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California – Pet Airways, in Financial Straits, Is Canceling Flights

2012-02-13T02:50:09Z

California – An airline just for pets was an act of genius, Martha Hamilton figured. No cold cargo holds for Phoebe, her 10-year-old miniature schnauzer. Attendants would check on her regularly during the flight. There would even be a pet lounge for the emotional goodbye at the airport. But Ms. Hamilton and Phoebe just finished [...]

New York – New Bloomberg Magazine For Audience With Income Of More Than $450,000,

2012-02-13T02:49:44Z

New York – A Wall Street executive posing in front of a garage full of red Ferraris isn’t the populist choice for a magazine cover given the current economic climate. But Bloomberg L.P. isn’t aiming for the 99 percent with its new luxury magazine, Bloomberg Pursuits, which will be distributed twice a year beginning this [...]

Albany, NY – Andrew Cuomo’s Order Baffles Nonprofits

2012-02-13T02:59:09Z

Albany, NY – The cap on executive pay at state-funded nonprofits issued last month by Gov. Andrew Cuomo—prompted by a scandal at one organization—isn’t the only blow to service providers in his executive order. Nonprofit groups fear the mandate will saddle them with administrative costs and tarnish service providers. “The governor’s order was rash and [...]

Borough Park, NY – Brooklyn’s Gourmet Glatt Hopes To Serve Community

2012-02-13T02:42:16Z

Borough Park, NY – Over seven thousand people thronged to Borough Park yesterday for the grand opening celebration of a store that not only hopes to provide a pleasant and affordable shopping experience but has also created over one hundred jobs within the community. Gourmet Glatt, located at the former location of Friedman’s Supermarket at [...]

Venezuela – Opposition Chooses Chavez’s Challenger Who Is Jewish

2012-02-13T02:50:58Z

Caracas, Venezuela – State governor Henrique Capriles handily won a primary vote Sunday to become the single candidate who will challenge Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, launching a race to try to dislodge a leader who after 13 years in power still has a loyal following. Opposition election chief Teresa Albanes announced the preliminary results, saying [...]

Washington – AP IMPACT: USAID Jewish Contractor Work in Cuba Detailed

2012-02-12T23:31:32Z

Washington – Piece by piece, in backpacks and carry-on bags, American aid contractor Alan Gross made sure laptops, smartphones, hard drives and networking equipment were secreted into Cuba. The most sensitive item, according to official trip reports, was the last one: a specialized mobile phone chip that experts say is often used by the Pentagon [...]

New York, NY – NYPD Commissioner Kelly’s Approval Rating Falls

2012-02-13T01:31:39Z

New York, NY – A Quinnipiac poll shows Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s approval ratings are slightly down, but the commissioner’s overall approval rate is still 62 percent. As Kelly visited on Sunday the Rehoboth Cathedral in Flatbush, Brooklyn, one of the religious groups in the NYPD-Brooklyn Clergy Coalition, he told reporters that he was aware [...]

Buenos Aires – Argentine President To Get Involved In Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

2012-02-12T18:11:29Z

Buenos Aires – Argentina’s President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, said her country intends to spearhead the increased involvement of Latin American states in the Mideast peace process. Kirchner announced the decision over the weekend at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, where she met an Israeli-Palestinian delegation of the Peace NGO Forum. The delegation included [...]

Boston, MA – Kosher Catering Business Victim Of Four Alarm Blaze

2012-02-12T22:11:15Z

Boston, MA – A kosher caterer is one of several businesses that were destroyed this morning by a four alarm blaze that broke out in the Brighton section of Boston. The fire, whose cause is still unknown, began at approximately 5:30 AM this morning in Boston House of Pizza located on Chestnut Hill Avenue. Four [...]

Portland, ME – Santorum Plans Aggressive Strategy Against Romney

2012-02-12T20:23:48Z

Portland, ME – Rick Santorum is pursuing an aggressive strategy to challenge Mitt Romney in the state where the GOP presidential front-runner grew up. Santorum said Sunday he could do “exceptionally well” in Michigan, the next state to host a presidential contest, along with Arizona, on Feb. 28, and where Romney’s father was governor. “We’re [...]

West Bank – Palestinian Unity Deal Faces Big Hurdle

2012-02-12T20:26:33Z

West Bank – A mounting rebellion by Hamas leaders in Gaza against a breakthrough power-sharing agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas highlights a potentially fatal flaw — the deal never spelled out how the Western-backed leader can take charge again in Gaza, the territory he lost to a violent takeover by the Islamic militants. Former [...]

Athens, Greece – Riots Spread Across Athens As 100,000 Take To The Streets; Buildings Set Ablaze

2012-02-12T20:03:56Z

Athens, Greece – Rioting spread across central Athens and at least seven buildings went up in flames amid mass protests late Sunday, as lawmakers debated harsh cutbacks demanded to keep the country solvent and within the eurozone. TV footage showed a three-story corner building completely engulfed in flames with riot officers looking on from the [...]

Baltimore MD – County Delays Partnership With Beit Shemesh Following Ultra-Orthodox Controversy

2012-02-12T19:52:57Z

Baltimore, MD – This is not what Montgomery County officials expected when they started signing sister-city agreements. After arranging the first one last year, county officials have been busy finalizing another pact, this one with Beit Shemesh in Israel. But recent controversies in the city, which is west of Jerusalem, have put the agreement with [...]

Brooklyn, NY – Mishpacha Profiles: Flatbush’s Busiest Hub Of Prayer Traces Its History To An Airless Bunker Beneath The Slovakian Ground

2012-02-12T19:26:08Z

Brooklyn, NY – Flatbush’s busiest hub of prayer traces its history to an airless bunker beneath the Slovakian ground – where Rav Yechezkel Shraga Landau carved out a place of holiness and prayer despite the Nazi footfalls overhead. Last week, his grandsons returned to the tiny hole that was his shelter, finally fulfilling the charge [...]

Manama, Bahrain – U.S. Navy Official: Forces Prepared To Confront Iran

2012-02-12T18:55:47Z

Manama, Bahrain – The top U.S. Navy official in the Persian Gulf said Sunday he takes Iran’s military capabilities seriously but insists his forces are prepared to confront any Iranian aggression in the region. Vice Adm. Mark Fox, commander of the 5th Fleet, told reporters at the naval force’s Bahrain headquarters that the Navy has [...]

Monsey, NY – Israeli Foreign Minister Visited Ribnitzer’s Rebbe Kever

2012-02-12T18:09:37Z

Monsey, NY – A visit to the United States last Wednesday by Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, included not just a forty five minute meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington and a briefing with the United Nations Security Council, but also a twelve minute stop at the grave of the Ribnitzer Rebbe [...]

Israel – Charedi Mag Mistakenly Publishes Smutty Content

2012-02-12T13:37:41Z

Israel – The editors of an ultra-Orthodox magazine were embarrassed to realize that they have published photographs featuring smutty language recently. The popular gossip weekly, whose content centers on the who’s who of the haredi world, often publishes several pages of photographs from around the globe. In one recent edition this section focused on Olek, [...]

Sao Paulo, Brazil – Brazil Jet Makes Forced Stop After Pilot Attack

2012-02-12T19:24:32Z

Sao Paulo, Brazil – A Brazilian airliner safely made a forced landing after a passenger had a “psychotic attack,” entered the cockpit and assaulted a pilot, crew members and passengers who tried to subdue him, witnesses said. The TAM Airlines jet was en route from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Sao Paulo when a man who some [...]

Warsaw – Poland Moves To Amend Jewish Property Law, Despite Opposition

2012-02-12T16:20:16Z

Warsaw – The Polish government has decided to fundamentally change the process for returning Jewish property lost in the Holocaust or under the former Communist government, despite continued opposition from the Jewish community itself. Under the new proposal, the issue will no longer be handled by joint government and community public committees, and claims will [...]

Washington – Obama’s Budget Offers Short-term Help For Economy

2012-02-12T15:52:06Z

Washington – The president will send Congress a budget that will provide short-term help to a struggling economy while offering a long-term plan to deal with soaring deficits, the White House said Sunday. Republicans attacked the spending blueprint as offering more of the same failed solutions for the economy. The 2013 budget being released Monday [...]

Azerbaijan – Report: ‘Mossad Using Azerbaijan As Hub For Iran Spying’

2012-02-12T15:48:24Z

Azerbaijan – A small Eurasian country which shares a border with Iran, is teeming with Mossad agents working to collect intelligence on the happenings within the Islamic Republic, The Times Of London reported Saturday, citing testimony from an anonymous agent active in the country referred to only as “Shimon.” “This is ground zero for intelligence [...]

Boys Town, NE – A Rabbi’s Teachings On Recovery Find A Wide Audience

2012-02-12T15:44:14Z

Boys Town, NE – On a clement winter day at the edge of the Plains, two men in black trod a kind of hallowed ground. One was a Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. Steven E. Boes, and the other a Hasidic rabbi, Shais Taub. They were walking through the village founded decades earlier by an [...]

Washignton – Santorum Says He’ll Be In 2-man Race With Romney

2012-02-12T14:21:37Z

Washington – Rick Santorum says he expects to do well in the next GOP presidential contests and will be in a two-man race with Mitt Romney. Santorum is coming off victories last week in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, and says he can have good showings Feb. 28 in Michigan and Arizona. The former Pennsylvania senator [...]

Baghdad – Al-Qaida Urges Muslims To Help Syrian Rebels

2012-02-12T13:16:48Z

Baghdad – Al-Qaida’s chief has called on Muslims from other countries to support rebels in Syria seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad, saying they cannot depend on the West for help. Ayman al-Zawahri, in a videotaped statement released late Saturday, asked Muslims in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey to join the uprising against Assad’s “pernicious, [...]

Brooklyn, NY – Rabbis Accuser Says Family Threatened

2012-02-12T16:00:52Z

Brooklyn, NY – The family of a boy allegedly molested by notorious Brooklyn Rabbi Joel Kolko say they’ve received a barrage of harassing and threatening telephone calls — one warning, “You better back off or you’ll suffer the consequences.” “We have been told by anonymous callers that our son would be publicly humiliated and named” [...]

Jerusalem – Police Block Feiglin From Accessing Temple Mount Over Political Flyers

2012-02-12T13:43:28Z

Jerusalem – Police prevented former Likud leadership contender Moshe Feiglin from entering the Temple Mount Sunday morning, accusing Feiglin and Likud activists of attempting to disrupt the order. Feiglin sent a message to Likud activists on Saturday night, urging them to join him by going up to the Temple Mount on Sunday morning. “Purify the [...]

Tehran – Iran Urges Hamas To Continue Fight Against Israel

2012-02-12T13:15:06Z

Tehran – Iran’s supreme leader has urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamist militant group’s resistance against Israel. Iranian state TV quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as telling Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday that people expect Hamas to continue its fight against Israel. Khamenei said that late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat lost his [...]

Washington – Anonymous Hackers Bring Down CIA Website

2012-02-12T05:31:03Z

Washington – Internet activists have claimed responsibility for an attack on the CIA’s website that disabled it for nine hours on Friday. The Anonymous group targeted the personal details of more than 46,000 people in attacks on government websites including cia.gov. It is the same group that intercepted a highly sensitive telephone conversation between Scotland [...]

New York – Justice Department Calls Swiss Bank a “Fugitive”

2012-02-12T12:03:36Z

New York – The U.S. Justice Department called Switzerland’s largest private bank a fugitive from justice after it didn’t send any representatives to a court hearing in New York, where it has been charged with conspiring with American clients to hide $1.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service. Wegelin & Co. is accused of helping [...]

Nevada – Ruling Forbids Prison From Serving Nonkosher Food To Jewish Inmate

2012-02-12T02:44:34Z

Nevada – A federal judge in Nevada has temporarily barred state prison officials from serving a new “common fare” menu to an Orthodox Jewish inmate who adheres to a kosher diet while serving a life sentence for kidnapping. U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro also ordered the Nevada Department of Corrections to ask the other 292 [...]