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May, 7 2010 | 23 Iyar, 5770
Ahmadinejad: Israel Nukes Threaten Mideast
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Suspect Arrested in Times Square Terror Bomb Attempt
Girls' school in Emmanuel had enacted policy of separation between Sephardi and Ashkenazi students.
BY YITZHAK BENHORIN Addressing meeting of 189 NPT signatories at UN, Iranian president says, ‘Zionist regime continues to threaten countries with its arsenal’; US, British and French delegations walk out of General Assembly during speech. ranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday called for states that threaten to use atomic weapons to be punished, a clear reference to a new US nuclear strategy released last month. Speaking at a meeting of the 189 signatories of the 1970 nuclear NonProliferation Treaty (NPT), he urged “considering any threat to use nuclear weapons or attack against peaceful nuclear facilities as a breach of international peace and security.” Such threats should meet with “swift reaction from the United Nations and termination of all cooperation of NPT member states with the threatening aggressor state,” Ahmadinejad said. “The US has not only used nuclear weapons in the past, it continues to threaten other countries, including mine, with (nuclear arms),” said the Iranian president.
BY JV STAFF The absent students from the Haredi school in Emmanuel, Beit Yaacov "pirate" school returned to their classes as part of an agreement reached following a discussion at the High Court of Justice on last week.
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Deal Reached in Ashkenazi, Sephardic School
ccording to the compromise, the sides will have a week to present the court with new guidelines for accepting girls to the “Chassidic stream” that will not be based on whether they have Sephardi or Ashkenazi backgrounds. Dozens of parents, teachers, and students gathered at the High Court of Justice for the hearing on the cancellation of separation between Ashkenazi and Sephardic students at the ultra-Orthodox girls' school in Emmanuel. Justice Hanan Meltzer had said that the school, which was in breach of a court ruling, displays "characteristics of racism." The so caled pirate school was founded after the High Court required that the original school stop operating two separate schools in the same building: one for Sephardim, and one – the “Chassidic stream” – for Ashkenazim and for Sephardim prepared to conduct themselves according to Ashkenazi-Charedi customs. According to Levy's proposal, all the
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg, center, Governor David Paterson, left, and Speaker Christine C. Quinn, right at a news conference in Times Square early Sunday morning, May 2, 2010
Thousands of people in the area, which includes much of New York's famed theater district, were evacuated, including many tourists who were unable to return to their hotels for 10 hours.
BY SHMUEL BEN ELIEZER It was what many people are calling a miracle that saved New York City from a major disaster that could have brought death and destruction to Times Square Saturday night, when the area was packed with thousands of tourists. aisal Shahzad, a US citizen born in Pakistan, brought a Nissan Pathfinder to Times Square packed with gas can-
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Police investagators searching the home of Faisal Shahzad in Bridgeport Conneticut for any evidence that could be used in the prosecution of the accused.
isters, fertilizer, gasoline and M88 firecrackers, lit the fuse and walked away. “It was pure luck that the explosives did not explode,” one news analyst said. “The failure of recognizing Shahzad, as a possible terror threat, letting him get to the point of building a bomb and actually placing it in Times Square was a serious failure for the intelligence community. It was a miracle that New York City did not experience another
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