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The map, hanging in a museum, was sketched more than 70 years ago. Many of the houses, including one that belonged to his great-grandparents, were marked with an “X’’: these were the homes of Jewish residents. On July 18, 1941, nearly all of those families, including children, were murdered.

Levin’s grandfather, Mozus Berkovich, survived because he was away, studying dentistry in Riga. Berkovich, 92, now lives in Newton and is seeking compensation for the property that once belonged to his family.

For the past 20 years, since Latvia gained independence, Berkovich has been seeking to reclaim rights to his family’s property under a new law returning property that had been seized over decades of Soviet control.

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But he has been unsuccessful.

He has tried to get the property back through local officials in his hometown of Akniste but was denied. In 2002, he took his case to court in Latvia. It made it to the country’s highest court but again he lost.

“They are determined not to give it back,” Levin said.

He filed a claim with the Latvian prime minister’s office asking for $190 million in Holocaust compensation.

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“Why should I leave it to people who basically robbed me?” he asks, as his grandson translates. Berkovich speaks little English.

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Mónica Roa did not think twice when the lights went out in her office at 5:00 p.m. last Monday. Power outages are a common occurrence in Bogotá, so Roa, a well-known human rights attorney, and two colleagues continued on with their meeting. But at 6:30 pm, a bullet hit the window next to Roa’s desk, sending glass shards into the room. As she raced to the stairwell to alert others, she heard another shot. Her bodyguard, who was outside when the attack happened, counted six shots in total.

In all likelihood, the attack against Roa was timed with this week’s sixth anniversary of Colombia’s landmark Constitutional Court decision revising one of the world’s most prohibitive abortion laws. Roa, the program director of the international rights group Women’s Link Worldwide, had filed the closely-watched case Office 2007 Key, which eventually liberalized the no-exceptions law and allowed for abortion in the instances of rape, incest, severe fetal abnormality, or when there is a risk to the life or physical or mental health of the woman.

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Ordoñez’s position is up at the end of 2012; however, he is seeking another four-year term. Ordoñez’s staunch conservatism presents an embarrassing challenge for Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who TIME Magazine recently featured on its cover as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. There is quiet speculation that President Santos could eventually be favored for the secretary general position at the United Nations.

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Bethenny broke history last week — well, my recap’s history, that is — when her “Can’t Live Without You” and “Run for Your Life” sides leveled evenly. She was, dare I say, normal. Or at least the closest Bethenny Frankel can get to normal. The apartment renovations are well underway, especially with her fiery demands keeping everyone somewhat in check, and fights with Hoppy were fairly minimal — discounting the part where she essentially told him if he joins SkinnyGirl Cocktails he will always work under her. This week Tattoo Kits For Cheap, I hear our Queen is headed to Aspen to get her snowboarding on, drink some tequila-laced hot chocolate and no doubt make raunchy snow bunny comments. And here we go …

“Can’t Live Without You” Bethenny
- Buying art from a street vendor while her fancy schmancy interior decorator eyes her with the wrath of Lucifer. Absolutely give her credit for not spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in a snooty gallery. Even if she did purchase the most hideous American flag painting / sculpture (?) ever to be seen with the human eye.
- Dr. A. makes the fabulous point that she has been doling out advice to Hoppy without him even asking for advice in the first place. She concedes and agrees that ultimately Hoppy has to rip off the Band-Aid himself. Breakthrough!
- Mentally preparing for her impending trip to Aspen for her new cosmo drink launch. Hooray Jim Bean for facilitating everything she could ever desire. She can’t quite wrap her head around the fact that snowboarding means snowboarding and skiing means skiing. “Getting up on a mountain in the snow means anything. I guess you might say I’m going snowboarding, but I’ll call it skiing.” Whatever, I get it.
- Dining with Julie for lunch for the first time in … well, ever. Julie openly says to her that the money hasn’t changed B at all; she’s always been a b—-! Normally, this is when fumes would begin seeping out of her pores, but instead, this just secures their relationship. Now they’re even closer.
- Still at lunch with Julie, the two begin reflecting on the era that’s coming to a close. (Julie leaving the team to be closer to her boyfriend — a.k.a. the closest we’ll get to seeing Hell freeze over.) Teary-eyed B says how sad she’ll be when Julie isn’t there to pick up coffee, or greet her dog, etc. etc. — I know it doesn’t sound like it, but it actually was quite the touching moment.
- “What’s my daytime, walk around Aspen outfit?” B asks her nanny Dawa, who she swears would never tell a lie. Dawa also can speak a mere three English words. Lucky for us, she does know the word “Halloween,” and that is exactly what she tells B when she poses in her massive snow getup.
- Entering the palace of a hotel room in Aspen, far bigger than the entirety of my apartment, and checking out all the fleeces, vests, jackets, snow pants, etc. all sporting the SkinnyGirl logo. “We used to get our shirts screen printed in Chinatown way back when Free Tattoo Kits,” B admits. Well not too shabby now, eh?
- Heading into her SkinnyGirl event for the launch of the White Cranberry Cosmo in a black lacy thing so cleavage-baring, you’d never guess she was a married lady. However, it is her business event and like she says, “I have to do what I have to do. If it’s boozing and schmoozing, so be it!”
- Meeting the pre-pubescent employees at the lodge equipment store and feeling so old, she’s ready to kill herself at the mountain. B keeps saying she feels old, old, old — all the while, the handful of stoner employees are eating it all up, ready and willing for a New York cougar to ravage them. B tries to make herself feel better by saying that even in her heyday, she wouldn’t have given these guys her attention. Maybe just a little flirting, but that’s all, she promises.
- Heading down the slopes actually looking halfway decent. She’s pretty damn athletic swerving and jumping and all that jazz.
- Riding down the mountain with Hoppy the morning after a boozy night and even on the way down, they can’t communicate on direction. The two nearly collide, but in the end, they reach the bottom and give each other a big hug, puffer jacket to puffer jacket.

Total: 11

“Run for Your Life” Bethenny
- Giving Hoppy an early Christmas gift (seems like a nice idea, right?) until he opens it to find a BRAND-NEW MAC LAPTOP — you know, the one he’s going to use to start being her office slave. Even before he officially agrees to “the position,” she’s getting him to work. Passive aggressive behavior at it’s best.
- When Hoppy seems to question the not-at-all selfish laptop, she begins lecturing him on his career path to such an awkward level I feel as though I’m back in high school listening to my guidance counselor tell me all the things I’m doing wrong. He recoils just like I did, terrified of the venom spewing from the scary lady’s mouth.
- Complaining to Dr. Armadillo about how Hoppy wasn’t all that grateful when she gave him her no-strings-attached gift. Once she gets into it all, she starts to understand the problem at hand — like, um, her failing marriage and the fact that working above her husband is only going to add fuel to an already uncontrollable fire. Still, she does it with an eye roll and again, I’m questioning if she is in fact the devil incarnate.
- Letting Bryn smudge makeup all over her baby face because “she likes it!” Probably not the wisest parenting move, but OK.
- “I’m a big fan of grabbing the tip,” B screams to the guys half her age on the slopes. And as if they didn’t hear her, she says it again, just to reaffirm her desperate, creepy status. Even if she was referring to her equipment, it’s still not okay. Not okay at all.
- “I’ve been here one day and I’ve already got a posse,” B says ever so proudly. “Top that, young b—-es,” she had to add. She can’t help herself. It must be the “diarrhea of the mouth” she keeps talking about.
- When Hoppy finally arrives at the slopes, B continues to flirt with her snow bros. Then, she begins bragging to her husband about her flirting skills. Will she ever learn? At least he finally gets back at her: “Everyone loves a cougar!”
- Cue the young stoner equipment store workers. Hoppy asks them to confirm that B is, in fact, a cougar. (Is he taking it too far here? Probably not considering the abuse he takes on a daily basis.) They nod without question and proceed to say she looks like she’s in her forties. Easy killers, she’s about ready to blow …

Total: 8

Well, well, well — B has yet again let her “Can’t Live Without You” side shine through her stormy alter ego. This time, she basks in the glory of her successful cocktail company, while still sticking to her roots. She understands the importance of matching ski clothes, a lipstick-lipped baby and keeping her assistants fully boozed-up at all times.

No Tattoo Tubes, but seriously, B came to a good conclusion during her fake beneficial meeting with Dr. A. She said it’s time for her to step the eff back and let Hoppy make decisions about his career on his one. Relinquishing just the teeniest bit of power is clearly a huge deal for our Queen, as she continued to pat herself on the back the rest of the trip.

Back to her assistants … B shared a touching lunch date with Julie where they continued to frolic down memory lane, shedding tears along the way. “The woman behind the woman” will be missed, that’s for sure.

Coming up, it seems as though B’s got a meeting with an old pal of her deadbeat dad’s. This is sure to spark some juicy therapy sessions and probably an irrational outburst or two (or ten). Welp, something to look forward to, I suppose.

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Google Street View, launched five years ago in the United States, has since then expanded to Europe, Australia, Asia and parts of Africa and has finally made its way to the Middle East. Israel became the first country to be added to Street View services last week Discount Marc Jacobs Dresses, when images of the Holy Land officially went up on Sunday, April 20. Although the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad is available on Street View, Israel is the only country to show its streets and cities (which thus far include Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa).

The Google Street View cars and tricycles could be seen snapping photos on the streets of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Mitzpeh Ramon, the Kinneret and the Dead Sea since last September. In a technical process that took several months, the 360 degree images that were captured were processed and carefully stitched together in the U.S. Google is planning to release many more images of Israeli cities and streets in the future.

Photo Credit: Matt Wantman, Tazpit News Agency / Description: A Google Street View Trike in Jerusalem’s busy Mahane Yehuda market in late March.

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Military headquarters in Tel Aviv and the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem have been blurred for security reasons. In 2008, the U.S. Pentagon banned Google Street View from photographing U.S. military bases, when it was discovered that up close imagery of the Fort Sam Houston army base in Texas were available on Google Maps.

In the past, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) has indicated that it made use of Google Earth technology to fire rockets into Israel. In an interview with the Beirut news agency, MENASSAT in June 2008, PIJ spokesman Abu Hamza explained that “when the militants fire missiles on Israeli targets, they do so in collaboration with the experts in the unit who specify the military and political positions. They also use Google Earth, which helps a lot.”

PIJ contributed to the firing of thousands of rockets against Israelis in the south in past years and was responsible for numerous suicide bombings. The PIJ unit that makes use of Google Earth for rocket launchings is the cyber-war division of the PIJ’s armed Al-Quds brigades.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, however, emphasized the positive aspects of the service stating that, “more than three billion people of faith around the world are interested in Jerusalem and wish to visit at least once in their lifetime. The service will allow everyone who wants to come to Jerusalem to better plan their visits and to taste the city before they even arrive.”

“Google Street View is an important tool to increase the number of tourists to Jerusalem,” the mayor added. Jerusalem received a record amount of more than 3 million tourists in 2010.

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Residents in Jerusalem exhibited mixed feelings about seeing the Google Street View vehicles throughout the city. “Hopefully, Street View will give the world the chance to see Jerusalem beyond the conflict,” Itzik Yarkoni told Tazpit News Agency. “The headlines always like to show the tensions in this city. Now people will get the chance to see aspects of normal life here and what we usually experience.”

Sarah, who moved to Jerusalem in the past year, disagrees “I was freaked out when I first heard about Street View in Israel. It makes me nervous for security reasons. I’m sure there will be tourists who will make good use of this technology but what about the terrorists who can also use it?”

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Third quarter automotive sales figures were the best the industry has seen in just over a year. How are the automakers managing such numbers in light of a puffed-up 2009 third quarter filled with C4C transactions? Fleet sales.

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In his Sept. 9 speech to Congress on health care, when President Obama said, “The reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally,” Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shot back: “You lie!” What Obama meant was that health care reform would not extend government subsidies to illegal aliens to purchase health insurance. What Wilson meant was that health care reform would nonetheless allow illegal immigrants who were uninsured to purchase unsubsidized health insurance through the exchanges that reform would create. Indeed, to whatever extent the government could track down uninsured illegal immigrants through the tax system, it would compel them to buy health insurance. This was unacceptable to Wilson and other conservatives—not because they felt illegal immigrants should be left in peace, but because they felt illegal immigrants should be excluded entirely from whatever superstructure would be created by health care reform.

It was an insane argument on more than one level. Illegal immigrants are currently permitted to purchase a quart of milk at the corner grocery. Should that activity be banned, too? If an illegal immigrant showed up at an emergency room with a burst appendix Buy Emilio Pucci Dresses, should that person be left to die? But the Senate finance committee (probably at White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s insistence) took Wilson’s rude outburst seriously enough to insert language into its version of the bill barring illegal immigrants from participating in the exchanges at all. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., followed suit in the “blended” bill now before the full Senate. If this remains in the bill, those of us who aren’t illegal immigrants will end up paying for the health insurance of those who are. Call it a nativism tax.

Here’s how it works.

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Currently, if an uninsured illegal immigrant (or any other uninsured person) shows up at an emergency room with a burst appendix, the hospital typically will not leave that person to die. It will treat that person, squeeze that person for some portion of the cost, and then pass the remaining cost onto the federal government, to state government, to charities, and to private insurers, who in turn will pass it onto taxpayers, to charitable givers, and to policyholders.

According to a May 2009 study by Families USA, a nonprofit consumer group Buy Herve Leger v neck, the annual cost of uncompensated care is about $73 billion, of which $30 billion is paid by government and charity. The remaining $43 billion is passed onto health insurers, thereby raising the average family insurance premium by $1,017 annually, about 8 percent of the average family premium. Families USA calls this a “hidden health tax.”

An August 2008 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation crunched the numbers a bit differently, calculating the annual cost of uncompensated care at a more conservative $56 billion annually. The Kaiser study found that only about 2 percent of uncompensated care was passed through to insurance policyholders, as against Families USA’s 8 percent. But this was cold comfort to anti-government opponents of health reform, because Kaiser also found that the cost to government of uncompensated care was $43 billion Herve Leger sale, as against the $30 billion that Families USA calculated for both government and charity. According to Kaiser, fully 75 percent of the cost of uncompensated care gets billed to taxpayers. Spread evenly among the roughly 138 million taxpayers in the United States, the uninsured cost the average taxpayer about $312 annually.

The St. Petersburg Times’ PolitiFact.com examined both the Families USA study and the Kaiser study and was unable to reconcile the different findings. “Barring new evidence Cheap DKNY Dresses,” it said, “this seems like a genuine disagreement between experts on a complex issue.” (Among other challenges, the government fluctuates in its commitment to paying this cost. From 2004 to 2008 Cheap Christian Audigier Clothes, for instance Herve Leger sale, it spent $250 million per year to reimburse hospitals for the treatment of illegal aliens. Then it let the program expire.)

The larger point remains: Through some combination of higher taxes and higher premiums, the rest of us end up paying for the uninsured—either $43 billion in higher premiums or $43 billion in higher taxes.

Illegal immigrants represent about 15 percent of the uninsured, but for various reasons (they’re younger, they lack access to government programs) they don’t represent 15 percent of uncompensated care; it’s more like 10 percent, according to a study by the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit research group. Using the Kaiser data, the center calculates that providing uncompensated care to illegal immigrants costs taxpayers $4.3 billion annually. Had the center used the Families USA data, it would have calculated that providing uncompensated care to illegal immigrants costs policyholders $4.3 billion annually. That comes to either $31 for the average taxpayer or $100 for the average policyholder.

By excluding illegal immigrants from the new health insurance exchanges, the Senate health care bill passes up an opportunity to relieve taxpayers and/or policyholders of this cost. They are literally denying uninsured illegal immigrants the opportunity to pay for their own health care by purchasing health insurance. Wilson’s nativism has added $4.3 billion to the cost of health care reform. Now that’s he’s won, will he vote for final passage? Don’t hold your breath.

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