he hates horses , people thst work pray and bet at nassau otb and pesky federal prosectors
the orthodox church lacks the dpunk of this woman
Claude Solnik
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
JERUSALEM — An advocacy group said Thursday that it has won a case against Israel's national airline that will make it illegal to ask females passengers to move their seats at the request of ultra-Orthodox males.
The Israel Religious Action Center filed the case on behalf of Renee Rabinowitz — an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor who had said she felt humiliated when an El Al flight attendant asked her to move from her seat at the request of an ultra-Orthodox man. Laws observed by some ultra-Orthodox Jews stipulate strict separation of the sexes.
According to Wednesday's decision, requesting a passenger to move their seat based on gender amounts to discrimination.
"Just as they wouldn't move someone if they said 'I don't like Arabs, I won't sit next to an Arab,' they would say 'we are sorry, we can't accommodate that', it's the same thing now with gender," Rabinowitz said.
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The center called the ruling "revolutionary." It said El Al was ordered to pay Rabinowitz about $1,700 in damages.
In a statement, El Al said the sides had reached an agreement and that the airline would respect the ruling.
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This story has been corrected to show woman is 83.
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