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M AY T H E E A RT H H E A R T H E WO R D S O F M Y M O U TH
October 28, 2011, 2011| 21 Tishrei 5772 Vol. 7, Iss. 38
JERSEY SHORE JCC FACES FORECLOSURE
By Daniel Perez
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Bloomberg Dedicates MDA Station in Jerusalem
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ARAB SPRING LEADS TO TYRANT’S FALL NTC TROOPS GUN DOWN GADDAFI
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The Ruth Hyman JCC in Deal, New Jersey remains open despite a foreclosure lawsuit by TD Bank. The Center was originally scheduled to be sold by the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Department on Monday afternoon (Oct. 24), but their attorney, Timothy Neumann of Broege, Neumann, Fisher and Shaver LLC, located in Manasquan, requested an adjournment, effectively delaying the sale. Cynthia Scott, spokeswoman for the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Department said that the defendants can request up to two adjournments. rior to the sale, the 110,000-squarefoot facility, which sits on 12 acres, was valued at a little over $6.5 million. JCC board chairman Donald Epstein says that monthly utility bills average around $20,000. A series of setbacks over the past few years has placed the JCC in its present state of financial jeopardy. In particular, a dramatic reduction in camp and pre-school enrollment, as well as declining membership revenues and waning ticket sales by the Axelrod Performing Arts Center, have been blamed. Also, the collapse of the JCC’s gym roof during the blizzard of December 2010, which left parts of the center closed for six months. In a report by the New Jersey Jewish News, board president Stephen Levy explains that the Deal JCC’s camp “has traditionally provided critical income
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By Fern Sidman
Photo courtesy of NYC Mayor’s Office via Flickr
By Elad Benari New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in Jerusalem on Sunday, where he inaugurated the city’s new Magen David Adom station. he station is named after Bloomberg’s father, the late William Henry Bloomberg. The new station was partly funded by Bloomberg’s personal fortune, along with generous donations of the American Friends of Magen David Adom organization. In the nearly five decades since William Henry Bloomberg passed away, the same year in which the previous MDA station in Jerusalem was opened, Jerusalem’s population has grown many fold and diversified, and Magen David Adom’s Jerusalem Region has become the busiest of all MDA regions. Bloomberg was received by Magen David Adom Director General Eli Bin, MDA President Prof. Yehuda Skornik, Interior Minister Eli Yishai, Israel’s chief rabbis and Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat. Bloomberg affixed the mezuzah at the entrance to the building, and this was fol-
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lowed by a special inauguration ceremony. Prof. Skornik said during the ceremony, “Respect for parents is the most basic commandment that makes us human. This is the commandment that separates us from the other species on earth. Our parents sacrifice a lot for us during in their lives, and we ask ourselves all our lives whether we are worthy of their great investment. Mr. Bloomberg does, has done and will continue to do so much for the Jews in his country and great city. But tonight, at the inauguration of this structure which will be used to save the lives of many Jews, here in the Holy City and in Israel in general, Bloomberg does for his father, William Henry Bloomberg, and responds to his father’s investment in his son.” Bloomberg himself also spoke during the ceremony and said, “For Marjorie and I, it is the most significant moment since we became donors for Magen David Adom. If it were not for our dear father, I do not think we would have been exposed to the many activities of this organization, which is unique in its ability, desire and purpose of its work for all nations and all countries without any distinction between nationali-
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Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi's life came to an end in the very same place that it started 69 years ago, when on Thursday October 20th, National Transitional Council forces captured him after overrunning his last bastion of resistance in his hometown of Sirte. Bloody images of Gaddafi, being taunted and beaten by his captors have raised questions about whether he was killed in crossfire as suggested by government officials or deliberately executed. n autopsy completed Sunday in Misratah showed that Gaddafi was killed by a shot to the head, said Libya's chief pathologist, Dr. Othman alZintani. He would not disclose further details or elaborate on Gaddafi's final moments, saying he would first deliver a full report to the attorney general. The circumstances surrounding the death of Gaddafi, who had vowed to go down fighting, remained obscure. Grainy video showed a man with Gaddafi's distinctive long, curly hair, bloodied and staggering under blows from armed men, apparently NTC fighters. The brief footage showed him being dragged by his hair from the hood of a truck. To the shouts
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