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Who's giving the Hechsher on Shevy sheitlach? Erroneous Delivery of Wigs Sets Off Copyright-Infringement Suit By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun April 13, 2006 A package delivered in error - of wigs made from human hair, worth $30,000 - has set off a million-dollar copyright-infringement lawsuit between two rival Brooklyn wig makers. Shevy Custom Wigs, one of the world's largest importers of human hair, has sued its smaller rival, Aggie Wigs, charging that they have been selling a low-quality line of wigs under the Shevy brand name. "It's best for our reputation not to have wigs of a lesser quality out there with our name on them," the owner of Shevy, Elon Emanuel, said. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on Monday. The trouble began March 20, when a Federal Express deliveryman dropped off 16 packages of wigs assembled and labeled in China to Shevy, located in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. Fifteen of those boxes were addressed t...

Pictures of Satmar/Sighet Rebbe's funeral Hat tip to DovBear http://www.tienmao.com/archives/002112.html http://www.jessechannorris.com/gallery/teitelbaum/ http://flickr.com/photos/gothamistllc/sets/72057594116451708/

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Haredi Handshake = Dead Fish w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m Last update - 19:01 20/04/2006 Shirt tales from the yeshiva By Shahar Ilan Handbag No more plastic bag When a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) yeshiva student ventures out into the world and starts to learn a profession, he usually also undergoes a second upheaval: instead of carrying a plastic bag, he now has a handbag. As a yeshiva student, the plastic bag, containing only a sandwich and fruit, suits his needs and also conveys the proper image of modesty and naivete. At the Haredi Center for Technological Studies, he discovers that the plastic bag cannot carry the weight of the books and is also not respectable enough. "I moved to a handbag because the plastic bag was no longer nice ... I don't like walking around with a bag like that, like a schnorrer ... A bag starts to tear, to wear out ... the color fades," said yeshiva student Eliezer Gleitman, who also studies at the center. He continued to study at a yeshiva in t...

Ramapo police to accompany fireman on calls to New Square Respect from New Square By THE JOURNAL NEWSTHE JOURNAL NEWS(Original Publication: April 21, 2006) This must now be the routine in the Hillcrest (Moleston) Fire District: Any time a call is placed for New Square, Ramapo police must accompany the volunteers as escort. They should no longer be subject to harassment for doing their unpaid jobs, and police should arrest those who interfere. It is simply a great lack of respect that some in New Square, a religious-based village north of Hillcrest, picks on these firefighters, who are there to save lives and property. That Hillcrest fire officials, including longtime department volunteer and Rockland Fire Coordinator Gordon Wren Jr., have complained about dangerous building and fire code violations is not justification for such ill treatment. Where are the village elders? Hillcrest firefighters recently filed a criminal complaint claiming they had cornered two boys they believed were s...

It's a saga worthy of Shakespeare. Satmar rebbe out of intensive care GAL BECKERMAN, THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 22, 2006 Local Satmar Hassidim saw nothing short of a miracle Tuesday when physicians at Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital announced that their 91-year-old grand rebbe, Moses Teitelbaum, was being moved out of intensive care and would be returning to his home in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood within two weeks. The medical crisis - which began when Teitelbaum's remaining kidney failed, exacerbating his advanced spinal cancer - has apparently passed for now. The development also seems to have postponed a succession battle that has been brewing for nearly a decade between two of his sons, Zalman and Aaron, and that threatens to explode after the rebbe's death. It's a saga worthy of Shakespeare. Although the roots of the conflict are shrouded in mystery - there have been complaints that the older son, Aaron, has a dictatorial management style - the first ...

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Origination of the phrase Keeping up with the Joneses Keeping up with the Joneses … George Herriman's The Family Upstairs, where Krazy Kat rose to fame — they were never seen either, but were merely referred to in the title, not named.) The stars of the Jones strip were the McGinises (husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, housemaid Belladonna). They were the ones trying to keep up. The McGinis family's struggle began in 1916, when cartoonist Arthur R. "Pop" Momand launched the strip in Joseph Pulitzer's paper, The New York World. Its focus wasn't as narrow as the title implied. It was simply a domestic comedy, along the lines of Bringing Up Father (which its art style superficially resembled) or Toots & Casper. (The modern equivalent would be FoxTrot or Moose & Molly. ) It's just that their neighbors, the Joneses, were referred to from time to time, usually as objects of envy, and even this became less prevalent in the strip's l...

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The Lost History of Shabbat Lake By Jeff Green A document recently surfaced at the headquarters of the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) in Toronto that points to the existence of a synagogue near what is now the Jehovah’s Witness building just south of Sharbot Lake. The document is a bill of sale, dated April 1, 1848, transferring a parcel of land for the "purposes of the construction of a religious building" to a committee headed by a Vintel Ashkenza and a Phievel Badorovsky, both immigrant refugees from persecution in what is now Poland. Believed to be Victor Ashkana In the Canadian Jewish Congress archives there was also a description of the building, thought to be the first synagogue in eastern Ontario, which was constructed between 1850 and 1852. It was "a five sided structure in what might be called a rustic gothic style." There is also an account of the dedication ceremony, which took place on September 27 in 1852. When contacted, a Hebrew scholar, Baruch Bross...

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Menachem Begin plotted to kill Ernest Bevin, the British Foreign secretary in 1946. The Sunday Times March 05, 2006 Jewish plot to kill Bevin in London JEWISH terrorists plotted to assassinate Ernest Bevin, the foreign secretary, in 1946, as part of their campaign to establish the state of Israel, newly declassified intelligence files have shown. The plan was devised by Irgun, the insurgent group led by Menachem Begin, who went on to become a Nobel peace prize winner and prime minister of Israel. Begin, whom MI6 believed was backed by the Soviet Union, planned to send five terrorist cells to Britain to carry out bombings and assassinations that would “beat the dog in his own kennel”. The Jewish insurgents aimed to force British occupying forces out of Palestine, enabling the founding of the Jewish state. Details of the plot are included in MI5 files released at the National Archives in Kew, London. Lord Bethell, author of The Palestine Triangle and an expert on Soviet intelligence, sai...

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A look into Jewish American vacations Nearly 100 years ago, the Jewish Agricultural Society helped Morris and Belle Fidelman purchase a fruit orchard in South Haven, Michigan, and the barber and his wife soon moved their young family to 80 acres in the country. Yet friends and family members they left behind in Chicago often visited in the summer, contributing money for seeds and equipment. The hospitality business soon proved more profitable than the fruit. By 1930, the farmhouse was replaced with a building that could accommodate 150 guests, and Fidelman's became one of the many Jewish resorts that drew thousands every year to South Haven, known as "The Catskills of the Midwest." The story of Fidelman's — and similar resorts and hotels in Atlantic City, Miami Beach and the Catskills — is told in "The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity and the Jewish-American Dream," an exhibit making its debut at the Spertus Museum in Chicago. "Our logo was 80...