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February 27, 2017 at 10:52 am
Once again, multiple Jewish centers and schools were evacuated on Monday morning after receiving bomb threats.
As of 10:45AM ET, Jewish centers in the following states have been evacuated:
* Alabama (Levite Jewish Community Center)* Delaware (Garden of Eden Road)* Florida (David Posnack, Siegel, Ashville)* Michigan (Ann Arbor)* North Carolina* Pennsylvania* Virginia (Fairfax – Gesher Jewish Day School)
More than 69 threats have been reported since January 1st.
The FBI and the Civil Rights Division for the Justice Department have launched investigations into the bomb threats.
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February 27, 2017 at 9:41 am
Jerusalem, Israel - Feb. 27, 2017 - Early Monday morning, thousands arrived in the Old City of Yerushalyim, for Rosh Chodesh Adar 5777 tefillos at the Kotel. Hundreds of Beis Yaakov girls traveled from various parts of the country, buses came from Gedara to Bat Yam. The men's section was also crowded with men and yeshiva bocherim for Shachris and Musaf.
The Women of the Wall held their monthly Rosh Chodesh service in a small corner of the women's section surrounded by barriers, most of the women's section was filled with female students.
Two women blew on whistles which blasted through much of the main Rosh Chodesh davening, which was broadcast across the Kotel Plaza on loud speakers.
As the Women of the Wall left the Plaza area singing, Charedi men who had waited o...
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February 26, 2017 at 5:41 am
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 26, 2017 - Tribute to Mrs. Laure Gutman, Z'L, Shown at Shomrei Eminah Dinner Event
Laure Gutman Tribute from Kolrom Multimedia on Vimeo.
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February 25, 2017 at 9:55 pm
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 25, 2017 - The final Father/Son Motzaei Shabbos learning program for the season in Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion took place this evening culminated by a leibdika dance.
Photo Credit: Zevy Wolman
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February 25, 2017 at 8:09 pm
A police body camera captured the encounter of a Baltimore City councilman who was pulled over in a traffic stop.
The stop includes questions about the consumption of alcohol.
Police released the body camera video Friday afternoon. It shows what happened around 11:15 p.m. on Feb. 9 near the 2200 block of McElderry Street.
Officers stopped the car because it had two lights out in the back and the driver ran a stop sign, police said.
The traffic stop begins with an introduction with the officer saying, "You got a couple of lights out."
"I'm Councilman (Robert) Stokes," the driver said.
"How you doing Councilman Stokes?" the officer said.
The officer further explained why he initiated the traffic stop.
"You didn't stop at stop sign. You failed to use a turn signal. Quite a f...
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February 25, 2017 at 8:05 pm
A line of severe thunderstorms moved through Maryland Saturday afternoon, bringing hail and strong wind.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch was issued for much of the WBAL listening area until 8 p.m., but that was cleared in some areas as the storm moved east.
Around 2 p.m., the thunderstorms began moving through central Maryland. There were several reports of extensive hail throughout the area.
Carroll County was getting hit hard around 2:30 p.m. with heavy rain, strong winds and hail. WBAL-TV 11 Weather meteorologist Miri Marshall said radar was showing signs of rotation in the storm in the Hampstead area around 2:50 p.m.
Around 3 p.m., the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for south central Anne Arundel, Northwestern Calvert, Southeastern Prince George's, Northe...
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February 25, 2017 at 8:01 pm
Plane's landing gear breaks during touchdown in bad weather at Holland airport.
Stormy weather caused the cancellation of dozens of flights at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, as well as a near-disaster.
A passenger plane collapsed when its landing gear broke as it touched down at the Schiphol Airport Thursday afternoon. The terrifying scene was caught on camera.
Miraculously, none of the plane's 59 passengers were hurt, and all were evacuated to the airport terminal.
Schiphol Airport tweeted: "The landing gear of a Flybe airplane collapsed during touchdown. No people are injured. Flight operation is up and running again."
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February 25, 2017 at 8:01 pm
Student politician at McGill University in Montreal who tweeted a call to “punch a Zionist” resigns.
A student politician at McGill University in Montreal who tweeted a call to “punch a Zionist” has resigned his position with the Students’ Society of the university, the Montreal Gazette reported Friday.
Igor Sadikov, an elected representative of students in McGill’s faculty of arts, has faced calls for his resignation over the past week after his tweet became widely known.
Since his original post on February 6, Sadikov refused to resign while issuing carefully worded “apologies” and calling his tweet a “misguided joke.”
On Wednesday, the Arts Undergraduate Society at McGill voted by a majority of 22-16&nb...
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February 25, 2017 at 7:57 pm
They are my great protectors — leftist Jews, professional Democrat Jews, Jews in Hollywood and on Broadway, Jews in the liberal mainstream media. For a year and more, they have been in the forefront protecting me from the “anti-Semitism” of candidate — now President — Donald Trump, from Steve Bannon and Breitbart, from the Republican Party.
There they are, yelling “anti-Semitism!” and worrying about me. And oh how they care for Israel!They are phony. They are as false as the Fake News they spread about the President of the United States. I know. I am a Jew all day every day. I wear a yarmulka at home, at work, indoors, outdoors. I walk an hour to and from synagogue on my Sabbath, replete with yarmulka, engaging society around me.
My clerical...
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February 25, 2017 at 7:50 pm
$36,000 prizes celebrate progression in Jewish education.
Three alumni of Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration—Rabbi Yoni Fein ’14A, Shira Greenspan ’14A and Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky ’15A—have been awarded 2017 Kohelet Prizes celebrating progression in Jewish education.
The annual prize from the Kohelet Foundation bestows $36,000 to each of six educators or teams of educators who demonstrate extraordinary accomplishment in six categories such as interdisciplinary integration, differentiated instruction, developing critical thinking skills and taking risks.
Each category received many submissions and required entrants to demonstrate a model that had already been implemented in their classroom, as well as the ...
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February 25, 2017 at 7:49 pm
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 16, 2016 - The Bais Yaakov School Rabbi Benjamin Steinberg Middle School Dolphin Club BY KIDZ 4 KIDZ Chinese Auction is back once again for its 4th extravaganza. The phenomenal success of the past three auctions has inspired this years group of 8 Dolphin Club members to recreate the upcoming event. These clubs were named for the dolphin, a animal that always seems to smile and is scientifically known for its ability to help others. These groups sponsored by the Maryland Counseling Network are a "fantastic way for the girls to learn to handle social interactions, conflict resolution and develop team building skills says Rabbi Hochberg Director. "The girls finish the program with an incredible sense of accomplishment and the skills to work well with others", says Leeba ...
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February 25, 2017 at 7:40 pm
Spanish municipality reverses own BDS vote following legal action.
The Spanish municipality of Petrer, which is known internationally for hosting mock battles celebrating crusaders, rescinded its support for boycotts against Israel following legal action against the city.The City Council of Petrer, a city of 95,000 located 200 miles southeast of Madrid, voted Thursday to withdraw its support from a 2016 resolution for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel, or BDS, according to a statement Friday by the pro-Israel ACOM group.ACOM had sued the city to reverse its action and has launched dozens of successful lawsuits in recent months against institutions that adhered to BDS principles, arguing their actions are discriminatory and infringing on the principle of equal...
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February 25, 2017 at 7:33 pm
Cuban bus overturns, killing 70-year-old Israeli and injuring 9 others.
70-year-old Nochum Henkin was killed in a bus accident during an organized trip to Cuba.
Together with several other Israelis, Henkin and his wife Chana were on a bus fro the central Cuban city of Morón to Ciego de Ávila when the bus overturned.
Henkin was killed, and his wife was saved "by a miracle."
Eight other passengers were injured lightly to moderately.
According to Israel's Foreign Ministry, the road was wet and the driver of the bust lost control, causing the bus to overturn. Two of the Henkin children have flown to Cuba to help take care of their father's body and to help their mother.
The Foreign Ministry is doing all it can to aid the bereaved family.
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February 25, 2017 at 7:32 pm
Jewish physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, 'Queen of Carbon,' dies at 86.
Physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, the daughter of impoverished Polish Jewish immigrants whose pioneering research into the thermal and electrical properties of carbon earned her the nickname “Queen of Carbon,” has died.Dresselhaus, who also was an advocate for women in science fields, died Monday at 86.Her research was foundational to the field called nanoscience, in which matter is manipulated at an atomic and molecular level. Her pioneering work earned her the $1 million Kavli Prize in Nanoscience in 2012, the National Medal of Science, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and IEEE Medal of Honor, the highest award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.Dresselhaus had gained wider...
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February 25, 2017 at 7:32 pm
Men of 'Middle Eastern appearance' forced brothers off road in suburb outside Paris
Two French Jewish brothers were briefly abducted and abused by a group of men in a Paris suburb in an incident that ended with the brothers being beaten and attacked with a wood saw, the victims' father told i24NEWS on Thursday
Armand Azoulay, who is a leader of the Jewish community in Bondy, located some 11 km northeastern of the center of Paris, said his sons aged 29 and 17, were forced off the road by a group of men described as having a Middle Eastern appearance.
The attackers forced the brothers to stop their car, and one of the attackers then "grabbed my son by the throat" and took out a "wood saw" Azoulay said.
He attempted to saw off the finger of one of his sons, but ...
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February 25, 2017 at 7:31 pm
Mayor Bill de Blasio personally intervened on behalf of one of his leading fundraisers to have a partial vacate order lifted on a building the City deemed as unlicensed, illegal and improperly worked on, knowledgable sources told Kings County Politics.
The incident stems from December 2014, when it is alleged that de Blasio personally intervened on behalf of Satmar Rabbi Moish Indig to have a vacate order lifted on two adjacent Satmar school buildings at 88 and 96 Sanford Street in Bed-Stuy.
One of the buildings was entered without a permit, and the other was found to have illegal classes in the basement. A city Department of Buildings (DOB) inspector cited it for having dangerous electrical work among other violations. The newer building was literally built in weeks, and recei...
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February 25, 2017 at 7:27 pm
ATLANTA — Former labor secretary Thomas Perez was elected the first Latino chair of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday, narrowly defeating Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) at the end of a contentious battle over the fate of the beleaguered party in the age of President Trump.
Perez’s victory concluded the first contested race for the DNC leadership since 1985, a contest the party had extended by a month to allow more debate. It put in place the Democratic leadership that will navigate thousands of state and local elections — where the party hopes to reverse the losses of the past six years — and a 2020 presidential race that could divide the party again.
Ellison’s defeat was a blow to the party’s liberal wing, personified by activists, labo...
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February 25, 2017 at 7:27 pm
Armed driver rams into pedestrians, injuring three; authorities investigating.
Three people were injured, one of them severely, by a ramming on Saturday evening in Heidelberg, Germany.
A driver armed with a knife ran his car into a group of pedestrians.
German police shot at the driver, seriously injuring him. He was taken to the hospital in unspecified condition.
German authorities are currently investigating the incident. However, they have explicitly stated the incident was "not a terror attack."
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February 25, 2017 at 7:26 pm
Analysts at the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump’s travel ban pose a terror threat to the United States.
A draft document obtained by The Associated Press concludes that citizenship is an “unlikely indicator” of terrorism threats to the United States and that few people from the countries Trump listed in his travel ban have carried out attacks or been involved in terrorism-related activities in the U.S. since Syria’s civil war started in 2011.
Trump cited terrorism concerns as the primary reason he signed the sweeping temporary travel ban in late January, which also halted the U.S. refugee program. A federal judge in Washington state...
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February 25, 2017 at 7:25 pm
Israeli gets booted from Colombia plane after 'threatening' to detonate a bomb.
An Israeli passenger was removed from a domestic flight in Colombia after he reportedly joked about detonating a bomb due to a long delay, according to local media.Yossef Bronfen, 49, was aboard a Latam Airlines flight at the El Dorado International Airport in Bogota earlier this week for seven hours awaiting departure when he apparently lost patience and spoke about bombing the Barranquilla-bound plane, according to some passengers sitting near him in the rear of the aircraft. They said he was joking.But the Chilean-Brazilian airline was not amused.“While boarding, a disruptive passenger threatened to detonate an explosive artifact after which all security protocols established by the compan...
