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    MORNING BULLETIN: SEXY SYNAGOGUE MUSIC, YOGA TEACHER FIRED FOR BEING A ‘DEITY’?

    June 6, 2012 | 10:54 AM - Updated on June 7, 2012 | 12:04 PM
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    June 6, 2012 Weather: Scattered Thunderstorms, High of 69 Degrees.

    Notices:
    Added to our calendar tonight: Forgetting Fear, a SciCafe event at the Museum of Natural History.

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    Marco Rojas, a very popular yoga teacher at Pure Yoga who taught on the Upper West and Upper East Sides, was fired after he became “a bit too big for his yoga pants,” as the Post put it. He was also supposedly teaching for a competitor on the side. He countered: “They are supposedly running a company called Pure Yoga, but this is impure yoga.” (NY Post via Racked)

    Congregation Shearith Israel at Central Park West and 70th Street is bringing sexy back with a benefit classsical music concert featuring attractive performers Wednesday night. Even better: it only lasts an hour. (DNAinfo)

    Stop-and-frisk policies haven’t reduced shootings in New York, and the mayor even admitted it. (DNAinfo)

    Pichet Ong has been named executive pastry chef at soon-to-open Sugar & Plumm Purveyors of Yumm on 78th Street. (NY Times, middle of page)

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