Israelis in all major news stories

"One witness, project manager Ari Fisher"

This one is one of the funny ones. Whenever there is a news story, no matter how many people are involved the Israeli workers of the Israeli controlled American news organizations always find and question an Israeli.

It is as if Americans do not exist.

The couple accused of bilking the San Francisco school district and private insurers out of a total of $400,000 in payments for treatment for their autistic son is now expected to be arraigned on Tuesday, officials say.

Jonathan Dickstein, a former partner at Morrison & Foerster law firm, and his marketing consultant wife, Barclay Lynn, both 43, had been expected to appear in court this morning but prosecutors said this morning that the arraignment date was set for next week at the time they posted $100,000 bail each.

The couple faces 30 counts of forgery, theft and conspiracy related to a scheme that prosecutors said involved them creating a dummy company and inflating or double billing the district and the insurers for the care of their young son between 2006 and 2008.

Their attorneys say the couple was devoted to their son and went overboard in securing him proper care.

The couple accused of bilking the San Francisco school district and private insurers out of a total of $400,000 in payments for treatment for their autistic son is now expected to be arraigned on Tuesday, officials say.

Jonathan Dickstein, a former partner at Morrison & Foerster law firm, and his marketing consultant wife, Barclay Lynn, both 43, had been expected to appear in court this morning but prosecutors said this morning that the arraignment date was set for next week at the time they posted $100,000 bail each.

The couple faces 30 counts of forgery, theft and conspiracy related to a scheme that prosecutors said involved them creating a dummy company and inflating or double billing the district and the insurers for the care of their young son between 2006 and 2008.

Their attorneys say the couple was devoted to their son and went overboard in securing him proper care.

The couple accused of bilking the San Francisco school district and private insurers out of a total of $400,000 in payments for treatment for their autistic son is now expected to be arraigned on Tuesday, officials say.

Jonathan Dickstein, a former partner at Morrison & Foerster law firm, and his marketing consultant wife, Barclay Lynn, both 43, had been expected to appear in court this morning but prosecutors said this morning that the arraignment date was set for next week at the time they posted $100,000 bail each.

The couple faces 30 counts of forgery, theft and conspiracy related to a scheme that prosecutors said involved them creating a dummy company and inflating or double billing the district and the insurers for the care of their young son between 2006 and 2008.

Their attorneys say the couple was devoted to their son and went overboard in securing him proper care.

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Israelis make everything about themselves. Arizona passed an immigration law. People compare the immigration law to Nazi Germany.

This story is about how Israelis are complaining because if anyone else talks about Nazi Germany it diminishes the effect of Israeli whining about WWII.

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Arizona's tough new law against illegal immigration has prompted furious protests and boycotts but Jewish groups say opponents who compare it with the rise of Nazi Germany are going too far.

"It diminishes the Holocaust," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Wiesenthal Center, an internationally known Holocaust studies center based in Los Angeles.

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An Indian-origin doctor at the Yale School of Medicine was shot dead by a Chinese colleague, who also tried to kill the victim's pregnant wife, the police said.

Vajinder Toor (34) was shot multiple times in the parking lot outside his condominium in the New Haven suburb on Monday. The police have charged Dr. Toor's former colleague Lishan Wang in the killing.

Dr. Wang (44) was a former colleague of Dr. Toor at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn. He also fired at Dr. Toor's pregnant wife, but she was not wounded.

U.S. House Republican Whip Eric Cantor is endorsing Marco Rubio for Senate, saying he is principled and can be trusted.

Cantor also criticized Gov. Charlie Crist for embracing President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package, vetoing a bill that would have tied teachers' pay to test scores and for even considering running as an independent candidate for Senate.

The Virginia congressman said: "Marco is somebody who has demonstrated he is firm in his principles and his beliefs and he keeps his word."

"We are a nation at a crossroads, and we need responsible leadership in Washington," Cantor said in a statement on Tuesday. "Marco Rubio is just the type of leader our country needs and will make an excellent Senator for the State of Florida."

Crist was considered the heavy favorite a year ago in the Republican primary, but Rubio has risen from obscurity to become a favorite of conservative Republicans.

The Democratic front-runner is U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek.

U.S. House Republican Whip Eric Cantor is endorsing Marco Rubio for Senate, saying he is principled and can be trusted.

Cantor also criticized Gov. Charlie Crist for embracing President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package, vetoing a bill that would have tied teachers' pay to test scores and for even considering running as an independent candidate for Senate.

The Virginia congressman said: "Marco is somebody who has demonstrated he is firm in his principles and his beliefs and he keeps his word."

"We are a nation at a crossroads, and we need responsible leadership in Washington," Cantor said in a statement on Tuesday. "Marco Rubio is just the type of leader our country needs and will make an excellent Senator for the State of Florida."

Crist was considered the heavy favorite a year ago in the Republican primary, but Rubio has risen from obscurity to become a favorite of conservative Republicans.

The Democratic front-runner is U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek.

Michael Douglas says his family's fame and history of substance abuse helped drive his troubled son into drug addiction and crime, and the Academy Award-winning actor is asking a judge to show leniency toward him.

"I love my son, but I'm not blind to his actions. ... I don't want to see him break," the actor told the federal judge in a handwritten letter made public Monday, on the eve of Cameron Douglas' sentencing in a drug case.

The five-page letter, penned in an elegant script, joins others written to the court by Cameron Douglas' high-profile supporters, including grandfather Kirk Douglas, stepmother Catherine Zeta-Jones and NBA executive Pat Riley.

Cameron Douglas, arrested in July at a Manhattan hotel, admitted in January that he dealt methamphetamine and cocaine. He pleaded guilty to a drug charge that carries a mandatory 10 years in prison, but his lawyers and supporters are arguing for less time.

A defense lawyer and Michael Douglas' publicist didn't immediately return telephone calls Monday evening; prosecutors declined to comment.

In his letter, Douglas paints his son's problems as the product, in part, of a privileged but difficult childhood, a family legacy of drug and alcohol problems and the long shadow cast by a family of screen icons.

"I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father," wrote Douglas, who starred in "Wall Street" and whose father Kirk starred in "Spartacus." "I'm not sure I can comprehend it with two generations to deal with."

As the only child of a "bad marriage" between an often absent Michael Douglas and his first wife, Diandra Douglas, "Cameron found his family in the gang mentality," his father wrote.

He said his son developed a substance abuse problem at 13, sloughed off at school and balked at the idea of rehab unless it was legally required.

Cameron Douglas eventually found some success as a club DJ and got some movie roles, including one in 2003's "It Runs in the Family," starring his father and grandfather. But he spiraled into a heroin addiction and, according to his lawyers, began dealing meth in 2006 to support himself after being cut off from the family fortune because he wouldn't get treatment.

Citing genes and family as factors in substance abuse, Michael Douglas points in his letter to relatives' drug and alcohol problems, though their names have been redacted.

Douglas has said he was treated at an Arizona clinic for alcohol abuse in the 1990s. His half-brother, Eric Douglas, died in 2004 of an accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription pills after years of struggling with addiction.

Douglas wrote that he has cherished weekly two-hour visits with his son over the past eight months at a Manhattan federal jail. With his son behind bars but sober, "I get to witness the wonderful young man he can be," he wrote.

A Philadelphia man has been charged with threatening to kill a top House Republican who announced last week that he and his family had received violent threats.

The Web site Talking Points Memo reported Monday that the U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia has filed a two-count complaint and warrant charging Norman Leboon with threatening to kill Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., and his family.

According to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office, "in or about late March, 2010, Leboon created and then transmitted a YouTube video to Google over the internet, in which he threatened to kill Congressman Cantor and his family. No harm came to the Congressman or his family as a result of Leboon's threats."

On Thursday, Cantor referenced past threats against him during a press conference held to address reports of violence in the wake of the House’s vote on the health care overhaul bill. He said that he has been targeted because of his policy positions and his Jewish faith.

Cantor accused top Democrats of “fanning the flames” of extremism by publicizing threats made against lawmakers who voted in favor of the health reform legislation. He said that members of both parties have been menaced.

At the press conference, Cantor also announced that a window in his Richmond, Va., office had recently been shattered by a bullet. Authorities later reported that the bullet was apparently the result of random gunfire and that Cantor’s office was not a specific target.