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Opinion Israel’s Left Is Missing Boat on Anti-Haredi Coalition Alliance
Although there has never been much sympathy for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community in any part of the country’s secular society, suddenly this has changed. As the prospects improve for a Netanyahu-Lapid-Bennett (or Likud-Yesh Atid-Habayit Hayehudi) coalition whose first project will making military service compulsory for the Haredi youth that has until now been exempt from it,…
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Fast Forward Career Criminal With Link to Rapper 50 Cent Hunted in Deadly Hit and Run
Police were still hunting Tuesday for the hit-and-run driver who allegedly causing the deadly crash that killed an Orthodox couple as they headed to the hospital to deliver their first baby. Suspect Julio Acevedo, 44, of Brooklyn is a career criminal who served eight years for manslaughter over a shooting death in Brooklyn, the Daily…
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Fast Forward ‘Miracle’ Orthodox Jewish Baby Dies After Parents Killed on Way to Hospital
The ‘miracle’ has turned to more tragedy. A newborn baby who was delivered by emergency C-section after his parents were killed in a car accident on their way to the hospital has died, a New York police spokesman said. The baby boy died from injuries overnight at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, the spokesman said. His…
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Fast Forward ‘Miracle’ Baby Survives Crash That Killed Orthodox Jewish Parents Going to Hospital
The “miracle” infant of Brooklyn will forever celebrate its birthday on the anniversary of his parents tragic death. The premature baby remains in serious condition in a hospital intensive care unit after being delivered after his Orthodox parents were killed in a hit-and-run car crash as they rode to the hospital Sunday morning. UPDATE: Tragedy…
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Fast Forward Overflow Funeral Mourns Expectant Couple Killed in Crash on Way to Hospital
Orthodox Jews overflowed a New York synagogue and poured onto the streets on Sunday to mourn the death of a young couple killed in a car accident on their way to the hospital to have their first baby, who survived after delivery by C-section. Meanwhile police continued their intensive search for a hit-and-run driver and…
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Fast Forward Cops Hunt for Hit-Run Driver Who Killed Expectant Orthodox Parents
Police began an intensive search on Sunday for a suspected hit-and-run driver and a passenger who fled an accident on Saturday that killed a young couple on the way to the hospital to have their first baby, who survived. Investigators launched what a police spokeswoman called “full-on search” for the male driver and female passenger…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Jewish Couple Killed in Car Crash on Way to Hospital To Deliver Baby
A pregnant Orthodox Jewish woman and her husband were both killed in a hit-and-run car crash early Sunday as they drove from their Brooklyn home to the hospital to deliver their first child — but the baby reportedly survived. Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21 years old, of Williamsburg were headed to a hospital in…
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Fast Forward Jack Lew Wins 19-5 Senate Committee Vote
The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday backed President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the U.S. Treasury, Jack Lew, despite some concerns about his perks from previous employers, clearing the way for a confirmation vote in the full Senate. With the 19-5 vote, about half the panel’s 11 Republicans opposed Lew’s nomination. Senate Democratic leader Harry…
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