Thursday, DAILY HERALD September 16, 2004 AA3 Israelis optimistic at start of Jewish New Year showed 60 percent of respondents describing the security situation as "not good" while 88 percent said the same of the country's sluggish economy. Nonetheless, 53 percent defined their overall mood as "good" up slightly from 51 percent a year earlier. The poll, by the Dahaf Institute, questioned 453 people and cited a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points. The Israeli military last week barred Palestinians from entering Israel until after the Jewish holiday season, which runs until early October. Since fighting erupted in 2000, Israel has restricted the entry of Palestinians to varying degrees, imposing closures during holidays or at other times of high alert. In April 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a Passover gathering, killing Steve Weizman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM Israelis celebrated the Jewish New Year with festive family meals after sundown Wednesday, with polls reflecting a relatively optimistic mood despite growing concerns about the economy and security. The holiday marked the start of the year 5765, calculated according to the Jewish calendar as the time since the biblical account of creation. The coming year, promised to be another turbulent one, with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon de lta uiuieu m wunuraw irrxms and settlers from the Gaza Strip and hardline opponents warning he could plunge the country into civil war. Israelis will also try to reverse the economic downturn, largely a result of four years of fighting with the Palestinians. Unemployment has risen to more than 10 percent and reports say one-thiof Israeli children live below the poverty line. . i 29 people. About 40 percent of Jews in- tend to visit a synagogue during the twonday Rosh Hashana holiday or on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which follows 10 days later, according to a survey published in the Haaretz newspaper. The New Year's holiday this year ends as the Jewish Sabbath begins at sundown Friday, meaning that most Israelis will enjoy a four-da- y holiday week- rd The New Year's1 festivities take place amid high security for fear of possible Palestinian attack. Police and soldiers manned street comers in Jerusalem and carried out spot checks of vehicles at impromptu roadblocks. A poll published Wednesday by the daily Yediot Ahronot end. ''if - I Jn. t f 7 . . , ' ODEO BAULTYAssociated Press Jews pray at Rachel's Toihb in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, before the start of the Jewish New Year, Wednesday. Thousands of Jews are expected to visit the holy sites of Jerusalem during Rosh Hashana. Ultra-Orthod- Alcohol vaporizer not achieving expected popularity level Jim Fitzgerald "We don't need something else that gets people drunk." THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. These are not good days for the people who are trying to sell New York on a machine that Jets you inhale a martini instead of drinking it. First, they had to use fruit juice rather than alcohol at the big debut at a Manhattan nightspot. Then officials in two suburban counties announced ' they would try to ban it. But worst of all, the first bar to buy the machine has sent it back, disappointed by the lack of a Andrew Spano executive, Westchester County his $3,695 machine on Monday, four days after it was delivered and he and his staff eagerly tried it out. Tm a gadget guy, panacea. Except that it still gets you drunk if you overdo it, and it's easy to do, and it's being promoted in a way that looks like they're trying to entice young people to use it." Police Chief Joseph Krzemins-k- i of the village of Port Chester noted that the AWOL Internet site calls the machine "the ultimate party toy." The Westchester bill is simi lar to one introduced in Suffolk County by Legislator Jon Cooper, who said called the AWOL machine "dangerous to a person's health." "It can lead to increased drunken driving," he said, "and they're clearly targeting a younger audience." The criticism put Kevin Morse, president of Spirit Partners, of Greensboro, N.C, in the position of having to defend his machine from officials who thought people would get too high and a bar owner who thought they wouldn't get high enough Spirit Partners has the U.S. license to sell the machine. "These gentlemen have not seen or talked to anyone who has used AWOL," Morse said of the public officials. "It's a fun new way for adults to enjoy alcohol in a responsible manner. We don't want underage people anywhere near AWOL." As to the bar owner, "We're sorry he's not happy. Maybe he had some unrealistic expectations. There is not as much buzz. You get less alcohol in your system and it is a milder feeling." but you can't get excited about this thing," he said. Over the weekend, after charging people $ 10 a pop, he decided it wasn't going to catch "buzz." "They shouldn't waste their breath trying to outlaw this machine,'' sajd Steve Baskinger, owner of Bask's Bar and Grill, in West Paterson, N.J. "You can't get drunk. You don't get anything from it. It takes 20 minutes to inhale a quarter of a on. The bar owner spoke not long after Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano un- veiled a bill that would ban AWOL and anything similar it. ii:t to 1135 if In a county plagued by underage drinking, "We don't need something else that gets people drunk," said Spano at a news conference in the county seat of White Plains. The New York State Liquor Authority hasn't decided whether the machine will be allowed to operate anywhere in the state. 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