A 3,000-ton full-scale replica of Noach’s teivah is slated to travel all the way from the Netherlands to Brazil this summer, 5 News Online reports.
Dutch carpenter Johan Huibers spent years building the ship, which is a full-scale replica of the one that Noach built in Sefer Bereishis.
The ship is 125 meters long, 29 meters wide and seven stories high. It has been on display in the Netherlands since 2012. This summer, the teivah will be embarking on a 5,000 mile trip to Brazil.
Washington - A man attacked a bus driver, stole the bus, then struck and killed a pedestrian after the bus jumped a curb at a gas station in northeast Washington on Tuesday, police said.
The man with a weapon stood by the driver for a time and then attacked the driver, Police Chief Cathy Lanier said at a news conference. Passengers fled the bus, and the driver hit the emergency button before getting off himself, she said.
The man shut the door and drove off. As the bus pulled into a gas station parking lot, it went over a curb and hit the pedestrian, who was killed, Lanier said.
The man who stole the bus appeared distraught and was violent as officers took him into custody, she said.
Lanier called it a “bizarre incident,” saying it was uncharacteristic for a person ...
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May 3, 2016 at 12:40 pm
West Bank - At least three Israelis were wounded after a Palestinian motorist allegedly rammed his vehicle into them in the West Bank on Tuesday, initial reports say.
A spokesperson for Magen David Adom said that one of the wounded Israelis was seriously injured. The security forces are currently in hot pursuit of the assailant.
The incident occurred near the West Bank settlement of Dolev.
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May 3, 2016 at 12:40 pm
LINDEN, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – A 9-year-old boy is dead and his 10-year-old sister is in critical condition from carbon monoxide poisoning in Linden Tuesday morning, police said.
Their mother found them unresponsive at around 7:25 a.m. in their bedrooms at 1157 Passaic Avenue, police said.
She began CPR. Emergency responders arrived and the girl was rushed to Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in extremely critical condition, according to police. The boy was rushed to Trinitas Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Officials say the incident appears to be a tragic accident caused by improper venting of fumes from the furnace.
There was a carbon monoxide detector in the house but it was apparently not working, officials said.
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May 3, 2016 at 12:35 pm
Washington - The Pentagon is on alert following the publication of the names of several high ranking American military officials on the latest Islamic State “hit list.”
Hackers affiliated with the Islamic State Hacking Division posted details of more than 70 American military personnel including their full names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and photographs on the Internet, claiming that the officials named were directly involved in attacks on Syria and Iraq.
Topping the list of names is Lieutenant Sean McFarland, the commander of the coalition forces in Syria.
“As you continue your aggression towards the Islamic State and your bombing campaign against Muslims, know that we are in your e-mails and computer systems, watching and recording your every move,&r...
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May 3, 2016 at 12:34 pm
Washington - Five years after US special forces killed Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama says he hopes that in his last moments the terror mastermind realized Americans had not forgotten about 9/11.
In an interview with CNN broadcast on Monday, Obama marked the anniversary of what many see as one of his presidency’s greatest achievements: ending the long hunt for the illusive Saudi-born Al Qaeda boss.
US special forces killed bin Laden in Pakistan on May 2, 2011.
“Hopefully, at that moment, he understood that the American people hadn’t forgotten the some 3,000 people who he killed,” Obama said.
Obama discussed his decision to carry out the raid despite imperfect intelligence.
“It was clear to me that this was going to be our best chance to g...
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May 3, 2016 at 12:33 pm
West Bank - The Israeli military says it has demolished the home of a Palestinian attacker who killed two Israelis in front of their children last year.
Ziad Amer, the father of suspected killer Zeid, says dozens of Israeli vehicles raided the town of Nablus early on Tuesday and demolished the family’s apartment. He said his appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court against it was rejected.
Israel says it carries out demolition to deter attacks by letting militants know their families will pay a price for their actions. The Palestinians consider it to be a form of collective punishment.
Since mid-September, Palestinian attacks have killed 28 Israelis and two Americans. Some 200 Palestinians have been killed over the same time, the vast majority in what Israel says have been att...
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May 3, 2016 at 12:33 pm
Jerusalem - A Jerusalem court has handed a life sentence to the main attacker in the killing of a Palestinian teenager in 2014 whose death helped spark a chain of events that led to that year’s Gaza war.
The court sentenced Yosef Haim Ben David, 30, on Tuesday to life plus 20 years. The state prosecutor said the damage he caused Israel and the family of the Palestinian teen is “irreparable.”
Ben David and two accomplices abducted 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir in his east Jerusalem neighborhood, drove to a forest and burned him to death. They said the abduction was revenge for the killing of three abducted Israeli teens by Palestinians earlier that summer.
The killing was widely condemned in Israel, but fueled violent clashes between Palestinians and Isra...
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May 3, 2016 at 12:24 pm
Gaza Strip - Each day, millions of gallons of raw sewage pour into the Gaza Strip’s Mediterranean beachfront, spewing out of a metal pipe and turning miles of once-scenic coastline into a stagnant dead zone.
The sewage has damaged Gaza’s limited fresh water supplies, decimated fishing zones, and after years of neglect, is now floating northward and affecting Israel as well, where a nearby desalination plant was forced to shut down, apparently due to pollution.
“It’s certain that Gaza Strip’s beaches are completely polluted and unsuitable for swimming and entertainment, especially in the summer,” said Ahmed Yaqoubi of the Palestinian Water Authority.
Environmentalists and international aid organizations say that if the problem isn’t quick...
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May 3, 2016 at 12:17 pm
Berlin - When the leader of Germany’s Jews spoke out against the flow of Muslim migrants to Europe, a rabbinical student denounced his views as racist - and ignited a debate over whether Jews are right to fear unprecedented levels of immigration from Muslim lands traditionally hostile to Israel.
The student, Armin Langer, was kicked out of the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam after he wrote that the leader of Germany’s Central Council of Jews was wrong to seek a cap on Muslim immigration. Langer, a founder of an inter-faith group called Salaam-Shalom committed to fostering dialogue between Muslims and Jews, said his community should never cast an intolerant eye toward other minority groups.
“If one minority is treated badly, it won’t be long before all ...
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May 3, 2016 at 12:14 pm
Israel - The nearly two years since Operation Protective Edge has been the quietest in the Gaza Strip since Hamas took control of the area in 2007, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during an unannounced visit to border with Gaza on Tuesday.
Hours after Netanyahu left, Palestinians fired on an IDF patrol near the fence in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported.
Netanyahu went to the site of the large terror attack tunnel from Gaza into Israel that was discovered last month. Netanyahu was accompanied by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, and other top IDF officials. He received a briefing there on the security situation in the area.
Speaking to soldiers in ...
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May 3, 2016 at 12:14 pm
Bedford, IN - Republicans voting in Indiana’s primary election on Tuesday might give New York billionaire Donald Trump an almost unstoppable advantage in his turbulent journey toward the party’s presidential nomination.
The real estate mogul holds a double-digit polling lead in the Midwestern state over his main rival, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
Fresh off a sweep of five Northeastern states last week, Trump wants a win in Indiana to put him within reach of the 1,237 delegates required to lock up the Republican nomination before the party’s convention in July.
“If we win Indiana, it’s over,” Trump told a cheering crowd in Terre Haute, Indiana, on the eve of the vote.
Cruz has trumpeted Indiana, one of the last big states in the fight to g...
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May 3, 2016 at 12:01 pm
Submissions Double for Kleinman Holocaust Education Center Annual Student Visual Arts and Literacy Contest, Winners Selected
– 866 Students in Grades 7 to 12 from 68 schools nationwide responded to firsthand accounts of the Holocaust –
– Bnos Yisroel of Baltimore Student has Winning Entry –
Brooklyn, NY - May 3, 2016 - The Kleinman Holocaust Education Center (KHEC) has announced the winners of the Visual Arts and Literary Contest, with this year's contest drawing more than t...
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May 3, 2016 at 11:44 am
Jerusalem - Israel said Tuesday that customs officials thwarted a plot to smuggle explosive materials into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
Israel’s Tax Authority said inspectors uncovered four tons of ammonium chloride— enough to produce hundreds of rockets— hidden inside sacks of salt about two weeks ago as the shipment was being transferred to Gaza.
“This case underscores the activity of Gaza-based terrorist organizations in smuggling dual-use materials disguised as goods destined for the civilian population and reconstruction projects,” it said.
Along with explosives, ammonium chloride can also be used in fertilizer and other products.
Israel’s Shin Bet security service became suspicious after unusually large quantities of salt were ordered by a...
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May 3, 2016 at 11:42 am
Washington - Republican front-runner Donald Trump rehashed unsubstantiated claims Tuesday that his rival Ted Cruz’s father has links to President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
In a telephone interview broadcast by Fox News on Tuesday, Trump cited a National Enquirer story that claimed Rafael Cruz appeared in a 1963 photo in New Orleans with Oswald and others as Oswald distributed pro-Cuba leaflets. The Cruz campaign immediately denounced the claims as “garbage” and Trump offered no proof beyond citing the supermarket tabloid.
“His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being, you know, shot,” Trump said. “Nobody even brings it up, I mean they don’t even talk about that. That was reported and nobo...
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May 3, 2016 at 11:42 am
Does the Republican presidential candidate have a point? Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce and Fox News Radio’s Alan Colmes join the debate.
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May 3, 2016 at 11:42 am
Several juveniles assaulted a Metrobus driver and hijacked the bus Tuesday morning, D.C. police said.
It's not clear where the bus was taken from, but police say the bus in now stopped along Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenues in Northeast Washington.
Police say the suspects were armed, possibly with a knife.
It's not clear whether any passengers were on the bus at the time.
No injuries have been reported.
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May 3, 2016 at 11:39 am
Berlin - A German court says a group of Islamic extremists who patrolled the streets of the city of Wuppertal in orange vests with the words “Sharia police” can be tried for violating laws against wearing uniforms with political messages.
The Duesseldorf state court on Tuesday reversed a lower court’s dismissal of the case after prosecutors appealed.
The group of nine men made headlines in 2014 when they attempted to establish “Sharia police” in Wuppertal to enforce a strict interpretation of Islam. They patrolled some parts of the city repeatedly asking people to stop drinking alcohol or visiting nightclubs.
One, Sven Lau, was also indicted by federal prosecutors last month on suspicion of supporting a foreign terror group.
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May 3, 2016 at 11:26 am
Donald Trump With Hannity Day Before Indiana Primary
Des Moines, IA - The Marine Corps says it has begun investigating whether it mistakenly identified one of the men shown raising the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima in one of the iconic images of World War II after two amateur history buffs began raising questions about the picture.
The Marines announced its inquiry more than a year after Eric Krelle, of Omaha, Nebraska, and Stephen Foley, of Wexford, Ireland, began raising doubts about the identity of one man. In November 2014, the Omaha World-Herald published an extensive story about their claims and Saturday was the first to report the Marines were looking into the matter.
Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal shot the photo on Feb. 23, 1945, on Mount Suribachi, amid an intense battle with the Japanese. Rosenthal didn’t get...
