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NYPD Prepares Security Dragnet

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Ground Zero will be the obvious center of focus for the New York Police Department in the lead up to Sunday’s 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. But Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the former World Trade Center site isn’t the department’s exclusive security concern over the coming days. “We don’t presume that Ground Zero alone is [...]

Jerusalem Light Rail Continues Free Service

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Citypass, the operator of the new Jerusalem light rail has announced the service will continue without charge, apparently at least until mid October, until a number of issues are resolved. It appears the continued free service is due in no small part to the efforts of askan R’ Chaim Miller, who heads The Movement on Behalf [...]

Jerusalem Light Rail Continues Free Service

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Citypass, the operator of the new Jerusalem light rail has announced the service will continue without charge, apparently at least until mid October, until a number of issues are resolved. It appears the continued free service is due in no small part to the efforts of askan R’ Chaim Miller, who heads The Movement on Behalf [...]

NYPD Honors Members Lost In WTC Terror Attacks

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The New York City Police Department this morning remembered its members who died on September 11th, and those who have passed since working at the site. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Archbishop Timothy Dolan were among those paying tribute at the Lincoln Center event. The department lost 23 of its officers on the morning [...]

NYPD Honors Members Lost In WTC Terror Attacks

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The New York City Police Department this morning remembered its members who died on September 11th, and those who have passed since working at the site. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Archbishop Timothy Dolan were among those paying tribute at the Lincoln Center event. The department lost 23 of its officers on the morning [...]

Did You Know This? Politician Weprin Cannot Even Vote In NY-9 Election!

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Career politician David Weprin (D-WFP) – who has held or run for four separate political offices in the past two years: city council, city comptroller, state assembly (twice), and now congress  — cannot vote for himself next Tuesday, September 13th in the special election to replace former congressman Anthony Weiner because Mr. Weprin does not [...]

PA Officially Launches Statehood Bid

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The PA on Thursday (Sept. 8th) officially launched it unilateral bid to declare Palestinian Statehood. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) sent a letter to the Ramallah office of the United Nations, the official representative of UN Secretary-General Bank ki-Moon, calling upon him to do whatever he can towards assisting the Palestinian People in achieving [...]

Appeals Court Dismisses Virginia’s Challenge To ObamaCare

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A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Virginia’s challenge to President Obama’s health care law, saying in a ruling that the state doesn’t have a right to bring a lawsuit. The unanimous decision from the three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a lower court’s decision to declare the law unconstitutional and [...]

Israel: More School Stories

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Story 1: A number of months ago Rabbi Binyamin Metzger, principal of the Beis Yaakov Lustig High School in Ramat Gan called a student in to explain that she simply may not return next year, and that she must find another school to continue her studies. In the letter given to the young lady to [...]

Newly Published Audio Provides Real-Time View of 9/11 Attacks

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[AUDIO LINK POSTED BELOW] For one instant on the morning of Sept. 11, an airliner that had vanished from all the tracking tools of modern aviation suddenly became visible in its final seconds to the people who had been trying to find it. It was just after 9 a.m., 16 minutes after a plane had hit the [...]

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