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May 25, 2016 at 12:37 pm
Israel - A leading Israeli rights group said Wednesday it will stop seeking investigations of Israeli soldiers suspected of abusing Palestinians, arguing that internal military probes have failed to deliver justice and effectively help whitewash half a century of occupation.
In a rebuke to the military justice system, the Israeli group B’Tselem said military investigations are deeply flawed and create a “mere semblance of justice.”
Hagai El-Ad, the group’s executive director, said B’Tselem would stop cooperating with a system it cannot trust.
“The system’s real function is cover-ups,” he said. He said once the group reached that “painful conclusion ... we found it morally unacceptable for us to continue working in the same wa...
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May 25, 2016 at 12:34 pm
Tehran - Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan told reporters on Tuesday that the Iraq and Syrian conflicts are a result of a deep, long-term plot hatched by Israel and the United States, according to reports by Iran’s Press TV.
“What is today happening in Syria and Iraq is a deep-seated US-Zionist conspiracy that has triggered war in Muslim territories,” said Dehqan.
According to the defense minister, Israeli is responsible for equipping the terrorists who then lead attacks on innocent Muslims.
“Zionists are supporting terrorists and equipping them,” said Dehqan according to the report.
They are “pitting them against Muslims. What is important for them is to guarantee the Zionist regime’s security,” he added.
Last month, the ch...
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May 25, 2016 at 12:32 pm
New York - The removal of Moshe Ya’alon as defense minister and the elevation of Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman in his stead is the latest manifestation of a “dark hour” enshrouding Israel, leading foreign affairs commentator Thomas Friedman wrote in The New York Times on Wednesday.
The intense backlash thrown Israel’s way is a result of the country’s “desire to destroy itself” as evidenced by “Netanyahu’s steady elimination of any possibility that Israel will separate itself from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
“Soon, this newspaper will have to call Netanyahu what he’s made himself into: ‘Prime Minister of the State of Israel-Palestine’,” Friedman, the Grey Lady’s f...
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May 25, 2016 at 12:32 pm
Baltimore, MD - May 25, 2016 - OU KASHRUTH ALERT
May 24, 2016
Chilean Sea Bass
Brand
Kirkland Signature
Product
Frozen Chilean Sea Bass
Company
Costco Wholesale Foods, Seattle WA
Issue
Unauthorized OU
The Orthodox Union does not certify Kirkland Signature Chilean Sea Bass. Some packaging was printed with an unauthorized OU symbol. Corrective actions have been implemented.
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May 25, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Jerusalem - Israel’s incoming defense minister once called for bombing Egypt, suggested just weeks ago that Israel kill Hamas’ leader in the Gaza Strip and opposed the prosecution of a soldier accused of killing a wounded Palestinian. These are just a few of the positions that could put former bar bouncer Avigdor Lieberman at odds with a military he is now to command.
While people close to Lieberman insist he is a pragmatist, his long history of incendiary statements bode poorly for him as he takes over one of the region’s most sensitive posts. As Israel’s defense minister, he will be responsible for overseeing military policy and handling delicate security matters with international allies whom he has antagonized in the past.
“We cannot take risks...
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May 25, 2016 at 12:11 pm
Italy - An underground water main break along Florence’s picturesque Arno River has created a 200-meter (yard) -long sinkhole that buried dozens of parked cars.
Firefighters asked residents of nearby palazzi to evacuate voluntarily, as there was no water or lighting in the area. Hours after the pre-dawn break, authorities were trying to determine Wednesday whether the weakened asphalt could withstand the weight of a crane to extract the waterlogged cars that fell into the hole.
Mayor Dario Nardella stressed that the underground flooding was the result of a gash in a 60-centimeter (two-foot) diameter pipe, one of the major water conduits in the neighborhood, and not a leak in the banks of the Arno.
The scene is near the famed Ponte Vecchio bridge, a favorite spot for touri...
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May 25, 2016 at 12:11 pm
Israel - Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has order a halt on the return of bodies of Palestinians killed while carrying out terror attacks, following a funeral in East Jerusalem Monday night that he said violated understandings reached between police and the families of the attackers.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Erdan wrote “I just saw the outrageous photos from the funeral overnight in east Jerusalem which violated the police stipulations given to the family of the terrorist, who held a funeral with a large number of attendees and calls for violence and support for terrorism.”
He continued “the families of terrorists lied to the High Court when they vowed to adhere to the police stipulations and it’s a shame that the High Court believed them, an...
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May 25, 2016 at 12:09 pm
Amman - The National Committee against Normalization, an organization aimed at resisting Jordan’s relations with Israel, has heavily criticized Jordanian officials who participated last week in the Israeli Independence day ceremony that took place at the Israeli Embassy in Jordan.
On May 17, the Israeli embassy in Amman hosted an official reception on the occasion of Independence Day. About 200 foreign diplomats and Jordanian officials attended the special ceremony.
During the ceremony, Israeli Ambassador to Amman Einat Shlain delivered a speech in which she touted Israeli-Jordanian relations and the bilateral collaboration between the countries in a myriad of fields.
In a statement issued on Monday, the anti-normalization committee strongly denounced “everyone...
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May 25, 2016 at 11:44 am
Jerusalem - An extraordinary archaeological excavation has been going on in Israel for over a week now, with more than 500 volunteers from Israel and abroad sleeping and living in a camp in desert field conditions – this, in an attempt to save priceless as-yet undiscovered fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest surviving manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, from being looted.
The complex excavation kicks off a national plan to conduct comprehensive archaeological excavations in the Judean Desert caves in order to extract and preserve the scrolls from antiquities looters.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most important archeological finds ever unearthed – a collection of hundreds of biblical and apocalyptic texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discov...
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May 25, 2016 at 11:43 am
New York - The windows of Eric Trump’s office in the Trump Tower offer breathtaking views of some of Manhattan’s most expensive real estate. It’s there the youngest of Donald Trump’s adult sons is reflecting on eye-opening moments from a world far away.
“Having to speak at a Pizza Ranch in Iowa, you hear things you never would,” he says from the 25th floor office in Trump Tower, steps from the offices of siblings Ivanka and Don Jr. and one floor down from their father. “For us, the learning curve was exponential.”
As his father’s seemingly quixotic campaign caught fire, Eric Trump, 32, an admitted political neophyte, found himself thrust into the heart of it all. He barnstormed across small towns in Iowa and New Hampshire, ga...
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May 25, 2016 at 11:41 am
An audit by the State Department inspector general has concluded that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton violated her agency's own records policy by withholding all of her government-related communications.
"Secretary Clinton should have preserved any federal records she created and received on her personal account by printing and filing those records ... because she did not do so, she did not comply with the department's policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act," the watchdog report said, according to an excerpt in Politico.
Clinton has faced multiple investigations into her use of a private server to shield her official emails, including an FBI probe and an internal State Department review.
The inspector general report, which ...
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May 25, 2016 at 10:26 am
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Donald Trump handily won Washington state's Republican presidential primary Tuesday, even as he shared the ballot with three other candidates who had already dropped out of the contest.
As counties started posting their results shortly after 8 p.m., Trump took a commanding lead with 76 percent of the vote, followed by John Kasich and Ted Cruz, with 10 percent each. Ben Carson garnered 4 percent of the vote in early returns.
Even though Trump is the only candidate remaining in the GOP contest, Kasich and Cruz were still on the ballot because they suspended their campaigns after the ballots were printed. Carson's name also appeared because he never submitted a withdrawal of candidacy.
Republicans in Washington state will allocate all 44 delegates to th...
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May 25, 2016 at 9:45 am
As a result of lower fares and discounts for children, there are more people trying to get to Meron for Lag B’Omer than ever before. This has led to thousands being told ticket sales have stopped as all buses are full.
Chairman of the Knesset Ombudsman Committee MK Yisrael Eichler is calling on the Transportation Ministry to take the necessary steps to make additional buses available. Eichler on Tuesday evening explained that in some chareidi areas, ticket sales have halted as all the available buses are full.
Eichler maintains that instead of hiring buses from private companies as was promised would be the case, the sale of tickets has stopped in some areas and people are told there is no room for this year’s trip to Meron.
After consulting with Israel Police and private bu...
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May 25, 2016 at 9:40 am
Donald Trump spent much of the Republican presidential primary contest inveighing against politicians for leaning on wealthy contributors for support. Now he’s doing the same.
On Tuesday, some of the GOP’s best-connected fundraisers signed on to help raise as much as $1 billion for Trump and the Republican National Committee, part of an effort to rapidly build out a finance operation that the candidate has lacked until now.
Half a dozen of the party’s elite money players — including New York Jets owner Woody Johnson and Wisconsin billionaire Diane Hendricks — have agreed to serve as vice chairs of the Trump Victory fund, a joint fundraising committee between Trump’s campaign, the RNC and 11 state parties, the party announced Tuesda...
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May 25, 2016 at 9:40 am
It's been about a year since the observatory at One World Trade Center opened to the public.
The attraction, called One World Observatory, opened on May 29, 2015.
Organizers say 1,776 members of the public got tickets through a lottery to attend an anniversary open house Tuesday.
The observatory is on the 100th, 101st and 102nd floors. It provides panoramic views of New York City and the surrounding area.
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May 25, 2016 at 9:36 am
The official unemployment rate for April 2016 is 4.9%, representing a drop from March when unemployment was 5.3%. According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), 193,000 people were registered as unemployed in April as compared to 208,700 in March.
A breakdown of the numbers shows that among 25-64-year-olds, unemployment in April was 4.4% and the number of people in this group in the labor force is 80.5%. Those numbers in March were 4.5% and 79.8% respectfully. Among men in this age group, 84.8% are in the workforce as compared to 75% among the women.
Despite the euphoria, CBS officials explain the decline in April may not be indicative of the workforce explaining additional jobs became available ahead of Pesach and in most cases, this was time limited.
In addition, some...
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May 25, 2016 at 9:30 am
Jerusalem, Israel - May 25, 2016 - The Ethiopian Aliyah was the topic of the annual RCA Israel Region and World Zionist Organization Yom Iyun held in Weizmann Hall of the World Headquarters of Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, Israel on Monday.
After coffee, greetings were given by Rabbi Yechiel Wasserman, Head of the Center for Religious Affairs of the Diaspora.
Chief Rabbi of the Ethiopian Community HaRav Yosef Hadana gave divrei bracha and provided background of the Ethiopian aliyah.
However, it was the keynote speaker, HaRav Dr. Sharon Shalom, author of "From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halachic and Conceptual World of Ethiopian Jewry" who with his personal story and wit had one woman saying, " I want to move to Kiryat Gat and be in his shul." Rabbi Dr. Shalom is a musmach of Yeshivat Ha...
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May 25, 2016 at 9:20 am
Baltimore, MD - May 25, 2016 - This evening, a community-wide meeting will be held at 5:30 PM at Northwestern High School 6900 Park Heights Ave the subject of which will be Co-location of Northwestern and Forest Park High Schools in Sept. 2016. As there are a number of serious concerns with the prospect of this merge, it is important for there to be a strong showing from the members of our community who share in these concerns.
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May 25, 2016 at 9:20 am
Baltimore, MD Daily Dvar Halacha - May 25, 2016 / 17 Iyar 5776 - Why Does Everyone Look At Their Nails During Havdala?
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May 25, 2016 at 9:08 am
(CNN) Protesters lit fires, smashed a door and threw rocks outside a Donald Trump rally Tuesday night in New Mexico -- the latest scuffle to follow the presumptive Republican nominee's campaign.
The scene outside Albuquerque's convention center was chaotic as police ushered protesters away from Trump's event and into the nearby streets.
There, anti-Trump protesters -- many critical of his positions on immigration -- loudly chanted, "F*** Donald Trump."
The protesters had broken a glass door to the convention center. Some taunted police and jumped on police vehicles as officers in riot gear and on police horses moved them away from the convention center's exits.
Trump had already left the event.
The scene was reminiscent of the violence between Tr...
