Word: neves
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...long served as a sanctuary for ethnic groups from around the world. Germans, French, British, Armenians, Greeks, Hungarians and Poles once lived there; Jews first settled in the area after fleeing the Spanish Inquisition in 1492. These days Turkey's Jewish community keeps a low profile, however. Galata's Neve Shalom synagogue, the city's largest, is barely visible behind facade of corrugated iron, security cameras and private security guards. Two Turkish policeman had kept watch outside. Both were killed Saturday, along with at least 18 others, when simultaneous car bomb blasts destroyed two synagogues in Turkey's commercial capital...
...DIED. DAVID ASSEO, 88, Chief Rabbi of Turkey and advocate of interfaith tolerance; in Istanbul. Asseo was the leader of Turkey's small Jewish community for 41 years, and nursed it through the 1986 terrorist attack on Istanbul's Neve Shalom Synagogue in which 22 people were killed...
...Neve's family-run nursery in Petaluma, Calif., hasn't exactly been blooming lately. Thanks to soaring natural-gas prices, Neve was going to have to shell out more than $160,000 in December to keep his rose plants warm, at least five times as much as he spent a year ago; instead, he turned off his heaters and watched the temperature in his 360-sq.-ft. greenhouse drop as low as 40[degrees], which has left his roses in as sorry shape as his shrinking bottom line. Then late last week Neve, like so many Californians, got another nasty...
They are equally delighted when Bette Midler's title character is murdered in the film's first scene, for she was, as flashbacks reveal, crazy mean. Almost everyone--including Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell and Casey Affleck--has a motive for offing her, but mostly what police chief Danny DeVito's investigation reveals is a city-wide pattern of irredeemable obtuseness...