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January 8th, 2010 | 22 Tevet 5770
Rabbis from Around the World Convene in Jerusalem
Vol. 10, Iss. 49
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HISTORIC 2010 INAUGURATION ACCENTUATES THE POSITIVE, AND CELEBRATES DIVERSITY
JORDANIAN DOUBLE AGENT MURDERS SEVEN CIA AGENTS AND ONE FELLOW SPY
BY YONI KEMPINSKI
The annual worldwide conference for rabbis is taking place this week. The conference, which is organized by the Department for Religious Affairs in the Diaspora of the World Zionist Organization, brought approximately 150 representatives from Israel and the Diaspora to Jerusalem. he representatives came from 33 countries, including - Argentina, Australia, Uruguay, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Norway, Panama, Poland, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, U.S.A, England and Ukraine. Rav Yechiel Wasserman, the department head says: "The diversity of participants is indicative of how central a place Israel fills in the life of the Diaspora Jews." This year the event is marking 75 years to the death of Rav Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook may his memory be blessed. The Jewish communities' representatives are discussing Rav Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook's ideas on agada, philosophy and mussar, and his contribution to the Jewish people and the state of Israel. Special panels were dedicated to current issues on the agenda of the rabbinical system, such as The Protection of Synagogues – a discussion moderated by the rabbi of Turin, Italy, who contends with the complex reality of such problems every day. Rav Yisrael Rozen and Rav Yosef Carmel offered creative halachic solutions to rabbis from around the world. In addition the conference is dealing with subjects such as Determining the Moment of Death and Organ Transplants, Inter-religious Dialogue – Between Openness and Closure and others.
A Royal Honor Guard funeral for a Jordainian intelligence officer who was killed along with seven CIA members in Afghanistan.
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BY HANA LEVI JULIAN
Mayor Bloomberg was sworn into office for his third term as the Mayor of New Yorkon New Years Day. During the inaugural ceremony, Bloomberg’s gave an inspiring address where he emphasized the important role that innovative government can play in improving people’s lives and the need for New Yorkers to come together to get through the challenging times ahead. BY DAVID BEN HOOREN
With warm words of promise and possibility, Michael Bloomberg took the oath of office Friday, the first day of January, 2010, the first day of the next decade on the first day of his third term as the 108th Mayor of the City of New York. The Mayor spoke of the government’s ability to affect the lives of citizens and the responsibility that he, as head of the City’s government, has to better the lives of all New Yorkers. Bloomberg acknowledged all the value of each component and the role it plays in city life. loomberg’s speech began with a bilingual greeting, greetings and welcome to fourteen new members of city government –Public Advocate, Bill de Blasio and
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A Jordanian spy sent to Afghanistan to search for top Al Qaeda leaders apparently succeeded in his mission – but upon reaching his objective, he became a double agent and turned on his own people.
Comptroller, John Liu, and 12 incoming members of the City Council. He noted the City flags flying at half-staff, and recalled the memory of a “true civil rights pioneer, a legendary public servant, and a great New Yorker - Percy Sutton.” He briefly reminisced about his first inauguration, when smoke was still rising from the ground zero, noting how far the city had progressed. The Mayor spoke of the balance between “the bright promise of our future,” and the day to day struggles of many New Yorkers. Noting that New York is “the safest big city in the nation,” the mayor promised the city would take its place as “a national model” for educational progress, the affordable housing and its most sweeping public health agenda. A true cheerleader for the City,
he double agent murdered a fellow Jordanian and seven CIA operatives in a suicide bombing last Wednesday at a meeting being held at the CIA’s Forward Operating Base Chapman in southeastern Afghanistan. He had not been searched when he entered the base; the American security guards trusted him, seeing him with the Jordanian operative with whom they were familiar, and knowing that he had important information to share with them. They believed him to be an informant who would deliver the top Al Qaeda leaders into their hands. Instead, 36year-old Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal alBalawi donned an explosives belt prior to entering the base and detonated it at the meeting, killing all those around him. The base is being used as the nerve center for operations against the al Qaeda and Taliban-linked Haqqani guerrilla network in Afghanistan,
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