Chabad House director and community leader in Kiryat Ata Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Diskin was robbed several months ago when his briefcase was stolen from his car. The briefcase contained cash, personal checkbooks and checkbooks from the Chabad House.
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The NYPD has had to replace an estimated 30,000 emergency masks, following a recall by the manufacturer.
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Growing up in London, Yudi Weinbaum would literally “never be found in the kitchen,” as he tells it. Today, at 25 years of age and half a planet away, he’s in the kitchen six days a week at the helm of his very own deli on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

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A police officer in President Bush ’s motorcade crashed his motorcycle and died Monday, less than a year after a crash in Hawaii killed another motorcycle officer accompanying the president.
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The Spitz family considers their dog Toby, a 3-year-old Wheaton terrier, one of their kin.

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A police officer pulled a woman and her baby from a burning Jeep Cherokee early yesterday, moments after the vehicle crashed into a synagogue on Hope Street and burst into flames, the police said.

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One man was injured in an accident on the Palisades Interstate Parkway early yesterday when his vehicle crashed into another car that had stalled, police said. (more…)

The Earth’s shadow will creep across the moon’s surface early Tuesday, slowly eclipsing it and turning it to shades of orange and red.
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A 26-year-old man was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern with head injuries after he fell from his second-story apartment at 19 Rose Ave. during an apparent robbery early yesterday, police said.
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An influential former chief rabbi of Israel has caused controversy by saying its soldiers fall in action because they do not observe Jewish law.

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The first privately-funded Jewish cultural center in Germany since the Holocaust will open this week as a symbol of the rebirth of Jewish life in the country, organizers said Monday.
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Yahoo Mail is hoping significant productivity enhancements up the ante in the competition against Google, MSN and AOL.
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A group of 25 Israeli firefighters were on the first plane to Greece on Monday after a desperate appeal by the Greek government for assistance in fighting one of the worst outbreaks of wildfire ever to hit the country. The Israeli contingent is the largest of those sent by a total of eight nations.
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Hamas is seeking to launch a “large-scale” suicide attack inside Israel to torpedo chances of a peace deal with moderate Palestinians, a senior security official warned overnight.
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Germany’s Central Council of Jews is considering a criminal complaint against YouTube for allowing videos that promote racial hatred and glorify war, it was reported Sunday.
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Powerball lottery officials say one winning ticket was sold for Saturday night’s $314 million jackpot.
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A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple ’s iPhone to AT&T ’s wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.

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INDIAN police have found 19 more unexploded bombs, less than a day after three blasts killed 43 people and wounded dozens more in the southern city of Hyderabad.
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A New Zealand pizza chain pulled a billboard featuring Adolf Hitler from three of the country’s largest cities on Thursday after the Jewish community lodged several complaints with the company and the New Zealand Advertising Standards Association.
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Pakistan, a South Asian nation with nuclear capability, says it has successfully test-fired a new missile that “can carry all types of warheads.”
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A 12-year-old boy who tried to cash a forged check at a tavern so he could buy a bow and arrows has been referred to juvenile court, according to authorities in Winnebago County.
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Police are investigating a recent spate of pellet gun shootings around Los Angeles that included an attack on two Orthodox Jews near Melrose Avenue in what authorities are calling a hate crime.
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At least two powerful explosions ripped through the southern Indian high-tech city of Hyderabad on Saturday evening, killing more than 30 people and injuring dozens more.
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Eight Palestinians were shot dead yesterday by Israeli soldiers in an upsurge in violence while two Palestinians launched a daring attack and infiltrated Israel before being gunned down.
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One scrambled out a police station window while officers briefly left him alone during questioning. The other somehow managed to slip away while police were writing up his arrest papers.
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It’s no secret White House hopeful Barack Obama is an avid basketball player when he’s not on the campaign trail. And on Thursday, the Illinois senator got a chance to show off his skills while touring a South Carolina school.
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China has launched a four-month “war” on tainted food, drugs and exports, state media reported on Friday, as beleaguered officials embraced time-tested campaign tactics to clean up the country’s battered image.
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Gaza: A Hamas militant was killed and another critically injured in an explosion in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in what the group said was an Israeli attack, but the Israeli army denied any involvement.
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It was a few tense hours, but it meant a lifetime.

Cora Greenaway still remembers the fading blues of the Amsterdam sky that evening, the crispness of the white blanket that secured her secret bundle, and the black pit of fear in her stomach as she spirited the baby away.
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Sen. Barack Obama met with top Jewish lay leaders in New York as part of an outreach to Jews across the country.
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A bomb dropped by a U.S. fighter jet was believed to have killed three British soldiers in southern Afghanistan, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said Friday. Two other soldiers were wounded. (more…)