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July 29, 2016 at 7:07 am
Philadelphia - In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton wrongly implied Donald Trump has proposed banning Islam in America and sketched out a plan for defeating Islamic State militants that merely mirrors what the U.S. is already trying to do.
Clinton spoke Thursday night to the largest TV audience she is likely to have until the presidential debates, meaning many Americans were probably hearing of her agenda for the first time. Although she brings plenty of policy detail when stacked against the broad-brush ideas of her Republican rival, in some cases there’s less than meets the eye to what she says she will do.
A college education, for example, might not end up as debt-free for everyone as she suggested.
For his part, Trump spun a story about th...
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July 29, 2016 at 7:06 am
Philadelphia - Text of Hillary Clinton’s speech Thursday accepting the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, as provided by the Clinton campaign.
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Thank you! Thank you for that amazing welcome.
And Chelsea, thank you.
I’m so proud to be your mother and so proud of the woman you’ve become.
Thanks for bringing Marc into our family, and Charlotte and Aidan into the world.
And Bill, that conversation we started in the law library 45 years ago is still going strong.
It’s lasted through good times that filled us with joy, and hard times that tested us.
And I’ve even gotten a few words in along the way.
On Tuesday night, I was so happy to see that my Explainer-in-Chief is still on the job.
I’m also gr...
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July 29, 2016 at 7:04 am
DEVELOPING – A San Diego police officer died from injuries sustained in a shooting late Thursday, authorities said. Another officer who was wounded was undergoing surgery.
Police arrested one person in the shooting and weren’t pursuing any other suspects after a long manhunt in the Southcrest neighborhood. The suspect hasn’t been identified.
Police said the officers were shot while making a stop and immediately called for help. The fallen officer suffered many gunshot wounds.
The officers weren’t immediately identified.
Video footage showed officers out in force with numerous squad cars with emergency lights flashing lining a street, officers on foot, and a helicopter buzz overhead.
The shooting comes with law officers around the country on aler...
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July 28, 2016 at 10:11 pm
[Ed. Note] Out of the respect and recognition of the impact made by longtime BJL friend and contributor, Reb Shaya Gross, z’l, we will maintain a living memoriam to Shaya through the sweet words and thoughtful insights of his Divrei Torah. BJL readers will remember his weekly column on the Parsha and on various Torah ideas and concepts. These meaningful words will help us remember this special young man who will be sorely missed and for those who did not merit to know him, this will be the most appropriate way for them to become familiar with who he was.
This week’s Parsha begins by informing us that Pinchas received the covenant of peace rewarding his act of zealotry. At first glance this seems ironic, a covenant of PEACE for being a ZEALOT??? ...
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July 28, 2016 at 9:57 pm
In reward for his courageous act, Pinchas is promised by G-d that He will give him ‘His covenant of peace’.
The word used for peace is שלום. The Talmud reveals that there is a tradition that the third letter in this word, ו, should be written קטועה, ‘fragmented’. Some understand this to mean it should be written as a regular ‘vav’ though segmented with a gap in its leg. Others say it is written as a small letter ‘vav’, almost looking like a י, ‘yud’. This is the only instance in all of Torah where this unusual letter appears this way.
Instead of the word reading simply as שלום, it now reads as if the word were שלים, due to either the miniature vav that looks like a yud, or to the top half of the segmented vav ...
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July 28, 2016 at 9:43 pm
New York - Online shoppers want their packages — now. And Amazon is spending heavily to make sure that happens.
Amazon’s Prime service has, at heart, always been about free two-day shipping. The $99 annual subscription includes a variety of other goodies, but the near-instant gratification of fast, no-extra-cost delivery was the program’s original draw, and remains central to its appeal for its estimated 60 million subscribers.
But fast delivery — everything from Prime’s two-day service to one-day or one-hour options, grocery delivery and delivery for third party sellers — doesn’t come cheap. In the April-June quarter, for instance, Amazon spent $3.88 billion on its distribution network, or what it calls “fulfillment,” up 35 p...
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July 28, 2016 at 9:41 pm
Washington - Donald Trump entertained an Iowa audience Thursday with an animated account of how he would have wrung a better nuclear deal out of Iran if he’d been president when it was negotiated. But there was more fable than fact in his soliloquy.
It was one of a number of swings and misses from the Republican presidential candidate in a speech delivered hours before his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, was taking the stage in Philadelphia to accept her party’s nomination.
A look at some of the claims from the political maelstrom Thursday:
TRUMP, boasting about how he would have conducted talks with Iran over reducing its nuclear weapons capabilities: “I would have said sorry, we can’t give you the $150 billion back. We want to give you the ...
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July 28, 2016 at 9:41 pm
Washington - John Hinckley Jr. shot four people outside a Washington hotel on March 30, 1981, but two of his victims understandably got most of the attention: President Ronald Reagan and his press secretary, James Brady.
Two other men — Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and District of Columbia police officer Thomas Delahanty — each took a bullet to protect the president. Thirty-five years later, they’ve lived to see Hinckley freed.
On Thursday, both were still coming to terms with the news that Hinckley, now 61, will soon be released from a Washington psychiatric hospital to live full-time with his 90-year-old mother in Williamsburg, Virginia. A judge ordered Wednesday that Hinckley can leave the hospital as soon as Aug. 5, with numerous restrictions.
Th...
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July 28, 2016 at 9:41 pm
New York - A group of at least six wealthy Republican donors is urging the billionaire Koch brothers to step off the sidelines of the U.S. presidential election to back Donald Trump, arguing they will want influence with the New York businessman they have harshly criticized if he wins the White House in November.
The financiers, prominent members of the sprawling 700-member Koch donor network, have been making their case in emails and phone calls to Charles and David Koch ahead of their bi-annual donor seminar, which begins Saturday in Colorado, according to four donors involved in the loosely-coordinated effort and advisors representing two others.
An endorsement from the Kochs would be a radical departure: the industrialist brothers have railed against Trump’s “mon...
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July 28, 2016 at 8:00 pm
This series is dedicated in memory of Hallel Ariel Hy’d and Rabbi Miki Mark Hy’d; two precious neshamos (souls) who gave so much and had so much more to give. May their memories bring us closer to one another.
The Lord spoke to Moses saying: Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying: This is how you shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them: "May the Lord bless you and watch over you. May the Lord cause His countenance to shine to you and favor you. May the Lord raise His countenance toward you and grant you peace. "They shall bestow My Name upon the children of Israel, so that I will bless them (Bamidbar 6:22-27).
Blessings can be delivered in any language and by any person. But God wanted to give the Kohanim (priests) a special verbiage to shower ...
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July 28, 2016 at 7:46 pm
Las Vegas - Workers at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel scored a victory in their effort to unionize, although it could still be a long time before employees have a contract if managers choose to delay.
The National Labor Relations Board issued a decision Thursday rejecting Trump Ruffin Commercial LLC’s challenge of a December election in which a majority of the 447 votes cast favored unionization. The ruling means the company has exhausted its appeals with the board.
“We are pleased with the NLRB ruling, once again reaffirming that the union election at the Trump Hotel Las Vegas was fair and is certified,” said Geoconda Arguello-Kline, Secretary-Treasurer for the Culinary Union, which represents the workers. “We look f...
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July 28, 2016 at 7:23 pm
At the conclusion of last week’s parshah, Bila’am recommended to Balak a last resort to harm the Jewish nation: entice them to sin with the Midianite women (Sanhedrin 106a). His ruse worked, and 24,000 people perished as a result. At the episode’s climax, Zimri, a tribal leader, brazenly performed his sin openly in front of Moshe Rabbeinu and all of the elders. Pinchus saw that things had gone too far, and in accordance with a specific halacha which warranted it (kenoim pogim bo), executed Zimri. This ended the plague that had consumed so many Jewish lives and saved the many others that would have perished.
At the beginning of this week’s parshah, Hashem rewards Pinchus with an incredible gift: eternal priesthood as a Kohen (until this point he was not a Kohen; See...
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July 28, 2016 at 7:21 pm
Somerville, MA - The mayor of this largely white, historically working-class Boston suburb is promising not to remove a Black Lives Matter banner from City Hall despite complaints from police officers in the state.
Mayor Joe Curtatone, a white Democrat, said Thursday it’s “OK to disagree” and the only way to resolve the impasse is through an “open dialogue” about race.
“That sign is not coming down,” he insisted while standing in front of City Hall flanked by the police chief and two deputy chiefs.
The Somerville Police Employees Association and other police unions said they’d peacefully rally Thursday evening outside City Hall, where the sign has hung for nearly a year, to demand Curtatone remove it.
The police union’s pres...
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July 28, 2016 at 7:20 pm
Two men dressed as FedEx workers and wearing masks robbed a Jewish accounting firm in Williamsburg’s Hasidic Community, Thursday afternoon.
Police were called to the Y&I Accounting Firm located at 318 Roebling Street near South 8 Street at around 5:45PM after receiving calls for an armed robbery.
Sources tell YWN that the two suspects entered the firm, and brandished a firearm.
A secretary was tied up, and the owner of the firm was pistol whipped while the suspects demanded money.
Williamsburg Hatzolah as well as Williamsburg Shomrim (WSPU) were dispatched to the scene.
Hatzolah transported the victim to a local hospital for facial injuries. He was in stable condition.
The two suspects robbed the victim of around $1000 in cash and fled on foot.
A crime scene has been estab...
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July 28, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday praised warming relations with Egypt and its president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted an Islamist government seen as hostile to ties between the neighbors.
Egypt was the first of a handful of Arab countries to recognize Israel, in 1979, but the downfall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 brought to power the government of Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, straining relations with Israel.
Cooperation has improved since Sisi took power in 2013, with Egypt battling Islamist insurgents in Sinai near its border with Israel and both countries wary of Gaza’s Islamist rulers, Hamas.
At an event at the Egyptian ambassador’s residence for Egypt’s national day, Netanyahu called the countries’ peace t...
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July 28, 2016 at 6:28 pm
Philadelphia - As most Democrats rally around Hillary Clinton, the lingering “Bernie or Bust” movement is stirring frustration at the party’s convention among delegates of color, who say they’re upset at the refusal of the Vermont senator’s most fervent backers to fall in line.
“I am so exhausted by it,” said Danielle Adams, a black Clinton delegate from North Carolina. “I think there are undercuts of privilege that concern me.”
Adams is among those who say the “Never Hillary” crowd, a group that is largely younger and white, isn’t considering the struggles black Americans still face every day. And, they argue, how the nation’s ethnic and racial minorities may be affected by a Donald Trump presidency.
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July 28, 2016 at 5:45 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - July 28, 2016 - Tzohar, the Israeli Rabbinical organization, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. They held their annual conference at the Jerusalem International Conference Center on Monday. A full schedule packed with lectures and speeches, ran from before 9:00 am until after 6:30 pm. In addition, vendors in the large entrance hall were selling everything from books and newspapers, to wood items, hats and kitchen tools.
The conference was open to public. Sessions covered a variety of topics on Tanach, family life, and educational issues, all in Hebrew this year. First-time participant, Lydia Rosner, told BJL, that she came intending to learn from the classes and expand her learning experience.
The main plenary, held after lunch in the large auditorium, c...
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July 28, 2016 at 5:43 pm
Baltimore, MD Daily Dvar Halacha - July 28, 2016 / 22 Tammuz 5776 - New Socks During The 9 Days?
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July 28, 2016 at 5:39 pm
Bridgeport, PA - A Connecticut man already in custody after large quantities of firearms and ammunition were seized from his home was indicted on charges he made online threats to kill or injure people, including Jews, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.
Kendall Sullivan, 50, of Stamford, was charged on Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with three counts of making threatening communications online, each punishable by up to five years in prison.
A lawyer for Sullivan could not immediately be identified.
Authorities said Sullivan posted his threats on the internet forum Metalthrone.net three times between May 29 and July 5.
The indictment alleged that Sullivan wrote that he had “a few ‘Houses of Satan’ in my Town,” a...
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July 28, 2016 at 5:17 pm
New York - Consumers could no longer receive multiple calls per day from debt collectors and would have more ability to dispute their bills under proposals released Thursday to overhaul the multibillion-dollar debt collection industry.
The new rules from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would also require collectors to have more documentation to prove a debt is owed, and initiate a 30-day waiting period for loans tied to someone who has recently died — halting all collection attempts from a spouse or child during that time.
Regulators estimate roughly 70 million Americans are contacted by debt collectors each year, and more Americans submit complaints to state and federal agencies about unfair or deceptive practices than any other part of the consumer financial sy...
