An Exeter Township poultry-processing plant was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation and fined $20,000 for discharging waste into a tributary of the Schuylkill River. Mehadrin Kosher Poultry...
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A survey conducted among ultra-Orthodox teachers has uncovered a worrying lack of basic knowledge – including the words to the national anthem, Napoleon’s nationality, and even the word for...
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Rabbi Tzali Wilschanski and his congregation at the B’nei Tzedek Chabad thought they would never see their two Torah scrolls again, but this weekend the sacred documents were returned....
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A helicopter carrying one Romanian and six Israeli soldiers crashed Monday in mountainous terrain during joint military training, the Romanian defense ministry said.
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The Religious Zionist movement has issued a blanket condemnation of the arrest of Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira over the book he authored. Dozens of rabbis, Knesset members, and National Religious...
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A massive forest fire broke out this afternoon in the hills surrounding Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem. Police initially suspected arson, but by early evening concluded that careless...
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Sweden – A few minutes after two o’clock police were alerted by several callers who heard a heavy bang and saw a glow after an explosion during the night...
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Tragedy struck In Jerusalem after a 35-year-old Kollel Yungerman collapsed and died at Kever Shmuel Hanavi. Paramedics From Ichud Hatzalah along with an ambulance crew from Magen David Adom tried...
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A dam on an eastern Iowa lake suffered a “catastrophic” failure Saturday, sending a massive amount of water into nearby communities and forcing residents to flee, officials said. The...
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The Supreme Court, a highest judicial body, on Saturday upheld death sentence on Muslim man who shot dead a Jewish fellow citizen, Mashaa Yehiya bin Yaeesh Al-Nahari and overturned...
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The president of Shechita UK has urged the community to lobby MPs to prevent new EU regulations requiring kosher meat to be labelled “meat from slaughter without stunning”. Last...
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Slonimer Hassidim who removed their daughters from the Emmanuel Beit Ya’acov school are apparently trying to talk certain Sephardi parents into sending their children to the new school they...
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EL AL Israel Airlines and JetBlue Airways, the leading domestic carrier out of New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport, announced on Thursday that they intended to sign an...
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New Square – Federal prosecutors and owners of a violation-ridden and unsanitary poultry processing facility have reached an agreement on permanently shutting down the slaughtering operation. The consent agreement...
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Boro Park, NY – Baruch Dayan Emes. VidYid.com regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rebbetzin Chava Kleinman A”H who was 70. The Rebbetzin was the Menaheles of...
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Bnei Brak – Maran Hagaon Rav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita has been admitted to the Maynei Hayeshua hospital, after suffering from a sudden high fever.
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Aby Rosen’s plans to build a $60 million hotel in the Holy Land have turned hellish. The real estate developer and his partner Michael Fuchs have stoked the anger...
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Rightist activists attempted to bump into a Prison Service vehicle carrying Jewish terror suspect Haim Pearlman, police officials believe. Pearlman is suspected of stabbing four Arabs to death in Jerusalem...
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The Skulener Rebbe Rav Yisroel Avrohom Portugal Shlita of Boro Park is undergoing surgery today in a Los Angeles hospital, people are asked to say tehilim for Yisroel Avrohom...
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An angry Brooklyn couple whose parenting choices were excoriated online by scores of anonymous commenters are demanding Yahoo and Google unmask their attackers so they can sue them for $411...
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In the war against croutons, Bamba, and cleaning products, the “Badatz Free” protest group is claiming its first victory: Massive food manufacturer Nestle has launched its new Joya line...
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A judge has ordered two rival factions of Satmar Hasidim to take their latest court fight to a rabbinical panel, a decision that could end nine years of litigation...
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Michigan – The private plane that crashed July 13 killing a Skokie pilot and his three grandchildren had failed to take off twice before the third and fatal attempt,...
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A Bnei Brak resident who wanted to bury her dead mother in the city’s cemetery was surprised to learn that the National Insurance Institute does not cover the costs...
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The rate of growth among the ultra-Orthodox, in which a majority of men don’t work, is an economic problem, Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer said earlier this week....
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One of the visitors of Rav Kanievsky last Wednesday was a person who heads a large chessed organization. The fellow was listing many of the tragic cases he has...
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Lakewood, NJ – Elliot S. Zaks, one of the tri-state area’s top commercial real estate executives, plans to bicycle 135 miles over two days in August to raise money...
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Police say vandals have smashed or overturned 27 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France.   The gendarme service of the Bas-Rhin region says the damage was discovered...
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The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) announced that nine Young Israel branches from across the United States have been awarded 2010 Non-Profit Homeland Security Grants and will receive...
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The DailyNews Reports: Hunter — The Town of Hunter was asked Tuesday night to step up its enforcement of the Village of Tannersville’s no parking law. Tannersville resident Roger...
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Israel – Cable television provider HOT removed content deemed inappropriate from its lineup Monday night, in accordance with a law on the observance of Tisha B’Av. In addition to...
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Despite two rabbinic court rulings against him, a Sherman Oaks rabbi is refusing to turn over four Torah scrolls that a rabbi’s widow says belong to her. In May,...
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The NYTimes reports: He was called the Jewish Caruso. Indeed, fervent enthusiasts sometimes referred to Caruso as the Italian Yossele Rosenblatt. Mr. Rosenblatt, who died in 1933, was regarded...
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Chicago, IL – A Jordanian national from the city’s Far North Side was convicted today in federal court of mailing a bomb threat to a Jewish school in Chicago,...
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New York – Over a hundred people gathered today in Chesed Shel Emes’s cemetery in Liberty, NY to unveil thirty different Matzeivos including that of Martin Grossman A”H who...
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The following are photos of Mordechai Bayer’s Levaya that took place today at 3:00PM LA time, 7:00PM EST time in Eden Memorial Park, 11500 Sepulveda Boulevard in Mission Hills,...
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The brother of David Stibon, suspected of aiding Chaim Pearlman, as reported here, is standing on the roof of a ten story building on Jerusalem’s Jaffa Street and threatening to...
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Sources inform ‘‘Globes’’ that Electra Consumer Products Company is considering halting services to haredi (ultra-orthodox) areas after violent attacks against the company’s technicians. The company has hired private security...
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The lone survivor of the plane crash that killed a Skokie man and his three granddaughters last week has been upgraded from critical to serious condition at a Michigan...
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Olympia, WA– The Olympia Food Co-op Board of Directors has decided to boycott Israeli goods at their two locations in Olympia, Washington. At a July 15th meeting packed with...
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BBC reports: Jerusalem – Who is a Jew? The full answer has always had somewhat blurred edges. Birthright, ethnicity, conversion to Judaism and religious practice have all contributed, but...
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Los Angeles, CA – R’ Mordechai Bayer A”H, a 50 year old Frum man from Valley Village, CA and father of 6, was R”L shot and killed by one...
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With the growing momentum surrounding Chaim Perlman, the “Jewish terrorist”, Israel’s media is having a field day. Associates of Perlman continue to release video footage in which agents of...
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It was widely reported that former Republican Congressman Joe DioGuardi filed July 15 an excess of 25,000 signatures to appear on the ballot of the September14, 2010 Republican Primary...
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Sephardi chief rabbi Shlomo Amar on Monday said comments he made one day earlier regarding the controversial conversion bill – which would give sole authority over Israel’s conversions to...
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On Tisha B’Av it is assur to wear leather shoes.  Crocs are synthetic and do not contain any leather.  However there is a Machlokes between Rashi and the Rambam...
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Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the Chief Sephardic Rabbi, said Sunday that in his opinion, the religious parties in the coalition should leave it if a proposed law regulating conversion to...
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Darchei Torah Yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood expelled three of its students in the past two weeks, after discovering they have obtained driver’s licenses. The yeshiva students said the...
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Brooklyn, NY – A Brooklyn federal judge has awarded $10 million to the victim of a circumcision gone wrong, leaving his man parts “partially amputated.” The settlement is ordered...
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Shay Golan, an Israeli businessman who was residing in Mexico, has been missing since Friday, Channel 2 reported Sunday. The report says Golan, who went missing in Cancun, was...
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Passaic, New Jersey – Baruch Dayan Emes, VidYid.com regrets to inform you of the Petira of Dr. Chayim Newmark who was tragically killed in an accident. Chayim was a...
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A new 527 group, Jewish Floridians for Truth, has formed to oppose Charlie Crist in the Florida U.S. Senate race. Crist is the Florida Governor who back in February...
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Jerusalem – A Charedi riot broke out on Sunday in a postal branch in Jerusalem’s Bukharim neighborhood over Ynet news updates. A group of 25 ultra-Orthodox protested at the...
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The Vaadat HaRabbonim Lemaan Kedushas HaShabbos has reiterated that travelers should plan any trips that are taken on erev Shabbos carefully, and they should not fly in cases where...
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While his classmates spent the summer holidays at the beach or at the pool, vacationing in Israel or abroad, Moshe’s focus was on a completely different subject. While they...
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During the ceremony of the 16th anniversary of the AMIA Jewish Centre bombing downtown, the organization’s head warned that the international context “conspires” against clearing the case investigating the...
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Thousands of people accompanied the bodies of young sisters Rikki and Racheli Menora to rest in the Etz Chaim cemetery in Beit Shemesh on Friday. The sisters, ages 16...
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PHOTOS BELOW. Yerushalayim: Damage in the Mir Yeshiva after a fire burned down a room in the dorm. Three fire crews were called this morning a fire broke out...
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Jerusalem – The Israeli media is trumpeting a new modern miracle from a baby to be. There was one smart yet to be born child waving at the doctors...
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A man arrested this week in Maine is believed to be the same man, known as the “Burly Bandit,” who committed 10 bank robberies across New England over the...
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Gov. Paterson went positively kab-ballistic today over a newspaper report suggesting that he has forsaken his Catholic faith to practice the same form of Jewish mysticism. The angry governor...
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A day after Skokie resident Moshe Menora died alongside three grandchildren in a plane he was flying, the Jewish Orthodox community remembered him as a loving, passionate and charitable...
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Fourteen Friendship Circle branches across the U.S. have been voted to the top 200 in the Chase Community Giving, winning a prize of $20,000 each. Over 35,000 votes were...
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Chief Rabbi of Tekoa town, one of the founders of the Jewish settlement movement Menachem Fruman told he had predicted events of September 11, 2001 in New York. “I...
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The Eda Haredit is not alone. Senior rabbis from the central stream of haredi Judaism, led by Lithuanian leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, are joining the protest against the...
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VIDEO & PHOTOS BELOW. The following video and photos are of the crash scene that killed Mr. Moshe Menorah and 3 of his grandchildren with Chesed Shel Emes doing...
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Tel Aviv – Two people were killed on Wednesday in a shooting incident in southern Tel Aviv. The police believe one of the victims shot the other and then...
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Monsey, NY – A man and his young son were uninjured when he lost control of his car on Kearsing Parkway and crashed into a retention pond, Ramapo police...
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Athens, Greece – An Israel-bound flight was delayed for about two hours at Athens International Airport Wednesday after protesters against the blockade of Gaza blocked check-in counters, airport officials...
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The summer vacation is upon us and the ultra-Orthodox sector is getting ready for heightened modesty alert. As in previous years, one of the community’s main threats is unsupervised...
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PHOTOS & VIDEOS BELOW. Michigan – A private plane has crashed in Makinac Island, killing Mr. Moshe Menorah A”H a 72 year old man from Skokie, Illinois just outside...
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A representative of the Gaddafi Fund on the Libyan making its way to the Gaza Strip said that Israel sent a threat via signaler that it will dispatch Navy...
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An Ethiopian student is suing an Egged driver for NIS 200,000 damages for racism. The case was filed in the Petach Tikva Magistrates Court this morning by Tebeka, Advocacy...
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A rally is set to be held here tonight to protest the conviction of Sholom Rubashkin, the former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa who was sentenced to...
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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has written a letter to President Hosni Mubarak, in which he wished him health, following the Egyptian president’s recent medical treatment in Germany and reports about...
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Anat Hoffman, leader of the Women of the Wall prayer group, was arrested at the Western Wall on Monday for holding a Torah scroll. She is suspected of violating...
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Most members of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox public believe there is hardly any racism in their society, according to a special poll ordered by Ynet following the compromise in the Emmanuel...
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Is the heat this summer too much for you? Cool off today with a free slurpee at 7-Eleven! Participating locations are giving away free 7.11 ounce slurpees Sunday from...
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Eda Haredit rabbis signed a declaration Thursday calling on the public to fast on Sunday over the ongoing construction at Jaffa’s Andromeda Hill and the ensuing evacuation of graves...
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Cairo – The Israeli ambassador to Cairo, Yitzhak Levanon, has asked the Egyptian government to protect Jews in Egypt, following the conviction of the head of the Jewish community...
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The Charedi leadership is considering a significant reduction in or complete prohibition against holding protests after a trash bin shoved onto Route 1 during a Jerusalem demonstration seriously injured...
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??? A synagogue that was undergoing repairs after it was destroyed by fire a year ago was vandalized by someone who broke in overnight and damaged the sanctuary. “It’s...
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A deranged man stabbed four people, including one Frum Yid, in an apparent random attack in Chelsea this afternoon, authorities said. “The guy was crazy, he looked like he...
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Two people who were riding on a motorcycle along Highway 1 sustained serious and moderate injuries overnight Thursday when they crashed into a trash bin that had been pushed...
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Tel Aviv District Police have arrested three ultra-Orthodox men suspected of smuggling over $100,000,000 worth of cocaine. One of the suspects, a resident of Kfar Chabad, is suspected of...
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Poland is to deport an alleged Mossad agent to Germany. Uri Brodsky, an Israeli suspected of involvement in the killing of a Hamas operative in Dubai, has three days...
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A terrorist disguised as a yeshiva student attacked a female driver and attempted to hijack her car with a baby inside. The incident occurred near the northern entrance to...
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PHOTOS BELOW. Atra Kadisha and other haredi groups will be holding a demonstration in Washington on Tuesday to demand of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he “stop archeological excavations...
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The central observance marking 30 days since the passing for former chief Sephardic Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu is scheduled for Tuesday evening at the Binyanei Haumah international convention center in...
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New Square, NY – The Skverer Rebbe, Rabbi Duvid Twersky, has donated towards the substantial legal bills of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin as his attorneys appeal an unusually severe sentence...
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Lakewood, NJ – A 19-year-old Brick man has been charged by a grand jury in a hit-and-run accident last year that claimed the life of a Lakewood teenager. An...
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Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington D.C. for his fifth meeting with President Obama. The Israeli prime minister’s plane landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington early Tuesday morning....
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Washington on Monday evening to meet with President Barack Obama for the fifth time since the two leaders took office. A senior...
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Baruch Dayan Emes: HaRabunis HaTzadeikes Pesil Leiah U”H Bas Hgh”k R’ Aron Z”l Eishes Chuver Rabeiny Hakudesh Zy”u Baal Beira. She was 85 and the mother of the 2...
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Shomrim Volunteers in Kiryas Tosh got a call at around 11:00pm last night of a car that was throwing unknown object at people in the community. The vol. patrol...
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Israel will not apologize to Turkey for the killing of nine activists on the Turkish vessel Mavi Marmara while intercepting the ship as it sought to break Gaza blockade,...
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