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BY FERN SIDMAN In a lengthy address on state TV, Libya's Moammar Qadhafi vows not to resign, denounces protesters as 'greasy rats' and urges his supporters to help the military crush the uprising.

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Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi has vowed not to leave his country and to die as a "martyr" as anti-government protests rage in Libya. e made a passionate speech on state television Tuesday, saying that he was a "revolutionary." He urged Libyans to help defend the country against those who were stirring the unrest, people he referred to as "gangs" or "terrorists."

The Libyan leader said he was speaking from a home that was bombed by the United States and Britain in 1986.

Mr. Qadhafi is losing the support of key figures in his government as Libyan officials at home and abroad resign or defect in response to his deadly crackdown on the nationwide protests demanding his ouster.

The protests represent the greatest challenge to Mr. Qadhafi's rule since he took power in 1969.

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Witnesses in Tripoli said Libyan helicopters and warplanes struck civilian areas Monday, while African mercenaries and proQadhafi gunmen opened fire indiscriminately to terrorize the population. Libyan staterun television said Tuesday that foreign media reports of massacres in the country were "lies" aimed at destroying the morale of the public.

Libyan diplomats in several countries say they have severed relations with Mr. Qadhafi to protest attacks by his forces on protesters.

Libyan Ambassador to the United States Ali Aujali called on the Libyan leader to step down. Several other Libyan envoys said they resigned, including the ambassadors to India and Indonesia and a senior diplomat in China.

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On Wednesday February 16th, a most unique and historic colloquium was convened in Toronto by the Advocates For Civil Liberties (ACL), a new and dynamic organization of attorneys, professionals and concerned citizens dedicated to spotlighting the egregious manifestations of anti-Israel propaganda on university campuses across North America. he day long symposium that drew over 400 people was entitled, "When Middle East Politics Invade Campus" and was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Toronto. The forum featured a panoply of distinguished speakers including such vibrant and erudite intellectual personalities as Israel National News op-ed contributor, Dr. Phyllis Chesler, emerita professor of psychology and women's studies at CUNY, journalist, noted lecturer and author of 13 books including, "The New AntiSemitism" and "The Death of Feminism".

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February 25, 2011

BREAKING NEWS

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Citigroup Executive Knew of Madoff Fraud, Trustee Says in Suit According to Bloomberg Business Week, 2/22/11, warning signs as early as June 2007, of Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, were ignored by Citigroup Inc.’s Citibank. he trustee liquidating Madoff’s firm stated in a lawsuit that a bank executive knew the con man’s stated trading strategy couldn’t generate the reported returns, The unidentified Citibank executive, responsible for making recommendations to clients on derivatives, “concluded” by June 2007 that returns reported by a Madoff feeder fund, Fairfield Sentry Ltd., couldn’t have come from the strategy, trustee Irving Picard said in a complaint unsealed yesterday.

Later, the Citibank official communicated with Markopolis orally and in writing, specifically discussing the fraud before the Ponzi scheme

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was exposed in December 2008, Picard alleged.

Picard laid out in the complaint details of a lawsuit he filed under seal in December against Citigroup and other banks. He is demanding $425 million from Citigroup.

Citi, in a statement on Tuesday still claims that the allegations in the lawsuit were false and it would "vigorously defend against these claims."

At the time of his arrest, Madoff’s statements reflected $65 billion in nonexistent balances of 4,900 accounts. Investors lost about $20 billion in principal. The main case is Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, 08-01789, and the Citigroup case is Picard v. Citibank, 10-05345, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan). Citigroup Inc tried to pass on its exposure to Bernard Madoff to other banks just months before his epic fraud was

revealed, the Madoff trustee said in a lawsuit accusing a second major U.S. bank of unsavory dealings with the financier.

Trustee Irving Picard said serious signs were apparent to Citi as early as 2005 about Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC according to court papers unsealed on Monday. The lawsuit seeks $425 million from the bank. Picard also has sued JPMorgan Chase & Co, Madoff's primary banker, for $6.4 billion, alleging the bank turned a blind eye as Madoff ran a Ponzi scheme. Portions of both lawsuits were edited to conceal the names of bank personnel and others.

The lawsuit against Citi was filed on December 8 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York. Madoff was arrested in December 2008 after admitting he ran a decades-long, multibillion-dollar swindle, considered the biggest investment fraud in history.

he Jewish state is already alarmed by the downfall of the Cairo regime, linchpin of Israel's security policy since they signed a landmark peace treaty in 1979.

That's the same year another key ally of Israel, the shah of Iran, was toppled under circumstances not much different to those in play today, ushering in the era of Islamist terrorism with Israel a major target.

So the arrival of the Iranian frigate Alvand and a supply ship, the Kharq, in the Suez Canal while the Arab world is gripped by unprecedented political upheaval has heightened the considerable consternation sweeping Israel.

The aging British-built ships, en route to Syria, hardly constitute a military threat but no Iranian vessel has used the canal since the Islamic Republic was established, while Israel has sent missile boats and one of its Dolphinclass submarines southward into the Red Sea over the last two years.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared, "We can see what an unstable region we live in, a region in which Iran tries to exploit the situation that has been created in order to expand its influence by passing warships through the Suez Canal."

He viewed the Iranian expedition, however modest, into the Mediterranean, Israel's backyard, "with the utmost gravity."

He argued that Tehran's actions amid the political upheaval showed that Israel should

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expand its defense readiness.

The Arrow-2 test over the Pacific against a simulated Iranian ballistic missile had presumably been scheduled for some time but it assumed political overtones as Israel grappled with a new reality.

Even before Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down as Egypt's president Feb. 11, Israel had feared that its peace treaty with Egypt, and a 1994 pact with Jordan, could be in deep jeopardy.

If those agreements were abrogated, Israel's entire regional policy would collapse.

The possible emergence of hostile Arab regimes in Cairo, Amman and elsewhere would mean the Jewish state would have to conduct a sweeping upgrade of its military readiness.

Forces would have to be deployed on its southern and eastern borders again. But the army disbanded its desert warfare brigades following the 1979 treaty. It will take time to retrain units for fighting in the Sinai wastes.

After Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the peace treaty with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at Camp David March 26, 1979, the Jewish state's defense budget fell from 30 percent of its gross national product to 7 percent.

"For more than two decades, the structure of the Israeli forces was based on the assumption that Egypt is in no way a potential threat to Israel," said former Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh.

"I don't say that Egypt today is a threat. But what's happening there may change the status of Egypt vis-a-vis Israel as far as strategic balance is concerned. And that's why Israel must change the structure of all of its forces."

Egypt's U.S.-armed and trained forces still

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“But what's happening there may change the status of Egypt vis-a-vis Israel as far as strategic balance is concerned.”

__________________________________ carry out exercises in which Israel is "the enemy." But its armed forces haven't seen combat since the 1973 war, when they took Israel by surprise by crossing the Suez Canal before being crushed.

There seems little appetite in Egypt for a new war. But while the treaty was a strategic boon for Cairo, which was rewarded with some $60 billion of U.S. aid, the agreement has never been popular with the people.

If the Jordanian monarchy falls because of the ever-widening political turmoil in the Arab world, Israel's problems would be dangerously compounded. An estimated 60 percent of Jordan's population is Palestinian.

"Israel's strategic environment is about to change," observed Daniel Levy director of the Middle East Task force at the New American Foundation in Washington.

Mubarak loathed Iran, as Israel does. It is unlikely in the extreme that he would have allowed Iranian warships to use the Suez Canal to move from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.

So now he's gone, Tehran's potential for exploiting the turmoil in the Arab world, and the threat to regimes allied with the United States, has increased exponentially, heightening Israel alarm.

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Lara Logan Beaten With Flag Poles During Mob Attack in Egypt’s Celebration of the King’s Resignation.

According to “The Australian”, new details emerging about CBS reporter Lara Logan's brutal attack in Egypt, betray the earlier media’s reports that were greatly muted in contrast. As thousands of Egyptians celebrated the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak on the streets, 200 thugs, shouting, “Jew, Jew!” began their terrorizing attack on journalist Lara Logan. here had been such a media downplay amounting to a virtual blackout of the facts including that she was stripped, repeatedly punched and slapped and pinched so hard that sensitive parts of her body were covered in red marks, according to a new report.

Wounds on her body were consistent with being hit by the poles that demonstrators were using to fly flags, London's Sunday Times reported.

Logan, chief foreign correspondent for the network, was taken to the Four Seasons hotel, treated and sedated and then flown out of the country. She continues to recover at her Washington, DC, home.

CBS originally said only that Logan was "surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers".

However, the assailants were in high numbers and savagely attacked her sexually.

Guards with her also were beaten by the mob celebrating the exit of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on February 11.

One had his hand broken.

In strange contrast, an earlier report of

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lic. It would never be tolerated.

As additional details emerge of efforts to suppress the truth of the true anti-semitic motivation of Logan’s attackers, it becomes disturbingly clear that the media itself is often complicit in the attempt to portray circumstances in a manner to fit a common narrative even when it involves one of their own.

CBS News correspondent Lara Logan in Cairo's Tahrir Square moments before she was attacked. that event by Richard Cohen in the Washington Post had characterized that same crowd in Tahrir Square as, “friendly and out for nothing but democracy”. He also noted that many journalists had covered the mobs as if “they were reporting from Times Square on New Year’s Eve”.

The deep-seated hatred of Jews in Egypt was viciously rationalized by an attorney in

The protests in Egypt turned violent at times. A day of celebration last Friday ended with CBS reporter Lara Logan's sexual assault and beating. Logan, 39, is recovering in the hospital. the Middle East as indicated by a televised report of an interview in 2008. The lawyer argued on the Al-Arabiya Network, justifying sexual assault by Muslim men against Israeli women by the myth that Jews have raped the land”.

On PBS, Feb21, two women interviewed, one an American at the American University in Cairo, and another, an Egyptian reporter both added their own explanations to the justification of Muslim men’s sexual harassment of women as well as its common acceptance. The Egyptian female reporter claimed that if a woman who had been attacked were to go to police, the police would laugh at her. The other woman attempted to “explain” such abusive behaviour as the result of the men’s frustration due to their inability to make a enough of a living to support a wife. The moderator replied that very many men are unemployed in America currently and would not act this way in pub-

Another troubling fact manifests regarding Herculean efforts to avoid any anti-Jewish sentiment on the part of Muslim protesters in the Middle East.

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American Society of Yad Vashem and The Blue Card Join to Participate in Jerusalem Marathon

BY GABI HAMANI “RUNNING – REMEMBERING – CARING” TEAM CAPTAIN EVP Deputy Manager, Bank Hapoalim, NY Branches

The first international Jerusalem Marathon will take place on Friday, March 25th in Jerusalem, Israel. This is the first event of this kind, expected to host about 10,000 runners from around the globe. It will be a unique event—an international gathering in the midst of Jerusalem’s historical, magical vistas. he American Society for Yad Vashem and The Blue Card have formed a joint team of runners that will participate in the marathon. The American Society for Yad Vashem partners with Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to support their efforts in Holocaust commemoration, education and research. The Blue Card helps destitute Holocaust survivors in the United States.

Our theme is “Running – Remembering – Caring”.

I encourage you to be a part of this incredible experience, and help us reach our goals of raising funds -- and awareness -- of the extraordinary work of both organizations.

If you are a runner - I would love to have you join our team. You have a choice of running in the full marathon, half marathon, or 10K races. If you are not a runner, you can support this project by making a contribution on behalf of a specific runner, or the team in general. Corporate sponsorships are also most welcome. Bank Hapoalim is proud to be a Diamond Partner sponsor of the team.

As part of the program in Jerusalem for

T Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, authorized a number of senior rabbis on Sunday to add clarifications on behalf of his controversial ruling which legitimized conversions performed in the Israel Defense Forces. are expected to call off the mass protest

BY KOBI NAHSHONI In order to prevent haredi protests, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef says a converts who did not intend on observing mitzvot while undergoing conversion process will not be recognized as a Jew has' spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, authorized a number of senior rabbis on Sunday to add clarifications on his behalf to his controversial ruling which legitimized conversions performed in the Israel Defense Forces.

The addition is said to be accepted by leaders of the Eda Haredit movement, including head of the Lithuanian Orthodox faction Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, who

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against Rabbi Yosef planned for Wednesday.

According to the compromise – brokered by former Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri – Rabbi Yosef added a restriction to his ruling, stating that a convert who did not really intend on adopting a religious lifestyle while undergoing the conversion process would not be recognized as a Jew. The compromise offers the Ashkenazi rabbis a way out from their aggressive and uncompromising statements in the past few days, while sparing an embarrassing mass protest against Rabbi Yosef and Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar, without any of the parties reneging on their original

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our team members, a visit is planned to Yad Vashem with a private guide and lunch reception, which is sure to be a most memorable experience.

To register to run in the marathon for our team--please visit http://www.jerusalemmarathon.com.

Click “Apply Now’, “Singles” and on the Registration Page, select American Society for Yad Vashem & The Blue Card from the drop down menu in the Group/Organization field.

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I look forward to greeting you in Jerusalem and counting down together at the starting line!

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February 25, 2011

First Ever Bnei Menashe Officer in IDF Makes History SECOND LIEUTENANT SHALEM GIN: “I hope more officers from the community will follow”

Gin in the middle marching with other officers.

Jerusalem, February 17, 2011 – History was made yesterday when Shalem Gin became the first IDF officer from the Bnei Menashe community, who are descended from one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Gin received the rank of Second Lieutenant in front of friends and family at a ceremony held at the Bahad 1 military base in the Negev. in, 20, was born in Manipur, a state in northeastern India. He and his family made Aliyah to Israel in 1995. Gin joined the IDF in 2009 and enlisted in the Combat Engineering Corps, where he finished near the top of his class in his commanders course.

After completing the course with honors, Gin was then sent to officer training, which he officially completed yesterday. He will now return to his unit as a platoon commander.

“This is a dream come true. It brings great joy and pride to me and my family,” Gin said. “As the first Bnei Menashe officer in the IDF, I hope that more from the community will follow.”

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About the Bnei Menashe (Hebrew for “sons of Manasseh”): They claim descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, sent into exile by the Assyrian Empire more than 27 centuries ago, and currently live in India‘s northeastern border states of Manipur and Mizoram. Throughout their exile, the Bnei Menashe nonetheless continued to practice Judaism just as their ancestors did, including observing the Sabbath, keeping kosher, celebrating the festivals and following the laws of family purity. And they continued to nourish the dream of one day returning to the land of their ancestors, the Land of Israel. In recent years, Shavei Israel has brought some 1,700 Bnei Menashe back home to Zion. Another 7,232 still remain in India, waiting for the day when they too will

“Shalem is a very talented young man with extraordinary ambition,” said Michael Freund, Founder and Chairman of Shavei

______________________ Shalem Gin “This is a dream come true. It brings great joy and pride to me and my family.” ______________________ Israel, the organization responsible for the Aliyah of the Bnei Menashe. “When I met Shalem a few years ago, he told me that even as a child in India he always dreamt of becoming an Israeli combat soldier.

Nonetheless, I’m sure that Shalem himself did not imagine that he would become the first Bnei Menashe officer in the IDF, but today he has achieved that goal and we are all very proud of him.”

“Shalem Gin made history today,” Freund added, “He is a pioneer in his community who has paved the way for others to follow in his footsteps.”

Freund also called on the Israeli government to allow the remaining 7,232 Bnei Menashe in India to make Aliyah as soon as possible. “Shalem Gin’s success story underlines the contribution that the Bnei Menashe wish to make to the State of Israel. It is time to bring about an end to the community’s waiting, and to enable them to come home to Israel as soon as possible,” he said.

Shalem Gin with his parents and Grandfather. Photo by Michal Fattal. be able to return to Israel and the Jewish people.

About Shavei Israel: a non-profit organization founded by Michael Freund, who immigrated to Israel from the United States, with the aim of reaching out to descendants of Jews around the world and strengthening their connection with the Jewish people and the State of Israel. The organization is currently active in nine countries and provides assistance to a variety of different communities such as the Bnei Menashe of India, the Bnei Anousim in Spain, Portugal and South America, the Subbotnik Jews of Russia, the Jewish community of Kaifeng in China, the “Hidden Jews” of Poland from the Holocaust era and others. For more information visit: www.shavei.org.

For further details, please contact: New York: Jake Sharfman - Office: 212315-1201, Cell: 248-318-1072, Info@puderpr.com Israel: Arik Puder – 077-4447158, Arik@puderpr.com

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February 25, 2011

The New Middle East: A “Ring of Fire”

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Defiant Qadhafi Vows to Fight On

The pervasive unrest encircling the Middle Eastern Arab countries from Algeria to Tunisia, is reminiscent of the circle of volcanic activity, periodically erupting from western regions of South America and the South Pacific. ne by one, or at times, simultaneously, 100’s of thousands of citizens from Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Iran, Iraq, are rebelling against long-standing, corrupt, oppressive regimes from Northern Africa to Iraq.

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In the capital city of Algiers, hundreds of protestors clashed with security forces demanding that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika step down. Police fired tear gas and used water cannon on stone-throwing youths, 100 of whom were arrested. The riots have been linked to rising food prices, housing shortages, and wider social and political grievances. Bab el-Oued, a working class district of the capital was also the scene of riots now as it had also been at the centre of the protest movement in 1988, as well as the period of unrest in the 1990s that led to an Islamist insurgency. Algeria’s Jewish population traces back about 2,600 years, to the time of the First Temple destruction. When Algeria achieved independence from France in 1962, most of the country’s 130,000 Jews – who had long suffered from local antiSemitism- emigrated to France. By the 1990’s, most of the remaining Jews had emigrated. The Armed Islamic Group declared war in 1994 on all non-Muslims in the country. That same year, the Algiers Synagogue was abandoned and later turned into a mosque. Today, mostly in Algiers, slightly more than 200 Jews remain.

BAHRAIN

Bahrain is an important U.S. ally, host to the American Navy's 5th Fleet, a counterbalance to Iran's military power in the Persian Gulf Thousands of people are marching in the streets , demanding the regime’s ousting.

Neighboring gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia are worried about Shiite unrest within their own borders and have been increasing pressure on Bahrain's government to settle the conflict. The government is using every tactic possible to create divisions. So far, calls for dialogue have not dissuaded protesters, who initially called for a constitutional monarchy but now want the king to step down altogether.

The small island kingdom (population 1.25 million) has been ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family for nearly two centuries, since 1820.

After World War II, riots were focused against the middle-class Jewish community.

By 1948, most of Bahrain Jewry abandoned its properties and evacuated to Bombay, India and later to Israel and the United Kingdom. As of 2008, 37 Jews remained in the country; the issue of compensation was never settled. In 2008, King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa called on the Jews who emigrated to return.

EGYPT

Unrest continues despite President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation Friday. While the army attempts to take control until elections are arranged the banks and the stock market remain closed, In 1956, the Egyptian government issued a proclamation stating that “all Jews are Zionists and enemies of the state” and threatened them with expulsion.

Consequently, half of Egypt’s 50,000 Jews left, and 1,000 were imprisoned. After the 1967 war, nearly all Egyptian Jewish men aged 17-60 were either thrown out of the country or incarcerated and tortured. Fewer than 100 Jews remain in Egypt today.

IRAN

Tens of thousands of anti-Ahmadinejad demonstrators marched in downtown Tehran on Monday. The Parliament Speaker blamed the United States and Israel for the protests.

Opposition activists continue to call for

more demonstrations, in which security forces have fired tear gas; dozens of people have been arrested, and two opposition leaders placed under house arrest. The Iranian system, unlike Egypt is undergirded by a strong religious ideology, ingrained in and enforced by the members of security services, such as the Revolutionary Guard and the Basiij militia, used for crowd control and to preserve the current political order. Violent repression can push anti-government movements underground making them difficult to monitor, as has happened with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

During a parliament session, speaker Ali Larijani stated,"The parliament condemns the Zionist, American, anti-revolutionary and anti-national action of the misled seditionists," Jews in Iran, formerly known as Persia, date back 4,000 years. In 1948, the population numbered close to 150,000, and at the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the number was 80,000. From then on, Jewish emigration increased dramatically. Estimates of today’s population range from 20,000 to 35,000. Iran's Jewish community, the largest among Muslim countries, is officially recognized as a religious minority group and as such is allocated one seat in the Iranian Parliament. Tehran has 11 functioning synagogues.

IRAQ

Though Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s regime does not appear to be in imminent danger, thousands of people have rallied in recent days and weeks across the country, protesting poverty, high unemployment, and shortages of food, electricity and water. AlMaliki has announced a 50% cut in his $350,000 salary and that he would not run for a third term in 2014.

Iraqi Jewry dates back at least 2,600 years, and numbered around 120,000 in 1948. Nearly all the Jews left because of persecution following Israel’s War of Independence, and today fewer than 100 Jews remain.

TUNISIA

The future of Tunisia is still in doubt, following the fleeing of longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali as a result of the December unrest that sparked the protests across the Middle East. The EU’s top foreign policy official, Catherine Ashton, met yesterday with various leaders to attempt to shape a policy for governing the country.

In 1941, Tunisia was home to roughly 100,000 Jews, and a year later became the only Arab country to come under direct Nazi occupation during World War II. The Nazis forced Jews to wear the yellow Star of David, confiscated property, and sent some 5,700 Jews to forced labor camps, where 150 died in the camps or the bombings. In the 1950’s, anti-Semitism and other forms of persecution led to the departure of tens of thousands of Jews; each person was allowed to leave with approximately $5 of their own money.

Presently,700 Jews live in the city of Tunis and 1,000 on the island of Djerba.

Amidst the Arab demands for the restitution of Arab refugees from the 1948 war, it is largely overlooked that at that time, more than 870,000 Jews had lived in the various Arab countries. In many cases, they were persecuted physically and politically; their property completely confiscated; some 600,000 Jews found refuge in the State of Israel. Their material claims for their lost assets have never been seriously considered.

This image broadcast on Libyan state television, shows country's leader Moammar Qadhafi addressing the nation in Tripoli.

Continued from Cover Libya's embassies in Malaysia and Australia said they no longer represent Mr. Qadhafi. His Justice Minister Mustafa Abdel-Jalil resigned Monday in protest at the crackdown, while two Libyan fighter pilots flew their jets to Malta, saying they had defected after being ordered to attack demonstrators.

Earlier, Libyan television said security forces loyal to Mr. Qadhafi were attacking the "hideouts" of "saboteurs," without elaborating. It also quoted the Libyan leader's son, Saif al-Islam Qadhafi, as saying Libyan warplanes only struck ammunition dumps.

Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that it had received reports of at least 62 deaths in

Tripoli since Sunday. The U.S.-based rights group says the information is from sources at two hospitals in the city. On Sunday, Human Rights Watch said 233 people have been killed in the uprising, mostly in the country's eastern provinces, which appear to have fallen under the control of anti-Gadhafi forces.

The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights said Monday at least nine Libyan cities, including Benghazi, Sirte and Misrata, were in the hands of the protesters.

The reports could not be independently confirmed because Libya has barred the entry of foreign journalists and cut some communication networks in the country.

The United Nations Security Council is holding a closed session late Tuesday on Libya's unrest.

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NATIONAL

The Jewish Voice

February 25, 2011

Gerda Weissman Klein, Jewish Voice for Peace Chief Threatened Over ‘Crusader of Tolerance,’ Receives Medal of Freedom Pro-Palestinian Campaign Estee Chandler, who heads 'anti-Israel' organization, found a poster of her picture, her workplace, other personal details and names of her relatives at her West coast home.

Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissman Klein was among 15 Americans to receive the 2010 Medal of Freedom from President Obama. s an author, a historian and a crusader for tolerance, she has taught the world that it is often in our most hopeless moments that we discover the extent of our strength and the depth of our love," Obama said about Klein during the award ceremony Tuesday at the White House.

Klein, who worked in slave labor and concentration camps until she was forced to take a 350-mile death march at the end of World War II designed by the Nazis to keep Jews from being rescued, recently founded Citizenship Counts, a nonpartisan organization that is committed to educating middleand high-school students on the tenets of citizenship, inspiring their pride in America and encouraging them to participate in community service.

Klein authored her autobiography, "All

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he head of the pro-Palestinian organization Jewish Voice for Peace received a threatening poster at her Los Angeles area home this weekend for her involvement in the organization.

Estee Chandler, the organization leader on the West coast, said she found a poster on her front porch last week reading “WANTED for treason and incitement against Jews.”

According to Chandler, the poster displayed her picture, her workplace, other personal details and names of her relatives.

The poster charged her with using "her own presumed Jewishness as a weapon against the Jewish People and the Jewish State of Israel while conspiring with other well-known anti-Israel groups to assist in Israel's destruction and to otherwise engender hatred and incite further violence against the Jewish People and the Jewish State of Israel."

In a statement responding to the threat published on the organization's website, Chandler said "I was forewarned about extremists when I first decided to start a Jewish Voice for Peace chapter here in my hometown of Los Angeles. I went into it with my eyes open. While I didn’t think anything would happen this soon, i cant say it wasn’t something I didn’t anticipate. Ultimately I think these people really are cowards, and not really to be feared."

"We are the silent majority of American Jews and its time for us to stop being silent. if we raise our voices a fraction of the level of these people- we will become the message, too many people who are with us are afraid. ultimately nonviolence is the only thing that has ever won out," she added.

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Gerda Weissman Klein, worked in slave labor and concentration camps and was forced to take a 350-mile death march at the end of World War II. about freedom and tolerance to groups throughout the world.

The Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian honor, is "presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."

Other medal recipients Tuesday included former President George H. W. Bush; German Chancellor Angela Merkel; poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou; investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett; cellist YoYo Ma; and sports greats Stan Musial and Bill Russell.

Poster threatening Estee Chandler, head of the Jewish Voice for Peace In October last year, the Anti-Defamation League named the Jewish Voice for Peace — which champions the rights of Palestinians and is considered an anti-Israel organization by many Americans, especially after calling to boycott companies that profit from Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza among the top 10 anti-Israel groups in America.

______________________ “I was forewarned about extremists, but I didn’t think anything would happen this soon, I can’t say it wasn’t something I didn’t anticipate. ” ______________________ The organization, however, maintains the stand that they are not fighting against Israel or challenging its right to exist, but rather questioning the Israeli government's policies and actions in the Palestinian territories.

The distributors of the threatening poster have yet to be found, according to the JVP.

The Jewish Voice

February 25, 2011

Billionaire Tisch to be Next Jewish Agency Board Chair

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Hate Crime and Robbery at Avenue Z Jewish Center

BUSINESSMAN HAS HELD SEVERAL PROMINENT POSITIONS IN THE JEWISH ESTABLISHMENT BEFORE. Billionaire businessman James Tisch is expected to be voted in as the next chairman of the Jewish Agency’s board of governors on Tuesday during its meeting in Jerusalem. he expected chairman of the body tasked with overseeing the Jewish organization’s activities has held several prominent positions in the Jewish establishment before, including tenures as the chairman of the Council of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and president of the New York Jewish Federation.

Tisch, 58, is a scion of the one of the wealthiest Jewish families in the US, which owns Loews, a holding company which started out as a theater chain, and donates millions to Jewish causes in Israel and around the world. On Sunday he was made a member of the board of governors so he could become a nominee ahead of the scheduled vote. Meanwhile, the Jewish Agency’s proposed strategic plan that would put a new emphasis on building Jewish identity in Israel and the Diaspora passed another hurdle on Sunday after it was approved by the board of governors in a vote.

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James Tisch, 58, is a scion of the one of the wealthiest Jewish families in the US “It’s a new era,” agency chairman Natan Sharansky said. “Motivation to make aliya today stems from a strong Jewish-Zionist identity and not distress related to the economy or personal safety.”

The proposal needs to be green-lighted by the organization’s assembly in June in order for it to be officially adopted, Jewish Agency officials said.

JAMES S TISH BOIGRAPHY 1953–...

Chief executive officer and co-president, Loews Corporation Nationality: American.

Born: January 2, 1953, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Education: Cornell University, BA, 1975; Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, MBA, 1976.

Family: Son of Laurence A. Tisch (a cochairman of Loews Corporation) and Wilma Stein (a trustee of Skidmore College); married Merryl Hiat (a professional volunteer and civic leader); children: three.

Career: Loews Corporation, 1977–1982, various positions; 1982–1994, vice president; 1986–, chairman and CEO of Diamond Offshore Drilling; 1994–1998, president and COO; 1999–, CEO and president.

Address: Loews Corporation, 667 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10021; http://www.loews.com.

James Tisch, a shrewd investor, inherited from his father and uncle and commanded one of the largest family businesses in corporate America. With 2002 sales of $19.4 billion Loews was a diversified holding company with a primary interest in the insurance business of the publicly traded subsidiary CNA Financial. Receiving more attention—primarily negative—was the Loews subsidiary Lorillard Tobacco, which marketed the Kent, Newport, and True U.S. cigarette brands. Professionally, James Tisch defended his company against a slew of lawsuits; personally he was obligated to contend with detractors who viewed his family's philanthropy as a calculated strategy to cover up their affiliation with tobacco.

A FAMILY EMPIRE IS FORMED In 1947 James Tisch's father, Laurence, and his uncle, Preston, entered the lodging industry with the purchase of a winter resort that was popular in the New York metropolitan area. The two brothers bought the Laurelin-the-Pines vacation spot in Lakewood, New Jersey, for $375,000 with help from their parents. From that modest family business the Tisch brothers eventually built

Loews Corporation. From 1995 to 2002 the two Tisch brothers appeared on the Forbes 400 list of the most affluent Americans with estimated net worths of $1–2.2 billion.

As a child in Scarsdale, New York, James found summer employment in two of the family businesses: at age 10 he lugged suitcases for bellhops at the Americana Hotel in Miami Beach, which later became the Sheraton Bal Harbour; as a student at Cornell University he was a route salesman for Loril-lard tobacco. Tisch was quoted in the New York Times as remarking, "It was never said that I was to work at Loews, but I always assumed it was something I would do. It was instinc tive" (May 30, 1999).

LEARNING TO SIT ON HIS INVESTMENTS Tisch majored in economics at Cornell University and graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He earned an MBA with distinction from the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania. After his time at Wharton he completed a stint in the Loews training program; his father then brought him to work in the investment department. As Tisch told it, his father neglected to inform Joseph Rosenberg, the longtime head of the department, about the new trainee until the day before he arrived. The elder Tisch's simple instructions to the department head were, "Do me a favor. Take an hour and teach him the business" (May 30, 1999).

James Tisch was said to have inherited his father's talent for investing in out-offavor businesses; his office nickname quickly became "Little Larry." In 1982, when he was vice president at Loews, he initiated the new venture Majestic Shipping through the purchase of about half a dozen supertankers for the scrap-value price of $42 million. He waited until 1986—when shipping rates improved—to unload them: in 1990 Loews sold a 51 percent interest in the tanker operation for about $150 million. By 2004 the company's 49 percent stake was worth around $85 million, and James Tisch envisioned a profitable future for the business.

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BY D.B. HOOREN Murders, slum lords, fires and now… hate crimes! Sheepshead Bay is just kicking today… hate-filled cretin burglarized and vandalized the Avenue Z Jewish Center (875 Avenue Z), stealing hundreds of dollars and desecrating religious artifacts.

According to Councilman Michael Nelson’s office, which is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the vandal – or vandals the burglary occurred on February 5. The perp(s) smashed a back window to the synagogue and stole $200 from a donation box.

Not content to take the money and run, they also roughed up a torah, desecrating and damaging the religious scroll that can cost

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tens of thousands of dollars.

With assistance from Councilman Nelson and Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, the 60th Precinct has deemed the act a hate crime. In addition to being one of the neighborhood’s older synagogues, it’s also home to the Association of Holocaust Survivors from the Former Soviet Union.

“Yet again, the Jewish community has come under attack by gutless individuals who have a complete lack of morals and ethics,” said Councilman Nelson. “First, it was the desecration of Jewish gravestones in Washington Cemetery and now this. I will do whatever I can to assist the police in their investigation and as a starter I am offering a $1,000 reward to anyone who is willing to come forth with any information that may bring these perpetrators to justice.”

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WAR ON TERROR

The Jewish Voice

February 25, 2011

WAR ON TERROR Jews in Turkey Fear Attacks ISTANBUL’S JEWISH RESIDENTS AFRAID TO LEAVE HOMES AFTER HEZBOLLAH'S THREATS SHUT DOWN MISSIONS

US Military: Americans on Hijacked Yacht Killed The U.S. military says four Americans have been killed by Somali pirates aboard their hijacked yacht in the Indian Ocean. statement from U.S. Central Command says U.S. forces were trying to negotiate the hostages' release last Tuesday when they heard gunfire aboard the yacht, the SV Quest.

The military said a reaction force boarded the hijacked vessel and discovered all four hostages had been shot by the pirates.

Despite immediate medical care, the four Americans died of their wounds.

It was not immediately clear what prompted the gunfire.

Central Command says two pirates were killed during a confrontation with the U.S. boarding force, and that another 13 pirates were captured and detained. Two other pirates already had been in U.S. custody, and the boarding party found remains of two pirates who had died earlier.

Pirates hijacked the yacht Friday and had been steering it toward the Somali coast, with four U.S. Navy warships trailing and observing the vessel.

In 2009, U.S. naval forces freed Richard Phillips, the captain of an American ship that had been captured by pirates. Somali pirates

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Posters read: 'Zionist diplomats, get out' Hezbollah’s retaliation scheme to avenge the death of one of its commanders, Imad Mughniyeh, on the third anniversary of his death. ue to fears of an attack, earlier this week, Israel temporarily shut down a number of its diplomatic missions in the world, and a local Turkish paper revealed that these included the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul and the Embassy in Ankara.

But local Jews still harbor anxiety, especially since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rise to power. Because there is

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______________________ “Turkey is a dictatorship. They attack newspapers and there are raids against anyone who dares speak out against the government.” ______________________ wire-tapping here "As we speak now, we are being heard," a Jewish merchant from Istanbul asking to remain anonymous told Ynet over the phone, "In Turkey there is no knowing what will happen tomorrow. What guaranteed the separation between religion and state was the army, but unfortunately the generals who maintained this in the past are no longer

around."

Recently filed indictments against 200 military officials in the country "demonstrates the threat against us all" according the merchant.

"Turkey is a dictatorship. They attack newspapers and there are raids against anyone who dares speak out against the government. Those who talk too much find themselves under investigation," he said.

"Friendships are being developed here with states hostile to Israel. This concerns us, because we don't know if we will be protected as before. Though police guard all Jewish institutions, we still don’t really feel safe."

Many in Jewish community refrain from going out to public places where Jews gather., The merchant added "It's better to keep a low profile.

Anything I say can make me a target, so I prefer to stay silent. There has always been a threat here, but apparently it has gotten worse because of the lack of cooperation between Israel and Turkey," he said.

Jackie Angel, unafraid of revealing his identity, said he had found that abruptly, without notice, the Israeli missions in Turkey were shut down, and that to his recollection, it was the first time such a thing had occurred, Neverthless, Angel says he is not afraid.

"It's not scary, but we are certainly being a lot more careful. Right now we try to sit at home a lot more, we go out less, but I work as usual," he said.

Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle are seen on a yacht in Bodega Bay, Calif. have made hundreds of millions of dollars hijacking ships for ransom in recent years.

The European Union's anti-piracy task force says the pirates are currently holding at least 32 vessels and nearly 700 hostages.

Media reports have identified the four Americans as ship owners Scott and Jean Adam of Marina Del Rey, California, and Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle of Seattle, Washington.

The four were sailing along with an international yacht race, the Blue Water Rally, before heading off on their own a week ago.

Organizers of the rally say the four were sailing toward Salalah in Oman when the pirates seized their ship.

Dan Shapiro to be Named US Envoy to Israel Senior White House adviser Dan Shapiro is set to be nominated as the next US ambassador to Israel. Shapiro advised Obama on Middle East issues and coordinated Jewish outreach during the 2008 presidential campaign. hapiro, born in 1969, currently serves as the National Security Council’s senior director for the Middle East and North Africa. He has regularly traveled to Israel and worked closely with US Middle East envoy George Mitchell to try to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

Shapiro first began working with US President Barack Obama when he coordinated Jewish outreach and advised his presidential campaign on Middle East issues.

Shapiro, who speaks fluent Hebrew, has been a major point man for the US Jewish community in the White House, as well as for Israeli and Palestinian officials.

He is not seen as a controversial choice and is not expected to face a major confirmation battle over his background, though many nominations have been held up in the Senate for unrelated reasons and that could complicate his confirmation as well.

Both Jewish and Palestinian voices in America praised Shapiro Tuesday.

“Dan’s a great guy, a perfect choice,” said Steve Rabinowitz, who worked with Shapiro in the Clinton White House and attends the same Conservative synagogue as Shapiro does.

“He’s known the issues for many, many years,” Rabinowitz said. “He cares deeply about it, sees all sides, and really, I just don’t know a person in Washington or the region

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Senior White House adviser Dan Shapiro is set to be nominated as the next US ambassador to Israel. who doesn’t like him.”

“I have tremendous respect for Dan. He’s knowledgeable and he’s sensitive to the issues,” said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Hoenlein added, however, that he “would be sorry to seeShapiro] leaving the administration, where he’s played a very important role.”

Ziad Asali, president of the American Task Force on Palestine, welcomed Shapiro serving as US ambassador to Israel, though he stressed that no official announcement had been made and his comments were based only on the possibility that he would be named.

“Dan will make an excellent ambassador.

He has a grasp of the complexity of the game and knowledge of all the main players, and is committed to a peaceful resolution to the conflict,” Asali said. “Dan will make an excellent ambassador.”

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February 25, 2011

IRANIAN THREAT

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Iranian Threat Opposition Under Attack in Iran Iran-Backed Opposition Moving to Bring Bahrain to a Standstill The Shi'ite opposition, said to enjoy support from Iran, intends to paralyze Bahrain as part of an effort to topple the Sunni-led kingdom. pposition sources said the Gulf Cooperation Council state would be brought to a halt by a nationwide labor strike on Feb. 21. They said the

strike by the General Federation of Bahraini Trade Unions would bolster the demands of the Shi'ite opposition for democratic reforms.

"We are calling for people to strike until all military forces are withdrawn and the peaceful protests are allowed to continue without any confrontation," deputy labor federation secretary-general Karim Radhi said.

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BY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU Iranians participate in a pro-government demonstration after Friday prayers in Tehran.

Last week Iranian lawmakers called for the deaths of the two opposition leaders Monday one of them, Mehdi Karroubi and his wife, were detained, and now, Iranian security officials have allegedly bombarded his home with percussion grenades. urthermore, his son, Ali Karroubi, was taken into custody. Ali is not known as an activist, and his detention is widely viewed as at attempt to gain leverage on his father.

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house arrest since organizing a rally last week. The two emerged as leaders of the socalled Green Movement that contested the 2009 re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Karroubi's Web site, Saham News, reports that intelligence forces cleared the way for attacks on his home.

Karroubi said he would maintain his resistance "to the last drop of my blood."

At least two people were killed Feb. 14 in clashes between security forces and opposition protesters in Tehran. The rallies were the opposition's largest in more than a year.

Bahrain’s King Announces Plans to Release Political Prisoners In a move apparently aimed at appeasing an opposition movement that is pressing for reforms in this small Persian Gulf country, Bahrain's king announced on Monday his plans to release an unspecified number of political prisoners. n another development, exiled Shiite opposition figure Hassan Mushaima announced plans to return from London on Tuesday. It would be another test for authorities, who have a warrant outstanding for his arrest.

The monarchy says it wants to pursue a national dialogue in the aftermath of its decision last week to order security forces to open fire on anti-government demonstrators.

The demonstrators have mostly been Shiite Muslims, who are the majority in Bahrain and complain of discrimination by the Sunni Muslim royal family.

On Monday, a new movement called the National Unity Group also called for reforms. The movement, which has close ties to the government and Sunni community, positioned itself as an alternative to the popular protests centered in Pearl Square in Manama, the capital.

Protesters have demanded that all political prisoners be freed, the government be dissolved and the constitution be revised.

The king, Hamed ibn Isa Khalifa, said the release of the political prisoners was a

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Wefaq, the main Shiite opposition group, acknowledged that the announcement of the release amounted to a concession. But it said it was insufficient to start negotiations with the government.

The people of Iran and Lebanon will overthrow Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Nasrallah, President Shimon Peres told Spanish Jews during a visit marking 25 years of Spanish-Israeli ties. e also called on world leaders to denounce Ahmadinejad “on the red carpet of the United Nations.”

Speaking at the headquarters of the Jewish community in Spain, the elderly but active president also said he believes Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi is near his end.

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half a dozen other governments, President Peres said that the current events were “full of hope.” He told Spanish Jews that "the moderate, the young, those who want democracy will win, and not the tyrants, the dictators, nor the corrupt."

During his visit with Spanish King Carlos and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, marking 25 years of diplomatic ties between Spain and Israel, the President called on world leaders to denounce Ahmadinejad on the "red carpet of the United Nations.”

In a speech earlier this week to American Jewish leaders visiting Israel, President Peres said world leaders should be “ashamed” for allowing themselves to be seen side-by-side with the president of the Islamic Republic.

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POLITICS

The Jewish Voice

February 25, 2011

Grimm Named Chairman of the NYS District Attorneys Association Presents Hogan, Morgenthau Republican Policy Committee’s Task Force on Foreign Policy Awards at Annual Winter Meeting New York, New York –The District Attorneys Association of New York State recently presented its prestigious Hogan Award to Kings County District Attorney Charles “Joe” Hynes in recognition of his commitment to innovative criminal justice initiatives, his stalwart leadership in support of local, state and national criminal justice associations and his clear dedication to the highest professional and ethical standards.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Michael G. Grimm (R-NY) was selected to chair the House Republican Policy Committee’s Task Force on Foreign Policy.

The Policy Committee serves as a forum for discussions of legislative initiatives and will engage with members of the Republican Conference to develop strong policy ideas into meaningful legislation. thank Congressman Price for the honor of chairing the Republican Policy Committee’s Task Force on Foreign Policy,” said Rep. Grimm. “I represent a diverse district and my constituents hail from a variety of countries around the world. I am proud to represent their interests as well as the interests of the United States in a legislative capacity in Congress.”

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“Congressman Grimm will be an invaluable part of our team and a knowledgeable voice on foreign policy.” ________________________________ able part of our team and a knowledgeable voice on foreign policy,” said Chairman Price. “As we are often reminded, the interests and security of the United States can be aided or threatened by the actions and activities of other countries. It is vital we remain vigilant and informed on those issues, and I appreciate Congressman Grimm serving the

amed after long-time New York County District Attorney Frank S. Hogan, who stood for the principles of prosecuting of the guilty without fear or favor, non-partisan staffing, an insistence on the maintenance of the highest ethical standards among all assistants in the office and the pursuit of excellence in the practice of law, the award was one of several presented by the District Attorneys Association last month during its annual winter meeting, held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan.

In presenting the award to his close friend and mentor, Onondaga County District Attorney William J. Fitzpatrick said, “DA ________________________________

Congressman Grimm is a freshman member of Congress who has also recently been named a co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus Policy Committee in that capacity.”

A new member of Congress who has also recently been named a co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus, Grimm spent a significant amount of time in the Middle East while serving in combat as a United States Marine during Operation Desert Storm.

“Hynes has always led the way in trying to make our system better and more responsive to the needs of the people, not merely to prosecute but to find justice for everyone… .” ________________________________ Hynes has always led the way in trying to make our system better and more responsive to the needs of the people, not merely to prosecute but to find justice for everyone…he has never shied away from a challenge and is a man who puts his heart into everything he does.”

The award presentation came as a surprise to District Attorney Hynes. In humbly accepting the honor, he thanked his colleagues for “their year of support and inspiration” and recognized his staff and the “great people of Brooklyn” for his ultimate success in life.

In addition to the Hogan Award, the association also presented the Robert M. Morgenthau Award to four assistant district attorneys from Bronx, Broome, Kings and Monroe counties, whose professional accomplishments, honesty, integrity and commitment to justice “exemplify Mr. Morgenthau’s high standards during his tenure as New York County District Attorney.”

Established in 2009, the Morgenthau award recognizes one assistant district attorney from four different regions of the state.

This year’s recipients were: Anthony J. Girese, counsel to the Bronx County District Attorney; Joanna Parry, chief assistant district attorney in the Broome County District Attorney’s Office; Anne J. Swern, first assistant district attorney in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office; and Sandra Doorley, first assistant district attorney in the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office.

The awards were presented on Friday, Jan. 28, during the conference’s closing lunch, which featured Lt. Gov Robert J. Duffy – the former mayor and police chief of the city of Rochester – as keynote speaker.

More than *** prosecutors and other law enforcement professionals from across the state attended the event.

Presenting the Morgenthau Awards were the District Attorneys who nominated each

Kings County District Attorney Charles “Joe” Hynes received prestigious Hogan Award individual for the honor.

Of Mr. Girese, Bronx County District Attorney Robert T. Johnson said, “no other ADA in the whole of the state has had such an impressive career, which started with former New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan, continued under Robert M. Morgenthau, then DA Dennis Dillon in Nassau County and now for Bronx County.”

DA Johnson detailed Mr. Girese’s many accomplishments, including the fact that he has argued hundreds of appeals before state and federal courts, and his membership on a variety of committees, including the Office of Court Administration’s Advisory Committee on Criminal Law; Executive Committee of the Criminal Justice Section of the New York State Bar; subcommittee chair for the New York State Sentencing Commission; and a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Wrongful Conviction Task Force.

In recognizing Ms. Swern, District Attorney Hynes said: “Anne has helped reshape the criminal justice system in our state…. For over 30 years she has taken on the big issues and helped institute fundamental changes to the Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison (DTAP) Program, served on the New York State Commission on Drugs and the Courts, helped create the Mental Health Court and Treatment Alternatives and a historic program which created a Veterans Affairs Advisory Council which helps divert veterans from prison and assists them in acquiring the help they need to recover from PTSD”.

District Attorney Gerald F. Mollen recognized Ms. Parry’s ability to balance public service and community service: “Joanna Parry, while still maintaining a full trial and appeals case load for the last 28 years, is intricately involved in the public safety community as editor of the Broome County Bar Newsletter, former YMCA and SOS Shelter board member and instructor at the Broome County Peace Officer and Police Academies.”

In recognizing Ms. Doorley, the first woman to serve as first assistant district attorney in Monroe County, District Attorney Michael C. Green said, “ADA Doorley has personally prosecuted about 60 felony trials, including 20 homicides. In addition to her numerous leadership roles in the office, including chief of the DWI Bureau, deputy chief of the Major Felony Bureau, Sandra supervises all homicide prosecutions, and has assumed a leadership role in the prosecution of cold cases using DNA evidence. She has been successful in obtaining indictments and convictions on

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REAL ESTATE

The Jewish Voice

February 25, 2011

NYC’s Real Estate Industry From Central Park to Threatens Changes, Departure If 860 Fifth Ave, You’ve Come Tax Policies Remain Unchanged a Long Way, Elie!

BY BARBARA KITAI Strange but true; from camping out in the Park, homeless, in 1971 to a recent $4.2 million penthouse purchase, Elie Tahari is a veritable magician, not only in fashion but also in real estate. iving in the penthouse at 860 Fifth Avenue since 1979, for which he paid $325,000, he had also yearned for the only other penthouse on the elevator bank but the unit’s former owner, Katherine Whipple refused to sell to him. For more than a decade, Mr. Tahari sought to own it.

It was not until Ms. Whipple passed away in July 2009--her husband, a prominent attorney, died in 1992—that his opening arrived, when the family put it on the market for $3.695 million.

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Owners of rental properties in New York City have issued an ultimatum to the Bloomberg administration: Lighten up or we’re out. In fact, the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) met with the Bloomberg administration earlier in February to complain about rising property taxes and, during that meeting, threatened to stop the development of “large, new rental buildings”. In some buildings, literally a third of all revenue goes straight to taxes. ew York City’s real estate market – including commercial development and new construction – is considered by many to be in full recovery compared to the rest of the country. However, heavy taxes on rentals, particularly those that have 20 percent of their units set aside for lowincome families (called 80/20 properties), is quickly rendering this type of development “unfeasible,” according to REBNY. Furthermore, the owners of these buildings are being forced to “convert to condominiums of deregulate their low-income apartments” upon the expiration of tax abatements that come with the 80/20 designation.

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Steven Spinola, REBNY’s president, emphasized that “they cannot survive at 33 percent of net income.

New York City has had its share of property tax woes recently. The city’s budget is heavily strained already, and many property owners – regardless of the type of property they own – feel that the administration is simply opting to squeeze more out of real estate via taxes rather than make necessary but potentially painful and unpopular cuts.

Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo has proposed a property tax cap that could help the situation, but it will not necessarily help the owners of large rental property buildings and critics claim that his proposal will lead to a budget shortfall.

It is unclear currently whether new developers will actually make good on their threat to stop building 80/20 buildings since this construction comes with two decades of tax abatement before the taxes become untenable. Should the Bloomberg administration change its property tax codes, or should developers and owners simply plan more carefully for coming tax hikes in the future? Would you invest in New York City rentals right now?

Mr. Tahari purchased his prize in January for $4.2 million.

In order to make extensive renovations to his unit as well as buy air rights to build atop his 4,000-square-foot home, Tahari had to sue and eventually succeeded in swaying the co-op, paying a reported $1.2 million to repair the roof and $2.5 million for the air rights. That unfinished project has been under construction ever since.

There are two bathrooms and staff quarters, all abutting an unusual wraparound terrace stretching more than 120-feet along the western and northern sides of the penthouse, "which make this penthouse especially rare and special," Patricia Cliff declares in her exclusive listing.

Former properties of Tahari include the half-floor penthouse at 1 Central Park West, the Trump International, sold in 2006 for $13 million , and the Prince Street triplex sold for $27 million, the sixth most expensive sale of 2010,bought from Rupert Murdoch for $25 million. According to city

Elie Tahari (insert): from bench in Central Park to $4.2M penthouse on 860 Fifth Ave. records. Mr. Tahari sold the SOM-designed landmark jewelbox at 510 Fifth Avenue, where he had had offices, for $57 million.

Presently, he lives at 15 Central Park West for a modest $30,000 a month.

His famous designs, sold in more than 6000 stores in the U.S., and worn by the notso famous and celebrity alike, like Beyonce, and Angelina Jolie are part of a $500 million business.

In stark contrast, his roots are really from a most humble origin.

Born in Jerusalem in 1952, Elie Tahari spent much of his childhood in an orphan-

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February 25, 2011

ELIE TAHARI: FASHIONING SUCCESS THE DESIGNER TELLS OF HIS RAGS-TO-RICHES STORY TO BECOMING A LEADING FASHION ICON

Elie Tahari preparing one of his designs for the show.

One of the featured designers at the recent New York Fashion Week was Elie Tahari, who has come a very long way in his career ... in more ways than one. n the white-hot glare of the fashion world, the clothes take center stage. But the names on the labels can, of course, become famous in their own right: witness Diane von Furstenberg . . . Donna Karan . . .

Elie Tahari.

The Tahari name is famous: the face behind it, not so much.

Of the millions who have Elie Tahari hanging in their closets, few probably know that Elie . . . is a HE. "I was coming down the elevator with somebody that I noticed she bought of Elie Tahari clothes, and I said, 'I see you bought some Elie Tahari.' She said, 'Oh, I love her designs,'" Elie Tahari recalled. "Her design!

'I'm her,' I should have said, yes!"

HIS designs are sold in more than 600 stores in the U.S., and worn by people with slightly more famous faces, like Beyonce, Elizabeth Hurley and Angelina Jolie.

It's all designed in a starkly beautiful and bright - studio in Manhattan.

"Yeah, it's bright," Elie said. "And we make sure that everybody will see a daylight from everywhere. It's bright because you're dealing with product and the need to see the detail. And it's very important to see it clearly."

"You can't hide anything in here!" Smith laughed.

The samples are sewn together a few feet from the design tables. Beyond pure style, the thing that matters most around here is fit.

Sure, the initial samples are made to fit tall skinny runway models, but the clothes that will eventually be shipped out to a store near you are fit on members of Tahari's office staff: actual people, with actual hips.

"You have a fun job," Smith said to one woman sporting a pink dress.

"Yes, I do!"

Tahari's formula seems to be working.

Sales of Tahari merchandise are put at around $100 million a year - and that's even more impressive when you know how little Elie Tahari started out with.

Born in Jerusalem in 1952, Elie Tahari spent much of his childhood in an orphanage after his parents divorced, and - when he came of age - served in the Israeli air force as a mechanic.

After his discharge, Tahari went to New York City, full of ambition . . . and little else.

Right across the street from the luxury high rise where Eli Tahari now lives is Central Park, which holds significance: Back in the summer of 1971, with almost no money to his name, he would spend the night

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on the park's benches.

Did he sleep well? "I remember sleeping well," he said. "I didn't think I didn't have a place to sleep and I was homeless. I thought I was camping. I was camping in New York.

That's a good way to look at it - it's an adventure."

Tahari eventually found work changing light bulbs in New York's Garment District by day, and selling women's clothing at night.

"I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women's clothes," Tahari said. "And that was a way of not just making money but meeting women. That was very exciting job. I loved that job."

"It was all about getting the girl?"

"All about meeting the girls, right!" he laughed.

It was also about learning what women in the disco era wanted to wear. Tahari's first big hit in the fashion business was a sleeveless shirt ... called the tube top.

They were, he said, "very popular. I remember we were selling them for four dollars, and I remember women come in and buying [them] by the dozen."

Before long, Tahari had his own store, and eventually graduated to a collection of women's business clothing - big padded shoulders and all.

Elie Tahari never had any formal fashion training, but he always seemed to know just what women wanted to wear, and they beat a path to his door.

"Frankly, I had no choice," he said. "I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again."

After two decades of explosive growth, Tahari was a major player. By September of 2001, the man who once slept on a bench in Central Park now had a big office in Midtown Manhattan, in a landmarked building that he owned.

In the days after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, when New York was awash with red, white and blue, Eli Tahari wanted to make a statement of his own about his adopted country.

"I was just so mad at what happened," he said. "We owned a building on Fifth Avenue, and I decided that I would just put a flag on it," he said. "And it grew to a bigger one, and the whole building became a flag."

In the decade since, Tahari has had his challenges. His 10-year marriage to former journalist Rory Green dissolved last year.

"How are you holding up? How do you get through that?" he was asked.

"I like to say I'm not gonna let anything screw with my day," he laughed.

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Israel Cancer Research Fund to Honor Rabbi Eli Abadie, MD, Daniel Roses, MD, FACS, Mrs. Daniel Miller, Andrew Faas TOWER OF HOPE GALA SET FOR MARCH 10 IN NEW YORK CITY The Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) will host its Tower of Hope Gala on March 10 at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. The evening’s honored guests include Rabbi Elie Abadie, the founding Rabbi of the Edmond J. Safra Synagogues worldwide, Director of the Jacob E. Safra Institute of Sephardic Studies at Yeshiva University and medical doctor specializing in internal medicine and gastroenterology; Daniel F. Roses, MD, FACS, Jules Leonard Whitehill Professor of Surgery and Oncology of the New York University School of Medicine, Director of Surgical Oncology, NYU Langone Medical Center; Mrs. Helaine Miller, wife of the late Daniel Miller, cofounder of the Israel Cancer Research Fund, and Andrew Faas, former Executive Vice President of Shopper Drug Mart, Canada’s largest retail drug chain ,and philanthropist.

ICRF Honorees (left to right): Daniel Roses, MD, FACS, Mrs. Daniel Miller, Andrew Faas Kettering Hospital. In 1974, he was appointed president and director of the Strang clinic where he remained active for 26 years.

Dr. Miller was very concerned about the lack of funding for Israeli cancer research scientists and so ,with the ongoing support of wife, he founded the Israel Cancer Research Fund in 1975. As Dan’s best friend and partner, Helene shared her husband’s vision to tap into Israel’s extraordinary educational and scientific resources in the fight against cancer.

en Brafman will be the evening’s master of ceremonies . The Gala Tribute committee includes Charles Ben Dayan, Faith Miller, Theodore Miller, MD, and Julie Mitnick, MD. Sadie JemalMeyers is the auction chairperson.

According to Bradley Goldhar, president of ICRF, “ICRF has identified and funded world class cancer research scientists working in Israel. The organization is focused on funding both established scientists and young researchers who are just starting their careers. Our targeted funding has helped lead to the discovery of significant cancer fighting drugs such as Doxil, Gleevec and Velcade. These drugs are helping thousands of cancer patients in North America and around the world.”

ICRF Chairman Kenneth Goodman noted that, "The purpose of ICRF and this event is to support cancer researchers in Israel who are working on the cutting-edge of bio-technology and medical technology. Per-capita, Israel has the world’s largest concentration of cancer researchers but insufficient funds to sponsor promising projects which could enhance all humankind.”

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The Israel Cancer Research Fund is the single largest source of private funds for cancer research in Israel. Since its establishment in 1975, it has provided more that 1794 grants to outstanding scientists who work at all of the leading research institutions in Israel. The scientists include two recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and an awardee of the prestigious G.H.A. Clowes award from the American Research Association.

Major accomplishments of ICRF grantees include: • Velcade - a drug used to treat multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow, was developed based on the research of ICRF Professors and Nobel Prize winners, Drs. Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

The Tower of Hope Gala will begin at 6 pm. with cocktails, silent auction and raffle, followed by dinner buffet and awards ceremony. Tickets are $600 per person. For more information, please contact Donna Kurz, Tel. 212 969-9800,ext 224; Email: donna.kurz@icrfny.org

About the Honorees ______________________ “The purpose of ICRF and this event is to support cancer researchers in Israel who are working on the cutting-edge of bio-technology and medical technology.” ______________________ Rabbi Abadie, the Tower of Hope 20 11 Humanitarian Award recipient comes from a long rabbinical lineage dating back to 1516th century Spain and Provence. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Rabbi Abadie grew up in Mexico City. He came to the U.S where he graduated from Yeshiva College and the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. In 1986, he was ordained at Yeshiva University’s Theological Seminary and received a medical degree from Downstate Medical Center in internal medicine and gastroenterology. He is the founding rabbi of The Edmond J. Safra Synagogue and has maintained a thriving medical practice. In 2006, he was appointed director of Yeshiva University’s Jacob E. Safra Institute of Sephardic Studies.

A recipient of the Tower of Hope Dr.

ICRF board member and chairman of Bonjour Capital, Charles Dayan with one of ICRF Honorees, Rabbi Eli Abadie, MD Daniel G. Miller Excellence in Medicine Award, Dr. Roses, a native New Yorker, became a Professor of Surgery at age thirty nine. He is Director of the Breast Cancer Discovery Fund and The Cancer Surgery Research Fund at the NYU School of Medicine, and a principal investigator of the National Cancer Institute Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial, the first clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of sentinel lymphadenectomy, now a standard in the care of malignant melanoma and breast cancer and co-investigator of the NYU Jewish Women Breast and Ovarian Cancer Genetics study. He is the author of more than 240 published manuscripts and the recipient of two of NYU’s highest honors, The Solomon A. Berson Alumni Achievement Award in Clinical Science and the Great Teacher Award in 1993.

Prior to his position at Shoppers Drug Mart, Faas spent 23 years with the Weston/Loblaw group, one of Canada’s largest corporations where he held a number of executive positions. Currently he is establishing a consulting firm in the area of Workplace Violence and Bullying, called Iceberg Navigation, and is co -authoring a book on bullying in the workplace . In 2005, he established the Fass Foundation to support non for profit organizations in the areas of

healthcare, medical research and education.

His relationship with the Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) began after he was diagnosed in 2005 with a chronic myelogenous leukemia. He now takes Gleevec daily to manage his condition. ICRF funded the basic research that led to the creation of this miracle drug, the first ever to specifically target a cancer causing enzyme.

“Gratitude sparked my impulse to support ICRF, but as with all the charities I am involved with , the instinct was backed up by business sense. Israel has a cost-effective research structure and superior intellectual assets,” noted Faas. He will be receiving the 2011 Beacon of Hope Award at the Gala event.

The fourth honoree, Mrs. Daniel G. (Helene) Miller, will be receiving the Tower of Hope Honorary Founders Award.

Involved in Jewish and Zionist activities from an early age, Helene met her husband, Daniel, then a medical student, in 1947 when she attended the Brandeis camp in the Poconos. Helene went on to become a school teacher. Seven years later, they married and raised four children in Manhattan. Helene founded the first Sharon Group of Hadassah, which has been in existence for the past 50 years. Dan became an oncologist and had a 50-year association with Memorial Sloan

• Gleevec - the first drug to directly target cancer cells, was developed based on the research work of ICRF awardee, Dr. Eli Canaani, Weizmann Institute of Science • Doxil - the first drug encapsulated in a liposome (or microscopic fat bubble) for direct delivery to a tumor site, was developed by ICRF awardee, Dr. Alberto Gabizon, Shaare Zedek Medical Center • The p53 Gene - originally thought to cause cancer, was correctly identified as a tumor suppressor, and its role in the majority of human cancers further elucidated by ICRFawardees, Drs. Moshe Oren and Varda Rotter, Weizmann Institute of Science • DNA Methylation - is a molecular process that turns genes on and off. Pioneering work in this area was performed by ICRF Professor and Israel Prize winner, Dr. Howard Cedar, Hebrew University/Hadassah Medical School • The RAD51 Gene - The discovery that a minor mutation in this gene increases the risk of breast cancer in women with the BRCA2 gene mutation was made by ICRF awardee Dr. Ephrat Levy-Lahad, Shaare Zedek Medical Center • A Novel Bone Marrow Transplant Technique - to greatly expand the donor pool for leukemia treatment, was developed by ICRF awardee, Dr. Yair Reisner, Weizmann Institute of Science.

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BUSINESS

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16 Don’t-Miss Tax Deductions First of all, the IRS has a gift for you: an extra three days to file your returns!

Individual taxpayers will have until Monday, April 18, to file their returns. The reason: Friday, April 15, is a legal holiday in the District of Columbia, and because D.C. holidays affect tax deadlines in the same way federal holidays do, all taxpayers are being given an extra three days to file their returns. ow, on to your tax return: Claim these often overlooked deductions and credits and you just might be able to pay less to the IRS.

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IRA/Roth Conversion When you contribute to an individual retirement account, you help fund a future goal while lowering your current tax bill. In other words, socking cash in an IRA is like saving with help from your Uncle Sam. The rules are pretty simple: You have until tax filing (again, that’s April 18) to contribute up to $5,000 to a 2010 IRA ($6,000 if you are 50 or older). If you are selfemployed, have a Keogh or SEP-IRA, and have filed for an extension to October 15, you can even wait until then to put 2010 money into those accounts.

Even if you’re covered by a retirement plan at work, you can deduct some or all of your IRA contribution if you are single and your income is less than $66,000 (less than $109,000 if married). If you are not covered by a workplace retirement plan but are married to someone who is, you can deduct some or all of your IRA contribution if your joint income is less than $176,000 or less.

• Roth IRA conversion rules: Just a reminder for those who converted from a traditional IRA into Roth IRA in 2010 — don’t forget that you now owe taxes! The amount of money that was converted is considered income that can be spread over a two-year period, beginning in 2011. This means you include one-half of the amount as income in 2011 and the other half as income in 2012.

You can elect to include all of the income in 2011, which may be advantageous if your tax bracket is likely to be lower in that tax year than it will be in the future. See Form 8606.

New Rules on Itemized Deductions • Itemized deductions and personal exemptions: The itemized deduction limitation is repealed for 2010 (and through 2012).

This means that taxpayers can deduct the full amount of their itemized deductions in 2010.

The personal exemption phase-out rules also do not apply through 2012.

Get the Credit(s) You Deserve Tax credits are even better than deductions, because they lower your taxes dollar for dollar, instead of being calculated based on your tax bracket. A number of credits and deductions that were set to expire for 2010 were retroactively extended by the 2010 Tax Relief Act and are therefore available for taxpayers who qualify — so don’t miss them!

• Making Work Pay: The payroll “tax holiday” is still in effect for 2010. That means that workers get a tax credit of 6.2% on their earned income — but the credit maxes out at $400 for single filers and $800 for joint filers. The credit is subject to income limits and starts phasing out at $75,000 for singles and $150,000 for joint filers. You will need to file for this credit on Schedule M. • The Child Tax Credit is up to $1,000 for each qualifying child who was under the age of 17 at the end of 2010. This credit can be claimed in addition to the credit for child and dependent care expenses. (Details are in IRS Publication 972.)

• The Earned Income Tax Credit is a refundable credit for married couples filing jointly with 2010 earned income under $48,362 and singles with income under $43,352. Your income and family size determine the amount of the credit. (Details are in IRS Publication 596.)

• The Child and Dependent Care Credit of up to $1,050 per child or $2,100 for two or more children is calculated based on your expenses paid for the care of your kids under age 13 to enable you to work or to look for work in 2010. The credit is 20 to 35 percent

______________________ “Claim these often overlooked deductions and credits and you just might be able to pay less to the IRS.” ______________________ of your child-care expenses up to $6,000 — the size of your credit depends on your income. (Details are in IRS Publication 503.)

• The Retirement Savings Contributions Credit is designed to help low- and moderate-income workers save for retirement.

Individuals with incomes of up to $27,750 and married couples with joint incomes of up to $55,500 may qualify for a credit of up to $1,000 per person. Check out Form 8880 for the rules.

• First-Time Homebuyer Credit: The first-time homebuyer credit expired during 2010. It is available to eligible taxpayers who closed on their home purchase on or before Sept. 30, 2010 (under a binding contract in place before May 1, 2010). The closing date deadline was moved during the year from

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February 25, 2011

IRS Offers Second Chance at Amnesty for Undisclosed Offshore Accounts On Tuesday, February 8, 2011, the IRS announced it would be offering a second limited amnesty program (the “2011 Program”) to encourage those U.S. taxpayers still holding unreported offshore bank accounts to come forward and avoid the possibility of severe monetary penalties and criminal prosecution. he 2011 Program is a limited extension of a previous amnesty program, enacted in March 2009 (the “2009 Program”), in which over 15,000 taxpayers disclosed secret accounts to the IRS in exchange for less severe penalties and no criminal liability. The 2011 Program is being offered in response to the overwhelming success of the 2009 Program, as both taxpayers and the IRS benefited from the increased disclosure and relaxation of penalties. The IRS conservatively estimates that as a result of the 2009 Program they were able to collect well over Four Hundred Million Dollars in revenue, and that is only after closing 2,000 of the original 15,000 cases.

As we recently reported the 2009 Initiative was instituted by the IRS in anticipation of the release of almost 5,000 account holder names from United Bank of Switzerland (“UBS”) in order to induce taxpayers with unreported offshore accounts to come forward voluntarily, rather then be forcibly revealed by UBS. The large number of taxpayers expected to participate in the 2011 Program is likely due to the benefits of disclosure as well as the fear of criminal prosecution looming

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The headquarters of UBS (United Bank of Switzerland) over taxpayers with unreported accounts.

However, so as not to reward late comers, the penalties under the 2011 Program are harsher than those imposed under the 2009 Program. Moreover, the government estimates that there are still thousands of taxpayers yet to come forward. Indeed, the enactment of the 2011 Program comes at a critical time in the IRS’ efforts to thwart tax evasion, as its investigations into various foreign banks which aid in the establishment of these accounts are now at an advanced stage.

Accordingly, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman has called the 2011 Program “the last, best chance for people to get back into the system.”

February 25, 2011

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Verizon iPhone 4 on Sale Today; CR Testing Now

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Ben-Gurion University is Part of a Consortium to Develop Robots to Pick Only Ripe Fruit Robotics researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have received a $1.3 million grant to develop intelligent sensing and manipulation algorithms for robots that can sense and pick ripe crops. he project is part of the European Union Seventh Framework Program (FP7) “cRops” (Clever Robots for Crops). cRops will develop the scientific know-how and several prototype systems to harvest high value crops, including greenhouse peppers, orchard fruits and premium wine grapes.

The cRops robotic platform will be capable of site-specific spraying (targeted spraying only on foliage and selected targets) and selective harvesting of fruit. The robots will be able to detect the fruit, sense its ripeness, then move to grasp and softly detach only the ripe fruit.

BGU’s role in the project will be to lead the development of intelligent sensing and manipulation algorithms. "An agricultural robot must be equipped with intelligence so as to be able to robustly operate in the unstructured, dynamic and hostile agricultural environment,” explains BGU Prof.

Yael Edan, of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management who is the BGU project leader. “We are developing an autonomous robotic platform that will reliably and accurately judge which produce is ready for harvest, and skip the ones that aren’t."

The concept requires a strong multidisciplinary approach. The group of BGU researchers includes: • Dr. Ohad Ben Shahar, Department of Computer Science • Dr. Amir Shapiro, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Finally the day came, many Apple fans have been waiting for: Beginning at 7 AM local time, the Verizon iPhone 4 has been available for purchase at Apple and Verizon stores, as well as some Walmarts and Best Buys. The carrier offered phones on pre-order last week for existing customers, and some early buyers received their phones even before today.

NN reported that relatively few customers queued up early today, but it's a bit early yet to tell how well sales will go for the new iPhone carrier. Still, some analysts have estimated that Verizon

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sold over 1 million iPhone 4s via preorder within the past week.

The Verizon iPhone 4 is selling for $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB phone, with a two-year contract. In addition, according to USA Today, "New customers must pay a $35 activation fee in addition to the cost of the phone and a twoyear contract."

Consumer Reports has acquired both the 16GB and 32GB models of the Verizon iPhone 4, and we're currently testing them in our lab. We've also acquired a new sample of the AT&T version of the iPhone 4, for comparison. Stay tuned for our results!

A Perfect Blend for Margarita For some reason “National Margarita Day” is also George Washington’s actual birthday and even though we don’t get the connectiony, we’ll play along. According to Wikipedia, there are many stories about who invented the margarita and when — the earliest mention in 1934 — and none of them have to do with the first president.

Breville Ikon Hemisphere LCD Blender ($200) using a recipe for virgin piña coladas (those are good too). For $200 to $150 less, the Breville bested the Blendtec and was just as good as the Margaritaville.

Acing the icy drink test were the Vita-Mix 5200 ($450) and the Back to Basics Blender Solution 5500 ($50). But eight of the models in our tests rated only fair for icy drinks, so if that’s the primary reason you use a blender, check ut the concoction of our test results before buying a tequila, triple sec and new one. lime juice hasn’t While it’s unclear who needed the imprimatur of a came up with the idea to celeworld leader to become brate a frozen drink in the one of the most popular middle of winter, the odd mixed drinks in America. timing hasn’t put a damper Last summer—a more log- Blendtec Total Blender on related festivities. Jimmy ical time for drinking marBuffett’s chain of garitas—we took the Margaritaville restaurants, of course, is takMargaritaville Fiji Frozen Concoction ing advantage of the day with several proMaker DM2000 ($350) for a spin and the motions and the Los Angeles Times is feaicy results were quite satisfying. turing non-traditional maragarita recipes.

We pitted the Margaritaville against the Give one a whirl in the blender and then Blendtec Total Blender ($400) and the drink a toast to George.

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Artist impression of the crops robot • Dr. Sigal Berman, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management • Prof. Helman Stern, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management The cRops Consortium budget is for development of a highly configurable, modular and clever platform, comprising a carrier plus modular parallel manipulators and “intelligent tools” (sensors, algorithms, sprayers, grippers) that can be easily installed onto the carrier and are capable of adapting to new tasks and conditions.

The cRops research grant consortium is being coordinated by Wageningen University &Research Centre. The other members include University of Leuven, University of Ljubljana, UMEA University, Università degli Studi di Milano, CSIC, Institute de Automatica Industrial, Technical University Munich, Case New Holland NV, INIA PROGAP, Force-A, Festo AG & Co, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Jentjens Machinetechniek. http://www.cropsrobots.eu/.

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EDITORIAL

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February 25, 2011

THE PEOPLE’S VOICE EDITORIAL

TEAM OBAMA STABS ISRAEL IN THE BACK Can you imagine what the Obama administration’s first priority is during this time of bloody riots throughout the Arab and Muslim world? Could it be to enact security measures to protect US interests in the Persian Gulf by attempting to bail out countries such as Bahrain? What about convening a summit to quell the violence or have the Secretary of State Clinton take more decisive action rather than spout platitudes on "democracy"? s it turns out, team Obama has made every effort to betray yet another ally in the Middle East.

This time, the victim of such treachery is the paradigm of true democratic values; Israel. The US, joining the Palestinians and other terror ruled Arab states like Lebanon,has seen fit to publicly denounce Israel in the UNholy institution, the United Nations.

Team Obama remains transfixed on the false notion that Israeli "settlements are the true obstacle to peace" in the Middle East. While so doing, the US selectively chooses to ignore the fact that those protesting for purported democratic and economic reform in Arab countries would love nothing more than to foster their own unique version of an Islamic revolution, with the ultimate goal of creating an anti-Western caliphate.

Our enemies are dancing with glee, as the Middle East stands poised for all -out war. Right now, in Algiers, Teheran, Riyadh and Cairo, they are raising their collective glasses and toasting "that stupid fool", known as the United States for paving the path to their own destruction, vis-a-vis Israel. Team Obama's mouthpiece in the United Nations is Ambassador Susan Rice. She expressed great disappointment that the US vetoed a Security Council resolution that called settlements "illegal", even though the US publicly excoriated Israel over the continued building of settlements. According to the popular falsehood, Rice states," "For more than four decades, Israeli settlement activity has corroded hopes for

Editors,

“Team Obama remains transfixed on the false notion that Israeli “settlements are the true obstacle to peace” in the Middle East. ” _____________________ peace and stability in the region”.

Now for some factual history.

Remember when former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with Bill Clinton and Yassir Arafat at Camp David and offered 97% of the West Bank to the Palestinians as a future homeland but was summarily turned down?

Remember the other peace deals that successive Israeli governments made toward the creation a Palestinian state?

Remember how no Palestinian leader, including the current President Mahmoud Abbas, has had the courage to make a

to be treated like a manual for a club membership. We are instructed in numerous places in the Torah to be kind to the convert, the widow and the stranger amongst us. Even though this repetition was apparently necessary to combat our xenophobic tendencies, it was sadly not enough!

Sharon Klein

I was very happy to see that you printed the article about Rabbi Amsellem and his stance on conversion amongst the Jews in Israel who are coming from mixed backgrounds. While the Torah was given to just the Jews, I do not believe that it was ever meant

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over seventy professions which are honorable! Many tanaim had their profession as part of their title (baker,cook,tailor etc). The Torah Says SHESHET YAMIM TAAVOD!!! Hazal say when a man dies he will be asked 3 Questions: Did you learn? Were you honest in business? Did you give charity? Tell me what will haredim answer to question 2 and 3??? Also if Hazal say Talmud Torah keneged kulam why is it haredim don't know or learn TANACH?? Is it Talmud Torah or Talmud Gemara??? This will affect question number one as well!

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In Response to Rabbi Amsellem Read your article. It was good until you quoted Rabbi Shafran???

Interestingly enough he questions Rabbi Amsellem’s position on Conversion!

Rabbi Ovadia came out in COMPLETE agreement with Rabbi Amsellem last month. The Lithuanian Haredim have blasted Rabbi Ovadiah ever since!

Must be Rabbi Shafran agrees with the Lithuanian logic! As for his comments about the necessity of Jews studying Torah. Bravo! This is a position WE ALL AGREE with! But Torah study must be joined with work! The Talmud discusses

Now the Democrats are joining in the attack against me because of my investigation of radical Muslims. What are they afraid of?

This is from an e-mail being sent to all Nassau County Democratic Committee members...

On March 7, Representative Peter King, Chairman of the House Committee of Homeland Security, will initiate hearings on what he calls "the radicalization of the American Muslim community." He claims that 80% of

mosques are "controlled by radical imams", and adds that "there are too many mosques in this country."

In response, faith leaders and laity of the Islamic, Jewish and Christian traditions will gather for a Pray-In outside Representative King's office. The purpose is to show solidarity with this country's Muslim community, to stand shoulder to shoulder in the belief that this country is founded on religious tolerance.

As always, thank you for your support.

Pete King

Smiling Soros?

Editors, While I appreciate your op-ed bashing George Soros, I did not appreciate seeing his smiling face in your newspaper. In our generation, there is no greater example of someone with money being the root of all evil. Soros is a "Jewish" billionaire with no conscience.

His money yielding influence is doing more harm to Jews and Israel than the UN and Arab nations combined. His backhanded financial support for socialist liberal causes should be of

great concern to all. How many of us know that this so-called Holocaust survivor was a kapo....Google it for yourselves. His latest investment is in J-Street, who's agenda is one that undermines Israel's lobby in Washington, and one that seeks legitimizing itself by buying very expensive advertisements with lists of liberal secularized "reform Rabbi's" that seek to polarize our people. Mr. Soros billions proves that one can be intelligent, but destructive in every sense of the word.

Chuck Cohen

To the Jewish Voice:

Ambassador Susan Rice expressed great disappointment that the US vetoed a Security Council resolution that called settlements “illegal”. final deal because it requires acceptance of Israel's right to exist. After all, accepting Israel's right to exist is prohibited in the Islamic world; according most Islamic political leaders, as well as the Imams and others who issue Fatwas.

These leaders fear for their lives and don't want to meet their demise at the end of a barrel of a gun or sword.

Seems like Abbas failed his course in Jeffersonian democracy. He recently canceled elections scheduled for September, and his security forces blocked marchers from showing support for protesters in other countries. So, how do we reward him? By taking sides with him against our closest democratic ally during this time of unprecedented turmoil. Israel lost its closest Arab leader in Hosni Mubarak, and now fears a hostile Egypt next door, on the brink of embracing the leadership of the radically Islamist Muslim Brotherhood that promises to go to war against Israel.

Given the chaotic circumstances in the region, team Obama and Ambassador Rice should be roundly castigated for lending support to Israel's avowed enemies and undermining democracy. It is an unconscionable and reprehensible action, and one that will come back to bite the United States.

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OUR WORLD: THE LEGACY OF A TEETERING PEACE

BY CAROLINE B. GLICK As Israel moves into the uncharted territory of managing its relations with the post-Mubarak Egypt, it is imperative that our leaders understand the lessons of the past. ne of the first casualties of the Egyptian revolution may very well be Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. The Egyptian public’s overwhelming animus towards Jews renders it politically impossible for any Egyptian leader to come out in support of the treaty.

Over the weekend, the junta now ruling Egypt refused to explicitly commit itself to maintaining the treaty. Instead, under intense American pressure they sufficed with stating that they would maintain all of Egypt’s international obligations. According to news reports, the generals themselves are split in their positions on Israel. One group supports maintaining the treaty. The other supports its abrogation.

Ayman Nour, the head of the oppositionist Ghad Party and the man heralded as the liberal democratic alternative to Mubarak by Washington neo-conservatives has called for the peace treaty to be abrogated. In an interview with an Egyptian radio station he said, “The Camp David Accords are finished.

Egypt has to at least conduct negotiations over conditions of the agreement.”

The Muslim Brotherhood has been outspoken in its call to end the treaty since it was signed 32 years ago.

Whatever ends up happening, it is clear that Israel is entering a new era in its relations with Egypt. And before we can begin contending with its challenges, we must first consider the legacy of the peace treaty that then prime minister Menachem Begin signed with then Egyptian president Anwar Sadat on March 26, 1979.

What was the nature of Israel’s agreement with Egypt? What was its impact on Israel’s strategic vision? What were the strategic assumptions that formed the basis of its component parts? How did all of these issues impact Israel’s perception of the longterm prospects for its relations with Egypt?

WHEN BEGIN and Sadat signed the peace treaty, their act was the culmination of 15 months of negotiations catalyzed by Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem and his speech before the Knesset in November 1977.

Sadat’s visit to Israel’s capital was an extraordinary gesture. Here was the man who just four years earlier had waged an unprovoked, brutal war of aggression against Israel that placed the country in mortal danger and killed some 2,600 of its finest sons.

Here was the leader of the country that had fought five unprovoked wars of aggression against Israel in 29 years.

And yet suddenly, here was this man, Israel’s greatest foe standing before the Knesset and declaring that he was not seeking a ceasefire, but peace. As he put it, “I have not come to you to seek a partial peace, namely to terminate the state of belligerency at this stage...

I have come to you so that together we might build a durable peace based on justice, to avoid the shedding of one single drop of blood from an Arab or an Israeli.”

The effect of Sadat’s visit on the Israeli psyche generally and on Begin’s mindset in particular was profound.

A new book of the two leaders’ correspondence, Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin-Anwar Sadat Personal Correspondence edited by Harry Hurwitz and Yisrael Medad of the Begin Heritage Center presents readers with a portrait of the Israeli leader enthralled with the belief that he and Sadat were embarking their nations on the road to a peaceful future.

But it was not to be. Whether Sadat was purposely deceptive or whether he was simply blocked from implementing his vision of peace by an assassin’s bullet in 1981 is unclear. True, he committed Egypt to peace.

The peace treaty contains an entire annex devoted to specific commitments to cultivate

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The 1978 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty is about to perish now in 2011 every sort of cultural, social and economic tie imaginable.

But both Sadat and his successor Mubarak breached every one of them.

As the intervening 32 years since the treaty was signed have shown, in essence, the deal was nothing more than a ceasefire.

Israel surrendered the entire Sinai Peninsula to Egypt and in exchange, Egypt has not staged a military attack against Israel from its territory.

The peace treaty’s critics maintain that the price Israel paid was too high and so the treaty was unjustified.

They also argue that Israel set a horrible precedent for future negotiations with its neighbors by ceding the entire Sinai in exchange for the treaty. Moreover, the Palestinian autonomy agreement in the treaty was a terrible deal. And it set the framework

_____________________ “It is clear that Israel is entering a new era in its relations with Egypt.” _____________________ for the disastrous Oslo peace process with the Palestinian Authority 15 years later.

For their part, supporters of the treaty claim that the precedent it set was terrific for Israel. The treaty cites the borders of the Palestine Mandate as Israel’s legal borders.

And since the Mandate envisioned a Jewish state on both banks of the Jordan River, at a minimum the peace treaty sets a precedent for a future annexation of the west bank of the Jordan.

Both sides of the argument are largely irrelevant.

Precedents don’t matter in politics.

Interests, not precedents determine how states and non-state actors operate. As for whether or not the deal was justified given the exorbitant price, it is unclear what choice Begin had.

In 1977 Jimmy Carter was president of the United States. And he was the most hostile president Israel had faced. His negative attitude toward the Jewish state made it all but impossible for Begin to walk away from the table. When Carter’s antagonism was coupled with Sadat’s romantic pledges of everlasting peace and brotherhood, it is easy to understand why Begin agreed to overpay for a ceasefire.

WHILE BEGIN’S behavior during the negotiations is relatively easy to understand, Israel’s behavior since the peace with Egypt was signed is less comprehensible, and certainly less forgivable. Since Israel withdrew from the Sinai in 1981, it has been the state’s consistent policy to ignore Egypt’s bad faith.

This 30- year refusal of Israel’s leadership to contend with the true nature of the deal this country achieved with Egypt has had a debilitating impact both on Israel’s internal strategic discourse as well as on its international behavior.

As the US-backed demonstrators in Tahrir Square gained momentum, and the

prospect that Mubarak’s regime would indeed be overthrown became increasingly likely, IDF sources began noting that the IDF and the Mossad will need to build intelligence gathering capabilities towards Egypt after 30 years of neglect.

These statements make clear the debilitating impact of Israel’s self-induced strategic blindness to our neighbor in the south.

Under the ceasefire, with Israeli approval and encouragement, Egypt has built a modern, US-trained and armed military. And for 30 years, that military has been training to fight Israel.

On the other side, Israel stopped training in desert warfare and stopped gathering intelligence on the Egyptian military. As far as IDF commanders and successive defense ministers have been concerned, there was no reason to prepare for war or care about Egypt’s preparations for war because we were at peace.

On the international stage, our leadership’s refusal to acknowledge that Egypt had not abandoned its belligerent attitude against Israel was translated into an abject refusal to admit or deal with the fact that Egypt leads the international political war against Israel.

Rather than fight back when Egyptian diplomats at the UN initiate anti-Israel resolution after anti-Israel resolution, Israeli diplomats have pretended that there is no reason for concern.

THIS IS also the case regarding Egyptian anti-Semitism.

Before the peace treaty, the Foreign Ministry prepared regular reports on antiSemitism in the Egyptian media and school system. These reports were distributed at embassies and consulates throughout the world. After the treaty was signed, the reports were filed away and never spoken of.

In his speeches, Sadat repeatedly claimed that he was channeling the hopes and beliefs of the entire Egyptian people. But the fact is that Sadat was a military dictator.

Israel failed to consider the implications of signing a deal with a military dictator on

the prospects for the deal’s longevity. In an interview with Der Spiegel last week, the Muslim Brotherhood’s puppet Mohamed ElBaradei explained those implications. As he put it, Israel has “a peace treaty with Mubarak, but not one with the Egyptian people.”

The advantage of having a good relationship with a dictator is that he can deliver quickly. The disadvantage is that once he is gone no one is bound by his decisions because he doesn’t represent anyone.

There are other problems with making deals with dictators. Due to the repressive nature of authoritarian regimes, they have no mechanisms in place for peaceful changes.

And yet change in dictatorships, like change everywhere else, is an historic inevitability.

In the absence of a mechanism for peaceful change, as a general rule, change in authoritarian regimes is revolutionary rather than evolutionary. The revolution in Cairo is the clearest example of this.

ANOTHER PROBLEM with the deal that Israel made with Sadat is demonstrated by the current unrest in the Sinai. In 1977 Egypt’s was the strongest regime in the region. So when Israel thought about the threat emanating from Egypt, it thought about the Egyptian army barreling toward Beersheba. That is why the Egyptian military was barred from operating in the Sinai.

The last thing on Israel’s mind in 1978 was the Beduin tribes in the Sinai. Back then Sinai’s Beduin were pro-Israel and bitterly disappointed when it withdrew. But a lot has changed since then.

Over the past 20 years or so, the power of Egypt’s central authority in its hinterlands has weakened.

The strength of the Beduin has grown.

And over the past decade or so, the Beduin of Sinai, like the Beduin from Saudi Arabia to Jordan to Israel have become aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood and its al-Qaida and Hamas spinoffs. The Beduin attacks on Egyptian police and border guard installations in El-Arish and Suez over the past three weeks are an indication that the fear of a strong state, which was so central to Israel’s thinking during the peace process with Egypt, is no longer Israel’s most urgent concern.

Transnational jihadists in the Sinai are much more immediately threatening than the Egyptian military.

But the peace treaty – signed with a military dictator – provides neither Israel nor Egypt with tools to deal with this threat.

As Israel moves into the uncharted territory of managing its relations with the postMubarak Egypt, it is imperative that our leaders understand the lessons of the past.

Fantasies are no match for reality.

Aggression must be fought, not wished away. And the world is a dynamic place.

Today’s solutions will likely be irrelevant tomorrow as new challenges eclipse the current ones. Our strategies must be rational, flexible and sober-minded if we are to chart a forward course rather than be thrown asunder by the coming storm. And we must never put all our eggs in anyone’s basket. caroline@carolineglick.com

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COMMUNITY

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Politician’s Pay-to-Play Pal Pleading Out

BY D.B. HOOREN

ichael Levitis, an attorney and restaurateur, will admit that he lied when questioned about playing a role in an effort to bribe the Albany politician through an intermediary, according to documents filed in Brooklyn federal court.

Following his 2010 arrest, Levitis was asked by prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn to help them with their investigation into allegations that Kruger has performed official acts in exchange for campaign donations, a source told The Post.

Kruger, a Brooklyn Democrat who chairs the powerful Senate Finance Committee, has been the focus of an FBI corruption probe into alleged influence peddling since 2008, and the investigation is still ongoing, the source said.

Levitis allegedly acted as a go-between in a pay-to-play scheme to help Kruger raise money in exchange for official favors, the feds say, meeting with a FBI informant posing as a businessman.

Levitis, who owns the Russian nightspot Rasputin in Gravesend, was caught on a secretly recorded audiotape in April 2009, telling the informant he needed to pay off Jason Koppel, Kruger's longtime chief of staff and campaign treasurer, to get assistance on an upcoming official business

Michael Bloomberg’s New Preliminary City Budget Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the latest New York City budget on Thursday, which threatens to lay off thousands of teachers and to close senior centers and homeless shelters.

A lawyer ensnared in a federal corruption probe into the activities of state Sen. Carl Kruger will plead guilty to charges that he lied to FBI agents about a pay-toplay bribe, The Post has learned.

ince Albany just reduced education funding by $1.4 billion, the city proposes eliminating 6,166 teaching jobs – 4,666 via layoffs.

Although Bloomberg spent much of his speech discussing why New York is better off than many city governments, the city may still face significant cuts in services for the new fiscal year, which begins in July.

“We are in a much stronger position than most because we have planned ahead,” he said. “I’ve always been optimistic about New York.”

With state and federal cuts, the city faces a $4.6 billion deficit. And Bloomberg pledged to bridge the gap without raising taxes or making significant cutbacks.

But commentators have said Bloomberg is threatening layoffs for city employees – particularly teachers – in order to get more funding from the state.

“Our sound management will help avoid the worst impacts of State cuts, but we can’t compensate for the full loss in State funding,” he said. “We’re ready to do our part to help the State, but we don’t deserve to be penalized for our responsible actions.”

According to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the mayor’s proposal would reduce the number of city jobs by 8,300 positions – 5,000 of them through layoffs.

The new budget proposal would close 100 senior centers and 20 fire companies, and 17,000 child care slots would disappear.

The city is negotiating an additional stop-

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Kruger, a Brooklyn Democrat who chairs the powerful Senate Finance Committee, has been the focus of an FBI corruption probe into alleged influence peddling since 2008. inspection.

The informant was instructed by Levitis that he would "have to do a fund-raiser" for Kruger. The informant agreed, and, on the

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gap of $600 million from the state government, which would go toward education and social services such as senior centers.

With the state government already cutting Medicaid benefits from a projected $20.8 billion to $18 billion, it is unsure where New York City’s extra money will come from. Legislators have offered a few solutions, including revenue from the personal income tax on the wealthy and from personal property taxes.

But New York City has a much lower unemployment rate than the national aver-

_____________________ “We’re ready to do our part to help the State, but we don’t deserve to be penalized for our responsible actions.” _____________________ age, and received a record number of visitors in 2010, reported the mayor.

And with profits of $28 billion in 2010, Wall Street had the second-best year in its history, and the city expects strong earnings for 2011 as well, which will translate into higher tax revenues.

Ronnie Lowenstein, director of the city’s Independent Budget Office, said the city’s economic future rested largely on the growth of traditional industries such as banking and tourism.

“Given what we know about the pressures on state and local government, and given what we know about the direction Washington is heading, those sectors will have to continue to grow,” she told the New York Times. “Those are the tea leaves.”

FIDF brings hundreds of IDF soldiers to the U.S. every year to participate in special events and programs, such as IDF Musical Ensemble performances, parlor meetings, lectures at synagogues and schools, regional gala dinners, and meetings with FIDF supporters.

These events offer a great opportunity to meet IDF soldiers and hear the stories of these brave young men and women.

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BROOKLYN RABBI IS CONVICTED TO FOUR YEARS IN PRISON Milton Balkany, the Brooklyn, New York, rabbi and dean of the Bais Yaakov Day School in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, was ordered to serve four years in prison for trying to extort $4 million from Steven Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors LP. n February 18th, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote sentenced Balkany, 64.

He was convicted by a federal jury in November of extortion and blackmail charges after he threatened to disclose insider trading by SAC. There was no evidence at the trial that he had any such evidence.

“Just because you lead a charitable institution doesn’t give you a pass to commit extortion and fraud,” the judge told Balkany in court. “You tried to extort $4 million from a hedge fund.”

Prosecutors said the rabbi told the Stamford, Connecticut-based fund that a federal prisoner in Otisville, New York, to whom he was the spiritual adviser, had detailed the purported insider trading scheme to him. Balkany then called prosecutors in an attempt to put pressure upon SAC to further his scheme.

Cote agreed to impose a sentence less than the 87-to-108 months recommended by federal sentencing guidelines because of Balkany’s “lifetime of good works” and “generosity of spirit.” Eighty-seven people, including Alan Vinegrad, the former U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, New York, wrote letters in praise of Balkany, Cote said.

In a 15-minute address to the judge, Balkany, the father of 13 children and grandfather of 35, said he used his money to support the poor, disabled and emotionally dis-

hungry and the poor,” he said of his family.

Witnesses testified at trial that Balkany told a lawyer for SAC that the inmate would keep quiet about alleged illegal trading by the hedge fund in 2004 and 2005 if it paid his school and another school $2 million each.

The lawyer instead recorded his phone calls and meetings with Balkany, who was arrested after taking two checks from SAC totaling $3.25 million. Balkany told an SAC official at the time that the inmate wouldn’t talk to authorities at a meeting scheduled for the following day. According to the government, no such meeting was planned.

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Rabbi Milton Balkany tried to extort $4 million from a hedge fund. traught. He said his school accepted poor children that other institutions rejected. He denied allegations by prosecutors that he previously committed other crimes, insisting that he followed the law and didn’t cut corners.

“For 10 years I did not take a salary because they did not have the money,” Balkany said of his school.

“We took our money and we gave it to the

_____________________ “For 10 years I did not take a salary because they did not have the money,” Balkany said of his school. _____________________ view he gave in which he said he was being punished by the government because of his decades of community service. Cote said that Balkany showed no remorse.

“The defendant has never come to terms with any of his criminal violations of the law,” she said.

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NEWS IN REVIEW

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February 25, 2011

NEWS IN REVIEW ISRAEL Hungary Asks US Court to Reject Looted Art Lawsuit he Hungarian government says it has asked a US court to dismiss a lawsuit by the heirs of a prominent Jewish collector who are seeking the return of art worth over $100 million seized during the Holocaust. The Ministry of National Development said Tuesday that the 2010 suit by the heirs of Baron Mor Lipot Herzog in Washington should be dismissed, in part because compensation for the 44 artworks was covered by a 1973 claims agreement between Hungary and the United States.

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Morocco: Five Found Dead After Pro Democracy Protests ountry's interior minister says bodies found in bank set aflame by troublemakers on sidelines of nationwide demonstrations. Moroccan Interior Minister Taeib Cherqaoui said Monday that five charred bodies were found in a bank set aflame by troublemakers on the sidelines of one of many nationwide protests pushing for more democracy in the kingdom. The interior minister told reporters that at least 128 people were injured — mostly security forces — in unrest linked to protests a day earlier that drew at least 37,000 demonstrators in dozens of towns and cities. Cherqaoui said that "troublemakers" vandalized dozens

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of public buildings, stores and banks, including one in northeastern Al Hoceima where the five bodies were found. He said 120 people were arrested. The demonstrations marked Morocco's entree into a wave of protests across the Arab world after popular uprisings toppled longtime autocrats in Tunisia and Egypt.

U.S Sanctions Bank, Alleges Ties to Hezbollah .S Authorities ordered sanctions against a Lebanese bank the U.S says helped drug traffickers launder money and finance the Lebanese group Hezbollah. The U.S Treasury Department on Thursday designated Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL as a “primary money laundering concern” under Patriot Act provisions aimed at curbing terrorism finance. Treasury and U.S Drug Enforcement Administration officials alleged that hundreds of millions of dollars in drug proceeds were laundered through accounts at the lender. In a statement, the bank denied “knowledge of any involvement in any manner whatsoever in illicit transactions or wrongdoing.”

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Demjanjuk Threatens Hunger Strike ohn Demjanjuk told a Munich state court Tuesday he would go on hunger strike unless judges pursue more evidence which he claims could exonerate him of charges he served as a Nazi death camp guard. A verdict in Demjanjuk's trial is expected as early as March. The Ukrainian-

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born former Ohio autoworker accused the panel of judges who have heard the case over the last 15 months of turning "a blind eye to justice" by repeatedly rejecting defense motions for more documents.

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Ashkenazi told the committee. During the committee session, several MKs expressed their regret for the manner which forced the end of his command [as chief of General Staff]. Some of the MKs criticized the treatment he received from Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Ashkenazi, however, distanced himself from the criticism of Barak, saying he would not delve into politics while still in uniform.

Israel Invited to Develop Ties with South Sudan eputy Minister Ayub Kara recently attended a diplomatic event at the House of Lords in London and was invited to the newly independent South Sudan to assist in establishing diplomatic relations. The largely Christian South Sudan recently broke away from the mostly Muslim North Sudan.

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Lt.-Gen. Ashkenazi: Israel Should Make Peace With Neighbors ormer chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi called on the government to work towards making peace treaties with Israel's neighbors during a farewell appearance before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday. "Other countries [in the region] should be removed from the cycle of conflict with Israel and added to the [list] of countries like Egypt and Jordan, with whom we have strategically important peace treaties,"

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22% of New IDF Officers Religious n a ceremony Wednesday 377 new officers were inducted into the IDF. 22% of them are religious. The ceremony was attended by Defense Minister Ehud Barak, IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. - Gen. Benny Gantz, commander of Ground Forces, Major General Shlomo (Sammy) Turgeon and Commander of the Officers School, Major General Eran Niv.

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Jordan's Justice Minister: Israel is Enemy, Terrorist State ordanian Justice Minister Hussein Mjali, who recently called for the release of the convict who killed seven Israeli students in Naharayim, said in an interview with Jordanian newspaper Al Arab Al Yawm that Israel is an "enemy and a terrorist state. As a people and a nation we must stand against it united."

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n a televised speech, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah warned the State of Israel and incoming IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Benny Gantz: "I am telling the Islamic opposition fighters, be ready for the day when, if a war is forced on Lebanon, we will ask you to take over Galilee."

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Sharansky: More converts should be able to immigrate ewish Agency head recommends that Agency, and not heads of relevant religious community, advise ministry on validity of immigrant's status.

In an effort to curb the trend of Orthodox converts from abroad not being recognized

by Israel for citizenship, the Jewish Agency on Tuesday appealed the Interior Ministry for a more dominant role in identifying established Diaspora communities as such.

A resolution passed on Tuesday by the agency’s board of governors called on the government “to confirm the role of the Jewish Agency as a body directed to ascertain, through inquiry with appropriate parties in the relevant country, that the party confirming the Jewish eligibility of a prospective oleh for the purposes of aliya is qualified to do so.”

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NATIONAL Shapiro, Considered the White House Point Person for Israel .S. President Barack Obama intends to appoint his adviser Dan Shapiro to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, according to the website Politico. Shapiro, considered the White House point person for Israel, is the U.S. government’s main liaison with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A White House source told Haaretz on Monday that he could neither confirm nor deny the report. Shapiro, 40, was Obama’s adviser on Middle East affairs during Obama’s election campaign. Shapiro also coordinated Obama’s campaign in the American Jewish community. Shapiro speaks Hebrew and regularly

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attends synagogue. His children have Israeli names. After Obama entered the White House, he appointed Shapiro to head the Middle East desk of the National Security Council, and charged him with relations with Israel. Shapiro attended every meeting related to Israel or the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and every senior Israeli diplomat and military officer who visited Washington has met with him. The current American ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham, is expected to end his three-year term this summer, at which point Shapiro is expected to replace him.

Madoff to NY Newspaper: Banks 'Complicit' In Fraud isgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff said in an online interview that banks and hedge funds were "complicit" in his scheme to fleece victims out of billions of dollars. Madoff did not name any institutions in his series of interviews with The New York Times but said banks and hedge funds "were complicit in one form or another." He said they failed to scrutinize the discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other information.

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Alan Dershowitz to Advise Assange's Legal Team arvard Law School professor and prominent political commentator Alan Dershowitz said on Tuesday that he will join WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's legal team. Dershowitz, who said he has "spoken on the phone extensively" with Assange is advising the WikiLeaks founder's lawyers in England on his extradition case. "The First Amendment protects even speech that may be seen as dangerous or threatening by some," Dershowitz said.

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Rahm Emanuel is Elected Mayor of Chicago

NEWS IN REVIEW Nasrallah: In Next War, Hezbollah Will Take Over Galilee

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Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was elected mayor of Chicago on Tuesday, easily overwhelming five rivals to take the helm of the nation's third-largest city as it prepares to chart a new course without the retiring Richard M. Daley. he other major candidates - former Chicago schools president Gery Chico, former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and City Clerk Miguel del Valle - had hoped to force a runoff but were no match for Emanuel.

It was the city's first mayoral race in more than 60 years without an incumbent on the ballot and the first in more than two decades without Daley among the candidates.

Daley and his father have led Chicago for more than 43 out of the last 56 years.

Daley up-ended the Chicago political universe on September 7 of last year by announcing that he wouldn't run for re-election. At the time, he described it as "a personal decision, no more, no less" -- his wife Maggie has been battling cancer for years, and at age 68, he's no spring chicken himself.

Emanuel was born in Chicago, Illinois to Jewish parents. His father, Benjamin M. Emanuel, is a Jerusalem-born pediatrician.

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Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was elected mayor of Chicago.

United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 5th congressional district, from 2003 until his resignation in 2009 to take up his position in the Obama Administration.

Emanuel resigned as Obama’s Chief of Staff on October 1, 2010, in order to pursue this mayoral campaign.

Israeli Still Missing in New Zealand after Deadly Quake

Kosher Jail Meal Contract ew York City’s Department of Correction awarded two bids worth more than $18,000 to supply Kosher meals for inmates celebrating Passover, records show. The contracts – won by two Brooklyn companies for $4,168 and $14,235 respectively – will help provide the meals for about 800 inates expected to make the request during the seven-day observance in April, a spokesman said. Out of the 12,498 inmates who were in custody yesterday, about 800 of them ordered a Kosher meal.

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Woman being rescued in Christchurch, New Zealand.

At least one Israeli was killed and the fate of dozens of others is not yet known in the New Zealand earthquake that has claimed more than 75 lives. wenty three-year-old Ofer Mizrachi of Kibbutz Maagal is feared dead. He was traveling with friends when the quake hit. While his friends managed to escape the car to safety, Mizrachi was trapped as a building fell on the vehicle.

Michal, one of Ofer's friends who was with him at the time told her family a concrete block hit their car. "Luckily, the back door was open and the girls immediately went through it. Guy managed to break the window shield and escape while Ofer was trapped," Michal's father Yossi said.

"They were very fortunate to make it out of the car alive," he added. The four Israeli travelers are classmates who embarked on a trip to Australia and New Zealand together.

Approximately 120 Israelis are believed to be living or touring in the city of Christchurch, which suffered a mid-day earthquake that tumbled buildings and

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rolled huge boul- Israeli believed to be ders down on the city of 400,000. dead in the New The roof of the Zealand earthquake.

Chabad House in the area, built just 5 years ago to help tourists, has collapsed, but no one was injured. Rabbi Shmuel Freedman and his family ran out of the building as it collapsed, and were saved.

Unlike an earthquake that struck last September and claimed no casualties, Tuesday’s quake and nearly two dozens aftershocks caught tens of thousands of people during the lunch hour, when malls and streets were filled. It registered 6.3 on the Richter scale.

Rescuers are attempting to rescue approximately 100 people alive but buried amid the rubble after the earthquake. Prime MInister Netanyahu spoke personally to New Zealand''s Prime Minister John Kay and offered any help that can be provided.

Israel's Foreign Ministry is preparing a plan to send medical aid and rescue teams to New Zealand. A group of Zaka workers is on their way from Israel.

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ART & CULTURE

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15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival March 10-16, 2011

UNIQUE CULTURAL EVENT TO SHOWCASE FIVE U.S. PREMIERES AND SIX NEW YORK PREMIERES The 15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival March 10-16, 2011 at the Center for Jewish History, is presented by the American Sephardi Federation (ASF) in association with Yeshiva University Museum (YUM). he 2011festival includes critically acclaimed and award-winning films, and documentaries by filmmakers of differing global perspectives. An exciting cultural event, the lineup includes five U.S. premieres and six New York premieres., drawing an international audience, with the participation of notable scholars, diplomats, and many filmmakers themselves.

At the Opening Night Gala, acclaimed Sephardi actor/filmmaker Ronit Elkabetz will receive the Pomegranate Lifetime Achievement Award from ASF. Ms. Elkabetz has won three Ophir Awards and in 2010, the France Culture Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In addition, she has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Film Academy.

Since its inception in 1990, the NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, one of the largest Sephardic Jewish film festivals in North America has been expanding its audiences, attracting over 30,000 guests.

The American Sephardi Federation is exhibiting a selection of thought-provoking, international quality feature films and documentaries which examine the past and explore contemporary Sephardic issues and identity. "Through cinematic exploration, our aim is to further elevate the understanding of the very rich history and culture of Sephardic Jewry," says ASF President, David E.R. Dangoor.

As part of ASF's year-long series, '2,000 Years of Jewish Life in Morocco: An Epic Journey,' themes include a special focus on

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A scene from Five Brothers, the movie to be shown on the festival’s opening night the Jews of Morocco, presented Under the High Patronage of His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco and through the generous support of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation.

For a full listing of films and ticket information, please visit: sephardicfilmfest.org.

All screenings are at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, NYC (except where noted). Group sales discounts are available (excluding the Opening and Closing night receptions). Information about the American Sephardi Federation is available at: visamericansephardifederation.org.

Members of the media are invited to attend the screenings, with prior arrangements.

The Festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties.

Special thanks goes to the Brenner Family Foundation, the Kumble Cultural Fund and the Selz Family Cultural Fund for their generous contributions in support of the program.

Isaac Mizrahi Uses Cream and Fur Coordinates This year, Isaac Mizrahi added cakes and canines to the runway to accompany his designs for Fashion Week. e had Buddy Valastro, the TV personality behind Carlo’s Bake Shop in Hoboken, make frosted cakes to match each look from his collection.

Attendees of the show had to sign releases that allowed them to be filmed for Valastro’s reality show “Cake Boss” on TLC. And for the “cherry on the cake”, he introduced colorfully dyed poodles to walk the walk alongside his design clad models. There were several varieties — French, standard, miniature, pink, blue and one that might have been a bichon frisé. Mr. Mizrahi said they were borrowed from friends or were rescue animals.

Guests at this afternoon’s Isaac Mizrahi show at Exit Art were treated to a confection of a fall collection, complete with the most mouthwatering and memorable accessories of fashion week: elaborate cakes, whipped up by Cake Boss Buddy Valastro and his team at Carlo’s Bakery, and color-coordinated poodles (fresh from Westminster, perhaps?). Emerging from this living Maira Kalman illustration—and with Kalman herself sketching from the front row—were 26 looks that distilled Mizrahi’s dazzling mixedmedia collage of a spring collection into a luxe, bold, and energizing vision for fall.

The parade of poodle-poufed models began with macaroon hues—a plush lavender ensemble, a pistachio coatdress—accented with jumbo bows. Long-sleeved dresses in intensifying shades of rose and circuspeanut orange were sent out with crowdpleasing canine escorts. And if a tea-length charcoal number wasn’t enough of a palette cleanser, there were the delicious pauses afforded by gentlemen dressed in chefs’ whites and balancing cakes on silver platters.

One covered in tiny fondant flowers heralded the arrival of a matching nubby knit jacket and skirt. For those who prefer their blooms

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS MUSEUMS:

THE HOUDINI EXHIBIT Through March 27th, The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Ave. 92nd Street, New York The first major art museum exhibition to explore the life, career and lasting influence of the legendary magician, Harry Houdini. The exhibit depicts one of his most famous tricks: the straitjacket escape as well as his other amazing feats. Also included is a timeline of his biography showing baby photos, his rabbi father’s Hebrew bible, and a travel diary and newspaper clippings are included in the glass-enclosed timeline.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY Steps from Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, the National Museum of American Jewish History is dedicated to chronicling the American Jewish experience.

On the Museum's second floor, "Choices & Challenges of Freedom" (1945-Today), visitors have the opportunity to use video recording booths and tell their stories, share their traditions, or talk about their ancestors. Among the stories which visitors have recorded in the "It's Your Story" booths are those about Sephardic heritage, mitzvahs, holiday customs and family dinners. 101 South Independence Mall East, Philadelphia (215) 923-3811 ‘REFLECTIONS ON A RIGHTEOUS GRANDFATHER’ – AN EXHIBITION BY SEBASTIAN MENDES Through July 24th, Yeshiva University Museum Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St. The grandfather of the artist Sebastian Mendes makes for monumental source material: Aristides de Sousa Mendes was the Portuguese consul general in Bordeaux, France, in 1940, and helped rescue an estimated 30,000 Jews from Nazi persecution. Sebastian has created a new exhibit that includes drawings, sculptures and occasionally in-gallery performances dedicated to Aristides’ life.

For more info: (212) 294-8330.

FILM: 15TH NEW YORK SEPHARDIC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL March 10-16th, At the Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street, NYC (except where noted).

The 2011 slate of films includes critically acclaimed and award-winning films, as well as classic feature films and documentaries presented by filmmakers from differing global perspectives.

For a full listing of films and ticket information, please visit: www.sephardicfilmfest.org.

GRACE PALEY: COLLECTED SHORTS Tue, Mar 8, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue, NYC For more info: call (646) 505-4444 or visit jccmanhattan.org Writer, political activist, teacher, mother, and friend, Grace was a New York icon who captured the essence of the city she loved. This film vividly illuminates every aspect of Paley's extraordinary life and writings in a visual parallel revealed in colorful “shorts” and told in her own voice.

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IN COMPULSION Till March 13th, Joseph Papp Public Theater/Newman Theater, 425 Lafayette St., New York Tony winner Mandy Patinkin stars as Sid Silver, a Jewish man obsessed with bringing The Diary of Anne Frank first to the reading public, and then to the stage in 1951.

For more information go to: www.publictheater.org THE WHIPPING MAN Through March 20, Manhattan Theatre Club City Center Stage I, 131 W. 55th St. This suspenseful, searing play, portrays a unique celebration of Passover in the South just after the Civil War triggers a re-examination of the horrors of slavery in America.

Performances are Tuesday and Sunday evenings at 7 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday evenings at 8 p.m., and weekend matinees at 2 p.m. For tickets, $80, call CityTix at (212) 581-1212 or visit www.nycitycenter.org.

LONG STORY SHORT Till March 5th, At the Helen Hayes Theater, 240 West 44th Street, New York In this play, Colin Quinn takes audiences through his version of the history of the world in 75 minutes. From his personification of Caesar as the original Italian mobster to his complaints about Ancient Greece and Antigone giving way to Costco and Snooki, Quinn uses satire to take on the attitudes, appetites and bad habits that toppled the world's most powerful nations. Visit telecharge.com or call Telecharge at 212 239 6200 for tickets.

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Isaac Mizrahi and the poodle on a runway during the Fashion Week. big, Mizrahi reprised his favorite floral photo prints with a stunning topper covered in outsized purple pansies and a shoulder-skimming poppy-print organza gown. Rounding out the collection were bubblegum pink cocktail dresses, bias-cut gowns that appeared to be dusted in glittering sugar, and a strapless, floor-length lace creation in a fizzy shade of thistle.

The whimsical show delighted an eclectic crowd that ranged from fashionable frontrow staples (Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey, Bergdorf Goodman’s Linda Fargo) and a cross-section of TV types (eminently huggable Bravo exec Andy Cohen, QVC host Shawn Killinger) to art world figures (the lovely Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and artist Laurie Simmons, who was graciously accepting praise for daughter Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture). As for the cake on offer, many audience members were content to admire it from afar. Figure skater and fashion lover Johnny Weir, dressed in a mint green fur chubby and toting a matching Balenciaga satchel, eyed our seatmates’ barely touched slices longingly. “Is the icing soft and fluffy?” He asked, wide-eyed.

“Maybe I’ll take a piece to go.”

THE ROAD TO QATAR Till Feb. 27, 619 Lexington Ave.,NYC., Tue., 7 p.m.; Wed.–Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun. 2:30 p.m.

(212) 935-5820 or www.yorktheatre.org.

This is a musical play that shows what happens when two American musical theatre writers are commissioned by the Emir of Qatar to create the first American musical to premiere in the Middle East. Visit yorktheatre.org or call 212-935-5820 for details.

C.S. LEWIS MEETS FREUD: FREUD’S LAST SESSION Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater on New York’s Upper West Side, 10 West 64th b/w Broadway & CPW (one block from Lincoln Center).

This brilliant play, which joins two of history’s greatest minds – C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud, caused a sensation during last year’s summer theater season, extending twice due to sold-out performances.

For info call: 212-352-3101

CONCERT AND CELEBRATION: YESHIVA DERECH HATORAH EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION ANNUAL DINNER March 6th, Kingsway Jewish Center, Honoring Rabbi and Mrs. Max Schreier, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Masri, Mr. and Mrs. Meir Fuchs, Dr. Benjamin Moscovitz For more info call 718-258-1441 ext. 11 Celebration 18: Chabad of the Upper East Side's Chai Anniversary Auction & Concert featuring Avraham Fried Sunday, March 6, 5:30 pm, At the Museum of Jewish Heritagem, 36 Battery Place, NYC The chairman of the evening is Peter Schwalbe; Guests of Honor are Deborah & Joseph Aronow; and Parents of the Year are Kim & Jonathan Kushner. There are 58 amazing raffle prizes in the auction, including a Hawaii vacation, diamond jewelry, an iPad and much more!

To view the prizes or buy entrance tickets please visit: www.chabaduppereastside.com CARNIVALE AND CASINO NIGHT Saturday March 26th, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel,White Plains, NY The event will benefit the work of Hadassah in Health and Medical Research For more info call 914-937-3151

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A Bigger Play Pen The New York Observer publisher Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump, the children of two real estate moguls, have decided to ditch their current home — Kushner’s former bachelor pad — for a Trump Park Ivanka Trump Avenue penthouse.

The duplex at 21 Astor Place, that the couple shared since their wedding, was purchased for 4.1 million and is on the market for $3.225 million, according to property records. With the Twitter announcement on January 21st that the couple is expecting their first baby, it all makes sense.

Musician’s Heart is in the Holy Land “First and foremost, the thing I love most about Israel is the fact that it’s the only place where it’s OK to be Jewish,” says David Draiman, lead singer of US metal band Disturbed, one of the leading bands in the field.

“Israel is the only David Draiman place you can feel proud wherever you go, You have your people and your culture and there’s nothing to

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fear. It’s very different from how most of the world sees Israel from their TV screens.

“I love the direct connections to our history here,” he adds, “I love how you can go skiing in the snow on the Hermon and go diving in Eilat. If you want to celebrate, then you have the Ibiza of the Middle East – Tel Aviv and if you want a little culture and history you have Jerusalem.”

Between major concert tours, fans and millions of albums sold worldwide, Draiman, a 37-year-old born and bred Jew, has visited Israel about 20 times, where his brother Benjamin and about 200 relatives live.

Over the last few years he has made his visits more frequent and would consider making aliyah, if only his band members would join him.

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Jacob Arabo

Jacob the Jeweler, a Jewel Amongst the Stars

took ya outta Jacob’s in clusters”. The jeweler is also cited in “Wow” by Kanye West that begins, “I go to Jacob wit 25 thou…”

Valentino, Kim Kardashian, are well known celebrities who frequent with this Manhattan Jewelry store and now, Paris Hilton was recently spotted there with her beloved, Cy Waits, shopping for an engagement ring. Jacob & Co at 48 East 57th Street is a luxury watch and diamond jewelry house founded over 25 years ago by Jacob Arabo, a Bukharian-American Jew, also known as “Jacob the Jeweler”. He has provided jewelry to hip hop artists, National Basketball Association players, and other celebrities like Sir Elton John, Bono, David Beckham and Rudy Giuliani.

His name is referenced in a long, long list of popular songs, including in the lyrics in Jay-Z’s “Girl’s Best Friend” which say, “I

Jews in the Academy News This year’s Academy Awards, which will take place on February 27 at Hollywood’s Kodak Theater, features a number of Jewish nominees.

Three of the Best Picture nominations have Jewish producers: Scott Rudin for “The Social Network”; Ethan and Joel Coen for “True Grit”; and Mike Medavoy for “The Black Swan.”

Jesse Eisenberg was nominated for Best Actor for his portrayal of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in “Social Network,” a recipient of eight nominations.

Golden Globe winner, and Israeli native, Natalie Portman, was a Best Actress pick

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for her role in “Black Swan.”

Teenager Hailee Steinfeld, who has a Jewish father, was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for her heroic role in “True Grit,” which garnered 10 nominations.

The Best Director category included the Coen brothers for “True Grit” and Darren Aronofsky for “Black Swan.”

Susanne Bier, an outspokenly Jewish director, won a nod for Best Foreign Film for Denmark’s “In a Better World.”

Israel’s short documentary “Strangers No More,” made by American filmmakers Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman, was also nominated.

Jewish writers nominated were Aaron Sorkin for “Social Network” and the Coen brothers for “True Grit”, named for their adapted screenplays.

Nominations for best original screenplay went to David Seidler for “The King’s Speech,” and Lisa Cholodenko with Stuart Blumberg for “The Kids Are Alright.”

Mike Huckabee in Good Jewish Company POLITICO recently reported, “A stop in the Jewish state is becoming as critical (politically) as an early trip to Iowa or New Hampshire.”

While Mitt Romney and Haley Barbour check the Israel box and move on, Mike Huckabee lingered.

This past month, the former Arkansas gover- Mike Huckabee nor spent two weeks in Israel on his 15th trip to the Jewish state He recently recalled a dinner with Jewish friends, where “I was the only goyim in the entire group… If you’ve been around a lot of Jewish people, particularly from New York, they tend to be very opinionated, very animated,” he said. “I felt like I was sitting between Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen — it was really interesting; it was surreal.”

THE WEEKLY SUDOKU How to play Sudoku? One simple rule: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9 TIPS FOR THE BEGINNER SUDOKU PLAYER • Make sure you have some free time ahead.

• Resist the temptation of guess and use logic instead!

• Solving time for the Sudoku is typically from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your Soduku skill and experience, so don’t quit if you’re Sodukuing for 5 minutes and getting nowhere.

• Use a pencil, you will make mistakes.

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ADVOCATES FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES HOLDS HISTORIC CONFERENCE IN TORONTO Spearheaded and organized by conference coordinator Meryle Kates, the ACL has been established to advocate for civil liberties protection in Canada, particularly in university settings. Their efforts have been devoted to countering unbalanced anti-Israel messages from organizations whose objectives are to promote propaganda against the State of Israel, with the result of inciting antiIsrael sentiment and hostilities.

Serving as moderator for the proceedings was Jonathan Kay, a managing editor at Canada's National Post newspaper and a columnist on the newspaper's op-ed page. "The only way to disprove a lie is to establish the facts," declared Judge Hadassa Ben Itto as she delivered the opening remarks of the conference via video feed from Jerusalem. Judge Itto is best known for her scholarly monograph entitled, "The Lie That Wouldn't Die, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (2005), a text that has been used for a century to demonize Jews and delegitimize Israel. "In 1964, the Protocols were f inally declared 'the hoax of the century, yet both the Jewish people and Israel are now targets of haters who still insist that there is a Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world", she ruefully observed.

Students at such respected academic institutions as York University in Toronto are no stranger to the acrimony that is engendered during Israeli Apartheid Week as their campus has previously morphed into a hotbed of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred during past events of this kind. In a very

Dr. Gil Troy - Professor of history at McGill University in Montreal special panel dedicated to the voices of those who have experienced this phenomenon, Mr. Kay introduced f ive York students who articulated their views and expressed concerns about the future.

Sara Akrami, an Iranian human rights activist and second year political science student at York said, "Clubs are established at York with the sole purpose of creating discord and promoting anti-Israel violence and the administration takes no action against them." Ms. Akrami noted that the November 2010 appearance of British parliamentarian George Galloway was opposed by a majority of the students at York.

Galloway is a highly polemical f igure who achieved notoriety as a rabid hater of the Jewish state, asserting that Israel created "conditions in the Arab countries and in some European countries to stampede Jewish people ... into the Zionist state."

Other students such as Michael Payton, a cognitive science major at York, sociology major Afroza Mohammed and Noah Kochman also addressed the issue of students being subjected to verbal invective and physical assaults by members of the Muslim

Student Association and other antiIsrael groups. Mr. Kochman, a member of the Canadian Association of Jewish Students spoke of the violent outbursts of Palestinian student groups that led to the cancellation of an address scheduled to be delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ay Concordia University in Montreal in 2002. "ProIsrael student demonstrators were trapped in their own space, unable to move, because of the overt aggression of the demonstrators who resorted to violence."

Subsequent to the student panel forum, Andrew Roberts, noted British author, historian, lecturer and founding

_____________________ Dr. Phyllis Chesler “Pro-Israel students are verbally humiliated and physically attacked.

Professors in Middle East Studies teach students only one point of view the pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel point of view.� _____________________ member of the Friends of Israel Initiative took center stage and spoke of the aims of the relatively new organization. Established in August of 2010 to concretely challenge the British boycott of Israeli academia, Mr. Roberts said that among the goals of the Friends of Israel Initiative were to, "counter the growing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and its right to live in peace within safe and defensible borders. The Initiative arises out of a sense of deep concern about the unprecedented campaign of delegitimization against Israel waged by enemies of the Jewish state, and perversely, supported by numerous international institutions." Among the founding members of the Friends of Israeli Initiative is John Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations.

Professor Richard Cravatts of Boston University and author of a forthcoming book entitled, "Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel", which documents the extensive web of Islamist influence that pervades the university campus, spoke of "brand hijacking" in terms of Israel's global image.

"Those who would re-write the history of Israel and the narrative of the Palestinians in the Middle East have hijacked Israel's branding", he intoned adding that we live in a "world turned upside down in its relationship to the interpretation of the reality in the Middle East." Dr. Cravatts illustrated his assertions by pointing out the sheer hypocrisy of the worldview shared by the international community as it pertains to standards of equity and justice in Israel. "We ignore the fact that Arabs in the territories would receive the death penalty for selling an apartment to a Jew, but we never raise our voices when Israel is roundly condemned for building 1300 apartments in East Jerusalem; a right that any other nation takes for granted."

Warning of the existential threat that Israel faces from the burgeoning Muslim Brotherhood, Eliot Chodoff, a political and military analyst and lecturer on the history and challenges of the Middle East said, "There is an all out assault on Israel taking place" and reminded his audience of the parallel

from left to right: Professor Gil Troy, (person next to him unknown), Dr. Phyllis Chesler, author of the book, "The New Anti-Semitism", Dr. Catherine Chatterley, research fellow at the University of Mantioba and founding director of The Canadian Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Meryle Kates, conference coordinator. between the recent revolution in Egypt and the Iranian revolution that took place in 1979. "It was students, intellectuals and shopkeepers that led the revolution against the Shah of Iran," he intoned, adding that the teachings of the Muslim Brotherhood were predicated upon a Nazi-like ideology and it is precisely these beliefs that provide their

Dr. Richard Cravatts of Boston University basis for launching a global jihad.

"The campuses have become increasingly and aggressively anti-Israel and pro-Islam", declared Dr. Phyllis Chesler, prolif ic author, emerita professor of psychology and women's studies at CUNY and a foremost expert on gender and religious apartheid in the Muslim world. "Pro-Israel students are verbally humiliated and physically attacked. Professors in Middle East Studies teach students only one point of view -- the pro-Palestinian and antiIsrael point of view", she said, adding that, "this has been the case at York University, Concordia University and the University of California at San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Berkeley and Irvine."

Speaking at length on the history of the progenitors of genuine apartheid in the Middle East, Dr. Chesler said, "Israel is not an apartheid nation. Islam is the world's largest practitioner of both religious and gender apartheid.

Muslims have persecuted, murdered, and forcibly converted the entire Middle East, India, parts of Africa, Asia and now Europe."

Dr. Chesler outlined her important work on the phenomenon of "honor killings" of Muslim women throughout the world that was published in 2009 and 2010 in the Middle East Quarterly.

"Islamic gender apartheid is a human rights violation and cannot be justif ied in the name of cultural relativism, tolerance, anti-racism, diversity or political correctness", she said.

"We are facing two jihads", said Dr. Gil Troy, professor of history at McGill University in Montreal and author of the book, "Why I am A Zionist." "As we've discussed today, there is the jihad on campus and a jihad in the classroom, in our textbooks and emanating from our professors", he said. Exhorting students and parents to become more involved in the sphere of academia, Professor Troy said, "we are living in a golden age for Jews on campus, but we must raise the standards of teaching and rescue academia from corrupt academics and f ight educational malpractice."

Attacking the pervasive trend of multiculturalism, Salim Mansur, professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario said, "The right of Israel to remain a safe and secure state must be defended against the ideology of multiculturalists", adding that "multiculturalism is a big, odious, disgusting lie. China, Japan and the Arab nations are not practicing multiculturalism so why are we?"

Dr. Catherine Chatterley of the Canadian Institute for the Study of AntiSemitism spoke of the historical basis of Israeli Apartheid Week saying, "The ideology behind Israeli Apartheid Week is not a new one. The former Soviet Union was a leading proponent of this anti-Zionist philosophy. This was the ideology that declared that Zionism is tantamount to imperialism, racism, discrimination and organically linked to the repression of the human being."

She also addressed the broader global machinations of those orchestrating Israeli Apartheid Week. "The concept of Israeli Apartheid Week is part of a global, political strategy to dismantle the Jewish state. It began as a Canadian invention and now takes place in over 55 cities worldwide." She added that the organizers of Israeli Apartheid Week are making concerted efforts to build alliances with the disenfranchised in general, thus furthering their antiZionist distortions.

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WINE TALK: HISTORY IN A BOTTLE Reflecting the melting pot of Israel, each alcoholic beverage produced here has its own story that goes hand in hand with the story of aliya.

LIQUEURS The first Sabra liqueur was developed in 1963 by Canadian Charles Bronfman, one of the owners of drinks giant Seagram. The unique bottle was a copy of a Phoenician wine flask found in a Tel Aviv museum.

Sabra Chocolate Orange was followed by Sabra Coffee, and Grand Sabra is the latest addition to the range. This is an orange brandy liqueur made from kumquat oranges macerated in three-year-old 777 Brandy.

Sabra liqueurs are mainly popular as gifts from Israel but also used for cooking, making cocktails or as after dinner drinks.

Sabra liqueurs won three gold medals at the IWSC in London, which showed they are liqueurs of the highest international quality.

armel, Gold, Elite, Stock, Sabra and Goldstar are familiar names to students of Israel’s wines, spirits and beers. These brands have each had a part to play in the unfolding history of Israeli alcoholic beverages over the years.

Reflecting the melting pot of Israel, each has its own story. Involved in their beginnings were two Rothschilds from France, a Bronfman from Canada, an Italian and a family from Russia.

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WINE Carmel was founded in 1882 by Baron Edmond de Rothschild of Paris. It is the oldest commercial winery in Israel and arguably the most famous Jewish brand in the world.

Carmel was Israel’s first brand and was also its first exporter. The country’s first electricity and telephone were at Carmel and no less than three future prime ministers, including David Ben- Gurion, once worked there. The story of Carmel really matches the story of Israel. Carmel remains Israel’s largest winery.

Israeli wines have received international acclaim. Many may be considered genuinely world class and they are undoubtedly the most successful of our alcoholicbeverages, bringing nothing but credit to Israel.

VODKA The largest-selling spirit in Israel is vodka. The Gold family came to Safed from Russia in 1824, having been distillers in Russia in the 18th century. After 1918 they began to build their distillery into a commercial concern. Joseph Gold & Sons is now situated at Tirat Hacarmel. Gold is the best-selling Israeli vodka.

BEER The vodka market is growing, but the importance of Israeli-produced vodkas has become marginalized with all the cheap imports and the strong presence of the global mega brands.

ARAK The indigenous spirit of Israel is arak. It is the ethnic spirit for most Mediterranean countries and is similar to the French pastis, Turkish raki, Greek ouzo, Egyptian zabib, North African mahia, Spanish ojen and Armenian oghi. The Lebanese also call it arak.

The Alouf (50%) and Elite (40%) araks are produced by what is incongruously called Yekev Hagalil (Galilee Winery), which is also owned by Gold & Sons. Elite arak is to still to be found in most kiosks and bars in the country.

Arak is undergoing a revival. There are new quality araks produced in Israel such as El Namroud and Kawar, but arak is unlikely either to achieve the sales potential of Greek ouzo or to reach the status here that it has in Lebanon.

THE UNITY OF SPIRIT

Ralph Mizraji seeks to spread cheer and unity all around with his premium L’Chaim Kosher vodka.

Before all the hoopla about South Beach had ever begun, Ralph Mizraji and his family were living there. “When I was growing up in South Beach it was not the celebrated place it is today,” he says. e attended the orthodox hebrew school Landau Yeshiva, followed by Hebrew Academy, and finally, Florida International University, where he studied business and macroeconomics. Out in the real world, after several successful years in the telecommunications industry—Mizraji sold a venture he had founded in 1995, touchtone Communi-cations, to at&t—he joined his family’s textile business and traveled the world, sourcing products to sell almost every major retailer in the U.S. Mizraji eventually went on his own to start Group force Development, Inc., a real estate development business. “We ended that in 2007,” he says. “It left us some seed money to start branding L’Chaim. I recruited investors and assembled an incredibly talented team that has worked with me on branding projects for 20 years,” says Mizraji, who lives in Bal Harbour with his wife, Sara, and their four sons, Sam, Jacob, Zeke and Harry, but works in Aventura. “It’s the same group of guys—from lawyers and accountants to designers and sales managers.” The appropriately named L’Chaim is an Israeli-made Kosher vodka that Mizraji formulated in the spirit (no pun intended) of unifying people, breaking down stereotypes and inspiring a

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“mood of unity and inclusive-ness,” he explains. “We have so much more in common than the little that differentiates us. l’Chaim illuminates our individuality, but at the same time encourages us to forge new alliances and friendships. Its literal translation means ‘to life,’ like one would say ‘salute’ or ‘cheers’ when toasting. ”Known for its pleasantly sweet aromas, L’Chaim’s recipe is based on a formula handed down through several generations of European and Russian Jews.

It’s processed and bottled in Israel, using water from the springs of the Golan Heights and without any filtering and demineralization treatments. It is distilled in Or Akiva, on Israel’s coastal plain, where it undergoes a special process that strips the vodka of any impurities. So everyone who enjoys the clean, crisp taste of high-quality vodka, including those who adhere strictly to kosher law, can indulge freely. To reinforce the premise of unity on which l’Chaim was based, Mizraji contracted American Hasidic Jewish musician Matisyahu to be the face of the vodka; the crossover rapper is known for blending traditional Jewish themes with reggae, rock and hip-hop. “He’s the perfect fulcrum to this project, as he speaks to everyone regardless of their religion, economic or social background,” says Mizraji. As he puts it on the company website, “everyone everywhere has reason to celebrate life. l’Chaim!”

For more information, visit lchaimkoshervodka.com

BRANDY Stock 84 brandy has a special story. Stock was founded in 1884 by the 18-year-old Lionello Stock in Italy. The Jewish-owned company settled in Trieste and was a great success until the rise of Mussolini. Then the distilleries were pillaged, closed or nationalized. Because of this, Lionello Stock had to rebuild his company towards the end of his life and chose to make a start in other countries like America … and Israel. In 1938 he began to produce brandy in Ramat Gan and it became the largest-selling brandy in Israel.

Its Stock 84, still a major international brand, is made under license in Israel by Barkan Winery, which is owned by Tempo.

Israeli brandies are very good, if somewhat forgotten. Both Jonathan Tishbi and Carmel 100 won the Trophy for Best Brandy Worldwide at the International Wines & Spirits Competition in London. These were tremendous achievements for Israel.

However, the brandy market is declining.

Young adults prefer vodka or whiskey.

The oldest beer brand in Israel is Nesher, which was first produced in 1934 by a company called Palestine Breweries, situated in the Rishon Lezion wine cellars! This was a joint venture involving Frenchman Gaston Dreyfus and James Rothschild. There was a wall separating the winery from the brewery and the workers used to meet there to barter wine for beer and vice versa. Palestine Breweries was successful during the British Mandate because the British knew how to drink beer. When the British left, the industry declined.

Arguably the finest Israeli beer is Goldstar. This was originally produced in 1950 at the brewery situated at Rishon Lezion cellars. Now owned by Tempo, it remains the national beer of Israel and is of international quality, but is unknown outside Israel.

So wine is the alcoholic beverage that has proved the best ambassador for Israel overseas. Until today, Carmel wines, Gold vodka, Elite arak, Stock brandy, Sabra liqueurs and Goldstar beer remain the largest-selling Israeli brands within their categories.

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‘Facebook Girls’ More Prone to Eating Disorders

BY GIL RONEN (ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM)

The more time adolescent girls spend in front of Facebook, the greater the risk they will develop a negative body image and various eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and exaggerated dieting. This, according to a new study from the University of Haifa. he study lists eating disorders that include a wide spectrum of abnormal mental and behavioral conducts related to food and body weight, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

Conducted by Prof. Yael Latzer, Prof.

Ruth Katz and Zohar Spivak of the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences at the University of Haifa, the study set out to examine the effects of two factors on the development of eating disorders in young girls: exposure to the media and selfempowerment.

A group of 248 girls aged 12-19 (average age: 14.8) took part in the survey. These girls were asked to provide information on their Internet and television viewing habits.

Regarding the latter, they were asked to

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give the number of popular shows related to extreme standards of physical image (the “Barbie” model) that they watched. The girls also filled out questionnaires that examined their approach to slimming, bulimia, physical satisfaction or dissatisfaction, their general outlook on eating, and their sense of personal empowerment.

The results showed that the more time girls spend on Facebook, the more they suffered conditions of bulimia, anorexia, physical dissatisfaction, negative physical selfimage, negative approach to eating and more of an urge to be on a weight-loss diet.

Extensive online exposure to fashion and music content showed similar tendencies, but manifested in fewer types of eating disorders. As such, the more the exposure to fashion content on the Internet, the higher a girl’s chances of developing anorexia.

A similar direct link was found between viewing gossip- and leisure-related television programs (the likes of “Gossip Girl”) and eating disorders in adolescent girls. The study also revealed that the level of personal empowerment in these girls is negatively linked to eating disorders, such that the

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Keyless Entry Systems Vulnerable to High-tech Car Thieves Remote keyless entry has been around for a while – since the late 1980s, in fact – and today it’s almost standard on all new cars. But the pervasiveness of this feature is not without consequence. As researchers in Switzerland point out, the technology can make vehicle theft a breeze for a savvy thief. Researchers at ETH Zurich discovered that these encrypted signals are easy to intercept and trick. he theft works by setting up two antennas, one near the targeted vehicle and one near the holder of the key fob — be it in a purse, bag or pocket. This

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_____________________ “...Signal relayed to the antenna near the vehicle.

Once that occurs, the thief can unlock the doors and drive away” _____________________ equipment can usually be purchased for $100 to $1,000. The person with the antenna aimed at the owner of the key fob needs to get within 26 feet of the target. In a store, this could be a few aisles away, so as to not arouse suspicion.

Once the antenna is near the intended victim’s key fob, the key transmits a lowpower signal to the antenna, which is then relayed to the antenna near the vehicle.

Once that occurs, the thief can unlock the doors and drive away (if the vehicle has push-button start).

The Swiss researchers hacked into eight car manufacturers’ passive-entry systems using this method. No cryptology or protocol could stop it.

While this system may seem fairly complicated, it could catch on with car thieves because of the cost of the equipment and anonymity. However, the hack cannot start the cars with traditional keys. Today’s ignition systems are increasingly complicated and secure. That’s one reason why car thefts are largely on the decline in the U.S. David Wagner, a computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said there are probably easier way to steal cars, but the “nasty aspect of hightech car theft” is that it doesn’t leave any sign of forced entry. That could lead to problems with police and insurance companies in tracking down the criminals or with filing claims.

Right now, the only way to protect yourself is by either shielding your key fob’s radio with a guard or leaving your key fob at home. Srdjan Capkun, an assistant professor at ETH Zurich, says the institute is working on a way to prevent this sort of theft.

February 25, 2011

The 2011 Chicago Auto Show Brings the Big Guns Judging by the competition that's heating up in the performance car market, this year, and because Chicagoans like a good fight, the Chicago Auto Show may re-write its own attendance records.

Among the nine cars being shown here for the first time in North America, 4,028 horsepower collectively lurks under their shining armor, carbon fiber, and racing stripes. ybrids, electrics, plug-ins, and alternative fueled vehicles have dominated the news at recent industry exhibitions. However, this year's Chicago Auto Show proves that there's still life left in the old internal combustion engine.

The ponycar battle began more than 45 years ago with the seminal Ford Mustang, followed by the Plymouth Barracuda and Dodge Charger, then the Chevrolet Camaro, which rounded out Detroit's entry list.

Indeed, ponycars were so named because

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Dodge chief Ralph Gilles and the 2012 Charger SRT8

2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 they were smaller than the then-intermediate-sized cars in the marketplace. (However, as the ads stated, the "Charger was larger.")

They were blank canvases to which buyers could add their own personal predilections, which often included fire-breathing engines barely tamed for the street. Thus, the seeds of rivalry were sewn between Chevy, Dodge and Ford.

Now, amidst a sea of green alternatives, Chicago becomes the scene of the latest big-gun battle with the 550-hp Camaro ZL1, the 465-hp Dodge Charger SRT8, the limited-production Mustang-based Shelby GT350 Convertible with up to 624 hp. All this American muscle fights for elbow room with new players in new segments, like the Hyundai Genesis 5.0 R-Spec sport sedan, and the comparatively frisky Volkswagen Jetta GLI sedan.

With an average of almost 450 horsepower, the manufacturers involved in this melee have apparently taken heed of Sean Connery's classic line from "The Untouchables": "If they bring a knife, you bring a gun. That's the Chicago way."

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Geneva Auto Show Preview:Cars, Confidence Fill Geneva The Geneva auto show is filled with signs that the industry turnaround under way in North America has reached Europe.

car. The concept also has a 3-D head-up display that fuses the view of the road ahead with virtual content.

BMW also will debut the ActiveE, a prototype electric car based on the 1-series coupe. The four-seat EV is powered by a 125 kilowatt/170-hp electric motor and has a range of about 100 miles.

utomakers are bouncing back from the downturn of the past two years with a number of production vehicles and concepts in Geneva.

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Volkswagen Group, helped by its new subsidiary Italdesign Giugiaro, will unveil an array of concept cars to show the industry it has the design depth, as well as the production capability and the financial strength, to topple Toyota as the world's No. 1 automaker.

BMW will debut the Vision ConnectedDrive, a futuristic roadster concept that shows how driver-assistance systems and infotainment features can be networked via the Internet in ways unimaginable a few years ago.

And Toyota and Honda will bring hybrid technology to the subcompact segment.

Here's a sampling of some of the production and concept vehicles making world debuts during press days March 1 and 2 in Geneva.

ALFA ROMEO Alfa plans to unveil a rear-engine, rearwheel-drive coupe. The lightweight twoseater is to go on sale as the 4C GTA in Europe in late 2012, delighting Alfa enthusiasts who have dreamed of an affordable rwd Alfa since the Duetto Spider was discontinued in 1994. Alfa sources said the 4C GTA could be sold in the United States, but no decision has been made.

AUDI Audi will show the five-door RS3

LANCIA Fiat will highlight its plan to integrate Lancia and Chrysler with the debuts of Chrysler-based models that will be sold in Europe as Lancias. These will be the Thema, a rebadged version of the new Chrysler 300C large sedan; the Grand Voyager, a rebadged version of the Chrysler Grand Voyager large minivan; and the Flavia concept, a rebadged Chrysler

BMW roadster concept Sportback, which will compete against the BMW 1-series M coupe. It offers a fivecylinder, 340-hp, 2.5-liter gasoline directinjection engine linked to a seven-speed S tronic transmission and has all-wheel drive.

INFINITI Infiniti's Etherea concept will preview a potential entry-level car aimed at young buyers. Infiniti says the concept has a profile different from anything in the premium compact class, so it is not just a smaller version of a typically conservative luxury car.

JAGUAR Jaguar will mark the 50th anniversary of its iconic E-Type that caused a sensation when it was unveiled at the 1961 Geneva show. And Jaguar will look to the future with the B 99 concept, a mid-sized sporty sedan.

The B 99 was created for Jaguar by the Italian design house Bertone.

Lancia Flavia

BMW

200 mid-sized car that will be sold in Europe as a sedan and cabriolet.

BMW's Vision ConnectedDrive roadster concept combines a futuristic design with technological innovations. The concept highlights how cars can be part of a networked world. Among the innovations are antennas that replace side-view mirrors. The antennas transmit information to the outside world, capture navigation data and assist in monitoring traffic and the environment around the

LAMBORGHINI Lamborghini will unveil a Murcielago replacement, which press reports have said will be called the Aventador. The new model is lighter and more fuel efficient than the car it replaces, thanks to an improved powertrain and a new carbon-fiber body and chassis.

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DETOX FOR YOUR HEALTH Continued from page 36 seem to leave our systems..

For instance, that nagging foot or knee injury from ten years ago just seems to be lingering on and actually feels worse than ever years later. How about that sinus infection that you think is so normal to get every other month despite the antibiotics you are taking for it? Let’s not rule out mucus coming out from all ends. Don’t forget about acne and arthritis that you just seem to accept because you are getting older. Now we even have some great ones like childhood Type II diabetes that seems to be growing in astounding numbers each year around the world. These diseases are quite common on the SAD Diet (The Standard American Diet). They don’t have to be. They can be a thing of the past! So many people have reversed these diseases for life by just changing a few things, if not all the things, in their diets. They are thriving today and live a very full and active life in their old age.

We could attribute various food industries and fast food restaurants that seem to creep up on every street corner for the addictions that we have to foods that harm us. The chemicals in foods like MSG (Monosodium Glutamate) keeps you coming back for more. It is not even your fault. You are seduced by the aromas alone and there is almost nothing you can do about it once it gets a hold of you.

The packaging and the colorful signs that come at us from all directions in every aisle of our supermarkets, are screaming out "Buy Me". There most alluring messages and stimuli have such a hold on us that we can’t seem to get out of their grip. From simple small gas station stops to the mom and pop stores on your block, we are almost doomed.

We can’t seem to get away from it. You are not alone. We are all in this together. We are all addicted to the same foods. Some become more aware than others and some even decide to learn more about it and do something about it. I was one of those people and I am going to help you starting right now.

There is hope! Now you know what is the hardest thing your body has to cope with.

Approximately 50% of your body’s energy (which I like to call Vital Force) is used up every time we put something into our mouths, not leaving the body to do much else. The more taxing the food, the more taxing on the body and this results in the less attention that our bodies can give to more important matters, like maybe a small tumor that could be forming on the kidneys or the lungs. Even a small injury or common cold is detoured for the heavy foods you just had to have.

The less time food takes to digest in your body, the more time it has to work on the essential things that have been built up over the years. We may not notice them at age 35, or even 45. Then 50 years comes along out of nowhere and the diseases you once ignored seem to become debilitating in such a way that you run to your M.D. for every medicine known for that disease. Don’t fall for them. I am not saying you don’t need to take care of your diseases. I am saying that you don’t have to always succumb to medications. Medications are going to act as a band aid, when in reality you need to get to the root cause of the problem. With every medication comes a panoply of adverse side effects too, so you will want to try to avoid them as much as you can. Here’s how.

Start to see how you feel after certain foods. Dairy, meat and any animal product or any food that has been denatured or processed. Start to eliminate things along the way, maybe for a week or so. Read up about the products that don’t seem so natural

to you, like partially hydrogenated oils and things you never could really read on the packages of your favorite foods.

Try to get back to nature in every sense of the word. Fresh air, walk instead of drive and eat as lightly as you can. The more and more fresh whole ripe fruits and uncooked veggies that you can tolerate the better off you will be and enjoy them more than the lifeless foods covered in rich and heavy chemicals disguised as dressings and sauces.

The more of those whole foods that come from nature with its own package of the right amount of pure water, (distilled) nutrients, sugar and fiber are all perfectly made for human consumption. The less of something that is taxing on your precious systems, we like to call our temple.

You are not getting out of your bodies no matter how much you think you can with whatever drug that was manufactured to kill the pain. You want to welcome that pain as a sign to improve your health status. There is no need for indigestion. People blame the fruits and raw veggies that they ate after a large meal of steak and potatoes, thinking that it was the fruit and veggies that made them ill. Think again! The fruits digest so quickly but when there is heavy food trapped inside of your gut, the fruits will not be able to pass through and will ultimately cause bloating and disruption for you and everyone around you, otherwise called gas or unpleasant eructations. Oh what a joy to be around! That steak and potatoes meal you thought was providing you with so many nutrients was getting fermented big time!

So, if you still are not ready to give up your favorite chocolate pudding or pizza with all the fixings, there is always some way you can clean the body out with baby steps. You can go on a 3 day cleanse and just eat fruits and veggies until you feel cleaner and lighter. The food you like is not going anywhere; it will still be there when you get back. You may feel so good; you won’t want to go back. Don’t worry about protein either.

We never needed that much of it anyway and the meat industries have been selling us a bill of goods for some time now. Don’t worry about getting enough calcium from your dairy products either, as those companies have done a number on us as well.

Those products when heated up and polluted with so many chemicals and yes, even the organic ones will do more harm than good, will create an acidic environment that will actually eat away at your bones and leach the calcium out of you. There is a great amount of amino acids and proteins in living foods like raw fruits and veggies. You can even look them up.

Essentially, you want to create a perfect environment for your body to thrive. You want to give it the nutrients it craves from foods that are alkaline such as fruits and veggies. An acidic body is where disease thrives and all animal products and processed foods create such an acidic environment.

Hey, I am just the messenger and I did not make the rules. I am only here to try to help you. Pass along this news and learn more!!! We are so lucky to have access to a world wide web now. There really is no excuse not to know what I know. I wish you all great awareness, because the next level is to get help.

Be well and may good health be with you always or as much as you can control it.

Food is not the only component to keeping healthy, but it is a big part of it. Emotional poise, sunshine, movement/exercise, rest, and diet are all in symmetry working towards getting into the healthiest body that you can for life! Work and invest on it from now and reap the benefits later. What a good deal indeed!

To your health!

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Parshas Vayakhel: Three Dimensions Since my childhood, I have been an avid reader. When I first discovered the joy of reading, I read everything I could get my hands on. Even today, my taste in reading is very eclectic. However, there is at least one genre of literature that I seem to avoid. do not read science fiction. I trace my distaste for science fiction to one of its common themes: the possible existence of a fourth dimension. Somehow, the three dimensions of our ordinary reality are quite enough for me. The possibility of a mysterious fourth, of a "black hole" in the universe, is one that I have always dismissed as unimaginable.

The three dimensions of our existence are not only part of our physical reality. Forward and backward, horizontal left and right, and vertical up and down all play a part in our religious experience as well.

For example, when the Jew shakes the lulav on Sukkot, he moves it from left to right, up and down, and forwards and backwards. In doing this, he mimics the ritual in the ancient holy Temple of tenufah, waving, where various sacred objects were lifted and rotated in all of the three dimensions.

When the Shema is recited and the Jew declares that the Lord is one, echad, he is instructed to imagine that God's dominion is over all the three dimensions of existence.

He rules the horizontal plane, the vertical plane, and the dimension of inner/outer.

Our tradition knows too of an entirely different dimensional triad. Not merely three aspects of space, but three modes of human experience: time, space, and person. In Hebrew, this triad is known as olam-shananefesh; literally "world-year-soul."

Part of our experience is temporal; we live in time. We also live spatially, bound by

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geographical parameters. And we have the inner experience of being, of consciousness, of personal awareness. Thus, three dimensions.

These three dimensions play a central role in this week's Torah portion, Vayakhel.

Three themes are intertwined in the chapters of Exodus 35:1-38:20 which comprise our parsha.

These three themes are the Sabbath, the Mishkan (Tabernacle), and the individuals to whom the words of this parsha are addressed and who contribute, both materially and creatively, to the construction of the Mishkan.

The portion begins as Moses assembles the entire congregation of the Children of Israel. Moses and all the Jewish people constitute one dimension, one nefesh, one person.

He shares with them the message of the Sabbath, of working for six days and resting on the seventh. He enjoins them to kindle no fire in their homes on the Sabbath day. He thereby introduces them to the second dimension, that of time. He initiates the concept of sacred time, of a time which stands separate from the mundane and the ordinary.

The rest of the parsha describes the construction of what is to become a sacred place.

A demarcated space set off from the rest of the spatial environment.

And throughout Parshat Vayakhel, we read of those whose "hearts are stirred up and whose spirits are willing" (Exodus 35:21) to come forward with the gifts and contributions out of which this space will be constructed. We read of the "wise hearted women... whose hearts stirred them up in wisdom" (Ibid. 35:26) and whose hands crafted the beautifully embroidered cloths that decorated this haven in space.

We also read of two individuals, Bezalel and Oholiab, who are “filled with a Godly

spirit, with wisdom, understanding, and knowledge in all manner of workmanship."

(Ibid. 35:31) These three utterly different dimensions delineate the physical reality of horizontal and vertical space, but even more so accentuate the spiritual reality of man. The human condition is such that space can be sanctified, that time can be hallowed, and that humans have a transcendent spirit that distinguishes them from the rest of the animal world.

This week's Torah portion is often considered to be an uninspiring, even boring, list of irrelevant details. In truth, however, the lessons inherent in these three dimensions are about as important as any in our Scripture.

First there is the lesson of shana, of the year, of time. We have the capability of setting aside special times for celebration, for introspection, for memory. And this capability has kept the Jewish people in good stead throughout their history. As the 19th century Jewish thinker Ahad Ha’am expressed it so well, "More than the Jewish people have kept the Sabbath; the Sabbath has kept the Jewish people."

Then there is the lesson of olam, of the world around us, of space. There are places in the world which are home, and there are places which are exile. Indeed, "home is where the heart is", in the psychological sense. But in the national and religious sense, the Land of Israel is our place, and our synagogues and study halls are our sacred spaces in every corner of the world.

Finally, there is the lesson of nefesh, of the personal soul. It is our spiritual potential that makes us able to sanctify time and place and thereby lend meaning and purpose to our existence.

A fourth dimension? Perhaps there is

Summary of The Haftorah:

Haftorah Vayakhel I Kings 7:51-8:21. his week's haftorah describes the dedication of Solomon's Temple, following the theme of this week's Torah reading: the dedication of the desert Tabernacle.

The construction of the Holy Temple was completed. King Solomon assembled the leaders and elders of the tribes to Jerusalem, and amidst great fanfare the Levites transported the Ark from its temporary location in the City of David and installed it in the Holy of Holies chamber in the Holy Temple. Immediately, G d's presence appeared in the Temple, in the form of a smoky cloud.

King Solomon then blessed G-d. He recalled the history of the sanctuary, how his father, King David, had wanted to build it--but was told by G d that it would be his son who would accomplish this feat. "And the L-rd has established His word that He spoke, and I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the L-rd spoke, and have built a house for the name of the L-rd, the G d of Israel. And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein (is) the covenant of the Lord, which He made with our fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Egypt."

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one. But for me, the three dimensions of olam, shana, and nefesh are more than sufficient to provide an agenda for religious life.

What a powerful framework! And all encompassed in this week’s Torah portion.

To read more articles and essays by Rabbi Weinreb, visit his blog at www.ou.org/rabbi_weinreb.

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DETOX FOR YOUR HEALTH

BY VICTORIA TOUSSIE ARNSTEIN Maybe you have heard the word "Detox" used in many different ways. The word "Detox" is usually used as a term to describe the extrication of toxins. In this case I am using the term to refer to the toxins in our bodies. Believe me, our bodies, for the most part are riddled with them. Even the healthiest of people who maintain the healthiest and most nutritious diets have their fair share of toxins enlodged in their fat cells and deep tissue. llow me to offer an explanation of what causes toxins to proliferate in our bodies. Well, remember getting anxious or angry or depressed, or that pastrami sandwich loaded with the works that you just had to have last Friday? Oh yeah, and let's not forget that miserable traffic jam that compelled us to open the car window for a breath of fresh air and the fumes from the exhaust of all the other cars came wafting through?

We may not be cognizant of them at all hours of the day and every time they happen, but your body serves as an excellent repository for storing them and is also good at trying to release them on a minute-to-minute basis, if not sooner. Toxins creep up from every source imaginable. We should be aware of our amazing bodies that cope with such toxins. If we were as intelligent as the bodies are, we would all win a Nobel Prize and every other prize known to man. Our bodies have a laborious feat to contend with each and every minute of the day and night and they are vigilant in protecting us at all times.

The billions of cells in our bodies each have a task to accomplish. Can you possibly venture a guess as to what the hardest job is for our bodies to? I would wager that you've never thought about it. It is something we take for granted every time we eat something. It is nothing more than the process of DIGESTION. That’s right folks!!! I was as surprised as you are when I learned this.

So, what can we do to decrease the burden that our bodies endures?? Well, several things actually. The good news is our body is most forgiving and puts up with a lot. So, if we keep up the house clean from within, there is a good chance we are keeping the pipes clean and thus, we allow our bodies to do what they need to do, which is to place their energies on other ailments. Very much like your car that you tune up or your house that you clean. Ever notice if you let things go, the job seems to get overwhelming?

Your body is no different!

Every animal in nature eats a specific

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diet; designed for their own particular needs.

Carnivores eat other animals because they were designed for just that. They have the right amount of acid to break down the meat and their stomachs are straight and short to let out what they had beenj eating in rapid time. Humans were designed to eat fresh, ripe, whole organic fruits and vegetables. For one thing, those foods are alkalizing and create a base because the human body was designed to not have enough acid to break down certain substances that we consume.

Ultimately, our cells will have to work hard at cleaning them out and will get heavily taxed if it continues on a daily meal-tomeal basis. The body does adapt so disease may not be prevalent and it may not get noticed for years and years. So, we continue to abuse ourselves with foods and behaviors that we think won’t harm us because we got away with it for so long. Don’t be too fooled.

The body can only take the hard knocks for so long.

Why should we be any different from animals? Although we think we are of higher intelligence than an animal, we lack the common sense they have. When animals get sick they shut down. Have you ever seen a _______________________________

“Our body is most forgiving and puts up with a lot. So, if we keep it clean from within, there is a good chance we allow our bodies to do what they need to do, which is to place their energies on other ailments.” _______________________________ dog lose their appetite when they are either injured or sick? Well, their bodies are telling them to just take it easy and not give the body any more burdens to cope with. They have little to no appetite and they let their bodies rest in every sense of the word. They don’t go grab a beer with their friends and shove down some doughnuts like humans might since they think they are in control and have the brains to tell them not to.

When humans get sick it is only until the body actually shuts down for us that we take our much needed rest and lose our appetites.

The body actually demands that you shut down or else!! Gotta love those bodies!!!

They are in charge sometimes, thank Heaven for that. Not everyone listens to the signs of their ailing symptoms, and yet we all seem to have some gnawing condition that can’t

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THEME PARK APPS GAIN IN POPULARITY Software developers started tapping into smart-phone users' zeal for theme parks a couple years ago, and dozens of applications are now available for iPhones, Droids and other handheld devices that can make park visits more efficient and fun. A few can be downloaded free, but most cost a few dollars. ost of the apps available currently are geared toward Walt Disney World, including Disney's own app for Verizon phones, but a handful are available for other attractions, too. For instance a free iPhone app called Universal Wait Times (VersaEdge Software) did exactly what it promised when tested recently: provided accurate wait times for rides inside the two Universal Orlando parks. The app proved to be particularly useful during a visit to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction at Islands of Adventure, where wait times for the signature ride tend to be much longer than in other areas of the Universal parks.

There are apps with park maps, some of which work with the phone's GPS function to show your exact location and what's nearby.

There are apps for park times and to help visitors choose a restaurant by cuisine and price.

Others can research and compare resort hotels, help plan the trip and count down the days, find the right shuttle bus routes and entertain the kids when you get there.

Disney is rolling out its newest version of a "know-it-all" app exclusively for Verizon Wireless phones, called "Disney Mobile Magic." It uses the GPS feature in Verizon phones to help users find character appearances, attractions, restaurants and other points of interest. It checks wait and FastPass return times, provides shopping and restaurant information and even has an interactive trivia game that allows users to play against other users in the same park. The app

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costs $1.99 and works in Walt Disney World and Disneyland.

"As more people adopt smart phones and get used to using apps — as we all know, they're exploding right now — it may be a good way for parks to deliver information, such as changes in schedule or rides being closed unexpectedly, to guests in the park that day," said Leigh Caldwell, who writes the popular Theme Park Mom blog.

Caldwell said she's experimented with several of the apps when they started coming out and discovered that most of them needed tweaks to be really utilitarian. They'll be most useful for first-time visitors to the big parks, she said. Lately, Caldwell is liking a 99-cent iPhone app called "Things to Do in Theme Park Queues," which provides games and other activities to keep the kids occupied in long ride lines.

Park websites designed for mobile phones have proven valuable, too, Caldwell said, and some parks — Sea World and Tampa's Busch Gardens among them — offer to relay park news to visitors via text message. Users text a code to a designated number when they enter the park to get the texts throughout the day.

Jeffrey Siebert, whose Texas-based Schlitterbahn Waterparks & Resorts was a pioneer in developing an app for its guests, gave a presentation on using apps and other technology at a trade show in Orlando last fall for theme park and attraction operators from all over the world.

Despite the explosion of apps, Siebert, Schlitterbahn's director of communications, predicts park websites configured for viewing on mobile phones will prove to be more useful to park guests and easier for the parks to update. It also eliminates the need for apps to be approved by the phone companies that sell them through their online stores.

"If you start playing with (non-theme-

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Hotel Finder by HotelsByMe Leading mobile travel retailer, HotelsByMe, announces the release of a new universal application that makes it even easier to find the perfect hotel on the go. As one of the top travel apps on the Apple App Store, HP/Palm's webOS App Catalog and Google's Android Market, HotelsByMe now adds iPad to their suite of mobile platforms. he new update makes the HotelsByMe travel application universal. Now the same application is viewable on both iPhone and iPad with user interfaces tailored to each device. While there are a number of sites that offer hotel reservations, most do not address the needs of mobile shoppers.

The end result is an online shopping experience that can be very time consuming for consumers trying to find the right hotel for the right price.

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With HotelsByMe's newly released app, now users can find a hotel on the iPad in just three easy steps:

This screenshot courtesy of Disney shows the Android version of the Disney Mobile Magic App. From maps to ride wait times to restaurant menus, smart phone apps can provide valuable info for visitors to Florida theme parks. park) apps right now versus mobile sites, you'll see that the mobile sites traditionally are executed better than the apps are," he said. "(Theme parks) are still investing in their apps at this point, but they're putting much more emphasis on their mobile sites, since everyone out there with a smart phone can use it."

Step 1: FIND. Hotels are plotted on a map to give users a visual cue of the physical location of each property.

Step 2: VIEW. Relevant information — such as room rates, guest reviews and photos — are presented in a concise, easy-to-read format.

Step 3: BOOK. The new simplified, single-screen check-out process is only two taps away from the initial search screen.

While HotelsByMe has simplified its new app, it hasn't sacrificed functionality. In fact, the HotelsByMe app has added new features. During a hotel search, shoppers can now seamlessly switch between multiple hotel views: on a map, as a list or by individual hotel properties. Using the new filter feature, shoppers can also locate the perfect hotel based on their specific needs. Finally, HotelsByMe has integrated TripAdvisor reviews, enabling users to make their choice based on "wisdom of the crowd."

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‘Facebook Girls’ More Prone to Eating Disorders ... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 31 higher the level of empowerment, the more positive the physical self-image and the lower the chances of developing an eating disorder.

In this study, exposure to the media and the consequential sense of personal empowerment was found to be associated with parenting practices. Girls whose parents were involved in their media usage, who knew

what they were viewing and reading and where they were surfing on the web, who watched, surfed or read along with them and who conducted cooperative and critical discussions with their daughters about the content of their surfing habits showed more personal empowerment, forming a protective shield against eating disorders.

On the other hand, parents who were not

involved in their media exposure, were not aware of the content that their daughters were consuming and instead of sharing and becoming familiar with that content chose to limit or prohibit exposure, led to lower selfempowerment in their daughters. This, in turn, had a positive link to various eating problems and negative body image.

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and application of eating disorder prevention lies in an understanding of how parenting decisions can have effect on an adolescent girl’s sense of empowerment and that enforcing a girl’s sense of empowerment is a means to strengthening body image. This study has shown that a parent has potential ability to prevent dangerous behavioral disorders and negative eating behavior in particular,” the researchers stated.

set for Tuesday . Ezague said the Chapter 11 filing is not a long-term solution but a temporary halt to the foreclosure lawsuit, which threatens the Chabad's property.

Robert Furr, the Chabad's bankruptcy lawyer, said Chabads are particularly vulnerable to drop-offs in donations because they

do not have require regular dues from members, unlike other Jewish houses of worship. "(The filing) gives them time to get the word out in the community that they need help," Furr said. "We hope there will be some angels out there who will come forth.

They provide a great service to the community."

Chabad Synagogue Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 40 man who said he was hungry.

Ezagui is a fixture in northern Palm Beach County and the first to establish a Chabad in Palm Beach County. Chabad is an Orthodox movement that reaches out to Jews of varying degrees of faith.

In 1999 Ezagui established an 11,000-

square-foot Chabad center that now offers everything from an after-school program to Kosher meals to a mikvah, a ritual purifying pool for women.

Ezagui said the Chabad decided to file Chapter 11 on Monday because an important hearing on its litigation with TD Bank was

NYS District Attorneys Association Presents Hogan, Morgenthau Awards at Annual Winter Meeting... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 many cold cases, including a 1972 murder of a young girl in Rochester and the conviction of a serial sex offender for two 1995 murders involving sexual assaults.”

Franklin County District Attorney Derek P. Champagne, president of the District

Attorney Association, also presented three awards: • Former Nassau County Assistant District Attorney Robert M. Nigro, who also served as long-time treasure of DAASNY, received the Forfeiture Law Advisory Group Award.

• Former Allegany County District Attorney

Terrance Parker, who now serves as Allegany County Court Judge, received a Lifetime Service Award.

• Rensselaer County District Attorney Richard McNally received the Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Champion for Children” Award. Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, is a

statewide anti-crime group of more than 300 police chiefs, sheriffs, district attorneys and violence survivors. DA McNally has been an active member with the group for three years, participating in news conferences, volunteering for other activities to raise awareness about effective children’s programs.

Financially I'm comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me."

He may never be the most famous designer in the world. He says he'd rather let his clothes do the talking.

But Elie Tahari's life story says it all.

"Do you have any advice for people out there who look at your story and ask, 'How did he do it'?" Smith asked.

"I would say: Everything you do, make sure you love it. Do it with love," he said.

"It's all about love."

and faces up to six months in prison when sentenced, court documents show.

Kruger's office declined to comment.

Both Levitis' lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, and the US Attorney's Office also declined comment.

Elie Tahari: Fashioning success... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 26 "Just power through?"

"It's tough, but every day's getting better."

The business, however, has flourished: Tahari puts the value of his company at around $500 million.

In the decade since, Tahari has flourished.

He puts the value of his business at around $500 million.

"You literally went from rags to riches," said Smith.

"I don't walk around feeling like I'm successful," Tahari said. "I feel like I did well.

Politician’s Pay-to-Play Pal Pleading Out... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 22 FBI's instruction, recorded another conversation with Levitis, and agreed to give Levitis $3,000 -- $2,000 for Koppel and the rest for

Levitis.

Levitis is scheduled to plead guilty next month to a charge of lying to federal agents

Rabbis Reach Deal on IDF Conversions... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 stances.

The converts, however, are in for greater difficulties following the agreement. The Ashkenazi haredi marriage registrars are expected to give them a hard time, trying to prove in any way possible that they did not really intend to observe mitzvot.

The Sephardic rabbis, Yosef's students, will argue that this can be proved only in very rare cases and that adopting a secular lifestyle – even shortly after the conversion process is completed – does not necessarily prove that the convert acted in a deceitful manner.

Sources close to Rabbi Yosef stressed that he was not reneging on his original ruling, just emphasizing it, and that his halachic stand is well known and has been published on various occasions in the past.

Former Minister Deri delved deeply into the matter on Thursday night. He formed a

team of three senior haredi Sephardic rabbis – Rabbi Shalom Cohen, Rabbi Reuven Elbaz and Rabbi Moshe Tzedaka – who conducted the negotiations between the parties.

At first some of them appeared before the Eda Haredit court and Rabbi Elyashiv, and then presented the bones of contention to Rabbi Yosef, as raised in their meetings with the Ashkenazi rabbis.

On Sunday, after a meeting at his home with the mediating rabbis, Yosef authorized them to deliver the clarification of his ruling to leaders of the Eda Haredit movement, which represents a large section of the Ashkenazi Orthodox community.

Eda Haredit leader Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, who met with Rabbi Yosef's representatives along with Interior Minister Eli Yishai, said he accepted the solution to the crisis and that the protest would be officially canceled.

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TWO EMPIRE BUILDING BROTHERS CREATE A TENABLE FAMILY STRUCTURE Preston and Laurence Tisch carefully groomed the next generation of their family to lead Loews. James, his brother Andrew, and their cousin Jonathan all started working at Loews while in their 20s. Loews's enormous structure allowed all three men plenty of room to find something they could control—and to stay out of one another's way.

James would manage the company's investments; bottom-fishing was a prevalent and successful business strategy in the 1980s and 1990s, and Tisch quickly mastered it. In 1989 he led the acquisition of what became Diamond Offshore Drilling; by the early 2000s the company was one of the world's largest offshore drilling companies and the deal remained Tisch's crowning investment.

A CHOSEN SON TAKES OVER In November 1998 Laurence and Preston Tisch relinquished the helm of the diversified holding company that they had begun half a century before, handing the reins over to the next generation. They each retained the title of co-chairman and established the office of the president for their sons to comanage. On January 1, 1999, James Tisch assumed the leadership role, becoming chief executive. Tisch denied that there was ever any resentment on the part of his brother or his cousin: "While I may be CEO, Jonathan, Andrew, and I operate collegially in any or

all decisions that are made. This works because there's a bond that's been built up not over the short term or even over a career, but over entire lives" (May 30, 1999).

One of Tisch's first projects as CEO was the restructuring of CNA, the insurer that contributed roughly a third of Loews's 1998 net income. CNA's acquisition of Continental Insurance in 1995 had hampered its balance sheet and a reorganization was in order. Tisch ordered up a turnaround that included plans to jettison unprofitable business lines, consolidate operations, and cut 2,400 employees from the payroll. As a result CNA expected savings of more than $300 million a year starting in 2000.

A SAGGING STOCK SIGNALS FORMIDABLE CHALLENGES The portfolio of businesses and investments that made up Loews, one of the market's most celebrated long-term bets, floundered at the turn of the century, crippled by its out-of-favor tobacco, insurance, and oil industry holdings and a bearish investment stance. Analysts criticized the Tisches for exacerbating the company's poor performance by placing risky bets. Said Tisch of the company's bets against the market, "We shouldn't have done it. Our entire short enterprise has been an example of poor investing" (May 30, 1999).

Furthermore, the tobacco affiliate Lorillard suffered from an image problem.

Following the settlement between tobacco companies and 46 states Lorillard dealt with a new litigation onslaught. In one year alone the business was a defendant in 520 suits. Yet Tisch had no plans to spin or sell off the busi-

16 Don’t-Miss Tax Deductions... CONTINUED FROM PAGE June 30 to Sept. 30 by the Homebuyer Assistance and Improvement Act. The credit allows you to claim a credit of 10 percent of the purchase price, up to $8,000. There is a different credit of up to $6,500 for those who already owned a home but purchased a new primary residence. The details are mindnumbing. See this IRS explanation.

While we’re on the subject: If you claimed the First-time Homebuyer Credit in 2008, it’s time to pay up. The 2008 credit was worth up to $7,500 and was similar to an interest-free loan. Taxpayers generally must begin repaying it in equal payments for 15 years. If the taxpayer no longer lives in the house, then the credit must be repaid in full with the next tax return. Taxpayers who claimed the credit in 2009 and 2010 will not have to repay it unless the house is sold or no longer their principal residence within three years of purchase.

• Energy and Appliance Tax Credit: If you made any energy-efficiency improvements to your home in 2010, you may be eligible for a tax credit. You can deduct up to 30% of the cost — up to $1,500 — for many energy improvements to your existing home.

Note that the credit does not apply to rental properties or new homes. Approved improve-

ness. Cigarettes may have contributed to millions of deaths each year, but they were a lucrative business. In 1998 tobacco pumped $352 million into Loews's net income.

supported by people who work in an industry that tries to induce children to smoke" (May 20, 1997).

MORAL AMBIGUITIES DON'T STOP BIG BUSINESS

CIVIC CONTROVERSY Much of the Tisches' tobacco money found its way into charities. Laurence Tisch gave the New York University Medical Center $30 million, and a $7.5 million gift led to the creation of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Still, other prominent philanthropists took issue with what they perceived to be "dirty money." James Tisch was elected president of the UJAFederation of New York, a Jewish social services organization; in 1998 Edith and Henry Everett had battled Tisch's election on the grounds that any executive who profited from the sale of cigarettes was unfit to promote the values of Jewish life. As cited in the New York Times , in a letter opposing Tisch's nomination Henry Everett wrote, "Morality, ethics, Jewish law against self-destruction, and common sense mandate that it would be repugnant for a tobacco executive to be cast as the president and role model for any Jewish federation" (May 20, 1997).

In a surprising coda to the feud, the Everetts later withdrew a $3 million gift to the Children's Zoo in New York's Central Park that was then replaced by a $4.5 million gift from Laurence Tisch. The zoo was named the Tisch Children's Zoo, rather than the Everett Children's Zoo. The elder Tisch said that he made his gift without knowing the identity of the original donor, but his contention didn't quell criticism. Said Mrs. Everett, "It is deeply distressing that any venue that is dedicated to children should be

While some may have been troubled by the source of that wealth that went into the Tisches' charitable contributions, the enormity of the historical impact the Tisch family made upon New York City remained unquestioned. Perhaps the more relevant question facing James Tisch was whether or not the business engine that drove those profits was running out of gas. In 2003 Loews was forced to take reserves at its CNA insurance business and was deeply invested in the increasingly troubled cigarette industry. That year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index was up 14.8 percent, Loews's stock was down 3.37 percent.

Analysts such as Richard Pzena of Pzena Investment Management said that in general James Tisch made intelligent decisions in addressing the company's problems. In 2002 he named a new chief executive at CNA, Stephen Lilienthal. He spun off 20 percent of the cigarette unit Lorillard in a tracking stock called the Carolina Group. While shares of the Carolina Group did not do particularly well after they were issued in early 2002, they at least helped Loews determine the public value of the cigarette business— which would be crucial if Loews decided to sell its tobacco operations at a time when the cigarette business was out of favor and its value to Loews had been difficult to quantify.

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ments include new windows, insulation, high efficiency furnaces, water heaters and airconditioning. It also covers alternative energy such as solar equipment, small wind turbines and fuel cells.

College Costs • The Hope Credit was been replaced with the American Opportunity Tax Credit. Each student can now get a $2,500 “higher education tax credit” for the first four years of college. The credit is based on 100 percent of the first $2,000 of tuition and related expenses, including books, paid during the tax year, plus and 25 percent of the next $2,000 of tuition and related expenses paid during the tax year (subject to income phase-outs starting at $80,000 for singles and $160,000 for joint filers).

• The December tax compromise included a new deduction for families with college costs. Every family can deduct up to $4,000 of college tuition and fees in 2010 and 2011.

Note: The new form for taking this deduction will be available from the IRS in February.

• Also, for anyone with a 529 college savings plan: Computers and Internet access qualify as “qualified education expenses” for

the 2010 tax year, so you can pay for them tax-free.

Add Up Those Itemized Deductions Nearly two out of three taxpayers take the standard deduction rather than itemizing deductions. Some of those folks are leaving money on the table. If your deductible expenses exceed the 2010 standard deduction of $5,700 for singles and $11,400 for married couples filing jointly, be sure you itemize and grab these write-offs.

• Miscellaneous deductions: These are deductible if they total more than 2 percent of your adjusted gross income. They include tax-preparation fees, job-hunting expenses, business car expenses, and professional dues.

• Sales tax: You can deduct sales tax paid in 2010 if the amount was greater than the state and local income taxes you paid. In other words, you get to choose: Write off your sales taxes or write off your income taxes. If you didn’t keep your sales-tax receipts, use the IRS’ sales tax deduction estimator. Even if you claim the sales tax

amount from the IRS tables, you can add in tax paid on vehicles or boats purchased during the year, except to the extent the sales tax rate on them is more than the general sales tax rate. If you live in a state with a high income tax, like California or New York, you will probably be better off claiming your state and local income taxes rather than sales taxes. If you live in a state with no income tax, like Florida, Texas, or Washington, be sure to take the sales tax deduction when you itemize.

• Medical expenses: This one is hard to claim, because the bar is so high to qualify.

You can only deduct the portion of your 2010 medical expenses that exceed 7.5 percent of your adjusted gross income.

• Mileage: Deducting miles driven for work or other purposes can be a huge tax break and save you significant money. Too bad the IRS cut the standard mileage deduction rates for 2010. Here are the new rules: Business mileage = 50 cents per mile (a 9 percent cut!); medical and moving = 16.5 cents per mile; and charitable = 14 cents per mile.

One last thing: The first $2,400 of unemployment benefits you receive in 2010 is no longer tax-deductible.

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Central Park to real estate and fashion mogul, he attributed his gargantuan success to "love". That's one heck of a power pack of "love" that has sustained him throughout continents, personal challenges and mammoth projects.

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Israel Bonds Launches 2011 Campaign in Boca Raton

Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz presents Bonds President and CEO Joshua Matza with the Theodor Herzl Commemorative Award.

Also pictured, from left: Vice Chairman of the Board David Halpern; Chairman of the Board Emeritus Michael Siegal; and Chairman of the Board Richard Hirsch. (Photo: Robbie Cohen).

A night of extensive highlights culminated with the announcement of $140 million in Israel bond sales and commitments to purchase as the Bonds organization officially launched its 2011 campaign on January 30 in Boca Raton, Florida. he campaign inaugural, hosted by television icon Henry Winkler, featured the presentation of the Theodor Herzl Commemorative Medallion to 11 distinguished recipients.

Bonds President and CEO Joshua Matza, who will be returning to Israel in the coming months after heading the organization for over nine years, received a special tribute led

by Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz. In his remarks, the finance minister called Matza’s achievements “remarkable,” citing accomplishments in sales and promoting a positive image of Israel. Following his remarks, the finance minister joined in presenting Matza

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with a special sculpture created by renowned Israeli artist Frank Meisler.

In his acceptance, Matza said Israel Bonds and its supporters were building “a beautiful state – the homeland that belongs to all of us.” Over the course of Matza’s tenure, the organization has realized more than $11 billion in worldwide sales.

Recipients of the Theodor Herzl Commemorative Medallion were: Frances Chan and Richard Allen, New York; Beth and Marc Andler, Boston; Sandra and Malcolm Berman, Baltimore; Sandy and Stanley Bobb, Washington, D.C.; Nancy and Alan Bomstein, Tampa; Alvin Lloyd Brown, Miami; Marian and Leo Goldner, Toledo; Anne and Norman Jacobson, Palm Beach; Sharyn and Bert Model, New Jersey; Beverly Sandler, Chicago; and Ann and Murray Spain, Philadelphia.

Bonds National Chairman Fred Zeidman presided over the inaugural gala.

Chabad Synagogue Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Another Orthodox Jewish congregation has sought protection from federal bankruptcy laws due to outstanding bank debts. habad House Lubavitch of Palm Beach, in North Palm Beach, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court filing lists debts of more than $1 million and assets of more than $1 million.

In an interview Tuesday, Rabbi Shloime Ezagui said the Chabad has been unable to make loan payments because contributions from patrons dropped off during the recession.

"What's happening is we need money," Ezagui said.

Chabad House Lubavitch, located on Prosperity Farms Road, is the second Palm Beach County Chabad to seek protection from U.S. bankruptcy laws. Last June, Congregation Chabad-Lubavitch of Boynton Beach filed Chapter 11, in a bid to stop the foreclosure of its property. After a donor stepped in to pay off part of a $3.8 million overdue loan to the Chabad's bank lender, the foreclosure lawsuit was settled and the Chabad emerged from bankruptcy in December.

Chabad House Lubavitch also has bank debt. Among the debts owed is $538,577 outstanding on a loan to TD Bank, the U.S. arm of Toronto-Dominion Bank. The loan

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was originally made by Riverside National Bank of Fort Pierce, which was closed by federal bank regulators last April.

Riverside's assets were taken over by TD Bank.

Also listed is an outstanding loan balance of $165,000 to Floridian Community Bank of Fort Lauderdale.

Both loans went to fund the Chabad's religious and community centers, according to Ezagui.

Ezagui said wealthy benefactors stopped contributing to the Chabad House Lubavitch when the stock market crashed in late 2008 and they have not resumed their contributions, even though the Dow now has substantially recovered.

Ezagui said wealthy people are making excuses not to give.

"The Jewish people who have the money should feel a guilt tripThey have plenty of money," he said. "I see them in their Rolls Royces, I go to their million-dollar houses and they say, 'I don't have the money, Rabbi.' " Ezagui said they should do a better job of supporting their community, especially as the gap between rich and poor widens and the need for help grows ever greater.

Just this past week, Ezagui said he heard pleas for help from a troubled woman trying to manage through a difficult divorce and a

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INDIAN TOURISTS DISCOVER ISRAEL THE ISRAEL PROJECT LAUNCHES INNOVATIVE NEW INDIA PROGRAM India took first place among Far East countries for incoming tourism in 2010, with more than 40,000 tourists (75% more than 2009), displacing Korea from the top slot after several years or the first time, the Israel's Ministry of Tourism will participate in OTM, the International Tourism fair in Mumbai Israel’s Ministry of Tourism released a statement on February 13th declaring Israel’s intention to upgrade marketing efforts in India, with the stated aim of attracting 50,000 visitors in 2011.

As the bilateral cooperation between India and Israel continue to grow encompassing all area of interaction between the two countries and their people, The Israel Project is proud to launch an innovative new program: Building a better future: Israel-India Relations The Israel Project India program provides factual information about Israel, the Middle East and the Indo-Israel relationship to India press, policy makers and public.

Led by Molly Malekar, who was born and raised in India, and is fluent in Marathi,

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Famous gardens of Bahaim Temple in Haifa among many points of interest attracting tourists from India to Israel.

Hebrew and English, the program is already reaching out to over 2,000 journalists and leaders in India, to get them the facts and sources they need to understand the region

and strengthen relations between India and Israel.

Quick facts about India-Israel Relations: India and Israel have much in common.

They are strong democracies surrounded by authoritarian regimes. They share the same values of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to vote, strong judicial oversight, women’s rights and more. They both wage battles against extremists who have launched terrorist attacks against them.

Sphere of cooperation include, among others: * Israel-India trade (including high-tech, chemical and agricultural products and medical equipment), grown from $80 million in 1991 to $4 billion in 2008. India and Israel signed five significant trade and economic agreements from 1993 to 1996. * As a leader in alternative energy, Israel has a growing relationship with India on water management and other green initia-

tives, particularly agricultural. For example, the Tel Aviv-based company Netafim, which provides irrigation solutions for agriculture and landscaping, put 14,826 acres of land in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, known as the “Rice Bowl of India,” under sprinkler and drip irrigation. * The field of Information Technology illustrates the close economic connections among Israel and India. IT professionals from Israel and India are collaborating on projects and solutions to improve the world. * Following the Mumbai massacre, India and Israel have cooperated in large-scale counterterrorism efforts. As terrorism has been responsible for more deaths in India than in any other country besides Iraq, this shared experience and India’s understanding of Israel’s situation makes the two countries natural political allies. India and Israel have stepped up security and military coordination since the massacre, and even before. * Investing in Indian market: Israeli companies have invested over $3 billion in India in past few years alone, including in dairy farming, real estate and hospitals. * Research and Development – April 8, 2008 a seminar between experts in Mumbai was a kick off for setting platform for Indian and Israeli companies to cooperate to build new technologies, around solar energy, Information and Communication technologies, Robotics and others.

Molly Malekar, TIP’s director of India Affairs said: “Although diplomatic relations are still relatively new, India and Israel share a long history of co-existence and mutual appreciation. Both ancient civilizations gained independence at the same period; are vibrant democracies; and are looking at the future, striving towards mutually acceptable solutions to a vast array of challenges. The strengthening of his relationship will not only benefit the two societies, but will also foster freedom and stability in the region”.

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Pe’er Feeling Comfy In Dubai Security Zone When most players at the Dubai Championships finish their matches, they mingle in the clubhouse eating and chatting. For Shahar Pe'er, it's back to a guarded compound where she watches movies with her father Dov. t could be worse for Pe'er. She was denied a visa to play in Dubai two years ago because of anger over Israel's three-week military offensive in Gaza. This week she has a security detail and is confined to her hotel room but insists she feels welcome and comfortable in the Gulf city.

The tight security — including metal detectors outside the stadium — has not hurt her performance thus far. The 11th-ranked Pe'er won her doubles Monday and her opening singles Tuesday, beating Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain 6-4, 6-1.

Pe'er jumped out to 3-0 in the first set only to see Martinez Sanchez come back to tie it at 4. Pe'er went up 5-4 and broke Sanchez to take the set. The Spaniard, weakened by a flu and coughing during the match, couldn't keep up in the second set.

"Obviously, I played well last year. When you go back to a tournament that you played well, you want to repeat that," Pe'er said.

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Shahar Pe'er was denied a visa to play in Dubai two years ago because of anger over Israel's three-week military offensive in Gaza

Mets CEO Fred Wilpon: Team Ownership will be Vindicated in Face of Lawsuit Admitting that he and his family were "duped," a defiant Fred Wilpon insisted today that Sterling Equities, the company which owns the Mets, will be "vindicated" in a lawsuit filed against the company by the trustee designated to recoup losses caused by Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. The trustee, Irving Picard, charges that the Wilpons were aware of Madoff's practices and benefited from them. e did not know one iota, one thing about Madoff's fraud," said Wilpon, the Mets CEO. "We didn't do anything wrong. If anything, we trusted a friend for a very long time."

Wilpon spoke here at Digital Domain Park during the f irst off icial workout for pitchers and catchers. He sat flanked by his son, COO Jeff Wilpon. Team president Saul Katz also was present.

"The one thing that no one ever, ever, in 50 years in business, questioned was my integrity," Wilpon said. "And you all have questioned my integrity. And I intend to go through with whatever is necessary to vindicate that, and get on with our lives."

He added, "Every other business we have, I like. This business, I love. I love the New York Mets. I’ve been around here for almost 32 years. This is part of my DNA." Other items of note from Wilpon's 20-minute address: -- He maintained that a controlling stake in the team is not "on the table," as Jeff Wilpon put it on Wednesday. As Fred Wilpon told it, his stewardship of the Mets is a labor of love, not a business matter.

"We don’t look to make large sums of money from this business," Wilpon said. "We want to do this because we love baseball. We love the city."

- Asked about the payroll going forward, Fred said that general manager Sandy Alderson would decide that f igure. Jeff Wilpon interjected, "We’re going to set it with him. It’s not going to just be carte blanche, go spend what you

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Mets CEO Fred Wilpon: "We don’t look to make large sums of money from this business. We want to do this because we love baseball. We love the city." want."

- Considering his conf idence in the eventual "vindication," why did Wilpon put a stake in the team up for sale? "We think it’s the prudent business thing to do," Fred said.

- This is what vindication means to Fred: "Everybody will know we had nothing to do with it, and we didn’t know anything about it, and we were duped."

- About three weeks before Madoff's scheme collapsed, Wilpon said he invested with him again. He insists he did not benef it from Madoff (Picard charges that Sterling gained $300 million in returns). "We never benef ited any other way from any other victim," Wilpon said. "We got the same kind of returns. We never got any special returns. It was over a long period of time. We lost over a half billion dollars the day he went under, cash money."

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1060 EAST HARLEM Between 109th & 110th Street. !st Ave, 2 BR apts $1950 & one store for rent. $2100. Available immediately. Call owner at 917-848-7540

Upper East Side: NEWLY RENOVATED 1Br APTS NEW APPL; AVAIL IMMED. No fee! FR $2000 to $2800 CALL GLEN@ (917-941-0210) OR email Sean @: SEANGLENN47@YAHOO.COM

60’s East Luxury-Apts for rent COME IN AND STAY AWHILE! Short-term and long term leases just steps away from central park. Call us today to see what we are all about! Visit our website: helsleycarltonhouse.com THE HELMSEY CARLTON 680 Maf Ave (61 St) 212-838-3000 x2002 UPPER EAST SIDE APTS FOR RENT STUDIO, 1 BR, 2 BR, UNFURNISHED & FURNISHED, NO FEE, BROKERS, WELCOME, NEAR ALL SCHOOLS, SHOPPING, TRANS. WWW.THMNY.COM 212-755-6556 86th St. West: pre-war, doorman bldg, BRIGHT 2 BR Hi, Flr, NO FEE. $3900/mo 212-724-8774

1060

1060 APT FOR RENT/NYC: Studio apt: Studio apt near UN. Doorman, fitness room $1700 Heat, hot water, incl. 212-749-5060

Manhattan: For rent, 1 BR and 2 BR and 2 BR apts for short or long term. Furnished or for short or long term.

Furnished or unfurnished Available. Please call: 646-996-6643 or 212-410-4957

1060

Near side Drive, unfurnished BR, util incl, $985/mo A/C, TV + GE Incl. Retired male pref, credit ck. 917-848-6160 1060

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

Apartment For Rent 1080

MANHATTAN 1060 NY APT FOR RENT. Wall St Area waterfront renov 1 BR w/ balcony, lux hi rise condo. 24 hr doorman, all amenities, $3700mo. Owner 973-540-0220

555 8th Avenue, New York NY OPEN 24 HOURS/7 DAYS with full time professional security.

Great REASONABLE space avail 4258-7366 RSF. Bldg renovated, incl new windows, A/C, sprinklers, light & bright w/sep freight ent on W 38th St. Call owner 212-695-0005 or main office at 718-387-0500 1090

555 8th Avenue, New York, NY OPEN 24 HOURS/7 DAYS With fulltime professional security. Great REASONABLE space avail. 42587366 RSF. Bldg renovated, incl new windows, A/C, sprinklers, light & bright w/sep freight ent on W38th St. Call owner 212-695-0005 or main office at 718-387-0500 1090

Apartment For Sale 1050

MANHATTAN 1050 CONDO FOR SALE NYC: 96th St W 275, 9H Condo by owner, 1 BR mint. New kit & bathroom, terrace, pool, health club. $750K, Maint $735/mo.

Open house Sun 1/30 @1:30-3pm 917-561-8054

~Tower 53 Condo~ @ 159 W 53 – 15H Corner Huge Lux 2BR/1.5Baths Windowed Kitchen w/ Stainless Steel Appliances + DA w/ BuiltIn Marble Server’s Bar Low Maint + Tx. Utilities Included. $859K Lisa Mansour @ Uziel Group 212-891-7282 Prudential Douglas Elliman ~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

Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale

1095

MANHATTAN 2 FURNITURE STORES FOR SALE: Owner retiring.

1) Clinton St. Lower Eastside Manhtn, 2)Broadway, near Flushing, BKLYN. Call Al 631-860-1437

1095

1090 Financial District: Beaver St 2nd Floor, 2500 sq ft, avail imm. Debra Rosenfeld 212-604-4744 1095 Manhattan: Small kosher restaurant for sale in Upper East Side. Priced below market value at $49K. For more info call 917-544-1103 1080 Office to Share/ NY: Desk Space4 Avail $325.

Downtown Manhattan.

Private furnished office space, 100 sq ft includes phone + internet. $925 212-514-8400

1095 UWS: 25Ft wide, 542 West 110th St: Vacant building air rights, ideal for non-profits, single family, home, school.

Asking 3.995M Call: 212-696-2500 Ext 7223. Massey Knakal Realty Services.

Business for sale Restaurant: Classic running, cozyFrench/Brazillian, well located, 74 seatbar and outside terrace, 5 to 10 yrs lease option. Call 347-753-0427

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

Apartment For Sale 2045

BROOKLYN Co-op for sale 1530 East 8th St: PEF Ave P. Apt 6G, 1 BR…180K. Maintanence545/mo.

Immaculate building. Quick super. Financially stable building. Minimum maintenance in 10yrs.

Call Dave/ Mercy 718-336-2021 2045

Co-op for sale, Ocean PKWY/ Ave L: 1170 Ocean Pkwy. aPt 2J, 2 BR, $230K maintenance $1,000/mo includes gas, electricity. 24 hour doorman, pool + immaculate financially stable building.

Call Dave 718-336-2021 2045

Ave L/ Ocean Pkwy: Lg renov, 1BR co-op Mod EIK & bthm hi ceils, hrdwd flrs. Clean bldg, low maint. $185K 718-377-9354 or 917-579-4253 2000

2045 Midwood, East 16th Ave O: Newly renovated co-op for sale by owner, 2BR, 1 bth, 1100sf, LR, DR, EIK. Plenty of closets, great location! Near Trans, shopping and more! $259K Call owner 347-495-7121 2045 Midwood: Ocean Ave/ Ave M, 1 fam, semi detached house, walk to all. 3 BRs, EIK, DR, LR, 3.5Bths, fin bsmt. Ideal for professional, for SALE or RENT. No brokers $580K. Call 718-894-7728 or 917-445-5293

Ave I/Premier house: Studio, modern, luxury building, Shabbat elevator, C/A 24 Hr doorman, pool garage. Maintenance includes G&E. Call 732-301-3253 2045

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

House

2020

For Sale

DITMAS PK, FISKE TERRACE

VERY LRG VICTORIAN HOME ON BEST STREET. WPAR-AROUND PORCH, EIK, 7BRS, 4 BTHS, PVT DRV. NEEDS SOME UPDATING. IT'S A WONDERFUL HOME. JUST RED $999K.

CALL JEANNE AT HOUSE-N-KEY REALTY

BROOKLYN 2020 E 15th St/ Ave P: 2 Family, newly remodeled, 3/3 finished basement, vacant & ready to move-in.

NO BROKERS. Owner 718-755-2135 2020 Bedford Ave/ Near Madison HS: 2 fam, large LR, DR, EIK, den, finished basement, private drive. 3 gar with full multiple unit above. Rouff Realty.

718-945-3362

HOUSE FOR SALE BY OWNER Attached, 3 floors + basement, 5 bedroom, 3 full bath + 1 half barh. Prime location, Ave P bet 12th & 13th. Move in condition – appliances included. $750,000. O brokers, s Serious inquiries only.

Call Michael: 917-805-6622

718-921-0500 718-7483741 Brooklyn/Midwood: 1 Fam house. 3 bdrm, 1.5 bth, LR, DR, EIK. Near Ocean Ave & Ave M. $1900 + Gas & electric.

Call 718-894-7728

2020

East 23rd St/ Ave S: Beautiful, 1 fam det 3 BR, near shuls, By owner, No brokers. $750K. OBO Must sell.

Call 305-751-0412

2020

2020

Flatbush, Ocean Pkwy: Foreclosure exclusive. 30,000 sf, land approved ready to build for 20 condos. 21 parking and recreation room. Ave T. Call Yvette at Magic Realty 516-487-6300 or 516-702-6300

2020

Midwood: 1325 East 29th St, Stylish 3 BR, colonial with both classic and contemporary updates.

Large rooms at a spacious interior. Accentuate this lovely home. Close to all shopping and houses of worship. Century 21 Amiable 718-479-5600 2020

2020 Midwood: OPEN HOUSE Sunday 10/17, 2-4:30pm, 1503 East 22nd St. Detached 1 family with office, 5 BR, 3 bth, kosher kitchen, parking broker 917-912-8669

Ocean PKWY. 1 BR, 1 bth $165K ALSO Midwood-Semi prime location 3BR, 2bth. 415K Call 917-399-6374 2020

Real Estate Bridge Loans For All Property Types CALL 917.913.0000 or e-mail:

info@syny.com

2020 Midwood: 1325 East 29th St, Stylish, 3 BR colonial with both classical & Contemporary updates.

Large rooms at a spacious interior. Accentuate this lovely home. Close to all shopping & houses of worship. Century 21 AMIABLE 718-479-5600

East 7th Street/ Ave T: Modern elevator building, 1 BR, windowed kitchen and bath, low floor, shabbot entrance, price $189K. Call owner 917-751-7974

2020

2020 Boro Park: 58th St/ New Utrecht Ave, 2 story frame plus basement and lot. R5 zone building 20x60 plus lot 20x62 Total lot 40x62 Asking 999K. 4 Seasons RE 718-238-8222 2050 PRE-SCHOOL FOR SALE: Marine Park area. Amazing opportunity. Licensed, equipped, all set to go for this year. Call today 201-898-8977

2020 Marine Park: Low East 30’s S/D, 1 farm, 3 BR duplex, master bath, full DR, full DR, Kosher EIK, finished bsmt w/full bath, C/A Mic, no brokers. 718-637-1386 2020 Ave L/ E.32: Excellent condition, 3 BR, 1 ¾ baths, modern kitchen, LR, DR, fin bsmt, gar, new vinyl siding, all Anderson windows.

Asking $510K. Call James 718-938-3326

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REAL ESTATE 2020:Midwood/ Marine Park. Ultra modern s/det brk, fin bsmt, 3BR duplex, $735K. Legal 2F. 917748-7780 bkr 2020 EAST NY, BROOKLYN: Large 2 Family Brick, semi quiet block, needs work.

Asking low $3K 646-753-1400

Boro Park: 2305 12th Ave, open house, every Sun 3-5pm. Asking 1.369M or best offer. 5-2BR apts at $1250/mo + Store @ 1700/mo. Please Call: 347-554-8282 2020

CANARSIE, 1 FAMILY 30X100. EXCELLENT CONDITION. PERFECT FOR PROFESSIONALS, INVESTORS OR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY, SEMI COMMERCIAL STREET. 347-260-7838 -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

2040 New cubicle space in the heart of Boro Park.

2nd floor officw with 4 cubicles, each comes with internet, telephone and all util incl. Fax & copier avail on per use basis. Bath & kitchenette available As well. $350/mo 212-400-7934 ext703

2040 PROFSNL OFC FOR RENT. BORO PARK: 55 ST/ 16th Ave. Mod wlk-in lvl dental ofc. Also suitable for podiatry. 1-3 treatment rms, fully equipped.

Pan x-ray. Days avail flex 718-851-0700 2050 Atlantic Ave Area Lot: Classen & Pacific Fenced lot for rent. $1800/MO. Please Call 917-495-0786 9080 Williamsburg: 5000sqft warehouse for rent on Spencer Street between Park and Myrtle Avenue, suitable for school, shul/retail/ warehouse. Please call: 718-998-2767

2020

Ave U/ East 7th: Renovated approxiametly 350 sf, storefront, prime location. Ideal for professional office or small store.

718-938-9899 2040

Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale

2050

Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent

BROOKLYN

BROOKLYN

Boro Park: 58th Street/ New Utrecht: 2 story frame + basement + lot R5 Zone building 20x62. Asking $899K . 4 SEASONS RE 718-238-8222

2040

Warehouse for rent, near BROOKLYN COLLEGE. 4000sq ft with 20ft ceilings. 2nd flr office space. Currently has refrigerated storage.

Call 718-258-0006 2040

2040

Ave J/E13 St: NEWLY RENOV PVT OFFICE $1000 ALSO SHARE OFFICE FOR $500 917-309-6601

2040 Williamsburg: Beautiful office for rent. 1,200sqft. Ready to move-in. Price Negotiate.

Call 917-250-4899

Educational & profl space for rent. 4 Classrooms, 2 offices & use of gym. Corn Ave I / Coney Isl Ave. Bus stop on corn. For info call Alice 718-377-4400 or Mr. Weiss 917-301-2898

2040

VIDEO CONFERENCE ROOM available for daily and/or weekly rentals. 26 Court St. Downtown Brooklyn. Joe Schacter 646-529-3632 2040

Marine Park: detached rare extra, 2 family, 3 BR, $695K. Midwood: Semi Detached. 3 BR, 2 bth, $415K. 514 Ocean Pkwy: Co-op, 1BR, $165K. Call Robert 917-399-6374 or 718-646-3600 Coldwell Banker. Mid plaza

2050

Williamsburg: Heart of 111 Lee Avenue: Bts Keap and Hooper. ALSO doctor’s office wanted.

Call 917-335-6001

2050

2050 East 2nd/ Ave P: 99Cents + Up business for sale. In business for many years. Good location.

Near shopping, transportation and more. Great potential. Reasonably priced. 45K, negotiable.

Call 718-943-1483

Boro Park, 18th Ave + 54th St: Warehouse/ retail space for lease/ rent. 7,000 sqft. Building for sale. Call owner 917-440-7280 2050

2050 Flatbush: 6 Story, 40,000sf warehouse +7500sf parking, 1 blk Flatbush Ave. Sale or Lease. Income $100K. Owner 718-667-7777

Bankruptcy Auction Sale MYC & ASSOCIATES, INC. US BANKCRUPTCY COURT, EDNY RE: 1210 UTICA AVENUE REALTY CORP. CASE NO 07-42474 (ESS) SELL THURS DEC 9 @ 11 AM AT THE PROPERTIES. COMM’L PROPERTY + VACANT LOT KNOWN AS 1084-1090E 92ND ST. BROOKLYN, NY 11236 BLOCK 8160, LOTS 79 & 81. RICHARD E. O’CONNELL, CHAPTER 7 TRUSTEE. FOR QUESTIONS & COMPLETE TERMS & CONDITIONS OF SALE. PLEASE CONTACT MARC P. YAVERBAUM. VICTOR M MONEYPENNY, AUCTIONEER, DCA 1243694.

347-273-1257 myccorp.com

Boro Park: 39th Street/ 13 + 14th Ave S, brick building, 6000sq ft, 2 offices, conference room, 5 baths, vault room, 2 car gar, central heat, central air for sale. Call Sam 917-804-4156 2050

East Flatbush.

2 Family plus store.

Store vacant. $70 OBO. Call 917-803-8702 2050

Williamsburg: Heart of 111 Lee Avenue: BTW Keap and Hooper ALSO Doctor’s office wanted.

Call 917-335-6001

2050

Rare opportunity! Motel for sale. 40 large rooms with kitchens. Ideal for yeshiva or institution.

Call 917-365-2037

2050

2040

2050 Rare Oppty! Motel for sale, 40 large rooms with kitckens. Ideal for Yeshiva or institution.

Call 917-365-2037

Apartment For Rent 2010

Boro Park: Beautiful office/warehouse avail.

1,000-12,000sf. Also 28,000sf avail on ground flr. 12 ft hi ceil. Sep entrance optional. Call 845-270-1213 or 718-855-2000

Brooklyn warehouse for lease by owner. Ground flr, loading docks for three 50ft trucks. High ceilings, brick bldg, 24 hr surveillance, pvt entr, plenty of parking space, minyan in bldg. Exceptional oppty 3,100 sf $3000 or 2,000sf $2500. Free heat!

Free electric! Tenant must build own office inside space. Price is not negotiable! Only serious enquiries please.

Contact: 718-940-1597 2050

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

2050

BORO PARK: 18th Ave & 54th Street: Wrhse/retail for lease. 7000sf also option 29,000sf building. For sale.

Owner 917-440-7280

2040

EAST, NY: Kid Kelly boxing gym space available for karate, yoga, aerobics or fitness class. Call 718-495-5710 or 917-589-6568

Boro Park, 13th Ave: Top location, professional offices for rent. 2000sf and 1400sf for rent, elevator building and parking.

718-438-3736

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)

2050

Boro Park: Hi 30’s for sale by owner, corner building. 1 story, 80x85 lot. 1.5M Call: 347-424-1500 Lv Msg

2050

2040

GRAVESEND: New const 1000sf, full bth, adjacent to physical therapy ofc, ideal for medical.

718-382-8881

2050 Flatbush: 6 story 40,000sf warehouse +7500sf parking. 1blk, Flatbush Ave, sale or lease. Income $100K. Owner 718-667-7777

2050

2050

2035

House

For Rent

BROOKLYN Sheepshead Bay: Newly renovated 3BR, Duplex house, front and Back porch, LR, DR, EIK all Applncs. Private parking Included. Curtis 516-316-8658 2035

BROOKLYN 2045 FLATBUSH Brooklyn College lg brand new 1BR w/balcony, lg LR, wood flrs, doorman, near trans.

No fees. $1595/mo 917-494-1520 or 917-337-5307

E 7/ Bet 18th & Ditmas, sound – proofed, large 1 BR BSMT w/washer, dryer. $875 util incl. 718-972-5058 2010

Midwood/ Ave O: East 3rd & 4th Sts, Newly renov 1 BR in 3 fam, top floor. Near F train & shops. Owner: 347-672-0874 or 917-662-6456

2010 Bensonhurst: 2 BR, 1 bth, EIK, LR, 2nd flr. No elevator, near houses of worship, transportation, shopping + more. Great location! No smoking/ no pets, credit and unemployment check. 1250/mo heat included. Call owner 646-346-0951 2010 Marine Park: 1 BR apt $1050/mo.

Call 212-752-2070 Ext 321 M-F 9-5 2010 Kings Hwy/ Ocean Pkwy: Beautiful 3 BR + 2 BR apts w/ parquet floors.

Large LR, DR, EIK. Built in closets.

Call 347-492-6053

GEORGETOWN: 1 BR for rent newly renovated and furnished. Excellent condition, good location, near trans, shopping + more.

Short/long term available.

Call 917-696-0000

Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent

3060

QUEENS/BRONX EAST TREMONT AVE: STORE FOR RENT. Top retail location, high pedestrian traffic, 3000sf, can be divided.

For details: Rafi 718-364-1400 or 347-495-0614 3060

Continental Ave, Forest Hills: 2nd flr walk up, 1500sqft, currently insurance co. Debre Rosenfeld.

212-604-4744 3060

Midwood: 1174 East 18th Street, 719K. Semi detached 2 family, upgraded extra large.

Kitchen, granite countertops, new mechanics.

5 BR, 3bth, separate entrance. Call bkr 917-912-8669

2010

2010 Ave M/ Ocean Pkwy: 1 fam detached 4 BR, 1.5 bth, LR, DR, EIK, MIC, near shopping, transportation and all.

Asking 800K-neg.

Ask for Connie 917-674-7136

Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale

3060 LIC Warehouse Bldg for sale. 4100sf, overhead door, hi ceilings. Additional development rights. $1.3M MSparks@ergpa.com 646-253-0904

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

Ave X/ E.7, Newly renov 2 BR apt, EIK. Close to beach, Q & F train & express bus. No pets.

718-332-2849 East 68th Street: 3 BR duplex apt $1800/mo includes parking, heat and gas. Call 947-412-5184 2010

2010 Ave L/ E18th: Beautiful 1BR, MIC, East 13th/ J&K, 1 BR apt, Ocean Ave/ Ave J. Studio apt. Call owner 718-236-3199 NO FEE. 2010 Boro Park: 54th St/ 16th Ave, 2 BR furn bsmt, full kitchen, 1.5 bth $1150/mo negotiable.

W/D avail.

Call 732-901-8947

East 2nd/Aves N+O: Garage for rent. Good for 1 car. Shomer Shabbos.

718-614-9233 or 718-627-6155

2010

2010 Brooklyn, 60th Street: Bet 8th + 9th Ave. 1 BR, 2nd flr, totally renov, close to N train. $1100/mo 718-600-6317

Bayside: Hollis Court CO-OP- 1BR Garden Apt, upper corner, 1BA, 2 AC’s, W/D, near express, bus + shops, $164,900 w/optionto purchase garage.

OWNER 917-939-5064 LOW MAINTENANCE 2060

Riverdale, 1 BR Apt: Private entrance, patio, wooded area, close to trans, renovated, dishwasher, eat-in kitchen. $1190 1st/Last/ 1 mo sec. Credit check required. NO FEE 646-269-0587 1060

QUEENS/BRONX

Brooklyn Room Furn: TEMPORARY LODGING MOSSAIC SUITES. Fully serviced – Internet. As low as $65 Daily, $385 Weekly 718-972-4377

2010

QUEENS/BRONX

3000

2010

2010 Sheepshead Bay: 1 BR co-op apt near shopping, lovely community.

Call Linda 718-332-0777 ext6319

2080 Forest Hills: 2 BR, newly renov, dishwasher, 2nd flr, newly carpeted, very private and quiet.

Express bus to Manhattan.

Owner 347-545-2665 2080 Main St/ 70 Ave: 2 BR apt, good condition, EIK, 2nd flr, no smoking, no pets. Avail immediately.

718-757-4433 -After 5pm

2010

2010

2010 DUMBO 133 Water Street, Brooklyn NY. 2BRs, 2 bths $4000. Huge studio $2600 per month. Exc loc, lux bldg. Owner Sherry.

Many amenities 516-395-3017 or 718-523-9700

Fresh Meadows: 71-44 160th Street: Condos for rent 1-2 BR duplex, 2 bth, LR, DR, EIK, extended backyard large recreation area $1800/mo. No pets/ 21BR, 2 bth with porch$1300/mo, no pets. Call owner 718-810-0001 or 617-304-9050.

Both Avail Feb 1st 2080

FOREST HILLS KOSHER RESTAURANT FOR SALE:

4000SQFT, PVT DINING , LICENSED LIQUOR BAR, 50 TABLES, SALAD BAR, BSMT FOR STORAGE. GOOD INCOME. ASKING 525K. CALL

718-268-7777 3000 STORE FOR SALE, 10,000sq ft in Bronx, NY corner of Pelhalm PKWY and White Plains Rd. Two entrances, Very busy location.

Unbelievable rent.

Contact Alex 917-957-4313

3000 City Island: Historic landmark Victorian mansion immaculate. 8 BDRM/ 4 bth on 100 x 200 Lot on the border of Westchester, ideal for large family or a profession group of doctors. Close to “the Shul by the Sea” & schools, unique purchase. $1M negotiable. City Island, NY best kept secret. Call port of Kall Realty for CI. Waterfronts, cottages & condos 718-885-1166 Web ID NS1101191127 of The NY Times

2060 KEW GARDEN HILLS: Hyde Park Gdns, spacious 1st fl, 1 BR coop, wd flrs, 24 hrs security, near all. $1200/mon utils incl. 1 mon sec. Call OWNER 718-481-7752

Washington Heights: Easy access to transportation, next to Ft. Truimph Park. Internet access, 6 months only, no couples, Women only.

1 BR room for rent.

Call 646-305-7678

2080

NEW LISTING $1100-$1400 NORWOOD: 3133 Rochambea Ave Revenue, new kitchen and bathrooms, clean building, 24 security, near botanical garden, Montifore Hospital, forham University and shopping. 1 Bdrm, 2 Bdrm. 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 KGH/Briarwood: Studio short walk to subway (F train), quiet building, first flr asking 950/mo, security deposit and references required, all utilities included, no fee. 9am-9pm.

Ask for Mr. Henry 718-281-4890 2080

House

3020

For Sale

BAYSIDE: Mint COOP Junior, 20 min to Manhattan! New kit, wd fl, lndry and storage area in bldg. $225,000. Prudential DE Re, Call Susan 516364-2491 spassannante@elliman.com 2060

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

Apartment For Rent 2080

QUEENS/BRONX 2080 SPRINGFIELD GDNS: Make my home your home, compl furn, xlrg rooms, newly decorated, exceptionally clean, near all prkwys/airports/ public trans lots of parking, ref’s req’d 718-723-8063

QUEENS/BRONX 3020 Kew Gardens: 1 of a kind. West of Main Street, semi detached 23x100 Lot. 4BRs, LR with fire place, charm circle.

Call Vera, Coldwell Banker.

917-853-5455

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

House For Rent

5065

LONG ISLAND Far Rockaway: 2BR, 1st FL, porch & patio, own thermostat, near shuls & schools. Avail Nov 15th.

516-643-9204 5065

5065 ROCKVILLE CENTRE new kitchen, new carpet, 2 BR, attic/storage area, walk LIRR, parking, $1850 plus electric.

Call 516-250-8604

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REAL ESTATE 5065 Central Islip/ Hauppauge: LG 1 BR ground floor, no pets/cats, W/D, AC, near NR, RR, exit 57, LIE, 1200/mo+ Security deposit. Includes gas/heat/water. Owner 631-757-6959

ATLANTIC BEACH 3 Bdrm, 2 full bths, LR, DR, Kit, Sun room, Gar, Storage, walk to the beach. $3000/mo. 1 mo sec + 1 mo rent. Owner 561-745-2329 or 561-704-6748 5000

CEDARHURST NO FEE: Modern 1 BR, 2 BR & 3 BR, CAC, W/D, Storage, private entrance, indoor parking, near all, starting at $1450. 1 month Free rent! 516-860-6889/ 516-852-5135

5065

5065 Central Islip/ Hauppange: Large, 1BR, grand floor, no pets/cats.

W/D, A/C near trans, exit57 LIE, 1200/mo + security deposit includes gas/ heat/ water. Quiet building, retirees. Serious inquiries only. Call owner 631-757-6959

Cedarhurst, NO FEE Modern 1 BR, 2 BR & 3 BR. CAC, W/D, Storage, private entrance, in-door parking, near all. Starting at $1450. 516-860-6889 or 516-852-5135 5065

Amagensett Dunes 400 feet to ocean beach Access. 5 bedrooms, 2 baths. AC. Labor Day. $50, 000 or avail monthly.

Call: 631-655-9319 5065 Central Islip/ Hauppange: Large, 1BR, grand floor, no pets/cats.

W/D, A/C near trans, exit57 LIE, 1200/mo + security deposit includes gas/ heat/ water. Quiet building, retirees. Serious inquiries only. Call owner 631-757-6959

Apartment For Rent

LONG ISLAND

Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale

5080

LONG ISLAND Why rent, when you can own for less?

750sq ft liquidation sale. LYNBROOK office/ co-op for sale.

Completely renovated, 2 offices, 1 conference roo,, waiting area, bathroom, pool, gym, walk to LIRR. $119K must sell. $749 monthly maint 70% tax deductable.

516-359-4489 5080

SUSHI RESTAURANT TURNKEY - Already Set-up. Just needs Sushi Bar. Very Busy Port Jeff area. Low Down-payment.

Required. Pete 631-944-2067

5080

Central Ave, Lawrence: 3000sf good condition, busy corner. Parking attached.

Approved for food establishment. Call 917-975-7062

5080

5080 CEDARHURST: BUILDING FOR SALE on CENTRAL AVENUE. 2 Story plus basement.

516-568-2170 – Owner

WESTBURY – Commercial space 241 Post Ave. 2 story building. $350K 917-301-1625

Apartment For Sale 5000

LONG ISLAND 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

Professional Offices: Nassau/Suffolk.

Hampton Bays: Psychiatrist office available, 3 days per week.

Hampton Afrium Medical Center. Speak with Robert Stafford 631-728-0432 6000

House

For Sale

5040

LONG ISLAND HUNTINGTON WEST HILLS: 1 acre, beautifully landscaped, country col, updated 4 BR, 3.5 bth, FLR, DR, den, new kit, fin bsmt, 2 car, IGS. 631-692-9160 5040

Hewlett 2 family house, $529K visit www.monicamohanst udio.com/1792Broad way/ or call 917-6487682 By owner SD14 5040

5080 GARDEN CITY: 3000+ sqft, high traffic area, priv parking, retail, prof/ w wrhse will divide, 20ft ceiling. OHD Will partner with doctor For urgent care centert.

631-404-9845

VALLEY STREAM: Office building, 4300 sq ft, 1 block to LIRR and Sunrise Highway. Potential rent roll $81K. Ideal for Prof’l or medical 516-695-7222 5080

6000 TANNING SALON Affluent area North Shore/Nassua. Estbl’d over 15yrs. Ministrip Ctr. 14rms, Relocating. **Reduced for QUICK SALE** $59K 516-763-2090

Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent

SUFFOLK / L.I. 6000 WAREHOUSE for rent Patchogue VIII 3000sq ft 25’ ceiling, heat, clean, bright, bathroom, large roll up door $1500/mo Tom 631-942-9745

House

For Sale

4020

STATEN ISLAND HOUSE FOR SALE// ROYAL OAKS “The best house in the best borough of the best city in the best country in the world” GO TO www.FRENCHMANORON CLOVELAKES.COM 917-622-3728

4020

4020 Staten Island 2271 Hylan Blvd.

Open House. Wednesday Nov 10. 11am-2pm Large retail space with parking, high volume location.

16,000SF+18,000 SF parking + Full bsmnt incl.

CROSSTOWN REALTY 718-937-8100ext109 /110

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

Apartment For Sale 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 1000-

5060 Cedarhurst: 4BR, duplex apt, private laundry, kitchen, closets galore plus LR, DR. Unlimited parking. Garage/ backyard. Avail Jan 1st. Call 516-996-1955

$795000/4-5BR – FSBO Lido Beach Colonial (Lido Beach – Bayside) Walk to the beach from this newly renovated 4-5 BDRM, 2.5 bth colonial. Located on a quiet block and even boasts bay views from the master.

Beautiful wd flrs & crown molding throughout. New master BR, CAC, windows w siding. Large EIK, LR, DR. Renov backyard, update 1.5 car gar, alarm sys. Walking Distance to synagogue.

Truly move-in ready!

By appointment only: 516-318-3345.

More info & photos, www.lidohouse.info Buyers agents OK, NO listing requests, pls.

516-318-3345 5040

For Rent

6080

STATEN ISLAND

3080

5080

6000

Oakdale/55+ Condos. New construction on Oakdale Bohemia Rd. 2 BR, 2 ba, models now open from $385,000. 631-472-2242

6000 OCEANSIDE: Operatories available in A per diem basis in modern, multidisciplinary dental office, prime loc.

Five Towns Area.

516-536-5777 or 917-559-8712

Apartment For Rent 3065

STATEN ISLAND Staten Island-Condo for sale 2 bedroom, 1 bth condo, Rossville, bottom Floor, corner unit, central air, eat-in kitchen, living room, washer, dryer, pool, tennis court, parking space, $189k 917-693-8239

Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent

4060

STATEN ISLAND (New Dorp) 2000 sq ft office space.

Near train.Convenient to all.

Pat 646-369-9457 Port Richmond-3 office suites w/reception area. All brand new, fully renovated C/A. full bsmt 2,700ft w/dual bthrms, new carpet.

Please call: 347-424-7809

6090 Montefiore Cemetery: 1 Grave, lot 187. Section H. Asking $900 or best offer.

Call 310-246-9666

NY STATE

House

BRAIRCLIFF MANOR: Mansion from the American Gangster movie, $12,500/mo nego plus utils, 6 BR, 5.5 bath, 7000sq ft, 20 acres, Hudson River view, 1-3 year rental with option to buy. 914-319-7835; Email voharha@aol.com 6080

6080 STUDIO FOR RENT. Newly renovated, near trains + buses. $750 a month plus security.

914-879-7083

6080 House Summer Rental/SALE/Monsey N.Y. 13 bedroom, 40 beds, mansion available weekends/wk pool/gym. Large Backyard.

Near Shule. Available For extended families.

Call (914) 646-3164

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

Property

For Sale

6090

NY STATE 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

For Sale

6060

NY STATE Monticello: Triple net lease of Catskills.

Bungalow colony, lovely grounds with pool. 55 units, 165K + 10% security. Subject to owner approved credit report.

Carol 626-394-2378; carol@acmecos.com 6060

6060 South Fallsburg: Bungalow Colony, 29 units, for lease to camp/ group with option to buy. Please call: 347-350-5208 or 718-854-3434

Catskills: Private New Country Cottage. Reduced to $159K. 1 BR, sleeping loft, nr Windhamm Ski Mtns. Min fr hiway. Owner 646-330-0927 or 914-235-1684 6060

6060 Wesley Hills/ Pomona: 4BR, 3 Bth split, mint cond, w/many updates, .5 acre, on dead end street, wlk to shuls, $435K 347-992-1009

NEW ROCHELLE. OWNER FINANCING. Renovated 3 BR/ 2 BTH w/new bright. 1 BR/ 1 BTH in-law $724,000.

914-715-3494 6060

Wesley Hills, Monsey, New Hempeasd. Are you dreaminf to be in country all year round instead of just for the summer. Move to the beautiful Monsey.

Great prices to buy or rent with pools and large homes and gardens. Call now before the housing market goes up. Access to foreclosure homes. Call now Shane and Rivka Ronay 845-222-5842 or sign at our website www.RONOAYREALTY.com Email:Rivkasold@gmail.com 6060

Small bungalow colony.

70 beautiful acres to buildings and in ground swimming pool needs TLC features a small lake with historic stone den waterfalls, stream hills, valleys and lots of trees, less than 35 miles from the George Washington Bridge in scenic Sullivan County asking $499K. Call Joyce David 718-875-2000

6060

Root/ Montgomery Co. 70 Acres + Trailer Hse with barn, water + electricity. 3 hrs from Man $250K. Call Owner 718-617-7799

7020 WARWICK, NY: (Orange County)2 Story,resid’l/comm’l bldg, 9 units, large lot, parking, great income, owner financing avail, $850,000 845-651-2275 Brkr/ int 6060 Mountaindale: 3BR house, 2 full baths, mint cond, fireplace, finished basement, new roof, finished decks, new driveway, near houses of worship + community centers.

Call 917-453-6926 6060 COLOMBIA COUNTY. Pine Planes: House for sale, 6 bdrm, 3 bth, 21 acres w/pond, horse friendly, great family Get Away. Great for hunters. Must see.

Asking $675,000.

Contact Christine 718-644-2040

NEW HEMPSTEADJUST LISTED! Spac 4 BR, 2.5bth Col Btful wooded .93acre FW brk FP, huge bsmt, terrif loc. Motiv. Seller!

E. Ingber RE 845-354-6060 6060

Monsey, 13BR lg hse w/pool & gym lk bckyd.

Avail weeks/wknds. Ideal for extended families.

914-646-3146 6060

6060 Ottsville/ Orange County, NY: House for sale. Lovely well maintained, low maintenance, 3 BR home approximately 1700 sq ft on 1.3 private wooded acres, large cedared deck. 5 mins to Metro North station, asking $265K. Call owner 845-386-3608

FRANKFORT, NY: Owners Relocated.

Magnificent 7200 sq ft Custom home on 35 rolling acres. This house has 4 extra large bedrooms and 4 baths, fireplaces, Top of the line everything. Exit 31 on the NYS thruway.

Call Gina Caleca 917-204-0096 6060

6060 Woodmere, NY: Brand new house, new construction, 6 bdrms, fin bsmt, top of the line appliances, Italian kitchen, 5 bthrms, Don’t miss it! $699,000.

Call 516-395-9847 Call Dora. Call for open house, call Galiete.

One Stop Realty

Monticello Monticello: Beaut ranch, 4 Br, 3 bth, kosher kit. ½ acre, bkyrd.

Walt to dist to falkof.

For pesach Summer.

Call 718-679-4339

Atlantic Beach 2BR, 1.5 bth Condo, Patio CAC Walk to Private Beach, Boardwalk + Temple Private parking, Low Main. $399K 516-596-7305

Property

For Sale

5070

LONG ISLAND 5070 GREAT NECK land for sale, 3 res lots on wooded pvt cul-de-sac.

Builders/ principals only.

516-443-2700

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7030

OUT OF STATE Massachusetts, MA Winthrop by the Sea. Brand new 900sq ft, 2 BR condo. Incredible Ocean Views, minutes from Downtown Boston. FSBO $275K. 781-581-0031 7030

BALTIMORE: MAGNIFICENT CONDO! 3 BR, 3.5 BTH condo w/over 3,000sf. Convenient to shuls, shopping & bus, elegant LR & DR, huge den, kosher kitch, laundry in unit. SHARON ZUCKERBROD Long & Foster C: 410-599-5303 O 410-583-5700

7030

7030 Mt. Pocono LOT ON LAKE Pocono Country Place Gated Commun. w/ Amen. $45.5k. Call 570-688-5334 or 718-447-8448

Virgin Islands: St John Weston Resort, 1BR condo, March 512, sleeps 4, $2500.

Call 412-561-3966 7030

7030 EXCLUSIVE APARTMENT Luxury garden apartment in new building on Ariozorov St. Stunning 3 bedroom apartment with private registered garden, luxurious finish, beautiful built-in carpentry, fully furnished, 2 full bathrooms, private covered parking, storage room elevator. Dov Shapiro 052-5533-739 Ilana Nelson 0545-341-403

7030 DISTRESSED MULTIFAMILY REO – Jackson, MS, 296 units, unpirced – market to set the price.

Built 1974, C-asset.

Rehab/management play with tremendous upside.

Call 601-790-3321 Marcus & Millichap

CA – BEVERLY HILLS, 3 HOMES 8,000$8,850,000; 10,000sf - $7,700,000 13,000sf (brand new) $10,800,000 Call 818-244-9111 7030

7030 Independence Missouri: 45,000sf net building on 6 acres, leased to best buy.

4+years remaining yearly.

Gross $536,559. Price: 3,550,000 Principals only.

Owner 805-969-3966

ISLA VERDE, PUERTO RICO: Luxury apt by the beach 2 bedroom, 2 full bath, 1 parking, 24 hour security.

Call 787-727-7762

Cost Rica: Col style mansion in fashionable gated nghbrhd, 2.35ac, grdns, 12,375 sf home, 4 BR, 6 BA, LRs, lib, afc, serv grtrs, 17 car prkg, pool, etc. $2.8M. 877-746-3868 tom@c21jaco.com

7030

Cape Cod: 17 acre Private Island you can drive ontu. 4 bdrm residence, dock, huge boathouse, plus marine railway. $995,000. Century 21 Bourne 800-439-2524 www.16JobsIsland.com

7040 SWITZERLAND, Condo for sale in the town of Aeschi. Above LAKE THUN close to interlacken + spiez BDRM/ Kitchen/ Dining/ LR/ additional pull down bed beam ceiling + doors to wrap around balcony. Underground Parking + storage, $150,000.

Contact 732-560-1648

Available For Rent

7065

7065 AC WARWICK: Large unfurnishes 1 BR condo, new carpets, Ocean View, yearly rental $1275/mo, includes utilities, storage cable, parking.

Call 856-596-1816 Long term only.

Aruba Oceanfront: Marriott Surf Club. 2BR 2BA deeded time share.

Buy Easter week $36,900, others avail. Rent week before Easter. $36,000 419-360-7319 7030

OUT OF STATE 7065 Boyton Beach: Lovely courtyard home 3BR/3ba; Enclosed pool, separate cabana private end lot; Lake View Shutters, New A/C, 2 car gar, EASY walk to local Chabad.

Call 561-738-9772

7065

Pikesville: 3 BR, 2.5 bath FOR RENT. All appliances.

W/w carpet $1500 + 1 mo Security deposit.

Call 443-326-1081

7065 Lower Makefield: 4300sqft, 2 sty French Colonial, 4 Bdrms, 4 Ba min to shopping train, hospitals, golf course…$3,250 DAVID FIORI INC. 215-757-1000

7020 Putnam County/ BREWSTER: 12,600sf warehouse for lease, 3 landing docks, 26 ceils, truck parking, flex lease terms, may divide nr I-684 & I-84 Brokrs protected 845-278-6525

Bristol, CT-31 unite RR $250k. price $2mil. Great potential and opportunity.

Owner: 718-258-6096 Leave msg, Frank.

Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale

7060

7050 Dry Cleaning Plant in Danbury, CT. Est 1989, owner retiring, exc visibility, signage, parking.

Includes: Hydrocarbon cleaning, 2 shirt units & tailoring. Hi-End pricing/ quality. Price $450K Some financing available.

203-306-8776

Kosher deli/ Restaurant for sale in Waterbury, CT. $25K Call Michael 203-528-7382

7060

VIRGINIA – BEAT THE BANK!! Distresses real estate portfolio REO prices on prime properties. MUST SELL!! Residential lots 200+ cannot replicate 25ac Commercial @1 Million below appraisal. High growth & employment area 100% Bank financing available 540-840-7614 OWNER 7060

OUT OF STATE UPSCALE ITALIAN RESTAURANT. DAYTONA AREA-FL: Very low rent. 10 yr lease.

Excellent reputation in business. Local clientele. $249,000.

Call Moriss at 386-235-5002 7060

7060 SHAWNEE, PA Timeshare. Ridge Top and 1 week in July. Nego.

Call 321-726-0504 or 516-884-3745

Shalom Memorial Park: Crypt in Mosada 3.

Includes interment open and closing. Asking $2,900. 215-480-3622 7060

250 Acre farm in 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 SOUTHWEST

7030 Puntarenas, Costa Rica: Vacation/retire in Costa Rica. 1 Block from beach, short walk to town, cunning 2BR cottage, lrg Jacuzzi, pvt, quiet & secure. 4 apts generate rental income for min cost of living. For pics go to: http://public.fotki.com/happy dayapts $200K. FSBO No agents 203-987-8603

7030 Elkins Park, Breyer Woods. Move in ready! 1st flr master suite. LR w/fpl, DR, eat-in-kit w/ island. 2 car att gar, 3 BR, 2.5BA. Loft 2500 sqft. NEW PRICE….$380,000 ALSO AVAILABLE FOR RENT AT $2,000 PER MO + UTILS. PICTURE PERFECT TOWNHOUSE. Handsome amenities t/o LR, gas, fplc, DR, E-I Kit. 2BD, 2.5BA. Full unfin bsmt. 1 car gar. Tennis crt.

Asking $299,000 CALL ALICE R. FICHER. WEICHERT REALTORS 215-885-8100 OFFICE 215-803-5908 CELL

7030 Costa Rica: 100 Meter of Beach front property on 1 ½ acres of land on the pacific side of Costa Rica. Includes kitchen/ 2 bdrm with air conditioner, 1BTH, fully furnished. Good for up to 6 people for rent or sale $500K. View website CostaRicaparadiseIsland.com Contact 516-931-9726

Mexico-Isla Mujeres Island CARIBBEAN ISLAND LOT. Double lot on bluff overlooking stunning Cancun Bay. Unrestricted views.

Fantastic value! Listed at $449,000.00 Email: AirlineEconomics@msn.com or Call 281-799-4120 7030

9/15

7030

9080 Exchange Opportunity or Direct Purchase. Acre on Intracoastal Waterway in Merritt Island near Cocoa Beach with 5/4 main house and 1/1 guest house. Seller will rent property for 2yrs if desired.

Residential. $550K. 321-795-3806.

See:www.post1031.com/arch ives/2376

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY • FINANCIAL SERVICES • LEGAL SERVICES Business Opportunity

7070

Global Commercial Capital: letters of credit, documentary and standby 24 hour approval.

International clients welcome. Commercial / Real Estate mortgage and bridge loans. All 50 states. Approval based transaction strength.

Call 800-315-9040 or 001-405-445-3535 7070

CAPITAL WANTED .

Earn 11% - 15% NOW ON RE. Feldman Prop Prntrs needs several investors to purchase upscale foreclosure homes. Deals avail now. Investment returned w/i 9 mos. 20 yrs exp.

201-726-5016 7070

THE FASTEST GROWING FOOD SECTOR ON THE PLANET A Canadian owned & estab aquaculture company in the Baja California, Mexico $50 - $60 million.

Potential/yr 5 years out. $Ms invested & most infrastructure in place. Proven management. Mex gov is fully supporting.

The future of global marine food production. lapazaqua@gmail.com 7070

7070 CAPITAL WANTED. Wanted gold & silver, mining projects.

INVESTORS WANTED. Southeast of Reno.

Production to start in April 2011. Please Contact 212-470-6300 EmaiL drfennelli@fennelligoldcorporation.com

Propriety School, the first of its kind in NYS. Licensed by the Dept of Education seekes investor/ partner.

Call 917-821-8684

7070

Recreational Watercraft Rental.

Business FOR SALE on ATL area lake CF $210K/Sale price $795K. 770-540-8199 7070

7070 Help wanted: Great opportunity! Looking for entrepreneurial and ambitious woman to partner with in my home-based business.

High income potential. Call 646-222-7104

PATENTS FOR SALE US #7833117 + Other & Ancillary Patents for major Intl companies. This unique handle invention can be manufactured into all types of hammers; and all garden tools; into 20 different sports & hardware items. www.CoolRackets.com Coolrackets@sympatico.ca 416-252-9644 7080

7070 Retail store in Lawrence looking for investor of 25K. excellent for growth oppty.

Call 347-529-2206

need Additional income?

Learn to operate a mini office outlet from home.

Free online training, flexible hours, great income, www.ziporasnolimits.com Call: 416-785-0206

7070

Ready for financial freedom? Visit www.inklingswealth.c om Don’t miss this!

Call 786-472-5601 or 727-642-3300 7070

7070 Two sister companies in Columbus, OH and Dubai, UAE looking for business opportunity. Import/ Export, commodities, Goods + services.

Contact 614-260-2041 or fax 614-473-9795 Email: Idris_Anis@hotmail.com 7070 FOOD FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITY. Operating store working partner. Be your own boss Phda & Cherry Hillarea, must love restaurant operations. Call Carol 305-525-7025

Route of self service Car Wash Air + Vacuum Machines on Gas Stations. Easy hours, cash accounts.

High value equipment included. Price is $495K. Net $140K. Contact 718-559-7470

EARN A POTENTIAL $10K+ MONTHLY simply by inviting people to our special Six Figure Webinar!

NO selling. NO explaining. NO convincing. NO closing.

FAST EASY MONEY. We do all the WorkYOU make all the $$$’s! Watch the FREE webinar right now: www.WebinarTycoon.com – Then Call Dave on: 404-277-3536 7070

7070

Ground floor opportunity in pain relief!

Now selling territories for FDA, OTC approved medical device. Bring a proven, noninvasive solution for pain to your market.

877-751-7665

7070

Lifetime: Be your own boss!

Soup to nuts! Complete contents of greeting cards store, thousands of gifts, cards, toys, balloons, shelving, racks, register, etc. Retiring after 35 years.

Call 347-884-3459, 718-745-5666 No offer refused!

One price takes all!

7070 Capital Wanted, Seeking JV funding ($50$100MM) for Central America projects, Costa Rica & Panama; Infrastructure complete.

Call 858-768-9956

An amazing opportunity: New start up business, looking for MLM leaders and distributors. To sell Omega 3 from sage product. Call 347-564-8932 7070

7070 Deli & Country Store in Stratford, CT area looking for new products to sell. Interested vendors please call Richard 203-531-5940 Mention ad in the Jewish Voice & receive a FREE cup of coffee @ Richard’s Corner Deli. 525 Nichols Ave. Stratford, CT. Contact 203-522-4265

RESIDUAL INCOME CAREER OPPURTUNITY Inside sales for health, life and Medicare products.Paid Training for unlicensed associates. Licensed agents welcome. Salary plus commission.hard work and dedication = 6 figure income.Contact Andrew 516-918-5718 or Lou 516-918-5709 Business Opportunity WANTED Investor wanted for Highend Automobile $1,000,000 + WANTED Formula 1 Auto Import For detail call WAEL 201-344-8993

SEEKING EQUITY PARTNERS *Double Digit Returns *Real Estate *Nationwide *No Minimum Call Brian

800-991-0229

7070 US owned in China: US company for sale in China. The company is a WFOE (Wholly Foreign Owned) 8 months to setup. Transfer time to new owner is about 1 month depending on office is located in the SIP section of Suzhou, China ( 20 min train ride from Shanghai).

The company is a consulting firm, but the focus of the company can be easily ch. You have any questions Please call Jacob 212-913-9357 or Email: U.S.owned@hotmail.com

7070 Join a Gifting Activity that is very affordable and gifting rapidly. Sizzle call 206-888-4956 www.JoinNewHope.com 347-406-2965 7070 Returns of 8% to 10% Annually IRA approved accredited investors only.

866-323-2596 Lv msg w/name Email: researchedinvestment@gmail.com

Investors wanted (15%) Fifteen Percent Secured by real estate Contact 405-735-3906 Divorce sell: Tabriz 12x15 Almost new! $13,000 Call 301-299-3192

Financial Services

VALLEY STREAM office building. 4300 sq ft. 1 block to LIRR and Sunrise Highway. Potential rent roll ideal. Ideal for prof’l or medical. Selling price $495K 516-695-7222 7080

Investment Opportunity

1110

7070 MAKE MONEY!!!

I buy time on television. at pennies on the dollar.

Quick and very hi return Guaranteed in writing 10K Min. Investment SFT PRODUCTIONS 917-498-6899 rafesft@gmail.com

Health

7090

23 PEOPLE NEEDED TO LOSE 5-100 LB . Call: 800-237-0414 www.loseweightnow.com/ cwilson1 For more info also call 718-531-5380

9050

7090 Massage + Reflexology for complete relaxation and relief from aches + pains. Contact Chaya WOMEN ONLY 347-756-0205

7080

CREDIT REPAIR & DEBT RELIEF: Settle your credit card for as low as 10% of your balance. Repair your credit and get a 740 credit score. We settle business loans as well as Business credit cards.

Call 718-874-0178 7080

8010 COUNSELING: Talk Therapy, Personal Counseling, Vacational Guidance.

25 Years of Experience in the Above.

Susan Teeman 917-881-1583

Tutors

3005

3005 HEBREW TUTOR: Manhattan, Brooklyn And Queens.

Beginner or advanced.

347-480-0950 Email: shanibengal.nyc@gmail.com

URI! URI! AWAKEN! AWAKEN! Prana Mandir Yoga Studio 4 West 43rd Street, 501

Meditation: Every Monday at 6PM Shabbat: Every First Friday at 8PM Psychotherapy: Rabbi Robert Teixeira, L.C.S.W. 212-961-1745

AwakenAwaken.org

3005 A unique Method of skill based teaching together with the healing powers of reflexology. Will help your child gain all age appropriate academics + developmental skills.

Individual + group sessions available. Special introductory rates. Contact Chaya 347-756-0205 8005 BEST PRIVATE ENGLISH LESSONS.SAT, SHAT, COOP, vocabulary, test-taking technique, writing, ESL, grade school, all levels.

Rates incl, all materials provided by excellent Prof w/25 yrs exp.

Call 347-206-6481 Small group discount!

Private lessons in both English and Hebrew appropriate individual teaching for all levels and ages. Efficient, practical method. Reasonable rates affordable for you.

866-608-4043 Jennifer 3005

11/19

10% DOWN GOOD NEWS TO INVESTORS. YOU CAN GET YOUR PROJECTS FUNDED NOW WITH JUST 10% DOWN – REAL ESTATE, ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY, MINES AND MORE. PRELIMINARY REQUIREMENTS 1) BUSINESS PLAN 2) PROOF OF DOWN-PAYMENT FUNDS.

Contact Lester Phillip for detail. lester@sikamangroup.com Office: 212-695-1716 www.sikamangroup.com

3005 A+ Certification Course $339 INTRO TO COMPUTER $49.95 718-261-1900 Bring this ad as 1st time coupon.

Retired university professor, math, chemistry, physics “My motto is: Basics come first” Manhattan, Upper West Side.

Please all: 212-662-2324 Tutoring for all levels!

3005

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JOBS WANTED & SERVICES OFFERED Music

8000

8000 JEWISH MUSIC LESSONS: Guitar, Piano, Bass & Drums. Individual or group lessons for all ages. In my Queens studio or I will travel to your home.

Credentials include a BA in Music performance, a MS ED in Music Education, NYS Certification and 20+ yrs of performing & teaching music. Rates are $40 for 40 min lesson & $50 for a 1HR lesson. Excellent refs avail. Call Yerachmeil at 917-373-9613

MUSIC INSTRUCTION Piano lessons all levels + ages Professional musician + experienced teacher Call (917) 459-1228 8000

Music Instruction Berkeley College of music professor available for private drum lessons.

Conatct: 617-835-6404

Tutoring

3005

AFFORDABLE TUTORING Prep for Math & Science Regents With outstanding tutors who cover all The material & strategies students Must know.

Very affordable rates! Online & Flatbush locations.

Call Perry: 718-377-0015

8010 Goldstein Home Care Service. Live in/ Live out or hourly.

Companion Aide 732-788-1974

Live-in. 7 Years exp.

Very good ref. Would consider live in/out.

Call 347-869-1956 8010

Home Health Care Aid seeks job, experienced, references, live in/out.

Brooklyn or Manhattan.

Call 646-359-1299

8010

Mature Nurse Aide seeking a job to care for elderly. 15 yrs exp, live in/out.

References furnished Upon request. Call 347-860-1656 or 347-533-4135

8010

Seeking job to take care of the elderly. Home health aid, 16 years experience. Please call 718-882-5244 8010

8010 I am a certified HHA: Companion/ Aide seeking job to care for the elderly.

14 years experience. Loving and caring. Live in only.

Excellent references. Loving and caring. Live-in only.

Excellent references available. Willing to start immediately. Call 973-592-608

Responsible and honest: HHA/ CAN with over 16 years experience , looking for a job to care for the elderly. Live out only. Excellent references. Willing to start immediately. Call Monica 347-451-4409 or 718-469-1798 8010

Help Offered

8010

I am a LPN – private provider w/8 yrs of hospital & home care exp.

Seeking a private duty or Medicad homecare case – pediatric or adult.

Days/ Nights, Any boro. Have car, Will travel.

Call 718-581-8570 8010

Companion Aide. Live in, Good references.

Kosher experience.

17 years, experience.

973-592-6081

8010

Chauffer: Have my own gorgeous super luxury JAGUAR SEDAN, looking for an exclusive contract with a family. Solid refs + I speak many languages (amazingly talented person) 917-771-3405 8010

Responsible and honest HHA/ CAN with over 16 years experience. Looking for a job to care for the elderly. Live out only. Excellent references. Willing to start immediately. Call Monica 347-451-4409 or 718-469-1798 8010

8010 I am a certified and licensed HHA with many years exp. Seeking job to care for the elderly, willing to cook, clean etc.

Excellent references.

Live in/out. Call Jennifer 347-965-4506

CHAUFFER: Driver, courteous, reliable with a clean driving record. Solid Refs.

Seeking a position.

(Amazingly Talented Person) Contact 917-771-3405

8010

8010 CAREGIVER with 10 years experience to care for sick or elderly. Have own car, good references.

Call 267-236-5664

NURSE looking for private duty CNA/ LPN position. 25 years of experience. Day or night.

References available. Call 917-573-1937 or 718-479-7113 lv msg.

8010

8010 Administrative / Executive Assistant Part time/Full time.

19 years experience.

718-805-1448

8010 SMALL GROUP DAYCARE Experienced warm loving care. Ex-RN from Israel willing to care for children from 0 to 2 years old, in my home at Ave M + East 5th Street Transportation avail 347-283-5516 8010 Dating & Relationships Group.

Develop communication skills for social and intimate settings.

Weekly group sessions led by psychotherapist Phyllis Tompkins Ph. D. 917-741-1120

Health Care Aide, CNA. Grateful family would like to place their late mother’s former caregiver, extremely competent & pleasant lady, is avail immed in Broward or Dade City, FL. Ms. Alexandra 706-284-4906

8010

8010 I am a certified HHA seeking live-in/live-out 5-7 days a weeks. Many years experience. Excellent references, familiar with Kosher dietary laws.

Valid drivers license.

Available immediately.

Call 646-737-6685 Throughout The Tri-State Area.

Seeking position as a home health aid, more than 15 yrs experience, excellent references. Avail day or night 5-7 days a wk, starting immediately.

Call 646-339-1702 8010

I am looking to work for a single retired gentleman, no pets, excellent exp & excellent references available January 2011 or earlier 845-568-7928 8010

Attn: Small business owners!

Get you’re A/P,A/R, & PR done for a flat monthly fee – less than you would pay for a bookkeeper’s weekly salary.

Over 30 years experience.

Pick-up and Del service.

Synagogue experience.

Call or email for info & rates: (732) 503-4343 or efficientbooks@comcast.net

8010

8010 24/7 Live-in Avail, able to start immediately 23yrs exp.

Highly educated, grt refs, pls note patients who have bedsores, I can cure them within THREE days. Contact 973-580-7321 Email: TorfriedVLet@comcast.net

Caregiver Exp excellent references cert fixed positions as caregiver. Exp in Alz and Dementia. Call Marilyn 646-520-8625 or 718-573-0584

8010

BOOKKEEPPER in Brooklyn looking for position. 15+ years experience, bi-lingual. I work efficiently and with extreme accuracy.

Kindly call or email: 718-216-7842 or email Mmariaoro@optonline.net

Help Wanted

8015

HHA looking for live in/ out position to take care of elderly. Call Yvonne 240-595-5626

8015

8015 Buyer/ Managing partner wanted for newly renovated. Fully equipped.

Turnkey Glatt Kosher, LI catering hall. Seats 300, long lease reasonable rent.

Attractive terms. Call 516-450-7323 8015 Buyer/ Managing partner wanted for newly renovated, fully equipped turkey Glatt Kosher LI catering hall.

Seats 300, long lease.

Reasonable rent attractive terms. Call 212-243-9808 or 516-450-7323

8015 Work From Home Earn cash generate $500 daily to your home returning phone calls. 888-345-9849

TEACHER DIRECTOR with NYS teacher’s certificate in edu.

For small Brooklyn daycare center.

Call 718-385-0571

8015

Buyer/ managing partner wanted for newly renovated fully equipped Turn-Key. Glatt Kosher, LI catering hall. Seats 300 long lease, reasonable rent. Attractive terms.

Call 516-450-7323 8015

8015 Drivers/ Delivery/ Courier: Mail dispatcher needed P/T Mail out envelopes all over the US $150 weekly. James Flanagan 718-705-4889

ADVERTISING SALES PRO WANTED Top commission!

Experience required.

For phone interview.

Call MR. Haggerty @ 877-665-6618 www.123adsales.com

8015

8015 Truck driver with experience, no CDL required. Duties include loading/ unloading, must live in the 5 Towns.

Call 917-682-3541

P/T office assistant. 3 days a week. Experience using Quickbooks. Business office in Flatbush. Send resume by email pcpccomp@msn.com pr Phyllis 917-533-2326 8015

8015 Buyer/ managing partner wanted for newly renovated, fully equipped turnkey. Glatt Kosher LI catering hall. Seats 300. Long Lease, reasonable rent.

Attractive terms call 516-450-7323

FUNDRAISERS FOR ESTABLISHED TAX EXEMPT YESHIVAS IN JERUSALEM. SOLICIT FUNDS THROUGHOUT USA. EXCELLENT TERMS

8010

917-692-7191

Partner needed: Exciting new kosher pizza shop Orlando, FL. Need working/ investing partner. Call Dave 407-696-8873 8015

Food Co. sks experienced sales people.

Draw against comm + expenses. Call 347-561-9744 Berish 8015

8015 Real Estate Agents: Make Extra Money! Astor brokerage real estate center, serving the Kew Garden Hills community is seeking new local agents.

We will train you call Chanita for info at 718-263-4500 8015 Babysitter wanted P/T Mon-Fri, from 2:30-5pm in Marine Park, Brooklyn.

Please call Lauren: 646-529-3030

Personal Assistant wanted: P/T Upper East Side Manhattan. Female business woman needs male assistant. Great opportunity for the right person.

Please call for an interview. 646-387-3801

8015

Truck driver with experience. No CDL required, duties include loading/unloading. Must live in the five towns. Call 917-682-3541

HELP WANTED Saleslady with some sales exp needed for fabric Store.

Call 718-436-5849 or 347-743-7339

Cleaning Services

8045

8015

Office manager/ Buyers & sales agents with Experience for busy RE management office.

Call 917-921-3467

8015

8015 Hardworking, honest reliable woman, certified HHA seeking a job to care for the elderly. Over 20 Yrs Exp. Will clean house, live-in/out.

Excellent refs.

Call 914-476-2846 Or 646-235-5450

Great company looking for great people for energy consultants. Are you a professional looking to break into a Billion $ industry? Here it is!

Unlimited Income Potential, flex schedule, Adv opty.

O: 518-478-8588 F: 888-841-7774 8015

Licensed electrician in New Jersey and Long Island looking for partner.

Call Zvi at 646-739-8771 8015

8015 SALES PEOPLE NEEDED For a local BKLYN business.

Must be energetic, reliable + enthusiastic, base salary, Plus commission.

Great Opportunity.

Please Call Joe: 646-619-2822 x6100

Work from home Complete training & support. Contact Sammy 646-812-2574 Partner/ Salesperson for jewelry mfg business.

Knowl. of Internet sales.

Willing to travel.

212-575-9590 Home attendant Fulltime or part time.

Felxible hours. Live in or out. Experience required.

Good salary. Call 917-676-1309 or 347-512-8229

S+S Rubbish Removal: All clean up. Yard / Basement/ garage. Free estimate. S+S Rubbish Removal, Demolition.

Shomer Shabos.

Call 347-404-1643

9015

8045 Simply the best: Employment Agency, we offer eldercare, companions, housekeepers, babysitters, al with excellent references and experience. Licensed and board agency.Live in/out 718-332-7608

9015 Brooklyn Sanitation Rubbish removal, backyard cleanouts, apartment cleanouts. Specializing in both. Commercial and residential. Same day service.

Shomer Shabbos.

Call 718-243-2525

Top quality cleaning services for your home, apartment, office or business.

Call 646-500-1156 www.wix.com.astyte123/cleaning

8045

8045 Get your bathrooms + kitchens CLEANED TODAY. It’s not clean until I do it!

Call 347-653-7086 www.CITYOFERRANDS.com 8045 Maid 4 YOU. We can help. Call + you’ll have a maid. We provide full/part time or temporary help. Housekeepers, baby sitters/ day workers/ elder care. Located in the 5 Towns. 917-574-2306 or 516-569-1786 8045 KING’S LAUNDROMAT of NY @ 622 KINGS HIGHWAY. Manager special.

MON, TUES WED… ..$0.69 per pound, Regular $0.89 per Pound, launder shirts $1.50 special.

Professional Drop-off service.

718-339-1200

Cleanout commercial & residential. Big or small odd jobs we do it all Call for free estimate Mark 917-682-2247

CORPORATIONS, LLC, LLP, D/B/A/ , IN EVERY STATE WITHIN 24 HRS PUBLISHINGS OF LLC’S, LLP’S NOT FOR PROFIT OR RELIGIOUS EXEMT ORGANIZATIONS TRADE MARKS, COPY RIGHTS, PATENTS TRUSTS NEW DEEDS PROBATE WILLS NAME CHANGES LANDLORD & TENANT CASES, AND ALL COURT CASES COLLECTING COURT JUDGEMENTS FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL:

TEL. (718)

633 0411

FAX (718)

851 7770

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SERVICES & MISCELLANEOUS Home 8081

Avoid leaks before they happen!! Specializing in grout bathroom tiles, loose tiles, ceramic tiles and all house repairs and Painting. Call 516-302-6748.

Selling all 5 Boros + LI 8081

NATURAL GINESIS NO MORE BUGS! 100% NATURAL PLEASE CALL: 800-807-9357 www.naturalginesis.com ALFA CONTRACTING -Custom Cabinetry -Kitchen remodeling -Home offices -Home Entertainment -Space Efficiency -Free Estimates -We’re in the neighborhood “NO JOB TOO SMALL” $100 off WITH THIS AD www.alfacontractingny.com 212-234-5878 rosstfrench@aol.com 8081

WE MEET OR BEAT ANY PRICE. Interior demolition, One stop backyard basement clean out. Stop violations. Same day 24/7.

Licensed & Insured.

718-243-2525

9015

SERVICE Ephraim Glass Serving the community for over 30 years specializing in store fronts Mirrors, table tops, doors, windows, shower doors, screens (718) 435-4664 D.L.M CONSTRUCTION Licensed and Insured New Construction, Extension and Complete Renovation, 25 Years Experience Free Estimate 917-968-6809 Giannotti Contracting All pases of home improvements INC. * Finished Basements * Sheetrock * Taping * Extensions * Masonry * Kitchens * Bathrooms * Roofing * Siding * Windows & more. Call Dominick 718-256-9393

Handyman

THE MENCH OF AFFORDABLE HANDYMAN. SPECIALIZING IN ALL FORMS OF HOME IMPROVEMENT KITCHENS, BATHROOMS, BASEMENT, ROOFING, SIDING, CAC, STORM DOORS, WINDOWS & ENTRY DOORS. LICENSED & INSURED. CHECKABLE REFS AVAIL. SEE PICS ON FACEBOOK. AFFORDABLE MENCH. CALL 516-297-4316 ALFONSVAINO@YAHOO.COM 8080

Improvement

8080

Painting, sheetrocking: 20 years Experience.

Insured. No job too big or too small. For quality, Call John today at 718-898-7560 or 917-359-4579 9000

Contractor: All kinds of jobs plus windows, plumbing, carpentry, painting. Call Baruch 215-725-9161 8080

HANDYMAN AVAILABLE!!!

Carpentry, Tile, Plumbing, Landscaping, Painting, Furniture, Asembly. Reasonable rates, Friendly service Call Orrin 646- 671- 3906 ingramo@earthlink.net

I AM A PLUMBER (Boiler & Heating) LOOKING FOR WORK. Henry 718-809-6150 Reasonable rates!

24HR Service 8080

8080 Mike’s Home Improvement/ Roofing Sheet rock/ tiles, Kitchen/ Bath, Gutters + Leaders.

718-426-2167

Exterminators 8075

BED BUG SPECIALIST Professionally Dry Clean: Clothing – Linens – Drapes.

Discreet and reliable.

Pick up and delivery/ Unmarked van.

Call toll free!

1-888-241-2199 8075

8075 M + K Pest control: Special price for bedbugs, senior discount.

Reasonable + reliable services. Licensed and insured. Call 917-304-8777

TRUCK FOR SALE: 2003 Ford Crew Cab Model #450 with utility body 30,000 miles. 4xs4 with fisher stainless steel plow diesel $19K. Plus 2005 Ford Crew Cab Model #350 4x4 Diesel tool box + racks. New seats, also hare ladder racks. Owner retiring. Contact 201-207-5533 or 201-436-0447 9030

2010 Lincoln Town Car dark blue, light tan interior. 5 months old, low mileage, one owner. Perfect condition $38K. Contact Alex 203-746-0181.

Lv Msg. 9030

20 PASSENGER MINIBUS YEAR 2000. PLUS ELECTRONIC HANDICAP DOOR. EXCELLENT CONDITION. GREAT PRICE 917-482-5580 9030

9030 Silver 2001 BMW Z8 Excellent condition.

28500 miles. 6 speed, transferable warranty.

Two cars in one-hard top roadster with rag top underneath.

Garaged in Hilton Head area, find at $90,000. Simply breathtaking.

203-803-6273

CHEVY 1996 IMPALA SS Rare green Immac.

21k $28,500 516-383-6326

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

Pets 9035

8075-BROOKLYN’S BEST BED BUGS, RATS. MONTHLY PEST CONTROL. RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE. FRANK 718-415-6920

Electricians

9035 PETS FOR SALE – DOGS: Min Schnauzer Pups Born 9/9/2010 home bred 1 f black + tan 4 m black silver + tan hypoallergenic friendly playful very protective watchdogs. Raised around grandchild. $700 570-972-5741

Electrician All electrical needs. New lines Trouble shouting fixtures. Call Yahuda: 347-631-0481

Autos 9030

1997 ROLLS ROYCE. Silver Spur. Pristine condition. 10K miles $67,000. Jet black exterior. Light Beige Leather Exterior.

508-400-3354

9030

WAREHOUSE SALE: Thanksgiving table sale through 11/24. 20-30% off. Knock on wood again, 4 taft St. Norwalk Ct 06854 203-899-9877 9040

Aerostar Aircraft 600 1975 New Paint , new interior updated avionics, many extras.

Hangared $195,000/ 954-873-5169 or 954-434-6222 9040

9040 Wooden Dining Room set, table with 8 chairs, china cabinet and buffet + server. Only 3 years old.

Great condition. Also leopard/ wood coach 80x10 area rugs. Side tables with marble, 2 leather living room chairs etc. Call 917-364-5272

MISC HOME FURNISHINGS: Bed Adj Fll, latex mattress, remote & massage. Must see! $1000 631-786-1514

9040

MOVING SALE!! EVERYTHING MUST GO! *Gorgeous pewter accent table 2yrs old when new…$1500-Asking $750 or best offer.*Beautiful 7 piece king size, master BDRM det, originally $6500-Must be seen!

Asking $2000 or best offer *Glass & chrome attaché 42x78 $350 or best offer *Glass cocktail table w/black base originally $1500 asking $700 or best offer *Kitchen table with matching swivel bar stools $1300 or best offer *2diff boys 6pc drm set 500 and 550 or best offer.

Call owner 732-536-2474 or 732-740-8417 9040

AIRLINE TICKETS / VOUCHERS 50% DISCOUNT OFF FLIGHTS TO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION 646-464-8747 OR 828-246-2388

9040 PARKER 2005 PILOT HOUSE-25’ 9’6”beam, 250 Yamaha 4strk on bracket, low hrs, all electronics, outriggers, saltwater washdown, windlass, new trir w/ electric winch & fishing equip.

Asking $54,000.

Call 631-909-3582 WILL DEMO IN WATER!!

9040 ELEGANT Mint Condition FULL LENGTH MINK FEMALE PELTS, CHAMPAIGN TOURMALINE. CLASSIC, LINES-SIZE 14. CONTINOUS COLD STORAGE. 480-221-0704 Scottsdale, AZ Email for photos TMHARTWIG@GMAIL.COM 9040 MINT CONDITION 2009 Fountain Executioner FOR SALE Twin 700 horse power engines.

Low hours = Minimal use.

Land dockage (Never kept in water) Make offer!!!

John Tramutola 917-992-5540

Buying

9040

JAZZ LOVERS! Over 1,000 jazz greatest records, excellent cond, negotiable. Ellington, Vaughn Parker, Holiday + Fitzgerald, just to name a few + Many more.

Contact718-379-6401

9028

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

Oceanside Private Sale.

Auto BB’s, pics, all sports cards, dolls, hot wheels, xmas décor + more!!

For appt Please Call: 516-678-1394

9040

LARGE REWARD LOST AFRICAN GREY PARROT RUBY

LOST IN GRAVESEND/BENSONHUR ST ON 2/13/11 PLEASE CALL ANYTIME

917 204 9170

Selling 9040

9040 HUGE QUANTITY of porcelain and ceramic tile leftover from large job. Call Vlad at 561-222-3221

Cemetery plots. Sharon gardens, Kensico cemetery located in Vahalla. 4 grave plots for sale, price negotiable. Speak with Robert Stafford 631-728-0432 or Stafford88@optonline.net 9040

9040 Antiques for Sale. 5 piece large bdrm set/ dining rm + China + circa 1900 Sunburst Oak, excel cond. Pieces can be sold separately. View website: http://tinyurl.com/39mo7go Click collectables + Antiques can view.

Approx 37 photos/ Contact732-937-9167

9045

Top quality cleaning services for your home, apartment, office or business.

Call 646-500-1156 www.wix.com/astyle123 /cleaning

Business Cards, Logos, Postcards, Etc…Trust LH Design & Printing for affordable business cards, postcards, flyers, brochures, logos and more. Visit us at www.lhdesignprint.com, Please 2Email: lhdesignprint@aol.com or Call us : 1-888-909-9855 9050

KORN’S TORAH TRUCK - We provide Truck/ Generator, Music, Sound System, Shupah (on wheels), signs, torches, Flags + peck lach (for the children) Music in your shl. Music at the Seudah. SHULEM PAYSACH KORN: 845-642-7204 OR 845-354-5591 WWW.TorahTruck.com 9050

9050 AIRLINE TICKETS. Greyhound/ Amtrak 50% discount off tickets to anywhere in the world.

Call 646-464-8747

HUNTING FISHING WARM FISHING VACATION In South Texas, nice accommodations. Terrific fishing for trout, redfish, drum, red snapper etc. Cheap vacation. Starting at $1,600 for two for 1 week. For more info: 956-742-5502 To book: 956-577-3801 or www.merrybandresort.com Mt Ararat, Farmingdale: 8 Burial plots for sale. $12,000 Best Offer 516-466-4432 or 631-466-1635 9050

9050 Psychic sessions by Fallon. Specializing in deep meditation. Healing, crystal and clairvoyant readings. Are you worried confused, depressed or just need advice. 2 convenient locations. Call immediately for session 347-600-0749 All readings are private and confidential.

Other 9050

Aircraft for sale Building for rent Call 336-292-2579 Ext 6 - Ask for Frank 9050

SEEKING INFORMATION ON HENRY HURWITZ editor of the MENORAH JOURNAL for scholarly monograph. Please contact Prof Lewis Fried at dalamerica@aol.com 330-673-7292 9050

Prominent Middle Aged Rabbi with recommendations looking to say KADDISH + learn MISHNAYOT every day, the 1st year after petira + Every yahrtzeit.

347-743-8578

9050

9050 Capital wanted: Golf, tennis, all sports, #1 sport scientist has world’s best high tech systems. By far, we can own. Entire world of sports training.

More info see Cambridgegolfscience.com Call 617-682-0470 9050 US / Israel Stamp Collection for sale by private collector.

Unique + very rare collection of stamps from Israel and USA, nearly every stamp of Israel is included.

US stamps includes large collection of rare stamps in Mint condition. jg@thejenet.com 845-782-2223

9050 Palstering ans Drywall expert: All types of Home Improvements.

Call Al 215-676-2861 LicC87434 9050 $$ OLD PHOTOS WANTED$$ Negatives, prints, slides, archives, all subjects, NYC + antiques.

516-808-1214 9050 Shiva employment agency: Now has cleaning ladies, nannies, caretakers, etc available. We are currently seeking certified and licensed individuals. Please call 718-928-3832 CREDIT CHECK DONE

9050 TIME SHARE LIQUIDATION. Rentals and resales, Holiday specials.

866-396-4616 9050 Spiritual readings by Briana. Tells past, present, future, love & career.

Specializing in Tarot cards, kaballah, palm + auro readings, etc. Located in NYC 561-255-8707 9050 Shlomo Hamolech’s Tour of the United States: Motor home RV trips for free on condition of purchase of electronics, batteries and groceries starting price of $6,000 over a period of time on condition that you acquire entire RV for additional $94,000. You also get a new 2010 black Mercury, high breed car plus groceries for 10 years provided I am the driver, minimum 30 day tour.

Call 917-216-8379

9050 Loving young Jewish couple wishes to share their life with your newborn baby & give life-long happiness. Expenses paid.

Call Elissa & Seth 877-897-3616 9050 New internet & ecommerce business to serve your personal and individualized specifications.

Courteous service reasonably priced. For more info Please call Yaakov 718-705-2173

Jewish Education from Home. Cantor health Rosenzweig 917-749-7275 HebrewEducation.info

9050

Young Israel shul seeks Yeshiva w/10+ post HS students to occupy 6500sqft bldg in great nghbrhd, 2 kitchens, classrooms & mikveh. Avail 11/01. FREE RENT FOR 1st YEAR. 2 hrs from Washington, DC. Call 804-288-8816 9050

8045

9040

Donations 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

9040 MERCHANDISE FOR SALE: 2 Knudson seemless gutter on machine 5” type hold 4 coil clean + painted $4000 – 6” seamless road 6” Gutter and 16 Flange Type $9K. Owner retiring, clean + well maintained.

Factory maintenance.

Contact 201-207-5533 or 201-436-0447

WE BUY PRINTING PRESSES & EQUIP: Heidelberg, AB Dick, Multis, Ryobi, Hamd, Polar etc. Call Isaac 718-312-9912

9050

STEINWAY GRAND PIANO “M” Louis XV, walnut, 4 years old, serial # 574197. Current value 117,900; asking 75,000.

Call 609-980-5555 Email WilliamBurris@comcast.net 9040

Contractor- All kinds of jobs plus windows, pluming and carpentry, painting. Call Baruch 215-725-9161

9050

9050 FOR ALL YOUR TRAVEL NEEDS. Planning a business trip or a family vacation? Great travel deals, compare prices, book hotels/ villas and more/ visit No Charge Shipping www.tripyourself.com 347-631-5349

Dyslexia? Reading, writing or spelling problem?

Alpha reading solutions Expert individualized reading therapy for children and adults. Exp’d Cert affordable.

215-663-8932 www.alphareadingsolutions.com 9050

9050 Vintage Bicycles Plus: Bicycles and adult tricycles Pre-owned. 419 Jacksonville Rd, Hartboro.

Hours: Mon – Fri 1 to 7pm.

Saturday, 10am to 5 pm.

Plenty of free parking! We can sell your bike on consignment surrey’s. Delivery for tricycles for the physically challenged available.

Call 267-981-2740

9050 To the person who brought my storage unit on 7/19/10 @ Cropsey Ave., Brooklyn. Please call Christine 646-209-2434 9050 REWARD $50,000 for evidence leading to the conviction of the person or persons who used my account in my name at the Bank of America leading to charges over $48,000.

Eugene Bivins 3475 S. Ocean Blvd.

Palm Beach FL. 33480 561-493-4875

9050 LOST & FOUND- LOST, GOLD CHARM BRACELET. Sentimental value, 14 charms of grandchildren.

Reward. Lost East 60’s in Manhattan. Please Call: 212-734-8991

9050 Tree Available: Wholesale Douglas far sheered healthy. $50 foot, will make deals, brokers welcome. Boughs available, can shop. Call 570-275-4049 www.peney/tucky.webs.com

Are your water bills too high? We can settle it.

718-599-1925

9050

Singer looking to form band for CD project, as well as performing at simchas. Jewish and secular music. Call Zev 347-593-4591

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New Jersey Apartment For Sale 9055

9055 Manalapan: True mother/daughter colonial, 2 kitchens, 2 LR, total 6 BR, 3 bths, many upgrades, lg pool, C/Vac, large lot 732-792-1143

Condos/Co ops/NJ Hoboken-$1.15 m secluded carriage house, 3 firplaces, luxury, appliance package, patio +w/trellis+hot tub, terrace 3 flrs 201-400-3986 FOR SALE, LAKEWOOD 4 CONDOS AVAILABLE 2,000-2,400 sq. ft. $335,000- $345,000 1st St. & Madison Ave. Please call for info/appt.

718-974-5550

Apartment For Rent 9060

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 Monmouth Beach: Oceanfront, breathtaking 2 BR, 2 bth, kitch, lg LR w/dining area, huge deck, indoor/outdoor pool, 24-hr security, easy bus/ ferry commute NYC, $2500/mo 201-825-2646 Parsippany: Lak Hiawatha-1 BR condo quiet building, 2nd flr, walk-up, updated appliances in EIK. Renovated bath, new windows, new electric, good closet, space storage bin + laundry room on-site ample parking, great nearby park and ride. 2 miles, no pets, no smoking. $875 monthly.

Call 973-207-0860 Owner.

Apartment for rent, NJ, 2nd floor in private house. 2 BR, Lrg LR, lrg kitchen. Includes heat & hot water, lrg closets. $1,150 201-659-5574

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 Rent

9065

Elberon, NJ: Townhouse for rent. $2,200 per month, 4 BDRMs, 2.5 bths, LD/DR Ocean View, 3 balconies, fireplace. Central air conditioning, laundry room.

1800 sq ft 732-768-8005 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

Proper ty

For Sale

Elizabeth, NJ: Historic Center: Newly renovated brick/ vinyl one family house- 8 Bedrooms/ 3 bths, family room, bonus rooms, eat-in-kitchen, new roof, siding, windows, boiler, water heater and porchhardwood floors and new carpeting -$280,000. Call owner 908-688-7262 7030

Teaneck: Totally renov 4 BR, 2.5Bth with finished basement in prime w Engelwood location. $739K Vacant 201-483-8901

9050

Far Hills: 14 Acres trees/ Stream BEDMINSTER Horse County. Foundation Built holds 7000 sq ft.

Home Well Septic patio/pool/ spa Driveway. Contact 908-234-1743 or 908-399-2100 9065

175,000 Co-op Apt For Sale: Great Size Bedrooms. Too many upgrades to mentrion!

Ready to move-in. Close to GWB. Call Angela 201-328-6603 9065

9065

Alpine Treetops: 9 miles from GWB. 4bd/4bth amazing updated modernist on 2 private ac. Views, pool, 13K taxes, best schools. $2,974,000.

See WebID NS110210769 Alpine 9 mi to GWB. 4bd/5.5 bth, 1.5 private acres. Best site, architecture, finishes, appliances.

Energy efficient. Taxes 15k. $3.85M 201-750-0372 See Web ID NS1102091197 9065

Clifton Patricia Loop: Move in condition! 3BR ranch, EIK, updated full bath. $329,900 FSBO 973-220-9116 www.zillow.com 9065

9065 CEMETARY PLOTS. 2 ppairs of cemetery plots at MT. Lebanon Cemetary, Iselin NJ. 1 pair with prepaid pre-needed internment. hannabe@juno.com 732-545-6373 or 732-896-6230

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 Residential/Commercial Howell, NJ Near Lakewood, 20,000 sq ft asking 650k.

Reasonably priced!

Call now Dominick 908-415-2299 or Sal 718-853-3629

Spring Lake Heights: Builders/developers, Land for sale: Zoned Residential 908-482-0528

Are you looking for a clean remodeled 3BR, 2 ba shore house colonial 2.5 blocks from the beach. New roof, kitchen & bath, parks 5 cars.

Asking $339,900. Call 973-464-5561

Philadelphia, PA Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent

9075

CLEAN ROOMS. SEMI CONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING. Mercer County, NJ. 9,000 SF Class 10K 9,000 SF class 100K. Expansion to 27,000 SF (1) 2,000 AMP)/ 13,200 Volt primary. Power service.

201-488-4000 www.sorce.com

9075

DATA CENTER AVAILABLE Mercer County, NJ (1)2,000 AMP/480 Volt service (1) 2,000 AMP / 13,200 volt Primary Power Service 201-488-4000 www.sorce.com 9075 Lakewood: Corner store for rent, good location. Call 732-513-9470

Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale

9070

5000sqft restaurant in Monmouth County.

Elegantly designed seats 115 people with (8) apartments + (2) additional.

Retail spaces.

Contact 908-902-7828 9010

2 pairs of plots at Mt. Lebanon Cemetary, Iselin, NJ. 1 pair with pre-paid pre-need internment. hannabe@juno.com 732-545-6373 or 732-896-6230 9050

Apartment For Sale 9055

9055 Spring Lake, rent/buy, A+ condo hotel, 2 units furn, new designer décor, quality details, marble bth, custom clsts, 1 BD + LR; 1BD + Porch lake view, pool, 3 blks Beach, Zagat rest.

Amp/480Volt 215-990-1252

Property/House

For Sale

7030

Elkins Park, Breyer Woods. Move in ready! 1st flr master suite. LR w/fpl, DR, eat-in-kit w/ island. 2 car att gar, 3 BR, 2.5BA. Loft 2500 sqft. NEW PRICE….$380,000 ALSO AVAILABLE FOR RENT AT $2,000 PER MO + UTILS. PICTURE PERFECT TOWNHOUSE. Handsome amenities t/o LR, gas, fplc, DR, E-I Kit. 2BD, 2.5BA. Full unfin bsmt. 1 car gar. Tennis crt.

Asking $299,000 CALL ALICE R. FICHER. WEICHERT REALTORS 215-885-8100 OFFICE 215-803-5908 CELL 7030

7065 AC WARWICK: Lg unfurn, new carpets, Ocean View. Yrly rental $1275 per month, includes utils, storage cable, prkg.

856-596-1816

BUY FORECLOSURES Potential 60% Discounts 12% + Returns 602-421-1101

7060

WholesaleForeclosures4Investors.com

Warehouse 15,000sqft, 34-44 W. Green St. Hazelton, PA Central Commercial Zone, 2 story, basement & store front. 15 parking spaces, loading ramp in the rear. Concrete and steel building. $149,900. Daisy N Rubio 305-228-0085 or 305-302-9142 dnrubio@bellsouth.net 7060

Lower Makefield: 4300sqft, 2 sty French Colonial, 4 Bdrms, 4 Ba min to shopping train, hospitals, golf course…$3,250 DAVID FIORI INC. 215-757-1000 7065

Help Offered

8010

8010 Loving Caring couple, both certified and licensed, wife is practical nurse and husband is seeking jobs as companion for the elderly.

Handyman w/HHA Certifications. Excellent, many years experience.

References available.

Call 516-330-3429 Have own car.

Other 9050

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7065

7050 Soliel | Sotheby’s International Realty. For unique shore homes search…soleilsir.com 9202 Ventnor Ave., Margate Ph 609-487-8000

Teaneck: Garden apt, land 3BRs, renovated kitchen. $1150-1395 including heat and hot water, 2 blocks to NYC transit. 1 lock to kosher Shops. No fee.

Call 201-836-8745

9050

9070 Lakewood: Corner store for rent. Good location. Call 732-513-9470

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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Israel

9000

Great opportunity: Lots for sale in Rosh Pina, lots for sale in Even Yehuda, also apartments for rent in Ezilya Pituach.

Call 408-340-1125, 011-97-50-529-3777, 011-972-77-575-1170 irit0110@hotmai.com NEGOTIATOR: EXPERIENCED NEGOTIATOR AVAIABLE TO REPRESENT YOU ANYWHERE IN ISRAEL. CALL TOLL FREE. CONSULTATION 052-773-0076 Lev Yerushalayim: Hotel suite, Kosher Kitchen $89 yrock3@gmail.com 972-77-234-5672

9000

Ramat Bet Shemesh: Ramat shilo, 2 BR, fully furnished, A/C, w/d ground floor, no steps, 2 min walk to mercaz. Short /long term 248-214-9573 9000 BAKA: Wonderful duplex penthouse very bright and beautiful finish…220 meters. 2.2 millions us or $5000 rent www.aviadrealty.com

Harlap: Lovely bright renovated 4 room apartment porch, equipped kitchen, 1st floor, 9000nis,///GERMAN COLONY 4 rooms, furnished. 9000 nis, meny other rentals. Eva Aviad.

9000 Jerusalem: Private Suite in 5 star Ramada sleeps up to 8. In/Out pools $250/night. Albert 514-803-8838

Jerusalem Center: 16 King George, furnishes, 3BR penthouse duplex, 2.5 bth, 4 porches, Shabbat elevator, short / long term.

718-776-3282 http://dennydaniel.com/israel 9000

8 rooms, 2 bth, large EIK, porch, good location. 011972-3-677-6127 yoram1123@gmail.com

9000

Lev Jerusalem hotel apt suite.

Best location. All amenities included. Daily maid, sleeps 4.

Reduced $120/Day (5 day minimum).

Private owner. Tel/fax 011-972-8-633-4758 zerwand@yahoo.com

9000

Jerusalem: in a central prime location at 60 Jaffa Street apt for rent!

On then new light right pedestrian mall route, cute 2 room apartments in a new building, fully furnished, AC, lift, wireless wi-fi, for long + short term.

Within short walking distance to primary sites.

(Kotel, Geula, Machine Yehua market) Frank 0505-344478 Wise 0505-34448 9000

Luxury rentals for short/ Long term in Hertzelia, the apartments are furnished and newly renovated.

They are available for individuals or families.

Please call 011-972-52-860-6663 www.aayafit.com

9000

J MARK INTERIORS INC. JERUSALEM/NEW YORK Design a dream home in Israel From purchase & construction to Planning, implantation, Furnishing & design.

Jeffrey@jmarkinteriors.com Israel 972-52-1230 New York 516-295-0856, 516-295-0881

New Villa very high quality. Stunning, 210sq M corner center of Omer, 2floors 052-758-8102 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

Jerusalem: Private suite in 5 Star Ramada sleeps up to 8, in/ out pools. $250/night. Albert 514-803-8838 Jerus, central. New 4 BR lux apt in 18 unit bldg. incl all linen, applncs, Kitch ware. Kosher & sh shab. Short Term rentals.

416-782-6791 For sale Israel KIryat GAT Near Beersheva- 2 Brs, KItch, L/R, 400 sq ft, front yard, playground.$80K Call 917-804-4158

Retire in Jerusalem?

3.5 room unique penthouse in “Hod Jerusalem“ retirement home (self ownership - no deposit required!)

Call 972-50-5920507 firmdew@hotmail.com

Jerusalem Center: 16 King George, furnished, 3BR penthouse duplex. 2.5 bth, 4 porches, Shabbat elevator, short term/ long term.

718-776-3882 http://dennydaniel.com/Israel/ 9000

Malcha: Fabolous bright townhouse of 3 levels…250 meters. 300 meter garden, private parking, elevator, must see. www.aviadrealty.com Mekor Chaim: Very bright new 6 room duplex penthouse. 3 full bathrooms, guest toylet. Huge terrace, parking / storage asking $1.2 million. Eva Aviad OLD KATAMON: Breathtaking duplex garden apartment 6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, wonderful outside garden / deck, patio, parking, details w/EVA AVIAD TALBIEN: FOR SALE luxury bldg, investors wanted for 200 sqm apt.

EVA AVIAD

054-499-9043 9000 REAL ESTATE IN ISRAEL. INVESTMENT AND MANAGEMENT. MORTGAGES FROM 7096 AND UP. Simcha Teitelhaum 917-474-7440 simchatb@gmail.com 9000 Holiday Rentals: THE premier choice for Jerusalem Vacation Accommodations. Lux, spacious, pleasant, fully-equipped apts.

Call: Shia Getter Property Mngmt, England, 020-3-5140457, USA 718-473-3950, Israel: 972-03-912-5867 Email: sg@shiagetter.com , www.shiagetter.com

Leisure Time Travel.

Special Deals for PESSAH 2011 1.King Solomon, Jerusalem & Tiberias 2.Prima Kings, Jerusalem 3.Selection of hotels throughout Israel & abroad Earlybird Specials GROSSMAN TOURS Tel: 052-624-4733 or 02-624-8189 9000

9000 162 Hanasi Street: 5 rooms plus asement, price $1,650,000 USD. Call 054-348-1277 Not on Shabbat 9000 RAMAT BET SHEMESH: Ramat Shilo, 2 BR, fully furnished, AC, WD, Ground floor, no steps, 2 min walk to Mercaz, Short/ long term.

Call 248-214-9573

Amazing professional medical masseuse, reflexology, deep tissue, massage, liberating and very relaxing treatment which will make your day.

Call 052-325-6536

Zefat: In The Old City: 4 rooms in modern building 95sqm + 2 large balconies (70 sqm) Amazing view to Rashbi. NIS 1,000,000 Tel: 052-762-7672

9000

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Florida Real Estate

For Sale

9080

9080 Condo for sale Boca Raton: 55+ community with active clubhouse + theater, swimming, pools, gym, tennis courts + (2) synagogues. 2 BDRM/ 1 ½ Bth completely renovated, all tile, custom counter tops. New bathroom, $65K Contact Marty 914-953-8988 Will email pictures.

FLORIDA REAL ESTATE The following propertied are located in Clearwater area, near Gulf of Mexico.

For more information, or pictures, on any of the 3 properties, call Virgil at 727-410-1205 Immaculate townhouse two blocks from beach. 2 BR/2bth, fireplace. 2 car garage, furnishing included. Reduced to $209,900 Attractive “Florida” 2BR/2bth home. 4 minutes to bch. Screened lanai.

Orange trees. 30 golf courses in 30 miles. $237,000.

One BR/1 bath condo.

Safe neighborhood. Walk to restaurants, grocery, hospital, etc. five minutes to bch. Reduced to $39,900 9080

DAVID FISHER LOVES NAPLES, FLORIDA AND THINKS YOU WILL TOO! CONDOS – VILLAS – HOMES. Southwest Florida has it all! CALL NOW! DAVID FISHER PREMIER PLUS. RESIDENTIAL REALO ESTATE. CELL 215-740-4745 OFFICE 239-732-7837 MILLNDALE@AOL.COM 9080

Palm Beach, FL: REDUCED PRICE for this INTOWN PRIVATE PARADISE. 3BR/4.5BA townhouse featuring 3851SF, elevator to luxurious master suite.

Bonus room EIK, pool. 2 car gar. Close to beach. $1.499M. Walking distance to shul. Stan Gordon 917-864-5321 9080

8 acres for sale Levy County, FL. SR-24 – Approx 15 miles W of Gainsville. 1200ft of highway frontage. Power + water throughout the 8 acres. ½ grass/ ½ large oak trees. Very beautiful, must see to appreciate $180K OBO. Call 352-495-9810

9080 Boca Raton, FL: CC/4Golf courses-2b/2b furnished, 1st flr condo, 1,250+ sq ft, All golf view/ Ask $67,000 + Equity. SAMJ121@aol.com Call 561-479-2841

Tampa Triple Net Lease: Quick lube, 649K Cap 8.25% strong tenant, 13+yr left. 10% incrs 813-546-2766

9080

Florida: 52ac Riverfront/Equestarian lot St. Johns County www.flriverfront.blogspot.com 904-860-4500 9080

9080

9080 Lauderhill, FL: Luxurious 3BR, 2 bth in gated community. Dbl car garage, 2000sf, newly renov. Ceramic tiles. $189K neg. owner 954-552-4520

9080 Excellent Oppt: Fountainbleau Hotel, Miami Beach, magnificent 850sq ft studio, sleeps 4-6 renting daily/weekly.

Avail short/long term.

Call 347-804-4666

9085 Miami Beach: 54st/ Collins: 3 fabulous 1 BR condos overlooking ocean. Shul in building, available daily/ weekly/ monthly. Sale avail. Pesach 917-349-9471 9085 Miami Beach 41st/ Alton: 6th FL, 1BR, 1.5Bth, furnished condo for rent or sale. Large LR and porch, beautiful view near shuls, shopping Transportation and more!

Call 914-522-4636

Kings Point, Delray Beach: 2 BR, 1.5 bth apt for rent.

Short term/ Long Term.

Weekly/ yearly.

Call 845-536-1080

9085

9085 Boyton, FL: Direct Intercoastal million $$ views 2BDRMS/ 2BTHs, 55+ close to beach + shopping.

3 month rental @ $2600 a month.

Contact 203-453-3164 9085 Boca Raton/ Century Village: Beautiful 1 BR, 1.5 bth, new appliances, enclosed porch. Great location. Call 917-749-7135

9085 For sale: One of the largest Glatt kosher supermarkets in southeast FL. Catering, butcher, deli, produce dept. huge potential. 561-317-0274 9085 Miami Beach/54th St Collins Ave: Fabulous, 1 BR condo on top Floor Overlooking ocean, Shul in building. Avail Daily/weekly or monthly.

917-349-9471

Miami Beach: 41st, 1BR, 1.5bth furnished, cond o for rent or sale.

Large LR and porch.

Beautiful view.

914-522-4636

9085

9085 Delray Beach: (Palm Beach County) VACATION CONDO in a beautiful well established community. 1 & 2 BDRMS available-Fully Equipped- Jan. Feb or March 2011. www.ALRFLORIDA.COM Info@alrflorida.com 800-336-6925 Aspen Leaf Realty, INC.

Boca Raton, Yarmouth: For rent seasonal or yearly 2 BR, 2bth, beautifully furnished. Bedding & mute.

Lakeview near pool. Walk to temple and clubhouse.

Call 561-883-1168 or 845-807-7468

9085

9085 Miami Beach: Beautiful newly renovated apt in tower 41. Bay view with balcony and gorgeous view of downtown Miami, 1 spacious BR with master bath newly furnished DR/LR area w/guest bath, state of the bed.

Call 917-838-1528

Secluded 38.46 acre between Oak toner/ Gainsville cross fence 9,995 per acre that includes 998 double wide 3 BR, 2 bth, central air and heat, screened porch, pole barn and shops, 98 GMC, pick up and more.

Owner 352-546-3258 9085

9085 Delray Beach, FL: Kings point. 2 BR, 2 bath condo. Beautifully renov apt, including new kitche.

Furnished. Short walk to clubhouse and pool (indoor & outdoor), golf, tennis, activities, entertainment. 55+ community. Synagogue walkable.

For rent seasonal/ monthly. 917-922-8113 or 201-739-9534

Delray Beach/ Kingspoint: Beautiful furnished large 1BR, 1.5bth, Jacuzzi tub, W/D, D/W, Central air/ heat parking, clubhouses/ pools near shuls, yearly 550/mo. Seasonal 925/mo. Utilities included.

Call 516-632-9192 9090

North Myrtle Beach for sale1 bdrm, 1 bth, pool.

Asking $85,000 Call: 718-661-1286 Lot For Sale on Lake Forest, at West Colligan Lake, Poconos/PA. Private community where you can enjoy many activities ranging from indoor/outdoor pool, tennis court & much more. Financing available with down payment.

10% discount for members!

Call 917-843-9068 9080

Hollywood Beach Florida: Oceanfront Trump Condo, 3 BR/ 3.5 BA, new ad beautiful $1,350,000 786-390-7340 9080

9080 Delray Beach: Int’l Club Condo (Huntington Lakes/ Clubhouse) 55+.

Move-in ready, spac corner unit, 2BR, 2bths, EIK, enclosed porch. Steps from shopping w/glatt kosher supermarket and orthodox shul. Motivated seller 201-981-8094 or 561-715-7086

CONDO FOR SALE. Miami Beach, The Alexander, 5225 Collins.

Newly renov all marble 2 BR, 2 bth. Spectacular south side Ocean Bay view. All new SS appliances, closets & wsh/dryr. 516-369-0419 9080

9080 INVESTMENT PROPERTY. Temple Triple Net Lease quicklube, 649K, Cap 8.25% strong tenant, 13+ yr left, 10% incrs 813-546-2766

9080 ADULT COMMUNITIES. FL, FORT MYERS 0.9%. 10year Fixed Rate (1.41% apr) NEW HOMES from the $160’s 55+ Active Adult CALL 239-689-8790 or visit www.55PlusMyCascades.com 2 luxury condos each with 2 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms, one in Boca Raton for $79,900 one in Boynton Beach $119K 802-782-0721

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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

Real Estate

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9085

Miami, FL: Tower 41 Luxury Apt. Monthly or weekly. 514-991-3964 9085

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