attacking Bloomberg rather than detailing a platform of his own. Perhaps it is the business acumen so naturally his, perhaps the combination of his personal mazal – Makom, Z’man, L’ HaShem - the right time, the right place, with a bit of G-d’s help - that has enhanced this Mayor’s prowess. Certainly his political skill has improved since January, 2002. His government has had greater accountability and demanded greater efficiency from each of its components. He has transferred much of the transparency he fostered in business to the often dark and hidden halls of city government. Not only are basic services – police, fired, sanitation – working better, Bloomberg has made the city far more user friendly, initiating quick response mechanisms like 311 and the parent’s complaint line. Although running on Republican and Independent Party lines, and despite his vast personal wealth, the mayor’s actions recall his middle class roots. His efforts to fight foreclosures, improve educational resources, increase job availability and assist small businesses are essential to the future economic and social health of the city. The mayor has instituted significant social changes - despite outcries from some sectors. The smoking ban, for example, will have long range benefits affecting everyone – especially for the city’s children. Taking control of the schools, the mayor has increased educational options, encouraging charter school development, encouraging student performance and overall reversing school decline. He has demanded accountability at every level – from supervisors to principals, from teachers to students. In the non-profit sector, many, especially organizations engaged in human services and the arts, have benefited from his generosity. (His gifts are said to approach $250 million annually; grants that have been multi-year – clearly not an election year exercise. Michael Bloomberg is the more talented candidate on the ballot. We enthusiastically endorse Mayor Michael Bloomberg for re-election. Among the other candidates that the Jewish Voice is endorsing are: Public Advocate For the position of public advocate we endorse Councilman Bill de Blasio. Mr. de Blasio has a renowned record as a councilman who is dedicated to the best interests of the public. His fine work in areas such as development and toxic waste issues has been addressed with fine judgment. New York City Comptroller We endorse Councilman John C.
Liu for comptroller. Mr. Liu accumulated remarkable numbers in both the primary and runoff elections in September. Liu is noted for managing a team of actuaries working on the largest pension plans in the country at one of the world's leading accounting firms prior to his electionBrooklyn Borough President We endorse the reelection of Marty Markowitz. His admiration of Brooklyn combined with his vast knowledge of Brooklyn politics is key. Mr. Markowitz has spearheaded a revitalization of Brooklyn as a commercial and real estate hub, as well as sponsoring events for people of all ages to enjoy around Brooklyn. Manhattan District Attorney We endorse Cyrus Vance, Jr. for district attorney in Manhattan. Mr. Vance is an impressive candidate in the race. He has been a prominent criminal and civil trial lawyer and is well known for his quiet yet competent demeanor. Brooklyn District Attorney We endorse Charles J. Hynes for reelection. Though he is running unopposed, we nevertheless take this opportunity to salute this indefatigable public official who has pioneered effective preventive programs to complement a vigorous program of law enforcement. New York City Council District 40, Brooklyn (Kensington, Ditmas Park, parts of Crown Heights, Flatbush, East Flatbush): We endorse Dr. Mathieu Eugene for reelection. A medical doctor, he has played an important role in both his public and private capacities when it's come to the health needs of the district's residents as well as the problems of alienated and disaffected youth. District 44, Brooklyn (Boro Park): We endorse Simcha Felder. With two and a half decades of experience in public service, Simcha Felder has built a reputation as a dedicated and committed advocate for his district, bringing results to Brooklynites and championing common-sense legislative policies that demand accountability from the government to tax-payers. District 45, Brooklyn (parts of Flatbush, East Flatbush and Canarsie): We endorse Jumaane D. Williams. Mr Williams has stressed the importance he gives to problem solving and his commitment to addressing issues of great importance to the constituents in the 45th council district. District 47, Brooklyn (Coney Island, Gravesend, Bensonhurst): We endorse Domenic Recchia, Jr. Since his election to the City Council in 2002, Mr. Recchia has always been accessible to his Jewish constituents and responsive to their concerns. He takes a straightforward, uncomplicated approach to public issues and strives to cut through the irrelevancies. District 48, Brooklyn (Midwood, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach):In the 48th district we endorse Michael C. Nelson. Mike Nelson has involved himself in an array of activities and has the reputation as a "go to" elected official. He is always there to help and his constituent services operation is unparalleled.
Do you have something on your mind that you would like to share with our readers? Is there something you have read in our newspaper that you would like to comment on? The Jewish Voice welcomes your opinions, suggestions and insight. Please submit your letters to info@jewishvoiceny.com We look forward to hearing from you.
Dear Editor, I have been reading your newpaper for some time now and I am always fascinated by the array of subjects that it covers. Most often I find myself reading and re-reading your Kashrut, Health and New York articles ( I find these to aim closest to home and aren’t given the coverage they deserve from other
publications; however, I also take great interest in the articles based on national and international affairs, especially those that highlight Jewish communities abroad. Reading your newspaper is a pleasure! Sincerely, Ruth Weinstein
Dear Editor, While I greatly aprecciate all of the articles in your newspaper, especially the Arts & Culture section because I take great interest in the arts, it also provides a wonderful community section like none other. Also, what a treat to read such a magnificent article about fashion designer Karen Sabag, The dresses she creates are like none other and therefore to compliment her talent by publishing this article was wonderful!
Thanks for also including pictures of the dresses she’s made because it really provides the reader with a look at how talented she really is! Perhaps in the future you can do something similar on Isaac Mizrahi, I also am intrigued by his work. Thanks Again! Esther Steiner
Dear Editor, I read Caroline Glick’s piece on Turkey and it is sad but true. I agree with everything she says. I am a Turkish Jew living in the US for almost 30 years. The current developments in Turkey disturb me immensely.
Kol Tuv. Besorot Tovot. Marko Issever
Dear Editor, Jewish Voice let’s hear it for Dudu! I have been hearing his music for most of my teenage years and young adult life, but never had the opportunity to see him in concert. Usually I don;t find enjoyment in attending concert because I find them to be over crowded and half the time you are trying to hear the singer over the shouts of an enthusiastic crowd. Yet, I was
suprised that Dudu Fisher’ s concert was like none other! It was wonderful to say the least and I recommend that your readers see him the next time he’s singing live! Thanks for advertising it! Sincerely, Steven Meir
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Turkey: An Ally No More BY DANIEL PIPES "There is no doubt he is our friend," Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdo an, says of Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These outrageous assertions point to the profound change of orientation by Turkey's government, for six decades the West's closest Muslim ally, since Erdo an's AK party came to power in 2002. hree events this past month reveal the extent of that change. The first came on October 11 with the news that the Turkish military – a long-time bastion of secularism and advocate of cooperation with Israel – abruptly asked Israeli forces not to participate in the annual "Anatolian Eagle" air force exercise. Erdo an cited "diplomatic sensitivities" for the cancelation and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto lu spoke of "sensitivity on Gaza, East Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa mosque." The Turks specifically rejected Israeli planes that may have attacked Hamas (an Islamist terrorist organization) during last winter's
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Gaza Strip operation. While Damascus applauded the disinvitation, it prompted the U.S. and Italian governments to withdraw their forces from Anatolian Eagle, which in turn meant canceling the international exercise. As for the Israelis, this "sudden and unexpected" shift shook to the core their military alignment with Turkey, in place since 1996. Former air force chief Eytan Ben-Eliyahu, for example, called the cancelation "a seriously worrying development." Jerusalem immediately responded by reviewing Israel's practice of supplying Turkey with advanced weapons, such as the recent $140 million sale to the Turkish Air Force of targeting pods. The idea also arose to stop helping the Turks defeat the Armenian genocide resolutions that regularly appear before the U.S. Congress. Barry Rubin of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya not only argues that "The Israel-Turkey alliance is over" but concludes that Turkey's armed forces no longer guard the secular republic and can no longer intervene when the government becomes too Islamist. The second event took place two days later, on October 13, when Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem announced that Turkish and Syrian forces had just "carried out maneuvers near Ankara." Moallem rightly called this an important development "because it refutes reports of poor relations between the military and political insti-
tutions in Turkey over strategic relations with Syria." Translation: Turkey's armed forces lost out to its politicians. Thirdly, ten Turkish ministers, led by Davuto lu, joined their Syrian counterparts on October 13 for talks under the auspices of the just-established "Turkey-Syria High Level Strategic Cooperation Council." The ministers announced having signed almost 40 agreements to be implemented within 10 days; that "a more comprehensive, a bigger" joint land military exercise would be held than the f irst one in April; and that the two countries' leaders would sign a strategic agreement in November. The council's concluding joint statement announced the formation of "a long-term strategic partnership" between the two sides "to bolster and expand their cooperation in a wide spectrum of issues of mutual benef it and interest and strengthen the cultural bonds and solidarity among their peoples." The council's spirit, Davuto lu explained, "is common destiny, history and future; we will build the future together," while Moallem called the gettogether a "festival to celebrate" the two peoples. Bilateral relations have indeed been dramatically reversed from a decade earlier, when Ankara came perilously close to war with Syria. But improved ties with Damascus are only one part of a much larger effort by Ankara to
enhance relations with regional and Muslim states, a strategy enunciated by Davuto lu in his influential 2000 book, Stratejik derinlik: Türkiye'nin uluslararası konumu ("Strategic Depth: Turkey's International Position"). In brief, Davuto lu envisions reduced conflict with neighbors and Turkey emerging as a regional power, a sort-of modernized Ottoman Empire. Implicit in this strategy is a distancing of Turkey from the West in general and Israel in particular. Although not presented in Islamist terms, "strategic depth" closely f its the AK party's Islamist world view. As Barry Rubin notes, "the Turkish government is closer politically to Iran and Syria than to the United States and Israel." Caroline Glick, a Jerusalem Post columnist, goes further: Ankara already "left the Western alliance and became a full member of the Iranian axis." But off icial circles in the West seem nearly oblivious to this momentous change in Turkey's allegiance or its implications. The cost of their error will soon become evident. Mr. Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org) is director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. © 2009 by Daniel Pipes. All rights reserved.
What Parents Want BY RON KOAS While many parents have the inclination and the ability to afford their children a day school or yeshiva education, thousands of Jewish families, either by circumstance or choice, choose to combine secular schools with “religious school” studies. Following is a brief analysis by Ron Koas, Educational Director of one of the United States’ premier Religious Schools. typical “religious school” curriculum includes Torah study, Hebrew language, Jewish values, holidays, and history. Some feel that schools with such a curriculum “occupy a relatively narrow niche” and do not serve substantial populations of Jewish families. Indeed, the education offered by supplementary schools doesn't always match the needs of the child or his/her family. Accordingly, it is incumbent upon the school’s Education Director to be in constant conversation with parents regarding what matters to them to assist and encourage their children to grow up Jewish and happy. Through conversation, together in partnership, the professional can uncover those deep desires from parents and then work with them to shape the Religious School to meet their needs. From my years of experience in the field of Jewish education, I have discovered that most parents want the following: They want their children to feel nurtured and cared about. It is the responsibility of every Education Director, every Principle, to strive to create a
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caring community, one in which each child is greeted warmly and feels welcome. A synagogue community should be guided by Torah values. We're not just nice, we are living what we teach-v’ahavta lereach kamocha. Teaching can be done in an informal, accepting atmosphere where children feel comfortable expressing ideas and sharing thoughts about curriculum material. Parents want teachers to be knowledgeable and employ developmentallyappropriate practices. Faculty member needs to structure his/her classrooms and lessons in a developmentallyappropriate manner, with a focus on childcentered, participatory, hands-on learning. Teachers also need to promote thoughtful and inquisitive Jewish learning, rather than rote information acquisition. Learning needs to be linked to the real-life questions and needs of children. Jewish learning is about a path to daily life. Parents want their kids to feel comfortable in and enriched by a synagogue setting. Students should have opportunities to explore the synagogue beyond the classroom; they must feel as comfortable in the sanctuary as they do in the classroom. Members of the clergy should be integrated into our schools so that they will be familiar to the children. Parents want their children to study subjects of interest to them. Older students should have the opportunity to choose one or two electives at Religious School, whether that may be Jewish cooking or Pirkei Avot. An advanced-level Hebrew elective can be offered. Students need to be encouraged to pursue independent study, researching and developing a project on a topic of interest.
Parents don’t want to feel that they are “behind” their children in Jewish learning. A synagogue must strive to be a congregation of learners of all ages. The Education Director must be committed to family programming. He/She needs to promote the participation of parents in educational experiences alongside their children. Torah study, joint community service, shabbaton retreats—all are ways to instill in students and their families a love of Jewish learning and a commitment to the Jewish community. Most of all, parents want their children to be happy. Every Religious School principal should ensure that his/her school’s atmosphere is a positive one. For many parents and children, “Hebrew School” was and continues to be a
place “we’ve come to know and often hate.” This does not have to be the case. A Congregational School can and should be a place where children are enthusiastic about Jewish learning and where parents’ voices are heard. Through both one-on-one and community-wide conversations, an Educational Director can build partnerships with parents in order to create a Religious School children and parents can be happy with.
Ron Koas is Education Director of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. He is an alumnus of the UJA-funded Hebrew Union College/Jewish Theological Seminary Leadership Institute For Congregational School Educators.
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OU Kosher to Present Join Assemblyman Dov Hikind ‘Cooking on Shabbat’ Webcast on a Solidarity Mission to Yehuda and Shomron BY STEPHEN STEINER
On the heels of the success of and feedback from previous OU Kosher webcasts to which thousands of listeners have tuned in, OU Kosher will present "Cooking on Shabbat -- A Hot Topic -- News & Views about Stews & Brews" featuring OU Kosher authorities and senior halachic consultants Rabbi Yisroel Belsky and Rabbi Hershel Schachter. The webcast will take place Tuesday, November 17, 3:30 PM EST. To watch the webcast live, visit www.ou.org/ouradio/kosher_webcast/.
BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF Assemblyman Dov Hikind is proud to announce a chizuk mission to Israel, November 14-18, 2009.
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how support for the 300,000 Jews living in Yehuda & Shomron as well as the 300,000 Jews living in East Jerusalem. Help give chizuk to our brethren and send a message to Washington that Jews have the legal, national, and religious right to live in any part of Eretz Yisroel. Spend two days touring threatened communities in Yehuda and Shomron including: Itamar, Har Bracha, Alon Moreh, Yitzar, Kedumim, Shilo, Beit El, Gush Etzion and others. Spend the f inal day in Jerusalem visiting Ateret Cohanim’s newest neighborhoods keeping Jerusalem united with Jewish life and culture. We will begin our trip from JFK on November 14th, arriving at Ben Gurion, Israel at approximately 5 PM, November 15th. From there we will travel to our hotel in Ariel, which will be our base for the f irst two days. Our f inal night and day will be in Jerusalem, where we will spend the day touring the Old City and the surrounding areas with Ateret Cohanim. The cost of the trip is $1,350 all inclusive, and promises to be an
he webcast is part of OU Kosher's continuing educational outreach to the community that includes the "OU Kosher Coming to Schools and Communities" program, and the informative and entertaining Kosher Tidbits postings, now numbering close to 140 on OU Radio. Recent Tidbits include: "Reputation Preservation: Kashrut and Maris Ayin," featuring Rabbi Dovid Bistricer and "The Milk of Human Kindness," presented by Rabbi Eli Gersten. They are newly posted on OU Kosher Tidbits www.ouradio.org/ouradio/channel/C301 In announcing the upcoming webcast, Rabi Eliyahu Safran, OU Kosher's Vice President of Communications and Marketing, spoke of the "beauty of the Shabbat and the imperative to seek every way to enhance its celebration with the f inest of Shabbat meals, which include hot foods. When one is familiar with the intricate cooking laws of Shabbat, it's so much easier to prepare.
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The webcast instructs how to enhance the finest shbbat meals. The knowledge and information to be learned during this webcast is vital for making Shabbat as pleasurable as it should be." Topics will include: various types of keilim, bishul achar bishul, use of a blech, crock pot, and urn.
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Young Israel Movement Applauds Congressional Resolution Condeming Goldstone Report BY AARON TROODLER The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) today praised a resolution recently introduced in the United States Congress, which calls on President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to oppose any endorsement or further consideration of the Goldstone Report. The Goldstone Report, a nearly 600-page document prepared by former South African Judge Richard Goldstone about Israel's military operations in Gaza last winter, alleges that Israel committed war crimes during the military conflict. The United Nations Human Rights Council recently endorsed the Goldstone Report and urged the United Nations to take further action. ouse Resolution 867, which is entitled "Calling on the President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the 'Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict' in multilateral fora," says that the U.S. Congress considers the Goldstone Report "to be irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy."
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"It is especially heartwarming to see American lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle express their staunch support of the State of Israel and its right to engage in self defense tactics when attacked by its enemies." In addition, the resolution supports the Obama Administration's efforts to combat anti-Israel bias at the United Nations and its opposition to the United Nations Human Rights Council's resolution. Further, the resolution "reaff irms its support for the
democratic, Jewish State of Israel, for Israel's security and right to selfdefense, and, specif ically, for Israel's right to defend its citizens from violent militant groups and their state sponsors."
"This bipartisan congressional resolution is a strong rebuke to the biased report....� The bipartisan resolution was introduced by Congresswoman Ileana RosLehtinen, the Ranking Member on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and co-sponsored by Congressman Howard Berman, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Congressman Dan Burton, the Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, and Congressman Gary Ackerman, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia. "This bipartisan congressional resolution is a strong rebuke to the biased report authored by Judge Richard Goldstone, which turned a blind eye to the facts at hand and issued an unwarranted and inexplicable condemnation of Israel," said NCYI President Shlomo Z. Mostofsky. "It is especially heartwarming to see American lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle express their staunch support of the State of Israel and its right to engage in self defense tactics when attacked by its enemies." NCYI President Shlomo Z. Mostofsky and NCYI Executive Vice President Rabbi Pesach Lerner recently wrote a letter to President Obama in which they called on the United States to immediately condemn the Goldstone Report. In their letter, Mostofsky and Lerner wrote that the report contains a disproportionate amount of criticism of Israel as opposed to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization that f ired thousands of deadly rockets at innocent Israeli men, women, and children, and used civilians as human shields.
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Umschlagplatz Dedicated in Czestochowa, Poland BY SHMUEL BEN ELIEZER Reporting from Poland Poland is a country of memories and last week over a thousand people gathered from all over the world to remember and honor the Holocaust victims in Czestochowa. They came from as far away as NY and Australia, Israel and South America, as well as from all over Poland. n a moving ceremony a monument was unveiled with full military honors at the site where tens of thousands of Jews were gathered before being sent to their deaths in Treblinka. Mr. Shmuel Willenberg, one of the few remaining survivors of the Treblinka uprising, designed the impressive monument, was present for the unveiling along with the projects patron, Mr. Sigmund Rolat. Mr. Rolat related how he remembers how on this very spot he was forced to say goodbye to his mother as she was forced into a cattle car and taken to be murdered at Treblinka. “Remember,” he extolled the audience of over a thousand. “Tell your children what happened, if we don’t remember it can happen again.” With those words Mr. Rolat, with the help of his children and grand children unvieled the impressive monument. The monument, in the shape of a broken wall was embellished with a Magen David, a Star of David that the Germans
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Mr. Sigmund Rolat in front of the Umschlagplatz monument in Czestochowa. made the Jews wear as a sign of Shame (but for many it was a sign of pride) and a double line representing the train tracks that led to Treblinka. Former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yisrael Meir Lau, who had been interred in Czestochowa during .He Holocaust recalled that on this very spot he had made his f irst speech, begging for his life. “They said that the children were worthless and unproductive and should be taken away to be liquidated.” He had made a small mound of earth to stand on to make himself look taller and said that he was a water carrier that
brought water to the other workers that enabled them to be more productive , “So I said the children do have value., and we were saved.” Rabbi Arthur Schneier,of the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, spoke of the unknowing ways of G-d and as we stood in the rain at such a holy place where so many people were sent off to be martyred just because they were Jews it seemed that thevery heavens were joining us in grief. Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland, was joined in said the Kaddish prayer and Cantor Joseph
Malovany of NY sang a moving rendition of El Malei Rachamim. Another ceremony took place earlier at the Hassag slave labor camp in Czestochowa where a plaque was unveiled where able bodied Jews were force to make munitions for the German war effort, under deplorable conditions until they were considered used up and sent to their deaths in Treblinka. As we remember those that died, the Jews of Czestochowa also celebrated their victory, their survival. Though small in number the local Jewish community hosted their brethren who had moved to the far corners of the world at a reception where there were many hugs, tears, smiles and much laughter. In a further celebration of the Jewish life that had once flourished in Czestochowa, Joshua Bell, one of the greatest violinists of all time, was brought to perform a concert. Mr. Bell brought his famous Stradivarius violin which had once belonged to Bronislaw Huberman, a prodigy who had been born in Czestochowa. Mr. Huberman is fondly remembered as having been given the violin as a young boy by a Polish count and later for founding the orchestra that was later to become the Israeli Philharmonic. In another sign of Jewish victory over the attempts by the Germans to destroy them, a new shopping mall, The f irst in Czestochowa just recently opened, overlooking the Umschagplatz, the mall was developed and owned by Israelis.
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NEWS IN REVIEW NEW YORK JEWISH GROUP: APOLOGY FOR COMPARING SHELLY SILVER TO HITLER WON’T CUT IT A leading Jewish group rejected an up-state Republican’s apology for comparing Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver, the Orthodox Jewish speaker of the state Assembly, to Adolf Hitler and calling him an anti-Christ during a GOP dinner in Buffalo. The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a statement saying the mea culpa by Erie County Executive Chris Collins, who is thinking about running for governor, “is small solace.” “This was not an off the-cuff remark made in the heat of political debate or battle, but during remarks made and prepared for a public audience at a fund-raising event,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Collins tried to call Silver, but did not get through and did not receive a return call.
TAX REFUGEES STAGING ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK New Yorkers are fleeing the state and city in alarming numbers resulting in a large sum of loss tax dollars. More than 1.5 million state residents left for other parts of the United States from 2000 to 2008, according to the report from the Empire Center for New York State Policy. It was the biggest out-of-state migration in the U.S. The vast majority of the migrants, 1.1 million had moved out of New York City. “The Empire State is being drained of an invaluable resource — people,” the report said. The center, part of the Manhattan Institute, blames the state’s high cost of living and high taxes.
MTA HAS MORE PEOPLE WAITING AND LESS TRAVELING People waiting for city transportation are spending more time waiting on subway platforms and in stalled trains, according to the latest MTA f igures. About 25 percent of all weekday trains and half of all weekend trains are late, the data show. In August, the worst delays were the G train, which was on time only 17 percent of the time, and the Q and 1 trains, both of which saw skyrocketing delays compared to August 2008. "I have a couple of horror stories about several lines," said chief Howard
Roberts admitted yesterday. On weekends last August, the E, F and R trains were ranked among the worst with 90 minute delays most of the time.
INTERNATIONAL ABBAS TELLS OBAMA HE WILL RESIGN Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has told the Obama administration that he will resign, an Israeli television channel reported. Abbas is said to have told White House off icials that the peace process cannot advance under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that Abbas will not seek re-election when Palestinian elections, which he recently called for the end of January, are held, Israel's Channel 10 reported Monday evening. Abbas also was angry that the Obama administration "abandoned" him and "capitulated" to Israel on a settlement freeze, Channel 10 reported. The PA president also reportedly said that that his Fatah Party, which controls the West Bank, would never be able to reconcile with Hamas, which controls Gaza. Channel 10 reported that President Obama called Abbas personally in response. A senior aide to Netanyahu told the newscast that the Israeli leader has "taken several steps in order to resume the peace process, as the U.S. government is well aware."
AHMADINEJAD: IRAN WILL KEEP NUKES AS LONG AS ISRAEL DOES Iran will continue to progress in its nuclear program as long as Israel continues to have nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. The Iranian president made the remarks Tuesday during a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the semi-off icial state news agency ISNR reported. "When an illegal regime possesses nuclear weapons, the other countries' rights for peaceful nuclear energy cannot be denied," ISNR quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons but has never admitted to having them. "The Zionist regime is a threat to all nations and it wants the region to be free of strong countries," Ahmadinejad reportedly told Erdogan. "Today we see that applying force in Gaza was not enough for them, so they are attacking holy Jerusalem." Ahmadinejad called on the countries to stand together to overcome regional "threats." The meeting came as United Nations nuclear inspectors visited the site of a previously unknown underground nuclear enrichment plant, and two weeks after Turkey canceled a NATO military exercise due to Israeli participation.
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EGYPT REFUSES TO SIT NIMOY NARRATES WITH LIEBERMAN FILM ABOUT HISTORIC A summit of foreign ministers was SYNAGOGUE postponed after Egypt refused to attend with Avigdor Lieberman. The meeting of foreign ministers of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, which was scheduled for next week in Turkey, was postponed Monday when Egypt said it would not take part if the Israeli foreign minister was among the participants. The partnership includes all 27 member states of the European Union, as well as 16 countries in the southern Mediterranean and the Middle East. France had initiated the foreign ministers' meeting. "It's a shame that Egypt acts in a negative way and takes advantage of a conference meant to develop the region as a political weapon against Minister Lieberman," an Israeli Foreign Ministry off icial told the Israeli media. "In doing so, Egypt is mainly hurting itself and incurs the anger of European nations. It is just one of 47 countries slated to attend the Euro-Med conference on the foreign minister level." Lieberman angered the Egyptians last year when he said President Hosni Mubarak could "go to hell" if he did not want to visit Israel.
Actor Leonard Nimoy narrates a new documentary about a historic synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The f ilm prof iles Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pa., the only synagogue designed by the renowned architect. The building, a National Historic Landmark, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. A screening of the f ilm will be shown at the dedication of the synagogue's newly designed visitors center on Nov. 15. Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker magazine, will be on hand. Nimoy, a celebrated actor noted for his work within the Jewish community, is best known for his role as Spock on the original television series "Star Trek."
STEINHARDT JOINS BOARD OF JDC’S TAUB CENTER Michael Steinhardt has joined the board of the JDC-Taub Center for Social Policy.
The center, founded in 1982 by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, provides leading policymakers in the United States and the general public with analyses and appraisals of policy options in the economic and social spheres. Steinhardt became famous in the hedge-fund world for using often contradictory investment methods to make nearly half a billion dollars. He retired from the investment world in the mid1990s to become a full time philanthropist and was one of the architects of Birthright Israel. “Steinhardt's original thinking will challenge many of the social conventions in Israel and bring fresh and unconventional options to the table,” said Steve Schwager, JDC’s chief executive off icer.
PHILANTHROPIST TIED TO MADOFF FOUND DEAD IN POOL Jeffry Picower, a billionaire philanthropist who supported many Jewish causes and was facing increased scrutiny over his business dealings with Bernard Madoff, was found dead Sunday in a swimming pool at his mansion in Palm Beach, Fla. In the f irst weeks after news of Madoff's Ponzi scheme broke last year, Picower was portrayed as one of the biggest victims and was forced to close his foundation. But in recent months, questions have arisen over his role in recruiting investors for Madoff and whether he knew or had suscpicions about Madoff's activities. According to the most recent tax f ilings before the Picower Foundation was closed, it gave away nearly $2.5 million to Jewish and Jewish-related charities in 2007. Authorities said that Picower’s wife discovered his body and, with help from a housekeeper, pulled it from the water. Palm Beach police are investigating the death as a drowning, but have not ruled out other possibilities regarding the cause of death.
L.A. RABBIS LEAVE FOR ISRAEL UNITY TRIP An interdenominational group of rabbis from Los Angeles left for Israel. The group of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform rabbis from Los Angeles departed for Israel Monday on a joint tour aimed at sending a message of interdenominational unity. The delegation includes Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Rabbi Denise Eger, president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California and a leader of the Jewish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. During its three-day tour the group will attend a memorial service for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and meet with Israeli President Shimon Peres. The mission was initiated by the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles and is being led by Consul General Jacob Dayan.
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Breakfast in Tel Aviv: Ten Rated Among The Best
Atnachta. BY JANNA GUR At almost any given moment someone in Tel Aviv is starting his or her day with coffee, eggs and a chopped salad. Breakfast in Tel Aviv is serious business, and the major players are no longer just cafes and hotels (famous for their lush Israeli breakfast buffets). ome of the best restaurants in town have joined the breakfast club of late. With fully equipped kitchens, professionally trained staff and serious egos, restaurant chefs have taken breakfast up a notch, transforming the basic deal (coffee, juice, eggs any style, bread and Israeli salad) into inspired culinary creations. Breadbaskets feature the likes of mini brioche and sourdough rolls. Yogurt has mag-
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ically morphed into fancy yogurt parfaits, served with exotic fruit salads and home made granola. The Israeli salad is meticulously chopped to order, and served with a side dish of top quality tahini spread. Accompanying cheese platters include samples from leading boutique dairy farms. Forget humble scrambled eggs or a basic omelet - current local favorite is the reinvented shakshuka, a simple Lybian egg dish that has been transformed into a veritable gourmet concoction, featuring anything from seafood to mushroom ragout. Such an elaborate meal deserves at least a fully dedicated hour to consume. And so a sub-category of Tel Aviv breakfast was born – weekend brunch, served on Fridays and Saturdays. In many restaurants weekend brunch has become the most in-demand meal of the week, with local foodies about town
trading information about the best brunch spots. In tune with the indulgent weekend mood, the meal often starts with a champagne cocktail and ends with dessert, but the sweetest part of the deal is the check, which rarely exceeds NIS 70 (about USD 18), including a dreamy cappuccino. Even though most hotel stays include breakfast, and usually a good one, it’s worthwhile to get out of the hotel at least once and join the locals. Here are ten of my breakfast/brunch favorites – restaurants that combine yummy food with lovely ambience. • Dallal This picture perfect restaurant in the charming Neve Tzedek quarter offers great food at all hours. Their breakfast is generous and well prepared, but what sets it apart is the bread basket, probably the most sinful in Tel Aviv, chock full of plump brioches, tiny bread rolls, pistachio f inanciers and other delights. Once f inished, take a short stroll along Kol Israel Haverim Street to visit the Dallal Bakery. The counter, (reflected in a huge, strategically placed gilded mirror) is the birthplace of the restaurant’s breadbasket, displaying a plethora of potential diet busters. On second thought – it might be wiser to stay away. Breakfast served Sun-Thu 09:00-12:00 Weekend brunch served Fri-Sat 12:0017:00 10 Shabazi St., Tel Aviv. Phone: 035109292 • Tazza D'Oro Named after a famous Roman café, this Neve Tzedek landmark serves coffee that’s just as good as its Italian namesake, with food far better than anything you’d get in an Italian café. The chef, Yossef (Yosifon) Mesilati got his culinary education from his Tunisian mom, and his cooking reflects his North-African/Italian heritage. Don't miss out on the excellent shakshuka – the Spinach and Swiss Chard shakshuka is especially outstanding, along with the mushroom ragu variety. Cheese bourekas is another must-try house specialty. Breakfast served Sun-Fri 09:00-12:00 Friday Brunch served Fri-Sat 12:0017:00 6 Echad Ha'am St., Tel Aviv. Phone: 03-5166329 • La Bon Patisserie French accent laced Hebrew welcomes customers to this little Parisian ex-pat hot spot. Albert Dejan, who worked in the f inest Parisian patisseries, and his f iancée opened this tiny café about a year ago on fashionable Basel Street. Theirs is a rather coquettish French take on the Israeli breakfast – a plate of sweet and savory pastries,
including mini quiches (in lieu of the omelet) and a token mini-bowl of Israeli salad. Or you can just have a coffee and croissant. Breakfast served on Fridays 14:00-08:00 40 Bazel St., Tel Aviv. Phone: 077-5506010 • Manta Ray One of the f irst restaurants to open its doors to the morning crowd, Manta Ray still serves one of the most in demand Tel Avivian breakfasts. Grab a table on the beachside terrace and laze the morning away. Service tends to be slow, but hey, it's Friday with a sea view, what's the rush? Breakfast served all week 09:00-11:30 West Beach, Tel Aviv. Phone: 03-5174773 • Comme il Faut Strategically located on the waterfront of the touristy Tel Aviv Port, this restaurant is part of the women-oriented complex which also houses Comme il Faut’s flagship designer clothing shop, an art gallery, a women-only spa, and even a women-oriented sex shop called Sisters. You can enjoy your meal in the spacious and airy dining hall or on the terrace by the sea (on cool days waiters distribute blankets for snuggling up). Health food fans will be delighted with the homemade granola with goat’s milk yogurt and one of the best Israeli salads in town. Breakfast served Sun-Thu 09:00-12:00, Fri-Sat 09:00-13:00 Tel Aviv Port, Hanger 26. Phone: 03-7171500 • Hotel Montefiore Only a handful of buildings in Tel Aviv deserve be called "mansions", and this is one of them. The newly renovated three-story townhouse is home to an exquisite boutique hotel and one of the hottest restaurants in town. The décor transports you to the French Colonial Vietnam, which is also reflected in the menu. The breakfast menu is a delectable mishmash of continental classics and local must haves. Go for the decadent: Pain Perdu (French Toast) or Eggs Benedict. Breakfast served Sun-Thu 07:00-12:00, Fri 07:00-17:00 36 Montefiore St., Tel Aviv. Phone: 03-5646100 • Carmella Bistro Only eight years old, this handsome restaurant next to the Carmel Market and Nahalat Binyamin pedestrian mall is already a local institution. Their newly opened Beer Garden makes their brunch option even more appealing. Served from noon on weekdays and
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Norman Podhoretz to Discuss Controversial New Book Why Are Jews Liberal? BY BETSEY ALDREDGE On Monday, November 16 at 6:30 p.m. author Norman Podhoretz, whom Publisher’s Weekly calls “an astute and joyously provocative and partisan observer of the political landscape,” will discuss Why Are Jews Liberal? (Doubleday, 2009) at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. In the book, Podhoretz delivers a provocative examination of why most Jews vote for democrats and seem to grow even more committed to liberalism in general, even as they move up the economic ladder. The book, which Henry Kissinger and William Kristol have praised and the New York Times has panned, has been generating controversy from readers across the spectrum. ickets are free with suggested donation, and are available online at www.mjhnyc.org or by calling the Museum box office at 646.437.4202. Providing a fascinating account of antiSemitism in the West, Podhoretz demonstrates why, for much of the 20th century, Jews quite sensibly concluded that they had much more to fear from the right than the left. But since the Six Day War of 1967, he then argues, this political position has no longer made sense, and yet most Jews continue to support the Democratic Party and the liberal agenda. Examining the history and reasons behind Jewish political attitudes, he shows that the
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The Role of Eastern Europeans During the Holocaust BY FERN SIDMAN In this meticulously documented treatise of centuries old European anti-Semitism, "The Bugs Are Burning" authors Drs. Sheldon Hersh and Robert Wolf graphically depict the hellacious barbarism and heinous atrocities committed against the Jewish people before, during and after the Holocaust by those they believed to be their close neighbors and friends throughout the length and breadth of Eastern Europe. he authors painstakingly take us through a nightmarish odyssey of the toxic manifestations of deeply entrenched anti-Semitism in such countries as Lithuania, Latvia, the Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Croatia and Poland in the decades preceding the Holocaust. Quoting from a litany of respected books on the history of pre-Holocaust Jew hatred, they impart unique perspective on the nihilistic philosophies that proliferated throughout Europe in the early 20th century as well as offering a salient exploration of the genesis of bellicosity towards Jews and the ramifications thereof. Lusting for Jewish blood, the indigenous gentile population of Eastern Europe, the authors inform us, rapidly morphed into unabashed miscreants. Gladly becoming more than "willing participants" in the wholesale slaughter of the Jews, when their respective countries were occupied by Nazi forces, these Eastern Europeans possessed no compunction about liquidating Jewish assets and property, or for that matter, engaging in the most horrific forms of sadistic mass murder of their Jewish neighbors. Clearly, rabid Jew hatred was endemic to Eastern Europe since the influx of Jewish immigrants centuries before. Aided and abetted by the insidious dogma of the church and the hateful rhetoric against Jews in the media and the government; European resentments of the Jews grew exponentially as the entire continent stood poised to explode like a powder keg. One need only read of the wanton murder of Jews prior to
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the advent of Nazism throughout Europe to gain a cogent understanding of why Hitler's manifesto held sway in these countries; soaked with Jewish blood and tears. In June of 1941, when German forces occupied a town called Jedwabne, the Polish residents held a town meeting in which they decided that the Jewish residents must be annihilated. One can only recoil in horror as they authors tell us, "Hooks and wooden clubs were the murders' instruments of choice. Jews were set upon; their heads severed from their bodies and kicked about like soccer balls. To escape the killers, women fled to a nearby pond and drowned themselves along with their babies. Those who survived were brought to the town square, where they were beaten with clubs and stones, and herded into a barn that was set ablaze by their Polish neighbors. As for the younger children, they were roped together by their legs, carried on the executioners' backs to be impaled on pitchforks, and thrown onto the smoldering coals of the burning barn". Other such depraved stories of mass murder of Jews in countries as Romania, Hungary, the Ukraine, Slovakia, Lithunia and Croatia are also told here in chilling detail. The authors give us pause and something to reflect upon as it pertains to the scourge of modern day anti-Semitism when they quote Deborah Lipstadt in her book, "Witnesses to the Holocaust". She writes, "The Holocaust was not committed by a cadre of sadistic beasts. Before the war these people were doctors, lawyers, architects, teachers, clerks, farmers and students...It means that it takes relatively little to turn 'normal' humans into creatures capable of the most sadistic acts." Eastern European collaborators murdered well over a million Jews sans the assistance of the Nazi death machine while the world stood in abject silence.
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Exhibition of Paintings by A Bene Israel Indian Jewish Artist in Manhattan, NY BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF Born in a traditional Bene Israel Jewish family, Dr. Zimra Israel grew up in Mumbai, India. Twenty years ago Zimra migrated to the US to pursue a scientific career with her husband Raymond and they have now made New York their home. Zimra’s background is culturally diverse….she is Indian, Jewish and American. longside a career in science, art and interior design have always been Zimra’s passion. Her unique style has evolved by attending The Art Students League of New York in Manhattan, NY. Zimra gets inspiration from nature and the environment and her acrylics on canvas depict abstractions from the beauty around
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her. Over time, Dr. Israel’s work has evolved and ranges from abstract landscapes to contemporary art. The Art Student’s League enhances her confidence and enthusiasm with encouragement and guidance from renowned instructor artists Ronnie Landfield and Mariano Del Rosario. Additionally, her husband’s support and motivation from classmates of all ages at the Art School make Zimra’s painting experience rather fulfilling. Dr. Zimra Israel is exhibiting her works for the f irst time on Saturday, November 14, 2009 from 12 noon to 6 pm and Sunday, November 15, 2009 from 12 noon to 5 pm. Venue: 100 Riverside Blvd (at 65th street) The Avery, SC1- Party Room, New York, NY 10069.
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BY EILEEN TYNION Maimonides Medical Center announced today that it has received top rankings for clinical excellence in multiple services, according to a comprehensive study released by HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings company. “Five Stars” is the highest rating a hospital can get from HealthGrades. aimonides achieved the following distinctions:
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BY AFP Exhilarated scientists on Saturday announced they had used gene therapy to restore eyesight to children blighted by a rare, inherited form of creeping blindness.
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Cardiac: Maimonides was recognized with a 2010 HealthGrades Cardiac Care Excellence Award, encompassing overall medical and surgical care for cardiac patients. In addition, Maimonides ranked among the top f ive percent of hospitals in the nation for cardiology services and cardiac interventions, and is a recipient of the 2010 HealthGrades Coronary Intervention Excellence Award. And for the Treatment of Heart Failure, Maimonides has been f ive-star rated every year that HealthGrades has published its ratings. Critical Care: Rated #1 in New York State for Critical Care Services, Maimonides is f ive-star rated in critical care – as well as for Treatment of Sepsis and Treatment of Respiratory Failure –
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oungsters were able to walk unaided around dimly-lit obstacles, take part in lessons at school without extra help -- and one child saw the colour of his Scientists announced they had used father's eyes for the very first time. The revolutionary treatment gene therapy to restore eyesight to chiltargets a disease of light-catching dren blighted by a rare, inherited form retinal cells called Leber's conof creeping blindness. genital amaurosis, or LCA. Caused by flaws in any one of around 13 key genes, LCA triggers the eyeball, and infected the diseased severe loss of vision and abnormal eye cells -- in effect, acting like a Trojan movements in early infancy, usually horse to deliver the right DNA to the leading to total blindness in the twenties retina. Twelve patients aged eight to 44 or thirties. Doctors led by Jean Bennett of the years were recruited in the small, experimental study, and were given the treatUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine tested a way of tackling this ment in the eye that had the worst vision. tragedy by inserting a corrective gene in None of the patients recovered nora disabled cold virus. Their study was published online by mal sight, but all of them had an at-least The Lancet on Saturday, coinciding 100-fold increase in so-called pupillary with a presentation at a conference of light response, meaning the constriction American ophthalmologists in San of the pupil when exposed to light. Francisco. The modif ied virus was injected into Continued on page 39
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Spike in Numbers of Down's Syndrome Pregnancies BY AFP The number of women conceiving babies with Down's Syndrome has leapt by more than 70 percent in the last two decades, researchers said on Tuesday. he figures appear to have risen as a direct result of the rising numbers of women who fall pregnant in their 30s and 40s. The risk of conceiving a baby with Down's increases with age. For a woman aged 30, the chance is one in every 940. By age 40, the risk rises to one in 85.
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“It was thought that these improvements would lead to a decrease in the number of births with Down's Syndrome...” Experts at the University of London, analysed data from the Down's register dating back 20 years and found that in 1989-90, some 1,075 women were diagnosed as carrying a Down's baby. By 2007-08, that number had risen to 1,843 -- a 71 percent increase. Improved prenatal screening -- and
the numbers of women being scanned -has also played a role, with more Down's pregnancies being picked up. "What we're seeing here is a steep rise in pregnancies with Down's Syndrome but that is being offset by improvements in screening," said Joan Morris, professor of medical statistics at Queen Mary college, who led the study. "It was thought that these improvements would lead to a decrease in the number of births with Down's Syndrome. However due to increases in maternal age this has not occurred." The researchers noted a sharp increase in the proportion of Down’s Syndrome pregnancies in women under the age of 37 being detected by screening -- rising from three percent to 43 percent, while the f igure for women over 37 remained constant at around 70 percent. The f indings also show the number of babies born with the condition has remained stable over the same period, falling from an annual total of 752 to 743. Only eight percent of couples diagnosed with a Downs Syndrome pregnancy decide to keep the baby. Some 92 percent chose to undergo an abortion -a statistic which has remained constant. Results of the study, which examined cases in England and Wales, were published in the British Medical Journal.
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Parashat Lech Lecha 5770, 2009: “In Appreciation of Avraham Avinu” BY RABBI DAVID ETENGOFF Dedicated to the sacred memory of my sister-in-law, Ruchama Rivka Sondra aleah hashalom and the refuah shlaimah of Sarah bat Rachel, Yosef Shmuel ben Miriam, and HaRav Shimon ben Chaya Hacohen. early all of our Torah commentators work vigorously against any notion of anthropomorphizing G-d within the Tanach. Onkelos (c.35-120 CE), and the Rambam (1135-1204), are par ticularly well known for their efforts to reinterpret any reference to G-d in human terms. For them, and many other meforshim (Torah commentators), the idea of G-d sharing human emotions was simply something unthinkable and a diminution of His glory. Early on in the Torah, however, we encounter a verse that seems to squarely place Hakadosh Baruch Hu (G-d) within the purview of human emotions: “And the L-rd regretted (vayinachem) that He had made man upon the earth, and He became grieved in His heart (vayitatzav el libo).” (Sefer Bereishit 6:6, this and all other Tanach translations are from The Judaica Press Complete Tanach) Regret and grief (or “pained to the core” as Rav Aryeh Kaplan translates) are clearly recognized as human emotions. No matter how we might
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want to reinterpret the literal meaning of tial. His transition from kodesh (holiness) this pasuk (verse) to circumvent its seem- to chol (profane) is poignantly depicted in ingly anthropomorphic meaning, it is clear Sefer Bereishit 9:20-21: “And Noah began that Hashem “was upset” with Man and to be a master of the soil, and he planted a consequently brought the Flood to destroy vineyard. And he drank of the wine and him and everything with which he had became drunk, and he uncovered himself come into contact. within his tent.” Little wonder, then, that As great as Adam harishon (Adam, the Hashem “regretted” creating Man from the first man) surely was, he failed to live up to time of his first sin, and up to and includwhat was expected ing, Noach himself. of him and ate from It is precisely the eitz pri hada’at from the vantage (the Tree of knowlpoint of the failures “As great as Adam harishon of Adam, the edge): “And the woman saw that the (Adam, the first man) surely Generation of the tree was good for Flood, and of was, he failed to live up food and that it was Noach, that we are a delight to the eyes, able to appreciate to what was expected of and the tree was the uniqueness, and him and ate from the desirable to make consequent greatone wise; so she ness, of Avraham eitz pri hada’at ...” took of its fruit, and Avinu (Our Father she ate, and she Abraham). His gave also to her huspromise and potenband with her, and he tial began to be ate.” (Sefer Bereishit 3:6). Then, too, while revealed from his earliest days, when he Noach is twice referred to as a tzaddik (a courageously stood alone against the polytruly righteous individual) in Sefer theistic worship and culture of his time: Bereishit 6:9 and 7:1: “… Noah was a Once Abraham was weaned, he, as a righteous man he was perfect in his gener- child, began contemplating and thinking ations…” “And the L-rd said to Noah, day and night, and wondered how a sphere ‘Come into the ark, you and all your house- could follow a fixed path without being hold, for it is you that I have seen as a right- directed. If so, who directed it? Surely it eous man before Me in this generation,’” he would be impossible for it to rotate on its was tragically unable to actualize his poten- own! Abraham did not have a mentor, but was immersed amongst the foolish idolaters of Ur Casdim, where everyone, including his mother and father, served idols, as did he. In his heart, however, he continued to contemplate, until he realized the way of truth and understood the ways of righteousness from nature, and knew that there is a G-d who directs the spheres, created the world, and besides whom there is none other. He also knew that the whole world was erring, and knew that what caused the mistake was that they [had] worshipped the stars and figures for so long that the truth had vanished. (Maimonides, Hilchot Hilchot Avodat Kochavim (Laws of Idolatry), ranslation, O’Levy, www.panix.com/~jjbaker/MadaAkum.html) The Rambam further notes: “Abraham was forty years old when he recognized his Creator.” (Ibid.) Make no mistake about it: He was a religious revolutionary! He rebelled radically against the religious establishment of his time. He recognized, as Isaiah would say so many years later, that: “Shehame mishtachavim l’hevel v’rik, u’mitpallim el kale lo yoshiyah” (For they bow to vanity and emptiness and pray to a G-d which helps not, Isaiah 45:20, translation, Artscroll) Avraham’s spiritual “classroom” was Nature and the Cosmos, and his teacher was G-d Himself. His flawless logic and extraordinary intellectual acumen led him to rediscover the forgotten truth of Hashem’s existence. He, therefore, was now able to apprehend and comprehend that it was Hashem, and none other, who created the world and continues to guide it according to the dictates of His Divine will. These beliefs were truly “counter-culture” in the context of Avraham’s idol-worshipping world. He repudiated both the underlying philosophical axioms and the practical sociological results of the twisted and perverted culture in which he lived. Hashem and His Divine will, rather than
moral relativism and hedonistic behavior would once again be the brilliant light that would illuminate the palpable spiritual darkness of his time. Immutable and absolute truth would now replace the values of the moment. Without exaggeration, Avraham changed the world for all time: Once he achieved this, [i.e. complete knowledge of G-d] he began to reason with the inhabitants of Ur Casdim and to argue with them, saying that by serving idols they were not following the way of truth. He broke their images, and began to proclaim that it is not fitting to serve anyone other than G-d, and to Him it is fitting to bow down and to offer libations and sacrifices to, so that all creation will recognize Him. Abraham also proclaimed that it was fitting to break and destroy all the figures, so that nobody will err on account of them, like those who imagined that there is no G-d except for their idols did. Since people were listening to him, the king, Nimrod, sought to kill him, but a miracle was performed for Abraham, and he went to Haran, where he got up and proclaimed to the whole world that there is just one G-d in the world, whom it is fitting to worship. He went and gathered people together from cities and kingdoms, until he reached the land of Canaan, where he continued his proclamations, as it is written, "...and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting G-d". Since agnostics were coming to him with questions about this matter, he would answer each person [in a way] so that he would return to the way of truth, until thousands and tens of thousands came to him. These were the people of the house of Abraham. (Ibid.) Avraham revolutionized the spiritual universe by presenting and representing the one true G-d to mankind. He was an outstanding individual who changed the history of the world when he became the forebear and progenitor of the Jewish people. Beyond question, Avraham epitomized greatness. His accomplishments are legion. His ability to successfully undergo the Ten Trials is without equal in the annals of Jewish History. In some ways, therefore, he is every Jew’s spiritual guide and mentor. Avraham’s entrance onto the grand stage of world history was a great comfort for Hashem. Avraham was the first person to truly rise to all of the challenges he encountered, and worship G-d in ultimate love and heartfelt devotion. He was at one and the same time Avraham avdi (Avraham My servant, Sefer Bereishit 26:24) and Avraham ohavi (Avraham My beloved friend, Sefer Yeshiyahu 41:8). At long last, Hakadosh Baruch Hu was no longer “pained to the core;” instead, our Creator had a friend who honored and obeyed Him. Avraham was His beloved friend, just as Hashem was his yedid nefesh (Beloved of the Soul). Based upon this unique and unprecedented spiritual relationship, we have the permanent zechut (merit) to be G-d’s Am Hanivchar (Chosen People). May we live up to this honor, and like Avraham Avinu, sanctify Hashem’s Name in this world by properly representing Him in all of our actions, words, and deeds, V’chane yihi ratzon. Shabbat Shalom
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Ayalon Faces Call for Arrest in Britain...Continued from page 3 very small minority and that it tries to give a platform to all voices. "LSE believes in free speech and has a long tradition of upholding it. The School is also, traditionally, a place where many world leaders come to explain their thinking and answer questions. Mr Ayalon's speech gave LSE staff and students the opportunity to listen to, and question, a senior politician
on a topic of pressing global concern," the spokesperson said. Ayalon's advisers believe that the material advertising the university event was the catalyst behind the call for his arrest. The material described him as a former IDF off icer: "Mr Ayalon is a former captain in the Israeli army who served as foreign policy adviser to Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon and as Israel's ambassador to the United States from 2002 to 2006." Earlier this month, Vice Premier and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon declined an invitation to travel to the UK to speak at a Jewish charity fund-raiser in over fears he may face arrest on charges of war crimes. On Tuesday, Ayalon had meetings
with government off icials in which he raised the absurdity to what is happening to Israeli off icials who visit the UK to face possible arrest under the universal jurisdiction law. The minister also discussed the boycott call by a number of British trade unions and bi-lateral relations between the two countries.
Upcoming US Governor's Races Pose Test for Obama...Continued from page 12 careful to overstate that." Both political parties also see the continuing congressional debate on health care reform as a key factor in next year's midterm elections. Political analyst Stuart Rothenberg says Republicans have had some success during the health care debate in tapping into public concerns about too much
government involvement in health care. "Certainly they are trying to resurrect themselves as a party, and I think taking on the president and trying to reestablish themselves on taxes and spending is one way," he said. President Obama has made health care reform his top domestic priority, and Rothenberg says it has now become
essential for Democrats to get something through Congress before next year's midterm elections. "I think what is important for the Democrats is where are they as they go into the midterm elections in 2010," Rothenberg said. "If there is nothing passed, I think it would be a terrible problem both for the president and for
Democrats." In addition to the two governor's races, there will be special elections for U.S. House seats in New York and California, and mayoral elections in several major U.S. cities including New York, Boston, Houston, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Minneapolis.
Gene Therapy Cures Congenital Form of Blindness...Continued from page 32 Six of the 12 recovered suff icient sight that meant they may no longer be classif ied as legally blind. The best results were among four children aged eight, nine, 10 and 11. All four gained vision that enabled them to walk unaided along a dimly-lit simulated street route. "Another child, who since birth, could only see light and shadows, stared into his father's face and said he could see the colour of his eyes. Later they played soccer together," the university said in a press release. Normally reserved, the researchers used such words as "dramatic" and
"spectacular" to describe the outcome, even though the trial is only a Phase 1 test, the f irst and most cautious level of a three-phase process to assess prototype treatments for safety and effectiveness. It comes less than six weeks after another breakthrough in gene vision therapy, in which two monkeys were cured of colour blindness. Gene medicine is one of the most alluring areas of biotechnology, offering the theoretical promise of blocking or reversing inherited disease. But this new frontier has also been hit by occasional setbacks, notably an
unexpected or uncontrollable response from the immune system. The pioneering treatment for LCA, though, has so far had no side effects and its benef its have remained unchanged two years later, say the researchers. "These remarkable results have laid a foundation for applying gene therapy not only to other forms of childhoodonset retinal disease, but also to more common retinal degenerations," said Bennett. In an analysis also carried by The Lancet, Frans Cremers and Rob Collin of Radboud University Nijmegen
Medical Centre in the Netherlands predicted a major boost for further gene therapy trials. But, they wrote, many genetic disorders remained to be uncovered and at present there was little incentive to unearth the cause of minority disorders. "Except in families in which the recurrence risk for future offspring needed to be known, there has been neither urge nor urgency to systematically identify genetic defects. "Though the costs to identify the underlying [genetic] mutations are not excessive, in most cases they are not covered by health insurance," they said.
Jewish Cultural Center Launches in Budapest...Continued from page 3 nearby Jewish communities, and a source for information about Israel for the general population. Its board will reflect this combined purpose, consisting of representatives of the local Jewish community, the Jewish Agency and the Israeli donors. For the general audience, it will host changing exhibits of Israeli modern art,
theater productions, concerts and cinema. It will offer public lectures and seminars on social issues in Israel, and will work to connect between the Hungarian arts and culture world to their counterparts in Israel. But it will also function as a meeting place for members of Jewish communities in Budapest and nearby cities,
including Belgrade, Vienna and Bratislava. More than 100,000 Jews are thought to live within 200 kilometers of the center, with some estimates claiming much higher f igures. "The center will host special activities for youth, students, academics and businesspeople," explains the Jewish Agency's emissary for Central Europe,
Eran Elbar, one of the planners responsible for the center's establishment. The center "will run a program for learning Hebrew, Israeli music and poetry and Israeli cooking. It will be the home of an Israeli-style cafĂŠ and a library with the best of Israeli literature and television screens playing Israeli TV channels," Elbar said.
US Religious Freedom Report Hits Speech Curbs...Continued from page 7 reasons. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner said China, where President Obama is expected to pay an off icial visit next month, tends to conflate religious expression by Tibetan Buddhists and Muslim Uighurs in western areas with issues of autonomy and independence. "Buddhist priests and monks that raise human rights issues are targeted," said Michael Posner. "The same thing is true in the Uighur autonomous region with Muslim clerics and others. The government has cracked down very
severely since the violence there some months ago against religious leaders and others of the Muslim faith." China has long been listed as a "country of particular concern" by the State Department for its record on religious freedom, as has U.S. Persian Gulf ally Saudi Arabia. Assistant Secretary Posner said the United States supports Saudi King Abdullah's initiatives for interfaith dialogue, but that religious freedom in that country remains a subject of great concern. "People aren't allowed to openly practice their religion, if they're not
Muslim," he said. "There is still a religious police that interrupts people, even in private settings. And we have still the concerns about the text books, which continue to be disseminated not only in Saudi Arabia, but [also] around the world - to madrassas, for example, which still contain things that we consider beyond the pale." The report credits several countries with positive interfaith steps, including Jordan and the Philippines, and says conditions have improved in Vietnam, Cuba and some Central Asian states. But Burma is criticized for "systematically" restricting human rights efforts
by Buddhist monks, and concern is expressed about anti-Jewish incidents in Venezuela. Assistant Secretary Posner said the State Department expects to issue, by year's end, a new list of countries of particular concern on religious freedom, which would be subject to possible U.S. sanctions. The current list, issued at the close of the Bush administration, includes Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan.
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The Incredible Hulk character of the TV series and the Universal movie is based on the ancient Golem saga, Jewish comic strip heroes fans say.
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Movie Talk Warner Bros. "Where the Wild Things Are" came out #1 at the box office. But a NY Post critic wrote: "...Wake me when it's over...child star is allegedly named Max Records...the creatures are less Sendak but totally unscarry Mild Things...brace yourself for a noble failure BAH! For Vampire Aficionados "The Vampire's Assistant" based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, is a fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares. Sixteen year old Darren was like most kids in his suburban neighborhood. He hung out with his best friend Steve, got decent grades and usually stayed out of trouble. But when he and his buddy stumble upon a traveling freak show, things begin to change inside Darren. That's the exact moment when a vampire named Larten Crepsley turns him into something, well, bloodthirsty. Newly undead, he joins the Cirque Du Freak, a touring sideshow filled with monstrous creatures from a snakeboy and a wolfman to a bearded lady (Salma Hayek) and gigantic barker. As Darren flexes his newfound powers in this dark world, he becomes a treasured pawn between the vampires and their deadlier counterparts. And while trying to survive, one boy will struggle to keep their brewing war from devouring what's left of his humanity.
Music Music Some program notes from Little Orchestra Society - Antonio Vivaldi born March 4, 1678 in Venice, Italy, died July 28, 1741, in Vienna, Austria, he received his early musical training from his father, a highly respected violinist in the orchestra of St. Mark's in Venice, and eventually also an ordained priest. Following his father's model, Antonio Vivaldi became director of music, staff, composer, teacher, and violinist at a home for foundling girls in Venice, an important institution that was, in a way, an ancestor of what came to be called the "conservatory" of music. He held this position for many years. One of the requirements was that he compose at least two new concertos every month for the orphan girls. He wrote dozens of operas, oratorios and cantatas, and more than 500 concertos for almost every imaginable combination of instruments for the students there. During Vivaldi's lifetime, only a few dozen works from this enormous output, most of them concertos, were widely circulated. Bach was even known to have studied them and made copies and arrangements of several of them. Many years passed before scholars discovered that Vivaldi, and not Bach, had actually composed some of the excellent music erroneously credited to Bach because it had been preserved in Bach's handwriting. Theater Talk Primary Stages concludes its 25th anniversary season with the New York Premieres of Happy Now? By Lucinda Coxon; (January 26, 2010-March 10, 2010) with direction by Liz Dimond. Food Scoop Britain's new square watermelon: UK retailer Tesco has developed this easier-toslice version by placing wooden boxes over the melons as they are growing so they grow into a square shape.
Licoys will face charges of misuse of company property over the 20-millioneuro severance package he got, they showed. The three other executives to go on trial -- Hubert Dupont Lhotelain, Francois Blondet and Philippe Guez -face charges of share price manipulation. Vivendi said in a statement that it had "joined in these proceedings as a civil plaintiff on October 2002 and has fully cooperated with the judicial authorities since the beginning." While at the helm of Vivendi, Messier made numerous acquisitions during the Internet boom at the turn of the century and transformed the Parisbased water utility into a global media and entertainment conglomerate. But its share price collapsed in 2002 after Vivendi's buyout spree that includ-
ed Universal f ilm studios and music label and the French pay-TV station Canal Plus. A trial began earlier this month in New York to hear a shareholders' classaction lawsuit against Vivendi and Messier, who are accused of making false statements about company f inances. The accused -- Vivendi, Messier and ex-f inance chief Hannezo -- are charged with breaking US federal securities laws in statements from October 2000August 2002, court documents show. If found guilty, the parties could be ordered to pay billions of dollars in damages. They have denied any wrongdoing. Vivendi Universal reported upbeat sales and prof its even as the group was in the midst of a major cash crunch.
Brooklyn College’s MFA Program...Continued from page 8 “They are thoughtful, adventurous and ever inventive. The New York experience is still an unrivalled incentive to ingenuity and innovative thinking and writing. Their passion and dedication to the art is inspiring,” he says. "It was good to see that Poets & Writers, by ranking Brooklyn College’s M.F.A. program No. 15 in the country, has come to recognize what our faculty, students and alumni have long known," says M.F.A. Fiction Program Coordinator Joshua Henkin. "We believe that our true ranking is much higher than that, and we look forward to having the rest of the country recognize this, too, before long." The program’s esteemed faculty have included Poetry Program Coordinator Julie Agoos, Asekoff, National Book Award winners John Ashbery and Allen Ginsberg, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, Susan Fromberg-Schaeffer, Amy Hempel, Lisa Jarnot, Joan Larkin, Rick Pearse, Sapphire, Marjorie Welish, and Wellman. Distinguished graduates of the program have been featured in such well-known publications as The Best New Young Poets, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry and Pushcart. ABOUT POETS & WRITERS, INC. Poets & Writers Inc. is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers. Founded in 1970, it is the nation's largest nonprofit literary organiza-
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Officials Fear Iran 'Buying Time' as Inner Cabinet Mulls Strategy...Continued from page 11 Also speaking on Israel Radio, Brig. Gen. (ret.) Shlomo Brom, a senior research associate at the Institute for National Security Studies and former director of the Strategic Planning Division in the Planning Branch of the General Staff, explained that the understandings reached between Iran and the West meant the Iranian nuclear threat would not be imminent.
"As a result of the initial agreement, the urgency of the threat will be reduced, because the biggest concern was that Iran would take all of the lowgrade uranium in its possession, a considerable amount, and enrich it to a military grade within a short time, enabling it to build a nuclear bomb," Brom said. "The amount [of uranium] that would be left in Iran [after it transfers uranium to
be enriched abroad] would not be suff icient to build a bomb." When asked how the deal may affect the possibility of a military strike on Iran, Brom predicted that "the US and Israel will not strike Iran's nuclear facilities in the near future, but the military option is not completely off the table." Brom said that while there was "good reason" not to trust the Iranians, he
believed it was "important to give this a try and see if Obama's new attitude will work." "Israel's policy should be waiting to see if this path works, while continuing to improve its intelligence on Iran," he concluded.
Maimonides Recieves Five-Star Ratings For Excellence in Multiple Specialties...Continued from page 32 Treatment of Stroke, Maimonides is f ive-star rated in stroke treatment for the eighth consecutive year. The Joint Commission Accredited Stroke Center at Maimonides is a recipient of the 2010 HealthGrades Stroke Care Excellence Award. “We are pleased to be recognized for providing exemplary care in such a wide range of clinical services,” said Maimonides President and CEO Pamela S. Brier. “This recognition reflects our commitment to patients and the high standards set by our remarkable physicians, nurses and support staff.” The twelfth annual HealthGrades
Hospital Quality in America Study examined nearly 40 million Medicare hospitalization records from the years 2006, 2007 and 2008. The study looks at trends in mortality and complication rates and also provides the foundation for HealthGrades quality ratings of procedures and diagnoses at each individual hospital. “For patients, sites like HealthGrades.com provide the objective information needed to choose a highquality hospital,” said Rick May, MD, an author of the HealthGrades study. “And for hospitals themselves, the HealthGrades ratings provide the data
that can help them reach the benchmarks set by top performers.” HealthGrades independently analyzed nearly 5,000 hospitals in all 50 states for its ratings, assessing clinical outcomes and quality in 28 procedures and diagnoses. Each hospital receives a one-, three- or five-star rating for each procedure or diagnosis, reflecting the mortality or complication rates at that hospital. According to HealthGrades, “Mortality and complication rates are risk-adjusted, which takes into account differing levels of severity of patient illness at different hospitals and allows for hospitals to be compared on equal footing.”
Maimonides Medical Center is among the largest independent teaching hospitals in the nation, training over 450 medical and surgical residents annually. Widely recognized for its major achievements in advancing medical and information technology, Maimonides has 705 beds and over 70 subspecialty programs. For more information on the nationally recognized clinical services at Maimonides Medical Center, please log-on to www.maimonidesmed.org
Mayor Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Walcott, and Chancellor Klein ...Continued from page 9 will now be routed to the new experts at 311. Common questions that 311 can now answer include: • How do I register my child for school? • Is my child eligible for the school bus? • What time will the school bus pick up and drop off my child? • How does the admissions process work for high school/middle school/prekindergarten/gifted and talented programs? • How do I access my child’s data
online? This enhanced 311 service builds on the progress the City has made since 2002 in engaging public school families and making it easier for them to navigate the nation’s largest school system, which serves 1.1 million students. Every school now has a parent coordinator, who should continue to be a family’s f irst stop for education information, particularly school-specif ic questions about classroom assignments, parent-teacher conferences, the school calendar, and class schedules. Parents can also turn to other newly-created
resources, including District Family Advocates and the Off ice for Family Engagement and Advocacy which holds events, workshops and training sessions to help educate parents about how to become involved in their schools and taking an active role in their children’s education. Additionally, an online student data system which was launched last spring is an innovative tool that for the f irst time gives families online access to their child’s school attendance, test scores, grades, and other important information in one place. About the 311 Customer Service
Center The 311 Customer Service Center was established in 2003 to give the public quick and easy access to all nonemergency City government information and services. Calls are answered by operators, 24 hours a day, seven days a week in an average of 15 seconds, with 85 percent of all calls answered in 30 seconds or less. Approximately 50,000 calls come in to 311 daily, and translation service is provided in nearly 180 languages.
Barclays Snaps Up Standard Life Bank Division...Continued from page 17 Standard Life for a consideration of 226 million pounds," Barclays said. "Under the terms of the transaction, Barclays will acquire a savings book of approximately 5.5 billion pounds, as at 30 June 2009, and a mortgage book with outstanding balances of approximately 8.8 billion pounds." Sandy Crombie, chief executive of
Edinburgh-based Standard Life, said that the group no longer wanted to increase lending. "We no longer believe that increasing the lending activity of the bank is consistent with our long-term f inancial objectives," Crombie said in a separate statement. "The transaction we have agreed
with Barclays, along with the strategic agreement we have also announced today, supports our plan for growth as an asset managing business." Barclays bank successfully steered a path through the global f inancial crisis which erupted in late 2007. The bank had last year won a sevenbillion-pound capital injection largely
backed by Abu Dhabi and Qatar, as it survived the credit crunch without government aid. But Abu Dhabi has since sold most of its holding. In addition, Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority, last week trimmed its Barclays stake to about seven percent.
Tax Authority Raids Maccabi TA Offices Seeking Evidence...Continued from page 5 with him," Levene said of Fanan. Earlier on Sunday, a top Israeli basketball off icial said that the existence of Fanan's fund was known to a large number of people involved in the sport in Israel, and criticized the media for not reporting on the case earlier. Basketball Super League chairman Avner Kopel said he personally knew of several players who invested money with Fanan. "What was I supposed to do about it?" Kopel asked. He also disclosed that at least one
player from a team other than Maccabi invested in Fanan's fund. Last Thursday, the Tax Authority announced it would examine Fanan's fund, but would not describe the check as an investigation. The Tax Authority also said on Thursday that it had probed Fanan's private bank in the past, but the investigation was closed when it turned up no wrongdoing. After Fanan's death last week, it emerged that a fund to which he had recruited a number of investors had failed, and the former manager was tens
of millions of shekels in debt. Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball chairman Shimon Mizrahi last Thursday dismissed claims that his team's players invested in Fanan's private bank and said attempts to tie Maccabi players to Fanan's failed business dealings were "despicable." Mizrahi also called on the media to stop fueling such allegations. Off icials close to Sports and Culture Minister Limor Livnat said that for the time being, she would not comment on the case out of respect for Fanan's fami-
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Breakfast in Tel Aviv: My Ten Personal Favorites...Continued from page 26 from 10am on Fridays, the home baked bread and myriad of delicacies will leave you full until dinner. Among recommended specials are pretzel sandwiches, shakshuka with beef sirloin slices and homemade taramasalata (f ish roe spread). Brunch Served Sun-Thu 12:00-18:00, Fri 10:00-16:00 46 Ha'Tavor St., Tel Aviv. Phone: 03-5161417 •Adora A deceptively modest façade hides one of the most creative and critically acclaimed restaurants in Tel Aviv. Young and talented Chef Avi Biton, offers modern Israeli cuisine, with a strong
ethnic slant. His Saturday brunch f ills up very quickly, and it’s no wonder, given the prices (around NIS 60) and quality of the food. It’s most fun to come with a few friends, order all items on the menu, and share the delicious salads, entrees, shakshukas and more. Brunch served Sat 09:00-13:00 226 Ben Yehuda St., Tel Aviv. Phone: 03-6050896 • Atnachta If, in the middle of the shopping spree on Dizengoff Street, you suddenly feel a wave of nostalgia for Jerusalem, this is just a place for you. Owners are born and bred Jerusalemites who, together with gifted chef Elran
Goldstein, have brought the flavors of Mahane Yehuda Market to Tel Aviv’s main shopping drag. As one might expect from Jerusalemites, the hummus is great, but the main attraction is a brick oven (taboon), which yields not only yummy flatbreads but also puffy and aromatic baked omelets. Breakfast served all week starting 08:00 190 Dizengoff St., Tel Aviv. Phone: 03-5686872, 03-5226001 • Rokach 73 Tucked away behind tennis courts, across from Yehoshua Park, this restaurant boasts free and plentiful parking – a major Tel Aviv attraction in its own
right. Their brunch, served only on Fridays and Saturdays, starts with a cocktail, continues with delicious hors d'ouvres (don't miss poached pears with blue cheese), is followed by selection of omelets and tortillas and you can even f inish off the meal with dessert. Brunch served Fri-Sat 8:30-12:00 Rokach 73, Tel Aviv. Phone: 03-7448844 For more information about Janna Gur and her book The New Israeli Cookbook, please visit her site at www.jannagur.com
The Role of Eastern Europeans During the Holocaust...Continued from page 31 Rife with vociferous hatred towards Jews, these Eastern European residents interpreted the world's reluctance to voice objections to such acts as a tacit imprimatur to continue their diabolical rampages. This book is replete with a plethora of profound lessons on the vituperative and lethal nature of
unchecked anti-Semitism, but its most paramount insights relate to the existential perils that the Jews of today's world confront. Jew hatred has become a fashionable and "politically correct" phenomenon in the spheres of the Western academy, but this time around it is couched in semantics. While classical
Jew hatred is dismissed by intellectuals as blatantly racist and thoroughly hackneyed; the very same menacing sentiments have been summarily replaced by the en vogue terminology, better known as "anti-Zionism". Much more than a cut and dry history book, "The Bugs Are Burning" teaches us that the brand of
Jew hatred that we are now witnessing in this new millenium must be accorded intellectual and emotional gravitas and addressed in the strongest of terms. Now, before it is too late.
Mayor Bloomberg Announces 30 Initiatives to Grow...Continued from page 18 the creation of new technologies, promote the City as a testing platform for these technologies, and create an inventory of building technology development and deployment projects to share benchmarking data and best practices among building owners. In November, NYCEDC will release a Request for Proposals to select a partner to develop the Center, which is expected to open in 2010. Establish “Solar Zones” to Encourage Expanded Solar PV Installations: As part of the Solar America Cities partnership, the City was awarded $1 million from the Department of Energy funding to establish several “solar zones,” which will facilitate solar installations in targeted areas by streamlining the permitting process, establishing an ombudsman to oversee implementation, and launching a one-stop website with mapping and incentive information. This proposal builds off a federally-funded study on the Con Edison grid that identif ied areas of the City that have desirable energy use patterns and adequate roof space. Build Innovative Solar Project at the Brooklyn Army Terminal: In order to demonstrate the viability of solar PV installation to the private sector, the City will install up to a 500 kilowatt solar system at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park. The system is estimated to generate up to 750,000 kilowatt hours of energy – enough to supply the power needs of 150 City households annually – and offset 400 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. Additionally, the system could save the City up to $120,000 in annual electricity costs. NYCEDC will issue a Request for Proposals for this project in December 2009. For a rendering of the installation, visit www.nycedc.com. Launch Solar Thermal Grant Program: A study funded by the New York State Energy Research and
Development Authority (NYSERDA) identif ied New York City as the “most favorable” location in New York State for solar thermal systems which use sunlight to provide heat for hot water and space heating. Despite the fact that solar thermal tends to have a shorter payback period than other renewable energy technologies, there remains a lack of awareness, f inancial incentives, and regulatory clarity in regard to solar thermal technology. To provide a substantial boost to the number of solar thermal projects in New York City, the City will launch a $1 million pilot project to leverage federal funding (30 percent tax credit) and private capital (30 percent cost share). The project could lead to $3 million to $5 million in solar thermal projects in the next three years. Applications for funding are now available at www.nycedc.com/solarthermal. Project installations are expected to begin in early 2010. The NYCEDCfunded projects will also include monitoring equipment so that NYCEDC can study the performance of the systems installed to better understand the f inancial, technical, and regulatory barriers that must be overcome to foster a sustainable and robust marketplace for solar thermal systems in New York City. Launch Urban Wind Demonstration Project: Of the 64 submissions to a Request for Expressions of Interest on renewable energy projects in the City released last year, nearly one-third were for building-sited wind projects. The City has responded to this interest by establishing a permitting process that, in absence of national safety standards, will allow for the installation of small wind turbines. The City is also launching an Urban Wind Demonstration, which will provide nominal funding and permitting assistance and help identify building sites to qualif ied small wind turbine manufacturers. The Demonstration will test the performance and safety of small wind turbine sys-
tems installed in a dense urban setting and is expected to launch in Fall 2009. Several wind turbine manufacturers foresee a market for 5,000 to 10,000 installations in New York City over the next decade. Kick-off Green JumpStart NYC: To address the market gap in qualif ied talent to f ill carbon trading, investment, risk management, and project development roles across the green sector, the City will launch Green JumpStart NYC, a training program to assist displaced or entrepreneurial junior to mid-level employees in exploring opportunities in carbon trading and related green f inance jobs. The program run by SUNY’s Levin Institute will offer a training “boot camp,” after which participants will be offered a 10-week unpaid fellowship with a green company with the potential of converting to fulltime employment. The f irst class will begin in early 2010. Examine City and State Laws Relating to a National Cap-and-Trade System: As a global f inancial center, the City has the support infrastructure necessary to support the emerging carbon trading market. However, the City faces challenges including a potential for existing state laws to create obstacles in the City’s bid to become a carbon f inance hub. To address these challenges, the City is working with the New York City Bar Association to examine City and State laws for areas which might present impediments to growth in the carbon market. Create Green Knowledge Centers at City Schools: To address the gap in demand for advanced professional skills to implement green initiatives, the City’s Department of Education will partner with Columbia University and the Urban Assembly to develop Green Knowledge Centers throughout the f ive boroughs. The Centers will aim to create hands-on learning opportunities for students and focus on workforce devel-
opment, as well as developing skills related to green energy; environmental sustainability; and science, technology, engineering, and math. The f irst Green Knowledge Center will be located on the Upper West Side at the Urban Assembly School for Green Careers and opened in September 2009. It is one of the Career and Technical Education (CTE) demonstration schools recommended by the Mayor's Task Force on CTE Innovation. The Upper Manhattan Green Jobs Training Academy at Co-op Tech recently received federal stimulus funding to provide GED, ESL and technical skills training in green construction careers. The program will serve disconnected youth, veterans, youth aging out of foster care, and individuals with disabilities residing in Upper Manhattan. Launch Green Incentives Guide: Sources of funding available to green businesses are diverse and change frequently, making it diff icult for companies to identify and understand all opportunities available to them. To assist businesses, the City has updated www.nycedc.com/incentives to include information on funding and incentives available for green businesses in the form of a guide available for download. The Bloomberg Administration’s Five Borough Economic Opportunity Plan is a comprehensive strategy to bring New York City through the current economic downturn as fast as possible. It focuses on three major areas: creating jobs for New Yorkers today, implementing a long-term vision for growing the city’s economy, and building affordable, attractive neighborhoods in every borough. Taken together, the initiatives that the City has launched to achieve these goals will generate thousands of jobs and put New York City on a path to economic recovery and growth. To learn more about the plan, visit nyc.gov.
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Ten of the Most Popular Family Vacation Spots in the World By Natasha Bantwal
Thailand, known for its beautiful and inviting atmospheres, is said to be one of the best vacation destinations. BY NATASHA BANTWAL A very good maxim for families planning on going for their very first family vacation should be "Good intentions do not necessarily make a good vacation". Most families tend to conjure images of the ideal vacation in their minds even before they get started, just to find that the actual experience is nothing like what they imagined it to be! ost families cling to the idea that everyone traveling should be happy, but more often than not, the deck is generally stacked against them! Sometimes, the more you try to force yourself to have fun, the more fake will your enthusiasm be. Fun can never be coerced and your kids are definitely going to get bored by an uninspiring destination. So, picking the right family vacation destination that works for the whole family can make a world of a difference for you. So, whether you want to go on a vacation that’s relaxing or action-packed or just plain fun, choosing the right holiday destination spot is essential. There is a lot of thinking that goes into planning a family vacation after all! If you are seriously contemplating going with your family on a vacation sometime this year, then why go in for the same old vacation packages that everyone else goes for? Be different! Try out something new! Here are ten of the hottest holiday destinations that you can take your family to. There is bound to be a sport that will perfectly suit the type of vacation you want, whether it’s a relaxing vacation or a fun adventurous one.
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1. Mexico—With so many great Mexico vacation deals and packages out there, you are getting everything you ever wanted—from beautiful beaches and exotic historical interests to a crazy
and wild nightlife. Mexico has some of the most spectacular landscapes that include deserts, mountains, jungles and quaint resorts and villages. Guadalajara and Acapulco are two favorite tourist spots in Mexico. 2. Hawaii—This is one of the most visited places in the world because of it pleasant climate, amazing volcanoes, warm hospitality, and most of all, its beautiful beaches. With so many different tourist spots on the island itself, discover the experience of Hawaii by hiking past the volcanoes or flying over the different islands in a helicopter. 3. Aruba—Tourists simply adore the pleasant climate of sunny Aruba. On the southern and western coasts, there are plenty of shady beaches where you can hang out. Aruba makes a great alternative to the Caribbean’s and is one of the best family vacation spots. Jan and Feb are two of the best months to visit this place because of the carnival season. 4. France—From its beautiful attractions to its spectacular cultural structure, France has everything to offer. Filled with a mixture of large bustling cities and quaint little villages with beautiful vineyards all around, France still has that peculiar Old World feel to it. With the wines, food and the places to go to, France definitely rocks. 5. Haute Route in the Swiss Alps—If you are looking for an adventurous family vacation, the Switzerland holds some of the most fun-filled holidays ever! A vacation at Haute Route offers plenty of adventure, loads of culture and hospitality. 6. Machu Picchu, Peru—Tourists and hikers have visited this mysterious lost Inca Civilization ever since it was dis-
For fun in the sun, entertainment, and relaxation, look no further than Mexico. covered in the 1900’s. Magical to say the least, the experience of visiting Mach Picchu with your family will take you to another time zone itself— from visiting ancient Inca villages and temples to traveling through the beautiful countryside’s—it is definitely an out of this world experience. 7. Thailand—Termed the ‘Land of Smiles’, Thailand has everything to offer—from friendly natives to excellent customer service, this makes one of the best family vacation destinations ever! If you are looking for great culture and fascinating civilizations, then Thailand is perfect for you. With its exotic sights and sparklingly beautiful temples, your family will surely have a great time here. 8. New York City—The City that Never Sleeps, New York City is truly a sights you need to behold. Visit Ellis Island, The Empire State Building, The Statue
of Liberty, and so on. With so many places to visit, activities to do, sights to see, and places to eat at, New York City is tourist heaven. 9. Las Vegas—From being called Sin City to something that’s become more of a family vacation spot, Las Vegas offers a little something for just about anyone. So whether you want to gamble at a casino or visit some of the live shows with your family or go for a Gondola Ride at the Bellagio, Vegas is a once in a lifetime experience. 10. Los Angeles, California—Home to our very own Hollywood, Los Angeles with its beautiful sunny weather and its host of beautiful celebrities, is one of the most famous family vacation spots today. From touring some of your favorite stars homes to visiting the different Bohemian zones, LA is famous for its nightlife, restaurants and its people.
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Don't Miss Out On An Amazing Vacation in Palm Springs, California most high-end Japanese entrees and sushi in the desert.
BY JENNIFER W. MINER There are several top golf and spa resorts in Palm Springs CA., but La Quinta Resort & Club has the best mix of family activities and a serene, adult sense of privacy.
The Spa La Quinta Voted Best of the Best as a readers' choice in Palm Springs Life, the Spa La Quinta is why many women agree to book a desert vacation at what their husbands
alm Springs, California has several top rated luxur y r e s o r t s , n e a r ly a l l w i t h g o l f c o u r s e ( o r a ff i l i a t e d w i t h n e a r by c o u r s e s ) . A f t e r s o m e va c a t i o n t i m e r e s e a r c h i n g s t ay s a t t h e s e b e s t r e s o r t s ( i t ' s a t o u g h j o b. . . ) L u x u r y Tr ave l c a n r e p o r t t h a t t h e f avo r i t e f o r d e l u x e f a m i l y t r av e l i s L a Quinta Resort & Club in Palm Springs CA.
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Camp La Quinta Most luxury resorts of this caliber offer a children's day camp, and La Quinta is no different. Sign up your children (ages 4 and up) for half or whole days, and go have fun on the golf course or in the spa. Some children prefer camps with a stronger emphasis on art projects, but this camp provides a fun time for those kids who like to be outside running around. Different days have different "themes," such as La Quinta Olympics and Wacky Water Day; if your child has strong likes and dislikes, it would be useful to inquire what the day's theme is prior to registration. After lunch a video is shown - not the best use of time, perhaps, and children 9 yrs and older may get bored. The videos skew young. Despite this, almost every child witnessed had a terrific experience at this camp. The Golf Club The golf courses here are already famous and lauded for their beauty and challenges; Forbes Traveler magazine rated La Quinta Resort and Club one of America's Top 10 Winter Golf Resorts, and those guys over at Forbes know their golf. Palm Springs is the official PGA West home, and the courses here include the La Quinta Resort Mountain and Dunes Courses, along with the PGA West Greg Norman, Jack Nicklaus Tournament, and PGA West Stadium Golf courses. Golf club resort fans should go see these beauties; the diversity is incredible. Pros would love the challenge of the Jack Nicklaus course, with striking elevation changes, and casual golfers would enjoy getting distracted by the knock-out views and landscape architecture of the La Quinta Mountain Course. La Quinta Resort & Club can claim its Mountain Course as one of the best courses in the region. Its Dune Course, designed by famed golf course architect Pete Dye, is ranked in Golf Digest's Top 75 Resort Courses in America. The Resort Restaurants The three main resort restaurants at La Quinta Resort & Club are the Adobe Grill, Twenty6, and Azur. Twenty6 is incredibly popular with hotel guests for its breakfast buffet; not at all like the cattle feed lines
that some hotel buffets resemble, the buffet at Twenty6 is constantly serviced and fresh, with a pleasing variety of brunch offerings. The Adobe Grill is an authentic Mexican restaurant (while it has a menu for children). If a quiet, adult meal is sought, make a reservation later in the evening, as Adobe Grill seems pretty pop-
ular with the families staying here. Alternately, if it's a romantic high-end dinner is what you want, forgo the Adobe Grill altogether and go to Azur. With dinners starting at $125, even the most luxury meal seeking guests with children skip it. Azur is La Quinta Resort's premiere destination restaurant - with some of the
The Resort in Palm Springs has the most unbelievable landscapping that the state has to offer.
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Who would have thought that you could be able to golf on a beautiful mountain top.
Visitors of the 5 star Palm Spring Resort have had nothing but remarkable things to say about the resort. know is a golf resort. One of Spa La Quinta's signature treatments is the Celestial Shower; it's a 10 minute private outdoor shower massage, as a prelude to other spa treatments. There's a plethora of face and body treatments here - if forced to pick some favorites, Luxury Travel would choose the 80 minute Orange Blossom Body Facial (this incorporates blossoms from the many orange trees in the La Quinta Resort gardens) and the 50minute Detoxifying Seaweed Body Mask. Also notable are massages geared towards tennis and golf players, which target the areas most affected by both sports. If you're planning to stay at this resort during a holiday travel time, please book your spa appointment before your arrival; this is a destination spa, and slots sell out quickly. There's some discussion that a few of the tennis courts may be converted to a large, child friendly pool with water slides. Now, there are 23 tennis courts; a few less might not make much of a difference. On the other hand, there are also 41 semi-private pools at La Quinta Resort & Club. Even as a California family vacation destination, the atmosphere here is mostly quiet and serene. If the management does decide to build a water park of sorts, hopefully it will be away from the center of the hotel. La Quinta is a perfect desert oasis in Palm Springs CA, and Luxury Travel hopes this doesn't change.
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For Sale Riverside Park Madison: 317 West 92nd Street, beautiful 30ft, single family mansion ideal for residential or institutional use. 9.885m. Upper East side Manison 149 East 78th Street Grand 32 ft wide Manison County by non profit ideal for residential, commercial or institutional use. 18.5 Rick ext 44. Fifth Avenue Mansion 18 East 82nd Street 26ft wide mansion located steps from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ideal for residential or institutional use 21.9M Jed Garfield Ext. 28 212-371-8200
West 94th St. spectacular single family, 50 ft wide 4 bdrms, 5 baths, large sunny Garden w/ wonderful dining. Conservatory 4 wbf asking $5 million 150 thousand Michael Pellegrino SNR VP 212-400-8731 Sotheby’s Interntional
Financial District/ 15 Broad Street: Beautiful studio, 1 BA w/open kitchen, 11ft ceiling, oak floors, washer/dryer, pool, gym, private parking, low cc/ full tax abatement, $825K. For sale by owner 516-776-1747
Financial District/ 15 Broad Street: Beautiful studio, 1 BA, w/open kit, 11 ft ceilings, oak floors, washer/dryer, pool, gym, private parking, loc CC/ full tax abetment. $825K for sale by owner. 516-776-1747Financial District/ 15 Broad Street: Beautiful studio, 1 BA, w/open kit, 11 ft ceilings, oak floors, washer/dryer, pool, gym, private parking, loc CC/ full tax abetment. $825K for sale by owner. 516-776-1747
TRUMP PARC ~106 CPS~ Mint!1 Bed/1.5 Bath Reno Granite Kitchen w/ Cherry Wood Cabinetry + Top-of-the-Line, Stainless Steel Appliances, Hi Ceilings, Lg Walk-In Closets, W/D in Apt $995K, Ronit Uziel @ Uziel Group 212-891-7136 Prudential Douglas Elliman
93rd Street: 2 bedroom, 1 bath, kitchen, dining room. $3300. Contact Lazar 212-534-0904
E 65th Street FS24HrDM No Fee!!! Huge Lux 2 Bed/2 Bath. Top-of-the-Line Kitchen Excellent Closets $5,900 Ronit Uziel @ Uziel Group 212-891-7136 Prudential Douglas Elliman
Office/Commercial/ Business For sale ~THE MILAN~ @ 300 E 55 - 26C New to Market! Mint 3 Beds/3 Bath + DA, Hi-Floor Amaz City + River Views, Top-of-the-Line Windowed Kitchen + Custom Built-Ins W/D in Apt ~ $11,500 Ronit Uziel @ Uziel Group 212-891-7136 Prudential Douglas Elliman
Harlem: Apts avail, 2 BR’s, $2200, 3 BR’s $2800, 4 BR’s $3100. Broker ownere, 1 BR’s from $1350 + up. Close to Central Park + Columbia U. Contact Joseph 212-749-0410 Midtown Manhattan: Beautiful 4 story building, 10,500 sq ft with 3 flrs of night clubs, 1 kitchen, 3 bthrms, 3 DJ booths, 4th flr, 1000 sq ft, owners apt. building can be delivered vacant. 516-483-6045 86th St. West: pre-war, doorman bldg, BRIGHT 2 BR Hi, Flr, NO FEE. $3900/mo 212-724-8774
~The Milan~ @ 300 E 55 - 26C New to Market! Mint 3 Beds/3 Bath + DA Hi-Floor Amaz City + River Views, Top-of-the-Line Windowed Kitchen + Custom Built-Ins W/D in Apt ~ $11,500
~Tower 53 Condo~ @ 159 W 53 – 15H Corner Huge Lux 2BR/1.5Baths Windowed Kitchen w/ Stainless SteelAppliances + DA w/ Built-In Marble Server’s Bar Low Maint + Tx. Utilities Included. $859K
Ronit Uziel @ Uziel Group 212-891-7136 Prudential Douglas Elliman
Lisa Mansour @ Uziel Group 212-891-7282 Prudential Douglas Elliman
E 65th Street FS24HrDM No Fee!!! Huge Lux 2 Bed/2 Bath Top-of-the-Line Kitchen Excellent Closets $5,900
Trump Parc ~106 CPS~ Mint!1 Bed/1.5 Bath Reno Granite Kitchen w/ Cherry Wood Cabinetry + Top-of-the-Line Stainless Steel Appliances, Hi Ceilings Lg Walk-In Closets, W/D in Apt $995K Ronit Uziel @ Uziel Group 212-891-7136 Prudential Douglas Elliman
Ronit Uziel @ Uziel Group 212-891-7136 Prudential Douglas Elliman
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Midtown: Heart of the Midtown East corner store, 52nd St/ 2nd Ave. Excellent location$1400 sq ft, high traffic. Good for any type of bus! Price neg, 195 per square. 917-868-2623, 24 hrs
NYC Office for rent NO FEE!!! 1650 Broadway Office in central Midtown. Approx 150 sq ft south facing 24 hr bldg access. Rent includes electric & nightly cleaning. 1 or 2 year lease avail. Security TBD Caran Properties Realty LLC Rebecca M Mason 212207-1803 Cell 917-861-3111
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MT. Morris Park/ Clinton: 1 BR w/ Jacuzzi, Hardwood floors, exposed brick $1500/mo. Call owner 917-676-5303
Lower East Side: 1+2 BR, from $1300, No fee. DH Realty. Call 212-226-8400
UPPER EAST SIDE APTS FOR RENT STUDIO, 1 BR, 2 BR, UNFURNISHED & FURNISHED, NO FEE, BROKERS, WELCOME, NEAR ALL SCHOOLS, SHOPPING, TRANS. WWW.THMNY.COM 212-755-6556 Gorgeous 1 Bedroom apartment in Midtown West, Doorman, Roof Deck, $2350, 1 Month Free! Contact Sharon 917-754-2198. 60’s East Luxury-Apts for rent COME IN AND STAY AWHILE! Short-term and long term leases just steps away from central park. Call us today to see what we are all about! Visit our website: helsleycarltonhouse.com THE HELMSEY CARLTON 680 Maf Ave (61 St) 212-838-3000 x2002 Business for sale Resraurant: Classic running, cozyFrench/Brazillian, well located, 74 seatbar and outside terrace, 5 to 10 yrs lease option. Call 347-753-0427
Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent Manhattan, 10th Ave btw 54 & 55: Very hot area! 2000 sq ground flr + 1000 sq usable bsmt. Food OK. $14K/mth Neg Owner: 516-695-4204
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OFFICE/ SHOWROOM FOR RENT NYC 25th St W#151 3rd flr. Sublease, 3,000sf showroom/ offices. Excellent condition, avail 9/1. No reasonable offer refused. Call 718-257-9101 Ask for Lloyd.
Business for sale Travel agency for sale. Call 212-994-2033/Marc 14 yrs in business, NYC location Retail space Manhattan 1st to 5th ave #93 Nassau St, sorner Fulton, Huge selling bsmnt avail. Corner windows Pedestraian only mall. Huge foot traffic. Good Many uses. $9950.00/mo. Neg. 212-687-4017/ 212-292-2704
WALL STREET OFFICE Phone & Mail Services $99.00/mo Mail Services Only $48.50/mo • Full Support Services • Furnished Offices • Conference rooms (Hourly Rental) • Beautiful Full Floor Corporate Setting • Attended Reception Area At 110 Wall Street 11th Floor 1-800-205-7685 Fax: (212) 943-2300 Email: sri@sri-ny.com www.sri-ny.com
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Dental specialty practice-Manhattan Multi specialist practice seeks specialist Partners and/or practice purchaser. Conv Picturesque loc with good referral base, lease And equip 212-228-2505; Fax (212)228-2585
15th Avenue, Near Kengsington- 6 fam apt building, 3 vacancies and 3 RS. No rent control. Priced for quick sale. Call: 845-658-1007 10am-4pm
Co-op for sale Kensington, BK: Beverly Rd., Sunny + spacious, 2 Bedroom has corner terrace w/ double exposures, 3 a/c’s, 24 hr doorman, indoor parking, wait list., maintenance, $683, asking $375,000, neg. Call Effie 917-886-2496
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Condo For Sale Sheepshead Bay, East 12th Y+2: 3 Bedrooms, 2 bths, parking, 15 yr tax abatement, $545K. Owner 347-219-0884
Sackett Lake Front: 4 BR, 2 bth, LR, DR, kitchen combo, master suite, great view, dock on lake, near shuls, shopping and more! Asking $325K www.resortrealtyny.com. Call 845-791-5945
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
SULLIVAN COUNTY, LAKE Huntington: 15 minutes west of Monticello. 6 BR, 7 bth on 5 acres, city sewer, well water. $265K neg. 914-237-9653 or 917-844-8794
Homes for sale 4 Bedroom, 3 bthm only $55,000!. Priced to sell!! Won’t last!! For listings call: 800-366-0412 xT472
Ave L/E 21: Luxury 1 bdrm bsmt apt. Ave I/E 29: Luxury 2 Bdrm apt. Call cell: 347-489-4485
CO-OP FOR SALE-BK Marine pk, 4 br tudor, 40x100 Lot, pvt drv, 1 car gar, fin bsmnt. COAST TO COAST REALTY. 718-787-9200; 917-468-2633
Bensonhurst: co-op for sale, Sat&Sun, 2-7 pm, 2 BR, co-op for sale. MAny clostes, huge lr, nice kit, new cabinets, doors, windows & terrace. Great views. G&E incl. Near all. Owner: 646-361-2101
Lovely 2 story colonial w/ 3 bedrooms, 1 ½ bths, hardwood floors throughout, working fireplace, ceramic tiles in bathroom and kitchen w/corian countertops situated on corner lot in a well sort after area, easy access to all major transportation, mins to Hudson River and fine restaurants. 914-805-1734 Asking 289 K.
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
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
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
STATEN ISLAND 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Vacation homes for sale Sackett Lake: Totally renovated 3 BRs, 1 bath, deeded lake nights, walk to orthodox shul. 516-662-3045 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
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For Sale 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 2 story home completely renovated, 5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 31.14 acres. 2 car garage storage house or studio/ barn. $499K. 718-506-2678 BUILDERS BIND MAKES FOR A GOOD BUY. Beautiful 5 family homeowner selling after 43 years. Immaculate shape, 6 rm apt w/4 income prod units, 2 parking spaces. $675K. asking for Jimmy www.deruppiero.com Robert De Ruggiero Realtors. 201-617-7111
Directly on water with Atlantic Ocean access. All size boats-Doc- boaters and surgers dream. Commercial RE with moving permits for residential use. 362° of water and mariners. 20ft from bird sanctuary. Owner relocating $449K 203-258-2529
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
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MASSAPEQUA, MERRICK RD: 3400 sf, High Visibility Sale for rent 516-798-9338
Corcoran Real Estate PRIME MIDWOOD 2 FAMILY 1341 East 14th Street (Aves M & N) 2 family, 3 BRs over 2 BR, finished basement, private driveway, backyard. Good condition. Price reduced! Steal a 2 family in Midwood!! PRIME CROWN HEIGHTS 1 FAMILY, 1371 Union St. (Brooklyn, NY) Right near 770 Eastern Parkway & Kingston Avenue. 3 BRs. Needs work. Asking $689K negotiable. WE CO-BROKE WITH ALL BROKERS! See these listings online at www.corcoran.com/aweider . Call or email me today! Alan 347-403-3200 Alan.wieder@corcoran.com THINKING ABOUT SELLING? FOR WUICK RESULTS CALL ME TODAY.
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)
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 Oceanside: 3BR, 3 ½ BA, new cherry/ granite kit, CAC, 1 car, hdwd, total reno, full bsmt, deck, porch. MUST SEE! New to mkt! $599K. Owner 516-250-3538 Chemango County: Hunt on your own land, 3 bdrms plus .64 acres, sauna Jacuzzi, steam unit, wood burning stone fireplace, wrap around deck, built in garage, screened Florida rm. View wildlife. Broker Julie 347-370-6421. Asking $249,900. Neg Monticello: pvt home on hill, 3 plus BRs, 2 bth. Renov 2009. 2.5 acre. Walk to kosher supermarket. LG pool. $273K. Also… Monticello: Magnif home, 5 plus BRs, 4 bth, LG pool. 9 acres. On Sacket Lake. Built in 2008. $949K. Call Jil, agent. 845-798-4117
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
No Woodmere: One of a kind decorator showcase. Fully renov in & out. 4 BR, 3 bth, maid’s rm. Must see. $995K Owner 516-791-7359
BROOKLYN Midwood: JR4, totally renovated, like new, asking $269K. Prudential Douglas Elliman, RE 917-679-2685
Flatbush: Open house Thur 10/08, 1pm-5pm; 807 E 19th (bet Ave H- Glenwd) Super sz det 1 fam triplex, 5 BR, 4.5 bths, xlrg D/R, lrg L/R w/fireplace, big EIK, parq flr, w-in closets. Pvt drv 2 car gar, pvt bkyd w/deck, htd pool + hkup gas bbq. BO’s Prime Realty 718-272-6500 or 917-952-7771
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
Bed Stuy: House for sale All new, 2 fam, additional walk in apt. rent roll overs, mortgage, walk to trains, shops, parks school. Asking $549K. Call owner 516-413-7400 or 917-623-9603
BORO PARK, 53rd St/10th Ave: 5 fam house, 23x71, 3 stories + fin basement, Can convert to 3 fam. Asking $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 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
Contact: Leah 917-642-2773 liutaoli@yahoo.com
Midwood: 3428 Bedford Avenue (B/w M & N) 40x100, 4 BR, 2 BTH, LR, DR, Large kitchen, private drive garage. Asking 1.25M. Please Call 917-930-9013. No Brokers. Property for Sale Six family, Bay Ridge location, low 80’s, below 5th avenue, excellent income, several renovated apts, Good Rent Roll-Basement. Asking price 1050 Mill. Contact Mr. Bill Hionas, RE at 718-921-2383 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
CANARSIE, 1 FAMILY 30X100. EXCELLENT CONDITION. PERFECT FOR PROFESSIONALS, INVESTORS OR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY, SEMI COMMERCIAL STREET. 347-260-7838
House for sale in the heart of Sephardic community, Gravesend. Please call: 718-755-6349
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
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
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: 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
Have Property on CT? Growing RE Management Co in CT seeks landlords in need of exceptional management services. Commercial/ Residential, HUD/ Section 8 WE RUN IT LIKE WE OWN IT! Call 203-776-6363, Mendy
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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!
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
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
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
Bensonhurst: 2 BR, pvt house, LG LR, Kitchen, backyard, deck, parkway flr, heat/ hot water incl, pets? Freshly painted absentee LL. 1,600. Owner 718-755-2595
Kew Garden Hills. 2 STORY DET HOUSE. RECENT RENOVATION. EXCEL LOCATION. 718-261-4156
Vacation Rentals Rockport Texas: Dalton’s landing at Copano Bay. On the Water Bayview- 3 nights/weekdays & 1 night FREE! 4 bedroom/ 3 bath Getaway 800-299-1686 www.daltonslanding.com donbelled@gmail.com
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
Williamsburg: Classic Wmsbrg TH for sale. 3 units, 3400sf bldg + bsmt, lrg yard, heart of wmsbrg, 3 blocks form L train, excel cond, 100yr old details preserved, 2 frplc ea flr, $1,575,000. Brokers welcome. 888-423-5242. www.williamsburgtownhouse.com Boro Park: 53rd St/ 10th Avenue: 5 fam house 23x71 3 stories + fin bsmt, can convert to 3 fam. Ask $1.288M. Mint cond. 917-509-6154
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
Huntington: Newly renovated, new roof, ac system, driveway + siding, single story, 2 BR, frplc, deck with yard. $450K negotiable 516-523-4653
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 1869 Richmond Terr. M1 Zone. 26,947 sq ft. Please CallFor more information: 718-258-4222
House for sale, Staten Island Mint, large family, semi 3-4 BRs, EIK, LR/DR, OAK cabinets, throughout koitchen, central AC, ceiling fans, hardwood floors, nice size attic, 2 car gar, fenced lrg backyard, plenty of storage space, move-in cond freshly painted. 460K, ask for owner. 718-980-0587
QUEENS/BRONX CO-OP FOR SALE, HOWARD BEACH Spacious, 3 Bed/ 2 Bth, Lindenwood garden apt, located on 1st floor, new galley kitchen, dining area, sun-filled living room, parking avail, laundry, rec room, near houses of worship. Asking $229K, Parkshop Realty of Queens. 718-846-3008. Parksiderealt@aol.com
Co-op for sale BAYSIDE: 1 bedroom co-op for sale. $165K. Call 718-454-2911 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 Far Rockaway/ Neponsit: 2nd house from beach overlooking ocean. 4 BRs, 60x100 lot, 3 ½ baths. 917-742-7779, Klarise
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
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.
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
OUT OF STATE Naples: Large mobile home, 2/2 55+ gated community, windjammer Village 5 Star park, 2 bdrms/2 bths, new appliances + W/D, corner lot, lg lanai, dbl driveway over awnings. Century loc, well maint, pool, tennis ownland. Maintenance $100, $109,000.00 or best offer. Contact 239-643-6020
Directly on water with Atlantic Ocean access, boater + Surfers drea. Commercial + Residential permits also. 360’ view from marina. Contact Toni at 203-258-2529
Inv Prop Unique 3 in1 land, investment, 165 acres, mineral rights in marvelous shade zone, 41 acres, blach cherry timber all residentially zoned with all utilities onsite. Northwest PA. Alleghanyoudoors.com 814-598-1354
Property for sale, VA Randolph- 53.29 acres, cutover, road frontage on 2 sides. Includes well + septic nr hwy. 746+hwy 750, quiet + peaceful. $135K. Contact 434-454-6374 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
Renovated 4 family brick, close to NY/ NJ, transit, 168,899 Neg. Serious buyers only. Good to own or inv. 212-729-7456 email Sheilastone2008@yahoo.com
Out of state, VA 250 Acre farm in Southwest Virginia, bland county + (1) home + Old farmhouse which was built in the 1990’s. Beautiful views. $995K. Please Contact 276-496-5200
PENNSYLVANIA 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
OUT OF STATE 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
Bristol, CT-31 unite RR $250k. price $2mil. Great potential and opportunity. Owner: 718-258-6096 Leave msg, Frank.
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
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
Available For Rent 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 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 6920 13th Avenue: Store + 2 family, excellent condition, 3 BR apts. Call Albert. Remax Metro. 917-733-7230 or 718-439-1110
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
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
NASSAU / L.I. Vacation property for rent S. HAMPTON Furn, fridge, micro, cable, ut incl. $800/mo+sec 631-537-2900 Enclave Inn. www.enclaveinn.com
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
Huntington Village, LI: 2 APTS 4 Rent, 2 BR, newly reno, new kit + Ba, W/D, no pets/ smoking. Nr all $2000/mo. 516-523-4653
STATENISLAND Bold Forest hills birthwood towers, JR4 28th floor beautiful top floor views,927 sqft very clean ,renovaded /modern other amentites pool,laundry,24 hr doorman parking playground ,small pets near the subway and shuls,shopping and hospital please call 718-606-8383 Ditmas Plaza corner east 5th street Ditmas avenue 400 square ft grounded level and basement and 250 bold square ft available and basement can be used for office or retail store please call owner at 732-580-5327 Crown heights 1 bedroom $950.00 Owner 646-338-7003 or 917-518-9928
Small studio near SI ferry H/HW Inc. Credit Check req’d, 1 mth rent & sec. $700 718-273-4995 or 347-645-8449
2 ROOMS & PRIVATE BATH SHARED KITCHEN for mature woman. Single mom OK. FREE RENT in exchange for housekeeping in exch for housekeeping duties in Staten Island. Call after 1p. 718-273-4995 or 347-645-8449
QUEENS Richmond Hills, Queens: 4 rooms on second floor. Furnish + unfurnish, near E-train, share bath, kit & LR. Reasonable rates! 917-238-5324
Astoria: By owner, 2 BR, 2 bthm living room, NEAR all transportation, $2300 neg. Available Immediately 718-216-6943
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 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 Yonkers, East: (2) BR, (1) BA, 1300 sq ft apt, EIK, DR, LR, SR. Close to all, $1500 per month + sec, 914-965-9624 Wesley Hills: Live your dream, 1.1M, this majestic residence is uncompromising in quality, craftsmanship. Greta location for new office 5600 s.f., upscale detail throughout. Outfitted with Anderson windows, Central AC, Fireplace, dock floors, etc. Call Helen Simon, Century 21 Grand 914-263-5226 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 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
OUT OF STATE
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 Los Angeles: Lrg 2 story, 5BR, 4bth home avail for summer. Granite kosh kit. Lg bckyrd. Nr shuls. 310-735-3310
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
East 35th St/ Kings Hwy: 1 BR bsmt apt, freshly painted, private entrance. Gas & electric included. $850 718-677-5759 or 347-262-3853
BROOKLYN Apts, houses, condos, co-ops, 5 boroughs, including LI. Specializing in the Brooklyn area: Nice Quiet areas- Free state-wide referrals, available upon request. Always available 24/7. RE Agent Sue, Contact # 917-648-4112
Gravesend, East 3rd St: 3 BDRMs, EIK w/ granite top, stainless steal appl, washer/dryer, marble bathroom, LR, Heat/Hot water included, parking, 1,800. Sorry NO PETS. Owner 917-519-4862
E5th & 18th Avenue: Girl lookin to share 2 bdrm apt on 1st floor with other shomer shabbos working girl. Good condition. Freshly painted. Please call landlord. 718-687-7262
Kensinton/Boro Park: 3 bedroom, lg living room, eat in kitchen, dining room, lg porch w/awning, plenty of winsows, incl gas/ heat/ hotwater, 2nd flr in 2 fam house, 2,100 Nego. No pets, no washer/ dryer/ dishwasher. Owner Ozzie 917-753-2580
Alan Wieder Salesperson Corcoran d: (718) 422-2520 f: (212) 230-4475 m: (347) 403-3200 241 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn NY, 11211
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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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 ROOM FOR RENT In busy area in Flatbush (On Coney Island between J & K) Call 718-253-0493
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
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
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
BROOKLYN PA - Circa 1860 Center
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
QUEENS/BRONX FRESH MEADOWS: SPAC 3BR, 1.5 BATH, MOD KIT, 2ND FLR, WASHER/DRYER. NR SHO[ & TRANS. CALL 917-687-9928
KGH: Newly built furnishes, 1 BR BSMT apt, full kitchen & bath, sep entr. Non smoker 917-301-4119
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
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
BROOKLYN HIGH CLASS REALTY SB 718-333-0700 MEDICAL/COMMUNITY FACILITY, NEW CONSTRUCTION! Buy, Rent or/and option to buy possible. MIDWOOD 1168 sq ft. Asking $430K, basement 800sq ft avail. COMMERCIAL, COMMUNITY, MEDICAL FACILITY. BENSONHURST: KINGS HWY/WEST 10ST. 6000+ sq ft. $250$325/sq ft. 24 Ave. 5800 sq ft. $275/ sq ft. Gena917-669-1482 Busy dental practice in heart of boro park 3 networked, fully equiped ops, seller motivated best offer accepted 917-416-3681
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 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
Hall, elegant, stately, 15 rooms, 7 bedroom, 3 ½ bath, 9ft ceilings, new kitchen, new furnace, wood floors, front and rear stair case, detached carriage house with apartment, formal gardens, commercial use permitted, 90 min to GWB or Holland, Broker Owned, by appt, $675,000 610-972-8510 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 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.
QUEENS Bakery/ Café, Queens Coutny, New & successful! Partner disagreement forces sale. Janney 917-696-2345 or 917-696-2345
NY STATE SULLIVAN COUNTY HOTEL FOR SALE. CALL JOHNATHAN AT THE SUNSHINE. 845-796-1200 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 Periera, Columbia Appx 50,000 mtrs Best lux residential area. La Julita close to Pinares de San Martin $12M US 860-514-1813
Retail Space BAYSIDE Storefront for rent 1000 sq ft, w/ prkg. Great location for any type of business. Nr all transp. Call owner 718-224-8903
Office Space Professional Medical office for rent up to 7 rms, $600 per room + free reception area on Church Ave between 15th + 16th Street. Contact Moshe 646-436-3320
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
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 KngsHwy Between East 3rd & 4th St Entire floor/ one flight up 4 rms/ 1 bth Private entrance, contact 718- 243- 2748
Office for rent Bensonhurst, good for services, good condition, close to subway, shopping & schools. Block off 86th St. Price negotiable. 646-944-5209
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
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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
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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
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
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
Boro Park. Corner 15 Ave/48 St Newly renov medical ofc approx 1,200+sqft. Reception +5 offices+ Kitchenette. Gloria: 212-725-6481
Madison, Flatlands/ East 35th. 2600 sqft storefront, high traffic area, ground level, Central a/c & heat. Available now $2200. 917-330-6929
Boro Park, 12 Ave/43 St. Storefront office For rent Approx 60x20 good for professional or medical offi. Call 917-435-9274
Commercial Property/Nassau CEDARHURST beautiful building Near JFK, showroom offices And warehouse, loading dock, approx 16,000 sq ft Call: 516-448-4393
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
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
Crown Heights/ Nostrand & Easter Pkwy 900+ sf store for rent asking $2500 (718)-498-3200
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
CENTER NEW YORK STATE, close to I90, 58 Acres land, 18,000 sq ft of new building, newly equipped restaurant. 315-822-5816. Email: Murdock10windstrend.com
SPACE FOR RENT-BROOKLYN 51st Street close to 18th avenue Basement suitable for storage High ceilings Call for more information: 908-330-3677 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
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Office for rent Ave M, Corner E 19th St. Large office small office. Rms aailable, light, airy, reasonable. Please call: 718-336-4351/ 718-336-8995/ 718-490-5170
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
STORE FOR RENT IN VERY BUSY AREA IN GRAVESEND. NEWLY RENOVATED, PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS: 718-998-7600
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
STATEN ISLAND (New Dorp) 2000 sq ft office space. Near train.Convenient to all. Pat 646-369-9457
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
NASSAU REAL ESTATE Cedarhurst New Construction by Rami 4200 s.f corn, top quality $900’s Call Builder 917-541-7013
Bed-Stuy-Vacant Interior: LOT (LAND LOCKED) 18*35 BLOCK 1687, LOT 144, R-6 ZONE, $20K. PRINCIPALS ONLY. OWNER 917-848-7735 AUCTION 18 Hole Golf Course Oct 10th 2009-12:00 Noon 9259 West Fork Road Georgetown, Ohio 45121 126 acre public golf course located 45 min southeast of Cincinatti. 6070 yards, family owned for over 48 years, ½ mile from Brown Co. Airport, Ohio D5 Liquor Licnese, full restraint, pro-shop, Driving range, Tennis court, practice green, Starting bid set at $900K. Campbellauctioneers.com 973-392-4308 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
LAND for SALE Lot size is 150x50 Selling combined or individual lots of 50x150 Information: 212-777-7488 x846
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Business Opportunity • Financial Services • Legal Services Business Opportunity Medical Cabinet Factory 31 Years $500K of state of the Art Machinery inventory ,Gw Materials Owner /seller Retiring 1st year free rent asking $165k Norwalk, Connecticut 203-858-2907
Producing oil wells in texas Earn up to $10,000/mo asking $1m Owner financing available 1800-340-8444
Operation $50k CHRISTMAS Earn $50K or more before the holidays $10k-1st month/ $250K + 1st year. HURRY top positions going FAST. Contact 919-791-6440 www.SHAPENOW.com
Major entertainment project: Michel, Vincent producers of fine entertainment, investors/ investors needed $175,000, worldwide distribution, Itunes, CDs and videos, 57 south main street, suite 245, Neptune NJ 07753. Ronny Michel, President. Vincent Mazzeo, Jr Vice President. Contact Vincent Mazzeo Jr @ 732-948-6598 email VJmazzeojr@aol.com. Fax 732-502-0078 Capital Wanted: Private successful investment club buys comm. RE bldgs leases to and guaranteed by the US fed govt on long term lease seeks qualified investors. 888-246-0606 Business for sale FASHION JEWELRY DESIGNER SUNGLASSES OVER 100K INVENTORY OWNER MOVING TO FL ASKING $15k 203-858-2907
SEEKING INVESTORS PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENT IN 2000 ACRE CALIFORNIA, USA RANCHING OPERATION. 30% NET ANNUAL RETURN. SEEKING INVESTMENTS UP TO $5 MILLION WWW.PRIMELAMBRANCHES.COM TEL: 559-994-2838
$30K IN 30 DAYS Complete turn-key system No buying or selling 1-800-884-5967
BUSINESS FOR SALE: Becket Mass: 1790 Post + Beam, B+B, ski theaters, 12 rms, 7 Bdrms w/baths, 12 acres, sub dividable, antique store. $849,900.00 Jeff 413-329-8090 B”H Investment Opportunity Great opportunity to make millions of dollars on a patented product. Private presentation givern for serious accredited investors. We truly believe that this is a once in a life time opportunity. Investment needed from $1mill return on investment is enormouse, more than 30% w/in the 1st year. Call 718-701-4098
Presidents & VPs ONLYsm Custom marketing services for senior executives wishing to reach decision makers world-wide. Our confidential service does all contact work directly. See our recent testimonials at www.dwic.com RECENT SUCCESS President, Foreign Sub. $280K base++ Repeat client David Werner International Corp. Email: dwerner@dwic.com 212-682-8888
If you are really serious about a home based business and would like to see yourself in the sx figure category with a minimum investment of $2,000. then contact Gary Schechter. Call 917-345-3202 or 888-274-2933 for more details. You will not be sorry
Capital to Invest NY allows public stock offerings without “Registration”. John Kenny 401-831-7050
A 14 yr old bio-tech, debt free, on TSX, going global, USA wide open. Flagship product: Kosher, proven to optimize you rimmune system, antiaging product, 70 method of using patents (pharmaceutical), 34 published peer reviewed clinical trials, listed in the USA PDR drug guide, natural, safe for all ages, 25 years of clinical research at McGill University Medical Center & Jewish Genera lHospital, Montreal Canada. Call 866-831-8431 free cd/dvd
Investors needed, Earn 10% interest. Secured investment interest pd monthly. $50K min invest RS license LI00000222641 727-410-7315
LIVINGSTON, NJ Approx 900sq ft on Route 10 near Livingston Center. Ideal for retail, office or daycare. Available immediately. Call 973-994-0001
RE-INVENT YOUR FUTURE! We’ve earned MILLIONS working with the greatest home based business company on the face of the earth! Imagine…You…Revitalized , confident, partnering with our top executives and fortified with the knowledge that our track record and specifically, “Integrity quotient” can not be matched at any other direct seller. Anywhere…Period 780-462-6789 Win big in this economy Get quality bank owned properties (REO) (For cents on the dollar) Nationwide, unlike others, by us you get what you order-Rare opportunity. Call Hillel at 551-580-0857
Exclusive $$$ System, Have the desire to excel?” Serious only! www.globalinformationnet work.com, use code1500490 888-596-1006
Mark IV Programming Ad Hoc reports/ BI Data Mining Custom Reports Custom Datasets MG Miller Programming Inc. Call 216-381-6753 Moreno Miller Email: reno40@sbcglobal.net 198 Delux room Motel LOCATED IN THE MIDWEST Completely renovated in 2006. Tropical Pavillion Lge indoor POOL, Whirlpool Priced @ $26,000 per room. $5,148,000.00. 40% of replacement cost. Arrange own financing principles only. 877-599-8526 Partner with famous NY Billionare. Starting new home based biz “No guts no Glory” Looking to work with new business protégé. Will you be one of them? Contact: 866-600-3728 WWW.Donaldsbigbiz.com
Never before… $28,000 In days, not weeks…returning calls. No selling! IRS approved. 1-888-266-4224 “My best week since joining the program in $17,000.”Anne, Single mom, WA
Outstanding business opportunity, distributors needed, no franchise fees. It is finally here! Say good-bye to chlorine, no more burning irritated eyes/ swimmers ear/ Brittle hair + Dry skin/ Faded swim suites. Keep your pool crystal clear for under $99/yr. 100% safe. Vitamin grade EPA approved. Fo rmore info, call 408-8/86-0897 or visit our website www.swimmingpoolmagic .com/davidbeck
Serious people wanted, learn how to construct a career, yet have plenty of quality time to spend with your family. 845-362-2211 WWW.YOURFREEDOMPLAN.COM
#1 MONEY MAKING online mall. Borkers/ Lenders wantedBig $$$ Great support! 888-556-6121
CAPITAL WANTED Movie partner wantedBiggest film 2009 Global buzz already done Title, Madoff movie View website: www.madoffwithamerica.com Contact 310-245-4217 Email: Edmond@madoffwithamerica.com
HI RETURN, LO RISK Long term investment grade annuity-Type cash flows. 8-10% IRR. Top Insurance and utility credits. 888-254-2102
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
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
Trade stcks? Leverage 20x intra-day, 10x over-nite. Full service broker, low commissions. Call 212-422-1122
FINANCIAL SERVICES comemrcial lending, private funding, boutique and hard moeny programs available including lines of credit, equipment leasing and re-fi’s from $400,000 & up. Viable projects both domestic and overseas friendly countries. Expansion, Franchises & Medical are desirable. Bill Morgenstein Marquesa Funding & Consulting Corp. Ph: 800-753-7840 F: 561-433-0893 Email: bill@marquesafunding.com www.marquesafunding.com FOR SALE, Exceptional Subdivisional 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 & dry, standard septic. Horses allowed. Some second-story water views. Walk to water and marina. $1895M
#1 Opp!!! $15K+ Per week potential! Giant international Co. Exploding in the US. Contact 800-399-0447
PRE-LAUNCH! Once in a lifetime oppty. Exclusive membership to a private Sovereign Association. Increase your earning ability. Call Richard now for free details. 864-329-5602
BILLION $ BREAKTHROUGH MAJOR UNIVERSITY DISCOVERY OF YOUTH. Tropical Serum stops aging at source! FORTUNES WILL BE EARNED! Dan McCormick 602-332-9858
Investors wanted (15%) Fifteen Percent Secured by real estate Contact 405-735-3906
1st Mortgage Maui Jewish family request $1.5M for refinance. Secured by prime 250 acres in Wailuku, Maui. Recent ultra conservative appraisal $6.45 million. Very generous terms. Very secure. Please contact David @ 808-463-2691 or David@waiehukalo/com Shalom
Investor wanted, upscale gentlemen’s club with complete restaurant/ sushi bar in the heart of times square. Multi million $ gross. Contact 973-786-5688
OCTOBER 30, 2009 Tutoring 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
BETH MOSES CEMETERY Pinelawn, Long Island, 7 burial plots, split 4+3. Will negotiate. congls@hotmail.com 954-964-6634
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
1st TIME EVER ON VEGAS STRIP -National Sweepstakes -Slot Tournament -TV Game Show -Extremely High Yield -Seeking $500K -High Risk 877-603-4160 Established Glatt Kosher restaurant/ take-out/ food store for sale, good location w. parking, 5 towns area. Partners avail 516-581-3930
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
Playgroup: Madison age 2-6. Morah Leora, early/late dropoff. Quality care. Summer/all year. 718-646-9368 Household Positions Wanted Nurse Highly Educated, spec, in Alzheimer’s & dementia. Takes care of People w/various illnesses. Exc refs.10 yrs exp. Fluent in eng & 4 euro langs. Exc travel companion 914-960-4374 Patient Care to work w/elderly 8hrs day. 2 days/wk 15 yrs experience. Good credentials & refs. 347-702-7121 SITUATION WANTED NURSE WITH EXPERIENCE LOOKING TO CARE FOR ELDERLY
Tutoring New voice studio in Upper Manhattan, Inwood, private classical voice lessons. www.christina-asher.com 212-304-0242
COUPLE OR PERSON. SPEAKS HUNGARIAN & A LITTLE ENGLISH. HAVE NYS DRIVERS LICENSE. 203-243-0601
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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 VOICE INSTRUCTOR OPERA & MUSICAL THEATER, ACHIEVE YOUR FULL POTENTIAL. ALLISAGRIMALDI.COM 212-679-3461
MUSIC Glatt Kosher Restaurant & next door grocery w/ pizza in central Florida. 386-566-1471, Ask for Yehuda
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YOUR HOME, TUFTS UNIVERSITY. GRADUATE WORKING JAZZ MUSICIAN. CAN TEACH KLEZMER + OTHER JEWISH MUSIC, CLASSIC POP. CALL 917-971-9027 ALEXCL123@GMAIL.COM
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
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Caregiver, seeking fulltime position, many years experience. Excellent references. Live in/ out. Call 718-645-5128 or 347-495-2773 NANNY
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL DORA AT: 440-339-0991 EMAIL: DBDUIGOV@YAHOO.COM 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 Hebrew teacher, 30 yrs experience, will teach adults reading, writing & conversational Hebrew. Also will help students in all Hebrew subjects, homework & tests. Sundays & eves. Boro Park 646-484-1484
Eldercare caring experienced , home aid/Companion, daily or live-in Excellent Ref. Jean: 347-678-5836
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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
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
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
ELDERLY CARE GIVER Able, energetic, industrious, shows initiative. Has lots of experience. 917-496-7701/ 718-699-1920 AID/ COMPANION/ CHILDCARE with more than 12 years experience, seeks position. Excellent checkable references. Please Call: 718-284-7637
Situation Wanted, Help offered: Exp nurse with A1 refs. Seeking a position to care for the elderly. P/T, F/T or nights. Prefer the Maryland, Virginia or DC area. Contact 301-455-1221
ARTIVIA AGENCY We specialize in HHA/ CAN/ LPN/ RN WE PROVIDE GENERAL/ HEAVY DUTY CLEANING, GARAGES, OFFICE, HOMES, ETC. NO JOB TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL, SERVING ALL 5 BOROUGHS AND BEYOND 877-545-3062 FOR ALL OUTSIDE BOROUGHS CALL 718-652-0099
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
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
ZEVULAN partner to support my Learning for one year, only $20K Call: 646-385-2259
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
English teacher with resume, 30 years experience including 16 years in prestigious Bronx High School of Science. Eager to teach curious young minds. Please call 212-942-8381
Home attendant Fulltime or part time. Felxible hours. Live in or out. Experience required. Good salary. Call 917-676-1309 or 347-512-8229
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
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
Urgently looking for a CANTOR LEIB GLANTZ Live/ prvt recordings, concerts, weddings, radiom lectures, services etc. Video & photo materials, letters, newspapers, poseters, music scores and manuscripts, stories/anecdotes. If you have or know somebody who has such materials pls contact me at 845-228-8577 or 347-833-3050 leibglantz@gmail.com
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
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 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 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
Handyman Help wanted Cosmetician, exp’d-F/T knowl of selling cosmetics & fragrances a must. Sal + commish. 718-645-0166 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 Y+I Services Let us save you time + energy on home maint + cleaning. General cleaning for resident/ Comm. Move in/ Move out contact. 646-359-9003 or Y_I_cleaningservices@hotmail.com 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 At Handyman, very clean organize bsmts sets ,bathroom,ceramic tiles. Shelving draws, kitchens, ceiling, floors, doors, Resonable. Shomer shabbos. Call 718-209-1909 Electrician All electrical needs. New lines Trouble shouting fixtures. Call Yahuda: 347-631-0481 Junk Removal Will clean out unwanted items from House, apt, garage, basement,& office. Will also broom sweep. Call Waymon 917-330-2854 718-444-1877
All types of work, small or big jobs, many yrs exper, free est, sh shab. Call Itzhak 917-365-3340 All types of work, small or big jobs, may years exp, free est, sh shab. Call Itzhak 917-365-3340
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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
HANDYMAN AVAILABLE!!! Carpentry, Tile, Plumbing, Landscaping, Painting, Furniture, Asembly. Reasonable rates, Friendly service Call Orrin 646- 671- 3906
Chevy Malibu 2000 Tan 4 door Well maintained clean in/out. Good Ac Cd cassette player Call owner 718-712-1505
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*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 Giannotti Contracting All pases of home improvements INC. * Finished Basements * Sheetrock * Taping * Extensions * Masonry * Kitchens * Bathrooms * Roofing * Siding * Windows & more. Call Dominick 718-256-9393 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 BATHTUB, TILE REGLAZING + WATERPROOFING Unbeatable price guaranteed. 10% off with ad 718-866-6124/ 917-335-3798
Handyman: incomplete bathroom and kitchen plumbing…Construction, electrician and any repair! Free estimate! Nathan Nachim 646-267-1207 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. 917-975-1752 NATURAL GINESIS NO MORE BUGS! 100% NATURAL PLEASE CALL: 800-807-9357 www.naturalginesis.com
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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 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
PAGE 51 Health/ Fitness Mercedes Benz 2003 CLK: Convertible EXCELLENT CONDITION 40K miles. Asking: $19,500. Contact Ron Schwartz 914-666-2220
Moving & Storage Shalom Moving Best service, best price. Can help you move anytime, anymore. 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
MAZEL TOV Moving and Storage Special rates for the holidays Lic & Ins DOT # 10587 718-443-7700 MOVING SERVICE www.heftyroy.com we bring a careful, friendly touch to res’d moving. Mention Jewish Voice & Get $25 discount! 347-852-5439 Have van will travel. Licensed livery van service, schools, airports, mountains, special rates for day camps & yeshivas. 347-276-7071
Beauty 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 + $1,000 gift car. 24/7 free pickup tax deduction. HELP CHILDREN IN CRISIS. Se habla espanol. 877-829-9633
SELL YOUR VEHICLE FREE QUOTES!!! ANY CONDITION NEW OLD JUNK NOT TITLE NO PROBS SAME DAY PICK UP. FREE TOWING!! CALL 718-864-2872
Hadar’s Glow, hair removal center Safe & painless, special low prices. Guaranteed results 718-708-2822 www.hadarsglow.com Board certified psychiatrist: Sun hours65 CPW 66 st, NYC. Dr. Klien. Call 516-662-4722 Clip & Save HEALTH CARE SERIE$ 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
PAGE 52 Health/ Fitness 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
Change your waterChange your life DO YOU SUFFER FORM THE FOLLOWING? Obesity, high blood pressure, asthma, acid reflux, high cholesterol, fatigue. 347-406-2965 or h2origin.com/geneg LEARN solutions to these conditions.
MALE GENITAL ENLARGEMENT Adult Stem Cells & laser breakthrough www.drgiunta.com 703-845-7400
Weight loss solution To loose weight + inches but NOT MUSCLE. Start cinching, deliciously, easy. 718-851-9478 or 718-645-2744
Live Well Counseling Ed Bacigalupo lcsw156 5th Ave,suite 718 newyork, ny 10010 646-842-1406 Empower yourself & change your life. Reduce anxiety & stress & increase self-esteem
Licensed Master Reiki, Professional massage T:718-236-5861 C: 917-292-6075 Body Work Sport & Swedish massage Shiotsu, foot reflexogy Stress relief & relaxation.
Pets 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 Pets Supplies & Services WHEN DOODY CALLS Pet Waste Clean-Up Service. Is your dog’s poop a pain in the grass? 732-495-7667 www.whendoodycalls.com
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PROFESSIONAL NUMEROLOGIST Precise advise on troubled relationships, career decisions, info on naming businesses & children for success. 201-954-9019, mynumber1thru@aol.com
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SOMEONE PLEASE LOVE US!! We are desperately looking for a good home!! Our names are Bindi & Jeremiah- we are 2 Pitbull mixes who were rescued from a horrible home in GA 2 years ago by our NYC “moms”. I’m Bindi, a small girl who loves to jump and play. I weigh only 35 punds and am about 3 yrs old. I am Jeremiah, a pit/boxer mix who is a lovebug. I am 3 ½ yrs olf and weigh 55lbs we are both vetted and have had training!! PLEASE WE ARE BEGGING FOR A LOVING & FOREVER HOME!!! Please contact Monica at 516-315-0900 or Darlene at 516-205-0421. We require ref., a home check and adoption fee.
GOLF EQUIPMENT The Original-The Putting Arc-Delux It looks like a piece of hand-finished fine furniture and will fit any home décor. Practice with the world’s #1 putting aid at home this winter and takr all of your golfing buddies’ money next spring. Used almost 900 touring profs for well over 700 wins. Available at TheputtingArc.com 800-898-0701 or a golf shop near you.
Judaica Store out of business! SELLING ALL MERCAHNDISE AND CONTENTS OF STORE. 347-713-5340/ 646-210-7174
Lost hse in NJ fine furnishings, collectibles, coins, paintings, rugs. Cents on the dollar. 646-379-3566
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
Shaimes, Buried K’holacha. Very reasonable. No charge for good usable books, we accept posul sifrei Torah tefflin and mezuzas. Call Mr. Pinter. 4408 14th Avenue 718-871-2260 or 917-589-5992
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
Travel Travel /Vacations Airline Ticket Anywhere,half priced Intl also available.last min Ute ok!!! Economy/1st class Vouchers 646-464-8747 or 732-939-0894
Merchandise Insulation for sale 8 ¼ InsulationOwens Corning R-30C 917-913-0000 STEAMBURG SMOKES. Tax free cigarette brands delivered to your front door for less than expected. 18+ 1877-783-2685 NYJV GET YOUR POWER WHEELCHAIRS, POWER SCOOTERS, HOSPITAL BEDS AT ABSOLUTELY NO COST TO YOU! FAST DELIVERY AVAILABLE. CALL TOLL FREE TO QUALIFY. 800-470-4567
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+
Collector of Jewish Art. Call Ted: 201-575-0055 Cash for records Coins, LPs, DVDs + Music + Movie Memoriabita. Private collector-Travels to you since 1970. Call Gary 203-377-3449 Clock Repairs Clock repair & restoration! Home calls. 347-276-9838 semion7777@gmail.com I BUY OLD PAINTINGS CALL ART 732-261-3269 SEALED BID SALE By order of owner US largest woven Blanket manufacturer Biederlock of America Corp. 11501 Bedford Rd. Cumberland, MD 210502. assets being offered as a goig concern in sealed bid package 1000 has a close date Oct. 14th 2009 at 5:00pm. Bid on entirety or incremental parts; Certain tangible and intangible Assets. Incl, Real Prop., Web pages/ phone product Design Patterns, Customer List, Raw Mat’ls Invent, finished goods invent., mach & eqt for terms & conditions & sealed bid package visit:www.americanaai.co m Email: dicklowry@americanaai.com to register and receive a bid package & inspection dates. American Auctions & Appraisals, Inc 410-876-8210 NEW SEFFER TORAH, 6 INCH, 1/ARON KODESH, READY FOR SIYUM. 718-627-0915, 917-449-6125
Motorcycles. Mopeds/ Go carts DIRT BIKES, OLD WANTED ANY MODEL/Cond. Contact Mark 516-794-8375
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Position wanted Reliable home health care aid or housekeeper available. Ref avail. Looking in all five boros. Please call Pauline 718-380-0736
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
Mattress & Box spring Queen, Pillow top Still In Plastic $350 (631) 716-0174
Sports + Tickets Buy/ Sell tickets/ Yankees/ Mets/ Knicks/ Rangers/ Giants/ Jets and all concerts sports and theater. 800-764-1560 www.arentix.com
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Piano, Baldwin Concert Grand, 7 ft, selling $12,500, appraised $25,000 631-277-1937
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 or 646-379-3566 ask for Jack.
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Audition for: THE ALISSA GRIMALDI PERFORMANCE SERIES. The 2nd Friday of each month 8:00 pm @ the new church, 114 East 35th Street (Between Lex & Park Ave) NYC $10.00. Enjoy an evening of opera arias PLUS How to audition at audition@alissagrimaldi.co m or contact 212-679-3461 A simcha you can afford in congregation Poile Zedek’s, historic landmark, our magnificent, sanctuary and party room are available for you remarkable affordable place. Price centrally located @ 145 Neilson Street, New Brunswick, NJ 732-545-6123
CLOSEOUT SWEATERS WHOLESALE QUANTITIES Suitable for discount stores, street vendors, internet sales, home businesses. *Name Brands * Low Minimum Quantities *Individually Packaged * High Profit Margins Call 917-716-3018 Joe’s gold buying serv. We buy your unwanted gold, diamonds, sterling silver/ bronzes, paintings, rugs, coins and high end watches. We also do partys. General Comm and food allowne. For info call Joe 516-849-8826
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King Solomon Memorial Park, Clifton NJ: two burial plots for sale $1400 Each. Call Fanny at 215-205-5334
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
Spring Lake Heights: Builders/developers, Land for sale: Zoned Residential 908-482-0528 FARMINGDALE/WALL (NJ) 2 levels, approx. 11,000 sf. Warehouse, office, storage, back-up generator, many upgrades. $9.50 sf + NNN. Call Bruce/Gary 732-938-4499. 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
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
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
Lakewood Enclave: Buckingham, 2 yrs old. 3 b, 2.5 ba, baseboard ht, screened porch, 2 car gar, EIK, Coria counters. 732-534-5859
Wayne: Large brick colonial beautiful view 4 BR, 3 ½ bats, family room, volted, ceilings, skylights + fireplace. 4 zone, heat, hot water base bored, central air + vac. Aderson Cament Window, hardwood floors + ceramic, floor finished, basement open house. Every Sunday 973-767-7224
Adult Community, For sale Toms River: Adult community, $239,000 8 miles to ocean! 8 Francios Ct. Large ranch with underground sprinklers on cul-desac. New stamp concrete driveway and front entrance. Completely remodeled kitchen w/ corian countertops. Mexican tile floor. Huge enclosed pantry. Flat top range & double door refrigerator. Large dining room leading to new 20’ Florida room with heat and air. Large 20’ living room. Large bedrooms w/3 large closets. 15’ garage with remote. Brand new front load W/D. Fans installed in all rooms plus air. Baseboard gas heat throughout. Home completely painted in 2009. Immaculate. Call before noon or after 6pm 732-608-0130
Jackson: 7500 SF NEW BOILET! Heat/ elec with 1250 SF office. $5000 month, included, tax, water and sewer. Nights 732-7766575 or 732-547-8166
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
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Other Services
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
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
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
Commercial Property Red Bank: Downtown, office space available 1350 sq ft vaulted ceilings. Fios internet ready, parking available. Call Art 732-222-3553
Cedar Grove: Route 23 South, 20 mins from NY. Building 5 years old. Condo 2608 sq ft, 9 rooms, 3 bed, 2 bth. This home is to be sold AS IS, FULLY FURNISHED. All brand new furnishings and newly renovated. Includes exclusive furnishings, Persian Rugs, large chandelier in formal dining room plus 6 chandeliars throughout. Cathedral ceilings and cove moldings. Each room has its own décor and is custom furnished accordingly, including special lighting and Tiffany lamps. Home has 2 granite fireplaces, custom created. Eat-in kitchen with granite tops and stainless steel appliances, open floor plan into recreation room including 11 foot entertainment center, matching granite fireplace, dry bar, recessed storage. There are a number of exclusive pictures on walls throughout. Dining room wall unit filled with exquisite silver, crystal pitchers and glassware including champagne, red and white wine, water goblets. Kneed walls are onyx topped and display Italian Morani pitchers. Master bath has his and her matching granite vanities and 6 ½ brand new Jacuzzi. 2nd bath has floor to ceiling custom tile and marble. Separate laundr room with high end LG washer and dryer, two large terraces. Daytime 973-575-8635, other times sell 973-303-3370 Price...$795,500
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. 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
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
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
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
Marlboro: 3 BR, 2.5ba in Millponds, pool, rent. $2000/mo 732-583-6244
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 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
Business for sale Health food store for sale in Northern, NJ in growing location. Gross income $750K yearly owner will train, asking price $850K or best offer. Contact 908-850-1470, Lv Message.
Apartment For Rent Kings Point, Delray Beach: CONDO Capri Delux, 2 BR, 2 bath, newly renovated, unfurnished. Yearly lese $800/month. (201)286-3056
Business for sale Health food store for sale in Northern, NJ in growing location. Gross income $750K yearly owner will train, aRed Bank: Downtown office space available. 1350 sq ft vaulted ceilings Fios Internet ready, parking available. Call Art 732-222-3553
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.
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
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
Commercial property HBWE REALTY Ranway/Linden NJ Warehouse 15,000, 30, 000& 40,000 22 ft high, plenty of parking space, Avail for imm purchase or lease! Call Barry Littman 917-363-3974
Jersey city warehouse space Available. 10,000+ sf. Call Joe or Ben, 718-947-5037 HELP WANTED-NJ Pharmacist position available in Lakewood, NJExc, salary. Pleasant work envirnment. Gershon: 732-666-1748
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale 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 CEDARHURST: DENTAL OFFICE THUR-SUN. ALSO SUITABLE FOR PODIATRIST, PSYCHOLOGIST OR SPEECH THERAPIST. CALL 516-316-3360
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 office space wired & ready. Surrounded by Heimeshe businesses daily minyomin, close to highways & trans. Excellent prices. Call 917-771-3140, If no answer lv msg
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
Adult community for sale Cedar Grove: By owner, custom fully furnished, totally upgraded, 9 rooms, condo, building 5 yrs old, 3 BE, 2 BTH, eat in kitchen with stainless, granite, 2 gas fireplaces, cath ceiling & cover, molding Jacuzzi in master bath, custom flooring + lighting, 2 terraces, 2,602 sq ft, 6 chandelier, custom made drapes 16x18, dining rm 22” + 30”, must see a special home for a special person. Asking $790,500. Call 917-303-3370
Children’s hope charities-ACar donation is tax deductible, free pick-up, any condition. 800-6921221. For NJ call 973-504-6215. Not an endorsement
Property Management Experience company serving MICHIGAN, OHIO AND INDIANA Call Shepherd Properties 248-217-5040
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Florida Real Estate
Real Estate
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Palm Coast, FL: New home construction, located along northeast Atlantic coast and features at www.stoughtonluxuryhomes .com summer building. Call for details 386-586-5665, ask for Will or John, M-F 9am-5pm, w/e 10am-4pm
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
Delray Beach, FL Condo: 2/2 Asking $34,800-Paid $52K. Partially furn/ New AC & WH. First floor, golf, transportation, club house. Walk to worship. 561-638-7138 LGORRAN@HOTMAIL.COM
Lakes of Delray Delray Beach, FL: Gated community, 2 BRs, 2 B, fully furnished, Active Clubhouse, pool and Tennis Courts, Lakeview. December to March. $1,800 Monthly. Call 617-482-3198 Email: plevine@stanzlerlevine.com
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
Jacksonville: New built 2009 townhouse, 3 BR, 2.5 baths, pool, walk-in closet. $200K. Owner 843-538-4315 or 718-213-2422. mgcheetah@gmail.com
Hollywood: 13,000sf on lg lot. Upscale furn d home w/elevator. Private 2nd wing great for classes & lg events. Superbly located nr YI, I-95, airport & beaches. $1,575,000.00 Call 954-839-0075
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
Excellent Oppty! Fountain Bleau Hotel, Miami Beach: Magnificent 800 sq ft studio, sleeps 4, renting daily/weekly, avail short/long term. Call 347-809-4666
Century Village, Boca Raton: Nicely furnished 1 BR, 1.5 BA ground floor $1400/mo, 4 mo min, 305-255-3985 or 305-775-2635
Naples, FL: Condo, Seasonal Furnished, 2 BR, 2 bath. Avail Oct 2009 to June 2010. Except March. $2000/mo negotiable 973-208-3265
Palm Coast: New home construction location along northeast Atlantic, East and Intercostals Waterway. Custom home builder (FL license CDG 1516268) Review plans and features at www.stoughtonluxuryhomes.com summer building incentives apply through August 31 2009. Call for details 386-586-5665 ask for Will or John M-F 9AM-5PM w/e 10am-4pm
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
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
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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For Rent Delray Beach: 2/2 condo, gated rent/ sale, nicely furn, lots of activities, bull service available, near golf courses, shopping & more. Contact 561-684-5840
NW Broward County Las Vistas in Inverrary 2/2 Furn. New renov, frsh/ cln. All tile, EIKit, new appl, 55+ gated elev building. Cbl tv included/ stps to w/d, pool, active clbhs. Nearby golf, balc garden view. Kosher avail/xtra. Walk to Chabad. 4s/RBO. $90K. Annual$1100. Seasonal $1600. Pixs/info 561-721-1761 values91447@mypacks.net
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
Vacation Rentals Naples, FA Condo, $2,000. Seasonal 2 BR, 2 ba, Turnkey finished. Avail Oct 2009 to June 2010. Except March. $2000/mo negotiable 973-208-3265
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
BAY HARBOR ISLAND Large 1/1.5 Pool, 4th Flr, A/C, Long term Available Walking Dist. from Bch 914-960-6789
Lovely condo in WEST PALM BEACH to rent from Dec, April, fully furnished, 3 BR, 2 BA, 3rd BR used as office, 1st floor, garage and parking. Pool overlooking intercoastal healthclub, convenient to Palm Beach, city place and Downtown. Asking $2800 per month. Please Call 561-671-9952
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
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale 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
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale 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 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
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
Looking To: 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
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Kings Point, Delray Beach: Monaco, 1/1.5 furnished on canal. Tiled $550/mo+ or buy. 303-328-5202
Delray Beach/ Pal Green: Decorated Furnished, 2 bdrm/2 bth, 2nd flr, new kitchen + appliances/ Lake Golf View. Sensational or Annual. $995.00 Annually. $1500.00 seasonal. Contact 561-968-5400
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
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
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
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For sale Israel KIryat GAT Near Beersheva- 2 Brs, KItch, L/R, 400 sq ft, front yard, playground.$80K Call 917-804-4158
NEAR GREAT SYNAGOGUE, 3 rooms, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkos, 1st floor sukkah. Call 011-972-2-641-4752
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
Jerusalem: Private suite in 5 star Ramada, sleeps up to 8. in/out pools. $250/night. Albert 514-803-8838 www.5starjerusalem.com
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
Jerusalem: Private suite in 5 star Ramada. Sleeps up to 8, in/ out pools. $250/night. Albert 514-803-8838 www.5starjerusalem.com
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