Germany’s foreign ministry says it will press Kuwait about a law that prevented its national airline from transporting an Israeli citizen on a flight originating in Frankfurt. Deputy foreign minister Michael Roth told Die Welt newspaper Friday that Germany’s ambassador has been asked to raise the issue with Kuwaiti authorities. The move follows a Frankfurt court ruling Thursday that Kuwait Airways didn’t have to transport the Israeli on a 2016 flight that included a stopover in Kuwait City because it would have faced legal repercussions at home. The court noted the airline wasn’t allowed to have contracts with Israelis under Kuwait’s boycott of Israel. Roth said: “It is incomprehensible to me that in today’s Germany a passenger cannot boa...
The Tel Aviv District Court is recognizing a class action lawsuit against El Al Airlines in the amount of 1.28 billion shekels. The petitioner requested the court view the case as a class action lawsuit based on changes made by the airline almost three years ago regarding terms of a ‘Matmid’ flyer. The change in conditions included three changed conditions in respect of which the plaintiffs request the legendary sum: 1. Goals for which a bonus ticket will be required – more points will be required. 2. Goals for which a bonus ticket will be required – 50% more points will be required. 3. Ending the ability to purchase a ticket open for one year using bonus points. The Tel Aviv District Court approved the filing of the class action and defined the members ...
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Gadi Eizenkott informed Brig.-Gen. Ofer Winter that he will not be the prime minister’s military secretary. Winter was one of the candidates to be appointed military secretary in lieu of Brigadier-General Eliezer Toledano, who is to be appointed commander of the Gaza division, even though Winter’s name was not included in the list of candidates for the position. According to the report in Yisrael Hayom, the list included three names: the commander of the Gaza Division, Brigadier-General Yehuda Fuchs, the commander of the Bashan (Golan) Brigade, Brigadier-General Yaniv Asor; and the commander of the fire brigade, Brig.-Gen. Uri Gordin, who interviewed the three of them weeks ago, but did not select any of them and did not inform the chief o...
Rav Yitzchak Goldknoff of the Vaad for Shmiras Shabbos spoke with Kol Berama Radio host Noam Zeigman on Sunday morning regarding Health Minister Yaakov Litzman’s threat to break from the coalition if Israel Railways continues its chilul Shabbos, employing Jews to perform maintenance and repairs. Zeigman points out that despite the statements attributed to Litzman, he threatenedto leave the coalition if chilul Shabbos by the railway continues, not specifying only if Jewish laborers are involved. Zeigman stated the letter simply stated if work is carried out by the railway, he would leave the coalition. Despite the threat, non-Jews were employed this past Shabbos, Parshas Toldos, working on tracks in the Dimona area. Goldknoff explains in this particular incident, it may h...
The Vishnitzer Rebbe has Bichasdei Hashem been taken off the respirator on Sunday morning. As has been reported on Motzei Shabbos, the Rebbe – who had been hospitalized for the past few days – suddenly turned critical and was placed on a respirator. Thousands of Vishnitzer Chassidim packed Batei Midrashim around the globe reciting Tehillim throughout the night. His condition continued to improve all night until he was removed from the respirator on Sunday morning. The Rebbe, Hagaon HaRav Mordechai Hager Shlita, is the elder of the Admorim today. He is the uncle of the two Vishnitzer Rebbes from Bnei Brak, Rav Yisroel and Rav Mendel. Rav Yisroel, whose grandchild got married in Boro Park two weeks ago, was still in NY (after a historic visit to Cleveland) and was ...
Baltimore, Md - Nov. 17, 2017 - On Wednesday, Nov. 15, Luxenburg & Bronfin, LLC, hosted the inaugural Ner Yisroel Lunch and Learn in Pikesvile. The event was highly successful with over 35 attendees. HaRav Yissocher Frand delivered a fascinating shiur on the topic of "Is DNA Testing Compatible with Halacha?" Yasher koach to the alumni committee who spearheaded this project, to the hosts who graciously offered their office space, and to all who attended. The Pikesville Lunch and Learn will hopefully become a regular occurrence going forward. Your browser does not support the audio tag.
Jerusalem - The Israeli military says it has fired a tank shell into Syria as a “warning shot” after the Syrian military conducted construction along their border. The military says Syria violated the 1974 cease-fire agreement on the Golan Heights Saturday by using heavy tools to fortify a military post in the demilitarized zone between the countries. In response, the military says it complained to the United Nations peacekeeper force station on the Golan and fired a tank shell as a warning. The incident comes as Israel has voiced concerned about the growing presence of Iran and its proxy Hezbollah in Syria as that country appears to be transitioning into a post-civil war reality, in which Israel says it will defend its interests.
Buenos Aires - Argentina’s Navy said Saturday it was ramping up the search for a submarine that hadn’t been heard from in three days, and at least six other nations said they would join in the effort. Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said that the area being searched off the country’s southern Atlantic coast has been doubled as concerns about the 44 crew members grew. “We are not discounting any hypothesis,” Balbi said. Possibilities could include “a problem with communications” or with its power system, he said. Authorities last had contact with the German-built diesel-electric sub, the ARA San Juan, on Wednesday as it was on a voyage from the extreme southern port of Ushuaia to Mar del Plata. President Mauricio Macri said in a tweet that the coun...
British lawmakers and student leaders convened on Wednesday to discuss the prevalence of antisemitism at universities and strategize on ways to protect Jewish students on campus. Hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism and the Antisemitism Policy Trust, the session featured speakers including Labour MPs Angela Rayner and John Mann; Shakira Martin, president of the National Union of Students (NUS); and Liron Velleman, campaigns manager of the Union of Jewish Students. Testimonies shared at the event pointed to a diverse litany of abuse — from student officers using the hashtag #Jew in Twitter discussions on wealth to “violent” protestsdirected at students attending a pro-Israel event. “A number of campuses have Holocaust denial litera...
Hillary Clinton is mocking Fox News for “always talking” about her as if she’d won the presidency. The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate is joking in an interview with the online news outlet NowThis that she is officially resigning as the conservative news channel’s president of the United States. She says the outlet is “always talking about the Clinton administration,” despite the fact that she lost the election Donald Trump. Clinton says: “I want to take this opportunity, sitting here with you, to announce that I am resigning from the Fox News presidency. ” She adds: “I think that we should just leave that behind us and whoever they want to blame for anything, they’re going to have to find somebody else.”
Two leading Jewish campus groups at Rutgers University in New Jersey have expressed concern over the university’s continued employment of adjunct professor Mazen Adi — a former spokesperson for the Syrian regime who accused Israeli officials of trafficking children’s organs. As The Algemeiner first reported last week, Adi worked on behalf of Syria’s Foreign Ministry for 16 years, most recently as a diplomat at the United Nations in New York between 2007 and 2014 — defending Syria as it was accused of gassing, torturing, and starving its own citizens. He joined Rutgers’ Political Science Department in 2015, and will teach a class on international law this spring. The university told The Algemeiner last week that its fa...
JCCs officially launch global partnership at JCC Global World Conference, Nov. 8, Tarrytown, NY TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Nov. 10 – Jewish Community Centers in Baltimore; Ashkelon, Israel; and Odessa, Ukraine, will partner for the first time as part of the JCC Global’s Amitim 2.0-Fellows: A Global Leadership Network program. The JCCs officially launched the partnership yesterday at the JCC Global World Conference, Nov. 5-9, in Tarrytown. The Amitim 2.0-Fellows is a three-year Global Leadership Network program that brings Jewish Peoplehood concepts and programs to the next generation of JCCs worldwide and expands the global network of Jewish leaders and JCCs. As part of the program, leaders of the JCC of Greater Baltimore; the JCC in Ashkelon, Israel; and the Beit Grand JCC in Odessa,...
Baltimore police Commissioner Kevin Davis said police believe the gunman who killed Detective Sean Suiter is still in Baltimore. "We don't think he jumped on a plane and went to France," Davis said on Friday. Davis reiterated earlier statements on keeping an eye out for people nursing unexplained injuries, and offered no new identifying information on the suspect, only known as a black male. "We're always one tip away, we're one moment away from breaking this case wide open," Davis said. "I know that our community is just as upset about this case as we are." Overnight, officials announced the reward for  reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction has increased to $215,000, up from $190,000 on Friday. Tips may be phoned into police homicide detectives...
The National Archives on Friday released 10,744 FBI records — some that have never been previously disclosed — related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. It’s the fifth release of Kennedy assassination records so far this year. The National Archives said 8,336 documents are being released in their entirety and 2,408 are released with limited redactions. A total of 144 records are being released for the first time. Most of the collection comprising about 5 million pages of records has been released to the public, but some documents have been withheld over the years to protect individuals, intelligence sources and methods and national security. The latest documents are being released according to a law that President George H.W. Bush signed...
The organizer of the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has lost his verified status on Twitter, along with several other prominent white nationalists and far-right conservatives. News outlets report Unite The Right organizer Jason Kessler on Wednesday lost the blue check mark that was bestowed upon him last month, a move that elicited backlash against the social media site from those who saw verification as an endorsement of Kessler’s values or noteworthiness. Twitter said in a series of tweets that it eliminated the verification status of accounts in violation of new guidelines , which include those that promote discrimination-based hate or violence. Kessler, who has previously used Twitter to say Heather Heyer’s death at the August rally &...
After more than a decade of making cars and SUVs — and, more recently, solar panels — Tesla Inc. wants to electrify a new type of vehicle: big trucks. The company unveiled its new electric semitractor-trailer Thursday night near its design center in Hawthorne, California. CEO Elon Musk said the semi is capable of traveling 500 miles (804 kilometers) on an electric charge — even with a full 80,000-pound (36,287-kilogram) load — and will cost less than a diesel semi considering fuel savings, lower maintenance and other factors. Musk said customers can put down a $5,000 deposit for the semi now and production will begin in 2019. “We’re confident that this is a product that’s better in every way from a feature standpoint,” Musk told a cr...
A beehive-like structure built deep underground in Jerusalem is providing an innovative solution for the holy city’s chronic shortage of burial space for the dead. Tunnels stretching more than a kilometer (half mile) in length beneath Jerusalem’s main cemetery have been carefully excavated over the past two years to make room for some 22,000 graves — enough space to meet the city’s needs for the next decade. A 50-meter (55-yard) elevator shaft will connect the world above with the world below. “We came up with this idea to provide a solution under the cemetery with burial structures, but also hidden from the eye,” said Arik Glazer, chief executive of Rolzur Tunneling. “There is not enough land and we take advantage of this.” Glazer ...
A Charedi man from Israel was injured on Shabbos morning in a hit-and-run accident in London, England. The man, who was visiting London collecting Tzedaka, was hit by a passing truck that fled the scene following the accident. The Shomrim organization of Stamford Hill reported the incident after Shabbat on their Twitter feed. According to the report, the accident occurred at Clapton Common, a central intersection in the neighborhood just after 11:30 in the morning when people were getting out of shul. The man was seriously injured and lost consciousness. He thankfully regained consciousness in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Searches are undergoing to find the driver of the truck who hit the man. London police have stated that the intersection where the accident occu...
Health Minister Yaakov Litzman spoke to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday and told him that he would resign from the government if Jews continued to work on the Light-Rail in Tel Aviv on Shabbos. At the end of the conversation the two reached an agreement that the work would be done by non-Jews only.Testimonials from the field have arisen that Jews did indeed perform work on the construction this past Shabbos. Now the government waits to see if Litzman will make god on his threat and resign his Ministerial and Cabinet position. The reports of Jews working on the Light-Rail came from Haaretz reporter Almog Ben Bichri who tweeted evidence of the work being done by Jews. The reporter added to his tweet the following text: It is said that governments fall over small details. While t...
Yitzchak Rabin’s convicted murderer, Yigal Amir, is making legal preparations to request a retrial from the court, 22 years after he was accused and convicted of murdering Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and was sentenced to life-imprisonment. Amir’s wife, Larisa Amir Trembovler, updated the Israeli press about the dramatic decision to request the re-trial. “I want to inform you all that in the coming days we will be instating a special task force for the defense of and request of a retrial for Yigal Amir. This decision was made with Amir’s consent after we discussed the matter with him.” In Larisa’s message tot he media she also said: “All of the press related issues surrounding the retrial will be handled by a media group in Switzerland. We...
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