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August 24, 2016 at 9:44 pm
Erez Crossing - The last few animals remaining at the Khan Yunis Zoo arrived at the Erez Crossing on Wednesday morning to be brought into Israel in an intense effort to rehabilitate the animals and find them a better home.
“We believe that this is an important mission and we are doing it out of a desire to help these animals, which did not receive the care that they needed,” said Erez Crossing Director Shlomo Tzavan.
The operation, dubbed “Operation Safari,” brought 15 animals into Israel from the Khan Yunis Zoo. The animals were sedated and brought in specially designed cages. The Agriculture Ministry said that the wildlife would be taken to zoos in Jordan, South Africa, Moshav Ben Shemen, and the Ramat Gan Safari.
Operation Safari was conducted in coo...
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August 24, 2016 at 9:43 pm
New York - If the U.S. presidential election were held today, Democrat Hillary Clinton would win the key swing states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia and have a 95 percent chance of beating Republican Donald Trump to become America’s first female president, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project.
The project, which combines opinion polls with an analysis of voting patterns under different election scenarios, shows Clinton currently beating Trump in the popular vote by six percentage points and ahead in 19 states, including most of the larger-population ones that heavily influence the outcome of the election.
At the moment, Clinton would win at least 268 votes in the Electoral College, the body that ultimately chooses the next president, just two shy of ...
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August 24, 2016 at 6:18 pm
Baltimore, MD - Aug. 24, 2016 - Unfortunately, the condition of Rephoel Daniel Mordechai ben Chaya Shifra is extremely critical and he is in need of Rachamei Shamayim.
There will be an Atzeres Tefillah at Mercaz Torah U'Tefilah this evening, Aug. 20, following Mincha/Maariv along with community Rabbonim.
Mincha/Maariv is at 7:45pm and the Atzeres Tefillah will be at approximately 8:10pm.
It is our hope that are tefillos will bring about a Refua Shlaima B'Karov.
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August 24, 2016 at 6:04 pm
Baltimore, Md - I want to take a moment to thank our future councilman, Issac "Yitzy" Schleifer. My family has been dealing with issues regarding the 3 way stop sign in front of my house. After almost a decade of fighting city hall, some solutions were proposed and we were hopeful to reach a conclusion to make the intersection by my house safer. Yesterday and today the city and the department of transportation began taking measures which would not only make things more dangerous but in complete contrast to what was agreed upon in meetings prior to today.
Things came to a head today and after trying to reach our current councilwoman, who has been MIA throughout this process and trying to reach people in charge, I waged a personal protest and didn't allow for the work to ge...
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August 24, 2016 at 5:40 pm
We often make reference to ‘the Ten Commandments’, those famous words uttered by G-d, that were etched into the stone tablets at Mount Sinai. The problem is there were never any ‘commandments’ uttered. In Talmudic literature they are referred to as the עשרת הדברות, the ‘Ten Expressions’ or ‘Utterances’, and never once as the עשרת המצות, the ‘Ten Commandments’.
Truth be told, even the term עשרת הדברות, ‘Ten Expressions’, appears nowhere in all of the Written Torah. The phrase, used merely three times throughout the entire Torah, to describe these utterances is: עשרת הדברים, the ‘Ten Statements’ or perhaps, ‘Ten Things’.
Isn’t it strange that bo...
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August 24, 2016 at 5:40 pm
Raizel Schusterman Posted this amazing story that we just had to share!
“My faith in humanity restored:
It’s been a long day, but a good day. My children were in day-camp and on a trip which meant that I had to stay in the Brighton area for an extra two hours with the little kids while waiting for my children’s bus from Canobie Lake Park to return. I decided to treat the two little children with a play date with a friend and her two little ones, who were also waiting for her older children to return. We decided to meet at the Artesani splash pad in Allston.
After two hours of running after the two little ones pushing them on swings, feeding them a picnic dinner, and just having good old-fashioned water fun, I left the park in a hurry to go pick up my older children at ...
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August 24, 2016 at 5:15 pm
Far Rockaway, NY - It was an outpouring of love for a legendary figure whose life was all about that very same emotion at Agudath Israel of Long Island in Far Rockaway this morning as hundreds came to mourn Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis who died on Tuesday at the age of 80.
Known for her love of Torah, yiddishkeit and her fellow Jew, Rebbetzin Jungreis earned a place in the hearts of many, serving in the role of a mother to some and as a grandmother to others, her diminutive size belying her powerful messages that emphasized the importance of Torah true Judaism.
Considered by many to be a pioneer in the world of Jewish outreach, the seeds for Rebbetzin Jungreis’ work inspiring Jews to live observant lives were sown in her youth. Rebbetzin Jungreis learned by example f...
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August 24, 2016 at 4:50 pm
Akron, Ohio - Black Republicans cheer Donald Trump for a newfound outreach to African-Americans, but say the GOP presidential nominee must take his message beyond arenas filled with white supporters and venture into the inner cities.
Many rank-and-file black voters, meanwhile, dismiss the overtures as another racially charged pitch from a campaign aimed exclusively at whites, from Trump’s emphasis on “law and order” to his withering critiques of President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black chief executive. It was Trump in 2011 who fiercely challenged Obama’s U.S. birth.
“Any minority who would vote for him is crazy, ought to have their head examined,” said Ike Jenkins, an 81-year-old retired business owner in the predominantly black...
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August 24, 2016 at 4:48 pm
New York - Three hospitals in New York’s Mount Sinai Health System will pay $2.95 million to settle Medicaid fraud charges for taking two years to repay more than $844,000 of improper billings that had been flagged by a whistleblower, authorities said on Wednesday.
The accord resolves claims that Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, Mount Sinai Roosevelt and their former Continuum Health Partners venture violated federal and state False Claims Acts by failing to repay the funds within 60 days, resulting in “reverse false claims.”
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan said the case arose after Continuum had been alerted by Robert Kane, a technical director for operations, to a software glitch that caused the erroneous billing of 444 claims t...
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August 24, 2016 at 4:47 pm
Jerusalem - The Israeli military on Wednesday cleared its forces of wrongdoing in three deadly incidents that took place during the 2014 Gaza war — including an airstrike that killed 15 members of a single family.
Israel’s investigative process is at the heart of a Palestinian case to press for war crimes charges against Israel at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. The Palestinians say that Israel has a poor record of prosecuting wrongdoing in its ranks. Wednesday’s announcement was likely to add to those claims.
In a statement Wednesday, the military said it had closed a total of seven investigations without filing charges after a special team collected testimony from Gaza residents and Israeli officers.
The deadliest incident involved an airstrik...
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August 24, 2016 at 4:26 pm
Washington - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is scheduled to receive a pre-election briefing from U.S. intelligence officials on Saturday, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
Clinton, a former secretary of state, will receive the briefing, an overview of foreign policy and international security issues facing the United States, from career officials in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the source said.
CNN reported that the briefing would be given to Clinton at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s field office in White Plains, New York, not far from the Chappaqua, New York, residence she shares with her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Representatives for relevant government agencies and Clinton’s ...
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August 24, 2016 at 3:18 pm
Baltimore, MD - Aug. 24, 2016:
Dear Community Members,
During the overnight hours of 8/22/16 to 8/23/16 the Pikesville Precinct experienced 3 attempted thefts of motor vehicle in the Sudbrook Community. In each case, the target vehicle was left unlocked overnight, and the vehicle’s ignition was tampered with. The first case occurred in the 700 block of Greenwood Road, the second in the 700 block of Westover Road and the third in the 300 block of Upland Road.
On 8/21/16 and 8/24/16, during the overnight hours, we also experienced two similar motor vehicle thefts in the Greens at Smith Community. The first case occurred in the unit block of Ironwood Circle, when the suspect(s) targeted an unlocked vehicle and discovered the keys to the victim’s other vehicle that was parked ne...
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August 24, 2016 at 3:05 pm
Washington - The Obama administration said Wednesday it paid $1.3 billion in interest to Iran in January to resolve a decades-old dispute over an undelivered military sale, two days after allowing $400 million in cash to fly to Tehran.
State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau says the U.S. couldn’t say more about the Jan. 19 payments because of diplomatic sensitivities. They involved 13 separate payments of $99,999,999.99 and final payment of about $10 million. There was no explanation for the Treasury Department keeping the individual transactions under $100 million.
The money settles a dispute over a $400 million payment made in the 1970s by the U.S.-backed shah’s government for military equipment. The equipment was never delivered because of the 1979 Islami...
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August 24, 2016 at 3:02 pm
Washington - When President Barack Obama ran for re-election, Democrats made no secret of their disdain for Mitt Romney. That was all before Donald Trump.
Horrified by the prospect of Trump in the White House, Obama and his party have changed their tune about Romney. As they denounce Trump as “unhinged” and unfit, they’re getting nostalgic about the 2012 Republican nominee they now describe as principled, competent and honorable.
It’s a sharp reversal from four years ago. Back then, Democrats spent hundreds of millions of dollars portraying the former Massachusetts governor as a callous, unpatriotic, pet-abusing caricature of the uber-rich.
Yet as Trump is proving, everything in politics is relative.
“He was in it for the right reasons,&rdqu...
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August 24, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Amatrice, Italy - Rescue crews using bulldozers and their bare hands raced to dig out survivors from a strong earthquake that reduced three central Italian towns to rubble early Wednesday. The death toll stood at 120 but the number of dead and missing was uncertain given the huge number of vacationers in the area for summer’s final days.
Residents wakened before dawn by the temblor emerged from their crumbled homes to find what they described as apocalyptic scenes “like Dante’s Inferno,” with entire blocks of buildings turned into piles of sand and rock, thick dust choking the air and a putrid smell of gas.
The magnitude 6 quake struck at 3:36 a.m. and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy, including Rome, where residents woke to a long swaying f...
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August 24, 2016 at 2:58 pm
Brooklyn, NY - It was a monumental fine levied by the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board and ironically enough, it was slapped on an individual who serves as chief law enforcement and legal officer for one of the five boroughs.
Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson was hit with a $15,000 fine, one of the highest ever levied by the COIB, for having asked police officers on his safety detail to buy him meals, paying for the food out of their own pockets, according to The New York Post.
Thompson acknowledged that he asked the officers to buy lunch for him from approximately January 2014 through May 2014. The total out of pocket cost laid out by the officers for those meals was just over $2,000.
“They requested and received reimbursement for these expenditures ...
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August 24, 2016 at 2:57 pm
Israel has offered search and rescue assistance to Italy following the 6.2-magnitude earthquake in the Umbria region on Wednesday that killed dozens of people and caused mass destruction.
A statement released by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office expressed condolences to the Italian people and wished a speedy recovery to those injured in the earthquake.
Israel has a long history of providing post-disaster assistance across the world. In April 2015, as reported by The Algemeiner, Israel sent the second largest national delegation to assist Nepal following the massive earthquake sustained by the Himalayan mountain nation.
In recent years, Israel has also sent aid delegations to Japan following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and to Haiti...
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August 24, 2016 at 2:56 pm
Amman - Officials have reported that oil has spilled from Jordan into the Gulf of Aqaba, but the size of the leak remains unclear.
The civil defense chief in Jordan’s Red Sea port of Aqaba told a local news website that the leak was brought under control within 15 minutes, without saying how much oil had leaked.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry says it was informed of the leak by Jordanian counterparts. The statement referred to 200 tons of oil having leaked, citing Jordanian media reports. However, a search Wednesday of news websites did not immediately turn up such an assessment.
Israeli Environment Minister Zeev Elkin told Israel Army Radio from the Israeli resort of Eilat, across the gulf from Aqaba, that it appears currents were sending the oil toward Saudi Arabia.
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August 24, 2016 at 1:15 pm
Lakewood, NJ - Aug. 24, 2016 - When Nami & Avi Safer decided where to open their new Orthodontic practice they wanted a location where people would be knocking down their doors to make appointments. Today's crash was not exactly what they had in mind.B'H, there were no injuries and Safer Orthodontics welcomes all new patients to its high-tech and fun-filled office.
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August 24, 2016 at 12:48 pm
London - The developer of the world’s largest aircraft says the blimp-shaped airship sustained damage after it made a bumpy landing Wednesday on its second test flight in eastern England.
Hybrid Air Vehicles said it is trying to figure out what caused the rough landing of the 302-foot (92-meter) Airlander 10 during its 100 minute flight Wednesday in Bedfordshire, north of London.
“The Airlander experienced a heavy landing and the front of the flight deck has sustained some damage, which is currently being assessed,” the company said. “Both pilots and the ground crew are safe and well and the aircraft is secured and stable at its normal mooring location.”
A hybrid of blimp, helicopter and airplane, the Airlander is able to stay aloft for days at a t...
