The highly anticipated Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railway embarked on its maiden voyage Sunday, in the first successful test run of the new rail link connecting the major Israeli cities, Israel’s Channel 2 reported. The test runs and infrastructure work on the new rail link are expected to last about a week and have shuttered three of Tel Aviv’s main stations, causing significant delays for Israeli commuters who must turn to alternative means of transport amid the upgrades. Sunday’s trial run was conducted with a 1,200-ton freight train used to test the strength of the recently constructed bridges and rails along the new 37-mile high-speed route.  Using the new rail line, passengers can travel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 28 minutes. “This will ensure ...
Relatives visit new graves of those who were dug up from their graves in Gush Katif, where no Jewish graves remain. The annual memorial ceremony was held Monday on the Mount of Olives for the fallen of Gush Katif, whose graves were uprooted 12 years ago and moved to Jerusalem. All Jewish graves in the Gaza Strip were dug up and relocated during the 2005 Disengagement, when all Jewish residents of Gaza were expelled from their homes. The memorial ceremony was attended by the families of the deceased, Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, the director of the Jerusalem cemeteries, Rabbi Hillel Horowitz and the uprooted Gush Katif residents. Shlomo Wasserteil, the director of the Gush Katif Museum and initiator of the memorial, said at the event: ""Today we are holding the memorial for a s...
Shas chairman compares religious Zionist community to Reform movement. Interior Minister Arye Deri (Shas) attacked a number of senior religious Zionist rabbis against the backdrop of their struggle with the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. "Even those with knitted skullcaps (religious Zionists), in very large communities, are already on the edge of the Reform Movement," Deri said at a closed conference Monday. "Anyone who knows how the synagogues and prayer services are run there...there are really big changes. It is true that there are more kippot and they are more Israel, but they are on the edge of the Reform." Minister Deri's recording of the conference was broadcast on Channel 2 news. He also referred to the conversion law and said that "the greatest fighters against this law...
9-year-old girl finds coin from time of Temple with inscription 'Holy Jerusalem.' A surprising and apparently shocking discovery in Neve Tzuf, in Binyamin: Hallel, a girl of about nine, discovered an ancient coin that turned out to be a half-shekel coin with the inscription "Holy Jerusalem." Arutz Sheva spoke with the girl, Hallel, and her father, attorney Shimon Halevy, and Prof. Zohar Amar, who conducted the preliminary examination of the coin. Of the day his daughter showed him the coin, he says: "The girl curiously approached me with a dark coin and asked me 'Dad, does this seem important to you?' This is a coin with markings like an Israeli shekel, but it does not look like a coin of our time. At first it was hard for me to believe that this w...
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A Baltimore monument to Christopher Columbus has been vandalized, Baltimore Brew reports. The 225-year-old monument is believed to be the oldest monument to the explorer still standing. Though it's unclear when the vandalism took place, a video was posted Monday depicting the act. "Christopher Columbus symbolizes the initial invasion of European capitalism into the western hemisphere," the narrator, possibly the vandal himself, says in the video. "Columbus initiated a centuries-old wave of terrorism, murder, genocide, rape, slavery, ecological degradation and capital exploitation of labor in the Americas." The vandal is seen taking a sledgehammer to the memorial's inscription, which read "Sacred to the Memory of Chris. Columbus Oct. XII MDCC VIIIC." Others at the scene ta...
MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Yisrael Eichler, a member of the council of four seeking to minimize Chilul Shabbos, are beginning to realize that letters to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other government officials are not going to be enough to stop growing state-sponsored Chilul Shabbos. This has led Eicher to authoring a bill that would make it illegal to pay employees extra for working on Shabbos. According to the law, an employee who receives a permit to work on Shabbos is entitled to receive a substantial wage increment for what he receives on a regular day, both for additional hours and for work on a day that defines freedom. According to MK Eichler, this is an addition of 400% that brings quite a few workers to work on Shabbos. On Sunday morning, 28 Menachem Av, in an interview with ...
President Donald Trump will use a nationally televised address to outline for a war-weary nation the strategy he believes will best position the U.S. to eventually declare victory in Afghanistan after 16 years of combat and lives lost. The speech Monday night will also give Trump a chance for a reset after one of the most difficult weeks of his short presidency. Trump tweeted Saturday that he had reached a decision on the way forward in Afghanistan, a day after he reviewed war options with his national security team at a meeting at Camp David, Maryland. The president offered no clues about whether he would send thousands more U.S. troops into Afghanistan or exercise his authority as commander in chief to order that they be withdrawn from America’s longest war. But signs pointed in...
Lebanon’s interior minister said Monday that the country’s police intelligence played a major role in foiling a plot to bring down an Emirati passenger plane that was supposed to take off from Sydney bound for the United Arab Emirates’ capital, Abu Dhabi. Nouhad Machnouk told reporters that four Lebanese-Australian brothers, including one who is in detention in Lebanon, had planned to blow up the plane with bombs hidden inside a large Barbie doll and a meat grinder. He said the bombs did not make it onto the plane because the handbag they were placed in was 7 kilograms (15.4 pounds) above the weight permitted by the airline. Machnouk said the bombs were sent back to the would-be attacker’s home in Australia. He said the attacker tried to bring two explosives on th...
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is defending President Trump’s response to the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and rejecting calls from a group of his Yale University classmates that he resign from the administration in protest. In a statement issued by the Treasury Department, Mnuchin says “the president in no way, shape or form believes that neo-Nazi and other hate groups who endorse violence are equivalent to groups that demonstrate in peaceful and lawful ways.” Mnuchin says that “as someone who is Jewish, I believe I understand the long history of violence and hatred against the Jews” and other minorities. Mnuchin’s statement was in response to a letter signed by more than 300 Yale alums urging Mnuchin to resign. Mnuchin graduated...
There is no question that what makes a business thrive is the people who work in it. A content worker usually takes the best out of himself in the work environment, does not change his place of work, and even increases his output at work in most cases. According to a new study to keep employees happy, workers should be allowed to learn and develop in the workplace, according to a study conducted by the Israeli high-tech company to find out what it takes to make employees happy. Other reasons for the research contributing to the sense of happiness are, in descending order: employment in the field that the employee has a passion for, work in a company that produces positive change in the world, a sense of personal recognition, work in a leading company, a balance between work and personal ...
The lieutenant governor of Guam reassured Japanese on Monday that the U.S. territory is calm amid the recent tension between the U.S. and North Korea. Lt. Gov. Ray Tenorio said at a news conference with the president of the Guam Visitors Bureau in Tokyo that Guam remains in a “state of normalcy.” Japan is a major source of tourists for the Pacific island, with a tourism relationship that has lasted for more than 50 years.North Korea threatened recently to launch ballistic missiles into waters near Guam. However, leader Kim Jong Un said later that he would watch Washington’s conduct before executing the plan. Meanwhile, Tenorio told reporters that the White House has told Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo that it “is closely watching North Korea and that people on Guam have n...
A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the Palestinians are still waiting for a “clear vision” from the United States on resuming peace talks with Israel as President Donald Trump’s envoys are set to visit. Nabil Abu Rdeneh says Abbas “wants clarity” on the two-state solution, the cornerstone of international diplomatic efforts for the past two decades. Trump’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, envoy for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt and Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell are set to arrive this weekend to discuss resuming talks that last collapsed in 2014. Trump has tasked Kushner with the ambitious goal of laying the groundwork for what he calls the “ultimate deal.”
Steve Bannon has declared “war” against President Trump, with bits and pieces of his grumblings and plans leaking out in the media. The following are excerpts from an article in Vanity Fair: Bannon’s main targets are the West Wing’s coterie of New York Democrat “globalists”-Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn – as well as the “hawks,” comprised of National Security Adviser H.R McMaster and his deputy, Dina Powell. “He wants to beat their ideas into submission….” The chaotic, war-torn West Wing of the past six months will be prologue, but the coming struggles will be as personal as they are ideological, waged not with leaks but with slashing Breitbart banners. On Sunday, Bre...
סעודת הילולא של כ״ק אדמו״ר הקוה״ט בעל ויואל משה מסאטמאר זי״ע עם מעמד היסוד לקרן ויואל משה, בשאטער הענקי בחצר בנין הבית רחל בעיר קרית יואל, עלי לציון הקדוש עם אלפי חסידי סאטמאר ליל שישי Yurtzeit of the Satmar Rebbe Zy”u by the Satmar Rebbe אב תשע"ז Photo Credit: JDN    
O'Fishel's Kosher Eclipse is well underway. A brief view of the reserved area where eager participants hope to view this once-in-a-lifetime event.  
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A Jewish family from Sacramento decided to drive to Oregon this week, to see Monday’s solar eclipse. But while driving on I-5, they were appalled to be greeted by vile anti-Semitic signs hanging on the Freeway. Beth & Michael Dershowitz told the media that the first sign was somewhere south of Eugene. It said “UNJEW HUMANITY.” The couple says they were shaken but continued out of the rural area. They then saw another sign near Salem, where then then pulled over to the shoulder to take a picture. The banners read, “UNJEW HUMANITY,” “Eclipse Whitey,” and “Jewish Financing Available,” according to media reports. OregonLive reports that the signs seem to have been hung by 64-yeald Jimmy Marr, a Springfield neo-Nazi animal known...
A police operation was underway Monday in an area west of Barcelona, and a Spanish newspaper reports that the fugitive in the city’s van attack has been captured. Regional police said officers shot a man wearing a possible explosives belt in Subirats, a small town 45 kilometers (28 miles) west of Barcelona. Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, has been the target of an international manhunt since Thursday’s van attack in Barcelona. Authorities said Monday they now have evidence he drove the van that plowed down the city’s famed Las Ramblas promenade, killing 13 pedestrians and injuring more than 120 others. Abouyaaqoub then is suspected of carjacking a man and stabbing him to death as he made his getaway, raising the death toll between the Barcelona attack and a related attac...
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