NJ - Armed guards at Marlboro schools

Police officers will patrol all schools in Marlboro, New Jersey starting Wednesday following the deadly shootings in Newtown, Conn. last month.

The officers will question each person entering the schools from the time the buses arrive until the students leave, according to the Marlboro Township Schools website.

All eight schools in the Monmouth County school district will be patrolled during school hours for the next three months while a less expensive security alternative is devised.

"I think it's a good idea after the shooting in Connecticut," a parent told Fox 5 News.

In the past, NJ Gov. Chris Christie has come out against armed guards at schools.

Rabbi accused of indecent acts against 16-year-old

The Beersheba Magistrate's Court has accused a Rabbi from southern Israel, who served in the past as a Chabbad emissary in the city, of indecent acts against a 16-year-old boy, five years ago.

The indictment reveals that five years ago the rabbi drove under the influence in Beersheba and invited the teen to join him.

When the teen got into the car, the rabbi sexually harassed him and committed indecent acts. 

Undercover IDF troops exposed in West Bank

Raid gone wrong: Palestinian sources in the West Bank reported Tuesday that riots broke out in the West Bank village of Tamoun, south of Jenin, after an undercover IDF unit operating in the area was exposed.

Three soldiers sustained mild injuries and were evacuated to a nearby hospital. At least eight Palestinians were injured.

The Palestinians said that the troops were disguised as vegetable vendors and and sought to seize two members of a militant group. According to the Palestinians, the troops apprehended Murad Uda, a known operative of the Islamic Jihad.

The force was apparently part of the Mistaarvim ("Arabized") Unit – an elite counter-terrorism force whose members serve in various IDF divisions.

According to reports, massive IDF forces were scrambled to the scene and are using crowd-control measures to contain the riot.

Checkpoints and blockades have been set up in the area, which has been declared a closed military zone.

According to an IDF source, the operation began at 10 am, when the force entered the village. At some point, a tactical decision was made to go from a cover operation to an overt one.

The troops, including Shin Bet officers and auxiliary forces, encompassed an area stretching 15 buildings.

The operation met a fierce response from the Palestinians, as a riot broke out and the locals began stoning the troops.

"This wasn’t an unusual operation," the source said. "The main person of interest was apprehended and the riots broke out only after the forces began sweeping the area, and when most of the troops were already out of the village."

Residents in the town of Tamoun said youths were tossing stones and bottles at Israeli troops, while the soldiers responded with what appears to be live fire.

Medical sources with the Red Crescent said that 30 Palestinians were wounded in the clash, from apparent rubber-bullet impact.

According to the Red Crescent, 100 Palestinians suffered light injuries from inhaling tear gas.

Nine people shot in NYC since the city rang in the New Year

Bullets rang in the new year in four boroughs, with nine people shot — but miraculously none killed — in the first seven hours of 2013.

The violence erupted at 2 a.m., when a 32-year-old man was shot in the stomach in the lobby of a Bronx building, cops said.

The man was found bleeding in the White Plains Rd. building near Seward Ave. in Castle Hill and was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, police said. He was expected to survive.

About the same time, a 19-year-old man was shot in the back on Irving Ave. in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, cops said.

The wounded teen went to Wyckoff Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

Back in the Bronx, a 24-year-old man was shot in the buttocks after a fight broke out near Jerome Ave. and W. Fordham Road about 3 a.m., police sources said.

Emergency workers brought the wounded man to Columbia University Medical Center, where he was treated for the wound.

Gunfire popped again in Queens, where a man was shot in both legs on 10th St. in the Queensbridge Houses about 4:30 a.m., police said.

The man went to New York Hospital and was expected to survive.

About the same time, a 42-year-old man took a bullet in his stomach in Staten Island, police said.

The man was picked up by his brother at Vanderbilt Ave. and Van Duzer St. about 4:30 a.m. and taken to Richmond University Medical Center, cops said. The victim was in stable condition.

Then, about 5:10 a.m., a woman was shot in the arm in the Butler Houses in the Bronx, police said.

The woman was picked up from in front of the Webster Ave. building and taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where she was treated for the wound.

About 45 minutes later, cops were called to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn after a man was dropped off with a bullet wound to his stomach, police said.

Sources said the victim was undergoing surgery and detectives haven’t been able to talk to him about where the shooting occurred.

The bloodshed ended, for now, about 7:05 a.m. — when two men were shot in seperate incidents in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

One man was hit in the stomach on Dumont Ave. in the Van Dyke Houses in Brownsville. He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital and expected to live.

The other man was shot in the neck at E. 138th St. and Brook Ave., police said. He was taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.

The New Year’s Day gunfire also included shots fired by police in Brooklyn, police sources said.

Officers patrolling near the Brownsville Houses responded to a call of numerous shots fired in the air on Blake Ave. near Rockaway Ave. about 1:55 a.m., the sources said.

When cops arrived, the pistol-toting 22-year-old man pointed his weapon at the officers, sources said. One cop fired a round at the gunman, but missed, sources said.

The suspect ran away, but the cops collared him nearby, sources said. No one was injured.

Shwekey is Coming to Israel to Sing in Honor of IDF Soldiers

Shas wins the chutzpah award

An insomnia epidemic seems to be sweeping the country. Israel's ministers not only sit among their people, they lie there, and they're having trouble sleeping.

Interior Minister Eli Yishai, for example, told a closed meeting of Shas activists that "I'm scared, I'm sweating, I can't sleep at night thinking of what could, God forbid, happen on the 22nd of the month."

And what's disturbing the minister's sleep? "Each of us has a son who could be drafted, right? So don't say, God forbid, after your son gets a draft notice, 'where was I? Why didn't I work harder?'"

Nobody around here can get any sleep; after all, parents of sons and daughters already drafted sleep fitfully. Now the parents of yeshiva students who might be drafted can't sleep.

It's sometimes haard, really hard, to decide which party deserves the chutzpah award, but I've concluded that Shas is the winner.

The decision was made when I opened the paper to see Aryeh Deri's smiling face over the captivating slogan: "We're here for the have-nots."

Shas wasn't born yesterday. For nearly 30 years it has been a member of every government, except for one brief and forced hiatus. For 30 years it has been "for the have-nots." And from year to year, from government to government, the number of poor people increases, most of them working people.

A third of Israel's children - a record - have been pushed under the poverty line; they too have trouble sleeping at night because their stomachs are rumbling.

During these decades inequality indexes have worsened, educational gaps have widened, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer, but the social order has been preserved, thank God.

It has also been preserved in the ultra-Orthodox camp, with the Ashkenazi Lithuanians on top and those of Middle Eastern origin on the bottom.

Only once did Shas bolt the government, and not exactly on behalf of the have-nots but for the sake of those who have too much.

Deri, the leader, was caught in his depravity, lost his ministerial chair, was sent to prison, and Shas was ordered to salvage his honor.

Now, after 30 years, Shas will finally help the have-nots: "Only a strong Shas will stop the economic decrees," "Only a strong Shas will worry about public housing" - the way Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Atias has worried about it for the past four years.

And it will only do this under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose concern for the weak is well known.

So it's pretty certain that the have-nots will stay right where they are and Shas will continue to worry for them, having made worrying a good way to assure a livelihood for its top officials.

There's one area where Shas can set its own fees without consulting anyone, and that's kashrut supervision. In a stellar example of compassion, the Badatz Beit Yosef certification, a private family business run by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and his sons, has hiked its prices more than any other "badatz" supervision.

One might never find any pork in its establishments, heaven forfend, but piggishness apparently meets the strictest standards of kashrut.

Trial of Former Chief Rabbi to Begin in Ten Days

The trial of former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron has been set for ten days from Monday (January 10, 2013) at the Jerusalem District Court.

Last week, the Rabbi was indicted for allegedly being complicit in granting around 1,000 fake rabbinical ordination certificates to members of the security services so that they could receive significantly higher wages.

The charges against the Rabbi include fraud, attempted fraud and breach of trust.

BDE, Sadigura Rebbe Passes Away

Rabbi Avrohom Ya'akov Friedman, the Sadigura Rebbe, passed away, Tuesday morning, at the age of 84. The rabbi was taken by Natan emergency services to Ma'ayanei Hayeshua' Hospital in Bnei Brak after he lost consciousness.

He had been suffering from pneumonia for several days and his condition deteriorated Tuesday morning.

The rabbi's funeral is scheduled to leave the Sadigura Beit Midrash on Gutmacher Street in Bnei Brak at 1:30 p.m.

The Rebbe is survived by his only son, Rabbi Tzvi Yisrael Moshe Friedman, Av Beit Din of the Sadigura dynasty in London, as well as his sons-in-law Rabbi Pinchas Shapira of Tel Aviv and Rabbi Shmuel Zaanvil Scharf of the United States.

The Rebbe was born in Vienna, Austria, to the Admor of Sadigura, Rebbe Mordechai Shalom Yosef Friedman ztz"l, and Mrs. Mira Reisel Freidman ztz"l.

The family moved to Pshemishel, Poland, in 1934. Shortly before the Holocaust, the family made aliyah to the Land of Israel, but after the Holocaust they moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

The Rebbe later returned to Israel and established the Ruzhin Yeshiva at Ezra street in Bnei Brak. Sadigura is one of the branches of the influential Ruzhiner dynasty.

He married the late Rabbanit Tziporah, daughter of Rabbi Yosef Aryeh Friedman ztz"l. She passed away in 2006.

After his father passed away in 1979, he succeeded him, and in 1989 was chosen as a member of the presidium of Agudat Yisrael's Torah Sages Council.

The Rebbe was a proponent of the Jewish communities in Gush Katif and vehemently opposed ceding parts of the Land of Israel to the Arabs. He was considered the most nationalist member of the Agudat Yisrael presidium.

Fears for ailing Hillary Clinton

Doctors treating Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton revealed yesterday that she had a life-threatening blood clot near her brain.

The disturbing news came as a clearly anguished Chelsea Clinton visited her mom’s bedside along with her dad, former President Bill Clinton, whose concern was etched on his face as he left New York Presbyterian Hospital.

“In the course of a routine follow-up MRI on Sunday, the scan revealed that a . . . clot [formed] in the vein that is situated in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear,” Clinton’s medical team, Dr. Lisa Bardack, of Mount Kisco, and Dr. Gigi El-Bayoumi, of George Washington University, said in a written statement.

 

“It did not result in a stroke, or neurological damage. To help dissolve this clot, her medical team began treating the secretary with blood thinners,” the doctors said, noting that she is in “good spirits” and expected to make “a full recovery.”

Top oncologist Dr. Marc Straus told The Post, “Anytime you get a clot near your brain, it’s dangerous.”

The peril lies in the risk of a stroke that could impair the neurological functions of the globe-trotting top diplomat, who is stepping down from office amid speculation that she will run for president in 2016.

The polling firm Gallup yesterday announced that Clinton — for the 11th year in a row, and 17th time overall — had been named the most admired woman in America. She has visited 112 countries as secretary of state, a record for that office.

A clot “can be mild or severe and lead to problems such as stroke if the obstruction to the sinus is large and extensive,” said Dr. Douglas Galasko, neurologist and professor of neuroscience at the University of California in San Diego.

Clinton, 65, suffered a concussion early last month when she fell in her Washington, DC, home after becoming dehydrated from a stomach virus, her staff has said.

The concussion led to her missing scheduled testimony before Congress about the fatal terror attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya.

The doctors, who attribute the clot to her fall, said Clinton “will be released once the medication dose has been established.”

“In all other aspects of her recovery, the secretary is making excellent progress and we are confident she will make a full recovery. She is in good spirits, engaging with her doctors, her family and her staff,” they said.

Straus, the oncologist, said that “a ‘routine’ MRI is not routine unless there is some kind of symptom” Clinton was suffering from.

“It’s a little bit odd that there would be a routine MRI unless she had symptoms,” he said. “I suspect something led them to do the tests that we don’t know about.”






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Morgan Gliedman, Baby break for Village ‘bomb’ gal

This Dalton School grad was too busy giving birth to be charged with stashing an arsenal of explosives and guns in her posh Greenwich Village pad.

The arraignment of 27-year-old Morgan Gliedman, the privileged daughter of a top city doctor, was postponed yesterday as she delivered a girl at St. Luke’s Hospital, sources said.

The arrival of baby Melody capped a roller-coaster 48 hours that began with Gliedman’s arrest Saturday along with her Harvard-grad boyfriend, Aaron Greene, 31, in their West Ninth Street apartment.

Gliedman is the daughter of Beth Israel Brooklyn radiation oncology chief Paul Gliedman and Realtor Susyn Schops Gliedman.

 

Baby daddy Greene was being held on Rikers Island without bail during the blessed event.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said cops — acting on a tip from a couple whom Gliedman and Greene let use their shower after meeting them in Washington Square Park — found seven grams of HMTD, a highly explosive white powder, in the apartment.

“It’s very powerful,” Kelly noted.

“It could do significant damage.”

He said cops also found a 12-gauge shotgun, a Ruger over/under shotgun, 60 shotgun shells and written manuals with titles such as “Terrorist Encyclopedia,” “FM 5-25 Explosives and Demolition,” “FM 5-31 Booby Traps,” “Improvised and Modified Firearms: Deadly Homemade Weapons,” and “The Do It Yourself Submachine Gun.” Police also found handwritten formulas.            







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