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Casino in the shuk

On the other side of town, inside Mahane Yehuda Market, today’s Casino de Paris picks up where the British Mandate period left off. Once a popular officer’s club-casino-bordello, the current incarnation is a much tamer late-night haunt.

Adelson lawsuit describes pressure on NJDC to apologize

Sheldon Adelson\’s $60 million defamation lawsuit against the National Jewish Democratic Council describes extensive efforts by his representatives, including Alan Dershowitz, to talk the group into apologizing for intimating that the casino magnate approved of prostitution.

Gaming Hearing Takes Israel Spin

Bingo impresario Dr. Irving Moskowitz is either the hero of Hawaiian Gardens or a prolific and controversial supporter of West Bank settlements, according to wildly differing viewpoints expressed at a Dec. 18 state Gambling Control Commission hearing on his casino license request.

Kramer Wins With a Vegas Loser

Wayne Kramer identifies with the karmically challenged hero of his sleek new movie, \”The Cooler.\” Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) has bad luck so contagious, a Las Vegas casino employs him to cool down high rollers.\n\nKramer — who is hoarse as luck would have it, in an interview — more than relates.

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