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El Al Airlines is preparing for increased passenger traffic on its routes with a big purchase under the controls of CEO Eliezer Shkedi. El Al has bought four Boeing 737-900
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Osama bin Laden dethroned as top terrorist threat to the United States? That’s the assessment of Michael Leiter, head of the National Counterterrorism Center, who testified Wednesday before the House
A struggling Brooklyn hospital is making plans to shut down in March after a decision by the Cuomo administration to delay grants to help finance a merger intended to rescue
After 219 years as the citadel of American capitalism, the New York Stock Exchange was near an agreement to be acquired by Deutsche Börse AG in a deal that would
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On February 8, 2011, the Internal Revenue Service announced their second voluntary disclosure initiative, giving amnesty for U.S. taxpayers with foreign accounts that will allow them to pay penalties and
The rank-and-file police and fire unions angrily stepped up their attacks on Mayor Bloomberg Wednesday, slamming Hizzoner as a “liar” who is trying to “steal” their pension benefits. Using searing
YWN was sent the following Kashrus alert, with a request to publish it. We have reached out the Kashrus organization making this claim, and they confirmed that they have in
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