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A man who police said had assembled three pipe bombs while under police surveillance has been arrested in New York. The man, identified as Jose Pimentel, 27,lives in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Police raided his apartment at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, the Daily News said. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said via Twitter on Sunday that the suspect […]

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Intense debate erupted at a Jewish Agency meeting over a group of Russian Jews who want to emigrate to Israel. Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, the chairman of the agency’s Aliya and Rescue Committee, said it was shameful that a $300 million organization had failed to bring 900 would-be immigrants from Russia to Israel, The Jerusalem Post […]

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