U.S. and Japanese ships and aircraft searched in the Philippine Sea on Thursday for three sailors missing since a U.S. Navy aircraft crashed a day earlier. Eight people were rescued about 40 minutes after the crash of the C-2A “Greyhound” transport aircraft Wednesday afternoon, the Navy said. They were taken aboard the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and were in good condition. The Navy said it had notified next of kin that the three missing sailors were “whereabouts unknown” but it would delay releasing their identities publicly for three days due to policy. The twin-propeller plane came down about 500 nautical miles (925 kilometers) southeast of Okinawa as it was bringing passengers and cargo from Japan to the aircraft carrier, the Navy said in a state...
President Donald Trump thanked U.S. troops for their service on Thursday, assuring them “we’re really winning” against America’s foes as he celebrated Thanksgiving at his private club and provided lunch for Coast Guard men and women on duty for the holiday. Using the occasion to talk up his own leadership, Trump told military members via a video conference that they’ve achieved more progress in Afghanistan and against the Islamic State group under his watch than had been made in years of the previous administration. “We’re being talked about again as an armed forces — we’re really winning,” he told the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division, whose members are conducting operations in Kandahar, Afghanistan. “...
MY Cookie! When Leah was expecting her 7th child, she realized that there may be a problem. If her child would be a son, the result would be that Rachel would only be the mother of 1 of the 12 shevatim (tribes), which would be less than even the maidservants, Bilah and Zilpah, who each already had 2 children. Leah therefore fervently prayed to Hashem for a baby girl and even went so far as to ask Him that if she was indeed pregnant with a son, Hashem should please change the baby to a daughter instead. Hashem answered Leah’s selfless prayers and a daughter named Dinah was born to her (Rashi 30:21, citing Berachos 60a). One would expect that Hashem would reward Leah for her self-sacrifice and that great things would come from Dinah. After all, Leah sacrificed mothering another sheve...
Tel Aviv - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is expected to cut 20-25 percent of its 6,860 workers in Israel and a few thousand more in the United States, financial news website Calcalist reported on Thursday. The world’s largest generic drugmaker will send termination letters to “tens of percents” of its 10,000 employees in the United States in upcoming weeks, Calcalist reported, citing people familiar with the matter. New Teva CEO Kare Schultz is working out the details with regional management in Israel and the United States, Calcalist said, noting those set to be ousted include its chief scientific officer, Michael Hayden, Teva’s president of research and development. A spokesman for Israel-based Teva declined to comment on the report. Teva is widely expected t...
'The method is very simple: Lure people into calling back an extremely expensive provider.' A telephone scam has deluged Israel recently, one that initially appears to be an innocent incoming call but is part of an international deception racket that can cause a user major difficulties with little effort, reports Sivan Cohen on Channel 10's HaKol Kalul program. "Last Wednesday I got a call from Lithuania, which in itself was very strange. I answered and for a half a minute there was no response. Yesterday I understood that apparently it was a sting and I'm a bit confused now because I don't know whether to cancel my credit card; I'm now waiting for answers from both my credit company and the phone service provider," said one interviewee on...
Washington - US President Donald Trump informed Russian counterparts of a joint mission between Sayeret Matkal and the Mossad in Syria during a closed-door conversation last May, Vanity Fair reported Wednesday. The mission was to gather intelligence on an ISIS plot to transform computers into bombs undetectable by airport security. US Homeland Security officials imposed restrictions on passengers carrying laptops and other large electronic gear in cabins on nine airlines, most of which were Middle Eastern carriers, and British authorities imposed similar restrictions as a result of the intelligence. On May 10, Trump met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, in a closed-door meeting in the Oval Office. The meeting was closed to American pre...
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is examining how he can legally fire Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, following her statements about United States Jewry, according to Channel 2. According to the report, a sharp message is being conveyed to Hotovely: “Stop putting the government in hot water, or get fired.” Earlier on Thursday, Netanyahu denounced what he called “offensive remarks” by Hotovely, in which she said US Jews are “people that never send their children to fight for their country” and that “most of them are having quite convenient lives.” A statement issued Thursday morning from his office said that Netanyahu “condemns Tzipi Hotovely’s offensive remarks regarding the American Jewish community. The Jews of ...
MK Eichler speaks of the greatness of Torah leader Rabbi Shteinman, the value of respecting elders. Against the backdrop of Rabbi Shteinman's hospitalization, MK Yisrael Eichler (United Torah Judaism) delivered a moving speech at the Knesset plenum Wednesday, lauding the senior haredi rabbi and touting the haredi community's reverence for elders. ea3f2bb1-1997-484f-9b53-976ea6cb2507 from BaltimoreJewishLife.com on Vimeo. "The entire nation of Israel follows with concern the situation of Our Master the yeshiva dean, Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, son of Gittel, may he see a complete recovery. He is an ancient tree of life that has studied Torah for more than 100 consecutive years."Sixty years ago he taught Torah in Petah Tikvah and only had enough pennies to retur...
Rabbi's spokesperson to Arutz Sheva: 'Yesterday was very difficult for him, but today there are definite signs of improvement.' Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman’s condition improved somewhat Thursday, following a sudden deterioration the day before, a source close to the rabbi told Arutz Sheva. Rabbi Shteinman, one of the most prominent decisors of Jewish law in the haredi world, was hospitalized for testing at the Mayanei Hayeshua medical center in Bnei Brak Tuesday night, two weeks after he had been released from the hospital for a treatment of a fever. While hospitalized this week, Rabbi Shteinman’s condition suddenly deteriorated Wednesday, just hours after his daughter, Rachel Devora Berlin, passed away from cardiac arrest at th...
Buffalo — When it comes to seeking solitude, many people often blame mental health issues as an underlying cause. But a new study finds that being alone has its benefits too, particularly when it comes to people looking for a surge of creativity. Researchers at the University of Buffalo interviewed 295 privacy-valuing individuals who reported a variety of reasons for their tendency to spend a lot of time alone, ranging from feeling fear or anxiety around others to preferring to use spare time working on a craft. Just because you prefer to be alone doesn’t mean you’re depressed. A new study finds that being anti-social from time to time is linked to creativity. Although research has traditionally suggested that excessive time alone can be unhealthy, some seclusive ...
Four Penn State University students are facing charges for stealing a large 9-foot menorah from outside the home of the campus Chabad rabbi, and leaving it lying damaged outside a Jewish fraternity, reported CBS Pittsburgh. The menorah was stolen overnight on Friday, Oct. 27, from outside the home of Rabbi Hershy Gourarie, co-director of Chabad of the Undergrads at Penn State University, and later found lying damaged in front of the Sigma Alpha Mu house, which Gourarie says is a Jewish fraternity. Four men were seen on surveillance footage placing the menorah on the frat house porch. Gourarie says the students being charged are members of other fraternities. Rabbi Gourarie told The Daily Collegian that the menorah was too damaged to be repaired and would cost abou...
Photos taken by Ben Tzion, a 31-year-old Israeli blogger, show him inside the ‘Mosque of the Prophet’ in Medina, Islam’s second holiest site. The images, which the photographer has claimed are peaceful, have created a backlash of angry internet posts throughout the Muslim Middle-East, mainly from Qataris and Palestinians.
The White House is disputing a Democratic senator’s claim that top economic adviser Gary Cohn faked bad reception to get President Donald Trump off the phone. Delaware Sen. Tom Carper said Wednesday in an interview with CNN that he and other Democrats had been in a meeting earlier this month with several White House officials discussing the GOP tax reform plan when the president called from Asia. Cohn put him on speakerphone. Carper said the group listened to the president speak, but after about 15 minutes, “the president’s still talking.” So he suggested Cohn take the phone and say: “Mr. President, you’re brilliant! But we’re losing contact and I think we’re going to lose you now, so goodbye.” Carper said Cohn did just that. “...
The Tel Aviv District Court ruled that the work on Yeshivat Beit Medrash Elyon in Bnei Brak will continue. Justice Yehudis Stuffman rejected the petition filed to halt the work and ruled, “I believed that the petition should be rejected out of hand because of the significant delay in submitting it”. When the work began, a resident of the city, who lives in an apartment located 100 meters northeast of the plot in question, arrived at the municipality to find out the legal source for the work, where she was told that a permit had been issued under the law. The neighbor then petitioned the court against the Ministry of the Interior, the District Planning and Building Committee, the Bnei Brak Local Committee and the Supreme Beit Midrash, demanding that the work on the lot be halte...
President Donald Trump and congressional leaders plan to meet next week to discuss how to avert a potential government shutdown at the end of the year. White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters says the group will meet next week “to discuss end-of-the-year legislative issues.” Two congressional aides confirmed that Republicans Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer would meet with Trump on Tuesday afternoon to hammer out the end-of-year agenda. That includes figuring out how to keep the government funded, as well as other thorny issues, such as extending protections for immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. The aides spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. The meetin...
The Argentine navy says an event consistent with an explosion was recorded near where a submarine disappeared last week with 44 crew on board. A navy spokesman said an "abnormal, singular, short, violent, non-nuclear event" had been detected in the south Atlantic. The ARA San Juan disappeared last Wednesday. More than a dozen countries including Russia and the US have sent assistance. Spokesman Captain Enrique Balbi said the Argentine navy had been informed of the suspected explosion, which took place near the submarine's last known location. Captain Balbi said the navy only knew the location of the suspected explosion, not its cause. Search efforts would be concentrated in the area, he said. Relatives of crew members wait for news On Wednesday, Captain Balbi said oxygen...
A Jerusalem police spokesman reports a 30-day administrative closure order signed by Jerusalem Police Chief Yoram Halevy was given to the owner of a bakery in Beit Shemesh for illegal employment and housing of illegal residents. Administrative closure orders are another important and central step in the police’s determined struggle against the entry of illegal aliens entering the territory of the State of Israel. Illegal entry of illegal aliens into Israel has in the past served as a platform for criminal and terrorist activities. A short while ago, the police handed over to the owners of the ‘Chalat Habayit’ Bakery in Beit Shemesh an administrative closure order signed by the Jerusalem commander. The closure order states the reason is the employment of illegals o...
Two non-Jews entered the complex of the tziyun of Rav Nachman, ZT”L, via the Kohanim Bridge after they were instructed to leave the area earlier. They fired rubber-coated bullets at one avreich who was present at the time. United Hatzalah EMTs responded to the victim, who was transported to a hospital, B’chasdei Hashem listed with only light injuries. Ichud Breslov officials in charge of the tziyun report the two entered via a side entrance from the bridge and in response to the incident, additional security personnel will be added at that entrance to block future intrusions.
The Argentine submarine ARA San Juan went missing in the South Atlantic last week with 44 crew members aboard. Here’s a look at the submarine and the round-the-clock international maritime search. ___ THE VESSEL The German-built diesel-electric TR-1700 class submarine was commissioned in 1985 and was most recently refit in 2014. The retrofitting cost about $12 million and took more than 500,000 work hours. The boat was cut in half and had its engines and batteries replaced. Refits can be difficult because they involve integrating systems produced by different manufacturers, said Rockford Weitz, director of the Fletcher School’s maritime studies program at Tufts University. “The cost of even the smallest mistake during this cutting phase of the operation is eno...
One is compelled to question the PA (Palestinian Authority) definition of ‘dual existence’ for as long as an Israeli enters an autonomous area, under exclusive PA rule, one takes one’s life in one’s hands. This was the case once again on the night of 3 Kislev (Monday to Tuesday), when a vehicle snuck into the city to visit Kever Yosef while an organized visit was taking place in coordination with the IDF. The visitors having IDF approval were in armored buses. The car, carrying Breslov Chassidim, decided to visit on their own, without coordinating with the IDF and adhering to regulations prohibiting Israelis from entering the city on their own. To their dismay, after exiting their vehicle, PA residents stole it and set it ablaze. They were stranded and in a...
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