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September 27, 2016 at 10:34 am
Republican White House candidate Donald Trump stole the social media spotlight during Monday night's U.S. presidential debate on at least one count - what Twitter users branded his #Trumpsniffle.
The wealthy businessman sniffed repeatedly as he faced off against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in their first debate, giving rise to the hashtag and a surge of interest on social media what might be causing his nose to run. Parody accounts, Donald's Sinuses (@TrumpsSinuses) and Trump sniff (@TrumpSniff), gained a large following.
Trump, 70, told Fox News on Tuesday morning he did not have a cold. "No, no sniffles, no," he said. "No cold." He complained he had a faulty microphone and joked that maybe it was picking up breathing.
Several tweeters seized on the sniff...
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September 27, 2016 at 9:56 am
Hillary Clinton won the first presidential debate last night, according to a wide-variety of polls taken immediately afterward.
Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight has a good breakdown of these instant polls. First, there’s a CNN poll, which has 62% of voters saying Clinton won versus 27% saying Trump. Public Policy Polling might have a more reliable result, with 52% of voters saying Clinton versus 40% saying Trump.
Even a Breitbart poll had Clinton winning, though to significantly smaller numbers, 48% to 43%.
There were other signs that Clinton won as well, according to Josh Barro at Business Insider. Betting markets increased her odds of winning from 69% before the debate to 73% afterward. CBS and CNN focus groups of undecided voters both indicated she won.
Perhaps most intere...
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September 27, 2016 at 9:47 am
Doctors for former Israeli President say his condition has declined significantly, two weeks after he suffered a stroke.
A dramatic deterioration Tuesday in the condition of former president Shimon Peres, who is hospitalized at the Sheba (Tel Hashomer) hospital in Ramat Gan since suffering a stroke nearly two weeks ago. Doctors now believe that his neurological situation is irreversible.
Peres's condition deteriorated despite daily improvements since he suffered the stroke.
Last week President Ruby Rivlin visited Peres. Rivlin went to the ward where Peres is confined and heard a detailed assessment of his condition from his doctors, hugged his children and talked for a long period with members of Peres' bureau.
In a press release Rivlin said that "Peres is so present ...
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September 27, 2016 at 9:22 am
Sources say a New York City firefighter has been killed on the scene of a gas explosion that rocked the Kingsbridge neighborhood in the Bronx this morning.
Fire officials say crews were first called to the scene around 6:22 a.m. at 305 West 234th Street to investigate a report of a gas leak.
Sources say it happened at a two-story private residence that possibly had a drug lab inside.
More than 100 firefighters have responded.
Fire officials say there are several other injuries.
The NYPD says four uniformed officers suffered minor injuries.
New York City Emergency Management says drivers should expect traffic delays and road closures in the area.
Con Ed crews have also been dispatched to the scene.
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September 27, 2016 at 9:07 am
The Chicago Police Department are investigating an attempted kidnaping that took place this past shabbos in the west Rogers Park section of Chicago.
On Shabbos, September 24 at 9:20 a.m., two sisters ages 7 and 10 were on the way to a shul near the 2900 block of West Lunt Avenue when a light-blue 4-door sedan stopped, and an unknown driver motioned for the girls to come near the car. The driver then opened the door of the vehicle and began to exit. The children started to walk away but the driver continued to drive alongside them. The victims ran home to alert their families who called 911.
The driver fled westbound on Lunt Avenue and the girls were not hurt. Police said investigators described the driver as a male, approximately 40 years of age, bald h...
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September 27, 2016 at 9:03 am
Jerusalem — Israel’s leader says American support for his country will remain strong regardless of who is elected president in November. Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet Tuesday about his meeting in New York with both presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and relayed their strong words of support for Israel. The prime minister was in the United States to address the U.N. General Assembly. Netanyahu says “it doesn’t matter who will be elected — the American support for Israel will remain strong, this alliance will remain strong and will even get stronger in the coming years.” Netanyahu was accused by some of siding with Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the 2012 election
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September 27, 2016 at 9:00 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gas explosion in a private dwelling in the New York City borough of the Bronx injured multiple people on Tuesday, the city's fire department said.
The extent and number of the injuries was not immediately known, a department spokesman said.
Firefighters responded to the dwelling after someone called at about 6:20 a.m. EDT to report a possible gas leak, the spokesman said.
A spokesman for the New York City Police Department said its officers also responded to reports of an explosion at about 7:00 a.m. EDT.
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September 27, 2016 at 9:00 am
BERLIN (AP) -- Two homemade explosive devices were set off outside a mosque and a conference center in the eastern German city of Dresden, police said Tuesday. Nobody was hurt.
Dresden police said in a statement that there was no immediate report on the extent of damage from the explosions late Monday.
"Even though we do not have a letter of confession, we must assume there's a xenophobic background," Police President Horst Kretschmar said.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere called the attacks "outrageous" and condemned them sharply.
"Aggression against people who are practicing Islam is increasing in Germany," he said. "Fortunately, people didn't get hurt, but we don't want these things to happen in Germany."
Police said they found pieces of the...
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September 27, 2016 at 8:54 am
Yossi Tzur recounts terror families' humiliating experience with then-senator Clinton, as contrasted with Rudy Giuliani.
Yossi Tzur, who lost his son, Assaf, in a terror bus bombing, has unpleasant memories from his meeting with Hillary Clinton. He shared them with his Facebook friends Tuesday morning.
"On 2003 My son, Assaf, almost 17-years old, was killed in a terror attack in Haifa, Israel, attack orchestrated by Hamas," he wrote.
"On 2004, I went with a delegation of families of terror victims to the US, we talked to decision makers, in Congress, Senate and others, the time was when the debate over Israel right for a security fence was at its peak. Israel was taken to the international court in the Hague over the fence. Talking about the need for a fence was very impor...
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September 27, 2016 at 8:50 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Monument is closing indefinitely because of ongoing problems with its elevator, the latest in a series of woes for one of the city's most enduring tourist attractions.
The National Park Service announced Monday that the monument, which draws 600,000 visitors a year, will remain closed until its elevator control system can be modernized, a process expected to take up to nine months once work begins.
A start date for the $3 million project has not been determined.
The lone elevator carrying visitors to the top of the 555-foot obelisk has broken down frequently over the past two years, roughly since the monument reopened after being damaged in an earthquake.
Park service officials have said they don't believe the 2011 earthquake ...
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September 27, 2016 at 8:38 am
Baltimore, MD – Sept. 27, 2016 - A family from Israel has had to relocate to Baltimore due to a serious illness of a family member. Community members are trying to help them in a bakavodika way and request if you have any of the following in good condition please to call Mrs. Bethy Guttman at 410.916.3948 or email Bethyguttman@gmail.com.
50 inch bed Chair for the Nursing staff - a comfortable sturdy arm chair - not too comfy she needs to stay awake overnight!.
Also for the nursing staff a small refrigerator and a coffee maker
A small table for the kitchen Candlesticks for Shabbos- (not looking for expensive, something pretty - brass or ceramic)
Challah board
Blech
Hot water urn
Shabbos lamps
NO dishes or pots - Thanks they have enough.
If you have a recipe book in Hebr...
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September 27, 2016 at 8:27 am
The office of Israel’s State Prosecutor announced Monday that former leading officials in the Yisrael Beitenu party will be charged with corruption, according to Haaretz. 16 individuals are set to be indicted, including former Yisrael Beitenu MKs Stas Misezhnikov and ex-Deputy Minister Faina Kirschenbaum.
Misezhnikov, a former Tourism Minister, is facing charges of fraud, bribery, breach of trust, and using cocaine on the job, which he allegedly sent one of his advisers to purchase for him. Former Deputy Interior Minister Kirschenbaum is being charged with fraud, bribery, breach of trust, tax evasion, and money laundering. Kirschenbaum formerly served as Yisrael Beitenu’s General Secretary.
Additional suspects include David Godovsky, Director of the Organization Dep...
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September 27, 2016 at 8:24 am
British couple living Cyprus make horrifying discovery, rush to Israel to save 3-week old baby.
A routine check-up for their three-week old baby turned into every parent’s worst nightmare for a British couple living in Cyprus this weekend.
When their daughter, Elsa Rose, was brought in to be weighed last Friday afternoon, a doctor noticed the baby’s lips had turned slightly blue. When he checked her heart beat, he heard what seemed to be a heart murmur.
The doctor scheduled an appointment with a cardiologist that evening, who stunned the girl’s parents with a horrifying prognosis.
“We took Elsa in at 6:30,” the girl’s mother wrote on Babycentre.co.uk, “and he performed an ultra-sound on her heart. We were then given the devastating news ...
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September 27, 2016 at 8:22 am
(AFP). German data protection authorities on Tuesday said they had blocked Facebook from collecting subscriber data from its subsidiary WhatsApp, citing privacy concerns.
Facebook and WhatsApp promised in the wake of the Silicon Valley giant’s 2014 acquisition of the messaging app that they would not share data, Hamburg’s Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Johannes Caspar said in a statement.
He added that Facebook would be required to delete any data already received from WhatsApp in Germany.
“It has to be (the users’) decision whether they want to connect their account with Facebook,” Caspar said. “Facebook has to ask for their permission in advance.”
WhatsApp announced in August that it would begin sharing dat...
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September 27, 2016 at 8:17 am
Baltimore,MD - Sept. 27, 2016 - Watch Video Recording of Presidential Debate
Debate begins at 25:39
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September 26, 2016 at 8:10 pm
Reporter Amir Bar Shalom of Israel’s Channel 1 television encountered Jonathan Pollard and his wife on the streets of New York and conducted an impromptu interview that aired on Erev Shabbos.
Pollard said it would “take a miracle” for him to be able to live in Israel
Pollard, convicted of spying for Israel, was released from prison in November after 30 years.
The 62-year-old has strict parole rules that require him to stay in his New York home from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. and wear a GPS-monitoring device at all times.
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September 26, 2016 at 7:59 pm
New data show that murders in the United States rose 10.8 percent in the last year, following a two-decade decline. The FBI said the rise was the biggest single-year increase since 1971. The number of murders for 2015—15,696—was about the same total as in 2009. The total is still half what it was in 1991. “You lost 50 lb. You gained back a couple. You’re not fat,” said Jeffrey Butts, the director of the Research & Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look at your behavior, because the trend is not good.”
Select cities showed their own trends. New York City saw 352 murders last year, compared to 2,000 per year in the early 1990s. Los Angeles has seen fewer than 300 mur...
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September 26, 2016 at 7:55 pm
Yerushalayim mayor Nir Barkat met rabbonim and politicians of the chareidi Degel Hatorah party who felt that he was antagonistic to their needs and promised to upgrade chareidi schools as part of a general plan to enhance the city’s schools. Barkat also agreed to transfer a large section of the religious Zionist Harel School in Ramot to a local Bais Yaakov school and announced that three new kindergartens will be built for chareidim in the mixed Kiryat Yovel neighborhood as well as other improvements in mixed neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, Jewish and Arab parents petitioned in court against the Education Ministry and Yerushalayim municipality, asking the court to demand an explanation why chareidi schools are 1,600 classrooms short and why 2,000 classrooms are missing in Arab...
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September 26, 2016 at 7:53 pm
Looking for a fun event to have at your company this year? How about offering your employees a chance to bring their parents to work. That’s what Amazon.com recently did. And, as reported by a local TV station, everyone seemed to have a blast.
Millennials – defined as those between the ages of 18 and 34 – now make up more than half of the U.S. workforce. And as tough as they’d like us to think they are we all know they’re still young at heart. I always hear of the challenges faced by small businesses looking to attract and maintain good people from this generation. So here’s one good idea: what could make an employee more appreciative of where she works than by impressing her parents?
In a twist of the decades-old “bring your son/daughte...
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September 26, 2016 at 7:50 pm
Expands Access to Services to Underserved Communities
Recently, Mrs. Leah Steinberg, Agudath Israel's Special Needs Advocate and Director of Project LEARN, proposed changes in inter-agency cooperation policy between the New York State Education Department (NYSED) and New York State's Office of People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD). The changes proposed would ensure that the OPWDD provide information on services and programs for the disabled in places that are accessible to nonpublic school students - thus empowering millions of individuals with disabilities throughout New York State.
As a member of New York State's Developmental Disabilities Advisory Council (DDAC) of the OPWDD, Mrs. Steinberg strongly advised that the yearly communication/forums from OPWDD includ...
