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'Self-Upgraded' Business-Class Squatters Force Flight To Tel Aviv Back To NJ 'Self-Upgraded' Business-Class Squatters Force Flight To Tel Aviv Back To NJ
'Self-Upgraded' Business-Class Squatters Force Flight To Tel Aviv Back To NJ A flight from Newark to Tel Aviv was diverted back to New Jersey after two passengers "self-upgraded" themselves on a half-empty plane. The Israeli pair plopped down in business class and refused to move for members of the Flight 90 cabin crew, according to United Airlines. The Times of Israel broke the news of the confrontation, which reportedly occurred near the Canada border about an hour and a half into the flight and sent the plane back to Newark International Airport. “Law enforcement officials met the aircraft upon landing,” United Airlines said in a statement. “The flight was subse…

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NJ 'Rabbi' Accused Of Living Double Life In Israel As Secret Christian Missionary NJ 'Rabbi' Accused Of Living Double Life In Israel As Secret Christian Missionary
NJ 'Rabbi' Accused Of Living Double Life In Israel As Secret Christian Missionary A New Jersey man living in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel has been accused of faking his religion to hide the fact that he is really a Christian missionary. Rabbi Michael Elkohen dressed in strictly-Orthodox clothes and had been living in French Hill with his five children and wife, Amanda, who recently died after a cancer battle, the Times of Israel says. Elkohen's family had reportedly been under surveillance for at least seven years, but it all came crumbling down last week, when his teen daughter told a classmate that Jesus  "accepts everyone, even if they are wr…

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by Cecilia Levine