(IsraelNN.com) Police have demanded that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appear for another round of questioning in the bribery scandal that has enveloped him in the last two weeks, journalist Yoav Yitzchak of the NFC new site reported Saturday night.
Ilan Griff in “My Father My Lord,” directed by David Volach. “God doesn’t watch over those who don’t observe the Torah,” declares Abraham Edelman (Assi Dayan), an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, to his yeshiva students in David Volach’s bare, anguished drama “My Father My Lord.”
Education officials yesterday released a bid to soundproof a Queens high school that sits under the flight path to JFK Airport - for a whopping $52 million. The project is scheduled to provide new windows, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, and exterior work to the Rockaway Park building that houses Beach Channel HS and Channel View School of Research, education officials said. State and
Beitar Jerusalem clenched the premiership title yesterday after decisively beating second in the league Maccabi Netanya 3-0. Beitar joined only three other teams - Maccabi Haifa, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv - which have won the both the league title and the State Cup in the same season.
Brooklyn's Aleksandr Ostrovskiy, a sixth-grader at IS 234, was crowned national chess champion this week after besting 2,200 students at a tournament in Pittsburgh. Although the Russian-born pawn-pusher is just 12, his win in the under-sixth-grade bracket was the latest in a handful of milestones. "I was happy because I really wanted to win the tournament," said Aleksandr, of Midwood, who
Mr. Gaon was an Israeli industrialist who tried to build trade links with the Arab world and who helped the Israeli economy move from its socialist roots toward privatization.
From the inaccurately punning title on, The Artful Codgers played the story of the Greenhalgh family of Bolton for laughs: tee-hee, look at the uneducated working-class types putting one over on the snooty, silly art market. But by the end, the story was starting to look a lot less funny than the programme wanted to let on.
Using profanity may be unprofessional for cabdrivers or newscasters, but cops are often free to shoot their mouths off, city officials said. In fact, a well-placed F-bomb can be part of good police work, and may even help prevent the use of deadly force, said Andrew Case, spokesman for the Civilian Complaint Review Board. WNBC newscaster Sue Simmons came under fire for unleashing a four-letter