President Donald Trump said Thursday he expected the presidency to be “easier” than his “previous life” as a real estate mogul. “I loved my previous life. I had so many things going,” the president told Reuters in a wide-ranging Oval Office interview. “This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier.” Trump, who spent years in the public limelight as a billionaire real estate magnate and reality television star, also lamented the lack of privacy in his new life as the country’s most prominent public servant. “You’re really into your own little cocoon, because you have such massive protection that you really can’t go anywhere,” he said. READ MORE: POLITICO
The NYPD Hate Crimes Division is in Williamsburg Friday morning, and are investigating a possible hate crime. Sources tell us that sometime during the night (Thursday night – Friday morning), someone vandalized two Yeshiva buses. One bus belongs to the Pupa Yeshiva, and the other belongs to the Satmar Queens Yeshiva. The bus-drivers arrived at their buses – which were parked at Bedford Avenue and Division Avenue – on Friday morning, and contacted Williamsburg Shomrim (WSPU) and the NYPD after seeing the vandalism. One bus was actually stolen and found parked two blocks away at Lee Avenue and Division Avenue. The second bus had a fire set inside, and then a fire extinguisher was emptied inside the bus. Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to ...
Observant Jews might be lulled into thinking that the issue of physician-assisted suicide doesn’t affect us personally. After all, while there are certainly cases where treatments may rightfully be declined by patients or, if incapacitated, their families, halachah clearly codifies the prohibition against actually acting to end a human life. The societal issue, however, in fact very much does affect us. And not just because a culture that sees life as a commodity worth preserving only if it meets certain “standards” of liveliness flouts a universal, fundamental charge that the Torah directs at all human beings. But because societal sanction of ending the lives of “terminal” patients (and every living thing, of course, has a terminus, since Adam Harish...
הכנות לשבת הילולת הרה"ק רבי ישעי'לע מקרעסטיער זי"ע ברבי ישעי'לעס גאסט הויז שע"י מוסדות מעיין הישועות קערסטיער בהנהלת הרב משה יוסף פריעדלענדער Preparations for Shabbos Yurtzeit of Rabbi Yishayele of Kerstier Zy”u in Rabbi Yisheyles Guest House in Kerstier, which is under the leadership of Harav Moshe Yosel Friedlender ניסן תשע"ז    
All 100 U.S. senators signed a letter released Friday asking U.N. Secretary General António Guterres to address what the lawmakers call entrenched bias against Israel at the world body. The unanimous message notes that the United States is the largest contributor to the United Nations but does not threaten the withholding of U.S. dues. Still, it uses strong language to insist that the United Nations rectify what the senators said is unequal treatment of Israel on human rights and other grounds. “Through words and actions, we urge you to ensure that Israel is treated neither better nor worse than any other U.N. member in good standing,” the letter said. The letter was obtained Thursday by The Washington Post. “As both the U.N.’s principal foundin...
President Donald Trump will become the first sitting president to address a National Rifle Association convention in more than 30 years when he speaks Friday at the group’s annual meeting. The president’s trip to Atlanta also will serve as his first foray into a congressional race since taking office. Trump is expected to attend a private fundraiser for Republican congressional candidate Karen Handel, a local election that has become a national referendum on his presidency. Trump has been a champion of gun rights and supportive of NRA efforts to loosen restrictions on gun ownership. During the campaign, he promised to do away with President Barack Obama’s efforts to strengthen background checks and to eliminate gun-free zones at schools and military bases. The last pre...
Marine Le Pen's bid to defy the odds and win election as French president risked a setback on Friday when the man named interim head of her National Front party stood down to defend himself against charges that he shares the views of Holocaust deniers. Days from the May 7 ballot when the far-right leader faces off against centrist ex-banker Emmanuel Macron, the abrupt exit of Jean-Francois Jalkh awoke ghosts from the Front's past and revived a furor sparked by Le Pen's father when he called the Nazi gas chambers a "detail" of history. The renewed controversy threatens moves by Le Pen, who expelled her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, from the party two years ago, to cleanse the FN's image of xenophobic and anti-semitic associations and make it more palatable to a broader el...
Police say a New York City woman shot at point-blank range during a robbery was saved from a bullet wound thanks to her purse. The New York Police Department says a 52-year-old man ran up to his intended victim on a Brooklyn street early Wednesday morning and demanded her car keys. The Daily News report that the 39-year-old woman fought back against the man. During the struggle, the man fired a round at point-blank range. Police say the bullet tore through the victim’s purse, wallet and clothes, but stopped short of actually hitting her body. The man then pistol-whipped the woman, took her keys and drove off in her vehicle. Police later found him nearby in the vehicle and arrested him on attempted murder charges. The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
President Donald Trump campaigned on an “America First” trade policy of bracing clarity: Renegotiate or abandon NAFTA and crack down on China’s trade practices. Yet so far, his trade policy has produced mostly confusion and division, even among fellow Republicans. At stake may be the president’s credibility over whether and how he will deliver on his campaign vow to undo decades of American trade policy and restore millions of manufacturing jobs lost to foreign competition. The latest puzzler broke out Wednesday over the prospect that the Trump administration would simply abandon the North American Free Trade Agreement rather than start to renegotiate it. The White House leaked that possibility to reporters, rattling investors and drawing protests from business gr...
U.S. ambassador says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will tell the U.N. Security Council about steps the United States believes are needed to “further isolate” North Korea and “to try to bring it back to its senses” over nuclear issues. Robert Wood, ambassador to the U.N.’s Committee on Disarmament in Geneva, gave a preview of Tillerson’s address later on Friday. Wood called North Korea the greatest threat to the 47-year-old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which the secretive regime abandoned in 2003. Wood told reporters the U.S. will be “focused like a laser” on North Korea at a meeting of parties to the NPT starting next week in Vienna. Wood said the U.S. expects a “strong course of condemnation” from attendees in respons...
This past April 26th marked the 64th anniversary of the Israel Border Police. In the brief accompanying video, we learn there are 7,397 members of the force today, representing 24.5% of Israel Police’s total manpower. There are 1,035 females on the force, including 745 in combat positions as well as 16 reserve duty companies and 7,550 volunteers. There are also 64 units which deal with crime and combating terror exclusively. Border police are divided into seven district, covering all of Israel.
Baltimore, MD – Apr. 28, 2017 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of R’ Moshe Kamanezky, a’h, father of R’ Moty Kamenezky. The levayah/kevurah will take place on Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 10:00 AM in Petach Tikvah Shiva will start in Bnei Brak. Please call (410) 358-1510 for contact information For Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
Dear Friends: My name is Tzipi Tivon. I am 54 years old and a Hebrew teacher at the Chabad Hebrew Academy (CHA) in San Diego, where I love teaching my students in 2nd through 8th grades. I have a husband and three beautiful children. My son, please G-d, will be barmitzvah'd this year and is a student at CHA and my two daughters, 22 and 25 live in Israel. I feel very blessed to be part of the San Diego community and we have had a good life since we immigrated in 1998. Unfortunately, in January 2016, our lives changed dramatically as I was diagnosed with End Stage Renal Disease (kidney failure). Following an acute episode that landed me in the ER and a 30-day hospitalization stay, I have been on a grueling schedule of kidney dialysis 3 days per week at 3 hours per session, which I go...
On the eve of Israel's 57th Memorial Day, the Defense Ministry published the official figures of the number of fallen soldiers in Israel. Twenty-three thousand, five hundred and forty four Jewish and Israeli soldiers, policemen, and guards have fallen in defense of the State of Israel and the pre-state Jewish community from 1860, when the Jewish community of Jerusalem expanded beyond the walls of the Old City and began to provide its own security, until today. Sixty casualties have been added to the number of fallen soldiers since last Memorial Day (May 6, 2016), Additionally, 37 IDF veterans died over the past year as a result of injuries they received in combat. The number of bereaved families in Israel in 2017 includes 9,157 bereaved parents, 4,881 widows of IDF soldiers and sec...
Parents of fallen soldier: 'On Pesach, we leave two extra chairs, one for Elijah the Prophet, and one for our son Oren." Shira Noach, a student of the Bnei Akiva Ulpana (religious girls' highs chool) Tzfira, conducted a meticulous research project on the life of fallen IDF soldier Oren Noach, who died in Operation Protective Edge. As part of the special project held at the Ulpana for Memorial Day next week, Shira documented information about Oren's life, mainly from his parents Chava and Yigal, residents of the town of Hoshaya in the Galilee. "They told us to choose a song about a fallen soldier and I thought about Oren, who wrote the song 'Tikkunot,'" Shira told Arutz Sheva. "We are cousins, but most of the things [I found out about him] I did not know a...
HaGaon HaRav Tzion Boaron warns against the setting of a workplace in which men and women work side-by-side. Addressing a kenos Asifa, Rav Boaron spoke of the need of strengthening tznius ahead of the hot summer months, telling the Bnei Brak audience that one serious danger is a workplace in which men and women work together. In his letter, he warns of the breach in modesty standards, stating this refers to not minimizing men and women speaking with one another. He states this holds true with family members too and anyone engaging in frivolous conversation and idle chatter strays from the Torah path. He explains men and women working together is another breakdown in modesty standards and may R”L lead to the destruction of entire families. In his letter he concludes “השי...
A senior administration official said Thursday the White House plans to push its tax overhaul without any support from congressional Democrats. It’s a sign of the intense partisanship over President Donald Trump’s outlines for cutting tax rates in hopes of stimulating faster economic growth, increasing business activity and helping the middle class. The proposal unveiled Wednesday would also repeal several taxes that target the wealthy but eliminate many deductions they use. Democratic lawmakers say the plan would favor the wealthy and blow a deep hole in the federal budget. An independent estimate by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates federal revenue would plunge $5.5 trillion over a decade under the Trump plan, likely causing the deficit to...
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife along with Minister of Sport & Culture Miri Regev met with the Israelis selected to light the Independence Day torches this year ahead of the ceremony. Next week, on Independence Day 69, they will light the torches in the official state ceremony. While 5 Iyar falls on Sunday night and Monday, festivities are pushed off a day since Independence Day is preceded by Memorial Day and if the latter began on motzei Shabbos, this would result in widespread chilul Shabbos. Hence, Memorial Day is observed this year on Sunday night and Monday, and Independence Day on Monday night and Tuesday, 6 Iyar.
PM says German Foreign Minister refused his phone call, describes meeting with anti-IDF groups ahead of Memorial Day as 'tactless'. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu slammed German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Friday over Gabriel’s recent meeting with radical left-wing organizations during his trip to Israel, calling the decision to meet with the groups “tactless”. Gabriel met with representatives of the anti-IDF organizations Breaking the Silence and B’Tselem a day after Holocaust Remembrance Day, despite an admonition by Netanyahu that a high-level meeting between a representative of the German government and fringe groups would not be tolerated by Israel, and would result in the cancellation of planned meetings between the Prime Mini...
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