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January 19, 2017 at 4:39 pm
A 63-year-old man who fell while fixing something in a shul was found only Thursday morning 21 Teves as mispallalim came to daven shachris. The man who fell was lying there from the night, when he fell.
The incident occurred in the confines of the Binyamin Regional council in the Shomron, and the man was working on the building’s roof, falling about seven meters (7.5 yards).
Nebach, as a result of his injuries he was unable to move and lied in pain for ten hours until the first mispallel came to shul. An ambulance was summoned immediately, and he was transported to Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer with head and chest injuries.
MDA paramedic Rafi Fargon reports the man was in significant pain and he was conscious and alert the entire time. His condition at transport was listed ...
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January 19, 2017 at 4:39 pm
Ari Fleischer And Trump Organization Attorney Michael Cohen Weigh In On 'Hannity'
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January 19, 2017 at 4:38 pm
A recall has been issued amid a fear of listeria infection in bags of frozen carrots & peas under the Shufersal label. This refers to 800 gram bags with the barcode 7296073224907, manufactured by Ardo and bearing an expiration date of 07/2018.
The Health Ministry notice adds that anyone who has purchased the product is entitled to a refund.
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January 19, 2017 at 4:26 pm
UN Ambassador Nominee Nikki Haley’s Pro-Israel Opening Statement
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January 19, 2017 at 4:25 pm
Barack Obama cut short the sentences of 330 federal inmates convicted of drug crimes on Thursday, bringing his bid to correct what he’s called a systematic injustice to a climactic close.
With his final offer of clemency, Obama brought his total number of commutations granted to 1,715, more than any other president in U.S. history, the White House said. During his presidency Obama ordered free 568 inmates who had been sentenced to life in prison.
“He wanted to do it. He wanted the opportunity to look at as many as he could to provide relief,” Neil Eggleston, Obama’s White House counsel, said in an interview in his West Wing office. “He saw the injustice of the sentences that were imposed in many situations, and he has a strong view that people deserve as sec...
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January 19, 2017 at 4:16 pm
Thirteen automakers are recalling more than 652,000 vehicles in the U.S. in the latest round of dangerous Takata air bag inflator recalls.
Automakers with recalls posted Thursday are Audi, Nissan, Jaguar-Land Rover, Subaru, Daimler Vans, Tesla, Mitsubishi, BMW, Ferrari, Mercedes, Mazda, McLaren and Karma. All the recalls are to replace front passenger inflators.
Takata inflators can explode with too much force, blowing apart a metal canister and sending shrapnel into the passenger compartment. Sixteen people have died worldwide and more than 180 have been hurt due to the problem.
The recall is among the latest round of Takata recalls covering 5.7 million vehicles involving 19 automakers in the U.S. In total, it’s the largest auto recall in U.S. history, affecting 69 million inflat...
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January 19, 2017 at 2:04 pm
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 19, 2017 - Seven Mile Market’s Customer Appreciation Kickoff Event held this past Sunday was a BIG success, quite literally. With 2 balloon artists inflating and shaping balloons non-stop for 3 ½ hours, 3000 Sprinkles Ice Cream cones, 400 popcorn bags, 1100 Reisman pastries, 100s of cookie packages, 24 Dipz samples, delicious A & B fish, fresh and tasty New York pasta, delectable Schtark cheese, 200 SuperValue shopping bags and 100 Elf product giveaways, and 12 raffle prizes, a good time was shared by all!
Thank you to our customers, employees, vendors, and prize sponsors- Blue Sky/Simcha Collection, Coca Cola, Core Water, Crafted Kosher, DM Merchandising, Herrs, Melissa & Doug, and Utz and Congratulations to our Raffle prize winners:
Abrah...
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January 19, 2017 at 1:59 pm
Health care decisions have grown increasingly complex with the advancement of medicine, and are influenced by the values of those involved. Halacha has much to say about these issues, and it serves as the single source for Jewish Medical Ethics. As is always the case, significant debate exists amongst Torah scholars about what exactly the Halacha prescribes. Nevertheless, there exists a mainstream consensus amongst widely respected Halachic authorities who have addressed these issues in the context of modern medicine.[1]
What follows is an attempt to formulate in a simple, non-technical manner four basic Jewish values that should guide our health care decisions. In our complex world, these values are often in tension with one another, and we need to apply much work and thought situational...
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January 19, 2017 at 12:09 pm
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 19, 2017 - Baltimore’s history of providing a community mikvah dates back several generations. Recently, archeologists discovered one of the oldest mikvaos in the United States, built in 1845, in the basement of the Lloyd Street Synagogue in East Baltimore. Subsequently, others were built by Shearith Israel Congregation, Congregation Shomrei Mishmeres HaKodesh, and Khal Arugas Habosem; the first autonomous Mikvah of Baltimore opened in 1963 on Rogers Avenue. The outgrowing of this structure and a further northwest geographical shift was the impetus for building its present facility on Clarks Lane in 1992.
The further rapid growth of the Mikvah of Baltimore since that move—often resulting in an hour plus wait time for the 40-70 daily users—has necessi...
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January 19, 2017 at 11:37 am
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 19, 2017 - The Moskowitz Family greatly appreciates all the tefilos, learning, and many mitzvos that are being done on behalf of Mrs. Tami Moskowitz. If you are making challah for this Shabbos, please click here and sign up to take challah with a bracha as a zechus for a refuah shelaima for Tamar Adina bas Kayna Shulamis.
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January 19, 2017 at 11:27 am
Shiur Iyun: HaRav Boruch Dov Povarsky, Rosh Yeshiva, Ponovez
Shiur Iyun English: HaRav Yaakov Friedman, Rosh HaYeshiva, Birchas Mordechai, Beitar Illit
Audio Visual Daled Minim: HaRav Avi Wiesenfeld, Rosh Yeshiva, Gevuras Yitzchok Part 2
Divrei Machshava: HaRav Yehoshua Eichenstein, Rosh HaYeshiva, Yad Aron Yerushalayim
Divrei Machshava: HaRav Eliezer Yehudah Finkel, Rosh HaYeshiva, Mir Yerushalayim
Rav Dovid Cohen - Divrei Hesped L'zecher HaRav Moshe Shapiro zt"l
Divrei Machshava: HaRav Tzvi Kushelevsky, Rosh HaYeshiva, Heichal HaTorah
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January 19, 2017 at 10:28 am
Iran's foreign minister said Thursday his country isn't worried and has options if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ditches a nuclear agreement reached between Iran and six world powers.
Despite "grievances" that Iran has over the pact made with the current U.S. government, Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran still believes it should be honored.
"Whatever he does to the nuclear deal, we are not worried because we have our own options. But we believe it's in the interest of everybody to stick to the deal. Most importantly it's an international agreement. It's not a bilateral agreement between Iran and the United States," he told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting in Kuala Lumpur.
The deal was negotiated by Iran and the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, Fra...
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January 19, 2017 at 10:28 am
Israel's right wing has been eagerly awaiting Donald Trump's arrival in the White House, hoping a Republican president will usher in a new era of support for Israeli settlement-building on land Palestinians want for a state.
The far-right Jewish Home party, along with members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, is promoting legislation that would effectively annex one large settlement in the occupied West Bank to Israel and another bill that would legalize dozens of unauthorized outposts.
But there could be a question mark over the issue, with Netanyahu possibly looking to curb settlement laws, wary of the dangers of the far right's ambitions being too freely unleashed as he feels his way forward with the new U.S. administration.
The Israeli leader�...
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January 19, 2017 at 10:17 am
Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have received rabbinic permission to travel by car on Friday evening following the inauguration of her father, Donald Trump, as the next president of the United States, according to a Kol Barama radio interview with Mark Zell, the chair of the Republican party in Israel. Traditionally, traveling in a car on Friday evening or Saturday is a violation of the Jewish Sabbath. Jared Kushner is Jewish, and Ivanka converted to Judaism. In a November Jerusalem Post piece, Shira Schmid noted that Ivanka "took on observance of Shabbat, holidays and kashrut, and adopted the Hebrew name Yael."
"We observe the Sabbath. From Friday to Saturday we don’t do anything but hang out with one another. We don’t make phone calls," Ivanka told ...
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January 19, 2017 at 10:16 am
Jerusalem - The National Library of Israel said Thursday it has acquired what is considered the world’s greatest private collection of Hebrew books and manuscripts.
The Valmadonna Trust Library contains some 10,000 items — including a 15th century copy of the Hebrew Bible and one of the only two surviving copies of a 16th century Passover manuscript from Prague.
The collection, assembled over decades by London collector Jack Lunzer, was entrusted to Sotheby’s auction house in New York in 2009. Lunzer initially hoped the U.S. Library of Congress would acquire the collection, worth millions of dollars.
Instead, some gems of the collection were sold last year to private collectors for about $12 million. In recent weeks, the rest was acquired by Israel’s national lib...
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January 19, 2017 at 10:12 am
Donald Trump enters the White House on Friday just as he entered the race for president: defiant, unfiltered, unbound by tradition and utterly confident in his chosen course.
In the 10 weeks since his surprise election as the nation’s 45th president, Trump has violated decades of established diplomatic protocol, sent shockwaves through business boardrooms, tested long-standing ethics rules and continued his combative style of replying to any slight with a personal attack — on Twitter and in person.
Past presidents have described walking into the Oval Office for the first time as a humbling experience, one that in an instant makes clear the weight of their new role as caretaker of American democracy. Trump spent much of his transition making clear he sees things differently: R...
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January 19, 2017 at 10:12 am
Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, Stephen Mnuchin, built his reputation and his fortune as a savvy Wall Street investor. But one of those investments has put him in the crosshairs of Democrats as he heads into his confirmation hearing Thursday: sub-prime mortgage lender IndyMac bank.
Mnuchin, who served as Trump’s finance chairman during the campaign, has defended his role in the purchase of the failed bank, whose collapse in 2008 was the second biggest bank failure of the financial crisis. Mnuchin, who assembled a group to buy the bank from the government, renamed it OneWest and turned it around, selling it for a handsome profit to CIT Group Inc. in 2014.
But critics have cited the bank’s foreclosure policies under Mnuchin as a prime example of the k...
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January 19, 2017 at 10:01 am
Rav Ephraim Wachsman - ein anachnu maspikim
“If we lived a thousand years, if we lived a million years, there will never ever be time enough, for thanking you Hashem, for praising you Hashem, for all you do for us!”
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January 19, 2017 at 10:01 am
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Women who planned to participate in a Women of the Wall prayer service at the Western Wall were ordered to subject to a body search despite a Supreme Court injunction against the practice.
The women rejected the body searches on Thursday morning and held their morning service at the security checkpoint at the entrance to the Western Wall plaza instead.
Israel’s Supreme Court last week ruled in favor of women being allowed to read from the Torah in the women’s section at the Western Wall and declared that an egalitarian prayer area set aside at nearby Robinson’s Arch does not constitute access to the holy site. In an interim injunction gave the wall’s Orthodox administrators and state agencies 30 days to show cause why women cannot pray &ldq...
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January 19, 2017 at 10:00 am
Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, Stephen Mnuchin, built his reputation and his fortune as a savvy Wall Street investor. But one of those investments has put him in the crosshairs of Democrats as he heads into his confirmation hearing Thursday: sub-prime mortgage lender IndyMac bank.
Mnuchin, who served as Trump’s finance chairman during the campaign, has defended his role in the purchase of the failed bank, whose collapse in 2008 was the second biggest bank failure of the financial crisis. Mnuchin, who assembled a group to buy the bank from the government, renamed it OneWest and turned it around, selling it for a handsome profit to CIT Group Inc. in 2014.
But critics have cited the bank’s foreclosure policies under Mnuchin as a prime example of...
