Connecticut Casinos Feeling Squeezed As Revenue Declines

Connecticut Casinos Feeling Squeezed As Revenue Declines

Revenue for the two casinos in Connecticut decreased this past fiscal year.

Mohegan Sun earned $992 million in revenue, about a 7 percent dip from the $1.1 billion it took in the prior fiscal year. Additionally, Foxwood Resort Casino had a net revenue of $787.8 million, about a 5 percent decline from the $828.9 million in fiscal year 2018, according to The Day, of New London, Connecticut.

Will American Jews Flee to Israel?
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Will American Jews Flee to Israel?

Ira Stoll

JERUSALEM — The blood was barely dry from the attack by a machete-wielding assailant who wounded five Jews at a Monsey, New York, Chanukah party before an Israeli politician, Avigdor Lieberman, declared that the "main solution" to rising violent antisemitism in the United States is for American Jews to emigrate to Israel.

Such declarations by Israeli politicians in the wake of antisemitic attacks outside of Israel are frequent. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a similar call in 2015 after deadly attacks on a kosher supermarket in Paris and a synagogue in Copenhagen.

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