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March 19, 2017 at 5:24 pm
Eighteen Arabs from eastern Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria were arrested over the past few days following the terrorist attack in the Old City of Jerusalem last Monday which left two Border Police officers wounded.
During the attack, which took place near the Lion’s Gate of the Old City, the two officers were stabbed before the terrorist was shot and eliminated.
Authorities said Sunday that the 18 individuals taken into custody were suspected of conspiracy to commit violent crimes and were members of a Whatsapp group which included the terrorist responsible for last week’s attack.
The terrorist, a 25-year old resident of the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood of the capital, was reportedly a member of the Whatsapp group called “The Path to Heaven”, most of whose...
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March 19, 2017 at 5:15 pm
Samaria Regional Council head says Trump Administration may condemn 'settlements', but will be much friendlier to Israel.
Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump's Special Representative for International Negotiations, was not content with his meetings with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu or Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, but also met with several leaders of the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria. Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, one of the regional heads who met with Greenblatt, spoke with Arutz Sheva about his meeting with the US representative.
While Dagan is careful not to reveal specific details of the conversation, he said that the conversation was conducted in a pleasant atmosphere, and that the US envoy "was attenti...
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March 19, 2017 at 5:13 pm
Historic synagogue first constructed in 1654 vandalized with anti-Semitic messages.
JTA - A synagogue on the Island of Barbados was vandalized with red spray-painted anti-Semitic messages.
The messages were painted on the exterior walls of the synagogue in St. Michael early on Friday morning, the local Nation News website reported.
The Nidḥe Israel Synagogue, located on Synagogue Lane in Bridgetown, St. Michael, the island’s capital, was built in 1654, destroyed by a hurricane in 1831, and then rebuilt. The building, owned and renovated by the Barbados National Trust, remains in use as a synagogue today. In 2011, the synagogue and a mikvah dating to the 17th century excavated next to the building in 2008, were designated as UNESCO protected properties within the World Herita...
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March 19, 2017 at 4:55 pm
In honor of parshios Vayakheil/Pekudei and the assembly of the Mishkan, it is appropriate for us to study the laws of Shabbos. Over the years, I have written many articles explaining various melachos of Shabbos, including carding, carrying, completing items (makeh bepatish), constructing, creating heddles, demolishing, kindling, knotting, laundering, spinning and untwisting thread, trapping, warping, and writing. Most of these articles are already available on RabbiKaganoff.com. If you would like to read an article on any of these topics and cannot access it on the website, please send me an e-mail.
This article is written by my close friend and co-writer, Rabbi Avraham Rosenthal on the melacha of dosh
Dosh in the Mishkan
The thirty-nine categories of forbidden Shabbos work (melachos) ...
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March 19, 2017 at 4:15 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - Mar. 19, 2017 - After a very inspiring trip with Rabbi Shmuel Silber, the "chevra" had one last opportunity for a rikud in Yerushalayim ir HaKodesh and are currently on their way to the airport for their flight back to Baltimore.
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March 19, 2017 at 4:01 pm
Lebanese TV news anchor Maria Maalouf calls upon Israel to kill Hezbollah chief. 'Rid us of Nasrallah and gain our faith."
A Lebanese TV news anchor drew the ire of the Hezbollah terrorist organization over the weekend, after she tweeted that Israel ought to carry out a targeted assassination of the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Maria Maalouf, who has a history of antagonizing the Shi’ite terror group, wrote a pair of tweets on Saturday, lamenting Nasrallah’s continued presence in her home country.
“If Israel really wants peace,” she wrote, “then it should prove it and sign an agreement with Hezbollah. Because to this day we haven’t gotten rid of Hassan Nasrallah, who is deluding us with his fight against Israel.”
But, added, M...
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March 19, 2017 at 4:01 pm
Rabbanit Naomi Shapira, mother of 11, is well-known in the religious-Zionist community for her classes on Jewish marriage and sanctity.
Rabbanit Naomi Shapira, mother of 11 and well-known in the religious-Zionist community for her classes on Jewish marriage and sanctity, donated a kidney last week to a mother of three, Ilanit. The latter had been waiting three years for a donor.
Mrs. Shapira, wife of Yeshivat Ramat Gan dean Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira, said she became aware of the concept of donating a kidney when her son Avraham did exactly that three years ago. "When he donated his kidney," she said, "I was very moved, and it was a very strong experience."
She decided she would like to do it herself: "I went around for a long time with the thought that at age 55, after giving birth to 11...
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March 19, 2017 at 4:01 pm
New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D - Brooklyn) reacted angrily to the news that the Brooklyn Public Library would host a lecture by anti-Israel activist and Hezbollah supporter Norman Finkelstein.
Finkelstein's “No Free Speech for Fascists” lecture series at the library may be funded by the municipality.
“It’s no secret that Norman Finkelstein is a despicable, self-hating Jew who has made sickening, dangerous statements like ‘We are all Hezbollah,’” said Hikind. “The question is why would the Brooklyn Public Library allow this vile propagandist to use their facilities to spread his hate to the public? Is the Library also using New Yorkers' tax dollars to pay this individual? Are they allowing children to attend this hateful lectur...
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March 19, 2017 at 3:59 pm
CEO of umbrella organization of US Jewish groups says Sunni nations relieved to see Obama Administration, seen as soft on Iran, replaced.
The leaders of many Middle Eastern countries are glad to see former US Preisdent Barack Obama replaced by Donald Trump and hope to see him take a harder line on Iran than his predecessor, according to Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations CEO Malcolm Hoenlein.
Hoenlein made the remarks to the Algemeiner after returning from a trip to several Mediterranean countries, including Israel, Egypt, Cyprus, and Morocco.
“What we heard in all the countries was a sense of relief over the change of administrations and anticipation about what the new administration will be, who will be in it, what they will do and how ...
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March 19, 2017 at 3:53 pm
Netanyahu's chief of staff leaves for Washington to continue talks with Trump administration over Israeli policy in Judea and Samaria.
A delegation led by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff Yoav Horowitz departed Saturday night for Washington, to continue talks with the White House over Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria.
The delegation also includes Netanyahu’s foreign affairs adviser, Yonatan Shechter, and legal advisers from the Prime Minister’s Office.
Talks with the Trump administration will focus on Israeli policy in Judea and Samaria, including the Prime Minister’s promise to Amona evictees to build a replacement community for them in Samaria.
Members of the Israeli delegation are expected to meet with special White House env...
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March 19, 2017 at 1:16 pm
The Air Force is quietly shrinking its deployed force of land-based nuclear missiles as part of a holdover Obama administration plan to comply with an arms control treaty with Russia. The reductions are nearing completion despite President Donald Trump’s argument that the treaty gives Moscow an unfair advantage in nuclear firepower.
The reduction to 400 missiles from 450 is the first for the intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, force in a decade — when the arsenal came down from 500 such weapons. The Air Force says the latest cut in Minuteman 3 missiles will be completed in April, leaving the deployed ICBM arsenal at its smallest size since the early 1960s.
In 2014, President Barack Obama’s administration announced the planned ICBM reduction to tailor the overal...
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March 19, 2017 at 1:08 pm
Baltimore, MD - Mar. 19, 2017 - Major police chase on 95 North ended with a severe traffic accident near Elkton/Delaware line. Highway is completely blocked. Take Rt. 40 as alternative
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March 19, 2017 at 11:59 am
New York - Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin, a self-described “street reporter” who chronicled New York City life for decades and won acclaim for his coverage of the “Son of Sam” serial killings, died on Sunday at age 86.
Breslin’s death was confirmed by the New York Daily News, one of several newspapers where Breslin worked during in his long career.
The cause of death was not immediately released, the Daily News reported, but the New York Times said Breslin had been recovering from pneumonia.
Breslin was a hard-boiled newspaperman born in the New York City borough of Queens. The Irish-American in a rumpled suit with unkempt hair, a drink in his hand and a cigar between his lips held court in many New York City journalists’ ha...
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March 19, 2017 at 11:47 am
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot warned Sunday that the Hezbollah terror organization in Lebanon was preparing for its next major attack on Israel, and that war with the fundamentalist Shi’ite was only a matter of time.
“The coming war will have an address – the Lebanese government,” said Eizenkot. “Hezbollah is violating UN resolutions and is preparing for war.”
Eizenkot added that the IDF was working to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining heavy weapons, intercepting arms shipments to the Iranian-backed group.
“We will protect Israel’s interests and are working to prevent weapons transfers to Hezbollah.”
“In Lebanon, Hezbollah continues its efforts to arm itself with deadlier, more precise small arms for attacks targeting the Is...
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March 19, 2017 at 11:46 am
West Bank - The Palestinian president has awarded his people’s highest honor to a former U.N. official who was forced to resign last week after authoring a report that accused Israel of establishing an “apartheid regime.”
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said Sunday that President Mahmoud Abbas had spoken to Rima Khalaf by phone and given her Palestine’s Medal of the Highest Honor in recognition of her “courage and support” for the Palestinian people.
A statement said Abbas “stressed to Dr. Khalaf that our people appreciate her humanitarian and national position.”
Khalaf, a U.N. undersecretary-general, resigned Friday after refusing to withdraw her report for the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.
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March 19, 2017 at 11:46 am
Gaza City - A Hamas military court has sentenced two Palestinians to death for drug dealing, in the first-such case since the militant group seized the Gaza Strip a decade ago.
The Interior Ministry says Sunday that one would be killed by a firing squad. The other defendant was sentenced in absentia.
The ministry said security forces seized $2 million in illicit drugs in January alone, which was equivalent to what was seized in all of 2016. Most of the seized drugs were narcotics and cannabis.
Hamas has issued and implemented capital punishment mostly against people found guilty of murder or of collaborating with Israel. These verdicts were the first against drug dealers.
The defendants were previously given lighter sentences, but the ministry says the dealers “were not deterred....
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March 19, 2017 at 11:40 am
Minister Yaakov Litzman and Finance Committee Chairman Moshe Gafne expressed anger and outrage over a reported meeting between cabinet minister and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Shabbos. They call the meeting a serious violation of the Shabbos status quo as well as an affront to Kedushas Shabbos as it is known official government activities are not carried out on Shabbos with the exception of emergency situations.
The two are demanding an explanation as to the reason for the meeting. Shas leader Aryeh Deri reported spoke with PM Netanyahu and expressed his anger over the chilul Shabbos as there was nothing in the category of pikuach nefesh.
Kol Berama Radio on Sunday morning reported officials in the Prime Minister’ s Office report “The ministers came to Mr. Netanyahu&...
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March 19, 2017 at 11:36 am
At the tender age of ten, Rabbi Nissen Mangel miraculously evaded the notorious ‘selection’ and the gas chambers to become Auschwitz’s youngest inmate to make it out alive.
Marking his bar-mitzvah by wearing tefillin, he miraculously survived the infamous Death March and went on to live a life of communal devotion and extraordinary scholarly achievement.
On Thursday, Reb Nissen returned to relive his experiences at the entrance of the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The same place he stood 73 years ago as a small child.
“Dr. Mengele killed one and a half million Jewish children with the wave of his thumb. I do not know why, but by a miracle and a miracle only – I was not among them,” Said Reb Nissen Mangel.
Rabbi Mangel was escorted on the trip...
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March 19, 2017 at 11:29 am
Among the groups hardest hit by the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is one that swung for Donald Trump during last year’s presidential race — older Americans who have not yet reached Medicare age.
Many of those who buy their own health insurance stand to pay a lot more for their coverage. That is especially true for the nearly 3.4 million older Americans who have enrolled through the government marketplaces, many of whom receive generous federal subsidies through the health care law enacted under former President Barack Obama.
Health care experts predict those older adults will end up buying skimpier plans with lower coverage and higher deductibles because that’s all they will be able to afford. The Republican plan replaces the subsidies in the Afford...
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March 19, 2017 at 10:09 am
Archaeologists discover 1,400-year-old ancient coins during excavations in preparation for Route 1 expansion.
Nine bronze coins from the Byzantine period were discovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority near Ein Hemed during excavations in preparation for the expansion of Route 1.
Last June, excavations revealed a two-story tower next to a complex wine press.
According to Israel Antiquities Authority Excavation Head Annette Landes-Nagar, "The treasure was found next to a building, in a pile of large stones. It seems that during a dangerous period, the owner placed the coins in a wallet inside a hidden niche in the wall, hoping to come back for it later. But today we know he never collected them."
On the coins are images of three Byzantine emperors: Justinian (483-565 CE), Mauric...
