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State Senator Carl Kruger BY SHMUEL BEN ELIEZER The FBI is again investigating NY State Senators. The latest probes are surprisingly bi-partisan, which is the best way to do corruption probing.
District Attorney of Manhattan Robert Morgenthau received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hunter College.
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here is one for a Democrat — state senator Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, whose dealings with a Brighton Beach nightclub owner are under investigation. And there is another for Republican Vincent Leibell of Putnam County, who managed to parlay a $110,000 property into a $1.4 million colonial mansion. (It helped that Leibell was able to sell a chunk of his property to the state, which conveniently wanted it for a new state park.) The investigation against Carl Kruger surfaced, when the feds arrested a lawyer named Michael Levitis last week for allegedly lying to FBI agents. Levitis heads a Brooklyn law-firm that specializes in personal injury lawsuits and “debt settlement.” Levitis also is the Vice-President of Entertainment and Marketing for the family owned Rasputin, nightclub on Coney Island Avenue. In 2008, Levitis threw a fundraiser for Kruger at Rasputin but Jeffrey Lichtman, Levitis’ lawyer, said that had nothing to do with efforts the senator was making on his behalf to clear up a problem with a health code inspection. Levitis’ lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman insisted there was no quid pro quo when his client agreed to host a fund-raiser for the senator at
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BY MAXINE DOVERE Turkey has banned Israeli Air Force from entering its air space. Turkey blocked an Israeli military flight from using its airspace after Israel’s deadly raid on a boat bringing aid to the Gaza Strip, and may prevent further military planes from flying through Turkish airspace.
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urkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday at the G20 summit in Toronto that Turkey had closed its airspace to Israeli flights after the May 31 raid killed eight Turks and one Turkish-American. The BBC and others reported it as a specific ban on Israeli military flights; CNN is alone in reporting it as a general ban on Israeli flights. While it is not clear if the move was a one-time incident or a change in policy, it underscores the increased tension between Turkey and Israel in the wake of the flotilla incident. The Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot
reported Sunday that Turkey refused to allow an Israeli air force cargo plane carrying military members on a tour of Holocaust memorial sites in Poland to fly through its airspace, according to the English-language Israeli news site Ynet. Israeli military officials reportedly did not publicize the event so as to avoid deepening the rift that has opened between the two former allies. Agence France-Presse reported that the incident occurred “immediately after” the May 31 raid, and it was not clear if the ban would extend to other military flights. AFP reported that it will not affect civilian flights. The Associated Press quoted a Turkish official as saying that each request for a military overflight will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. The AP also cited a
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Thursday, June 18, in the historic Roosevelt House, the New York City home of Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, former District Attorney of Manhattan Robert Morgenthau received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hunter College of the City University of New York. The degree was presented in recognition of his nearly half century of public service.
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ith Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab, resplendent in colorful academic robes, standing beside him, the nonagenarian graciously accepted his honor. During the ceremony, President Raab noted the close ties between Robert Morgenthau, the Morgenthau family, and both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and commented on the appropriateness of the awarding of the
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Gaza Bank Closes After Hamas Police Seize Funds The Palestine Islamic Bank in Gaza City suspended operations on Sunday after cash was "withdrawn from the bank by force," officials said.
Islamic Bank of Palestine froze the charity's accounts. On 29 March, 1 million shekels (260,000 US dollars) was seized by de facto security forces reportedly for the Patients' Friends Society, another Gaza-based charity. The incident prompted the Palestinian Monetary Authority to call on branches to respond to what was called an attack on the bank in the Ar-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City. Police in Gaza said the Monetary Authority had frozen the accounts following a dispute with the charity's board of directors. A statement from the Parent's Friends Society said the money in question was for charitable medical work, and failing to return the sum "would put the lives of patients at risk." The society added that in July 2009, the Monetary Authority decided to freeze the transfer of funds
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aza police said the incident was the legal recovery of 16,000 US dollars belonging to a local charity, following a court ruling to unfreeze their funds held in the bank. The incident was the second reported in three months. Customers reported bank closures, with signs posted on bank doors saying services had been halted after cash was taken from the institution at gunpoint. Police said the funds belonged to the Educational Teaching Society and were withdrawn following an order from a local court. They said the society had filed a report after the
"based on political decisions that have no relation with the society itself." The reports of cash seizures by Gaza government police come as the second largest bank in the enclave announced a reduction in staff and a closure of two of three branches across the Strip. The Arab Bank dismissed hundreds of its employees in April and closed two branches in May, with economists saying the move was the result of concern from the bank around internal Palestinian politics. The sudden closure of banks and the termination of employees' contracts raised concern that the banking sector was on the verge of collapse in Gaza. The system had already been under immense pressure, with cash flow often constrained by Israeli officials, and a limited amount of currency making it in and out of Gaza.
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using accusations of anti-Semitism as a means to hide the truth and to silence criticism “of what I and many others feel is Jewish behavior that has ill-affected Black people and others.” Minister Farrakhan’s June 24 letter was sent to numerous American Jewish leaders along with copies of the now two-volume work, “The Secret Relationship With a letter to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) enclosing two virulently anti-Semitic “histories,” including a newly written volume claiming Jews for centuries have worked to
n the letter addressed to ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman, Minister Farrakhan accused Jewish leaders of
f inancially undermine Black people, Minister Louis Farrakhan has “opened a new chapter in his ministry where scapegoating Jews is no longer just part of a message, but the message.” In the letter addressed to ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman, Minister Farrakhan accused Jewish leaders of using accusations of anti-Semitism as a means to hide the truth and to silence criticism “of what I and many others feel is Jewish
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NY State Spending $17,173 Per student Highest in US New York spent $17,173 per student for public education in 2007-08, more than any other state and 67 percent more than the U.S. average, according to Census Bureau statistics released Monday.
the statewide f igure. “The average spending in New York may not be as meaningful as it is in other states because there’s a tremendous range in what districts spend per pupil across the state,” she said. “Some small, rural districts with few resources spend alarmingly small amounts, while other communities, such as some on Long Island, spend shocking amounts per pupil.” Indeed, that wide range is reflected in the census data. The lowest-spending district in the state is General Brown Central Schools in Jefferson County, with a $10,781 cost per pupil. The district with
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he $10,259 average nationally $6,914 less than New York’s was a 6 percent increase over 2006-07, the Census Bureau said. New York’s spending went up 7.4 percent over the period. Jody Siegle, executive director of Monroe county School Boards Association, cautioned against reading too much into
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Farrakhan Blames Jews For Financial Ruin Of Blacks With a letter to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) enclosing two virulently anti-Semitic “histories,” including a newly written volume claiming Jews for centuries have worked to f inancially undermine Black people, Minister Louis Farrakhan has “opened a new chapter in his ministry where scape-goating Jews is no longer just part of a message, but the message.”
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Worldwide Support For Gilad Schalit As He Enters 4th Year of Captivity BY SHMUEL BEN ELIEZER Gilad Shalit was kidnapped into the Gaza Strip 1,467 days ago – 4 years on Friday June 25, 2996.
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hile there has only been one video showing that Gilad is still alive there have been no visits by the International Red Cross to the imprisoned Israeli soldier. The world has been mostly quiet to his fate while demanding fair and decent treatment of Palestinian terrorist prisoners in Israeli jail. Palestinian prisoners are allowed family visits and are charged with crimes in a court of law where they are represented by lawyers, while Schalit is afforded none of
these basic rights. Last week events took place all over the world in support of Gilad Schalit. In Rome the lights of the Coliseum were turned off as well as those on the city walls of Jerusalem. Mass rallies were held in Paris to Los Angeles. In NY, a “Freedom Flotilla” sailed consisting of two large boats and eight smaller boats participated in the flotilla, which sailed from the west side of Manhattan, past the Statue of Liberty and around the tip of Manhattan, up the East River past the United Nations. Gilad Shalit supporters carried signs and waved flags to enthusiastic response from other boaters and people on shore. Organized by The Conference of
Members of the Rabinical Council Of America (RCA) joined in the Freedom Flotilla.
Malcolm I. Hoenlein, Conference Executive Vice Chairman and Israeli Consul General in NY, Asaf Shariv joined other protestors in holding signs as the boat passed near the UN building. Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, the flotilla included Israeli and French diplomats, officials of the American Red Cross and leaders from several faiths and major Jewish organizations. A symbolic humanitarian aid package, to be delivered to Gilad Shalit, was presented to a senior American Red Cross official. The lead boats, the Queen of Hearts and the Star carried hundreds of people. They were joined by an array of sail and small motor boats all signaling their demand for Shalit’s return to his family and country. The official contingent consisted of Israeli Permanent Representative to Ambassador to the United Nations. Ambassador Gabriella Shalev, Israel’s Consul General in New York, Asaf Shariv, French Deputy Consul General Patrick Lachaussee, “Under the guise of a ‘freedom flotilla’ in the Middle East, organizations that have ties to terrorist groups have sought to create confrontations with the Israel Defense Forces. The real siege is in Gaza is against Gilad Shalit.” said Malcolm I. Hoenlein, Conference Executive Vice Chairman. “According to international law, the Red Cross must be granted access to Gilad Shalit to ensure his well-being. Since his capture, Hamas has provided only two indications that Gilad is still alive – a recorded message of his voice released on June 25, 2007, and a video of him released on October 2, 2009.” For four years – and as recently as ten days ago - the Red Cross has been denied access to the young soldier. He has been seen only once during the entire period. The four year long denial of his basic rights or visits from international organizations is “illegal and morally appalling,” said Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Gabriela Shalev. “It is shameful that so many who claim to vigorously support human rights are
totally silent in the face of this injustice,” she added. Israeli Consul General in NY, Asaf Shariv said “Gilad Shalit has been held in captivity and deprived of humanitarian aid. He is being held as a prisoner with disregard to international law…Gilad is a son, a brother, and a friend. He is a young man who deserves to see the light of day, his parents and his country.” In a statement issued to mark four years Shalit's capture, Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Hamas of "violating the laws of war" and said the Islamist organization's "prolonged incommunicado detention of Shalit is cruel and inhuman and may amount to torture." Shalit was snatched on June 25, 2006. Hamas, which is holding him, has released only three letters from him, an audio recording, and a video recording. The Islamist movement has refused requests by the Red Cross and by HRW to visit the captive, saying that to do so could reveal to Israel where he was being held. "The laws of war prohibit cruel and inhuman treatment of persons in custody. They also require a party to a conflict to permit persons deprived of their liberty to correspond with their families and not to refuse arbitrarily a request by the ICRC to visit detainees," the HRW statement said. Hamas is demanding the release of hundreds of Palestinians in return for Shalit. Attempts to organize a prisoner swap, conducted through Egyptian, and then German, mediation, have so far failed. Senior Hamas official Mahmoud a-Zahar told Israel Radio on Friday morning that his organization cut ties six months ago with the German official mediating the swap, and have not renewed the contacts since.
The Conference of Presidents gave a humanitarian aid package for Shalit containing food, books, and glasses to Red Cross representative Rosemary Mackey while Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Gabriela Shalev looks on.
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Hamas 4 to Stay in Jerusalem
The Hamas 4 in a Jerusalem court. Israel has agreed to reconsider its decision to deport four Hamas lawmakers from Jerusalem if they declare that they do not represent the radical Islamist movement and sever their ties to it, an Israeli security official told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
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he four men are Palestinian Legislative Council members Mahmoud Abu Tir, Ahmed Attoun, Mohammed Totah and Khaled Abu Arafeh. Abu Arafeh is also a former Palestinian Authority cabinet member. They have reportedly accepted the Israeli condition and are now willing to make a public statement in this regard so that they can stay in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Police conf iscated their Israeli ID cards after the Interior Ministry revoked their status as permanent residents of the city, paving the way for their expulsion. The Israeli security off icial explained that the decision to reconsider the deportations had largely been designed to boost the standing of PA President Mahmoud Abbas and undermine Hamas. “The Hamas off icials have apparently chosen to stay in Jerusalem with their families and enjoy all privileges as residents of Israel,” the off icial told the Post. “Their readiness to distance themselves from Hamas is an important step that could lead to the cancellation of the deportations.” He added that the decision to deport the four men would be canceled once
they sign a statement disowning Hamas. “We want an unambiguous statement that leaves no room for double-talk,” he said. “We want to send a message to the Palestinians that if they renounce Hamas and terrorism, they stand to benef it.” Abu Tir, who was recently released from an Israeli prison after serving a 50-month-sentence, was instructed by the Jerusalem Police to leave the city by midnight last Friday. However, his deportation was postponed at the last minute following the intervention of Abbas, the US administration and the European Union. Last week, in an unprecedented move, Abbas twice summoned the Hamas lawmakers to his off ice in Ramallah and urged them to accept Israel’s condition and announce that they do not represent Hamas. Following the meetings, the legislators told reporters that they represented their voters in Jerusalem and not Hamas or any other party or organization. The three backbenchers were on Hamas’s Change and Reform list, which contested and won the January 2006 parliamentary election. The fourth off icial, Abu Arafeh, was appointed minister for Jerusalem affairs in the Hamas government. They were all arrested by the IDF following the abduction of soldier Gilad Schalit, but have since been released. The Israeli decision to rescind their permanent residency status in Jerusalem drew condemnations from both Hamas and the PA leadership. The Palestinians fear that the decision could pave the way for the expulsion of many other Palestinians from the city.
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Israel Launches New Spy Satellite; Iran ‘Under the Microscope’ Israel successfully launched the ”Ofek 9” military spy satellite late Tuesday night from the Palmakhim base in central Israel, and the Defense Ministry said all systems are working.
Fox News reports that Israel’s Trophy double-radar anti-RPG system will soon be installed on US Army armored vehicles in Iraq on a trial basis.
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he report details the system that “works like a futuristic force field,” and which other sources say has already been installed in Israeli Merkava 4 tanks as a pilot project. Trophy, which looks “no more menacing than an automatic tennis ball launcher,” one analyst said, is designed to be mounted on a fighting vehicle while it provides it a virtual bubble of protection. ___________________________________
The Israeli Ofek 9 spy satellite. cated satellite is scheduled to be launched in coming years. President Shimon Peres praised the team that launched the Ofek 9 satellite and the CEO of the Israel Airforce Industries. "The industry of the future is the industry of space. The launch of the satellite represents a most impressive entrance for Israel into a new realm, that provides a significant and qualitative advantage to Israel in obtaining information from far away areas in the world," he said. Former manager Avi Har-Even of the Israeli space agency said that the developers of the Ofek 9 spy satellite deserve a pat on the back. The winner of the Israel Security Prize said the satellite, which was launched into space on Tuesday, represents a significant advance in the ability to follow enemy states, such as Iran. Har-Even said, "If, in the past, satellites had lower resolution, today you can, with the help of radar photography from space, see if there's a car in a hidden space, to look at a building in its authentic size."
Top Rabbis Reach Compromise, Jailed Emanuel Dads Released BY GIL RONEN Thirty-four hareidi-religious fathers were released from Ma'asiyahu low-security jail Sunday after ten days' incarceration, just before the court was about to send 22 of their wives to jail also. The release was made possible by a compromise struck between Sephardic spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef and the Slonimer Rebbe, who leads an Ashkenazi Hassidic dynasty.
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he High Court punished the parents, who belong to the Slonimer dynasty, for allegedly refusing to send their daughters to a school in Emanuel because of disdain for Sephardic students there. The parents' representatives said that they had not objected to the fact that the other girls were Sephardic, but rather to their relatively low level in Torah studies. The fathers celebrated their freedom Sunday with joyous song and dance outside the jail. The compromise reached by the two leading sages calls for the girls to study together at the school for the three days that remain in the current school year. During this time, the girls will attend gatherings and lectures from educators of various streams,
Israeli “Trophy” Anti-RPG System to be Installed on US Tanks BY HILLEL FENDEL
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ight now, it's giving a pulse, and we assume it has opened its solar panels, but our inspection and validation must wait for it to pass over Israel," a program official told DefenseNews.com. "Right now, all I can say is the injection was very nominal and very precise. The first stage, second stage and third stage separation of the satellite from the launcher performed as planned." The Ofek, the Hebrew word for “horizon,” weighs about 650 pounds and orbits every 90 minutes. It is the ninth in a series of satellites that Israel has launched with a high success rate and longevity. The Ofek 6, failed in its launch in 2004. The latest craft, with a high resolution camera that can function at night, is the third to be functioning at the present time. One of the satellites it will join is the TecSar, which was launched from India in 2008. Iran is part of their trajectory, and military intelligence officers have used the satellites to keep track of Iran’s activity in developing its nuclear power program. Officials have kept secret details of the Ofek and the information that it has obtained. Israel's new spy satellite began transmitting from space. Israel launched the Ofek 9 spy satellite into low orbit late Tuesday night from the Palmachim air base in central Israel, and it began transmitting the next morning. The country now has five spy satellites in orbit. Defense officials said the Ofek 9 is one of the most advanced satellites Israel has launched into space. An even more sophisti-
in which the themes of unity and love of Israel will be stressed. Girls from the Chabad School in Emanuel will also attend the study days. Among the Hassidic dynasties, Chabad is considered the most open to Sephardic Jews. The days will serve as a prelude for talks in which the sides will reach an agreement over arrangements at the disputed school. The agreement between the top rabbis was brokered by Shas Chairman Eli Yishai. Attorney Aviad Visouly, who represented several jailed fathers, said the compromise was “a victory for the rabbis over the High Court.” The court, he noted, backed down from its earlier insistence that the parents sign a commitment to send their daughters to the school. By accepting the compromise between the rabbis, the attorney said, the court essentially admitted that the rabbis were sovereign to decide the matter, not the court. Some commentators in Israel's media claimed that the entire Emanuel school scandal was inflated by parties interested in making Hareidi Jews look bad. The High Court itself has only one Sephardic judge out of 14 judges, they noted, while 30% of the supposedly all-Ashkenazi class in Emanuel were in fact Sephardic.
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“The future of the the United States Army is riding on the proposition that something like this can work” ___________________________________
Trophy uses one radar to detect the launching of an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) or the like at it. Another radar then tracks the incoming missile and detects when it is in range. At that point, Trophy employs a counter-measure, whose details are still secret, to directly hit and neutralize the head of the threat, thus detonating it before it makes contact with the targeted tank or vehicle. The now-powerless RPG might still hit its target, but with no more force than any other metal object, and would certainly not be able to penetrate. John Pike, director of the GlobalSecurity.org website, says, "The future of the the United States Army is riding on the proposition that something like this can work." The report emphasizes that Trophy does not work against IED’s (improvised explosive devices, otherwise known as roadside bombs) or land mines, but is rather designed to eliminate the explosive capability of threats flying at a vehicle. It can also be outfitted for helicopters, but not on ships. Only IED’s have killed more American soldiers in Iraq than have RPG’s.
Jewish Births and Aliyah – Up, Arab Births – Stable BY HILLEL FENDEL A demographic study in Israel analyzing the past 15 years shows a dramatic drop in Arab births per woman, a rise in births among secular Jewish women, and a continued very high rate among religious Jewish women.
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r. Adam Reuter, writing on Arutz7’s Hebrew site, presents a set of statistics showing that the dire predictions of an Arab demographic takeover of Israel that have become “common knowledge” are actually not true. The statistics were compiled by the American-Israeli Demographic Research Group, including Dr. David Passig, Yoram Ettinger, and others. They have been presented to the National Security Council, IDF Intelligence, the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, the Prime Minister’s Office, Congress members in Washington, and countless others instrumental in shaping public policy in Israel and the U.S. For one thing, the fertility gap between Arab and Jewish women dropped from six births per woman in 1969 to 0.7 in 2009. At the same time, the proportion of Jewish births has grown from 69% of total births in 1995 to 75% in 2008. Secular women now give birth to an average of 2.6 babies, as opposed to their mothers, who bore only 2.1 children each.
Over the past 15 years, the number of Arab births in Israel has remained more or less steady at around 39,000, while Jewish births grew over this period from 80,000 to 120,000. The number of Bedouin births has dropped drastically, by 30%, ever since a sharp cut in child allowance payments was introduced several years ago. Of the 20% Arab minority in Israel, 3.5% are residents of eastern Jerusalem and do not have the right to vote in national elections; 2% are Druze, who serve in the army; and 2% are Christian Arabs. Average aliyah in recent years has been 16,000 or more. The number of returning Israelis is balanced out by those leaving, about 11-12,000 of each – though Reuters predicts that the former will soon outweigh the latter by far, for various economic reasons and in the merit of Israel’s proactive programs to this end.
IDF Chief of Staff: We Need Both Army & Torah "We need both worlds – that of the army and that of Torah. The situation today between the IDF and the Hesder yeshivas is ideal.
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srael is in one big relay race where the stick goes from generation to generation and I believe that now the stick is in good
hands," said Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi during his visit to the Kiryat Shmona Hesder yeshiva. It was the first time any Chief of Staff ever visited the yeshivas which combine army service with Torah study. During the visit Ashkenazi was joined by the new Chief Army Rabbi, Brigadier General Rafi Peretz.
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Dutch Police May Go Undercover as Jews to Thwart Attacks In an attempt to reverse a worrying trend of anti-Semitic hate crimes in the Netherlands, Dutch police may begin going undercover as Jews.
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delman, who moved to Olympia with his family two years ago from Springfield, Mass., to found the center, said he reported the incident to Olympia police, who are investigating. The words were still visible on the metal menorah – one of the traditional symbols of Judaism – outparty, requested that the Justice Minister review the issue and work to provide solutions. Now in 2010, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reports that the Jews have taken to hiding their kippahs (skullcaps) in public. However, an economically conservative political party with a mission to push back against liberal immigration policies and the growing influence of Islam in Holland - the Party for Freedom, headed by well-known politician Geert Wilders - experienced a major boost in recent elections, and is now Holland's third largest party in parliament. Geert Wilders has been an outspoken advocate for Israel, publicly warning that the fate of Jerusalem will determine the fates of Athens and Rome, and calling on the international community to recognize Jordan as a Palestinian state. Wilders also supports a ban on veils and on the building of additional mosques in Holland.
Turkish government official saying that the ban is for Israeli military flights and that commercial flights are not affected. Israel’s raid on the aid ship, part of a flotilla sponsored by a Turkish group to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, brought widespread condemnation. Israel said its soldiers were attacked by activists on the ship and fatally shot nine in selfdefense. Ties between the two countries, already strained by Israel’s offensive in Gaza that ended in January 2009, grew worse. Turkey recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv, halted joint military exercises, and demanded an apology. The airspace revelation reveals another way that Ankara is retaliating. In an opinion article published by Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News, New York University professor Alon Ben-Meir argues that Turkey’s actions after the flotilla killings are part of a pattern of behavior that is putting Turkey’s status as an impartial mediator in the region in danger. One factor that has raised concerns about Turkey's role as a mediator is a view that it is trading its impartiality for good favor with its Eastern neighbors. The "zero problems with neighbors" strategy heralded by Foreign Minister Davuto lu sent a message to the world that Turkey was interested in becoming an honest broker and ally to all parties in the region. Yet since the 2008 Israeli incursion into Gaza, the Erdo an government has consistently used public occasions to rab-
ble rouse and condemn Israeli policies without making much effort to empathize with its Jewish ally or condemn on equal grounds its Arab and Muslim neighbors. Turkey, which had a close alliance with Israel until the three-week Gaza war, has said it will not return its ambassador and will reduce military and trade ties unless Israel apologizes for the raid. It also wants Israel to return the seized aid ships, agree to an international investigation and offer compensation for the victims. A separate opinion article in Hurriyet argues that Turkey’s diplomatic war against Israel after the flotilla attack has jeopardized its relationship with the US, showing that Turkish politicians have misread Washington. The diplomatic relations also took a heavy hit between Ankara and Jerusalem. Since Turkey withdrew its ambassador from Israel in the very early days of the crisis there has been little or no behind the scene communication, Turkey has chosen to shout louder, and angrier at the Israelis. That is when the US administration began to draw a line with the Turkish government. The Jewish Voice reported recently that Turkey’s actions since the raid have “prompted many to question whether it is abandoning efforts to establish itself as a mediator between Israel and its Muslim neighbors, as well as turning away – to some degree – from Europe.” Its strong alliance with Israel, built over the past 15 years, is becoming weaker as Turkey increasingly reaches out to its neighbors in the Middle East.
side the center. Three of its lights had been damaged or broken, according to Olympia police. “It’s certainly very frustrating that these people choose to have a message of hate,” Edelman said. “We certainly don’t need any more of that in this world, and it’s not helping anyone.” Edelman said he will not let the vandalism prevent him from continuing to work and live in Olympia. “It’s an unfortunate incident, but it’s not symptomatic of the people of Olympia,” he said. “It’s a wonderful place, a friendly place, and this incident should not be a stain on the people of Olympia or Thurston County.”
Vatican Lends World’s Oldest Hebrew Book to the Jewish Museum The Vatican has loaned a 9th century prayer book considered to be the oldest Hebrew publication in existence to the Jewish Museum in London.
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he Museum persuaded the library to allow the biblical commentary feature in its Hebrew Treasures from the Vatican and Major British Collections display, a three-month show which is the f irst major temporary exhi-
bition at the centre since it reopened in March following a $15 million rebuild. In an impressive set of fellow artifacts, a decadently-illustrated bible from 15th century Spain and an image of the Temple of Solomon, the architectural inspiration for the Sistine Chapel, come as further highlights. Oxford’s Bodleian Library has provided 11 of the 24 manuscripts and
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Vandals Tip Over, Deface Nine Foot Menorah Outside Jewish Center Rabbi Cheski Edelman made a disturbing discovery at The Chabad Jewish Discovery Center on Legion Way: Someone had knocked over the nearly 9foot menorah visible from the street and spray-painted the words “Die Jew” at its base.
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msterdam and Rotterdam have become hotbeds of anti-Semitic activity, with members of the Jewish communities there being verbally attacked, bombarded with anti-Semitic e-mail, and confronted with Hitler salutes. The majority of the attacks are being committed by Muslim immigrants to Holland. There are almost 1 million Muslims living in Holland today. If Dutch police dress as Jews in order to protect them, it will not be their first time going "undercover" in order to catch bigots and haters. Dutch officers have previously gone undercover as homosexuals in order to thwart anti-gay violence. A 2007 Haaretz article noted a 64% upsurge in anti-Semitic attacks since 2005. In January 2009, during Operation Cast Lead, in which Israel entered Gaza to defend citizens in its south from missile attacks, attacks on Dutch Jews soared, with almost as many targeted attacks being recorded during that month as in all of 2008. Dutch online social networking sites have also proved to be breeding grounds for anti-Semitism, to the extent that the Reformed Political Party in the Dutch parliament, a religious Calvinist
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Seven Israeli Arabs allegedly affiliated with al-Qaida and global jihad terrorist elements were indicted on Monday for allegedly murdering a Jewish taxi driver last year and carrying out a string of attacks against Jews and Christians.
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he seven, ranging in age from 19 to 26, were arrested by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Israel Police in recent weeks. “This is one of the most dangerous cells we have ever uncovered,” Dep.Cmdr. Avi Elgrisi, head of the Amakim District police’s Central Unit said Monday. The investigation, he said, had initially focused on two suspects before being widened to include a total of seven. He added that police expected additional arrests. The seven said they had founded a group called Aljahabiyya and claimed to follow Salafism, a radical branch of Sunni Islam. Aljahabiyya was formed two years ago and the suspects confessed to having been inspired by al-Qaida. The group used the Internet to learn about weapons and to download instructions on the manufacture of improvised explosive devices. It also downloaded al-
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Seven Israeli Arabs allegedly affiliated with al-Qaida and global jihad terrorist elements were indicted. Qaida propaganda movies and speeches by Osama bin Laden. “They accessed the Internet for jihadi ideology and indoctrination, and used it as an information source to listen to extremist clerics,” Elgrisi said. Three of the suspects were allegedly involved in the murder of taxi driver Yafim Weinstein on November 30, 2009. During their interrogations, they confessed to having summoned a taxi to a kibbutz near Nazareth, where one shot Weinstein and the others assisted in disposing of the evidence. Following their arrest, the three reenacted the murder and led investigators to where they had hid the murder weapon. Weinstein, 54, a Nazareth Illit resident, was found dead in his cab outside Kibbutz Kfar Hahoresh. He left behind a wife,
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The Spies Among US The FBI announced that it had arrested a nest of 11 Russian spies who spent decades under "long-term deep cover" living as ordinary suburbanites with lawns and minivans while gathering information for Moscow.
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he charges of espionage were presented in a federal complaint that reads like an old-school James Bond spy thriller, with invisible inks, mysterious meetings and secrets sent by shortwave radio. Some of the four accused couples, including residents of Montclair, N.J., and Yonkers, even had children together to make their cover more realistic. "The evidence here is overwhelming. It is simple. It is strong," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz at a hearing in Manhattan. "This is a Russian agent!" he said, pointing dramatically at, Anna Chapman, one of the suspects, a divorced 28-year-old who said she founded an online real estate company worth $2 million. Ten of the 11 suspects were arrested and held without bail, five of them in New York. The 11th, Christopher Metsos, was arrested on the island nation of Cyprus. Beginning as early as 2000, the accused spies were watched meeting on benches in Central Park and Brooklyn, plotting in a Queens restaurant, exchanging computer files wirelessly in a Times Square Starbucks, smoothly switching bags in the Forest Hills, Queens, Long Island Rail Road station and burying money in the ground upstate. "Excuse me, but did we meet in Bangkok in April last year?" was a code phrase they used to identify one another. The federal complaint says "Moscow Center" trained the spies in various ways of secret communication and then sent them here "to become sufficiently Americanized to gather information for Russia." The spies lived variously in Montclair, Hoboken, Yonkers, Boston, Seattle and Arlington, Va., posing as average Americans. They had fake papers, and one used a Canadian birth certificate of someone long dead. The complaint said the accused spies were asked to supply the kind of information anyone with a functioning knowledge of Google could have delivered: the U.S. position on Iran's nuclear program, say, or what goals President Obama hoped to achieve at a Moscow summit last year. No information of a really damaging nature was passed on, an official said, though one of the alleged spies met with a former government employee who had some knowledge of nuclear weapons research. For years, the feds bugged the spies' houses and their phones, read their mail and e-mail, attached GPS trackers to their cars and tailed them through Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and South America. On May 16, 2004, for example, the feds
say they watched Metsos go into the Forest Hills LIRR station carrying an orange bag. He went up a staircase just as a Russian diplomat from the UN mission started down, carrying a nearly identical orange bag.As they passed each other on the stairs, the diplomat and the spy switched bags and continued on as if nothing had happened. ___________________________________
The federal complaint says "Moscow Center" trained the spies in various ways of secret communication and then sent them here "to become sufficiently Americanized to gather information for Russia." ___________________________________ In the bag Metsos received, the FBI said, was a bunch of money. He then went to a restaurant in Sunnyside, Queens, where he met Murphy and gave him what he called his "cut." The next day, a GPS tracker on Metsos' car showed he drove north to upstate Wurtsboro, where he buried some of the cash. The feds dug it up, photographed it and reburied it. Two years later, suspects Michael Zottoli and his accused spy wife, Patricia Mills, flew from their home in Seattle and dug up the money. One especially cinematic cloak-anddagger rendezvous took place outside a bookstore in Rome, where Richard Murphy was to receive a fake Irish passport so he could fly on to Moscow to pick up a new laptop packed with spy gizmos. He was told his contact would carry a copy of Time magazine - in his left hand if he suspected trouble. The feds say Murphy successfully obtained the Russian laptop and gave it to Zottoli in a Fort Greene, Brooklyn, coffee shop, where Zottoli complained his old computer kept freezing when he tried to use it for spy stuff. The spy network was rolled up after Chapman apparently figured her cover had been blown on Saturday. An FBI undercover agent posing as a Russian spymaster had several conversations with her, including saying, "Your colleagues back in Moscow know you are doing a good job." She was seen buying a cell phone at a Verizon store in Brooklyn as "Irine Kutsov of 99 Fake St." and throwing out the unopened charger as she left the store. The feds knew she was trying to make a quick untraceable call - and started rounding up the deep cover agents. One main benefit of the staggering number of arrests was to cause panic in the Russian spy services, an official in Washington said.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched a coalition of mayors and business leaders to advocate for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration policy, including legalizing undocumented immigrants and more strictly f ining businesses that hire illegal workers.
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ur immigration policy is national suicide,” Mr. Bloomberg said at a forum in Midtown. “We educate the best and the brightest and then we don’t give them a green card—we want people to create jobs but we won’t let entrepreneurs from around the world come here.” During his latest inaugural address, Mr. Bloomberg vowed to push to rework the nation’s immigration laws in the same way that he waged battle against illegal guns. This effort will be a cornerstone of the mayor’s third-term agenda, aides said. The coalition, the Partnership for a New American Economy, supports developing a secure system for employers to verify employment eligibility and strict penalties for businesses that fail to comply. The group wants to increase opportunities for immigrants to enter the workforce and for foreign students to stay in the country. The group will advocate for securing the nation’s borders and beef ing up enforcement to prevent illegal immigration. The coalition supports establishing a legal path for the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the country now. To effect decision-making in Washington, the group will issue research reports on the economic impact of immigration, poll public opinion,
Michael Bloomberg: “We want people to create jobs but we won’t let entrepreneurs from around the world come here.” sponsor forums and potentially launch a media campaign. Mr. Bloomberg, a multibillionaire, is expected to provide f inancial support for the group’s activities, as he has with his gun group. One City Hall off icial said the coalition will try to focus on immigration as a “dollar and cents issue,” advocating that open borders help keep the U.S. more competitive. President Obama has pledged to champion changes to federal immigration policy, but this spring said lawmakers “may not have an appetite” for a grueling debate on immigration this year.
Kagan Vows to Uphold Gun Decision Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan seems determined -- if not poised -- to take another Republican argument against her candidacy off the table, as she testified on Tuesday that she considers recent cases upholding Second Amendment rights to be "good precedent going forward."
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agan said that there was now "no doubt" that the right to bear arms as established by District of Columbia v. Heller was "binding precedent." If she were to make it to the bench and hear a gun-related cases in the future, she added, her "responsibility would be to apply to the Constitution as understood and previously applied by the court and that means as understood and interpreted by the court in Heller." "I do think that Heller is the law going forward," she said. "I have not had, myself, the occasion to delve into the history that the courts dealt with in Heller. But I have absolutely no reason to think that the court's analysis was incorrect in any way. I accept the court's analysis and will apply it going forward." The comments are the clearest yet that Kagan would do little to change the current legal constructs of gun-rights laws should she be conf irmed. That isn't to dismiss the ability of Congress to try and pass additional legislation on the matter. But if such legislation were passed and subsequently challenged in the courts, the nominee would likely strike it down if it violated the legal premises put forth in Heller. The same held true, Kagan said, with respect to the decision handed down by the court on Monday in the case of Chicago v. McDonald, which held that the city's nearly 30-year ban on hand-
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan guns is illegal. "I do think that those decisions [Heller and McDonald] are settled law and are entitled to all of the weight that any precedent of the Supreme Court has," said Kagan. Prior to her conf irmation hearings, there were clear indications that Republicans planned to make hay of Kagan's supposed hostility to Second Amendment rights. As a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, she had said she was "not sympathetic" to a man who had claimed his rights were disregarded after being arrested for carrying an unlicensed f irearm. Republicans had pledged to hammer her on this memo during the conf irmation hearings. But by not challenging the court's most recent Second Amendment cases, Kagan has effectively made the topic moot. And, in the process, she has underscored the real political influence that the gun-rights lobby has within the halls of political power -- in all three governing branches.
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Three-Year-Old and Nanny Bloomberg, Quinn Agree, Drown in Pool Balanced City Budget With No Tax Increase
A 3-year-old Lawrence girl drowned in her backyard pool last week, and her nanny, who was also found floating at the deep end, died last night at an area hospital after both were pulled from the water by a house painter.
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Hospital in Far Rockaway. Canales-Mejia had been on a ventilator in the hospital’s intensive care unit, said Det. Lt. Kevin Smith of the Nassau County police. Smith said the two victims were pulled from the deep end of the pool by a painter after the girl’s 5-year-old brother ran to the front of the Beechwood Drive home at about 2 p.m. to tell the painter his sister and nanny were floating in the in-ground pool and pos-
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New Law Would Allow Outdoor Concerts Near Synagogue At the request of Mayor Bloomberg, the City Council will “fast track” a bill that could change the law so that open-air bandshells and stadiums could get permits to hold concerts even within 500 feet of houses of worship and schools, officials said today.
sound within 500 feet of religious institutions when services are taking place. It seeks a court order to block future concerts. Sea Breeze Jewish Center and Temple Beth Abraham are across the street from the existing bandshell at Asser Levy he bill, sponsored by Peter Park, and both say they host Vallone (D-Queens), will services daily. be debated at a City Two Brooklyn The Seaside Concert Council hearing on Friday. Series is set to kick off its synagogues sued This comes after two 20th year of free shows at Brooklyn synagogues and their Borough President Asser Levy on July 15 with worshipers last week sued Marty Markowitz performances by Neil Borough President Marty over his summer Sedaka and Brenda Lee. Markowitz over his summer con- concerts. For decades, no one chalcerts and plans for a Coney Island amphithe- lenged the concerts, but now the synagogues ater to host it. and many Brighton Beach residents are furiThe suit argues that the concert series ous over Markowitz’s plan to expand the violates a city law prohibiting amplified shows with an 8,000-seat amphitheater.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn and the City Council today announced an agreement for an on-time, balanced City budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, which begins on July 1st.
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he plan balances the budget with no tax increases despite the assumption of a massive and disproportionate reduction in the amount of tax dollars the State returns to the City and the lingering impacts of the national recession. The City Council is expected to vote on the FY 2011 budget plan early next week, marking the ninth consecutive year Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council have enacted an on-time, balanced budget. “In good times and bad, and in every year of our Administration, we’ve worked with the Council to produce an on-time, balanced budget, and we have again this year,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “Despite very trying circumstances, we’re balancing the City’s budget without increasing taxes. We’ve faced up to our responsibilities and to financial realities, which means making some difficult and painful budget cuts that New Yorkers will feel. But because we began preparing well before the national recession began, with prudent budgeting when others were ignoring the economic storm warnings, we will be able to avoid cutbacks that would have been severely harmful to New York. Lately, many people have had questions about the ability of those in government to work together at all. Once again, this Administration and the City Council worked out our differences and came up with a budget that will keep our city moving forward – demonstrating New York City continues to have a government that works.”
“New York City’s budget is balanced, it is on time, and it is does not raise taxes,” said Speaker Quinn. “Without a State budget agreement, the end of federal stimulus funds, and a persistent economic downturn, this year the City had to make exceedingly difficult decisions. Despite these obstacles, the Council and the Bloomberg Administration forged a responsible, thoughtful agreement that will preserve the most critical City services without raising taxes.” The City’s budget assumes the State budget will reduce tax revenue returned to the City by $1.3 billion and economically sensitive tax revenues are expected to remain more than $3 billion below FY 2008 levels. The FY 2011 budget includes responsible new budget gap closing actions of approximately $1 billion and reflects the current fiscal reality. The Mayor began ordering agencies to take budget gap closing actions in early 2007, with a total of eight rounds of actions resulting in cumulative savings of approximately $4 billion in FY 2011. The FY 2011 budget utilizes $3.7 billion of surplus from FY 2010. Without the surplus dollars – generated through years of prudent budgeting by the Mayor and the City Council – the City would have been forced to make more severe service cuts that would have a severe impact on quality of life throughout New York City. The FY 2011 budget plan achieves a balanced budget for the coming fiscal year, but with a major reduction in Federal stimulus funding and tax revenues continuing a slow recovery, the budget deficit for FY 2012 is currently estimated at more than $3.7 billion.
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WAR ON TERROR Al-Qaida Recruiting Algeria’s Jobless In an Algerian town on a rocky outcrop sticking into the Mediterranean Sea, alQaida recruiters find work for idle hands.
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ocal officials say that Islamist insurgents, fighting a lingering conflict with Algeria's security forces, are targeting the town's small army of unemployed young men and persuading some of them to join their ranks. If before in this long-running conflict people were motivated to join the insurgency mainly by ideology or religious fervor, now money is the biggest recruiting tool. It is a phenomenon which presents a challenge to the authorities not just in Dellys, a town of 30,000 people about 100 km (60 miles) east of the capital, but across Algeria. After over a decade of fighting the militants have been reduced to a dwindling hard core but analysts say that if the government does not get to grips with widespread unemployment, which could hand the rebels an opportunity to carry on the fight. "As long as the youth find no jobs and no occupation, al-Qaida will continue to hire new recruits," said Hamid Ghoumrassa, a security analyst with the El Khabar newspaper. Dellys used to be an insurgent stronghold. At the height of the violence in the 1990s the militants killed tens of people every week here, often beheading them. Since then the killings have subsided dramatically, but the militants have not disappeared -- as demonstrated by a spate of attacks in the area over the past few weeks. Asked where the insurgents find their recruits, an official in the Dellys mayor's office replied: "Look around you." Young men are everywhere on the town's streets. Some sell cigarettes. Others just sit for hours on street corners. They are a reflection of the national unemployment figures: officially 10.2 percent are jobless, and 73.4 percent of the unemployed are below 30 years of age. Independent estimates put the overall unemployment figures much higher. Jobless men are such a common sight that Algerians have a phrase for them: "hittistes," derived from the Arabic word for a wall, because they spend their days leaning against walls.
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"Unemployment is used by al-Qaida to attract the youth and if possible hire new militants," said the official, who did not want to be named as he is not authorized to speak to the media. ___________________________________
Asked where the insurgents find their recruits, an official in the Dellys mayor’s office replied: “Look around you” ___________________________________ He said the tactic employed by militant recruiters is to first identify a vulnerable person, usually young and male. They then send an SMS to his mobile telephone saying: "By joining us you will solve your problems," according to the official. They follow that up by sending the potential recruit links to Internet sites where they can view pictures and video of militant attacks, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan or speeches by al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Sometimes, they will give the would-be militant a one-off grant to help his family, he said. If the young man signs up to join the insurgents, his family will receive more cash. A young man arrested earlier this month in the Dellys region for aiding the militants was being paid 10,000 Algerian dinars ($134) a month, said a local resident. "His job was to supply food and watch security forces' movements in the city," the resident said This month, four people including two paramilitary police officers were killed in a bomb attack on their barracks in a nearby village. Many in the international anti-terror community have looked on the situation in Algeria as a new threat to world peace. “AlQaida is a worldwide net work and they have the ability to send terrorists to strike anywhere,” one analyst said. “The unemployed of Algeria have few ties and once sucked into the ideology of Al-Qaida they become a threat to everyone.”
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly unveiled the NYPD’s latest hightech weapon against terror.
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ddressing a civic group, Kelly said the department has begun using analytic software to monitor the behavior of potential terrorists. By training cameras on something as mundane as an article of clothing, police can lock in on a person and track their movements. The collection of images can reveal whether someone is casing a location for a possible attack. “With that software, we can conduct detailed searches,” he said. “We can pull up any camera, scroll back in time for as long as the data is store, which in our case is generally 30 days, and do
this from any terminal on the network.” Police off icials said many of the cameras are already being used in lower Manhattan. Specif ics weren’t immediately available. Kelly demonstrated the new technology at a midtown breakfast hosted by the Association for a Better New York. As part of its growing counterterrorism efforts, the NYPD is beef ing up security downtown with a network of some 3,000 cameras feeding into a data coordination center. A similar program of security cameras and license plate readers is also planned for midtown—from 30th St. to 60th St., spanning the East River to the Hudson River.
Obama Taps Petraeus to Take Direct Command of Afghan War BY AVI YELLIN US President Barack Obama ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal as commander of the American occupation forces in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying that McChrystal’s scathing remarks about administration officials recently published in Rolling Stone had undermined civilian control of the military and eroded the trust of the president's war team.
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bama tapped Gen. David Petraeus to take over direct control of the 9-yearold war, asking the U.S. Senate to confirm Petraeus for the new post "as swiftly as possible." The president said he did not make the decision to accept McChrystal's resignation over any disagreement in policy or "out of any sense of personal insult." Gen. Petraeus, who attended a formal Afghanistan war meeting at the White House on Wednesday, has been overseeing the occupations of both Afghanistan and Iraq as head of U.S. Central Command. Gen. Petraeus made headlines last March for publicly blaming the State of Israel for fomenting anti-American sentiment in the Middle East and harming U.S. interests in the region. Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Petraeus explained that "enduring hostilities between Israel and some of its neighbors present distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests in the area of responsibility." Petraeus’ statements were echoed by Obama, who blamed Israel for costing the
Gen. David Petraeus: “Enduring hostilities between Israel and some of its neighbors present distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests in the area of responsibility." U.S. “blood and treasure.” The verbal attacks by Petraeus and Obama came at a time when Israel’s government was resisting American pressure to halt the building of Jewish homes in Jerusalem neighborhoods liberated during the 1967 Six Day War.
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Iranian Threat Ahmadinejad: No Talks Until August Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Teheran will not hold talks with the West over its disputed nuclear program until late August to "punish" world powers for imposing tougher economic sanctions, as hundreds protested outside the French embassy in Teheran on Monday.
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he UN Security Council approved a fourth round of sanctions against Iran earlier this month over Teheran's refusal to halt uranium enrichment. Ahmadinejad told reporters Monday in Teheran that the decision is aimed at "punishing [the West] to teach them the custom of talking to our nation." Iran has rejected as "psychological warfare" assertions by CIA Director Leon Panetta that Teheran has the capability to build two nuclear weapons. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Monday the remarks by the CIA chief were aimed at creating a "negative perception" of Iran's peaceful nuclear program. On Sunday, Leon Panetta said Iran probably had enough low-enriched uranium for two nuclear weapons, but that it likely would take two years to build them. The US and its allies maintain that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Teheran denies. Also on Monday, hundreds gathered outside the French embassy in Teheran on Monday, in protest of Iran's main exiled opposition group holding a rally in France, AFP reported. "Shame on [President Nicolas] Sarkozy! Death to France! Shame on you, France, let go of the hypocrites!" chanted the crowd as police set up barricades outside the embassy in central Tehran, an AFP photographer
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not hold talks with the West over its disputed nuclear program until August to "punish" world powers. said. The state news agency IRNA reported that the protestors carried banners denouncing the US and Israel. Monday's demonstration was meant to protest a demonstration by the People's Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI) that took place in France on Saturday, and was attended by tens of thousands of opponents of Iran's regime, as well as former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton and former prime minister of Spain Jose Maria Aznar. AFP reported that the protest was organized by an Iranian association representing families of those allegedy killed in PMOI attacks. The organizers accused France of sheltering the group's members and demanded they be turned over to Iran. The PMOI is a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an umbrella organization of exiled Iranian opposition groups. The PMOI advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also sided with Saddam Hussein's forces during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. The group has also taken responsibility for several attacks inside Iran since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
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Teen No Nukes Group Organizes Rally to Protest Honeywell’s Business in Iran “Honeywell – Out of Iran Now!” was the theme of a protest held today in front of Honeywell International in Morris Plains. Organized by the No Nukes for Iran, a teen advocacy group dedicated to raising awareness of the threat of a nuclear Iran, and United Against Nuclear Iran, more than 60 community members and teens participated.
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oneywell International is the focus of No Nukes for Iran protests for its continued business dealings with Iran which are helping Iran’s energy industry. Honeywell International, Inc. has been urged to stop selling security technology to Iran and they have refused. In mid-June, No Nukes for sent a letter to Honeywell CEO requesting a meeting but no reply has been forthcoming. “Honeywell get out of Iran so that you can tell your children and grandchildren – that you helped to make the world a safer place for us and for future generations,” said Danielle Flaum, No Nukes for Iran who spoke to the crowd holding signs. Danielle, a 17 year old Millburn High School Student, was the organizer and moderator of the event. Honeywell participates in projects to develop Iran's energy industry. A Honeywell subsidiary, Universal Oil Products (UOP), is currently engaged in expanding and upgrading the Arak Refinery in Iran. Honeywell's decision to continue making key contributions to the development of Iran's oil industry is dangerous. There is overwhelming bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress to economically isolate Iran's oil and natural gas industry. Honeywell's decision is especially egregious considering that Honeywell does more business with the U.S. Government than any other company currently active in Iran. UANI previously called on the Pentagon to debar Honeywell from U.S. Government contracts. This is the first rally directed against an American company doing business in Iran. NJ Stop Iran Now advocates are aiming for New Jersey to be an Iranian Investment Free Zone. “Private citizens can play a role in concentrating coercive economic pressure on the Iranian regime in order compliment action from governments and multilateral institutions. We can do this by pressuring multinational corporations like Honeywell that do business in Iran by exploiting loopholes and gaps in US law. The combined effects of lower oil prices and existing sanctions are having an adverse effect on Iran. “Said David Ibsen, from United Against Nuclear Iran. “Now more than ever Iran relies on those international corporations that do business in Iran to prop up its fragile economy. These corporations help prop up an Iranian economy and facilitate the regimes diversion of funds to its nuclear program by: Paying foreign income taxes into the Iranian treasury; providing much needed Foreign Direct Investment to the faltering Iranian economy – including to Iran’s all important
No Nukes For Iran, rally agaiast Honeywell. energy sector; and provide conduits for technology and equipment that Iran uses to develop its energy industry and in some case for its nuclear industry.” Iran continues to defy the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations in their attempts to monitor its nuclear activities. A number of Arab states have warned that Iran's development of nuclear weapons poses a threat to Middle East stability and could provoke a regional nuclear arms race. In short, the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran is a danger to world peace. Yet, the U.S. intelligence believes that Iran will have the ability to make a nuclear weapon in a year’s time. “We have been working around the clock to support the passage and implementation of strong US and the U.N. sanctions against Iran and call on companies to stop doing business with Iran and for divestment from those that refuse. We are calling on all NJ government entities and municipalities to divest from companies doing business with Iran. We are urging all States around the country to undertake these same policies.” Said Jim Daniels who spoke on behalf of the NJ Stop Iran Now Campaign. “Honeywell has received $12.9 billion in federal contracts from the year 2000 to March of this year; it is immoral, if not yet totally illegal, for this company to continue its operations in Iran. While Honeywell management’s duty to its stock holders is understandable, it must clearly understand its higher responsibility as a corporate citizen…do not endanger the lives of the U.S. citizens and its allies. We ask Honeywell to cease and desist such collaborations with Ahmadinejad’s regime. We need to win this economic war on terror in hopes of avoiding more devastating options and/or living in a world with a nuclearized Middle East.” Said Daniels. Additional speakers included Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi, Planet Iran; Rabbi Eric Lankin; Jaime Fusco, Eagle's Wings; and teen advocate Michelle Bauer. The rally was co-sponsored by No Nukes for Iran and United Against Nuclear Iran in partnership with a coalition of community organizations including Community Relations Committee of United Jewish Communities of MetroWest, American Jewish Committee, Eagles’ Wings, and Stand with Us who support the teen effort on this critical issue for our country.
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Kruger Under FBI Investigation Continued from Cover his Brighton Beach restaurant. “Like any constituent across the country, Mr. Levitis contacted his local politician when he had a problem which affected his business,” Lichtman said yesterday. “Sen. Kruger assisted him because that is what politicians are supposed to do,” Lichtman added. “At no time did Kruger demand money or a fund-raiser in exchange for his help.” After a call from Kruger’s office to the city Health Department, the restaurant submitted the necessary requirements to schedule a reopening inspection within two days, the spokeswoman said. Kruger’s attorney, Ben Brafman, says his client is in the clear and that it’s just a case of Levitis bragging about his contacts. Levitis’ criminal complaint revealed that government informant George Abdula, owner of Heaven Nights lounge in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn, was seeking help with violations issued by the State Liquor Authority. Levitis was secretly taped saying Kruger would help if Abdula helped with fund-raising. He paid Levitis $3,000, of which $2,000 was supposed to be given to an unidentified Kruger staffer. Kruger’s lawyer Benjamin Brafman said no corruption was involved. “Levitis lied about his access to Kruger and simply pocketed the money from the informant without ever speaking to Kruger,” Brafman said. “Nor did Kruger ever do anything for the informant George Abdula. They both used the senator’s name and were caught in a lie.” But campaign records show Levitis kicked in $1,500 in campaign donations to Kruger in 2008 in addition to hosting the fundraiser. The Post reported that Kruger’s top aide, Jason Koppel, is also part of the probe. It was reported in the NY Daily News in December of 2009, that powerful Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Kruger‘s political war chest - bulging with some $2 million, more than any other senator’s - is being minded by his $134,000-a-year taxpayer-paid chief of staff, Jason Koppel.
Questions have been raised as to the propriety of having staffers who give official policy advice and draft bills are the same people who collect and catalogue contribution checks from campaign donors. Whose calls do you think they’re going to answer first? Whose issues do you think they’re going to address first? Albany’s entrenched pay-to-play culture doesn’t get much more naked than this. Reports show that no fewer than 49 campaign committees in the Assembly and Senate have treasurers who are also on the legislative payroll. The list includes not just crass wheelerdealers like Kruger, but also self-styled reformers such as Manhattan Sen. Liz Krueger and Westchester Assemblyman Richard Brodsky. Brodsky’s official chief of staff serves as treasurer of both his Assembly campaign committee and his attorney general campaign committee. One in five Albany lawmakers have succumbed to this virus, which blinds them to what should be clear lines between doing the people’s business and playing politics. Another controversial development outside Kruger’s district is Bruce Ratner‘s plan to build a Nets arena and residential complex over the Atlantic Yards in Downtown Brooklyn. The property is owned by the MTA. Ratner’s lobbyists have given Kruger’s campaign $7,750 this year. Kruger pressed the MTA to approve a plan that allows Ratner to pay $100 million less for the development rights and to take much longer to build. When contacted about the allegations, Koppel referred all comment to Senate Democratic majority spokesman Austin Shafran, who admitted that Koppel and Kruger are the targets of the investigation. Shafran said, however, that “Senator Kruger, as well as his chief of staff, are the victims of an influence-peddling scam by someone accused of lying to a federal official.” Kruger has no apologies: “I should be raising more, and I’m going to try to do that...In politics, having a good amount of funds is a good thing.”
TAP Available for Rabbinic Students Assemblyman Dov Hikind (DBrooklyn) has announced the historic passage of the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) provision which will provide TAP monies to income-eligible, post-secondary rabbinical college students to offset the cost of their tuition.
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reviously, these students were prohibited from receiving TAP because their schools were not under the State Education Department’s (SED) direct supervision. This bill allocates $12 million for the 2010-11 academic year, with $18 million to be awarded in 2011-12. “Ultimately, passing this legislation was a matter of equity,” Hikind said. “New York State denied these rabbinical college students tuition assistance even though the federal government saw fit to provide aid to these same students in the form of Pell grants. With the passage of this legislation, a grave injustice has been corrected.” Hikind praised Governor David Paterson, Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for their leadership in ensuring passage of the legislation. “There is no question that this bill could never have become a reality without the Governor’s stalwart support, as well as the strong commitment and leadership of Senator Sampson and Speaker Silver,” Hikind remarked. “This bill will positively impact thousands of low-income rabbinical college students. It is really nothing short of a miracle in these difficult economic times.” Hikind also noted that, “Rabbis Shia
Ostreicher and Shmuel Lefkowitz, along with many other members of Agudath Israel of America played an essential role in securing this victory for the Jewish community. For ten years, Rabbi Ostreicher and Rabbi Lefkowitz worked with me. They attended countless meetings and tirelessly advocated for our community. People told us it would be impossible to pass this legislation, but with God’s help, the impossible became possible.” Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) has announced the historic passage of the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) provision which will provide TAP monies to incomeeligible, post-secondary rabbinical college students to offset the cost of their tuition. Previously, these students were prohibited from receiving TAP because their schools were not under the State Education Department’s (SED) direct supervision. This bill allocates $12 million for the 2010-11 academic year, with $18 million to be awarded in 2011-12. “Ultimately, passing this legislation was a matter of equity,” Hikind said. “New York State denied these rabbinical college students tuition assistance even though the federal government saw fit to provide aid to these same students in the form of Pell grants. With the passage of this legislation, a grave injustice has been corrected.” Hikind praised Governor David Paterson, Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for their leadership in ensuring passage of the legislation.
JULY 2, 2010
Obama’s Race-Rant Reverend Rages On Against Jews and Whites He’s been keeping such a low profile since nearly derailing Barack Obama’s campaign for president in 2008—is it possible that the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright has mellowed? Hardly.
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uring a five-day seminar Wright taught last week at the University of Chicago, he was back at it, claiming that whites and Jews are controlling the flow of worldwide information and oppressing blacks in Israel and America. “White folk done took this country,” Wright said. “You’re in their home, and they’re gonna let you know it.” The course, advertised as focusing on politics and public policy in South Africa and America, was taught in a small, groundfloor room at the Chicago Theological Seminary on the university campus, where Wright’s voice echoed out an open window. The class was composed of about 15 to 20 students, mainly older African-American women who would arrive early and giddily linger during lunch breaks and after class, looking for the reverend’s attention. (The course cost a little over $1,000 if taken for college credit and $300 if taken without.) The absence of young people was telling: The lectures seemed ossified, relics of a precivil-rights America—a point that Obama himself made during his famous speech on race in March 2008, prompted by the incendiary comments (“God damn America!”) made by his former pastor and mentor. “Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect,” Obama said. Yet during this course—which was described as asking, “What is the response and public witness of persons of faith to ongoing developments in both countries?”— Wright made many statements about what he believes are the true aims of whites and Jews. “You are not now, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be a brother to white folk,” he said. “And if you do not realize that, you are in serious trouble.” He cited the writings of Bill Jones— author of the book “Is God a White Racist?”—as proof that white people cannot be trusted. “Bill said, ‘They just killed four of their own at Kent State. They’ll step on you like a cockroach and keep on movin’, cause you not a brother to them.’ ” Wright referred to Italians as “Mamma Luigi” and “pizzeria.” He said the educational system in America is designed by whites to miseducate blacks “not by benign neglect but by malignant intent.” He said Ethiopian Jews are despised by white Jews: “And now the Knesset [Israeli parliament] is meeting with European Jews, voting on whether or not these African Jews can get into [Israel].” The civil-rights movement, Wright said, was never about racial equality: “It was always about becoming white . . . to master what [they] do.” Martin Luther King, he said, was misguided for advocating nonviolence among his people, “born in the oven of America.” “We probably have more AfricanAmericans who’ve been brainwashed than we have South Africans who’ve been brainwashed,” he said, and seemed to allude to President Obama twice: “Unfortunately, I got in trouble with a fella for saying this . . .
Rev. Jeremiah Wright: “White folk done took this country... You’re in their home, and they’re gonna let you know it.” All your commentaries are written by oppressors.” At the mention of Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan—whom Obama disavowed during the campaign—black leaders “go cuttin’ and duckin’,” he said. In March, Wright told The Washington Post that he expects to speak to Obama again, when “he is out of the White House.” Last June, he told a Virginia newspaper that the only reason he and the president were not speaking at the moment is that “them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me.” From 1972 until May 2008, Wright served as pastor of Trinity United Church of Chicago, located in a rough area of the city’s South Side. Today, he is “pastor emeritus” and identified as such on the rugs that line the doorways at Trinity. Until very recently, Wright lived with his wife and children in a nearby two-story house, in a more affluent subdivision surrounded by roadblocks; the line between rich and poor is literal. His former neighbors all say he kept to himself. A few months ago, Wright and his family moved into a brand-new million-dollar home located near a golf course and made of stone with a recessed doorway surrounded by pillars. It’s the only house on a cul-de-sac. Records show it was sold by Trinity United Church to a company called ATG Trust and paid for in cash. Since leaving Trinity, Wright has traveled the country, preaching and lecturing. He said he’s been working “all year long” with Trinity’s preschool program and called US Education Secretary Arne Duncan a disaster. Duncan, a former college basketball star, was given the job only because Obama enjoys his “good jump shot in the back yard,” Wright said. Wright gives interviews intermittently but declined to speak to The Post. He recently headlined a two-day “men’s empowerment revival” in Florida but in mixed company is careful not to say anything racist or inflammatory. The most he had to say about the AfricanAmerican experience that day was “God is working on your behalf.”
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GOAL! Teams Compete in JCRC Jewish International Soccer Tournament Sunday, June 27, dawned clear and cloudless. The weather was hot, but nowhere near as heated as the competition that was about to begin. It was the day of the First Annual Jewish International Soccer Tournament for international Jews -world community Jews, students, and business people living in the New York area.
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steady stream of excited, skillful-andnot-so skillful international groups of Jewish soccer players and their fans arrived by car, chartered bus, bridge or bicy-
and empowerment exercise, as well as an opportunity for networking between communities." Teams were fielded representing the Jewish communities of England, France, Italy, Israel – there were 2, A and B - Spain, Venezuela, Argentina, Dominican Republic, South Africa, Australia, Belgium, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States. Kids under twelve participated in a soccer clinic for young children. Kosher barbeque and spicy specialty foods were available from Burgurs Bar of the Five Towns.
JCRC Executive Director Michael Miller, staff member Jennifer Gick, Lauren Moralie, a French- Jewish JCRC-NY Tournament Volunteer, and Tournament organizer Hindy Poupko. Matching the weather, competition on the field heated up in earnest by mid afternoon. While the cool breezes floating off the East River may have cooled the temperature a bit, the enthusiasm of the eight highly skilled
The game between finalists “Italy” and “Israel A,” playing after a long, hot, active day with little rest and less shade, did not disappoint. Both teams kept the excitement going, managing to keep the field action fast
Quarter Final competition between Italy, the eventual winner, and Israel B was fierce. cle at Field 75 on New York Randall’s Island playing fields to compete in a unique World Championship Contest. The anticipation was palpable, with more than 300 Jewish players from countries from all around the globe coming to compete. The “First Annual Jewish Soccer
Involvement and competition grew throughout the day. Teams were composed of ten players each, seven on field and three substitutes; several boasted co-ed rosters. Play was divided into twelve minute halves. Compliments must be given to both players for their good sportsmanship throughout the
The REAL Winning Moment. teams facing each other in the quarter finals intensified. One by one, the less skillful – perhaps, the less lucky - teams, were eliminated until only Israel and Italy remained to face each other in the final match.
and scoring multiple goals. “When you’re hungry…” said Israel A team member Shai, “everything’s possible.” Following an animated game, Israel A’s victory was decisive.
Trophies, the MVP shirt, and commemorative medals awaited finalists and winners of the JCRC-NY First Annual Jewish International Soccer Tournament. Tournament Organizers Jen Glick and Hindy Poupko presented the awards. Tournament” organized as part of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (JCRC-NY) effort to reach out to the international Jewish communities of New York, was established “as a community building
tournament and to referees, experienced professionals, who controlled the play with skill. FIFA rules applied; the stipulation that “all teams and players shall abide by the rules of Fair-Play” was actively carried out.
Burgers Bar owner Mitch served a delicious variety of bar-b-que treats throughout the tournament.
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Community Board 12’s Rezoning of the Culver El Will Create Affordable Housing NYC Councilmember Brad Lander recently announced the rezoning of the Culver El that will make the area in Borough Park available for new affordable housing.
New-Home Sales Suffer Record Plunge Sales in May fell to their lowest level in 47 years after the homebuyer tax credit expired in April. The housing market took another hit last week.
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am very pleased by Community Board 12's overwhelming approval of the Culver El rezoning (the area from 36th to 39th street, 12th Avenue to 14th Avenue, along the site of the old elevated Culver Subway line). Thanks to CB12's long-standing support, we are moving forward toward the day when this underutilized space will provide 68 new units of affordable housing for families who desperately need it. "Southern Brooklyn Development Organization, the driving force behind this project, has found a creative and innovative way to provide affordable housing to families in need. They deserve plenty of credit for having the vision to propose this project, and the tireless dedication to keep it moving forward over many years. Credit is also due to my predecessor in the City Council, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio (and especially to his former staff member and community leader Yeruchim Silber), to former Councilmember Simcha Felder, to Community Board 12, the Department of City Planning, and the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development for all their work on this project. I look forward to working with all of them, as well as my colleagues in the Council, David Greenfield and Sara Gonzalez, to make sure this important proj-
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New York Councilmember Brad Lander. ect moves forward as quickly as possible. The next steps are approval by the Brooklyn Borough President, the City Planning Commission, and then the City Council. We hope to have all the necessary approvals in place over the next few months. "As an affordable housing advocate throughout my career, I know that this new development along the Culver El site, and the affordable homes it provides, will be a most welcome addition to Borough Park."
ew-home sales tumbled by a record 33% in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 300,000, the Commerce Department said this morning. It was the lowest level since 1963, when the government started compiling data. Sales were down 18.3% from last May. While economists had expected the expiration of the government's first-timehomebuyer tax credit at the end of April to hit sales last month, their estimate was for only a 20% decline. The government's tax incentive offered up to $8,000 for homebuyers. Sales fell in all four U.S. regions last month, led by a record 53% plunge in the West. "We see no chance of a quick, sustained recovery, though we are hopeful there is little further downside," Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, wrote in a note to clients. "The next few months are likely to be very grim." May's decline came after strong gains in March and April because of the tax credit. March sales rose 12.1% to 389,000, and April sales rose 14.7% to 446,000, revised down from an originally reported 14.8% to
504,000. The median sale price in May was $200,900, down 9.6% from a year earlier and the lowest since December 2003. The inventory of unsold homes at the current sales rate jumped to an 8.5-month supply, up from 5.8 months in April and the highest in nearly a year. But the number of new homes on the market was 213,000 at the end of May, the fewest since 1970. On Tuesday, the National Association of Realtors said existing-home sales unexpectedly fell 2.2% in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.66 million.
A Paradigm Shift in the Real Estate Market and Investing It is believed that we've seen the bust side of the boom market and are emerging into a different housing market that is on a (slow) road to recovery. Even if you don't agree with me, one thing I'm sure we can all agree on is that the market isn't going to operate the way it did at the height of the boom cycle.
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here are distressed properties all over the market (and will be for sometime). Conventional loans and underwriting rules are much tighter (as they should be). Cash is King, quick appreciation isn't guaranteed, financial literacy is a must, regulations are stronger and insider information doesn't exist in the same way it did. So how do we need to adjust our thinking and actions? Distressed Properties: With so much media attention on all the "foreclosures," the public feels that it's a buyer's market. Well, in some sectors it is, however, in the sectors most investors are dealing with, it isn't. So investors need to switch their thinking from "there are deals everywhere" to "where do I really find the good deals." Underwriting Rules: Credit is tight; 5 years ago if you had a pulse and a decent credit score, you were able to get a loan very easily. There is a slang term NINJA – No Income, No Job, No Approval. Now you need to be prepared and position yourself correctly. You must have an A Rating (a credit score of 751 or higher) and have all your documentation in order. One of the easiest ways to do this is by creating a "Statement of Financial Position." This is a living document that can help you keep track of your net worth. We provide you with a template in our Professional Real Estate Investor Class for this document. You also need to do a budget so you know what you can afford and prove your employment or income. Cash is King: Everyone was doing zero percent down loans 5 years ago; well today,
down payments are important. Warren Buffett's edict of "having skin in the game" is a mantra used by all lenders today. Most lenders don't want to see less than 10% (unless VA) and, if you're an investor, they're looking for 25% down. But if you are worried about the 25% down, remember that's just for conventional financing. If borrowing from private money or a SDRA (Self Directed Retirement Account), you'll have more flexibility. Quick appreciation isn't guaranteed: In the boom market, real estate investors could factor in appreciation into the evaluation of a deal; not today. In this market, we need to be even more careful and buy right with immediate equity. We still look for markets were we can find anticipation of good appreciation, however, we no longer (and never should have) depend on it. Financial Literacy and Stronger Regulations: In this country, we tend to play the blame game. It was the mortgage broker's fault, it's the hedge funds fault, it's the government's fault. We are all adults; take responsibility. It's important to have professionals as part of your team, but no one is going to care as much about your money and your well-being as you. So understand the contracts and loan documents you sign. For example, since January 1, 2010, home loan originators must provide borrowers with a mandated Good Faith Estimate (GFE) within three days of accepting your application. Along with the GFE, you'll also receive the new "Shopping for Your Home Loan: HUD Settlement Cost Booklet." Use the tools and, as one of my favorite presidents, Ronald Reagan, said, "Trust but verify." Insider Information: The Internet has created a portal from which we can get a lot of information that wasn't accessible to the lay person in the midst of the boom cycle. Did you know that you can get access to the MLS? There's insider information for you. But remember that it's not just access to the information, it's also knowing how to analyze and use that information in a timely fashion that really makes the difference.
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Mortgages Face New Rules
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Another “Domino” Falls for Landmark Development Deal Brooklyn's famed Domino Sugar refinery is one step closer to becoming an apartment building.
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The Dodd-Frank financial-regulatory overhaul, which Democrats hope will win f inal Congressional approval this week, offers greater protections for consumers against riskier and more complicated types of home mortgages. But some in the industry warn the legislation also may lead to higher costs and fewer choices for consumers.
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he kinds of mortgages you see today—fixed-rate loans [or] if it’s an adjustable rate, it’s pretty conservative in its terms—those are going to be the loans you see for a long time in the future,” said Glen Corso, managing director of the Community Mortgage Banking Project, which represents small, independent mortgage lenders. “There’s not going to be any room for experimentation or trotting out loans that have new features.” The mortgage rules are part of the most extensive remapping of U.S. f inancial rules since the 1930s, which would put U.S. banks and markets under tighter government control for years to come. The bill is expected to pass the House this week, with a vote anticipated as soon as Tuesday. But Democrats are running into unexpected problems securing 60 votes in the Senate. Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) supported the bill when an earlier version passed the Senate floor in May, but he said on Friday he has major concerns with a provision adding assessments on large banks. _______________________________
“It stipulates that lenders must compensate appraisers ‘at a rate that is customary and reasonable.’” _______________________________ Complex loans that allowed borrowers to make low initial payments that adjust sharply higher later helped to fuel the housing bubble and lead to today’s foreclosure crisis. The lending industry already has moved away from option adjustablerate loans, or option ARMs, which allow borrowers to defer principal and interest payments to keep initial costs low. Banks say that potential for greater legal liability could lead to higher costs for borrowers, but consumer advocates say the legal rights are narrowly tailored so worries are exagger-
ated. Provisions that require stricter checks on a borrowers’ ability to pay could make it harder or more expensive for self-employed borrowers or those who rely on commission or seasonal income to qualify for loans. Another key provision of the bill tries to make compensation of mortgage brokers and loan off icers more transparent. It bans any sort of payment based on steering the consumer to a particular type of loan or rate. During the housing bubble, loan off icers and mortgage brokers often could get higher compensation if they persuaded borrowers to go with option ARMs or subprime loans. Home appraisers, who have complained that downward pressure on their fees has hurt quality, may get some help from the bill. It stipulates that lenders must compensate appraisers “at a rate that is customary and reasonable.” The bill also mandates regulation of appraisal-management companies, f irms that order appraisals on behalf of lenders. Lenders often own stakes in these f irms, allowing the lenders to get a cut of the fee that borrowers pay for appraisals. Appraisals are value estimates designed to ensure that there is enough collateral behind loans to protect lenders. Mortgage brokers pushed for a provision that would allow consumers to use the same appraisal in applying for loans from more than one lender. That would reduce the risk that borrowers might have to pay for more than one appraisal if they switch from one lender to another while shopping for a loan. But the bill says only that regulators “may” issue regulations on the “portability” of appraisals from one lender to another. The rule would make it easier for brokers to compete with retail banks as they rely on customers shopping around for rates. The legislation includes $1 billion to establish a program that would offer short-term loans to unemployed homeowners at risk of foreclosure. Even borrowers who didn’t accept high-risk loans now frequently are in danger of losing homes to foreclosure because of job losses or reduced income. The bill also provides an additional $1 billion in funding for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, which helps local organizations buy and repair foreclosed and vacant homes.
wo City Council subcommittees unanimously approved plans to redevelop the landmark refinery in Williamsburg. The vote comes after a compromise was reached between the developers and dissenting local representatives. The project hasn't received the official go-ahead, however; a final vote on the plan will take place in July, when the full City Council reviews it. The old Domino Sugar refinery property will be converted into 2,200 housing units, including 660 units of affordable housing, as well as a 4-acre park and several retail outlets. In the compromise approved today, the planned 40-story residential towers were lowered to 34 stories and a shuttle bus will be instated between the site and the Marcy Avenue train station. In the current plan, the Domino refinery building itself, which is an official city landmark, will be gutted and refitted with residential units. The other buildings on the site will be demolished to make room for additional residential buildings, including the two 34-story towers, and a waterfront esplanade with retail outlets and parks. Opposition to the development was lead by Councilman Steve Levin of Williamsburg, who said the development would be too expensive for a crowded district with already-packed subways and buses. He had advocated for a smaller development, but Domino Corporation called this economically unfeasible, as the factorys landmark status increases the cost of development. "The community will have a project that will address the needs of the neighbor-
The old Domino Sugar refinery on the East River. hood," Levin said after the Land Use Committee voted on the project, thanking Mayor Bloomberg and others who helped negotiate the compromise. "I look forward to continue working with [The Community Preservation Corporation Resources] to ensure that all of the community's needs are addressed as the project is built and inhabited." Other changes made under the compromise include: a community advisory board will be created to oversee development and any further changes to the development must be approved by the land use review process. The American Sugar Refining Company sold the property in 2004 to Refinery LLC, a company composed of the Community Preservation Corporation Resources and a private developer called the Katan Group. In the six years since, protests to the redevelopment have slowed the companys plans. Opponents of the project say that the Domino Sugar plant is a landmark and important part of the NYC skyline, and should not be changed. For example, a community group called Save Domino, founded in 2007 by community resident Stephanie Eisenberg, wanted landmark status extended to other buildings on the factory site. Currently, only the refinery itself is a landmark.
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JULY 2, 2010
Lincoln Town Car and Ford Crown Victoria Being Discontinued They are the muscular, leg-roomy f ixtures of New York’s crowded streetscape, the automobiles that came to represent the city.
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he Ford Crown Victoria served as the mainstay of taxi and police fleets. Its close cousin, the Lincoln Town Car, could reliably be found idling outside Lincoln Center or waiting to whisk a Wall Street type home for the evening. But in a little more than a year, both models will go the way of the Checker cab. Ford Motor Company plans to shutter the Canadian plant that manufactures the cars and discontinue the recognizably bulky frame that gives them their shape. That means the end for vehicles that have come to symbolize the full spectrum of New York life, from private black sedans purring on Park Avenue to the ubiquitous sight of the yellow cab, great equalizer of the varied urban tribe. “These cars are a facet of people’s everyday experience,” said David Yassky, the city’s taxi commissioner. “Whatever takes their place will have a real and tangible influence on the city’s aesthetic.” Passengers should prepare for a bumpier, more cramped ride. Forget roomy trunks that f it a French-door refrigerator; the older models are yielding to smaller gas-and-electric hybrid vehicles with knee-bumping back seats and flimsier frames. The impending departures have left New York’s livery world scrambling. The Taxi and Limousine Commission is holding a contest to design a new taxi-
cab to replace the city’s 8,200 Crown Victoria yellow taxis. The Police Department will lose a fast-accelerating sedan it has depended on since 1992. And the black-car industry must replace 75 percent of its fleet. Prophecies of the cars’ demise have come and gone: they survived one death notice in 2006 when Ford moved production from Michigan to Ontario. But widespread regulatory reform and industry f inancial troubles mean this is the true end of the road. The company says it concluded that sales would drop off in coming years as more states required police and livery vehicles to meet stricter environmental standards - a high hurdle for gas guzzlers like the Crown Vic and the Town Car, which get about 16 miles a gallon in the city. Fickle consumer tastes have also played a role: the models sell well with commercial fleets but not individual drivers, who tend to prefer slimmer
sedans. One exception is the retiree market in Florida, which has a fondness for Town Cars. (The Crown Vic is now sold only to commercial customers.) In other words, the lighter, greener hybrid has triumphed. “We need to move onto an improved, more sustainable product,” Rob Stevens, Ford’s chief engineer for commercial vehicles, said in an interview. But some drivers and fleet owners maintain that the Town Car and Crown Vic are uniquely well suited to their task of comfortably ferrying all manner of city dwellers, from expense-account Wall Street bankers to criminals handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser. “It is large, it is safe, it is easily repairable,” John Acierno, president of the Executive Transportation Group, said of the Town Car, which makes up more than 80 percent of his 1,800-car fleet. “When you think of a black car or a limousine, your mind’s eye sort of goes
to it,” Mr. Acierno said. “If there’s one sitting in front of a building, you think the car is waiting for someone.” The cars also deliver a particularly smooth ride, die-hards say, thanks to a forgiving suspension and the sturdy steel frame that underlies both models. The Crown Vic’s plush leather back seat can resemble a sofa on wheels. Replacements have begun to crop up in the city’s fleets, but some owners of yellow cabs say they are unimpressed. Ronald Sherman, the president of the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, which represents 28 large fleet owners, said he had seen would-be taxi passengers ignore Chevrolet Malibu or Ford Escape cabs, opting for a longer wait in order to grab the more spacious Crown Vic. “These minis are ridiculous; passengers do not get into them,” Mr. Sherman said, asserting that the smaller back seat and low headroom made the hybrids uncomfortable and potentially dangerous for riders. Kevin Healy, another fleet owner, agreed. Of the Volkswagen Jetta, another alternative taxi, he said: “Literally, I can’t get in. And I would need a doctor to get out.” Despite such objections, New York City’s government is intent on greening its car fleet. A mayoral mandate is in place to depose the big gas guzzlers of yore: commissioners now drive hybrids, and the Police Department has reduced its Crown Victoria count to 1,400 cars today from 1,800 in 2006. The city also wants to establish fuel emissions standards for taxicabs. Those regulations have been held up in court,
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Charged Up About Batteries: Why Are They So Expensive? With as much as 60,000 barrels of oil pumping into the Gulf of Mexico every day, it seems like the next generation of alternative-fuel vehicles can't get here soon enough. Much hope has been pinned on forthcoming electric vehicles like the Nissan Leaf to help wean us off fossil fuels. Yet despite all the advances in battery technology, electric-vehicle batteries remain expensive. But why?
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o get some answers, we turned to two experts in the field. Bill Reinert is Toyota's national manager for advanced technologies. Toyota builds more hybrid vehicles than any other automaker, and its Prius is the best-selling hybrid on the market. Joe LoGrasso is GM's Global Battery Systems engineering group manager. GM has been developing the plug-in hybrid Volt, which is scheduled to go on sale later this year. The third-generation Prius uses a battery pack composed of 168 nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery cells making 1.2 volts each. "Nickel-metal hydride batteries are durable and robust, which is essential for automotive use," said Reinert. "To date, Toyota and Lexus combined have global sales of approximately 2.5 million hybrid vehicles using this technology." "We know how to work with nickel-metal hydride batteries and in hybrid applications, they can last the life of the car. We have a number of hybrid-electric vehicles with more than one hundred thousand miles," he said. The drawbacks of NiMH batteries, however, include: Limited service life. If repeatedly deepcycled, (i.e., the charge is completely depleted and then recharged, especially at high load currents), battery performance begins to deteriorate after 200 to 300 cycles. Limited discharge current. Repeated discharges with high load currents reduce the battery's cycle life. Require more complex charge algorithms. NiMH batteries generate more heat during charge and require a longer charge time. Sensitive to high temperatures. Performance degrades if stored at elevated temperatures. NiMH batteries should be stored in a cool place and at a state-of-charge of about 40 percent. Maintenance. NiMH batteries require regular full discharge to prevent crystalline formation. "In reality, NiMH batteries are considered an interim step to lithium-ion batteries," said Reinert. "It's a question of overcoming the hurdles lithium-ion technology presents." Lithium-ion batteries (Li-ion batteries, or LIB) are attractive for automotive applications due to their higher energy density and smaller package requirements. Considered a
low-maintenance battery, LIB have neither battery-memory issues, nor do they require scheduled cycling to prolong battery life. Despite its overall advantages, lithiumion still has some drawbacks. It is not as robust and requires a protection circuit to maintain safe operation. Built into each pack, the protection circuit limits the peak voltage of each cell during charge and prevents the cell voltage from dropping too low on discharge. In addition, cell temperature must be monitored to prevent temperature extremes. While the requirements to monitor charge and temperature make LIB more expensive to design and manufacture, their material and manufacturing requirements also factor into the cost. "Lithium is found in areas such as Bolivia, China, and Afghanistan, all of which pose not only a long logistics trail, but also certain geopolitical consequences," Reinert explained. Recent findings of lithium in Afghanistan are so great that one internal Pentagon memo stated the country could become "the Saudi Arabia of lithium." How this discovery will affect the price of lithium remains to be seen, however, and will take many years to become a factor in the marketplace. Manufacturing facilities for LIB are another part of the price equation. "Lithiumion batteries and battery packs must be manufactured in hospital-clean facilities," said Reinert. "Building such factories in a size large enough to be efficient is extremely expensive." General Motors is tackling the manufacturing issues head-on. Its $43-million investment in an existing facility located in Brownstown Township, Mich., will allow GM to manufacture lithium-ion battery packs for the Volt as well as other extendedrange electric vehicles. "The Brownstown facility will be the first lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in the U.S. operated by a major automaker," said Joe LoGrasso, GM's Global Battery Systems engineering group manager. "Since GM is not in the business of manufacturing battery cells, we are partnering with suppliers who demonstrate the necessary technological and volume-manufacturing ability," continued LoGrasso. "The Brownstown facility will be capable of taking those battery cells in one door and sending completed battery packs out another." LoGrasso believes that once cell manufacturing has fully transitioned from overseas to the United States, suppliers will be able to achieve greater manufacturing efficiencies. "As suppliers become more capable, scrap rates will drop, allowing them to realize their full output potential. Prices, as a result, should decrease. By how much, though, is impossible to predict." There is another factor that may offset the cost of the Volt's battery pack. "The Volt's battery pack can be disassembled for use in
Rechargeable electric car batteries. stationary applications, thereby extending its useful life and delaying end-of-life issues," LoGrasso explained. "When the battery pack has reached a point near twenty-five percent of reduction in usable range, there is still a lot of life left in the batteries for non-automotive uses." When a battery pack does go bad, how much does it cost to replace it once it's out of warranty? To get a sense for this kind of expense, we called our local Toyota dealership, Dunning Toyota of Ann Arbor, Mich., and spoke with service manager Woody Woods. Woods said that although there are three different battery packs that have been used in the different Prius models over the years, the replacement cost is similar, ranging from about $2,300 to $2,700, without labor (which isn't that much, in this case, adding less than 10 percent to the total). The Prius battery back has less than two kilowatt hours of capacity, while the forthcoming Volt has 16 kWh capacity. The allelectric Nissan Leaf offers 24 kWh and the electric Tesla Roadster battery pack contains a whopping 53 kWh. So some simple math can give you an idea of how pricey the bat-
tery pack can be for a pure electric. Toyota's Reinert doesn't see a time in the foreseeable future when full electric vehicles will achieve price parity with hybrids. "While regulatory action such as a gas tax or incentives for electric vehicles could level the playing field, market-driven forces alone won't make full electric vehicles price competitive," he said. "The reality is that the internal combustion engine is not the outdated technology that people might think," Reinert continued. "In its most modern iteration, the internal combustion engine is a very efficient powerplant, and there are still great advantages in storing fuel in liquid form. For example, when you take into account tailpipe emissions such as nitrogen oxides, the most advanced low-carbon diesels, run on alternative fuels such as those sourced from algae, can achieve parity with hybrid electrics." The bottom line: regardless of their cost, electric and hybrid-electric vehicles, while not an end solution, will have supporting a role in transportation. "There will always be other players," said Reinert, "and old technologies will still be worthy of another look."
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The Problem With Reward Programs We're often baffled when it comes to rewards programs. We talk about how difficult it actually is to score a free flight on an airline, and how credit card reward points can ruin your budget, or put you under thousands of dollars worth of debt.
Fed Srikes More Cautious Tone On US Recovery The Federal Reserve struck a more cautious tone about the strength of the U.S. economic recovery, indicating Europe's debt crisis poses a risk to it.
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ewards programs at drugstore chains are an entirely different matter. Some of us are diligent about keeping track of reward coupons and receipts, keeping them in our wallets and keeping track of expiration dates. Does this sound like you? It certainly doesn't sound like me. Every now and then (about every four months), I'll get a $5 cash reward printed on my receipt after collecting a few hundred points at the Walgreens-acquired Duane Reade drugstore I go to. It sits in my wallet. Life happens. And the reward expires -- like a prophylactic stored in a teenage boy's wallet. In fact, David Lazarus writes in The Los Angeles Times that the industry average for rewards being cashed in is a mere 2 percent. That's right -- the industry average for rewards programs is the number that comes after 1. Douglas Friedman, an assistant professor at Penn State Harrisburg tells Lazarus that, "From a consumer's standpoint, it's not a good system because, more often than not, no one looks at the receipt." CVS, which says the number of customers who redeem their rewards is higher than the industry average (of 2 percent!), is working on a non-receipt rewards process that would keep rewards on customer cards -- although it's unsure of when this change
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“From a consumer's standpoint, it's not a good system because, more often than not, no one looks at the receipt.� will happen. The latest drugstore chain to join the rewards programs club is Rite Aid, which gives customers extra rewards for registering their customer card online, and coupons via e-mail or regular mail. Having to print out your own reward to redeem at the store? I'm waiting to see that industry average drop.
rapping up a two-day meeting Wednesday, the Fed in a 9-1 decision retained its pledge to hold rates at record-low levels for an "extended period." Doing so will energize the rebound. The Fed expressed confidence that the recovery will stay intact despite headwinds from abroad and at home. But Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues offered a slightly more reserved outlook than the last time they convened. The Fed said the economic recovery is "proceeding." That was a bit less upbeat than the view at the April meeting when the Fed said economic activity continued to "strengthen." The Fed also said the labor market is "improving gradually." While not mentioning Europe by name, the Fed said "financial conditions have become less supportive of economic growth ... largely reflecting developments abroad." Stock investors had little reaction to the news. The Dow Jones industrial average fell about 10 points after being relatively flat before the announcement. The decision to keep rates at record lows boosted demand for safe-haven assets like Treasurys, sending interest rates lower. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, a widely used benchmark for mortgages and other consumer loans, fell to 3.13 percent from 3.25 percent late Tuesday. The 10-year note hasn't closed at that level in more than a year. Rates had already fallen earlier in the day after the government said new-home sales dropped 33 percent last month. Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, for the fourth straight meeting was the sole member to dissent from the Fed's decision to retain the "extended period" pledge. Hoenig fears keeping rates too low for too long could lead to excessive risk-taking by investors and feed new speculative bubbles in the prices of stocks, bonds and commodities. He's also expressed concern that low rates could eventually unleash inflation. And Hoenig said he worries that keeping the "extended period" pledge will limit the Fed's stated "flexibility" to start modestly bumping up rates. Given the risks to the recovery, the Fed left a key bank lending rate at between zero and 0.25 percent. The rate has remained at that level since December 2008. That means rates on certain credit cards, home equity loans, some adjustable-rate mortgages and other consumer loans will remain low. Commercial banks' prime lending rate would stay at about 3.25 percent, the lowest point in decades. Low rates serve borrowers who qualify for loans and are willing to take on more debt. But they hurt savers. Low rates are especially hard on people living on fixed incomes who are earning scant returns on their savings.
Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, fears keeping rates too low for too long could lead to excessive risk-taking by investors... Still, if the rates spur Americans to spend more, they would help invigorate the economy. That's why the Fed maintained its pledge, in place for more than a year, to keep rates at record lows for an "extended period." Because the fragile recovery is more vulnerable to shocks, from home and overseas, economists increasingly say the Fed probably won't start boosting rates until next year — or possibly into 2012. That's a change from a few months ago, when economists thought the Fed would begin raising rates at the end of this year. "Increased market volatility and uncertainty on the economic outlook may cause the Fed to delay raising rates until well into next year," said Kurt Karl, chief U.S. economist at Swiss Re. The Fed has leeway to hold rates at record lows because inflation is essentially nonexistent. In fact, the Fed noted that the price of energy and other commodities have dropped in recent months, and that underlying inflation has "trended lower." That seems to suggest that Fed policymakers are a bit more concerned about the remote prospect of deflation, versus inflation. T.J. Marta, a market strategist at Marta on the Markets, called the Fed's policy statement "more dovish" and reinforces the belief that the central bank won't need to start boosting rates any time soon to fend off inflationary pressures. After suffering the worst recession since the 1930s, the economy has been growing again for nearly a year. Manufacturing activity is picking up. Businesses are spending more. And Bernanke has expressed confidence that the nation won't fall back into a "double dip" recession. Still, the strength of the recovery could be affected by the European debt crisis, an edgy Wall Street, cautious consumers, a fragile housing market and high unemployment.
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Street Cleaning: Overhaul Of Rules Overseeing Wall Street President Barack Obama declared victory last week after congressional negotiators reached an agreement on a sweeping overhaul of rules overseeing Wall Street.
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awmakers shook hands on the compromise legislation at 5:39 a.m. after Obama administration officials helped broker a deal that cracked the last impediment to the bill -- a proposal to force banks to spin off their lucrative derivatives trading business. The legislation touches on an exhaustive range of financial transactions, from a debit card swipe at a supermarket to the most complex securities deals cut in downtown Manhattan. Speaking to reporters as he left the White House to attend an economic summit of world leaders in Toronto, the president said he was "gratified" for Congress' work and said the deal included 90 percent of what he had proposed. He said the bill, forged in the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown, represents the toughest financial overhaul since the Great Depression. We've all seen what happens when there is inadequate oversight and insufficient transparency on Wall Street," he said. "The reforms working their way through Congress will hold Wall Street accountable so we can help prevent another financial crisis like the one that we're still recovering from." Asked by reporters whether he can get the financial measure through the Senate, Obama said, "You bet." He said he will discuss the regulations with other leaders at the Toronto meeting because the recent economic crisis proves that the world's economies are linked. Lawmakers hope the House and Senate will approve the compromise legislation by July 4. Republicans complained the bill overreached and tackled financial issues that were not responsible for the financial crisis. The bill would set up a warning system for financial risks, created a powerful consumer financial protection bureau to police lending, forced large failing firms to liquidate and set new rules for financial instruments that have been largely unregulated. "It took a crisis to bring us to the point where we could actually get this job done," Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said. In its breadth, the legislation would affect working class homebuyers negotiating their first mortgage as well as international finance ministers negotiating international regulatory regimes. The bill came together in during a time of high unemployment for American workers, huge bonuses for bankers and rising antipathy toward bank bailouts. "It is reassuring to know that when public opinion gets engaged it will win," said Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman of the HouseSenate panel that merged House and Senate bills into one piece of legislation. House negotiators voted a party line 2011 in favor of the final agreement; senators voted 7-5, also along party lines. Frank and Dodd set a furious pace for lawmakers in their last day of talks, pushing them into the late hours to resolve the most nettlesome differences between the House and Senate. Their goal, in part, was to equip Obama with a legislative agreement as he meets with leaders of the Group of 20 nations this weekend in Toronto. While the legislation addressed the causes of the last meltdown -- and more -- it left for later any restructuring of the government-related mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Time and again, Republicans tried to shift the debate to the mortgage purchasing firms, to no avail. Overhauling those agencies "should have been our top priority" in writing the compromise bill, Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, said in a statement before the deal was completed. He said the bill focused on other areas, "many that are unrelated to
the financial crisis." The government took over Fannie and Freddie in 2008 after they suffered heavy loan losses in the housing crash. Their collapse has cost $145 billion and the Obama administration has pledged to cover unlimited Fannie and Freddie losses through 2012, lifting an earlier cap of $400 billion. While many tough provisions in the bill survived, securing the votes of moderate Democrats in the House and a handful of Republicans in the Senate meant softening some provisions in the bill. Under the bill, banks could lose billions in lucrative trading business, though negotiators blunted some of the harsher measures under consideration. In a blow to Obama, the consumer protection agency would not regulate auto dealers, even though they assemble loans for millions of car buyers. Payday lenders and check cashers would be regulated, but enforcement would be left to states or the Federal Trade Commission. To pay for the costs of the bill, negotiators agreed to assess a fee on banks with assets of more than $50 billion and hedge funds of more than $10 billion in assets to raise $19 billion over 10 years. The final agreement capped an all-night marathon session of public and private deal making. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped in to press agreement on one of the final obstacles. As they worked toward the home stretch early Friday, negotiators softened a contentious Wall Street restriction that would force large bank holding companies to spin off their lucrative derivatives business. The deal, negotiated between the White House and Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., eliminated one of the last major sticking points. Congressional leaders were eager to wrap the bill up, with hopes of getting final House and Senate passage next week. Derivatives are complex securities often used by corporations to hedge against market fluctuations. But they also have become speculative instruments for financial institutions, the most notorious of which were credit default swaps that hedged against loan failures. In the House, moderate Democrats and members of the New York congressional delegation fought to remove Lincoln's language. Under the agreement banks would only spin off their riskiest derivatives trades. Banks get to keep some of their lucrative business based on trades in derivatives related to interest rates, foreign changes, gold and silver. They could even arrange credit default swaps, the notorious instruments blamed for the meltdown, as long as they were traded through clearing houses. Banks also would be allowed to trade in derivatives with their own money to hedge against market fluctuations. Negotiators also limited the ability of banks to carry out their own high-risk trades or invest in hedge funds and private equity funds. Bank holding companies that have commercial banking operations would not be permitted to trade in speculative investments. But negotiators agreed to let bank holding companies invest in hedge funds and private equity funds, setting an investment limit of no more than 3 percent of their capital. There are no such conditions on banks now.
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EDITORIAL
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THE PEOPLE’S VOICE EDITORIAL
The Constitutionality of Guns
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. on the Cyclone -- settling, instead for a slightly milder roller coaster -- Thompson's Scenic Railway, I think it was called. My favorite Coney Island spot was Steeplechase Park. I loved riding those horses -- but no so much that electric-jolt administered to us, as we left that ride. In those days, we also had Playland in Rockaway (that other Playland in Westchester) and Palisades Amusement Park. The rides in today's Luna Park seem aimed, mainly, at making riders a bit queasy. One man on the upside-down airplane ride, who could be seen with eyes closed as the craft whirled by, overhead, was asked, when he was back on the ground, if he would go on the ride, again. He shook his head to indicate "no." I'm glad the Coney Island flame has not been extinguished, but, for me, the flame is a bit pricey.
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The U.S. Supreme Court extended the reach of the constitutional right to bear arms by saying it binds state and local governments as well as the federal government.
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he Supreme Court ruled that gun possession is fundamental to American freedom, giving federal judges the power to strike down state and local weapons laws for infringing on Second Amendment rights. The justices cast doubt on a Chicago area handgun ban, but also signaled in their 5-4 decision that less severe restrictions could survive legal challenges. In response to the court ruling NYC Mayor Bloomberg said, “The Court’s decision today and its decision in 2008 in District of Columbia v. Heller both make clear that we can work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and terrorists while at the same time respecting the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens.” That’s what New York City has always done. And, I will continue to collaborate with mayors across the country to pursue common-sense, constitutional approaches to protecting public safety.” The law allowing the ownership of guns is not as clear cut as it may seem. Not everyone will be able to just simply walk up to a gun shop, plop down money and buy any gun they want. Local governments whether city or state will be able to enact laws that will inhibit certain individuals from purchasing guns. It is obvious that anyone with a violent criminal record should not be allowed to buy a gun, there are many
other ideas in the minds of lawmakers around the country that also make sense. If a person has to learn how to operate car, pass a test to get licensed and is obligated to have insurance and to register their vehicle which must then pass a rigorous inspection: How much more so should anyone owning a gun be held to the same obligations. A person should be able to show that he or she is responsible, knows how to use a gun properly and would be held liable for any misuse of any gun in their possession. Every gun has a signature when a bullet is fired certain marks are engraved onto the projectile that can help identify the gun which it was fired from. Every gun should be filed with the authorities along with this identifying mark and with the guns serial number for future references. If a person is found to be abusing their constitutional right of owning a gun that right can and should be taken away. If a person has a criminal record with a lean towards violence, he should not be allowed to own a gun. If a person has medical issues including history of alcohol or drug abuse gun, privileges should not be granted. The law of the right to bear arms was written into the constitution so that the average citizen would have means of protection and self-defense the law however should also benefit the neighbors of those gun owners. Legally owning a gun is a privilege and a person should not feel that because his neighbor has a gun he has to have one in order to protect himself and his family against that neighbor.
happened to pick up a copy of The Jewish Voice, yesterday, after spending some time at Coney Island, and was interesting on your Luna Park article --particularly the last paragraph which reported that the area "remains an inexpensive attraction for amusement park fans." Having spent $5 to ride on the Twister, I think it is called; I walked over to the Cyclone and asked about the cost of a ticket. Told the cost is $8 (no senior discount) I walked away. (I did not have a chance to see if the Wonder Wheel as affordable -- no more than $5, that is.) Years and years ago, I was taken to Coney Island by my parents. There was, of course, Nathans -- but also, I think, a kosher deli. Also, I think there ware a lot more rides -- including carousels, bumper cars and, of course, the parachute jump that I never took. I don't think I rode
Editor’s note: There are plans for many more rides at Coney Island in the coming years and prices are still affordable and comparative to the prices of 50 years ago when Steeplechase was still operating, when you take into account inflation.
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What the McChrystal Incident Tells Us About US BY RABBI SHMULEY BOTEACH It seems I’m one of the few Americans appalled at the firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal last week. In a rare moment of unity, pundits on both the Left and Right supported President Barack Obama’s relieving him of his command. The arguments were uniform (no pun intended): If the president hadn’t fired McChrystal, it would have eroded civilian authority over the military.... McChrystal’s comments showed a lack of professionalism and conduct unbecoming an officer.... He insulted our allies, etc, etc. But put aside the hysteria and think soberly for a moment. What was McChrystal guilty of? Insubordination? This wasn’t Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who publicly criticized president Harry Truman’s preparedness to accept a partitioned Korea, and was a public advocate for war with China. McChrystal was the architect of a policy wholly endorsed by Obama, and never once challenged the orders of his commander-in-chief, either in public or in the Rolling Stone article. ___________________________________
“In this past Sunday’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman came close to a blood libel when he wrote of the “brutality of Israel’s retaliations” against Hizbullah and Hamas” ___________________________________ But wasn’t he guilty of stupidity for allowing his staff to mouth off in front of a journalist? Perhaps. But how media-savvy do you expect a general to be whom for years has been running the blackest of black ops? We train these men to hunt down the most dangerous murderers in the world, not to be PR pouffes. Guys like McChrystal deal with a level of pressure that we civilians, surrounded by our plasma TV screens in our air-conditioned homes, can scarcely understand. Of necessity they’re going to be the kind of people who buck authority just a little. McChrystal’s error was to blow off steam and allow his subordinates to grumble about their civilian overlords – which one assumes is pretty standard fare in military circles – in the presence of a journalist. But anyone who has been the subject of a lengthy magazine profile knows how easy it is to simply forget that off-the-cuff remarks are on the record, especially when you have a million more important things to worry about. Vice President Joe Biden is known to be gaffe-prone, and recently dropped the fbomb into a live microphone at Obama’s signing of the health-care bill. Politicians are human. So are generals, as are their staffs. You don’t destroy the career and reputation of a heroic officer who has served his country valiantly for three decades because a journalist decides to publish private banter. BUT IT’S not the general that is mostly on my mind, it’s American values. Obama
said he had to fire the general to bolster civilian control over the military, which conjured up images of McChrystal poised to “cross the Rubicon” and storm Washington. But the president could better have used the incident to teach the American people about the importance of gratitude – a value sorely lacking in our democracy. He could have told the country that McChrystal screwed up; a general has to be measured and in control. But given the fact that this was just a silly magazine article and the country owes McChrystal a tremendous debt for three decades of service – especially as head of the Joint Special Operations Command, which captured Saddam Hussein and killed alQaida Iraq head Abu Musab al-Zarqawi – he was going to overlook the incident and accept the general’s public apology. Greedy Wall Street bankers who may never have sacrificed anything for their country were given multibillion-dollar bailouts when they messed up. But McChrystal, who will make a fraction in his entire career of what a Wall Street investment banker makes in a year, was thrown to the wolves for saying things like he didn’t want to read Richard Holbrooke’s e-mails. Oh, the war is bigger than any one individual, the president says. True. But so are American values. We continue to live free only because of our brave military, yet most Americans offer our troops empty words of support, words rarely backed by tangible action. This is a shame, given how much criticism they receive because when fighting terrorists who use kindergartens and hospitals as bases of operation, civilian casualties are unavoidable. In this past Sunday’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman came close to a blood libel when he wrote of the “brutality of Israel’s retaliations” against Hizbullah and Hamas, and how Israel “chose to go after them without being deterred by the prospect of civilian casualties.” Irresponsible words like these betray a contempt for the challenges commanders of Western armies face when fighting terrorists – who murder innocent civilians in cold blood and also use them as human shields. But it’s not just in military situations where gratitude is lacking. Gratitude is an increasingly rare commodity in the parent-child bond, with more youth feeling a sense of entitlement and more parents feeling like glorified cash machines. Neither do employees feel appreciated as they are laid off by companies that put higher profits before happier people. Gratitude is also lacking in today’s media, which is often prepared to exploit human error to bolster circulation. Michael Hastings could have showed some gratitude toward a general who took him into his confidence and gave him unique access to his challenges fighting the murderous Taliban in Afghanistan. Instead, his revelations will ensure that public officials trust journalists even less than they do already, making our newspapers and magazines even blander and more colorless. The writer is founder of This World: The Values Network and host of “The Shmuley Show” on WABC 77AM in New York City. His new book is Renewal: Living the ValuesFilled Life (Basic Books).
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Faisal Shahzad, Jihadi, Undercuts Obama, President BY DANIEL PIPES Jaw-dropping court testimony by Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber, singlehandedly undermines Obama administration efforts to ignore the dangers of Islamism and jihad.
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hahzad's statements stand out because jihadis, when facing legal charges, typically save their skin by pleading not guilty or plea bargaining. Consider a few examples: Naveed Haq, who assaulted the Jewish Federation building in Seattle, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Lee Malvo, one of the Beltway Snipers, explained that "one reason for the shootings was that white people had tried to harm Louis Farrakhan." His partner John Allen Muhammad claimed his innocence to the death chamber. Hasan Akbar killed two fellow American soldiers as they slept in a military compound, and then told the court "I want to apologize for the attack that occurred. I felt that my life was in jeopardy, and I had no other options. I also want to ask you for forgiveness." Mohammed Taheri-azar, who tried to kill students on the University of North Carolina by running over them in a car and issued a series of jihadi rants against the United States, later experienced a change of heart, announced himself "very sorry" for the crimes he committed, and asked for release so that he can "re-establish myself as a good, caring and productive member of society" in California. These efforts fit a broader pattern of Islamist mendacity; rarely does a jihadi stand on principle. Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11's would-be twentieth hijacker, came close: his court proceedings began with his refusing to enter a plea (which the presiding judge translated into "not guilty") and then, one fine day, pleading guilty to all charges. ________________________________
“His comment reflects not just that American citizens are responsible for their democratically elected government but also the Islamist view that, by definition, infidels cannot be innocents” ________________________________ Shahzad, 30, acted in an exceptional manner during his appearance in a New York City federal court on June 21. His answers to Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum's many inquisitive questions ("And where was the bomb?" "What did you do with the gun?") offered a dizzying mix of deference and contempt. On the one hand, he politely, calmly, patiently, fully, and informatively answered about his actions. On the other, he in the same voice justified his attempt at coldblooded mass murder. The judge asked Shahzad after he
announced an intent to plead guilty to all ten counts of his indictment, "Why do you want to plead guilty?" a reasonable question given the near certainty that guilty pleas will keep him in for long years in jail. He replied forthrightly: I want to plead guilty and I'm going to plead guilty a hundred times forward because – until the hour the U.S. pulls it forces from Iraq and Afghanistan and stops the drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan and stops the occupation of Muslim lands and stops killing the Muslims and stops reporting the Muslims to its government – we will be attacking [the] U.S., and I plead guilty to that. Shahzad insisted on portraying himself as replying to American actions: "I am part of the answer to the U.S. terrorizing [of] the Muslim nations and the Muslim people, and on behalf of that, I'm avenging the attacks," adding that "We Muslims are one community." Nor was that all; he flatly asserted that his goal had been to damage buildings and "injure people or kill people" because "one has to understand where I'm coming from, because … I consider myself a mujahid, a Muslim soldier." When Cedarbaum pointed out that pedestrians in Times Square during the early evening of May first were not attacking Muslims, Shahzad replied: "Well, the [American] people select the government. We consider them all the same." His comment reflects not just that American citizens are responsible for their democratically elected government but also the Islamist view that, by definition, infidels cannot be innocents. However abhorrent, this tirade does have the virtue of truthfulness. Shahzad's willingness to name his Islamic purposes and spend long years in jail for them flies in the face of Obama administration efforts not to name Islamism as the enemy, preferring such lame formulations as "overseas contingency operations" and "man-caused disasters." Americans – as well as Westerners generally, all non-Muslims, and anti-Islamist Muslims – should listen to the bald declaration by Faisal Shahzad and accept the painful fact that Islamist anger and aspirations truly do motivate their terrorist enemies. Mr. Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org) is director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. © 2010 by Daniel Pipes. All rights reserved.
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Senator Parker Presents $50,000 to Nachas Health & Family Network Hundreds of people gathered at Bais Yaakov High School where Senator Parker was excited to present a $50,000 check of Capital Funds to Nachas Heath & Family Network.
BY JACOB DALLAL Once again at an historic crossroads for Israel and the Jewish people, the Jewish Agency for Israel has examined changes and challenges in the world and the Board of Governors has approved a new strategic plan that seeks to align its resources and goals to best serve current and anticipated needs.
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t was wonderful to spend time with Boro Park’s children and families” said Senator Parker as he toured the health fair. “Nachas provides much needed services to the Ultra Orthodox Community” Nachas Health & Family Network assists with the medical and social service needs of the under-served Immigrant and Jewish communities in Brooklyn. They coordinate free medical screenings, health fairs, as well as health education and awareness programs for all ages. As well as being one of the leading facilitators for all government funded health insurance programs.
T “I am glad that I can present this money to Nachas” continued Senator Parker “because my job as your representative is to ensure State Funds make their way into our communities”
Sephardic Jews a Minority of a Minority Sephardic Jews in America are a minority of a minority, as they are vastly outnumbered by Jews of Eastern European, German, Russian and Polish descent known as Ashkenazi Jews.
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ut Sephardim form an important part of the Jewish heritage and tapestry, with ancestors who fled to the Ottoman Empire after they were expelled from their native Spain in 1492. During a lecture series this month at Rider University, Judaic historian Devin Naar, himself a Sephardic Jew, put the spotlight on how the Holocaust ravaged, displaced and ultimately helped integrate Sephardic Jews with their Jewish brethren. Naar, whose speech was the 10th Annual Dorothy Koppelman Memorial Holocaust Lecture at Rider, noted that Koppelman’s parents were Ashkenazi Jews who came to America from Turkey and Greece during World War I but left behind loved ones in Salonika, Greece, who perished in the Holocaust. Their story is similar to the stories of many European Jews who immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century and had relatives who perished at the hands of the Nazis. But their story offers a glimpse into the Sephardic Jewish experience, especially through its roots in Salonika, which in the early 20th century was considered the Jerusalem of the Balkans because almost half of its 170,000 residents were Sephardic Jews, Naar said. Their move to the United States and loss of family “encapsulates the lesser-known experiences of the Sephardic Jews,” said Naar, an advanced doctoral candidate in Stanford University’s history department. A 2001 Lawrence High School graduate whose father, Harry I. Naar, is an arts professor at Rider, Devin Naar is completing his doctoral dissertation on the history and culture of Sephardic Jews in the first half of the 20th century, with a particular focus on Salonika. Devin Naar acknowledged his interest in the Sephardic Jewish experience has personal, not just academic, roots. His grandfather came to the United States from Salonika in the 1920s, along with his parents and eight siblings.
But his grandfather’s oldest brother stayed behind and, along with his wife and two children, was slaughtered at Auschwitz in 1943. The Sephardic communities in New Brunswick and other parts of central New Jersey retained strong ties with their northeastern Mediterranean roots, he said. “We often think about the stories of the Old World and the New World as separate,” Naar said. We think that “immigrants left the Old World, became absorbed into the American melting pot and never looked back.” “I want to tell a different story,” he said. “It is now known that a quarter or more of all immigrants returned home during the great era of mass migrations in the late 19th and early 20th century,” he said. “The Sephardic Jews were no different, but those who stayed in the States retained links to their native communities,” he said, while noting that the American and Balkan Sephardic Jewish communities grew increasingly apart after World War II. But Sephardic Jews through their community organizations and newspapers in New York City helped to rally people against Nazi book burnings and the threat of Adolf Hitler at the onset of the Third Reich, Naar said. They offered financial support to orphanages and survivors of Nazi occupation in their native land, he said. Before World War II in the early 20th century, Sephardic Jews faced discrimination and stereotyping from the dominant Ashkenazi Jewish communities in the United States within which they often settled, most notably on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, he said. They were perceived as being less Jewish and having lower class, according to Naar. Sephardic Jews sought to counter those prejudices by integrating with their Ashkenazi brethren and into U.S. society in general, as well as by forming their own communities to retain Sephardic identity, Naar said. “These Jews were well integrated into American society,” Naar said. One of them, he noted, was Emma Lazarus, famed for the inscription on the Statue of Liberty that ends, “I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
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he plan, entitled "Securing the Future: Forging a Jewish agency for Israel and the Jewish people" was approved at a meeting of the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors in Jerusalem on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010. In a vote taken after a three hour debate, there was but one vote against the plan cast by the body of 120 members which is comprised of representatives of Jewish federations of North America, Keren Hayesod and the World Zionist Organization. The plan places Jewish identity building, in Israel as well as the Diaspora, in a central role in its planned activities, along with mobilizing social activism to address growing social needs in Israel and to encourage young Israelis to live more consciously "Jewish" lives. Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said he views the new strategic direction as a way to increase immigration to Israel. “In an era when aliyah is a matter of choice rather than duress, strengthening identity among young Jews will increase the number of those who choose to make Israel their home,” he said. “The main danger facing the Jewish world today is a weakening of the connection of young Jews to their People and to the State of Israel,” said Sharansky, who led the new strategic planning process along with Board of Governors Chairman Richard Pearlstone. “Our new plan deals directly with this issue.” “We were once a people without a home-
land; we can’t become a homeland without a people,” said Dr. Misha Galperin, the Jewish Agency’s incoming head of Global External Affairs. The approval of the strategic plans follows a year of deliberation and consultation. Now approved, the Jewish Agency will begin to implement the new plan in its programming and budget for 2011, which will be presented to the Board of Governors at its meeting in October. ___________________________________
“We were once a people without a homeland; we can’t become a homeland without a people” ___________________________________ “The Jewish world and the world at large are changing,” said Jewish Agency Director General Alan Hoffmann, who presented the plan to the board, “we have to seize the moment to confront the challenges and build on our strengths, both as an organization and as a people.” The plan lays out programmatic areas of focus, while reaffirming the Jewish Agency’s long-held vision of ensuring the future of a connected, committed, global Jewish People with a strong Israel at its center. The plan states the mission of the organization as: Inspire Jews throughout the world to Connect with their People, heritage and homeland, and Empower them to build a thriving Jewish future and a strong Israel. At the opening session Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support for the new direction, saying that a goal should be set that “within five years every young Jewish adult who wants to visit Israel does so.” He also called for strengthening Jewish identity among Israeli youth and increasing their connection with the Jewish world.
Gov. Paterson Says He Regrets Decision To Drop Re-Election Bid Would Gov. Paterson still drop out of the election campaign if he had to do it all over again?
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uring today’s early morning radio blitz, Paterson said he has “regrets” about dropping out of the election but does not feel his lame-duck status hurt his bargaining position with the Legislature. “I do have regrets for not running, but I made that decision four months ago, so I’m long past that,” Paterson said on WBEN in Buffalo. “It was an honor and privilege I never dreamed of, to serve the people of New York as governor.” Paterson added that because he is about to turn over the governor’s office to another person, he feels an added responsibility to clean up the state’s finances and not have his successor feel he just “kicked the can down the road.” “And particularly since I‘m leaving this year, I am not going to dump on the governor what has been dumped on me and my predecessors, from time to time, which is the bill for spending in the past that comes due in the future,” Paterson said.
Would Gov. Paterson still drop out of the election campaign? The governor, who ascended to his post after the fall of Eliot Spitzer, officially announced in late February that he would not seek a full four-year term. Paterson—whose campaign lasted less than 48 hours and was covered start to finish by Blain—pulled out of the race amid the furor of an investigation by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over whether he improperly meddled in a domestic violence dispute involving his former top aide, David Johnson.
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Hunter College Welcomes “Dr. Morgenthau” honorary degree in their former home. The auditorium was filled to capacity and beyond, with admirers of the honoree representing a lifetime of family and professional admirers from the worlds of academia, law and business. Cyrus Vance Jr., who replaced the man who held the office of Manhattan District Attorney for thirty five years, lauded praise on the newly minted “Dr. Morgenthau.” Multiple generations of the Morgenthau family, current and former political officers of the city and state, including Dick Ravitch, Lieutenant Governor of New York, friends and associates, came to honor the former District Attorney at the Hunter event. The Roosevelt and Morgenthau families were neighbors and close friends in Hyde Park,
warm and wonderful family affair. Morgenthau received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, achieving the rank of lieutenant commander. He graduated from Yale Law School, practiced law firm in the City and in 1961, accepted an appointment from President Kennedy to become U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. In 1974 he was elected district attorney of New York County, a position he held for 35 years. Among those who have benefited from his mentorship is Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor. Following his retirement from the District Attorney's, Morgenthau joined the law firm
Generations of Justice: New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance congratulates former DA Robert Morgenthau following Morgenthau’s the degree granting ceremony at Hunter College’s Roosevelt House Policy Institute.
mergers and acquisitions cases, and has advised banks in actions against government regulatory bodies. The Hunter Ceremony must have had just a touch of the bitter sweet for the former DA, occurring just weeks after he was forced to step down as the court appointed Master of Procedure designated to remedy discriminatory hiring practices for new firefighters. The long term seeker of justice for New York’s citizens was called “biased” and “less than impartial” by the lawyers for the City. Calling the accusations "absurd," Morgenthau said it would serve the court's "best interest" to name someone against whom “the city didn't have a "grudge."
where both have had homes since 1915. The young Robert Morgenthau, born in New York City in 1919, developed his dedication to public service following the example of, and with admiration for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The degree presentation coincided with the announcement of the Morgenthau family's endowment of the Morgenthau Room at the Roosevelt House Policy Institute. The Institute is housed in the double wide New York City townhouse which was a wedding gift from Sara Delano to her son and his wife. Mr. Morgenthau gave the Institute a gift of Morgenthau and Roosevelt family photos from his childhood, which will be on display at Roosevelt House. Following the ceremony, all gathered in the elegant Institute headquarters (If walls could speak! One can only imagine the conversations these partitions must have heard.) to enjoy mint juleps and conversation. Each guest seemed to have an anecdote or a personal story of how Robert Morgenthau had touched his or her life. Reminiscences of Hunter College from former students and the excitement expressed by current students whose participation lent youthful exuberance to the event - were in abundance. President Raab’s gracious welcome made visitors, who moments earlier may have been strangers in the room, feel as though all were part of a
(Morgenthau’s resignation as Master was accepted by Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis with "great regret.")
Dr. Robert Morgenthau, Dr. Jennifer Raab at the celebratory post degree award reception at the Roosevelt House Policy Institute. of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz at the age of 90. The firm specializes in corporate and
Like Morgenthau, Jennifer J. Raab is a lifelong New Yorker. Prior to assuming the presidency at Hunter, she served the public in many capacities in government, public service, civic affairs and the law. With almost a decade of leadership “under her hood” she has enhanced the College’s academic position and positioned it as a leading urban center of higher education. A member of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, Hunter is its largest component, educating more than 20,000 students. The curriculum includes studies its Schools of Arts & Sciences, Education, Health Professions and Social Work. One of the most sought after public schools in the country, the Hunter College Campus Schools serves gifted and talented students, K through grade 12 from throughout New York City. Acceptance to the Hunter College Campus School is a treasured prize. (Raab is a graduate of the HCCS high School.) The more recently developed Manhattan Hunter Science High School educates high school students with strong scientific interests. Certainly President Raab is an ideal steward for the wonderful Roosevelt House. Prior to her appointment at the college, she chaired the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission for seven years. Her ability to achieve consensus among constituencies with diverse interests was noteworthy. Raab’s own academic and community careers are outstanding. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she earned her undergraduate degree “with distinction” from Cornell University, received a Master's in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. Her community and government involvement is extensive including positions as special projects manager for the South Bronx Development Organization to City Planning Commission Director of Public Affairs and member of the Charter Revision Commission.
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Apple’s iPhone 4: and the Verdict Is?
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ost of the cribs were drop-sides, which have a side rail that moves up and down so parents can lift children from them more easily. That movable side, however, can malfunction or detach from the crib, creating a dangerous gap where babies' heads can become trapped, leading to suffocation or strangulation. The companies involved in the recall were Evenflo, Delta Enterprises Corp., Child Craft, Jardine Enterprises, LaJobi, Million Dollar Baby and Simmons Juvenile Products Inc. No deaths were associated with the cribs, but there were reports of at least 16 entrapments of infants. In one case, a child was found unconscious and later hospitalized. __________________________________
THE NEW YORK TIME’ DAVID POGUE: NEW IPHONE ARRIVES, RIVALS BEWARE
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espite the strong initial, positive reaction, this must still be a nerveracking time to be Apple; the iPhone is no longer the only worthy contender. Phones running Google's Android software are gaining rave reviews and packing in features that iPhone owners can only envy. _________________________
________________________________ The Android app store is ballooning, multiple phone makers are competing, and Google updates the software several times a year. Apple releases only one new model a year, so the new iPhone had better be pretty amazing to compete. It is.
WALL STREET JOURNAL’S WALT MOSSBERG: THINNER, FASTER, SMARTER IPHONE RAISES THE STAKES It has some downsides and limitations—most important, the overwhelmed AT&T network in the U.S., which, in my tests, the new phone handled sometimes better and, unfortunately, sometimes worse than its predecessor. I'll get into that below. But, overall,
More Than Two Million Cribs Recalled More than 2 million cribs from seven companies were recalled Thursday amid concerns that babies can suffocate, become trapped or fall from the cribs.
Last week’s papers carried the first official reviews of Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone 4. The usual suspects have been playing with the device for the last week or so and they are, for the most part, pleased. A sample of what they had to say:
“Cutting through the hype, Apple has given longtime diehards, and first-time iPhone owners, plenty to cheer about”
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“This new recall announcement is part of a larger effort by CPSC to clean up the marketplace from many of these unsafe cribs”
__________________________________ Apple has delivered a big, welldesigned update that, in my view, keeps it in the lead in the smartphone wars. ... Although it is the same weight as its predecessor, the iPhone 4 feels denser and tighter—more like a f ine possession than a disposable gadget. It still looks like an iPhone, but it manages to make the 3GS appear bulbous by comparison.
USA TODAY'S EDWARD BAIG: APPLE MAKES ALL THE RIGHT CALLS ON IPHONE 4 Buyers won't be disappointed. The killer feature is what Apple calls FaceTime video chat. The promise that you and the person you're talking to on a phone can gaze into each other's eyes dates back to when LBJ occupied the White House. ... There are other iPhone 4 features worth crowing about: highdef inition video recording, super-crisp display, a handsome and thin stainless steel and glass design. Cutting through the hype, Apple has given longtime diehards, and f irst-time iPhone owners, plenty to cheer about.
In the announcement from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, all seven companies recalled drop-side cribs. Delta and Child Craft also acknowledged problems with fixed-side cribs. Drop-sides have increasingly come under scrutiny, with several warnings from the CPSC in the last year that the cribs can be deadly. CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum has pledged to ban their manufacture and sale by year's end. "This new recall announcement is part of a larger effort by CPSC to clean up the marketplace from many of these unsafe cribs," said Tenenbaum. "Most of these recalled cribs have dangerous drop-sides, while the Delta crib can pose a danger to babies if the mattress support is installed incorrectly." CPSC urged parents to stop using the cribs and contact the manufacturers for repair kits to immobilize the drop-side or information to make the cribs more secure. The recalls involved about: 750,000 Jenny Lind drop-side cribs distributed by Evenflo Inc. 747,000 Delta drop-side cribs. Delta is also urging parents to check all fixed and drop-side cribs that use wooden stabilizer bars to support the mattress. The company says the bars can be installed upside down,
Jenny Lind drop-side crib. causing the mattress platform to collapse. CPSC spokesman Scott Wolfson said Delta "was not cooperative with providing the full number of units involved in the mattress support assembly problem." 306,000 Bonavita, Babi Italia and ISSI drop-side cribs manufactured by LaJobi Inc. 130,000 Jardine drop-side cribs imported by Toys R Us. 156,000 Million Dollar Baby drop-side cribs. 50,000 Simmons drop-side cribs. 40,000 to 50,000 Child Craft brand stationary-side cribs and an unknown number of Child Craft brand drop-sides. Child Craft ceased operations last summer and sold its name to Foundations Worldwide Inc., which did not manufacture or sell any of the recalled cribs but will offer rebates for some of them. With Thursday's recall, 9 million dropside cribs have been recalled in the past five years. Drop-sides have been blamed in the deaths of at least 32 infants and toddlers since 2000. The cribs are suspected in another 14 infant fatalities during that time. Congress is also concerned about the cribs. Legislation has been introduced by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., to outlaw the sale and manufacture of drop-sides. A similar bill has been introduced in the House by Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley, also of New York. Drop-side cribs have been around for decades, but consumer advocates say they are not as sturdy as those of the past. Older cribs had metal rods that guided the dropside up and down. Many newer cribs have plastic tracking guides for the drop-side that critics say are more prone to breaking. The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association, which represents over 90 percent of the crib industry, urges parents not to use cribs with loose or missing parts. It also says consumers should not use a crib that is older than 10 years because it may not comply with current standards.
State May Begin Taxing Clothing Sales to Close Budget Gap Governor David Paterson said a sales tax on clothing purchases of less than $110 might be part of the actions needed to close the state’s $9.2 billion budget deficit.
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axes on clothes have been brought back to us” by legislators, Paterson said in an interview on New York City radio station WOR today. “It’s in the discussion phase.” Lawmakers face a June 28 deadline set by Paterson for agreement on a budget covering the year that began April 1. If no agreement is in place by then, Paterson has said he will submit his own budget plan in an emergency spending bill, which lawmakers would have to approve, or shut down
government. Paterson’s plan includes cuts in aid to local school districts and a tax on sweetened beverages that lawmakers don’t want. Applying the state’s 4 percent sales tax on clothing purchases below $110 would raise $660 million over 12 months, according to budget documents. Less revenue would be raised if lawmakers allowed salestax holidays, such as for back-to-school shopping in August. The tax was proposed by Paterson last year to help close a record $17.9 billion deficit. The idea was abandoned when lawmakers decided to increase income taxes to as high as 8.97 percent on those earning $500,000 or more.
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NEWS IN REVIEW ISRAEL Gaza Terrorists Burn Down Second UN Camp, Handcuff Guards
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asked terrorists stormed into a United Nations children's camp in Gaza early on Monday morning, attacked and handcuffed the camp guards, and set the place on fire. UN workers said the facility sustained heavy damage. The attack was the second of its kind this summer. In late May terrorists set fire to the United Nation's' largest Gaza summer camp and left behind bullets and a note threatening to kill John Ging, the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) head in Gaza. Ging responded to Monday's attack by calling to “change the circumstances on the ground that are generating such extremism.” He complimented Hamas' emergency responders for responding quickly to the incident. Ging made similar remarks following the May attack. At that time, Fatah blamed Hamas for the incident, accusing the Islamic terrorist group of “targeting the education process and the UNRWA curriculum.”
Graduating IAF Pilot Pourse: 47% from the North
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ew statistics were released regarding this summer's graduating cadets, in preparation for Thursday's IAF pilot's course graduation, Army Radio reported. Seventeen percent of the cadets' mothers are involved or have been involved in the past with teaching, 47% are residents of the North and only 5% reside in the South. A third of the graduates speak a foreign language other than Hebrew, 7.5% are religious and 7.5% are traditional.
INTERNATIONAL Turkish Man Arrested for Allegedly Plotting to Kill Rabbis
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man was arrested by Turkish security forces Friday for allegedly plotting to kill rabbis in Istanbul, AFP cited from an earlier report by Turkish newspaper Milliyet. The individual, Ismet Rencber, had been tracked after mailing a threatening anonymous letter to the main synagogue in Istanbul and was stopped by security forces upon his arrival at a relative's home in the city's suburbs. Rencber, a mason from the city of Kars in eastern Turkey, denied that he intended to kill any Jews, but told investigators that he "hated Jews."
Krakow Jewish Culture Festival Honors Non-Jews
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on-Jewish Poles who protect and preserve Jewish culture in Poland were recognized during the annual Festival of Jewish Culture in Krakow. Israeli Ambassador to Poland Zvi Rav-ner presented the award certificates Sunday during the 20th edition of Europe's most famous Jewish culture festival, which opened last Friday with Kabbalat Shabbat services. More than 160 Poles have been so honored since the
awards ceremony was initiated 13 years ago. The festival, which runs through July 4, will feature concerts, exhibits, lectures, workshops and guided tours. This year's lineup of performers includes the Chasidic rapper Matisyahu. Originally held every two years, the festival was founded in 1988 by two non-Jewish Poles as a means of commemorating Jewish culture destroyed in Poland during the Holocaust, but also to demonstrate that Jews and Jewish culture were still alive around the world. It has been a catalyst in the development of the Jewish Quarter of Krakow as a tourist destination. Performers and artists have included top names in Jewish art and performance such as Shlomo Carlebach, Theodore Bikel, the Klezmatics, Shlomo Bar and Chava Alberstam.
Israeli Dancers Attacked in Germany
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n Israeli dance troupe was attacked by youths in Germany Wednesday when they appeared at a street festival in Hanover, Israel Radio reported. The youths threw rocks at the dancers, and shouted anti-Semitic curses through a loudspeaker. One of the dancers was injured. Police said that the attackers were Muslim immigrants, and two, ages 19 and 15, were arrested. It is not clear if the attack was premeditated or the result of an ad-hoc riot.
Iranian Delegation Snubs Buchenwald Visit
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n Iranian delegation visiting Germany refused to tour a concentration camp memorial and museum, according to reports. The Iranian delegation from the city of Shiraz, the twin city of Weimar, Germany, refused on June23 to make a scheduled trip to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial, located near Weimar. The Weimar City Council reportedly refused to meet the delegation after it canceled the tour. "Holocaust survivors are aghast at this blatant act of disrespect and moral callousness," said Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants. "Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is notorious for his denial of the Holocaust, and the actions of the mayor of Shiraz and his delegation are effectively another disgraceful expression of this Holocaust denial." Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust and has threatened to "wipe Israel off the map." "We call upon the mayor and municipal authorities of Weimar to protest this clear act of hate and rescind the 'twinned' relationship with Shiraz," Steinberg said. "By severing such links they will send a message that Shiraz has betrayed the people-to-people component of twinning by its having injected hate and prejudice into the relationship."
Pakistan: Anti-terror Court Convicts Five Americans
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ive American men were convicted Thursday on terror charges by a Pakistani court and sentenced to 10 years in prison in a case that heightened concerns about Westerners traveling to Pakistan to contact al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups. The trial of the young Muslim men from the Washington, DC, area was sensitive for the US, which has a duty to insure justice for its citizens but also has pushed Pakistan to crack down on militancy.
Lights out at Coliseum for Shalit
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he lights are being turned off at the Colosseum and at least two other landmarks in Italy to draw attention to a captive Israeli soldier. The ceremony will mark the fourth anniversary since Gilad Shalit was captured by Hamas terrorists in a cross-border raid on June 25, 2006; Shalit is believed to be held in Gaza. . Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno and other VIPs, including Shalit's father, will take part in a ceremony in Rome, where the floodlights illuminating the ancient Colosseum will be turned off at 11 p.m. -- midnight Israeli time. Last year, Alemanno made Shalit an honorary citizen of the Eternal City. Floodlights will also be turned off at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan and the Mole Antonelliano in Turin -- a towering building that is the symbol of the city and was originally designed, but never used, as a synagogue. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has also ordered the lights around the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem to be turned off in solidarity with Shalit.
Jews Hold Protest Demanding Execution of Killer
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small group of Yemeni Jews demonstrated today in Sanaa demanding a final ruling against a Yemeni man sentenced to death last year for killing a Jewish father-of-nine in 2008. An appeals court in Amran, north of the capital, had in June last year sentenced Abdel Aziz Yahia alAbdi, 39, to death by firing squad for the murder of Masha Yaish Nahari, a member of Yemen’s tiny Jewish community, in the town of Raydah, but the sentence must be confirmed by the supreme court. Around 20 demonstrators gathered outside the Supreme Court and the ministry of justice demanding the speeding up of the court process, a media correspondent reported. The appeals court had turned over a lower court verdict that ordered Abdi to only pay 27,500 dollars in blood money in lieu of execution after medical reports found he was “mentally abnormal.”
NATIONAL Homemade Bombs Go Off In New Upcoming Jewish Area
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ounds first thought to have been gunshots were caused by explosive-filled containers that had been thrown from a vehicle on Sunday, officials said. Lakewood police, responding to a call reported three explosions that were at first thought to be gunshots, found they were caused by the homemade bombs, Sgt. Glenn Glayton said. Officers found on Hartstone Drive the remnants of three two-liter soda bottles that had been filled with a liquid and a piece of aluminum foil inside. Two other Gatorade bottles also were found with traces of the liquid inside. A witness who had called police reported seeing an older model Nissan driving away at high speed with its headlights off. A State Police investigator who tested the liquid determined it to be an “acid-based solution
that most likely was a common household cleaner.” The State Police official said the solution when mixed with the aluminum creates a hydrogen-based gas inside the bottle that builds up pressure and causes the bottle to explode.
School May Start a Little Later Next Year
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he Education Department is negotiating with the teachers union to change the first day of school to Monday, Sept. 13, officials. Students are now scheduled to start on Wednesday, Sept. 8, two days after Labor Day. But because of Rosh Hashanah, the second day of school wouldn’t be until the next Monday. Panel for Educational Policy member Patrick Sullivan had considered proposing the change after receiving hundreds of emails supporting it. “Parents and teachers are expecting the absentee rate to be so high on that day, it doesn’t make any sense to start until the following Monday,” he said. Teachers must be at school on Tuesday, Sept. 7, to help set up before the students arrive. “If they want to do it, they don’t need our permission,” said teachers union President Michael Mulgrew.
Chabad to Open New Student Centers
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en new Chabad Houses for Jewish students will open on college campuses during the 2010-11 school term. The new centers announced Tuesday night at the annual conference of the Chabad on Campus International Foundation in upstate New York will bring to more than 150 the number of campus Chabad Houses around the world. The specific campuses were not made public. The expansion will include schools not traditionally served by Jewish programming, foundation president Rabbi Menachem Schmidt said. Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, chairman of the Chabad on Campus International Foundation and vice chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of ChabadLubavitch, said the growth must continue. “While Chabad on Campus has grown to almost 150 campuses, and individual Chabad Houses on campus are bursting at the seams,” said Kotlarsky, “we have to go beyond that and break our own boundaries by exponentially increasing attendance at programs, students' participation at Shabbat dinners, Torah classes and holiday celebrations.”
Camp Bus Loaded With Children Burns Up on Thruway, No One Injured
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o one was injured when a chartered Monsey Trails bus went up in flames on traveling on the northbound Thruway in Tuxedo at mid-day Thursday. The bus was carrying an unknown number of children to Camp Munk in Sullivan County. No one was reported injured and most of the luggage was also saved. The northbound highway was closed to traffic for some time as Tuxedo firefighters extinguished the flames. State Police are investigating the cause of the fire. Hatzolah from the Village of Kiryas Joel responded with two ambulances as a precaution.
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Za’atar
A POPULAR ISRAELI HERB THAT CAN BE TRACED BACK TO THE BIBLE
Za’atar is the Arabic name for an herb blend that is ubiquitous in Israeli cooking. Traditionally, the blend was made from a plant by the same name, but today most za’atar blends are made from herbs like oregano, marjoram, and thyme--and don’t actually contain any of the “real” za’atar herb. This is because the za’atar plant is a protected species, and at certain times of year Israel does not allow people to harvest it, for fear it will become extinct.
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his plant that Israel seeks to preserve can be traced all the way back to the Bible, where it is call eizov (often translated as hyssop, though biblical hyssop was something different from the plant that today we call hyssop). In the Bible, eizov has many uses. Probably due to its antibacterial, antifungal, and antimicrobial properties, it is part of rituals for cleansing lepers (Leviticus 14:1-6) and purifying those who have come in contact with the dead (Numbers 19:5-6). Israelites, according to the Torah (Exodus 12:22), also used eizov back as their days in Egypt, when they employed sprigs of it to sprinkle lamb's blood on their doors to be spared the death of their firstborn sons. Current uses of what we now call za'atar are mostly culinary, but still diverse. The seasoning mixture is comprised of dried herbs, toasted sesame seeds, ground sumac, and salt. Sumac is another Middle Eastern flavoring, characterized by its deep red berries and often sold dried and ground into a coarse powder with a tart, cranberry-like flavor. In lieu of sumac, I have seen za'atar made with citric acid powder and dried lemon zest. Lemon thyme can also add that sour accent. For breakfast, Israelis sprinkle za'atar mixture on pita drizzled with olive oil, or stir it into the yogurt cheese known as
labane. Joan Nathan, in her book The Foods of Israel Today, adds za’atar seasoning mix to spinach turnovers and pita pizza, both great dishes for lunch or a snack. For a savory supper, the mixture can be used as a dry rub for fish or chicken, or added to marinades for grilled or roasted vegetables. Za'atar seasoning can even go festive in a party dip. Start with that labneh and za'atar combination, and then add fresh garlic, feta cheese, and olive oil. Purée in a food processor, allow to chill for a few hours, and serve with pita chips and vegetable crudités. You can find a za'atar blend at most Middle Eastern grocery stores. Or you can join a Middle Eastern tradition by making it from scratch.
Za’atar Seasoning Adapted from The Foods of Israel Today Makes a generous ½ cup. Fresh thyme from your garden, farmers market, or grocery store (for extra tart flavor, or if you don't have sumac, use lemon thyme) ¼ cup sesame seeds, lightly toasted 2 Tablespoons dried sumac, ground (available at Middle Eastern grocery stores) 1/2 teaspoon sea salt (optional) Hang thyme or lemon thyme in small bunches in a cool, dry place or inside a paper bag, then allow to dry for two to three weeks. When the leaves are completely dry, strip them from each hardy stem. Crush to release the oils, and crumble by hand or in a spice grinder. Combine with all the other ingredients in a small bowl. Mix well. Taste and adjust ingredient proportions to your liking. Store in a well-sealed spice jar or plastic bag in a cool, dry place. Keeps for several months.
Carb Counting Scooped Out Bagels Becoming the Norm Carb counting New Yorkers—who want to diet but can’t bear to give up their bagels and shmear—are demanding the soft guts of their doughy circles professionally removed, leaving behind only a crusty carcass to nosh on.
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t’s called “scooped out,” and it’s the disfigured version of the Jewish delicacy that is quickly becoming the norm among New Yorkers—and driving bagel purists and purveyors bonkers. “They’re all making me nuts with the scooping!” fumed Joel Baruch, owner of Gotta Get a Bagel in
Woodmere, LI. “Ninety percent of my customers order it like that and it drives me absolutely crazy. But you have to give them what they want.”
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Seaside Heights Carousel Celebrates 100 Years
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Andrea Doria Bell Recovered By N.J. Divers
A New Jersey boardwalk landmark has had its ups and downs, but it's still making the rounds after 100 years. onday was the centennial for the Dr. Floyd L. Moreland Historic Dentzel/Looff Carousel in Seaside Heights. Moreland is the man who restored the carousel in the 1980s. William Dentzel and Charles Looff carved the animals that children ride. The merry-go-round was f irst installed at Burlington Island Park along the Delaware River. It was f ixed after sustaining some damage in a f ire in 1928 and moved to the Jersey shore in 1932.
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New Jersey team of divers with the "bridge bell" they recovered from the Andrea Doria wreck. As they scoured the muddy depths of the Atlantic Ocean, New Jersey divers Ernest Rookey and Carl Bayer were hoping for a bathroom tile, or some other small memento to remember their journey 240 feet below the surface to the famed wreck of the Andrea Doria. uddenly, I heard shrieking,” Rookey said of his dive buddy, Bayer. “Because of the equipment we were wearing, his voice sounded three octaves higher. He sounded like a little girl stuck by a pin.” Then Rookey saw it — an unmistakable shape protruding from the ocean floor. The SS Andrea Doria’s coveted bridge bell sat before them, partially buried and seemingly untouched since the ship’s storied sinking in 1956. “Then we were both screaming like little girls,” Rookey recalled, laughing. The Jackson resident quickly realized the urgency of the situation. He and Bayer, who lives in Hillsborough, were 15 minutes into what was supposed to be 20-minute dive on the wreck of the Andrea Doria on Friday, and the clock was ticking. “We dropped everything and just started digging,” Rookey, 54, said. They f inished the job in three minutes and returned to the surface with the 75-pound bronze bell to the cheers and high f ives of fellow divers. “This is an incredibly signif icant f ind,” said the expedition group leader, Joel Silverstein. “Think of it like f inding a needle in a haystack.” The bridge bell is one of the few artifacts recovered from the wreck that is emblazoned with the Andrea Doria name, said Silverstein, a diver based in Arizona. The Andrea Doria was a 637foot, 29,100-ton luxury liner that was the pride of Italy’s cruise ship fleet. It capsized and sank on July 26, 1956, a day after colliding with another ship, the MS Stockholm, in a fog as it approached Nantucket, off the coast of Massachusetts. Rescuers saved 1,660 passengers and crew, but 46 people died. The Andrea Doria, named after a 16th century Genoese Admiral, has
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long been considered one of the most challenging of popular dive sites because of its remote location 55 miles off shore, and the North Atlantic’s strong currents and rapidly changing weather. Silverstein said the recovery of the bridge bell in such good condition represents the most signif icant f ind at the wreck since 1985 when the stern bell, which is also engraved with the Andrea Doria name, was discovered. The year before, a safe from the Andrea Doria was opened on live television to a worldwide audience, revealing — not gold doubloons — but a more modern trove of dollars, lira and traveller’s checks. Though thousands of divers have descended on the wreck over the years, even the most experienced rarely f ind more than a few pieces of glassware or china to bring home, said Silverstein, who has made 56 dives on the Andrea Doria since 1992. “These were well-skilled divers who were in the right place at the right time,” he said. “The Andrea Doria is one of the toughest, hardest dives you can do.” Divers typically sign on to an expedition of this size six months in advance. But when two original members dropped out suddenly, Rookey and the 42-year-old Bayer joined the team just a week before it left Wakef ield, R.I., on the research vessel RV Explorer. The two men plan to f ind a suitable home for the bell in New Jersey where it can be viewed by historians and fellow divers. “Plans are still tentative. But in general, we’re looking for some place where we can put it permanently on display,” said Rookey, a construction project manager and part-time SCUBA instructor. “This is just not something you should store in a garage.” For Rookey, the f ind clearly marks the highlight of a 40-year career plumbing the oceans’ depths. “All we hoped for was to get a little trinket to take home to remember our dive,” he said. “I’m still stunned, the bell was totally unexpected. There’s just no way else to describe how we feel.”
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Pinelands Forest Fires Continue to Smolder in NJ
A thunderstorm started a brush fire that has charred nearly 900 acres of the New Jersey Pinelands, and a thunderstorm may help put it out.
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he blaze began Saturday when lightning struck a tree in the tinder-dry Pinelands west of the Garden State Parkway in Ocean County, said Bert Plante, a spokesman for the state Forest Fire Service. It grew overnight and burned 890 acres before being contained on all sides Sunday afternoon. It is now burning in a swampy area virtually inaccessible to f iref ighters and heavy equipment but does not pose a threat to homes or property, Plante said. Although the f ire is contained, it still has not been declared under control. "Control with this f ire is going to take quite some time," Plante said. "Maybe we'll get lucky and those thunderstorms will roll over the area and give it a good soaking. Some of them are supposed to be severe." The f ire burned a section of the Pinelands near one of the worst f ires in the area's history, a 2007 blaze that
burned more than 17,000 acres. That f ire was touched off by a National Guard pilot who dropped flares too low on a day when conditions were bone-dry at a nearby Air Force target range. ________________________________
"Control with this fire is going to take quite some time," Plante said. ________________________________ No injuries were reported in the most recent f ire. Two other f ires in the area are largely burning underground. None of the blazes was considered a threat to people or property. A f ire that started at a f iring range on the Army's portion of Joint Base McGuire-Fort Dix-Lakehurst grew overnight to nearly 400 acres as of this morning. The f ire was smoldering and smoke was blowing toward Ocean County. County f ire off icials have warned that the f ires may have an adverse effect on driving conditions in the area.
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New FDA Rules Won't Snuff Out Harmful ‘Light’ Cigarettes In an attempt to make cigarettes less attractive, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration enacted stricter advertising and packaging regulations Tuesday.
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he new rules -- which come on the first anniversary of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, a law that gave the Food and Drug Administration wide-ranging powers to regulate the tobacco industry -- require larger health warnings on cigarette packages and ban tobacco companies from marketing to children; selling T-shirts, baseball caps or other apparel that advertises their products; or sponsoring sports, music or other cultural events. But will the rules really make any difference? While the new restrictions are all significant, the biggest change has to do with packaging. Under Tuesday's ruling, companies can no longer use the terms "light," "ultra light," "mild" and "low tar" to suggest that some cigarettes are less harmful than others. However, companies are retaining the color coding long associated with these different types of cigarettes, making them as recognizable, to smokers, as ever. Although many consumers think that tobacco companies use recipes for each of their cigarette lines, the truth is that "full flavor" and light cigarettes use the same tobacco blend, but have slightly different designs. Light cigarettes (or the cigarettes formerly known as "light") have small holes near the filter, and as the smoker inhales, air comes in through the perforations, diffusing the smoke. Ultra light cigarettes have even larger holes, permitting more air and further thinning out the smoke. That doesn't make them any better for you. As a case in point, take my experience as a former smoker. In the beginning, I smoked full-strength cigarettes, often going for super-tarry European blends like Balkan Sobranies or 555s that left my lungs feeling like a freshly-paved road. Later, when I decided to quit smoking, I switched to lights, then to ultra lights. While the step-downs were initially difficult, I soon learned that, when I was desperate for a nice big hit of nicotine and tar, I could easily plug the filter
holes. I also found that switching to lighter cigarettes inspired me to smoke more often. As taxes started driving up the price of name-brand cancer sticks, I also learned about color coding. While various companies have distinct tobacco blends, many of them use similar packaging. Thus, Marlboro's full-flavor cigarettes come in a red box, as do Doral's, Basic's and several other brands. Lights generally come in a gold box, menthols come in green, and ultra lights are either silver or sky blue. In fact, when I ran out of cigarettes while on vacation in Eastern Europe, I found the same packaging colors. Over there, the ultra light brand that I bought was named "Start," which seemed oddly appropriate. As some smokers have pointed out, the commonality of color choices reduces the significance of the "light" and "ultra light" designations. After all, many customers simply ask for "Marlboro Reds," and it's not a big jump to "Basic Blues" or "Merit Golds." In fact, Marlboro is banking on consumer comfort with the current color codes. Henceforth, "Marlboro Lights" will be called "Marlboro Gold Label" and ultra lights will sell under the moniker "Silver Label." Critics have already attacked Marlboro's attempts to circumvent the new regulations. Before the ban, the cigarette company told consumers: "Your Marlboro Lights pack is changing. But your cigarette stays the same. In the future, ask for 'Marlboro in the gold pack.'" The FDA sent a letter to the company, questioning the move and asking for documentation to determine if Marlboro was attempting to circumvent the ban. While the answer is pretty obvious, the bigger question is why Marlboro even bothered. As long as the current cigarette culture remains, it doesn't matter if the packs are labeled "light," "low tar," "featherweight" or "ultra fluffy." Customers will remember that red means harsh, gold means lighter and silver or blue mean lightest. So if the FDA wants to get really serious about cracking down on the myth of "light" cigarettes, it needs to go after the color system.
FDA To Decide Whether Avandia Should Stay On Market Two studies released Monday reported serious heart risks with GlaxoSmithKline Plc diabetes pill Avandia, findings U.S. regulators will weigh as they consider if the drug should stay on the market.
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he results were published two weeks ahead of an advisory panel meeting that will help decide the future of Avandia, once Glaxo's second-biggest drug, but much smaller after a safety controversy erupted three years ago. One new analysis of 56 clinical trials found Avandia increased the chances of a heart attack by 28 percent to 39 percent, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio said in an update to a 2007 study that sparked debate about the drug. Dr. Steven Nissen, the lead author and an outspoken Avandia critic, said the results
from more than 35,000 patients gave a more complete picture that reinforced his earlier concerns. "A drug that increases the risk of heart attack by a third or more in diabetics represents a huge public health burden," Nissen, the Cleveland Clinic's head of cardiology, said in an interview. He said the drug should come off the market. Other Glaxo-funded studies have not shown similar heart risks and the Food and Drug Administration has backed continued sales while reviewing the medicine's risks. In another study released Monday, government researchers said an analysis of more than 227,000 U.S. Medicare patients found Avandia was more dangerous to the heart than a rival pill, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd's Actos.
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Dr. Ann Moore, Oncology Specialist, Honored by ICRF BY MAXINE DOVERE Cancer does not discriminate. It stretches its devastation across ethnic and national borders, attacking without regard to family, friends or professional position.
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o win the battle against the disease, able warriors cross national and professional frontiers to work together to win this battle against this killer of men – and certainly, women. ICRF funds “the most brilliant physicians and scientists at the leading universities, medical centers and research institutions in Israel,” said Harriet Elisofon, ICRF President. ICRF, the Israel Cancer Research Fund, supports this war. June 16, it hosted “Women of Action,” an evening honoring Professor of Clinical Medicine Dr. Anne Moore, Medical Director of the Weill Cornell Breast Oncology Program, and Elaine Hochberg, Vice President of Forest Laboratories. Dr. Anne Moore has studied aspects of breast cancer ranging from basic research to risk factors, diagnosis and
Dr. Anne Moore, winner of the Woman in Action Achievement Award added her applause for the work of ICRF. ICRF Chairman Dr. Yashar Hirshaut noted that, "The purpose of ICRF and this event is to fund the new generation of cancer researchers in Israel who are working on the cutting-edge of biotechnology and medical technology.” The Israel Cancer Research Fund (www.icrfonline.org) is the largest private funder of cancer research in Israel. To date, it has provided almost 1750 grants to outstanding cancer researchers in Israel. The discoveries of ISRF researchers have changed cancer treatment internationally. Research has
Forest Laboratories' Corporate Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer Elaine Hochberg. treatment. Her current concentration is on “survivorship,” studying the issues faced by “women who have completed active treatment.” Elaine Hochberg has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for close to a quarter century. Her high power career was interrupted when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Hochberg’s emotional gratitude to Dr. Moore, publically delivered from the podium, credited the oncology specialist for the successful treatment of her cancer. In Israel, IDRF supports extraordinary research seeking the genetic basis of cancer. Keynote speech for the evening was a report by Dr. Varda Rotter, Israel Cancer Research Fund Award Recipient and head of the Weizmann Institute's Department of Molecular Cell Biology. Dr. Rotter studies the p53 gene which she terms “a very smart gene” which can direct cells with damaged DNA to either repair or self destruct. If p53 is itself impaired, “cells carrying damaged DNA can go on dividing and eventually turn into cancer cells.”
Guest speaker Dr. Varda Rotter, Israel Cancer Research Fund Award Recipient and head of the Weizmann Institute's Department of Molecular Cell Biology. developed state of the art therapies for multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow (Velcade) and several drugs that attack cancer at the cell or tumor level (Gleevec and Doxil). At the DNA level work with the p53 Gene and DNA Methylation have changed the understanding of cancer at the cellular level. Discovery of the RAD51 Gene mutation, an indicator of increased risk of breast cancer in women when found with the BRCA2 gene mutation – a condition frequently found in Jewish women, was made by ICRF Awardee Dr. Ephrat Levy-Lahad.
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Illuminated Text Help Shape the Jewish Tradition
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Never Fly Solo:
LEAD WITH COURAGE, BUILD TRUSTING PARTNERSHIPS, AND REACH NEW HEIGHTS IN BUSINESS (HARDCOVER) BY (AUTHOR) ROBERT "WALDO" WALDMAN
Illuminated Text from the exhibit at the Yeshiva University Museum. Illuminations of sacred and ritualistic texts are forms of eruptions. Out of familiar and formulaic script leap the strange and extravagant. Rigorous textual arguments give way to decorative ornamentation. Formulaic words submit to a rich brocade of image.
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o to the Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History and you can begin to see how this urge to illuminate text helped shape the Jewish tradition. An exhibition there, “A Journey Through Jewish Worlds: Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books,” has extended its stay until Aug. 1; it will then travel to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. And as you examine these rare findings, which the curators bill as the most remarkable private collection of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts in the world, you are amazed first at the sensuous variety of the illumination, the examples extending over a millennium and across multiple continents. There are “micrographic” illustrations in which miniature lines of Hebrew text wind around images of Jerusalem or bend into a portrait of the biblical Samson. There are 18th-century documents from small Italian towns in which Renaissance putti find themselves the heralds of Jewish weddings. An illustrated scroll from early-20th-century India shows the Jewish story of Purim played out in Indian and Ottoman costume with macabre explicitness. Astrological signs and charts are found in a 14th-century scientific manuscript; they are also elements
in marriage contracts or appear in centuries of Purim scrolls. One of the intriguing aspects of such manuscripts is that the texts themselves are often ritualistic, formulaic, and invariant. They are meant to stand outside of time. They are considered traces of divine revelation (the Bible) or of divine action (the histories of Jewish holidays like Passover). Custom also ritualized much of the text of the ketubah, the Jewish marriage contract, which treated marriage as a union of families and fortunes and fates. Such contracts were personalized, of course, but also followed established models; this collection is rich with examples. These Hebrew texts (even the generic ketubah) are, in a way, ahistorical, and in that sense abstract. But illumination and illustration transform them, bringing them directly into history and experience. Their generality becomes particular, their abstraction concrete. We see, for example, how particular Jewish communities at particular times imagined the Passover or Purim stories, how they imagined the nature of marriage or the function of commentary. Illumination brings religious text into history and, at times, into biography. The sacred becomes personal. An international group of scholars has advised the Swiss collector René Braginsky in building this extraordinary collection. One of this exhibition’s organizers is Sharon Liberman Mintz, curator of Jewish art for the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. The other, Emile G. L. Schrijver, is a curator for the Amsterdam University library.
Originally developed by General Dynamics, the F-16 fighter jet is a beautiful fighting machine. A singleengine supersonic “dogfighter,” the F16 can reach a maximum speed of over Mach 2 (Mach 1 breaks the sound barrier). No longer being purchased by the Air Force, the F-16 fighter jet is still being built by Lockheed Martin and exported to other countries. Chuck Yeager was a fighter pilot who, in 1947, became the first pilot to break the sound barrier. And in October 2009 at precisely 10:00 A.M., Brigadier General Yeager and Major General Engle opened the Edwards Air Force Base Air Show with a pair of sonic booms from their F-16 aircraft flying high above the crowd at 30,000 feet. Once a pilot, always a pilot. Yeager had to have it all – skill, discipline, intelligence, instinct, etc – to maneuver such a machine as an F-16. So did Lt. Col. Rob “Waldo” Waldman. Waldman flew F-16s, regularly breaking the sound barrier. His missions in the F16 included Operation Desert Storm, Iraq and Serbia. But unlike Yeager, there is something very “different” about Waldman from any other pilot. In his book, Never Fly Solo, he makes a surprising confession: “You see, I was a claustrophobic fighter pilot with a fear of heights…” In Never Fly Solo, Waldman talks about the challenges and opportunities that faced him in his chosen career. But Never Fly Solo is not about being a pilot. Waldman wrote a book full of tips for being successful in business. He is upfront about his purpose in writing. The way he figures it, the lifesaving careermaking tools he picked up as a claustrophobic fighter pilot could be applied to just about anything and to anyone. The way I figure it is, if this Waldman could overcome his own personal phobia
and pilot that serious a flying machine and live to tell about it, he probably had something worthwhile to say on just about anything. You do not live Waldman’s life without possessing extra does of courage, integrity and fortitude, to say the least. My logic was spot on. Waldman has a multitude of good things to say. He starts out by telling you a bit about himself. Like what happened to him was he was eight years old that started his love affair with planes. His writing flows easily, smoothly and logically. Filled with vivid descriptions and examples, he uses pilot fighter lingo but never strays from point, or leaves the reader wondering how his suggestions might actually play out in business or any other career path of a
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Ba’al Shem Tov Exhibit to Open at National Library in Jerusalem Displayed to the public for the first time is the copy of the last letter by Rabbi Nahman, which he wrote in Hebrew to his daughter Adil.
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he entrance to the Jewish National and University Library, on the Hebrew University’s Givat Ram campus in Jerusalem has been transformed into a real-life setting straight from an 18th-century Eastern European shtetl. The reconstructions are part of a unique exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of the death of the Ba’al Shem Tov (Rabbi Israel Ben Eliezer), the founder of hassidut, as well as 200 years since the death of his great-grandson, Rabbi Nahman of Breslov, founder of the Breslover Hassidic dynasty. Besides the reconstructed synagogue, beit midrash (study hall), dining table and other contemporary artwork, the exhibition, which opens Monday, will display writings from the dawn of hassidut that are part of the National Library’s collection. Displayed to the public for the first time is the copy of the last letter by Rabbi
Jewish National and University Library. Nahman, which he wrote in Hebrew to his daughter Adil, three-and-a-half months before his death. A hassidic-tale corner will be part of the display, and various screenings will expose visitors to the spiritual and physical landscape of the Ba’al Shem Tov’s world. The exhibition opens Monday evening with an event featuring contemporary hassidic music and a lecture by Professor Moshe Idel on the beginning of the Ba’al Shem Tov’s legacy. It will run until October 1.
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MUCH LOUDER THAN WORDS BY RABBI LABEL LAM And behold! A man of the Children of Israel came and brought the Midianite woman near to his brothers before the eyes of Moshe and before the entire assembly of the Children of Israel; and they were weeping at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
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inchas, son of Elazar son of Aaron the Kohen stood up from amid the assembly and he took a spear in his hand. He followed the Israelite man into the tent and pierced them both, the Israelite man and the woman into her stomach- and the plague was halted from upon the Children of Israel. Those who died in the plague were twentyfour thousand. (New Parsha- Parshas Pinchas)) HASHEM spoke to Moshe
saying, “Pinchas son of Elazar son of Aaron the Kohen turned back My wrath from upon the Children of Israel, when he zealously avenged My vengeance among them, so I did not consume the Children of Israel with My vengeance.” (Bamidbar 2:6-11) Why is the story of the heroism of Pinchas broken into two (Parshios) parts? Firstly we have the narrative of what happened. Secondly Pinchas is credited with having halted the plague. He is then awarded the “Peace Prize” and Kehuna. Why is the account of his action and the “award ceremony” treated separately? The Ben Ish Chai told the following parable: A man went on a walk in the jungle. He was casually strolling along when he noticed that a lion was stalking him. The man sensed that the ferocious
Haftorah Pinchas Jeremiah 1:1 - 2:3
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lat Diparanuta is the name given to the next three Haftoros. These are special selections from the Navi Yirmiyahu that were chosen because they prophesies the destruction of Yerushalayim and the 1st Beit Hamikdash. In this Haftorah, Yirmiyahu HaNavi foretells of the Babylonian invasion. The condemnation of the Jews for aban-
doning G-d and Torah is somewhat softened by the concluding description of Hashem's love for His children. "I remember the devotedness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown." as if we are given permission to envision the tears of the Creator as He confronts His beloved's inf idelity.
Pirkei Avot CHAPTER ONE 15. Shammai would say: Make your Torah study a permanent fixture of your life. Say little and do much. And receive every man with a pleasant countenance. 16. Rabban Gamliel would say: Assume for yourself a master; stay away from doubt; and do not accustom yourself to tithe by estimation. 17. His son, Shimon, would say: All my life I have been raised among the wise, and I
have found nothing better for the body than silence. The essential thing is not study, but deed. And one who speaks excessively brings on sin. 18. Rabbi Shimon the son of Gamliel would say: By three things is the world sustained: law, truth and peace. As is stated (Zachariah 8:16), "Truth, and a judgement of peace, you should administer at your [city] gates.''
The Three Weeks The "Three Weeks" of graduallyincreasing mourning over the destruction of the Holy Temples and Israel's exile began this week (Tuesday) with the fast of the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz. This is the day on which Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces breached the walls of Jerusalem in 422 BCE, after 18 months of siege, on their way to destroying the First Temple.
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he Three Weeks end on the 9th of Av Tisha B'Av - the date on which both the First and Second Temples were destroyed, roughly 2,500 and 2,000 years ago respectively. The 17th of Tammuz marks other calamities in Jewish history as well. It is the date on which Moses, having descended from Mount Sinai for the first time, saw the people sinning with the Golden Calf and broke the first set of Ten Commandments. In addition, the priests of the First Temple era were forced on this day, a year before the Temple's destruction, to stop offering the daily sacrifice due to the shortage of sheep. The Talmud also teaches that on this date some decades earlier, the evil King
Menasheh had an idol placed in the Temple's Holy Sanctuary. Later, during Second Temple times, a Roman general placed an idol in the same place and publicly burned the Torah. Mourning customs such as no weddings, parties, or haircuts continue until the morning after Tisha B'Av; there are slight differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardic customs. Maimonides (Rambam) explains that the purpose of days of fasting and mourning is not to remember the hardships suffered by our ancestors, in the same way that we remember days of joy, but rather to “awaken [our] hearts and clear the paths to repentance. This reminds us of our evil deeds and those of our forefathers [that] brought these calamities upon them and us. ecalling these matters causes us to better ourselves, as it is written, they shall confess their transgressions and the transgressions of their fathers.’” Like other fast days, the morning prayers on the 17th of Tammuz include special selichot prayers, mourning our losses and asking for forgiveness.
beast was ready to pounce on him. His heart fell into his stomach. He had no gun or other weapon. All he had was a walking stick. In desperation he raised the feeble walking stick he had in his hand and pointed it as a gun with the hope that it might scare the lion away. In the meanwhile, and unbeknownst to the man a hunter was behind him in a tree poised with a real rifle. The lion drew closer to the man with the stick. He took aim as if he was holding an authentic weapon. Seeing the situation worsening on the ground the man in the tree took real action and shot the approaching lion in his heart. When the man on the ground observed the lion lying dead before him he immediately looked at his stick, unable to explain the phenomena in any other way and began to give credit to his trustworthy loaded
walking- stick. He foolishly bragged aloud that he knew all the time that the stick was loaded and it was capable of functioning as a real gun. Just then the hunter descended from the tree and confronted him, “Silly, man do you really believe that your simple walking-stick can f ire a bullet capable of stopping a charging lion? It’s only a stick. Don’t delude yourself any longer. It was my rifle that let fly the fatal bullet that spared your life and it happened just at that moment that you were pointing the stick!” Here’s a similar and true story. Maybe it’s not nice to play a practical joke but I couldn’t resist and plus the Doctor has a great sense of humor. We laugh out loud years later whenever it’s
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The Lighter Side Of The Voice Jewish Dictionary Extracts AFIKOMMENTS n. Adult arguing that occurs as children search for hidden Passover matzo. BAGELA - A gay Jewish baker. BIALY ACHE - The result of lunch at your mother's and dinner at your motherin-law's. BLINTZKRIEG - A late-night assault on the refrigerator in search of leftovers even though "I won't be able to eat for a week!" Particularly common four to six hours after special-occasion gluttony. BUBBEGUM -Sweets one's mother gives to her grandchildren that she never gave to her own children. CHUTZPAPA A - father who wakes his wife at 4 a.m. so she can change the baby's nappy. DEJA NU -Having the feeling you've seen the same exasperated look on your mother's face but not knowing exactly when. DISKVELLIFIED -To drop out of law school, medical school, or business school, as seen through the eyes of parents, grandparents, and Uncle Sid. (In extreme cases, simply choosing to study art history when Irvine's son, David, is studying biology, is suff icient grounds for diskvellif ication.) DISORIYENTA - When Aunt Sadie gets lost in a department store and strikes up a conversation with everyone she passes. HEBORT -To forget all the Hebrew one ever learned immediately after one's Bar Mitzvah. HEBRUTE - Israeli after-shave. HINDSTEIN - A Semitic smart-ass. IMPASTA -Someone who eats leavened foods during Passover while maintaining he/she is observant. JEWBILATION -Pride in f inding out that one's favorite celebrity is Jewish. JEWDO -A traditional form of self-defense based on talking one's way out of a tight spot. KINDERSCHLEP - To be called on to car pool more children than one has f ingers, in a car that was made in Japan. MAMATZAH BALLS - Matzo balls that are as good as mother used to make. MATZILATION - Smashing a piece of matzo to bits while trying to butter it. MEINSTEIN - "My son, the genius." MINYASTICS - Going to incredible lengths to f ind a tenth person to complete a minyan. MISHPOCHAMARKS - The assorted lipstick and makeup stains found on one's face and collar after kissing all one's aunts and cousins at a reception. RE-SHTETLEMENT - Moving from Leyton to Edgware and f inding all your old neighbors live in the same road as you. SANTASHMANTA - The explanation Jewish children get for when they celebrate Hanukkah while the rest of humanity celebrates Christmas. SCHLERM - The wrinkled end of a Blooms salami. SCHMUCKLUCK - Finding out one's wife became pregnant after one had a vasectomy. SHOFARSOGUT - The relief you feel when after many attempts the shofar is f inally blown at the end of Yom Kippur. TORAHFIED - Inability to remember one's lines when called to read from the Torah at one's Bar or Bat Mitzvah. TRAYFFIC ACCIDENT - An appetizer one f inds out has pork in it after one has eaten it. YENTILITY - A deceptively sweet manner used to extract information. Key phrases include "Trust me", "Your secret is safe with me," and "If you can't tell me, who can you tell?" YIDENTIFY - To be able to determine ethnic origins of celebrities even though their names might be St. John, Curtis, Davis, or Taylor
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In Utah, the premiere of the documentary "Joan Rivers - A Piece of Work” took place in a synagogue (see below)
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ity Center W 55 St., is doubling the number of its Ladies & Men's Rooms. Prominent NYC figurative painter Lester Johnson dies May 20. But NYT didn't run his obit until June 9, 10 days later. At Fundraising Day NY, I learned that the company that does the video we see at events of Israel Bonds, OHEL, One Israel Fund, Yeshiva vs. American ORT, Chabad Agudath Israel etc., are done by Big Productions. The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation's Fifth New York International Piano Competition, at the Manhattan School of Music from June 21 through June 25, 2010 will feature twenty-two pianists ages 16-21. They will gather from across the globe for the week-long event, which includes four rounds plus a series of master classes and seminars. Awards are also given to the best duo, paired at the beginning of the competition, to perform in the ensemble round. Unique to the International Piano competition is its policy of no elimination; each contestant will perform in all four rounds and be judged by a jury of some of the most distinguished members of the music community. Every participant will return home, either as a prize winner or finalist award recipient. The level of competition has been uniformly high in Monetary awards; a total $40,000. But just as important as the monetary awards are the opportunities for concert and recital appearances that are awarded to winners and finalists. Held every two years, the New York International Piano Competition is dedicated to providing artistic development, educational enhancement, seminars, master classes and performance opportunities. The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation selected acclaimed Israeli-American composer Avner Dorman's Sonata No. 2, 2nd movement, as the 'required' contemporary work to be
learned and performed by all contestant with a seminar entitled "Meet the Composer Avner Dorman" hosted by Robert Sherman of WQXR. Joan Rivers - A Piece Of Work" exposes the private dramas of irreverent, legendary comedian and pop icon Joan Rivers as she fights tooth and nail to keep her American dream alive A unique look inside America's obsession with fame and celebrity - Joan's story is both and outrageously funny journey and honest look at the ruthless entertainment industry, its trappings of success and the ultimate vulnerability of the first queen of comedy. With unprecedented, unguarded access, the film captures intimate scenes shot in Joan's 76th year - Joan at home, during holidays, performing stand up and acting in a play she wrote, gossiping with her QVC fans, writing jokes and managing her career, all interweaved with home movies, stand up routines, book recordings, personal photographs and archival footage to create a lush visual cinema verite documentary, the film reveals a rare glimpse of the comedic process and the toxic mixture of self-doubt and anger that often fuels it.
Screened at MoMA "Talentime" - Malaysia; directed by Yasmin Ahmad; about a school's talent competition winningly orchestrating a multicharacter, and a multithread story that is full of fun and music, sorrow, and quiet optimism. The entire process of auditions and practices is infused with Ahmad's typically humanists touches, as the students, with the support of their families, strive to show who has the greatest talent - and biggest heart. The rich tapestry of Malaysia's diverse peoples, cultures, and religions woven together through the filmmaker's favorite themes, has never been rendered more vividly.
Historical Fact On March 3 in 1931, "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became the national anthem of the United States.
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Never Fly Solo:... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 34 non-pilot’s life. He is adamant about his first tip: be focused. He advises, “The journey can’t begin until you find a mission in your work and life that is worth fighting for.” He is realistic and upbeat about life: “…we’re all going to get shot at, take some hits, and receive some battle damage. The key is let’s not get shot down.” Why care about us non-pilot folks? Waldman may have been a pilot, but he is a “wingman” by nature and proud of it. Wingman: someone who watches out for you; you have their back and they have yours. He lives by that code and is quick to advise everyone to always be and have a wingman in your life. The need for a wingman environment in our lives, and any hesitation at the thought, is something Waldman understands. “Nobody likes to hear they have blind spots – areas of vulnerability – but our blind spots are there whether or not we’re aware of them.” To understand Waldman’s strong desire to help the rest of us seek out and establish this type of cooperative environment, one has only to look again at Brigadier General Yeager’s attitude after he made history. In 1953, he climbed on board a plane and made new history breaking the sound barrier. Only this time, he was in a Canadair Sabre as a wingman for Jackie Cochran, the first woman pilot to break the barrier. If such
a man as Brigadier General Yeager can serve as someone else’s wingman, it is not surprising that another successful pilot is encouraging us to do the same. “Winners never fly solo,” Waldman believes. There is only one team, one mission. “While self-leadership is critical to any business endeavor, the only way to maximize your potential, fulfill your mission – and the mission of your organization – and reach new heights is with the help of others, through authentic partnerships.” With an environment of watching each other’s back, Waldman makes a strong case that success is more likely, and easier. Establishing a wingman environment, never flying solo, only works with effective communication, honest feedback and mutual support. Waldman makes no claim of being perfect and is quick to offer up his own mistakes as part of the human condition. When you make a mistake, he says, it is vitally important to gaining back trust. He suggests asking yourself, “What will the consequences be if I don’t fess up’ and I am found out?” If you can’t abide by the rules, he adds, you have no business being in that position. Waldman frequently sums up his tips for establishing a positive business environment, but it all begins with personal standards and being consistently the same person to everyone. He insists that you must embody the same qualities of the one you depend upon. And it all begins
with integrity. “Your integrity affects everyone,” Waldman states. “Integrity should not be a choice. Integrity should be instinctive.” Even when nobody is looking. One of Waldman’s comments eerily brought up a reminder of the recent, selfimposed chaos that a certain celebrity golfer has placed in his life. Waldman stated of people without high personal standards, “Their image is more important than their integrity, and in the end, they have neither.” There are multiple insights in Never Fly Solo that can be readily applied to any situation. One example is Waldman’s helpful and astute distinction between inner and outer energies that drag you down. “Parasite” drag comes from negative relationships that sap your energy, pollutes your space and gives nothing in return. It stifles your creativity or neglects your best skills. “Induced” drag comes from within and is harder target to get rid of, like counterproductive habits, self-limiting beliefs or fears. He suggests ways to minimize their effects and achieve “lift.” Waldman is not a Pollyanna, He knows “bad weather” is inevitable, and regards it as the time when character and skills get put to the test. In such conditions, he has hints for gaining back your equilibrium. He calls it his “Three Rs:” refocusing, refueling and retooling. He recommends
remembering the three most important words in the English language: “I need help.” Even with all the tips for being successful, Waldman knows that “…not every mission is full of glory and winning. Sometimes it is just about coming back.” The job of surviving is almost never fun, and sometimes, when you cannot find meaning in the mission, do not feel it is a higher calling or there is no one to save or to help, you may have to “abort” and go on to another mission. He has followed his own advice, only quitting after he felt he had earned the right to do so. He advises doing what he has done: dust yourself off, find another mission worth flying and get back to work planning a new mission buddy system. There is still other good news. Waldman’s Never Fly Solo tips are good enough to apply to more than just business. The tips would work beautifully for anyone in politics, government and yeah, even relationships. It is not hard to figure out why. When you pair integrity and trust and transfer it with healthy individualism into any environment, how could you not but jump out of bed each morning, eager to face your to-do list? Lastly, the tips Waldman gives are continuously popping back up in your mind. Why? Because they are not just about being successful in business…they are about being successful in living.
He ran into the home and dialed police using a landline. Rescue workers arrived and rushed the woman and girl to the hospital. The children’s mother, who was running errands with an 8-year-old child, arrived shortly after the victims were taken to the hospital. Ines Mejia, who said she was the aunt of
the nanny, spoke yesterday before her niece died. She said her niece was a mother of three children herself and “a nice girl.” She added: “I’m in shock.” Lawrence Village Administrator David Smollett, who called the case “a tragedy,” said the pool would be inspected by the building department.
Three-Year-Old and Nanny Drown in Pool... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 sibly drowning. It was not clear how long they were in the pool, but Smith said investigators are looking into whether the nanny had slipped while carrying the child near the deep end of the pool, where the water is 10 feet deep. “It’s possible the house sitter had the 3-
year-old in her arms and lost her footing by the deep end, but we’re still investigating,” Smith said at the scene. The painter rushed to the pool and pulled the victims out of the water and tried to dial 911 but may have been hampered because his cell phone had gotten wet, Smith said.
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Lincoln Town Car and Ford Crown Victoria Being Discontinued... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 but owners have pre-emptively started to adjust. Crown Victorias still account for 60 percent of yellow cabs, but their dominance has been threatened by growing numbers of Ford Escapes (2,637 cabs) and Toyota Sienna minivans (1,381). The Lincoln Town Car remains a common sight on Park Avenue and outside the city’s gilded corporate headquarters. But there are signs that its clients’ tastes are changing, too. Only half of the cars idling outside Lincoln Center on a recent weeknight were Lincolns. Instead, well-to-do clients stepped into Cadillacs,
Mercedes-Benzes and a BMW. A similar scene unfolded on a Wednesday morning at the Loews Regency Hotel, at Park Avenue and 62nd Street, where power breakfasters opted for Ford Expeditions, Lexuses and a Toyota Camry hybrid. For most of the 35 years he has driven his private car in the city as a chauffeur, Ziggy Kingston used a Lincoln. But he recently made the switch to a Prius, saying that his clients, including the 30-minute meal maestro Rachael Ray and the actress Sarah Jessica Parker, often prefer the hybrid. “It’s a good image for them,” he said,
waiting for a pick-up outside the Barclays building in Midtown. Gesturing toward a nearby Town Car, Mr. Kingston continued, “This was the car you wanted when no one cared about pollution and the mayor didn’t care.” Now, he said, “you got to go with what the environment is good for.” Fleet owners are unsure about what will replace the Town Car, although Lincoln has created several new models intended for livery use. But none have the same Yao Ming-size legroom or trunk space. Eager to retain the taxi market, Ford is offering a custom version of its Transit Connect van, whose oblong
shape and tall roof resemble a London cabs. The van gets 22 miles a gallon in the city and comes equipped with big picture windows for a scenic ride. More radical designs have been submitted to the city’s taxi commission, which has solicited ideas for a new taxicab built from scratch, rather than retrof itted from an existing car. The winner, which will not be announced for months, will have the exclusive right to build the city’s cabs for a decade. Mr. Sherman, who owns a taxi fleet himself, said that his needs, like those of passengers, were simple: “What people are looking for in a taxicab,” he said, “is a safe ride from A to B.”
Vatican Lends World’s Oldest Hebrew Book to the Jewish Museum... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 32 books in the show, with eight coming from the British Library. The Vatican and Lambeth Palace Library have contributed three each, revealing religious tolerance and cultural interaction between Jews and non-Jews in the Muslim and Christian Worlds from the Middle Ages onwards.
Designed by Metropolitan Museum of Art collaborator Patrick Kinmouth, the exhibition contains illustrations and decorative designs reflecting styles from gothic Northern Europe to Italy and Spain. Historian Simon Schama and the BBC’s Alan Yentob launched the show
at a private viewing positioning Cherie Blair as the guest of honour. Her visit was backed by her famously spiritual husband, who said he hoped it would prove “another small building block in strengthening Jewish-Catholic relations in this country.” “At a time when religious issues are
often portrayed as creating division and unrest around the world, this exhibition demonstrates how positive connections can be made between Judaism, Christianity and Islam,” added Rickie Burman, the Museum Director. “It is a reminder that in many cases our shared experience is stronger than our differences.”
“Security suspects will also be arrested.” During a remand hearing held for the suspects at the Nazareth District Court, defense attorneys said the confessions had been extracted through coercion and claimed that their clients had traveled to Somalia “for a trip.” The suspects, some of them bearded, smiled and waved at supporters as they were led to the courtroom in handcuffs. Asked by a reporter if they hated Christians and Jews, one suspect replied by declaring “Long live bin Laden.”
In April 2009, Elgrisi led an investigation into a terror cell made up of six Israeli Arabs and a Beduin from the North that had reached an advanced stage in a plot to carry out an attack on Israelis. The cell had prepared several explosive devices and simulated the kidnapping of soldiers while engaging in Internet communications with a terror operative based in Gaza known as “Abu Kassam.” The cell f ilmed its preparations, Elgrisi said last year, adding that in one exercise, a member pretended to be an IDF soldier while the remainder of the group practiced abducting him.
ment his head turning back and forth over and over again as his key seemed to be able to open and close both cars. We laughed together with tears when we f inally revealed ourselves and our little game. All we know from the f irst account is that a plague was ravaging the Children of Israel and a brazen act of impudence was on display. People were crying and discussing what to do. Only Pinchas
took real action. Suddenly the plague stops. There’s room then for some to be deceived into thinking that the crying, complaining, and f inger pointing saved the day. Therefore the record is set straight. There can be no room for ambiguity. What Pinchas did was much louder than words.
Israeli Arab Terror Cell Nabbed by Shin Bet... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 children and a grandchild. Details of the investigation were under a gag order until Monday morning. The Shin Bet also found that after the murder, two of the suspects had attempted to travel to an al-Qaida training camp in Somalia to join the fighting against what they termed Christian “heretics,” as well as against the US. The two, however, were barred from entering Somalia through its border with Kenya. Three others planned to kidnap a Nazareth resident and behead him on video, but did not do so. Elgrisi said that
they had even dug a grave for a Christian man they said “insulted the prophet Muhammad.” The men also threw stun grenades and Molotov cocktails at Jewishand Christian-owned businesses and homes in the town. They burned Christian tour buses and dealt in the selling of arms as well. In addition, they stabbed a pizza delivery man in Nazareth Illit, stealing his scooter and NIS 100. “We are searching for criminals who sold weapons to the suspects,” Elgrisi said.
Much Louder Than Words... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 35 mentioned. We bumped into each other at a huge wedding and briefly said hello. When it was time to leave I was walking down the darkened back streets with my son to our car which was parked a good distance away from the hall. There was the good Doctor approaching his car too which happened to be parked right in front of my car. We were a short distance behind him and I
noticed that when he pressed the mechanism on his key chain, the lock of his car flashed on. I decided to click my automatic key and so my car lights and locks flashed at the same time. I hunkered down with my son and we noticed how the Doctor looked curiously at the phenomena. He blinked his key again and so did I. He was amazed to f ind that his key was turning on and off the car behind him. He looked on in wonder-
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After Disappointing Tie US Faces Algeria... CONTINUED FROM PAGE less than the Isner-Mahut battle, whose f ifth set alone took 8 hours and 11 minutes. The previous record for the most games played in a singles match, which
had stood for more than 40 years, was 112. Isner and Mahut exchanged blows for 183.The record for aces in a match stood before Wednesday at 78. Isner obliterated that with 112, and Mahut
f inished not too far behind with 105. The 2010 Wimbledon championships will be remembered for two things – the tournament winners and the historic tussle between Isner and Mahut.
The match may have f inally ended at 4:47 p.m. local time, after three days and more than 11 hours of play, but people will be speaking about this one until the end of time.
Farrakhan Blames Jews For Financial Ruin Of Blacks... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 behavior that has ill-affected Black people and others.” Minister Farrakhan’s June 24 letter was sent to numerous American Jewish leaders along with copies of the now two-volume work, “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,” an anti-Semitic screed written and published by the Nation of Islam’s “Historical Research Department.” “Never, in our more than 20 years of following Minister Louis Farrakhan, have we seen him so obsessively devoted to his hate crusade against Jews,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. “His anti-Semitism is obsessive, diabolical and unrestrained. He has opened a new chapter in his ministry where scape-goating Jews is not just part of a message, but the message.” Farrakhan’s missive accused Foxman and other Jewish leaders of being guilty of “the most vehement anti-Black behavior in the annals of our history in America and the world,” before extending an offer of dialogue to “help me in the repair of my people from the damage that has been done by your ancestors to mine.” Farrakhan wrote that his message was not written out of hatred or bitterness, but because “One greater than you and me has permitted this for His own wise purposes.” Mr. Foxman said, “Dialogue does not begin with bigoted accusations. Farrakhan’s call for dialogue with Jews is so outrageous and disingenuous that
you can’t believe anyone would take him seriously. And yet he continues to f ill convention centers with those eager to bear witness to his bigotry, and to believe that he holds the truth. One wonders why there aren’t more voices in the African-American community willing to stand up and reject his hatred, his anti-Semitism. When will good people in the community be courageous enough to stand up and say, ‘enough already?’” During a sold-out speech on June 26 to thousands of followers at the Atlanta Civic Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Farrakhan, whose anti-Semitic rhetoric has been monitored by ADL for decades, announced his intention to present the newly written anti-Semitic book to Jewish leaders on behalf of the NOI. Like the book itself, Farrakhan’s speech was rife with conspiracy theories about Jews and Israel and Jewish control of government, f inance and Hollywood. Farrakhan told the crowd that he had also sent copies of “The Second Relationship Between Blacks and Jews” to various media outlets and members of the Obama Administration. “Today the Jewish people have developed a new strategy,” he told the audience in the speech, titled “Who are the Real Children of Israel?” “They have always tied themselves to Black people. They attach themselves to our talent. They are the managers, the agents and they are the accounts and that’s why our black artists loved fame and got fame but died poor because
somebody else got their money.” “No black man or woman becomes a multimillionaire without friendship in the Jewish community,” he added.an anti-Semitic screed written and published by the Nation of Islam’s “Historical Research Department.” “Never, in our more than 20 years of following Minister Louis Farrakhan, have we seen him so obsessively devoted to his hate crusade against Jews,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. “His anti-Semitism is obsessive, diabolical and unrestrained. He has opened a new chapter in his ministry where scape-goating Jews is not just part of a message, but the message.” Farrakhan’s missive accused Foxman and other Jewish leaders of being guilty of “the most vehement anti-Black behavior in the annals of our history in America and the world,” before extending an offer of dialogue to “help me in the repair of my people from the damage that has been done by your ancestors to mine.” Farrakhan wrote that his message was not written out of hatred or bitterness, but because “One greater than you and me has permitted this for His own wise purposes.” Mr. Foxman said, “Dialogue does not begin with bigoted accusations. Farrakhan’s call for dialogue with Jews is so outrageous and disingenuous that you can’t believe anyone would take him seriously. And yet he continues to f ill convention centers with those eager to bear witness to his bigotry, and to
believe that he holds the truth. One wonders why there aren’t more voices in the African-American community willing to stand up and reject his hatred, his anti-Semitism. When will good people in the community be courageous enough to stand up and say, ‘enough already?’” During a sold-out speech on June 26 to thousands of followers at the Atlanta Civic Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Farrakhan, whose anti-Semitic rhetoric has been monitored by ADL for decades, announced his intention to present the newly written anti-Semitic book to Jewish leaders on behalf of the NOI. Like the book itself, Farrakhan’s speech was rife with conspiracy theories about Jews and Israel and Jewish control of government, f inance and Hollywood. Farrakhan told the crowd that he had also sent copies of “The Second Relationship Between Blacks and Jews” to various media outlets and members of the Obama Administration. “Today the Jewish people have developed a new strategy,” he told the audience in the speech, titled “Who are the Real Children of Israel?” “They have always tied themselves to Black people. They attach themselves to our talent. They are the managers, the agents and they are the accounts and that’s why our black artists loved fame and got fame but died poor because somebody else got their money.” “No black man or woman becomes a multimillionaire without friendship in the Jewish community,” he added.
NY State Spending $17,173 Per student Highest in US... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3
Alaska ($14,630) and the District of Columbia ($14,594), the Census Bureau found. The lowest spenders were Utah ($5,765), Idaho ($6,931), Arizona ($7,608), Oklahoma ($7,685) and Tennessee ($7,739). Public education is the single largest category of all state and local government expenditures, Lisa Blumerman, chief of the Census Bureau’s Governments Division, said in a statement. The largest single category of school spending was for instructional salaries, which were $204 billion, about 40 percent of the total. Nearly 64 percent of revenue for public education from local sources came from property taxes. In New York, lawmakers and Gov. David Paterson have been considering placing a cap on how much school district expenses can increase each year as a way of providing property-tax relief to strapped homeowners. The amount of property taxes that went to New York education in 2007-08 was $14.8 billion,
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compared with $14.1 billion in 2006-07, the bureau said. Siegle said capping unfunded mandates would be a more effective way to rein in property taxes. “The state Legislature could provide mandate relief to help alleviate those costs, but that isn’t their priority,” she said. Public schools nationally spent about $593 billion in 2007-08, a 6 percent rise since the previous year, the report said. Total funding that public-school systems received in 2008 was $582 billion, 4.5 percent more than in 2006-07. State governments’ portion of that totaled about 48 percent and local governments contributed about 44 percent. The remaining 8 percent came from federal sources, the report said. In New York, state government’s portion was about 45 percent in 2007-08, and local governments contributed about 49 percent of the total, with 6 percent from federal sources. The spread in 2006-07 was about 45 percent from the state, 48 percent from local govern-
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Southwest’s 72-hour Fall Travel Sale To celebrate 39 years in the business, Southwest Airlines is offering one-way fares as low as $39 for travel any day except Fridays and Sundays from Sept. 8Nov. 17. Tickets must be purchased online before Friday June 25.
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his how it works: The $39 fare applies to flights up to 450 miles from your point of origin; $79 for 451-1,000 miles; and $119 for anything over 1,000. In real terms from Boston, that means you can score $39 tickets to Baltimore or
Philadelphia (Southwest's newest Boston destination, which launches Sunday); $79 can get you to Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Columbus, Louisville, Raleigh-Durham, and other locales; $119 takes you to Austin, Dallas, and Orlando, and elsewhere. One caveat: These deals apply to single flights. There are some destinations you can get to from Boston that may require taking connecting flights, which is to say more than one. Still, if you're headed to a destination to which Southwest offers direct service this could be for you.
Air Nightmare as London to Newark Bound Flight Diverted Three hundred travelers started the summer with a travel nightmare they will not soon forget.
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undreds of Newark-bound passengers sat for four hours on a tarmac in a stifling cabin after bad weather and union regulations grounded their flight from London in Connecticut. To make matters worse, passengers said, the plane’s generators shut down for the second time, leaving them with no air conditioning and sweltering temperatures that reached 100 degrees.
Some people on the inauspicious Virgin Atlantic flight fainted from the heat, said Andrew Porwancher, of Princeton, N.J. One passenger was taken to a hospital, but airline officials said there is no evidence to link this with the flight. Even before the flight left Heathrow Airport, there were problems. The generators were not working, so neither was the air conditioning system, passengers said. The flight was supposed to leave at 5:33 p.m., London time. Two hours later, with the plane fixed, the flight took off for Newark.
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A Peek Inside the Harry Potter Park in Orlando
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Air Travel Extremes
Cessna Citation X, the fastest passenger plane. What’s the fastest plane? How about the biggest? What’s the world’s busiest airport, or the longest nonstop flight? Fly through this list and learn about the extremes of air travel.
Largest Passenger Plane The giant Airbus 380 is nearly 240 feet long, almost 80 feet high, and has a wingspan of more than 260 feet. The double-decker plane has a standard seating capacity of 555 passengers. You’ll find the plane in the fleets of Air France, Emirates, Lufthansa, Qantas and Singapore Airlines.
Fastest Passenger Plane The entrance to Harry Potter theme park in Orlando. Until now, Harry Potter fans could merely imagine the sensation of quaff ing a butterbeer, f inding a magic wand at Ollivander's or escaping the steam from a snarling dragon's snout.
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ut f inally, 13 years after the f irst of seven books began chronicling the boy wizard's adventures; imagination has become reality at Universal Orlando. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a mini-park inside Universal's Islands of Adventure theme park, opened for general admission June 18. Past a stone archway and the steambelching Hogwarts Express, the f ictitious city of Hogsmeade unfolds amid snowcapped, dingy rooftops and storefronts packed like row houses with shops straight from the books and movies. Zonko's joke shop offers Sneakoscopes and extendable ears. The confectionery Honeydukes has chocolate frogs and Bertie Bott's EveryFlavour Beans (literally ranging from pear to f ish). At the Owl Post, guests can stamp mail with a genuine Hogsmeade postmark. Towering over it all is Hogwarts, a perfect reproduction of the imposing, many-spired castle where Harry and his magician friends are students. "Once we locked in and knew what we were doing — what we thought would be the most iconographic moments of the f iction to bring to life — it became a matter of executing at a level of authenticity and detail that was going to be unquestionable," said Mark Woodbury, head of Universal Creative. Park construction was overseen by the production manager from the Potter movies, and as Warner Bros. f ilmed the series' sixth movie, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," scenes were shot for the park's crown jewel, a ride called Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. The cutting-edge ride seamlessly combines the sensation of flight with tactile experiences like smoke and drops of water as it takes guests through a hodgepodge of encounters in Potter's chaotic life, from the Quidditch f ield to the mouths of giant spiders and dragons. The ride queue stars lifelike projections of f ilm characters such as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore. "What Universal Orlando has done with Harry Potter is really, really fantastic," actor Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter in the f ilms, said at the opening ceremony. "We're all kind
of very grateful that the next part of the Harry Potter legacy has been so welldone and so well-made." Potter author J.K. Rowling is a stickler for details, and Universal worked hard to get her OK. So many recipes were offered to f ind the perfect look, texture and taste for the heretofore f ictitious butterbeer that Woodbury lost count. "We had to package up all the ingredients and rent a hotel kitchen in Scotland so that we could put it all together," he said. The result? A tasty, thickheaded (and nonalcoholic) brew reminiscent of cream soda, which has proved wildly popular with fans. Besides the Forbidden Journey, The Wizarding World has just two other rides: Flight of the Hippogriff and Dragon Challenge, both of which are older roller coasters repurposed with Potter themes. There's no additional admission for Wizarding World once you pay to enter Islands of Adventure. But guests who come from long distances just to see it may be disappointed that there's also not much to do beyond the three rides other than soaking up the scenery and going shopping — although long lines for the attractions could easily keep them in the mini-park for hours. The shopping opportunities are so extensive — from broomsticks ($250 to $300) to magic wands ($28.95) and Gryff indor scarves ($34.95) — that it feels at times like the whole park is for sale. The Wizarding World is an ambitious bet for Universal, which is co-owned by a division of NBC Universal and private equity f irm Blackstone. Contract details buried in Securities and Exchange Commission f ilings reveal how badly Universal wanted a piece of the franchise, which it describes as the most f inancially successful in f ilm history. The contract gives Universal the rights to operate the park for nine years, with two additional f ive-year options. But the rights can be pulled if Universal fails to maintain minimum quality standards, doesn't invest enough capital or sells controlling interests. Universal has poured cash into the park the past few years, sinking up to $380 million in the Potter Park and two other attractions — a ride themed on The Simpsons and a roller coaster on which guests choose their own soundtrack. The Potter section of Islands of Adventure alone reportedly costing more than $250 million.
Now that the Concorde has been retired, the fastest passenger plane is the Cessna Citation X, which zooms at speeds of more than 600 mph — fast enough to get you between Los Angeles and New York City in about four hours.
Busiest Airport Whether you’re measuring the volume of passengers or the number of takeoffs and landings, no airport is busier than Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. More than 88 million passengers shuffled through the Atlanta airport in 2009, with another 20 million in the first three months of 2010. Dubai is hoping its new Al Maktoum International Airport, opening June 27, will someday become the world's busiest, but it looks like it'll take a few years before it eclipses Atlanta.
Longest Passenger Terminal Kansai International Airport, just outside Osaka, Japan, has only one terminal, but it’s a whopper: It’s more than a mile long, and the world’s longest. To help passengers get around, the airport employs a sophisticated people-moving system called the Wing Shuttle.
Widest Airplane Seat You’ll find first-class seats that are 36 inches wide — that’s a full three feet! — on Cathay Pacific Airways’ 747-400 and 777-300ER, and Gulf Air’s and Turkish Airlines’ 777-300ER. On the other end of the spectrum, Delta Air Lines’ regional-use Saab 340 planes have a seat width of just 16 inches.
Most-Delayed Airports In March 2010, Forbes reported that the most delayed airport for departures during the previous year was Beijing Capital International Airport, where only 38 percent of commercial passenger flights left on time. For arrivals, the worst delays were at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, where only 45 percent of passenger flights arrived as scheduled.
Most Remote Airport Easter Island is the most remote land in the world, so it makes sense that the island’s Mataveri International Airport is the planet’s most remote. The shortest flight from this airport is the 2,336-mile hop to Santiago, Chile.
Oldest Continuously Operating Airline Australia’s Qantas airline has been shuttling passengers in, to and around the island continent since 1920. Slightly older is the Dutch airline KLM, founded in 1919, but it ceased operations briefly during World War II.
Tallest Control Tower Standing tall just outside of Bangkok, the tower at Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport lets air-traffic officials control the skies from a commanding height of 434 feet. The high-tech control tower can handle more than 70 flights per hour.
Northernmost Commercial Airport The Norwegian mainland straddles the Arctic Circle, but you’ll have to go much farther north to reach the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. That’s where you’ll find the world’s northernmost commercial airport: Svalbard Airport, located at 78 degrees north on the main island of Spitsbergen.
Southernmost Commercial Airport The city of Ushuaia, in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego region, calls itself the world’s southernmost city. It’s also home to the world’s southernmost commercial airport: UshuaiaMalvinas International Airport, which is frequently used for cruise passengers departing for Antarctica.
Longest Nonstop Flight Traveling between Newark, N.J., and Singapore? The good news is that you can make the 9,535-mile journey in 19 hours on Singapore Airlines. On the other hand, that’s a long time to spend on a plane without a layover.
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Egyptian Oil Spill Befouls Red Sea Resorts BY HANA LEVI JULIAN While the world has been worried about the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast off the southern US there is another oil spill that is affecting travel to the southern Israeli city of Eilat on the Red Sea.
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n oil spill from an Egyptian rig has polluted several tourist sites along a large stretch of coastline along the Red Sea. The leak, which Egyptian government spokesman Magdy Rady described as “limited,” was caused by a spill from an offshore platform in Jebel al-Zayt, north of the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada. ________________________________
“The hardest work will be cleaning up the coral and Tawila Island” ________________________________ The government managed to keep the news of the oil spill quiet internally for days, an extraordinary feat that might have been related to the fact that Hurghada is one of the country's top tourist destinations. The area, a vital source of income for Egypt, was once a major diving site with extensive coral reefs. However, extensive development has caused damage to the area. Oil company off icials in the port city of Suez spoke with the Associated Press about the spill on condition of anonymi-
A sea turtle swims with scuba divers in the Ras Mohammed protection area near Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. ty because they were not authorized to speak with media. There was also no mention of the leak for days in any Israeli news media, which might otherwise have put off Israeli tourists who typically travel to Red Sea resorts for quick vacations. Rady told the state-run Middle East News Agency that the spill was discovered last week and had quickly been mostly contained. However, Ahmed elDroubi, a biologist with the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association (HEPCA), flatly accused the government of a cover-up this week. “Just today I received news that the oil had started leaking again this afternoon after it had stopped Thursday,” he told an Associated Press reporter on Tuesday. The HEPCA, founded by divers in 1992, was one of the f irst groups to raise the alarm about the spill. “The northern islands protected area is very heavily impacted,” el-Droubi
added. “This area is very important because it is the last pristine spot, there
is a lot of sea life there that will be harmed... there are dead birds and dead sea turtles scattered across the island, covered in oil.” Approximately 100 miles (160 kilometers) of coastline were polluted, including a number of tourist beach sites. Meanwhile, Egyptian Environmental Crisis Department head Mahmoud Ismail said that most of the beaches would be cleaned up in a few days. He admitted that the situation on the islands was worse, however. “The hardest work will be cleaning up the coral and Tawila Island,” he said, adding that he had already had complaints from some of the local hotels.
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Wimbledon Timeless Marathon Will Last Forever in Our Memory After 11 hours and 5 minutes, under overcast skies and in front of 782 seated fans at Court 18, and many millions of viewers around the world, it suddenly ended.
John Isner and Nicolas Mahut before the game Isner and Mahut, which is hardly surprising when you consider some players have claimed Grand Slam titles (all seven rounds) in less time than it took the two to f inish one match. “Nothing like this will happen again,” Isner said. “Not even come close.” The mind-boggling statistics really do seem likely to remain in the record books for all eternity. The second longest tennis match lasted more than four-and-a-half hours
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Israelis, Palestinians Joined by World Cup Fever In a part of the world where people often have little in common, World Cup fever has created some interesting alliances.
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ithout their own players in South Africa, Israelis and Palestinians are embracing international squads with the sort of passion usually reserved for the home team. Some are making their choices based on diplomatic considerations, and some for the love of a good game, but in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, fans have two clear favorites: Argentina and Brazil. “The first football game I watched, Argentina lost that game. I felt sympathy, so I always support the loser,” said 19-year-old Hatem Mourad, a Palestinian student in Gaza City, “Argentina is an honest team … and now they win.” Gal Mizrahi, a 19-year-old Israeli from the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Hasharon, favors Argentina’s main rival. “I have always supported Brazil since I was a little boy, especially because Israel has never made it to the World Cup in my lifetime,” Mizrahi said. Israelis and Palestinians are dedicated soccer fans between World Cups: Israelis flood the stadiums and proudly wear the colors of the 16 teams in the national league, while Palestinians root for their budding local league and often pledge allegiance to one of two Spanish teams: Barcelona or Real Madrid. In Gaza, fights have broken out in the streets over the rivalry between Egyptian teams Ahly and Zamalek.
Will LeBron Ever Be Champion? SPORTS ILLUSTRATED PROCLAIMED HIM THE CHOSEN ONE ON FEB. 18, 2002. Eight years and zero NBA titles later, he is now The Choosing One. He has been a six-time All-Star and twotime MVP.
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During the World Cup, Jerusalem bars with projection screens pull over capacity crowds of tourists, locals, and even staff clad in team jerseys every night. In the West Bank city of Ramallah, the flags of Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Germany—and until recently, Algeria—are the ones most often on display. Algeria’s brief first-round brush with World Cup glory was the closest thing to organic national pride here, as Palestinians banded together to support—and ultimately mourn the demise of—the one Arab team in the tournament. “It isn’t anyone’s first team. But they are Arabs,” said 21-year-old Ramallah resident Samer Tamimi, dressed in a suit, who regularly supports Germany but left work early to catch Algeria’s final game against the United States. Among Palestinians, the United States and England—both of which have moved on to the round of 16—have inspired the most haters. “The British gave the Jews permission to come here in 1948,” said 19-year-old Hammad Yishawi, a resident of Gaza City. “The US? They support the Jews.” But in a climate where it’s impossible to dissociate almost anything from politics, many said what’s most important was having a good sense of humor—and remembering that it’s only a game. “I cheer any country, regardless of politics,” 30-year-old Palestinian lawyer Mohamad Salam said. “Extremism in football is totally different than political extremism, or anything else.”
is smiling visage has sold, among other things, shoes, soda and State Farm insurance, earning him hundreds of millions of dollars. And yet the LeBron James Era in the NBA hasn’t even begun. Truly. Make no mistake; LeBron has played his f irst seven seasons in the second half of the Kobe Bryant Era. Your era, should you be lucky enough to have one, can only be said to have commenced once you’ve won a title. We don’t talk about the Elgin Baylor Era (unless we’re discussing Clipper epochs of discontent) or the Pete Maravich Era. Coffee is for closers and eras are for winners. LeBron, as Cavalier fans are painfully aware, has not only not won a championship, he hasn’t reached the Finals since his only trip in 2007. (Kobe has played in the Finals in four of LeBron’s seven seasons in the league.) If anything, Cleveland has looked like it’s headed in the wrong direction. After James carried them to an aheadof-schedule Finals run in ’07, the Cavs have gone out in the conference semis, the conference f inals and the conference semis again. This season’s flameout was particularly vexing as the Cavs dropped the f inal three games of a six-game series loss to a Celtics team that was supposed to be too old and frail to handle their physicality. But it has seemed inevitable for a while now that the LeBron Era will commence eventually. And when it does it f igures to last a while. Which is why every team in the NBA would love to have him, a simple, ineluctable fact — the utterance of which merits a f ine in David Stern’s draconian justice system. Two questions now loom for LeBron: when and where will his era begin? The Kobe Era began in 2000, though we didn’t know it at the time, as he won the f irst of f ive titles in 11 seasons. (Tim Duncan’s four titles in nine years argue for a Duncan Era, though, respectfully, his personality does not.) The Kobester’s era followed the Michael Jordan Era, which peaked with six rings in eight years for his Airiness. The Michael Era flowed seamlessly from the Magic-Bird Era, as the two superstar rivals combined for eight titles and rescued the NBA from the Wilderness Era (alternately known as That ‘70s Era). The ‘70s were remarkable in that Rick Barry, Elvin Hayes and Lonnie Shelton won just as many championships as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The league began with the George Mikan Era, which gave way to the Bill Russell Era, the two big men winning 18 championships in 23 seasons. Kobe turns 32 this summer and has a whole lot of miles on his tires, having played in 1,021 regular season games and 198 playoff games over 14 seasons. If ever the window were open for a new era in the NBA it’s now. This must be f iguring into LeBron’s deliberation about where this new era should take place. LeBron has already announced that his decision is “all about winning” which must send chills down the spines of Cavalier fans who have watched seven seasons end in varying disappointments. Even though the Cavs have had the best record in the NBA two years running they have not provided LeBron
LeBron James Era in the NBA hasn’t even begun. Truly. with that consistent second scoring option that could help him carry the team though the playoffs. (Not for lack of trying, see: Mo Williams, Shaquille O’Neal, Antawn Jamison.) Luckily for Cleveland fans, it’s probably not “all” about winning for LeBron. If it were, Chicago would be the most logical destination. A LeBron James-Derrick Rose 1-2 punch could easily join the Russell-Cousy, MagicKareem, Jordan-Pippen pantheon of champion teammates. New York would seem to be at a distinct disadvantage in the ‘Bron Sweepstakes. Unlike Cleveland, it isn’t home for James. And unlike Chicago, the team’s nucleus doesn’t offer any obvious guarantee of playoff success. As LeBron ponders his fate — and therefore the league’s — one wonders if there exists a formula whereby he will never ring up those three, four, f ive championships that will ultimately def ine him. Is it possible that there simply will not be a LeBron James Era? It would not be unprecedented for the most dominant individual in the sport to go his entire career without def ining an era. Wilt Chamberlain won seven scoring titles and four MVPs but only two rings in his 14-year career so nobody thinks of the Wilt Era, though the Wilt Era might be a good name for that simpler time in America when a superstar athlete could indulge his sensuality without so much judgment. After the f irst seven seasons of his career, Wilt was exactly where LeBron is after seven seasons, ringless despite being considered the most dominant player in the game. And then there’s the guy most often evoked by LeBron’s absurd statistical lines, the great Oscar Robertson. Though he didn’t get his nickname The Big O from the gaping zero titles he won in his f irst 10 seasons, it is only this hole in his resume — spackled to a degree by his one title with Kareem — that separates Oscar from, say, Michael. The longer LeBron goes without a title the more like Oscar and less like Mike he becomes. And we all know there was no Oscar Robertson Era in the NBA. We’ll soon know where the next chapter of LeBron’s career will take place. What we don’t know is when — if ever — the LeBron James Era will begin.
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Unfurn Apts/ Manhattan NO FEE APTS By owner-New Renov Chelsea Studio $1700 Midtown studio $1575 1 BR $1750 734-730-7151 MT. Morris Park/ Clinton: 1 BR w/ Jacuzzi, Hardwood floors, exposed brick $1500/mo. Call owner 917-676-5303
NO FEE APTS. BY OWNER -NEW RENO CHELSEA STUDIO $1700 MIDTOWN STUDIO $1575\ 1BR $1750 (734)730-7151 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
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Apt for sale NYC 504 Grand Street, LOW MTC! $367, ASK $569k, LARGE CRNR 1BR + WINDOWED OFFICE/ NURSERY BRAND NEW KITCHEN, PEACEFUL TREE LINED COURTYEARD, ELEV., 24 HR SEC., GYM, LAUND. BRK 917-873-4724 OR dcohen@citihabitats.com. Call for private showing ~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
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110 st. Spectacular Cntrl Pk Views. 1 BR. 1 mo free. No fee. $2300. Reno’d, Drmn, lndryrm, elev bldg, no dogs. 845-304-0085
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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.
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 ~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
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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
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
~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
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
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
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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
Sheepshead Bay: 3 BRs, 1 bth, 100% co-op building utilities included, 4 new A/Cs, all new windows, new dishwasher, stove and refrigerator, night security guard, laundry room w/new washers & dryers, indoor/outdoor, parking, short waiting list. Asking $260k neg. Call owner 917-561-0075
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2020 Boro Park open house Sun 6/20. 12-5 pm. 1729 61 St. Lrg 4 fam brick s/det. Mod kits & bths. Lg fin bsmt $995K. Laquila RE 718-234-1111
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BROOKLYN
2000 GRAVESEND Prime. West St/ Ave U: Huge 2 fam house for sale. Fully det brick. Shared drv w/2 car gar 30x100 lot. 22x60 hse. $869K. WOLF PROPERTIES 718-382-9653
Ave l /Ocean Pkwy Lg renov 1BR Co-op Mod Elk & bth,hi ceils, hrdwd Flrs Clean bldg low maint $185k 718-377-9354 or 917-579-4243 2000-
Internal medicine Practice for sale in Midtown Manhattan. If interested, Please call: 347-742-2524 or email sony11435@yahoo.com 1095:
~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
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REAL ESTATE Ave K/ East 9th: 1 fam (legal 2) on 40x100 lot. Prime location. Asking 1.9 M. Make offers, Call Robert. Royal York RE 917-446-0669 2020
Sheepshead Bay: 3 BRs, 1 bth, 100% co-op building, utilities included, 4 new A/Cs, all new windows, new dishwasher, stove & refrigerator 3000 NE Bronx: 3 Fam, 6 BR + basement, large drvwy and yard, numerous amenities. Too many to mention. Near shopping + houses of worchip. Reasonably priced. Call 718-822-6781 or 347-928-4595 2020
MILL BASIN/ MARINE PARK AREA: Amazing opportunity for sale! Renovated 2 family mixed use with dental/medical ofc. 3BR/3 bth duplex with balcony, fin bsmt, 2 parking spaces. For info call Gina M. Papa. Corcoran Group. 718-832-4197 2020
East 32nd St/ K& L: 3BR, 1 fam hse in excel move in cond, fin bsmt, alarm, new kitch, 2 bths. Priced to sell. 347-277-8565. Owner. No agents pls. 2020
Gravesend: 4 Family brick house with full bsmt. 23x80. All apts in excellent condition. A must see! Call Maria Sarta for appts 917-837-9551
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2020:Midwood/ Marine Park. Ultra modern s/det brk, fin bsmt, 3BR duplex, $735K. Legal 2F. 917748-7780 bkr
Ave I/ East 17th: Very large 1 BR, hardwood flrs, EIK, 24hr sec + doorman. 2nd Flr. $175K 718-677-3105 Ask for Suri 2020:
OPEN HOUSES Sunday 12-2 PM 1. Midwood 1385 E. 2nd St, 2 Fam + fin bsmt 2. Midwood 1430 E 29th St. 1 fa,. Det 33’ x 100’ lot 3. Marine Pk 1640 Madison Pl, Brick 5 BR 38’ x 100’ $799K 4. Marine Pk 2:30-4:30 pm at 2160 E. 38th St. 1 fam semi, 4 BR’s $439K Century 21 SAVALOT 718-336-1144 -OPEN HOUSES SUNDAY 12-2PM Midwood 1385: E 2nd, 2 Fam + Fin Bsmt, 3 kitchs & 3 baths. Madison 1432E 2nd, 1 fam det 3BR Duplex. 33x100. Madison 1640 Madison Place. Det Brick 5 BRs, 3 bths, 38x100 Lot. Century 21 SAVALOT 718-336-1144 2020
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 CANARSIE, 1 FAMILY 30X100. EXCELLENT CONDITION. PERFECT FOR PROFESSIONALS, INVESTORS OR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY, SEMI COMMERCIAL STREET. 347-260-7838
Small one family house with extra lot for sale. Lot is ideal for building. Call 718-927-0600 Or 646-753-1400 House for sale Seagate Brooklyn, 3 family detached brick with finished basement $689k 917-769-4776 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 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
Ave k / E8 Legal 2 fam can be used as 1 fam Wlk in fin bsmt, nice back porch & more,good cond.mid $500’s Also E32nd & Kings HWY Det 1 family on 30x100 lot 4br, 3 bths,fin bsmt,pvt drv/gar. Good cond Mid $500’s Also E36 Flatlands 2 fam brk mid $500’s Owner 718-419-9306 490 lake street totally detached newly renovated asking 500k baywater bold 1368 Dickens street asking 300k
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BROOKLYN Williamsburg: 5,000 sq ft warehouse for rent on Spencer Street bt Park & Myrtle Avenue. Suitable for school, shul and retail warehouse. Call 718-998-2767
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2040:Boro Park: 2305 12th Ave: Open house, every Sun 3-5PM. Asking 1,39M or best offer. 52BR apts @1250/mo + Store @ 1700/mo. Call 347-554-8282
COBBLE HILL: On very popular Smith St. Large store, 21’x98’, 13’ hi ceilings, $6,500/mo. + RE taxes & utils. No fee. Owner 718-256-6912
2040:
Ave U/ East 7th: Renovated approx 350 square feet storefront. Prime location. Also available, 2nd Flr office approximately 300sq ft. 718-938-9899 2040:
2040:OCEAN PKWY/ DITMAS AVE & 18TH AVE: Co-op bldg, 5th flr. Lux 1 BR apt w/new furniture & new kit. $1400/mo. Call owner, 917-723-7611
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
Williamsburg: 5000 sft warehouse for rent on Spencer St. bet Park & Myrtle Avenue. Call 718-998-2768
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
BoroPark: Heart of office floor avail. Ground level, CAC, beaut cond, near public trans. $1500. Also storage space avail. 347-831-6152
Neponsit Beaut Beach Block Owner relocating! All brk Colonial. 5Br,4.5bths, 1br apt in bsmt,fully renov,cust kitch,radiant heat,huge Lr w/gas frpic,wet bar & ocean view. FDR,lrg family room, 60x100 secluded prob.many xtras $1.895m L.Keating Realty 718-945-9267
BAY RIDGE/ Ridge Blvd/ 90’s Corner, Medical Office, 1000 S/F. Ground level. High traffic loc 2 entr, handicap accessible. Reception area. Will build to suite. Kitchenette w/granite, radiant heat, ductless A/C, use with paved yd. $3500/mo incl pkng. Owner 631-220-5706
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 House for sale in the heart of Sephardic community, Gravesend. Please call: 718-755-6349 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 6920 13th Avenue: Store + 2 family, excellent condition, 3 BR apts. Call Albert. Remax Metro. 917-733-7230 or 718-439-1110
GARAGE FOR RENT Coney Island Ave bw S&T Fitting commercial van Please call: 347-405-0553
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 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 Boro Park. Corner 15 Ave/48 St Newly renov medical ofc approx 1,200+sqft. Reception +5 offices+ Kitchenette. Gloria: 212-725-6481 Boro Park, 12 Ave/43 St. Storefront office For rent Approx 60x20 good for professional or medical offi. Call 917-435-9274 Madison, Flatlands/ East 35th. 2600 sqft storefront, high traffic area, ground level, Central a/c & heat. Available now $2200. 917-330-6929 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 KINGS HIGHWAY, BROOKLYN COMMERCIAL
2040
16th Ave, 49th Streetbrand new bsmnt, For professional use, 860 sq ft, 9 ft, ceiling, Central A/C, many windows. Call: 718-435-9366 BROOKLYN: 11th Ave/63rd St: beautiful, flexible space for rent. 3000 sq ft office/ showroom/retail. Call 718-869-2005pm. Office for rent Bensonhurst, good for services, good condition, close to subway, shopping & schools. Block off 86th St. Price negotiable. 646-944-5209
OFFICE SPACE KngsHwy Between East 3rd & 4th St Entire floor/ one flight up 4 rms/ 1 bth Private entrance, contact 718- 243- 2748
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BY OWNER IN A NEW BUILDING. *PLAZA* 2ND FLOOR. 1500 SQ FT, 2 BTHRMS, PARKING, CENTRAL HVAC. EXCELLENT FINISH, PRIME LOCATION, BUSY AREA. EXCELLENT FOR ANY PROFESSIONAL OFFICE. RENT NEGOTIABLE 917-295-7529 OR 347-992-2722
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 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 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 STORE FOR RENT IN VERY BUSY AREA IN GRAVESEND. NEWLY RENOVATED, PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS: 718-998-7600
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 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
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
2050
BROOKLYN
BUSY AUTO/TRUCK REPAIR BUSINESS FOR SALE Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Owner is retiring after 40yrs at this location. Call 718-384-1560, Email VinceAR@aol.com 2050-
Avenue U off McDonald: For sale or rent. Good location! Lot-4,000 sq ft. Store-2300 sq ft. High Ceilings, no columns + full bsmt. Eclod Realty Corp. 718-966-0230 2050-
Ave P & Q/ E 32St: 2 & 3 BR apts ALL BRAND NEW: granite kit, S/S applncs, bth, flrs, A/C, gas, water, heat. 347-312-3502
2050-
2050-Boro Park/ Bensonhurst: 6,000 sq ft Warehouse Suitable for any busns.. J & A REALTY 718-621-2888
Glatt kosher restaurant in Brooklyn, Established 4 years. Long lease w/low rent. Exc oppty. Ask $69k. 718-810-5323 EXCELLENT DEAL! Boro Pk restaurant for sale $65k Flex; Prime location in Boro Pk. Serious inqs only. 917-626-2927 Busy dental practice in heart of Boro Park 3 networked, fully equiped ops, seller motivated best offer accepted 917-416-3681 Very Active Brooklyn Law Practice For Sale. Only Law Firms with at least 3 Attorneys need Apply. Terms Negotiable. Please Call 718-336-3938 AFTER 6pm
Ob/gyn Practice for sale: Brooklyn, ideal for Orthodox Jewish MD. Receipts 700k. Call Mr. Weissen at 631-281-2810 or email gnw1@buysellpractices.com 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 BORO PARK NEW UTRECHT/47TH ST 450 sf good for both store and office 19800 sf also available Call: 718-437-3126 lv msg 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 Bed-Stuy-Vacant Interior: LOT (LAND LOCKED) 18*35 BLOCK 1687, LOT 144, R-6 ZONE, $20K. PRINCIPALS ONLY. OWNER 917-848-7735
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 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 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
House
For Rent
BROOKLYN
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) 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
BRAND NEW LUXURY
APARTMENTS FOR RENT BEDFORD AVENUE www.madison3692.com 347-274-3451
Apartment For Rent 2010
BROOKLYN
2010
Mill Basin: Free room
and board in exchange for house keeping. No children. Near shopping and transportation + synagogues. Call 347-752-1449 Call after 8pm, weekdays only 2010 FOR RENT. ONE bdrm apt in Brooklyn. Near KINGS PLAZA, close to shuls, kosher shopping. Please call RAM at 917-696-0000
OCEAN AVE/ AVENUE J: Studio, 1+2 BR apts. EAST 18TH/ AVENUE L: 2 Bdrm Studio EAST 13TH/ AVENUE J: 1 BR apt.Call Broker 718-236-3199
2010:
Ave p & Q/E 32 St 2 & 3 Br apts All Brand New granite kit S/S appincs, Bth,flrs, A/c gas water, heat 347-312-3502 2010-
2010-East 19th Ave R 1500 sqft Penthouse apt 3Brs 2.5 bths, 600 sqft roofdeck, w/d ,parking Fully furnished available,new building,call 323-363-3384
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
3000
QUEENS/BRONX 3000-Forest Hills New on Market! Renov 1 fam det brk. 50 x100 lot 4brs 3 ½ bths 9 ceil hi fin bsmt plus most beaut loft 2 car brk gar $1.295m neg By owner professor lilach + Kurt Nachum 718-544-1520 917-834-1282
3000-Hillcrest Queens Brand New House 4 BRs 3 ½ Bathrooms Finished basement. Detached garage $925 k 917-291-7119
Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent
3060
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
Apartment For Sale 2060
QUEENS/BRONX FLUSHING/ GEORGETOWN MEWS 2060-Beautifully custom renovated 1 + 2 Bd Apts, including a duplex. You choose all finishes + we renovate to your taste. Everything brand new. By prospectus only. Sales office. 718-575-1332
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REAL ESTATE 2060-Queens CO-OP FOR SALE Glen Oaks 1 bdrm full Bath Elk Dr/Lr 1st fl, 2 ac’s Hardwood floors, Private entry Ample parking,near buses Principals Only! $167k 718-347-0312
Forest Hills: lux high rise bldg, 1 BR, designer kitchen. Near subway & LIRR. Tax abatement 25 years. Doorman, fitness center & lounge. Vera, Coldwell Banker 917-853-5455 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
Apartment For Rent 2080
QUEENS/BRONX Heart of Kew Garden Hills: Two- 2nd floor 2 BR apts One- 1st Floor-2 BR Linda of Summit Realty 347-730-9907
2080
2080BAYSIDE-BAY TARRACE: 1BR, LR, din rm, EIK, new bath. $1250 + 6 rooms, 3BR2 BA, Liv Rm, din rm, EIK, terrace. New kit w/granite counters. $1950- 516-983-6682
3133 Rochambeau in North Bronx, apts for rent, 1 + 2 bdrms, priced between $1000-$1400. Newly renovated lge prewar apt, new appliances, near Montiforo Hospital, near Bronx botanical gardens & zoo. Last stop on the D train, 24 hr security, nr parking + lively shopping. District of the Moshlov Pkwy. Call property manager Paul. 646-319-2373 2080-
FRESH MEADOWS: SPAC 3BR, 1.5 BATH, MOD KIT, 2ND FLR, WASHER/DRYER. NR SHOPS & TRANS. CALL 917-687-9928
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
House
For Sale
QUEENS/BRONX West of Main Street: 2 s/det houses, all brick. For details call Vera at Coldwell Banker RE. 917-853-5455
Amagensett Dunes 400 feet to ocean beach Access. 5 bedrooms, 2 baths. AC. Labor Day. $50, 000 or avail monthly. Call: 631-655-9319
3020
City Island, Mint Beach
3020
House: Charming, renovated, 2 be house, hdwd flrs, vaulted ceilings, cac, w/d, d/w. New ss apls, attic storage, pvt beach. $285K. Call owner 917-902-5798
Apartment For Rent
LONG ISLAND Oakdale/55+ Condos. New construction on Oakdale Bohemia Rd. 2 BR, 2 ba, models now open from $385,000. 631-472-2242
Apartment For Sale 5000
Belle Harbor 2nd from ocean 60x100 Views galore! 5800sf 4 Brs, WB frpic, cust ElK 3.5 bths call for details & appt…$1.9m L.Keating Realty 718-945-9267 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 Kew Garden Hill fully Renovated 1 Family det home 4 bedroom 2.5 Baths fin Basementdriveway asking 770k 917-519-6110 Bronx house for sale King Bridge open house sat &sun 12-4 pm 2296 loring place North New Contruction 2 fam brk,parking,gar,3/3 4bths,low down 419k Owner 646-431-0105 (516)439-6803 Parkchester: Huge 2 fam brick hse, 4br On 2nd flr, 3br on 1st flr,high ceiling fin bsmt.price reduced. Owner 917-312-9170 Kew Hill: Fully Renovated 1 Family house Det Home 4 Bedrooms 2.5Bath Fin Basement Bklyn drwy 770k 917-519-6110 Far Rockaway/ Neponsit: 2nd house from beach overlooking ocean. 4 BRs, 60x100 lot, 3 ½ baths. 917-742-7779, Klarise 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
LONG ISLAND 5000 Co-op/ Condo for sale. GREAT NECK, 2 BR, 1 bth. By owner new granite/ ceramic kitchen/ bath, spacious closets, garage parking, $339K 516-883-2435 Email: redino7@msn.com
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 Atlantic Beach 2BR, 1.5 bth Condo, Patio CAC Walk to Private Beach, Boardwalk + Temple Private parking, Low Main. $399K 516-596-7305 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
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
5080
LONG ISLAND Established Glatt Kosher restaurant/ take-out/ food store for sale, good location w. parking, 5 towns area. Partners avail 516-581-3930 NESCONSET: Sale Lease Back, Investment property, 3700 sq ft, recently furbished on .5 acre appraised at $920K, asking $825K. NNN Lease 631-360-8949 5080-
MEDICAL PRACTICE FOR SALE PRIMARY CARE. FIVE TOWNS. Successful. Terms Negotiable. Contact 516-612-2444
Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent
6000
House For Rent
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
East End North Fork Heart of wine country Summer rental & winter wknd getaway. Boat slip Access to ocean &Hamptons New 1 Br apt gar,balc,a/c 20k/yr 631-722-5427
Far Rockaway: On beach. Brand new building. 1 & 2 brs avail. Granite kits balconies, waterviews, shab elev. W/D hookup. No renters fee. WEISMAN REALTY. 516-791-6100
QUOGUE ESTATES, Sensational Vacation Home Pvt 5BR incl 3 mstr suite, 4.5BA, htd pool, tennis, jacuz, Gar, Qougue Beach Rights/ 35K, Avail Today-Sept 15. Mr. K: 917-922-1201
5060
LONG ISLAND 5020-
NASSAU / L.I.
Gorgeous Home Decorating business for sale. Gorgeous, fabulous inventory: granite, fabulous tiles, exotic bathrooms, unique kitchens, colorful doors and beautiful chandeliers. Judy 917-703-7255 Viewing: 9050
NASSAU REAL ESTATE Cedarhurst New Construction by Rami 4200 s.f corn, top quality $900’s Call Builder 917-541-7013 Rocky Point Route 25A. 13,000-2,100 ft; Turnkey condition. $10 per ft, gross rent. Please Call: 516-298-7890 Commercial Property/Nassau CEDARHURST beautiful building Near JFK, showroom offices And warehouse, loading dock, approx 16,000 sq ft Call: 516-448-4393 OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT/ L. ISLAND Office available one large bright room with Waiting area available on Maple in Cedarhurst With parking $800 p month Call: 800-388-9299 CEDARHURST: DENTAL OFFICE THUR-SUN. ALSO SUITABLE FOR PODIATRIST, PSYCHOLOGIST OR SPEECH THERAPIST. CALL 516-316-3360 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 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
House
For Sale
Buyer/ Managing partner wanted for newly renovated fully equipped turnkey, Glatt Kosher, LI catering hall, seats 300, long lease. Reasonable rent attractive terms. Call 212-243-9808 or 516-450-7323
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
Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent
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
(New Dorp) 2000 sq ft office space. Near train.Convenient to all. Pat 646-369-9457
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
LONG ISLAND Cedarhurst: 2 BR, 2bth, recently updated, granite kitchen, huge LR, DR, h/w flrs, bsmt prkng & storage, elev bldg. 917-747-4346 tanis86@aol.com
5040
Woodmere /Academy New to market. 4BR, 4Bth Colonial oversized prop. Large EIK, FDR, Den, LR w/frplce, fin bsmt, master suite w/balc. SD 14. Owner: 516- 524-1258 5040
5040-RIDGE“ DREAM COME TRUE” 55+ Condo. Gated Community. MAGNIFICENT. Pack your bags and move right in. 2 BR, 2 bth, EIK, Spac LR/ DR + office. $275K. Treasure owner 631-378-4439
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
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
House
For Sale
4020
STATEN ISLAND
BAY TERRACE Fully renovated detached high ranch. 4br, 2.5 bath. 2 ktchns w/ new appliances, central AC garage. 40x105 crnr ppty. 4 blcks to park, beach, bus, train. MANY XTRAS!! $649K 718 980-4273
STATEN ISLAND
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
For Rent
NY STATE
6090Exclusive camp reduced, 4.25M. 400-600 kids. 128 acres, 2 hrs to NYC, WildacresRealty.com 845-887-4070 6090:2 fam in NYS $55K. $600/mo income. 14% cap rate. Upscale area. Ecxel mngmt & tenant in place. Grt oppty. 347-324-1821
Catskills, NY, Motel for sale. 23 Units includes 5 BDRM house/ swimming pool/ Bar & Restaurant. 19 acres $749K. Contact 917-607-4274 6090:
Upstate house for Rent Beautifull New 3 BR, 2bth House in Harris NY near Monticelo NY quiet location with outlook on woods large kitchen w/s-steel applce, Master bath w/ 6 foot long with pool tub, high speed internet in every room! $1200 / month + utilities. Joshua (516) 449-9891 FORSHAY: 2-4 BR bsmt apt for rent. Reasonably priced. Call 845-354-4845 VACATION HOMES FOR RENT MONTICELLO: HIDDEN RIDGE HOMES AT KUTSHERS DESIGNER DELUXE HOMES. SALE/ RENT, 2 BR, 2 BTH, BEAUTIFUL, FURNISHED. CALL BROKER OSCAR PAVLOFF. WE HAVE KEYS. 845-794-3720 OR 845-434-7792
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
NY STATE SULLIVAN COUNTY JOHNATHAN AT
STAPLETON Applications for the waiting list for rental units in Staten Island will be available to families with limited income, based on section 8 qualifications, beginning on April 19th 2010, call between 10am & 3pm 516-466-6527 Ext15&/26
845-796-1200
1000-
Apartment For Sale 3080
STATEN ISLAND Co-op for sale Staten Island 3080-SAINT GEORGE: 35 Mins to Manhattan, lrg 3 Bdrm, 2 bth apt. Completely renovated. Terrace with view of NY Harbor, nr SI ferry $345K. Contact 718-448-1136
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
6090-Camp for SALE Ferndale Y.R camp 95 acres 22,000 sq ft bldg, mikva Financing qualified buyer $999,000 (845)679-0636 www.tayloredre.com
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 Hancock/Upstate NY 9 room LR,DR & 5 Extra rooms for guests, EIK, near transportation, shopping, Schools & more, walk to houses of worship. Call 917-340-8489
7000
Apartment For Sale 3080
PROPERTY FOR SALE, NY STATE -Catskill Mts Artists Country Retreat Freehold 57ac.2+sty barn, studios, Guest hideaway, desk, trails, pasture; 3 bdrm, 2 ba. Renovated house. $400K. 518-634-2692 See WebID NS 1005311893
6090
HOTEL FOR SALE. CALL
Staten Island-Condo Ask about home buyers discount. 74 Mill Hill Lane East Hampton Village. Principals only. Original owner immediate closing. 631-324-6024. Have current CO & Survey.
4060
6080
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
5040
http://www.obeo.com/570956
6000:
5060-
JERICHO: Shared office sp. w/CPA firm. 3 cub., 3 off RENT sep or together. Full svc & furn secure well maint bldg, Near all. MUST SEE. Call appt. Stefanie S. 516-338-9670
60003020
THE SUNSHINE.
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
Property
For Sale
6090
NY STATE 6020 White Plains. FOR SALE BY OWNER, luxury condo, spacious 2860sqft condo, sunny private END unit. LR/DR, 1st fl, master bdrm/ EIK. 2BDRM/ 3.5 bth/ Gallery upstairs. Finished lower lvl w/3 rms + family rm, 2 terraces. Many costum features/ ample Storage/ 2 fireplaces. 2 car gar. Excellent loc 914-328-9658
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
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 Monsey Exclusive Large Home with Shul Beaut 8000sf 80 acres bals Med seats 150-200 Comm kit,prkg 30 + cars 6br, 4bths lrg granite elk,pvt study w/sep entr.lrg lr, mbth w/jacz,huge succah rm w/retractbl roof,i ntercom/ video surveillance, alarm & much more!must see! NEWLY RENOVATED HOME Spectacular 4000sf high Ranch 60 acres,nr R’schlessingers shul 7br 4bths,new granite Elk healed flrs, ss appincs skylites,deck sparkling Above grnd pool. All new wndws heating A/C Boiler & roof 2 car attgar Must see!$779k CHOICE RESIDENTIAL BLDG LOT-1.02 acres, quiet culde-sac near R Schlessingers shul, this one-of a kind loc Will not last! The World Realty Group 908-355-1717 845-358-6088
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House
For Sale
6060
NY STATE
LOOKING To buy or sell a home? Look no further than Jacob your RE broker. Bklyn only 2% broker fee. Call: 347-733-2207 For any questions.
2 family brick house detached. Property is 4000 sq. ft. 5 bdrms, 3 bths. CALL ANNCURRAN @
6060
Rockland/ Monsey: WESLEY HILLS RANCH: 4BR, 3 full baths, oversized l/r, sep ent, in-law suite, one acre, manicured property, w/kio pond, well maintained. PRICED TO SELL $429K CALL DEVORAH REALTY TEAMS 845-548-9486 6060
Fallsburg: New 3 BR, 2.5 bath, 3 acres w/ lake + waterfall. Near shul. For sale by owner. 718-938-4130
Co-op Redding: FOR NATURE LOVERS! Secluded, unique Swiss chalet log house, 1 hr fr NYC on 4 ac in old forest. Tennis court, pool, Jacuzzi, $425K. 646-423-2352 Albany Area: SUPER LOCATION, beautifully restored 1840’s farmhouse with
WAGNER&KELLY REAL ESTATE 646-508-3292 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 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 Sacrifice wow! Must sell! At kutsher’s Hidden Ridge, designroom home, fully furnished, heat/ Air/ Pool/ New Playhouse,
business available. 15 min-
Kutchers. Aksing
utes 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 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
golf & tennis at $79K. Call Broker
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 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
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 GREEN COUNTY NY 37 Acres per tested, views $225,000 20 minutes to Ny Thruway, Build ,Divide or Hunt. Please call 518-634-7842
room houses. Idyllic beachfront
Owner: 718-258-6096
new kitch, fans, propane heat.
shuls. 310-735-3310
privacy $6M. Century 21
Leave msg, Frank.
Pvt well, 2 car gar, shul open
800-439-2524
www.46winship.com LAKEFRONT PROPERTY 2,250 ft Lake Michigan Frontage. 400 ac w/2 private interior lakes 190+/acs, almost 4 miles of water frntg. Norton shores (Muskegon) MI. Offered at $15,000,000. Duane Harbor Realty, David Stebbins. 231-740-4931 duneharbor@aol.com 7040:
Salem Straits, Darien Ct – Completely Modernized 3500 sf , 4 BR/3 ½ baths, includes Game rm/sauna/wet bar, 2 fire pl, full dry bsmt, Lg air cond sunroom, 24 unique creative perennial Garden w/ secluded walkways 300 yds from beach. $2.49M Contact (203)655-2238
Alaska waterfront. 11.6 secluded estate! Ideal cor-
Hills, 1 br colonial,custom
porate executive retreat!
Kosher Milch Miller
By owner, 10,000 sq ft
914-414-3619
Beachfront home on the
Pennsylvania/
Lv msg or 570-254-9445
Townhouse for rent
For Sale Houston:
9080
An income producing single home. The house is being
Bob 907-457- or email
rented for $1190/mo or
cinabar56@hotmail.com
sold for $89K. For questions
MARTHA’S VINEYARD
Barzilay@foreclosureintl.com
Beautiful 3 bedroom con-
281-460-9330
temporary home. Near
FOR SALE, Exceptional
please call Shelly
beaches and town. Affordable weekly rental.
Anguilla, BWI: 1995 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 Periera, Columbia Appx 50,000 mtrs Best lux residential area. La Julita close to Pinares de San Martin $12M US 860-514-1813 Beliz, Central America: 60 acres, riverfront property title. Owned, asking $300,00. Please Call 646-506-6084
Subdivisional
but close to town. High & dry, standard septic.
(8 apts) POSSIBLE Owner
ond-story water views.
610-842-3902
1-907-283-9281
Grand Mansion estate.
Exit at Eloy, Az. near site of
33 acre lake front parcel
planned “Decades Music
w/7k square foot mansion,
Theme Park” 40 acres
pool, tennis court, 2 guest
COMMERCIAL 40 acres
houses and more. 1 hour
Multi-Family, 80 acres Single
from NYC. $3.5M
Family. All for $5.65 Mil. Call AC 815-634-5020
Financing $1,500,000
Walk to water and marina.
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
$1895M
314-414-0070 MARTHA’S VINEYARD Beautiful 3 bedroom contemporary home. Near beaches and town. Affordable weekly rental. 800-356-3210
Property for sale
Spacious 7 BR,3 BTHS,
Cape Cod: Elegant 2BR,
6 yr young, Huge DR/LR,
2 bth townhse, garage,
9 ft. ceilings, eat in kosher
amenities, privacy.
kitchen, C/A,
Pool & tennis, $330K.
appliances,deck,closets
Ask for Marilyn
galore,ideal mother/ Daughter
508-477-4836
or home/business. MIC Price Reduced Call Owner
Cape Cod: 17 acre Private
845-356-5566
Island you can drive ontu. 4 bdrm residence, dock, huge
HORTON & COLLEGE
boathouse, plus marine railway.
Westchester
$995,000. Century 21 Bourne
Rockland, NY-Townhouse 3 Br
800-439-2524
+ 2 extra rms bsmt, d/washer,
www.16JobsIsland.com
THCAuction.com;
Airport. A bargain just
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AUCTION 4 BR, 4 BA Home-Views
Warren, VT. Thursday
utes from a Commercial
Email Skidder.1@netzero.com
HORTON & COLLEGE
$6,000+ per month
Horses allowed. Some sec-
December 3 at 11AM.
air strip, and only 15 min-
PA, VALLEY FORGE stalls. Rental income of
Sugarbush ski on/ski off
OUT OF STATE
7060
5+ acres each! Rolling
454 S. Village Blvd. #78,
Salmon! Comes with air-
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
meadows with trees. Rural
Famous Trophy King plane hanger & access to
Call: 570-223-0578
Area: 12.5 acres, 30
River, home of the World
7030
bsmnt. Avail now. $1,150/mth + util
four prime lots near water,
Kagan Realty
Property/House
place, updated kitchen, cathedral Ceiling, garage
OUT OF STATE
Preliminary approval on
the mouth of the Kenai
For Sale
East Strausberg Townhouse for rent 2 bdrm, 2 bath, fire-
Route 1, South Kingstown
shores of Cook Inlet & in
Call Rosetta Dragseth:
845-426-0836
claims for sale. Contact
Los Angeles: Lrg 2 story, 5BR,
thru Succos. 215-523-5996
Rivky Kagan
Located btn Phoenix &
local trans. $289k
www.ithmines.com Last 10
Summers near Scranton:
7040
845-659-2056
Tucson on I-10 Toltec Hwy.
dryer, a/c kit, leisure rms, nr
Livengood, Alaska
800-356-3210
MONROE
CALL: 212-206-9939
20 Million oz discovery so far @ Money Knob.
Moving must sell! Wesley
4 Br, 3 bth, kosher kit.
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
Granite kosh kit. Lg bckyrd. Nr
acres-very private &
Monticello: Beaut ranch,
For pesach Summer.
4bth home avail for summer.
tage w/5 lots. 5 BR, 3 bth,
$7.9Million US Dollars.
Monticello
Call 718-679-4339
Chapman Lake view. Furn cot-
potential and opportunity.
160 Acres Arizona Property
www.camelotrealtygroup.biz
½ acre, bkyrd.
$250k. price $2mil. Great
stables, pasture. Two 6 bed-
Root/ Montgomery Co. 70 Acres + Trailer Hse with barn, water + electricity. 3 hrs from Man $250K. Call Owner 718-617-7799
Homes for sale 4 Bedroom, 3 bthm only $55,000!. Priced to sell!! Won’t last!! For listings call: 800-366-0412 xT472
Walt to dist to falkof.
Bristol, CT-31 unite RR
Open house, Sunday 1-3 pm; $407K. MIC home, ¾
Oscar Pavloff 845-434-7992
Cape Cod Oceanfront 2 Deep water docks 3+ acres,
NEW HEMPSTEAD:
er 2 bedroom, 2 bath-
16,000 sq ft barn on 15
park like acres. Turnkey
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WWW.ROANOKERESERVE.COM
New Hampshire,
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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 Vacation properties
Available For Rent
Delaware:Dewey beach-
OUT OF STATE
hrdwd flrs, balcony, ocn
7060
Pheonix, AZ. Turn Key Rentals $65K buys newly remodeled houses in Phx, AZ for income,. Rent $800$900/mo. That’s 15% + on you r money! We manage. CALL NOW! 480-560-6632 Tom
7060
250 Acre farm in SOUTHWEST
4 BR, 2 ½ bth, deck, vu, 1 block to beach, 629,999k rentals. 610-888-5866 www.whisperingpalms-db.com
VIRGINIA,
Bland county +(I)Home +A old farm house, built in the 1900’s. beautiful views. Hunter’s Paradise. $850K Please contact 276-496-5200
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JOBS WANTED & SERVICES OFFERED Music
8000
MUSIC PROGRAM for
8000
this summer grades 1-12. Music program includes voice lessons, choir, drama
8010-Are you looking for an affordable cleaning lady? Give me a call today! Many years experience and excellent references. Call 718-563-6101 or 646-460-3488
I am a mature woman
8010-
& dance. For girls only,
seeking a job as a nanny/or
located in Boro Park
housekeeper as a full time
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years experience excellent References. call Joy at 718-209-9617 or 917-364-1015 8010-HEALTH CARE PROVIDER Complete Home Health Care Provider cooking ,cleaning Local best references,Over 10yr exper reliable 718-460-5272 or 917-528-6659
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8010-
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AFFORDABLE TUTORING
Able adult aid care for
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RABBI SEEKING POSITION Experienced dynamic and energetic Rabbi, Torah Reader, Cantorial Skills, Principal, Teacher, Youth Director, Involved in Community. Seeking position as Rabbi. Call 516-974-5590 8010
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I am a Mature woman seeking to care for elderly, disabled or babysitting, housekeeping and cooking as well. References on Request Call 347-312-4723 I am seeking a job as a companion for the elderly or disabled. I have many years of experience. Excellent references. Live in/out 631-896-0849, Willing to work 6 days a week.
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ZEVULAN partner to sup-
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port my Learning for one
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Partner/ Salesperson for
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Days/ nights. Experience
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do offices & homes.
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sional cleaning services. We
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Dependable, reliable, profes-
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Handyman
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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 Donate your car 100% tax deduction + Great mitzvah. Help Jewish causes, holiday programs, students & elderly education. Same day pickup. Free day + night hotel stay. Outreach programs. Jews of all backgrounds. Accepted any condition. 866-776-5463 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
Autos
www.QualityDoesCount.com ESTIMATES. Call Steve 718*614*4916
Exterminators 8075
8075 M&K Pest Control Special price for bedbugsSummer Special!! Senior citizen discount. Reseanable and reliable services. Licensed and insured. Call 917-304-8777
BUGS ARE GONE 24/7 Service Avail.
Love horses? Invest with no bills!
Any model, any condition.
Single investment of
Call: 347-234-8566 Auto Buyers Cars, Trucks, Any condition Cash on the spot highest $$$ Fast, Free Pick up, anywhere, anytime 732-298-4539
9030
MERCEDES 2003 SL500-Black/ charcoal, 18,900 miles, mint condition. No damage. $35,000. Brooklyn. Owner 917-806-8252 9030:
1998 Lincoln Towncar, Cartier Edition, Black, 99K miles, leather int, power seats, Windows, moon-roof, excellent shape, Totally remodeled! $2500 Call 718-415-6920 1998 Lincoln Towncar, Cartier Edition, Black, 99K miles, leather
SELL YOUR VEHICLE FREE
TITLE NO PROBS SAME DAY PICK UP. FREE TOWING!! CALL 718-864-2872
Pets 9035
9050
able, wide selection of males/females. Starting at
$600 530-519-9582
Puppies for Sale 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
Selling 9040
Mark 516-794-8375 Autos/ Police Impounds!! $500 Police Impounds!! Honadas, Chevys, Toyotas & more!! Please call for listings
Electricians Electrician All electrical needs. New lines Trouble shouting fixtures. Call Yahuda: 347-631-0481
800-366-0124 x 2305 Auto for Sale MERCEDES 2003 ML500 Blk, 59K, fully loaded, excel cond. $35,582 917-498-1716
OF
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 Art for Sale Works of Art for Acquisitios Judaica & Landscapes (917)204-5058
3
Buying
9045
DAY PARK-
$2K. CONTACT
559-269-7507 5000 Comic Books for sale from 1950” To
1990”s for Best Offer contact
JBEC48@OPTONLINE.NET NEW SEFFER TORAH, 6 INCH, 1/ARON KODESH, READY FOR SIYUM. 718-627-0915,
Collector of Jewish Art. Call Ted: 201-575-0055
9040:PIANO, Mason & Hamlin BB 7” Ebony, gorgeous sound, just regulated. Perfect condition, 4 years old. Tuned, includes artist’s bench + lrg humidifier$42,000. 646-709-7128 Tom
9050 IQ TESTED THE NEW YORK CITY TEST CENTER Offers for a limited time, free intelligence and personality tests. You IQ, personality And aptitude determine your future. Know them. No obligations. Walk-ins welcome 224 West 46th Street New York City, NY Phone: 212-921-1210 Open 7days a week from 9:00am- 10:00pm
Credit card companies started placing judgment on people who are not paying. Call us now to settle your debt before it’s too late. 718-705-6649 or 718-705-6645 9050:
ATTENTION BULK REO INVESTORS We buy distressed real estate from financial institutions and banks and resell them at below- wholesale prices to investors. If you are looking for a creditable source to buy bulk REO’s & NPN give me a call. We only sell what we own, no daisy- cahins. Must provide verifiable POF. Serious inquiries only! Contact Cathy Moses 510-323-2093
MERCAHNDISE AND
Other 9050Price Right tree cutting, pruning, feeding, spraying, planting, sukkah clearance. No job too large or small. Call 718-763-1816
CONTENTS OF STORE. 347-713-5340/ 646-210-7174 Valley thrift store: (Non-
9050-Green Turf Irrigation Sales-Service of automatic lawn sprinkler systems. 516-239-3434
7070:
917-449-6125
business! SELLING ALL
tuned, beau cond
9050Shlomo Hamelech’s tour of the United States: Motor home RV trips for free on condition of purchase of electronics, batteries and groceries. Total price $25,000 on condition that you acquire entire RV for additional $175K. You also get a new 2010 black mercury plus groceries for 10 years provided that I am the driver. Call 917-216-8379
OREGON VS.
OHIO STATE + ALL ING.
Steinway Piano-Original ivory keys + matching bench (Model M) Signed by S. Rachmaninoff. Excellent condition. $28,500.00. Contact 804-380-5659
BETWEEN
Walnut Louis XV Styling #496795
Call 718-415-6920
MODEL/Cond. Contact
TKTS
Judaica Store out of
www.bugsaregone.com
NATURAL GINESIS NO MORE BUGS! 100% NATURAL PLEASE CALL: 800-807-9357 www.naturalginesis.com
RESERVED
GRAND STAND, SEATING/
Steinway Model M
PA 412-922-3536
WANTED ANY
ROSE BOWL PARADE,
8 TKTS,
Pianos/Organs.
Totally remodeled! $2500
DIRT BIKES, OLD
PACKAGE,
Do you have merchandise you can’t sell? We’ll buy entire warehouse. Please call: 347-496-1626
9050
9040
Call Alex 718-735-2847
Mopeds/ Go carts
NEW YEARS
UNIVERSITY
$47,500. Pittsburgh,
Motorcycles.
Steinway Piano: Original ivory keys + matching bench. (Model M) Signed by S. Rachmaninoff. Excellent condition. $28,500.00 804-380-5659
GAME
excellent shape,
Contact: 631-944-1669
tional references, for info:
CHEETAH CUBS
Exotic hybrid cats, very love-
Free Estimates
miles, clean 8500.
& foals to be sold at major bloodstock sale Noc 2010.
TION NEW OLD JUNK NOT
int, power seats,
gold package 93,000
with –out board bills. Mares
859-983-1109
Windows, moon-roof,
BROOKLYN’S BEST BED BUGS, RATS. MONTHLY PEST CONTROL. RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE. FRANK 718-415-6920
350 acre Bluegrass farm
carriebrogden@aol.com
Specialist
8075-
foal thoroughbred mares on
QUOTES!!! ANY CONDI-
Bedbug and Roach
1997 Lexus SC 400
$50,000, purchases 11%
Lost hse in NJ fine furnishings, collectibles, coins, paintings, rugs. Cents on the dollar. 646-379-3566
ownership of 8 well bred in
Proven track record, excep-
Cockapoo’s/ Yorkiepoos/
•Dry Wall•Painting•Tile Work
20years Experience. FREE
CARS FOR SALE $200/$500 cars 4 cash.
Singer looking to form band for CD project, as well as performing at simchas. Jewish and secular music. Call Zev 347-593-4591
9050:
BAY SHORE: DOCK SPACE Available. 22 feet max. Pvt backyard. Water and electric. $1200 for a year. 646-734-2451 9050-
9050-PARTY MEETING SPACE RENTAL Parties, showers or Social events 2,200 sq ft Atlantic Avenue EventsonAtlantic.com melnn@mac.com 917-216-8754
World famous psychic Karen. Guaranteed to reunite lovers. Help with career, finances, health. Free reading by phone. 214-334-0037 Gifted and Inturtive Consulting in business Health children and family Relationships Excellent energy Treatment provided in need of Yeshiva Call 347-625-1440
profit.) 949 Amsterdam Ave. Men, Women & children; House wares, books, videos, DVD, CD, many
9040-Musical instruments *RARE GIBSON LES PAUL STEREO* CUSTOM 1962 Model, cherry red, original hard shell case. Excel cond. $18,500. Serious inquiries only. Danny 718-761-3886
other items. Mon-Fri 10am5pm, Sat noon-4pm. 212-222-2600 Mattress & Box spring Queen, Pillow top Still In Plastic $350 (631) 716-0174
NEW YEARS PACKAGE, 8 TKTS, ROSE BOWL PARADE, RESERVED GRAND STAND, SEATING/ 3 GAME TKTS BETWEEN UNIVERSITY OF OREGON VS. OHIO STATE + ALL DAY PARKING. $2K. CONTACT 559-269-7507
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New Jersey Apartment For Sale 9055
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
Monmouth Beach:
Office Approx 4500 sq ft
Oceanfront, breathtaking 2
divide + construct to small
BR, 2 bth, kitch, lg LR
units to your need. Second
w/dining area, huge deck,
floor, elevator bldg, close
indoor/outdoor pool, 24-hr
to all major highways.
security, easy bus/ ferry com-
Many incentives!
mute NYC, $2500/mo
201-934-1600
201-825-2646 Apartment for rent, NJ,
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
Apartment For Rent 9060
9060
VALLEY THRIFT STORE
Parsippany: Lak Hiawatha-1 BR condo quiet building, 2nd flr, walk-up, updated appliances in EIK. dows, new electric, good closet, space storage bin + laundry room on-site ample parking, great nearby park and ride. 2 miles, no pets,
munity 949 Amsterdam
no smoking. $875 monthly.
Avenue, NYC. Men’s,
Call 973-207-0860
women’s & children’s cloth-
Owner.
ing; Housewares, books, videos, DVDs, CDs, and
Newark, northward 263
many other items. Prices are
Verona Ave . Business com-
us from Mon-Fri 10am 5pm, and Sat Noon-4pm. 212-222-2600
mercial, for any business
NEW JERSEY 20 min
rollup steel doors $500 or 973-687-9270
from NYC, 2 Lg BR, walk-in closet, new appls, $1100 + utility & 1 ½ mon.sec. Income certification. 201-434-2361 after 4pm Vernon, NJ:
9060
NewTownHouse, 3 levels, 2.5
Denville, NJ: (off Rt 80, exit 39) Beautiful quiet building, furnished or unfurnished studio w/ sep kit, full bth, walk to NYC bus & train. Shopping center
bths/ 3 BDRM, fireplace, beau-
across the street, off street
tiful gated communityin Great
parking. Large closets, laun-
Gorge, Ski Resort area. Semi
dry room on floor, sale
furnished, includes driveways,
price $169,900. rental
NR Mineral bath spa (1) hour
$1995, plus electric/month.
from GW Bridge. Utils not
Call Joan at :
included. $2100. By owner
631-286-4959
347-387-3245 Lakewood, NJ: 1 BR, 1.5 bth, newly renovated apt, LR, DR, EIK. Reasonably priced, near shopping and houses of worship. Call 732-904-1921 Red Bank Downtown office space available 1350sqft. Vaulted ceilings, fios Internet. Parking available. Call Art 732-222-3553
$1,150 201-659-5574
Proper ty
For Rent
9065
House For Rent Triple A Jersey Shore Rentals ATLANTIC CITY: Boaters Dream, 3 Blocks to beach/ boardwalk, bay front with deck for 40ft boat. Spectacular 4 bdrm/ 3.5bth. Newer home on the intercoastal. Large outdoor entertainment area. Rent $16K/mo or available weekly. Contact owner 609-703-2273
store or warehouse16x19 f month 551-358-9372
9060
heat & hot water, lrg closets.
Renovated bath, new win-
A non-profit helping the com-
reasonable for quality. Visit
2nd floor in private house. 2 BR, Lrg LR, lrg kitchen. Includes
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
Proper ty
For Sale
9065
House for sale. Wayside/ Deal: Classic 1928 two story Dutch Colonial-one acre corner lot2 car garage 4 bdrs, 2.5 baths-Jacuzzi large kitchen/ family room-large living room-dining room-sun roomlibrary hardwood floors-new 2 zone a/c/ heating-new furnace-finished attic/ basemetn-burgular system secluded 20x40 heated inground pool with cabana/ entertainment area. 20 mins from beach-10 mins from rr station and major roads. Near Sephardic center/Chabad House/ HIllel/JCC/ Eruv of Jersey Shore. For sale by owner, Principles only. Asking 1,144,900. Avrum 732-695-1046 9065
Teaneck, NJ: Heart of
9065:Newark, NJ: Nice commercial gated-in building, safe iron-bound section FOR RENT. 16 ft ceiling. Up to 120,000sq ft, can be easily divided. 1st flr also available. Big parking lot, easy access & loading. Plenty of office space wired & ready. Surrounded w/heimishe businesses daily minyonim, close to highways & transportation. Excellent prices. Call 917-771-3140. If no ans, lv msg.
Condo for Sale: Atlantic City- Ocean Front luxury immaculate 2 beds/ 2 baths/ (2) balconies. Totally renovated condo on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Corner unit. 500 feet to synagogue. 10 minute walk to casinos & nightlife. Priced below market value @ $549K. Contact owner 609-703-2273 Bogota, NJ: 2 BR, 1.5 bths, LG EIK, 6 drvwy, central AC, new furnace w/3, zone heat. Close to all buses. Fast sale $259K OBO Owner 201-820-4391
Spring Lake Heights:
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
Deal Lake Jersey Shore Home Lake views throughout the house. A beauty on the outside; Needs work On the inside. 5 bdrms, 3 ½ baths. Located on Senic Edgemont Drive in Loach Arbour. 4 blocks to Ocean. $1,200,000 Call Owner 732-918-1216
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, DAYTON:
Residential/Commercial
BY OWNER. 55+, 2 BR, 2.5 BA,
Howell, NJ
DENS/STUDY, LOFT, CAC, FIREPLACE,
Near Lakewood,
HARDWOOD FLRS, PATIO, 2 CAR GAR. LOW $400’S. CLUBHOUSE, POOL, WALKING PATH, PUTTING AREA, GREEN TENNIS COURT, CLOSE TO NJ TURNPIKE. MUST SEE, CALL
732-329-9631 Mountclair (Upper):
Charming + Elegant, 8
20,000 sq ft asking 650k. Reasonably priced! Call now Dominick 908-415-2299 or Sal 718-853-3629 Are you looking for a clean
remodeled 3BR, 2 ba shore house colonial 2.5 blocks
from the beach. New roof,
BDRMs, 5.2 Bthrm, 9 fire-
kitchen & bath, parks 5 cars.
Wood) Original woodwork/
973-464-5561
places (Albaster/ Marble/
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
Asking $339,900. Call
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 Jersey city warehouse space Available. 10,000+ sf. Call Joe or Ben, 718-947-5037
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
9070
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
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Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent
9075
Irvington, NJ 21500 sq ft near airport, $6500 mo loading dock with enough room for two trailers to back up. Call (917) 804-8442
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Builders/developers, Land for sale: Zoned Residential 908-482-0528
New Jersey – SEAVIEW HARBOR MARINA Waterfront location @ Great Egg Harbor Inlet Bay + Intercostals Between Atlantic City & Ocean City 08403, Sea NY Times Web ID NS 100208201 $4,499M. Contact
Jewish comm., close to ortho
(610) 304-8307
shuls. Grt oppty for first time
yburns2080@comcast.net
buyers. Won’t last! Owner 718-338-6813 or 201-741-6883
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Florida & Israel Real Estate
For Sale
9080
9085:Miami Beach: Direct ocn view, condo, 2300+ sq ft, newly renov, cust kosh kit, stone flr throughout. 786-423-1289
Fallsburg NY: 3br 2.5 bth newly built house with 5 acres and upto 50 additional acres for development.flat operated land with ponds and streams plus additional property of 110 acress is aavailablie. Walk to shuel. Call for details. 718-938 -4130 9080
9080-Investment Property Long Island 3 Motels 4 sale 140 rm, 7acres Near major attractions triple net 99year lease Buy as a package or buy 1 only Gw Realty 718-376-5252 917-449-3902
Boca Raton: Designer furnished, 3 bedroom townhouse, 2 ½ bth, 2 car gar, equity membership mandatory. Golf view. 595K. Call 561-756-3248
Winston Towers: Onsite Resale office. Winston Twrs100: 2/2. Penthouse completely remodeled, ask $240’s Winston Twrs 200: 2/2 on the water ask low 200’s. convertible. $179K Winston Twrs 500: 1/1.5, Estate sale. Winston Towers Realty. 305-935-1500
APT FOR SALE Hdale Hemispheres mint Studio, Furnished Custom Murphy Bed high floors 7x18 Ft. Terrace Intercoastal and Ocean views free ac/cable Amen Rest,Beauty salon,gym pools must see $115,900 (516)377-7970 (954)457-9910 (516)297-1078
N. Miami Beach: Home for sale/rent Completely renovated 3-4 BR, 2 new baths, ceiling fans, crown moldings, spacious LR, DR, Family room, new pool, driveway, patio, new roof & AC, walk to many shuls, 429K. Call 610-247-4989 email: Tstoleberg@gmail.com
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
Miami Bch Blue Diamondoceanfront Completely renovated 2BR/2BTH+Den. Lo Floor No agent necessary. Asking $729K. Please call 786-200-6900
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
2 luxury condos each with 2 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms, one in Boca Raton for $79,900 one in Boynton Beach $119K 802-782-0721
Orlando: Furnished Condo 2 BR, 2 Bth, 2nd floor, club house, pool tennis court $150k negotiable 813-390-5008 MICCO- LIVE + WORK IN GATED PRIVATE PROPERTY
North Myrtle Beach for sale1 bdrm, 1 bth, pool. Asking $85,000 Call: 718-661-1286
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.
Condo/ Co-op, for sale, FL Delray/ Gleneagles CC: 2 prof golf courses & 21
A DEAL @ 1.1 MILCONTACT 321-431-8120 VIEW: WWW.EXTREMEFLORIDAHOME.COM LION.
den. 1750 sf wrap deck beaut f urn, upstrs unit. FSBO, 167.5K 516-650-2366 Boca Raton: Century Village, 5 BR, mins to Miami Beach, beaut 2 BRs, 1.5bths. Excel kept facilities, extras incl pool, gym, tennis etc. 305-308-8517
Boca Raton: Country Village (BOLD) 2BR, 2 Full Baths,No Furn,2 pools, clbhouse,$875/mo.Yrly only.646-321-5177. 646-318-9265.
Aventura/N. Miami. 3BR penthouse.Fully renov,furn.For seasonal/yr round rent.For photos or info call 718-217-4426
9085
Delray Beach FL. Gleneagles C.C., Bright, beautiful upstairs. “Bobby Jones”…Vaulted ceilings, 2 BRs + Den, 2 full bths., wrap-around patio. Lots of closets space. Updated kitchen w/granite counters. New—tile floors, showers and a/c. close to shopping and houses of worship. FSBO. Asking $189,000. 561-498-0468 9085
Excellent opportunity! Fountainbleau Hotel: Miami Beach, Magnificent 850sq ft studio, sleeps 4. renting daily/weekly. Available short/ long term. Summer special. Please call: 347-804-4666
CONDO FOR SALEFLORIDA
BR, 2 BTH, LR/DR AREA, CLOSED IN, SUN-ROOM,
Florida: Hemisphere 2/2, 15 condo furnished and equipped. Min 3 months rental from $1800 per month.
www.oceandreamsrealty.com
Miami Bch: Indian Creek, King David Towers. Lux Apt, 2 BR, 2 bths, beaut beach view $2500 718-677-9825
bth w/ocean vu. New ksher kit-shabbat mode.
Fully equip. kitchens, 3 Br, 2
For sale Israel
Condos for rent
BA, Sleeps 6, washer, 1
KIryat GAT Near
dryer, walking Distance to
Beersheva- 2 Brs, KItch,
worship, near pool,
L/R, 400 sq ft, front yard,
whirpool, Fitness & business
playground.$80K
center. Avial now December
Call 917-804-4158
2008- 3k/mo special rates July–Oct 2008 Call: 612-220-2382
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale/Rent 9090:
Payroll & Sales Tax
*We will do your payroll
Winter rental and or
FRLS, A/C. 55 GATED
Pesach. Call 201-836-
COMMUNITY, 2 POOLS,
9642 or email: steven-
more. *Accounting Svcs
MANY AMENITIES. WALK
schiefer@hotmail.com
for all your business needs
return for only $75 *We file corps-only $350LLC, non for profit and
(Small Businesses Welcome) Wynmoor Coconut
Call 718-686-7526
MAINT. REDUCED FOR
Creek, FL: Furn 2 BR/2 full
ext101
QUICK SALE. BY OWNER,
bth, elev bldg, golf, tennis,
305-877-6927
swim, movies, bus svc, deli on premise. Full security, emergency med. Rent for 4 mo/ Get 6 mo deal. Call
Florida Condo for sale Orlando New 5 star resort, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bath townhouse.
Ralph 215-957-7680 MIAMI BEACH, Portugal Towers, Ocean view, 2 BRs.
All Amenities, 5 minutes
Weekly or monthly Rental.
to Disney/universal.
Call: 718-753-4479
$125/night.
Gardens: Fully furnished, 1
Chuck 908-874-7018
bed, 1.5 bths, includes cable,
Lakewood prime loca-
9090
tion; Hwy 9 (Madison
included, presently a dental office $350,000 GLOBE REALTY 732-367-9100 Fort Myers: Restaurant/ Night Club, large entertain-
Hallandale: 1817 S. Ocean
ment area with outside bar.
Dr. Large, 1 BR, 1.5 bth,
3 acres + 15000 sq ft
unfurn, Bay&Ocean views.
bldg, excellent location in
Condo for sale FL
post office, race track. 55+
Jupiter/ Ocean BluffsN:
$950 a month, yearly. Call
S Fort Myers nr Cape
Gated 2 BR, 2 bth, condo,
owner: 954-457-8570
Coral. Contact Mr. Anulli
seas Neg. Call Richard 954-457-3862
sf condo, 2 BR, 3 bth, restaurant, beauty salon, state of the art gym, pool. Reasonably priced, negoDiplomat Hotel, shopping, trans and more. ALSO 1 BR, 1,000sf furnished and ready to move-in. Call: 954-458-2280
Tudor Villa Realty
LR, FL/R, Ldry/R titled porch, nice view/RED. Lowest in Bluffs $270k. Contact
beautifully furnished 1500
239-810-1806
steps to pool, bch, kitchen, DR,
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
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
incl all linen, applncs, sh shab. Short Term rentals. 416-782-6791 Lev Yerushlayim: Renov 1 BR furn apt. Sleeps 4. All amens. Avail 9/7-10/16, part or all. 937-304-4026
Nahalaot/ Rehavia Private house, extremely rare,15 rms Prking,elevator, garden, shelter 054-2382016 No5floor@gmail.com
Ave)- Building & property
pking, pool, close to library,
Community, $825/Mo, 1325
lux apt in 18 unit bldg.
9090
GRANITE FLRS, NEW TILE
$99K FIRM.
Jerus, central. New 4 BR
Kitch ware. Kosher &
Shab elevator, shul in bldg.
TO SHULS, SHOP, LOW
Time Share-Israel Lev Yerushalayim, 1 BR, sleeps 4 kitchenette, avail for sale 2/7/11-3/07/11, by month or weeks. 718-382-6923
Kosher condo Sarsota, FL
Miami Beach, Carriage House. New lrg 2 BR, 2
ISRAEL
Lev Yerushalayim Hotel: 2 BRs, 2 bths, kitchen, terrace 972-3-673-7330. Email: Arusi@zahav.net.il
3 WALK-ON CLOSETS,
330 SE 2nd St, Gulfstream
tiable, asking $325k. Near
Tampa: 3 BR, 2Bth condo. 2nd floor , Built 2006 Clubhouse pool,$150k Nego. 813-390-5008
Seasonal Rentals, South
Contact- Pepe & Martha
Hallendale: La meron, 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
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
Peña. 305-905-4392
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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
561-746-6446
tennis courts both w/full memberships, 2BR, 2 bth +
Pesach Rental in Miami FL 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
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
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Condo for sale FL Naples: TARPON BAY CONDO 2 BR/2 BA;
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King David Towers. Lux
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