I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again. I open the top drawer of my desk and I point as the client looks on. I tell the person that I wish I had a magic wand that I could take out to cure their health issues, especially the overweight and obesity. I also tell them I wish I had a pill they could swallow and it would fix their issues. Neither I nor anyone else has any of those items. But if a person is willing to put in some work, there is ONE thing that probably has more influence on your health than anything else.
Imagine that you went to your doctor and the news isn’t great. He tells you that you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, you are now diabetic and you seem to be suffering from depression. This is definitely no...
Police are looking for a person who stole cigarettes from Royal Farms stores in Baltimore County.
On Wednesday, the person approached the counter of the store in the 6000 block of Falls Road and asked for four cartons of Newport cigarettes. When the clerk walked away to get the cigarettes, the person reached over the counter and grabbed the cigarettes.
On March 15, the person asked a clerk at the store in the 1500 block of East Joppa Road for six cartons of Newport cigarettes. When the clerk asked for identification, the person walked out of the store. The clerk walked away from the register and the person ran behind the counter and grabbed six cartons of cigarettes, police said.
On March 8, the same person asked a clerk at the store in the 7200 block of York Road for four car...
The boy shot by two Baltimore City Police officers on Wednesday will not be charged.
Police said two officers in plain clothes Wednesday on Aisquith Street saw the 13-year-old boy carrying what looked like a semi-automatic handgun. Police said the pair identified themselves as officers and the boy ran.
Police said the officers chased him for about 150 yards and then he stopped and turned toward the officers still holding what turned out to be a BB gun. That's when officers shot him, hitting him in the shoulder and leg.
A Baltimore police spokesman told 11 News on Saturday, "After conferring with the State's Attorney's Office, the decision was made not to charge the young man."
Commissioner Kevin Davis told a panel on Saturday that the boy would not be charged. ...
Authorities are investigating a shooting Sunday involving a Baltimore police officer.
Police said a patrol officer in his 20s was writing reports in his marked car around 9:30 a.m. on Ulman Avenue between Reisterstown Road and Park Heights Avenue.
Investigators said the officer noticed a man pointing a gun at him. They said the officer fired his weapon through the window of his patrol car and struck the gunman in the upper body.
The gunman was taken to a hospital where he was listed in critical condition.
Police Commissioner Kevin Davis called the incident an attempt at "suicide by cop" because the suspect pointed an unloaded gun at the officer and made statements indicating he intended to die.
"The public safety officials who arrived this morning to treat our suspect and res...
Yeshivat Makor Chaim of Kfar Etzion is suing a supplier that sold the school sugar with a forged hashgacha printed on the bags. The suit was filed with the Jerusalem District Court.
The lawsuit was filed by attorney Noam Tzuker on behalf of the yeshiva, who purchased “Primo” brand sugar from Fine Food, located in the Atarot Industrial Area in northern Jerusalem, owned by Chever Abu Maadi. The bags of sugar stated “Chief Rabbinate of Israel” without stating it is kosher. The Chief Rabbinate removed its hashgacha from the company five years ago. The sugar also exhibited the logo of Badatz Sheiris Yisrael without the word “B’hashgacha”.
When seeking to verify with the badatz, it was learned it never gave a hashgacha to this product. The lawsuit adds...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:36 am
BALTIMORE — Mark Council knows a thing or two about Baltimore. In his 55 years here, he’s lived numerous lives. He’s been a cook. He’s been a mechanic. And now he’s a homeless person, a position that’s afforded him his closest view yet of a problem that’s eating the city from the inside.
Council, a stocky man with a beard flecked with gray, sees the vacant houses on his way to the homeless shelter. The gutted facades are inescapable, he says, blanketing entire city blocks. He peers up at them and can’t help but feel frustrated.
“I look at all of these vacant houses, and I’m like, ‘I could be living in one of these houses,’ ” Council said. “I think, ‘We all, all the homeless, could b...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:25 am
New York - A U.S. senator is calling for a federal investigation into an outdoor advertising company’s latest effort to target billboard ads to specific consumers.
New York Sen. Charles Schumer has dubbed Clear Channel Outdoor Americas’ so-called RADAR program “spying billboards,” warning the service may violate privacy rights by tracking people’s cell phone data via the ad space.
“A person’s cellphone should not become a James Bond-like personal tracking device for a corporation to gather information about consumers without their consent,” Schumer, a Democrat, said in a statement ahead of a planned news conference Sunday in Times Square, where the company operates billboards.
But the company, which operates more than 675,00...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:23 am
New York, NY - The main body of a fire that heavily damaged a historic church in New York City has been knocked down.
Authorities report one minor injury in the blaze that started Sunday evening at the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Manhattan. Firefighters are still putting out small pockets of flames.
The blaze sent smoke plumes billowing into the sky and completely destroyed the roof of the Gothic Revival style building. It broke out on the same day Orthodox Christians around the world celebrated Easter.
A church priest, Father Djokan Majstorovic, says he felt he was “in a nightmare” as he tried to get to the fire scene that was blocked off by firefighters.
The church was built in the early 1850s and was designated a city landmark in 1968.
Firefighters ...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:21 am
Aventura, FL - A South Florida man who was planning a Passover terror attack on a Miami area synagogue is in FBI custody after federal agents who posed as terrorists set up a sting operation to stop the planned bloodshed.
According to Florida’s 7News an unidentified man had planned to throw an explosive device over the wall encircling the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center on Friday night, the last night of Passover.
Those familiar with the case believe that the suspect may have converted to Islam. Sources said that the Conservative synagogue was never in actual danger because the suspect was apprehended before he was able to carry out the planned attack.
Although the FBI has refused to comment on the incident, sources have said that the suspect will be in federal cour...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:19 am
Deputy Mayor reveals 'we lost sovereignty' in capital; 50,000 Arabs throng in with Hamas filling the vacuum, as govt. shuts its eyes.
Israeli media has largely ignored covering how Arab assailants just before Passover on April 20 threw firebombs at Jerusalem's northeast Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood, causing a massive brush fire that approached the homes of residents.
A number of new buildings were evacuated and firefighters were forced to battle the blaze, eventually managing to control it. But despite the danger to life and property, the incident did not receive commensurate coverage in the media.
Arutz Sheva on Sunday spoke with Deputy Jerusalem Mayor Yael Antebi, the representative of Pisgat Ze'ev in the Jerusalem Municipality. According ...
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May 2, 2016 at 12:16 am
Following Pesach vacation, some 1,500 students in Beis Rivkah will remain home on the day that should have been their first day back. A message from the school blamed the closure on a “financial crisis”.
Parents received notification of the Monday school closure in in an automated call late Sunday evening.
“Dear Parents, due to a financial crisis Beis Rivkah High School, Elementary and Pre-1a departments are informing parents that there will be no school on Monday, May 2nd, Chof Daled Nissan. We will update you tomorrow IY”H. Head start and early head start will begin as scheduled.”
Financial matters at Beis Rivkah, the largest Chabad girls school, has been an ongoing issue with teachers not being paid in many months. At the beginning of this years s...
Reports of people trapped
All are asked to daven and say Tehillim for the Rachmastrivka Rebbe, who was hospitalized today.
The rebbe, Rav Chai Yitzchok Isaac Twersky, is a son of Rav Yochanan Twersky of Rachmastrivka and a son-in-law of Rav Yaakov Yosef Twersky of Skver.
The rebbe, a renowned tzaddik and mashpiah, leads his bais medrash and kehillah in Boro Park, Brooklyn.
The rebbe had been hospitalized on the third day of Chol Hamoed due to a bout of pneumonia. He returned home the next day, shortly before the onset of the second days of Yom Tov.
The rebbe suffered a setback today and was hospitalized once again.
All are asked to daven for Rav Chai Yitzchok ben Esther Rivka.
Vaalwater, South Africa - Lions rescued from circuses in Colombia and Peru and airlifted to South Africa scratched their manes on trees and explored their new territory in the African bush after being released into a sanctuary north of Johannesburg Sunday.
One of the 33 lions, a male known as Zeus, let out a mighty roar before stepping out of his cage into an enclosure where he will spend the coming months being monitored by a vet.
The lions arrived at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary shortly after dawn on Sunday to end a two-day journey from South America.
The lions were freed after the use of wild animals in circuses was outlawed in Peru and Colombia.
A former circus lion scratches its head against a tree inside an enclosure at Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in Vaalwater, northern, South ...
Baltimore, MD – May 1, 2016 – Every year on Motzaei Pesach, Tov Pizza is the first destination for many families who can’t wait for that first slice of delicious Chametz Pizza after Yom Tov.
Last night was no different. Well, it was slightly different.
Tov’s patient customers –the line was extremely long – had the opportunity to be thanked by Baltimore City’s Democratic Mayoral Nominee Senator Catherine Pugh and 5th District Baltimore City Councilman-nominee Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer both of whom took time out of their hectic schedules to come to the restaurant and thank the many members of Baltimore’s Jewish community who supported them in their recent victories.
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Washington - When Chris Cox rolls into Cleveland in mid-July with other motorcycle-riding supporters of Donald Trump, he plans to celebrate the billionaire’s coronation as the Republican presidential nominee. He also counts on joining protests if a battle over the nomination ensues.
“I’m anticipating we’ll be doing a victory dance,” said Cox, 47, a chainsaw artist and founder of Bikers for Trump, thousands of whom he estimates will hit the Ohio city for the July 18-21 Republican National Convention.
“But if the Republican Party tries to pull off any backroom deals and ignores the will of the people, our role will change.”
Bikers For Trump is part of a diverse array of groups coordinating to hold thousands-strong protests and marches if t...
Washington - Front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday that he will have essentially sealed the Republican U.S. presidential nomination if he wins Tuesday’s contest in Indiana, where he now holds a big lead over chief rival Ted Cruz.
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist opinion poll showed Trump with a wide lead in Indiana, 49 percent to 34 percent for Cruz and 13 percent for a third candidate, Ohio Governor John Kasich.
Trump sounded confident in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” when asked whether Indiana would basically end the long-running Republican race in his favor.
“Yes, it’s over,” Trump said. “It’s already over.”
The poll showed the depth of the challenge facing Cruz, a conservative U.S. senator from Texas who is tr...
Stuttgart, Germany - Members of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday backed an election manifesto that says Islam is not compatible with the constitution and calls for a ban on minarets and the burqa.
Set up three years ago, the AfD has been buoyed by Europe’s migrant crisis, which saw the arrival of more than one million, mostly Muslim migrants, in Germany last year. The party has no lawmakers in the federal parliament in Berlin but has members in half of Germany’s 16 regional state assemblies.
Opinion polls give AfD support of up to 14 percent, presenting a serious challenge to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and other established parties ahead of the 2017 federal election. They rule out any coalition with the AfD.
In ...
Daytona Beach, FL - Jonathan Mossberg is among a small number of pioneers looking to build a safer gun. But unlike many others, he was in the gun business when he started down that path.
His family is renowned for its premier line of shotguns treasured by law enforcement, hunters and the military. Mossberg already has spent more than a decade working to develop — and someday bring to the market — a firearm that the wrong person cannot fire. It is intended to work without fail in the hands of its owner in a life-or-death situation.
“We’re gun people, so we know when you pick up a gun you want to shoot it,” Mossberg said. “You don’t want to swipe your finger. You don’t want to talk to it. In an emergency situation, you want to pick it...
Washington - President Barack Obama is reviewing design proposals for his future presidential library from the seven architectural firms chosen as finalists.
The White House says the president’s wife, Michelle, joined him at Sunday’s meeting in Washington with staff of the Barack Obama Foundation.
The foundation plans to build the library in one of two parks Chicago’s South Side. Completion is expected in 2020 or 2121.
The finalists include four firms from New York, two in Europe and one in Chicago. More than 140 firms from 25 countries and 60 cities applied to design Obama’s presidential center.
The finalists are Diller Scofidio and Renfro, SHoP Architects, Snohetta and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects of New York; John Ronan Architects of Chicago; ...
