LAS VEGAS — Walking around the CES showroom floor, there is one specific cultural group that stood out to me. (No, it was not the booth models.) A surprising number of Hassidic Jews seemed to be exhibiting and walking around the show.
David G. Trager, a federal judge in Brooklyn whose rulings were pivotal in a racially charged case in Crown Heights and in the first civil suit to challenge the Bush administration’s practice of sending terrorism suspects to countries that employ torture, died on Wednesday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 73.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife, Roberta E. Weisbrod, said.
After three decades as a lawyer, state investigation commissioner, federal prosecutor and law school professor and dean, Mr. Trager was named to the United States District Court for the Eastern District by President Bill Clinton in 1993. After assuming senior status in 2006, Judge Trager worked full time until recently. The district encompasses Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Back in 1991, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, 56, was approached by Aryeh Markovich on the LIRR. He wanted to know if the Orthodox rabbi would be willing to teach the Talmud on the 7:51 a.m. train from Far Rockaway to Manhattan. (The Talmud is one of Judaism’s main texts, and it takes about 7½ years to complete one’s studies of it, Lerner says.) “I used to see a lot of people playing cards on the train,” says Markovich, 51, president of EyeMark Media. “And it really bothered me. I said, ‘Why don’t we do something for people to utilize their time productively and learn something, too?’ ”
BROOKLYN — When residents demanded that heads roll after the city’s shameful response to the blizzard cleanup, they didn’t mean headstones.
Saudi Arabian security forces have captured a vulture that was carrying a global positioning satellite (GPS) transmitter and a ring etched with the words “Tel Aviv University.” They suspect the bird of spying for Israel, Maariv-NRG reported Tuesday. The GPS and ring were connected to the bird as part of an long-term project by Israeli scientists that follows vultures’ location and altitude for research purposes.
A prominent Israeli rabbi has issued a religious decree forbidding Jewish women from driving or learning to drive unless absolutely necessary.
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TEHRAN [AFP] — Iran on Tuesday hanged a man found guilty of feeding Israeli spy agency Mossad with Iranian military secrets and information on its missile programme over a period of six years, news agency IRNA reported.
LONDON — Nine terror suspects plotted a bomb blitz in London, a London court heard. Two Rabbis were listed a possible targets in the attack. Other potential targets were tourist attractions, the Stock Exchange, the mayor of London, the dean of a cathedral, and the U.S. Embassy.
GREECE — A recent anti-Semitic tirade by a high-ranking Greek orthodox priest on the nation’s largest television network has brought international condemnation. The priest, the Metropolite of Piraeus Seraphim blamed world Jewry for Greece’s financial problems, drawing on age old stereotypes and conspiracies.
SEATTLE — Following pressure from Jewish groups and submissions of response ads, county officials announce ban all non-commercial ads.
BARRINGTON, NY — A small plane crash has killed an emergency room doctor from New Jersey who was flying to work at a hospital in upstate New York’s Finger Lakes region.
Writing, said Rabbi Abraham Twerski, is like composing a musical piece. One sits down to compose, and the ideas just come.
And so it was with his newest book, “Gevurah: My Life, Our World, and the Adventure of Reaching 80,” written to mark his 80th birthday, which he celebrated this past October.
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – A hospital in Israel has begun using Apple’s iPad to enable medical staff to help treat patients, provide consultations and study X-rays and CT scans from afar.
The Orthodox Union is suing a Pennsylvania-based seafood-importing company, saying it falsely claimed the OU certified its tilapia fish as kosher, highlighting a common problem in the increasingly global kosher marketplace.
Suspects from Jerusalem and Hadera may have broken into synagogues in Negev villages of Yated, Shuva and Pri Gan.
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