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September 21, 2016 at 5:47 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - Sept. 21, 2016 - Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and Chairman of the Maccabiah, Amir Peled, on Monday, September 19, announced the launch of the year of the Maccabiah, at the opening event, the first ever Jerusalem Maccabiah Night Run.
The Night Run, the inaugural event of the 20th year of Maccabiah Games, which will be hosted by Jerusalem, as it marks the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.
Runners had a choice of two routes, a 10 kilometer race or the longer half-marathon..Marathon runner Mayor Barkat, as usual participated, running in the 10 K race. Both races started at Yitzchak Kariv Street, by Mamilla Mall, opposite the Old City walls, near Jaffa Gate. 5,000 local and international runners ran through the dark, quiet st...
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September 21, 2016 at 5:19 pm
Baltimore, MD, Sept. 21, 2016 – Five Jewish mothers from Baltimore participated in the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP) Leadership Conference, which ran from September 18-20, in College Park, Md.
The JWRP Leadership Conference, held in collaboration with Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, gathered Jewish women from across the world to hone their leadership skills and create a global Jewish women’s movement. The annual conference was launched in 2013 with 65 participants from the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and has grown to include some 300 people from nine countries, including Australia, Cuba, Greece, Israel, Panama, Russia, Spain, South Africa and the U.S., this year.
The Baltimore women included Laura Wolf; Stephanie Blockston; Shira Heideman; Andrea M...
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September 21, 2016 at 4:53 pm
A divided Federal Reserve left its policy rate unchanged for a sixth straight meeting, saying it would wait for more evidence of progress toward its goals, while projecting that an increase is still likely by year-end.
“Near-term risks to the economic outlook appear roughly balanced,” the Federal Open Market Committee said in its statement Wednesday after a two-day meeting in Washington. “The Committee judges that the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened but decided, for the time being, to wait for further evidence of continued progress toward its objectives.”
The decision extends U.S. central bankers’ run of getting cold feet amid risks from abroad and inconsistent signs of economic strength. Now the focus may shift to D...
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September 21, 2016 at 4:52 pm
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is concerned heading into the presidential debates that she and Donald Trump could be asked different questions that reflect their differing levels of policy expertise, a senior Clinton aide said Wednesday.
“My biggest concern is . . . that people accommodate their questions and lower the bar of their questions to suit the candidate in front of them,” Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s communications director, told reporters traveling on the candidate’s plane to a campaign event here. “That’s what’s happened with Trump in the past.”
Palmieri said the concern is “they ask Hillary Clinton a set of much harder questions and they ask him a set of easier questions because he has not put forward detailed ...
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September 21, 2016 at 3:54 pm
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Mr. President, it’s very good to see you again. First, I want to thank you for the Memorandum of Understanding that we signed last week. It greatly enhances Israel’s security. It fortifies the principle that you’ve enunciated many times that Israel should be able to defend itself, by itself, against any threat.
Secondly, I want to thank you for the extensive security and intelligence cooperation between our two countries. I don’t think people at large understand the breadth and depth of this cooperation, but I know it. And I want to thank you on behalf of all the people of Israel.
Third, I want to thank you for the many meetings we’ve had in which we discussed how to confront common challenges and how to seize common opportunities. ...
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September 21, 2016 at 3:31 pm
Bluzhev Rebbe visiting Baltimore
האדמו"ר מבלאזוב בביקור בבאלטימאר
Photos by JDN
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September 21, 2016 at 3:18 pm
New York - Donald Trump is trying to run a more disciplined campaign, going easy (for him) on slip-ups and inflammatory tweets lately. His eldest son is another story.
In recent tweets, Donald Trump Jr. likened Syrian refugees to a bowl of poisoned Skittles candy, spread an incendiary story suggesting Muslim men are preying on Western women and used a cartoon character appropriated by white supremacists. He’s one of his father’s most prominent advisers.
The three adult Trump children, who are running their father’s company in his absence, have been valuable assets in the campaign. Daughter Ivanka introduces him at major events like his convention acceptance speech and last week’s rollout of a policy on child care. Sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump do freque...
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September 21, 2016 at 3:15 pm
Charlotte, NC - The Charlotte police chief says officers gave a black man clear, multiple warnings to drop a handgun before fatally shooting him.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said during a news conference Wednesday morning that officers were searching for a suspect Tuesday when they saw 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott exit a vehicle with a handgun. He says the officers told him to drop the gun and that he got out of the vehicle a second time still carrying the gun. He says the man was shot because he posed a threat.
“It’s time to change the narrative, because I can tell you from the facts that the story’s a little bit different as to how it’s been portrayed so far, especially through social media,” he said.
His comments were an app...
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September 21, 2016 at 3:13 pm
Elizabeth, NJ - They dot the landscape in this working-class New Jersey city, popping up every few blocks with names like U.S. Fried Chicken, Royal Fried Chicken and New York Fried Chicken and Burger and giving immigrants a foothold in a new country.
One of these fried chicken restaurants, First American Fried Chicken, was thrust into the international spotlight on Monday when authorities arrested the owner’s son, Ahmad Rahami, after a shootout with police.
Rahami is suspected of planting several explosives in New York City and New Jersey, including one that blew up on Saturday night in Manhattan and injured 29 people and two in New Jersey that exploded over the weekend but did not hurt anyone.
Local restaurant owners in Elizabeth said on Tuesday that many of the fried c...
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September 21, 2016 at 3:11 pm
New York - The FBI has released an image of two men who took a suitcase holding a bomb that didn’t explode in New York City.
Federal prosecutors have charged Ahmad Khan Rahami with setting a bomb in New Jersey and two in New York City. One of the bombs left in Manhattan didn’t explode.
The FBI issued a poster Wednesday showing “two unidentified individuals” who investigators want to talk to. The agency says the men were seen Saturday night removing the bomb from a piece of luggage, then leaving the device behind while taking the suitcase.
Investigators have said the two men are being sought as witnesses, not suspects.
The FBI released an image of the two men that it says was captured on closed circuit television recordings between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on West...
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September 21, 2016 at 3:09 pm
Toms River, NJ - Three homeowners have sued their New Jersey condominium association, which restricts coed swimming because most of the residents are Orthodox Jews.
Residents Steve and Diana Lusardi and Marie Curto, who are non-Orthodox Jews, sued A Country Place in Lakewood seeking to quash the policy and $50 fines levied against them for breaking the rules, The Asbury Park Press reports (http://on.app.com/2dgoQbn ).
Their lawsuit says the policy violates anti-discrimination provisions of the federal Fair Housing Act and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination.
The condominium association’s attorney declined comment.
The condominium complex serve people 55 or older. Swimming is restricted by gender at certain times in observance of Jewish law that prohibits men and wo...
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September 21, 2016 at 3:04 pm
Austin, TX - Texas has told federal officials the state will no longer provide aid to refugees over what Republican leaders say are security concerns.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday the state will withdrawal from the federally funded refugee resettlement program unless demands for refugee screening are “unconditionally” met by Sept. 30.
A judge has previously rejected Texas’ efforts to halt the arrival of new refugees from Syria in the wake of November’s deadly attacks in Paris.
A state health spokeswoman says Texas now intends to stop facilitating refugee services and benefits that are covered by federal dollars.
The White House announced earlier this month that the U.S. will strive to take in 110,000 refugees from around the world in 2017.
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September 21, 2016 at 2:59 pm
New York - President Barack Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday he had concerns about Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and hoped the United States could still help to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace.
“Clearly there is great danger of not just terrorism but also flare-ups of violence,” Obama said at the start of what was likely to be his last meeting as president with Netanyahu. Obama leaves office in January.
“We do have concerns around settlement activity as well. And our hope is that we can continue to be an effective partner with Israel in finding a path to peace,” Obama told reporters as the two leaders met on the sidelines of the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders.
Netanyahu, ...
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September 21, 2016 at 2:57 pm
New York - Police in New York City say hundreds of 911 callers have reported suspicious packages since the Saturday night explosion in Manhattan.
Police say they’ve received 406 phone calls of suspicious packages throughout the five boroughs between 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Monday.
None of the packages turned out to contain explosives.
Police Commissioner James O’Neill told reporters Wednesday he wants New Yorkers to report what they see.
A pressure-cooker bomb packed with shrapnel exploded Saturday evening in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. More than two dozen people were injured. A second bomb discovered blocks away didn’t explode. It was removed by a bomb unit robot.
Federal prosecutors have charged Ahmad Khan Rahami with planting those b...
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September 21, 2016 at 2:55 pm
A “sonic boom” by an F-22 fighter jet in the area of JFK Airport caused mass panic, Wednesday afternoon.
At around 2:30PM, YWN started receiving dozens of emails from people reporting hearing a massive explosion in the area between Queens and parts of the Five Towns in Nassau County. YWN then confirmed that the NYPD received “hundreds of calls reporting the explosion”. The Nassau County Police Department was flooded with calls as well.
Many people took to Twitter and other social media stating that the ground shook and there was definitely a loud explosion heard.
At 4:48PM, the Port Authority Police Department confirmed that an F-22 fighter jet in the area made a sonic boom which was felt on the ground.
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September 21, 2016 at 2:53 pm
San Francisco - The popular navigation app Waze is putting a new twist on the phrase “tunnel vision.” It’s trying to ensure drivers relying on digital maps don’t lose their way when their GPS signal disappears in tunnels.
Waze plans to keep drivers connected in those GPS-less situations by installing low-cost, battery-powered beacons that will transmit to smartphones and tablets in tunnels that the company has it its database, covering about 7,500 miles (12,000 kilometers) around the world. The beacons can maintain map connections, as long as the drivers turn on their Bluetooth signal.
The beacons will be turned on Wednesday in two Pittsburgh tunnels, Fort Pitt and Liberty, and another in Israel, where Waze was founded before Google bought it in 2013 for...
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September 21, 2016 at 2:47 pm
Washington - The Federal Reserve held off on a rate hike, but three officials opposed the decision — the most dissents since December 2014.
Fed officials concluded that economic growth is improving after an anemic first half of the year, job gains are approaching an apex and inflation remains low. But in a statement after their Wednesday meeting, the majority of Fed officials chose “to wait for further evidence of continued progress.”
Fed Chair Janet Yellen was among the seven who voted to wait. But Kansas City Fed President Esther George, who also dissented after the July meeting, was joined this time by Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren in calling for an increase to the short-term federal funds rate. That rate, whi...
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September 21, 2016 at 2:46 pm
Vernon, IN - A Pennsylvania man whose girlfriend died when the SUV he was driving plunged down an embankment damaged his legs so badly that he had to stay with her body for three days before he was able to crawl to a roadside for help.
Nikki K. Reed, 37, of Seymour, Indiana, died instantly when the vehicle crashed Saturday afternoon near the Jennings-Ripley County line in southeast Indiana, state police said. Troopers found Kevin Bell, 39, of Dover, Pennsylvania on Tuesday evening.
Bell was taken with non-life threatening injuries to a hospital in North Vernon, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) southeast of Indianapolis.
Family members told police that Reed had made a trip to Pennsylvania to pick up Bell and that they last heard from her Saturday when the two were traveling back ...
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September 21, 2016 at 12:00 pm
The New York City Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the individuals depicted in the attached photographs in connection to a gunpoint robbery.
The following details were given to YWN by the NYPD:
On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at approximately 11:05AM, a 72-year-old female victim was at the corner of Avenue T and East 2nd Street when an unknown male knocked her to the ground from behind, struck her in the face with a closed fist and removed her purse containing $5,000. The victim received a laceration to the face.
Surveillance photos taken from the video obtained from the above location are attached.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for...
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September 21, 2016 at 11:03 am
Melbourne, Australia - Four Chasidic boys on their way to cheder in Melbourne this morning ended up in the hospital after a collision between their school bus and a car.
Australian news site The Age said that the accident took place at 9 AM this morning on the Nepean Highway in Elsternwick. The schoolbus, which was traveling to the Divrei Emineh school in Brighton, had 20 children on board at the time of the collision which also involved a black Toyota driven by a female driver.
The injured children were taken by ambulance to Royal Children’s Hospital in stable condition. Two complained of abdominal injuries, one had glass in his eye and a fourth sustained injuries to his neck. The driver of the car told paramedics that she would see her own physician.
The res...
