To many New Yorkers, and others across the country, “Jewish music” typically encompasses one style: Ashkenazi , a style of music from Eastern Europe. Think klezmer, Fiddler on the Roof, even the Driedel song. That is the dominant face of Jewish music.
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Bringing the Middle East to New York, One Jewish Song at a Time
A proposal from the Taxi and Limousine Commission would eliminate the often-confusing “off duty” light from the roof of taxicabs.
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Answering the Question: Is This New York Cab Free?
Twelve people are injured when a school bus hits a railway bridge in Darlington, taking the roof off.
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School bus crash leaves 12 hurt
As the charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn were about to be dropped in New York, a friend of mine who lives in the Tribeca neighborhood, next to where the Frenchman was under house arrest, casually mentioned that he often saw Strauss-Kahn and his wife Anne Sinclair through a skylight in the roof of the building.
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Can DSK make a comeback in France?
The five-foot hole in the roof of a Southwest Airlines 737 this month revived fears of widespread problems in aging passenger jets.
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Scrutiny Lags as Jets Show Effects of Age
What a story: Nine days after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, rescuers found a 16-year-old boy on the roof of his house in the devastated city of Ishinomaki, yelling for help. He led them inside to his 80-year-old grandmother. Both…
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Miracle Rescue in Japan Rubble
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A small meteorite that crashed through the roof of a Virginia medical office last year is becoming part of the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History in Washington.
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Smithsonian to keep meteorite that landed in Va. doctors’ office; makes $10,000 payment
Four protesters who scaled the Libyan embassy in London remain on the roof more than 30 hours after their demonstration began, police say.
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Embassy rooftop protest continues
Japan’s tsunami disaster took an even scarier turn Saturday when an explosion rocked one of the country’s nuclear reactors, blowing the roof off the structure and knocking down walls, and causing an unknown amount of radiation to leak. Pressure at the…
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Explosion at Japan Nuclear Power Plant
A young woman has plunged 23 storeys from the roof of a luxury hotel in the centre of Buenos Aires in Argentina, and survived.
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Woman survives 23-storey hotel fall
Jordan Rice, a 13-year-old boy from Australia, died in the Toowoomba flood on Wednesday after instructing rescuers to save his younger brother first. Rice, his mother and 10-year-old brother Blake climbed onto the roof of their car after being caught…
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Boy Hero Dies in Australian Floods
A student who admitted throwing a fire extinguisher from the roof of a building during the student fees protests is jailed.
Student Edward Woollard, 18, who admitted throwing a fire extinguisher from the roof of a building during the student fees protests, has been jailed for two years and eight months.
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Extinguisher throwing student jailed
Part Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was evacuated Friday due to the accumulation of snow on the roof and hundreds of flights were canceled because of a shortage of de-icing fluid, authorities said, as blustery winter weather snarled travel across Europe.
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Snow and ice snag travel in Europe
Two Chicago firefighters were killed and 14 others injured battling a blaze when the roof of an abandoned building collapsed, an official says.
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2 firefighters die after roof collapse
Bringing the Middle East to New York, One Jewish Song at a Time
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