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Rupert Murdoch Pelted During Hack Hearing BY DANIEL PEREZ In the Orthodox Jewish community, there are few ways for a man to be shunned as quickly and as thoroughly by his peers as by refusing to grant a get, a bill of divorce written in accordance with Jewish law, to his wife.
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NYC Police Comissioner Ray Kelly (L) and Mayor Michael Bloomberg (C) speak to the press after paying a shiva call to the beveaved family of Leiby Kletzky. BY FERN SIDMAN A virtual sea of mourners packed 56th and 57th Streets near 16th Avenue in Boro Park, Brooklyn on Wednesday evening July 13, as they paid their final goodbyes to the boy that trusted a stranger and died as a result. ine-year-old Leiby Kletzky, who disappeared on Monday afternoon after leaving his day camp never to be seen again, was remembered as a "pure and holy soul" by several rabbis who delivered hespedim (eulogies) for him at the Bais Medrash Heichal Hatefillah.
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As loudspeakers blared the emotionallycharged and often tearful words of the speakers, mourners stood shoulder to shoulder outside the Kletzky family shul. "In all my years living in Boro Park, there has never been such a grisly and barbaric murder like this. This young soul was so sweet and innocent. This horrific tragedy will never leave our hearts and souls," said Yetta Schumacher, 68, who lives only several blocks away from the Kletzky family. With tears running down her cheeks, she said that "we are all one; one body and one soul and today each of us has lost a son." Speaking entirely in Yiddish, several rab-
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s the Torah only permits the husband to initiate divorce proceedings, when a couple separates and the husband refuses to make it official, his wife has no means to do so from her end. The victim thus becomes an agunah, an “anchored” woman, unable to remarry. In the Jewish community the repercussions are very severe, as any future relationships such a woman would have are considered by definition to be adulterous, and any children born from such liaisons would be dubbed mamzerim, children bearing a spiritual stigma for being born of a forbidden relationship (not to be confused with the English term “bastard,” which refers to any child born out of wedlock, which does not carry the same implications in halakha). Given the seriousness of such occurrences, and the burden such an injustice
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ISRAEL LEADS WORLD IN TEST TUBE BABIES BY JV STAFF Israel’s tradition of a high Jewish birth rate, along with its success in hi-tech, have helped make it the in vitro-baby capital of the world. pproximately 30,000 vitro fertilization procedures take place annually in Israel, where four percent of Israeli babies are "vitro," four times the rate in the United States, according to a New York Times article. Many leading rabbis have given their blessing to the procedure, especially for a man and wife who have not been able to deliver their own biological children and fulfill the Biblical commandment to “be fruitful and multiply.” Israelis, both Arabs and Jews, find it easier to use fertilization procedures because the expense is financed by Israel’s government-
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funded medical groups. Women under the age of 45 are allowed to undergo as many procedures as necessary to bear two children through vitro procedures. The average price of a procedure in the US is approximately $12,000. A survey published by the journal Human Reproduction Update in 2002 showed that 1,657 in vitro fertilization procedures per million people per year were performed in Israel, compared with 899 in Iceland, the country with the second highest rate, and 126 in the United States, which trailed far behind European countries. “I want at least three kids, and if we had to pay so much money I’m not sure we would be able to do this,” a woman identified only as “Vered” said. “The family is an extremely important social institution in Israel and what makes a family is the children,” Hebrew University medical sociologist Sigal Gooldin said.
“Anyone who lives here is expected to have children.” She added, “The unique thing about Israel is that it’s a high-tech culture on the one hand and a very traditional one on the other.” The Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv performs about 7,000 procedures a year, making it the busiest clinic involved in invitro fertilization in the world. The policy is looked upon favorably by all sectors of Israeli society, religious and secular Jewish as well as Arab. For many Jews the idea still stems from the concept of making up for the 6 million Jews that were murdered during the Holocaust, while others are just interested in fulfilling the biblical commandment of being fruitful and multiply. Some nationalist families want to have large families for demographic reasons. Israel has historically focused on promoting Jewish birthrates to retain a Jewish
majority and more recently as a counterweight to higher fertility rates of Palestinians. Arabs in Israel, however, have the same rights to state-paid fertility treatments as their Jewish counterparts. While the state pays for the treatment the couple is responsible for the hormone treatments which are also highly subsidized by Israel.
REPORT: ISRAELI WHO DIED IN NEW ZEALAND QUAKE WAS MOSSAD SPY BY ELAD BENARI New Zealand media reported on Tuesday that an Israeli who died in the Christchurch earthquake in February was a spy for the Mossad. he New Zealand-based Southland Times newspaper reported that the local police’s national computer has been under scrutiny in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake, due to a fear that Israeli agents had loaded software into the system that would allow backdoor access to highly sensitive intelligence files. According to the report, the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) ordered the checks as part of an urgent investigation which had been ordered due to what was described as suspicious activities of several groups of Israelis during and immediately after the earthquake. The report pointed a finger at four Israelis – Ofer Mizrachi from Kibbutz Magal near Haifa (who was killed in the quake), Michal Fraidman, Liron Sade and Guy Jordan. It said the four, who were in Christchurch at the time of the earthquake, became a prime focus of the SIS investigation. The reason for investigating the four, said the report, was their suspicious behavior after the earthquake: The four had been shopping in the city on the morning of the earthquake and had returned to their van when the quake hit. Mizrachi, the driver, was killed instantly and the other three managed to escape the vehicle, following which they took photos of
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______________________ “Security Intelligence Service (SIS) ordered an investigation due to what was described as suspicious activities of several groups of Israelis during and immediately after the earthquake.” ______________________ the crushed van and left New Zealand within 12 hours. The Southland Times also noted that when Mizrachi’s body was recovered from the van several days later, he was found to be carrying at least five passports. All this led the SIS to investigate the four Israelis' behavior, claims the report. Later, the report goes on to say, an unaccredited Israeli search and rescue squad was confronted by armed New Zealand officers and removed from the sealed-off “red zone” of the central city. The SIS decided to investigate possible links between the many passports found on Mizrachi, the immediate flight of his three companions, the high-powered Israeli interest shown in the earthquake (Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was noted as having called New Zealand Prime Minister John Key four times on the day of the quake), the unexplained behavior of the Israeli search and rescue squad, and a mysterious seventh Israeli, in New Zealand illegally, who was first reported missing in the earthquake and weeks later was reported to have left the
country. The SIS reportedly was also interested in the Facebook tribute page set up for Mizrachi that has attracted only five “likes” in the more than four months it has been on the social media site. New Zealand police said Tuesday their systems and the information contained on them were secure and were subject to regular security audits and intrusion checks. Prime Minister Key was asked to confirm the details of the SIS investigation on Tuesday, but refused to do so, saying it was not in the national interest. Key also insisted there had been no misuse of New Zealand passports, and would only say that the calls from Netanyahu on the day of the earthquake were “to offer help and advice.” “If I believed that it was in the national interest for me to disclose the full details that I have then I would do so but I don't believe it is,” Key was quoted by The Southland Times as having said. “I hasten to add you are making allegations that are not necessarily correct or proven.” Meanwhile, Israeli Ambassador Shemi Tzur dismissed as “science fiction” the suspicions that the Israelis who were caught up in the earthquake were Mossad agents. Tzur, who is based in Canberra but flew into Christchurch hours after the earthquake, was quoted by The Southland Times as saying he was “shocked and upset” that New Zealand’s intelligence agencies would have such suspicions. He said that Mizrachi’s three friends had left New Zealand so hurriedly because they were shocked and crying and wanted to go home.
Damage from the earthquake in New Zealand last February. “I drove his three friends to the airport so they could go home,” Tzur was quoted as saying. “They were shocked and crying, they were just talking about their friends. To suggest anything else, someone has been feeding you science fiction.” Regarding Mizrachi’s multiple passports, Tzur said, “I was handed a parcel of his effects and it did contain more than one passport,” but noted that dual citizenship is common in Israel because of difficulties over the use of Israeli passports in some other countries. Tzur responded to the newspaper’s inquiry regarding the Israeli search and rescue teams, and noted that they were sent by the parents of two Israeli backpackers who also died in the quake. “I know they were very upset and angry at being turned away,” said Tzur. “They appealed to me and I spoke to the police, who were very apologetic but firm that they could not join the search.” ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM
NAVY BOARDS GAZA-BOUND ‘TRICKY’ SHIP The Navy has peacefully ended the latest attempt of flotilla activists to reach Gaza and has boarded the "Dignity" ship to guide it to Ashdod after it tricked Greece. aval officers notified the ship in English and French that "it is on a route leading to an area under a maritime security blockade off the coast of Gaza, and reminded them any supplies they may have on-board may be transferred, legally, through the existing land crossings and the Ashdod Port." The Navy vessels had placed themselves on both sides of the “Dignity” boat, and activists on board reported that F-15 jets flew overhead. Greece had placed a maritime blockade on boats trying to reach Hamas-controlled Gaza but allowed the Dignity to sail after its crew and 13 passengers said their destination was Alexandria, Egypt. The passengers include three journalists, one of them from
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into the region. The United States has outlawed Hamas, and the Israel Law Forum has warned insurance companies, maritime communications firms and governments that they risk being sued if they supply equipment or allow ships to sail to Gaza. “We shall intercept it [the Dignity boat], but I assure you we shall try our best to make those on board very comfortable,” Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said. The ship is the only one of 10 that had
been scheduled to sail in a flotilla to Gaza to challenge Israel’s embargo. The flotilla effort sank after Israel’s diplomatic efforts convinced world leaders, including the United Nations, that sailing to Gaza is a provocative action. Activists wanting to bring aid to Gaza are free to do so through overland routes via Israel’s crossings or Egypt, but the flotilla activists have admitted their aim is to break the Israeli counterterrorist embargo.
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July 22, 2011
MORE THAN 60,000 PALESTINIANS EXPECTED TO VISIT ISRAEL AS TOURISTS IN 2011 More than 60,000 Palestinians are expected to visit Israel as tourists by the end of 2011, at least twice as many as last year, an Israeli official said. srael is planning to double the number of permits issued to Palestinians this year, due to the improved security in the West Bank, the source said. However, if the situation deteriorates in September following the Palestinians' UN bid for statehood, it will be harder to receive a permit. The permits are not usually issued to individuals or families, but mainly to schools and summer camps wishing to take children to visit beaches and mixed Jewish-Arab cities in Israel such as Jaffa or Acre. In 2010 28,000 Palestinians were given permits to visit Israel. These permits were granted specifically for touring, as opposed
I This week the heat has become brutal, but the dangers are not so obvious. Yes it is hot and everyone should stay indoors but not everybody is aware of all the dangers of the extreme heat. as the temperature climbs into the 90's for consecutive days people think that they can handle the discomfort. ou’re healthy, active and you’re enduring this week’s heat wave without any trouble. Does it matter if you’re over 65? Scientists say yes. Feeling good doesn’t mean you’re safe. There are changes in an older person that raise the risk for heat stroke and other problems. An older body actually contains far less water than a younger one. Older brains can’t sense temperature changes as well, and they don’t recognize thirst as easily. Men are said to be overcome by heat exhaustion more than women. while women will get out of the heat and into an air-condi-
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tioned environment, more men work outdoors and will stubbornly work beyond the safety point. Men will also continue playing sports without paying heed to the dangers of
______________________ “But it is not the young men that are most at risk of heat stroke, one federal study found 40 percent of heat-related deaths were in people 65 and older.” ______________________ the high temperatures. But it is not the young men that are most at risk of heat stroke, one federal study found 40 percent of heat-related deaths were in people 65 and older. Yet research has shown many people over 65 don’t think the warnings apply to them — because they don’t think they’re “old.”
______________________ “The permits are not usually issued to individuals or families, but mainly to schools and summer camps wishing to take children to visit beaches and mixed JewishArab cities in Israel such as Jaffa or Acre.” ______________________ to other permits given for employment, medical treatment or prisoner visitation. During the first six months of 2011 the IDF's Civil Administration issued 31,000 permits, more than in the whole of the previous year, and expects to issue at least 20,000 more during the summer holiday season. "We want Palestinians, especially young ones, to see another kind of Israeli, not only soldiers. Anything that can help them blow off steam and relax. Perhaps instead of demonstrating in September they'll go to the beach," the source said. Most of the Palestinians visit Arab and mixed towns such as Haifa, Jaffa and Acre,
among other things, because of their beaches. "For many of these youngsters, this is the first visit to the beach," says an Israeli guide of West Bank groups. Another popular destination is the Ramat Gan Safari, which has prepared Arab-language tours to accommodate the numerous Palestinian visitors. "They see things differently from Israeli children. They've never seen wild animals like those in the safari," says Adam Yakobi, one of the safari guides who works with Palestinian groups. "In addition to ecologic explanations, we try to convey a message of coexistence, between animals and human beings, and among people as well. Politics does not come into it. It's a completely different atmosphere and like all kids they're engrossed in looking at the animals," he said. Restrictions for Palestinian tourists from the Hamas held Gaza Strip are much more stringent so almost no tourist visas are granted.
MEMORIAL TO COMMEMORATE JEWISH SOLDIERS OF WORLD WAR II
British soldiers advance on German position (1942) The Israeli Cabinet unanimously approved the establishment of a memorial site to Jewish soldiers who fought in World War II, near the IDF Armored Corps memorial site at Latrun, at a cost of NIS 32 million, half of which will come from Government funding and half from external sources. ccording to the decision, the site will be established within 3.5 years. In order to meet schedules and budgetary targets, Minister Yossi Peled will chair a
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ministerial team in which Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver will also participate that will oversee implementation of the project. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he ascribes great importance to the site and to the other site in Netanya, which will commemorate the Red Army's victory over the Nazis. "Our people were in danger of annihilation and mobilized. They were ready to sacrifice and indeed sacrificed much. We will commemorate and remember these people. It is due to their sacrifice that we are here," the Prime Minister said.
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ZIONISTS TO MARK PRODUCTS OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA “My Israel,” a grassroots Zionist group that boasts a membership in the tens of thousands, announced Thursday its activists will mark products of Judea and Samaria with stickers. The stickers will be placed on the products on the shelves of retailer outlets nationwide, the group promised.
Manufacturers told “My Israel” that the Meretz campaign, which is being presented as a protest against the Anti-Boycott Law, has actually boosted sales. One of these manufacturers, Yair Hirsch of Meshek Achiya, which produces olive oil, said: “The number of people who have turned to us in recent days and said – ‘I want to support you, just tell me how’ – is amazing and moving. The greatness of the Nation of Israel is revealed. As demand increases, marking my products can only help.” Ayelet Shaked, chairwoman of My Israel, said that “whereas Meretz activists wanted to hurt an entire sector in an illegitimate way by marking their products as undesirable, their action ironically only encourages Israelis to strengthen these products, since everyone under-
he move is a response to an initiative by far-left Meretz activists, who entered stores in Tel Aviv Wednesday and placed stickers on products made in Judea and Samaria. There is no difference in the wording of the stickers – only in the graphic design. Meretz’s stickers say “produced in the settlements” against a green background, while My Israel’s stickers say “produced in the settlements” with a design incorporating an Israel flag.
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DEMONIZED JEW AND AMERICAN CELEBRATE DIVISION OF SUDAN BY ITAMAR MARCUS
the past, and his close aide called the proposals for division an "Israeli conspiracy." In a letter to President Omar Hassan AlBashir, who is accused of responsibility for the genocide in Darfur, Abbas stated that the Palestinian people and leadership "have complete faith in the wisdom of President Omar AlBashir" and that they "support the unity of the land of Sudan and its people." PA official Abd Al-Rahman, Director General of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's office, accused Israel of being involved in a conspiracy to divide Sudan, saying that "there are other conspiracies which the occupation [Israel] plans so as to cause a
An anti-American and anti-Semitic, cartoon appeared in the Jordanian daily AlDustur and was rebroadcast on official Palestinian Authority television. he text in the upper right says "Division of Sudan," and the distorted figures of the American and the Jew are shown toasting the division by drinking Sudanese oil. The text in both speech bubbles is "cheers." As documented byPalestinian Media Watch, Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has expressed opposition to the division of Sudan in
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The PA has consistently refused to negotiate with Israel on a final status agreement, despite a 10-month freeze on Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria.
The Palestinian Authority is objecting to Israel's latest attempt to relieve its intense housing shortage. he Housing Ministry announced Monday a new nationwide plan to lower housing prices and provide affordable living options in at least 38 towns around the country. Of the 6,900 units to be provided throughout the country, less than 300 will be earmarked for two towns in Judea and Samaria: Beitar Illit, and Karnei Shomron. It is specifically these 294 housing units that set off the firestorm in the PA administration, prompting the Ramallah-based government to renew its vow to seek recognition of independent sovereignty from the United Nations -- and find another excuse not to negotiate with Israel. “This decision is another reason calling on us to go to the United Nations and the Security Council to ask for recognition of the state of Palestine and gaining full membership for it in the United Nations,” said Nabil Abu Rdaina, a spokesman for PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas. The PA has consistently refused to negotiate with Israel on a final status agreement, despite a 10-month freeze on Israeli construction in Judea
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and Samaria that began November 2009. A de facto freeze was also imposed in areas of Jerusalem desired by the PA for its hoped-for new country. With only one month remaining on the moratorium, Abbas grudgingly agreed to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after intense pressure from the White House – but after three “photo op” meetings refused to negotiate unless the prime minister agreed to renew the building freeze as a precondition for talks. The United States made a strong effort to encourage Israel to accept the demand, offering a package of incentives -- but then began to backpedal. Ultimately Netanyahu, who had
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promised Israelis there would be no more freezes, refused to commit to any preconditions without similar concessions on the PA side, and there the matter ended. Housing prices in Israel have increased by at least 50 percent in the past three years, due not only to the worldwide economic crash but also due to the effects of the 10-month building freeze – the increased demand and lack of supply. The ministry said it would publish tenders for land to build 6,900 housing units. Among these will be 1,000 rental apartments, including 900 rent-controlled apartments. Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Atias said in a statement that the fastest and most effective way to address the housing shortage for young couples and families was to increase the supply of land. “As part of this concept, the Ministry of Housing and the Israel Land Administration continue their focused effort to increase the supply and launch another wave of marketing of land for residential construction,” he said. The winner of the tender must commit to up to ten years of rent control for eligible tenants based on ministry criteria, according to the ministry. “A 50 percent weight will be given... to bidders who offer the lowest monthly rent for ten years,” the statement continued.
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The Knesset Unveils Its Hidden Treasures BY DAVID BEN YACOV A vast collection of treasures, gift and souvenirs given to Israel has been unveiled by the Knesset, the Hebrew-language daily Maariv reported Thursday. s the staff of the Knesset storeroom opened the vault on Tuesday, they first removed a black satin jewelry box. Inside, was a gold necklace with a 30-diamond pendant, that shone across the room. Just one of the many dust collecting gifts bestowed upon the Knesset and MKs over the years. The Knesset has recently begun cataloging its plethora of gifts, some of great value or historic significance, others with sentimental meaning. “We are taking inventory, and have called in government appraisers, so we can insure the gifts,” Said Dan Amar, Director of the Knesset Logistics Division. No one can estimate the true value of the Knesset treasures. The diamond pendant necklace, for example, was given to
Opposition Leader MK Tzipi Livni (Kadima) by the wife of the king of Morocco during a secret visit to the capital, Rabat, when she was Foreign Minister. Livni quickly deposited the gift in the Knesset storage vault, as per the law regarding gifts to Knesset members. Livni also received a diamond-and-gemstone gold necklace with a set of gold rings, courtesy of the Jewish Federation of Morocco. Knesset storeroom workers produced a rolled-up Persian carpet with gold embroi-
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The Knesset has recently begun cataloging its plethora of gifts, some of great value or historic significance, others with sentimental meaning. dery. It was donated to the Knesset in 1977, “A humble gift from Yaakov Sahim-Halevi, Teheran, Iran” was the inscription it bore. It was originally estimated at 140 thousand shekels, and awaits official appraisal. In another corner were two ivory tusks donated in the 70s by Morris el-Khadif. Originally estimated at 90 thousand shekels, they may now be of different value, since ivory trade is prohibited at present. They were once on display in the Knesset, but were placed in storage after the trade ban. The “Representative of the Municipal councils of Stalingrad, Russia” gave the Knesset a leather whip a decade ago. The government of Taiwan gave a small white gramophone-clone radio, and the delegation of the Committee for Foreign Affairs and Security received an original geisha dress, decorated with lilac and jasmine flowers on a visit to the far east. There were dozens of eastern vases, china sets, porcelain dishes, statuettes, goblets, gold and silver coins, ties, pens, goldplated cufflinks, portraits, books, albums, and even a 200-year-old bottle of whiskey, all gifts for the Knesset and its members. Interestingly, the article was picked up by the Chinese language Xinhua and copied in the China's People's Daily Online.
Home Front Defense Minister Matan Vilnai (Independence) addressed in a letter on Wednesday MK Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz’s (National Union) demand to determine the legal status of 13 Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, with an emphasis on finally providing zoning plans for these commuinities. n the letter, Vilnai addressed the situation in the community of Ofra, saying, “A significant part of the community of Ofra is built on private Palestinian land” and adding that as a result “the community does not have an approved jurisdiction.” Vilnai further explained that despite the opinions that were presented to him on the issue, he believes that it would be impossible to further promote construction in the community. Vilnai's father was Prof. Zev Vilnay, lover of the land of Israel, a pioneer in the sphere of Israeli geography and Land of Israel studies. Ofra, located on Highway 60 in northern Samaria and approximately 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) north of Jerusalem, has come under fire by extreme leftist organizations and Arabs, who filed a petition with the Supreme Court, claiming that land on which new Jewish houses are built is Arab property. In essence, the petition said the entire town is essentially an “illegal outpost.” Defense Minister Ehud Barak subsequently decided to tell the Supreme Court that he would stop all building in Ofra, but recognize all houses and remove all legal questions while not destroying any houses in dispute. The reason for Barak’s decision was reportedly to prevent a confrontation with Ofra, which has grown to a large town of over six hundred families and is considered one of the flagship Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Ofra, twenty minutes north of Jerusalem, is the first community founded in Judea and Samaria after the 1967 Six Day War with full government approval and encouragement. The latest chapter in the saga was last month, when the Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order which calls for the stoppage of construction and infrastructure work on dozens of homes in Ofra. Unlike Ofra, Vilnai’s letter indicated that
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Ofra settlement. other communities in Judea and Samaria are on the agenda of the Ministry of Defense, and that fundamental decisions regarding their expansion have already been reached. Among those communities is Itamar, of which Vilnai said that the Defense Ministry has begun the process of approving “a domain of state land.” A recent ruling by the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court said that there is no excuse for the lack of a zoning plan in Itamar, a fact which prevented the IDF from funding a state-of-the-art security fence, which could have alerted guards to the terrorists who massacred the Fogel family this year. Vilnai also addressed the community of Rechelim in his letter, saying that at the present time it is considered an “illegal outpost”, but it may receive in the near future the status of a community or a neighborhood within the community of Tapuach. MK Katz said in response to the letter, “These communities have been in existence for decades, some for most of the history of the State of Israel, and yet parts of them still do not have zoning plans. These communities have provided and still provide the best fighters in the IDF and are top class in all areas of society in the State of Israel. "Approving the zoning plans is incumbent upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and it is he who must explain to future generations why such a shameful situation exists, in which tens of thousands of Jews have lived for decades without proper building permits and why he has not yet found the way to regulate this.” MK Danny Danon (Likud) called on the Netanyahu to issue a government decision to regulate the zoning plans. “These loyal residents cannot continue to be considered second-class citizens,” said Danon. (ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM)
Israel, Greece Mark Growing Ties with Joint Air Force Drill Israel's Air Force on Monday concluded a two-week drill with the Hellenic Air Force as the two nations cemented growing ties between their militaries, recently reflected in Greece's recent move to halt a Gaza-bound flotilla set to depart from its shores. The joint drill was held at Greece's Larisa Air Base, and several elite Israeli squadrons, along with the IDF's elite rescue unit 669 took part in the exercise along with the Greek military. Over the past few days Greece has been working to stop the pro-Palestinian flotilla from departing to Gaza. On Sunday, the Greek government offered to transport the flotilla's aid to Gaza as a compromise in order to end the affair. According to the Greek initiative, the humanitarian aid aboard flotilla ships will be loaded onto watercraft of the Greek govern-
______________________ “Over the past few days Greece has been working to stop the pro-Palestinian flotilla from departing to Gaza.” ______________________ ment and transferred to Gaza via the organized channels, as was requested by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon two weeks ago. This means the aid would go through either the Ashdod port or Arish, and from there be taken to the Gaza Strip under the supervision of Greek and UN authorities. The Greek government has already approached the United Nations and Israel to assess the possibility of transferring the humanitarian aid via Israel or Egypt to the Gaza Strip using Greek governmental ships, under UN supervision.
July 22, 2011
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Site of Holy Ark Uncovered in Excavations of Great Synagogue of Vilnius
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Jewish cemetary in Malaysia. Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius (left) looks on as a student from Beis Menachem recites a prayer. At the student’s right is MP Emmanuel Zingeris who inspired the excavation. At his left is ChabadLubavitch representative to Lithuania, Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky. The site of the Aron Kodesh, or Holy Ark of The Great Synagogue of Vilnius dating back to the end of the 16th century, was recently uncovered in the excavations of this historically significant synagogue. Lithuania’s Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius visited the site Friday to view the synagogue’s excavated fragments and attend as 25 Jewish Lithuanian students of the local Beis Menachem School prayed there. or us it is very important to bring back an authentic part of Lithuanian history which included the history of the Jewish community,” the Prime Minister told Lubavitch.com in a phone interview after the modest ceremony. The findings so far, he said, “are important not only for Lithuania, but for the global Jewish community. It is a powerful symbol of both a great Jewish heritage, a great tragedy when the entire Jewish community was destroyed, and it is a very powerful symbol for the Jewish future.” Also uncovered was a part of the original floor, and the top of one of the four pillars surrounding the bima of the Great
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______________________ PM Andrius Kubilius: “For us it is very important to bring back an authentic part of Lithuanian history which included the history of the Jewish community.” ______________________ Synagogue—a magnificent renaissance structure in this once great Jewish center of Torah study, widely known as “Jerusalem of Lithuania.” “This is a very emotional discovery for us here and allows us to make a bridge to our authentic past,” Emmanuel Zingeris, Member of Parliament and President of the project to restore the Jewish quarter of the old town of Vilnius told lubavitch.com. “We now have the precise spot where the holiest part of the Synagogue stood, and it is under open sky.” Partly destroyed by the Germans during WWII, and fully demolished by the Soviet authorities in 1955-1957, these findings are
some of the first after efforts to unearth and restore the Synagogue began earlier this summer, under archeologist Zenonas Baubonis. Part of the synagogue sits under buildings constructed by the communists— including a large building that is now a kindergarten—and will be difficult to get to, explained Zingeris, and is what makes the discovery of the site of the Aron Kodesh unobstructed, precisely matched to drawings and photos of the synagogue’s interior, especially exciting. Out of respect for regulations that forbade a synagogue building to stand taller than a church, the synagogue was constructed on a deep foundation with its floor well below street level, to allow for an interior height of five stories. The synagogue was of such magnificent architecture, Napoleon is said to have stood at the door of the structure in 1812 in stunned admiration. Chabad-Lubavitch representative to Lithuania, Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky, who led the students in prayer, said: “Holiness transcends time. To pray on this place today 60-70 years after this great shul was destroyed by the Soviets, is a triumph for every Jew.” The excavations are part of a broad effort sponsored by the government, initiated during this year to restore the old Jewish quarter of Vilnius, and includes digs to uncover some of the eight smaller synagogues in the area.
Malaysia’s government-linked media claimed Monday that foreign Jewish groups might try to use an oppositionbacked push to reform electoral laws to interfere in this Muslim-majority country. olitical activists who recently organized Malaysia’s biggest street demonstration in years denied the claims as baseless, insisting that the accusation by the ruling party was an attempt to discredit them through appeals to religious prejudice towards Jews. The Malay-language Utusan Malaysia daily said in an editorial that Malaysians “cannot allow anyone, especially the Jews, to interfere secretly in this country’s business.” It offered no evidence of a possible Jewish plot and named no specific group. “When the drums are pounded hard in the name of human rights, the pro-Jewish people will have their best opportunity to interfere in any Islamic country,” the newspaper said. “We might not realize that the enthusiasm to support actions such as demonstrations will cause us to help foreign groups succeed in their mission of controlling this country.” Malaysia is a strong supporter of the Palestinians Authority and has no diplomatic ties with Israel. Government politicians are often strongly critical of Israeli policies. The editorial was the latest effort by the newspaper to defend a government crackdown against at least 20,000 people who marched in Kuala Lumpur on July 9 demanding more transparency in electoral laws ahead of national polls widely expected by mid-2012. Police used tear gas and chemical-laced water to break up a demonstration and detained nearly 1,700 participants. All the demonstrators were freed within hours, but dozens of other activists arrested earlier this month have been prosecuted for promoting what authorities considered an illegal gathering.
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Authorities have also detained six opposition activists without trial and accused them of trying to use the rally to spread communist ideologies. Police said they found the activists with T-shirts and other material linked to communist figures. Maria Chin Abdullah, one of the protest organizers, said that Utusan Malaysia’s warning of a Jewish conspiracy was “nonsense that is being spread in very bad taste.” “To rely on this claim of Jewish support is to insult the people’s good intentions of seeking important reforms,” she said. The protest was meant to pressure Prime Minister Najib Razak’s administration to clean up voter registration lists and introduce tougher laws to prevent electoral fraud. The Utusan Malaysia newspaper, owned by Najib’s United Malays National Organization ruling party, is influential among Muslims in many rural areas who rely on government-linked newspapers and TV stations for information. It should be noted that the once large Jewish community in Malasia that once thrived in the state of Penang has dwindled to non-existance. Penang's only synagogue, located on Nagore Road, closed down in 1976 as the community could no longer fulfill the minyan, a quorum of ten or more adult Jewish men for public religious services. Today, approximately 100 Jews, refugees from Russia is said to reside in Malaysia. Most from the Penang Jewish community have emigrated to other countries, especially with the rise of anti-Semitic sentiments and anti-Israel policies pursued by the Malaysian government since the 1970. The December 2009-January 2010 edition of Jewish Times Asia reported that there was only one remaining elderly Jew on the island of Penang - 87-year-old David Mordecai, the last surviving member of the centuries-old Jewish community.
IAEA Refers Syria to UN Security Council BY GAVRIEL QUEENANN The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) accused Syria of maintaining a covert nuclear program in the Security Council on Thursday, but the 15nation body took no immediate action amid divisions among key powers. he IAEA board of governors voted in June to refer Syria to the council, rebuking it for stonewalling an agency probe into the Dair Alzour complex, which
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No Free Ride for President Obama in London President Obama’s motorcade has been fined for not paying a congestion charge in London, officials said. he Downtown area of London gets so congested that the city has instituted a fee for traveling through the district. Vehicles don't need tickets or passes to enter the zone, and there are no tollbooths or barriers. Cameras at entrances, exits and around the zone read license plates of car traveling in the area. They check it against a database to work out whether you've paid already, are exempt, or have a 100 per cent discount. The price of entering the congestion zone from 7am to 6pm is approximately 16 dollars. London’s Evening Standard reported that Mayor Boris Johnson had warned Obama in May that US diplomats had not been paying the fees. American diplomats have racked up an $8.5 million bill since 2003, London’s Daily Mail newspaper reported. At the time, London’s mayor also pub-
licly made clear that he wanted the $16 congestion charge paid for Obama’s security vehicle “The Beast” and other cars in his motorcade. “Our roads were not closed during the President’s visit so his motorcade will pay. ‘The Beast’ will pay the charge, I’m delighted to say,” Johnson said last month. “We didn’t charge the pope when he was here because all the roads were closed, so the
FBI Raids Homes of ‘Anonymous’ Hackers In New York and California The FBI raided six locations in New York and conducted searches in California on Tuesday as part of an investigation of the Internet vigilante hacking group Anonymous, agency officials said.
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ne residence in Brooklyn and five others on Long Island were searched for computers and computer-related accessories suspected of being used by members of the grass-roots organization inspired by WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, FBI spokesman Peter Donald in New York said. Another FBI spokesman, Tim Flannelly, said the searches in New York were “in relation to an ongoing investigation'' of
O London’s mayor publicly made clear that he wanted the $16 congestion charge paid for Obama’s security vehicle “The Beast” and other cars in his motorcade. Popemobile was exempt. But this was different.” However, the White House has repeatedly ignored the request for payment, according to the newspaper, and now faces a $200 fine. “The Beast” escaped the congestion charge ticket because it “was traveling so slowly and closely to other vehicles in the presidential motorcade that its details could not be recorded by the street cameras,” the newspaper reported. In defense of the US diplomats, the American Embassy spokesman said treaty “prohibits the imposition of this sort of tax on diplomatic missions.”
______________________ “I don't think anybody should be surprised,” said Josh Shaul, chief technical officer of Application Security, “They played with fire and they got burned.” ______________________ Anonymous. At least one laptop was removed from one home. No arrests were made in New York. An FBI spokeswoman in California said “law enforcement actions'' were conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area but declined to say if any arrests were made.
Anonymous claimed to have broken into Apple Inc. servers earlier in July. It also launched attacks in December that temporarily shut down sites of MasterCard Inc and Visa Inc using simple software tools freely available over the Internet. Anonymous, which the FBI believes is mostly made up of hackers who are believed to be in their teens and early 20s. They are also thought to have released scores of private e-mails and other data from an Arizona police website. The group teamed up with the Lulz Security group of hackers in June. LulzSec has breached websites of Sony Corp, the CIA and a British police unit. Experts say the FBI raids should have been expected as the group's actions have become more daring. "I don't think anybody should be surprised," said Josh Shaul, chief technical officer of Application Security, Inc., which helps companies protect their data. "They played with fire and they got burned." Many in law enforcement have equated the groups hacking to acts of terrorism.
July 22, 2011
The Jewish Voice
Levi Aron: Profile of a Killer
Levi Aron, who stands accused of murdering eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky, seen here at his arraignment. Screen capture from NY1 News. BY FERN SIDMAN As Jewish communities around the world are still recoiling in horror over the heinous murder of nine-year old Leiby Kletzky on July 12th in Brooklyn, neighbors, community leaders and mental health professionals are weighing in on this topic with their own unique perspectives on this blood-curdling killing. he parents on the block wouldn't want their kids to go near him," said neighbor Chaim Lefkowitz, 39, in an interview with The New York Post about Levi Aron, adding that he had predilections towards furious outbursts. "Sometimes he would just get angry out of nowhere. He was one of those people you stayed away from," he said. "There was something strange about him. You know when you see Charles Manson, he has that look in his eye? Levi had that look," said family acquaintance Lee Vogel in an interview with the Post. Michael Panzer, the owner of the Empire State Supply Company, where Aron worked as a stock clerk said, "He seemed a little emotionally disturbed. He was very quiet, didn't communicate with people, and he went home." Coworkers described Aron as "slow" and some said there were definite signs of trouble. "Casey Anthony didn't fit the profile for a killer," said a colleague. "But looking back now, this guy fit the profile." It has been reported by various news sources that Aron had two failed marriages with each lasting about a year. It is not clear how he met his first wife, an Israeli woman named Diana Diunov who arrived in the
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______________________ Dov Hikind: “We have glaring problems in our community and we must confront them. We can no longer hide things or sweep things under the rug. There is sexual abuse and domestic abuse in our midst and we must deal with this head on.” ______________________ Boris Shvartzman, the co-conspirator in the diamond scam. She is currently serving a prison term. Seven months after his divorce, Aron married Debbie Kivel, a mother of two from Memphis, Tennessee, after meeting her on a Jewish matchmaking web site. Employed as both a butcher at kosher deli there and as a security guard, the marriage ended less than a year later. While in Tennessee, his ex-wife charged him with being a "sex-crazed psycho" who needed medication for a behavioral disorder
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WAR ON TERROR BIN LADEN PLOTTED NEW ATTACK FOR 9-11 ANNIVERSARY concrete leads of any sort, largely because information that might have located other terrorist leaders, such as phone numbers, ceased to have value almost the instant the U.S. government obtained it, officials said. "The treasure trove has not led to any big takedowns, because the bad guys knew we had it" and adapted, a senior U.S. official said. For example, the two phone numbers that bin Laden had sewn into his clothing at the time he was killed didn't provide actionable leads, the official said. One connected to a public phone center in the tribal areas of Pakistan. The other turned out to be a dead end. Phone numbers retrieved from phones obtained at the bin Laden compound also led nowhere. The Obama administration, worried about leaks inside the Pakistani government, did not warn Islamabad prior to the bin
Osama bin Laden was working to assemble a team of militants to attack the U.S. on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, according to communications Navy SEALs seized from his Pakistani hideout when they killed the al Qaeda leader this spring. in Laden and his operations chief, Attiyah Abd al-Rahman, swapped views about the composition of the attack team, with bin Laden repeatedly rejecting names that Mr. Rahman suggested, according to U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence taken from the bin Laden compound.The plans were only in the discussion phase, U.S. officials said. They haven't seen any signs the nascent plot ever went beyond the early planning, the officials said. Still, earlier this month in his first meeting with senior staff at the Central Intelligence Agency, acting Director Michael Morell told his staff that one of their top priorities would be to make sure that neither that plan nor any others were carried out. Plans for an anniversary attack were one of the few specific potential threats to emerge from the trove of documents and other materials taken from bin Laden's residence in Abottabad, Pakistan, in the May 2 raid. An initial analysis of the evidence said al Qaeda hoped to attack trains in the U.S., possibly on the anniversary of Sept. 11. Other plotting with Mr. Rahman focused on recruiting attackers who had legitimate
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passports and other travel documents. Bin Laden communicated with Mr. Rahman largely via documents saved to flash drives that were delivered by trusted couriers, according to people briefed on the communications. Much of the other threat information in the trove of materials was general in nature or well known, such as al Qaeda's interest in attacking trains. In the days following the bin Laden raid, officials said the materials seized from the compound showed enthusiasm for carrying out attacks on dates of symbolic signifi-
cance, prompting U.S. officials to worry about July 4 and Sept. 11. But officials didn't disclose at that time that there had been specific planning for another attack on Sept. 11 this year. Mr. Rahman ascended within the terrorist organization after al Qaeda's third-incommand, Sheik Sa'id al-Masri, was killed last year in a CIA drone attack in Pakistan. Mr. Rahman has long been on the list of al Qaeda leaders targeted by the U.S. The bin Laden documents show how central a figure Mr. Rahman had become for the al Qaeda organization, said people briefed on the documents. "Many were not aware of the day-to-day operations role that Attiyah played," said one person. U.S. intelligence agencies don't know whether al Qaeda ever fielded an attack team or if other details were discussed. For instance, the U.S. doesn't know what targets, if any, bin Laden considered attacking. Some U.S. officials cautioned that other materials in the trove showed bin Laden was often ignored by his underlings. "What we found was that he was very isolated, and it is clearly the case he was struggling to continue to hold on to the type of influence and to direct operations in ways he may have been able to do in the past," a U.S. official said. Counterterrorism officials from half-adozen U.S. agencies have completed their reviews of the bin Laden materials, much of which were held at a secure facility at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. Beyond the planning for an anniversary attack, the bin Laden trove produced few
______________________ “In the days following the bin Laden raid, officials said the materials seized from the [Bin Laden] compound showed enthusiasm for carrying out attacks on dates of symbolic significance.� ______________________ Laden raid, and the mission has incited a backlash of anti-U.S. anger. U.S. officials believe some elements of the Pakistani government knew bin Laden's whereabouts. Since the raid, CIA officials have met repeatedly with their Pakistani counterparts to repair relations. The most recent such meeting came on Thursday, when Pakistan's intelligence chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, met with Mr. Morell at CIA headquarters. U.S. officials said the two men agreed on several steps to improve counterterrorism cooperation between the two nations. Gen. Pasha also met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Past meetings have had mixed results. At a previous meeting, Mr. Morell provided Gen. Pasha with the locations of two bombmaking facilities. American officials were dismayed to discover subsequently that the militants abandoned the facilities before Pakistani authorities raided them.
Legal Victory: Sderot Victims Can Sue Bank of China BY MAAYANA MISKIN The New York Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling stating that Israeli victims of terrorist attacks from Gaza may proceed with a lawsuit against the Bank of China (BOC), which transferred cash to Gaza terrorist groups. The ruling was a victory for the Israel Law Center and its clients, victims of terrorism and their families. rosecutors say the BOC allowed Gaza terrorists to conduct wire transfers of several million dollars, beginning in
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Pentagon Admits Major Cybertheft The Pentagon last week revealed that it had suffered one of its largest losses ever of sensitive data in a cyberattack by a foreign government in the spring. It's a dramatic example of why the military is pursuing a new strategy emphasizing deeper defenses of its computer networks, collaboration with private industry and new steps to stop "malicious insiders." illiam Lynn, the deputy secretary of defense, said that 24,000 files containing Pentagon data were stolen from computer network in a defense industry in a single intrusion last March. No details were offered about what was taken but he said the Pentagon believes the attacker was a foreign government. He didn't say from which nation. "We have a pretty good idea" who did it, Lynn said an interview. But he refused to elaborate. In the past many cyberattacks have been blamed on China or Russia. One of the Pentagon's biggest fears is that eventually a terrorist group, with less at stake than a foreign government, will acquire the ability to not only penetrate U.S. computer networks and steal data but that they will attack them in ways that damage U.S. defenses or even cause deaths. In his speech at the National Defense University, Lynn said that sophisticated computer capabilities reside almost exclusively in nation-states, and that U.S. military power is a strong deterrent against overtly destructive cyberattacks. Terrorist groups and rogue states, he said, are a different
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______________________ “ ‘We have a pretty good idea’ who did it, Lynn said an interview. But he refused to elaborate.” ______________________ problem and harder to deter. "If a terrorist group gains disruptive or destructive cybertools, we have to assume they will strike with little hesitation," he said. The Pentagon has long worried about the
vulnerability of its computer systems. The concern has grown as the military becomes more dependent not only on its own computers but also on those of its defense contractors, including providers of the fuel, electricity and other resources that keep the military operating globally. At his Senate confirmation hearing last month, new Defense Secretary Leon Panetta cited "a strong likelihood that the next Pearl Harbor" could well be a cyberattack that cripples the U.S. power grid and financial and government systems. He said last weekend that cybersecurity will be one of the main focuses of his tenure at the Pentagon. The Pentagon operates more than 15,000 computer networks and 7 million computers in dozens of countries. "For the Department of Defense, our networks are really our lifeblood," Marine Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in an interview prior to Lynn's release of the new strategy. As shown by the March attack on a defense industry computer network that contained sensitive defense data, the military's vulnerability extends beyond its own computers. In a new pilot program, the Pentagon is sharing classified threat intelligence with a handful of companies to help them identify and block malicious activity. Lynn said intrusions in the last few years have compromised some of the Pentagon's most sensitive systems, including surveillance technologies and satellite communications systems. Penetrations of defense industry networks have targeted a wide swath of military hardware, including missile tracking systems and drone aircraft, he said.
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Israel Pilots Head to U.S. to Test-Fly New Military Aircraft An Israel Air Force delegation recently visited a United States Marine Corps base in North Carolina in order to test out the new V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. hat do you think about this article? Share your thoughts at the Haaretz.com Facebook page According to the Marine Corp news site, two IAF lieutenant colonels first visited the New River base in May, followed by another trip in June along with five more Israeli pilots. The pilots first used the V-22 Osprey simulator before boarding the aircrafts for several practice flights which included tactical landings, flights in formation, night flights, and aerial refueling. Although Israeli pilots have previously tested out the V-22, this was the first time
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they truly studied the in-depth capabilities of the revolutionary tiltrotor, which gives the aircraft the vertical lift capability of a helicopter, combined with the speed and range of a conventional aircraft. Despite the IAF's positive impression of the tiltrotor, it is not considering acquiring the V-22, which the Marines mainly use for special missions, and will continue using the UH 60 Black Hawk and the Sikorsky CH 53 helicopters, respectively. However, the IAF will have to replace the Sikorsky helicopters sometime toward the end ofthe decade, and will have to decide between upgrading the Sikorsky or choosing the V-22. The pricey development of the V-22 has stirred up controversy in the United States, where more than 30 pilots have died in crashes since the aircraft became operational.
BY GIL RONEN Germany and Israel have sealed a deal which provides Israel with its sixth Dolphin-class nuclear-capable submarine. Germany will subsidize the sale to the tune of 135 million euros, Der Spiegel reported Sunday. ccording to the report, German Defense Minister Tomas de Maiziere met in Israel last week with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who finalized the deal with him. The Dolphin submarine, estimated to cost about $1 billion, is capable of launching nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, which Israel is widely assumed to possess. Iranian news agency IRNA quoted Der Spiegel in a way that showed its displeasure with it. “German taxpayers are to foot part of the bill for the highly controversial sale of a sixth submarine to Israel,” it said. “Germany is already paying one-third of the one billion euro price tag for the fourth and fifth Dolphin submarine which are currently still being built for Israel.”
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There has been some haggling between Israel and Germany over the price of the submarine. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu raised the matter with Chancellor Angela Merkel when he visited Germany in April. Israel later reportedly gave up on the chances that Germany would subsidize the sub. Berlin subsidized the first three submarines which it delivered to Israel in 1999 and 2000, IRNA stated. It added: “A hardline supporter of Israel, Germany has become a major arms supplier of the illegal Jewish state despite a constitutional ban to send arms to crisis regions. “There are no official statistics available on the sale of German weapons to Israel as almost all arms exports to the Zionist regime are shrouded in extreme secrecy. “German arms deliveries to Israel between 1998 and 2001 reached reportedly around 900 million US dollars.” Germany plays a double game with Israel and Iran, as it continues diplomatic and trade ties with Iran. Among other things, German firm Siemens supplied Iran’s nuclear reactors with sophisticated equipment, some of which is believed to have been sabotaged by the mysterious Stuxnet virus.
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Former U.N. Ambassador Bolton: Obama the Most Anti-Israel President Ever Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, American Enterprise Institute Fellow and possible Republican presidential aspirant, John Bolton, has said during a visit to Israel that Barack Obama is “the most anti-Israel president in the history of the State, without any question.” n an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Mr. Bolton emphasized that the tensions that have beset the U.S./Israel relationship are not the result of misunderstanding, saying, “If you think that this is just a misunderstanding of where the green crayon went in 1949, then think again.” Mr. Bolton said that President Obama bought in to what he said was the “European line,” namely, that if you make progress between Israel and the Palestinians “sweetness and light” will break out in the region, and every other problem from Iran to terrorism will be easier to solve. “I think that is like looking through the wrong end of the telescope.” Mr. Bolton also criticized President Obama’s policy towards Iran, saying that he believed the Obama administration’s “real Plan B for the Iranian nuclear weapons program is that it can be contained and deterred, much as we contained and deterred the Soviet Union in the Cold War. I think that is fundamentally wrong.” Mr. Bolton stated that in his view, the only way to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons was through military action and that “Diplomacy and sanctions are not going to work. The Obama administration certainly isn’t going to use force against the Iranian program, and Israel is obviously very reluctant to do it as well …
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Orthodox Jewish Vote to be Deciding Factor on Weiner's Seat Observers are increasingly saying the battle for control of Anthony Weiner’s former Congressional District, NY-9, will be about winning the hearts and minds of the area’s sizable Orthodox Jewish population. ollsters have estimated about 100,000 of the district’s roughly 300,000 registered voters are Orthodox Jews. John Mollenkopf, a professor of political science at the CUNY Graduate Center, said the district has a large number of older conservative Jewish voters in their 50s, 60s and 70s. “I would say that social security and Medicare are probably far more important to them as issues than… following Mayor Koch’s effort to say they should vote for the Republican to protest President Obama’s position on Israel,” Mollenkopf said. Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin, who carries the endorsement of the Independence and Working Families Parties, as well, will face off against Republican Bob Turner, a retired TV exec who’s also the standard-bearer of the Conservative Party. Democrats argue they outnumber Republicans in New York’s 9th CD, which covers portions of Queens and Brooklyn. And more liberal Democrats have successfully represented heavily Orthodox stretches and ultra-Orthodox Hasidic communities in Congress. “Turner may have a chance if he can paint Weprin as being chosen by the party bosses and will just be another voice for Obama in Washington. Weprin’s got to get out the vote and tag Turner as a typical Republican who wants to cut Medicare, slash and burn.” explained one political consultant. Some in the Orthodox community are upset with Weprin because he voted for the
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The battle for control of Anthony Weiner’s former Congressional District, NY-9, will be about winning the hearts and minds of the area’s sizable Orthodox Jewish population. Gay Marriage Bill. But as it is still early in the campaign it is too early to say if they will change their allegiance to a non-Democrat by voting for Turner or just not vote at all in protest. Former Mayor Ed Koch has tapped into the idea of sending a message to Obama by electing a Republican to Weiner’s old district (See op-ed in last week’s Jewish Voice). But Weprin is already collecting topnotch support. “We’re both from the same part of Queens. We grew up together. I’ve known him for more years than I care to remember,” said Gov. Cuomo of Weprin when asked about the contest at a news conference. “So any way I can be helpful to him, I will. I don’t know that he needs my help, but if he thinks I can be helpful, I will be.” Mayor Bloomberg also responded to a question about the Sept. 13 special election, at a press conference saying, “I probably will not [get involved in the special election] but I haven’t thought about it yet.”
Mayor Bloomberg Appoints First Public Housing Resident to NYCHA Board NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Victor A. Gonzalez as the first public housing resident to be named a member of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Board. In April 2011, the City announced it would add a new seat on the Board, creating a new Resident Board Member position. More than 600 residents from all five boroughs applied. NYCHA board members form the Authority’s governing body and are responsible for voting on contracts, resolutions, policies, motions, rules and regulations and administrative matters. YCHA has provided public housing for New Yorkers for nearly 80 years, but residents have never been represented on its governing Board. That changes today,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “The 650,000 New Yorkers in NYCHA or Section 8 housing represent a diverse population that’s bigger than most cities, and, going forward, they will be represented on NYCHA’s Board by Victor Gonzalez, a longtime public housing resident leader and advocate. Chairman Rhea is undertaking a sweeping reform of NYCHA, and ensuring its residents have a voice in its operations is a crucial part of that effort.” “One of most important improvements NYCHA is working on is bringing more transparency to its processes and decisionmaking and increasing the level of interaction with residents,” said Deputy Mayor Steel. “The appointment of the first Resident
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______________________ “Mayor Bloomberg’s appointment of Victor Gonzalez is another important step as the Authority becomes a more open, responsive organization.” ______________________ of life for NYCHA’s families will contribute to the long term health and prosperity of every NYCHA neighborhood.” “Mayor Bloomberg’s appointment of Victor Gonzalez is another important step as the Authority becomes a more open, responsive organization and furthers our collaborative efforts, with elected resident leaders and other stakeholders, to implement the longterm strategy that will strengthen public housing for the future — the Plan to Preserve Public Housing,” said Chairman Rhea. “I look forward to Victor bringing his considerable energy and enthusiasm for housing issues to the Board while working with me, Emily Youssouf and Margarita López on the very challenging issues facing the New York City Housing Authority.”
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July 22, 2011
Williamsburg’s ‘Broadway Triangle’ Hearings to Conclude This Week
‘Broadway Triangle’ in Williamsburg A week-long evidentiary hearing began in Manhattan Supreme Court last week regarding a lawsuit over the halted Broadway Triangle rezoning in Williamsburg. he hearing took place before Justice Emily Jane Goodman, who ordered a stay on city’s rezoning after it was approved by the City Council in December 2009. The Broadway Triangle Community Coalition sued the city to stop the rezoning of the 30-acre, 21-block parcel of land. Roughly defined by the triangular borders of Flushing Avenue, Union Avenue and Broadway, the blighted land, which includes the former site of Pfizer’s first pharmaceutical plant, is slated for development for housing. However, petitioners claim that insufficient community input was obtained for the project. They claim Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Kings County Democratic leader Vito Lopez brokered a secretive agreement with the United Jewish Organizations (UJO) of Williamsburg for developing the land, to the exclusion of
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black, Latino and other Jewish community groups in the area. Petitioners claim the proposed rezoning, which transfers city-owned sites to the UJO and the Bushwick Ridgewood Senior Citizen Council, is discriminatory and in violation of the U.S. Constitution and federal and state civil rights law. The Bushwick Ridgewood Senior Citizens Council is a nonprofit closely connected to Lopez. The current plan for the Broadway Triangle is reported to include 1,800 units of housing, 800 of which would be affordable housing for low- and moderate-income families. But petitioners say that no more than 150 units of affordable housing are guaranteed. They also claim the plan would hurt local businesses, fails to add open space or new community facilities, and provides a preference to affordable-housing applicants from Williamsburg and Greenpoint, but not from Bedford-Stuyvesant. Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A is filing the lawsuit against the city, along with Weil & Gotschal; Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff & Abady; and the New York Civil Liberties Union.
July 22, 2011
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Foreclosures Drop Due to Bank Backlog Foreclosure filings fell dramatically during the first half of the year as processing delays at the banks, which are strapped with excess inventory of repossessed homes, continued to skew the numbers -- and falsely raise hopes that the housing market is staging a recovery. oreclosure filings plunged 29% compared with the same period a year ago and were down 25% from the last six months of 2010, according to the latest report from RealtyTrac, an online marketer of foreclosed properties. Through June 30, 1.2 million U.S. homeowners, or one in every 111 households, received a foreclosure filing, according to RealtyTrac. The deceleration in defaults continued as the year wore on with second quarter filings, at 608,235 households, marking the lowest quarterly total since the end of 2007, when the mortgage meltdown was still in its youth. RealtyTrac's CEO, James Saccacio, sounded a sour note, however, contending that the drop-off in filings can be traced not to economic improvement or a pick-up in the housing market, but to processing delays brought on by the robo-signing scandal in which it was discovered that bank employees were signing foreclosure documents without following proper protocols. "[That's what is] pushing foreclosures further and further out -- we estimate that as many as 1 million foreclosure actions that should have taken place in 2011 will now happen in 2012, or perhaps even later," Saccacio said. As a result, it will only prolong the housing slump, he said.
square meters (16,145 square feet), in addition to two 150-square meter (1,615-square feet) balconies. At the current price, the apartment is worth more than NIS 100,000 ($29,500) per square meter. The apartment includes a 7-meter (23-feet) high living he penthouse is located room, an internal elevator, a on the 36th and 37th Jacuzzi, four parking spots floors of the Meier on in the underground parking Rothschild tower the company area, four storerooms and is building on the prestigious private cells in the wine celstreet. Construction is expected lar. to be completed in two years. This urban castle was Some of the building's "regudesigned by architect lar" apartments have already Richard Meier and will been sold. One of the buyers enjoy a 360-degree was Nat Rothschild, the great panoramic view, 24/7 secugrandson of Baron Edmond de rity services, a semiRothschild, who the street is Olympic sized pool, a spa, a named after. Jacuzzi, a sauna and a gym. Rothschild paid some NIS The highest price ever 60 million ($17.5 million) for paid for a home in Israel was an apartment in the building recorded earlier this year, about a year and a half ago. Artist rendering of when businessman Teddy Another apartment was sold Sagi bought a villa in recently for NIS 19 million Meier Tower on Herzliya Pituach for NIS ($5.6 million). 140 million ($41 million). Rothschild Street The penthouse at the top of in Tel Aviv. Sagi broke the record set last the tower stretches over 1,500 year by Eyal Ofer, the son of late business tycoon Sammy __________________________________ Ofer, who bought a penthouse on Tel Aviv's promenade from the “Some of the building's family construction company for NIS 115 "regular" apartments million ($34 million). have already been sold. The most expensive house in the world, One of the buyers was according to Business Insider magazine, was sold in June near London's Hyde Park Nat Rothschild.� __________________________________ for $220 million.
T "This casts an ominous shadow over the housing market where recovery is unlikely to happen until the current and forthcoming inventory of distressed properties can be whittled down to a manageable number," said Saccacio. In the past, banks acted rapidly, often sending out notice of default a few weeks after not receiving a check. These days, they wait much longer, according to Rick Sharga, a spokesman for RealtyTrac. This is partially due to the fact that banks are already saddled with a large number of repossessed homes and aren't eager to take on more. Following the robo-signing scandal, banks are also taking longer to process foreclosures that are filed to make sure they are done legally. The average time to process a foreclosure -- from the initial notice to the final sheriff's or trustee's sale -- rose to 318 days in the second quarter, up nearly 7% from 298 in the first quarter and 15% year-overyear, according to RealtyTrac.
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Tel Aviv Penthouse Offered for NIS 170M Have NIS 170 million ($50 million) to spare? This is the price the Berggruen Group is asking for a penthouse on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Street. According to the company, this is the highest price ever charged for a home in the State of Israel.
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July 22, 2011
GAME THEORY IN ECONOMICS AND TALMUD: AN INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR AUMANN BY DOUGLAS GOLDSTEIN
more than two people are involved, and you can have more than two things being diametrically opposed. Game Theory has applications to economics, politics, international relations, warranties, and law, in which often players are the plaintiff and the defendant and you also have the judge as a player in this game. Even
Douglas Goldstein: Professor Robert Aumann was born in Germany. He fled Nazi persecution when he was about eight years old and ended up in the United States with his family. He received the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.
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Professor Aumann, you’re probably best known for the work you’ve done on Conflict and Cooperation through Game Theory Analysis. Before we begin with that, could you describe briefly what Game Theory is all about? Robert Aumann: Game Theory is about the strategic analysis of situations in which different entities are involved interacting with each other but striving towards different goals. Now, those goals may be diametrically opposed as in a game like chess, but usually they are not. For example, in commercial enterprises – in a commercial transaction when somebody is buying something from somebody else, the buyer is interested in getting as low a price as possible and the seller is interested in getting as high a price as possible. So they are striving for different goals, but those goals are not diametrically opposed because both sides are usually interested in the transaction being consummated. Game Theory is about that kind of situa-
Professor Robert Aumann received the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics. tion, where two or more entities are interacting with each other but striving towards different goals. The reason that it is called Game Theory can be seen from such situations in real games. They could be games like chess, in which the interests are diametrically opposed, but they also could be games like poker in which
biology, in which you have living species compete with each other for the resources that nature has to offer. Goldstein: Can normal people use Game Theory to come up with practical decisions? Aumann: Actually, Game Theory is more about situations in which there are several entities involved in the situation and they are playing strategically with each other. Game Theory has a lot of practical applications, but if you’re talking about looking at your financial options and asking yourself where is the best place to put your money, that is not explicitly a game theoretic prob-
lem because in Game Theory, you have to have at least two entities that are striving towards different goals. When you’re looking at your financial options, you don’t have two entities, you have just one – you just have the person who wants to put his money in the best possible place. That is what we call a decision problem, not really Game Theory. Besides I want to warn you that I am not an expert in finance. I myself have to make decisions of that kind and sometimes they are very, very complex. For example, the pension fund that I was unable to get explanations for, although I tried for half a year. I was unable to get explanations of what really is going on and what the options are from the people that served me in this pension fund. I asked for their supervisors and the supervisors were also unable to give me answers. Some of these financial instruments are extremely complicated to the extent that the consumer doesn’t really know what’s going on. I think sometimes in the financial institutions, pension funds and places like that, the people up there would do the planning and want to give the consumer as many choices as possible, but they missed the mark because they make their plans so complicated that nobody even in their organization can understand it and when you can’t understand
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EDITORIAL
The Jewish Voice
July 22, 2011
THE PEOPLE’S VOICE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR EDITORIAL
Is Get-Refusal a Form of Spousal Abuse? And if so, why not treat it that way? In a developing court case that is making headlines this week, a Lakewood rabbi and his wife stand accused of kidnapping, intimidating, and repeatedly assaulting an Israeli man who abandoned his wife and fled to the United States. This rabbi allegedly hired a pair of thugs to subdue the deadbeat husband—one Yisroel Meir Briskman—and intimated that Briskman’s death was at hand, should he persist in his obstinacy. Sort of like “A Christmas Carol,” but with less Dickens and more of The Sopranos. ut, you may be asking, why the mafia-esque shenanigans? Sure, it may be difficult to sympathize with some scumbag who would up and leave his wife. But an actual physical beating? That hardly seems like behavior befitting a rabbi! Well, before I offer a possible explanation, I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that Rabbi and Mrs. Wax turned themselves in to police, and have not actually been convicted of anything – their trial has yet to commence. In other words, the discussion here is purely hypothetical. That said, the reason for all this hoopla is that Briskman failed to issue his wife a get, a bill of divorce that, according to Jewish law, a woman must receive from her husband before she is considered divorced in the religious sense, and without which she cannot remarry.
You see, as far as Biblical Law is concerned, initiating divorce is the husband’s prerogative. In cases where a marriage fails, and the husband has at least a shred of human decency in him (which, we’ll venture optimistically, is the majority of cases), this isn’t a problem. Either the husband writes a get of his own volition, or the wife requests it and he complies in order to be free of her, or, worst case scenario, a rabbinic court compels him to do the right thing. But sadly, sometimes a court order isn’t enough. And that’s when you call in the guys with the sharkskin suits and the baseball bats. Call it a loophole if you will, but the Jewish legal reasoning goes like this: A get must be given voluntarily – it cannot be coerced. But if the husband is Jewish, we must assume that deep down he has a Jewish soul that yearns to do the right thing. Obviously if his actions are causing his wife continual suffering and anguish, this can’t be what the husband truly wants. And if it takes a couple of armed thugs (or, if the accusations in the Briskman Case are to be believed, a rabbi in a cowboy hat) to remind the husband of what he wants, then so be it. And as much as I know I should be angry and indignant, because after all, this rabbi allegedly flouted State and Federal Law in his effort to procure a divorce document for an Israeli agunah, I can’t bring myself to dislike him. I’m not saying vigilante jus-
ow sad it is that the young boy was kidnapped and killed in Boro Park. It is hard to believe that anyone can be so cruel as to harm such a sweet and innocent child. But along with the horrors came the beauty of the entire community coming together and joining the efforts to find young Leibby. People came from all over, from as far away as Baltimore and from every facet of the Jewish Community. There were
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tice is okay – I’m just saying that sometimes karma comes in the form of a vicious beating. According to a report by the UK’s Daily Mail, Briskman has been withholding the get because he is seeking custody of his son. While this editor is in no position to comment the custody battle, or whether custody should go to the mother, the father, or if it should be shared, Briskman’s behavior raises numerous questions, some of which may bring doubt on the validity of his claim. Is it really helping his case that he wants to be with his son that Briskman flees thousands of miles away? Does having a claim to his son justify abandoning said son, and his mother, leaving them with no means of support, and leaving the mother without the ability to remarry? If he can’t perform his duties as a father because the terms are not to his liking, doesn’t the child’s mother have the right to find someone who will? Interestingly enough, the State of New York has had on its books, for nearly two decades, a “Get Law” that requires that when one spouse succeeds in suing the other for divorce, that both parties make all reasonable efforts to ensure that neither is barred from re-marrying (in other words, if a Jewish man and woman get divorced in New York, the man has to issue a get in order to comply with New York State Law). Of course, the situation is a complicated one. The alleged kidnapping took place in New Jersey, the wife is in Israel. But I would like to pose a far more basic question: Is refusal to issue a get a form of spousal abuse? In modern societies, the definition of abuse extends beyond acts of physical violence. Indeed, in a domestic setting, psychological (or emotional) abuse is defined as any behavior that threatens, intimidates, undermines the victim’s self-worth or self-esteem, or controls the victim’s freedom. While we wouldn’t claim to speak for the aggrieved Mrs. Briskman, it is hard to imagine that get refusal wouldn’t undermine a wife’s self-esteem, and within Jewish society, it absolutely places an unfair limitation on the wife’s freedom. She is unable to pursue a relationship, and any children from such relationships would bear the stigma of mamzerut. One would hope that the secular authorities needn’t be involved in obtaining a get, but in a society where the oldschool method of “persuading” husbands to issue a bill of divorce is no longer acceptable, we need to start calling get refusal what it really is: emotional, psychological, and economic abuse. Abusive husbands get taken to court for such misconduct, and rightly so. Sometimes they wind up in jail. Am I the only one who prefers the hired goons?
hat a pity about the Cong. Kehilat Jeshurun fire. It had been a beautiful synagogue and home of a great congregation that was very active in the community. I am glad that the fire only
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Editor, ow the Maranos of Malorca, Spain are to be considered Jews!!! I have heard for years that there were still enclaves of people around the world that can trace their ancestry back to the times when they were all Jews. But this is the first time that I have heard that even though this group from Mallorca were forced to convert they were forbidden to marry Christians. That mean there was little or no inter-marriage and if they denounce Christianity they can be
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Chasidim, Litvaks, Modern Orthodox and even secular Jews joining together to heal the wound caused by the missing son. I have seen this effort many times in the Jewish community; times of sorrow seem to bring out the best in us. It is a time when differences are forgotten and we all work toward a common good. My prayer is that we do not ever have to experience such a tragic event again but that the feeling of achdut (solidarity) should never be lost. Eli Cohen
destroyed the structure and not the congregation. I am sure that the building will be rebuilt to even greater magnificence than before and the Upper East Side will still resound with the voice of tifillah and Torah study as ever before. Andrew Hochman
considered fully Jewish. Michael Freund of Shavei Zion has done a phenomenal job in ferreting out small disconnected people that have Jewish ancestry and bringing them closer to mainstream Judaism. While most of the groups he finds and brings to Israel have to go through a conversion process it seems that these Mallorcan Jews might not need to. All we can say to the Mallorcan Jews is, “Welcome Home.” Judah Cantor
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July 22, 2011
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Empower Iranians vs. Tehran The Disaster and the Tragedy BY DANIEL PIPES
BY TZVI ALLEN FISHMAN
How should Western governments deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which Washington labels "the most active state sponsor of terrorism"? ranian aggression began in 1979, with the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding some of its staff held hostage for 444 days. Major subsequent attacks included two bombings in Beirut in 1983, the U.S. embassy, killing 63, and the U.S. Marine barracks, killing 242. More recently, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta stated that "We're seeing more of those weapons going in [to Iraq] from Iran, and they've really hurt us." Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, added that "Iran is very directly supporting extremist Shiite groups, which are killing our troops." American responses fall into two main camps, tough and diplomatic. The first sees Tehran as irredeemable and counsels a policy of confrontation and even force; it assumes that diplomacy, sanctions, computer viruses, and threats of military strikes have no chance of dissuading the mullahs from going nuclear and it speaks of a military option against the Iranian bomb or regime change. The diplomatic camp, which generally controls U.S. policy, accepts the permanence of the Islamic Republic of Iran and expects Tehran to respond to diplomatic overtures. The most prominent Iranian opposition
It was Monday evening July 11 and I was looking forward to an early night after an exhausting weekend. I had a light dinner and turned on the TV to the 10 O’clock news. A short bulletin interrupted my relaxation: “A serious blaze has destroyed the historic Kehilat Jeshurun Synagogue on Manhattan’s East Side”.
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_____________________ “American responses fall into two main camps, tough and diplomatic. The first sees Tehran as irredeemable and counsels a policy of confrontation and even force... The diplomatic camp, which generally controls U.S. policy, accepts the permanence of the Islamic Republic of Iran and expects Tehran to respond to diplomatic overtures.” _____________________ group, the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MeK), is a main battleground for this dispute; specifically, whether or not the group should remain on the U.S. government's terrorism list. The tough camp generally views the MeK, founded in 1965, as a lever against the mullahs and (with a minority dissenting) wants it delisted. The diplomatic camp argues that delisting would anger the Iranian leaders, hampering efforts to improve relations, or (contradictorily) would limit Washington's ability to reach out to the Iranian street.
Delist or list? The pro-MeK side argues that the MeK has a history of cooperating with Washington, providing valuable intelligence on Iranian nuclear plans and tactical intelligence about Iranian efforts in Iraq. Further, just as the MeK's organizational and leadership skills helped bring down the shah in 1979, these can again facilitate regime change. The number of street protestors arrested for association with the MeK points to its role in demonstrations as do slogans
aving prayed at “KJ” many times myself, and knowing the Rabbis and synagogue staff personally, I immediately, as if by reflex, reached for my camera and notepad and ran out the door. The scene was a horrendous one. The whole upper level of the Synagogue, which had housed the beautiful sanctuary, was gone and there was no longer a roof. It was the community’s good fortune that the synagogue was undergoing renovation at the time, so that the sifrei Torah and other holy books had therefore been removed, and although the building was severely damaged, and some of the brave firefighters sustained injuries in the performance of their duties, at least no lives were lost. In a subsequent address to the community and the press, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the famed senior rabbi of Kehilat Jeshurun, made a poignant distinction between the definition of a “disaster” and that of a “tragedy”. He defined a disaster as an occurrence that motivates us to rebuild. It may be a natural disaster such as an earthquake or one where an accident or a series of human errors may have caused it, in all cases the response should and must be that “we will rebuild.” He defined a tragedy as an occurrence where there is human suffering and a terrible loss of human life and where the aftereffects will be felt in some way or form forever. We can attempt to rebuild our lives after a tragedy but the damage remains. The destruction of the “KJ” sanctuary was therefore a “disaster” and he thanked G-d for sparing human suffering in this occurrence and giving the congregation the ability to eventually rebuild. Rabbi Lookstein did not at that time know how prophetic his words were. At the same time as the KJ fire, there was a news story coming out of Boro Park. An eight year old boy named Leiby Kletzky was missing. He had left the Boyan Day Camp on Monday afternoon and did not show up to meet his mother just a few blocks away. At the time, I thought “young children often get lost on their way home, and they usually are found at the home of a neighbor or relative. This kid will turn up sooner or later.” Leiby Kletzky's body was found. His alleged murderer, Levi Aron, was a deranged member of the same community in Boro Park that prides itself on its strict adherence to the spirit and letter of Jewish Law. The Boro Park community, Leiby’s family, and the entire nation of Israel were went from complete and utter shock, to an intense state of mourning. I happened to be in Brooklyn on Wednesday evening making an unrelated shiva call and I decided to go to the funeral for Leiby Kletzky z”l. My childhood Yiddish was put to a test as the Rabbis and other speakers delivered their tearful eulogies in the local vernacular. I will never forget the words, the tears and the looks on peoples’ faces. There was a tall Hassidic man standing next to me clutching his eight-year-old son. There were few children at the funeral and he caught me staring at him. His dark bearded face came close to my own and his tear-filled eyes looked into mine. The only words he could say were, “don’t you wish you were eight again?” Eight years old, when life is so innocent and simple; eight years old, when you should be sitting with Mommy and Daddy at the Shabbat table and when you can clutch your father’s hand and go to shul with him or be dropped off at school or day camp by your mother. Leiby was an innocent eight year old little boy. He was the only male child of the
H The Iranian-backed attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 killed 242, still Tehran's single largest number of Western fatalities. echoing MeK chants, e.g., calling Supreme Leader Ali Khamene'i a "henchmen," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "dictator," and shouting "down with the principle of Velayat-e Faqih" (that a religious figure heads the government). A number of highlevel former American officials advocate delisting the MeK, including a national security advisor (James Jones), three chairmen of the joint chiefs of staff (Hugh Shelton, Richard Myers, Peter Pace), a secretary of Homeland Security (Tom Ridge), an attorney general (Michael Mukasey), and even a State Department coordinator for counterterrorism (Dell Dailey). A chorus of prominent Republicans and Democrats favor delisting, including a bipartisan group of 80 members of Congress. The anti-MeK faction does not address these benefits but argues the U.S. government must continue the listing on the basis of terrorist allegations. Their indictment notes that the MeK killed six Americans in the 1970s. Whether or not these allegations are accurate, a terrorist incident must have occurred within two years to continue with the terrorist group designation – rendering discussion of the 1970s completely irrelevant. What about the past two years? The proMeK side points to three main U.S. terrorist databases – the RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents (RDWTI), the Global Database on Terrorism (GTD), and the Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS) – and notes that in each one the MeK comes up clean since 2006 or earlier. What about capabilities and intentions? The State Department's 2006 Country Reports on Terrorism accused the MeK of maintaining "capacity and will" for terrorist acts but the 2007, 2008 and 2009 reports omitted this statement. Britain's Court of Appeal derided proscription of the MeK as "perverse" and the group was removed from the UK terrorist list in 2008. The European Union cleared the group of terrorist charges in 2009. The French judiciary dismissed all terrorism-related allegations against the group in May 2011. In brief, the argument to maintain the MeK's terrorist designation is baseless. Following a court-mandated review of the MeK's terrorist designation, the secretary of state must soon decide whether to maintain this listing. With one simple signature, the Obama administration can help empower Iranians to seize control over their destiny – and perhaps end the mad nuclear dash. Mr. Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org) is president of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Reprinted with permission. © 2011 by Daniel Pipes. All rights reserved.
Kletzky family and as the rabbis who spoke in Yiddish said at his funeral, he was such a good little boy. He had already learned how to daven ma’ariv (to perform the evening prayer service) at the yeshiva he attended, and he stood and recited the Shemoneh Esrei prayer longer and with more reverence than all the other little boys. According to Rabbi Lookstein’s eloquent definition, the death of Leiby Kletzky is no mere disaster, but rather a genuine tragedy, in the full sense of the word. A tragedy from which his bereaved parents and family cannot ever fully recover, with horrific images that will surround them forever. A tragedy that the Jewish community and the civilized world will never be able to think about without looking at their own children and grandchildren and shuddering in fright. As I walked away from the crying and screaming crowd, I saw a slew of satellite trucks. Names like ABC, Fox, and numerous foreign news outlets were among them. I realized that the whole world was tuned in and watching. Like me, they were waiting for an answer, a reason as to why an innocent eight-year-old boy had to die in such a most horrible fashion.
_____________________ “It’s time for us to open up our hearts a little more to our friends and neighbors; to talk less lashon hara... to give a little more tzedakah for those less fortunate; to love each other as both Jews and as people, and perhaps to hug our children a little more.” _____________________ As Jewish people we are supposed to be Ohr LaGoyim “A Light onto the Nations.” Maybe all those TV cameras and satellite trucks are there for an important reason, as the whole world really is watching us. Tragedy, which removes our ability to rebuild the sanctuary that once was, demands from us to utilize our G-d-given ability to create a new sanctuary, as it were. The Jewish biblical expression “Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh” (“In my heart I will build a Sanctuary”) offers an apt depiction this philosophical concept. Maybe it’s time for us to open up our hearts a little more to our friends and neighbors; to talk less lashon hara (gossip, lit. “evil tongue”) and be less critical of others; to give a little more tzedakah for those less fortunate; to love each other as both Jews and as people, and perhaps to hug our children a little more. The Rabbis at the funeral talked about extreme emunah, faith in the Almighty. We cannot ever understand G-d’s ways and therefore must lovingly accept and not question them. The murder of Leiby is impossible to explain and we can only but painfully accept it. Creating a new Sanctuary for the future can open up a new chapter for mankind and for Tikkun Olam, the Jewish mission of “repairing of the world.” This new Sanctuary can be the greatest memorial to the all-too-brief life of little Leiby Kletzky, may his soul ascend to the highest level of Heaven and rest in peace.
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July 22, 2011
MAINSTREAM SETTLERS
MAINSTEAM ISRAELIS HAVE ALREADY MADE THEIR DECISION ON JUDEA AND SAMARIA Zvi Tal shocked the public saying that in case of evacuation of the "settlements" (as happened in Gaza in 2005), he would refuse to execute the order. Avigdor Lieberman, the minister of Foreign Affairs, lives in Nokdim, a settlement that lies far beyond the 1949 armistice borders that the international community is pushing to set for the Palestinian state. In 2001, during the Second Intifada, the army went to knock at Lieberman’s home in the middle of the night to take him away. There was a terrorist plan to penetrate the colony and kill him. Israel is the only country in the world in which the foreign minister lived in a caravan, with the electricity supplied by a generator
BY GIULIO MEOTTI The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, approved the controversial law against those who boycott Israel and the settlements in Judea and Samaria. It’s the most contested measure approved by Netanyahu’s government to protect the legitimacy of Israel and the Jewish settlements beyond the famous "Green Line", where more than five hundred thousand Jews now live. he settlement enterprise is every year more part of the Israeli mainstream (the national consensus). Never were there, as today there are, MPs and ministers who live in the “colonies”. They don’t come only from the National Union. Even the Speaker of the Knesset, Reuvlen Rivlin, a candidate for the presidency, just spoke against "the division of the land" and has made many visits to the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Shaul Mofaz, the former Chief of Staff and Defense Minister, an important MK from the centrist party Kadima, lives in the "settlement" of Elkana in Shomron (Samaria). Zeev Elkin (Likud), the author of the law which punishes the boycotters, lives in a trailer in Kfar Etzion, a most important "settlement" in Gush Etzion in Binyamin, a part of Judea. Othniel Schneller, another MK from Kadima, lives in the Shomron (Samaria) Jewish community of Ma’ale Mikhmas. The minister of Hasbara (pr), Yuli Edelstein, lives in the "settlement" of Neve
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______________________ Ariel settlement in Samaria. Daniel, Gush Etzion, in Binyamin. Many members of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party, like David Rotem and Alex Miller, live in the Judea and Samaria cities of Efrat and Ariel. Many children and relatives of MK's and ministers live in Judea and Samaria. The nephew of the Minister of Culture, Limor Livnat (Likud), was living in the Shomron (Samaria) community of Elon Moreh before being killed at the tomb of Joseph, one of the holiest sites for Judaism. Demographically the settlements are growing at twice than the national level (3.8 children per family against 1.7). Many internationally known personalities are linked or live in the settlements. Ephraim Zuroff, the
heir of Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter, lives in the "colony" of Efrat. The Nobel Prize Laureate, Robert Aumann, is a supporter of the settlement enterprise and an active figure in the “Professors for a Strong Israel”. Mofaz’s neighbours in Elkana are two famous intellectuals: Yad Vashem’s chief historian, Dan Michman, and the Bar Ilan University’s specialist on Hebrew literature, Hillel Weiss. Recently Haaretz newspaper asked: “Has the Israeli army become an army of settlers?”. Six out of seven colonels from the Golani Brigade are religious nationalists. Once it was kibbutzim that produced the nation’s combat elite. Now it is the religious Zionist community that raises its sons to sacrifice. Recent studies showed that 40 percent of the army officers are linked to the ideology of the sanctity of the land. In the early nineties that figure stood at 2 percent. Half of the new cadets belong to the same ideology. And half of the soldiers unfortunately killed in the Cast Lead operation in Gaza were religious nationalists. The new deputy chief of staff, Yair Naveh, is the first ever to wear a kippah. Even half of Netanyahu’s staff is religious and last week the government approved the inclusion of a rabbi in each army’s regiment. Recently, former Supreme Court Justice
“The Speaker of the Knesset, Reuvlen Rivlin, a candidate for the presidency, just spoke against "the division of the land" and has made many visits to the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.” ______________________ and with his children sent to school in a bulletproof bus. With regard to the famous question, “Disengagement or Zionism?”, it seems that the Israeli public answered with the fabricated global emblem of Israel’s colonialism: Zionism. Most of Israeli public knows that territorial continuity, military strength, along with a deeply rooted legitimacy that doesn’t come from a UN resolution but from an ancient identity and history, is everything for Israel. Giulio Meotti The writer, a journalist with Il Foglio, writes a weekly column for INN. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror vicitms, published by Encounter. He lives in Italy. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary.
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July 22, 2011
The Jewish Voice
FCC SEEKS TO CRACK DOWN ON PHONE BILL MYSTERY FEES
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY
STOCKS, TREASURIES RALLY ON EARNINGS, DEFICIT-CUTTING PLAN
In the continuing saga of phone companies overcharging and ‘mystery fees, federal regulators are proposing new rules to make it easier for consumers to detect and challenge mystery fees on their phone bills.
Stocks extended gains and Treasuries rallied amid optimism lawmakers were moving closer to a deal cutting the U.S. budget deficit and avoiding default. Oil helped lead gains in commodities and the dollar weakened.
he Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday to seek public comments on the proposed rules, which are intended to crack down on the practice of “cramming.” Cramming is the illegal placement of unauthorized fees on a consumer’s phone bill—either by the phone company or an outside party. These fraudulent charges are usually buried inside phone bills and generally appear under generic descriptions such as minute use fee, activation, member fee, voice mail or Web hosting. Often just a few dollars, they can be easy to overlook. The FCC vote came as Beth Israel Medical Center of NY a filed a law suit for $25 million dollars againt Verizon for fraudelant charges as reported in last week’s Jewish Voice. The proposed FCC rules would require landline phone companies to place third-party charges in a separate section of phone bills and to notify consumers whether they offer the option of blocking such charges. The notification must be given when consumers sign up for service, and must appear online and on their bills. The proposed rules also would require both landline and wireless carriers to notify consumers that they can file complaints about cramming with the FCC. Phone companies must provide the agency’s contact information. In addition, the FCC will consider whether to require landline phone companies
he Standard & Poor’s 500 Index jumped 1.3 percent to 1,322.71 at 2:01 p.m. in New York. The S&P GSCI Index of 24 commodities advanced 1.4 percent as oil surged 2.5 percent to $98.28 a barrel. Ten-year Treasury note yields lost four basis points to 2.89 percent and the Dollar Index, a gauge of the currency against six major peers, sank 0.6 percent. Stocks added to an early advance and Treasuries climbed after President Barack Obama endorsed a deficit-cutting proposal by a bipartisan group of senators known as the Gang of Six. Earlier gains in equities were triggered by improving earnings at companies from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) to Coca-Cola Co. and Novartis AG. (NOVN) “Profits are finally shining through some of the daunting headlines and investors are
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to offer services that block third-party fees and whether to prohibit them from charging for such services. It also will consider whether to require landline phone companies to automatically block third-party fees from consumer bills altogether. The agency will consider whether to extend cramming rules that apply to landline companies to wireless carriers and Internet calling services as well. The commission estimates that as many as 15 million to 20 million American households have mystery fees on their monthly landline phone bills every year. Cramming is also an emerging problem for wireless customers, the agency said. Tuesday’s vote is part of a broader effort by the FCC to combat mystery fees. Last year, the agency reached a record settlement with Verizon Wireless over $1.99a-megabyte data access fees that appeared on the bills of customers who didn’t have data plans but accidentally initiated data or Internet sessions by pressing a button on their phones. Verizon Wireless agreed to pay $25 million to the government and at least $52.8 million in customer refunds under the settlement.
MURDOCH PELTED DURING HACK HEARING Rupert Murdoch has been pelted with a white substance during his appearance before MPs over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. he hearing was suspended as a man wearing a checked shirt with what appeared to be foam splashed across his face was detained by police. The alleged perpetrator was named on Twitter as Jonnie Marbles. Marbles, who describes himself as an activist and comedian, wrote on the website just before the incident: "It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before, splat." Mr. Murdoch and his son James, who leapt to his father's defense along with Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi, had been nearing the end of the session when the incident occurred. The hearing was adjourned for about 10 minutes before the Murdochs returned to their seats with Rupert Murdoch noticeably minus his suit jacket after it was apparently left covered in the foam. During the hearing, Rupert Murdoch had told that MPs responsibility for the phonehacking "fiasco" does not rest with him. Asked by Jim Sheridan MP who the blame lies with, the News Corp boss responded: "The people that I trusted and then, maybe, the people they trusted." Then asked by Tory MP Louise Mensch whether he would resign, Mr. Murdoch Snr replied: "No, because I feel that the people I trusted, I don't know at what level, let me down and I think they behaved disgracefully, betrayed the company and me and it's for them to pay. I think that frankly I'm the best person to clear this up."
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______________________ “Stocks added to an early advance and Treasuries climbed after President Barack Obama endorsed a deficit-cutting proposal by a bipartisan group of senators known as the Gang of Six.” ______________________ taking notice,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer for Chicago-based Harris Private Bank, which oversees $55 billion. “IBM was a big one,” he said. It sent “a strong signal that companies can still thrive in an uncertain economic environment.” The S&P 500 erased yesterday’s 0.8 percent slide and rebounded from a three-week low. Technology shares climbed 2.4 percent
HAIL A CAB WITH A TAP OF YOUR SMART PHONE BY KARIN KLOOSTERMAN Israel's GetTaxi mobile phone application puts an end to running down the street with an outstretched arm, and benefits drivers as well. The app lets you hail a cab and get complete driver and trip info. new Israeli app rolling out in Israel, London and then Paris, Berlin, Moscow and beyond points the way for changing the century-old tradition of hailing a cab with your hand or reserving by phone call and standing around waiting. The company GetTaxi has developed an application that can be downloaded to your mobile phone. Tap on the screen, and the request is delivered to a call center. Like watching Pac-Man travel around the computer screen munching on ghosts, you can watch in real-time as your taxi approaches where you are waiting. Simultaneously, users receive information about their driver, including picture, name, license number and ratings by other GetTaxi users. Nimrod May, VP of marketing, says it was a matter of applying today's technology to daily activities and old economics. "We tapped into an industry that hasn't changed since it was established more than 100 years ago," he points out. "The main unique selling propositions," he says, "are based on the following: For the end consumer, the private passenger, it's a
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A man is led from Portcullis House in London, following an incident as Rupert Murdoch (top right insert) and James Murdoch gave evidence before a House of Commons Committee on the News of the World phone hacking scandal. In his evidence, James Murdoch admitted News International made payments to phone hackers Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire after they were convicted of the crime. Goodman, former royal editor at the News of the World, and private investigator Mulcaire, were both jailed in 2007 over royal phone taps. Mr. Murdoch insisted he had been "very surprised" to find that payments had been made towards the legal fees of the pair, but was told it was "customary" and admitted the payments could even be continuing.
as a group, leading gains among all 10 of the index’s main industries. IBM jumped 5 percent to an all-time high of $184.10 to lead gains in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, while Coca-Cola Co. climbed 3.6 percent and Harley Davidson Inc. rallied 10 percent after both reported higher-than-estimated results. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) lost 1.9 percent after the fifth- biggest U.S. bank by assets reported second-quarter profit that fell short of analysts’ estimates. Per-share earnings have topped analysts’ estimates at 31 of the 36 companies in the S&P 500 that reported earnings since July 11, according to Bloomberg data. All 12 stocks in an S&P gauge of homebuilders advanced after U.S. housing starts increased more than forecast in June to the fastest pace in five months. Work began on 629,000 houses at an annual pace, up 14.6 percent from the prior month, figures from the Commerce Department showed. Housing starts were projected to rise to a 575,000 annual rate News Corp. Class A shares rallied 5.2 percent. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch told U.K. lawmakers that he wasn’t responsible for the phonehacking scandal at New Corp.’s News of the World newspaper, saying that the blame lies with the “people that I trusted to run it.”
simple click for a taxi. This is saving time spent on the street. The second advantage is that he gets full control over his ride." Allowing users to share their experiences and favorite drivers with their friends, as well as game elements (beat your friends to an event?) are also planned for the application.
_____________________ “Like watching Pac-Man travel around the computer screen munching on ghosts, you can watch in real-time as your taxi approaches where you are waiting.” _____________________ Like frequent-flyer programs, mileage points and rewards are also part of the fun for users. Coordinated with taxi drivers, who install a simple-to-use module in their cabs, the GetTaxi app doesn't only work for travelers. It provides safety for drivers, too -- not only in assuring they will collect the fare, which can be paid for through the system, but also in protecting them from assault better than a plastic partition can. Just as the riders get information about their drivers, the drivers can also track and trace their fares -- expected to be a big selling point for its added safety and security.
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COMMUNITY
The Jewish Voice
July 22, 2011
10000 ATTEND FUNERAL OF SLAIN BOY IN BORO PARK ,
Continued from Cover bis including Rav Binyomin Eisenberger, the rov of the Kletzky family shul, importuned the sobbing mourners to be careful; urging adults to protect their children from strangers; to search within themselves; to conduct a thorough introspection of their deeds and to strive to truly return to Hashem in every aspect of their lives. The predominant theme of the hespedim was that of teshuva (repentance). "How could such a thing happen to such an innocent child?" asked the rabbi in a choked up voice, barely
Estimates of the number attending the funeral range from 8,000 to 10,000.
The entire Jewish community was shocked by the tragic death of Leiby Kletzky z”l.
audible because of his tears. Other rabbanim such as Rav Gavriel Zinner, Rav Shraga Hager, and Leiby’s rebbi focused on the exemplary middos (character traits) that young Leiby had while others stressed appreciation of Hashem's munificence, increased observance of modesty, of working towards achieving true achdus (unity) and ahavas Yisroel (love for one’s fellow Jews) and of constantly creating shalom (peace) by eradicating machlokes (conflict) in families and communities. Rabbi Nachman Kletzky’s voice shook as he stood before the crowd and addressed his dear son, saying that he was lucky to have had him, if only for nine years. He thanked Hashem for such a “beautiful child” with a “beautiful neshoma"."Hashem nosan, Hashem lokach,” said the boy's father (an expression commonly translated into English as “the L-rd giveth, and the L-rd taketh away”). Addressing his beloved only son, he said, "Thank you Hashem for giving him to us for nine years. We have to thank you for what You gave us." Turning to the casket Rabbi Kletzky said to Leiby, "Daven for your sisters and the rest of your family, including the entire Klal Yisroel, which is now part of our family.” Overcome by emotion, he fell silent. Amongst the throngs of mourners standing outside and paying respects was Kletzky family friend Shmuel Eckstein who said of the family: "Great people. I mean, there’s nothing more to say. No flowery stuff about them, they’re not into the trimmings and all the hidden agendas that come along with pleasures of life and all this stuff. They’re a simple, humble, good family that just wanted to be an asset to this world in the best way they can." "I have been part of the search team looking for Leiby since Monday evening", said a member of the Boro Park Shomrim who
chose to remain anonymous. "The outpouring of devotion and love from Jews not only in Boro Park but from all areas of New York and such places as Monsey and Lakewood has been so absolutely incredible. They never stopped looking for him and put their own lives on hold to try and save a young boy and that you will never see anywhere else," he said with tears welling in his eyes. As the funeral drew to a conclusion, thousands of bereaved attendees followed the hearse carrying Leiby's remains as it stopped by the family home on 15th Avenue and 57th Street and kaddish was recited. Leiby was interred in South Brunswick, New Jersey, and many from the Garden State who could not be present at the levaya were present at the burial. On the legal front, it has been reported that the prosecution is preparing their case against the boy’s alleged murderer, 35-yearold Levi Aron. Brooklyn District Attorney
______________________ Dr. Phyllis Chesler: “If people know a person, just like this suspect, who is exhibiting strange behavior[...] and do not speak up because they are afraid of bringing a bad name on to the community or themselves, then they neglect their responsibilities to children such as Leiby.” ______________________ Charles Hynes is quoted as saying that someone who commits a crime like this should only leave prison in a box at the conclusion of a life sentence. There is no death penalty in the State of New York, but Hynes is confident that a maximum sentence with no parole will be issued for such a heinous crime. Calling the suspect "a monster", Dr. Phyllis Chesler, emerita professor of psychology and women's studies at the City University of New York and frequent Arutz Sheva op-ed contributor spoke of "collective culpability" within the tightly knit Chareidi community. "If people know a person, just like this suspect, who is exhibiting strange behavior and is a loner and perhaps could even be a pedophile, even though we don't know that that is the case at this point, and do not speak up because they are afraid of bringing a bad name on to the community or themselves, then they neglect their responsibilities to children such as Leiby and others who can easily be victimized."
July 22, 2011
The Jewish Voice
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B’klyn Rabbi to Re-Release Water Ferries Not Welcoming for Chasidic Families Stranger Safety Book for Jewish Children Furious Chasidic parents claim the 25child limit on the new East River ferries is unfair—because it can’t accommodate their extra-large families.
“Yoni Ploni the Little Yeshiva Boy, Never Talks to Strangers” is a 32-page illustrated children’s book geared for Orthodox youngsters, researched, written and published by Rabbi Yehoshua Danese, illustrated by Yaakov Gerber, two fathers of growing families living in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. fter researching the subject extensively, reading the works of experts from across the country, it is known that strangers, stalkers, molesters or worse use certain tricks and ploys to woo defenseless, innocent, unsuspecting children into their clutches. This book deals which each of their strategies individually and gives children the information they need to successfully avoid predators. The book was endorsed by the Torah Safety Commission and distributed by Feldheim when it was first published. “At first I printed 5,000 copies,” relates Rabbi Danese, “most of which are all sold. However I am planning to print 100,000 copies so that every single Jewish child should have this information. It is a book that is meant for parents to read to their child and to explain to the child and answer their questions and that they should be able to be safe.” What to do if the Stranger is following me? What if the Stranger grabs hold of me? What if he offers me a ride in his car? What
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______________________ “Believe it or not,” says Rabbi Danese, “it is not a frightening book; it’s a happy book, the characters in the book are confident, as it empowers children to be aware and know how to react if something like this should happen.” ______________________ if he offers me candy? What if he says to me, “your mother’s sick she said I should take you home?” These questions and more are dealt with in “Yoni Ploni” and the children are given straightforward instructions on what they should do to stay safe. “Believe it or not,” says Rabbi Danese, “it is not a frightening book; it’s a happy book, the characters in the book are confident, as it empowers children to be aware
Cover of “Yoni Ploni the Little Yeshiva Boy, Never Talks to Strangers” and know how to react if something like this should happen. Every year I give a copy of this book to one of my daughters to take to her morah to read to their class. No teacher has ever refused. They see that this book is extremely important.” Recent events in our community underscore the necessity of this book and its message. “I am convinced that every Jewish child should have this book read to them, they should read it themselves, it should be explained to them,” says the author. “And with this information your child will have a far greater chance of never falling prey, to fall victim to such an unspeakable horror.” Rabbi Yehoshua Danese has been a Rebbie for over a decade with several kiruv schools, most notably the Torah Academy of Brooklyn. He previously wrote another children’s safety book dealing staying safe from fire. He has also ghost written on scores of other authors’ Torah publications. Copies of “Yoni Ploni Never Talks to Strangers” can be acquired directly from the author, who can be reached at 347-3933670.
Levi Aron to Cop Insanity Plea The Lawyers for Levi Aron who is accused of butchering Leiby Kletzky seem to be reading an insanity plea as his defense. hey claim that he is "abnormal" and that he can't stop hearing sinister voices in his head. Levi Aron, 35, had trouble making eye contact and clammed up when confronted with uncomfortable questions, his lawyers said. "Physically, he seems to be doing okay," defense lawyer Gerard Marrone said after a 2-1/2-hour meeting with Aron in the psych ward at Bellevue Hospital. "All we can say at this time, without going into specifics, is that upon talking to him for quite some time there's a severe diminished capacity." Lawyer Pierre Bazile said it will be up to
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he strictly enforced cap on kids has even forced some oversized families to cancel plans at the last minute, furious critics charge. “It’s utter nonsense. Twenty-five children is five families,” said Isaac Abraham, a Williamsburg, Brooklyn, resident. "Very often we like to travel with extended families or even groups." “They should’ve sat down with this community to be prepared for what they would face,” he added. “This is a community with a lot of kids.” Scores of frustrated mothers are often found at Schaefer Landing near the Williamsburg Bridge—a predominantly Chasidic neighborhood—unable to board with their gaggle. Sometimes, children are forbidden from boarding even when the ferry is only halffull—because the limit of 25 children has already been reached. The debacle has led to bitter arguments between parents turned away at the docks and staffers with NY Waterway, the company contracted to operate the vessels. “They walked away with the perception that we Jews have too many kids—and those people didn’t like it,” said one rider whose kids were turned away.
psychologists to determine if Aron is fit to stand trial. "His demeanor can only be described as abnormal," Bazile said without elaborating. Marrone and Bazile said they discussed numerous subjects with Aron, ranging from childhood to his ultra-Orthodox Jewish upbringing. "He's been hearing voices for quite some time," Marrone said. "He tries to quell some of the voices by listening to music ... He listens to it very loud." Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes has said that he will be seeking “swift justice” for Leiby Kletzky and would nor accept an insanity plea. The lawyers are also looking into the possibility of a change of venue for the trial since they say the massive media coverage of the case has tainted any possible jury pool in NY and they will never get a fair hearing for their client.
That’s a charge NY Waterway strongly denied—and pointed to the very men who own the company. “The owners of NY Waterway’s East River Ferry are themselves Jewish and sensitive to the needs of every community they serve,” the operators said in a statement. "Under Coast Guard rules, the operator is required to provide enough kiddie life vests for 10 percent of the total capacity. In this case, that’s 15 life vests. In case of an accident there are only a finate number of life vests to go around. the ferry is being careful for saftey reasons not out of racial or child bias."
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NEWS IN REVIEW
The Jewish Voice
July 22, 2011
NEWS IN REVIEW INTERNATIONAL Qaddafi Vows to Blow Up Tripoli he Kremlin’s special envoy to Libya reported that notoriously eccentric strongman Muammar Qaddafi has vowed to blow up Tripoli if it falls into rebel hands, Russian newspaper Izvestia reported Thursday. “If the rebels seize the city, we will deluge it with missiles and blow it up," Qaddafi's Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi recently told Kremlin envoy Mikhail Margelov. Margelov also is cited as saying: “I presume that the Qaddafi regime has a suicidal plan of this kind.” The report comes as Qaddafi lays the groundwork for a scorched earth defense in the stronghold region around Tripoli in the face of a potential rebel thrust. But the civil war in Libya appears to have ground into a stalemate despite a protracted NATO bombing campaign against Qaddafi loyalist forces under a United Nations mandate to protect civilians.
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Handwritten Manuscripts by Mengele y”s, To Be Sold ver 33 years after his death in South America, Dr. Josef Mengele’s written archive is being put up for sale by a US auction house. “The Auschwitz Angel of Death” left 31 handwritten manuscripts signed by his own hand including his autobiography describing his escape from Germany and life in South America, diaries, philosophical tracts, racial and political commentary, poetry, short stories, and travelogues, Reuters reported. The archive is composed of over 3,300 pages of handwritten text, some illustrated, largely in bound journals, written while Mengele was in hiding in Paraguay and Brazil, are valued at over $400,000.
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Interpol Hunting for Hariri Murderers nternational police have issued formal warrants for the suspected assassins of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Interpol, the international police agency, issued a wanted persons alert Wednesday in connection with the 2005
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truck bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others in Beirut. The alert was issued on behalf of the United Nations Special Tribunal in Lebanon, which indicted four members of the Hizbullah terrorist organization in connection with the murders.Referred to as “Red Notices,” to alerts were circulated to all 188 member nations of the United Nations. They “include essential identifying information such as photographs and fingerprints of the wanted persons,” Interpol said in a statement.
Human Remains from WWII Found at Polish Construction Site onstruction workers in Warsaw have uncovered human remains from World War II while working on a tram line, police said Thursday. The builders noticed the remains while they were transporting rubble. They immediately contacted police, who secured the site. The remains were taken to a forensics lab, where they are to be examined. While many suppose that the remains are those of Jewish victims it is very possible that they are not as Warsaw was the site of heavy fighting where many non Jews were killed as well. Construction continued on other parts of the tram line, which is being built to ease travel in the Polish capital during the construction of a second metro line.
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Britain Frees Salah from Prison ritish authorities released Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, from prison. The radical Salah was transferred in a police car from the prison in which he was held to the place where he is staying in London. The Arab and Muslim community in London had organized a party for Salah which was attended by a delegation of the Supreme Monitoring Committee of the Arab public in Israel. Salah was arrested more than two weeks ago after he entered Britain freely and nearly spoke in parliament. Airport police had allowed him to enter the country despite the fact that he has been banned from it.
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Iran Moves Centrifuges Underground report Thursday in the British Daily Telegraph said that Iran had moved its entire nuclear enrichment program
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to an underground bunker. The site, called Fordow, is being prepared for the installation of centrifuges for the production of uranium, Western intelligence officials told the newspaper. Iran admitted the existence of Fordow after Western intelligence discovered it. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it was informed by Iran that Tehran planned to begin operating centrifuges at the site in the coming weeks, and expressed concern over lack of access to the facility. The site is said to have the capacity to operate 3,000 centrifuges, triple the capacity of the Natanz site, where many of the centrifuges were recently damaged by various computer viruses. IAEA officials said that the new facility would bring Iran that much closer to becoming “a nuclear weapons capable state.”
ISRAEL Knesset Approves Compensation Bill for Terror Orphans he Knesset unanimously approved on Monday the first reading a bill that gives orphans whose parents died in a terror attack lifelong benefits. The bill equates the status of orphans whose two parents were murdered in acts of terrorism to the status of of widows and widowers who get benefits for life. In the past orphans lost their entitlement to benefits at the age of 21. A different law initiated by MKs Itzik and Orlev in 2008 saw the entitlement continue until the age of 27, after which the orphan would be eligible for partial benefits until the age of 37.
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UNESCO Against the Jews he United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a decision calling on Israel to immediately cease all archaeological works in the Old City of Jerusalem. In particular, UNESCO, one of the UN’s most prominent and influential agencies, attacked the renovation of the Mughrabi Bridge that links the Western Wall plaza and Temple Mount. The decision, initiated and promoted by Arab states, was adopted by consensus of the Western members of the commission. Indeed, the vote is the latest anti-Jewish initiative launched by the UN office meant to promote culture, education and science around the world. In fact, UNESCO’s robber barons are sanctifying the current global campaign aimed liquidating the legitimacy of the Israeli regime.
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Arabs Demand Land of Former Jewish Community he Arabs are demanding that Israel hand over the land of the former Jewish community of Homesh, Israel’s Channel 10 reported on Wednesday. The residents of Homesh were forcefully evicted from their homes in August of 2005, during the Ariel Sharon government’s disastrous disengagement plan. It was resettled in 2007 by Homesh First, a grassroots movement that has set as its goal the rebuilding of the town of Homesh as a first step in rectifying the damage of the disengagement plan.
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The community was evacuated again by IDF forces in 2009.
Israel Sends Aid Ship to Cyprus n Israeli ship carrying ten electrical generators, a truck and a crane sailed on Wednesday towards Cyprus. The equipment on the ship will provide aid to the residents of Cyprus, following Monday’s fatal explosion at a naval base in the southern part of the island nation which left eight people dead. In the aftermath of the explosion, many of the island’s residents are without electricity for about three hours each day. The aid operation was quickly organized after an official request by the government of Cyprus was received Tuesday. The operation is a joint venture by Israel’s Foreign Ministry and the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC), with Israel’s Defense Ministry providing logistical support. A special team of Foreign Office employees was in contact with relevant parties in Cyprus, and at the same time IEC crews took the supplies and loaded them onto a ship.
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‘Arab League to Ask UN to Recognize Palestinian State’ he Arab League said it will apply to upgrade the Palestinians to full member status at the United Nations, according to a draft statement from a league meeting in Qatar on Thursday. "It was decided to go to the United Nations to request the recognition of the state of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital and to move ahead and request a full membership," said the communique, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters. The statement did not provide a timeline indicating the application would be made in time for the UN assembly in September. A Palestinian delegate said the Arab League had appointed a committee to determine dates. Full member status would require approval in the Security Council, where the United States had said it would veto any such resolution.
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Peres Accepts New Ambassadors’ Credentials mbassadors from Thailand, Albania, Cyprus, Ecuador, and Sierra Leone presented their credentials today to President Shimon Peres on Wednesday. The new ambassadors are Nuttavudh Photisaro, Ambassador of Thailand, Bujar Skendo, Ambassador of Albania, Dimitris Hatziargrou, Ambassador of Cyprus, Guillermo Bassante Ramirez, Ambassador of Ecuador, and Andrew Gbebay Bangali, Ambassador of Sierra Leone. Peres reportedly discussed strengthening diplomatic, trade and technology relations with each of the new Ambassadors and also gave an overview of Israel's achievements in a number of different areas.
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52% Think Intifada Will Follow Statehood Declaration ajority of Israelis think violent Palestinian uprising will come after statehood bid whether or not UN recognizes state. More than half of the Israeli public
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NEWS IN REVIEW believes a third Intifada will break out if the Palestinians follow through with plans to make a unilateral declaration of statehood in September, according to a poll conducted by the Dahaf Institute and released by the Knesset Channel on Thursday. Of those surveyed, 52 percent feared the outbreak of a violent Palestinian struggle in the event of a unilateral declaration of state, while 40 percent of people believed that an Intifada would not break out.
PA: We'll Boycott Those Who Don't Boycott Yesha A Economics Minister Hassan Abu Libda said Thursday that the PA would boycott any Israeli company that complies with Israeli law and does not itself boycott towns in Judea and Samaria. Libda also called on Israeli companies working on building the new PA city of Rawabi not to comply with Israeli law and to continue supplying the PA with goods and services for Rawabi's construction. Shortly after the anti-boycott law was passed by the Knesset, MK Michael Ben-Ari said that he was preparing the first lawsuit under its provisions, against Israeli company Teldor, which manufactures computer networking equipment, fiberoptics, and communication cables. Teldor is actively involved in laying communications infrastructure in the new PA city of Rawabi, and as such has signed a document certifying that it does not do business in Judea and Samaria.
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Delegation Highlights Support for Israel group of dignitaries including a former prime minister and a Nobel Peace Prize winner came to Israel to pledge to fight the Palestinian bid for statehood recognition at the United Nations. The group came as part of the Friends of Israel Initiative, which seeks to rally international support for Israel. Among them were former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, who established the Quartet grouping of Middle East negotiators in Madrid in 1992; John Bolton, the former U.S. representative to the United Nations; Lord William David Trimble, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who recently served on the official commission of inquiry into Israel’s actions in the May 31, 2010 flotilla incident; and Robert Agostinelli, a French entrepreneur and a founding member of the Friends of Israel Initiative.
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The initiative was started last year and is made up primarily of non-Jews who believe that "Israel is of fundamental importance to the future of the West," according to the group's website.
NATIONAL Claims Conference Appoints Ombudsman he organization that manages billions of dollars of Holocaust reparations payments voted to appoint an independent ombudsman. The decision on the ombudsman came Wednesday at a board of directors meeting. It follows years of complaints in the Jewish community that the Claims Conference has not been adequately responsive to inquiries of survivors and their families. It also comes a year after the discovery of a $40 million fraud at the Claims Conference involving several employees. Claims Conference leaders worked with lawenforcement authorities to uncover and investigate the fraud. It’s not yet clear exactly what the ombudsman’s role will be at the Claims Conference; that’s to be defined within the next two months. The ombudsman should be “a person of stature and probity, with unquestioned integrity, who is neither a recipient of funds from the Claims Conference, nor has any connection to any member organization of the Claims Conference,” the board said in its resolution on Wednesday.
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San Antonio Mayor Boosts Ties with Israel he mayor of San Antonio, Texas, Julián Castro, signed agreements with Israel to share knowledge and economic cooperation. The mayor was wrapping up a five-day trip to Israel focused on economic cooperation. Members of Castro's delegation included private businessmen and the heads of San Antonio's public utility corporations. During his visit, Castro signed two memoranda of understanding focusing on life-science and clean-tech projects. On Castro's agenda was the signing of an economic cooperation agreement with the mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Huldai, including bilateral trade and exchanges in the fields of renewable energy, biotechnology, social and
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cultural affairs, and education. The mayor's trip is jointly hosted by the City of San Antonio, the Jewish Federation of San Antonio and Israel's Foreign Ministry.
Ron Paul Says He Won’t Run for House again .S. Rep. Ron Paul, one of the most consistent opponents of pro-Israel legislation, said he will not run again as a congressman. "I have decided not to seek re-election to Congress," the Texas Republican said Tuesday on his Twitter account. Paul, 75, linked to a story in The Facts, a Texas news site, in which he said he would focus on his longshot bid to secure the GOP nomination for president. A favorite of the Tea Party, Paul once ran for president on the Libertarian ticket. He has opposed U.S. assistance to Israel. His son, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), has similar views.
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Feds Obtaining Warrants to Search Facebook Profiles .S. law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, often gaining detailed access to users’ accounts without their knowledge. Many of the warrants requested a laundry list of personal data such as messages, status updates, links to videos and photographs, calendars of future and past events, “Wall postings” and “rejected Friend requests.” Federal agencies seeking the warrants include the FBI, DEA and ICE, and the investigations range from arson to rape to terrorism. The Facebook search warrants typically demand a user’s “Neoprint” and “Photoprint”—terms that Facebook has used to describe a detailed package of profile and photo information that is not even available to users themselves.
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Moody's: U.S. National Credit Rating Endangered oody's Investors Service is taking another look at the credit rating of the United States as it considers a possible downgrade. A Moody's analyst says it's likely the rating will get a negative outlook in the next few weeks if lawmakers fail to agree on a long-term budget deal. The
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credit rating review will end when it becomes clear whether a technical default on the national debt can be avoided.
State Sen. Calls On New Yorkers To Protest Gay Marriage tate Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr. (D-Bronx)— perhaps the most outspoken critic of legalizing same-sex marriage in New York State—isn’t giving up the fight yet. Diaz called on “thousands” of New Yorkers to attend an anti-gay marriage rally outside of Gov. Cuomo’s New York City office this Sunday, the first day that same-sex couples can legally wed. “I am not keeping quiet on this,” Diaz said. “We will continue this fight and we will struggle to get what’s right.” City officials announced they will open clerks offices Sunday so gay couples can get married on the first day the new law takes effect. State law usually requires a couple to wait 24 hours after receiving a marriage license, but a number of judges have volunteered to work that day and waive the requirement.
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FBI: Man Linked To Pakistani Spy Agency Under Arrest or years, the Pakistani spy agency funneled millions of dollars to a Washington non-profit group in a secret effort to influence Congress and the White House, the Justice Department said in court documents that are certain to complicate already strained relations between the U.S. and Pakistan. FBI agents arrested Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, the executive director of the Kashmiri American Council, and charged him with being an unregistered agent of a foreign government. Under the supervision of a senior member of Pakistan’s spy agency, InterServices Intelligence, Fai worked to influence Congress and develop contacts at the White House and State Department, prosecutors said. “I believe that Fai has received approximately $500,000 to $700,000 per year from the government of Pakistan,” FBI agent Sarah Webb Linden said in documents filed at the federal court in Alexandria, Va. The Pakistani Embassy in Washington quickly denied any knowledge of such an arrangement.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
The Jewish Voice
July 22, 2011
CALENDAR OF EVENTS ‘REFLECTIONS ON A RIGHTEOUS SUMMER NIGHTS CONCERT SERIES GRANDFATHER’ – AN EXHIBITION - MICHAEL WINOGRAD TRIO 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, in1940, and helped rescue an estimated 30,000 Jews from Nazi persecution. Sebastian hascreated a new exhibit that includes drawings, sculptures and occasionally in-gallery per-formances dedicated to Aristides’ life. _______________________________________________
TZE'IRIM STATEN ISLAND YANKEES GAME SUNDAY JUL 24 2011 4:00 PM VENUE: 75 RICHMOND TERRACE CONTACT WEBSITE: SYSTEMS.BJ.ORG/EVENTS/REGISTER/201 ORGANIZATION: B'NAI JESHURUN TZE'IRIM STATEN ISLAND YANKEES BALL PARK (75 RICHMOND TERRACE, ADJACENT TO STATEN ISLAND FERRY).
See the Pinstripes' stars of tomorrow with Tze'irim! Tze'irim will be attending the 4:00 PM game between the Staten Island Yankees and Tri-City ValleyCats. $10 buys a second or third row seat in a reserved Tze'irim section and SI Yanks' hat. Also, our group will be welcomed with a special message on the state-of-the-art video board! Tickets are extremely limited, so be sure to sign up at the BJ website. _______________________________________________
TASTE OF MAGGID-CRAFT: BECOMING AN INSPIRATIONAL STORYTELLER AND TEACHER MONDAY JUL 25 2011 3:00 PM - SUNDAY JUL 31 2011 1:00 PM ISABELLA FREEDMAN JEWISH RETREAT CENTER 116 JOHNSON ROAD FALLS VILLAGE, CT 06031 CONTACT: 8608245991 EXT 4 WEBSITE: ISABELLAFREEDMAN.ORG/MAGGID
When the Jewish people needed an infusion of new life, a great maggid, the Baal Shem Tov, blazed a path to spiritual renewal and inspired others to become maggidim and continue his holy work. Today, when many Jews hunger for spirituality, the role of the maggid (Jewish inspirational speaker and storyteller) is being revived. Learn from a master maggid how to open yourself to divine inspiration, pour out your joy and inspire others. Develop skills in storytelling and presenting and learn how to mine the wisdom hidden in traditional texts. The holy trail-blazers of this generation— Rabbis Shlomo Carlebach and Zalman SchachterShalomi—are our models. We will practice with a study partner and present our stories and teachings to the trees in the forest, our friends in class and the whole retreat group. This is your chance to begin to fulfill your soul’s dream, to share your inspiration with others and to spread God’s light. _______________________________________________
YIDDISH DIALECTS ON WINGS OF SONG: RE'UT BEN-ZE’EV WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2011 | 7PM VENUE: YIVO INSTITUTE AT THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY | 15 WEST 16TH STREET - NYC
CONCERT/LECTURE Join mezzo-soprano Re'ut BenZe'ev and linguist Paul Glasser for a musical expedition through Yiddish dialects. Learn how to recognize the origins of a folksong from the lyrics. Admission: $10 Box Office: 212.868.4444 | www.smarttix.com _______________________________________________
JEWISH HERITAGE DAY AT METS CITI FIELD WITH YU SUNDAY AUG 28 2011 1:00 PM WEBSITE: WWW.YU.EDU YESHIVA UNIVERSITY COST: $23 (LIMITED NUMBER AVAILABLE)
Bring your friends and family and join fellow YU alumni at Citi Field as the New York Mets take on the Atlanta Braves at Jewish Heritage Day on August 28, 2011 at 1:10 p.m. Tickets in the YU section are available at the discounted price of $23 per ticket on a limited basis. They will sell out so PURCHASE YOURS TODAY! _______________________________________________
THURSDAY JUL 28 2011 7:30 PM THE JEWISH MUSEUM FIFTH AVENUE AT 92ND STREET NEW YORK, NY CONTACT WEBSITE: WWW.THEJEWISHMUSEUM.ORG COST: $15, $12 FOR STUDENTS, $10 MUSEUM MEMBERS
This ensemble led by clarinetist Michael Winograd offers a fresh approach to klezmer music that blends traditional Yiddish songs with new compositions. Brooklyn-based clarinetist/composer Michael Winograd has performed with SoCalled, Frank London, Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Michael Alpert, Alicia Svigals, and the Xylopholks. He also leads Michael Winograd's Infection, the Michael Winograd Klezmer Ensemble, and Pop Phenom Yiddish Princess. Winograd has performed at such international festivals as KlezKamp, KlezKanada, the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, the Klezmer Workshop in Paris, the Winnipeg and Calgary Folk Festivals, and the Dawson City Music Festival. _______________________________________________
BIKE4CHAI WEDNESDAY AUG 3 2011 8:00 AM THURSDAY AUG 4 2011 11:00 PM CONTACT WEBSITE: WWW.BIKE4CHAI.ORG CONTACT: YMARGOLESE@CHAILIFELINE.ORG ORGANIZATION: CHAI LIFELINE
Join 100 elite cyclists for the 2nd Annual Bike4Chai twoday cycling tour that will change your life - and the lives of over 400 very sick children! * 150 Magnificent miles from the Jersey Shore to the Catskill Mountains. * Full Sag Support. * 2 night hotel stay. * Triumphant entrance into Camp Simcha Special the premier overnight camp for seriously ill children. For more information or to register please visit our website at www.bike4chai.com or call 646.727.8294 2 days of your life... A lifetime of support for kids with cancer and other illnesses. Starting from the beautiful beaches of the Jersey Shore, thru scenic roads and mountains with breath taking views, and ending in Glen Spey, NY with a triumphant entrance into Camp Simcha Special – Chai Lifeline’s medically supervised overnight camp for seriously ill children. Bike 4 Chai offers many different options in order to allow you to join us on the tour of your life! Choose from a 50, 75 or 100 mile ride the first day. Experience the relaxation in a beautiful resort overnight, and then ride the remaining 50 miles into camp. Join together with our elite group of riders from last year as we make this year’s event the greatest one ever!
31ST IAJGS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JEWISH GENEALOGY AUGUST 14-19 GRAND HYATT HOTEL, WASHINGTON DC
For Jewish Genealogists doing research on family in the United States there probably is no better place than in Washington, DC. And in 2011 that opportunity will come to fruition when the 31st IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will be hosted in DC by the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington (JGSGW); this time at the Grand Hyatt Hotel from August 14-19. Learn from the best, network with 1200 attendees from 17 countries, AND research your family roots--- in a city praised for its numerous records facilities!
ANDY STATMAN TRIO AT THE CHARLES STREET SHUL TUESDAY JUL 5 2011 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM CHARLES STREET SYNAGOGUE, 53 CHARLES STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10014 CONTACT WEBSITE: WWW.ANDYSTATMAN.ORG
Andy Statman Trio (with Jim Whitney and Larry Eagle) at the Charles Street Shu.lSpecial guests at Tuesday performances _______________________________________________
TUESDAY NIGHT LEARNING PROGRAM AT OZ TUESDAY 7:00 PM VENUE: CONGREGATION OHEV TZEDEK - OZ 118 WEST 95TH STREET NEW YORK, NY CONTACT 212.749.5150 WEBSITE: WWW.OZNY.ORG
7:00 - 7:30 PM - Introduction to Halacha with Moshe Schwartz 7:30 - 10:00 PM - Open Beit Midrash, Chavruta Learning Partner Learning, You pick the subject and we will match you with a chavruta 7:45 - 8:30 PM - THE WOMEN’S CHABURA: Join the women from the community as we study the classic work of Sefer Hachinuch. With Rabbi Akiva Willig. 8:30 - 9:10 PM - AHAVAT YISRAEL FOR WOMEN with Dr. Nava Silton-Brandwein 8:30 - 9:30 PM - UNDERSTANDING THE DAVENING: The Vocabulary of Prayer. Hebrew Class with Joel Goldman. Learn Hebrew and become familiar with the key and common words of the prayer book to make your prayers more meaningful. 8:30 - 9:30 PM - GUEST SPEAKERS: To be announced— Check your e-mail inbox for updates.
ONGOING EVENTS
For more info: (212) 294-8330.
LETTERS FROM MY GRANDPARENTS: RUTH SCHREIBER
9:00 - 10:00 PM - CHABURA CLASS FOR MEN with Rabbi Akiva Willig. _______________________________________________
JASA CLUB 76 120 WEST 76TH STREET, THIRD FLOOR, 212 712-0170
JEWISH, SINGLES, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM JANUARY 9 - JULY 24, 2011
Israeli artist Ruth Schreiber's sculpture installation is her attempt to come to know her grandparents through copies of the letters they sent to their children who left Germany for England following Kristallnacht in November 1938. The paper masks made from the letters and stretched over mold's of Schreiber's children's faces, are complimented by a historical exhibition on the experience of her family as told in their own words. Schreiber's work will resonate with anyone who seeks to know something of always-to-be unmet people in the past. 15 West 16th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, New York, 10011, 212-294-8330 _______________________________________________
JASA Club 76 is open Monday through Friday 8qm4pmand provides a full range of activities including Theater Workshop and Improvisation, Yoga, Exercise and toning Tai Chi, Hebrew Language class, creative writing, Current Events Discussion Groups, Walking Club, Lectures, cultural events, parties trips and man other exciting opportunities. JASA 76 serves delicious hot Kosher breakfasts and full course Kosher lunches for a modest suggested donation.
The Jewish Voice does not attest to the level of adherence to Kashrut or any area of Halakha for any of the above events. For more information, please contact the event organizers.
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July 22, 2011
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light. Rahm’s brother, Ari Emanuel, one of Hollywood’s top agents, was fictionalized on HBO show “Entourage,” as foul-mouthed super-agent Ari Gold. Now Rahm and Ari’s brother, oncologist and bio-ethicist Zeke Emanuel, is going to become a TV character named Gold too, if Tablet Magazine has its way. The site has imagined a medical drama, in which Dr. Amos Gold makes the rounds at a Boston hospital.
Michele Bachmann’s Attempt at Yiddish ichele Bachmann a GOP presidential candidate, attempted to use a yiddishism on Fox News but it came out all wrong. While the Christian M i d w e s t e r n e r ’s embrace of Yiddish is striking, her pronunciation would have caused confusion in any shtetl. “Is she a Galitziana or a Litvak, no one can tell,” was one reaction to her ‘SHITZPAH.’ The Minnesota conMichele Bachmann gresswoman, on a tear in Iowa polls but as gaffe-prone as ever, accused President Obama of chutzpah during the current battle over raising the debt ceiling. Her pronounciation of the internationally known Yiddish phrase made most people scratching their head. Former mayor Ed Koch tried to quell the laughter by saying “Big deal, you say potato I say patata.”
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Bunch’s Jewish connection ctress Mila Kunis is beautiful, Jewish, has great comedic timing, and is attending the US Marine Corps. Ball this fall. Sgt. Scott Moore, of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines in Musa Mila Kunis Qala, Afghanistan,
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asked Kunis to the ball via a YouTube video that went viral since it was posted last month. The Black Swan and “That 70s Show” star accepted Moore’s invitation at the behest of Justin Timberlake, her co-star in the upcoming movie Friends With Benefits. Timberlake told Kunis to “do it for your country” during an interview on Fox News, and after checking with her publicist, Kunis agreed.
Bebe Zeva the New Blog on the Street ver since a precocious pint-sized preteen took the fashion world by storm, the style-conscious have wondered who will be the next young blogger to fill Tavi Gavinson‘s shoes. If The New York Times is to be believed, it’s 18year-old Bebe Zeva (a pseudonym – she refused to reveal her birth name) of the blog “Fated To Be H a t e d ” (ftbh.blogspot.com). Bebe Zeva Bebe and Tavi have a lot in common – quirky sartorial choices, fans at the pinnacle of the fashion-world elite, and they’re both Jewish.
Yehoram Gaon as Head of Mossad
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Sherwood Schwartz but what you may not know is that he wrote both shows’ memorable theme songs.
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Gilligan Song Creator Sherwood Schwartz Dies ong writer-composer, Sherwood Schwartz, passed away last week at age 94. You may recognize his name from the credits of classic TV shows “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch,”
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f you’re looking for a show that’s actually in production, look no further than World War X. This movie about a zombie apocalypse will feature a scene in which Israelis explain their tactics to come out alive and with their brains intact. Actress Mali Levy was already Yehoram Gaon cast, and now Yehoram Gaon was offered the part as the head of the Mossad.
Roberto Cavalli Coming to TA aris. Milan. New York. Tel Aviv? That’s right, the White City is trying to brand itself as a fashion capital, by inviting megadesigner Roberto Cavalli to Tel Aviv fashion week in November. The Italian icon has accepted the invitation to the first such event sine the 1980s. Organizers hope that the designer will draw major fashion Roberto Cavalli writers from around the world to Tel Aviv.
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Emanuel Family Still Gold ahm Emanuel may have left Washington, but Eli Gold, a character in the hit TV show “The Good Wife” that’s based on Emanuel, is still in the spot-
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Noah’s Ark, Coming to a Big Screen Near You arren Aronofsky, who directed Portman in Black Swan, pitched a film about Noah’s Ark, with an “edgy” take on the story, Christian Bale in the lead role, and a $130 million budget. Aronofsky was previously attached to Exodus, which tells the story of – guess Darren Aronofsky what? – the Exodus from Egypt.
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Michael Ian Black is ‘SO fed up’ ne of the women on whom Weiner tried to unload his pictures is famous political daughter Meghan McCain. The republican pundit is working on a book with Jewish comedian Michael Ian Black, an outspoken Obama supporter. The two will be writing about their humorous take Michael Ian Black on the state of the Union, and why American politics are, in their words, “so f-ed up.”
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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 Soduku-ing for 5 minutes and getting nowhere. • Use a pencil, you will make mistakes.
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FEATURES
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July 22, 2011
STATEMENTS BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS ON LEIBY KLETZKY MURDER MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG “As a father, I cannot begin to imagine the horrible heartbreak that Leiby Kletzky’s family is going through, and in speaking with their Rabbi today, I conveyed my deepest condolences. This killing was a stunning shock to our entire city, and I ask all New Yorkers, including the thousands of individuals who volunteered to search for little Leiby, to keep the Kletzky family in their thoughts and prayers. May they be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.”
BROOKLYN DA CHARLES HYNES “We want the parents of this little baby to know that while we can’t bring him back, we can do whatever we can to bring justice to his memory,” said Hynes. The maximum sentence that can be given in this case is twenty five years to life, but given the horrific nature of this crime Hynes felt confident that in this case it would be life without possibility of parole. “Someone who commits a case like this should only leave the prison in a box,” said the District Attorney. “I wouldn’t want to make it so easy on him,” explained Hynes. “Maybe a guillotine, a firing squad. A needle is simply not adequate for this individual.”
PUBLIC ADVOCATE DE BLASIO “Words cannot express the sadness and the anger so many of us feel following the murder of eight yearold Leiby Kletzy. As a parent of two children, my heart goes out to his family and his community as they cope with this unspeakable tragedy. I commend the efforts of the NYPD, Shomrim Patrol and Hatzolah, who worked so tirelessly to find Leiby these past two days, and I hope for a swift application of justice for this heinous crime.”
CITY COMPTROLLER JOHN C. LIU “Our hearts are with the family of little Leiby Kletzky in a time of indescribable tragedy. As the father of young son almost the same age as Leiby, I cannot begin to
imagine what they and their community are suffering. We pray that justice will be dispensed without delay for this crime which horrifies and offends us all. The NYPD, Shomrim Patrol and Hatzolah are owed our gratitude for their quick response.”
BROOKLYN BP MARKOWITZ STATEMENT “I join Brooklynites and all New Yorkers in mourning the passing of Leiby Kletzky, the victim of a sickening murder that has saddened and outraged Brooklyn’s close-knit Jewish community and families throughout our city and the nation. My sincerest gratitude to all those who searched for Leiby while he was missing— including Assemblyman Hikind, Shomrim Patrol and Hatzolah—and to the NYPD for acting immediately to investigate and apprehend a suspect. Anyone who would prey on a young child and murder them in such a violent and inhuman way can only be described as a mutant, and this case unfortunately is a reminder that evil walks among us in our communities every day. Our thoughts and condolences go out to Leiby’s loved ones during this difficult time, and we pray for swift justice against the thug responsible for the heinous death of a young man taken from us way too soon.”
MANHATTAN BP SCOTT M. STRINGER Along with other New Yorkers, I am shocked and saddened this morning by the news of Leibby Kletzky’s death. Random, senseless killings are horrific wherever and whenever they occur—but the violent murder of an 8year-old boy walking home alone from school for the first time is an appalling and painful crime. My heart goes out to Leibby’s parents and other family members, his friends and the community that loved him. Nothing can ever replace a lost child, but justice can and will be done. I want to thank the New York City Police Dept. and community volunteers for their hard work in helping to arrest a suspect so quickly in this case.
REP. MICHAEL G. GRIMM “My heart goes out to the Kletzky family for the horrific loss of their son Leibby Kletzky, whose life and innocence was tragically taken at such a young age. They have just been through every parent’s worst nightmare, and I send my deepest and sincerest condolences. It is unthinkable that we live in
a world where our children cannot walk safely down the streets in their own neighborhood, but we must not let this tragedy cause us to live in fear or lose our faith in God. As a community, we must come together to mourn and grow stronger in our faith if we are to move beyond this tragedy and commemorate the joy and spirit of Leibby Kletzky. I pray for the Kletzky family and for all who have suffered from this heartbreaking loss.”
COUNCILMEMBER BRAD LANDER No words can express the shock and horror that we all feel about the sickening murder of Leiby Kletzky. As a father, I am heartbroken, and cannot imagine the pain and sorrow the Kletzky family is now enduring. I join with the Borough Park and Kensington community, with the Orthodox Jewish community, with all New Yorkers, and all humanity, in wishing the Kletzky family strength and comfort at this almost impossibly difficult time.
COUNCILMAN DAVID GREENFIELD "This morning we learned of the shocking death of Leibby Kletzky and our hearts go out to the entire Kletzky family as they grapple with the loss of their innocent child. The outpouring of support from the community since Leibby's disappearance 36 hours ago was extraordinary and I know that the community will continue to rally around the Kletzky family as they mourn. As they mourn, the entire community will mourn with them. I thank the NYPD and FBI for leaving no stone unturned in the search. I also thank members of Shomrim, Hatzolah, Chaveirim and Misaskim for their incredible efforts in the search for Leibby. Finally, to the thousands of volunteers - regular citizens - who walked the streets of Brooklyn day and night since Monday: the community will always be grateful for what you did. I trust that our District Attorney will prosecute all of the repugnant individuals responsible for this heinous crime to the fullest extent of the law."
CONGRESSMAN JERROLD NADLER “When news of Leibby’s disappearance broke, I joined my constituents and parents everywhere in a sense of fear and concern, mixed with a powerful hope that he would be found unharmed.
Today, I am speechless and shocked by the brutality and injustice of this horrific crime. As a father and a human being, I am deeply saddened that so innocent a soul could be so cruelly taken. I join my constituents in Borough Park and people everywhere in wishing the Kletzky family strength and blessings to heal from this awful tragedy.”
SENATOR MARTIN J. GOLDEN “New Yorkers awoke this morning to the horrible news of a barbaric murder of a young Brooklyn boy who was doing nothing more than walking home from summer day camp. This violence has no place on our streets and those who would commit such heinous crimes are a danger to all of society,” continued Senator Golden.“This is the time for New York State to stand up for all children and families so that tragedies such as this never happen again. The children of New York State deserve every protection possible from the dangers our society, and now more than ever, a necessary law to have on the books. We need to act together . The Senate, Assembly and Governor to protect our most precious resource, our young people.”
NYS SENATOR ERIC ADAMS My heartfelt sympathy and condolences are extended to the family of Leiby Kletzky. As a parent, I understand how devastating this horrific and senseless loss of an innocent life has adversely impacted the family. I commend NYPD, Shomrim, and all of the others who were responsible for the capture of the perpetrator responsible for this barbaric and brutal murder. Now the justice system must do its job and prosecute the predator to the fullest
COUNCIL MEMBER STEPHEN LEVIN My deepest condolences go out to the family of Leiby Kletzky. I share in the sorrow and pain of Borough Park, the Jewish community, and all New Yorkers who have been touched by this unimaginable tragedy. While the loss of such a young, innocent life is always incomprehensible, I am thankful for the tireless work of the New York Police Department, the Park Shomrim Patrols, Chaveirim, Chesed, FBI the whole community that have worked together to find Leiby and now, sadly, to bring the perpetrator to justice. My thoughts and prayers go out to the Kletzky family, I mourn with them in their deepest sadness.”
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Kosher Continues to Expand in Far East, Australia and India BY T. COHN, FEATURES, EDITOR - KOSHER TODAY
The soaring demand for kosher foods is being felt in such places as China, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Japan, New Zealand and other countries in the Far East, Australia and Indian subcontinent. These are some of the countries that are producing ingredients that are being used in the US, Europe and Israel to produce a new generation of kosher foods, kosher certification executives report. ue to this increased demand, many of the factories that produce ingredients that are used in products manufactured in the US have undergone the “kosherization” process, with many more following in their footsteps. Recent trends in kosher in these regions include the burgeoning food production activity in the Chinese mainland in addition to increases in Indian food production. While many of the products produced are in their final form, an increasing number of factories producing ingredients and chemicals such as emulsifiers, oils, and alcohols have expressed interest in going kosher or are currently undergoing kosher supervision. The Star-K, OK, and OU kashrus agencies, as well as several Israeli kashrus agencies, operate offices serving the Chinese consumer base. Other countries such as India, Malaysia, and Singapore are also served by specially designated offices. In general, the kosher supervisors based in these regions travel to nearby countries such as Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea to perform their kashrus
July 22, 2011
SHABBAT COLA COLA ‘THE REAL THING’ DEBUTS IN ISRAEL And now there is Shabbat Coca Cola. For a long time, Jews have been buying Coca Cola and other soft drinks to enhance their Shabbat and Yom Tov meals. That involved going to a store or placing an order for delivery of soda with the intention of serving and drinking it on Shabbat. ut here’s the difference. Coca Cola Israel has recently put onto the market, Shabbat Coke. The cardboard carton that holds a sextuplet of bottles is imprinted with the words, “Packaging that is completely for Oneg Shabbat”. The labels on the bottles have a picture of Lechem Mishna covered by a Challa cover, a pair of candlesticks, a Kiddush cup, and the legend, “Coca Cola is happy to be a part in your Oneg Shabbat each week anew. Shabbat Shalom”. As an added bonus, part of the carton is the game board for a special Shabbat game that comes with a 6-pack. Does the drink inside the bottle taste the same as other samples of Coca Cola? Physically, probably yes. But does cholent on Shabbat taste the same as the same dish made on a Wednesday? No way. The spirit of Shabbat is the secret spice that makes cholent the unique Shabbat dish. And now, Coca Cola in Israel has another secret ingredient to its famous secret formula. Is Shabbat Coke reason enough to make Aliya? Not by itself. But it serves as a reminder of what this country is. It is a Jewish state with Shabbat as the national day of rest. It is a Jewish state which opens its arms to Jews from all over the world to return to where Jews were meant to live. When you see the sign across the top of
Shabbat Coca Cola packaging and a board game.
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Kosher Certificate, issued to a Mumbai importer by local (Indian) supervision. duties, although many administrators and others frequently make trips from Israel and the US to inspect and certify factories. As for competition between the OK, OU, StarK and other certifying agencies, one kashrus figure said that, “While competition certainly exists, and everyone would like to take a bigger piece of the industry pie, we all work with a genuine respect for each other and the role we play in making kosher food more accessible to all who desire to partake of it.”
an approaching bus alternate between its route number and destination and greetings for a Shana Tova, G’mar Chatima Tova, Chag Samei’ach - as the case may be, as the other message, then you smile and realize that there is no place you’d rather live, than Israel. When those same buses request that you offer a seat to the elderly with the words from Parshat K’doshim: MIPNEI SEIVA TAKUM, then you know you are where you are supposed to be. And when a bottle of soda wishes you Shabbat Shalom… you know that you are home.
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olives. Amoretti’s Aged Pomegranate Balsamic Vinegar is a premium balsamic that, unlike most balsamic vinegars, is made of rich aged pomegranate, not wine, offering a perfect balance of sweet and tangy. Amoretti’s Premium Pomegranate Balsamic Vinaigrette is an irresistible blend of the Kalamata Infused Olive Oil and the Aged Pomegranate Balsamic Vinegar. Both the balsamic vinegar and the vinaigrette are made from aged pomegranate instead of wine. They are certified organic, kosher certified by Kehilla Kosher and all natural with no preservatives or artificial additives. For more information visit: www.amorettistore.com.
July 22, 2011
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July 22, 2011
Governor Cuomo Signs Law Requiring Convex Mirrors On Large Trucks Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed a law requiring convex mirrors to be placed on the front of large trucks being driven in New York City. onvex mirrors are an effective tool to protect pedestrians from accidents caused by blind spots," Governor Cuomo said. "This law will allow truck operators to see pedestrians or objects directly in front of them and will offer new safety protections to many New Yorkers. I thank Senator Golden and Assemblywoman Millman for their efforts in seeing this bill passed." The new law is designed to eliminate blind spots directly in front of large vehicles. Under the law, all large trucks registered in New York state with a maximum gross weight of 26,000 pounds are required to be equipped with a convex mirror on the front of the vehicle when driving in New York City. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said, "The installation of crossover mirrors on large trucks will eliminate a dangerous blind spot for truck drivers, and help protect pedestrians in our city streets, particularly children, from being injured or killed when a truck first begins to move. The Assembly first introduced this legislation in 1994 following the deaths of two young boys in Brooklyn. Just this May a 4 year-old boy was killed while riding his tricycle. I commend the governor for signing this critical legislation, and for putting an end to this pattern of truck/pedestrian accidents." Senator Martin Golden said, "This new law will help reduce the potential risk of pedestrian fatalities and injuries in New
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York. I am proud to have introduced this legislation which will enable truck drivers to be more aware of pedestrians walking in front of their vehicles while driving in New York City. I thank Governor Cuomo for his leadership and signing into law a bill that will make New York's streets safer for all." Assemblywoman Joan Millman said, "This bill was a response to several fatalities that have occurred because truck drivers were not able to see youngsters walking in front of their vehicles. Requiring trucks to be equipped with special convex mirrors is an important addition to our pedestrian protection laws. With these new mirrors we will hopefully see fewer tragic incidents that have occurred due to truck drivers' inability to properly see directly in front of their vehicles. I commend Governor Cuomo and my colleagues in the Legislature for working to pass this legislation." Mayor Bloomberg congratulated Gov Cuomo on the bill, “I want to thank Governor Cuomo for his support and for signing our bill into law. It’s been a long fight – too long – to get this common-sense safety legislation passed. We’ve been pushing for passage of this law for years, and finally this very simple solution is in place and should help save lives.”
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Mayor Bloomberg Announces New, Real-Time Traffic Management System to Reduce Congestion Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, unveiled a new, technology-based traffic management system that allows City traffic engineers to monitor and respond to Midtown Manhattan traffic conditions in real time, improving traffic flow on the city’s most congested streets. The system, called Midtown in Motion, includes 100 microwave sensors, 32 traffic video cameras and E-ZPass readers at 23 intersections to measure traffic volumes, congestion and record vehicle travel times in the approximately 110-square block area bound by Second to Sixth Avenues and 42nd to 57th streets. he combined data is transmitted wirelessly to the City’s Traffic Management Center in Long Island City, allowing engineers to quickly identify congestion choke points as they occur and remotely adjust Midtown traffic signal patterns to clear traffic jams. Department of Transportation engineers are using recently upgraded traffic signal control systems to adjust the traffic lights. The real-time traffic flow information will be made available to motorists and to app developers for use on
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_____________________ “Midtown in Motion is a great example of how the creative deployment of technology can have a tangible impact on the everyday lives of New Yorkers.” _____________________ PDAs and smart phones. The wireless system is made possible through the use of the New York City Wireless Network (NYCWiN) – a wireless network developed and managed by the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. Using technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution caused by traffic congestion is one of the priorities of the City’s PlaNYC sustainability agenda. The Mayor made the announcement at the City’s Traffic Management Center in Long Island City, Queens. “Since the beginning of our Administration, we’ve been committed to finding ways to employ technology to give decision makers throughout government the information they need when they need it,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “We are now using
the most sophisticated system of its kind in the nation to improve traffic flow on the City’s most congested streets – Midtown Manhattan. The technology will allow traffic engineers to immediately identify congestion choke points as they occur and remotely alter traffic signal patterns to begin to clear up Midtown jams at the touch of a button.” “Midtown in Motion is a great example of how the creative deployment of technology can have a tangible impact on the everyday lives of New Yorkers,” said Deputy Mayor Goldsmith. “Enabling City traffic engineers to react to traffic conditions in real-time will greatly improve the quality of life in Midtown and lay the groundwork for continued traffic management innovation.” “Midtown is the heart of the region’s economy, and also its congestion,” said Commissioner Sadik-Khan. “Midtown in Motion brings dynamic controls for a dynamic city to help keep its transportation network and economy moving.” “The New York City Wireless Network enables City agencies to modernize their field operations and use state-of-the-art technology to innovate service delivery,” said Commissioner Post. “In this case, the NYCWiN will transmit real-time traffic condition information to the City’s traffic experts, allowing them to use cutting-edge technology for improved transit planning.” Earlier generations of traffic signals only
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could be reliably set to adjust to preset signal patterns based on the time of day, leaving limited ability to respond to crashes, construction, special events like the UN General Assembly and times when congestion saturates the network, causing backups that block cross streets and crosswalks. Midtown in Motion allows Department of Transportation engineers to conduct realtime analysis and change signal patterns at
the touch of a button, helping to alleviate congestion before it worsens. Depending on the traffic situation, traffic lights can be adjusted to provide a more even distribution of traffic entering Midtown so that already congested areas do not become oversaturated, or priority can be given to clearing isolated backups resulting from breakdowns, fender-benders or double-parked vehicles. On the avenues, engineers can switch more easily between a simultaneous signal pattern, where all the signals on the avenue turn green or red at the same time, and a traffic signal progression, which lets vehicles traveling at the speed limit encounter green lights as they drive along a corridor. The system lets engineers use the more effective pattern based on measured traffic conditions. The Midtown in Motion program included the installation of turn lanes to 53 intersections, allowing vehicles to turn from cross town streets onto the avenues without blocking an entire lane of through-traffic, and added turn signals at 23 of these intersections to allow turning vehicles to do so more safely without conflicting with pedestrians. Planning and installation of Midtown in Motion components began last summer, and was in addition to ongoing technology upgrades to the city’s traffic signal system. The total cost for installation of the system was $1.6 million, with $1 million in City funding and $600,000 in Federal funding provided by the Federal Highway Administration.
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ART & CULTURE
The Jewish Voice
July 22, 2011
Green Light for Jerusalem’s ‘Jewish Eurovision’ Strikes Again Museum of Tolerance After 20 years, the "Jewish Eurovision" is making a comeback: Close to 30 Jewish communities from across the world are sending representatives to the world's biggest Jewish song contest, Hallelujah, which will be held on August 25 in Ramat Hasharon.
he finalists – from the United States, Mexico, Russia, Australia, Argentina, Sweden, Turkey, Costa Rica, Uruguay and other countries – were selected out of hundreds of contestants who took part in the early auditions. They're all young adults (aged 16-26) who posted their performances on YouTube in Hebrew or in their own language, and were carefully selected by a panel of judges. Israel is sending its own representative, _______________________________
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Artist rendering of Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. BY CHANA YA'AR The building permit has finally been issued for construction of a $100 million Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. pproval for the permit was granted Tuesday (July 12) by the Interior Ministry's District Planning and Construction Committee. Unlike other buildings in the capital, however, the museum was forced to receive its approval from the state, rather than the municipality. Islamic groups backed by European rights activists have fought the project for years, saying that the site is an ancient Muslim cemetery called “Ma'aman Allah” (Believers in Allah) – also known as the Mamilla cemetery. They say the burial site contains thousands of graves and dates back hundreds of years. After an exclusive report last year by Arutz Sheva exposing the fact that Muslims were enlarging the Mamilla cemetery with
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fake tombs, authorities removed the false gravestones. Dozens had been “planted” just west of the cemetery in an apparent attempt to create “facts on the ground” for the Waqf Islamic Authority to submit a demand for additional land to be placed under its authority. No graves were under the tombstones. The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, named for the late famed Nazi hunter and which has run the project since 2004, has said the museum will be built on the adjacent municipal parking lot – built 50 years ago – and not on the cemetery itself. The Muslim community did not protest the construction of the parking lot when it was built. The museum plans include a three-floor structure with two underground levels as well. An archaeological garden will also include a Roman aqueduct discovered during routine excavations at the site prior to construction. The building plans have been designed by the Tel Aviv-based firm, Chyutin Architects.
“At the time, the competition was performed under harsh conditions, through emissaries in the Jewish communities”
_______________________________ IDF soldier Mor Mahlev, from the Education Corps' military band. As part of the contest, a cultural merger between 'Israeli Idol' and the Bible Quiz, the participants will arrive in Israel on August 10 for three weeks of heritage trips combined with rehearsals for the competition. The contest is overseen by members of the IDF's culture unit and the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. The panel of judges, headed by veteran singer Yehoram Gaon, is comprised by musical producer Kobi Oshrat,
composer and singer Hanan Yovel, musical producer Yehuda, DJ Skazi and others. Advocate Tzahi Gavrieli, chairman of Hallelujah's public executive team, still remembers how candidates were selected for the contest 20 years ago, before the YouTube era. "At the time, the competition was performed under harsh conditions, through emissaries in the Jewish communities," he says. "Today, thanks to the Internet world, we can reach tens of thousands of music lovers directly, anywhere on the globe." "The competition was renewed in order to help deal with the troubling phenomenon of hundreds of thousands of young Jews in the Diaspora estranging themselves from their Judaism and from Israel. Hallelujah is aimed at connecting young Jews from all around the world to one conceptual basis: Israel and Hebrew-language music." In order to deepen the influence, he says, a television series will document the young singers' visit to Israel. Eitan Gafni, Hallelujah's founder and head producer, says that "Hebrew songs are the most popular Israeli art. They are also sung by Jews who do not speak Hebrew in communities, youth movements and summer camps, and during their visits to Israel."
Tisha B’Av Prayer Service at the Isaiah Wall, at UN Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, terror rockets. Flotillas, flytillas, Gilad Shalit. Shechita bans, attacks on synagogues in the former Soviet Union, rising Moslem fundamentalism in Europe. hese are some of the challenges facing Jews this coming Tisha B'Av, Tuesday, August 9th. At 2 pm, Rabbi Avi Weiss will lead a prayer service for Israel and threatened Jewish communities worldwide at the famed Isaiah Wall opposite the United Nations, at First Avenue & 43rd Street, in Manhattan. The traditional mincha prayer service, complete with reading from a Torah scroll, "is a most meaningful way to experience the Tisha B'Av fast," Rabbi Weiss stated, "especially at the very location where, a few weeks later, the UN General Assembly is expected to vote to in favor of a Palestinian state." All participants in the Tisha B'Av prayer
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Isaiah Wall (left) across from UN headquarters in New York. service are asked to bring their prayerbooks, and men, tallis and tefilin if possible. The service is coordinated by Amcha-Coalition for Jewish Concerns, in cooperation with Americans for a Safe Israel and the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. For information, call (212) 663-5784 or e-mail Tishahbav@aol.com.
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July 22, 2011
Parshat Matot: Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the Children of Israel saying: This is the thing that HASHEM has commanded: If a man takes a vow to HASHEM or swears an oath to establish a prohibition upon himself, he shall not desecrate his word; according to whatever comes from his mouth shall he do. (Bamidbar 30:2-3) mazingly a person can create obligations to act and make restrictions in his own behavior that are as binding as any other explicit commandment in the Torah. A slice of watermelon can become as forbidden as a slice of bacon with one roll of the tongue. It’s worthwhile taking some time to admire how powerfully invested we are with the gift of speech. The wisest of all men, King Solomon writes, “Blessings to the head of the righteous but (chamas) violence will cover the mouths of the wicked. (Mishlei 10:6) The Vilna Gaon explains that since the righteous person constantly sees goodness in others and blesses them he becomes the object of blessing by The Almighty. The habit of the wicked on the other hand, is to search for and express fault and blame in others. He therefore brings curses upon his own head. The Vilna Gaon justifies the word “violence” “chamas” based upon its use in the describing the reasons for the “great flood”, “Because the earth is filled with violence‘chamas’”. What was the violence of that time? He explains that society was infested with minor acts of theft but the verbally violent reactions of the ones who were stolen
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from was the source of the ever so destructive- “chamas”. Similarly, Rabbi Matisyahu Solomon offers a bluntly sobering explanation of the phenomenon of “baseless hatred” which our sages tell us is the underlying reason for the destruction of the 2nd Temple and the length of the subsequent exile. Imagine a teacher is trying to gain the attention of a student in his class. The child is playing with some toy _______________________________
“ The wisest of all men, King Solomon writes, ‘Blessings to the head of the righteous but (chamas) violence will cover the mouths of the wicked. ‘ (Mishlei 10:6)”
_______________________________ inside his desk and he is warned time and again. Eventually the teacher cuts off the arm of the student. The parents and the principal are mortified. The teacher explains that he was playing with things inside his desk during class time. Everyone would agree in this absurd case that the teacher stepped over all bounds of acceptability, no matter how he may try to explain his behavior. Sure the kid was not innocent but he didn’t deserve to lose a limb. So says Rabbi Solomon that sometimes a person has a real claim against another. He was slighted or cheated or damaged in some way but that does not justify hating him in his entirety or frowning at and complaining
OU’s Tisha B’Av Programs to be Webcast If it is summer, Tisha B’Av must inevitably be coming, and if Tisha B’Av is coming, the Orthodox Union is ready with educational materials for The Three Weeks and The Nine Days leading up to the fast day, and for Tisha B’Av itself. The theme of this year’s presentations is “Tears of Faith…Visions of Hope.” isha B’Av, which will be observed on Tuesday, August 9, will once again feature a complete day of webcasts of commentary on the kinot – the day’s elegies – by OU Executive Vice President, Emeritus, Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb and by OU Executive Vice President Rabbi Steven Weil. Both will be seen worldwide on www.ou.org, starting at 9:00 a.m EDT from OU Headquarters in New York with Rabbi Weinreb, and continuing at 1:00 p.m. The OU’s Tisha B’Av webcast has become a tradition in Jewish communities around the globe, enabling those who are unable to attend synagogue that day because of work or family responsibilities – or those who must leave early – to observe Tisha B’Av with its full significance while attending to other responsibilities. The presentations focus on the kinot, providing a unique
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interpretation based on religious and secular sources. Rabbi Weinreb will be giving his 23rd annual shiur, his tenth under OU auspices. Rabbi Weil is building his own tradition, which began at Congregation Beth Jacob in Beverly Hills and is now in its third OU presentation. Viewers are encouraged to use as their prayer book The Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot, the complete Tisha B’Av service, with profound commentary on the elegies by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and an exciting new translation by Rabbi Weinreb. The book, edited by Rabbi Simon Posner, was published a year ago by OU Press/Koren Publishers to critical acclaim and quickly sold out in Judaica stores. In addition to the webcast, the OU has prepared two DVD’s with shiurim and presentations that can be screened at local synagogues beginning with the Fast of Tammuz, on Tuesday, July 19. The DVD’s have been sent to OU member synagogues throughout North America and to the OU Israel Center in Jerusalem, with a poster. The DVD also contains a special presentation for teenagers by Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, Regional Director of New Jersey NCSY.
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Summary of Haftorah:
Haftorah Matot
More Generous Thoughts BY RABBI LABEL LAM
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(Jeremiah 1:1-2:3)
This week's haftorah is the first of a series of three "haftorot of affliction." These three haftarot are read during the Three Weeks of mourning for Jerusalem, between the fasts of 17 Tammuz and 9 Av. eremiah recounts how G d appointed him as prophet -- despite his initial reluctance to accept the task -- and tells of the encouragement G d gave him to fulfill his crucial mission. He then describes two prophetic visions he was shown. The first featured an almond tree branch. G d explained to Jeremiah that just like an almond tree is very quick to blossom, so too G d will carry out his plan -- to punish the Jews for their sins -- in due haste. The second vision was that of a boiling pot whose foam was directed northward. G d explained that this was an allusion to the afflictions the Jewish people would suffer at the hands of the people from the north of the Holy Land, namely Babylon. G d will cause the kingdoms of the north to lay siege on Jerusalem and Judea and He will pass judgment on the Jewish people due to their abandonment of G d's ways and their idol worship. G d then encouraged Jeremiah to deliver the prophecy and not to fear the Jewish populace who would certainly not take kindly to such harsh words. The haftorah ends with a reassuring prophecy to the people: "Go and call out in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: so said G-d: 'I remember to you the loving-kindness of your youth, the love of your nuptials, your following Me in the desert, in a land not sown. Israel is holy to G-d, the first of His grain; all who eat him shall be guilty, evil shall befall them, says G-d.'"
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about his family and wishing them ill. All that would be overkill. It requires a sophisticated and surgical approach not to condemn the whole of a person or his clan because a single albeit legitimate point of contention. That’s the definition and the dynamic of the debilitating disease called “baseless hatred”. Not that it is entirely unwarranted but that that the limited license to complain spills over and floods the arena of the “unwarranted”. Instead of being a source of blessing and goodness for others we are ever tempted to kick and curse inviting further reasons for unhappiness.
The Vilna Gaon explains why the blessing is to the “head” of the righteous, “Because of the principle that HASHEM considers a well intended thought as a deed already done, the moment the person thinks to lend his blessings to another, he himself is immediately showered with blessings.” When considering what different kinds of worlds we might come to occupy based only upon the organs of speech, our minds are therefore put on serious notice to generate more generous thoughts. Text Copyright © 2004 by Rabbi Label Lam and Torah.org.
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HEALTH
The Jewish Voice
July 22, 2011
Science Seeks Ways to Take Sting Out Of Sunburn You don’t have to go to the beach to experience an unfortunate rite of summer: The sunburn. Skin so swollen it hurts to bend. The heat that rises from reddened shoulders. The “ow, ow, ow” from the shower after you’d thought the pain had faded. or all the creams that promise to soothe, there aren’t super treatments for a sunburn. Dermatologists say the best bet: Some of the same pills you pop for a headache — like the ibuprofen found in Motrin and Advil, or naproxen brands such as Aleve. If that sounds too simple, well, scientists don’t know exactly what causes this kind of touch-sensitive pain. But research is getting them closer to some answers. British scientists found a clue in some healthy people who volunteered to be sunburned for science. The Scientists controlled the beams of ultraviolet light so that only a small patch of the volunteers’ arms got a medium burn, just enough for a unique kind of testing. One reason sunburns are so common is that by the time you see pink and head indoors, more damage already has already been done, it just hasn’t manifested itself yet. Unlike an immediate burn from, say, touching a hot stove, a sunburn’s pain takes time to develop and is delayed as the red darkens over the next 24 to 48 hours. Researchers from Kings College London tracked how their volunteers’ sunburned skin became more sensitive. At the peak of pain, they cut away a small bit of damaged skin to analyze all the biochemical changes and found a protein that’s responsible for triggering the buildup of pain and redness. The protein summons inflammationcausing immune cells to the damaged spot as sunburned skin cells die off. Its activity increased more than did other pain-related chemicals as the sunburn worsened, the researchers reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine. It took further experiments with rats to show that, the molecule, named CXCL5, was the key culprit. Most intriguing, injecting rats’ sunburned feet with a substance that tamped down the protein also tamped down the pain, a finding that might lead to new medications. About a third of adults get one each year, and two-thirds of them have more than one, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta Georgia. That’s a bigger problem than pain. Sunburns increase risk of the most serious type of skin cancer, melanoma. There aren’t good figures on how often children get sunburned, but their tender skin can burn especially easily. While water and sand reflect UV rays to increase exposure, it’s not just the beachgoer who’s at risk. A sunburn can sneak up on anyone, from the kids playing T-ball and their watching families to the afternoon gar-
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dener. First-degree sunburns tend to peel in a few days. But more severe second-degree burns can blister and even require a doctor’s care, especially if they cover large areas or come with fever and chills, says Dr. Roger Ceilley of the American Academy of Dermatology and the University of Iowa. A bad burn hinders how well your body cools itself, so it’s important to cool down and keep hydrated. To self-treat the pain, take ibuprofen or similar over-the-counter painkillers known as NSAIDs within a few hours of reddening skin, Dr. Ceilley advises. Those pills fight various kinds of inflammation. While they may not directly block the pain-causing protein the British researchers discovered, they do act on related pain chemicals, he notes. “But,” Dr. Ceilley, “don’t use those pills before going in the sun; they’re among a host of medicines that can make your skin more sun-sensitive. “Cool compresses can soothe, and some patients find relief from aloe. But you don’t want to put a lot of heavy ointments on,” Ceilley cautions. They can trap in heat. At Wake Forest University, dermatology professor Dr. Steven Feldman also advises anesthetic sprays to numb the area, and for more serious burns a hydrocortisone cream. But more important, “Don’t get a sunburn, in the first place” Feldman stresses. Feldman advised, stay out of direct sun when it’s most intense, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. When you are out, wear sun-protective clothing and seek shade such as beach umbrellas. Don’t forget the sunscreen, especially on the face, hands and arms that are exposed to sun just about every day. Sunscreen isn’t a substitute for the first two tips, Feldman warns, because it doesn’t guarantee protection if you stay out too long, use too little or miss a spot. Still, picking a sunscreen should get less confusing next summer when new government regulations kick in. Those rules will prohibit claims like “waterproof ” — you do need to reapply after swimming or sweating — and will assure protection against both types of skin-damaging UV rays.
Men More Likely to Die by Lightning Strikes Than Women Lightning strikes killed 648 people in the United States between 1995 and 2008 and 82% of those struck were men. One clinical psychologist says the reason for that statistic is that it's simply behavioral. r. Greg Sipes tells 93 WIBC's Ed Wenck on Indy's Afternoon News one factor is that the more men are exposed to a risk, the more they tend to not pay attention to it. "That also may be that it actually is because men tend to be outside more and they have more false positives which means that you think something could happen and then it doesn't and then after a while, you just kind of go, 'Well, it's not going to happen to me,'" Dr. Sipes says.
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Dr. Sipes says another cause for men taking more risks is testosterone in the body, not only in adolescent boys, but also in men in their 20's and 30's which causes them to ignore caution and do things that puts them in harm's way. Dr. Sipes says while most men will take risks and not have any problems, there are those that take the risk and have unfortunate outcomes.
July 22, 2011
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Janice G. Stolar Appointed Executive Director of ISEF Janice G. Stolar has been named Executive Director of the International Sephardic Education Foundation, it was announced by ISEF's President and Founder Nina Weiner. In this strategic position, Janice will spearhead all fundraising activities in the U.S. while focusing on bringing attention to the important work ISEF is doing to bridge the gaps in Israel through higher education. She replaces outgoing Executive Director Richard Corman, who is moving to Israel in July. anice brings the right experience and leadership skills to ISEF," said Weiner. "With an impressive track record, we believe she will play a valuable role in furthering the organization's mission and taking ISEF's development activities to the next level." Janice joins ISEF from Shaare Zedek, where she has been National Development Director since February 2010, helping to raise $2.5 million during her brief tenure. Janice joined Shaare Zedek from ORT America, where she served as the Chief Advancement Officer, overseeing all national and regional fund raising efforts and leadership development. Prior to joining ORT America, Janice worked as an independent consultant, with a specialization in high-level fundraising events. Before opening her own business, she worked for United Jewish Communities of North America as the Director of National Women's Philanthropy, where she was responsible for designing and providing campaign resources to enhance the UJA-
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Janice G. Stolar, the new Executive Director of the International Sephardic Education Foundation.
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Soviet Union to enhance fundraising opportunities. Before embarking on the fund raising phase of her career, Janice was a television producer for Doyle, Dane, Bernbach Advertising in Manhattan. She produced high profile Atari campaigns during the major growth period of the home video market. She was also part of the team that won a prestigious CLIO award for American Tourister's "Gorilla" commercial.
“Janice joins ISEF from Shaare Zedek, where she has been National Development Director since February 2010, helping to raise $2.5 million during her brief tenure. Janice joined Shaare Zedek from ORT America, where she served as the Chief Advancement Officer.”
The ISEF Foundation's mission is to narrow Israel's socio-economic gaps through higher education for gifted students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Its unique methodology combines scholarship grants with required community service, as well as training in leadership and social awareness. ISEF was founded in 1977 by Edmond J. Safra z"l, Lily Safra, and Nina Weiner. Though originally created by and for Sephardic Jews, today all cultural and ethnic groups in Israeli society who share the foundation's values are represented in the ISEF student body. For more, visit www.ISEF.org, or call (212) 683-7772.
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Foreclosures Drop Due to Bank Backlog... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 In New York, the process now takes an average of 966 days -- or more than two and half years. In New Jersey, it's 944; and in Florida, 676. Texas is quickest out the door with a scant 92 days, followed by Virginia at 106. Due to this slowdown, the number of
homes that were repossessed by the banks has been declining, too. During the second quarter, a total of 203,876 homes were taken back, down 5% from the 215,046 recorded in the first three months of the year. Even initial filings, the notices of default banks send borrowers who start to miss pay-
ments, are being delayed. Ultimately, the artificial foreclosure delays are prolonging the housing market's ills, said Arnold Kling, an economist with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and formerly with Freddie Mac. "The government should be trying to speed foreclosures, not stop them," he said.
"Postponing foreclosures may simply be putting off the inevitable market bottom. We need to remove barriers to foreclosures." In fact, he believes the litany of government foreclosure prevention programs are doing more harm than good. "Instead of housing returning to somewhat normal condition by 2014, we're looking at 2015 or even 2016," he said.
rity, not to prefabricated, unfounded accusations against a member state of the United Nations." "The point is that there is no case for the Security Council to consider in its deliberations," he said. US intelligence reports say the complex was a nascent, North Korean-designed reactor intended to produce plutonium for atom-
ic weaponry, before Israeli warplanes reduced it to rubble. Syria has said it was a non-nuclear military facility. Syria pledged on May 26 to cooperate with the IAEA and provide access to sites and information related to the probe, but the IAEA says cooperation has not improved since then.
IAEA Refers Syria to UN Security Council... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 he said. Western countries agreed the council should pursue the issue, but intimated it would probably not be discussed again before September. Russia and China, allies of Damascus who can veto any council action, questioned the council's involvement as the Syrian complex no longer exists.
"We should not talk about something that does not exist. There are a lot of things that happened in the past -- should we discuss all of them?" Beijing envoy Wang Min asked unhappily. Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari said the meeting "didn't come to any conclusion because the Security Council considers only matters related to threats to peace and secu-
Legal Victory: Sderot Victims Can Sue Bank of China... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 demanded in early 2005 that China take action to stop the BOC from sending cash to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The transfers continued until 2007. More than 80 victims of attacks and their families are seeking both compensation and
punitive damages. Their case was put forth by the Israel Law Center's Nitsana DarshanLeitner, working alongside New York attorney Robert Tolchin. The BOC had argued that the case was frivolous and that the BOC was not responsible for Hamas' actions. The defense later
argued that if the case was allowed to go ahead, it should continue in China under Chinese law. The court not only allowed the case to proceed, but said it can continue in New York. The BOC's decision not to seek a move to Chinese courts in a second case indicates
that the bank will not find it unduly hard to continue with the trial in the United States, justices said. A preliminary conference prior to the discovery stage of the trial was set for September 14.
tial approval for a specific cyberattack on an enemy, defense officials and cybersecurity experts told the AP. The strategy unveiled by Lynn is oriented toward defensive rather than offensive measures. It calls for developing more resilient computer networks so the military can continue to operate if critical systems are breached or taken down. It also says the Pentagon must improve its workers' cyber "hygiene" to keep viruses and other intrusions at bay. And it calls for fuller collaboration with other federal agencies, companies and foreign allies. The strategy also is focused on insider
threats. Without citing specifics, it says it will try to deter "malicious insiders" by "shaping behaviors and attitudes through the imposition of higher costs for malicious activity." Stewart Baker, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, called the plan thoughtful but lacking in some aspects. "It's an incomplete description of a defensive strategy," he said. "If the Pentagon announced that our nuclear warfare strategy centered on fallout shelters, we'd all hope that they had a real strategy that was better than that."
Pentagon Admits Major Cybertheft... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 In Cartwright's view, a largely defensive approach to the problem is inadequate. He said the Pentagon currently is focused 90 percent on defensive measures and 10 percent on offense; the balance should be the reverse, he said. For the federal government as a whole, a 50-50 split would be about right, Cartwright argued. "If it's OK to attack me and I'm not going to do anything other than improve my defenses every time you attack me, it's difficult" to stop that cycle, Cartwright said. "There is no penalty for attacking (the U.S.) right now." He added that a number of complex legal and cultural issues need to be sort-
ed out before the Pentagon can devise a comprehensive offensive strategy. In response to an audience member's question after his speech, Lynn the White House could be expected to consider using military force in response to a cyberattack "if there is massive damage, massive human losses, significant economic damage." Earlier this year, President Barack Obama signed executive orders that lay out how far military commanders around the globe can go in using cyberattacks and other computer-based operations against enemies and as part of routine espionage. The orders detail when the military must seek presiden-
Former U.N. Ambassador Bolton: Obama the Most Anti-Israel President Ever... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 – as it is in Israel and elsewhere – be getting more attention and energy than the Iranian nuclear threat. Israel’s proper response to the move, he said, is “not to pay any attention to it, and to care no more about it than the grass you tread beneath your feet … if you make the General Assembly into something more than what it is, than you are giving it authority and legitimacy it doesn’t have.” Mr. Bolton said that the only way to get this move stopped in the UN was for the U.S. Congress to pass legislation saying that if the move did go through, Washington would cut off funding to the international body, as the U.S. successfully threatened in 1989 when the UN was moving towards accepting the PLO as a full U.N. member (Herb Keinon, ‘Bolton: Obama worst president for Israel – ever,’ Jerusalem Post, July 13, 2011). The Zionist Organization of America’s
National President Morton A. Klein said, “Mr. Bolton’s assessment of President Obama and his policy towards Israel is one with which we agree and which, indeed, we have long suspected to be true. In fact, immediately following President Obama’s June 2009 Cairo speech, ZOA predicted in a press release that President Obama “may become most hostile president to Israel ever.” They also published an opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post in January 2009 and other publications regarding ‘Hillary Clinton's troubling transformation on Israel,’ detailing several of the swings towards pro-Palestinian positions and ignoring of Palestinian incitement to hatred and murder under President Obama. Clearly, there is a range of issues relating to Israel in which President Obama’s policy is of deep concern to the pro-Israel community.”
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Game Theory in Economics and Talmud: An Interview with Professor Aumann... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 it, it’s useless. Goldstein: That’s a real problem. It’s not an economics question anymore; it’s a practical question of the service you’re getting. Aumann: It’s a practical question, but I think it has policy implications and that policy implication is what we call peace. Peace means keep it simple because if you don’t, people won’t understand it and they won’t be able to make an appropriate decision. You know in the end, I threw up my hands and I just made an arbitrary decision. If you’re a broker in Wall Street, if you work for some kind of hedge fund, or if you’re in fact an investor who spends 40, 50 or 60 hours a week thinking about these investments, then you will understand these products You will understand them but most of us are not like that. Most of us have work to do and we’re really tired. We have our families,
our travel or whatever it is that we do. We have a retirement to see to and we don’t spend time thinking about financial instruments. So I think there’s a real problem there which has to be fixed. Goldstein: You used Game Theory to solve certain Talmudic problems in the Gemara and the Talmud. How does that work? Aumann: I will tell you the story. There is a passage in the Talmud in Ketubot 93a, and it has generated a tremendous amount of ink over thousands of years, and really there was great difficulty in understanding it. My son was killed in Lebanon in 1982. I wrote him a letter once about a certain Talmudic issue and he wrote back Ketubot 93a and to look over there. I looked at this passage in the Talmud and I couldn’t figure it out. I, together with a colleague of mine, we looked at the numbers over there and they
looked really, really odd. Then we decided to apply some game theoretic tools to try to understand this. Eventually we found one of those tools which really fit the number perfectly, but this didn’t satisfy us yet because it’s a sophisticated modern mathematical concept and it’s unlikely the sages of the Talmud knew about this. So we had to get to the bottom of the logic and this took us a few more months and finally we did arrive at it. The sages of the Talmud were very smart and sophisticated. Obviously, they didn’t know modern mathematics but they did know logic. It’s quite possible that the logic that we found behind these numbers really was in the minds of the Talmudic sages. It was also published in the Journal of Economic Theory in 1985 under the title “Game Theoretic Analysis of a Bankruptcy
Problem from the Talmud.” It’s hard to believe, but they worked out a Game Theoretic approach. They did reach the conclusions, which were not at all obvious, so I take off my hat to them. Douglas Goldstein, CFP®, is the director of Profile Investment Services and the host of the Goldstein on Gelt radio show (Monday nights at 7:00 PM on www.israelnationalradio.com. He is a licensed financial professional both in the U.S. and Israel. Securities offered through Portfolio Resources Group, Inc., Member FINRA, SIPC, MSRB, NFA, SIFMA. Accounts carried by National Financial Services LLC. Member NYSE/SIPC, a Fidelity Investments company. His book Building Wealth in Israelis available in bookstores, on the web, or can be ordered at: www.profile-financial.com (ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM)
Levi Aron: Profile of a Killer... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 that he had been diagnosed with. In a 2006 protective order filed in Memphis, Kivel claimed Aron was physically abusive and threatened suicide if she refused to engage in conjugal relations with him. She also claimed that Aron harrassed her incessantly; leaving her "100 phone messages and numerous text messages" and threatened to have her kids removed from her custody and "struck her with a closed fist on her shoulder and on her stomach." Dr. Phyllis Chesler, emerita professor of psychology and women's studies at the City University of New York and frequent op-ed contributor offered her perspective on the psyche of mentally disturbed individuals. "Loner men; 'strange' or 'weird' men are often trouble, not only to themselves but to others". While she said that there is no one template for an abuser or killer, she did say that "one who talks to himself, lights fires, tortures animals and has no friends are traits that are often present in the profiles of serial killers" and called on the community to speak out and confront these aberrant behav-
iors. Addressing the issue of collective culpability, Dr. Chesler said, "Most of us live with domestic terrorism and do not report it. We are afraid and ashamed to do so. Thus, only when a child is a stranger to his tormentor do we act. Jews, like others, absorb the anguish of child and wife beating, psychological cruelty, and even sexual abuse without going public about it." She added that, "This awful tragedy is a wake-up call to all of us who don't want to get involved, who look the other way, who minimize what we fear is true, who do not want to turn in one of their own, be it a parent, a spouse or a child." Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D) of Boro Park who has taken the lead role in monitoring details of this murder said, "Before we received word that little Leiby's killer was Levi Aron, people expressed their worst fears to me; that the killer may have been a Jew. Nobody wanted to hear the horrific news,
but people had hoped that anybody but anybody; an Arab, a Christian any non-Jew would be responsible for this but not a frum Jew." Echoing Dr. Chesler's sentiments, Hikind said, "We have glaring problems in our community and we must confront them. We can no longer hide things or sweep things under the rug. There is sexual abuse and domestic abuse in our midst and we must deal with this head on." Although it is not clear whether Aron sexually molested Leiby Kletzky, Hikind
queried, "What would an adult male possibly want with an 8-year old, other than to victimize him sexually?" He added that, "we must train our children to be wary of strangers, even if they appear to be Orthodox Jews, and we must work tirelessly to address frightening phenomenon in our community." Having been interviewed by the international media on Leiby's murder, Mr. Hikind said, "This barbaric murder has genuinely touched the hearts of people of every faith around the globe. This is everyone's issue and it definitely transcends the Jewish community."
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Rabbi and Rebbetzin Charged with Kidnapping, Beating Israeli “Get Refuser” Continued from Cover can place upon a spurned wife, the rabbis have historically gone to extraordinary lengths to persuade such “deadbeat” husbands to issue divorce documents. In cases where the husband is negligent, or even, Gd forbid, abusive, rabbinical courts will issue orders compelling the husband to write a get, and those who refuse are subject to excommunication. In certain extreme instances, people have been brought in to “convince” the husband through physical means. The premise behind using intimidation and/or corporal punishment is that, as a Jew, the husband is essentially good deep down. In his soul, he wants to do the right thing, even if superficially he wishes to inflict this burden upon his wife. Ergo, if it takes a few kicks to the ribs to remind him of what he really wants to do in his heart anyway, it is permissible. Suffice it to say that U.S. criminal law does not operate according to this principle. Kidnapping is kidnapping, and assault is assault, regardless of whether it is committed in order to liberate an aggrieved former wife. Enter Rabbi David and Rebbetzin Judy Wax, considered “pillars” of their community of Lakewood, according to news reports. Rabbi and Mrs. Wax stand accused of kidnapping, threatening and physically assaulting one Yisrael Meir Briskman, who fled Israel in 2008 after refusing to grant his wife a divorce for five years. The High Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem ordered Briskman to grant the divorce, and in light of Briskman’s refusal, issued a number of sanctions against him. As part of the excommunication, the court ruled that the Jewish community is forbidden from counting Briskman in a minyan (the quorum of ten adult Jewish males required for public prayer services), conducting business with him, providing him with food or shelter for payment or for free, or “extending him a kindness or favor of any kind.” According to the FBI, Rabbi Wax lured Briskman into his home in October of 2010, under the pretext of possibly hiring him to collaborate on a series of Talmudic books being published by R’ Wax’s Taryag Legacy Foundation. Upon arriving, Briskman was subdued by a pair of hired goons, who punched Briskman in the face, handcuffed, and blindfolded him. (The federal criminal complaint might not have actually used the phrase “hired goons.” – ed.)
Wax allegedly beat Briskman, attempted to extort money from him, and threatened him in a variety of colorful ways, telling Briskman would be buried alive should he continue to refuse, and offering him a choice between a divorce and a funeral. _______________________________
“Rabbi and Mrs. Wax surrendered to law enforcement on Monday, and were brought up on charges of kidnapping and coercion.”
_______________________________ After f inishing with the theatrics, Briskman claims that he was placed into a second car, driven by Judy Wax to Briskman’s cousin’s home, at which point Briskman was warned not to go to the police. A website produced either by Briskman or his supporters (ymbriskman.com), emblazoned with such clichéd and grammatically dubious headers and footers as “Let The Truth Be Known” and “The Truth of a shocking story” claims that it “will tell the entire TRUE story of Yisroel Meir Bryskman / Briskman and post all the facts, with all the evidence.” “This,” the site explains, “includes Audio, Video, and Documentation.” At the time of this writing, the evidence is still forthcoming, although some letters by rabbanim and batei din have been posted. The author of the page has, however, had time to post a list of sarcastic “tips,” taunting his alleged attackers. Among them were: “Don't attempt to kill someone in your home,” “Get rid of the evidence if you do,” and “Check your facts before doing the crime, not after.” The list of suggestions for kidnappers concludes thus: “Don't be a preacher of the Mitzvos of the Torah... and then educate our world with other action.” (sic) Rabbi and Mrs. Wax surrendered to law enforcement on Monday, and were brought up on charges of kidnapping and coercion. The Waxes were released on bond, totaling one million dollars. If convicted, they could face life in prison.
SENS. LAUTENBERG AND MENENDEZ URGE NJ DOT SECRETARY TO RELEASE OF $450M FOR MAJOR NJ RAIL PROJECT Following passage of the FY 2012 Energy and Water appropriations bill in the House of Representatives late last week, U.S. Sens. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) urged Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to expedite the release of $450 million in funding that will reduce delays and significantly improve rail lines that serve Amtrak and NJ Transit riders in New Jersey. he House bill would rescind $1 billion in federal funding for high speed rail, including funding that the Department of Transportation has previously announced will be going to a project in New Jersey. The Senate has not yet taken up the House bill. If the Department of Transportation “obligates” or releases the money before the House bill becomes law, the rescission will not take effect.
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“We are writing to urge you to move expeditiously to release the $450 million in high-speed intercity passenger rail funding recently committed to the Northeast Corridor,” the Senator’s wrote. “Amtrak is prepared to move forward immediately, and we therefore ask that you obligate this funding without undue delay.” On May 9th Secretary Ray LaHood announced $450 million for power, catenary, signal and track upgrades along a segment of the Northeast Corridor in New Jersey. The improvements would lift maximum speeds from 135 mph currently to 160 mph by 2017, make this segment of the Northeast Corridor the fastest and best performing stretch of passenger railroad in the United States, and support more frequent high-speed service. The project will also complement the Gateway Tunnel Project with infrastructure upgrades along the Corridor in New Jersey and upgrades to the western entrance to New York's Penn Station to mitigate congestion.
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THE “LEGACY” GOES ON:
FIDF HOSTS U.S. VISIT FOR ISRAELI CHILDREN WHO HAVE LOST A FAMILY MEMBER IN DEFENSE OF ISRAEL Scene from past years’ FIDF LEGACY Program
New Jersey’s Jewish community has received a very special opportunity to host a group of Israeli children who have suffered the devastating blow of losing a parent or a sibling in the defense of the Jewish Homeland. At the end of this month, many families from Deal will host 48 children, from the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) LEGACY program for several days of fun, food and festivities, letting these wonderful children know how much they are loved. he LEGACY program brings Bar/Bat Mitzvah-aged kids from Israel who have lost a parent or sibling while in service in the IDF to the United States to celebrate this important milestone and enjoy the support and bonding with their peers who have also made this terrible sacrifice. Many of the counselors that travel with the children also are members of bereaved families and have gone through the LEGACY program themselves. This is the sixth year that our community has welcomed these children into our homes. This year, alongside the many wonderful families who open their homes and hearts, FIDF is excited to partner with the pioneers of the Sephardic Community Alliance’s Israel Leadership and Development (ILEAD) program, a selective group of high school seniors developing leadership skills through a 5-week summer course in Israel. These exceptional teenagers spent last summer in Israel and had the opportunity to meet many of the brave soldiers of the IDF as well as bereaved families who paid the ultimate price of a country constantly at war. The ILEAD group will welcome the LEGACY kids with open arms at a welcome party they have spent many hours organizing so the children will have the best experience
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possible. Following the event, the children are split amongst the hosts to become part of their families for a few days. On Friday they’ll spend the day in the sun at a pool party at the home of Sarit and Albert Negri, then celebrate Shabbat evening with their host families, and on Shabbat day, local resident Marilyn Chira has graciously offered to host them again this year. Motzei Shabbat, the LEGACY kids and members of the community will be hosted at the home of Shella and Toby Cohen. FIDF sponsors a variety of programming for these children both in the U.S. and at home in Israel. This year, with the help of the community, FIDF will be holding a fundraising raffle, all of the proceeds of which will go to support these amazing children. Tickets will be sold prior to the LEGACY kids’ arrival by members of the community as well as through the weekend. The winner-takesall prize includes two round-trip tickets to Israel generously sponsored by Bella and Haskell Joe Cohen, Bose noise-cancelling headphones, a $250 gift certificate to Bergdorf Goodman, and Davidoff Zino Scepter Chubby Tubos cigars. Raffle tickets are $100 individually, three for $250, five for $400 and twelve for $900. The FIDF would like to thank Barbara Beyda, Haskell Joe & Toby Cohen, Rosie Cohen, Jeffrey Beyda, Albert Savdie, Jacqueline Benun, Renee Cohen, Nissim Elmann, Sabina Korman, Ezra Mosseri, Ezra Schrem, Esther Sabbagh and the JCC for all your hard work and support in dedication of our brave soldiers and their families. To participate in the raffle or to find out more information about the weekend, please contact FIDF Coordinator Margo Katz at 646-274-9614 or Rosie Cohen at rosiecohen94@gmail.com
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SENATOR SCHUMER CALLS ON AIRLINES TO REFUND FEES IF LUGGAGE IS DELAYED OR LOST Schumer: Unless Airlines Do the Job They Are Paid to Do, Passengers Shouldn’t Have to Pay a Dime
United States Senator Charles E. Schumer on Sunday called on all major airlines operating in the United States to reimburse passengers for checked-baggage fees whenever their luggage is not on their flight and delivered when their fellow passengers receive their bags. Schumer’s call comes in light of a major loophole in new regulations from the U.S. epartment of Transportation (DOT), set to take effect in August, which will require airlines to reimburse passengers for baggage fees only if their bags are lost and never returned, even though in the vast majority of cases bags are eventually returned to passengers – though sometimes many hours or days late. Schumer said that this new DOT rule means that passengers will continue to be unfairly charged baggage fees, even if their bags are not promptly delivered to them at the airport, and in a letter to the heads of the major airlines, Schumer called on the airlines to voluntarily refund checked-baggage fees to passengers who request such refunds if their bags don’t arrive when they do. “Unless airlines do the job they are paid to do and return bags in a timely fashion, passengers shouldn’t have to pay a dime,” said Schumer. “It boggles the mind that airlines can lose your bags for days on end and still stick you with the bill. Passengers deserve better, and I urge the airlines to
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Senator Schumer: “It boggles the mind that airlines can lose your bags for days on end and still stick you with the bill.” begin refunding these baggage fees ASAP. If there is not positive progress on this front, I will introduce legislation that protects air travelers from unjustified fees.” Nearly all airlines charge checked-baggage fees, and most now charge passengers not only for additional and overweight bags, but also for passengers’ first checked bag – leaving most passengers with little choice
but to pay a fee. These fees can range from $25 to well over $100 per bag. Under a new U.S. DOT rule set to take effect in August, airlines would be required to refund checked-baggage fees to passengers only for items that are lost and never returned. Passengers whose bags were misdirected or lost, and then subsequently found, would receive no refund, even if the bags were returned days later. As a result, the vast majority of passengers will receive no refund because most bags are eventually found. In 2010, U.S. airlines mishandled 3.57 bags per 1,000 customers, and while exact figures for the number of bags lost in the U.S. are not available, USA Today reports that American Airlines says the number of lost bags by American Airlines is much less than one-tenth of 1% of
total bags handled. In addition, according to SITA, an aviation technology provider, globally the world's airlines last year mishandled 12.07 bags for every 1,000 passengers and only lost .43 bags for every 1,000 fliers. In a letter to the heads of the major U.S. airlines, Schumer today called on the airlines to institute a new policy that would refund passengers for checked-baggage fees if their bags don’t arrive when they do unless the delay is beyond the airline’s control. Schumer said that the DOT’s reasoning behind not adopting the rule, that once an airline delivers a passenger’s bag the airline has performed their service – no matter when the bag is delivered – defied common sense. Schumer said that if the airlines did not change their policies, he would introduce legislation that would create a new DOT rule forcing them to do so. Schumer has long been an advocate against unfair airline baggage fees. Last year, Schumer led the successful effort to stop airlines from introducing carry-on baggage fees that would have forced passengers to pay just for bringing a bag on board. Checked-baggage fees began appearing just four years ago, and are now a major, growing source of income for airlines. In 2010, 20 U.S. airlines took in $3.4 billion in baggage fees – a dramatic increase from 2007, when 22 U.S. carriers took in $464 million. Previously, ordinary checked baggage was included with the price of a flight, so there was no preexisting regulation to deal with baggage fees for lost items. Schumer said that if airlines are going to charge passengers sometimes exorbitant checked-baggage fees, they should be contingent on airlines actually delivering bags to passengers in a timely fashion. A copy of Schumer’s letter appears below.
July 18, 2011 Dear ________: I write to urge you to reimburse passengers for checked-baggage fees whenever bags are not delivered to their final destination in a timely fashion. Travelers who pay additional fees to check their luggage on their flight should receive the service they paid for and should be reimbursed for those fees if their luggage is not on their flight and delivered to them when their fellow passenger’s receive their bags. Passengers who pay a fee to check their luggage expect that their bags will arrive at their final destination on time. While I am pleased to see that new rules put forth by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) require passengers to be reimbursed for baggage fees if their bags are lost and never returned, these rules fail to address the situation in which luggage is delivered late and I do not believe they are sufficient to protect the consumer. That is why I am calling on you to institute a policy to refund passengers for checked-baggage fees if bags do not arrive when passengers do unless the delay is beyond your control. This fair and common sense action would guarantee that passengers are not charged for a service which is not properly carried out. If this problem is not corrected, I am prepared to introduce legislation requiring DOT to write new rules requiring that baggage fees are returned for delayed luggage. Thank you for your attention to this request. I look forward to working with you to protect consumers from unfair fees. Sincerely, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer
July 22, 2011
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The French Riveria, 2011 Destination of Choice Many people are taking their summer vacations overseas. One of this year’s top destinations is the French Riveria. The most popular place on the famed French coastline is Cannes.
The French Rivera has become a favorite destination for Jewish Summer travelers.
amous for its International Film Festival, Cannes is located in the southern part of France, the French Riviera. Cannes is an elegant city known around the world and attracts an international clientele. What other city can offer, all year round, such beautiful light, such a harmonious union of sea shores and wooded mountainsides, such lush vegetation, dazzling gardens __________________________________
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suspended between the ultramarine sea and the azure sky, such a mild climate, air perfumed with a thousand fragrances. Cannes is also a city of conferences, trade shows and business meetings. The world-wide Chabad Lubavitch movement opened its center in Cannes in 1989. Today it has grown, and many organisations are included under Chabad of Cannes: - The Synagogue of Rue Commandant Vidal - The day School L’Ecole Juive de Cannes - The social organisation “Centre d’Accueil et d’Animation Cannois” - The Judaica shop Cann’or - The “Jewish Tourist Center of the French Riviera”, including many “summer Synagogues” - The JJC – Jewish youth organisation - The Jewish Learning Center “Tiferet Shlomo” - The Jewish Community of St Tropez - The Jewish Community of Mandelieu-laNapoule In addition to servicing the local Jews, with many programs geared for young people, it has become an international center which greets visitors from aboard with great warmth and friendliness. All these efforts are directed by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Matusof and his son Rabbi Mendel Matusof. Located a minute away from the famous “Croisette”, don’t forget to visit Chabad, in vacation or in business trip...
Kosher restaurants - Tovel Restaurant, under supervision of
Chabad and Rabbanut of Nice Rue Gérard Monod. tel: +33 (0)4 93 39 36 25. The restaurant can be open for Shabbat by reservation. (It opens only if it has a total of minimum 15 reservations for Shabbat). This restaurant can also deliver Kosher meals to your hotel, house or boat, and it has also a catering department. Coté Croisette, under supervision of Rabbanut of Nice 3, Rue Latour Maubourg, tel: +33 (0)4 93 43 51 33. Kosher grocery shops - Cannes Cacher, 9 Rue Marceau, tel: +33 (0)4 92 98 80 80 - Cannes Cacher, 10 Rue Louis Braille (not always open), tel : +33 (0)4 93 39 85 08 - Chez Sylvie, 18 Rue Maréchal Joffre, tel : +33 (0)4 93 39 57 92 Synagogue The Chabad House - Shul is located 22 Rue Commandant Vidal, corner Boulevard de Lorraine. It is a minute away from the "Croisette" boardwalk. Walking directions: On the Croisette, at the Palais Stephanie (ex Noga Hilton), take rue Amouretti, the street becomes rue Signoret (go past rue d’Antibes), which becomes rue Commandant Vidal. At the end, we are on your right. Daily: 8 AM and 8 PM. Friday night: Entrance of Shabbat.
Shabbat Morning: 9:30 AM. Mincha: same as Friday night.
Accommodations Cannes has more than 100 hotels. You can find them on the web www.cannes.com, or by calling the tourist office: + 33 (0)4 93 99 19 77 or +33 (0)4 92 99 84 22. The closest 5 star hotels to Chabad are the “Palais Stéphanie” (ex Noga Hilton) www.palaisstephanie.com tel +33 (0)4 92 99 70 00, and the Carlton Intercontinental
www.ichotelsgroup.com tel +33 (0)4 93 06 40 06. You can find a lot of information in the website www.ereux.com » If you need any more information, please do not hesitate to contact us Rabbi Mendel Matusof or Yudi Levin: By email: canorhabad@aol.com By phone: +33 (0)4 92 98 67 51
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DAVID’S FLOORING OF NEW YORK
July 22, 2011
Prime Minister Netanyahu Meets Israel’s Most ‘Special’ Athletes Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met on Tuesday in Jerusalem with Israeli athletes who took part in the “Special Olympics” for developmentally disabled individuals, and who returned last week from the world championship in Athens, Greece. The event was also attended by Minister of Culture and Sport Limor Livnat and by Moshe Kahlon, Minister of Communications and Minister of Welfare and Social Services. uring the event, Tali Kornhauser, Deputy Chairman of Special Olympics Israel, told the Prime Minister and the ministers about the achievements of the Israeli athletes, who had won 25 gold medals, 25 silver medals and 16 bronze medals. Israel competed against 180 countries. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the athletes, telling them, “You’ve brought a lot of honor to the State of Israel. As far as I’m concerned, you’re in a daily competition. You need to find your strength, but you’ve discovered what kind of strength exists within you. We’re impressed by it. “You’ve touched the hearts of all the citizens of the State, and I know that you deserve a prize every day of the year,” added the Prime Minister. Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat said, “For us, every one of you is a champion and all of you are winners. You give us all strength. You are proof that anyone who believes can win.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gives a warm greeting to Israeli athletes who took part in the “Special Olympics.” Minister Kahlon said: “It is heartwarming to see all the athletes with medals on their chests. You have brought a lot of honor to Israel’s citizens. We’ll help you maintain the momentum and achievements in the coming years.” “Special Olympics” is an international organization established in 1968 in the United States, and which specializes in sports activities for members of the population with developmental disabilities. The organization today has over three million athletes from 180 countries. The Israeli delegation in the Athens World Championships numbered 84 athletes and 31 escorts. (ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM)
Kosher Kayaking in NY PHOTO BY SMUEL BEN ELIEZER
Shabbat-observant kayakers preparing for their circumnavigation of Manhattan, Sunday morning. departure time of 6:30. BY SMUEL BEN ELIEZER New York is a sport town as well as the largest Jewish city in the world but there are few sporting events in which Jews actually partake. There is the fledging JRunners that promote a few races a year, and there are many Jews that partake in the NYC Marathon. ost of the non-Jewish events take place on Saturday, excluding all Shabbat observers. This week saw a historic event where a non-Jewish sports organization went out of its way to accommodate Shabbat observing Jews for one of their events. The Downtown Boathouse hosts an annual event where a group of kayakers circumnavigate the Manhattan Isle. The event draws about 30 people for the grueling 30 mile, 10 hour paddle and is usually held on a Saturday in July. This year when the notice went out for the paddle some religious people remarked that they would have liked to have participated but cannot because of Shabbat observance. One of the organizers of the event, Cindy Louis, decided to offer a special Sunday circumnavigation for those who cannot go on Shabbat. Seven people signed up for the paddle that started at pier 96 at West 56th Street, early on Sunday morning July 17, with a
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Leaving Pier 96 they made their way down the Hudson River to Pier 40 where they were joined by additional kayakers than continued on down to the Battery and the confluence of Hudson and the East Rivers. Passing the South Street Seaport they were greeted by the family of Rob Sidlow who cheered the group on from the dock. Making their way north they passed the Lower Manhattan bridges and caught the current getting a ducks eye view of N.Y. After a break for lunch they continued up north along the Queens shoreline than into the Bronx passing the new Yankee stadium. Further north they passed through the turbulent Hells Gate at the northern end of Manhattan. Seeing the George Washington Bridge with the little red lighthouse they new they were almost home. Catching the outgoing tide they rode the current back to Pier 96. The paddle took about 10 hours including the stops for lunch, rests and sightseeing. Charles Abrams, said that it was a lot easier than he thought it would be. “It was more like a 5k run than a marathon.” Avi Berliner, who came from Riverdale for the paddle said that he had only been kayaking for about a year and is looking forward to many more trips with the Downtown Boathouse. For more information on the Downtown Boathouse activities go to downtownboathouse.org.
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July 22, 2011
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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
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1050 CPW ( 100th St ) Condo Jr 4 Oversized 1 Bdrm with conv dining alcove, raised 1st fl, 6 CLOSETS, full service building, low monthly expenses, $745K Julie 917-453-5330 fenwickkeats.com
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Unfurn apt/ Manhattan: Canal Street 83 (Corner Eldridge St.) 414 sq ft. NO living $12000/Mo No FEE 212-736-6888 x113 Call Marvin 1060
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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
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MANHATTAN 1090 Financial District: Beaver St 2nd Floor, 2500 sq ft, avail imm. Debra Rosenfeld 212-604-4744 1095 PRIME MIDTOWN LOCATION: 2500SF, btwn 5th/6th Ave. Close to all trains. Good for ofc & showroom. Please call 917-815-0788 or 917-496-3529
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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
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BROOKLYN 2045 Ave I/ East 29th St: Large 1 BR, newly renovated, new kitchen ad bath. 2nd flr. Low maintenance. Asking $159K 347-850-4886
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2045 2 spacious and modern co-ops 1BR 1530 East 8th Street Asking $165K 545/mo maintenance. ALSO 1170 Ocean Parkway Asking $195K 1,000/mo maintenance Please call David 718-336-2021
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2045 Co-op Midwood 1680 Ocean Avenue 4BR, 1.5 bath. Totally renov $425,000 Prudential Douglas Elliman RE Robert Nicoletti 917-679-2685
2045 Boro Park: 22 Webster Ave #3C Open House, Sun 4/10, 14PM. Spacious 1BR, new modern EIK with appliances, LR, large DR, extra closets, low maintenance. Priced to go!! 718-501-4003
2045 1170 Ocean Parkway: Charming 1BR in beautiful lux doorman building. Apt is in pristine condition and radiates with natural sunlight. Pool, laundry and Shabbath elevator. $209K for apt call David 718-938-3248
Ocean Pkwy / Ave L: *Mint L-shaped Studio…$75K also for rent $1100. *Front 1 BR, new kitch/bath…$109K *Sunny Jr 4 with large patio…$199K All apts in luxury 24 Hr doorman bldg with pool & CAC. Maint incl all util. OCEAN PKWY/ AVE M *Sunny mint 1 BR, low maint…$185K *Mint 1BR, patio, low flr & mnt $199K *Huge front 3BR, patio, low flr & mnt $375K All apts in drmn bldg with garden area. Close to trans & shopping. BRIDGEVIEW RLTY 718-375-1920
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BROOKLYN 2020 GRAVESEND: East 2nd/ Ave S: Detached large 2 family brick,, basement, 2 car gar. Attached lot Owner 914-552-3126
Flatbush Ocean Parkway Foreclosure exclusive 30,00sf land approved ready to build for 50 Condos parking and Recreation available. Call Yvette of Magic Realty 516-702-6300
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2020 Marine Park: Prime, 1 block from park, renovated, semi det. Tudor home, 3 BRs, 1.5 bths and windows, new porches, fin Basement, driveway. Asking 639.9K. Call owner 917-873-3395 2020 Marine Parkway: 1650 MARINE PARKWAY: Amazing deal! Beautiful spacious home, new renovations throughout private driveway, near shuls and park, shopping, trans and more! 5 BR, 4 bth, 2 kitchen, finished basement, guest room, family room. Asking $929K. Call 848-525-7703
2020 Marine Park: 3807 Avenue R, East 38th, Ryder detached private driveway yard, 4 BR, 1 BTH 1800sf + 589K. 646-732-6620 2020 Boro Park: 2 family house for sale newly renovated with finished basement and backyard 1st floor 2BR 1bTH 2nd Floor 3 BR 1 BTH R & H Realty 718-232-2550 2020 Flatbush, Ocean Pkwy: Foreclosure exclusive 30,000 sf, land approved ready to build for many condos. Parking avail. Call Yvette at Magic Realty 516-702-6300
House for sale or rent – Brooklyn, Flatbush. E20’s one family 40x100 house. 5 BDRM/ 3 ½ baths, solid brick home with slate roof. Master suite on 1st fl. Drive in garage with radiant heat. FSBO 917-239-6270
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2020 Boro Park: 58th St/ New Utrecht Ave 2 story frame plus basement and lot. R5 Zone, building 20x60 plus lot 20 x 62. Total lot 40x62. Asking 699K. 4 Reasons RE 718-238-8222
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REAL ESTATE 2020 Gravesend: OPEN HOUSE – Sun 1-3pm: May 22nd 702 Gravesend Neck Rd. 2 family corner, 5 rms/ 5 rms/ 5 rms new finished bsmt. 2 car garage. Reduced $789K. Fran Rizzo agt 646-207-5087
Midwood: For sale, 1 family, 4 bedrooms detached. 40x100 lot Bedford Ave. BY OWNER. No Brokers. Please call JOYCE 917-721-3438 2021
Ave N-O/ East 23rd St: Newly renovated, 1 fam semidetached brick, 3BR, 3 bath, LR with fireplace, finished basement w/full bath, private drive/garage. 917-596-6932 2020
Open House 3/20 2147 59th st btwn. 1+3 Fully detach brick Owner motivated Joseph 917-613-1443
2020
2020 Marine Park: 3807 Avenue R: East 38/ Ryder: Detached private driveway, yard, 4 BR, 1 bth, 1800sf + 589K. 646-732-6620
Boro Park: 12th Ave + 42nd Street: Double garage for rent, for storage only. $300 per month. Call 917-593-0707 9050
SEAGATE: Beautiful 2 family, new construction, semi detached house. Private drive. 3 BRs/ 1 BR terrace. Full basement. Ask $759K Call agent 718-680-9633 2020
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
2020 Midwood: $695,000 Great 3BR semi, DR, 2bth, 113 lot. Neuhaus Realty 718-979-3400 www.neuhausrealty.com
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
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East 23rd St/ Ave S: Beautiful, 1 fam det 3 BR, near shuls, By owner, No brokers. $650K. OBO Must sell. Call 305-751-0412
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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
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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 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
East 20’s/ M&M: 1 Family detached 40x100, finished attic, private drive. Nice block, great neighbors. 917-863-4708 2020
CROWN HEIGHTS New York State Public Auction JUNE 22, 2011 Min Bid $700,000 836 Prospect Place, Crown Heights 3200 SF 3 story residence 5 bdrs, 2 bths, 2 car garage fenced yard OPEN HOUSES May 4 & 24, June 9th 11:00am to 2pm Also available at auction Camp Gabriels in the Adirondacks, Schenectady Armory, Schenectady house FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. NYS OFFICE GENERAL SERVICES 518-474-2195 www.ogs.state.ny.us 2020
Fisk Terrace: OPEN HOUSE: Sun, March 6th 2:00 – 3:30pm 807 East 19th Street $910,000 #583 853 East 18th Street. $850,000 #586 www.MaryKayG.com 718-282-3141 2020
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
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
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
718-921-0500 718-7483741 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
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 2020
EAST NY, BROOKLYN: Large 2 Family Brick, semi quiet block, needs work. Asking low $3K 646-753-1400 2020
CANARSIE, 1 FAMILY 30X100. EXCELLENT CONDITION. PERFECT FOR PROFESSIONALS, INVESTORS OR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY, SEMI COMMERCIAL STREET. 347-260-7838
Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent
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BROOKLYN BORO PARK 17THAVE/55TH STREET modern dental medical office available part time or full time more than 2000 square feet operations. Fully computerized and equipped. Nice waiting area plus reception desk kitchen and storage room. Central air and heatExcellent opportuninity with no investmen. Rent negotiable security deposit required. Credit check. Lease. Available june1. 718-435-0045 2050
Ocean Parkway and Church Ave Medical space by owner from 500 sf to 4,000 sf rent from $1,000/mo rooms available @$500/mo call 718-338-6300 artesq@gmail.com Brokers Welcome
2040 Kings Hwy/ E 9th: 2nd Flr, corner building, 18 x 24. 750sf, c/9 $1800. Also 18x24 430sf $1,000. Izzy 917-533-7889
Ave J/ East 13th Street 1 BR apts Ave L/ East 19th Street 1BR apts Ave J/Ocean Ave Street level medical office 718-236-3199
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Marine Park: Storage only excellent condition finished basement runs length of house $275 negotiable, references required, 1 month rent plus 1 month security call owner 718-375-8785 If you can’t leave a message please call again 9040
Avenue U/East 4th St: Concession space available together with Love to Dress, behind Coquette Kids. Call owner: 917-913-0000
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Boro Park 17 Ave/55th Street Mod dental/medical office available P/T or F/T. More than 2000 square feet. 4 operatories. Fully computerized and equipped. Nice waiting area + reception desk, kitchen and storage room. C/AC and heat. Excel oppty with no investment. Rent negotiable. Security deposit required. Credit check. Lease. Available June 1. 718-435-0045 2040
BORO PARK 42nd Streer/12th ave double car garage. rent for storage only. $300/mo. call owner 917-593-0707 2040
2020:Midwood/ Marine Park. Ultra modern s/det brk, fin bsmt, 3BR duplex, $735K. Legal 2F. 917-748-7780 bkr
2040 Boro Park: 1000 – 3000sqft, beautiful space. Serious inquiries only. Please call management. 718-855-2000 or 845-270-1213 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
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Boro Park: 50’s Dahill Rd. New on market. 8 rooms, 2 family brick. $779K negotiable. Krone Realty. 646-286-6208
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2020 Marine Park: 3807 Avenue R. East 38/Ryder OPEN HOUSE SUN 4/17 2-5 PM, detached private driveway, yard, 4BR, 1 bath, 1800sf. $589K 646-732-6620
-OPEN HOUSES SUNDAY 12-2PM Midwood 1385: E 2nd, 2 Fam + Fin Bsmt, 3 kitchs & 3 baths. Madison 1432E 2nd, 1 fam det 3BR Duplex. 33x100. Madison 1640 Madison Place. Det Brick 5 BRs, 3 bths, 38x100 Lot. Century 21 SAVALOT 718-336-1144 2020
OCEAN PKWY & CHURCH AVE: Medical space y owner. From 500sf to 400sf. Rent from $1000/mo 718-338-6300 artesq@gmail.com Brokers Welcome 2040
2040 SCHOOL SPACE: 4 large bright clsrms plus gym plus offices. Ave I & Coney Island Ave. Avail September. Call Alice 718-377-4400 or Mr. Weiss 917-301-2898
PARK 58TH STREET/ NEW UTRECHT AVE 2 story frame plus basement and lot 20x60 plus 20 x 22 total 40 x 62 Asking 699K 4 SEASONS RE 718-238-8222 GRAVESEND: New const 1000sf, full bth, adjacent to physical therapy ofc, ideal for medical. 718-382-8881 2040
Psychiatrist seeks office sublet for Wednesdays in Boro Park. Private waiting area necessary. Call 516-330-9776
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Office For Rent. MARINE PARK OFFICE SPACE. Corner bldg, 1200sq ft. Good for professional/ day care, etc. Delivered vacant. Long term lease avail. $2500/mo + utils. Owner 646-3025001 or 646-302-5003 2040
2040 STORE FRONT / SUNSET PARK: Prime office/Retail space, 900 sq ft great location, prime bus area, split level business, 2 flrs, very busy intersection, 39th St + 5th Ave. Bus stop on every corner. $2600 a mo includes tax/ lease term. Call mgmt 718-288-2922
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
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
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
2040 Williamsburg: Beautiful office for rent. 1,200sqft. Ready to move-in. Price Negotiate. Call 917-250-4899
VIDEO CONFERENCE ROOM available for daily and/or weekly rentals. 26 Court St. Downtown Brooklyn. Joe Schacter 646-529-3632 2040
2040 EAST, NY: Kid Kelly boxing gym space available for karate, yoga, aerobics or fitness class. Call 718-495-5710 or 917-589-6568
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 Ave U/ East 7th: Renovated approxiametly 350 sf, storefront, prime location. Ideal for professional office or small store. 718-938-9899
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
2050
BROOKLYN Boro Park: Hi 30’s For Sale By Owner, corner building. 1st story 80685 lot. 1.5M. Call 347-4241500 Leave Message
2050
Boro Park: 18th Ave/ 54th St: WAREHOUSE / Retail space for lease / rent. 7,000 sq ft. Building For sale. Call owner: 917-440-7280
2050
ESTABLISHED Daycare: FOR SALE. Great Opportunity! Call 718-339-0755 or 718-677-7028 2050
PIZZA SHOP: For Sale in Midwood, Brooklyn. By owner. Call 718-253-1896 or 347-522-8896 2050
Rare opportunity! Motel for sale. 40 large rooms with kitchens. Ideal for yeshiva or institution. Call 917-365-2037
2050
GREENPOINT COMMERCIAL BUILDING – FOR SALE. Approved kitchen . 2 floors plus basement / Hi ceilings 14,000 sq ft, fully equipped. Everything in TOP CONDITION. 917-331-0671 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
For sale or rent – Rstrnts, Bars & Clubs Kings Plaza – Brooklyn, NY – 6yr old bar / restaurant, 10 yr lease w/option , back yard, full kitch, 1400 sf + bsmt, open options, $200K/business, $4000/rent + 9500sqft, bar also avail. Contact Joe 917-862-5214 2050
2050 KINGS HIGHWAY EAST 9TH ST 2nd floor coner office space for rent new c/a 18x42, 750 sf, $1800. Also 18x24 430 sf $1000 Izzy 917-533-7889
BUSINESS FOR SALE: TRENDY WOMEN’S BOUTIQUE. Brooklyn. Great location. Very busy. Near nail salon. Established clientele. Fully equipped. Must sell – Moving out of state. Great price! Call owner: 347-424-7460 or 718-513-6664
2050
2050 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 Rare Oppty! Motel for sale, 40 large rooms with kitckens. Ideal for Yeshiva or institution. Call 917-365-2037
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 2050
2050 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
Boro Park, 13th Ave: Top location, professional offices for rent. 2000sf and 1400sf for rent, elevator building and parking. 718-438-3736
2050
Williamsburg: Heart of 111 Lee Avenue: Bts Keap and Hooper. ALSO doctor’s office wanted. Call 917-335-6001
2050
2050 East Flatbush. 2 Family plus store. Store vacant. $70 OBO. Call 917-803-8702
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BROOKLYN Bergen Beach: 6.5 rooms, 3 BRS, 1.5 bths, good condition. $1600 utilities not included. 718-238-6381 or 917-968-5684 2035
2035 Madison/Bedford Ave/Btwn R+Quentin: Price reduced! Large rooms, EIK, LR, DR, 4 BR, 3bth, 40x100lot. Legal rental. Over garage. $1.1M. Negotiable. Ruoff Realty 718-945-3362 2010 Crown Heights: 574 Maple Street: BTW Albany and Kingston Ave, 2nd FL, front BR with large LR & DR, EIK & wood floors, reduced rent $1290. 1st mo rent fee and ($648) Security dep required $3225 to move in. Hold for $1935, first month rent upon move-in RENKEN RE 646-235-4368
Apartment For Rent 2010
BROOKLYN 2010Midwood: Furnished room in private house FOR RENT Male preferred $400/month, Utils included Near Q & F trains (917) 841 5821
Rockaway Park 2BR 2BTH duplex apartment in private house 1st Floor mint condition all new appliance close to transportation call for appt by owner 347-642-3115 2010
Bensonhurst 4 newly renovated large rooms 2BR call 718-259-1654 Leave message
2010
2010 $175,000 2BR 1 Bath co-op 144 B 121st Beach Block by owner no board approval can be in before summer ends 650 sq ft 11 winndows high ceilings wooden floors gallery kitchen with new appliances and cabinet s $642 maintenance includes parking taxes heat and water Quiet 7 unit building steps from beach call denise 347-727-6994
EAST FLATBUSH – 3 bedroom, 3rd Fl of 3 family. Close to trans & shops. $1700 mo. Credit ck. Principals onlyOwner 917-613-7545 2010
Far Rockaway 2m/8M/12,000 square feet for storage or rent. Gas, heat, Low tax, high ceiling. 718-945-3500 Cell 516-697-2296 2010
7050 SEAGATE: Hotel Services available for weekend get togethers (ie: shabbatorim, simchas, events, meetings, etc) Reasonably priced. Avail imm. Call owner 718-714-0028
East 2nd/Aves N+O: Garage for rent. Good for 1 car. Shomer Shabbos. 718-614-9233 or 718-627-6155
2010
2010 Bergen Beach 1 BR walk in LR, DR, EIK near transportation, shopping and more $1100 including heat call owner. 718-209-2146 or cell 347-713-2619
Ave T , West 4th St: House for rent. Upstairs + Downstairs. 2 BR, 2 bth. Newly renovated, nr trans (F+N Trains). Backyard & driveway (backyard parking avail) also near shopping. $3000/mo. Call owner 718-266-0496 2010
2010 Kensington: 3 BR, 1.5bths heat incl, 2 flights up, balcony, 3rd flr, private brick house. Reasonable. Shomer shabbos. 718-972-3473
2010 Ave X/ E 7th: 1 BR apt, EIK, close to beach, Q + F train + express bus, refrigerator, brand new stove. Mint condition private house asking $950/mo 718-332-2849 2010 Georgetown: 1 BR apt, new kitchen, new windows. Parquet floors. $1200 Call owner. 917-412-5184 or 718-306-2582 2010 Georgetown: 1 BR for rent, newly renovated and furnished excellent condition. Good location near transportation shopping and more short/long term avail. Call 917-696-0000
Apt for rent Brooklyn: Madison / Midwood / Sheepshead Bay. Studios 1,2,3 BD’s $800-$2600 Courtland Real Estate. Jack 917-596-6507 Mark 646-359-6323
2010
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REAL ESTATE 2010 SUNSET PARK RENTALS Newly renov 1BR apt, $1150. 41st between 4th and 5th Ave. Must meet income & credit req. Heat & Hot water incl. Call Mgmt: 212-994-2246 or 212-994-2247
2010 Dahill Rd/ Ave P Vicinity: Great location! Near F train, 1 BR apt, 2nd flr, private house, credit references. MIC. Reasonably priced! Call owner 516-633-2969 For details.
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
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
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 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.
E 7/ Bet 18th & Ditmas, sound – proofed, large 1 BR BSMT w/washer, dryer. $875 util incl. 718-972-5058 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
Brooklyn Room Furn: TEMPORARY LODGING MOSSAIC SUITES. Fully serviced – Internet. As low as $65 Daily, $385 Weekly 718-972-4377 2010
FOREST HILLS KOSHER RESTAURANT FOR SALE:
4000SQFT, PVT DINING , LICENSED LIQUOR BAR, 50 TABLES, SALAD BAR, BSMT FOR STORAGE. GOOD INCOME. ASKING 525K. CALL
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
718-268-7777
Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent
3060
QUEENS/BRONX HUB Area of the BRONX4 stories Mixed Use Property Lg 1st fl Comm & 3 2 bdr apts. Asking $425K neg. Morrisania Sect. of the Bronx 47 Units 6 storey multiple dwelling Asking $32M neg. For further info contact: Broker 646-721-4736 3060
*HUNTS POINT WAREHOUSES FOR RENT* 3200 sq ft 15,000sq ft multiple options/Owner 917-662-2425 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
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
3000
QUEENS/BRONX NEW BRONX BAKERY FOR SALE. Close to precinct, 3 schls in immediate area. Fully optional, most equip new. Asking $110K 646-496-7885 3000
2010 MIDWOOD / AVE U SINGLE WOMAN LOOKING FOR NO MORE THAN ONE ROOMATE. NO SMOKING, NO PETS ASKING $450/MO UTILITIES INCLUDED CALL 631-624-3331
2010 East 68th Street: 3 BR duplex apt $1800/mo includes parking, heat and gas. Call 947-412-5184
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
Apartment For Rent 2080
QUEENS/BRONX Kew Garden Hills Beautiful sunny large 1 BR near queens, college and Q65. 24 hour security elevated $1375 602-717-0163 2080
3060
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
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
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
2045
2010
2060 OPEN HOUSE – 3133 Rochambeau Ave : Saturday and Sunday. 11am -2pm Great renovations, clea and new fixtures. Near Bronx Botanical Garden, Montifore hospital. – 1 Bedroom - $900-$1100 PAUL 917-659-4255
Retail space for rent/Queens Laurelton Merrick Blvd, 2000 sq ft for rent, 6000 sq ft air space available. Call owner 917-750-0966 3060 LIC Warehouse Bldg for sale. 4100sf, overhead door, hi ceilings. Additional development rights. $1.3M MSparks@ergpa.com 646-253-0904
Apartment For Sale 2060
QUEENS/BRONX Kew Garden Hills: 3BR co-op with attic. Prime location, Motivated seller. $250,000 908-998-4992
2060
1060 MIDWOOD 2 spacious and modern coops. East 8th Street. 1 BR $165K. Maint $545. 1170 Ocean Pkwy 2BR, $215K Maint, $1,000. Dave owner 718-336-2021
2080 Rockaway Park: Furnished rooms, 1 block from beach. Kitchenette, close to A train. All utilities $750/Mo Call Agent 516-297-1534
WOODLAWN Studio Co-op Apt in elevator secure building $725 / month 516-633-3368 2080
2080 122nd Street/ Rockaway Park: Airy Sunny room for rent. Room for a kitchenette, shared bath, looks like studio, utilities included. Fully furnished, clean, quiet house, great location. Half a block to the beach. Asking $750/mo. Call owner 917-287-6876
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/ 2-1BR, 2 bth with porch$1300/mo, no pets. Call owner 718-810-0001 or 617-304-9050. Both Avail Feb 1st 2080
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
FRESH MEADOWS: SPAC 3BR, 1.5 BATH, MOD KIT, 2ND FLR, WASHER/DRYER. NR SHOPS & TRANS. CALL 917-687-9928 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
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
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QUEENS/BRONX 3020 Far Rockaway 239 Beach 3rd Street For Sale 20,200 Sq ft waterfront development site 200 plus ft fronting canal marina Ideal for luxury 1 and 2 family homes all suitable for temple, school, etc asking $525K or best offer – broker protected Foreclosure agent 718-478-5858
Ridgewood Queens: 6 family building FOR SALE. Brick 12 Bdrms, 6 BA. New plumbing, windows, roof, sidewalk, Walk to subway. Asking $879K. Call owner 917-714-0779 3020
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 3020 Far Rockaway: 239 Beach 3rd Street. FOR SALE. 20,200sq ft WATERFRONT. DEVELOPMENT SITE. 200+ FT, fronting canal – marina. Ideal for luxury 1+2 family homes. Also suitable for temple, school, etc. Asking $525K or best offer – Broker protected. Foreclosure. Agent 718-748-5858
House For Rent
5065
LONG ISLAND FAR ROCKAWAY: 1 + 2 BR apts, some with balconies, new kichens, closets, 24 Hour doorman, security cameras. Walk to all trains. Call Sherr @ Weissman RE 516-791-6100 or 516-297-7995
5065
5065 North Woodmere: All new 2 BR apt heat & electric included. Shomer shabbot. Close to Shuls and shops. 917-642-7879 Shay 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
5065 Far Rockaway: 2BR, 1st FL, porch & patio, own thermostat, near shuls & schools. Avail Nov 15th. 516-643-9204 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
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 ROCKVILLE CENTRE new kitchen, new carpet, 2 BR, attic/storage area, walk LIRR, parking, $1850 plus electric. Call 516-250-8604
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 Oakdale/55+ Condos. New construction on Oakdale Bohemia Rd. 2 BR, 2 ba, models now open from $385,000. 631-472-2242
Apartment For Sale 5000
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 5000 Woodmere: C/H col on ABC St. 6BR, 5 full bths, full kosher kitch, wood floors throughout, full finished basement with BR. Total house Renovation in 2004. Call 516-640-8646
Melville Condo For Sale by Owner (62 and older). 2-Bedroom/2- Full Baths unit is big & bright with walk-in closets. Totally up-graded with granite, tile & more. VERY LOW TAXES & Maintance costs. Gated community has Private parking. Clubhouse has pool, fitness, kitchens & more. Five minutes from restaurants, parkways, shopping, golf course, Republic Airport. Forty-five minutes to N.Y.C. or The Hamptons $469,000. Call 516-456-6445 or lindaann919@yahoo.com 5000
5000 ROCKAWAY BEACH: Beach 2 BR condo for sale in a 4yr old building. Eff kitchen, LR, DR area & terrace. Beautiful views of Manhattan & 1 block from the boardwalk. Asking price is $255K. Call Gisela of Century 21 Amiable 917-601-2489
Atlantic Beach 2BR, 1.5 bth Condo, Patio CAC Walk to Private Beach, Boardwalk + Temple Private parking, Low Main. $399K 516-596-7305
5070 GREAT NECK land for sale, 3 res lots on wooded pvt cul-de-sac. Builders/ principals only. 516-443-2700
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
5080
LONG ISLAND 5080 CANDY / ICE CREAM/ COFFEE SHOP: Eastern Long Island, Busy, Great Buy. $139,900 516-523-4678 5080 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
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 WESTBURY – Commercial space 241 Post Ave. 2 story building. $350K 917-301-1625 5080VALLEY 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
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5040
LONG ISLAND Box and Bold 5060 House for rent Long island N WestHampton Summer Home Rental available from August 1-September 5 3 bedrooms= 2 bath Central AC and Pool Basketball court and Spacious grounds. Walk to House of Worship Asking $15,000. Call Donald (516) 652-9508 or Cindy (516) 641-7340 5040
5040 Hewlett: 4 BR cape, beautiful wood floors, EIK, large finished basement. 1 block from Yeshiva. Walk to train and town. Sale $299K or for rent. 347-539-7332 or 718-938-4517.
Lynbrook, NY: House for sale, 4 BR, 2bth, LR, DR, EIK, great location. Reasonably priced, call owner. 516-945-5268
5040
5040 Lawrence: Elegant Center Hall Colonial set back on 1/3 ACRE PRIME LOCATION, all shuls, LIRR, 12 rooms, 5 BR, 3.5 bth. Oversized BR, 3 walk-ins, fireplace, FDR, Pesach kit, circular driveway, maid’s room. Sunroom, decks, All systems. Central Air; Many more features. Email: elegantcolonial@hotmail.com Call 718-974-6766 5040 Hewlett 2 family house, $529K visit www.monicamohanst udio.com/1792Broad way/ or call 917-6487682 By owner SD14 5040 SOUTHAMPTON: 3BR/2BA: Cottage By The Sea. Across the street from pvt beach, contemp, fplc, 2 car gar. Large 2nd story deck on treed ½ acre. Low taxes, 3 zone heat. Ask $769,000 Pete 631-283-5499
Hewlett: 4BR cape, beautiful wood flrs, EIK, large finished basement, 1 block from yeshiva. Walk to train and town . Sale $299K or for rent. 347-539-1332 5040
5040 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 5060 Cedarhurst: 4BR, duplex apt, private laundry, kitchen, closets galore plus LR, DR. Unlimited parking. Garage/ backyard. Avail Jan 1st. Call 516-996-1955
Nassau/ Suffolk: Co-ops & condos. ATLANTIC BEACH3 BR/ 2.5Ba renov townhse in “PebbleCove”. Resid-only Beach, pool, 24HR Sec. Stunning Ocean view. Low tax $1.399M Agent 516-808-5927 5040
5040 Bayswater: Brand new 2 family brick 3 over 3 bdrms, basement driveway, stainless steel appliances. Walk to Shul. Only $5400 down. No closing costs. Owner / builder. 718-755-2135
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LONG ISLAND CEMETERY PLOTS FOR SALE Desirable single plot at Mount Ararat, Long Island. Price Negotiable. Call 646 249-5612
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8095 Hewlett 4BR cape beautiful wood floors EIK large finished basement, 1 block from yeshiva Walk to trash and town Sale $299K or for rent 347-539-1332 or 718-938-4517
MEDICAL OFFICE FOR LEASE OR SUBLEASE BY MD LOCATED AT 4111 18TH AVENUE BORO PARK PLEASE CALL DR. GERSHKOVICH TEL: 646-338-2422 EMAIL: ROBIT61@AOL.COM
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4020 Staten Island/ Willowbrook: Detached 6 BR, 3 bth all brick, 1 block from young Israel. Near express bus city. My owner 718-698-8425 or 917-576-6312
COMMERICAL PROPERTY FOR LEASING OR SALE ULSTER COUNTY KINGSTON NY – REPUTABLE HISTORIC PROPERTY Perfect for Corporate Relocation. Great Location, near all Highways. Previously Operated by IBM, 212,000 SQFT. Extremely Low Operating Cost. Willing to Neg. For Leasing/ Sale for more info. Contact (917) 892-1090 Ali
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
Apartment For Sale 3080
1000-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
Apartment For Rent 3065
STATEN ISLAND WADING RIVER RETAIL SPACE WADING RIVER DRY CLEANERS FOR RENT AVAILABLE AUG 1ST BUSY SHOPPING CENTER. BELINDA 631-929-8400 6000
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
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STATEN ISLAND (New Dorp) 2000 sq ft office space. Near train.Convenient to all. Pat 646-369-9457
SMALL BUNGALOW COLONY: 70 beautiful acres to buildings and inground swimming pool needs tlc. Features 2 small lake with historic stone den waterfalls streamhills valleys and lotsof trees less than 35 miles from the George Washington Bridge in scenic Sullivan county asking $499K Call Joyce David 718-875-2000
Liberty, NY – 2 – Story comm. Bldg for Retail or Warehouse On Main St. Surrounded by municipal parking. 2 x 5000sqft. Originally was a super market. $300,000/neg. Ask owner about finance options. 914-584-2982 1024
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NY STATE 6090 Beth David cemetery plots Elmont, NY one plot asking $1750. Negotiable. 540-846-6380
6090 Monticello, NY: 23 acres, 5 ranch houses on property + one main house with 6 apartments, swimming pool, underground pool and electric cables, well water, walking distance to walmart and shul. 718-848-6974 cell: 917-601-3002
Montefiore Cemetery: 1 Grave, lot 187. Section H. Asking $900 or best offer. Call 310-246-9666
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Monticello: Beaverlake Est: large BRs, 4 bths, 2 large open porches. Shomer Shabbat day camp on premises. 2 pools + Sport amenities. Call 718-208-8286 6090
Port Richmond-3 office suites w/reception area. All brand new, fully renovated C/A. full bsmt 2,700ft w/dual bthrms, new carpet. Please call: 347-424-7809
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BUSINESS FOR SALE UPSTATE “KOSHER IN THE CATSKILLS” Country Comfortable Restaurant, Fireplace and Bar, Beautiful older building-On 2 acres—on major road 500’ plus road frontage possible to subdivide an additional lot or two— Seats over 50— Fully equipt, TERMS AVAILABLE— NEGOTIABLE. CALL, Art 845 807-8267
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NY STATE 6080 Monsey: Assisted living for elderly includes personal home care, 3 meals, day etc. 718-924-8067
6080 MONTICELLO: Morning acres. 5BR, 4bth house. Avail for July. Excellent location. Friendly colony. Heated pool and day camp. Call 718-377-6662
Woodridge Sullivan County Summer rental Apt in private home on 2 acres 2BR/ 1 bath/ large living room/ modern kitchen/ Private entrance walking distance to worship. Minimum one month. Call Harriet. 212-284-5262 6080
Monsey: Assisted living for elderly includes personal, home care. 3 meals/day, etc. 718-924-8067
6080
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
For Sale
NY STATE 6060 Vacation Village Home For Sale UpState 4 bdrms, 2.5 baths, additional shower, eat in kitchen, central air,fireplace, Skylights, new roof and vinyl siding, enlarged deck, front porch with storage closet. Vacation Village offers shul on grounds; entertainment; Shuirim and lectures; indoor and outdoor pools, sauna; sports facilities for Tennis, baseball, basketball, and more; large playground for kids, day camp on premises, great location-near all facilities, and much more. Call (718) 627-6155 (718) 614-9233 Or email: vacationhome4sale@gmail.com 6060 Kew Garden Hills: One of a kind. West of Main Street. Semi-detached. 23x100 lot 4BRs, LR with fireplace, charm circle. Call Vera. Coldwell Banker 917-853-5455
6060 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
COMMERICAL PROPERTY FOR SALE, UPSTATE NY MOBILE HOME PARK FOR SALE IN ULSTER COUNTY, NY 9 UNIT, 2FAMILY BRICK HOUSE, 2CAR GARAGE, 4.70 AC, NICE AREA, ASKING $525.K HOLD MORTGAGE BANK RATE. CONTACT (347) 672-0989 6060
6060 Sackett Lake: Waterfront, magnificent views. Private road. 6BR, 4bth, fireplace. Near shul. 917-434-0349 or 845-406-4564
SWANLAKE: Winterized House 50x120 lot, $1200 maint/ tax year needs renovation quick sale $37K. Near shopping, transportation and shuls and kosher pizza. Wigs and wig machine for sale. Call 718-972-6068 6060
COMMERCIAL OFFICES 4356sf on 2.79 acres. Currently medical officescan easily be reconfigured into any usage. 11,100sf parking area w/room to expand. Great location, easily accessiOnly $399,900 ble to Rt. 17(I86)
PREFERRED HOMES & PROPERTIES (845) 482-4300 Email: diane@preferredhomes.net
RESIDENCE WATERFRONT
FOR SALE RETAIL CENTERS
Fishing, Hunting, Surfing, Wake/Boarding
METRO MEMPHIS, TN
www.mybrm.org Email: L.houck@bresnan.net 406-761-1851 or 9697
6060
6060 Sullivan County: Monticello Country 4/bed 3bth home 4sale in the Catskills. 2 car gar, hrdwd flrs, all appl incl. Water View. COME TAKE A LOOK. 845-807-2486 See WEBID NS1104014930
Ballstan Spa – Ranch Model Home. Shocase of the home winner 4/ 2 ½ baths, central air, beautiful features. Costume made $525K 518-309-4707 or 518-894-2234 6060
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
Woodridge: 2 story 2BR home, 2 bths, large deck inground swimming pools, views. 2.56 acres. Walk to town. Price 225k. Call 845-791-0945 www.resortrealtyny.com
6060
NEW YORK STATE – HOUSES FOR SALE Adirondock Park – 2,500 sqft, 4 BDRM, 3 bth, large loft 7.84 acres w/river front, open floor plan, deck, attach -garage, private, quiet. 937-689-5990. 6060
WESTCHESTER COUNTY: BEDFORD CENTER NEW LUXURY HOME IN BEDFORD-7500SQ FT-TASTEFULLY FINISHED-SPRING OCCUPANCY-FAVORABLE BUILDER-FINANCINGBROKERS. PROTECED. 914-245-9000 See WebID NS110220832 6060
6060 NEW LISTING: Lakewood Indian Park. 51,977sf 22-28 ceiling height. 4 loading, 1 drive in docks, $95sf. Principles only. 732-905-5606 or email at mehgh2011@yahoo.com
6060 NEW ROCHELLE. OWNER FINANCING. Renovated 3 BR/ 2 BTH w/new bright. 1 BR/ 1 BTH in-law $724,000. 914-715-3494
Monticello: Triple net lease of Catckills, bungalow, colony. Lovely grounds with pool. 55 units. Price negotiable. Subject to owner Approved credit report. Carol 626-394-2378 Carol@acmecos.com 6060
Vacation Village: 4 BR townhouse, 2 full baths, C/A fireplace, new siding and roof, large deck, in/ out pools, tennis courts. 718-614-9233 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
Property/House
For Sale
7030
OUT OF STATE 7030 HOUSE FOR SALE CONNECTICUT DANBURY, CT CONTEMPORARY HOME Westside, Danbury, Low Taxes. A MUST SEE! ViewWWW.FORSALEBYOWNER.COM Search “06811” 9 Hall Street $559,000. Contact (914) 656-7563 or (914) 948-4664
PROPERTY FOR SALEVERMONT VERMONT –WORCHESTER, 5 Acres with Beautiful Mountain Views, Logging Load, near Power, $37,900.00. More Land Available Also. Contact Roger (603) 685-3396
7030
COUNTRY ESTATE & HORSE FARM 36 Acre Private Estate w/ 3 Homes on Property, Large 70X140 Indoor Riding Facility, 18 Horse Stalls, Outdoor Ring, Plenty of Trails & Privacy Galore. Property Includes Additional Building Lot, 12 Fenced in Paddock Areas & is Currently Generating $8700.00 in Board / Rental Income. Less than 2.5 hrs to Time Square. This Property Must be Seen & is Everything a Horse Enthusiast Hopes For. Reduced to $1,199,000. Contact Tim (413) 237-5140 7030
Maine Property for Sale- MAINE, HARTLAND – Lakefront 600 ft-Morrill Pond, Wooded 8 acres. Divided into 5 bldg lots, Beautiful Beach $495K FOR ALL! Call 631-929-4587 7030
PROPERTY FOR SALE PENNSYLVANIA 76 Acres in the Heart of the Poconos, Great Hunting Retreat or Estate. Property only 1.5 hours escape from NYC. $950.K Please call: (570) 269-5067
7030
Available For Rent
7065
OUT OF STATE 7060 Office Space for Rent, Philadelphia, PA PHILADELPHIA NE, Executive office space on US 1, FULLY FURNISHED, Furniture & Office Equipment incl. Ideal for Lawyers or a Call Center. Contact (215) 669-4001 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
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
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
7060
OUT OF STATE Maya Riviera, Tulum Mexico 4 Acre Lot FOR SALE BY OWNER Second Line Lot 210 ft. Frontage $523,000 OBO 580-798-668
7030
For Sale Retail centers Metro Memphis TN 47,290 SF Metro Nashville, TN 78,105 SF Lewis K. McKee, Jr. McKee and McFarland, Inc. 901-680-7700 maem@mckeeandmcfarland.com 7060
7030 Out of State Property for Sale – Rhode Island 36 acre estate & horse farm. Less than 3 hours to Times Square. Magnificient, View property @ WWW.PILOTPOINTFARMCOM $1,350,000.00 Contact Tim (413) 237-5140 For photos & more info
47,290 SF
METRO NASHVILLE, TN 78,105 SF Lewis K. McKee, Jr. McKee and McFarland, Inc.
901-680-7700 macm@mckeeandmcfarland.com
6060
Kimball & Yonkers Ave:
Houses for sale $359,000 – FOR SALE COFFEE SHOP 1 Family. 2 BR’s, living room, dining room &DAIRY kitchen on RESTAURANT KOSHER 75 x 100 lot in 2 family
RESTAURANT KOSHER UPPER zone.DAIRY/ Finished basement with Garage. WEST SIDE VERY separate GOODentrance. TERMS CAPOBIANCO REALTY ASKING $70k 914-963-5522
CALL OWNER 917-660-6005
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
DOWNTOWN DENVER – REAL ESTATE Match our $4 million equity for 50% & receive cash flow from rentatls plus upside on sales for 2 downtown townhome communities & vacant land up to 144 units for details call 303-295-0177 Email: build@summitlegend.com 7060
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7070
BUYER WANTED FOR GLATT KOSHER LI CATERING HALL seats 300, long lease, reasonable rent attractive terms 516-987-1979 7070
TIRED OF BIG OIL RIPPING YOU? Save 20% on Fuel – Really! Not a Gimmick, Gadget, Tablet or Card. Real Fuel Science that Really Works or $ Back. Contact (260) 637-5775 (DIST. WANTED) 7070
7070 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY BUSINESS FOR SALE ATHLETIC TRAINING FRANCHISE IN CLIFTON PARK, UPSTATE NEW YORK. Seeking Doctors, Chiropractors, Phyiscal Therapist. Day Hours Unused & Still Profitable. PROTECTED CAPITAL DISTRICT TERRITORY. $750K Contact Jack (518) 879-4002 Website:WWW.ATHLETICREPUBLICCP.COM
South Shore only glatt kosher take-out & butcher shop in town for sale. 15 yrs in Busn. No competition. Best Loc. Low rent. Excel income. Grt Oppty. Priced for quick sale. 347-517-8818
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY CAPITAL WANTED – INVESTORS NEEDED FOR MUSICAL SHOW. ESTABLISHED LAS VEGAS MUSICAL SHOW IS EXPANDING. EXCELLENT INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY. YOU WILL DOUBLE YOUR INVESTMENT IN ONE (1) YEAR. CONTACT (212) 537-9205 EMAIL: INFO@AMERICASSOULM USIC.COM 7070
7070
7070 CAPITAL WANTED NEWPORT, R.I. DEVELOPER CONDO CONVERSION PROJECT. Seeking Equity Partners, Returns in Excess of 20%. Proof of Funds Required. (401) 619-4112 or (518) 878-9320 jkupetez@gmail.com
US PATENT for Sale #6526612 for Unique travel pillow w/speaker for MP3’s, I-Pods, etc. 917-968-1048 or email uspatinfo@cs.com
7070
Business Opportunity INVESTOR WANTED – $500K, Guarantees. Well established Automotive Rebuildable Business. Invest your Money in a most Liquid Commodity in the World. Contact (646) 287-1402 7070
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY 100,000 RX Cards Placed in 80 Pharmacy Locations @ .03 each. You Earn $1.50 for each new & $.75 for Refills. Compounding Residual Income. Contact (877) 308-7959 X 231 Website: WWW.FREERXADVANTAGE. COM 7070
7070 For sale coffee shop/ restaurant kosher dairy/ upper west side very good terms asking $70k call owner 917-660-6005
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY “WONDERFLOWERS” – UNIQUE BULBS, TURN A $500. CASE INTO $3,000. – SELL AT FARMERS AND OR/ FLEA MARKETS, HARDWARE STORES, PRODUCE STANDS & MORE. CONTACT AL (317) 408-4118 AND EMAIL FLOWERBULBKING@YAHOO.COM
7070
7070 KOSHER MARKET ESTABLISHED, 45 yrs, lower Westchester, seeks working partner to expand in new direction. Experienced, talented + Computer savvy. Call Mr. Cohen 914-373-1802
VENTNOR: Singles 40-50 Block from beach Long Season All amenities Laurel 215-219-9358
7020
7070 8% on Very Safe $170K Mortgage, House sold for $335K, 51% Loan to sales price, 3200 sq ft home in gated comm. All due in 4 yrs. Why earn only 2% on CD’s? OWNER 817-579-5222
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY OIL AND GAS LEASES Producing Oil & Gas Leases with Semi Proven Development. Drilling Acreage Locations. All Leases Bears 100% W.I. 75% Revenue. Call (325) 668-6000 7070
Excellent Business Opportunity Property is excellent for Multiple Business. Owner retiring. 2+ Million in sales yearly, Full Service Liquor license and business operating for 43 years. 7,000 +/sq ft bldg, 2 ac of land. May include 3 bedroom house, also zoned Commercial. $1,500,000. Nino Trujillo 505-456-8179 Mike Liguori 505-620-7166 7070
6% - 7% INTEREST ONLY 7070
Paid Monthly Lend on an interest only apartment building note/ mortgage, 1st lien position. Properties located in AAA area's in Miami-Dade. Loan to Value below 70% and DSCR greater than 1.5. Yields Paid Monthly via ACH to your bank account. Inspect properties, rent roll, and profit statements. Call for more details:
305-858-4058 Investors Only
Great Opportunity! Home phone, business phone services for only $39. Tax included. Unlimited USA/Canada. All features included. Call 845-637-7352
7070
7020 Absecon 4 Plex 2 commercial and residential with parking lot. Three already rented $330,000 609-377-7109
Fund Any Project 10 million to 1 billion Call Bill 334-435-6013
7070
PIZZA SHOP: For sale in Midwood, BKLYN. By owner. Call 718-2531896 or 347-522-8896 7070
DORE BARS $32,000 per kilo (92% - 22K) Hand delivered to NYC - FMI: gold@amefricaltd.com
Capital Wanted. 60% GROSS to investors FILM: Industry Pros producing for cable Int’l, VOD & DVD. Bug $705K. MI 250K. GP $3M. SIO 860-490-2866 7070
Own your own business. County Resource Guide Licenses Available Nationwide. $35,000 complete. Financing available to qualified persons. Training provided. 877-826-1515 7070
7070 Online Auction Alabama I-65 Building *Freeway Access* Sells to highest bid TheRealEstateClearingHouse.com 800-499-9378
Professional NASDQ/Futures day trader seeking serious investor to make huge profits averaging 300%+ low risk. Call Mark 917)825-0053 7070 Capital Wanted Investors wanted secured by CMO + CMB invest $5Mil, will have return of 7% of your investment w/in 6months. Secured by the instruments. Call Sheridan Capitals LLC. For further details. Contact 347-785-5980
7070 SEEKING FUNDING Attractive Interest Return Seeking Working Capital Boston Subcontractor seeking short term funding or 10% more on return tomsloane2003@yahoo.com Thomas P. Sloane 617-799-2404
7070 Need additional income? Learn to operate a mini-office outlet from home, free online training, flexible hrs, great income. www.ziporasnolimits.com Call 416-785-0206
BELIZE – Ambergus Caye – N San Pedro. Thirty American condo owners want you to own their resort. We will let you rent them out! Tom 406-580-5568 or Email: STC1006@QWESTOFFICE.NET 7070
Sale: Mineral Rights +/- 1,428 acres Shark Island, Vermilion / Weeks Bay inner coastal Iberia Parish, LA $20K per acre. For details: jpscholes@cox.net
7070
7070 For sale: Commercial Maintenance and Repair Company serving businesses in Manhattan. For details Call 646-438-9186 or 917-797-0360
8.5% Return European Microfinance Geocapital Secured – Short Term Investment $5K - $60K Accounts Available invest@geocapital.ge 800-276-1468 www.geocapital.ge 7070
Lines Distribshps. Wtd. Distributors needed in your area for the world’s leading company in reshaping nutrition, skin care, unmatched diet plan and green products. Amazingly you can lose 2.3 Dress sized in 10 mins. you can dress a new beautiful you. products can be purchased 877-403-2721 www.ardysslife.com/pioneerlife 7070
WANT TO EARN A 6FIGURE INCOME FROM YOUR HOME? I CAN SHOW YOU HOW. 1-800-676-1264
Uri! Uri! AWAKEN! AWAKEN!
7070 GOLD MINE – Profitable, operating placer mine seeks capital /loan/JV/equity for expansion and permitting of additional mines in Oregon and Nevada with proven reserves. $2 million minimum. Geologist reports and proven reserves. Principals only. Paul 503-670-1093 www.paulvaden.infop www.aumine.com
Financial Services
Prana Mandir Yoga Studio 4 West 43 rd Street, 501
Meditation Class: every Monday at 6PM
Shabbat Service: every First Friday at 8PM
Psychotherapy: Rabbi Robert Teixeira, L.C.S.W.
212-961-1745 Info@AwakenAwaken.org
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
7080
7080 POWER FINANCE Fully Insured Structured Business Loans for Qualified Ventures. $25M Minimum. Closing in UK, 60-90 Days. Agents Needed/ By Contract . Contact (850) 259-1162
FUND ANY PROJECT 10 Million to 1 Billion Call Bill 334-435-6013 7080
Tutors
3005
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
Help Offered
8010
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
MATURE SINGLE LADY seeks room $450-$500 per month in Bensonhurst, Bath Beach or Gravesend area. Also SEEKING EMPLOYMENT as: Caregiver / Housekeeper / Babysitter 718-266-7295 8010
HOME HEALTH AIDE – (Private) Hardworking, reliable, personable, licensed, many years of experience, excellent refs. Call BARBARA 347-383-5462. Exp in kosher homes. 8010
8000
Music Instruction Berkeley College of music professor available for private drum lessons. Conatct: 617-835-6404
Health
7090
SUSAN TEEMAN: Life coach, help one find Oneself. Em Body both Work & pleasure. Call 212-744-7837 7090
Life Coach SUSAN TEEMAN LIFECOACH. Free one hour Phone Consultation •Find balance in work & life •Set & Execute goals to overcome obstacles •Improve business & personal relationships •Discover what you should be doing •Become your BEST self susanteeman.com 646-481-2520 7090
MELT 2-5 LBS PER WEEK. Try it for $4.95 For 2 weeks. For details call ANN 347-561-6030 7090
HELP OFFERRED COMPANION/ELDERLY CARE – Look no Further, we Highly Recommend this Honest and Kind Caregiver for your Elderly. Refs. Upon Request. Contact (917)968-0112. 8010
Experienced CNA looking for full time employment licensed seeking to take care of elderly 7 days a week. Specializing in Alzheimers and bed ridden patients. Good references. Please call 862-218-3880 8010
Experienced Lady Seeking to care of the Elderly / Housekeeper 718-703-1730 8010
Educated lady with 8yrs experience with elderly seeks companion job. Experienced in medical/ non medical area of care. Excellent references From employ. Call 347-998-1170
8010
8010 HELP OFFERRED NURSING ASSISTANT – (Private) Hardworking, Reliable, Personable, Licensed, Many Years of Experience in Kosher Homes. . Excellent Refs. Contact Barbara (347) 383-5462
HELP OFFERRED NURSE, MALE – Seeking Job in Priv Residence to Care for Adult or Child Highly Qualified. Available NY, NJ, CT & LI. Contact (954)588-3139 8010
8010 I am looking for a job: Those who are struggling to get a honest (110%), smart, responsible and respectful employee. Yes I am here! I can help & handle any business owner to bust their business. Pl call 212-470-9611 mdlitonkhan@gmail.com
A nanny – Experienced NANNY sks FT, live out position. Loving & caring. Certified infant care. Checkable references. Please call Clair: 347-721-4056 or 718-221-4419
8010
8010 Health – HHA & CNA w/ good references & 16yrs in field. Take care of your loved ones, w/dementia & or other illnesses. Avail ASAP! Call 917-807-4766
Seeking job to take care of the elderly. Home health aid, 16 years experience. Please call 718-882-5244 8010
Position Wanted: Experience in banking compliance research administration. Oral + written. Communication skills. 718-968-3213 8010
8010 Companion Aide. Live in, Good references. Kosher experience. 17 years, experience. 973-592-6081 8010 Goldstein Home Care Service. Live in/ Live out or hourly. Companion Aide 732-788-1974 8010 Reliable Nurses’ Aide w/10 yrs exp. Will care for you in your home. Refs & good driving record. Seek job Asap. Call Babs 407-936-4863
PROFESSIONAL LIGHTHOUSE HOME SERVICES. Compassionate Home Care FOR THE ELDERLY IN NYC. Lic Agency providing the finest in home care for your loved ones. Email: rbecker@lighthousehs.com or call 718-389-3304 We accept Medicare /Medicaid/private pay 9050
8010 Nurse LPN. Medicaid provider seeks private duty or Medicaid case. Good references available. 718-581-9786
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
NESI (NonPublic Educational Services, INC) has provided much needed educational programs to atrisk youth across the country for more than 30 years. We are seeking part-time Title I teachers for our Title I program in NYC. 8010
Successful candidates must have a bachelor’s degree and/or teacher certificate. CAR/ SAVE (child abuse, violence intervention and prevention) workshops required. Seeking part-time Middle and High School Math teachers also. Please email resume to mlee@nesieducation.org or mail to 1212 Avenue M, Brooklyn NY 11230 ATTN M. LEE
SALES New York Life Insurance Co is looking for isurance and financial services sales representatives. Sales experience helpful but not necessary. Comprehensive training program management oppty for qualified candidates. Equal oppty employeer. M/F/D/V. For Information, please call George at 646-227-8171 8010
CERTIFIED, RELABLE CNA/HHA seeks job to care for the elderly. Many years exp Excellent References. Available immediately. (917)741-3583
8010 Live-in. 7 Years exp. Very good ref. Would consider live in/out. Call 347-869-1956 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
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
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 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.
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
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
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
Administrative / Executive Assistant Part time/Full time. 19 years experience. 718-805-1448 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
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 718-263-4500 8015
8010
8010 CHAUFFER: Driver, courteous, reliable with a clean driving record. Solid Refs. Seeking a position. (Amazingly Talented Person) Contact 917-771-3405
8015 Warm responsible woman looking to be a shadow for your child in Boro Park/ Flatbush/Manhattan. Call 718-437-9152 or cell 917-627-3542 Many years exp. Avail for summer or winter
8015 A CNA experienced in elder care IRISH woman. Prefer Mahattan, lv-in/out. References and information. 914-272-9590
A Certified Nurses Aide/ HHA available to care for the sick or elderly or childcare. Kind, caring people person. Lv-in/ out, day or night. Also cleaning, cooking & laundry. Recent Checkable refs. Call Joyce 516-334-7859 or 516-236-2833
8015
An extraordinary loving companion Great skills and dependable. FT/PT 212-579-9692
8015
8015 EXPERIENCED Lady Lifeguard available for the summer. LTI and WSI certified. Call 347-782-7714 8015 A loving nanny with excellent reference seeks full-time/part time position in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Riverdale. Call 917-674-2445
REAL ESTATE SALES AGENTS: Make extra money! Astor brokerage. Real Estate Center. Serving the Kew Garden Hills Community is seeking local agents. We will train you! Call Chanita for info 718-263-4500 8015
Rabbi / Partner wanted for completed development adjacent to Oorah in Stamford, NY. Call 607-652-3387
8015
8015 REGISTERED NURSE: 30 YRS experience seeking employment in community health facility, private practice, senior center or home care. Call 718-634-8029
8015
Serious keyboard player needed for gigs & showcases around the world. Youtube.com “Project 6 reunion” Call 973-207-2604
8015
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
Expert on Israeli Politics + Policy w/ Rich editorial exp. Seeks employment mobile: 917-225-7665
8015
8015
HOME HEALTH CARE AIDE: Experienced CNA Eldercare / Baby care Available ASAP 347-469-2767
8015 Real Estate Sales Agents Make Extra Money! Astor Brokerage (bold) Real Estate Center serving the Kew Garden Hills community is seeking new local agents. We will train you Call Chanita for info (718)263-4500 8015 Experienced certified HHA seeks position to care for elderly with Alzheimer’s, stroke etc… Live-in 7 days/WK. Good references. Call 862-218-3880
8015 Successful busy PIZZA SHOP Located in UPPER EAST SIDE is looking for experienced. Mashgiach to start immediately. Call 212-987-9130
Professional Nasdaq / futures day trader seeking serious investor to make huge profits averaging 300%+ Low risk. Call Mark 917-825-0053
8015
TEACHER DIRECTOR with NYS teacher’s certificate in edu. For small Brooklyn daycare center. Call 718-385-0571
8015
8015 Looking for religious Jewish workers in the “HASHGACHA” field Kosher supervision. Option for training top become a “SHOCRET” Opening available for fully Certified SHU”B Midwest locs: NE, MN, WI Call: 303-810-8011 Email: moshedenver@aol.com
8015 DOMESTIC HELP WANTED. HOME HEALTH AIDE NEEDED. Certified experienced 5 days/week, must have car. 516-3794283 Merrick, NY
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 Turn-Key. Glatt Kosher, LI catering hall. Seats 300 long lease, reasonable rent. Attractive terms. Call 516-450-7323
AARP FOUNDATION WORKSEARCH Are you…age 55 and older? Unemployed? Low income? Unemployed? Low income? Resident of Queens? Looking for permanent? AARP Foundation WorkSearch, Senior training Program can help! Please call 718-433-0010 Ask to speak with an employment specialist. 8015
ADVERTISING SALES PRO WANTED Top commission! Experience required. For phone interview. Call MR. Haggerty @ 877-665-6618 www.123adsales.com
8015
8015 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 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
Cleaning Services
8045
Brooklyn Sanitation Rubbish Removal Backyard cleanouts apartment specializing in both commercial and residential same day service shomer shabbos Call owner:718-243-2525 9015
Bonded and insured kosher trained polish/English speaking European Expert care. Licensed Home Care Agency. Elderly care – house keeping. RNs, CPN, HHA, PCAs. Live-in/ out. Avail call 718-349-0099 8045
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
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Improvement 8081
9050 We meet or beat any price interior demolition one stop backyard basement clean out stop violations. Same day 24/6 licensed insured call 718-243-2525
Painting, sheetrocking 20 years experience Insured No job too big or small. For quality Call John Today at 718-898-7560 917-359-4579
9050
LICENSED & INSURED ALG AWNING When the sun gives you a fight, We make it alright. Free InHome Estimates Free InHome Renderings 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL RETRACTABLE AWNINGS, PATIO AWNINGS, RCOVERS, ALUMINUM AWNINGS, CAR PORTS, REHANGS/TAKE DOWNS, TRUCK LETTERING, GRAPHICS, RAILS, GENERAL WELDING tel: 718-909-7195 toll free: 888-853-0442 web:algawning.com email: info@alg-awning.com 2943 Falcon Ave., Far Rockaway NY, 11691 SPECIAL DISCOUNT IF YOU MENTION THIS AD WHEN YOU CALL 8081
8081 INTERIOR PAINTING FAUX FINISHES & MURALS MON – SAT 10AM – 6PM CALL 917-589-9601 www.colorwisedesignsllc.com
ROOFING & SIDING OCEANFRONT CONSTRUCTION CORP. *QUALITY FULL SERVICE* ROOFING – SIDING – LEADERS – GUTTERS JOHN NIES, Owner 347-680-6782 Licensed & Insured. Member BBB – A+ Rating
8081
One source Home Inspection serving the NY area. From foundations to the roof. Anthony 917-577-8464 8081
8080 Mike’s Home Improvement/ Roofing Sheet rock/ tiles, Kitchen/ Bath, Gutters + Leaders. 718-426-2167
I AM A PLUMBER (Boiler & Heating) LOOKING FOR WORK. Henry 718-809-6150 Reasonable rates! 24HR Service 8080
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
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 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
D.L.M CONSTRUCTION Licensed and Insured New Construction, Extension and Complete Renovation, 25 Years Experience Free Estimate 917-968-6809
Handyman
8080
Handyman: Quick service at low prices, carpentry, sheet roc, plastering, painting, electric + plumbing. Replace old toilets, sinks, electric fixtures and windows 917-385-8587
8080
9000 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
HANDYMAN AVAILABLE!!! Carpentry, Tile, Plumbing, Landscaping, Painting, Furniture, Asembly. Reasonable rates, Friendly service Call Orrin 646- 671- 3906 ingramo@earthlink.net
8080 Contractor: All kinds of jobs plus windows, plumbing, carpentry, painting. Call Baruch 215-725-9161
9030 20 PASSENGER MINI-BUS YEAR 2000. PLUS ELECTRONIC HANDICAP DOOR. EXCELLENT CONDITION. GREAT PRICE 917-482-5580
8080
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
M + K Pest control: Special price for bedbugs, senior discount. Reasonable + reliable services. Licensed and insured. Call 917-304-8777
9030 2003 Toyota Forara, fully loaded interior immaculate silver bodied. 45,000 miles routine maintenance. Price negotiable – 8,500 CD changer, leather heated seats, premium JBL sound system. Call owner 516-297-4583 or email bnespola@gmail.com
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
CHEVY 1996 IMPALA SS Rare green Immac. 21k $28,500 516-383-6326
9030
Pets 9035
8075
BROOKLYN’S BEST BED BUGS, RATS. MONTHLY PEST CONTROL. RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE. FRANK 718-415-6920 8075-
Electricians Top Security! Alarm and camera system phone and intercom system. computer working and all electrical needs. new line fixtures call now for free estimate Reuben 718-431-4408 Free Estimates & Low Prices! 9050
8081
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.
8065 TRACKS BY JACK 914-725-0785 TRACK LIGHTING SPECIALISTS INSTALLATION SALES UPDATE OLD CANS UPDATE OLD CANS WITH SMALL EFFICIENT LOW VOLTAGE HALOGENS WHOLESALE BULBS DELIVERED.
Electrician All electrical needs. New lines Trouble shouting fixtures. Call Yahuda: 347-631-0481
TOY POODLES AKC 2 Male 1 Female ready to go Tails docked, 1st shots, 1st heart guard, 1st front line. Champion sire, Dam on sight 203-881-0072 www.shamerspoodles.com 9035
PETS FOR SALE – DOGS AKC STANDARD POODLE PUPPIES HYPOALLERGENIC READY 6/15, TAKING DEPOSITS, EXCELLENT REFS. $1500. EACH. LOCATED IN SOUTHERN CT www.abbaspoodles.com (203) 937-6937 9035
PETS FOR SALE – DOGSAKC Labrador Retrievers: Pups ready for pick-up CH. Bloodlines bred for temperament, up to date on shots. Call and visit, BiGi’s Labradors. 973-993-9006 9035
PETS FOR SALE–DOGS Tawny briard puppies INTL Championship bloodlines Long Island, NY available to approved homes. Contact #631-537-5346 Website: www.briards.com
9035
Selling 9040
Autos 9030
9030 AUTO FOR SALE FORD FUSION 2010 4 Door Sedan, 7,000 Mi, Original Owner, Asking $17.K Contact (516) 242-5833 9030 Bala Cymoyd: 3 BR, 2 BA brick colonial, full bsmt, attached garage. Asking $430,000. Call 973-985-8789 9030 AUTO FOR SALE – 2008 Toyota Sienna, good condition, one owner. 56K miles 347-965-4842 Asking $13,000 9030 NATIONAL MOTOR CLUB: Auto and personal injury coverage. Anywhere in the US, Mexico, Canada. $18/month, 60% off prescription medications. Call Francisca 347-320-3890 Salesperson wanted.
MUST SELL! 2009 BMW 335d Like new condition. More pictures at robertbrown201@yahoo.com Robert Brown: 361-237-4612 9030
COLLECTIBLESGreat Deal! From 99% proof silver US dollars to 90% Silver Morgan and Peace dollars, half dollars pre 1967. Also very rare reprint editions of The Greatest Baseball Players of All Time including Ty Cobb & Lou Gehring. Call for details 718-474-6188 9040
PIANO FOR SALE YAMAHA BABY GRAND Like New, Lightly Used $12,000.00 Contact (631)666-7439 or (516)972-6277
Americana Collection American Mechanical Muscle 1850-2000 140+ Diecast Models, 200 + Plastic kits 98% NIB 290+itemdescriptive & historical books$24K/OBO Eric @ 860-683-2140 Leave name, phone # & Best times for callback 9040
9040 COLLECTIBLES AMERICANA COLLECTION – American Mechanical Muscle:1850-2000. 140 + Die Cast Models, 200 + Plastic Kits. 98% NIB; 290+ItemDescriptive & Historical Books. $20K/OBO Contact Eric @ (860) 683-2140 Lv name, phone # & best times for callback.
Collectibles – 1961 WORLD SERIES BALL – W/signatures incl. Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Whitely ford, etc. in box; also NASCAR. Winston Cup Poster + vintage comic books. Antique hand embroided quilts. Rare record albums. Contact 205-670-9044
Furniture Kew Garden Hills: Italian and French DR, BR, breakfront, Hi-riser, chandelier and Paintings. Call 917-836-0146
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
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
9040
9040 MOVING, MUST SELL ALL! FURN, APPLIANCES, HOUSEWARES, SACRIFICE! CALL 718-450-4879 9040 Kawai Baby Grand piano. Ebony satin finish, excellent condition. Contact 978-505-0971
Commercial gym equipment (4), hammer strength (2) nautilus (1) cybex – 2 yrs old original cost 18K asking 8K. Call owner 516-661-9639 9040
Motorized Scooter. Lynx L3, bright red brand new, used once, battery operated, holds up to 300lbs. $800 215-499-6226
9040
9040 Beautiful mahogany dining room set with breakfront, 8 chairs, 2 couches, set of coffee tables, 2 end tables and console, children’s new BR set. 917-771-6669
9040 BETH ISRAEL MEMORIAL PARK: Woodbridge, NJ . 4 graves with perpetual care $1250 each or best offer. 941-320-0945 Cell or 941-535-7886 9040 Beautiful custom designer L-shaped sofa (1yr old) salmon color, two tone fabrics, seat depth 41”, Length on one side (sections) 108” (68”x40”) and 100” (60”x40) condition perfect, Original price $25,000 must sell, Asking $3,000. Contact 646-642-8666
ANTIQUES FOR SALE - Morgan Silver Dollars 1878, 1882, 1889, 1895 & 1897 609-494-0900 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
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 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
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
Buying
9045
9050 OLD WATCHES CLOCKS WANTED BY COLLECTOR REGARDLESS OF CONDITION HIGHEST PRICES PAID. 212-517-8725
US Coins Wanted Especially interested in Govt proof/ mint sets. Orig boxes. Rare coins / Estate Jewelry 212-642-4324 Midtown 9045
Whole House: Contents includes 4 BR sets, living room, dining room, den and more! Excel quality. 718-757-0975
9040
9040
PIANO 5ft upright/w bench, $750 Cherrywood-marble-mirror hall tree, $700, 5 pc office furniture $650, corner curio cabinet, $150 631-736-2195 9040
9040 MERCHANDISE FOR SALE-COLLECTABLES: ROSEVILLE COLLECTION 60 Pieces, All Patterns, Shapes & Sizes, Beautiful $8,000.00 + ARMOIRE – 1875 Italian, Perfect Condition, Breaks Down in (5) Sections, Elegant $8,000.00 . Contact (212) 741-3887 or (646) 267-7391
Oceanside Private Sale. Auto BB’s, pics, all sports cards, dolls, hot wheels, xmas décor + more!! For appt Please Call: 516-678-1394
9040
Machpelah Cemetary, Ridgewood, Queens NY. Two cemetery plots. Price $1000 each including Perpetual care. Call 732-657-7120
9040
9040 2011 Dimension one hot tub, brand new, 3 year warrantee, seats 6 (2 pumps) Stainless steel jets. The #1 rates hot tub for energy efficiency. Originally $8839. Sale $5997 631-681-4400
DRY CLEANERS for sale in Boro Park. Asking $95K. Please call 347-585-6943 9040
9045 WANTED: HENREDON 1980s Chinese bedroom set. Need bed, lighted canopy, 2 pier armories, will also buy matching pieces and wall unit/ carved chest + cabinet. Contact 201-664-6983 lve msg
32 foot carver sleeps 6 excellent condition low hours on motors ’86 asking 35K Call owner 954-938-2655
9050
9050 Roosevelt Memorial Park single plot section T lot 168 $2600 OBO 831-915-9731 (California time)
Glatt Kosher Restaurant International Fine Dining Cuisine Palace Royale Call 215-677-3323 9050
9050 Licensed engineer working for government 28 years Iranian (Sephardic) 5”3 age 67 160 seeks modern orthodox attractive lady 45 years plus reply with photo Pls call 516-849-4359
9050 Fig trees purple, white and giant black Call owner: 732-663-0918
Shlomo Hamelech’s Tour of the United States and Beyond. Motor Home RV strips 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 $194,000. High bread car. Plus groceries for 10 years provided I am the driver. Minimum 30 day tour. Call 917-216-8379 9050
Roosevelt Memorial Park 2 adjoining single plots in very desirable section, across from Mausoleum. Sec B 10, LOT 157 Single plot only $2800 will sacrifice both only $4900. 561-479-0790 9050
9050 New Mercedes Sprinter van bought 11/10. 15K Many extras. Mint condition Priced for quick sale. 718-387-6571
$50,000 REWARD for evidence leading to the conviction of the person or persons who used my identity to create an account in my name at the Bank of America leading to credit card charges over $48,000. Eugene Bivins, 3475 S. Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL. 33480 561-493-4875
9050
On Long Branch boardwalk or in Broadway area. Desperate disabled man Lost black fanny pack containing cell phone & glassescommissioned for the Blind. Please call 732 222-5721 9050
9050 Couturier Seamstress Will create custom designs for your unique style or recreate pieces from famous designers. Alterations also. Call Jasmin (646) 645-7069 Jasminfashion@gmail.com 9050 Reputable moving excellent prices quality service DOT #2104954 Eli’s Moving Service 718-338-MOVE
Old Watches clocks wanted. By collector Regardless of condition Highest paid (212) 517-8725 9050
9080 Ventor: Furnished Ranch A/C 3BD 1 ½ BTH 3 blocks beach. July $7900 Aug $7900 or yearly $1875 No pets 610-517-4284
9050 Shlomo Hamelech’ s Tour of The United States and Beyond (bold) 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 you acquire entire RV for additional $194,000 Call 917-216-8379
9050 MOVING: Custom handmade pool table, handcrafted, wall units, oak finish, fits up to 52” TV. Technics stereo w/JBL speakers. Apt size washer. Best offer 215-338-5301
MASSIVE VINTAGE BASEBALL CARD COLLECTION From 1900 – 201 HUGE DISCOUNTS Call JACK at 203-557-0856 9050
HEADSHOT 2 GO…$150 Super 8X10 print & CD in one session Agent-Mgr-Casting Dir.APPROVED Fully guaranteed. Midtown-See web for details, samples: www.headshot2go.com Also-Artistic & Executive Portraiture 212-564-4005 9050 Mt Ararat: Farmingdale, 8 burial plots for sale $12,000. Best offer. 516-466-4432 or 631-466-1635 9050 Beth David Cemetery Elmont, NY One Plot asking $1750 negotiable. 540-846-6380 9050 Ask the expert. Harav shlomo Fogel. Any problems with social security, SSI + medicare. Call 718-252-0336
SEAGATE: Hotel services avail for weekend get togethers (ie, shabbatonim, simchas, events, meetings, etc) Reasonably priced. Avail immediately. Call owner 718-714-0028
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9050 Ask the expert Mr. Shlomie Fogel, any problems with Social Security, Disability, SSI and Medicare 718-252-0336 Satisfaction Guaranteed
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New Jersey Apartment For Sale
Apartment For Rent
9055 Passaic Park 358 Brook Avenue MIC 5BR 2.5 BTH very large LR DR Hardwood floors Huge kosher EIK opens to deck. Large backyard 2C garage finished basement/attic $649K. Near shuls/ Transportation. FSBO No agents owner has RE referral lic 973-773-2103
Red Bank Downtown office space available 1350sqft. Vaulted ceilings, fios Internet. Parking available. Call Art 732-222-3553
9055
AC Berkley: Luxury condobuilding on boardwalk. 1BR furnished. Parking yearly. $1050/mo, pool, fitness center, WID. Call 609-335-7855
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
Margate Rancher (bold) Large lot. 2 Bedroom large seperate garage. Fenced dog run. large driveway upgrades. near boards and beach. Block and half from dog park $285,000 609-377-7109 Passaic Park: Open hse, Sun 5/15 11-4; 358 Brook Ave. MIC, 5BR, 2.5bth, very lg LR/DR, H/W fls. Huge kshr EIK opens to deck. Lg bkyd, 2c gar. fin bsmt/attic $649K. Nr shuls/trans. For sale by owner. No agents, Owner has RE referral lic 973-773-2103 9055
Marriott Fairway Villas at Seaview, Absecon, NJ: 2BR, 2 baths, floating week, Elizabth Arden spa, pool, golf on premises. Atlantic City Beaches nearby. 908-431-5157 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
9050 AC Boardwalk: Ocean Club Beautiful Decorated 1 BR 1 ½ BA 2 TVs Cable kit w/d Sleeps 6 All amenities. Monthly or Season. Call owner: 201-670-9015
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9055
9055
9075 New Jersey FREEHOLD TWP Class “A” Office Space 400 W. Main St. 1500 s.f. (5 rms incl. kit. & recep). Elev., marble lobbies, 24-hr. access, Daily janitorial, Immed occ. 732-780-0900
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.
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 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
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New Jersey MIDDLETOWN – Rt. 36, Join CVS & P.O. in high traffic location, 1400 – 4200 S.F. 732-996-4354 9070
9070 New Jersey JACKSON- Prof. 2 rm ofc approx. 500sf $650/mo+ elect. Private entrance 732-995-3271
9065
NEW LISTING LAKEWOOD INDIAN PEERS 51,977 SF 22-28 CEILING HEIGHT FORLEADING 1 DRIVE IN DOCKS $95 SF PRINCIPLES ONLY 732-905-5606 OR EMAIL AT MEHGH2011@YAHOO.COM 9050
Beth Israel Cemetery Wood bridge, NJ Burial plots. With grave sites $2,000 Must be sold together. Call 917-371-4871. 9050
Clifton Patricia Loop: Move in condition! 3BR ranch, EIK, updated full bath. $329,900 FSBO 973-220-9116 www.zillow.com 9065
Rockaway Township, NJ: New construction New Jersey. ( 2) story colonial. Lakefront property. Walking distance to temple. Contact 973-983-9527 9065
TOWNHOUSE FOR SALE WOODLAND PARK, N.J. 3 LEVEL RENOVATED TOWNHOUSE 3BDRMS/2 FULL BATHS AND 2 HALF BATHS. NEW CUSTOM KITCHEN WITH NEW GRANITE COUNTER TOPS/ S.S. APPLIANCES. FIRE PLACE/ L.R. MOVE IN CONDITION. NR HIGHWAYS & NYC TRAINS. $500.K CONTACT (973) 417-9638 FOR PHOTOS PLS EMAIL ROBERTVARGAS@OPTONLINE.NET 9065
Ringwood: 1 acre wooded lot, 280’ of frontage. Beautiful area. 180 Magee Rd $229K 406-522-0325 9065
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
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
Teaneck: Totally renov 4 BR, 2.5Bth with finished basement in prime w Engelwood location. $739K Vacant 201-483-8901
9050
HOUSE FOR SALE Bergenfield/ Teaneck border 5+1 bedrooms & 3 full bathrooms. Renovated side hall colonial. Large master suite with vaulted ceilings, large walk in closet and spa like bathroom. Wood/granite/ Stainless steel modern. Kosher eat-in kitchen, lrg LR, large DR (can seat22), lrg FR. Close to many shuls and right near 2 parks. Asking $749K, 2010 taxes $13,333K OPEN HOUSE 3/27 11-1PM 69 Wilbur Rd. 917-930-4057 9065
9075 Lakewood: Corner store for rent, good location. Call 732-513-9470
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
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
Philadelphia, PA 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
Bogota, NJ: 2 BR, 1.5 bths, LG EIK, 6 drvwy, central AC, new furnace w/3, zone heat. Close to all buses. Fast sale $259K OBO Owner 201-820-4391 Spring Lake Heights: 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
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
9070
Available For Rent
7065
7065 AC WARWICK: Lg unfurn, new carpets, Ocean View. Yrly rental $1275 per month, includes utils, storage cable, prkg. 856-596-1816
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
Apartment For Sale 9055
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.
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PHILADELPHIA FOR SALE Kosher MidEastern Restaurant (due to owner’s retirement) Over 20 yrs in business Great location in Center City (downtown Philadelphia) 856-524-3384 7060
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 9055
5000sqft restaurant in Monmouth County. Elegantly designed seats 115 people with (8) apartments + (2) additional. Retail spaces. Contact 908-902-7828 9010
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
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
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9000 Jerusalem/ Lev Yerushalayim: 2 BR, furnishes, sleeps 6. Available 6/27 – 7/25. Reasonable, Jack 561-414-7998 jm@erspec.com
Ramat Beit: Charming spacious 6T rooms, cottage spectacular view. Garden, patio, Quiet lane in amazing Anglo-Saxon modern Orthodox community 050-873-2442 or 02-586-3242 9000
Israel Lev Yerushalayim renovated 1 BR furnished apt sleeps 4 all amenities available 8/22-09/26, Part of all call 937 304-4026 054-689-7803 9000
9000 Israel Ramat Beit Shemesh Ramat Shilo (bold) 2BR fully furnished A/C Washer dryer groud floor no steps 2 min walk to mercaz short/long term call owner 248-214-9573
9000 Lev Yerushalayim Hotel 2BRs 2 BTHs kosher kitchen terrace 011-972-673-7330 email arusi_ez@zahav.net.il
Talbieh: Exclusive Bartenura St. Very big 210sqm, 5 room completely renov apartment. Private garden,parking etc… $1,950,000. Serious seller. DWELL Jerusalem. 02-567-0607 Reuven 050-523-1478 We have many more properties! 9000
9000 Lev Yerushaky: Hotel, 2 BRs, 2 bths, kosher kitchen, terrace 972-3-673-7330 Email: arusi-ez@zahav.net.il
Lev Yerushalayim: Hotel. 2 BRs 2BTHS, Kosher kitchen, terrace. 972-3-673-7330 e-mail: arusi-ez@zahav.net.il
Ramat Bet Shemesh: Ramat Shilo: 2 BR, fully furnished, AC, WD ground floor, no steps, 2 min walk to Mercaz. Short / long term. Call owner 248-214-9573
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THE PREMIER CHOICE FOR JERUSALEM PROPERTY SERVICES. – Long term rentals – Short term rentals – Renovations – Buying a property assistance Shia Getter Property Management +972-77-234-6011 sg@shiagetter.com or www.shiagetter.com 9000
9000 All types of properties available. Looking to buy apts or invest in Israel? Many options available. Call my new number. 011-972-52-763-1845
WHAT! My family in a luxurious Lev Yerushalayim Hotel Suite holiday apt (sleeps 5) best location, all amenities, daily maid for just $100/night? (7night min) Private owner Tel/Fax 011-772-8-633-4758 Zevwand@yahoo.com 9000
9000 Ramot Beit: Charming spacious 6+ rooms cottage spectacular view, garden patio, quiet lane, in amazing anglo-saxon, modern Orthodox community! 050-873-2442 or 02-586-3242
9000 Beautiful apartment for sale in the old city of Jerusalem with unique view. Call 011-972-52-462-8913
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 Israel Nadlan Cachol Lavan: In the western section 430/270sm newly renovated and unique penthouse. Very attractive, good conditions. 6,900,000 NIS. Negotiable Yigal 052-253-5746
9000 Kosher Services Worldwide: Malcolm Green Events from the dryer of the angl-saxon caterers for all your Glatt Kosher catering needs in Israel and throughout the Caribbean and the wider world. Call 052-244-8709 or 9-862-6442 Email: koshercaterer@yahoo.co.uk
Jerusalem: Private suite in 5 Star Ramada, sleeps up to 8. In/out pools $250/nite Albert 514-803-8838
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Luxury rentals for short/ long term in Herzelia. The apartments are furnished and newly renovated. They are avail for individuals or families. Call 011-972-54-942-1444 or www.99yafit.com
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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
9000 Jerusalem: Lux 3 BR hotel apt, 20 min walk to kotel, kit, DR, LR, pool. Avail for Pesach 347-721-7722
9000 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 Jerusalem: Best location 3 min to plaza and great synagogue, 5 min to Mamilla and 15 min to kotel, stunning 3BR luxuriously furnished balcony with stunning view, private elevator, 2 car gar. Available holidays! VIEW ONLINE: www.akivaiz.com or call owner 917-582-9441 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 Haifa: Luxurious, new, 8-room house in Alonei Abba (15mins from Haia), option for 2 separate units for clinic/office/ dwelling. Immediate. Tel 052-220-0207
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
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 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
NEGOTIATOR: EXPERIENCED NEGOTIATOR AVAIABLE TO REPRESENT YOU ANYWHERE IN ISRAEL. CALL TOLL FREE. CONSULTATION 052-773-0076 9000 REAL ESTATE IN ISRAEL. INVESTMENT AND MANAGEMENT. MORTGAGES FROM 7096 AND UP. Simcha Teitelhaum 917-474-7440 simchatb@gmail.com
9000 DESIGNER LIVING IN JERUSALEM: Beautiful 1-family house with a view to die for. You’ll never leave home. High ceilings. Amazing gardens/ patio for entertaining and huge succah. Spacious living room and master bdrm suite. Big dining rm. Full kitchen, book-lined den, five bdrms. Ctrl AC, oil heat and advanced solar heating. Private covered parking. Contact Owners – Michael and Sara at mikewid@netviosion.net.il or 011-972-2-5322-868
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9000 Jerusalem: Private suite in 5 Star Ramada sleeps up to 8. In/out pools $250/nite. Albert 514-803-8838
9000 SPECIAL DEALS 1. King Solomon: Jerusalem & Tiberias 2. Prima Kings: Jerusalem 3.Selection of hotels throughout Israel & abroad 4.Early bird specials Grossman Tours Tel: 052-624-4733 or 052-624-8189
9000 Talbeih: Exclusive Bartenura St: Very big 210 sqm, 5 rms completely renovated apartment. Private garden, parking etc. $1,950,000. Serious seller. DWELL, JERUSALEM. 02-567-0607 Reuven 050-523-1478. We have many more properties.
9000 Tallbieh: Exclusive Bartenura St. Very big 210 sqm, 5 room completely renovated apt. Private garden, parking etc, $1,950,000. Serious seller, DWELL, Jerusalem. 02-567-6607 Reuven 050-523-1478 We have many more properties! 9000 Beautiful apartment for sale in the old city of Jerusalem with unique view. Call 011-972-52-462-8913 or see www.apt-oldcity.com
HERZILYA PITUAH. For sale, rare and wonderful villa, 10 rooms, 500/750 sq m., modern architecture, new meticulously designed and built with perfectionistic quality at the highest level possible, located in quiet and tranquil surroundings, exciting and one of a kind. 050-620-0000, zvicohen3@gmail.com
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New villa. Very high quality. Stunning 210 sqm corner center of Omer, 2 floors. 052-758-8102
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Designer living in JERUSALEM: Beautiful 1 family house with a view to die for. You’ll never leave home, high ceilings, amazing gardens/ patio for entertaining and huge succah. Spacious LR and master bdrm suite. Big DR, full kitch, book lined den. 5 BRS, CAC, oil heat and advanced solar heating and advanced solar heating. Private covered parking. Contact owners. Michael and Sara at MikeWid@netvision.net.il or 011-972-2532-23868
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Florida Real Estate
For Sale
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9080 Margate/Ventnor Beautiful home 3 houses off beach 4BR 3 full baths magnificent view. Elegant furnishings, no pets no smoking. Great location. Close to restaurants. July 6 – August 5th Available September – May 2012 9 month lease. Asking $990/mo Call 856-663-0671
9080 MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP: 1000 to 2150sqft Close to Oxford Valley Mall, Across from supermarket, Walgreens, Bank. Imm Occupancy. Rent Reduced. Must be seen. DAVID FIORI, INC. REALTORS 215-757-1000
David Fisher Loves Naples, Florida and thanks you will too! Condos – Villas – Homes southwest Florida Had it ALL! Call Now! David Fisher Residential Real Estate Cell 215-740-4745 Office 239-732-7837 millindale@aol.com 9080
9080 Central Florida. Very private Estate Site 240 acres. Mile from paved road surrounded by Gov’t property, one well/ 2 barns / 3 stocked fishing ponds. 24x24ft, sleeping quarters. Abundant Wildlife. Contact 407886-4922 Email: Kenggn@hotmail.com
Main Line Valley Forge Reduced from 2.5 million to 1.9million 6400 sf 3.91ac 4/3.5 Private Gated Driveway 2000 sf Decks and Stone Patios, 4 fireplace, wine cellar, kitchen, DR, LR Great Room, exercise, library, billiard rooms, 3 car garage. 215-783-3122 www.huffequities.com
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Main Line Valley Forge Reduced from 2.5 million to 1.9million 6400 sf 3.91ac 4/3.5 Private Gated Driveway 2000 sf Decks and Stone Patios, 4 fireplace, wine cellar, kitchen, DR, LR Great Room, exercise, library, billiard rooms, 3 car garage. 215-783-3122 www.huffequities.com
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9085 Bal Harbor, FL: Luxurious 1 BR condo with terrace, Ocean and city view, heated outdoor pool, Jacuzzi, gym, valet, kosher kitchen, 24/7 security, walking distance to shul and shop. Call owner 305-761-0537
Central FL. Land with Greenhouses, 20 acres deeded (some in lake) Highway + lake frontage. Business w/nice lake front. Home site, low real estate tax/ Low sales tax. No state income tax. Zone for park recreation/ Church/ Synagogue. Can be changed to suit. Contact Ken 407-886-4922 Email:Kenggn@hotmail.com 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
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. 9080
RESTAURANT FOR SALE
Very successful restaurant in Hollywood, Florida. Asking 500K Call owner 954-809-5998
Tampa Triple Net Lease: Quick lube, 649K Cap 8.25% strong tenant, 13+yr left. 10% incrs 813-546-2766
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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 9080
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 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 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
Hollywood Beach Florida: Oceanfront Trump Condo, 3 BR/ 3.5 BA, new ad beautiful $1,350,000 786-390-7340 9080
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
INVESTMENT PROPERTY. Temple Triple Net Lease quicklube, 649K, Cap 8.25% strong tenant, 13+ yr left, 10% incrs 813-546-2766 9080
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 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
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Florida: 52ac
Riverfront/Equestarian lot St. Johns County www.flriverfront.blogspot.com 904-860-4500 9080 Lauderhill, FL: Luxurious 3BR, 2 bth in gated community. Dbl car garage, 2000sf, newly renov. Ceramic tiles. $189K neg. owner 954-552-4520
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
2 luxury condos each with 2 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms, one in Boca Raton for $79,900 one in Boynton Beach $119K 802-782-0721
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
For Rent
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Miami, FL: A luxurios apt avail for rent in tower 41 for Passover or Monthly or weekly 514-991-3964
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Miami, FL: Tower 41 Luxury Apt. Monthly or weekly. 514-991-3964 9085
BRADENTON, FLORIDA Condo Rental, (2) BDRM, (2) BATH, Furnished, Age 55+, No Pets, Includes Pool, Tennis, W/D, A/C, Elevator, Car Port & Bird Sanctuary. Western View of Sarasota Bay. Annual $1,000. Per Month or Seasonal (Min. (3) Months ) $2500.00. Available Aug. 1st. Contact (941) 761-4098 9085
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 9085 Miami Beach: Collins Ave/ 36th St, beautiful 3.5 room condo ready for pesach, 2 bath, Porch facing ocean. 305-534-6706
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: 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 9085 For sale: One of the largest Glatt kosher supermarkets in southeast FL. Catering, butcher, deli, produce dept. huge potential. 561-317-0274
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 9085
9085 Boca Raton/ Century Village: Beautiful 1 BR, 1.5 bth, new appliances, enclosed porch. Great location. Call 917-749-7135
Kings Point, Delray Beach: 2 BR, 1.5 bth apt for rent. Short term/ Long Term. Weekly/ yearly. Call 845-536-1080
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9085 Boyton, FL: Direct Intercoastal million $$ views 2BDRMS/ 2BTHs, 55+ close to beach + shopping. 3 month rental @ $2600 a month. Contact 203-453-3164
Miami Beach: 41st, 1BR, 1.5bth furnished, cond o for rent or sale. Large LR and porch. Beautiful view. 914-522-4636
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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
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North Myrtle Beach for sale1 bdrm, 1 bth, pool. Asking $85,000 Call: 718-661-1286 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
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