Beirut - The Islamic State group said Tuesday that its spokesman and senior commander has been killed while overseeing military operations in northern Syria, and threatened to avenge his death. The IS-run Aamaq news agency said Abu Muhammed al-Adnani was “martyred while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns in Aleppo,” without providing further details. His death, if confirmed, would be the latest blow to the Islamic State group, which has been on the retreat in Syria and Iraq, where it has declared a self-styled Islamic caliphate straddling both countries. Adnani, a senior leader in the group, has been the voice of IS over the past few years, and has released numerous, lengthy audio files online in which he delivered fiery sermons urging followers...
United Nation - The U.N. Security Council is warning that violations of the cessation of hostilities between Lebanon and Israel could lead to a new conflict “that none of the parties or the region can afford.” The council’s warning came in a resolution adopted unanimously Tuesday extending the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force that monitors the truce until Aug. 31, 2017. It maintained the mission’s ceiling at 15,000 troops, supported by international and local civilian staff. The council expressed concern “at the limited progress made towards the establishment of a permanent cease-fire.” It urged all parties “to make every effort to ensure that the cessation of hostilities is sustained, exercise maximum calm and restraint and refrai...
New Orleans - A crane on a barge lifted the wreckage of a small sightseeing plane from a lake near New Orleans on Tuesday, the bodies of the pilot and a passenger still in the cabin, authorities said. The crane, operated by a salvage contractor, hoisted the plane onto the barge after divers first attached cables to the wreckage while it was submerged, New Orleans Fire Department spokesman Gregory Davis said. Video footage showed the plane being pulled from the waters still intact. The Cessna 172 crashed into Lake Pontchartrain while attempting to land Saturday night at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport, plunging into waters about 1,000 yards off the runway. A woman passenger was rescued by a private yacht from the lake and survived. The airport director, Ben Morris, had said a ...
Jerusalem - The Holon Cemetery was filled to capacity on Tuesday with hundreds of Israelis waiting outside to pay their respects to Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, better known by his nickname “Fuad”; the former defense minister, longtime MK, and Brigadier General who died on Sunday at the age of 80. Present at the ceremony where a host of prominent politicians from both sides of the aisle, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Zionist Union MK Isaac Herzog, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, and former President Shimon Peres. Prime Minister Netanyahu eulogized Ben-Eliezer saying he was “a combination of vitality, grace, craftiness, and a lot of patriotism.” Throughout his speech Netanyahu repeatedly stated, “I loved Fuad.’ He continued stating,...
Washington - President Barack Obama cut short on Tuesday the sentences of 111 federal inmates in another round of commutations for those convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. Obama has long called for phasing out strict sentences for drug offenses, arguing they lead to excessive punishment and incarceration rates unseen in other developed countries. White House Counsel Neil Eggleston said the commutations underscored the president’s commitment to using his clemency authority to give deserving individuals a second chance. He said that Obama has granted a total of 673 commutations, more than the previous 10 presidents combined. More than a third of the recipients were serving life sentences. “We must remember that these are individuals — sons, daughters, paren...
Only five months ago, a healthy husband and father of 3 was stricken with stage 4 cancer.  Leaving no stone unturned, 40 year-old Daniel Lansky battled the disease with incredible belief and trust in Hashem. His wife Elana stood by his side and did everything in her power to reverse the fatal decree from Heaven.  A little over a month ago, she begged others to join her to amass zechusim in a desperate attempt to save her husband. She texted a few of her friends the following: "Hi everyone. I'm calling on you- my fellow women of klal yisroel... Of recent our family has been going through a challenge that no one should ever have to face... I asked R Chaim Kanievsky what I can do to help my husband and our family's situation. He said... I should use my koach Hashem has ...
Lithuanian president leads ceremony marking 1941 slaughter of Jewish community. JTA - Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė called the Holocaust a tragedy of all of Lithuanua during a commemoration ceremony at the site of 1941 massacre of Jewish residents in the town of Molėtai in eastern Lithuania. “Their memory is an uncompromising obligation for all Lithuanian people to fight against hatred, violence, discrimination, and indifference, and to respect and protect those who are around us,” Grybauskaitė said during Monday’s ceremony. Relatives of those murdered in Molėtai and the Lithuanian Jewish Community organized a March of Remembrance attended by local residents prior to the ceremony. “This demonstrates that Lithuanians are changing, casting ...
Fleeing the violence of Ukraine, 211 new olim disembarked at Ben Gurion today. 'We knew we had Jewish roots but did not have the documents.' With the increase of hostilities on the Russian-Ukrainian border in recent weeks, 211 new immigrants ("olim") from Ukraine landed this morning (Tuesday) at Ben Gurion Airport, most of them from the embattled regions in the Eastern part of the country. The olim arrived on a flight sponsored by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), and it is the IFCJ's 19th flight since the hostilities broke out between the two countries.They will join the roughly 4,000 olim from Ukraine who have already made Aliyah with the IFCJ, beginning in December 2014. Among the olim there are 37 children who will begin their stud...
After PA ambassador to Prague complained, Czech authorities ordered their atlases to mark Tel Aviv as Israel's capital. Jerusalem is no longer the capital of Israel, according to atlases being distributed to primary and secondary schools of the Czech Republic. The Czech education ministry announced the intended change on August 23, after receiving complaints from the Palestinian Authority's embassy in Prague, led by ambassador Khaled Alattrash. "The ministry will resolutely demand a change of the given data," the Czech education ministry wrote in response to the complaint. The atlas publisher, the Shocart company, will have to rewrite Tel Aviv as the capital of Israel, or lose its certificate as an officially recognized school book. "The data in the atlas will be co...
United Nations organization condemns Israeli demolition of home of Rabbi Mark's murderer, warns against Liberman's anti-terror plan. Israel must halt the “punitive demolition” of terrorists’ homes in Judea and Samaria, the United Nations said on Tuesday, and end its “illegal” policy of permitting Jews to build in eastern Jerusalem. Nikolay Mladenov, the UN’s Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, blasted what he called “legal acrobatics” on the part of the Jewish state in permitting or granting legal standing to Jewish communities in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. In a video message released on Monday, Mladenov said all Israeli towns beyond the Green Line were in violation of international law. “N...
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has launched a bipartisan campaign against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, calling on 50 state governors to condemn BDS and reaffirm that Israel’s an indispensable U.S. ally and economic partner. The campaign, called Governor’s United Against BDS, is co-chaired by Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas and Governor Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut. “We, the undersigned Governors, reject efforts to demonize and delegitimize Israel—America’s democratic ally in the Middle East—through the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement,” the group’s statement reads. So far, 17 governors, who have signed the petition, agree that “the goals of the...
The Baltimore County Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying two suspects responsible for a July 27 robbery in Owings Mills. The investigation has indicated that sometime between 11:30 and 11:53 a.m. on July 27, an 18-year-old man was walking in Lakeside Boulevard. There was a person walking in front of him that got robbed of a credit card and a cell phone by two suspects. The suspects then approached him, displayed what he thought was a knife, and took his headphones. There were no reports of injuries during this incident. Images of the suspects were captured on video surveillance at a local business. This incident is under investigation by the Precinct 3 Investigative Services Unit. Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call p...
Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has closed six offices in five U.S. states after receiving anonymous threats, a USDA representative said on Tuesday. “Yesterday, USDA received several anonymous messages that are concerning for the safety of USDA personnel and its facilities. As a precaution, USDA has closed offices,” USDA spokesman Matthew Herrick said in an emailed statement. Herrick said offices were closed in Fort Collins, Colorado; Hamden, Connecticut; Beltsville, Maryland; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Kearneysville and Leetown, West Virginia. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said USDA was working with the Department of Homeland Security to ensure the safety of their offices and personnel, but he declined to provide any details about the threats...
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Garden City, NY - An 11-year-old boy has been seriously injured after police say he fell 30 feet from an escalator at a Long Island mall. Nassau County police said Monday the boy was inside a Neiman Marcus store in the Roosevelt Mall in Garden City on Sunday and was hanging onto the outside portion of an escalator’s railing as it was moving upward. When he reached the top floor, police say he fell about 30 feet and struck his 33-year-old mother, who injured her foot. Both victims were taken to a hospital, where the boy is listed in serious condition with a head injury. A spokeswoman for Neiman Marcus says the company is reviewing the incident to see if any additional safety measures are needed for the store.
An Israeli pediatrician has launched a clinical trial to study the effects of medical cannabis on autistic children and adults, Haaretz reported. Dr Adi Eran, head of the pediatric neurology department at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, is obtaining permits from Israel’s Ministry of Health to test 120 low-to-medium functioning autistic individuals, aged 4 to 30. The participants will be given cannabis oils rich in cannabidiol (CBD), one of 113 active chemicals found in cannabis that makes up 40 percent of the plant’s extracts. The substance is non-hallucinogenic. The research will focus on behavioral symptoms such as physical aggression and attacks deriving from acute anxiety. Even though cannabis oil is not a recognized treatment for autism, several ...
The IDF has begun a large-scale engineering operation to secure the Lebanese border against infiltration by Hezbollah terrorists into Israel, the Hebrew news site Walla reported on Tuesday. According to the report, as part of the operation, members of the IDF Northern Command Combat Engineering Corps are digging trenches and erecting a fence around the seven-mile-long area of Har Dov (also known as the Shebaa Farms) — a strip of land at the intersection of the Lebanese-Syrian border and the Israeli Golan Heights. The activity was coordinated in advance with UNIFIL forces and the Lebanese Army, Walla reported. In January, Hezbollah detonated a bomb near an IDF patrol on the Lebanese border — claiming it was a response to the assassination of notori...
Trenton, NJ - Republican Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday shot down an attempt to raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in the next year and to at least $15 over the next five. Christie announced his veto at an event at a market in Pennington, saying it would burden small businesses and describing the proposal as the “heavy hand of government.” Standing in the organic fruit and vegetable section of the market, Christie said raising wages is the job of business owners. “All of this sounds great, raising the minimum wage, when you’re spending someone else’s money,” he said. Democrats, who control the statehouse, and liberal groups have put the legislation at the center of their agenda. The Legislature sent Christie the measure in J...
Tiverton, RI - Two workers have been removed from the bucket of a crane that was stuck underneath the Sakonnet River Bridge in Tiverton after the bucket truck overturned. Little Compton Fire Chief Richard Petrin said on Twitter just before 3 p.m. Monday that the workers were rescued. The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority said the truck, called a snoop, tipped over Monday afternoon while the workers were in the truck’s bucket underneath the bridge. RITBA says the bucket was being used to inspect the underside of the bridge when something went wrong. RITBA says the workers were surrounded by a cage to keep them from falling out. Both sides of the bridge were shut down while rescuers responded. There’s no word on whether the workers were injured.
Back from vacation and touring schools on opening day, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she found out about the Baltimore Police Department's aerial surveillance program barely ahead of the public. The privately-funded program, using cameras on a plane to record a 32-square-mile area of people and vehicles, started in January. It became public last Wednesday only after a magazine article spilled the beans. "I learned about it shortly before the press event. I don't remember the exact date," Rawlings-Blake said. The lack of disclosure has caused a storm of controversy with City Council promising hearings next month and Rep. Elijah Cummings threatening a congressional inquiry. The mayor wrote off the secrecy to an oversight by Baltimore police Commissione...
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