Donald Trump returned to one of his favorite subjects, the Canadian birth of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., at a Sunday afternoon rally inside the city’s largest sports arena. His cue came from the senator’s wife, Heidi, who tripped over a word at a GOP presidential campaign rally and appeared to say that her husband was an immigrant.
“Heidi Cruz — nice woman,” Trump began. “She said this one: ‘My husband’s an immigrant!’ He’s an immigrant! That’s what I’ve been trying to say!’ ”
The line got laughs, and Trump seemed to find voters in the crowd who knew what he was talking about. On Saturday, while covering Heidi Cruz’s campaign stops around Indiana, Washington Examiner reporter Byron York hea...
Man, 24, accused in Beersheba court of training with terror group to attack Israeli soldiers on Gaza border, buying part of doomed Gaza-Sinai smuggling tunnel
An alleged Hamas member was charged with a litany of offenses in Israeli court Sunday, including planning to kill soldiers by planting bombs and shooting rockets at Israeli troops patrolling the Gaza frontier.
The 24-year-old man, named in Beersheba District Court filings as Medhat Abu Sneima, was indicted on 18 different charges, all relating to his time as an operative for the Hamas terror group which rules the Gaza Strip.
Charges included attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, making contact with a foreign agent, passing information to an enemy with intent to harm state security, taking part in illegal milit...
Two other members of the terror group wounded in mysterious blast
A Palestinian activist in the Islamic Jihad terror group was killed Monday, and two others were injured, when a bomb exploded east of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Health Ministry named the man as 30-year-old Mazen Muhammed Lulu, from the Shejaiya district in the eastern Strip.
The circumstances surrounding the blast were not immediately clear.
According to Palestinian reports, Lulu was a fighter in the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad.
A statement released by the group mourned the death of Lulu, saying he was killed “as he carried out his duty of jihad.”
The Iran-backed Islamic Jihad is the second-strongest armed movement in the Gaza Strip, after...
Salah Abu Ismail says his son and daughter, whom Israel says were at Qalandiya to stab police, were unarmed and took a wrong turn
The family of a Palestinian brother and sister who were shot dead last week as they allegedly tried to carry out a stabbing attack demanded Monday the release of security camera footage of the incident, and insisted that the two had no intention of attacking security personnel and had merely taken a wrong turn when they were gunned down.
Maram Hassan Abu Ismail, 23, and her brother Ibrahim Saleh Taha, 16, residents of Beit Surif, a village in the central West Bank, were shot dead at the Qalandiya crossing north of Jerusalem on April 27. An investigation determined Sunday that the pair were shot by civilian security guards and not Border Police offi...
Baltimore, MD – May 2, 2016 – 7:54 AM - Please avoid Seven Mile & Reisterstown Road as emergency personnel tend to a pedestrian who was just hit by a car.
I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again. I open the top drawer of my desk and I point as the client looks on. I tell the person that I wish I had a magic wand that I could take out to cure their health issues, especially the overweight and obesity. I also tell them I wish I had a pill they could swallow and it would fix their issues. Neither I nor anyone else has any of those items. But if a person is willing to put in some work, there is ONE thing that probably has more influence on your health than anything else.
Imagine that you went to your doctor and the news isn’t great. He tells you that you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, you are now diabetic and you seem to be suffering from depression. This is definitely no...
Police are looking for a person who stole cigarettes from Royal Farms stores in Baltimore County.
On Wednesday, the person approached the counter of the store in the 6000 block of Falls Road and asked for four cartons of Newport cigarettes. When the clerk walked away to get the cigarettes, the person reached over the counter and grabbed the cigarettes.
On March 15, the person asked a clerk at the store in the 1500 block of East Joppa Road for six cartons of Newport cigarettes. When the clerk asked for identification, the person walked out of the store. The clerk walked away from the register and the person ran behind the counter and grabbed six cartons of cigarettes, police said.
On March 8, the same person asked a clerk at the store in the 7200 block of York Road for four car...
The boy shot by two Baltimore City Police officers on Wednesday will not be charged.
Police said two officers in plain clothes Wednesday on Aisquith Street saw the 13-year-old boy carrying what looked like a semi-automatic handgun. Police said the pair identified themselves as officers and the boy ran.
Police said the officers chased him for about 150 yards and then he stopped and turned toward the officers still holding what turned out to be a BB gun. That's when officers shot him, hitting him in the shoulder and leg.
A Baltimore police spokesman told 11 News on Saturday, "After conferring with the State's Attorney's Office, the decision was made not to charge the young man."
Commissioner Kevin Davis told a panel on Saturday that the boy would not be charged. ...
Authorities are investigating a shooting Sunday involving a Baltimore police officer.
Police said a patrol officer in his 20s was writing reports in his marked car around 9:30 a.m. on Ulman Avenue between Reisterstown Road and Park Heights Avenue.
Investigators said the officer noticed a man pointing a gun at him. They said the officer fired his weapon through the window of his patrol car and struck the gunman in the upper body.
The gunman was taken to a hospital where he was listed in critical condition.
Police Commissioner Kevin Davis called the incident an attempt at "suicide by cop" because the suspect pointed an unloaded gun at the officer and made statements indicating he intended to die.
"The public safety officials who arrived this morning to treat our suspect and res...
Yeshivat Makor Chaim of Kfar Etzion is suing a supplier that sold the school sugar with a forged hashgacha printed on the bags. The suit was filed with the Jerusalem District Court.
The lawsuit was filed by attorney Noam Tzuker on behalf of the yeshiva, who purchased “Primo” brand sugar from Fine Food, located in the Atarot Industrial Area in northern Jerusalem, owned by Chever Abu Maadi. The bags of sugar stated “Chief Rabbinate of Israel” without stating it is kosher. The Chief Rabbinate removed its hashgacha from the company five years ago. The sugar also exhibited the logo of Badatz Sheiris Yisrael without the word “B’hashgacha”.
When seeking to verify with the badatz, it was learned it never gave a hashgacha to this product. The lawsuit adds...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:36 am
BALTIMORE — Mark Council knows a thing or two about Baltimore. In his 55 years here, he’s lived numerous lives. He’s been a cook. He’s been a mechanic. And now he’s a homeless person, a position that’s afforded him his closest view yet of a problem that’s eating the city from the inside.
Council, a stocky man with a beard flecked with gray, sees the vacant houses on his way to the homeless shelter. The gutted facades are inescapable, he says, blanketing entire city blocks. He peers up at them and can’t help but feel frustrated.
“I look at all of these vacant houses, and I’m like, ‘I could be living in one of these houses,’ ” Council said. “I think, ‘We all, all the homeless, could b...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:25 am
New York - A U.S. senator is calling for a federal investigation into an outdoor advertising company’s latest effort to target billboard ads to specific consumers.
New York Sen. Charles Schumer has dubbed Clear Channel Outdoor Americas’ so-called RADAR program “spying billboards,” warning the service may violate privacy rights by tracking people’s cell phone data via the ad space.
“A person’s cellphone should not become a James Bond-like personal tracking device for a corporation to gather information about consumers without their consent,” Schumer, a Democrat, said in a statement ahead of a planned news conference Sunday in Times Square, where the company operates billboards.
But the company, which operates more than 675,00...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:23 am
New York, NY - The main body of a fire that heavily damaged a historic church in New York City has been knocked down.
Authorities report one minor injury in the blaze that started Sunday evening at the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Manhattan. Firefighters are still putting out small pockets of flames.
The blaze sent smoke plumes billowing into the sky and completely destroyed the roof of the Gothic Revival style building. It broke out on the same day Orthodox Christians around the world celebrated Easter.
A church priest, Father Djokan Majstorovic, says he felt he was “in a nightmare” as he tried to get to the fire scene that was blocked off by firefighters.
The church was built in the early 1850s and was designated a city landmark in 1968.
Firefighters ...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:21 am
Aventura, FL - A South Florida man who was planning a Passover terror attack on a Miami area synagogue is in FBI custody after federal agents who posed as terrorists set up a sting operation to stop the planned bloodshed.
According to Florida’s 7News an unidentified man had planned to throw an explosive device over the wall encircling the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center on Friday night, the last night of Passover.
Those familiar with the case believe that the suspect may have converted to Islam. Sources said that the Conservative synagogue was never in actual danger because the suspect was apprehended before he was able to carry out the planned attack.
Although the FBI has refused to comment on the incident, sources have said that the suspect will be in federal cour...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:19 am
Deputy Mayor reveals 'we lost sovereignty' in capital; 50,000 Arabs throng in with Hamas filling the vacuum, as govt. shuts its eyes.
Israeli media has largely ignored covering how Arab assailants just before Passover on April 20 threw firebombs at Jerusalem's northeast Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood, causing a massive brush fire that approached the homes of residents.
A number of new buildings were evacuated and firefighters were forced to battle the blaze, eventually managing to control it. But despite the danger to life and property, the incident did not receive commensurate coverage in the media.
Arutz Sheva on Sunday spoke with Deputy Jerusalem Mayor Yael Antebi, the representative of Pisgat Ze'ev in the Jerusalem Municipality. According ...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:16 am
Following Pesach vacation, some 1,500 students in Beis Rivkah will remain home on the day that should have been their first day back. A message from the school blamed the closure on a “financial crisis”.
Parents received notification of the Monday school closure in in an automated call late Sunday evening.
“Dear Parents, due to a financial crisis Beis Rivkah High School, Elementary and Pre-1a departments are informing parents that there will be no school on Monday, May 2nd, Chof Daled Nissan. We will update you tomorrow IY”H. Head start and early head start will begin as scheduled.”
Financial matters at Beis Rivkah, the largest Chabad girls school, has been an ongoing issue with teachers not being paid in many months. At the beginning of this years s...
Reports of people trapped
All are asked to daven and say Tehillim for the Rachmastrivka Rebbe, who was hospitalized today.
The rebbe, Rav Chai Yitzchok Isaac Twersky, is a son of Rav Yochanan Twersky of Rachmastrivka and a son-in-law of Rav Yaakov Yosef Twersky of Skver.
The rebbe, a renowned tzaddik and mashpiah, leads his bais medrash and kehillah in Boro Park, Brooklyn.
The rebbe had been hospitalized on the third day of Chol Hamoed due to a bout of pneumonia. He returned home the next day, shortly before the onset of the second days of Yom Tov.
The rebbe suffered a setback today and was hospitalized once again.
All are asked to daven for Rav Chai Yitzchok ben Esther Rivka.
Vaalwater, South Africa - Lions rescued from circuses in Colombia and Peru and airlifted to South Africa scratched their manes on trees and explored their new territory in the African bush after being released into a sanctuary north of Johannesburg Sunday.
One of the 33 lions, a male known as Zeus, let out a mighty roar before stepping out of his cage into an enclosure where he will spend the coming months being monitored by a vet.
The lions arrived at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary shortly after dawn on Sunday to end a two-day journey from South America.
The lions were freed after the use of wild animals in circuses was outlawed in Peru and Colombia.
A former circus lion scratches its head against a tree inside an enclosure at Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in Vaalwater, northern, South ...
Baltimore, MD – May 1, 2016 – Every year on Motzaei Pesach, Tov Pizza is the first destination for many families who can’t wait for that first slice of delicious Chametz Pizza after Yom Tov.
Last night was no different. Well, it was slightly different.
Tov’s patient customers –the line was extremely long – had the opportunity to be thanked by Baltimore City’s Democratic Mayoral Nominee Senator Catherine Pugh and 5th District Baltimore City Councilman-nominee Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer both of whom took time out of their hectic schedules to come to the restaurant and thank the many members of Baltimore’s Jewish community who supported them in their recent victories.
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