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March 19, 2017 at 5:47 pm
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet in Washington next month, Egypt’s leading state-owned newspaper said on Sunday.
Al-Ahram said in a front-page report the two leaders will meet during the first week of April, in what will be el-Sissi’s first visit to Washington since taking office in 2014.
El-Sissi and Trump have already shown a bond when they met in September on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Trump, at the time the Republican presidential nominee, said there was “good chemistry” and el-Sissi, a general-turned-politician said Trump would “without a doubt” make a strong leader.
Cairo and Washington are expected to forge closer ties under Trump following years of tension over the Obama admini...
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March 19, 2017 at 5:46 pm
According to a recent poll, 48% of Israelis (Jews, not Arabs) do not want to see their children educated by Arabs while a smaller number, 42%, does not want to see their children education by chareidi teachers either.
The 48% opposes an Arab teacher as well as their children studying alongside Arab students. Among the 42%, which oppose a chareidi teacher, the remainder, 58%, is fine with such a situation.
Regarding Ethiopians, 86% are fine with an Ethiopian teacher and 83% are fine with a dati leumi teacher.
The survey, which was commissioned by the Kinneret College, polled 500 Israeli Jews. The poll was carried out by the Dialogue Institute ahead of the college’s annual conference on Israeli society this week.
34% of respondents do not want to see their children in a chareidi sc...
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March 19, 2017 at 5:45 pm
North Korea has conducted a ground test of a new type of high-thrust rocket engine that leader Kim Jong Un is calling a revolutionary breakthrough for the country’s space program, the North’s state media said Sunday.
Kim attended Saturday’s test at the Sohae launch site, according to the Korean Central News Agency, which said the test was intended to confirm the “new type” of engine’s thrust power and gauge the reliability of its control system and structural safety.
Kim called the test “a great event of historic significance” for the country’s indigenous rocket industry, the KCNA report said.
He also said the “whole world will soon witness what eventful significance the great victory won today carries” and claimed the te...
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March 19, 2017 at 5:40 pm
Police on Sunday morning 21 Adar report that a toddler was found walking on a sidewalk in the Kiryat Yovel neighborhood of the capital on motzei Shabbos.
Police report that the 18-month-old was alone in the area and someone who detected him summoned police. The arriving unit immediately covered the child with warm clothing and brought him into the police car.
The parents were found within an hour, explaining they went out and the child was left in the care of a babysitter. Police notified social service who will be probing the matter.
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March 19, 2017 at 5:40 pm
Meetup.com is taking a leap into the Trump resistance.
The New York-based networking site will unveil plans in the coming days to partner with a labor group — under the guidance of a former Hillary Clinton aide — to coordinate protests among more than 120,000 activists already involved with anti-Trump Meetup groups.
It’s a risky move for a tech company that has helped millions come together to share interests of all kinds, from hiking to languages to President Donald Trump himself. But it reflects an increasing willingness of some major technology firms to push back against the Republican president.
Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman told The Associated Press that the new arrangement, to be known only as #Resist, gives the loosely organized protest movement the infrastructure ...
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March 19, 2017 at 5:39 pm
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, today on Thursday, 18 Adar, pursuant to his authority under Article 3 of the 2016 Fight Against Terrorism Law, declared the “Palestinian National Fund” (hereinafter “the fund”) to be a terrorist organization.
The decision to declare the fund a terrorist organization stems from its continuing and ongoing activity in providing massive support for elements responsible for committing severe acts of terrorism against Israel.
The fund serves – inter alia – as a significant financial pipeline for tens of millions of shekels that are transferred on a monthly basis to security prisoners held in Israel for committing acts of terrorism and to members of their families. In effect, the longer the sentence, the greater the payment...
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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...
