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Believe me Rebbi, I only care about my child’s Yiddishkeit, and if he doesn’t go on the right path then I prefer that he should just die already. - spoken to Harav Aaron Leib Shteinman A father approached the Gadol HaDor known for his wisdom, insight, deep sensitivity and understanding.  The father was fervent in his faith and love for the Jewish people, so much so that he was adamant that if his child did not follow the “right” path he would sooner see him dead.  Wouldn’t the great Rav, recognizing the father’s love of Torah and Hashem, praise the father for this level of piety? No. Rather than see in the father’s judgment something akin to Abraham’s sacrifice of his beloved son in Akedat Yitzchak, the Gadol saw only a bitter, ...
Rav Yaakov Yakir of Israel’s Familism Movement, which was set up to preserve the integrity of the family unit, is fighting attempts to reintroduce the Parents and Their Children Bill which was blocked two year ago. The earlier bill proposed to strike out items of Israel’s Legal Capacity and Guardianship Law (1962) which define parents as children’s legal guardians. The new version of the bill does the same by replacing the legal word “guardianship” in the above law with the non-legal term “parental responsibility.” He warned that this “basically says that the child has his own independent legal rights, and the parents are supposed to implement those rights.” If the bill passes, the Supreme Court could allow a child to sue his parents...
Baltimore, MD, Jan. 18, 2018 — The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), the largest rabbinic public policy organization in America, today announced a petition drive to preserve traditional standards for prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and to prevent changes at the Holy Site for political reasons. The petition comes in the aftermath of the latest round of Israel Supreme Court hearings on the suit by liberal Jewish groups demanding a larger space at the Western Wall, in which justices questioned whether the groups' demands were exaggerated or unreasonable. "We must make a statement, and we were encouraged by leading Rabbinic scholars and community activists to launch this effort," said Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President of the CJV. "Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Uni...
Pres. Obama attacked press freedom for years. No wonder guys like Jeff Flake loath Trump. He called their bluff. Suddenly Republicans have all the power. For the first time in decades, they could actually do what voters have consistently asked for. But they don’t want to, mostly because their donors don’t want them to.
Two U.S. Representatives from Hawaii have requested a panel hearing to discuss whether the state should remain in charge of sending emergency incoming missile alerts, following a false alarm sent out to people in the state on Saturday. Reps. Tulsi Gabbard (D) and Colleen Hanabusa (D) requested that the House Armed Services Committee holds a hearing in a letter sent Tuesday, suggesting that Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency should retain control of disasters other than incoming missiles, which is a national security issue. Read more at The Hill.
Temperatures in the remote, diamond-rich Russian region of Yakutia have dropped to near-record lows, plunging to -67 degrees Centigrade (-88.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas. MOSCOW (AP) — Even thermometers can’t keep up with the plunging temperatures in Russia’s remote Yakutia region, which hit minus 67 degrees Celsius (minus 88.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas Tuesday. In Yakutia — a region of 1 million people about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) east of Moscow — students routinely go to school even in minus 40 degrees. But school was canceled Tuesday throughout the region and police ordered parents to keep their children inside. In the village of Oymyakon, one of the coldest inhabited places on earth, state-owned Russian television showed the mercu...
DETROIT –  Among the many shiny models vying for attention at Detroit's North American International Auto Show are the revamped Volkswagen Jetta, Hyundai Veloster and Kia Forte. But cars — particularly small ones — are having a tough time getting buyers to look their way as SUVs grow in popularity. Car sales are expected to hit a record low this year after steadily declining for several years. SUVs surpassed cars for the first time in 2016, and the gap only widens: Auto shopping site Edmunds.com forecasts the utilities will make up 43.5 percent of new vehicle sales this year, while cars will fall to 34.5 percent. (Edmunds regularly provides content, including automotive tips and reviews, for distribution by The Associated Press.) The reasons are plenty, inclu...
NEW YORK — Stop making excuses. Start making plans. That's the message behind the second annual National Plan for Vacation Day. It's an effort by the travel industry to persuade Americans to use Jan. 30 as a day to schedule their vacations for the year and take advantage of any paid time off they are entitled to from their jobs. Destinations, tourism agencies and others in the travel industry are expected to offer promotions in conjunction with the effort. It will be promoted on social media with a #PlanForVacation hashtag. Alamo, for example, will publicize vacation-planning tips and offer a 10 percent discount on base rates for weekly car rentals (bookable Jan. 23-Feb. 6, for travel March 1-Aug. 30). Las Vegas is also taking part in the campaign, planning a video show...
BOYNTON BEACH, FLA.  A fourth person has died in Florida after being struck by a new high-speed train. Boynton Beach police spokeswoman Stephanie Slater said in an email that the train struck 51-year-old bicyclist Jeffrey D. King on Wednesday as he pedaled around the gates, which were down, in an attempt to beat the oncoming train. Last week, as the new Brightline train was offering preview runs before its debut, it struck and killed a 32-year-old woman who was crossing the tracks. Witnesses told police she tried to make it across after the guard rails were down. The currently runs between Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach but will expand to Miami and Orlando. A woman was struck in July in Boca Raton in an apparent suicide, and another woman was hit in Deerfield Beach.
Apple announced in a statement on Wednesday that it plans to accelerate U.S. investment and create thousands of new jobs. For years Apple Inc. has been criticized for outsourcing manufacturing to China. Apple says it plans to bring back billions of dollars it has kept in tax havens overseas, and that it will pay a one-time tax of $38 billion on its overseas cash holdings. NPR's Laura Sydell told Kelly McEvers, host of All Things Considered, that Apple has kept some $250 billion outside the U.S.
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Lawmakers grilled executives Facebook, Google's YouTube and Twitter on Wednesday about what the companies are doing to prevent terrorists from using their platforms to spread propaganda and recruit new followers. The Senate's commerce, science and transportation committee hearing comes amid growing government scrutiny over misuse of social media platforms and questions about what the companies are doing to prevent it. And it comes after November's exhaustive congressional hearings on what the companies knew — and did — about Russia's efforts to meddle with the 2016 U.S. elections using their platforms. Lawmakers acknowledged that the companies, especially Google and Facebook, have come a long way when it comes to weeding out extremist material. But they s...
NEW YORK (AP) — The volatility of the digital currency markets was on display again Wednesday, as bitcoin briefly fell below $10,000 before rebounding back above $11,000 in the U.S. afternoon. With the drop below $10,000, bitcoin had lost about half its value since hitting a high above $19,000 in mid-December. Other digital currencies bounced around as well. Bitcoin has slumped 20 percent this week as traders worry that regulators in South Korea will crack down on trading of digital currencies. The price of bitcoin fell as much as 20 percent Wednesday, but later recovered and was nearly flat at $11,392 around 5:10 p.m. Eastern Time, according to Coindesk. Bitcoin hasn't caught on as a currency for buying things, as intended. But it has drawn huge interest from traders, and it...
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.
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