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May 24, 2017 at 10:52 am
Jerusalem Mayor, Nir Barkat: “On the 50th anniversary of its reunification, Jerusalem is a flourishing, thriving city – in the fields of education, hi-tech and culture, in business and all areas of life. This year, we have engaged in an exceptionally important struggle for the future of Jerusalem, aimed at realizing numerous programs which will change the face of the city, and will markedly improve its quality of life. In 2017, we will continue investing in all of these areas of life.
On this day, as we celebrate Jerusalem, let us all ‘exalt Jerusalem above our utmost joy,’ and build her for future generations. I wish all of us a successful year in Jerusalem.”
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Israel’s capital city, Jerusalem s...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:52 am
Target Corp. has reached an $18.5 million settlement over a massive data breach that occurred before Christmas in 2013, New York’s attorney general announced Tuesday.
The agreement involving 47 states and the District of Columbia is the largest multistate data breach settlement to date, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman’s office said. The settlement, which stipulates some security measures the retailer must adhere to, resolves the states’ probe into the breach.
Target spokeswoman Jenna Reck said in a statement that the company has been working with state authorities for several years to address claims related to the breach.
“We’re pleased to bring this issue to a resolution for everyone involved,” she said.
Target had announced the breach on Dec....
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May 24, 2017 at 10:52 am
Border police arrested a resident of PA (Palestinian Authority) controlled Hizme, which is near the Pisgat Ze’ev Checkpoint in the northern capital.
It is reported that while the suspect was unarmed, he was arrested based on intelligence information that he was planning to commit a terror attack in Tel Aviv.
The suspect was turned over to the custody of the Shin Bet for interrogation.
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May 24, 2017 at 10:50 am
Black lawmakers in Mississippi are demanding the resignation of a white colleague who said Louisiana leaders should be lynched for removing Confederate monuments.
Republican Rep. Karl Oliver of Winona apologized on Monday for referring to lynching in a Facebook post Saturday. Oliver also removed the post from Facebook, about the time he apologized.
On Tuesday, the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus issued a statement saying Oliver’s continued presence in the Legislature would impede efforts for lawmakers to work across lines of race and party.
“Rep. Oliver’s apology for using the word ‘lynching’ does not mitigate the sentiment behind the statement and his presence will continue to be a sore spot on the work of the Mississippi Legislature,” said Demo...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:50 am
Top officials in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet are heading to Capitol Hill to defend his plans to cut domestic programs and parry Democratic criticism of his tax proposals.
Budget Director Mick Mulvaney appears Wednesday before the House Budget panel while Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will testify at the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. The budget contains virtually no further detail on taxes beyond the cuts the administration proposed in a one-page outline last month.
Trump on Tuesday released a 10-year budget plan containing jarring, politically unrealistic cuts to the social safety net and a broad swath of domestic programs.
The plan, Trump’s first as president, combines $4.1 trillion for the upcoming 2018 fiscal year with a promise to bring the budget ...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:48 am
Rosh Yeshivat Minchat Yehuda HaGaon HaRav Yehuda Mutzafi ZT”L was niftar in Yerushalayim on Wednesday morning, 28 Iyar. The niftar was a son of Mekubal Rav Silman Mutzafi ZT”L and a brother to HaGaon HaRav Bentzion Mutzafi Shlita.
The niftar was battling a difficult illness in recent years, and last month, his condition took a sharp turn for the worse. The family was summoned to his bedside on Tuesday night and he was niftar during the morning hours.
The rav lived in the Geula neighborhood for many years, considered to be a talmid muvhak of HaGaon HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu ZT”L as well as being close to HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Yosef ZT”L.
He is believed to have had one of the largest collections of shofarot (shofars) in the world and would visit talmidei torah to blow ...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:46 am
Hate reared its ugly head at a summer camp in the Liberty area recently. Swastikas were painted on the exterior walls of residences, inside homes and on sidewalks at the Satmar Hasidic Camp Yeshiva Letzeirim on Ferndale Loomis Road.
Members of the community have expressed outrage.
State Police are investigating.
With the summer vacation season approaching, thousands of New York City residents will converge on the camps for their annual warm weather vacation getaways.
(Source: MidHudsonNews)
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May 24, 2017 at 10:45 am
Federal authorities have probed a rash of reported sightings of unmanned drones flying about a former nuclear weapons site in South Carolina, but say none could be verified.
The U.S. Energy Department says it investigated a dozen reported sightings since June at the sensitive Savannah River Site. The Augusta Chronicle reported the Energy Department briefed a local citizens board Monday about their findings.
The agency’s conclusion? No drones were found or confirmed.
Pilots have long been told to avoid airspace over the Savannah River Site near South Carolina’s line with Georgia. So, when the sightings were first reported, the site made public address announcements and sent emails to its workers to watch the skies. Security guards even checked vehicles, trying to ferret out d...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:44 am
According to a Hatzoloh Yosh report, a female terrorist who was throwing rocks was shot and wounded in her upper torso on Tuesday afternoon 27 Iyar. The incident occurred near the PA (Palestinian Authority) village of Yabrud, north of Ofra.
B’chasdei Hashem there are no reports of injuries among intended victims of the terrorist.
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May 24, 2017 at 10:44 am
Testing is under way on a new track alarm system that aims to alert approaching trains when someone has gone onto the tracks of the New York City subway system.
Members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board on Monday moved forward with a bundle of contracts worth nearly $2 million to test the new technology. The Daily News reports the contracts are up for final approval on Wednesday.
Transit officials say the system will trigger a strobe light notification in train tunnels if someone or something is on the tracks.
The four companies contracted — Xtralis, Duos, Electronic Interface Associates and Clearsy System Engineering — will have their systems tested in the same undisclosed subway station this week.
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May 24, 2017 at 10:43 am
Police report the following information as a result of the preliminary investigation into the Tuesday morning 27 Iyar stabbing attack on Herzl Street in Netanya in which an officer was wounded. Following the attack, police told the media the motive for the attack was uncertain, but now, it appears the attack was an act of Islamic terrorism.
The attacker is described to be a 45-year-old Tulkarem resident, which is under the control of the PA (Palestinian Authority). The attacker, who was moderately wounded by gunfire, stabbed a border policeman in his neck. The wounded soldier responded by neutralizing his attacker. He shouted “Ala Akbar” prior to stabbing the policeman.
A woman was injured by glass fragments. She was transported to a hospital as well.
Upon arrival ...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:40 am
TORA, the umbrella group of Traditional Orthodox Rabbis of America, voices its concern that misunderstanding of the activities of the Kushners could lead to an erosion of the historic responsibility of employers to accommodate individual religious beliefs.
For generations, observant Jews all too often heard the refrain from their employers: If you do not show up to work on Saturday, don’t come back on Monday. Consequently, religious Jews would seek a new job every week until they found an employer who respected their religious conviction. Eventually laws were passed to protect the religious rights of all workers. Today, observant Jews can work in most fields without fear of having to choose between earning a living and observing a biblical tradition. For example, in advance of the p...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:36 am
The Senate Intelligence Committee is issuing two new subpoenas to compel Michael Flynn to turn over documents about his contacts with Russian officials, committee leaders said Tuesday.
President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser has invoked his Fifth Amendment rights in response to the committee’s previous subpoena attempt.
Committee leaders are directing the new subpoenas at his businesses, believing they can’t invoke the Fifth.
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May 24, 2017 at 10:35 am
A private investigator in Louisiana unsuccessfully tried to obtain President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns through a government website, and “even sounded proud of what he had done,” authorities said.
Jordan Hamlett was charged with misrepresenting his Social Security number in the effort, prosecutors said. He is accused of using a computer application on a public government website in an attempt to get Trump’s records.
Hamlett did this in September, while Trump was still a candidate for president, by using the Federal Student Aid-Datashare application, prosecutors said.
Trump refused to release his tax returns during the presidential campaign, saying he was under audit, and still has not made the records public.
Hamlett, 31, owns a private investigations a...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:34 am
A school in Poland unveiled a plaque Tuesday that commemorates 87 Jewish girls who were expelled in 1939 during the Nazi occupation of the country.
The event in Krakow is one in a growing number of efforts by teachers and children to commemorate the Jews who lived in Poland before the Holocaust, which was perpetrated by Nazi Germany largely in occupied Poland.
The event was held to mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the No. 2 middle school in Krakow, which before World War II was an all-girls school.
Lital Beer, director of Yad Vashem’s Reference and Information Services, said her researchers worked for nearly two years at the school’s request to determine the fate of the 87 girls. She said 21 were killed in the Holocaust and 24 survived, but the fate of the other...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:34 am
A prominent Israeli parliamentarian on Tuesday offered a buoyant assessment of Donald Trump’s official visit to the Jewish state, which ended earlier in the day with the US president’s departure for Rome.
Michael Oren — a former Israeli ambassador to the US who was elected to the Knesset as a member of the centrist Kulanu Party in 2015 — said Trump had come to Israel “to convey love. The word ‘love’ appeared many times in his speeches.”
Speaking on a conference call hosted by The Israel Project, a Washington-DC based strategic communications organization, Oren noted that Trump’s warmth was also matched with strategic assurances, especially regarding the threat posed by Iran.
“That was a very prominent message tha...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:33 am
Manchester’s Jewish community joined with the rest of their city in sorrow and disbelief on Tuesday, following the devastating terrorist atrocity outside a pop concert on Monday night in which 22 people lost their lives and more than 50 were wounded.
“I was very distressed this morning, I was quite tearful,” Manchester-born Rabbi Benjamin Simmonds told The Algemeiner. “The mood here today is somber, but very determined. People are very resilient.”
A few children from the Jewish community had attended the concert by US pop star Ariana Grande, but none were reported to be among the casualties, Simmonds said. Volunteers from the Chabad movement were out on the streets of Manchester after the blast, bringing hot food and drinks to emergency w...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:31 am
American Jewish organizations were in almost unanimous agreement over the success of US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel, a series of statements released on Tuesday made clear.
“We applaud President Trump’s historic declaration of support for Israel, for her security and for her right to exist as the free and sovereign nation of the Jewish people in their ancient homeland,” said the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC).
The RJC asserted that Trump’s “words stood in stark contrast from the previous American administration’s policies. The Obama administration gave us eight years of ‘daylight’ between the US and Israel, a dangerous nuclear deal with Iran, and a set of policies that allowed terrorist groups to grow and thrive ac...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:31 am
President Donald Trump’s effort to get the Palestinian Authority to stop giving money to jailed terrorists and their families will expose the “duplicity” of PA leader Mahmoud Abbas, the editor-in-chief of The Algemeiner said during an i24 News appearance on Monday.
“What President Trump has brought to the table that previous presidents have not brought to the table is an insistence on the Palestinians that their rewards for the terrorists that have perpetrated these types of attacks — paying salaries to terrorists in prison — are not acceptable,” Efune told “Stateside” host David Shuster, shortly after the news broke of a deadly suicide bombing at an arena in the British city of Manchester.
“Stoppin...
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May 24, 2017 at 10:30 am
University students across the US released a “call to action” for activists to fast on Tuesday in “solidarity” with Palestinian terrorists imprisoned in Israeli jails, who have been on a hunger strike for over a month.
The “Dignity Strike” has primarily been a social media initiative, with participants tweeting under “#DignityStrike36” and similar permutations of the phrase, but the campaign also has the official support of students from the following institutions: Northwestern University, University of Chicago, DePaul University, Columbia University, University of California (UC)-Irvine, UC-Davis, UC-Riverside, UC-San Diego, Hunter College and Stony Brook University.
Aviva Slomich, the inte...
