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April 21, 2017 at 5:33 pm
Spring Valley, NY - A Chasidic toddler from Spring Valley is recovering today after being mauled by a pit bull as he played in a neighbor’s driveway on Thursday night.
Eli Mendlowitz was playing with six other youngsters in the driveway of 68 N. Cole Avenue at 6 PM when he was knocked to the ground by a dog owned by neighbors who live across the street.
Surveillance video shows the dog, believed to be a pit bull, repeatedly biting the boy’s face and neck with nearby adults intervening and rescuing the toddler within seconds. Mendlowitz, the ninth of ten children who lives several houses away, is estimated to be two and a half years old.
Both the Spring Valley Police Department and Hatzolah were on scene within three minutes of the attack. An initial police investigatio...
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April 21, 2017 at 5:25 pm
Anchorage, Alaska - Prosecutors say an Alaska dentist charged with Medicaid fraud pulled a sedated patient’s tooth while riding a hoverboard.
Seth Lookhart was charged with 17 counts of Medicaid fraud after prosecutors say he billed Medicaid $1.8 million last year for IV sedation used in procedures that didn’t call for it.
Prosecutors say in an indictment that investigators found a video on Lookhart’s phone of him riding a hoverboard while extracting a sedated patient’s tooth. They say he texted the video to his office manager and joked that it was a “new standard of care.” Prosecutors say investigators contacted the patient and she told them she was unaware that Lookhart was riding the hoverboard while operating on her.
Lookhart’s attorney, Mic...
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April 21, 2017 at 4:36 pm
WASHINGTON—Recent admissions by The New York Times and The Washington Post of errors in their coverage of Israel are rare exceptions to the “culture” of anti-Israel bias that permeates both newspapers, media watchdogs say.
The Times admitted April 16 it was wrong not to mention Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti’s five murder convictions in the biographical line of his recent op-ed. In March, the Times acknowledged that an unsigned editorial erred in claiming the U.S. has always viewed Israeli settlement construction as “illegal.”
Meanwhile, The Washington Post April 17 published a rare correction on its op-ed page. The one-paragraph item stated, “The March 28 Richard Cohen op-ed, ‘Will Israel Win the West Bank but Lose its Soul?,&rsquo...
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April 21, 2017 at 4:35 pm
An Israeli court has agreed to temporarily suspend a travel ban on a co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as he prepares to receive a “peace award” at a ceremony at Yale University this weekend, the organization granting the prize announced this week.
According to the statement from a group called Promoting Enduring Peace (PEP), Omar Barghouti will be in New Haven on Sunday to get the Gandhi Peace Award in person even though he was initially banned from leaving Israel after being arrested last month on suspicion of dodging some $700,000 in taxes.
PEP said it was “delighted that Omar Barghouti will be able to come to the United States to accept this well-deserved award for his leadership...
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April 21, 2017 at 4:31 pm
As London students prepare to protest an upcoming on-campus talk by Israeli Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev, the event’s moderator told The Algemeiner on Thursday he hoped attendees would maintain open minds.
Eric Heinze — a professor of law and humanities at the Queen Mary University of London’s School of Law and an outspoken defender of free speech — will be hosting the hotly-debated Regev event, scheduled to take place at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) this coming Thursday evening.
Heinze encouraged those eager “to engage with pose, politeness, and intelligence” on Israeli-Palestinian issues to come to the program, organized jointly by the SOAS Jewish Society (JSoc) and Model United Nations Socie...
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April 21, 2017 at 4:30 pm
Thursday’s terrorist attack in central Paris — in which one police officer was killed and two others were seriously wounded — will bolster far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the first round of France’s presidential election this weekend, a prominent French Jew told the Hebrew news site nrg on Friday.
Rabbi Moshe Levin — CEO of the Conference of European Rabbis and an adviser to Chief Rabbi of France Haim Korsia — was quoted by nrg as saying, “There is no doubt that last night’s attack will influence the election on Sunday. It will, unfortunately, unequivocally help Marine Le Pen. If until now it was not certain she would advance to the second round, now there is no question at all.”
The shooting, w...
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April 21, 2017 at 4:03 pm
Parshas Shmini / Shabbos Mevarchim / Baltimore Zmanim / Eruv is UP!
Baltimore, MD – Apr. 21. 2017
Omer 10
Parshas: Shmini
Today: 25 Nissan
Chatzos: 1:06 PM
Hadlakas Nairos: 7:32 PM
Shkiah: 7:50:38 PM
Tzais HaKochavim: 8:41 PM
Rosh Chodesh Iyar: Wednesday, April 26 and Thursday, April 27
Kiddush Levanah: April 29, 1:27 AM – May 10, 7:49 PM
BAHAB: May 1, 4, 8
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April 21, 2017 at 4:02 pm
The leader of a bipartisan good-government group, Zach Wamp, headed to the White House last week to ask whether President Donald Trump’s “drain the swamp” slogan would ever be more than a throwaway campaign slogan. One of the president’s closest aides, Steve Bannon, assured him it’s a priority.
Bannon said he “agrees with the concept that Washington is rigged,” said Wamp, a former Republican congressman. “He said he just needs to figure out what to do about it.”
Yet within 48 hours of the visit, the White House announced the end of an Obama administration practice aimed at greater transparency in government: It would no longer release the names of visitors to the executive mansion.
It was another step away from the goal of “dra...
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April 21, 2017 at 4:02 pm
Top law enforcement and intelligence officials are expected to testify next week on Capitol Hill about Russian activities to influence the U.S. presidential election.
The House intelligence committee said Friday that it had sent letters requesting FBI Director James Comey and Adm. Mike Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, to appear at a closed hearing on Tuesday.
The committee said it also has asked former CIA Director John Brennan, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to appear at an open hearing that same day.
Comey and Rogers testified in an open hearing late last month. At the time, Comey confirmed that the FBI was investigating whether President Donald Trump’s associates coordinated with Russian offici...
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April 21, 2017 at 3:58 pm
Former President Barack Obama will speak Monday in Chicago to young community leaders and organizers at the University of Chicago, where his presidential library is planned.
Obama’s first public engagement comes as President Donald Trump nears his 100-day mark in office next week.
The news release announcing the event says Obama’s post-presidential goal is “to encourage and support the next generation of leaders driven by strengthening communities around the country and the world.”
Students from schools in and around Chicago are invited to attend.
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April 21, 2017 at 3:56 pm
A U.S. air marshal reportedly forgot her loaded gun in the bathroom of a Delta flight headed from England to New York and the gun was found by another passenger.
It reportedly happened on April 6 aboard a flight from Manchester to Kennedy International Airport.
The New York Times reports that the passenger gave the weapon to a member of the flight crew, who returned it to the air marshal.
The marshal waited days to report the incident to her superiors, according to the report. The Transportation Security Administration said it was investigating the incident.
Other air marshals said that leaving a loaded weapon unattended constituted a significant security breach.
“You can’t have inept people leaving weapons in a lavatory,” said Craig Sawyer, a former air marshal told...
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April 21, 2017 at 3:46 pm
Baltimore County Police are seeking assistance from the public in locating a 16-year-old boy who is reported missing from his Woodlawn home by his guardian.
Timothy Packer is 5'7", 125 pounds, and has short brown hair. He was last seen at Security Square Mall.
Anyone with information on Timothy Packer's whereabouts is asked to contact police at 410-307-2020. This case continues to be investigated by the Baltimore County Police Crimes Against Children Unit.
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April 21, 2017 at 1:34 pm
A massive power outage in San Francisco on Friday morning caused a blackout in neighborhoods across the city, from the Financial District to the Presidio, forcing the closure of businesses, a federal courthouse and a BART station, officials said.
A spokesman for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said at least 90,000 customers lost power.
BART’s Montgomery Station was closed due to the outage, which struck after 9 a.m. BART rains were running through Montgomery Station without stopping. Cable cars were also impacted and shuttles were put in place to provide service, according to the Municipal Transportation Agency.
There were reports of traffic lights out in many city intersections, and traffic was backing up on downtown streets. The Phillip Burton Federal Building and U....
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April 21, 2017 at 12:52 pm
Eyeing his 100th day in office — which looms April 29 — President Trump tried to breathe new life into a proposed health care bill yesterday, hoping to put it on a fast track.
“This will be great health care,” Trump said. “It’s evolving. There was never a give-up. The press sort of reported that it was a give-up. It was not a give-up. Remember, it took Obamacare 17 months. I’ve been negotiating this for two months.”
Trump said yesterday he’d like to have the bill “next week or shortly thereafter.”
But Congress must also pass a spending bill next week to avoid a government shutdown, so lawmakers will have to do some serious juggling at breakneck speed.
“I think we’ll get both,” Trump said.
Trump’s...
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April 21, 2017 at 12:48 pm
U.S. authorities have been engaged in discussions over whether to seek charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The debate over charges was first reported by the Washington Post.
Officials have been debating whether Wikileaks — the organization which has shared troves of confidential materials, often received via persons sharing it illegally — should be viewed as a journalistic enterprise, as Assange claims, or as a group that illegally aided and abetted the widespread disclosure of sensitive information.
The matter was previously considered by the administration of President Barack Obama, but charges were never brought.
In March, Wikileaks released files it said originated from the CIA and detailed the agency’s...
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April 21, 2017 at 12:46 pm
George H.W. Bush may be recovering from a mild case of pneumonia in a Houston hospital, but it hasn’t dampened his affinity for sharing personal moments on social media.
The former president, 92, tweeted a photo Thursday with one of his visitors at Houston Methodist Hospital: His son, and fellow former president, George W. Bush.
“Big morale boost from a high level delegation,” wrote the elder Bush. “No father has ever been more blessed, or prouder.”
And the younger Bush posted the photo to his Instagram account, writing, “Pleased to report that 41 is joyful, strong, and ready to come home soon.”
On Tuesday, the former president’s office said in a statement that he was hospitalized last Friday “for observation due to a persistent cou...
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April 21, 2017 at 12:44 pm
Hamas threatens Israel, says it is prepared to liberate "Palestinian land".
Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar declared on Thursday that the terror group was continuing its preparations for "the liberation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and all the Palestinian land."
Speaking at a memorial event in Gaza for a Hamas terrorist, al-Zahar said, "The tunnels of the fighting forces are blessed because there the blood of our heroic shaheeds was sacrificed.”
“The cuts in salaries (by the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah) will not block our path, either from the ground or from under it, towards Al-Aqsa," he continued.
Speaking at the same event, a spokesman for Hamas’s so-called “military wing”, the Al-Qassam Brigades, called on the “occupation” to quietly ...
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April 21, 2017 at 12:42 pm
Arab states agree to US request to focus more time on Iranian threat, less on Israel and the Israeli-Arab conflict.
JTA - A number of Arab states heeded the plea by Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, to focus more in a Middle East debate on the threat posed by Iran than on the Israeli-Arab conflict.
Haley, this month the president by rotation of the U.N. Security Council, convened a council session on the Middle East.
“How one chooses to spend one’s time is an indication of one’s priorities,” she said in her opening remarks.
“The same is true for the United Nations Security Council,” she said. “The Israel-Palestinian issue is an important one, deserving of attention. But that is one issue that surely has no lack of a...
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April 21, 2017 at 12:40 pm
8,000 Jews pray at tomb of Biblical figure on anniversary of his death.
More than 8,000 Jews arrived Thursday night to pray at the tomb of the Biblical Prophet Joshua the son of Nun in the Samaria town of Kifl Hares.
Among the worshipers were 250 immigrants from France, the prayer was organized by the director of the Samaria Regional Council's holy sites division.
The worshipers were accompanied by security forces for protection.
Among the worshipers were the commander of the Ephraim Brigade, Roy Shetreet, the officers of the Central Command, Miki Siboni, Elitzur Trabelsi and Ilan Meranditz, the deputy head of the Shomron Regional Council Davidi Ben Zion, the Deputy Chairman of the World Zionist Organization, Yaakov Hagoel.
The worshipers read together the "Aleinu Le-Mashavah" ...
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April 21, 2017 at 12:40 pm
Anti-Zionist who praised terrorist murderer, hailed stone throwers as 'courageous' tapped to give commencement address at public NY college.
A radical left-wing activist and advocate for Sharia law in the United States has been selected as this year’s commencement speaker at a branch of the City University of New York.
Linda Sarsour, 37, who helped organize the Women’s March in Washington in January and was arrested protesting outside of Trump Hotel in New York, was tapped by the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy to address this year’s graduating class.
An aide to the school’s dean confirmed in a statement that Sarsour had been chosen to speak at the commencement, The Daily Caller&nb...
