דינער 'אש התורה' לטובת ישיבת מיר ירושלים בבארא פארק Dinner Eish Hatorah For Yeshivas Mir Yerishulayim in Boro Park טבת תשע"ח Photo Credit: JDNMir Yeshiva today has over 1,000 chassidish talmidim learning in the Yeshiva. Over the past 20 years there have been close to 10,000 Chassidish students that have passed through the doors of the Yeshiva, with the majority coming from the New York metropolitan area. As such, the Mir has undertaken to make an Annual Chassidish Dinner as an opportunity for those alumni to express their hakoras hatov. This year was the fifth year that the Yeshiva has organized an Annual Dinner, and had a record participation of over 2,000 attendees who came out in force to show their gratitude. Rabbi ...
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An FBI agent shared the name of former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos with Trump dossier author Christopher Steele during a meeting in early October 2016. That new bit of information was revealed in a column published Wednesday by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. Ignatius reports that Steele, a former MI6 agent, met with an old FBI contact in Rome around Oct. 1, 2016 to share findings from his investigation into Donald Trump’s and the Trump campaign’s associations with the Russian government. “At this meeting, the FBI official asked Steele if he had ever heard of Papadopoulos,” reports Ignatius, who cited an official familiar with the meeting as his source. According to Ignatius, Steele had not heard of Papadopoulos, a little-...
President Trump revealed the winners of his self-proclaimed ‘Fake News’ awards Wednesday night on Twitter with The New York Times topping the list.
  Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump And the FAKE NEWS winners are...https://gop.com/the-highly-anticipated-2017-fake-news-awards/ … 8:00 PM - Jan 17, 2018 The Highly Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards 2017 has been a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news. gop.com ...
LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - Swiss food group Nestle (NESN.S) has agreed to sell its U.S. confectionery business to Italy’s Ferrero for $2.8 billion, it said on Tuesday, marking CEO Mark Schneider’s first big sale and a small step on its path towards healthier products. Nestle, the world’s biggest packaged-food company, has cited the unit’s weak position in the United States, where it trails Hershey (HSY.N), Mars Inc and Lindt, as the rationale for a sale. For family-owned Ferrero, the cash deal offers a chance for the Italian company to build scale quickly in that key market, where it has done two other deals in the past year. The maker of Nutella spread and Ferrero Rocher pralines will become the third-largest chocolate company in the U.S. and globally, according t...
Security forces capture terrorists who carried out attack near Havat Gilad. Security forces on Wednesday evening captured the terrorists who carried out the shooting attack near Havat Gilad last week, in which Rabbi Raziel Shevach, H'yd, was murdered. The forces from the Yamam counter-terrorism unit located the terrorists' hiding place, and a gun battle broke out between the forces and the terrorists. According to Palestinian Arab reports, two terrorists were involved, one of whom was eliminated and the second arrested. The police said that there several people were wounded in the incident, but no further details can be provided at this time due to the limitations of the military censor.
One terrorist eliminated and another arrested by security forces inside Jenin. At least one terrorist was eliminated on Wednesday evening in a clash between security forces and terrorists in the Palestinian Arab city of Jenin. During an operation to arrest wanted persons, a gun battle broke out between the security forces and the terrorists, during which one terrorist was killed. According to Palestinian Arab reports, another terrorist was arrested.
Stocks traded higher on Wednesday following the release of stronger-than-expected quarterly results from some of the biggest U.S. companies. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 323 points to a record high, closing above 26,000 for the first time. The index first broke above the milestone mark on Tuesday. The S&P 500 gained 0.9 percent, with staples and tech rising more than 1 percent. Tech stocks got a boost from Apple, which erased losses after announcing plans to repatriate billions in overseas cash. The stock closed 1.7 percent higher. The Nasdaq composite rose 1 percent. Bank of America reported adjusted quarterly earnings that surpassed analyst estimates. U.S. Bancorp also posted better-than-expected results. Earnings season is off to a strong ...
Baltimore, MD -- Ten days after filing as a candidate for the Maryland Senate, J.D. Merrill has raised nearly $65,000. Merrill is a former City Schools teacher and administrator who is running in Maryland’s 41st legislative district. The report shows 359 contributions, nearly 25% of which came from current or former educators who have invested in Merrill’s vision for a new commitment to public education in Baltimore. The median contribution was $50 and more than half of the contributions were $100 or less, highlighting the grassroots energy behind the campaign.   “We are energized by the hundreds of donors who have invested in our message that we all do better when our schools do better,” Merrill said. “Together, we will bring hardworking and accountabl...
LONDON (AP) - A London man who talked about forming "a death squad sent by Allah" has gone on trial for allegedly plotting a series of attacks in the British capital. Prosecutor Mark Heywood told a jury at London's Central Criminal Court on Tuesday that 25-year-old Umar Haque "was fascinated by the warped and extreme ideology of Islamic State." Heywood said Haque identified multiple targets, including Big Ben, Heathrow Airport, banks, shopping centers and embassies. He was arrested in May. Authorities recorded a conversation in which they allege Haque said, "We are a death squad sent by Allah and his messengers to avenge my Arab brothers' blood." Haque has denied preparing acts of terrorism. Three men he met through a London mosque and who are accused of helping him also deny...
A Cypriot company says its new sub-sea internet cable that will connect Israel with Spain will be powerful enough to handle up to 60 percent of the world's internet traffic at peak time. Quantum Cable Chairman Nasos Ktorides said after signing on Tuesday an agreement to lay the cable that the $200 million project is expected to come online in 2020. Ktorides said the cable will have 40 times more capacity than existing internet cables on the Mediterranean seabed. He said that's enough capacity to handle as many as 80 million high-definition video calls between Asia and Europe simultaneously. The 4785-mile (7,700 km) cable will reach Bilbao, Spain, where an equally powerful internet cable now connects Spain with the U.S. state of Virginia.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump denied on Wednesday that the planned relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would take place within a year, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected the controversial move to happen by then.shington, U.S., January 17, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Reversing decades of U.S. policy, Trump in early December recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and set in motion the process of moving the embassy from Tel Aviv, imperiling Middle East peace efforts and upsetting the Arab world and Western allies alike. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said last month the embassy move was “probably no earlier than three years out, and that’s pretty ambitious,” a timeframe that administration officials ...
Charges could be filed in connection with the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, even though the gunman responsible for killing 58 people is dead, a lawyer for Las Vegas police told a judge Tuesday. Attorney Nicholas Crosby did not identify new evidence or suspects but said charges might be possible depending on the results of an ongoing investigation. Sheriff Joe Lombardo and the FBI have said they believe Stephen Paddock acted alone to carry out the Oct. 1 shooting that also injured hundreds before killing himself. "Without naming names, there are potential charges against others as a result of the ongoing investigation?" Clark County District Court Judge Elissa Cadish asked Crosby as he argued to keep police search-warrant records sealed. "Yes," said Crosby, who represe...
The Latest on the faulty missile warning alert sent over the weekend by Hawaii's emergency management agency (all times local): ——— 1:30 p.m. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the state of Hawaii didn't need federal approval to retract a cellphone alert mistakenly sent over the weekend warning of a ballistic missile attack. FEMA said in a statement Monday that Hawaii has had the authority to cancel or retract warnings since 2012, when it applied for access to the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System. Hawaii Emergency Management Agency spokesman Richard Rapoza says his agency asked FEMA for clarification on Saturday whether rescinding an alert was an appropriate use of the warning system. Hawaii officials have said this process wa...
Democrat Phil Murphy was sworn in as NJ's next governor, succeeding Gov. Chris Christie. He blasted President Trump's "assault" on NJ. Philip D. Murphy was inaugurated as New Jersey's 56th Governor Tuesday. Calling for a new era of optimism and hope, he said state lawmakers will work together toward "writing a new chapter in our history." Murphy used the speech as an opportunity to slam President Donald Trump's "dark" vision of America and its impact on New Jersey. Murphy, a Democrat, said Trump and Republican Congress have taken steps that have hurt New Jersey, noting the recent decision to begin oil drilling off the Jersey Shore, "gut" healthcare that has address the opioid crisis and curb immigration. "We must immediately resist Washington's all-out assault o...
Security forces catch terrorist hiding cell phones in the soles of his flip-flops as he is checked into detention center. Security forces at the Kishon Detention Center north of Haifa caught this morning, Wednesday, a Hamas terrorist trying to smuggle two cell phones into the center - one in each of the soles of his flip-flops, 0404 reported. The phones, which were disguised in black wrapping, were found as the terrorist was being checked into the detention center. The incident was transferred to Israel Police for further treatment. In November, Israel Prison Service officers foiled an attempt to smuggle SIM cards and cellular phones to a terrorist held in the K'tziot Prison in the Negev, after they caught the terrorist’s 5-year-old son hiding the items in h...
The Palestinian president on Wednesday again blasted Donald Trump in a fiery and emotional speech, saying the U.S. leader's decision to recognize contested Jerusalem as Israel's capital was "sinful" and "ill-fated." Mahmoud Abbas, who has openly cursed Trump over his policies, told a conference in Egypt that the United States has disqualified itself from continuing as a broker in the long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, a role America has had for decades. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he was certain the U.S. Embassy in Israel would be moved to Jerusalem sometime this year, much sooner than Trump administration officials have estimated. Netanyahu told Israeli reporters traveling with him in India that his "sol...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon’s attorney relayed questions, in real time, to the White House during a House Intelligence Committee interview of the former Trump chief strategist, people familiar with the closed-door session told The Associated Press. As lawmakers probed Bannon’s time working for President Donald Trump, Bannon’s attorney Bill Burck was asking the White House counsel’s office by phone during the Tuesday session whether his client could answer the questions. He was told by that office not to discuss his work on the transition or in the White House. It’s unclear who Burck was communicating with in the White House. He is also representing top White House lawyer Don McGahn in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into contact...
Berlin - German authorities have rejected a former Auschwitz death camp guard's bid for clemency, removing the final barrier to him serving his sentence for accessory to murder. Lueneburg prosecutors' spokeswoman Wiebke Bethke said Wednesday her office had rejected former SS sergeant Oskar Groening's clemency request filed earlier this week. She said regulations prevented her from releasing any further details. The 96-year-old was convicted in Lueneburg in 2015 as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews and sentenced to four years in prison. He hasn't yet spent any time behind bars because of the appeals process. Germany's highest court rejected his last legal appeal in December. Hannover prosecutors, who have been handling his case, are expected to soon s...
DACA has protected about 800,000 people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children or came with families who overstayed visas The Trump administration on Tuesday appealed a judge's ruling temporarily blocking its decision to end protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants and announced plans to seek a U.S. Supreme Court review even before an appeals court issues a decision. Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing that they were appealing the Jan. 9 ruling by a federal judge preventing President Donald Trump from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The appeal was filed with the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a separate news release, the agency said it planned to file documents seekin...
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