HONOLULU — The missile threat mistakenly sent Saturday by Hawaii officials came just a few minutes after a shift change at state Emergency Operations Center in Diamond Head Crater. Here's a timeline of what happened: 8:05 a.m. — Workers initiate routine test of the emergency alert system. 8:07 a.m. — A worker mistakenly hits the button to send the emergency warning reading: "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL." 8:10 a.m. — The head of the Emergency Management Agency, state adjutant general Maj. Gen. Joe Logan, confirms with U.S. Pacific Command that there was no missile launch. Honolulu police are notified of the false alarm. 8:13 a.m. — The state issues a cancellation that prevents the message from...
Police in northern Virginia are investigating after some residents received fliers claiming to be from the Ku Klux Klan. WTOP reported Saturday that the fliers were found outside houses Friday night in Leesburg and made reference to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the slain civil rights leader whose holiday is observed Monday. Read more at NY POST.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has described US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace efforts as the “slap of the century”. Speaking to Palestinian faction leaders in Ramallah on Sunday, he said: “The deal of the century is the slap of the century and we will not accept it.” He also accused Israel itself of putting an end to the Oslo Accords, which began the peace process in 1995. Read more at BBC.
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Mrs. Mira (Hager) Cohen Wein a”h. Mrs. Wein was the wife of Rabbi Berel Wein (Jerusalem), former wife of Rabbi Dr Samuel Cohen zt”l and mother of Baruch Cohen (Los Angeles), Michael Cohen (Brooklyn), and Miriam Silberberg (Monsey). A proud descendant of the Vizhnitz Kosov Ontinia Zalishchik Rizhin Chassidic dynasties, she was a Holocaust survivor of the Transnistria concentration camp. Kevurah will be at Har Hamenuchos, Har Tamir, Gush Taf-Daled, Chelka Aleph, Chelkas HaRabbonim, Jerusalem Israel, on Monday. Shivah in Israel will be at Rabbi Berel Wein’s house, Ben Maimon 15, Rechaviah, Jerusalem. NY Shiva will be at 7 Arcadian, Monsey NY 10977, Tuesday January 16, 2018 – Friday January 1...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today (Monday, 15 January 2018), met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and issued the following statement: "Thank you my friend, Prime Minister Modi, Narendra. Thank you for your exceptional friendship and hospitality that you showed me, my wife, and our delegation. I was deeply moved today in the celebration at the ceremony. It was an expression not only of the honor you showed me but the honor you showed the people of Israel and the State of Israel. You are a revolutionary leader in the best sense of the word 'revolution'. You are revolutionizing India. You are catapulting this magnificent state into the future and you have revolutionized the relationship between Israel and India. I'm the son of a historian. Our peoples have had t...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, today (Monday, 15 January 2018), were welcomed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the presidential palace in an official ceremony that included an honor guard of more than 100 soldiers. Prime Minister Netanyahu's vehicle received a mounted escort; the two countries' national anthems were played. Prime Minister Netanyahu: “This is the dawn of a new era in the great friendship between India and Israel that began with Prime Minister Modi’s historic visit to Israel, which created tremendous enthusiasm. It continues with my visit here, which I must say is deeply moving for my wife and me, and for the entire people of Israel. And I think it heralds a flourishing of our partnership to bring prosperity and peace an...
The Palestinian president railed at President Donald Trump in a fiery, two-hour-long speech on Sunday, saying "shame on you" for his treatment of the Palestinians and warning that he would have no problem rejecting what he suggested would be an unacceptable peace plan. The speech by Mahmoud Abbas ratcheted up what has been more than a month of harsh rhetoric toward Trump since the president's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Relations between Washington and the Palestinians have sunk to a new low, boding poorly for a peace plan the White House has promised to present. Speaking to the Palestinian Central Council, a decision-making body, Abbas repeated the Palestinians' opposition to Trump's Jerusalem recognition and censured Trump for accusing th...
President Trump made his first public comments since the false alarm of a ballistic missile heading toward Hawaii, saying he thought it was “terrific” that the state took responsibility for the error. “That was a state thing but we are going to now get involved with them. I love that they took responsibility. They took total responsibility,” Trump told reporters Sunday. “But we are going to get involved. Their attitude and their — I think it is terrific. They took responsibility. They made a mistake,” he continued. Read more at The Hill.
Introduction Ramban in this Parsha has many classical comments, especially the last Ramban in the parsha which is a foundation of the fundamentals of the Torah, and I hope to spend some time on that with that. We will go over some well known ideas and hopefully add a few fascinating concepts as well, as they pertain to our ikarei haemunah. 1) “Ra’ah” The Evil Star of Blood Pharaoh says a very famous line in response to Moshe’s requestt to take the Jews out to go serve Hashem on a little excursion in the Midbar. “Ki ra’ah neged pineichem” (Shemos 10:10). There is evil opposite your faces. Rashi makes two comments on this pasuk.  One of them is he says, “K’Targumo,” like the Targum says. Ramban replies and says: I would love...
Joel & Yechiel Were Best Friends Until One Day It All Came Crashing Down. .
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to withhold tens of millions of dollars from the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, cutting the year's first contribution by more than half or perhaps entirely, and making additional donations contingent on major changes to the organization, according to U.S. officials. President Donald Trump hasn't made a final decision, but appears more likely to send only $60 million of the planned $125 million first installment to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, said the officials, who weren't authorized to publicly discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity. Future contributions would require the agency, facing heavy Israeli criticism, to demonstrate significant changes in operations, they said, adding that one ...
As the manhunt continues for the terrorist who killed Israeli father of six Raziel Shevah in Samaria earlier this week, Israeli security forces are bracing for violence. Slain Israeli father of six Raziel Shevah. Credit: American Friends of Magen David Adom. Israeli forces surrounded the Palestinian city of Nablus and nearby villages overnight Thursday, arresting 18 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank as part of efforts to apprehend the shooter who killed Shevah. Security checkpoints at the entrances and exits to Nablus as well as its environs remained in place on Friday as the search for Shevah’s shooter was ongoing. On Thursday, a 16-year-old Palestinian was killed in a clash in the village of Bureen, near Nablus, the Pa...
NEW YORK - An El Al flight en route from New York to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing early Sunday morning in Goose Bay, Canada. Over 15 hours later, the passengers finally disembarked and transferred to a new plane, and were on their way to Israel. The flight, which had been scheduled to depart JFK Airport at 11:50 p.m. Motzoei Shabbos, took off an hour late, according to Fradel Leser, a passenger who spoke with Hamodia from the plane. Two hours into the flight, they announced that that there would be an emergency landing due to “technical difficulties”; some passengers told Hamodia that they had heard “irregular mechanical noises.” Upon hearing the announcement, “nobody spoke much; we all began davening,” said Mrs. Le...
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef visits the home of Rabbi Raziel Shevach. "He was immersed in Torah and kindness." The Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, on Sunday evening paid a condolence call at the home of Rabbi Raziel Shevach in Havat Gilad. Rabbi Shevach, a father of six children, was murdered in a shooting attack in Samaria last week. Rabbi Yosef said that Rabbi Shevach had received from him three different certificates of smicha (rabbinical ordination) and that it was clear that he was immersed in Torah and kindness and deserved all these documents. "The rabbinate of Rabbi Shevach was expressed in words between man and G-d and also in words between people. He also had humanity," said Rabbi Yosef.
SANTA ANA, CALIF.  - Authorities say two people escaped serious injuries when the car they were in went airborne and slammed into the second floor of a dental office in Southern California. The Orange County Fire Authority says the Nissan Altima hit a center divider early Sunday, soared into the air and plowed into the top floor of the two-story structure in Santa Ana. Photos show the sedan's front half wedged inside the building while the back half hangs about 10 feet above a sidewalk. Officials say a small fire injured one person who managed to get out of the car unassisted. Authorities had to rescue the second person.
Commander of IDF’s Southern Brigade assures residents of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom that they are safe following terror tunnel demolition. Colonel Kobi Heller, the commander of the IDF’s Southern Brigade, on Sunday evening met with the residents of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, located near the border with Gaza. The meeting was held hours after the IDF finished demolishing a Hamas terror tunnel that passed under the Kerem Shalom Crossing from Gaza into Israel. "Nobody wants to reach an escalation in the situation,” Heller told the residents, as quoted on Israeli media, and added, “We have responded to each rocket attack. Some of the retaliations were large but there has been zero response from the Gazan side. This shows our high deterrence.” The senior offic...
A federal prosecutor says a former U.S. Postal Service worker who burned at least 20 tubs of mail over five months has pleaded guilty to a single count of delaying or destroying the mail. U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook said in a news release Friday that 50-year-old Mark Wayne Thompson took mail from his rural postal route in Louisiana to his home in Pitkin, where from Dec. 1, 2016 to May 1, 2017, he burned at least 20 tubs of mail. The former letter carrier now faces up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine. His sentencing is set for April 6.
arishioners prayed Sunday for those killed and for families still searching for missing relatives in a Southern California community ravaged by mudslides, and authorities announced another body had been found, increasing the death toll to 20. The body of 30-year-old Pinit Sutthithepa was discovered Saturday afternoon. His 2-year-old daughter, Lydia, remained missing. His 6-year-old son, Peerawat, nicknamed Pasta, and his 79-year-old father-in-law, Richard Loring Taylor, also were killed in the mudslides. "This family is one of several that lost multiple family members," Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said. "And we know that the suffering of those who knew and loved all of the victims is immense." The list of those still missing in the mudslides has shrunk to four. Because most...
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