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Kosher Slaughterhouse Management Arrested
Los Angeles – As legal troubles at the country’s largest kosher slaughterhouse continue to mount, critics of the Postville, Iowa, plant are urging stronger government action. On July 3, two supervisors were detained by federal authorities in the first instance of management-level arrests at Agriprocessors, Inc. The arrests come on the heels of a sweeping…
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Spying by Nursing Home Draws Fire
Washington – Revelations that a Jewish nursing home hired a detective agency to spy on the relatives of patients seeking better care have drawn anger from the local community a decade after the alleged activity took place. The Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, one of the capital area’s oldest and most prestigious nursing homes, was…
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Flacks for Agriprocessors Admit Online Impersonation of Meat Company’s Critics
Read an update to this article here. A prominent New York public relations firm has privately acknowledged making fraudulent postings on the Internet about one of its clients, a kosher meat company. An employee at the firm, 5WPR, made the admission to the operator of the blog FailedMessiah.com, Shmarya Rosenberg, during a phone call, according…
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Legendary Optical Shop Looks to the Future
When the doors shut at the original 2nd Ave Deli and at Ratner’s delicatessen, the long-standing Jewish establishments on Manhattan’s Lower East Side received elegiac goodbyes in the press and on the streets. For many, these erstwhile eateries were among a number of examples of how the Jewish presence in the Manhattan neighborhood is quickly…
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Advice for the Anxiously Perplexed
Summer is theoretically a time to kick back and chill. But for kids, that’s not so easy. I remember my fears about camp, which were so much more profound than any anxieties about school. Would I have the right clothes? (No. I was lacking in kicky terrycloth Shabbat outfits.) Would the mean girls be mean…
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Pro-Palestinian Professor’s Return to Court Puts Anti-Terror Effort Back on Trial
Washington — A Florida professor acquitted in a major terrorism-financing case two years ago is back in court and may face a prolonged jail term if convicted. Pro-Palestinian activist Sami Al-Arian stands accused of criminal contempt of court for refusing to testify to a grand jury about a Virginia-based Islamic think tank’s possible links to…
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Jerusalem Bulldozer Rampage Rekindles Debate Over Home-Demolition
Tel Aviv — In a nationwide wave of anger over this month’s so-called bulldozer attack, Israel is resounding with calls to revive the discontinued practice of demolishing the homes of terrorists’ families, beginning with that of the perpetrator of the bulldozer attack. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert himself was the first to raise the demand during…
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Porn Grows in the Holy Land
NEWS ITEM: Video-porn is flourishing in Israel, via a Web site that features amateur performers. The latter consist of homegrown Israelis, both Jews and Arabs. Voyeurs, rejoice! Be not forlorn! There’s solace in Israeli porn! (The critics praise, ad hominem, “Sex Party in Jerusalem”). Both Arabs and the Hebrew tribe Alike to sinful site subscribe….
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Disappeared Jews’ Families Blast Prisoner Swap
Los Angeles — In the wake of Israel’s prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah, the families of Iranian Jews who have disappeared are crying foul. The day after Israel announced its agreement to exchange five Lebanese prisoners for the bodies of the soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, six Iranian Jewish families based in Israel, and…
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Remembering Daddy Long Legs
CELEBRITIES LAUD MEMORY OF FRED ASTAIRE AT AUDITORY SCHOOL BENEFIT “We loved you as a teenage prostitute in ‘Pretty Baby’, onstage in ‘Chicago’ and as a worthy adversary to Tom Cruise,” said gossip columnist Liz Smith to Brooke Shields, who presented dancer-choreographer Tommy Tune with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the June 2 “Fred and…
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Congress Delivers Promised Israel Aid Bump Despite Budget Deadlock
Washington – While almost all federally financed programs were denied any funding increase for the coming year, aid to Israel from the United States will increase thanks to a legislative loophole and some deft maneuvering by pro-Israel lobbyists. Congress bypassed the normal appropriation process on June 26 when it approved a $170 million raise in…
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