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August 23, 2016 at 10:04 pm
Orlando, FL - A South Florida boy has survived a rare brain-eating amoeba that kills most people, aided in part because a hard-to-get drug to fight the bacteria is made by a company in Orlando where he was hospitalized, doctors said Tuesday.
Sebastian DeLeon came to the hospital two weeks ago with sensitivity to light and a headache so severe the 16-year-old couldn’t tolerate anyone touching him, doctors at Florida Hospital for Children said at a news conference.
Hospital staffers had been trained to look for the amoeba, which often is contracted through the nose when swimming in freshwater lakes or rivers. The infection has a fatality rate of 97 percent and another boy died from it at the same hospital two years ago.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says on...
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August 23, 2016 at 10:03 pm
Newark, NJ - A New Jersey waterpark visitor who was partially paralyzed in a 2010 accident while on a ride that simulates surfing can proceed with a lawsuit, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
Roy Steinberg and his wife claim employees at Sahara Sam’s Oasis Water Park in West Berlin, about 20 miles southwest of Philadelphia, didn’t properly instruct him about safety on the FlowRider, a ride that simulates surfing by having a sheet of water flow toward the rider.
Steinberg said he wasn’t told that as a novice he should lie on the board instead of standing, and that he shouldn’t use both hands to hold onto a rope held by a park employee.
According to the lawsuit, Steinberg fell off the surfboard shortly after the ride began and hit his head, causing a c...
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August 23, 2016 at 10:03 pm
Las Vegas - A Hawaiian woman has won more than $10 million playing the penny slots in Las Vegas.
The Wynn Las Vegas said the unidentified woman from Oahu won a total payout of $10,777,270.51 after betting $3 on a penny slot machine.
The jackpot happened about 9 p.m. Sunday at the Strip casino on an IGT Megabucks Wynn Wheel slots machine.
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August 23, 2016 at 10:03 pm
Philadelphia - GOP vice presidential candidate Mike Pence got a haircut at a black-owned barbershop on Tuesday between campaign stops in the Philadelphia area.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has made overtures to black voters in recent days, asking them, “What do you have to lose?” by supporting him.
The owner, Henry Jones, says he had no idea who his lone customer for the day was when he arrived. The two discussed their families and sports while Pence sat for his $20 trim.
When the haircut ended, Jones asked Pence his name. When Pence identified himself as Indiana governor and GOP vice presidential candidate, Jones said, “Vice president?” and added, “This is history.”
Jones says Pence didn’t ask for his vote, and he is un...
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August 23, 2016 at 10:02 pm
Washington - For years, Wanda Witter has lived on the streets in Washington, D.C., trying to persuade officials that Social Security owes her more than $100,000. For years, the 80-year-old woman says people dismissed her as crazy.
But finally someone listened—and now, her attorney says she’s about to get a $99,999 payout.
Witter moved to the District of Columbia in 1999 to seek work after losing her job as a machinist in New York years earlier, according to The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/2bJAgEr ).
But even though Witter had earned a paralegal certificate to prepare for a new career, she remained jobless. In 2006 she decided to draw Social Security benefits. However, the monthly checks varied wildly, from $900 to $300. Believing the checks were wrong, Witter did...
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August 23, 2016 at 10:02 pm
Detroit - Tesla Motors says a new version of the Model S electric car is the quickest production car in the world from zero to 60 miles per hour.
The company says the Model S P100D sedan can go from stopped to 60 in 2.5 seconds.
The LaFerrari and the Porsche 918 Spyder with gas engines were faster, but they were million-dollar specialty cars that can no longer be bought new, CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday.
The new P100D has a new 100 kilowatt-hour battery pack that extends the car’s range to about 315 miles. The top range of the previous Model S was 294 miles. The new battery also is available on the Model X SUV.
Musk says the battery cell chemistry is the same but Tesla had to reconfigure the battery pack to store more energy in the same space and handle increased cooling re...
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August 23, 2016 at 10:02 pm
Baton Rouge, LA - Standing amid piles of waterlogged debris, President Barack Obama on Tuesday promised a sustained national effort to rebuild flood-ravaged southern Louisiana “even after the TV cameras leave” on a visit aimed in part at stemming campaign-season criticism that he’s been slow to respond to the disaster.
As he toured a battered neighborhood and spoke to reporters, Obama reassured residents that the federal response would be robust and he tried to buck up beleaguered residents of the water-soaked region, many of whom have said they feel their plight has been ignored by national officials and the media.
“This is not a one-off, this is not a photo-op issue,” the president said in a statement to reporters. “I need all Americans to s...
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August 23, 2016 at 5:54 pm
Baltimore, MD - Aug. 23, 2016 - On Motzei Shabbos Nachamu, a group from the 8:45 Minyan at Shomrei Emunah and friends from around the community gathered together with Rabbi Binyamin Marwick for an uplifting and heartfelt kumzitz.
Set against the beautiful and fitting backdrop of the Jerusalem stone in the Shomrei ‘Shevatim Gallery’, the kumzitz featured music led initially by Eli Cohen, Yitzi Kaplowitz, Eli Frenkel on guitars, and Yoni Spigelman on percussions. The enthusiasm and singing increased as the band was joined by renowned guitarist and composer Avraham Rosenblum on guitar, and Eliezer Appel on clarinet. Inspiring divrei torah were shared by Rabbi Marwick and Dr. Ronnie Samet, and in a particularly moving moment, Yitzy Kaplowitz played his new compos...
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August 23, 2016 at 5:53 pm
Dear Baltimore Friends, amush
I know I speak for hundreds if not thousands.
We love our friends, neighbors, and families. We want to be at their simchos. But we hate driving three hours each way to Lakewood to get to the simchos.
More and more of us are choosing to make Baltimore simchos in Lakewood.
Why?
I am told it is based on cost. What wedding halls in Lakewood offer cannot be matched by halls in Baltimore. Apparently, the halls offer amazing packages for everything: hall, food, band, video, photographer, etc.-all in one great deal.
Here’s the question.
We have many great caterers in Baltimore and many great people who provide all services for weddings.
Can someone in this mix figure things out so that Lakewood will stop being a place for Baltimore simchos?
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August 23, 2016 at 4:37 pm
Controversy has erupted in Hungary over the government’s decision to give a prestigious award to a journalist known for making antisemitic and racist comments, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
Journalist Zsolt Bayer, whom the Bloomberg report called a “close ally” of right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, received the Order of Merit of the Knight’s Cross – Hungary’s second highest honor — last week.
In protest, more than 50 past recipients of the honor have returned their awards.
According to the Bloomberg report, Bayer has been fined multiple times by Hungary’s media regulator for antisemitic and racist comments. His targets have included Jews, refugees, and the Roma. In one example of antisemitis...
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August 23, 2016 at 4:26 pm
Baltimore, MD - Aug. 16, 2016 - Portland, Oregon and Richmond, Virginia, were just two of the locales that participants traveled from to attend STAR-K Kosher Certification’s back-to-back seminars in its Baltimore offices. The 13th Annual STAR-K Kashrus Training Program was held August 1-4, followed by the Food Service Kashrus Training Seminar, August 8-10. Both certificate programs featured a Q & A session with STAR-K Rabbinic Administrator Rav Moshe Heinemann, as well as a variety of lectures by STAR-K Kashrus Administrators, tours of STAR-K-certified establishments, and hands-on vegetable checking practicums. The first seminar even included a live nikkur demonstration of a calf.
Rabbi Yitzy Mandel and Rabbi Simcha Snaid, kollel yungerleit of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim in Queens, Ne...
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August 23, 2016 at 4:19 pm
For many young Americans, Jews and non-Jews alike, the Holocaust is becoming increasingly irrelevant, a Harvard law student and granddaughter of a survivor told The Algemeiner on Tuesday.
Jennie Shulkin, 23, warned that the Holocaust was “fading into the background” among her age cohort.
Shulkin, whose 93-year-old grandfather fled Nazi Germany, said, “There are even many Jews who are so liberal that they focus on other genocides. Obviously, current genocides need exposure and help is necessary from people all over the world, but I think that those sort of then step in front of Holocaust remembrance.”
On Sunday, in an op-ed in the Huffington Post, Shulkin highlighted the role she believes that she and other third-generation su...
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August 23, 2016 at 4:19 pm
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi claimed in an interview on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready and willing to host direct peace negotiations in Moscow between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
“Unfortunately, the case is like stagnant water and requires international will and effort,” the Daily News Egypt quoted El-Sisi as saying in an interview held with editors of Egyptian newspapers. “There is more and more conviction on behalf of the Israelis of the importance of the peace process, which is a positive indication.”
El-Sisi, who supports the recent French initiative for peace talks, also said that the internal fighting between Hamas leaders in Gaza and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction cont...
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August 23, 2016 at 3:55 pm
Washington - More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.
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August 23, 2016 at 3:48 pm
Students for Justice in Palestine punished for intimidation of Jewish students, disrupting Jewish campus group event.
JTA - The University of California, Irvine, has sanctioned an anti-Israel group for disrupting a program hosted by a Jewish campus group and intimidating Jewish students.
The UC Irvine Students for Justice in Palestine chapter will be issued a “written warning, effective immediately,” that will be in effect until March, the Campus Reform website reported last week, citing a campus-wide email from Vice Chancellor Thomas Parham sent Thursday.
“After a thorough review, the student conduct investigation is now complete. The investigators found that Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the group that organized and led the protest, violated Studen...
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August 23, 2016 at 3:25 pm
THE LEVAYA WILL TAKE PLACE ON WEDNESDAY MORNING
AT 11:00 AM AT THE
AGUDATH ISRAEL OF LONG ISLAND
1121 SAGE STREET
FAR ROCKAWAY, NEW YORK
NAFLA ATERES ROSHEINU
With deep pain and anguish we are saddened to report the petirah moments ago of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis a”h founder of HINENI and pioneer in the world of Kiruv. With the Rebbetzin’s petirah K’lal Yisroel has suffered an irreplaceable loss.
The Rebbetzin was a trailblazer, for over a half century, crisscrossing the globe with her message of loving-kindness and hope. She was a teacher of Torah to millions of Jews from every walk of life.
She spent her life showing the beauty of Yiddishkeit to Jews across the globe bringing countless neshomos back to their roots.
Rebbetzin Jungreis was born in Sz...
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August 23, 2016 at 3:16 pm
Tallahassee, FL - A dangerous, erratic, con man with the worst spray tan ever. That’s how Sen. Marco Rubio described Donald Trump when they were both seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
Now that Trump is the nominee and Rubio is running for re-election, his tone is different. He’s no longer criticizing Trump, but he isn’t exactly gushing praise. Democrats are trying to make him look like a hypocrite for backing the man he previously said shouldn’t have access to nuclear weapon codes, and for jumping back into the Senate race after he said he wouldn’t.
“Sen. Rubio is actually the real con man here,” said U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson for the Democratic nomination. “He said something ...
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August 23, 2016 at 3:14 pm
Washington - A key question looms for vulnerable Republican senators this election: If Donald Trump loses and loses big, can they still survive?
With 11 weeks until Election Day, Trump’s declining standing in the polls has GOP Senate candidates preparing for the worst, and they’re maneuvering now to put as big a margin as they can between themselves and the top of the ticket.
Some strategists foresee a historic Trump loss and the need to outrun the presidential nominee by at least five to 10 percentage points in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire and Florida, if Senate incumbents are to prevail in November. Such margins can be achieved, but it’s not easy, and most Republicans say there’s a limit to how big Trump can lose without taking down ne...
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August 23, 2016 at 3:11 pm
Washington - The FBI and other U.S. security agencies are investigating cyber breaches targeting reporters at the New York Times and other U.S. news organizations that are thought to have been carried out by hackers working for Russian intelligence, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed U.S. officials.
“Investigators so far believe that Russian intelligence is likely behind the attacks and that Russian hackers are targeting news organizations as part of a broader series of hacks that also have focused on Democratic Party organizations, the officials said,” CNN said.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. The FBI declined to comment, and representatives for the U.S. Secret Service, which has a role in protecting the country from cyber crime, did not imme...
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August 23, 2016 at 2:58 pm
Palm Coast, FL - A 27-year-old central Florida man is being recognized for honesty after finding a wallet with $3,400 inside and turning it over to sheriff’s deputies.
Turns out an Orlando woman lost the wallet earlier this month while visiting the beach near Palm Coast with her children.
Kevin Miller tells the Daytona Beach News-Journal (http://bit.ly/2c06lv5 ) he knew someone was depending on that money and he’s glad it’s been returned to her. The woman’s name hasn’t been released.
He says he spotted the wallet Aug. 5 in a shopping center parking lot. He says he decided to pick it up after seeing two nearby teens eyeing it. He immediately called the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
Miller says he really could have used the money but felt it ...
