tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post117037926999024623..comments2024-03-27T15:07:31.495-04:00Comments on <b><center>Unorthodox-Jew </center></b> <br><small>A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism</small>: UOJ'S RESPONSE TO RABBI EIDENSOHN ON THE MEANING OF AUTHENTIC TORAH-TRUE JUDAISMPaul Mendlowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comBlogger301125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-88498987717611940562010-10-28T23:01:26.646-04:002010-10-28T23:01:26.646-04:00Since then the Queens Vaad doesn't admit to an...Since then the Queens Vaad doesn't admit to anything.<br /><br />http://yourmoralleader.blogspot.com/2004/06/moshe-handler-editor-of-jewish.html<br /><br />That one source for his grave story was actually murdered a few days after he talked to Handler. Now, that's reporting when someone feels they have to kill your source! <br /><br />On his website, Handler put satellite photos of the cemetary decades apart and had substantial research posted including # of graves from records, photos of smashed headstones and original tshuvot with translations and way more. <br /><br />Who's Lying Now? <br /><br />Copyright © Moshe A. Handler <br /><br />As we were about to go to press with this issue of the Jewish Interest Magazine, we were flooded with phone calls telling us that both David Jacobson and the Vaad Harabonim of Queens had placed ads in the Jewish Press. Jacobson's ad suggests that this magazine published lies about him. The Vaad's ad took a somewhat more subdued approach. Since I am the one who wrote all the cemetery articles I feel that it is important to expose the open lies both these ads try to palm off on the Frum public. <br /><br />The Vaad's ad is a classic exercise in damage control. They admit things they know I can prove so that they do not look so bad and then they go on with a song and dance. It's almost like a page out of the Clinton Handbook - "We were caught so now we'll say we were always for cemetery reform." <br /><br />The Vaad would have you believe they listened to what the Poskim said. I'm not new to this story. They spent the first year insisting against all evidence that there were no burials in the cemetery. Only when the same evidence was presented through our people and supportive Rabbonim to Rav Elyoshuv and Rav Elyoshuv ruled against their plans did they admit the cemetery was full. They then changed tactics and tried to claim the cemetery was a mass burial ground and not subject to normal cemetery Halocha. That is the reason Rabbi Zohn flew to Israel and argued with Rav Elyoshuv for three days straight. Rav Elyoshuv found him not credible. Yet, when he came back from Israel Rabbi Zohn told everyone he got that heter. It's also interesting to note that I have witnesses telling me that as late as September 14, 1997, the Vaad was still discussing the issue of whether Rav Elyoshuv has the right to "Pasken" issues and overrule American Rabbonim. <br /><br />The guilty parties here are the few rotten apples right at the top of the Vaad. <br /><br />To those who begged me quietly to write these articles because you didn't want to be part of the problem but were afraid for Parnosso and or violence, in the course of this investigation there has been indications of tampering with papers and survey maps at high levels and even one cemetery trustee who was beaten to death days before he was supposed to speak to me. I don't make accusations but it was an interesting coincidence to say the least. His murder was never solved.The Vaad to expose the Queens Vaadhttp://yourmoralleader.blogspot.com/2004/06/moshe-handler-editor-of-jewish.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-67790649342626902072010-10-28T22:51:04.674-04:002010-10-28T22:51:04.674-04:00http://www.vosizneias.com/17193/2008/06/19/new-yor...http://www.vosizneias.com/17193/2008/06/19/new-york-city-jewish-cemetery-plots-in-nyc-a-nightmare/<br /><br />Rabbi Elchonan (Zohn) has no ne'emanos when it comes to cemeteries. In the late 1990s he sought to recover Mokom Shalom, the oldest free Hebrew burial site in New York, with six feet of earth and bury a second layer of dead even though it was clearly known that the cemetery was full. He continued to try after Rav Eliyashiv Shlit"a told him it was assur, that the matzaivos that were taken down are assur bihana'ah, and must be restored to their location if possible. Only because of the publicity brought to bear by Moshe Handler did Zohn and Jacobsen back off. <br /><br />Recently Zohn's partner in crime, David Jacobson, manager (trustee?) for Mokom Shalom, signed an agreement with OmniPoint comminications, whereas Omnipoint would build a "flagpole style" communications antenna on the location of the old Mokom Shalom office building. Jacobsen receives almost $1600 a month rent for the antenna and equipment area. It would be nice if that money went back towards maintaining or restoring Mokom Shalom. As of the last I was there about two months ago, the place does not look like it's improving.The Vaad to expose the Queens Vaadhttp://www.vosizneias.com/17193/2008/06/19/new-york-city-jewish-cemetery-plots-in-nyc-a-nightmare/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-38731429923615086052010-10-28T22:50:54.141-04:002010-10-28T22:50:54.141-04:00http://www.vosizneias.com/17193/2008/06/19/new-yor...http://www.vosizneias.com/17193/2008/06/19/new-york-city-jewish-cemetery-plots-in-nyc-a-nightmare/<br /><br />Rabbi Elchonan (Zohn) has no ne'emanos when it comes to cemeteries. In the late 1990s he sought to recover Mokom Shalom, the oldest free Hebrew burial site in New York, with six feet of earth and bury a second layer of dead even though it was clearly known that the cemetery was full. He continued to try after Rav Eliyashiv Shlit"a told him it was assur, that the matzaivos that were taken down are assur bihana'ah, and must be restored to their location if possible. Only because of the publicity brought to bear by Moshe Handler did Zohn and Jacobsen back off. <br /><br />Recently Zohn's partner in crime, David Jacobson, manager (trustee?) for Mokom Shalom, signed an agreement with OmniPoint comminications, whereas Omnipoint would build a "flagpole style" communications antenna on the location of the old Mokom Shalom office building. Jacobsen receives almost $1600 a month rent for the antenna and equipment area. It would be nice if that money went back towards maintaining or restoring Mokom Shalom. As of the last I was there about two months ago, the place does not look like it's improving.The Vaad to expose the Queens Vaadhttp://www.vosizneias.com/17193/2008/06/19/new-york-city-jewish-cemetery-plots-in-nyc-a-nightmare/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-1599967728192702302010-10-28T22:36:05.964-04:002010-10-28T22:36:05.964-04:00http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/10/28/us/poli...http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/10/28/us/politics/AP-US-Louisiana-Senate.html?hp<br /><br />U.S. Sen. David Vitter on Thursday repeatedly refused to say whether he broke the law in connection with a Washington prostitution ring to which he was linked by phone records in 2007.<br /><br />The Louisiana Republican dug in during a Thursday night debate marking the first time that the senator has faced repeated, pointed questioning from reporters about the scandal.<br /><br />The first-term senator and former House member has repeatedly turned away interview requests and has referred only to a "serious sin" in statements about his alleged involvement as a House member with the prostitution ring run by the so-called "D.C. Madam," the late Deborah Jeanne Palfrey.<br /><br />WAFB television reporter Greg Meriwether asked Vitter to explain what the "serious sin" was. Vitter launched into a lengthy response, saying again that he has been forgiven by his wife, family and God, and that he believes voters have forgiven him and support him.<br /><br />"Did you violate the law?" asked moderator Dennis Woltering of WWL.<br /><br />Vitter: "Dennis you can look back, you can continue to write stories in the media about it. That's your decision. It's a free country. I looked the voters of Louisiana in the eye. I spoke to them sincerely. I think they heard me and I think they understood me. And now I'm looking forward, I'm not looking back."<br /><br />Vitter ducked several other questions about whether he had broken the law, and then attacked his Democratic opponent, Rep. Charlie Melancon, for airing a two-minute tabloid TV-style commercial about the senator's alleged past involvement with prostitutes.<br /><br />"Is that part of your Melancon family values, Charlie?" Vitter asked.Talmidei Tropperhttp://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/10/28/us/politics/AP-US-Louisiana-Senate.html?hpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-24413838620927635072010-10-27T22:17:49.808-04:002010-10-27T22:17:49.808-04:00http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/trainin...http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/training_rabbis_promote_screening<br /><br />Rabbi Lookstein here. Of course a big expert like me who can even convert insincere gerus candidates will condescendingly lecture Dor Yeshorim that they have no business doing Tay Sachs tests that make shidduchim more difficult.Haskel the Rascalhttp://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/training_rabbis_promote_screeningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-91773901526187633662010-10-27T20:27:21.307-04:002010-10-27T20:27:21.307-04:00http://www.xpatloop.com/news/hungarian_stuffed_cab...http://www.xpatloop.com/news/hungarian_stuffed_cabbage<br /><br />Recipe Of The Week: Hungarian Stuffed Cabbage<br /><br />I spent a summer in Israel where I tasted the kosher variety without smoked pork and sour cream. To be honest, I could never be kosher because the stuffed cabbage is only good with sour cream and smoke pork :) <br /><br />(Treif chickens from Applegrad's mechuten Moish Finkel may also be used)Leopold Margulieshttp://www.xpatloop.com/news/hungarian_stuffed_cabbagenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-5245884692030557212010-10-27T16:07:04.390-04:002010-10-27T16:07:04.390-04:00http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/10/26/us/AP-U...http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/10/26/us/AP-US-Midwest-Storms.html<br /><br />Massive Windstorm Howls Across Nation’s MidsectionShea Fishmanhttp://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/10/26/us/AP-US-Midwest-Storms.html?hpwnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-75252059853353873192010-10-27T08:48:36.962-04:002010-10-27T08:48:36.962-04:00http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=192786...http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=192786<br /><br />Three men were arrested last week by Tel Aviv Police on suspicion of attempting to extort a well-known Bnei Brak rabbi, police sources said on Monday.<br /><br />Two main suspects, whose names are barred from publication, are believed to have conspired to extort $150,000 from the rabbi, after mistakenly believing that he had pocketed more than half a million dollars from an American Jewish donor that was intended for charity.<br /><br />The third suspect, an American millionaire and a resident of Brooklyn, New York, is believed to have taken part in extortion attempts, a police source told The Jerusalem Post.<br /><br />“This affair began in August, when a rumor spread in a synagogue that the rabbi received $600,000 from a Jewish American donor based in New York, but didn’t pass it on to its intended recipient,” a police source told The Jerusalem Post.<br /><br />After hearing the rumor, the source added, the main two suspects went to the rabbi’s office, pretending to represent the US donor, and began making threats and demands for a portion of the money.<br /><br />The rabbi insisted he had never received the money.<br /><br />“They told him, we will ruin your daughter’s wedding. We want $150,000,” the police source added. “The threats continued via phone calls.”<br /><br />In a bizarre twist, the source said, the US donor himself is suspected of being a part of the extortion plot, after he allegedly told the rabbi that the two suspects were linked to underworld elements, and that it would be “in his best interest” to pay the amount they demanded. The rabbi facing the threats then contacted police.<br /><br />On October 14, at a meeting in the lobby of the Carlton Hotel in Tel Aviv, the rabbi facing the extortion threats met with the two suspects and the American donor, and demands for the money were reiterated. Undercover detectives pretending to be waiters documented the meeting.<br /><br />“The rabbi again said he didn’t receive any money, and the meeting ended without agreement,” the police source said. The “waiters” then immediately arrested the three suspects.<br /><br />All three are suspected of conspiracy to commit a crime and extortion. The two main suspects are in custody, while the American national has been placed under house arrest for 15 days, the police source said.Bnei Brakhttp://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=192786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-35850146882040529532010-10-27T01:28:28.722-04:002010-10-27T01:28:28.722-04:00http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/nyregion/27board...http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/nyregion/27board.html<br /><br />New York City Board of Elections Chief FiredMoetzes Resign!http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/nyregion/27board.html?hpwnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-67058229322672227922009-08-14T19:41:20.760-04:002009-08-14T19:41:20.760-04:00California Declares Emergency as Wildfires Spread
...California Declares Emergency as Wildfires Spread<br /><br />14 minutes agoShalom Tendler conferring with Shea Fishmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-45735072557872028922009-08-14T18:11:20.778-04:002009-08-14T18:11:20.778-04:00John Edwards is expected to publicly admit he is t...John Edwards is expected to publicly admit he is the father of the daughter of his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, sources told North Carolina's WRAL News on Thursday.<br /><br />Last week, Hunter was seen entering a courthouse in North Carolina and leaving nine hours later. She apparently testified before a federal grand jury, which is investigating whether Edwards broke campaign finance laws by allegedly paying off Hunter and aide Andrew Young, who claimed paternity of the child in 2007. Young reportedly testified last month to the same grand jury.<br /><br /><br />Edwards is expected to make the public admission about being the father before the end of the investigation, according to WRAL News. Hunter brought the baby with her to the courthouse. She appeared to be deliberately forcing her baby to turn her face toward the waiting TV cameras trying to publicly demonstrate her daughter's physical resemblance to Edwards for the media. <br /><br />We can only feel sorry for little Frances.R' John Edwardsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-8752480626241895532009-08-14T12:17:16.458-04:002009-08-14T12:17:16.458-04:00Bank of America Corp. has filed a foreclosure acti...Bank of America Corp. has filed a foreclosure action against the owner of the 239-unit Silver Blue Lake Apartments in northern Miami-Dade County, Fla.<br /><br />BofA is the trustee for the holders of the commercial mortgage-backed security loan.<br /><br />The Charlotte-based bank (NYSE:BAC) filed the action last week against 103 Silver Blue Lake Apartments and principals Hillel Bronstein and Zvi Shiff, according to Miami-Dade County Circuit Court records.<br /><br />The complaint is based on an $11.8 million mortgage UBS Real Estate Investment gave the developer in 2005. The mortgage was later securitized.<br /><br />In 2002, 103 Silver Blue Lake bought the apartment complex for $4.8 million. The three-story building was constructed in the 1960s.Jew Dude In Dadenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-7957160558039765732009-08-14T12:08:15.826-04:002009-08-14T12:08:15.826-04:00Mordechai Yosef Leiner celebrated a double milesto...Mordechai Yosef Leiner celebrated a double milestone this week in New York’s capital of Hassidic Jewry, Boro Park: He was named to succeed his father, the late Rabbi Yaakov Leiner, as Radzhiner Grand Rabbi, and became Bar Mitzvah – 13 years old and obligated in the Torah’s commandments – at the same time.<br /><br />Rabbi Yaakov Leiner passed away suddenly three months ago, at the age of 47, leaving behind a wife and 11 children, the oldest not yet 13. The deceased represented the sixth consecutive generation of Leiners to serve as Grand Radzhiner Rabbi, beginning with Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of the early 19th century, who founded the dynasty. He was also the great-grandson of Rabbi Avrohom Yehoshua Heshel Leiner, whose brother, the late Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner, is considered the “rediscoverer” of the blue dye mandated by the Torah for tzitzit (ritual fringes).<br /><br />After the sudden death of the Grand Rabbi, several leading Hassidic rabbis convened and decided that his eldest son, Mordechai Yosef, should be installed as the Rebbe, despite his young age, in order not to break the Radzhiner chain. The rabbis who made the decision were the Rebbes of Novominsk, Alexander, and Amshinov.<br /><br />Among the guests at the double celebration in Boro Park were the new Rebbe’s uncle and aunt, siblings of the deceased, who are Rebbe of Radzhin-Jerusalem and the granddaughter-in-law of the late saintly Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, respectively.<br /><br />Rabbi Leiner is the youngest new Rebbe to be installed in a Hassidic sect in the United States in at least the last 50 years.Arutz Sheva Newsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-22221582751235837392009-08-14T11:37:04.132-04:002009-08-14T11:37:04.132-04:00WELLINGTON (Reuters) – An extremely drunk, naked m...WELLINGTON (Reuters) – An extremely drunk, naked man lost his way at a New Zealand hotel and ended up sleeping in the wrong room, forcing its female occupant to hide in the bathroom, local media reported.<br /><br />The 72 year-old Brooklyn rabbi had gone back the hotel in the resort town of Queenstown with a woman, but got up in the night and wandered into a bedroom where a couple were sleeping.<br /><br />"He was a bit surprised that there were two people in his room and he was butt naked," Sergeant Steve Watt of Queenstown police told the Southland Times.<br /><br />As the intruder slept, the startled woman took refuge in the bathroom as her husband summoned hotel staff.<br /><br />The man, who could not remember whom he had been with nor what room he had been in, and had no clothes or wallet.<br /><br />Police gave him a ride home clad in a hotel bathrobe, but let him off after the guests and hotel decided not to press charges.<br /><br />"It was far too funny," said Watt.OU Sent Belsky To New Zealandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-60759050562637453812009-08-14T11:28:02.486-04:002009-08-14T11:28:02.486-04:00The Agudah is proud to announce that Squeaky Fromm...The Agudah is proud to announce that Squeaky Fromme will be giving a workshop on legal compliance.<br /><br />Filed at 11:01 a.m. ET<br /><br />FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- The Charles Manson follower convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford was released Friday from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars, a prison official said.<br /><br />Lynette ''Squeaky'' Fromme was just 26 years old when she pointed a semiautomatic .45- caliber pistol at Ford in September 1975 in Sacramento, Calif. Secret Service agents grabbed her and Ford was unhurt.<br /><br />Fromme, now 60, left the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth at about 8 a.m. Friday, spokeswoman Dr. Maria Douglas said in a statement.<br /><br />Fromme, who got a life term, became the first person sentenced under a special federal law covering assaults on U.S. presidents, a statute enacted after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.<br /><br />Ford was walking to the California State Capitol from his hotel when Fromme pushed through the crowd, drew the pistol from a holster on her thigh and pointed it at the president as he shook hands with well-wishers. She was restrained by Secret Service agents who wrested the gun away from her and led the president to safety.<br /><br />Fromme was granted parole in July 2008 and released ''via good conduct time'' after completing a 15-month sentence for unlawful escape from a federal correctional institution, according to the statement. That sentence was being served consecutively after a life sentence for threats against the president.Chaim Dovid Zweibelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-71941342300983481752009-08-14T09:19:46.697-04:002009-08-14T09:19:46.697-04:00http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/business/14madof...http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/business/14madoff.html?em=&pagewanted=print<br /><br />Hadassah, the Jewish volunteer organization, knew it had invested $40 million with Bernard L. Madoff by the late 1990s. It also knew it had taken more than $130 million from its Madoff accounts and still had millions on the books when the vast Ponzi scheme was revealed in December.<br /><br />What the charity says it did not know, however, was that Sheryl Weinstein, its chief financial officer when it made those investments, was having an affair with Mr. Madoff.<br /><br />Ms. Weinstein, who has been married for 37 years, discloses that relationship in “Madoff’s Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me,” a memoir scheduled for publication by St. Martin’s Press at the end of August, a spokesman for the publisher confirmed.<br /><br />Hadassah’s national president, Nancy Falchuk, told Hadassah’s national board in a letter on Thursday that the group was “shocked to hear the news reports of Mrs. Weinstein’s personal admission regarding this relationship. Indeed, we knew nothing of her relationship with Mr. Madoff until today.”<br /><br />According to John Murphy, the publisher’s spokesman, Ms. Weinstein’s relationship with Mr. Madoff “spanned 20 years.” That would take it back to 1988, when Hadassah received a gift of about $7 million from a French donor, whom the organization has declined to name.<br /><br />That money was already invested with Mr. Madoff, and the donor wanted it to remain in his hands, the organization reported in December. Thereafter, Hadassah invested an additional $33 million with Mr. Madoff, who was a well-known figure on Wall Street and a contributor to several other prominent charities — some of which were also victims of his fraud.<br /><br />Indeed, the Madoff scandal raised questions in the nonprofit community about how well charities managed their investments and monitored their conflicts of interest, with some watchdog organizations saying that some groups left those decisions to small, clubby boards or influential insiders.<br /><br />Hadassah has declined to identify the members of its investment advisory committee, other than to say they are “prominent and experienced financial and investment individuals” who serve without pay and are not members of its large governing board, whose membership rotates frequently.<br /><br />But the organization did confirm that one member of that committee was Ms. Weinstein, who was on Hadassah’s staff for more than a dozen years.<br /><br />Ms. Weinstein and her husband invested virtually everything they owned with Mr. Madoff, and lost it all.<br /><br />At his sentencing hearing in June, Ms. Weinstein spoke about the emotional and financial devastation of her family.<br /><br />“A deep, heavy depression would surround me and not lift,” she said. For months, she felt “unable to escape the reality of my personal devastation.” She and her husband were forced to sell their home “because four years ago we refinanced our mortgage and gave the excess cash to Bernie Madoff,” she continued.<br /><br />Ms. Weinstein has not said publicly whether she actively participated in investment decisions involving Mr. Madoff. But William Josephson, a lawyer who was formerly the chief charity regulator for the New York attorney general’s office, said she should not have done so.<br /><br />“In her position, she had a fiduciary duty to her employer that would require her to either disclose the relationship or recuse herself from making any decision related to investment with his firm,” Mr. Josephson said.<br /><br />Ms. Weinstein’s headlines are not Hadassah’s biggest worry these days. Because it withdrew far more cash from its Madoff accounts than it contributed, it may be vulnerable to a lawsuit by the Madoff bankruptcy trustee, who is trying to recover money for those victims who put in more than they took out.Sheryl Weinsteinhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/business/14madoff.html?em&pagewanted=printnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-48078455317928920332009-08-14T08:54:34.723-04:002009-08-14T08:54:34.723-04:00Why is he suing this lady? Another pro-molester sh...Why is he suing this lady? Another pro-molester shakedown?<br /><br />Kings County Civil Court<br />Index Number: CV-051137-09/KI<br />Case Name: MOSTOFSKY, STEVEN Z<br />STEVEN Z. MOSTOFSKY, P.C.<br />vs.<br />KADIN, CHAVA ROCHEL<br />Case Type: Civil<br />Classification: General<br />Filing Date: 05/14/2009<br /><br />And is this a scam that he's suing his own firm?<br /><br />Kings County Civil Court<br />Index Number: CV-051138-09/KI<br />Case Name: MOSTOFSKY, STEVEN Z.<br />vs.<br />STEVEN Z. MOSTOFSKY, P.C.<br />Case Type: Civil<br />Classification: General<br />Filing Date: 05/14/2009Steve Mostofsky up to no good again?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-30058515309977672002009-08-13T21:12:32.048-04:002009-08-13T21:12:32.048-04:00Mordechai Berkowitz and his children might no be t...Mordechai Berkowitz and his children might no be the brightest apples, but they are not arrogant fools. If they were arrogant or mean-spirited, the community would have sent them up the river ages ago. They have no rabbinic connections or backing in the city and don't seek the limelight.<br /><br />However, SPECIAL ASSETS are two arrogant fools who try to pull rank with their delusions of wealth. There is no excuse at all to incite and assist criminal activity against Jewish people. At the same time SPECIAL ASSETS need the fawning of the rabbis to prop up their self worth.<br /><br />SPECIAL ASSETS will have an even more SPECIAL ENDING.<br /><br />I'm proud to be a neighbor of the Berkowitz family.Chicago Neighbornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-39505351108539898772009-08-13T20:31:23.951-04:002009-08-13T20:31:23.951-04:00FAA Suspends Two Air Traffic Controllers In Wake O...FAA Suspends Two Air Traffic Controllers In Wake Of Crash Over Hudson<br /><br />August 13, 2009<br /><br />The FAA has has suspended two air traffic controllers who were handling the plane involved in the crash last Saturday with a helicopter, which resulted in the death of 9 people. In a statement, the agency said “we learned that the controller handling the Piper flight was involved in apparently inappropriate conversations on the telephone at the time of the accident. We also learned that the supervisor was not present in the building as required.”<br /><br />The Daily News reported that the controller was talking to his fiance as the disaster took place and that Rabbi Avi Shafran has appealed to the Federal Aviation Administration that there should be an exemption for shidduchim as long as the pilot did not do anything stupid such as crash land the plane and save everyone onboard.NBC Newsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-22770336839044110062009-08-13T20:27:25.003-04:002009-08-13T20:27:25.003-04:00http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/nyregion/03zion....http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/nyregion/03zion.html<br /><br />Sidney Zion, Writer Who Crusaded to Reduce Doctors’ Hours, Dies at 75Der neshoma zol hobben an aliyahhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/nyregion/03zion.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-20314508143260363382009-08-13T17:42:47.180-04:002009-08-13T17:42:47.180-04:00Marvin Berkowitz and his Klan are klainerkeiten. A...Marvin Berkowitz and his Klan are klainerkeiten. At least they never considered themselves SPECIAL ASSETS. <br /><br />Od Hayom BeNov La'Amod. The day is yet young. The summer is still here, the heatwave hasn't hit yet! Get ready!<br /><br />V'Hamaivin Yavin.Weather In Chicagohttp://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=60659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-46895688366657581652009-08-13T17:41:26.516-04:002009-08-13T17:41:26.516-04:00Gov. David A. Paterson on Thursday proposed legisl...Gov. David A. Paterson on Thursday proposed legislation that would make it a felony to drive while drunk or high on drugs when a passenger under 16 is in the car. The proposal comes in the aftermath of the deadly crash on the Taconic State Parkway, in which Diane Schuler killed herself and seven others while drunk and under the influence of marijuana.<br /><br />“In 2007, more than 7,000 people were injured in accidents related to driver intoxication,” Mr. Paterson said in a statement. “Of the 344 who lost their lives, nearly 200 were under the age of 14.”UOJ gets resultsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-52313419303687665942009-08-13T17:30:42.487-04:002009-08-13T17:30:42.487-04:00Filed at 5:01 p.m. ET
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The...Filed at 5:01 p.m. ET<br /><br />HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The former dean of an exclusive Connecticut boarding school has been charged with molesting three students.<br /><br />Dean of Students Richard Reinhardt was fired from The Gunnery in June after allegations surfaced that he abused boys there.<br /><br />The family of one former student sued this week over what it says were ''repeated'' abuses by the 44-year-old Reinhardt, of Telford, Pa.<br /><br />He was arraigned last week on charges including sexual assault and risk of injury to minors.<br /><br />Reinhardt's lawyer, William Dow III, says his client denies the allegations and will plead not guilty Sept. 1.<br /><br />The school in Washington, Conn., was founded in 1850 by outdoorsman and abolitionist Frederick William Gunn. Tuition, room and board costs more than $42,000 per year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-31048736169421013572009-08-13T16:00:24.414-04:002009-08-13T16:00:24.414-04:001000 homes evacuated as wildfire grows
San Franci...1000 homes evacuated as wildfire grows<br /><br />San Francisco Chronicle - Carolyn Jones - 17 minutes ago<br /><br />A 2800-acre wildfire burning out of control has forced the mandatory evacuation of up to 1000 homes in the Bonny Doon area of Santa Cruz County, authorities said todayUOJ after Shalom Tendler again?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-83255162780956426412009-08-13T14:38:51.697-04:002009-08-13T14:38:51.697-04:00http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/travel/16practsa...http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/travel/16practsa.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print<br /><br />August 16, 2009<br /><br />New Vigilance Over Traveler IDs<br /><br />By MICHELLE HIGGINS<br /><br />AIRLINE passengers are asked to remove their shoes, shrink their toiletries and submit to full-body scans. Now one more thing must be inspected: their middle initials.Avi L. Shafranhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/travel/16practsa.html?hpw&pagewanted=printnoreply@blogger.com