“He was sentenced to death for the five victims who died outright. The sixth victim, 32-year-old Sandip Patel, of Plum, was left paralyzed and died of complications from pneumonia in 2007.” more@VosIzNeias.com
“A Jewish man wearing a rainbow kippah takes part in the XVIII Gay Pride Parade in Buenos Aires on November 7, 2009. ” DayLife.com
“It produces the most popular automatic rifles in the world but the company that makes the Kalashnikov, or AK-47, is in trouble. It has had to deal with a slump in arms exports and competition from the makers of copycat versions around the world. Now a shady businessman has filed bankruptcy proceedings against the company.” […]
“Just days after Hugo Chávez gave President Barack Obama a copy of “Open Veins of Latin America” in Trinidad last week, the English-language version of the book shot to the No. 2 slot on Amazon.com. Americans seemed to be curious about Mr. Chávez’s reading tastes. But in Latin America, “Open Veins” is a well-known rant […]
“The Prague Haggadah. anhattan’s kestenbaum & co., which specializes in rare manuscripts and Judaica, will have an auction on April 2 with a robust 328 lots. Chairman Daniel Kestenbaum declines to comment on consignors’ motivations. The most anticipated auction item at Kestenbaum is a book called the Prague Haggadah. It’s one of five surviving books […]
“Mine is fried meat kreplach. Nana, my paternal grandmother, who died in 1968, made the most superlative kreplach on the planet. Dipped in applesauce, they were sought after, fought over, and the subject of lengthy family discussions about who ate how many. When Nana died, my aunt Marcia put some of her mother’s frozen kreplach into […]
Attorney Moshe Fogel is quite pleased, having taken on the country’s cellular telephone companies and emerged with a victory in hand. Fogel filed a class action suite after realizing that a client sending a SMS text message to a kosher phone, which is blocked to text messaging, will pay for the message which will never […]
Sen. Joe Lieberman is crossing party lines and endorsing Republican Sen. John McCain for president.”Being a Republican is important. Being a Democrat is important. But you know what’s more important than that? The interest and well-being of the United States of America,” the Democrat-turned Independent said in announcing his decision Monday morning in New Hampshire. […]
New York… Israeli venture capitalists continue to eye the U.S. kosher market as a potential windfall. KosherToday has learned that a number of Israeli-based investors are looking at the U.S. kosher market as a “point of entry” into the lucrative U.S. food industry. Several have made adjustments to plans laid in […]
