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Daily News Profiles New Book for Jewish Kids’ Safety

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by Simone Weichselbaum - NY Daily News
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Top rabbis have endorsed a new children’s book teaching Orthodox Jewish kids about kidnapping and molestation - a historical first for the sheltered community.

Liberal Jew Spied on Israel to Prevent Attack on Iran

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NY Times
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Left: Shamai K. Leibowitz. Right: Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC.

When Shamai K. Leibowitz, an F.B.I. translator, was sentenced to 20 months in prison last year for leaking classified information to a blogger, prosecutors revealed little about the case. They identified the blogger in court papers only as “Recipient A.” After Mr. Leibowitz pleaded guilty, even the judge said he did not know exactly what Mr. Leibowitz had disclosed.

Lawyer for Levi Aron Defends Her Client… and Herself

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NY Times
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The death threats and hate mail, she says, have slowed, and she keeps her office door unlocked in defiance. There, Jennifer L. McCann sits behind her desk, wearing leopard print pumps, poised for an argument.

City of Postville Pays $450,000 to Jewish Businessman

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POSTVILLE, IA [CHI] — Gabay Menahem, a former businessman and property owner here, has received $450,000 to settle discrimination and business interference lawsuits filed in state and federal court against the City of Postville, the city clerk and two members of the city council.

Newest Hit on Charedi Street: Wig Leasing

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Ynet
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Can't afford that gorgeous new designer sheitel? An Israeli wig chain has realized that the war on haredi women’s pockets passes through their head. That chain recently launched a new campaign for the sector’s women: Wig leasing.

Upstate Colonies Troubled by Flooding, Power Loss

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NY1

In the summer months, camps and bungalow communities in upstate communities like Monticello in Sullivan County are home to many orthodox and Hasidic Jewish families.

Upstate Colonies Troubled by Flooding, Power Loss

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NY1

In the summer months, camps and bungalow communities in upstate communities like Monticello in Sullivan County are home to many orthodox and Hasidic Jewish families.

Dutch Soccer Fans: ”Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the Gas”

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by Manfred Gerstenfeld - Ynet
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Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs — Chabad representative and chief rabbi of the Dutch interprovincial rabbinate — said that he, together with a non-Jewish psychologist, once entered a train full of Feyenoord supporters. When these fans saw them, they started to chant: “Jews to the gas.” Jacobs said that he got the feeling that the whole train of “ordinary Dutchmen” was against them.

Anti-Semitism is a recurrent problem in the world of soccer. Nowhere else, however, is the origin of wide-spread anti-Semitic chants in stadiums as bizarre as in the Netherlands.

Israeli Bochur Found Innocent in Japan

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The notorious Japanese Chiba prison, where Yoel Zev Goldstein is being held.

It is with shevach vehodaah to the Ribono Shel Olam that we report that the final verdict of Yoel Goldstein, Yoel Zev ben Mirel Risa Chava, was rendered just moments ago at the Chiba District Court in Japan and he has been found innocent.

7 Israelis Wounded in Palestinian Terror Attack

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AP
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Israeli policemen gather at a site where a Palestinian man crashed a car into a crowed of people and stabbed few others near a nightclub in Tel Aviv, early Monday, Aug. 29, 2011.

A Palestinian attacker wounded seven Israelis near a Tel Aviv nightclub early Monday, hitting a police checkpoint with a stolen taxi and then stabbing others, police said.

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