Daily Archives: February 5, 2006

Dictatorship at its Best?

Remember to take a look at the previous article regarding the Amona expulsion. Click Here.

Deputy Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert said today at a government meeting that he would not allow a national committee of inquiry to investigate the degree the violence exerted by the security forces while destroying the Amona outpost.

Click here to view Amona before and Amona after the evacuation.

Rabbi gets stamp honor

Georgians pay tribute to a leader

Few people know the legacy of Rabbi Abraam Khvoles, a spiritual and civic leader who lived in Georgia more than a century ago, but the global GeorgianJewish community intends to change that – one stamp at a time.

Last week, a new Georgian postage stamp honoring Khvoles was unveiled in a ceremony at the Georgian Jewish Synagogue in Forest Hills. The event was organized by the World Congress of Georgian Jews in cooperation with the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.

Among Georgian Jews, Khvoles’ name “has always been revered,” said Daniel Mariaschin, the rabbi’s grand-nephew.

Welcome or not, cell phones set for subway

One of life’s ironic oases of solitude — the peace people find amid the roar of a New York City subway — could soon be gone.

As New York plans to make cell phones work in subway stations, experts say Americans eventually could be connected everywhere, underground or in the air.

“It’s technically feasible, both for airplanes and subways,” said James Katz, director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. “It’s the social aspect that’s really the most intractable.”

People fall into two camps, one that defends the right to make calls no matter the inconvenience to others and the other that likes an undisturbed atmosphere, he said. Business people tend to belong to first camp, and leisure travelers to the second, he added.

Trio to be tried as juveniles for temple destruction

Swampscott, MA – Three 14-year-old boys charged with destroying Temple Chabad’s property last October to intimidate temple members will be prosecuted as juveniles.

The Essex District Attorney’s office branded the fire a hate crime after the boys were arrested in December. But prosecutors this week declined to charge them as adults because the charges did not meet required standards.

To charge juveniles as adults, the DA’s office is required to show charges include the threat or infliction of serious bodily harm.