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October 20, 2016 at 9:41 am
Drone video by Moshe Paskesz
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October 20, 2016 at 9:37 am
Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton - Final Presidential Debate 2016
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October 20, 2016 at 9:31 am
Donald Trump On Whether He’ll Accept Election Results
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October 20, 2016 at 9:27 am
Las Vegas (AFP) – Donald Trump sailed into another political tempest Thursday after threatening not to recognize the outcome of the US presidential election in a final debate with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner.
With the November 8 elections just 19 days away, the face-off in Las Vegas was seen as the Republican nominee’s last best chance to turn around a sinking White House bid.
But with millions watching on television, a defiant Trump turned what many thought began as his strongest debate performance yet into a gift to Clinton and another major headache for Republicans.
Asked point-blank whether he would accept the results of the elections no matter what, the 70-year-old reality television star said: “I’ll tell you at the time. I’ll keep you ...
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October 20, 2016 at 9:26 am
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) conducted a report from August 2015 to July 2016, which monitored the behavior of anti-Semitism towards journalists on social media through the presidential race. It found about 2.6 million anti-Semitic tweets, 19,253 were directed at reporters.
According to BuzzFeed, the study revealed that 800 journalists were victims of hate speech. The report also found that 1,600 Twitter accounts generated 68 percent of the anti-Semitic tweets aimed at journalists during this time period.
After several discussions with journalists who received anti-Semitic comments on Twitter, the ADL decided to conduct the study.
“Historically this kind of bigotry is not tolerated in the mainstream, but we were really starting to hear a pattern from journalists about a g...
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October 20, 2016 at 9:26 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both struggled in the final presidential debate to explain comments from their past. A look at some of the claims from the debate:
CLINTON, on Trump's charge that she called for open borders in a 2013 speech to a Brazilian bank: "I was talking about energy."
THE FACTS: She was actually talking about more than energy, but apparently less than an open border that immigrants can spill across at will, according to the partial transcript released by WikiLeaks.
Clinton said in the speech that "my dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, sometime in the future with energy that is as green as sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere." The ...
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October 20, 2016 at 9:26 am
WASHINGTON – As Iraqi tanks charge across the country to purge the city of Mosul of the Islamic State group, the United States has just as much to gain from the operation as the Iraqis themselves. Wresting Iraq's second largest city from the extremists is key to eventually defeating it militarily, a major U.S. objective. Still, President Barack Obama's strategy to engage in this war without the use of combat forces has been received with some skepticism; critics say this approach allowed IS to expand in the first place.
Since 2014, the U.S. has provided advise-and-assist operations to put the beleaguered Iraqi military back on its feet after IS gutted it of weapons, supplies and soldiers during its blitzkrieg across Iraq and Syria. A U.S.-led coalition lat...
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October 20, 2016 at 5:47 am
As we stand on the brink of the third debate quickly approaching the 11th hour in the presidential election, the nation’s top polling organization IBD/TIPP has Donald Trump winning in the polls.
According to Investors.com, they investigated and found that this poll has been the most accurate over the past three election cycles. As reported, polling is both an art and science that takes some of the most intelligent people to create the most accurate predictions for an election.
Nate Silver’s Five Eight Thirty, ranked 23 presidential polling organizations and came to the same conclusion, which is that IBD/TIPP has only a 0.9% margin of error.
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October 20, 2016 at 5:36 am
Baltimore County Police are announcing some major reforms today, including the acceleration of its nascent body camera program.
County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced today 1,435 patrol officers will be wearing cameras by September of next year, instead of in 2018.
The county is having the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault review police procedures in sex assault investigations. Retired Baltimore County Judge Barbara Howe will also lead that review.
Effective immediately, Kamenetz says, police will have those reporting sexual assaults, and any suspects, interviewed by detectives in the sex crimes unit.
The county is also forming a task force to study ways police can respond to standoffs and deal with minorities and the mentally ill.
Kamenetz says these ch...
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October 20, 2016 at 5:27 am
A defiant Donald Trump used the high-profile setting of the final presidential debate here Wednesday night to amplify one of the most explosive charges of his candidacy: that if he loses the election, he might consider the outcome illegitimate because the process is rigged.
Questioned directly as to whether he would accept the outcome should Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton prevail on Nov. 8, Trump demurred. "I will keep you in suspense," the Republican nominee said. Clinton called Trump's answer "horrifying," saying he was "talking down our democracy."
After a sober start, the candidates shifted gears into a series of fiery exchanges over their fitness to serve as president and character traits. But over the course of the third and final debate, they delved deeper into ...
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October 19, 2016 at 10:14 pm
Baltimore, MD - Daily Dvar Halacha - Oct. 19, 2016 / 17 Tishrei 5777 - Tfilin on Chol Ha Moed?
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October 19, 2016 at 5:46 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - Oct. 19, 2016 - During Sukkos, the 5th annual Israel Allies Foundation Jerusalem Chairman’s Conference is taking place in Jerusalem, Israel at The Mamilla Hotel. Twenty members of parliament from countries throughout Europe, Africa and Latin America are in attendance. The Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) is an umbrella organization that coordinates the activities of 35 pro-Israel caucuses in parliaments throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Australia.
The international lawmakers serve as Chairs of the Israel Allies Caucus in their local parliaments. In order to gain a better understanding about the history of Jerusalem, in 5777, the 50th year of reunification, the delegates took a ...
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October 19, 2016 at 5:24 pm
Police on Wednesday, the second day chol hamoed Israel, arrested eight Jews who visited Har Habayis. Har Habayis was open to visitors on Wednesday morning as Birchas Kohanim was taking place at the Kosel. An estimated 80,000 mispallalim took part in birchas kohanim.
Police reported 275 Jews visited amid a total of 1,115 visitors to Har Habayis on Wednesday morning.
During visiting hours, eights of the Jewish visitors were detained by authorities for violating regulations on Har Habayis.
Gedolei Yisrael over the generations and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel prohibit visiting Har Habayis.
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October 19, 2016 at 5:23 pm
In Shas party event Wednesday in Jerusalem, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef said that Jews may not ascend Temple Mount.
Thousands took part Wednesday in a 'Greet the Rabbi' event organized by the Shas party in Jerusalem and attended by the spiritual and political leaders of the party.
At the event, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef referred to those who pray on Temple Mount and said that the matter contradicted halakha.
The late Religious Zionist Chief Rabbis Kook and Avraham Shapira and others publicized the same prohibition because of uncertainty as to the location of areas where halakha does not allow Jews to tread or which are permitted to the High Priest only on Yom Kippur, while Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren and others felt that it was possible to delineate a...
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October 19, 2016 at 5:18 pm
MANASSAS, Va. (AP) -- Think of it as the airborne cousin to the self-driving car: a robot in the cockpit to help human pilots fly passengers and cargo - and eventually even replace them.
The government and industry are collaborating on a program that seeks to replace the second human pilot in two-person flight crews with a robot co-pilot that never tires, gets bored, feels stressed out or gets distracted.
The program is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon's arm for development of emerging technologies, and run by Aurora Flight Sciences, a private contractor. With both the military and airlines...read more at The Associated Press
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October 19, 2016 at 5:13 pm
Facebook Inc (FB.O) said users in the United States would be able to order food through the Facebook pages of restaurants starting on Wednesday as part of its efforts to connect users and businesses.
Users will also be able to get quotes from businesses, buy movie tickets and book appointments at spas and salons, Facebook said in a blog post. (bit.ly/2egQZC4)
Earlier this month, Facebook launched "Marketplace", a platform that allows people to buy and sell items locally.
Facebook, which has about 1.7 billion monthly active users, also said on Wednesday it would add a "recommendations" feature that will allow users to share recommendations on such things as...read more at Reuters
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October 19, 2016 at 5:11 pm
It has been feeling more like summer than fall across parts of the U.S. as high temperatures soared to 10 to 20 degrees above average.
Tuesday's 84-degree high at Maryland's BWI-Marshall Airport broke a 71-year-old mark for the day. Decades-old records also fell in Wilmington, Delaware, and Trenton, New Jersey. Atlanta tied a record of 86 degrees Tuesday.
The summerlike warmth was continuing Wednesday in the Northeast, Southeast and southern Plains. Jim Bunker, the observing program leader in the National Weather Service's office in Mount Holly, New Jersey, expects Thursday to be "another opportunity for some record warmth" ahead of a weekend cooldown.
"We've got a good high pressure setup that's bringing this nice southerly wind and southerly flow up and...
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October 19, 2016 at 5:10 pm
The United States vowed on Wednesday to do "whatever is necessary" to defend itself, South Korea and other allies against the "grave" threat posed by North Korea, which has conducted two nuclear tests and a series of missile launches this year.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said at the start of talks in Washington between the foreign and defense ministers of the United States and South Korea that the U.S. commitment to provide "extended deterrence, guaranteed by the full spectrum of U.S. defense capabilities" was "unwavering."
The term "extended deterrence" refers to the U.S. nuclear umbrella that protects non-nuclear allies South Korea and Japan in East Asia.
"The recent dramatic increase in North Korean nuclear tests and ballistic missile launches remind us of the ...
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October 19, 2016 at 5:07 pm
WASHINGTON DC (AP) - No matter how persuasive Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are at Wednesday night's debate, it's already too late for either to win over millions of voters. Advance voting by mail or in person is now underway in more than 30 states. At least 2.1 million voters have already cast ballots. More than 45 million people are expected to vote before Election Day, Nov. 8. In Nevada, site of the debate, absentee ballots were being mailed out Wednesday. Early balloting so far has shown promise for Clinton in battlegrounds North Carolina and Florida while Trump has generally held ground in Iowa and Ohio. Early voting is traditionally favored by...read more at WPSD Local
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October 19, 2016 at 4:58 pm
TRENTON, N.J. – A man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York, injuring more than 30 people, has been moved from a hospital to a state prison.
New Jersey Corrections Department spokesman Matt Schuman says Ahmad Khan Rahimi was transferred to a state facility on Tuesday instead of a county jail for his safety and security. Schuman would not identify the facility.
Rahimi had been hospitalized with gunshot wounds following a police shootout that led to his capture in Linden on Sept. 19.
He has pleaded...read more at FOX News
