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Category Archives: New York Times
Yisroel Pensack: 2 Years after Mumbai Massacre, Chabad and Slain Rabbi’s Parents Battle in Court
The Chabad-Lubavitch movement thrives on favorable publicity, but this story on The New York Times homepage doesn’t qualify as that: MUMBAI, India — Days ahead of the second anniversary of a deadly terrorist attack on this bustling city, a Jewish center … Continue reading
Posted in Brooklyn, Chabad, Hasidim, Israel, Judaism, New York Times, Terror, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged battle in court, denomination, Eliran Russo, holtzberg, india, jewish center, legal dispute, lubavitch, massacre, Mumbai, Nariman House, renovation of building, slain rabbi's parents
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Yisroel Pensack: Iowa Voters Oust ‘Gay Marriage’ Judges from State’s Highest Court
Common sense prevailed in Iowa. A.G. Sulzberger of The New York Times reports: DES MOINES — In a rebuke of the state supreme court with implications for judicial elections across the country, voters here removed three justices who participated in a … Continue reading
Posted in New York Times, Politics, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged A.G. Sulzberger, chief justice, common sense, gay marriage, Iowa, judges, justices, same sex marriage, state supreme court, voters
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Yisroel Pensack: NPR Expands “Don’t Tell” Policy to Include Telling the Truth About Terrorism and Islam
The New York Times reports: NPR has terminated its contract with Juan Williams, one of its senior news analysts, after he made comments about Muslims on the Fox News Channel… The move came after Mr. Williams, who is also a … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Journalism, New York Times, Pakistan, Terror, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged Bill O'Reilly, car bomb, editorial standards and practices, fox news, Jihad, Juan Williams, Muslim dilemma, muslims, npr, Pakistani immigrant, terrorism, The O'Reilly Factor, times square
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Rubashkin Acquitted in Iowa Child Labor Trial
The Des Moines Register reports: Waterloo, Ia. – Former Agriprocessors Inc. executive Sholom Rubashkin was found not guilty Monday of all 67 misdemeanor child labor charges against him… State prosecutors alleged Rubashkin allowed minors to labor up to 90 hours … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Immigration, Kashrut, New York Times, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged acquitted, child labor, des moines register, false documents, Guatemalans, Iowa, kosher slaughterhouse, Mexicans, minors, misdemeanor charges, not guilty, Quentin Hart, Sholom Rubashkin, under-age laborers, Waterloo
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Yisroel Pensack: ‘Global Warming’ Rears Its Pretty White Face over the U.S. East Coast
Just in time to punctuate the ending of the much-hyped global conference on climate change in Copenhagen, the Great Weatherman in the Sky sent a season’s greetings reality check message to the eastern United States, including the nation’s capital. The … Continue reading
Posted in New York Times, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged biggest snowstorm in years, blizzard-like conditions, climate change, copenhagen, eastern United States, global warming, Great Weatherman in the Sky, Mid-Atlantic States, nation's capital, pretty white face, snow blankets East Coast, two feet of snow
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Swiss Vote to Ban New Minarets
The New York Times reports: Switzerland’s political right on Sunday scored a surprising victory in a referendum on banning construction of minarets, denting the nation’s cherished image as a bastion of tolerance and threatening to set it at odds with … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, New York Times, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged ban, kosovo, minarets, mosques, muslims, referendum, S.V.P., Swiss People's Party, Switzerland, Turkey
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Yisroel Pensack: The National Football League’s Headless Head Injury Committee
The New York Times reports: In the latest indication that the National Football League will redirect its approach to players’ concussions, the co-chairmen of the league’s committee on brain injuries resigned from the group Tuesday, the league announced. Dr. Ira … Continue reading
Posted in New York Times, Sports, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged co-chairmen, cognitive decline, Commissioner Roger Goodell, committee on brain injuries, concussions, Congress, dementia, Dr. David Viano, Dr. Elliot Pellman, Dr. Ira Casson, football players, N.F.L., National Footbal League, scientists
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Fort Hood Massacre
The New York Times reports: WASHINGTON — A Senate committee on Thursday opened the first public hearings into the Fort Hood shootings, with several legislators asserting that the incident in which 13 people were killed was a terrorist attack by … Continue reading
Posted in FBI, Journalism, New York Times, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged congressional hearings, Fort Hood, Frances Fragos Townsend, homeland security, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, Senate committee, senator joseph lieberman
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U.S. Attorney Nominee for Northern Iowa Criticized Over Agriprocessors Immigration Raid
The New York Times reports: Eleventh-hour criticism is arising over President Obama’s nomination for United States attorney in northern Iowa of a prosecutor who had a leading role in the criminal cases against hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested in a … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Immigration, New York Times, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged associated press, civil rights, criminal charges, Democrat, eleventh-hour, felony identity-theft charges, Iowa, kosher, meatpacking plant, nominee, northern Iowa, postville, President Obama, prosecutor, Senator Tom Harkin, Sioux Falls, South Dakota State Penitentiary, Stephanie Rose, Supreme Court, United States attorney, victims of exploitation, Woodbury County Jail
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