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August 23, 2016 at 2:46 pm
FBI Offers $5,000 for Serial Bank Robber
Baltimore – The FBI Baltimore Violent Crimes Task Force is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who is wanted in connection with a series of bank robberies in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Investigators believe the same man is responsible for three robberies in the last two months; the most recent incident was on Saturday August 20th.
Witnesses describe him as a black man, about 6’2” tall, with an athletic build. The suspect approaches the counter, hands the bank employee a note announcing an armed robbery, and demands money. He threatens to shoot the teller. No one has been hurt in any of the robberies.
The list of banks:
July 18—Bank of America, 3621 Old Court Road, Pike...
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August 23, 2016 at 2:07 pm
A founding member of The Actors Studio, he also is known for his work on the stage and on 'Mission: Impossible,' where he was replaced by Peter Graves.
Steven Hill, the stoic actor who was an original castmember on both the 1960s iconic television series Mission: Impossible and the ground-breaking 1990s drama Law & Order, died Tuesday. He was 94.
Hill, who began his career on the New York stage and went on to build an impressive list of film and television credits that spanned more than five decades, died in Monsey, N.Y., his son, Rabbi Yehoshua Hill, told The Hollywood Reporter.
When Mission: Impossible debuted in 1966 on CBS, it was Hill, as Daniel Briggs, who originally led the covert Impossible Missions Force. IMF was known for taking on government assignments t...
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August 23, 2016 at 1:32 pm
Marking two years since Operation Protective Edge, President Reuven Rivlin today (Tuesday), toured the region bordering the Gaza Strip. He was accompanied by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, GOC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, and Gaza Division Commander Brig.-Gen. Yehuda Fox.
The President received a situation update and heard about the IDF operations in the area on a day-to-day basis, and in particular following the recent terrorist rocket attack on Sderot. During his visit, President Rivlin was shown a terror tunnel discovered by the IDF, and discussed the initiatives the IDF was taking to tackle the problem of the tunnels.
The President then went on to the ‘Black Arrow (Chetz HaShachor)’ viewpoint where he met with dozens of soldiers o...
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August 23, 2016 at 1:23 pm
Washington - Donald Trump portrays himself as an indispensable cash resource for fellow Republicans. So far, they’re not seeing much of a benefit.
The presidential nominee’s July fundraising provided the Republican National Committee with less than half as much as Mitt Romney’s efforts four years ago, an Associated Press review of the campaign finance documents found.
“Typically you see the nominee lift everyone up,” said Chris Schrimpf, a spokesman for Ohio Gov. John Kasich, one of Trump’s defeated primary rivals. The battleground state features a critical Senate race this year, but Trump has all but ignored the Ohio state party. “This time, if anything, everyone else is carrying his water.”
The RNC received $18.1 million from jo...
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August 23, 2016 at 1:21 pm
Haifa, Israel - A six-year-old girl from Syria who was treated for her wound and a blood disease at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center was discharged and sent home on Tuesday after her new Israeli friends held a farewell party and gave her with many gifts, including a first-grade backpack – in the hope that her school is still standing.
She was one of the 140 Syrian civilians – men, women and children – that Rambam doctors, nurses and other personnel have treated over the past three years of civil war there. However, the departure of “B” was especially emotional for everyone. Wearing a white dress and shoes and a little silver crown, “B” was the guest of honor at a farewell party held by an entire department, where Jews, Muslims, Christi...
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August 23, 2016 at 12:09 pm
Chicago - A fire at a Chicago apartment building that appears to have been deliberately set killed four people Tuesday, including three children, police said.
It took around 200 firefighters three hours to put out the blaze, which began around 1:30 a.m. in a three-story building in the South Chicago neighborhood. Witnesses said they saw residents leap from windows to escape.
A preliminary investigation indicated a person returned to the building after a domestic dispute and set fire to the rear porch, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. Officers were searching for a “person of interest wanted for questioning,” he said.
An infant was pronounced dead at a hospital, and two other girls — ages 4 and 6 — and a man were found dead later on the third floor...
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August 23, 2016 at 12:09 pm
Miami, FL - Florida officials on Tuesday announced the first case of Zika acquired by local mosquitoes in Pinellas County, located some 265 miles (425 km) from Miami, where the first locally transmitted U.S. cases were reported.
Florida Governor Rick Scott also said there were four new cases of Zika transmission in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami, where officials have been aggressively spraying for the mosquitoes that carry the virus for weeks.
The state department of health has begun door-to-door outreach in Pinellas County, testing individuals to find other cases, Scott said in a statement. He added that mosquito abatement and reduction activities are also taking place.
Pinellas County is home to St. Petersburg, a popular tourist destination.
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August 23, 2016 at 11:30 am
Baltimore, MD - Aug. 23, 2016 - Watch the levaya LIVE at 12:30 PM EST (7:30PM IL) by clicking here
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Levaya information onTuesday, Aug23, for Israel: Eretz Hachaim cemetery, near Beit Shemesh at 7ish. El AL 008 is scheduled to land at 5 pm and the funeral usually takes place about 2 hors later. You can check plane arrival by googling LY8 or LY008 from Jfk.
Shiva at 4 Ohel Yehoshua, Romema.
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Baltimore, MD – Aug. 21, 2016 - - It is with deep regret that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Mrs. Eva Lou Chapman, z'l, mother of Rabbi Reuven (Janine) Chapman, Louis (Elke) Chapman, Nechama (Rabbi Ze'ev) Kraines, Libby (Menachem) Leibowitz, David (Stephanie) Chapman, Dani (Rabbi Moshe) Perlmutter....
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August 23, 2016 at 11:10 am
Updated as of Aug. 23, 11:00 AM : Levaya will take place at 2:00 in Monsey by Rav Shlesinger Shul, 7 Nelson Road.
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RebShlomo (Steven) Hill, a'h, legendary actor, prominent advocate for Yiddishkeit and beloved father and grandfather, passed away today in Monsey, NY. His impassioned speaking, sage advice and, general example of profound Emunah and Bitachon inspired thousands. He was 94-years-old. He was the son-in-law of Baltimore's Rav Yehoshua Lev Shenker, a grandosn of Rav Chaim Yosef Zonnenfeld.
One of his children, Mrs. Chani (Rabbi Avraham) Hendler, lives in Baltimore.
At the height of his acting career, Hill opted to become a practicing Orthodox Jew. This decision entailed enormous Mesiras Nefesh, due to his unwavering commitment of basic Halachic req...
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August 23, 2016 at 10:54 am
Canadian-born Israeli writer and Rabin assassination conspiracy theorist found dead at age 64.
Writer and conspiracy theorist Barry Chamish passed away this Tuesday from an apparent heart attack. He was 64 years old.
Relatives say Chamish was found lifeless in his Florida apartment on Tuesday. No time has yet been set for the funeral.
“With great sadness I must announce the passing of my father, the journalist and writer Barry Chamish, age 64,” Chamish’s son, Ariel, announced via Facebook.
Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Chamish moved to Israel in 1975, becoming a freelance writer and author of more than a dozen books. His work appeared in a number of popular American publications, including The Atlantic, and Chamish was featured in television specials on NBC and FOX....
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August 23, 2016 at 10:54 am
New York - Donald Trump’s campaign is paying more than ever to rent space inside his Trump Tower in New York.
Federal Election Commission reports show that the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign paid $35,457 per month for rent and utilities to Trump Tower Commercial LLC between August 2015 and this April. The payment began increasing in May and hit $169,758 last month.
The campaign says in a statement the rent hike came as the Trump team expanded from only the fifth floor to also include the entire 14th and 15th floors.
It says the rent was calculated based on the average price per square foot in the area. It notes Trump made a $2 million personal donation last month, which more than covers the rent.
The Huffington Post first noted the bigger payments.
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August 23, 2016 at 10:44 am
(JTA) — Three bills that would protect overweight people from discrimination have been introduced in Israel’s Knesset.
Lawmaker Tamar Zandberg of the left-wing Meretz party introduced each measure, Ynet reported.
One bill, an amendment to the Prohibition of Discrimination in Goods or Services Law, would prohibit denying commercial services to someone on the basis of their weight.
An amendment to the Defamation Law would empower overweight people to sue those who insult or exclude them because of their weight. Another amendment, to the Equality and Opportunity in Work Law, would add weight to the list of items that may not be used to discriminate against potential employees.
“Overweight persons are discriminated against when applying for work and are...
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August 23, 2016 at 10:33 am
(JTA) — A senior Paris rabbi defended a string of controversial municipal bans in France on wearing publically the full-body swimsuit known as burkini.
Moshe Sebbag, the rabbi of the Grand Synagogue of Paris, told JTA Tuesday he supported in principle the regulations adopted earlier this month in 15 French municipalities, including the famed beach resort Cannes, against the garb, which French Prime Minister Manuel Valls last week said was part of a “political project” to perpetuate female servitude.
“It’s a complicated subject and both sides have compelling arguments,” Sebbag said during an interview. While the French state is a “secular country with freedom of religion,” he said, the mayors in question “understood ...
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August 23, 2016 at 10:30 am
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic graffiti has appeared for the fifth time this month at one of the busiest intersections in the Chinatown section of Washington, D.C.
On Monday, swastikas were discovered painted on a street there, the DCist news website reported. A swastika also was drawn on the door of a corner Starbucks, according to the report.
The graffiti was found near where vandals earlier in August had painted the word “Jew” repeatedly on the images of rats on an outdoor Chinese Zodiac public art display.
Maintenance crews employed by DowntownDC, a private nonprofit that encourages business in the city center, have repeatedly cleaned the graffiti, including the swastikas from Monday.
D.C. Police are offering a $1,000 reward through Crime Solvers for information...
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August 23, 2016 at 10:27 am
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli judoka Yarden Gerbi, who won a bronze medal in the women’s 63-kg judo competition at the Rio Olympics, is auctioning off her Olympic name patch for charity.
Gerbi has offered the name patch for sale on eBay, and agreed to autograph it with a dedication to the buyer.
The proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center to be used to purchase medical equipment, Gerbi said in her description on the auction website.
As of Tuesday morning, the highest bid was $13,000. The auction closes in five days.
Gerbi defeated Miku Tashiro of Japan for Israel’s first Olympic medal since the 2008 games in Beijing. Another Israeli judoka, Ori Sasson, won a bronze medal in the men’s judo over-100 kg. competition.
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August 23, 2016 at 10:21 am
Researchers have discovered how Melanoma spreads through the body, a “breakthrough” they hope will lead to cancer becoming nonthreatening and easily curable, according to a new Tel Aviv University study done in cooperation with the German Cancer Research (DKFZ).
Melanoma is an aggressive cancer that kills one person every 52 minutes, according to the international Skin Cancer Foundation.
The study, which looked at the spread of Melanoma, was published in a Nature Cell Biology article.
Scientists found that before spreading, Melanoma tumors send out small vesicles with molecules that trigger structural changes in the skin that prepare it for receiving cancer cells, and transporting them further. The scientists also found chemical substances that can stop the proces...
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August 23, 2016 at 10:11 am
Nigeria’s military said Tuesday it believes an airstrike has “fatally wounded” Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, but there was no way to confirm yet another claim of the death of Nigeria’s Islamic extremist leader.
A statement does not say how the military got the information but identifies other commanders as “confirmed dead” in an air raid on Friday.
Read full story at The Associated Press.
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August 23, 2016 at 10:07 am
Paris - France and Germany pushed Tuesday for Europe-wide rules requiring the makers of encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram to help governments monitor communications among suspected extremists.
Privacy advocates argue that encryption is essential to online security, notably for banking transactions. But security experts say encrypted apps are increasingly used by extremists to hide their location, coordinate operations and trade weapons and sex slaves.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said French authorities have detained three people this month with “clear attack plans,” but police need better tools to eavesdrop on encrypted text conversations utilizing the kinds of powers used to wiretap phones.
He and German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere insisted ...
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August 23, 2016 at 9:42 am
Cairo - WikiLeaks’ global crusade to expose government secrets is causing collateral damage to the privacy of hundreds of innocent people, including survivors of sexual abuse, sick children and the mentally ill, The Associated Press has found.
In the past year alone, the radical transparency group has published medical files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens while many hundreds more have had sensitive family, financial or identity records posted to the web. In two particularly egregious cases, WikiLeaks named teenage rape victims. In a third case, the site published the name of a Saudi citizen arrested for being gay, an extraordinary move given that homosexuality is punishable by death in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom.
“They published everything: my ph...
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August 23, 2016 at 9:37 am
The FBI is investigating a stabbing in Virginia in which the suspect shouted “Allahu akbar” while attacking a man and woman.
Wasil Farooqui of Roanoke County is charged in the stabbings at The Pines Apartments in Roanoke on Saturday. Roanoke County police say that during the attack Farooqui was yelling “Allahu akbar,” which is Arabic for “God is great.”
Roanoke County police have said they believe that the attack was random.
The 20-year-old Farooqui is charged with two counts of aggravated malicious wounding and is being held without bond at the Western Virginia Regional Jail. Online court records did not list an attorney.
