New York -- Ikea relaunched a recall of 29 million chests and dressers Tuesday after the death of an eighth child. CEO Lars Petersson said Ikea wants to increase awareness of the recall campaign for several types of chest and dressers that can easily tip over if not properly anchored to a wall. The death of a California toddler, who was found trapped underneath an Ikea Malm dresser in May, has raised questions about whether Ikea has effectively spread the word about the recall, which was first announced in June 2016. The Swedish retailer and the federal safety regulators are asking customers to take immediate action to secure the dressers, or to return them. Petersson said Ikea has had an "extensive communication" campaign through social media, its website and television and print ads. ...
Washington -- The tax plan advanced by House Republicans last week will spur economic growth, but still add more than $1 trillion to the deficit, according to a new study released Monday. The macroeconomic analysis from the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, finds that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would boost economic output by .6 percent of gross domestic product in 2018, and .3 percent in a decade. The economic growth would provide $169 billion in additional tax revenue for the federal government over the next decade, according to the analysis. The entire tax package is expected to add $1.4 trillion to the deficit over the same period of time. The White House and congressional Republicans, who have criticized the Tax Policy Center&rsq...
'If the world wants to be relevant to reality, they will recognize Jerusalem, and they will have all their embassies here in Jerusalem.' MK Yehuda Glick (Likud) spoke at a conference held by Arutz Sheva and the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, which took place at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. MK Glick: "Ladies and gentlemen, Shalom. I want to first of all thank Arutz Sheva, and thank Anthony for coming all the way to here to celebrate my birthday! Thank you very much, I could not have dreamt of such a wonderful event. Thank you so much for putting together a wonderful birthday for myself for November 20th here in Jerusalem. Really is was so nice of you for coming. But if I'm already speaking I'll say a few other things. "Dear friends: Dovy...
North Korea steps up repression of own citizens as US declares rogue regime a state sponsor of terror. North Korea stepped up its repression of its own citizens by banning drinking and singing, the Yonhap news agency reported Monday. According to the report, North Korean citizens are banned from attending “any gatherings related to drinking, singing and other entertainment." The move may be part of an effort to stifle “a possible negative impact” of sanctions against the rogue regime for its recent nuclear weapons tests. US President Donald Trump designated North Korea as a State Sponsor of TerrorismMonday. "Should have happened a long time ago. Should have happened years ago," Trump declared, according to AFP, citing the death of US student...
Officer rebuked, commander suspended after soldiers shoot, kill suspicious Arab driver near Neve Tzuf. The commander of the Givati ​​Brigade, Colonel Dado Bar Kalifa, reprimanded a company deputy commander following a shooting incident last month near Neve Tzuf, during which an Arab driver was killed after soldiers thought he was preparing to ram them.The investigation was presented to Central Command Chief Major General Roni Numa. The officer was reprimanded for faults in the manner in which the report of the identification of a suspicious vehicle was conveyed to soldiers.In addition, a squad commander was suspended from his post for unprofessional conduct after the report was received and during his activity at the scene thereafter. The fatally wounded driver was id...
Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) responded on Monday to the Trump administration’s proposed peace plan, as reported on the weekend by Hahadashot(formerly Channel 2 News). Katz spoke at a conference hosted by Arutz Sheva and the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce held at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. “Less than a year ago, the United States chose not to veto an anti-Israeli resolution against the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria, and two days ago the U.S. administration, headed by President Trump, warned the Palestinians that it would close their embassy if they continued to act against Israel. The smiles on the Palestinians’ faces from a year ago have been erased,” recal...
Saudi Foreign Minister denies reports his country is getting closer to Israel. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir denied on Monday that his country is getting closer to Israel. His comments came in an interview with the Egyptian CBC television network and were translated by Yediot Aharonot. "There are no relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. There is the Arab peace initiative that constitutes the road map to reach peace and to establish normal relations between Israel and the Arab states," said Jubeir. "Saudi Arabia is committed to the Arab peace initiative. When there will be peace, there will be normal relations between Israel and all the Arab states, which is what the Arab peace initiative determined. This is what all the Arab states have ratified, from ...
Hezbollah leader admits the group transferred advanced weapons to Gaza, including Russian-made Kornet missiles. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah admitted on Monday that the terrorist group had transferred advanced weapons to Gaza, reports Haaretz. The head of the Lebanese group claimed that Hezbollah’s arsenal of weapons was a force of "security and stability" in Lebanon in the face of these threats. He added that Hezbollah "transferred arms, including Kornet missiles, to Gaza," referring to a Russian-made anti-tank missile. He further said that recent Israeli comments indicate that it has ties with Saudi Arabia. "There is pressure on Palestinian to accept dictates that will kill the Palestinian issue under what some are calling the 'deal of the century,'" N...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will meet French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris in early December to discuss threats against Israel from Hezbollah and Iran and “ideas to stabilize the situation in Lebanon.” The prime minister told his Likud party at a meeting Monday that he spoke with the French president “at length” the previous day. Lebanon was plunged into crisis earlier this month by the surprise resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, a Hezbollah rival. Hariri recently traveled to France from Saudi Arabia, where he had made the announcement. Netanyahu says he and Macron agreed to meet to “see if we can adopt similar approaches, as much as possible, concerning this threat and the nuclear agreement with Iran.”
One of the nation’s largest domed stadiums has been destroyed in a scheduled implosion in downtown Atlanta. Nearly 5,000 pounds of explosives were on hand to blast the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to smithereens Monday at 7:30 a.m. People gathered at windows of tall office buildings, at a nearby revolving hotel-top restaurant, in parking lots and at other areas around the scene downtown to watch the blast. The dome opened in 1992, and it was flattened within about 15 seconds. The Georgia World Congress Center Authority, which includes the 71,250-seat dome, had said it would take 12 seconds for the explosives to go off plus another 3 seconds for sections of grandstands to be on the ground. The dome has been replaced by the $1.6 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium next door. A 5-story t...
The U.N.’s Mideast envoy says reconciliation talks between Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas must succeed, warning that failure “will most likely result in another devastating conflict.” Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council Monday that “critical intra-Palestinian talks” are scheduled to open in Cairo on Tuesday. He said the Oct. 12 agreement between the rivals, aimed at restoring the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority’s rule in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, started “a long road that could lead to reconciliation.” But he said the rival factions must first solve the humanitarian crisis for Gaza’s two million residents and return the territory to full civilian and security control by the Palestinian Authority. Tuesday&rsq...
The following is via TLS: A Lakewood resident is in shock after being stopped, held up and ticketed by a Howell cop, just minutes before his wife gave birth to their child – despite telling the cop he was rushing to an emergency. The resident relayed the horrifying experience to TLS, and provided photos of the ticket, as well as a photo of his wife’s hospital bracelet. “The following is the harrowing ordeal that we went through recently with Howell Police Officer Badge #(moderated). My pregnant wife had been to the doctor that day, and was told that as soon as labor begins she should rush to the hospital, since the baby will be born very quickly. That night labor began, so we immediately set out to Monmouth Medical Center driving at regular speed. While driving ...
A portrait of Robert E. Lee that hung inside the City Hall of the town where the Confederate general grew up has been removed and sent to a museum. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that the city of Alexandria has moved the portrait of Lee to the Lyceum, a local history museum. Lee moved to Alexandria at a young age and went on to command the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The portrait had hung on the wall of the City Council chambers for 54 years. Confederate symbols have been under increased scrutiny since a white supremacist killed black parishioners inside a South Carolina church in 2015. Next month, the City Council is expected to vote on what to rename its portion of Jefferson Davis Highway.
As reported earlier, a pair of explosions and a fire at a gigantic cosmetics factory in upstate New York left up to 35 people injured, including seven firefighters. Dozens of first responders were at the scene of the 52,000 sq foot facility in New Windsor, which employs more than 100 people. An NBC New York reporter working at the scene shared a photo of two Chassidish Yidden handing out hot pizza, coffee and doughnuts at the scene. View image on Twitter
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 Does your child receive a BOOST scholarship? Do you wish your child could be eligible for a BOOST scholarship? Every parent has a unique message that needs to be heard. It's time the public hears more real-life stories from students and parents on how educational choice has made a difference in their lives. Agudath Israel of America has joined with ExcelInEd as a national co-sponsor of the "Choices in Education" video contest which will give families the chance to share their success stories with policymakers and the media. Go to www.ChoicesInEd.org for more details and for full contest rules. Videos must be between 45 and 120 seconds and the deadline to submit entries is December 1st. TOPICS: a) How educational choice made a difference in my life or b) Why I need access ...
everal Baltimore City Council members voiced concerns Monday about wait times constituents have experienced when calling 911, saying residents have relayed stories of being placed on hold while homes were burglarized and houses burned. “At minimum, our citizens deserve for their calls to be picked up,” said City Councilman Zeke Cohen, who read aloud complaints from residents during a Public Safety Committee hearing on the city’s 911 operation. “I think we on the council are feeling that there is a systemic problem happening.” Baltimore Fire Chief Niles Ford testified that the average wait time for the city’s 911 is only six seconds, and said he has only about two dozen complaints on record about long wait times. But Ford acknowledged longer ...
A New Jersey realtor was forced to resign after hateful comments aimed at the increasing Orthodox Jewish population in Ocean County surfaced online. “Not so bad maybe they’ll all move back to New York, ” wrote Tony Sloane, whose Facebook profile lists him as a Realtor at Weichert Realtors’s Long Beach Island Office, located some 35 miles from Lakewood. Mr. Sloane made the comment on the public “Jackson NJ Strong” Facebook page, on a post addressing Ocean County’s growing Orthodox Jewish population in context of a recent news story about the formation of the City of Palm Tree in Upstate New York, which encompasses the current Kiryas Joel. “Can this happen here?” the post wonders, dripping with disdain. TLS reported the comme...
Indictments were filed against five youths in the Jerusalem Youth Magistrate Court on Monday, 2 Kislev, youths who attended the so-called ‘hate chasunah’. A short time later, the court dismissed the very same indictments. The Jerusalem Youth Magistrate’s Court recently canceled the indictment of the hate chasenah. The indictment attributes five minors to offenses of incitement to violence or terrorism: In a reasoned decision, which is not permitted to be published because the defendants are minors, Justice Shimon Leibo explained in his 20-page ruling why he is canceling the indictments due to serious flaws in the way they were filed. Attorney Moriah Sasson, who represents one of the defendants, said in response to the cancellation of the indictment: &ldq...
For all the lingering tensions between President Donald Trump and former President George W. Bush, Trump’s White House shares one thing in common with his Republican predecessor’s: People. Trump has installed more than three dozen veterans of the Bush administration, putting them in charge of running agencies, implementing foreign policy and overseeing his schedule. While hiring from the last administration controlled by the same party is common, Trump’s staffing moves are notable given his pledges to change politics-as-usual and the frosty relations between the current and former Republican standard-bearers. The Bush influence has only grown stronger recently, as Trump nominated Alex Azar to lead the Health and Human Services Department, where he served under the...
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein responds to social media posts against President Reuven Rivlin after the latter refused to pardon former IDF soldier Elor Azariya. Postings against the president include photos with him wearing a kafia, as well as with a PLO flag backdrop saying, “You are not my president”. Edelstein explains legitimate differences of opinion are permitted and freedom of speech is important, but incitement, such as the items mentioned above, must be stopped. He calls this the ‘incitement industry’ that exists over recent years, insisting it must be stopped. He explains their only motive is to incite and Chas V’sholom there are those who will take the incitement one step further and therefore, it is worthwhile that it is stopped a step earl...
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