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May 27, 2016 at 5:49 pm
Cincinnati - Dr. Henry Heimlich, the 96-year-old Cincinnati surgeon credited with inventing the lifesaving technique named for him, used it for the first time this week to save a fellow senior center resident who was choking on a hamburger, a center spokesman said on Friday.
Heimlich, who in multiple national television appearances had demonstrated the technique commonly known as the “Heimlich Maneuver” to dislodge food from an airway, had never employed it in an emergency, said spokesman Ken Paley.
But on Monday, Heimlich was sitting at a communal dining table at Cincinnati’s Deupree House, an upscale senior living center where he lives, and noticed fellow resident Patty Ris, 87, in distress while eating an open-faced hamburger.
He dashed out of his sea...
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May 27, 2016 at 5:47 pm
Brooklyn, NY - One man is in police custody this afternoon in connection with a bizarre turn of events in Williamsburg that sent a nine year old Chasidic boy to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries on Thursday afternoon after he was hit by a car driving on the sidewalk.
Police said that the man in custody was the passenger in the Toyota Camry. Charges are still pending and the NYPD is continuing its search for the driver.
As previously reported on VIN News(http://goo.gl/D1Tigt), two men who had been attempting to pass counterfeit bills in Williamsburg drove their vehicle onto the sidewalk in an attempt to flee the area before police arrived on scene.
The incident took place at the southwest corner of Lee Avenue and Rodney Street and had pedestrians scatt...
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May 27, 2016 at 5:43 pm
Jerusalem - A group of more than 200 Israeli military and intelligence officers are criticizing the government for a lack of action in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and have issued a detailed plan they say can end the impasse.
The plan by Commanders for Israel’s Security on Friday called for a broad Israeli withdrawal from territory captured in the 1967 war to allow the Palestinians to establish their state.
The group’s chairman Amnon Reshaf criticizes “fear mongers” who say there is no Palestinian partner for peace.
The report’s publication closely follows the appointment of a defense minister who is an outspoken skeptic of peace efforts with the Palestinians, and a French initiative to restart talks that collapsed in 2014.
War veter...
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May 27, 2016 at 5:42 pm
Borough Park, NY - An NYPD driver will be disciplined for passing a stopped school bus this morning in Borough Park.
Police told VIN News that the commanding officer of the barracks section will be disciplining the unnamed driver.
As previously reported on VIN News (http://goo.gl/8ezjst), dashcam footage captured the NYPD truck loaded with police barriers passing the school bus on 18th Avenue between 55th and 56th Streets.
Today’s incident comes in the midst of a Memorial Day crackdown on drunk and irresponsible drivers throughout New York State.
“There is zero tolerance for reckless and impaired driving and state police and local law enforcement will be out in full force to help ensure a safe holiday weekend,” said Governor Cuomo. “I encourage all New Y...
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May 27, 2016 at 5:42 pm
Washington - Donald Trump is adding his voice to the growing chorus of Republicans encouraging Marco Rubio to run for re-election to the Senate.
Trump derided Rubio as “Little Marco” on the presidential campaign trail and remarked in March that “the people of Florida can’t stand him. He couldn’t get elected dogcatcher.”
But now Trump says over Twitter that polling shows Rubio has the best chance of keeping his Senate seat in GOP hands, and that it’s important for Republicans to keep their majority. “Run Marco!” Trump writes.
Rubio told reporters this week he’s “unlikely” to reconsider his plans to retire from the Senate, especially since a good friend of his, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, is in the ra...
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May 27, 2016 at 5:41 pm
Nashville, TN - A Republican Tennessee lawmaker says getting a traffic camera ticket isn’t a problem — he just burns them.
State Rep. Andy Holt set such ticket ablaze on Wednesday and posted the video to Facebook. A news release issued in conjunction with the Facebook video urges others who are issued traffic camera tickets in Tennessee to ignore them.
Holt is a longtime critic of traffic camera tickets and has previously called for banning them.
Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch said in an email Thursday to the Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1TH1DkL) that Holt’s advice is unsound.
Rausch says ignoring or burning a ticket “does not make the violation and accountability go away.”
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May 27, 2016 at 5:30 pm
New York - Splitting the bill for those pizzas you shared with your buddies or that utility bill that is suddenly due is going to get easier and faster even if you don’t all use the same bank.
JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and other big banks are upgrading their online payment services to let customers make instant transfers of money to others who bank elsewhere, often at no cost.
The move comes as traditional banks face pressure from payment companies like Venmo and Square Cash that offer ways to split the bill.
Banks developed online services that allow their customers to send money to anyone with a phone number or email address several years ago. But the services were considered overly complicated. Until last year, bank customers could only send money to another cus...
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May 27, 2016 at 5:29 pm
Washington - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders expressed disappointment on Friday after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would not debate Sanders ahead of California’s June 7 primary.
“I heard that he was going to debate me, then I heard that he was not going to debate me, then I heard that he was going to debate me. Now you’re telling me that he is not going to debate me. Well, you know, I hope that he changes his mind again,” Sanders said in a video clip posted on an ABC News Twitter account.
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May 27, 2016 at 5:26 pm
Laval, Quebec - Quebec provincial police say a man with reported high-level ties to organized crime has been shot dead north of Montreal.
Spokesman Jason Allard says a 67-year-old man was shot one or more times in his car around 8:30 a.m. in Laval.
Allard says police have reason to believe the victim was tied to organized crime but adds that the coroner still has to confirm his identity.
The man was pronounced dead after being hospitalized.
Local media have identified the death person as high-ranking Mafia Rocco Sollecito.
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May 27, 2016 at 3:56 pm
Baltimore, MD - May 27, 2016 - It was a beautiful unseasonably warm spring morning, this week, when I joined Baltimore County Police Department (BCPD) Public Information Officer Corporal John Wachter, BCPD Officer Jonathan Neville, and WBAL TV news reporter Omar Jimenez at the home of a Baltimore County resident who requested a BCPD Home Security Survey. This homeowner was one of about 10-15 home and business owners who request this free service throughout the Baltimore County precincts, each month. By calling your precinct, owners can schedule a time to meet with an officer who will walk around the inside and outside of their properties in order to share general safety tips on how they can better secure them. “It all starts when we pull up to the curb; it starts from the...
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May 27, 2016 at 1:16 pm
Baltimore, MD - May 27, 2016 - If you are reading this, you know an individual or family who has been helped by Baltimore's Ahavas Yisrael Charity Fund (whether you or the recipient of their assistance is aware of it.)
Since 1976, Ahavas Yisrael has been providing food, shelter, and clothing to our community members in need. But in order to ensure that Ahavas Yisrael continues their critical mission, they need your help!
Please help Ahavas Yisrael continue their noble efforts by contributing generously on Charidy Day, BEGINNING AT 2 PM ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 AND ENDING ON THURSDAY, JUNE 2 – 24 HOURS OF GIVING!! Please donate online (https://www.charidy.com/ahavasyisrael) on this important and special day when every single dollar is QUADRUPLED!
In addition, we are looking for ...
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May 27, 2016 at 12:31 pm
Indiana Congressman Luke Messer will be addressing the 94th Anniversary Dinner of Agudath Israel of America to be held on Sunday, June 5th at the Hilton New York.
Congressman Messer was elected in 2012 and quickly established himself as an emerging leader. In just his second term, he was elected by his peers to serve as the House Republican Policy Chair - the Conference's 5th ranking leadership position. He serves on the House Financial Services and House Education & Workforce committees.
Congressman Messer formed - and chairs - the Congressional School Choice Caucus which is dedicated to expanding quality educational opportunities for every child. School choice programs, such as vouchers and scholarship tax credits, are critically important to the Ortho...
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May 27, 2016 at 12:04 pm
Baltimore, MD - May 27, 2016 - STAR-K Kosher Certification has long been known for its proactive local benevolent efforts which have a ripple effect across the greater Jewish community. The latest such endeavor for the not-for-profit organization will enable Information Technology (IT) job training for a maximum of ten students, made possible by a generous grant to JET Tech (Jewish Entrepreneur Trust Technology Group). The intensive 12 week/30 class course will be held approximately three times weekly, beginning June 1, in Baltimore, and it is endorsed by Rabbi Moshe Heinemann and Rabbi Yaakov Hopfer.
JET Tech, a division of JET (Jewish Entrepreneurial Trust), is a volunteer network of experienced Torah observant IT professionals who provide services such as education, mentoring, networki...
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May 27, 2016 at 11:58 am
Baltimore, MD – May 25, 2016 - It is with deep regret that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Mrs. Rosa Bondar, a’h, mother of Mr. Joe Bondar.
The levaya will take place today, Wednesday, May 25, 2016, at Shomrei Hadas in Boro Park at noon.
Kevura will be in Cedar Park Paramus, NJ.
Shiva for Mrs. Rosa Bondar, mother of Joe Bondar, will continue to be observed at 168 Ardmore Ave Staten Island, NY until Sunday morning. Joe will continue Shiva at his home, 2708 Steele Rd., from Sunday night through Tuesday after Shacharis.
Davening Schedule:
Sunday 5/29 &n...
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May 27, 2016 at 11:24 am
My employer, Agudath Israel of America, as a non-profit organization, is not permitted to endorse any candidate for public office. I, however, write this column each week as an individual, not as an organizational representative. Even so, though, I take no public position on the presidential race.
Aspects of the race, though, do strike me as worthy of consideration.
Like a recent radio interview with Donald Trump. Among the candidate’s many interesting comments over the course of the campaign so far was his assertion last summer that Senator John McCain was “not a war hero.”
This, despite Mr. McCain’s having flown missions during the Vietnam war, having been shot down, seriously injured and captured by the North Vietnamese, having endured torture and lan...
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May 27, 2016 at 11:12 am
The Torah tells us in stark terms what the outcome will be if we do not live up to specific expectations.
The recurring theme is that we must not do what is described as ‘going with G-d ‘b’keri’ or indifference - casualness. “If you will be indifferent to Me; I too will be indifferent.”
This phrase is mentioned numerous times and seems to be the main cause of a negative response from G-d. Are we indifferent? There are three main events in the last hundred years which stand out as being unique in the long history of the Jewish people. Each is remarkable. They are the Holocaust, the mass return to Eretz Yisrael and the rise of the State of Israel, and massive assimilation despite a major teshuva movement.
It would be quite possible to say that ...
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May 27, 2016 at 10:59 am
“And you shall not wrong, one man his fellow Jew, and you shall fear God, for I am the Lord, your God (Vayikra 25:17).”
The Torah is replete with laws that govern our inter-personal conduct. We are taught how to treat the property and person of the other. We are obligated to help another in need and to be sensitive to the challenges and difficulties of our fellow Jew. So what is the Torah coming to teach us in the above quoted verse? We are commanded to help and aid when another is in need. Is it necessary to tell us that we “shall not wrong” another? What is being added here that has not been covered in the commandments that precede and follow these words?
The Talmud (Bava Metziah 58b) explains that this verse comes to wa...
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May 27, 2016 at 10:30 am
Listen to Rabbi Moshe Hauer on Behar - Servants of Hashem - 7th Aliyah
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May 27, 2016 at 8:18 am
B’chasdei Hashem, a large shipment of pipes for use to manufacture mortar rockets was intercepted on the way to Gaza. The shipment also contained dozens of motors that are used by Hamas in the underground tunnel network.
Defense Ministry inspector along the passage to Gaza working with Shin Bet agents stopped a shipment at the Tarkumiya Crossing near Hebron. Security officials believe the shipment was heading to Hamas in Gaza.
The shipment was hidden among textiles and jewelry but the inspectors found hundreds of metallic four inch pipes as the ones used for mortar rockets along with dozens of the motors used in tunnels.
Officials are certain the goods were heading to the Kerem Shalom Crossing, where the goods cross into Gaza.
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May 27, 2016 at 8:05 am
Canada’s pro-Israel ambassador to the Jewish state is reportedly having her tenure cut short by new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is shuffling appointments of his predecessor, PM Stephen Harper.
In a veiled confirmation, Vivian Bercovici told The Algemeiner on Thursday that she “serves at the pleasure” of her country’s prime minister, and will “continue to fulfill [her] official duties,” as long as they are requested.
Bercovici was responding to reports in the Canadian press that Trudeau is on the verge of replacing her with Deborah Lyons, currently Canada’s ambassador to Afghanistan.
Though, according to the Canadian Jewish News (CJN), the administration in Ottawa has not officially confirmed or denied the ...
