Analysis: Obama Pulls Weight On Israel 9 Documents of Auschwitz Death Camp Doctors Found 4 DUST STORMS IN BEIJING Page 4 THE NEWSPAPER OF TORAH JEWRY MARCH 23, 2010 | DAILY VOL. VI | NO 1529 ,a”g bhxi’ jw mu pra, dw’ huo c”v’ TUESDAY EDITION 50¢ Mumbai Widow Action on Health-Care Moves to Senate Threatened Obama Scheduled to Sign Bill Today With WASHINGTON (MCT) – The fight Deportation over health-care reform shifts to the Senate this week, as lawmak- By YOCHONON DONN ers there are expected to vote on a package of changes to the historic NEW YORK – Frumet Teitelbaum bill that cleared the House of lost her husband in the Mumbai Representatives late Sunday. terrorist attacks. Now she may Senators are preparing to vote not be able to see her children. on the changes, in the form of a Rebbetzin Teitelbaum, 37, who “reconciliation” bill that amends lives in Israel, was stopped at the Senate bill that the House Kennedy International Airport lawmakers have now approved. on Feb. 5 as she arrived in New The changes include an exten- York for a visit with her eight sion of subsidies to buy insurance children. Aged from two to 14, the and adjustments to a tax on high- children are all American citizens value health plans. The House and live with the family of her late passed the reconciliation bill husband, Rabbi Leibish Sunday night. Teitelbaum, Hy”d, in Boro Park. Put together, the bills cost Now Rebbetzin Teitelbaum, $940 billion over 10 years and aim who was cited for overusing her to extend insurance coverage to visitor’s visa, cannot extend her 32 million more Americans. visit or apply for permanent resi- Senate Democrats are plan- dence, said her attorney Michael ning to approve the reconciliation Wildes. She is in New York and bill by week’s end, when Congress he, along with government and is scheduled to go out on recess. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais community leaders, are working President Barack Obama (R) walks in with Vice President Joe Biden to make a statement to the nation following the But Republicans vow to load the to make sure she remains here. final vote in the House of Representatives for comprehensive health-care legislation, in the East Room of the White bill up with amendments in an Wildes, an Orthodox Jew and House. Continued on page 3 former mayor of Englewood, N.J., told Hamodia yesterday in a tele- phone conversation from the U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas that he ANALYSIS was saddened to hear how a 44th District Race spouse of a terror victim was dressed down and threatened by Health Reform Leaves Americans an immigration official. ELECTION “We are very disappointed in the way the immigration official TODAY Split, Confused treated her when she [said] very poignantly that she was a victim Opposing Opinions NEW YORK (Reuters) – The over- estate agent, while showing clients was front page news yesterday, in ... her husband having been killed The Right Man at the Right haul of the healthcare system is a home in Chicago. midtown Manhattan several peo- in the Mumbai attack,” said Mr. Time: Why I plan to vote for being hailed in political circles as “That’s why I have to watch the ple shrugged their shoulders when Wildes, an immigration lawyer David Greenfield the biggest health policy change in news tonight to get the low-down, asked to comment, saying they did- who also serves in Hatzolah and four decades, but President Barack because I have no idea whether, or n’t know enough about it. chevra kaddisha of Manhattan. Unity Is the Issue: Why I will Obama’s landmark reform has left how, it will affect me, as an inde- However, Patrick Gill, 48, who “We want her to get what she is vote for Joe Lazar Americans divided and confused. pendent contractor,” she said. lives in Manhattan, said he watched entitled to under the law and Page 14 “I don’t know about it,” Kathy While the passage of the health- the debate and vote on Sunday by humanity,” said Mr. Wildes. “She Ivcich, a 53-year-old Chicago real care legislation through Congress Continued on page 3 has to raise these ... children on U.S. soil.” Mr. Wildes said that legally the NYC Cops Sorry for Pounding official had authority to detain a Couple's Door 50 times passenger who overstayed a visa Cheesecake in hand, Police Netanyahu Arrives in Washington, but it was “not gentlemanly” to Commissioner Raymond Kelly bring a woman who lost her hus- personally apologized for the 50 band in a terror attack to tears. or so mistaken, door-pounding Set for Obama Meeting “This gentleman ... got her to visits in the past eight years. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Prime announced two weeks ago. Netanyahu was scheduled to tears — she was crying hysterical- More on page 5 Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Netanyahu is set to meet with speak to delegates late last night at ly,” he said. “He rebuked her.” arrived in Washington yesterday President Barack Obama later the annual conference of the “No doubt an examiner has the afternoon, hoping to repair frayed tonight. The Prime Minister was American-Israel Public Affairs sole discretion to decide if the ties with U.S. President Barack to dine with Vice President Joe Committee. He was expected to visa was being violated but once Obama, who was angered by Biden last night as he attempted to emphasize the strong ties between she presented herself as a victim Israel’s plans for the construction heal bruised ties between Israel Israel and the U.S. of terrorism he should of homes in Ramat Shlomo, and its closest ally. Continued on page 10 Continued on page 6 9 771568 258127 6 HAMODIA 8 NISAN 5770 TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2010 New York News Jetblue to Remain ‘New Councilman in Action York’s Hometown Airline’ NEW YORK (AP) – The tug-of-war carrier, which calls itself “New ors, or adding a JetBlue logo to city over JetBlue Airways is done. York’s Hometown Airline.” or state promotional materials. JetBlue Airways is keeping its JetBlue’s first flight took off from “There was a time when New corporate headquarters in New John F. Kennedy International York might have taken such an York City after considering a possi- Airport on Feb. 11, 2000. It is now exercise lightly, relying on the city’s ble move to Orlando, Fla. the biggest carrier at JFK and the reputation to win out,” New York The company said Monday it seventh-largest in the country. It is City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will move about 1,000 staffers in the only airline based in New York. said in a statement. “But cities mid-2012 from two area offices to a To help persuade JetBlue to stay across the country and around the new location in Long Island City, in put, New York City offered to invest world are engaged in an increasing- the New York City borough of up to $3 million in the airline’s ly competitive environment to Queens. The carrier’s main office is Terminal 5 at Kennedy Airport and attract growing companies, and — currently in neighboring Forest a $7 million tax exemption. The air- while we can’t always compete on Hills. It also has a small finance line in turn said it will create up to cost — we’ve worked extremely department in Darien, Conn. 200 new jobs in the city over the hard to strengthen and highlight Reb Yitzchak Fleisher (R) with Councilman Brad Lander at the Pesach food The airline mulled a move out of next five years. New York City’s competitive distribution in Bobov. New York for over a year. It consid- In an interview with The advantages.” ered four other cities and narrowed Associated Press, CEO Dave Barger In a news conference at New the alternatives to Orlando, the site said the details of that licensing York City Hall, Barger said the cost of its training facility. agreement are still being worked of moving employees from New Mumbai Widow Threatened Moving to Orlando would have out. Some possibilities include York to Orlando was a major factor meant a brand adjustment for the placing the logo on planes’ exteri- in the decision to stay. With Deportation Continued from page 1 have [withdrawn],” said Mr. Wildes. Providing Pesach Provisions Mr. Wildes said that the law does not differentiate between a terror attack on U.S. soil or over- seas — if the spouse was a U.S. citi- zen then the surviving spouse is entitled to apply for permanent residency. Mr. Wildes claimed that this was not some isolated case of a bureaucratic mistake, but a willful discrimination on the part of the unnamed official. “Clearly it was purposeful because he wrote three times on Attorney Michael Wildes both sides of her boarding card, as Mr. Wildes also said he was in well as on the visa, a restriction not contact with Sen. Robert allowing her to stay longer, change Menendez (D-N.J.) himself and the her status or apply for a green office of Gillibrand. card,” said Mr. Wildes. “There isn’t anybody here that “That is what he tried to effect — isn’t sympathetic to her plight,” we won’t accept that,” he added. said Mr. Wildes, “and I have full “This is not a gentlemanly thing to confidence that ... this will resolve tell a victim who lost her husband itself and we will get her a green in a tragic terrorist attack that she card.” cannot be with her eight children.” A spokesman for the U.S.