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		Banner hanging over the Bronx Expressway reading ‘Free Palestine’ (Jews Against the Occupation)
If drivers on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway were wondering who was responsible for hanging banners over the highway calling to “Free Palestine” - they might be surprised to discover it was an initiative by Jewish activists. Another banner was spotted over New York City’s entrance to the Cross Bronx Expressway, at 179th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan on Wednesday morning. The group is calling themselves JATO (Jews against the occupation); some of them also participated in demonstrations against last month’s Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, claiming that “The occupation is being paid for with U.S. taxpayers’ money,” and “Even if foreclosures and unemployment weren’t decimating our neighborhoods, surely there are better uses for $3 billion a year than helping the Israeli government commit war crimes.” “Today’s action is one small contribution to the growing movement in solidarity with the 1.5 million Palestinians whose lives are being destroyed by the occupation,” said Ethan Heitner, one of the group’s activists.

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Gritty Chronicle Features Menagerie of Mobbed-up Characters That Are Both Laughable and Frightening

Chazz Palminteri doesn’t simply stroll or strut through his memoir of growing up among mobsters in an Italian neighborhood in the 1960s. As our tour guide through his one-man stage play A Bronx Tale, Palminteri blazes across the Parker Playhouse to challenge the scientific contention that there is no such thing as perpetual motion.

Although the story mirrors the 1993 film that he wrote and starred in, this solidly theatrical piece is much funnier and far more challenging as he slips in and out of a dozen characters. While “inspired” by real events and people in his adolescence, this gritty chronicle benefits from a dump truck of dramatic invention and good-natured exaggeration. Read more..

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 An accident on the Cross Bronx Expressway has been cleared. All westbound lanes are now open. One eastbound lane had also been closed near Rosedale Avenue. The accident happened during the height of the Wednesday morning rush. Delays were backed up to the Bronx River Parkway.

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Little did Marie McCaul from Clonosey, Belturbet and John Keegan from Crossmaglen know when they headed off as Irish emigrants to New York separately in the 80s, that they would meet up, get married and have two daughters who would carry on the Irish tradition helping people in need.

Sinead and Siobhan Keegan both know Belturbet and Crossmaglen well as a result of their many trips to the old country.

Siobhan says her mother Marie gets her copy of the Anglo-Celt each week and her other friends from Cavan in the area also get the paper. “They will all be excited to see us featuring in the paper,” she told us last week.

Sinead Keegan has been the full time associate director at the Mercy Centre for the past two years, with responsibility for development and planning, while also managing to teach courses. Sinead is a graduate of Notre Dame University and she has a Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University.

Siobhan is a lawyer in New York, is chair of the Board of Directors and a long time volunteer teacher at the Mercy Centre. Her husband, who is a native of New York, is also a lawyer – for the Department of Education. Read more..

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - In a comparison of New York’s third basemen, it’s no contest. Alex Rodriguez is a three-time MVP, a 12-time All-Star and the favorite to one day wrest the home run crown from the head of Barry Bonds.

Then there is David Wright, whose still blossoming career is not tainted by the use of performance-enhancing drugs. That type of integrity, that purity, is something that A-Rod can never get back, never erase, no matter how many home runs he hits or how many trophies he collects.

Wright, at the age of 26, understands that and seeing A-Rod’s confession before a national television audience on Monday night brought to mind the consequences of bad decisions. Though Wright was leery of talking too much about his Bronx counterpart, he clearly was torn between his obvious disgust for cheaters and a somewhat fractured admiration for A-Rod.

“You can’t ever condone using banned substances,” Wright said. “You can’t ever condone cheating. But with that being said, I think he did a tremendous job owning up to it and I think his apology was sincere. Kids and fans alike can look at the mistake he made and take positives from that and learn from that. When you have a guy like that who sits down and shows that kind of emotion, is apologetic and admits that he made a mistake - it takes a man to do that.” Read more..

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