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Posted By Psycho On May 24, 2013 America, Israel, News
New York — Some say he’s the equivalent of a modern day Robin Hood who serves as the voice for restaurant workers, while others call him the “scourge of the industry,”—either way, everyone in New York City’s restaurant community knows the name of attorney Maimon Kirschenbaum. NY Magazine GRUBSTREET.com Blog (http://grb.st/19ao7AI) reports that Kirschenbaum, 34, [...]
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Posted By Psycho On May 24, 2013 America, Israel, News
Tornadoes that struck the United States from May 18 to May 20 caused between $2 billion to $5 billion of insured losses, disaster modeling company Eqecat said late Thursday. At the high end of the range, the tornado outbreak may rank as the second-worst ever in terms of insured losses, behind the late-April 2011 twisters [...]
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Posted By Psycho On May 24, 2013 America, Israel, News
United Nations — Syria says it targeted an Israeli vehicle that crossed a ceasefire line into its territory earlier this week because it was heading toward a village with a large rebel presence. In a letter to the U.N. Security Council circulated Friday, Syria’s U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari said his country exercised its right to [...]
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Posted By Psycho On May 24, 2013 America, News
British fighter jets were scrambled to escort a Pakistani passenger plane carrying nearly 300 passengers from Lahore to England after an incident on board, British officials said today.
Essex Police boarded the plane at Stansted and arrested two men “on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft,” according to a statement from the police, which did [...]
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Posted By Psycho On May 24, 2013 America, Israel, News
MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Meir Porush responded to the Peri Committee draft law to govern the draft of chareidim into the IDF and national service. “Anyone thinking that sanctions of one kind or another will compel the draft on bnei Torah has forgotten the Jewish People have stood proudly to maintain Torah tradition throughout history” Porush [...]
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Posted By Psycho On May 24, 2013 America, Israel, News
Mount Vernon, WA — The trucking company involved in a Washington state bridge collapse says it received a state-issued permit to carry its oversized load across the bridge. Ed Scherbinski is vice president of Mullen Trucking in Alberta. He said in an interview with The Associated Press that the Washington state Department of Transportation had [...]
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Posted By Psycho On May 24, 2013 America, Israel, News
Mount Vernon, WA — The trucking company involved in a Washington state bridge collapse says it received a state-issued permit to carry its oversized load across the bridge. Ed Scherbinski is vice president of Mullen Trucking in Alberta. He said in an interview with The Associated Press that the Washington state Department of Transportation had [...]
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Posted By Psycho On May 24, 2013 America, Israel, News
Ankara — Turkey is constructing 2.5-km-long (1.5 mile) twin walls at a border crossing with Syria to increase security at the frontier following three deadly bombings this year. The concrete walls will be built on either side of the road leading from the Turkish side of the crossing at Cilvegozu to the Syrian border gate [...]
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Posted By Psycho On May 24, 2013 America, Israel, News
Four major transit agencies in New York and New Jersey will receive $3.7 billion in federal aid to repair damage from Superstorm Sandy. The money also will help protect the region’s trains, buses and subways from future storms. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the additional disaster relief funds on Thursday. About $1.3 billion of [...]
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Posted By Psycho On May 24, 2013 Israel, Judaism
British Foreign Minister says current US initiative to restart peace talks was nearly the last attempt at reaching a two-state solution, and that there is no realistic “plan B” should this initiative fail.
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