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Secret Service Probing Brooklyn Art Spy Camera Project

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a Brooklyn media artist who reportedly installed a custom app on computers in an Apple store that automatically took pictures of people staring at the screen and displayed the images on other computers.A Secret Service spokesman would not comment Thursday, saying the investigation is ongoing.On the artist’s website, Kyle McDonald describes the project as ...

Secret Life of Ordinary Housewife in WWII Berlin

Sigrid appears to be an ordinary Berlin housewife at the height of World War II stoically enduring air raids, food shortages and the absence of her husband at the Russian front as she slogs to and from her job.But the heroine of “City of Women” by David Gillham, has secrets. Consumed by thoughts of her Jewish lover, a chance meeting ...

Secret document affirms U.S.-Israel nuclear partnership

Israel’s Army Radio reported on Wednesday that the United States has sent Israel a secret document committing to nuclear cooperation between the two countries. According to Army Radio, the U.S. has reportedly pledged to sell Israel materials used to produce electricity, as well as nuclear technology and other supplies, despite the fact that Israel is not a signatory of the ...

Second Time In A Month Swastikas Found In Williamsburg Building

The Williamsburg Chapter of the Shomrim Patrol along with officers of the 90th Pct in Williamsburg are asking for the public’s help as they search for the person responsible for defacing a Williamsburg building with swastikas.Officials say several swastikas were found on the walls of an elevator at 222 Penn St. Residents say it’s disturbing to find the swastikas in ...

Seattle buses to carry ads about ‘Israel war crimes’ during Gaza War

Starting from December 27, a dozen Seattle buses will carry advertisements about “Israeli war crimes” to mark the second year since the operation Cast Lead in Gaza.According to a report on Seattle’s KING5 TV, a group calling itself the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign has paid more than $1,794 so that twelve buses circulating the city’s downtown area will carry an ...

Scottish Jewish Event Forced to Move After Threats

Jewish students at a Scottish university managed to hold a charity event despite being forced to find another location at the last minute after anti-Israel activists threatened staff at the original venue.The annual charity ball organized by the Jewish Society and Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity at St. Andrews University in Fife was scheduled to take place at the St. Andrews ...

Schwarzenegger Seeks Assistance of Jewish Rights Group

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has sought the assistance of the Jewish rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center after the organization had alerted the acclaimed celebrity that his name is being displayed on a poster of historical figures and celebrities at a prominent mall in Istanbul, Turkey, that also prominently displays Adolf Hitler.The poster, titled “Who Would You Like to ...

School Bus Driver Rescues Netanyahu’s Press Corps On FDR Drive

More than a dozen Israeli and German journalists covering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the UN found themselves stranded in a tunnel near the FDR Drive after the SUV sent by the U.S. Secret Service to ferry them ran out of gas en route to the Prime Minister’s hotel on the East side, the Times of Israel reported (http://bit.ly/QZJ6vt).Florit ...

Schochet Drops Out, Says Britain Won’t Accept Lubavitcher Chief Rabbi

One of the United Synagogue’s most high-profile rabbis, Yitzchak Schochet, says he has not applied to be chief rabbi, claiming that the United Synagogue of Great Britain would not accept a Lubavitch candidate.The Mill Hill Synagogue minister, in an article in today’s JC, doubted whether he would even have got his present job today because of his Lubavitch background.Rabbi Schochet ...

Schalit enjoys full rights

Captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit’s conditions are better than those of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, said a senior Hamas official in an interview with the Arabic language daily Al Hayat. The official, Mousa Abu Marzook, stated that Schalit is given his full rights unlike Palestinian prisoners. He added that Schalit is not allowed visitors because that would compromise the secrecy ...

Scarlett Johansson endorses Jewish New York mayoral candidate

The Jewish Scarlett Johansson is standing by her Jewish man – that man being not actor Justin Bartha, but rather Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. The 26-year-old actress and singer is putting her celebrity weight behind Stringer’s bid for mayor of New York in 2013.The actress views Stringer as environmentally aware and the type of leader who would invest in ...

Saying thank you after 73 years

A small historic amendment was made Monday, 73 years after Philippine President Manuel Luis Quezon granted some 1,200 visas to immigrants from Europe on the eve of the Holocaust, when a marble engraved sign in his honor was revealed at the Boys Town Jerusalem campus – as an acknowledgement of the humanitarian gesture.Philippine Ambassador to Israel Petronila Garcia received a ...