The defense team for Rabbi Osher Eiseman has been working on a motion to have the final two charges dismissed. Today, a judge will hear arguments from both sides beginning at 9:00 am to 1:30 pm.
In an interview in the Yated Ne’eman Pesach Edition, Lead attorney Lee Vartan explained the procedures today:

The New York Times said Sunday that an anti-Semitic cartoon which appeared in its international edition this past Thursday was the work of a single editor who was working “without adequate oversight”.
“We have investigated how this happened and learned that, because of a faulty process, a single editor working without adequate oversight downloaded the syndicated cartoon and made the decision to include it on the Opinion page. The matter remains under review, and we are evaluating our internal processes and training. We anticipate significant changes.”
The statement included an apology for the cartoon, which the paper acknowledged was anti-Semitic and “unacceptable”.

By Bret Stephens
 
As prejudices go, anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but on Thursday the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it.
Except that The Times wasn’t explaining anti-Semitism. It was purveying it.
It did so in the form of a cartoon, provided to the newspaper by a wire service and published directly above an unrelated column by Tom Friedman, in which a guide dog with a prideful countenance and the face of Benjamin Netanyahu leads a blind, fat Donald Trump wearing dark glasses and a black yarmulke. Lest there be any doubt as to the identity of the dog-man, it wears a collar from which hangs a Star of David.

A passenger on a JetBlue flight stopped at John F. Kennedy International Airport tonight at about 9 p.m. was evaluated and cleared following concerns that they were infected with measles, officials said.
The plane was secured at a JFK handstand area after it landed in New York from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, WPIX reported. All customers were cleared and the flight deplaned normally.
Sources indicate that the “concerns” aboard flight 410 from Santo Domingo to JFK were unfounded, and were started after someone alerted flight staff about a child who “appeared to have measles,” when, in fact, the symptoms were nothing more than mosquito bites.
The family in question – the parents and three children – were all vaccinated.

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A major Jewish organization is refusing to accept the New York Times’ apology for the Times publishing a cartoon depicting the prime minister of Israel as a dog.
The cartoon, of Netanyahu’s face with dog ears and a dog body, with a blue Jewish star and a leash held by a yarmulke-wearing Donald Trump, was published in the New York Times International Edition on Thursday, April 25.

Chabad leaders worldwide are warning Jewish communities about the possibility of more anti-Semitic terrorist attacks like the San Diego synagogue shooting.
In a message put out after the shooting on the last night of Pesach, which claimed the life of Lori Kayne, Chabad leaders said that “our regional leaders are very worried about the security of every Chabad house and center in hundreds of communities in the U.S. and throughout the world.”
Chabad expressed its gratitude to the municipal and national agencies that worked closely with the organization to ensure the safety of community members.

The driver in a hit-and-run in Yerushalayim last week that left an 11-year-old boy in critical condition has turned himself in to authorities, police said Sunday.
Police had been searching for the suspect since last Sunday’s collision in the Ramot neighborhood that injured a child, who has not been named, who remains in critical condition at Shaare Zedek hospital.
Police said the day after the crash that they knew the identity of the suspected driver, a man in his 20s, who had borrowed the car.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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