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May 23, 2017 at 4:15 pm
A defense attorney says a plea agreement is near for a man accused of plotting to bomb a South Florida synagogue and Jewish school in support of the Islamic State extremist group.
The attorney for 41-year-old James Medina said in court papers filed Tuesday that negotiations with prosecutors on a proposed guilty plea are nearly complete. Medina previously pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and to damage religious property.
The FBI says Medina plotted with an undercover informant to bomb the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center in April 2016 during Passover. Medina was arrested after the informant provided him with a real-looking dummy bomb.
FBI recordings show Medina allegedly supported the Islamic State group and claimed an obligation to attack J...
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May 23, 2017 at 4:13 pm
As police continued their investigation into the terrorist bombing in Manchester, England that killed at least 22 and wounded more than 60, acts of kindness and comfort were seen around the city.
Rabbi Shneur Cohen of Chabad Manchester Center City brought food and drinks to police officers stationed outside the arena. It was an act that did not go unnoticed, and quickly spread through Twitter and other social media.
Tonight, Chabad on Campus will be hosting a program at the University of Manchester where many students remain “deeply shaken and worried” after the attack.
“We are doing a service at the student shul with Torah, Tefilliah (prayer) and Tzedakah (charity),” Cohen told Chabad.org
Cohen said that he and his wife were driving near the arena last ...
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May 23, 2017 at 4:10 pm
In the attached video, a senior police commander wraps up the first of two days of US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel.
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May 23, 2017 at 3:35 pm
Baltimore, MD - May 23, 2017 - THANK YOU! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion (BJSZ) thanks the Baltimore Jewish community for its outpouring of support for our recent successful online fundraising campaign. We are touched and very grateful for your part in helping us surpass our goal! We welcome and look forward to your continued involvement in our shul’s many meaningful programs.
Please join us or Shomrei Emunah tonight for exclusive Yom Yerushalayim Video presentations
Stay tuned for details on BJSZ’s Shavuos programming.
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May 23, 2017 at 11:56 am
British authorities on Tuesday identified the suicide bomber who launched a deadly attack at a Manchester Ariana Grande concert, hours after ISIS claimed responsibility for the blast.
Salman Abedi, 23, was identified as the suspect who detonated an improvised explosive device at about 10:30 p.m. local time Monday, killing more than 20 people, some of them children, and injuring dozens more. At least 12 children under the age of 16 were injured, emergency responders said. An 8-year-old girl was among the dead.
ISIS claimed on Tuesday that “a soldier of the caliphate planted bombs in the middle of Crusaders gatherings” then detonated them, but Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said that the U.S. has not yet verified that the terror group was responsible.
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May 23, 2017 at 11:41 am
Baltimore, MD - May 22, 2017 - This evening, May 23rd. on the eve of Yom Yerushalayim, after the 8:05 PM Mincha at Cong. Teferes Yisrael, Rabbi Menachem Goldberger will be delivering a lecture on "Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh - 50 Years Since the Liberation".
This event is for men and women and will be followed by Maariv at 9:30 PM
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May 23, 2017 at 11:40 am
Officials urge residents to take caution to prevent the spread of Zika and other mosquito-borne illnesses
BALTIMORE, MD (May 23, 2017)—Baltimore City officials today announced citywide efforts to prevent the spread of Zika and other mosquito-borne illnesses. The Zika virus is spread by mosquito bite or unprotected sex and is linked to serious birth defects.
“Ensuring that our city is safe from mosquitos and the diseases that they carry is dependent upon the collaboration of residents, community organizations, businesses, and city agencies,” said Mayor Catherine E. Pugh. “I encourage everyone to do their part to help keep our loved ones healthy.”
As of April 2017, there have been 5,274 cases of Zika in the U.S., including 224 locally-transmitted cases in Flo...
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May 23, 2017 at 11:37 am
During the second day of President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel, a rocket was fired at the Jewish state Tuesday from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The IDF confirmed the rocket landed in Israeli territory, but in an open area, causing no casualties or damage.
During 2016 and the beginning of 2017, several rockets were launched at Israel from the Egyptian Sinai by Salafi jihadists affiliated with the Islamic State terror group. In April, a Grad rocket struck a greenhouse in Israel’s southern community of Yuval, adjacent to the Egyptian border. In February, the Salafis claimed responsibility for firing several rockets at Israel’s southernmost city of Eilat.
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May 23, 2017 at 11:35 am
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday strongly condemned the previous night’s suicide bombing outside a pop concert in the English city of Manchester, in which 22 people were murdered and more than 50 were wounded.
Speaking alongside visiting US President Donald Trump at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Netanyahu emphasized the need to confront the “barbarians…who are sadly still with us.”
“The slaughter of innocents must be unconditionally condemned and unflinchingly confronted no matter where it occurs — in Manchester, San Bernardino or Jerusalem: terror is terror is terror,” Netanyahu said. “We must all unite to defeat it.”
Turning to Trump — who earlier referred to the perpetrators of the Manch...
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May 23, 2017 at 11:31 am
President Donald Trump’s trip to Israel is making an impression on his popular Twitter feeds.
A photograph of Trump’s visit to the Kosel in Jerusalem is now the background image on his @realDonaldTrump account with more than 30 million followers. His official @POTUS account features Trump at the airport with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli leaders after his arrival in Tel Aviv. That account has nearly 18 million followers.
Before departing for Italy, Trump’s official Twitter site retweeted tweets by Netanyahu featuring photos of their dinner Monday night and a visit Tuesday to Yad Vashem, Israel national Holocaust memorial.
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May 23, 2017 at 11:19 am
Baltimore, MD - May 23, 2017 - BJL is proud to announce that local talent, singer, and musician Pinny Schachter stars in his 1st music CD:
Shabbat.com Volume I
Just as Pinnys' parents Nachi & Sara Schachter bask in the nachas of their son, now, we too may enjoy Pinny's unique style and beautiful voice, singing melody with all his own harmonies.
Songs were produced and composed by Rabbi Bentzion Klatzko
Pick up a copy today - newly arrived at Shabsi's Judaica.
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May 23, 2017 at 11:18 am
President Donald Trump on Tuesday condemned a deadly attack at a pop concert in Manchester, England as the act of “evil losers” and called on nations to band together to fight terrorism.
“The terrorists and extremists, and those who give them aid and comfort, must be driven out from our society forever,” said Trump, speaking after a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “This wicked ideology must be obliterated, and I mean completely obliterated and innocent life must be protected.”
Trump spoke from Bethlehem in the West Bank, the morning after a blast that killed more than 20 people at an Ariana Grande concert. British officials have said they are treating the blast as an act of terrorism. There was no immediate claim of responsi...
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May 23, 2017 at 11:09 am
President Donald Trump is sending Congress a $4.1 trillion spending plan that relies on faster economic growth and steep cuts to programs supporting low-income individuals to balance the government’s books over the next decade.
The proposed budget, for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, was being delivered to Congress Tuesday, setting off an extended debate in which Democrats are already attacking the administration for trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor. Lawmakers from both parties have said major changes will be needed as the measure moves through Congress.
The proposal projects that this year’s deficit will rise to $603 billion, up from the actual deficit of $585 billion last year, But the document says if Trump’s initiatives are adopted the defic...
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May 23, 2017 at 11:04 am
Former CIA Director John Brennan is set to testify publicly about the intelligence underpinning the Obama administration’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and could shed light on concerns about the security risk posed by President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Brennan’s testimony before the House intelligence committee on Tuesday comes one day after Flynn invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination in response to a subpoena from the Senate intelligence committee. The panel had sought a wide range of information and documents about his and the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russians dating back to June 2015.
Both the Senate and the House intelligence committees are investigating Flynn and other...
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May 23, 2017 at 11:02 am
President Donald Trump on Tuesday, 27 Iyar, met with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) as planned, in PA-occupied Bet Lechem. However, unlike his predecessors, President Trump appears to have decided to tell it like it says, telling the PA leader that there cannot be peace for as long as the PA continues to support and glorify terrorism.
Mr. Trump said, “peace can never take root in an environment where violence is tolerated, funded and even rewarded.”
Abu Mazen reportedly explained his commitment to achieving peace. President Trump, in their joint press conference, explained he will do whatever he can to assist the sides in reaching a peace agreement.
Perhaps it is too early to predict but it appears that the PA is already aware that this US president will not follow th...
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May 23, 2017 at 10:48 am
President Donald Trump is proposing to balance the federal budget within a decade by making sharp cuts to social safety-net programs like food stamps and Medicaid and offering optimistic estimates of economic growth and tax revenues to fulfill the promise of a government back in the black.
Tuesday’s budget blueprint faces a skeptical reception from Congress, where Republicans and Democrats oppose Trump proposals to cut domestic agencies and foreign aid by 10 percent and are recoiling from a $1.7 trillion cut over the coming decade from mandatory government benefit programs. Cuts to Medicaid go beyond the $800 billion-plus contained in a House-passed health care rewrite. A 10-year, $193 billion reduction in food stamps — almost 30 percent — promises to drive millions of p...
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May 23, 2017 at 10:47 am
A policeman sustained light-to-moderate wounds after being stabbed on Herzl Street in Netanya on Tuesday morning 27 Iyar. MDA reports the call came in at 10:44AM, for a man stabbed on Herzl Street.
B’chasdei Hashem the attacker was neutralized, reported to be in moderate condition.MDA transported the 26-year-old officer with injuries to his neck. His condition was reportedly light and he was conscious and alert upon arrival at Laniado Hospital.
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May 23, 2017 at 10:42 am
NASA has ordered up urgent spacewalking repairs at the International Space Station.
On Tuesday, two astronauts will venture out to replace a data relay box that broke over the weekend. The job falls to the two Americans on board: commander Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer.
The failed unit was installed not quite two months ago. It is one of two that control the station’s radiators and solar panels, among other critical systems. NASA said everything is still safe in orbit because one relay box is still working, and no operations have been affected. But officials want the bad one quickly replaced, in case the good one also goes down.
Astronauts performed a similar spacewalk in 2014.
This so-called multiplexer-demultiplexer unit, or MDM, failed Saturday for unknown reasons. It was a r...
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May 23, 2017 at 10:42 am
A panel charged by the U.N. General Assembly has presented a draft that could lead to a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, although none of the countries that possess them participated in its writing.
Advocates of the draft unveiled in Geneva on Monday say the move builds on work officially launched last October, followed by a first negotiation session involving more than 130 countries at the U.N. in New York in March.
They say the draft, adopted by dozens of countries, is now on track to be discussed at a second session in New York in mid-June that could end with the document’s adoption as a U.N. treaty in July.
Nine countries are believed to possess nuclear weapons — the U.S., Russia, Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel. None is supporting the treat...
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May 23, 2017 at 10:34 am
Federal authorities say a California man who worked as an engineer for a defense contractor has pleaded guilty to attempting to sell sensitive information used in military and commercial satellites to Russia.
Gregory Allen Justice entered the pleas Monday to two felonies: economic espionage and violating the Arms Export Control Act. The 49-year-old could get up to 35 years in federal prison.
Authorities say Justice provided an undercover FBI agent he thought was a Russian spy with proprietary software technology and other information for use in satellites.
Court documents say he was paid between $500 and $1,000 during each of several meetings last year.
Justice was arrested in July. Investigators said he told them he needed money to help with his wife’s medical problems.
