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Lakewood, NJ
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Rabbi Says Anti-Semitic Airline Booted 18 NY, NJ Jewish Girls From 2 Flights
A rabbi suspects anti-Semitism after 18 Jewish girls from New York and New Jersey were kicked off two flights from Europe to the US last week, Fox News and COLlive report. The group of 55 girls were on a two-week trip to see ancient Jewish sites in Ukraine and on the first KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight home Aug. 5, when the trouble apparently began, according to Yisroel Kahan, a rabbi in Monsey and executive director of the Oizrim Jewish Council. Flight attendants told the girls to fix their mask if the tip of their nose was sticking out, and told them they couldn't eat if it wasn't meal …
Massapequa, NY
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Covid-
19: NY Hospitals, Labs To Test For UK Strain
New York Gov Andrew Cuomo has directed hospitals statewide to begin testing for the new COVID-19 strain in the United Kingdom that could be more viral and transferrable than the original virus, though not more deadly. Related story - COVID-19: Cuomo Calls On Airlines To Do Pre-Flight Testing From UK Due To New Mutation Of Virus On Tuesday, Dec. 22, Cuomo announced that Wadsworth Laboratory has started researching the newly reported strain that has been circulating in the UK, while ordering New York hospitals to begin testing for it. According to Cuomo, Wadsworth has looked at more than 3,7…
Fort Lee, NJ
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Seen
This
? Female Bruisers Get Into Brutal Brawl At LaGuardia
WATCH: A now-viral video captured a vicious fistfight between two women on the jet bridge to a flight at LaGuardia Airport. Punches flew and fingernails scraped as both women hit the deck moments before the Atlanta-bound Delta flight was scheduled to leave on Sunday. “Come get Aaliyah, she’s fighting,” someone shouts. Another woman yells at "Aaliyah" to stop as one airline employee calls for help and another watches in apparent shock. One of the women seemed to get the upper hand as they fell, but then the other pulled a reversal -- only to get reversed herself. A man is then seen …
Massapequa, NY
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Teenage Long Island Woman Nabbed For Committing Five Robberies In Eight Days, Police Say
A teenage armed robber who committed five robberies in eight days at several Long Island businesses has been apprehended, police said. Bay Shore resident Anahi Gomez, 18, was arrested by Suffolk County Police following an investigation into a string of robberies between Friday, Dec. 27 and Friday, Jan. 3 at five different businesses between Huntington Station and Lake Ronkonkoma. It is alleged that Gomez entered the businesses, displaying what appeared to be a handgun, then fled with an undisclosed amount of money. The five businesses Gomez targeted: Applegreen, at 540 Islip Ave. …
Massapequa, NY
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Pelicans Rescued In Montauk Could Soon Be On Their Way To Bask In Florida Sun
It has taken a village of volunteers to help two wayward pelicans survive after the duo failed to fly south and were stranded on Long Island. The two young brown pelicans currently are safely tucked in at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Center in Hampton Bays, but both are a little worse for the wear after getting too cold when they were hanging out in Montauk near the fishing docks. Banded on July 19 in North Carolina, the two were spotted several weeks ago by fishermen and locals in Montauk who kept waiting for them to fly south, said Amanda Daley manager of the wildlife center. Daley sai…
Hackensack, NJ
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Police: 500 Fake Credit Cards Found Before Florida Fraudster Hits Newark
After finding 500 bogus credit and gift cards in his checked luggage, police at Orlando Airport called ahead to their Port Authority colleagues, who arrested a convicted con man as he got off a plane in Newark, authorities said. Robert Smith-Merced, 46, Kissimmee FL, "was unaware that the luggage holding the fraudulent cards was still being held by authorities in Orlando" when he got off the Delta flight around 10 a.m. Thursday, the authority's Joseph Pentangelo said. Officers waiting at the gate found him carrying three fake credit cards and a bogus Connecticut driver's license, …
