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May 23, 2016 at 11:00 am
Baltimore, MD - May 23, 2016 - Baltimore City Police Officer Nero has been found NOT GUILTY by Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams.
More to follow...
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May 23, 2016 at 10:53 am
Baltimore, MD – May 23, 2016 - Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2016, is a City holiday. Department of Public Works offices and yards will be CLOSED.
Regular trash, recycling and bulk collections are NOT scheduled for that day.
Citizen drop-off centers will be CLOSED (all yards, including Quarantine Road Landfill, the Northwest Transfer Station and the Eastern, Western and Northwest Collections Facilities).
Mechanical street sweeping will NOT take place, and street sweeping parking restrictions will NOT be in effect.
Parking meters WILL be in effect.
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May 23, 2016 at 8:18 am
New York - Mosab Hassan Yousef – the “Green Prince” – who worked as an Israeli spy, said “the Jewish nation is dear to me and when I see nations fighting against the Jewish people it hurts me.”
Speaking at The Jerusalem Post’s annual conference in New York on Sunday, Yousef noted that at one point he was working for and being paid by Israel, the US, the PA and Hamas, all at the same time.
Yousef, the son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, helped the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) thwart attacks from 1997 to 2007. He later went on to write an autobiography published in 2010 titled Son of Hamas.
He converted to Christianity and fled to the US where he was granted political asylum.
Yousef mentioned that he first became acqua...
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May 23, 2016 at 8:13 am
New York - Barack Obama is one of five presidents in modern history who has made a “conscious decision to try to distance [himself and his administration] from Israel,” his former aide, Dennis Ross, said on Sunday.
Addressing The Jerusalem Post’s annual conference in New York, Ross, a veteran diplomat who has worked on peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians under the Reagan, H. W. Bush, Clinton and Obama administrations, said the White House has worked under the assumption that “Israel is more of a problem than it is a partner.”
“If you distance yourself from Israel, you’ll gain with the Arabs,” Ross said, summing up the premise of the Obama administration’s policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But...
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May 23, 2016 at 8:09 am
Auburn, MA - The suspect in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts police officer died after an exchange of gunfire Sunday as authorities closed in on him at a small town residence, police said.
The man, identified as 35-year-old Jorge Zambrano, burst out of a closet and opened fire on the officers as they approached him inside a duplex apartment in Oxford, Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said at a news conference. Zambrano, who authorities said had a criminal history, was taken to a hospital, where he died.
A Massachusetts State trooper, also wounded, was scheduled to undergo surgery late Sunday night. He suffered a gunshot wound to his left shoulder during the shootout, authorities said. The name of the 18-year veteran and former U.S. Navy Seal wasn’t ...
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May 23, 2016 at 8:02 am
Israeli prime minister rejects French initiative in meeting with French counterpart Manuel Valls; calls for direct negotiations.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu rejected a multilateral French "peace initiative" as he met his French counterpart on Monday, offering instead to hold direct talks with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Paris.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said he would speak to President Francois Hollande about Netanyahu's proposal.
Direct negotiations with the Palestinian Authority are "the only way to proceed to peace," Netanyahu said. He offered "a different French initiative" of face-to-face talks with Abbas in Paris.
Valls is visiting Israel and the Palestinian Authority to advance his country's plan to restart Israeli-Pales...
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May 23, 2016 at 8:01 am
New York - The US is looking forward to working with the next Israeli defense minister, a senior White House official said Sunday.
His words and those of the State Department last week doused speculation that the presumptive appointment of Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman to the post would harm Israel’s relations with the US.
Among the issues that would fall on Liberman’s plate is the continued negotiations to replace and upgrade the Memorandum of Understanding, under which Israel is guaranteed to receive $3 billion annually from the US.
The Obama administration does not anticipate negotiations over a decade-long US defense package to Israel will be altered by the appointment of a new Israeli defense minister.
“We look forward to working on this issue, am...
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May 23, 2016 at 7:51 am
When it comes to criminal prosecutions, the end never justifies the means.
Prosecutors who take shortcuts in winning convictions or lengthy sentences are not only violating the rights of the accused, they’re also undermining our entire system of justice.
That’s worth remembering when considering the ongoing legal battle over the 27-year prison sentence handed down to Sholom Rubashkin, the former head of Postiville’s Agriprocessors slaughterhouse.
In 2009, Rubashkin was convicted of bank fraud and money laundering. On its face, the lengthy prison sentence seems entirely justified. Rubashkin not only hired hundreds of illegal immigrants, he helped provide them with phony identification documents. He also defrauded his lenders, in part by laundering money throu...
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May 23, 2016 at 7:38 am
The verdict is being handed down this morning in the trial of Officer Edward Nero, one of the six Baltimore City Police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray.
Nero was the second accused officer to go on trial, but since he chose to have the judge, and not a jury decide his case, he will be the first officer to get a verdict in his case.
The trial of the first officer, William Porter, ended in December with a hung jury.
Nero is one of the three officers who participated in Gray's arrest on April 12, of last year.
In this trial, Judge Barry Williams must consider if Freddie Gray’s arrest was legal, and if it is whether Nero’s physical contact with Gray amounts to assault and misconduct.
The second charge, reckless endangerment, &...
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May 23, 2016 at 7:37 am
Female terrorist attempts to stab Border Police at checkpoint.
An Arab terrorist attempted to stab Israeli Border Police officers at a checkpoint north of Jerusalem Monday afternoon.
The female terrorist was shot and "neutralized" before she was able to harm anyone, according to police.
Updates to follow.
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May 23, 2016 at 7:24 am
Baltimore, MD Daily Dvar Halacha - May 23, 2016 / 15 Iyar 5776 - Hold Besamin During Havdalah?
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May 23, 2016 at 7:21 am
It is after Pesach. All of the things that you have been putting off until “after the holidays” are now staring you square in the face. And for many of you, taking positive steps towards better health is probably on the list as it should be! And as Pesach was just over, weight loss may be at the forefront of your goals to achieve better health. Yom Tov is over, but it is still the Chodesh HaGeula and it is the ideal time to shed whatever Avdus (enslavement) we may still have and redeem ourselves by focusing on what steps we can take right now to improve our health and well-being.
What have we hopefully left behind? Overeating and inactiviey. Although the incentive might be there to start taking better care of our health and to lose wei...
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May 23, 2016 at 5:10 am
President Obama lifted the 41-year-old U.S. arms embargo against Vietnam Monday in an apparent effort to shore up the communist country's defenses against an increasingly aggressive China.
Obama announced the full removal of the embargo at a news conference in Hanoi alongside Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang. The American president said the move was intended as a step toward normalizing relations with the former enemy and to eliminate a "lingering vestige of the Cold War."
Obama added that every U.S. arms sale would be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
U.S. lawmakers and activists had urged Obama to press for greater human rights freedoms in the one-party state before lifting the embargo. Vietnam holds about 100 political prisoners and there have been more de...
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May 22, 2016 at 7:43 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - May 22, 2016 - The politics and culture of Iran over the last 40 years are reflected in a new temporary exhibit at the Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem. Sign from Iran, is a collection by 27 of Iran's finest artists and graphic designers. The 60 posters are divided into seven categories including, Politics, History and Culture, Founding Fathers, Calligraphy and Women.
Many of the posters are on loan from the Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic. Marta Sylvestrova, Moravian Gallery curator was in Jerusalem, Israel, for the opening of the exhibition, which coincided with Jerusalem Design Week. Sylvestrova says modern computer technology has inspired a new generation in a "rebirth of calligraphy" in poster and graphic art.
Years ago, while traveling, graph...
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May 22, 2016 at 11:55 am
B’chasdei Hashem no one was killed or injured when gunfire was directed at a bus transporting students in Gush Etzion, near the Arab village of Tuqwa, which is not far from the Jewish community of Tekoa in eastern Gush Etzion. There was damage to windows hit by gunfire which originated from a passing vehicle.
The IDF reports the terrorists passed the bus in a Fiat Pinto and opened fire 50 meters from Tuqwa, hitting the bus in the direction of the driver. The terrorists continued driving, fleeing the scene.
The bus continued on its route, heading to Kfar Etzion.
B’chasdei Hashem no one was killed or injured when gunfire was directed at a bus transporting students in Gush Etzion, near the Arab village of Tuqwa, which is not far from the Jewish community of Tekoa in ...
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May 22, 2016 at 11:51 am
New York - The Israeli government will pass legislation against social media and Internet giants like Facebook and Google if they do not take steps to curb anti-Israel “incitement,” Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York on Sunday.
Erdan made the remarks during a speech in which he outlined the challenges faced by Israel and its supporters in dealing with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
“Social media companies are happy to use the data they collect on all of us to make money, but unfortunately not to help stop terror,” the minister said.
Earlier this year, the Foreign Ministry called on governments around the world to regulate social media in order to combat anti-Semitism and violent i...
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May 22, 2016 at 11:48 am
Israel - Following months of severe tensions within United Torah Judaism, Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush will finally step down as an MK to allow Yaakov Asher, a former MK to once again take up his seat in the legislature.
The UTJ Knesset faction is comprised of Agudat Yisrael, representing the hassidic Ashkenazi haredi community, and Degel Hatorah representing the non-hassidic “Lithuanian” Ashkenazi community.
Agudah currently has four MKs while Degel has just two.
The so-called “Norwegian Law” passed in July last year was supposed to see Porush swiftly resign as an MK, while retaining his deputy-ministerial role, to allow Asher to regain his seat. For many months after the law was passed however, Agudah refused to sanction the process and, accor...
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May 22, 2016 at 11:47 am
London - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday he would be prepared to meet U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, but kept up his criticism of the Republican’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States, calling it “very dangerous”.
In December Cameron called Trump, potentially the next leader of Britain’s closest ally, “divisive, stupid and wrong” for calling for the ban. Trump fired back, saying he would probably not have a good relationship with Cameron.
But, amid signs that both sides are backing away from the standoff, Cameron told ITV’s “Peston on Sunday” show he would meet the property mogul if he came over before the U.S. election.
“American presidential candidates have made a habit of ...
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May 22, 2016 at 10:17 am
Los Angeles - A massive space shuttle fuel tank squeezed through the streets of Los Angeles and loomed over vehicles on a busy freeway Saturday to join the retired orbiter Endeavour on display at the California Science Center.
The 33-ton, 154-foot-long external propellant tank began moving a few minutes after midnight from coastal Marina del Rey, where it arrived by barge Wednesday, to the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles.
The orange-brown, sausage-shaped tank — the last of its kind — is traveling by truck at about 5 mph. By early morning, it had moved through suburban Inglewood. Crews trimmed a few trees and unbolted a stoplight pole and turned it so the arm wouldn’t hit the towering tank.
Freeway drivers got a shock as the tank rolled by on ...
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May 22, 2016 at 10:17 am
New York - Hillary Clinton has a message for Donald Trump: keep on talking.
She’s just weeks away from wrapping up the Democratic presidential nomination, and friends, aides and supporters describe a candidate who isn’t particularly rattled by what she expects will be Trump’s increasingly direct attacks on her marriage and husband’s personal indiscretions.
In fact, Clinton believes that she can turn Trump’s deeply personal assaults to her benefit, they say, particularly among suburban women who could be crucial to her hopes in the fall. Her plan is never to engage in any back-and-forth over the scandals. Instead, she’ll merely cast him as a bully and talk about policy.
“I don’t care what he says about me, but I do resent what he sa...
