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July 25, 2016 at 4:44 pm
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake calls the Democratic National Convention to order.
Democrats hope prime time addresses by VIPs such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will unify a party divided by an email scandal.
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July 25, 2016 at 4:27 pm
PM Netanyahu's Video Message to the Arab Citizens of Israel
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July 25, 2016 at 4:25 pm
Jerusalem - The Israeli military says its warplanes have hit a position in Syria from where mortars were fired into the Israeli-held Golan Heights.
The army said Monday that the mortars were likely errant fire from the fighting in neighboring Syria.
No injuries were reported from the mortars, which hit an open area near Israel’s frontier fence. Israel’s army said the Syrian government was responsible and it would “continue to act” to preserve Israel’s sovereignty.
Israel has taken pains to stay out of the ongoing Syrian war, but has carried out similar reprisals on Syrian positions when errant fire has previously landed in Israeli-controlled territory.
Israel is also believed to have carried out airstrikes on arms shipments believed to be headed to...
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July 25, 2016 at 4:20 pm
Pinchas instilled a sense of mission within the Jewish people and the ability to react to the call of duty and stand up for what is right. Often, Hashem is waiting for us to take the initiative. Instinctively, we become aware of a moral injustice that demands an immediate and dramatic response. These instincts- whether a drive to do chessed or the abhorrence of evil- are to be cultivated and appreciated.
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July 25, 2016 at 4:17 pm
Jerusalem - A senior Israeli official will travel to Washington next week in the hopes of signing a long-anticipated agreement that could result in increased U.S. military assistance to Israel, the Israeli prime minister’s office said Monday.
The premier’s office said in a statement that Brig. Gen. (Res.) Jacob Nagel, acting head of Israel’s National Security Council, will meet White House officials to sign an agreement “as soon as possible.”
The U.S. gives Israel $3.1 billion annually in an agreement expiring before the 2018 fiscal year. The Obama administration has offered Israel an enhanced decade-long military aid package to ease Israel’s concerns over the U.S.-led Iranian nuclear deal.
Since the Iran deal was signed, the U.S. and Israel h...
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July 25, 2016 at 3:49 pm
“Over the last 15 years, 682 children have died in hot cars,” said Senator Simcha Felder. “That’s 682 too many.”
Senator Felder issued his warning this morning when two more children died over the weekend after being left in hot cars. More, the Senator and his colleagues unanimously passed a bill introduced by Senator Jack Martins this year to make it illegal to leave children younger than 8 alone in a vehicle.
Studies show that when outdoor temperatures reach between 70 and 96 degrees, the temperature inside a car can quickly rise more than 40 degrees in an hour. Cracking the windows has been shown to have little effect on the temperature inside a car.
“Parents should be aware of the risks of leaving children alone in hot or cold cars, even for...
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July 25, 2016 at 3:44 pm
(JTA) — A former Georgia congresswoman claimed that Israel was responsible for the recent terror attacks in France and Germany.
Cynthia McKinney posted on Twitter Saturday night: “Same Israeli photographer captures Nice and Munich tragedies. How likely is that? Remember the Dancing Israelis? …”
The tweet includes a link to a video about the photographer’s coincidence on the Veterans’ Today site.
Dancing Israelis refers to a conspiracy theory that five Israeli men were detained by police in New Jersey on 9/11 after being caught celebrating the attack on the World Trade Center.
The photographer in question, Richard Gutjahr, is not Israeli, but is married to an Israeli, Einat Wilf, a former Knesset member for the Labor party. Wilf serve...
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July 25, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Cleveland - They don’t like to be called white supremacists.
The well-dressed men who gathered in Cleveland’s Ritz-Carlton bar after Donald Trump’s speech accepting the Republican nomination for president prefer the term “Europeanists,” ‘‘alt-right,” or even “white nationalists.” They are also die-hard Trump supporters.
And far from hiding in chat rooms or under white sheets, they cheered the GOP presidential nominee from inside the Republican National Convention over the last week. While not official delegates, they nevertheless obtained credentials to attend the party’s highest-profile quadrennial gathering.
Several gathered in the luxury hotel well after midnight following Trump’s Thursday address, ...
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July 25, 2016 at 2:42 pm
Philadelphia - Outgoing Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman says she won’t gavel her party’s national convention to order on Monday afternoon.
She abruptly cancelled that plan just a few hours before she was to gavel open the nominating convention. In a brief phone conversation with the Sun Sentinel newspaper of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Wasserman Schultz said:
“I have decided that in the interest of making sure that we can start the Democratic convention on a high note that I am not going to gavel in the convention.”
The Florida congresswoman had announced she would resign her post at the helm of the DNC in the wake of an email scandal involving her aides — but still gavel open and closed the Democrats’ nominating conventio...
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July 25, 2016 at 2:39 pm
Philadelphia - Bernie Sanders on Monday urged his supporters to back Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in her White House bid, drawing jeers and shouts of “We want Bernie” in a show of discord as the party kicked off its national convention.
The boos underscored the deeply felt anger his convention delegates feel at both Clinton’s win and embarrassing emails leaked on Friday suggesting the party leadership had worked to sabotage Sanders’ campaign for the nomination.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned as party chairwoman on Sunday, a day before the start of the Philadelphia convention to formally nominate Clinton for the Nov. 8 election, and on Monday she bowed to pressure and agreed not to open the convention.
Speaking to his supporters, Sanders savaged ...
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July 25, 2016 at 1:29 pm
Following a series of terrorist and other bloody attacks in Germany, residents are “waking up to a new reality” similar to that of the Jewish state, Israel’s Channel 2 reported on Monday.
According to the report, after Sunday night’s suicide bombing outside of a music festival in Ansbach in Bavaria — the fourth recent violent incident perpetrated by an immigrant of Middle Eastern origin — Germans are starting to fear for their safety on a daily basis.
“The increase in lone-wolf terrorism and violence is altering the atmosphere in Berlin,” Israeli poet and activist Mati Shmuelof told Channel 2. “More police are seen in public places, and suddenly bags are being checked at the entrance to ...
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July 25, 2016 at 1:29 pm
Iran announced the discovery of a secret terror tunnel that was to be used to carry out sabotage attacks in the country, the semi-official state news agency Fars reported on Thursday.
According to Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, the tunnel was discovered in the eastern region of the country by security forces.
“We discovered a 40-meter tunnel in the 20-meter depth of the earth in the Eastern parts of the country and they [the terrorists] intended to use it secretly in ripe conditions for conducting explosion and other operations,” Fazli told reporters in Tehran.
“40 people were arrested in this regard,” he added, without specifying the suspects’ identities.
The use of tunnels to carry out terror attacks has become more c...
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July 25, 2016 at 1:24 pm
The German government is employing various official methods to support anti-Israel activity, the president of an Israel-based watchdog group told The Algemeiner on Monday.
NGO Monitor President Professor Gerald M. Steinberg was referring to a new report his organization released on Sunday, revealing how the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) — “the primary German federal donor to civil society organizations and activities” — has invested significant funds towards Israeli NGOs that promote the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and advocate a “one-state” solution.
According to the NGO Monitor report, between 2012 and 2015 alone, €4 million ($4.4 million) of German taxpayer money was d...
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July 25, 2016 at 1:21 pm
Jerusalem - Former Ambassador to the US MK Michael Oren (Kulanu) turned down an offer to meet with Republican candidate for US president Donald Trump to discuss Israel, Oren said Monday.
The invitation came from a senior Trump staffer who advises the candidate on Israel, the MK said, but would not name him. The request was made two weeks ago, when Oren was in Washington D.C. to take part in a strategic dialogue at the Washington Institute, a think tank.
“I’m not going to get involved in this election in any way, period,” Oren said.
The former ambassador’s revelation came after columns in multiple American publications falsely accused him of giving Trump advice, based on a tweet by an Israeli freelance reporter contracting comments Oren made and taking th...
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July 25, 2016 at 1:20 pm
Hamas is reportedly trying to recruit more women into its ranks and is now offering weapons training programs for teenage girls as young as 15, Israel Hayom reported Monday.
Prior or 2014’s Operation Protective Edge, the Gaza Strip’s ruler allowed women to join the terrorist organization only as support staff, but after the conflict ended, Hamas apparently also began recruiting women for active duty.
Hamas is reportedly actively recruiting girls and women between the ages of 15 and 25, and teaching them how to fire handguns and rifles. Women who join the organization are reportedly also offered hand-to-hand combat training, as well as field skills training such as learning how to scale walls and learning how to avoid obstacles like burning tires.
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July 25, 2016 at 12:39 pm
Eddyville, KY - A Jewish inmate on Kentucky’s death row is suing in federal court, saying he was unfairly removed from a kosher meals program for eating an unlabeled meal of rotisserie chicken.
The Courier-Journal (http://cjky.it/2aauB83) reports that William Harry Meece’s chicken dinner violated a rule requiring people getting special meals to strictly adhere to their religious diets. That’s because Kosher meals cost 72 percent more to prepare.
The Jewish Prisoner Services International ministry estimates that at least 20,000 inmates nationwide falsely identify as Jewish to get these meals.
Kentucky’s Kosher Diet Participation Agreement, adopted in 2008 to settle another lawsuit, says, “I will not purchase, possess or consume any food items that a...
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July 25, 2016 at 12:27 pm
Washington - Donald Trump on Monday dismissed as a “joke” claims by Hillary Clinton’s campaign that Russia is trying to help Trump by leaking thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee.
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta added fuel to the debate Monday, saying there was “a kind of bromance going on” between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump. The Clinton campaign says Russia favors Trump’s views, especially on NATO.
“The new joke in town is that Russia leaked the disastrous DNC e-mails, which should have never been written (stupid), because Putin likes me,” Trump wrote as part of a series of Tweets. “Hillary was involved in the e-mail scandal because she is the only one with judgement (sic) so bad ...
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July 25, 2016 at 12:19 pm
1994
Stanford University computer graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo begin compiling “David’s and Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web” in a trailer on campus. Within a few months, they change the name to “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle,” which is abbreviated to Yahoo.
1995
Yahoo incorporates as a company, raises its first $1 million in venture capital and hires Tim Koogle as CEO to replace Yang.
1996
Yahoo prices its initial public offering of stock at a split-adjusted 54 cents per share. The shares closed at a split-adjusted $1.375 on the first day of trading. Its shares finished at $39.38 last week.
1997
Yahoo launches its free email service after acquiring the technology in a $94 million purchase of Four11.
1999
Yaho...
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July 25, 2016 at 12:17 pm
Nairobi, Kenya - President Barack Obama’s half-brother, Malik Obama, says he will vote for Republican nominee Donald Trump in the U.S. election in November because he likes the candidate and he is unhappy with his brother’s leadership.
Malik, who is in his 50s, told Reuters by phone from Obama’s ancestral home of Kogelo in western Kenya that he supports Trump’s policies, especially his focus on security.
“He appeals to me and also I think that he is down to earth and he speaks from the heart and he is not trying to be politically correct. He’s just straight-forward,” he said.
Malik, a U.S. citizen, has lived in Washington since 1985 where he worked with various firms before becoming an independent financial consultant.
Trump’s st...
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July 25, 2016 at 12:16 pm
Ansbach, Germany - A Syrian man whose asylum bid had been rejected in Germany recorded a cellphone video of himself pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group before he tried to get into an outdoor concert with a bomb-laden backpack. He was turned away and blew himself up outside a wine bar instead, injuring 15 people, authorities said Monday.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.
It was the fourth attack to shake Germany in a week — three of them carried out by recent migrants.
The 27-year-old, whom authorities have not identified, set off a backpack laden with explosives and shrapnel Sunday night after being refused entry to the nearby festival in the Bavarian city of Ansbach because he didn’t have a ticket.
Bavarian authorities said a video found on ...
