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August 28, 2016 at 10:42 am
Baltimore, MD - Aug. 28, 2016 - After an absence on the s’farim market for nearly fifty years, the Torah masterpiece Toras Michoel has been re-issued. It was reprinted in Eretz Yisrael and is currently selling in Sfarim stores there and should be available in Chutz La’aretz within a few weeks.
Toras Michoel is a collection of sixty four Torah Novellae collected from the nearly fifty bound volumes of handwritten manuscripts, which the ‘Gaon of the Gaonim’ Rav Michoel Forshlager, ZTvK”L, left behind after his P’tirah. He wrote all of these volumes in his home, working tirelessly for several hours a day during the last ten to fifteen years of his life. All of these manuscripts were written and bound here in Baltimore, and this is wh...
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August 28, 2016 at 10:26 am
Des Moines, IA - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump offered fresh details of how he would tackle illegal immigration on Saturday, saying he would crack down on those who overstay their visas as he sought to quiet criticism from conservatives.
In a campaign speech in Des Moines, Iowa, Trump also cited the shooting death of a cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade to urge African-American voters to rally behind him, calling it an example of violence that has to be addressed.
Trump, speaking on the Iowa State Fairgrounds with hay bales stacked behind him, sought to clarify his views on how to overhaul the U.S. immigration system after saying earlier in the week that he was softening on his plan to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants.
That stance drew fire from conser...
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August 28, 2016 at 10:23 am
Amatrice, Italy - Bulldozers with huge claws and other heavy equipment rolled through Italy’s quake-devastated town of Amatrice on Sunday, pulling down dangerously overhanging ledges and clearing rubble as investigators tried to figure out if negligence in enforcing building codes added to the quake’s high death toll.
Investigations will focus on a number of structures, including an elementary school in Amatrice that crumbled when the quake hit Wednesday. The school was renovated in 2012 to resist earthquakes at a cost of 700,000 euros ($785,000).
Questions also surround a bell tower in Accumoli that collapsed, killing a family of four sleeping in a neighboring house, including a baby of 8 months and a 7-year-old boy. That bell tower also had been recently restored ...
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August 28, 2016 at 10:20 am
Much of my writing focuses on strategies to improve our health. I also like to differentiate between what we can call either hearsay, or myths, and what science knows to be true. When it comes to weight loss, the science is always evolving and we know more and more. We also know what isn’t true and what won’t help. Recently someone came in to our clinic to inquire about our weight loss program and before we got very far, he was asking me about weight loss teas, crazy diets of less than 700 calories a day, and asking about highly advertised weight loss herbs and supplements. Obviously, none of those are avenues to real and permanent healthy weight loss. But in order to turn around our weight gain and create a trend to lose weight, it is import...
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August 28, 2016 at 10:20 am
Republican presidential nominee says he will institute a tracking system to ensure immigrants who overstay their visas are removed.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday offered new details of how he would tackle illegal immigration, saying he would crack down on those who overstay their visas.
Speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, and quoted by Reuters, Trump sought to clarify his views on how to overhaul the U.S. immigration system after saying earlier in the week that he was softening on his plan to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants.
That stance drew fire from conservatives who wanted him to stand fast after he won the Republican presidential nomination in large part by a hardline stance that would include building a wall along the U.S. border wit...
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August 28, 2016 at 10:20 am
Jordan - The U.S. will reach its target this week of taking in 10,000 Syrian war refugees in a year-old resettlement program, the U.S. ambassador to Jordan said Sunday, after meeting families headed to California and Virginia.
The resettlement program has emerged as an issue in the U.S. presidential campaign, with Republican nominee Donald Trump alleging displaced Syrians pose a potential security threat.
Alice Wells, the U.S. ambassador to Jordan, said Sunday that keeping Americans safe and taking in some of the world’s most vulnerable people are not mutually exclusive.
“Refugees are the most thoroughly screened category of travelers to the United States, and Syrian refugees are subject to even greater scrutiny,” she said.
Wells said the target of resettling...
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August 28, 2016 at 10:19 am
Tehran - Iran has arrested a member of the team that negotiated a landmark nuclear deal with world powers on suspicion of spying, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday.
The suspect was released on bail after a few days in jail but is still under investigation, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said at a regular weekly news conference, calling the unidentified individual a “spy who had infiltrated the nuclear team,” state media reported.
The deal that President Hassan Rouhani struck last year has given Iran relief from most international sanctions in return for curbing its nuclear program, but it is opposed by hardliners who see it as a capitulation to the United States.
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August 28, 2016 at 10:15 am
New York - US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson met privately last week, The New York Times reported, at the St. Regis Hotel in New York.
There has been a financial standoff between Adelson and the Republican Party since May, when the businessman pledged $100 million to Trump’s campaign. Though promised, neither Adelson nor his wife Miriam have contributed to Trump, groups supporting him, or the Republican National Committee since.
The New York Times noted that Adelson may still be apprehensive about which super PAC should be the vehicle of his donation, and that would account for the delay, but a source told The Guardian that Adelson had been “irked by a lot of things” regarding the Trump campaign, in...
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August 27, 2016 at 10:52 pm
Baltimore is lacking in Emunah and Betachon.
No, it's not what your thinking. In the last 3 weeks while the rest of the Jewish world mourned one Tisha B'av, the Baltimore community has mourned 3 of them. The giant loss of Mrs. Laurie Gutman, z'l, shortly before Tisha B'av, a women who battled her illness for 6+ years and as she got physically weaker she mentally got stronger in regards to what chessed had to be done and in her Emunah and Betachon. Then the Baltimore community mourned the loss of the Bais Hamikdosh together with the rest of the Jewish world.
Yesterday we mourned a 3rd time with the loss of Reb Daniel Lansky, z'l. Yes I say Reb because in the last 5 months he has taught the Baltimore community what true Emunah and Betachon is. גם כי אל...
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August 27, 2016 at 10:16 pm
White Plains, NY - Hillary Clinton received her first national security briefing Saturday as the Democratic presidential nominee, meeting with intelligence officials for an overview of the major threats facing the nation around the globe.
Clinton attended the briefing for more than two hours at the FBI office in White Plains, New York, near her suburban New York City home. Republican Donald Trump received his briefing earlier this month, a customary move for major party nominees but one that has been the subject of a political tussle during the campaign.
Trump was campaigning on Saturday in Iowa, headlining Republican Sen. Joni Ernst’s annual “Roast and Ride” fundraiser at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. The celebrity businessman was not planning to join the 42-mi...
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August 27, 2016 at 9:45 pm
An 18-year old Arab resident of Hevron was arrested on Saturday at a local IDF checkpoint after he aroused the suspicions of soldiers on the scene.
The man was arrested and was found to have been carrying a knife on his person.
Investigators say the man had intended to carry out a stabbing attack at the checkpoint as an act of vengeance for his cousin, who was killied half a year ago during a terror attack.
On Friday a deployment of soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion – also known as Nahal Haredi – shot and killed a 38-year old Arab who had charged an army position near the town of Ofra in Samaria.
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August 27, 2016 at 9:42 pm
Vancouver, British Columbia - A photograph of a crying elderly Canadian couple in wheelchairs, separated into two different care homes after 62 years of marriage because no beds were available together, has received international attention.
Wolfram Gottschalk, 83, of Surrey, British Columbia was put in an assisted home in January after he suffered dementia health complications making it impossible for wife Anita, 81, to care for him at home. Four months later, Anita entered a different facility despite family efforts to keep them together.
The facilities are half an hour apart, with family driving Anita to see Wolfram several times a week.
Granddaughter Ashley Bartyik took “the saddest photo I have ever taken” when her grandparents were brought together recently. She...
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August 27, 2016 at 9:39 pm
Washington - Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine is associating Donald Trump’s values with those of the Ku Klux Klan.
Kaine made some of his most pointed comments to date about Trump at a voter registration rally at Florida A&M University, a historically black university in Tallahassee.
Kaine said: “Ku Klux Klan values, David Duke values, Donald Trump values are not American values.” Duke is a former Ku Klux Klan leader.
When by a reporter asked if he thinks Trump is a racist, Kaine said he didn’t know Trump. But Kaine said the Republican presidential candidate has clearly made “bigoted” comments.
Kaine urged the students to help get out the vote, noting Florida may be the closest swing state this election.
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August 27, 2016 at 9:23 pm
Washington - Seven months after a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, the government told The Associated Press it won’t finish the job before Election Day.
The department has so far released about half of the schedules. Its lawyers said in a phone conference with the AP’s lawyers that the department now expects to release the last of the detailed schedules around Dec. 30, weeks before the next president is inaugurated.
The AP’s lawyers late Friday formally asked the State Department to hasten that effort so that the department could provide all Clinton’s minute-by-minute schedules by Oct. 15. The agency did n...
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August 27, 2016 at 9:21 pm
A Jewish woman in suburban Philadelphia woke up last week to a spray-painted swastika on her trash bin — and now her neighbors and hundreds of strangers from across the world are rallying to support her by painting their garbage cans with flowers, hearts, birds and butterflies.
The woman, artist Esther Cohen-Eskin, painted over the swastika with flowers. She then put letters in mailboxes asking her neighbors to paint their trash bins as well, turning symbols of hate into symbols of love.
People across Havertown responded, decorating their bins with foxes, flowers, and words like “love” and “unity.”
And after word spread online, strangers from as far away as Canada, Ireland and Germany sent Cohen-Eskin messages of support and pictures of bins they painted th...
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August 27, 2016 at 9:18 pm
General Motors is recalling nearly 368,000 vehicles to fix a defective part that could prevent the windshield wipers from working.
The problem affects the 2013 models of the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain. GM says those vehicles were built with ball joints that could corrode and wear out to render the windshield wipers inoperable.
A report filed with government regulators says a GM manager in Canada spotted the potential safety hazard last December. The auto manufacturer opened an investigation in March and decided to issue a recall earlier this month.
GM says it will cover the repair costs once it determines when it will be able to fix the problem.
Chevrolet Equinox owners can call 1-800-222-1020 and GMC Terrain can call 1-800-462-8782 for further information.
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August 27, 2016 at 9:16 pm
Ex-wife accuses Trump campaign CEO of domestic abuse, claims he made anti-Semitic remarks.
Documents from divorce proceedings reveal that Trump campaign CEO and former Breitbart News chairman Stephen Bannon’s ex-wife had accused him of domestic abuse and said the conservative filmmaker harbored anti-Semitic views.
“He said that he doesn’t like Jews,” Bannon’s second wife, Mary Louise Piccard said in court filings.
Piccard added that “he didn’t want the girls to go to school with Jews,” and that “he doesn’t like the way they [Jews] raise their kids to be ‘whiney brats’”.
“The biggest problem he had with Archer is the number of Jews that attend,” Piccard said in a 2007 signed statement.
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August 27, 2016 at 9:15 pm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads her Republican rival Donald Trump by 5 percentage points among likely voters, down from a peak this month of 12 points, according to the Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll released on Friday.
The Aug. 22-25 opinion poll found that 41 percent of likely voters supported Clinton ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election, while 36 percent supported Trump. Some 23 percent would not pick either candidate and answered “refused,” “other” or “wouldn’t vote.”
Clinton, a former secretary of state, has led real estate developer Trump in the poll since Democrats and Republicans ended their national conventions and formally nominated their presidential candidates in Jul...
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August 27, 2016 at 9:15 pm
A series of newly released State Department emails obtained by ABC News offers fresh insight on direct contact between the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s inner circle while she was Secretary of State.
The emails — released as part of a public records lawsuit by conservative group Citizens United and shared exclusively with ABC — reveal what the group claims is new evidence Foundation allies received special treatment. [Read the emails here.]
In one December 2010 email chain with Clinton’s closest aide Huma Abedin, then-top Clinton Foundation official Doug Band offers names for a State Department lunch with Chinese President Hu Jintao scheduled for January 2011.
On the list were three executives from organizations that have donated millions to the Clinto...
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August 26, 2016 at 4:38 pm
New York - Donald Trump’s presidential campaign now has its own mobile app.
The campaign on Wednesday unveiled its “America First” smartphone application, aimed at engaging the GOP nominee’s supporters.
Supporters can earn points by contributing to the campaign, attending events and sharing messages and videos.
They can also unlock “up to 8 levels of activist badges,” with names like “Apprentice,” the name of his reality television show, and “Big League,” a phrase commonly used by the Republican nominee on the campaign trail.
