Starting Thursday, the terminally ill of New Jersey will be allowed to willingly pull their own plug by self-administering lethal drugs. The act that allows this is called the “Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act.” Photo Credit: Shutterstock
By: Ezra Ashkenazi
Starting
Thursday, the terminally ill of New Jersey will be allowed to willingly pull
their own plug by self-administering lethal drugs. The act that allows this is
called the “Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act.” This law allows
for mentally sound New Jersey residents to commit suicide if they have six
months or fewer to live. Susan Boyce, a terminally ill patient and an outspoken
advocate for the law said, “This law provides incredible peace of mind to
people in my situation, knowing they have this option within reach… It does a lot
to counteract the fear and uncertainty about what the end is going to be like,
and are you going to be able to stand it.”
Boyce
herself has an incurable disease that will ultimately lead her to be unable to
breath and to fight off diseases. Boyce and others have been advocating for the
law to be passed for eight years, and they were finally successful, she added
that, “I firmly believe in this law, and I had the ability to speak out, to
represent a group of patients who are terminally ill and don’t have the
strength.” There has been a lot of controversy around the question of whether
patients can pull the plug, ever since medical technology has been able to
prolong life, even if the life isn’t worth living.
The new act
was approved by the New Jersey government and the bill was signed by Gov. Phil
Murphy, who although is a religious Catholic, inked the bill in April. If one
would want to go ahead and receive the lethal injections, a patient would have
to show the doctor proof that they in fact are a New Jersey resident.
They would have to show the physician a valid state-issued ID, voter
registration, or according to the law itself, “Any other government record that
the attending physician reasonably believes to demonstrate the individual’s
current residency in this State,” According to information collected by NJ.com,
a total 3,478 people in the US have been allowed to end their lives under
death-with-dignity laws passed in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont
and Washington. In states like Montana though, assisted death has been allowed
since the year of 2009. However, not every state allows terminally ill patients
to commit suicide, with around 40 states that have not passed acts that allow
assisted death. This movement is moving across America very quickly, and it
just succeeded in New Jersey.
The Jews were camped on the bank of the Jordan River, about to enter the land of Israel. Photo Credit: JNS.org
By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
During the
presidential run of 1992, candidate Bill Clinton published a book entitled
Putting People First. He had it right. He just wasn’t the first one to write
the book. This week we’ll explore how Moshe — very subtly — taught his nation
that people, especially the children, come first.
The Jews
were camped on the bank of the Jordan River, about to enter the land of Israel.
Representatives of the tribes of Gad and Reuben approached Moshe with a very
brazen request. Numbers 32:3-5: “We don’t want to enter Israel,” they
exclaimed. “The land here is very suited for our cattle, and it would be quite
beneficial if we were to remain here.” Moshe, recalling the calamity of the ten
spies who dissuaded an entire nation from entering Israel, reacted in shock.
“Do you remember what happened 40 years ago? Do you want to, once again,
demoralize your brothers and sisters as did the spies? Do you remember that
your parents and an entire generation perished in the dessert due to that sin?”
Moshe then
recounted, in full detail, the misfortune of that fateful event. “And now,” he
concluded, “you have risen in place of your fathers to rekindle the burning
wrath of G-d?” The representatives, sat quietly through the denunciation and
then spoke. “No, Moshe,” they exclaimed. “It was never our intent just to
remain here. We’ll build stables for our livestock and homes for our children.
Then we will join our brethren in the fight for Israel. Only after all is
conquered will we return home and settle.” Moshe, obviously pacified by the
quick and obviously well prepared response, reviewed the stipulations. “OK,” he
countered, “you shall arm yourself for battle, cross the Jordan and fight with
your brothers until Hashem drives out the enemy. Once the Land is conquered and
settled, you can come back here and this land will be a heritage for you.”
After Moshe
reiterated all the prerequisites involved in the deal, he warns them. “If you
transgress your commitment you will bear a terrible sin before Hashem.” Then,
in what is seemingly out of place he adds the following. “Build cities for your
children and pens for your livestock, and thus you shall observe the words that
left your mouth.” Two questions bother me: Why is Moshe adding his comments on
the domestic portion of their request? Isn’t his only concern that the tribes
should join their brothers in the conquest of the land of Israel?
Rashi notes
that Moshe switches the order of the request. The tribes said they will “build
stables for our livestock and homes for our children.” Moshe switches the order
and tells them “build cities for your children and pens for your livestock.”
Why is this followed by the words, “thus you shall observe the words that left
your mouth.”? Didn’t he already warn them of the consequence of retraction?
Henry
Hirsch, the president of the Welbilt Co., one of America’s leading oven and
major appliance manufacturers, had another labor of love. He was the president
of one of America’s premier Torah institutions, Yeshiva Torah Voda’ath. At a
board meeting, at which many of the yeshiva’s prominent lay leaders were
present, the school’s cook prepared a beautiful supper in honor of the eminent
supporters.
As one of
the students was serving the executives, Mr. Hirsch looked at the delicious
meal. “Excuse me,” he asked the young scholar. “What are they serving you in
the main dining hall?” The boy looked sheepishly at Mr. Hirsch and stammered, ”
I think we’re having egg salad sandwiches.”
The
renowned philanthropist turned to the executive board and the representatives
of the Yeshiva administration. “We are all here for the sake of the Yeshiva
boys, I think it is they who should be eating this chicken dinner. Let’s send
it to them and we’ll have the egg salad instead.”
Moshe was
pleased with the offer to fight. However, he noted a major problem in the
honorable plans of the tribes of Gad and Reuben. They prefaced their commitment
with a very suspect phrase. “We will build pens for our livestock and then we
will build cities for our children.” Moshe listens, reviews their offer and is
doubtful. People who put monetary values before humans tend to worry about
finances before family. And people who put money first often change their
position, when their holdings are at stake.
Thus Moshe
reiterates their pledge with one major amendment. He says to them, “build
cities for your children and then pens for your livestock; thus you shall keep
the word that left your mouth.” If the children come first, then he will trust
them. He knows and believes their values are in order and they will uphold
their pledge. A major provision in the deal was not only a military commitment,
but a philosophy that will guide the Jews for centuries. Put the people first!
Sunrise. Sunset. Swiftly fly the years. As my husband and I walked our youngest daughter to the chuppah this past week, I lived the words of this song. With God's magnificent sunset as the backdrop, I held my daughter’s hand and a stream of emotion filled my heart.
By: Slovie Jungreis-Wolff
As a little girl, I loved the wedding
scene in Fiddler on the Roof. I watched it over and over again — friends
and family gathered together, their flickering candles light up the night as
the white chuppah flutters over the young bride who circles her groom.
And Tevye,
the bride’s father sings: “Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the
little boy at play? I don’t remember growing older, when did they?”
Sunrise.
Sunset. Swiftly fly the years.
As my
husband and I walked our youngest daughter to the chuppah this past week, I
lived the words of this song. With God’s magnificent sunset as the backdrop, I
held my daughter’s hand and a stream of emotion filled my heart.
All my
life I had prayed for this very moment. And now that the moment has come, I am
filled with wonder. Where did all the years go? Wasn’t it just yesterday that I
held this little girl in my arms, cuddled with her, stroked her cheeks and
wiped away her tears? When the others grew too old for bedtime stories and
giggles with mommy, this was the child whose little hand fit perfectly into
mine. I held onto childhood laughter, bike riding with the wind, and hot
chocolate with marshmallows floating on snowy winter nights. Who else would
sing with me on top of our lungs and dance around the house till we would fall
down breathlessly together?
How I
would smile when she would totter in my shoes, put on my ‘mommy’ things and
make believe that she was me. Each Purim we would dig out the little bride
costume, the veil and the crown, and look in the mirror together with dreamy
eyes.
When she
was a little girl we would read a story together called Love You Forever.
At the end of the book my daughter would lean into the crevice of my neck and
listen as I’d sing the last words on the page.
“Love you
forever. Like you for always. As long as you’re living. My baby you’ll be”
I would
kiss her silken curls, we would sing the Shema and say a prayer for all those
we loved in our lives. I’d watch her eyelids slowly close, listen as her
breaths deepened and think that these days would last forever.
The other
night I took out a folder I’ve kept, tucked in the bottom of my closet. Stacked
inside are all the cards my little girl ever gave me. Colorful pictures before
she was able to really write. Big red hearts, a smiling sun and rainbows with
the word MOMMY spread across the page. Happy feelings somehow fly out of the papers
scattered across my floor. Then the letters begin. Each carefully written as my
baby starts to string her words together and embrace life. “Dear
Mommy”, they each open. “I love you so much.”
My heart
melts as I see her childish scrawl. First grade. Second grade. Where did the
time go?
Homemade
Mother’s Day cards, birthday wishes and some just because.
I read and
re-read. A little tear trickles down my cheek.
Dear
Mommy,
I love you
so much and when I get married I will miss you soooooooooo much but now is not
then and now I wish you 2 words-Happy Birthday. I love you mommy.
Well, then
is now.
It is time
to thank God for the gift of life that I have been given to watch over. For the
joy of bringing children into this world. For the hugs, the kisses, the triumphs
and yes, even the tears. For the privilege of carrying these souls inside of me
and then trying oh so hard to create a path, despite it all, so that I know
that my parents, Zaydies and Bubbies live on.
When I was
a little girl one of my favorite places in the world to be was in my
grandparents’ home. They had been deported to Bergen Belsen, lost an entire
world, and were cut by the shards of pain and suffering that tragic time would
bring. Yet despite the darkness of their lives, they gave me only love. When my
Zayda would bless me his soft white beard would flow over my face. I felt safe
even strong somehow. He would place his hands on my head, whisper the holy
words and cry. I was named for my Zayda’s mother who was killed in Auschwitz.
Perhaps the grief of the past and the hope of the future
collided. Sunrise. Sunset.
I see my
little girl now grown, beginning life anew.
I have
hopes and dreams. I have prayers that soar.
It is hard
as well, to know that those days of my little girl are memories now to be
carefully taken out and gingerly revisit.
Sometimes
we wish we could go back in life, but no. The caterpillar becomes a butterfly
and it is time to spread your magnificent wings and fly.
I love you
my little girl.
I pray
that you build a home together with your wonderful groom filled with Torah,
blessings, and joy. May the footsteps of your bubbies and zaydies create a path
for you so that you always find your way. May their tears, their sacrifice for
our people, their legacy, and their wisdom shine as a beacon of light for you
always.
NYC Health + Hospitals last week announced the launch of a comprehensive, primary care-centered diabetes management program, including investing in new clinical pharmacy staff, equipment, and technology to improve health outcomes and expand services through telehealth techniques for more than 60,000 New Yorkers with diabetes who receive care in the City’s public hospitals and community-based health centers. Photo Credit: Shutterstock
20 new clinical pharmacists will be integrated in primary care to help patients manage diabetes medications between primary care visits
Edited by: JV Staff
NYC Health + Hospitals last week
announced the launch of a comprehensive, primary care-centered diabetes
management program, including investing in new clinical pharmacy staff,
equipment, and technology to improve health outcomes and expand services
through telehealth techniques for more than 60,000 New Yorkers with diabetes
who receive care in the City’s public hospitals and community-based health
centers. Diabetes is a complex medical problem and uncontrolled diabetes can
lead to health complications, including heart disease, blindness and kidney
failure.
Committed to improving the care of
patients with diabetes, the public health system will deploy a new cadre of
clinical pharmacists to care for patients as an extension of their primary care
teams, and purchase new advanced equipment to make teleretinal screening part
of routine care for all patients with diabetes. NYC Health + Hospitals is also
piloting a diabetes self-management app and a program that provides telephone
based peer mentorship, putting an emphasis around telehealth techniques. The
new services for New Yorkers with diabetes are part of the health system’s population
health strategies and its broader multi-year redesign to build a competitive,
sustainable organization that will continue to offer high-quality and
accessible health care to the people of New York City.
“We’re investing in these new programs
to make primary care more robust and effective for patients with uncontrolled
diabetes, and help them adhere to their medications, take care of their vision,
get counseling from someone who has experienced the same challenges, and
ultimately feel empowered to take charge of their health,” said Mitchell
Katz, MD, NYC Health + Hospitals President and CEO. “Our commitment to
guarantee health care to all New Yorkers will be supported with smart and
responsive clinical care strategies to help patients manage some of the most
common chronic conditions that affect their ability to live, work, and play.”
“There isn’t a single silver bullet for
treating diabetes, a disease that impacts many areas of one’s health and
lifestyle, requiring a comprehensive approach to health management,”
said Dave Chokshi, MD, Vice President and Chief Population Health Officer
at NYC Health + Hospitals. “With this multi-pronged approach, we can help many
patients who are struggling to manage their diabetes streamline their care by
tracking their blood sugar levels and food intake, customizing their
medication, and being more proactive around preventative screenings.”
The new NYC Health + Hospitals
initiatives to help improve health outcomes for New Yorkers with diabetes
include:
• Integrating Clinical Pharmacists in
Primary Care – Twenty new clinical pharmacists will be added throughout
the public health system by the end of 2020 to work as integrated members of
primary care teams with a focus on medication management. Clinical pharmacists
act as part of patients’ care teams but operate independently to help patients,
in this case with uncontrolled diabetes or complicated diabetes medication
regimens, to manage their medications between primary care visits. The public
health system is investing approximately $3M to help hire the initial 20
clinical pharmacists as part of their first phase of implementation. They will
be supported by existing patient care associates.
• Teleretinal Screening in Primary
Care – Primary care sites across the City will offer advanced teleretinal
screenings as part of routine primary care visit for patients with diabetes.
Patients will be able to get their preventive care in a more convenient way
instead of having to schedule a separate ophthalmology appointment. Annual retinal
screening is an important component of comprehensive diabetes care. Those with
consistently uncontrolled diabetes are at risk for developing diabetic
retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in U.S. adults aged 20-74. Diabetic
retinopathy may not cause symptoms immediately; therefore, early detection
through screening is the best way to prevent vision loss in patients. The
program will be implemented throughout the latter half of 2019 across the
system’s 11 hospitals, two Gotham Health centers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and
the system’s Correctional Health Services facility.
• Peer Mentors a Phone Call Away –
Partnering with InquisitHealth, a social therapeutics company, patients with
diabetes can now speak to peer mentors on the phone to help enhance their
diabetes self-management. Peer mentors are patients who are successfully living
with diabetes who are trained to help other patients who are struggling with
their diabetes. This remote workforce of peer mentors helps address each
patient’s barriers related to the social determinants of health while inspiring
healthy lifestyle behavioral changes. Once a patient is referred to
InquisitHealth by their primary care doctor, they are matched to a culturally
appropriate mentor, scheduling regular check-in and touching base more
frequently as needed. The end goal for each patient is sustained improvements
in diabetes management, improved HbA1c, and a higher quality of life. The peer
mentoring program is offered at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County and NYC
Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Cumberland as of December of 2018.
• A Coach in
Your Pocket Smartphone App – BlueStar is an app that provides real-time,
individualized coaching, reminders and support, as well as diabetes educational
tools that are actionable and personalized for each patient to monitor and
manage their type-2 diabetes. The app helps to bridge the gap between patients
and their providers outside of the clinic visit. With integrations to devices
and apps, patients can connect to their pharmacies medication tracking, blood
glucose meters, labs, and activity trackers. Based on the collected
information, BlueStar provides patient feedback, guidance and education for
better patient self-management and clinical decision support. The data analysis
and feedback are evidence- and theory-based, and tailored to the individual’s
clinical needs, goals, and lifestyle. The app also provides diabetes articles
and videos, healthy recipes and access to the user’s own care team via the app.
The app was launched in December 2018 at NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan
and NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens.
Nearly one
million New Yorkers have diabetes, and about 19 percent are undiagnosed. Uncontrolled
diabetes can cause blindness, and chronic kidney disease, which may require
dialysis, and lower extremity amputations in adults. Obese New Yorkers are two
times more likely as other adults to have diabetes. Black, Hispanic, and Asian
New Yorkers are also at least twice as likely to have diabetes as white New
Yorkers. The average medical expenditures for people with diagnosed diabetes
are about $13,700 per year, with about $7,900 of this being attributed to
diabetes management directly.
The Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. is recalling textured breast implants and tissue expanders for greatly increasing the risk to a rare cancer. Photo Credit: Shutterstock
By Hadassa Kalatizadeh
The Food and Drug Administration in the
U.S. is recalling textured breast implants and tissue expanders for greatly
increasing the risk to a rare cancer. The implants, made by pharmaceutical
giant Allergan, have already been linked to the cancer in Europe and banned
towards the end of 2018. As reported by the NY Times, the announcement made on
Wednesday July 24th is based on the growing number of instances and deaths from
the implant-associated cancer. Allergan has now voluntarily recalled the
Biocell implants globally. “Allergan is taking this action as a precaution
following notification of recently updated global safety information concerning
the uncommon incidence of breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell
lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA),” Allergan said in a press announcement.
Around the
world, there have been a total of 573 cases reported of the unusual cancer,
named breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma, or BIA-ALCL.
Out of those, 481 of the cases were clearly attributed to the Allergan
Biocell implants. There have also been 33 associated known deaths. The FDA also
concluded with certainty that 13 of the 33 victims of the cancer had the
now-recalled textured implant, and 12 of the victim’s implants were made by
Allergan.
While this
kind of textured breast implant represents only less than five percent of all
the breast implants sold in the United States, they are more commonly used in
other countries. “It’s our estimation that hundreds of thousands of women
have these implants,” said Dr. Binita Ashar, director of the office of
surgical and infection control devices at the FDA. She went on to add that the
FDA will gather more accurate figures in the upcoming weeks.
As per CNN,
the recalled textured breast implants include: Natrelle Saline-Filled breast
implants, Natrelle Silicone-Filled breast implants, Natrelle Inspira
Silicone-Filled breast implants, and Natrelle 410 Highly Cohesive Anatomically
Shaped Silicone-Filled breast implants. The names of the tissue expanders
recalled include: Natrelle 133 Plus Tissue Expander and Natrelle 133 Tissue
Expander with Suture Tabs. People who have had these types of implants need not
immediately remove them, but rather should learn about the symptoms and monitor
the affected area regularly for unexpected changes. Main symptoms of BIA-ALCL
include swelling or pain in the area of the implant, which may even begin years
after the placement of the implant. Also women should also be aware that breast
implants in general are not always a lifelong product, and up to 20 percent of
women with implants of all varieties need to have them removed due to
complications within 8 to 10 years.
“Although the overall incidence of BIA-ALCL appears to be
relatively low, once the evidence indicated that a specific manufacturer’s
product appeared to be directly linked to significant patient harm, including
death, the FDA took action to alert the firm to new evidence indicating a
recall is warranted to protect women’s health,” said Dr. Amy Abernethy,
the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner of food and drugs. “We will
continue to monitor the incidence of BIA-ALCL across other textured and smooth
breast implants and tissue expanders as well as other devices intended for use
in the breast,” she said. “If action is needed in the future, we will
not hesitate to do what is necessary to protect patients.”
In the state of California, up to 1,000 community water systems may be failing to provide safe tap water. The California State Water Resources Control Board, which regulates the drinking water, has recently revealed that one out of every three water systems in the state is at risk of failing. Photo Credit: Shutterstock
By: Ilana Siyance
While
clean water is a necessity, it is not always accessible, even today in America.
The battle for safe drinking water rages on in 2019.
In the
state of California, up to 1,000 community water systems may be failing to
provide safe tap water. The California State Water Resources Control Board,
which regulates the drinking water, has recently revealed that one out of every
three water systems in the state is at risk of failing. Roughly one million
Californians are exposed to drinking water that is unsafe every year. The
ailing areas are most frequently the poor neighborhoods in the state, which is
known for its broad discrepancy in the standards of living. The water systems
face difficulties ranging from bankruptcy to unpredictable water capacity, to
harmful toxins being added through the decrepit taps.
Across the
United States, political leaders are at a loss as to how the country’s aging
water infrastructure can be repaired. In a 2017 report, the American Society of
Civil Engineers gave the country’s drinking water systems a D rating. The
Golden State suffers from these troubles even more, owing to the many small
independent water systems with lack of outside supervision. In many of the
small districts the local community boards manage the water systems, often with
limited expertise in the area, inadequate budgets and not enough oversight from
the state.
As per a
recent article in the NY Times, over 300 public water systems in California
have already been tested as unsafe. It is estimated that many more are out of
compliance with federal drinking water safety standards, but sufficient
information has not yet been collected. Only after systems are close to
collapse and are visibly failing are the state agencies notified. The state
agency doesn’t retain a list of water systems suspected of being high-risk. The
little information that is collected from water districts is many times
dispersed among agencies and different levels of the government, which may not
have the authority to do anything, even if they want to.
The Sativa
Los Angeles County Water District is an unfortunate example of the failing
systems. In Willowbrook, Calif., the unincorporated community near Southern Los
Angeles, located only about 20 miles away from Beverly Hills, the water has
been brown for a full year now. Last year residents, one out of four of which
live in poverty, started complaining about the severely discolored water,
unexplained stomach pains and brutally itchy skin. Officials stepped in
disbanding Sativa’s elected board of directors, which were in charge of the
water.
The Los Angeles County took control of the water district, and said that
they discovered that the system needed more than $10 million in urgent repairs
to save it from closing down completely. “We didn’t know how bad the problems
were,” said Russ Bryden, an engineer with the County of Los Angeles Department
of Public Works, who took over management of Sativa last fall. “You could not
have known from the outside. Sativa was not supposed to be this bad.” As per
the Times, the system had hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills and
debts, and clear signs of mismanagement. The county is currently working
feverishly to replace dilapidated pipes and wells, and this week began new
construction to reinforce Sativa’s system. Because the system was already on
the brink of collapse, the overhaul is proving to be more timely and expensive
than anticipated.
A Queens man is said to have stumbled into a fortune after finding an original drawing by renowned Austrian artist Egon Schiele – who died more than a century ago -- in a Queens thrift store. Photo Credit: Galerie St Etienn
A Queens man is said to have stumbled into a fortune after finding an original drawing by renowned Austrian artist Egon Schiele – who died more than a century ago — in a Queens thrift store.
By Howard M. Riell
The drawing’s value is being placed at approximately $200,000.
The purchaser, whose name has not been made known, found the expensive drawing at a Habitat for Humanity thrift shop in Woodside, Queens, according to The Art Newspaper. Soon after, he reportedly reached out to Jane Kallir, director of Galerie St. Etienne.
“Ninety percent of the time they’re wrong,” Kallir is said to have told the store, according to the New York Post. “Most of them are fakes—egregious copies.”
The buyer took the etching to the gallery, where Kallier confirmed it was genuine. “It was a girl who modeled for Schiele frequently, both alone and sometimes with her mother, in 1918,” Kallir told the Post. She also pointed out that the art work had probably been one in a series used as studies for Schiele’s final lithograph, titled simply “Girl.”
“If you look at the way this girl is lying on her back, and you look at the foreshortening both on the rib cage and on her face, and the way you see that little nose pointing up — think about how difficult that is to do,” Kallir told the Post. ““There are very few people in the history of art who can draw like that.” The drawing is on display at Galerie St. Etienne in Manhattan through Oct. 11.”
“If it sells, the man who found the drawing plans to donate some of the proceeds to Habitat for Humanity New York City, Kallir said, according to CNN.
“We are ecstatic!” Karen Haycox, chief executive of Habitat for Humanity New York City, told The Art Newspaper. “And, maybe a little bit in shock but ultimately really happy for all involved.
According to CNN, Haycox added, “I can’t help but think that were it not for the Habitat NYC ReStore, this piece of art history might have ended up in a landfill, lost forever.”
“Kallir even placed the work alongside two others that may have been drawn in that same modeling session,” according to the web site artsy.net. “Kallir observed in her authentication of the drawing the specific cream wove paper and the type of black pencil used by Schiele. She also pointed out stylistic notes specific to Schiele, saying: “If you look at the way this girl is lying on her back, and you look at the foreshortening both on the rib cage and on her face, and the way you see that little nose pointing up—think about how difficult that is to do [. . .] There are very few people in the history of art who can draw like that.”
Hunter College psychology professor and sex and drug researcher Jeffrey Parsons resigned his position after being accused of using cocaine at college events and organizing annual parties that included major amounts of alcohol and sex. He is also alleged to have hired his photographer husband at a fee of more than $600K in taxpayer money to shoot pictures. Photo Credit: hunter.cuny.edu
Jeffrey Parsons, the psychology professor at CUNY’s Hunter College campus on the Upper East Side who resigned last month, is alleged to have hired his photographer husband at a fee of more than $600,000 in taxpayers’ money, to shoot photos.
By Clark Savage, Jr.
The husband, Chris Hietikko, “though not a CUNY employee, also collected big bucks in grant dollars working for Parsons’ Center for HIV Educational Studies and Training, known as CHEST,” according to the New York Post. “Hietikko’s Mindful Designs company was paid an average $82,000 a year — or a total of $656,000 — from 2011 to 2018, according to a CUNY spokesman who said the work was cleared by a conflict of interest panel. He is no longer working for CUNY.”
Hietikko is also reported to have designed recruitment ads for CHEST studies. But, the Post piece continued, “he collected money from CHEST far longer than just eight years. A 2013 federal grant application said he worked “with the center for more than 12 years,” providing “a variety of recruitment and project materials.”
Parsons achieved celebrity status in some quarters for his research on HIV and drug use. According to published reported, he resigned in the wake of reports of misconduct.
The professor exited his position at the beginning of July “after an investigation substantiated claims that the professor used cocaine at school events and hosted university-affiliated, booze-fueled parties where he was accused of sexually harassing other employees,” according to Patch.com. The investigation began after a get-together organized by Parsons at the Stonewall Inn on May 18.
“Dr. Parsons’ conduct was reprehensible. There is no place for it at CUNY. By dealing with what happened decisively and to the fullest extent, the University is sending a clear message that there will be zero tolerance of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct,” CUNY spokesman Frank Sobrino told Patch in a statement.
According to the New York Post, Parsons led CUNY’s Center for HIV Educational Studies and Training while teaching at the university. The Center drew headlines for its research into unsafe sex and drug use. For that, it garnered millions of dollars in grants.
“Each year, Parsons would throw a party for the center’s staff using money from a school expense account, according to the report,” noted Patch.com. “The parties grew increasingly raunchy every year, and Parsons’ behavior at the 2018 event caused employees to bring complaints to university administrators. The professor was accused of forcing employees to drink, telling employees to take off their shirts and lifting an employee’s shirt to expose their chest without their permission, the Post reported.” “The mission of Hunter College’s PRIDE Health Research Consortium (which stands for Promoting Resilience, Intersectionality, Diversity, and Equity) is to support research to understand the structural, social, and psychological determinants of health disparities for sexual and gender minority (SGM) communities, to investigate the role of gender and sexuality in health, and to design and implement empirically-supported interventions to reduce disparities among these communities in pursuit of health equity,” the colleges notes on its prideresearch.org web site.
A J-51 lawsuit against the Mycak family has been granted class action status. (Credit: iStock)
A landlord trying to dismantle the new rent law through the federal courts system was just handed a procedural loss in New York Supreme Court.
By Marty Goldblatt
Two tenants in Astoria sued the Mycak family’s company Vermyck LLC last year over accusations of violating the J-51 program by not giving them a rent-stabilized lease when they moved into the building, Real Deal Reported.
The landlords were receiving tax benefits under the J-51 program while at the same time due to former de-regulatory rules, the apartments were no longer rent stabilized.
The class action lawsuit will consist of all tenants who live or lived in apartments that were deregulated while the owners were still receiving J-51 tax benefits on the property, according to court documents.
“This decision sends a clear message that the court will not tolerate any more of this landlord’s nonsense, and we’re pleased that these tenants are one step closer to receiving the relief to which they are rightfully entitled: rent stabilized leases and hundreds of thousands of dollars in rent refunds,” the plaintiffs’ attorney Lucas Ferrara said in a statement.
Richard Walsh, attorney for the Mycaks, responded by saying “does not mean the plaintiffs are correct” and that the court “never addressed our argument that the default formula was also a penalty and the plaintiffs had to waive it to achieve class action status.”
The Mycaks, Katz Realty Group and Constance Nugent-Miller are the three landlords suing New York City and a state agency over the strict new rent laws the state passed in June. They claim it violates the Constitution’s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, Real Deal reported.
Lawmakers had reached a deal in June on a number of reforms to the current laws, which affect about one million regulated apartments in New York City, and repackaged them into one bill dubbed the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019.
Some of the key elements of the laws include: Rent regulations extended so they won’t expire like they have every four to eight years for decades, vacancy decontrol, or when a unit is removed from rent-stabilization because the monthly price hits a certain threshold, currently $2,774.76, and it becomes vacant, has been repealed, and If an owner has given a tenant a unit at a “preferential rent,” a price below the legal regulated rent, he or she will no longer be able to raise the rent to the full legal limit at a lease renewal. AM NY reported in detail on the new laws.
An investigation by the Housing Rights Initiative led to the lawsuit.
“It’s highly ironic that the landlord accused of flouting the old rent laws is now suing to challenge the new ones,” HRI executive director Aaron Carr said in a statement. “This victory couldn’t be more timely”, as was reported by the Real Deal. The Rent Stabilization Association and the Community Housing Improvement Program are spearheading the suit. RSA president Joe Strasburg previously told The Real Deal he was not bothered that the Mycaks were both a plaintiff in a lawsuit over the new rent laws and a defendant in a lawsuit over the old rent laws.
The United States Department of Justice announced last week that the Department’s Antitrust Division is reviewing whether and how market-leading online platforms have achieved market power and are engaging in practices that have reduced competition, stifled innovation, or otherwise harmed consumers. Photo Credit: Shutterstock
The United States Department of Justice announced last week that the Department’s Antitrust Division is reviewing whether and how market-leading online platforms have achieved market power and are engaging in practices that have reduced competition, stifled innovation, or otherwise harmed consumers.
By: Bettina Clarkson
The Department’s review will consider the widespread concerns that consumers, businesses, and entrepreneurs have expressed about search, social media, and some retail services online, DOJ said. The Department’s Antitrust Division is conferring with and seeking information from the public, including industry participants who have direct insight into competition in online platforms, as well as others.
“Without the discipline of meaningful market-based competition, digital platforms may act in ways that are not responsive to consumer demands,” said Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Antitrust Division. “The Department’s antitrust review will explore these important issues.”
The goal of the Department’s review, DOJ pointed out, is to assess the competitive conditions in the online marketplace in an objective and fair-minded manner and to ensure Americans have access to free markets in which companies compete on the merits to provide services that users want. If violations of law are identified, it added, the Department will proceed appropriately to seek redress.
The new antitrust inquiry under Attorney General William Barr “could ratchet up the already considerable regulatory pressures facing the top U.S. tech firms. The review is designed to go above and beyond recent plans for scrutinizing the tech sector that were crafted by the department and the Federal Trade Commission,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
“The two agencies, which share antitrust enforcement authority, in recent months worked out which one of them would take the lead on exploring different issues involving the big four tech giants. Those turf agreements caused a stir in the tech industry and rattled investors. Now, the new Justice Department review could amplify the risk, because some of those companies could face antitrust claims from both the Justice Department and the FTC,” the newspaper added.
The step is the most powerful yet by Attorney General Barr towards Big Tech, which according to CNBC “faces increased scrutiny from both political parties because of the expanded market power the companies have and the tremendous amount of consumer data they control. President Trump, a regular critic of Amazon and CEO Jeff Bezos, has claimed that Facebook is biased against conservatives and recently agreed with an assessment by tech investor Peter Thiel that perhaps Google should be investigated for not working with the U.S. government on a cloud project.”
President Trump is continuing to engage in what some of his critics are characterizing as race-baiting, focused on the majority African-American city of Baltimore and one of its prominent representatives in Congress, Elijah Cummings, whose powerful committee is trying to obtain communications of White House officials, including the president’s family members.
Baptist minister Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist known as an anti-Trump commentator on cable television, was also targeted by Trump in early Monday tweets.
“He’s [Trump’s] like a child. Somebody says something and he reacts. “He’s thin-skinned and not really matured that well,” said Sharpton in Baltimore. “But he has a particular venom for blacks and people of color. He doesn’t refer to any of his other opponents or critics as ‘infested.’ He does not attack their districts.”
Trump, on Monday afternoon, met with about 20 “inner city pastors,” as he described them on Twitter.
During the two-hour meeting, the president “did more listening than talking,” according to Bill Owens, leader of the Coalition of African-American Pastors.
Asked by a reporter if he considers Trump a racist, Owens replied, “I find that hard to believe.”
Evangelist Alveda King, a niece of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Martin Luther King Jr., said following the meeting that “we have a president who is listening, and I’m glad to pray with him today.”
The participants said the meeting had been scheduled before Trump launched his attacks on Cummings and his Maryland congressional district.
Such attacks, according to the Axios political newsletter, quoting those close to Trump, is central to the president’s re-election strategy.
“Trump’s associates predict more, not less, of the race-baiting madness,” according to an Axiosarticle written earlier this month.
Trump has also tried to appeal to black voters since he began his successful 2016 run for president, arguing they should abandon the Democratic Party because decades of leadership in the inner cities has done nothing to improve their plight.
Trump, on Twitter, has called Cummings, who is black and now in his 13th term in the House of Representatives, a “brutal bully,” claiming his congressional district “is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”
The critical series of tweets began Saturday and continued through Monday, with Trump referring to Maryland’s largest city as the having the worst crime statistics in the nation, blaming Cummings’ “leadership.”
While Baltimore has a high crime rate, several other cities — including St. Louis, Detroit and Memphis — are ranked more dangerous, according to recent crime statistics.
The focus on the Baltimore area and its congressman comes amid Trump battling over the past week on social media with others he has singled out for criticism, including two friendly nations: France and Sweden.
Trump also recently has been assailing four first-term Democratic lawmakers, all women of color, saying they should “go back” to their home countries, even though all four are American citizens, three of them by birth and the fourth, a Somali refugee, through naturalization.
As Trump unleashed his attacks, Cummings, a 13-term congressman, defended himself, saying, “Mr. President, I go home to my district daily. Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors. It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. But, it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents.”
In recent congressional hearings, Cummings, as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, berated Kevin McAleenan, the acting Homeland Security chief for the condition of the country’s detention facilities at the border and the government’s lax records on tracking the whereabouts of migrant parents it had separated from children at the border.
Cummings’ committee is also investigating Trump’s presidency, but he is not among the more than 100 Democrats calling for impeachment proceedings.
The committee, voting along party lines last Thursday, authorized subpoenas for personal e-mails and texts used for official business by top White House aides, including Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner.
Cummings said lawmakers had obtained “direct evidence” that the president’s daughter, Kushner and others were using personal accounts for government business in violation of federal law and White House policy.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney rejects the notion that Trump’s attacks on Cummings are racially motivated.
“The president is attacking Cummings for saying things that are not true,” Mulvaney told the Fox News Sunday interview show. “It has absolutely zero to do with race.” (VOA)
Actress Julianne Michelle Reeves, 34, and her husband Karl Reeves went their separate ways back in 2017. Since then, she has hurled accusations of abuse, cocaine use, infidelity and financial shenanigans. He denies them all. Photo Credit: IMDb
Everyone makes mistakes, the expression goes, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, you’re pushing it.
By Pat Savage
What about a divorce proceeding that lasts longer (two years and counting) than the marriage (14 months)?
“A Manhattan socialite has dragged out a divorce and custody battle with her estranged elevator executive husband for twice the length of their actual marriage while cycling through nine lawyers, her ex’s attorney alleged in court Friday,” the New York Post has reported.
Actress Julianne Michelle Reeves, 34, and her husband Karl Reeves went their separate ways back in 2017. Since then, she has hurled accusations of abuse, cocaine use, infidelity and financial shenanigans. He denies them all.
“They were one of Park Avenue’s golden couples. A socialite-turned-actress and her millionaire CEO husband. New York society pages called their wedding a ‘fairy tale’ and the groom a ‘Prince Charming’,” reported the Daily Mail.
Reeves is reportedly attempting to cut off his ex-wife’s spousal support.
“As the couple both fight for full legal and physical custody of their two-year-old daughter, a disturbing portrait has emerged of a relationship allegedly marred by abuse, drugs, racism, and violence,” according to the Daily Mail. “The court documents, video, and audio clips seen exclusively by DailyMail.com allege that Reeves, the owner of elevator installation company CEI New York, is a Neo-Nazi. Video also show Reeves snorting what appears to be ketamine and cocaine from a glass dish in his kitchen, while records appear to capture him threatening to kill his actress wife’s parents.”
This was a high-profile marriage made in heaven. The November 2015 news item announcing it in the New York Times reads almost like a fairytale: “Julianne Michelle, a daughter of Joycelyn Engle and Joseph A. Di Palma of Manhattan, was married Saturday to Karl Christian Reeves, the son of Charlotte D. Revesz of Suffern, N.Y., and Karl Revesz of Manhattan. The Rev. Daniel G. O’Hare, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan.
“The bride, 31, will continue to use her name professionally,” the Times continued. “She is an actress who has appeared in films and on television. She had a lead role in a 2006 film “The House Is Burning” and starred in “Awakened,” a 2014 film that was directed by her mother and for which the bride wrote the music and lyrics to four songs. The bride also owns Juls New York, a line of bracelets that she designs. She graduated from Marymount Manhattan College, and is pursuing a master’s degree in social work at Columbia.”
At a Capitol Hill event on Thursday commemorating the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Argentina, Senator Ted Cruz warned that the Hezbollah terrorist organization responsible for the attack, which killed 85 people and wounded 200, is still active in Latin America. Photo Credit: Twitter
Texas Senator Ted Cruz discussed the threat at an event marking the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Jewish center in Argentina that claimed 85 lives and injured hundreds.
By: Batya Jerenberg
At a Capitol Hill event on Thursday commemorating the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Argentina, Senator Ted Cruz warned that the Hezbollah terrorist organization responsible for the attack, which killed 85 people and wounded 200, is still active in Latin America.
“Hezbollah continues to radicalize people in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil through mosques and schools that preach the group’s extremist agenda,” Cruz, the keynote speaker at a policy discussion held by the Center for a Secure Free Society, charged. “It’s time for Latin America to reckon with the significant and the dangerous presence of Hezbollah in the region.”
As the Lebanese-based Iranian terror proxy’s growth was “unchecked” in “the tri-border area (TBA) that encompasses the borders of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay,” Cruz urged the other two countries to follow suit.
Hezbollah has long been known to take advantage of the loose border controls in the TBA to move massive amounts of money from one country to another and launder it to help support its terror activities. Last July, with U.S. cooperation, Argentina’s Financial Intelligence Unit froze the assets of 14 Lebanese who live in the TBA and were allegedly part of the multi-million-dollar scheme.
It was all part of the world’s duty to keep the Islamic Republic in check, Cruz said.
He then spoke of the bill he had introduced in the Senate last month, called the Countering Hezbollah in Lebanon’s Military Act of 2019.
Part of the UN Security Council’s Resolution 1701 that ended the Second Lebanon War with Israel states that the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is the only army that should exist in the country and therefore must disarm Hezbollah.
The proposed law says that unless the president can ascertain that the LAF is doing what is necessary to end Hezbollah’s and Iran’s influence over the army, U.S. military aid to Beirut would be cut by 20 percent.
Both Israeli analysts and politicians have said that it is currently impossible to differentiate between the Lebanese state and Hezbollah.
Last year, Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett threatened that in any future military conflict, “the State of Israel… will view Lebanon as responsible for any action from within its territory.” (World Israel News)
The illegitimate child of the deceased banker and owner of New York magazine, Bruce Wasserstein (pictured above)– an 11-year old girl – is saying through her representatives that five half siblings are conspiring to rip her off to the tune of a $2.3 billion estate, a mansion in the exclusive Hamptons. Photo Credit: Pinterest
It’s the kind of story – wealth and power, illicit sex, an innocent child, a playground of the rich and famous, and high drama in the courtroom – that some editors dream of.
By Pat Savage
The New York Post captured it beautifully in its headline: “Wasserstein heirs battle with dad’s love child over $2.3 billion Hamptons estate.”
The illegitimate child of the deceased banker and owner of New York magazine, Bruce Wasserstein – an 11-year old girl – is saying through her representatives that five half siblings are conspiring to rip her off to the tune of a $2.3 billion estate, a mansion in the exclusive Hamptons.
“In addition to six kids, Wasserstein, who died in 2009 at age 61, left behind a widow, two ex-wives, a mistress, and four lavish residences: a London townhouse, a Paris apartment, a 17-acre Santa Barbara estate, and a sprawling 27.5-acre oceanfront East Hampton property known as Cranberry Dune,” the Post reported.
Erin McCarthy was reportedly sleeping with a married Wasserstein, got pregnant and had a child, named Sky, in 2008. Apparently, the other kids don’t want to share with the result of their dad’s dalliance.
Wasserstein, of course, was born and raised in Midwood, Brooklyn. He was one of five children of Lola (née Schleifer) and Morris Wasserstein, a Jewish immigrant from pre-World War II Poland who emigrated to New York City and started a ribbon company. Wasserstein’s maternal grandfather, Simon Schleifer, was a Jewish teacher in the yeshiva in Wloclawek, Poland who later emigrated to Paterson, New Jersey and became a Hebrew school principal.
Piety, however, has no place in this tale. Despite his impressive credentials — investment banker, businessman, graduate of the McBurney School, the University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School (plus a year at the University of Cambridge) – Wasserstein had trouble with fidelity.
“The trustees overseeing the estate sold three of the four homes before reaching the 2015 deal with McCarthy, but Sky hasn’t gotten a penny from the property deal since the two sides are still squabbling over how much Cranberry Dune is worth,” the Post chronicled. “The estate insists the Further Lane property, which includes a 23,500-square-foot, seven-bedroom manse, is worth just $120 million.”
Wasserstein’s somewhat unkempt family tree looks like this:’
– Laura Lynelle Killin (married 1968, divorced 1974).
– Christine Parrott (divorced 1992 after giving birth to three kids, Ben, Pam and Scoop.
– Claude Becker (married 1996, divorced 2008 but not before having a pair of sons together).
– Angela Chao, (married 2009, up until Wasserstein’s death).
The woman slated to replace Puerto Rico’s governor after he steps down next week said on Sunday she does not want the job.
Edited by: JV Staff
“I reiterate, I have no interest in occupying the position of governor,” Justice Secretary Wanda Vazquez wrote on Twitter. “It is a Constitutional dictum. I hope that the governor identifies and submits a candidate for the position of secretary of state before Aug. 2 and I have told him so.”
Governor Ricardo Rossello on Wednesday announced that he would step down on August 2 after nearly two weeks of massive protests triggered by a leaked obscenity-laced chat in which Rossello and close advisers insulted people including women and victims of Hurricane Maria.
By law, Secretary of State Luis Rivera Marin would have replaced Rossello, but he too was involved in the chat scandal and resigned earlier this month.
If a new secretary of state isn’t approved in time, the line of succession after Vazquez falls to Secretary of Treasury Francisco Pares and Secretary of Education Eligio Hernandez.
The U.S. territory has been rocked by protests since the leak of almost 900 pages of chats between the governor and several island officials. The chats, on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, shocked islanders for their vulgarity and crassness and raised questions about possible conflicts of interest and violations of the law. (VOA News)
Arrow Weapon System Successfully Engages Ballistic Missile Target Photo Credit U.S. Missile Defense Agency
The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D) and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) completed a successful flight test campaign with the Arrow-3 Interceptor missile.
Flight Test Arrow-01 demonstrated the Israeli Arrow Weapon System’s ability to conduct a high altitude hit-to-kill engagement. Interceptor tests were conducted that successfully destroyed target missiles. These tests were conducted at Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska (PSCA) in Kodiak, Alaska.
The Arrow-3 Interceptor successfully demonstrated an engagement capability against the exo-atmospheric target during the test. Although not part of the Israeli architecture, a U.S. AN-TPY2 radar participated in the test. Preliminary analysis indicates that test objectives were successfully achieved.
The Arrow Weapon System is a central part of Israel’s multi-layer defense system. The defense system is based on four operational layers: Iron Dome Defense System, David’s Sling Weapon System, the Arrow-2, and the Arrow-3.
“These successful tests mark a major milestone in the development of the Arrow Weapon System,” said MDA Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill. “This unique success in Alaska provides confidence in future Israeli capabilities to defeat the developing threats in the region. My congratulations to the Israel Missile Defense Organization, our MDA team, and our industry partners. We are committed to assisting the Government of Israel in upgrading its national missile defense capability to defend the State of Israel from emerging threats.”
IMDO Director, Moshe Patel: “Ten challenging years of development have culminated in this moment: the Arrow 3 weapon system completed a test campaign, during which an Arrow 3 interceptor completed full interception of the target. This is an extraordinary operational and technological achievement for the State of Israel, made possible by thousands of employees, engineers and officers from the Ministry of Defense, Israeli defense Industries, Israeli Air Force and our US partners. In addition, the fact that the tests were conducted in Alaska, tens of thousands of kilometers away from Israel, is another significant achievement that demonstrates the operational capabilities of the Arrow 3 system to successfully face any threat.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following the remarks at the weekly Cabinet meeting: “In recent weeks we have carried out three pioneering secret experiments of the Arrow 3 missile. These experiments were held in the US, in Alaska, in full cooperation with our great ally the United States.
They were successful beyond any imagination. The Arrow 3 – with complete success – intercepted ballistic missiles beyond the atmosphere at unprecedented altitudes and speeds. The execution was perfect – all precise hits.
Today Israel has the ability to act against ballistic missiles that could be launched against us from Iran or anywhere else. This is a great achievement for the security of Israel.
All of our enemies should know that we will overcome them in both defense and offense.”
Netanyahu: “I would like to make it clear here that metal hit metal; it was not just a proximity detonation. The missile hit the missile all three times. This is a great achievement. First of all, I would like to thank – of course – the US Ambassador to Israel and, through you, the US administration as well. I would like to express deep and strong appreciation for advancing our joint security.
I would like to thank the Defense Ministry, the IDF, IAI and our ambassador, Ron Dermer, who was in Alaska for this. I want to thank all of the engineers and developers who brought about this breakthrough, this leap forward, which is considerable for the security of Israel with very great significance, especially at this time.”
US Ambassador David Friedman said: “On behalf of President Trump and the Trump administration, I just would like to tell you how delighted we were with the successful results of the test of the Arrow 3 missile system, a critical element of Israel’s missile defense.
The results were extraordinary. We’re very proud of our partnership with the State of Israel, the funding that we provided for this, the technical expertise that we added, obviously making our airspace available for this test over Alaska.
This is an extraordinary and an unprecedented example of the cooperation between our two great countries and from here may we continue to go upward and onward in making the world a safer place.”
Defense Ministry Directorate of Defense Research and Development head Dr. Danny Gold said: “Like the Prime Minister said, this is an unprecedented operation. This is a technological, operational and logistical breakthrough. At the forefront of technological and operational knowledge, we had three interceptions in a row, in space, at very high altitudes and at a very great distance, of long-range ballistic missiles.
This symbolizes the coherent and unprecedented cooperation with the US. We worked as one team with the US Missile Defense Agency. We sat together at one location 24/7 for a long time. All of this was under the leadership of the Defense Ministry Israel Missile Defense Organization headed by Moshe Patel, the security industries, IAI, Elbit-Elisra and RAFAEL, which worked together as a single team, of people aged 20-78, 24/7 continuously, and other agencies in support.”
Arrow Weapon System Successfully Engages Ballistic Missile Target Photo Credit U.S. Missile Defense Agency
Arrow Weapon System Successfully Engages Ballistic Missile Target Photo Credit U.S. Missile Defense Agency
Arrow Weapon System Successfully Engages Ballistic Missile Target Photo Credit U.S. Missile Defense Agency
Arrow Weapon System Successfully Engages Ballistic Missile Target Photo Credit U.S. Missile Defense Agency
Arrow Weapon System Successfully Engages Ballistic Missile Target Photo Credit U.S. Missile Defense Agency
Arrow Weapon System Successfully Engages Ballistic Missile Target Photo Credit U.S. Missile Defense Agency
Arrow Weapon System Successfully Engages Ballistic Missile Target Photo Credit U.S. Missile Defense Agency
Arrow Weapon System Successfully Engages Ballistic Missile Target Photo Credit U.S. Missile Defense Agency
Arrow Weapon System Successfully Engages Ballistic Missile Target Photo Credit U.S. Missile Defense Agency
