One reason I like it here...

Great bit of writing in today's New York Daily News...pretty much sums up what I miss about New York.

But then I got to thinking about it and, actually, a lot of these cross-cultural shenanigans happen in Israel, which is one of then reasons I'm finding it really easy to adjust to life here. The old "Ashkenazi Jew meets Ethiopian Jewish immigrant at a kosher Brazilian restaurant where the waiter is an American Jewish student and the bus boy is an illegal Thai worker" story. Anyways, just a thought.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/482410p-405865c.html

Mob rap in bagel boom

Feds tie S.I. attack in '01 to gangland rivals

BY ERNIE NASPRETTO and JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Only in New York would a Mafia associate nicknamed The Irishman allegedly provide a bomb used to destroy a Pakistani immigrant's deli that was competing with a bagel store protected by the mob.

The feds yesterday charged reputed Gambino crime associate Edward Fisher with orchestrating the December 2001 arson attack on My Deli and Grocery in Staten Island...