Jerusalem, Israel -  June 28, 2016 - The 7th annual Temech Conference for Israeli Female Entrepreneurs was held on Monday, in Jerusalem's Ramada Hotel. Temech began as an organization to help female olim enhance their work opportunities in Israel and developed helping Haredi women to receive better educations for better paying jobs. Now with an established business Hub, Temech offers flexible working spaces, desks with computers, meeting rooms and classrooms, plus workshops and networking opportunities with other religious business women. The annual convention has grown to an attendance of over 650 women this year. Women business owners, service providers and entrepreneurs, from all over Israel, have an opportunity to attend workshops and lect...
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had a message for Britain on Tuesday. He delivered it in French. With the impending British exit from the European Union, the polyglot Babel that has 24 official languages may soon strike English off the list, according to officials here, who note the change with a mixture of sadness and glee. The European Union long conducted its business in French, even for decades after Britain and Ireland joined the bloc in 1973. But as the alliance expanded into Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, the momentum moved ineluctably toward English, the second language of choice for a far wider number of European citizens, diplomats and leaders. English is the common tongue at summits such as the one taking place Tuesday, when the leaders of EU member...
Yeshiva University announced New York State Assemblyman Phillip Goldfeder will lead its government relations efforts beginning this fall. Goldfeder will work to strengthen and develop relationships between the University and federal, state and local governments, and monitor legislation and policies that could have an impact on YU and its programs. Goldfeder represents the 23rd District in the New York State Assembly, which includes Ozone Park, Howard Beach, Broad Channel and Rockaway, and has announced that he is not seeking reelection. “YU has developed several public-private partnerships over the past few years, which are resulting in academic and facility improvements,” said President Richard M. Joel. “When we began exploring how we could take our successes ...
Prime minister, internal security minister, discuss escalating Muslim violence; ban on MKs visiting to continue at least into next week. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan Tuesday afternoon, to discuss ongoing Muslim violence on the Temple Mount. On Sunday, Islamist groups launched a campaign of organized violence on the holy site, using the Al Aqsa Mosque as a base to launch rock-throwing attacks against security forces and Jewish visitors, in a bid to prevent all visits by non-Muslims to the site during Ramadan. The riots continued over Monday and into Tuesday - when an elderly Jewish women praying at the Western Wall was wounded by a rock thrown by Muslim extremists from the Temple Mount plaza above. Responding to the escalat...
After rampant speculation, Senator Elizabeth Warren is now formally being vetted by Hillary Clinton’s team as a possible pick for vice president. ABC News cited an unnamed source involved in the process to confirm the news on Monday, after Warren campaigned alongside Clinton earlier in the day. Warren, who has publicly slammed Republican candidate Donald Trump for “racism” and “xenophobia,” endorsed Clinton for president in early June. Speculation about Warren’s potential role as vice president has intensified throughout Clinton’s campaign. The pair would make history as the first two women to lead the White House. Read more at ABC News.
Reb Yitzchok Meir Weisberger, z”l was born in Yerushalayim to his parents, Reb Yisrael Yaakov and Mrs. Henya (Fischman) Weisberger. Up until the age of 9, he lived on Rechov Yeshaya Press with his brothers and sisters, adjacent to the residence of the Brisker Rov zt”l. Reb Yitzchok Meir was exposed to Torah and avodah from a very young age. He would relate to his children how, as a young child, from his window, he would watch the Brisker Rov studying in his room until the wee hours of the morning. When Reb Yitzchok Meir reached the age of three, his father requested of the Brisker Rov to give him his upsherin. The Rov responded that he is not a barber, but as a shochein tov (good neighbor), he would be glad to do it. The entire family left for the United States when he...
A Washington Post analysis found that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may have repeatedly lied about his charitable giving. Reporters found evidence of only one donation from Trump between 2008 and this May: a gift from 2009 of somewhere between $5,000 and $9,999 to the Police Athletic League of New York City. Trump gave $1 million to a nonprofit group for veterans’ families in May after the media began to ask why he had not yet sent the money he had promised. The business mogul makes promises of donations all the time, including about $8.5 million from his business enterprises over a 15-year period. In that same time frame, public records show that he donated only about $2.8 million through his foundation. The last record of any gift from Trump’s person...
Chareidi journalist Shlomo Menachem Kook recently represented Sefardi Chief Rabbi Rav Yitzchak Yosef at the 14th International Conference of Religions against Terrorism held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Speaking before representatives of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in Rav Yosef’s name, Kook cited Rashi‘s comments on the posuk, “I will put peace on the land” (Vayikra 26:6), that without peace all other blessings are worthless. He also noted that religious terrorism is the most dangerous of all terrorism, for while a regular terrorist may eventually regret his actions, the religious terrorist feels he is fulfilling a religious command and never regrets his crimes. Kook also pointed out that in contrast to extreme Islam, Judaism never forces anyone...
Families of captive Avera Mengistu and MIAs Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul disappointed after meeting with PM Netanyahu. Prime Minister Netanyahu met today (Tuesday) with the families of IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, whose bodies are being held by the Hamas terrorist organization, and with the family of Israeli civilian Avera Mengistu who is being held by Hamas in Gaza. The meeting came after increased protests by the families and the wider public in the wake of the deal with Turkey. The families are frustrated that the agreement does not include the return of the captives by Hamas. "The Prime Minister gave an explanation and reasons which I am not at liberty to disclose," said Ilan Mengistu, brother of Avera, "but we are still of the opinion that they have completely i...
Texas - A head-on collision involving two freight trains caused several box cars to derail and erupt in flames in the Texas Panhandle on Tuesday, injuring an unknown amount of people and leading authorities to evacuate people who live nearby. The accident happened near the town of Panhandle, about 25 miles northeast of Amarillo, according to Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Bryan Witt. He had no cause or other details because emergency responders were still assessing the damage, Witt said. The collision at about 8:40 a.m. involved two BNSF freight trains, BNSF Railway spokesman Joe Faust said. Federal Railroad Administration investigators are on site of the head-on collision and are reporting injuries, agency spokesman Matthew Lehner said. There was no information regarding...
New York - Ikea is recalling 29 million chests and dressers after six children were killed when the units toppled over and fell on them. The chests and dressers are unstable if they are not secured to a wall, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday. All of the children killed were 3 years old or younger, the CPSC said. One child was killed about 27 years ago. The other deaths were more recent, between 2002 and 2016. The CPSC said it also received 36 reports of children who were injured. The recall, which only applies to customers in the U.S. and Canada, is for several types of Ikea chests and dressers. Ikea said the units under the recall are children’s chests and drawers taller than 23.5 inches and adult chests and dressers taller than 29.5 inches. The r...
Washington - Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday laid out a technology and innovation agenda ranging from connecting every U.S. household to high-speed internet by 2020 to beefing up cyber security and reducing regulatory barriers. A statement issued by her campaign said Clinton strongly supports the Obama administration’s net neutrality rules requiring broadband providers to treat all data equally, rather than giving or selling access to a so-called Web fast lane. She will increase research and development budgets of the National Science Foundation and similar entities and will launch an initiative to train up to 50,000 computer science teachers, the statement said. “Hillary believes the government has an important role to play in ...
Rockland County, NY - Residents of a multi-family dwelling in New Square were all evacuated safely yesterday after a fire of unknown origin erupted in the closet of a renovated attic apartment. Ershte Hilf, the Hillcrest Fire Department and the Spring Valley Fire Department all responded to the Monday afternoon fire, with firefighters climbing several flights of stairs and opening doors to various rooms before locating the fire, which was burning inside a large closet with a light, according to Journal News reports. Once identified, the blaze was under control within 20 minutes, said firefighter Chris Kear, public information officer for the Hillcrest Fire Department, one of several who responded to the fire.  The attic apartment was left uninhabitable in the aftermath of t...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Tuesday 28 June, 2016), issued the following statement at the start of his meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon: "The UN has a noble mandate to protect peace around the world and bring nations and bring nations closer together. During his years of service the Secretary General has travelled the globe many times in service of these ideals, ideals which Israel shares. I remember well when you came in Israel in 2013 you said that Israel and the Israeli people face some bias. That's an understatement. But you also said that Israel must be treated equally at the UN. I appreciate your candor and this clear moral stance. It was exemplified in your efforts to secure the final Palmer report which was very important for Israel, and Mr. Secre...
Jerusalem - The Supreme Court confirmed the two life term sentence of Jewish terrorist Jack Tytell for murdering Palestinians, on Tuesday. Tytell was sentenced by the Jerusalem District Court in November 2015 to two life sentences and an additional 30 years in prison for the murdering of two Palestinians and an assortment of other crimes. Tytell’s lawyer appealed later appealed the November 2015 sentence, which the Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday, confirming the sentence. Right before the sentence was handed down Tytell said that he had no regrets and was proud of what he had done. Although he was only sentenced in November 2015, he had been convicted back in January 2015. In the lower court’s explanation of its verdict, despite Tytell saying that an “angel&rd...
New York - It’s going to be a busy holiday weekend on the nation’s highways. A record 43 million Americans are expected to travel this Independence Day weekend, with the overwhelming majority driving, according to AAA, a car lobbying group and one of the nation’s largest travel agencies. This tops the joint record set last year and in 2007. Lower gas prices, strong consumer confidence and a generally healthy domestic economy have led more families to take trips this summer. AAA estimates that U.S. drivers have saved $20 billion on gasoline so far this year compared to the same period last year. Gas prices as of June 20 were 46 cents per gallon below prices from a year ago. “We are well on our way for 2016 to be a record-breaking year for summertime travel,...
The disclosure that Thomas Pickering, a former State Department official who advocated the Iran nuclear deal, was also a paid consultant to Boeing creates a scandal for the New York Times. The Times mentioned Ambassador Pickering in at least 29 pieces in the past decade, according to an Algemeiner analysis of the Times archives. Exactly zero of the 29 instances made any disclosure at all of Mr. Pickering’s paid work for Boeing, which stands to reap tens of billions in additional revenue made possible by the sanctions relief Iran got in the nuclear deal. The paid work for the American aircraft manufacturer by the former diplomat came to light in a dispatch last week by Betsy Woodruff that was published by the Daily Beast, which said:
Pickering confirmed via ...
Hillary Clinton said Monday that she knows many voters have doubts and suspicions about her, something she said bothers her but which is understandable after “25 years of wild accusations” against her. “Trust is the glue that holds our democracy together,” Clinton said, adding that she is concerned that Americans’ trust in government and institutions has declined. “I take this seriously, as someone who is asking for your votes, and I personally know I have work to do on this point,” said Clinton, the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee. “A lot of people tell pollsters they don’t trust me. I don’t like hearing that, and I’ve thought a lot about what’s behind it.” The remarks came as Clinton used...
‘Brexit’ supporter Amb. John Bolton goes ‘On the Record’ on ‘Brexit’s’ impact US security and foreign relations and he believes it will strengthen NATO.
Jerusalem -An Israeli military official says the army will no longer employ the tactic of using overwhelming fire to prevent the capture of a soldier, even at the risk of killing the soldier. During Israel’s 2014 war with the militant Islamic group Hamas, troops used the Hannibal Procedure after soldiers feared militants had captured an officer. Israel unleashed heavy shelling and airstrikes on the southern Gazan town of Rafah, killing some 100 Palestinians. The Association of Civil Rights in Israel called on the military to cancel the practice, saying it endangered the lives of soldiers and civilians. The military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the matter, said Tuesday the military is working on a new protocol fo...
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