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They say that time flies when youre having fun. I like to say that time flies when youre busy. I know its true for me. By the time I flip my calendar every month, that new month is already filled with appointments, events and things to do. Im almost overwhelmed seeing how much is happeningwhen the month hasnt even start-ed yet!

Although my children have been talking about Chanukah for months on end (my four-year-old daughter has been requesting dolls, makeup sets, jewelry, and, most recently, a Kindlewhere did she come up with that?!), I truly had to take a second look when I noticed that Chanukah starts next week. When did that come up? Weve been so busy getting through the pre-winter weeks that the cold fall days have managed to slip by.

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sue next week for delicious reci-pes, divrei Torah, and exciting sto-ries and features on the light-filled holiday. And as for those presents my children have been requesting: kids, have no fear. Theres always 2-day shipping. And no, were not getting you a Kindle.

This week, take time to peruse a jam-packed issue. Mr. Joe Bob-ker takes us back 70 years to the Kastner trains and the plight of Hungarian Jewry. The name Ru-dolf Kastner is mired in contro-versy. There are those who call him an angel; others say he was working with the devil. Mr. Bob-ker, though, comes to another con-clusion about the Jew who helped smuggle out hundreds during the Holocaust: could it have been that he was a little bit of both?

Those of you who are history buffs will enjoy reading about the Battle of the Bulge. Avi Heilig-man writes about the highlights of the battle that took place 70 years

ago and effectively ended the war for the German army. Love to cook and love eating in the best the kosher restaurant scene has to offer? Make sure to look through some of the delectable recipes that Victoria Dwek and Leah Schapira discovered from chefs around the globe. And take a look at Tam-my Marks feature on Jew in the Citys Orthodox Jewish All Stars. Truthfully, after reading the ar-ticle, youll agree that as long as we conduct ourselves in the proper way and with menschlechkeit, we are all all-stars.

Last, but certainly not least, Rocky Zweig, one of the funnier people around, introduces himself to our readers this week. Even the biggest curmudgeons out there will chuckle as they read his words. We hope to feature his column every other week to keep those smiles on all your faces. Wishing you a wonderful week,Shoshana

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Dear Editor,I smiled knowingly when I read Dr.

Debs article on in-laws. I, for one, en-joy a wonderful relationship with my mother-in-law. After I got married and I spent time with some of my friends, I was incredulous when they would com-plain about their mothers-in-law or speak snottily about them. How could they speak negatively about someone who gave birth to and brought up the one who they love?

Dr. Deb smartly pointed out that the best mothers-in-law are those who are present in our lives but not in our fac-es. They know when to speak up and when to keep quiet. My mother always says that my grandmotherher mother-in-lawdoes exactly that. She wisely keeps many of her opinions to herself while being very much part of our lives. Oma is always welcome in everyones home and she has a wonderful relation-ship with every one of her daughters- and sons-in-law.Stacey Weingarten

Dear Editor,This weeks article on Ronald S.

Lauder and his foundation by Yaakov Wasilewicz was well-written and infor-mative. I walked away inspired. When I thought about the article hours later, I realized that I didnt fully appreciate the awesomeness of Lauders actions.

Its true that Lauder is bringing Yid-dishkeit to many who never experienced Torah and mitzvos before. They never would have known about the beauty of their heritage and all it has to offer. But even more than that, there are many

in Polandand in other parts of the worldwho dont even know that they are Jewish. Yaakov, the author, only found out about his Jewish roots when he was eight years old. There are so many others like him. No can fault them, then, if they end up marrying non-Jews in their ignorance.

Lauders foundation, by bringing Judaism back to life in Poland, is essen-tially saving Jewish souls from being lost in tangled, murky waters. He is bringing light back to these souls that would oth-erwise have been left in the dark.Sincerely,Doniel Felder

Dear Editor,Thank G-d for riots and violence in

the U.S. I was getting concerned that Al Sharpton was going to have to re-tire. Thanks to explosive situations like in Ferguson, Missouri, and in the Eric Garner case, Sharpton is able to continue to look sharp and speak sharply for the cameras about these outrages.

It would be a bigger outrage to him if he had nothing to rail against.Pacey F.

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Global2 Killed in Failed Hostage Rescue Mission in Yemen

A raid that was intended to free a captured American photojournalist and a South African teacher failed this week; both captives were killed in the botched attempt. The raid before dawn in an al Qaeda stronghold in Yemen was the second rescue attempt in as many weeks to free Luke Somers, a 33-year-old freelance photographer and editor kidnapped just over a year ago.

Militants also killed South African Pierre Korkie, abducted 18 months ago with his wife in the city of Tazi, as U.S. forces descended upon the militants compound. A South African aid group trying to negotiate Korkies release said he was a day from freedom after a deal late last month that included a three million dollar facilitation fee to the kidnappers. Prior to the raid, the relief organization had told Korkies wife that the wait is almost over.

President Barack Obama said he ordered the raid because Somers was believed to be in imminent danger. The president condemned Somers killing as a barbaric murder, but did not mention the 56-year-old Korkie by name, offering condolences to the fam-ily of a non-U.S. citizen hostage. The South African government said it was informed that Korkie died during the mission by American Special Forces.

About 40 American special oper-ations forces were involved in the res-cue attempt, which followed U.S. drone strikes in the area, U.S. officials said. The rescuers, backed by Yemeni ground forces, advanced within 110 yards of the compound in Shabwa province un-der the cover of darkness. But less than 100 yards from the compound some-thing went horribly wrong. A noise alerted the militants to the raiders pres-ence, and the element of surprise was lost. A firefight ensued and 30 minutes later, when the dust settled, U.S. forc-es entered the compound and emerged

with both Somers and Korkie, who were mortally shot by militants.

Despite the risks involved, offi-cials said it was imperative for the raid to take place on Saturday as militants threatened to kill Somers later that day, a threat officials say was serious.

They were serious, a senior ad-ministration official said of the threat. They were going to execute him on Saturday.

UN: 2014 Devastating Year for Children

With 15 million children caught in conflicts around the world, on Monday, the United Nations childrens agency UNICEF declared 2014 a devastating year for children.

UNICEF Executive Director An-thony Lake said the high number of crises around the world meant many of them were quickly forgotten or failed to capture global headlines, such as those living in Afghanistan, Democratic Re-public of Congo, Nigeria, Pakistan, So-malia, Sudan and Yemen.

Globally, UNICEF said some 230 million children were living in countries and regions affected by armed conflict.

Children have been killed while studying in the classroom and while sleeping in their beds; they have been orphaned, kidnapped, tortured, recruit-edeven sold as slaves, Lake said in a statement. Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality.

Significant threats also emerged to childrens health and well-being like the deadly outbreak of Ebola in the West African countries Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which has left thousands orphaned and some 5 million out of school.

Violence and trauma do more than harm individual children they under-mine the strength of societies, Lake pointed out.

In Syria, UNICEF said more than 7.3 million children have been affected

by the civil war, including 1.7 million who fled the country. In neighboring Iraq an estimated 2.7 million children have been affected by conflict, it added, with at least 700 believed to have been maimed or killed this year.

In both countries, children have been victims of, witnesses to and even perpetrators of increasingly brutal and extreme violence, the agency said.

American Journalist Finally Charged in Iran

After four months of imprisonment, Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post re-porter detained in Iran, was finally offi-cially charged this week. While the na-ture of the charges were not immediately clear, at least to those not present in the courtroom, at least he is no longer being held arbitrarily. His court appearance came two days after word arrived that Rezaians detention had been extended until mid-January because the investiga-tion against him was continuing. He was arrested in late July.

Rezaians family has hired an attor-

ney for him, but the lawyer has not been permitted to visit him. The State De-partment has repeatedly raised the case of Rezaian and other Americans jailed in Iran during lengthy talks with the government about a deal to curb Irans nuclear capacity and ease international sanctions. This weeks charges appear to dash any hope that Rezaian could be freed in the near future. It could take as long as a month for the charges to be delivered to the full court, which would then set a trial date.

Washington Post Executive Edi-tor Martin Baron expressed outrage over Rezaians continued detention. Rezaians family is concerned about the impact imprisonment may have on his health, as he has high blood pressure,

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10 The Week In Newsmultiple infections, back issues and emotional stress caused by his lengthy time in Tehrans notorious Evin prison.

We are dismayed and outraged by reports that Jason Rezaian, The Posts correspondent in Iran, has now been charged with unspecified crimes, Bar-on said in a statement. The Iranian government has never explained why Jason was detained or why he has been held for more than four months without access to a lawyer. Jason is an Amer-ican citizen who was acting as a fully accredited journalist. If he has indeed been charged, we know that any fair legal proceeding would quickly deter-mine that any allegations against him are baseless.

Rezaian was arrested with his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, also a journalist, but she was released on bail early in Octo-ber. She is the only one who has been permitted occasional visits with him.

Vegetable Crime CrazeThe growing global demand for a

Peruvian root vegetable called maca has led to some bizarre crimes around

the world. Thieves recently broke into a storehouse high in an Andes farming town and made off with 2,600 pounds of maca. Trucks have been surreptitiously crossing the Chinese border, laden with the popular root. And with the prices soaring, once-poor farmers can now bounce along their unpaved roads in shiny new vehicles.

Maca is a pungent, turnip-like veg-etable heralded as a cancer-fighting super food and sold on the shelves of supermarkets like Whole Foods. It has become so popular in China that this year Chinese buyers showed up in the Americas with suitcases full of cash to buy up the harvest, inciting a gold rush and setting off alarms from Lima to Los Angeles and beyond.

As maca booms, some Peruvians

fear that they are losing control of a valu-able crop with a history that goes back long before the time of the Inca empire. Officials say that many Chinese buyers smuggled the root out of the country in violation of a law that requires maca to be processed in Peru before it can be ex-ported a measure intended to protect local businesses. They say seeds were also smuggled out of the country ille-gally, despite a ban meant to prevent the root from being grown anywhere else.

Thousands of acres are being grown outside the country without authoriza-tion, said Andrs Valladolid, the pres-ident of Perus National Commission Against Biopiracy. Oswaldo Castillo, a maca grower and processor, worries that the Chinese will get a monopoly over maca and be able to set the price on the world market.

The Chinese buying spree and the clandestine export of whole maca and seeds has raised questions about the ability of developing countries to con-trol access to native species.

Mass Graves Discovered in Poland

After Rome surrendered to the Al-lied forces in World War II, the Nazis looked upon them as traitors. In many instances, mass shootings were com-mitted against soldiers who had fought alongside German forces for over five years. Newly discovered mass graves are being dug up in eastern Poland, and theses soldiers are finally getting a prop-er burial.

Treated as turncoats by the Na-zis, thousands such soldiers were shot, worked or starved to death in the camps. Recent excavations are underway to de-termine how many such prisoners there were. In the past six weeks, the archeol-ogy crews have dug up the remains of around 3,000 Italian and Soviet prison-ers from eight mass graves in one area.

The soldiers who refused to keep fighting for Hitler were sent to camps, where they suffered particularly cruel treatment at the hands of their former al-lies, who saw them as traitors, archae-

ologist Przemyslaw Kolosowski said.Identifying the soldiers has been

especially challenging. Personal items are extremely rare, archeology student Mariusz Dziekonski pointed out. The Germans buried most of the soldiers without any clothes. He points to a cou-ple of small crosses, a toothbrush, part of a Soviet-made comb, a few buttons and kopecks (Russian coins), plus the most precious objects: Italian and Sovi-et dog tags all but illegible. For now, only two names have been deciphered: those of Red Army soldiers Chernienko (no first name) and Vasily Bunko. In order to count the number of soldiers who were murdered and then thrown into these mass graves, researchers have literally been counting the skulls left in the ground.

American Killed in Abu Dhabi

Last week, an American mother of two was tragically stabbed to death in a public restroom in a mall in Abu Dhabi. Authorities tracked the suspect based on surveillance footage; she was cloaked in a black robe from head to toe, masking her identity. She is seen fleeing the scene of the attack in her white Escalade with a flag shielding her license plate. What is believed to be that same woman is lat-er seen on security cameras planting a bomb outside an Americans apartment. Luckily, the explosive was discovered and dismantled and no one was harmed.

Ibolya Ryan, 37, mother to elev-en year old twins, was attacked by the woman on December 1 on Reem Island. The suspect waited over an hour in the bathroom for her, indicating that the murder was targeted.

Ryan was born in Romania and held Hungarian and American citizenship. She had been a teacher for 17 years in Colorado and just last September started teaching in Abu Dhabi.

Authorities were able to determine that the stabber is an Emirati national

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from Yemen in her late 30s, said Sheikh Saif Bin Zayed al Nahyan, the minister of the interior for the United Arab Emir-ates, at a press conference on Thurs-day. Her name has not been released yet. It seems the victims were targeted specifically for being Americans and did not know the suspect personally. Although her exact motive is currently

under investigation, Saif said that she aimed to create chaos, shake the secu-rity in the country and terrorize people in the United Arab Emirates.

Perhaps the most chilling aspect of this horror is that UAE police be-lieve that the suspect was not a lone wolf and her house was a base of op-erations. On Thursday, authorities re-

leased dramatic video footage showing the suspects arrest during a nighttime raid. It shows a SWAT team swooping in on the home and bursting through the front door forcing a man to the ground at gunpoint and dragging an uncloaked woman away in handcuffs, the imag-es of her face blurred. The video also shows what appears to be homemade

bombs at the house, as well as stashes of knives. They also show the same white SUV caught on security tape following the two attacks. The steering wheel has blood stains on it, and a black suitcase also seen in surveillance was discovered in the back seat.

Ryans ex-husband, Paul Ryan, said his concern now is taking care of their two children. Im totally horrified by what happened, he related.

One just needs to look at the vid-eo, the images of that bathroom, and it knocks you out. It knocks you out, he said. I still hope my children have not seen that, those beautiful children, I have to make sure ... I protect them as best I can.

Ryan has the power to commute the death sentence and grant a pardon if the suspect is found guilty and handed cap-ital punishment.

The burden weighs heavily on him, he said. I cant believe I have the pow-er to pardonthat is shocking to me. I dont want this responsibility, he said. As far as I can tell, it seems pretty damning evidence and she [the suspect] confessed herself. Ibolya, my dear ex-wife, and I do mean that, will not have died in vain.

The One and Only Kim Jong Un

There is only one Kim Jong Un in North Korea.

North Korean officials have or-dered people who share the name of leader Kim Jong Un to change their names immediately.

Similarly, the names of the two for-mer leaders, Kims father, Kim Jong II, and his grandfather, Kim II Sung, are forbidden too. This law was issued by Kim Jong II, the current leaders father.

It is not known how many people in North Korea are currently called Kim Jong Un and will be forced to change their names, but Kim is a very common family name and Jong Un are com-mon given namesthink of it as John Smith.

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U.S. Not The Worlds Largest Economic Power

The U.S. has officially been de-throned. The Chinese economy is of-ficially the worlds largest economic power, according to the International Monetary Fund.

This is the first time since 1869 that the U.S. was not named the leading eco-nomic power on the planet. At the time, Ulysses S. Grant, the nations 18th pres-ident, was leading the nation. This news is sure to hit Obamas already hurting ratings.

The latest numbers released on the

world economy confirms experts grow-ing suspicion that the Made in China trend just keeps getting bigger. It is expected that this year China will pro-duce $17.6 trillion in goods and services while the U.S. is expected to yield $17.4 trillion. That number may seem insig-nificant without all the zeros, but its a $200 billion discrepancy. To offer an-other perspective, China now accounts for 16.5% of the global economy, com-pared with 16.3% for the U.S.

Last year, China surpassed the U.S. for the first time in terms of global trade. This most recent triumph may be par-tially due to Chinas decision to bring gross domestic product calculations in line with international standards.

Giant Swastika Discovered in Pool in Brazil

Brazilian officers in a police heli-copter were scouting a residential area on Friday as part of a kidnapping inves-tigation when they were greeted with a

shocking sight an enormous swastika adorning the bottom of a swimming pool, CNN reported.

Authorities believe that the disturb-ing embellishment has been in the pool for 13 years. However, according to Brazil law, since the symbol was dis-covered on private land it is not con-sidered Nazi propaganda so no charges have been filed.

The Santa Catarina region of Brazil has a history of giving refuge to those from Europe. Immigration from Germa-ny and Austria was significant enough that the city of Blumenau hosts a pop-ular annual Oktoberfest that preserves the customs of their ancestors from Ger-many to form colonies in the South. Many of the European immigrants are

people who fled the devastations of World War II but it is an open secret that war criminals escaped to the region as well.

Almost five decades ago, Nazi hunt-ers found Fritz Stangl, who had com-manded the Sobibor and Treblinka ex-termination camps, living in Sao Paolo, Brazil. He was arrested by Brazils po-lice in 1967 and died in German prison in 1971.

The identity of the owner of the property has not been released.

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The Week In Newsindicted in the U.S. for his involvement in a plot to bomb New Yorks subway system, the Pakistani military said in a statement.

Adnan Shukrijumah, 39, was killed with two other suspects in Pakistans South Waziristan tribal area. South Wa-ziristan is in the mountainous territory bordering Afghanistan that is home to several militant groups fighting both in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Al Qaeda manages to slip under the radar as the militant Islamic State group continues to dominate politics and the media.

This raid is a major achievement for the Pakistani military. The al Qaeda leader who was killed by the Pakistan army in a successful operation is the same person who had been indicted in the United Stated, said a senior Paki-stani army officer, who spoke on condi-tion of anonymity as he was not autho-rized to talk to journalists.

The FBI listed the Saudi-born Shukrijumah as a most wanted terror-ist; the U.S. State Department offered up to a $5 million reward for his cap-ture. Federal prosecutors allege Shukri-jumah had recruited three men in 2008 to receive training in the lawless tribal region of Pakistan for the subway at-tack. The three traveled to Pakistan to avenge the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan but were persuaded by al Qaeda opera-tives to return to the United States for a suicide bombing mission against a ma-jor target such as the New York Stock Exchange, Times Square or Grand Cen-tral Terminal. Ultimately, the terrorists decided on a plot to blow themselves up at rush hour, according to testimony in federal court. Attorney General Eric Holder has called that New York plot one of the most dangerous since 9/11.

Adis Medunjanin, originally from Bosnia, was sentenced to life in pris-on in November 2012 for his role in a foiled 2009 plot. Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay cooperated with the government in the hopes of getting a re-duced sentence.

IsraelParliament Dissolves; New Elections to be Held in March

With 93 for and none against, Israeli lawmakers pushed through second and third readings of the bill to close the chapter on Israels 33rd government. The lawmakers overwhelmingly voted

to dissolve parliament, officially put-ting an end to the current government and paving the way for new elections in March.

The vote came on the heels of Prime Minister Netanyahus firing of Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni.

Lapid warned Netanyahu that he will not win a new term. His first mis-take was that his call for elections does not serve the Knesset or the Israeli peo-ple, and his second mistake is that he will lose, Lapid said from the Knesset podium.

Likud MK Yariv Levin, who draft-ed the bill to dissolve the Knesset, said the coalition and opposition were both problematic over the term. This was a coalition that was very, very difficult to manage, very complicated, he said, though he also noted that the opposition did not manage to torpedo a single bill put forward by the ruling government.

Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein said calling new elections was unfortunate, but given current political circumstanc-es the government had turned into a use-less empty vessel.

The government, made up of Likud, Yisrael Beytenu, Hatnua, Yesh Atid and Jewish Home, was formed in March 2013 but eventually collapsed amid heated squabbling over legislation and swiftly denied accusations by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that ministers Lapid and Livni had tried to oust him in a putsch.

With political maneuvering in full swing, reports of alliances, mergers, unions and unofficial agreements be-tween Israels many political parties abound.

Its time to put egos away, and work together as a big blocwith a big Labor Party, MK Isaac Herzog said in the Knesset on Monday. He predicted that Labor would emerge on top after the March 17 elections, and well lead the country to a better future. On Fri-day, he declared that he will be the next prime minister to lead the Jewish State.

Hours earlier, though, Lapid de-clared, Yesh Atid will lead the center bloc. We will connect with other parties to replace the current leadership and

continue with full force, exactly from the place where we stopped. Everything is ready. Everything is already on the ta-ble. Everything can be restarted.

Both Lapid and Herzog were court-ing Livni, with reports indicating that the former justice minister was more inclined to merge with Labor.

According to a poll aired on the Knesset channel on Monday, a Her-zog-Livni list would receive 23 seats, compared with Likuds 21. If the two ran separately, Hatnua would not pass the electoral threshold and Labor would only receive 17 seats, the survey found.

Lapid is said to have proposed giv-ing Livni and her colleagues in Hatnua four spots on his partys list. Livni and Lapid were set to meet later Monday to discuss a possible alliance between their two parties.

On Saturday, however, Livni con-firmed that her party was on the brink of sealing a deal to merge with Herzogs Labor, asserting that such an alliance would offer Israeli voters a viable alter-native to Netanyahus Likud.

Meanwhile, Jewish Home and the Likud signed a surplus votes agree-ment to ensure that no votes cast for the two parties would be lost when the

Knesset seats are allocated after elec-tions under Israels system of pure pro-portional representation.

A similar deal was agreed to Mon-day between Avigdor Libermans Yis-rael Beytenu and former Likud MK Moshe Kahlons as-yet-unnamed party.

Jordan Sentences Terrorist Targeting Israel

This past summer, a Jordanian man was caught attempting to carry out a sui-cide attack in Israel. This week, he was sentenced to six months in prison by a Jordanian court.

This news comes on the heels of an announcement by an Arab media outlet that Jordanian security forces arrested 20 men on suspicion of forming a mili-tary wing and planning to smuggle arms into the West Bank to be used in terror attacks against Israelis.

The men, all members of the Mus-lim Brotherhood or Jordans engineers guild, were arrested after two of the

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This crackdown comes after ten-sions between the Jordanian regime and the Islamist organization mounted last month.

Air Attacks on Syrian Missile Cache

Two military sites outside of Damas-cus were hit this week by Israeli fighter

jets. While Israel made no official com-ment on the attacks, the media spec-ulated that missiles intended by Syria for delivery to Hezbollah were targeted. Apparently, sites at Damascuss main airport and at the town of Dimas on a key road near the Syrian-Lebanese bor-der were those that were attacked.

Israeli officials did not respond to the reports or make any comment on the alleged attack. Israels policy has been to prevent the transfer from Syria of long-range missiles to Hezbollah. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Dimas was a military position. The Observatory also said the strike near the Damascus airport hit a warehouse, although it was unclear what was in the building. Operations at the Damascus International Airport are both civilian and military.

Israel has carried out several air-strikes in Syria since the revolt against President Bashar Assad began in March 2011. Most of the strikes have targeted sophisticated weapons systems, includ-ing Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles and Iranian-made missiles, believed to be postmarked for Lebanons Hezbollah terrorist group.

During a recent cabinet meeting,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya-hu stressed that Israel was prepared to deal with ongoing threats and challenges, though he did not specify which threats he was referring to. We are closely monitoring the Middle East and what is happening with open eyes and ears, and a lot is happening, Ne-tanyahu said. We will stay informed and we will deal with these unremitting threats and challenges. We will deal with them with the same responsibility that we have up until now.

Netanyahu: Release Pollard Now

Recently, there was another strong push from Benjamin Netanyahu for the release of Jonathan Pollard from his U.S. prison sentence. The effort came after Pollard was hospitalized after los-ing consciousness last week. During a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu announced he had spoken with Pollards wife Es-ther and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. I told him that the uncertain state of Jonathans health is an addition-al reason to set him free, said Netanya-hu of his conversation with Kerry.

The time has come, for many rea-sons, after 30 years, for Jonathan Pol-lard to be released and to become a free man. He has already paid his debt and he at least deserves the same treatment that others in his position have received. We will not refrain from acting until we bring him home, here to the State of Is-rael, said Netanyahu.

The Conference of Presidents, a cen-tral coordinating body that represents 50 U.S. Jewish organizations, sent a letter to President Barack Obama requesting Pollards immediate release and also is-sued a statement on its Facebook page on Sunday. The reports of Jonathan Pollards hospitalization, following his loss of consciousness, underscore the need for immediate action for his re-lease. It is regrettable and inexplicable that the Parole Board denied his appli-cation after serving 30 years, much of it in solitary confinement, far beyond any-one accused of a comparable crime, the statement by the Conference of Presi-

dents read.In a letter that was sent to President

Obama, the organization wrote, The Commissions allegation that Mr. Pol-lards espionage was the greatest com-promise of U.S. security to that date is false, and not supported by any evidence in the public record or the classified file. Yet it was this fiction that the Pa-role Commission cited to deny parole. The letter was signed by high-ranking U.S. officials including former direc-tor of the CIA Robert James Woolsey, former chairs of the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Dennis DeConcini and Senator David F. Durenburger, and Former U.S. National Security Advisor Robert C. MacFarlane.

Pollard was a civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy when he gave Israel thousands of classified doc-uments, the extent of which has never been fully revealed. Pollard, now 60, was arrested in 1985 and later sentenced to life in prison. Several Israeli requests to have him released have been rejected. He will be eligible for parole next year.

Oil Spill Raises Concerns

On Sunday night, new figures re-leased showed that the scale of the eco-logical disaster caused by a ruptured oil pipeline in southern Israel is nearly twice as bad as initially estimated.

Despite initial reports last week that indicated that 3 million liters were spilled in the accident, data sent by the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC) to the Environmental Protec-tion Ministry showed that some five million liters of crude oil burst from the pipe last week.

So far, damage control teams have cleared away 13,000 tons of polluted soil in an attempt to contain and mini-mize the impact of the spill.

Citing weather forecasts indicating heavy rainfall across the country later

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22 The Week In Newsthis week, ministry officials also voiced concern over the possibility that the pol-luted area would be hit by flash floods that would spread the contamination to additional territories in the south and possibly wash the oil into the Gulf of Eilat.

Located at the northern end of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Eilat is home to protected coral reefs, which could suffer major damage should they be contami-nated by oil.

The Environmental Protection Min-istry has prepared special absorbing ma-terials ahead of an expected downpour, and dams were set up in Evrona nature reserve in an effort to contain the flow.

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira or-dered an immediate investigation into the disaster. A review of EAPC was due to be held in 2015 but the analysis is to be brought forward in light of the incident. The review will also look at the readiness of authorities who were directly and indirectly connected to the spillage.

EAPC said that the Trans-Israel pipeline was damaged last Thursday during maintenance and sent millions of liters of oil gushing into the southern desert, severely damaging a nature re-

serve and other areas. An EAPC spokesperson said the

line, which facilitates the transport of crude oil between Europe and Asia, burst due to a technical error. Work on the pipeline was being carried out in tandem with the construction of Eilats Timna International Airport, slated to become operational by 2016. The En-vironment Ministry ordered the com-pany to stop operating the line, a major oil conduit between the Mediterranean and the Red Seas, until it is issued a new permit, Israel Radio reported.

Over 80 people were treated for medical problems on both sides of the Israel-Jordan border following the spill, as crude oil flooded the Route 90 high-way leading into Eilat. The vast major-ity of those initially affected were in Jordan.

According to Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth, the oil companys pipelines have suffered a series of contaminating leaks over the past eight years.

In 2007, some 40 tons of oil leaked from a pipe near Tirat Carmel in the north of the country. In 2011, a tractor working on an EAPC project hit one of the companys pipelines releasing 1.5 million of liters of jet fuel into the Na-

hal Zin river in the south of the country. Weeks later, another company tractor hit the same pipe barely half a kilometer away causing yet another leak. In 2012, seepage from an EPAC pipe near the Givati Junction required the removal of some 2,000 tons of contaminated soil.

Other incidents included a burst pipe near Poleg in 2008 and oil leaks into the sea in 1998,1999, and 2002 that eventu-ally saw the company fined NIS 100,000 ($25 million). Eight months ago there was another leak at a facility in Eilat.

Childrens Magazine Encourages Murder

Hezbollah will stop at nothing to make sure the next generation of ter-rorists is well trained from a young age. The heroes of Lebanons Mahdi maga-zine are not princes and firefighters but are the fighters who fell resisting the Israeli enemy. Produced by Lebanons Hezbollah movement for the last 11 years, Mahdi aims to teach a new gen-eration the militant Shiite groups ideol-ogy of resistance to the Jewish State. The magazines mazes and puzzles even teach children how to avoid Israeli land-mines.

Amazingly, its publishers insist the monthly magazine is not about indoc-trination or military propaganda. What we want to do is teach children the val-ues of the resistance, the magazines general manager Abbas Charara told a reporter. We dont encourage carrying of weapons, were just making sure they know about the exploits of the resis-tance, he added. We tell them: Just as these great people resisted and were victorious, so too can you resist and be victorious, and that starts with your ed-ucation.

Established in 1982 by Irans Revo-lutionary Guards, Hezbollah has been a dangerous nemesis for Israel. The group carried out numerous attacks against Israeli forces during their 22-year oc-cupation of Lebanon, which ended in 2000 with a withdrawal that Hezbollah claimed as a victory. The group is the only party in Lebanon that failed to dis-

arm after the countrys 1975-1990 civil war, and it remains a powerful political and military institution, with supporters revering its leader Hassan Nasrallah.

One recent edition of the magazine featured stories set in the three decades when Israel occupied southern Lebanon. One told the story of a fighter who deto-nated a bomb against an Israeli patrol in his occupied village, another of a hero Amer, who confides in his mother that he will participate in a martyrdom op-eration. Amer blows himself up, kill-ing and wounding 25 Israeli officers and soldiers; his name was not revealed until 2000, when Nasrallah praised his bravery.

Thieves Steal Ancient Artifacts

Six Palestinians have been arrested for stealing ancient artifacts from a cave near the Dead Sea. The Israel Antiqui-ties Authority said this week that the group was observed excavating illegally in the Cave of Skulls, an archaeological site located in the cliffs of a canyon near Masada. The men were also charged with illegally entering Israeli territory without a permit.

The IAA said officers arrested the suspects in possession of antiquities, including a Roman-era lice comb, after observing them conducting illegal exca-vations in the cave. The IAA hailed the red-handed bust as the first of its kind in the Judean Desert in 30 years.

The illegal excavation caused crit-ical damage to archaeological remains, and irreversible damage to archaeolog-ical strata and destroyed numerous earthenware fragments, according to the indictment. All six men are residents of the West Bank village of Seir, near the city of Hebron.

The Cave of Skulls is one of hun-dreds of caverns in the Judean Desert which have yielded invaluable archae-ological discoveries in the past century,


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The six men were indicted at the Beersheba Magistrates Court and, if convicted, could face up to five years in prison.

Peace Pic StagedIt turns out an iconic 20-year-old

photograph of a Jewish and Palestinian boy embracing each other has been ex-posed as a staged fake. The often-used 1993 photo portrayed what seems to be a Jewish and Arab boy with their arms around each other while overlooking

Jerusalem, and exemplified hopes for peace in Israel during the Oslo peace process.

Butin the spirit of most things peacefulthe two children in the pho-to were actually both Israeli Jews: Zvi Shapiro, 11, wearing a yarmulke, and Zemer Aloni, 12, sporting a Palestinian keffiyeh. The photo, taken by American photojournalist Ricki Rosen, was origi-

nally shot for the Canadian news mag-azine Macleans and was reproduced countless times.

In an article published this week, Rosen admitted the image was staged. It was a symbolic illustration, she ex-plained. It was never supposed to be a documentary photo. Rosen admitted that she did not actually look for a Pal-estinian child to embrace Shapiro, the yarmulke-wearing youth. And, for secu-rity reasons, she was skeptical of find-ing anyone willing to be photographed embracing a Jewish person. Relations had completely broken down after the First Intifada, and Palestinians were very fearful of being seen as collaborat-ing with Israelis, because collaborators were being killed, she said.

Rosen instead recruited Shapiros Israeli friend Aloni to don a tradition-al Palestinian headdress known as a keffiyeh. The picture was taken in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Tor, a mixed Arab-Jewish neighborhood that was home to the two subjects. The pho-tograph was taken when Rosen was on assignment covering the peace talks be-tween Israel and the PLO, which later culminated in the Oslo Peace Accords between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

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Landrieus defeat is a blow for one of Louisianas most famous political families, leaving her brother, New Or-leans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, to carry the banner. The GOP sweep also denied former Gov. Edwin Edwards a politi-cal comeback; the colorful 87-year-old politician, who had served four terms as governor sought to regain public office after serving eight years in federal pris-on on corruption charges.

In the South, Democrats will be left without a single governor or U.S. sena-tor across nine states stretching from the Carolinas to Texas. And House delega-tions from the same region are divided almost entirely by race, with white Re-publicans representing majority-white districts, while majority non-white dis-tricts are represented by black or His-panic Democrats.

A Royal Visit

This week, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the United States and met with President Obama and Hillary Clinton. This was the first official visit to the U.S. for the couple who are stay-ing at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City.

The visit between Obama and Prince William underscored the special rela-tionship between the United States and the United Kingdom, the White House said.

The prince spoke at a session of the World Bank about the need for an in-ternational effort to stop illegal wildlife trading. Cooperation is our greatest weapon against the poachers and traf-

fickers who rely on evading individual national initiatives, he said. Our col-lective goal must be to reduce the wild-life trade by making it harder: denying traffickers access to transportation, put-ting up barriers to their illegal activities and holding people accountable for their actions.

He flew back to New York on a U.S. Airways shuttle, first class.

On Monday night, William and Kate attended a reception organized by the Royal Foundation in recognition of the conservation work carried out by Tusk Trust and United for Wildlife partners, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy. Hillary Clin-ton, the former first lady and possible presidential candidate, was there, along with daughter Chelsea.

In New York, the royal couple en-joyed a basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cav-aliers. The Cavaliers won the game, and afterward, Lebron James presented the couple with Cleveland Cavaliers bas-ketball jerseys with the names Cam-bridge and George for their child on the back. They also visited the Na-tional Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum.

More Prisoners Released From Guantanamo Bay

A new push this week by Barack Obama to close Gitmo saw the release of six prisoners who were held for the past 12 years. The former Guantana-mo Bay residents arrived as refugees in Uruguay, a South American nation with only a tiny Muslim population. The six men four Syrians, a Tunisian and a Palestinian were detained by the U.S. as suspected militants with ties to al Qaeda in 2002 but were never charged.

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since 2009 but could not be sent home and the U.S. struggled to find countries willing to take them. Uruguayan Pres-ident Jose Mujica agreed to accept the men as a humanitarian gesture and said they would be given help getting estab-lished in a country of 3.3 million with a total Muslim population of perhaps 300 people. We are very grateful to Uru-guay for this important humanitarian action and to President Mujica for his strong leadership in providing a home for individuals who cannot return to their own countries, U.S. State Depart-ment envoy Clifford Sloan said.

Uruguays government issued a statement confirming the arrival, repeat-ing the text of a letter from Mujica to Obama saying they had been subject to an atrocious kidnapping at Guan-tanamo and urging the U.S. to end its 53-year-old embargo of Cuba.

Cori Crider, a lawyer from the hu-man rights group Reprieve, praised Mujica, a former leftist guerrilla who himself was imprisoned for more than a decade.

The released prisoners are coming to what may be the only country in the Americas without an Islamic mosque, Tamar Chaky, director of the Islam-

ic Cultural Organization of Uruguay, pointed out. He promised that the local Muslim community would welcome them, but said there had been no contact with the government.

The U.S. has now transferred 19 prisoners out of Guantanamo this year, all but one of them within the last 30 days, and 136 remain, the lowest num-ber since shortly after the prison opened in January 2002. Officials say several more releases are expected by the end of the year. The U.S. now holds 67 men at Guantanamo who have been cleared for release or transfer but, like the six sent to Uruguay, cant go home because they might face persecution, a lack of security, or for other reasons.

Obama Nominates New Sec of Defense

President Barack Obama has an-nounced the nomination of Ashton Car-ter to be his fourth Secretary of Defense in six years. He was tapped to replace outgoing Secretary Chuck Hagel, whose short-lived tenure lasted about one year.

With a record of service that has spanned more than 30 years...Ash is widely regarded as one our nations national security leaders, President Obama said. The president added that he knows the Department of Defense inside and out and has the varied ex-perience that will enable him to hit the ground running on his first day.

Hagel did not attend the announce-ment ceremony that took place the White House. He said he wanted the day to be focused on the nominee. Carter, who served in the Pentagons number two job until December of last year and has served under 11 defense secretaries, will come to the job with an in-depth understanding of the department as well as the esteem of defense officials and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

This bipartisan respect is a rare attribute amid uneasy relationships between the White House, the GOP and the military.

I accepted [the position] because of the seriousness of the strategic chal-lenges we face but also the bright op-portunities that exist for American if we can come together, Carter said in brief remarks. He said it was an honor to be nominated and promised to give the president candid military advice, sub-tly addressing a criticism made by two of Obamas former Defense Secretaries who said their opinions received mini-mal regard in a tightly-controlled White House.

The physicist-trained weapons ex-pert was passed up for the job once before and was possibly not President Obamas top choice. He received the nod from the president after Michele Flournoy, who was the highest-ranking woman in department as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy until she retired in 2012, informed the president that she would like to withdraw her candidacy.

If the Senate confirms Carter, which the president said should happen with speed and dispatch, he will be tasked with overseeing a new front in the con-flict in the Middle East against ISIS.

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Stabbing at 770On Tuesday, an emotionally dis-

turbed man stabbed an Israeli student in the headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in Crown Heights. Calvin Peters, 49, was then shot and killed by police.

In a video, Peters was seen at around 1:40am after police say he stabbed Levi Rosenblat, 22, who was studying inside, in the head. Thankfully, Rosenblat is expected to survive his injuries.

Peters is seen holding a knife, sur-rounded by police and Jewish boys, some apparently trying to defuse the tense situation. But when Peters picks up the knife after putting it down and then lunges toward police officers, offi-cers shoot and kill him.

According to police, Peters had been arrested 19 times since 1982 and had a documented history of mental illness. He had been to Chabad-Lubavitch be-fore.

One witness related that he heard

Peters repeating Kill the Jews, al-though authorities are not classifying the stabbing as a hate crime.

Bill Stops Giving Nazis Benefits

A new bill was unanimously passed by the House of Representatives this week that will block suspected Nazi war criminals from receiving Social Secu-rity benefits. In October, it was discov-ered that dozens of former Nazis were receiving payments from the U.S. gov-ernment after being forced to leave the country. The new measure would close a loophole that allowed these Nazis to be paid millions of dollars in benefits.

Under the new bill, benefits would be terminated for Nazi suspects who have lost their American citizenship, a step called denaturalization. U.S. law

currently mandates a higher threshold a final order of deportation before Social Security benefits can be stopped.

It was recently brought to light that the Justice Department used a legal loophole to persuade Nazi suspects to leave the U.S. in exchange for Social Security benefits. If they agreed to go voluntarily, or simply fled the country before being deported, they could keep their benefits. The Justice Department has denied using Social Security pay-ments as a way to expel former Nazis.

Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J., said the House action would correct an in-justice of two generations and right a terrible wrong in the name of the lives that were lost as a result of the Holo-caust. The unanimous vote showed that our resolve for justice is unyield-ing and our commitment to pursue what is right continues even 70 years after World War II, said Lance, a co-sponsor of the bill and co-chair of the Republi-can Israel Caucus.

No Charges in Garner Case

Protests erupted all over the country after a grand jury cleared a white police officer of any charges in the death of a black man selling loose, untaxed ciga-rettes in Staten Island. As the demon-strations mounted, U.S. Attorney Gen-eral Eric Holder said federal authorities would conduct a civil rights investiga-tion into the videotaped July 17 choke-hold death of Eric Garner at the hands of Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo.

Staten Island District Attorney Dan-iel Donovan said the grand jury found no reasonable cause to bring charges, but unlike the chief prosecutor in the re-cent Ferguson case, he gave no details on how the panel arrived at its decision.

New York protesters gathered in Times Square and converged on the heavily secured area around Rockefeller Center with a combination of profession-al-looking signs and hand-scrawled plac-ards reading, Black lives matter and Fellow white people, wake up. And

in the Staten Island neighborhood where Garner died, people reacted with angry disbelief and chanted, I cant breathe! and Hands up dont choke!

In his first public comments, Pan-taleo said he prays for Garners family and hopes they accept his condolences. I became a police officer to help people and to protect those who cant protect themselves, he said in the statement. It is never my intention to harm anyone, and I feel very bad about the death of Mr. Garner. Police union officials and Pantaleos lawyer argued that the offi-cer used a takedown move taught by the police department, not a banned maneu-ver, because Garner was resisting arrest. They said his poor health was the main reason he died.

Experts said that without knowing how prosecutors presented the case, its difficult to theorize how the grand jury reached its decision. To find Pantaleo criminally negligent, the panel would have had to determine he knew there was a substantial risk that Garner would have died. While details on the grand ju-rors were not disclosed, Staten Island is the most politically conservative of the citys five boroughs and home to many police and firefighters. The district attor-ney said he would seek to have informa-tion on the investigation released.

Pantaleo was stripped of his gun and badge and will remain on desk duty pending an internal police investiga-tion that could result in administrative charges. As the grand jury decision drew near, police officials met with commu-nity leaders on Staten Island to head off the kind of violence seen in Ferguson, where arson and looting resulted in more than 100 arrests and the destruction of 12 commercial buildings by fire.

Brooklyn Real Estate Least Affordable in the Nation

According to a new study, Brooklyn is the least affordable housing market in the country.

The study, conducted by RealtyTrac, compares home price to salaries and according to their analysis, Brooklynites

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Young people cant even move to Brooklyn anymore. They now live on the Upper East Side, said Kathleen Perkins, a real-estate broker at Douglas Elliman who recently moved from Clinton Hill to the East Village.

Surprisingly, Brooklyn is less afford-able than more upscale Manhattan com-munities, which ranked third on the least affordable list.

The spike in home prices is partially being blamed on the influx of wealthy buyers. First came the artists and other creatives, then the hipsters, followed by young families and then the boring rich who think they can buy their way into cool, Perkins said.

The median income in Brooklyn was $45,215, according to census data from 2012, the most recent available. Close to 70 percent of residents in Brooklyn rent at a median price of $2,858.

Fuhgeddaboudit! Time to move out of town.

Remembering Pearl Harbor 73 Years Later

December 7, 2014: 73 years since the day that will live in infamy. On Sunday, veterans who survived the Pearl Harbor attack that launched the United States into World War II attended the 73rd anniversary ceremony with the help of canes, wheelchairs and motor-ized scooters.

Wearing purple orchid lei, about 100 Pearl Harbor and World War II survivors attended the ceremony overlooking a memorial that sits atop the sunken bat-tleship USS Arizona. Many of them ar-rived well before the sun came up.

This years anniversary of the Japa-nese attack is the 10th consecutive one

that USS Utah survivor Gilbert Mey-er attended. But its getting harder for Meyer, 91, to travel to Hawaii from San Antonio.

Asked if he planned to attend next years anniversary, he responded with a chuckle, Thats like asking me if Ill still be alive.

Harold Johnson, 90, is making it a goal to attend the 75th anniversary, even though traveling from Oak Harbor, Washington, isnt always easy. Ive got a little scooter thats a real life saver, the USS Oklahoma survivor said. He had been aboard the Oklahoma for just six months on December. 7, 1941, look-ing forward to a day off and was shining his shoes when the first alarm sounded, he recalled.

For many of the roughly 2,000 sur-vivors who remain, there are also more painful memories.

Keynote speaker Gen. Lori Robin-son, commander of Pacific Air Forces, told the crowd of several thousand about four of the nine remaining survivors of the USS Arizona. Don Stratton, 92, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Lau-ren Bruner, 94, of La Mirada, California, were two of six men who escaped the inferno that engulfed the forward half of the ship by negotiating a line, hand over hand, about 45 feet in the air, de-spite burns to more than 60 percent of their bodies. John Anderson, 97, of Ros-well, New Mexico, was ordered off the ship, but he didnt want to leave behind his twin brother, Delbert. Even though he was forced into a small boat that took him to Ford Island, he commandeered an empty boat and returned to the Arizona to rescue three shipmates. But he never found his brother.

When the Arizona sank, she took with her 1,177 sailors and Marines, Robinson told the crowd, which includ-ed Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and Hawaii Gov. David Ige.

The ceremony also featured a Japa-nese peace prayer, a Hawaiian blessing and a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the minute the bombing began. F-22s from the Hawaii Air National Guard 199th Fighter Squadron and Air Force 19th Fighter Squadron conducted a flyover.

Later in the afternoon, the four USS Arizona survivors planned to visit the memorial for a toast to their fallen ship-mates with a glass of sparkling wine given to their survivors association by President Gerald Ford, using glasses that are replicas of the ones on the ship. After the toast, divers would place one of the glasses at the base of the Arizonas gun turret four. Its where ashes of 38 Arizo-na survivors are interred.

NYCs Diamond District Burglar Detained

Last month, a man stormed into a store in New York Citys diamond dis-trict and got away with thousands in merchandise. The noontime robbery caused the evacuation of the entire block near the Veterans Day Parade on Fifth Avenue.

On Thursday, authorities announced that the suspect had officially been ap-prehended. Leon Fenner was arrested in Maryland on Wednesday night. Of-ficials said Fenner is scheduled to ap-pear before a judge in Maryland on two counts of armed robbery.

Fenner was caught on surveillance cameras dressed in a hat and overcoat as he walked into Watch Standard Jew-elry on West 47th Street on November 11 at about 2:30 p.m. He rang the bell, claiming to be delivering an item. His accomplice, Rondu Frisby, who was in the store at the time and knew the own-er, buzzed him in, sources said. Accord-ing to sources, Fenner pistol-whipped the store owners father and with the help of another accomplice, got away with $600,000 worth of luxury watches and jewelry.

Frisby, the suspect inside the store when Fenner entered, was arrested within a week of the heist but Fenner got away.

CIA Torture Report will Lead to More Deaths

Over the weekend, officials warned that the release of the Senate torture re-port on CIA interrogations a decade ago will lead to more violence and deaths abroad and will be used by extremists to incite violence worldwide.

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