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August 16, 2017 at 3:33 pm
Officials say the wingtip of a Delta Air Lines plane clipped an American Airlines plane at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
According to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, it happened shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday. WABC-TV reports the wingtip of a Delta Air Lines plane made contact with an American Airlines plane that was stationary at the time.
Officials say the American Airlines Boeing 757 was waiting for clearance to depart for Dublin, Ireland. No passengers or crew members were injured.
Both flights were delayed.
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August 16, 2017 at 3:33 pm
The IDF working with border police on the night of 24 Menachem Av (Tuesday to Wednesday) destroyed the home of the N’vei Tzuf terrorist, who butchered three members of the Solomon family as they sat at a Friday night table in Yishuv N’vei Tzuf.
IDF forces, border police and agents of the Civil Administration were on hand in the PA (Palestinian Authority) village of Qubar, north of Ramallah, and the home of the terrorist was razed.
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August 16, 2017 at 3:29 pm
Scientists have potentially narrowed the search area for the missing Malaysian airliner to three specific locations in the southern Indian Ocean through new satellite and drift analysis of the 2014 crash released Wednesday.
But the Australian Transport Safety Bureau cautioned that the drift analysis by Australian science agency CSIRO is based on French satellite images of “probably man-made” floating objects without evidence that they were from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Still, the locations could provide potential starting points to search within a 25,000-square-kilometer (9,700-square-mile) expanse identified by a panel of experts in November as the most likely resting place of the Boeing 777 and the 239 passengers and crew on board.
That expanse adjoins the original se...
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August 16, 2017 at 3:27 pm
The Queens Museum, which had agreed to host a reenactment of the United Nation’s 1947 vote for the establishment of the State of Israel, has informed the Israeli Mission to the UN that it will not do so after all.
Currently a museum, the building once housed the UN headquarters, and it’s main gallery was the venue for the historic UN General Assembly Resolution 181 recommending the establishment of the Jewish state in the Land of Israel.
The event, initiated by Israel’s Ambassador Danny Danon, was scheduled to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the decision on November 29, 2017. Danon’s team planned to celebrate the UN’s decision in the original hall where the vote was held, redesigned to appear in its original state. Preparations for the event commenced ...
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August 16, 2017 at 12:41 pm
ביקור האדמו"ר מבאבוב - 45 בארה"ק
שבת התכנסות באתרא קדישא מירון, עם חסידיו תושבי ארה"ק.
Bobov-45 Rebbe visits Israel
אב תשע"ז
Photo Credit: JDN
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August 16, 2017 at 12:33 pm
Jerusalem, Israel -- Israel says it is revoking the press credentials of an Al-Jazeera reporter after he told another TV station that the work of Palestinian journalists is part of the "resistance."
Nitzan Chen, the head of the Government Press Office, said Wednesday that the remarks raise concerns about Elias Karram's ability to objectively cover the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Karram is an Arab citizen of Israel from Nazareth.
Palestinians use the word "resistance" to refer to violent and non-violent opposition to Israeli policies.
Israel's Communications Minister recently called for banning Al-Jazeera, saying it...read more at Associated Press
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August 16, 2017 at 11:53 am
The Palestinian president has wished North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “health and happiness” at a time of rising nuclear tensions with the U.S.
President Mahmoud Abbas sent the greeting on Tuesday in honor of “Liberation Day,” when both North and South Korea celebrate their liberation from Japanese colonial rule.
Abbas praised the “historic friendship” with North Korea and wished the country’s people “stability and prosperity.”
His greeting, published by the state-run Wafa news agency, made no mention of North Korea’s nuclear threats or dispute with the U.S.
Abbas sent a separate similar greeting to the president of South Korea. He wished South Korea stability and prosperity and thanked the country for supporting the Palestinia...
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August 16, 2017 at 11:37 am
There was at least one VIP on the latest NBN aliyah flight that landed in Israel this week. Talia Friedman, a daughter of US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman was among the Olim. Ambassador Friedman was on hand to meet her as was his wife.
Talia, nurse by profession, was among 232 others heading home to Israel, their new home.
Friedman told Israeli media that he was proud of his daughter. He said that “she loves Israel, we all love Israel. Our whole family loves Israel.”
Friedman is a member of Trump’s team spearheading efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
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August 16, 2017 at 11:33 am
President Donald Trump won’t say whether he plans to keep Steve Bannon, a top adviser and key campaign strategist, in the White House.
“We’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon,” Trump said at an impromptu Tuesday news conference where he fielded questions about his confidence in his adviser.
Bannon, the former leader of conservative Breitbart News website, has been a contentious figure in a divided White House for months and has been viewed as on the outs before. But in recent days, some of Trump’s closest advisers have returned to pressing the president to fire Bannon. The anti-Bannon campaign comes as Trump is facing heated criticism for not immediately condemning by name white supremacists and other hate groups after deadly violence last weekend ...
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August 16, 2017 at 11:32 am
U.N. human rights experts say racism and xenophobia are rising in the United States, pointing to far-right demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, as the latest examples and urging U.S. authorities to punish the perpetrators of racist crimes there.
The three experts on the issues of racism, discrimination and the rights of people of African descent are seeking an independent investigation into the deadly events in Charlottesville.
The experts said they were “deeply concerned at the proliferation and increasing prominence of organized hate and racist groups” in the U.S., insisting in a statement Wednesday that racist hate speech “must be unequivocally condemned.”
They said far-right demonstrators chanted anti-Black, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant slogans, s...
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August 16, 2017 at 10:23 am
President Donald Trump is renewing his attacks on e-commerce giant Amazon, and he says the company is “doing great damage to tax paying retailers.”
Trump tweets that “towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt – many jobs being lost!”
The president has often criticized the company and CEO Jeff Bezos (BAY’-zohs), who also owns The Washington Post.
Many traditional retailers are closing stores and blaming Amazon for a shift to buying goods online. But the company has been hiring thousands of warehouse workers on the spot at job fairs across the country. Amazon has announced goal of adding 100,000 full-time workers by the middle of next year.
Trump has in the past tweeted that Amazon was not paying “Internet taxes.” But it&r...
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August 16, 2017 at 10:23 am
An 80-year-old chareidi male was struck by a vehicle at Kikar Shabbos in Yerushalayim on Wednesday morning, 24 Menachem Av. Magen David Adom reports he was in moderate condition with head injuries at the time of transport.
The call arrived at 10:20AM and the victim was found on the ground when the first team arrived on the scene for a reported ‘pedestrian struck’.
After treatment at the scene, paramedics transported him to the trauma unit of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
A name for Tehillim was unavailable.
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August 16, 2017 at 10:10 am
Abe Muller is the kind of guy that makes up the backbone of a town.
He owns a small business, is part of the volunteer ambulance corps and is a member of a civic council that meets regularly.
All in all, a very typical, small-town American guy.
"This is what people don't understand about us," said Muller, one the approximately 70,000 Haredi or ultra-Orthodox Jews living in Lakewood. "We're very American in that way. We volunteer. We love our community and we're very involved in our community, like everyone else."
The news out of Lakewood in the past several months has portrayed certain members of the town's Orthodox community has takers, not givers.
A public airing of the high cost of private school busing and private special education for Orthodox Jewish children ...
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August 16, 2017 at 10:08 am
Durham County, North Carolina, officials said Tuesday they arrested a woman in connection with the vandalism and toppling of a Confederate statue in North Carolina.
A 22-year-old woman was charged with participation in a riot with property damaging exceeding $1,500 and inciting others to riot, which are both felonies, Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews said. She was also charged with two misdemeanors of damage to property and disorderly conduct by injury to a statue, CNN reported.
Andrews also said his office expects to make at least one additional arrest and search warrants are ongoing, the report said.
“I am not blind to the offensive conduct of some demonstrators nor will I ignore their criminal conduct,” Andrews said in a written statement issued just after midnight Tues...
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August 16, 2017 at 10:06 am
Jurors can hear about New Jersey bombs at the October trial of a man charged in a 2016 New York bombing that injured 30 people, but they will not be told that he was arrested after a shootout with police, a judge ruled Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman in Manhattan identified evidence that can be offered at Ahmad Khan Rahimi’s trial.
He said various terrorism-related videotapes, a book, a blood-stained journal with a bullet hole in it and two 2012 emails found during the investigation can be included because they might show motive, intentions, preparation and knowledge of the Sept. 17 bombings.
Also allowed was evidence of a pipe bomb detonated near a charity run in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and a bomb left in an Elizabeth, New Jersey, trash can, along with video reco...
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August 16, 2017 at 10:05 am
United Hatzalah volunteers were called for two incidents of children found unconscious in swimming pools on Tuesday 23 Av, and B’chasdei Hashem were able to save both children.
The first incident occurred in Eilat, where a chareidi family is renting a private villa.
Paramedics arrived at the scene and found the 3-year-old girl unconscious. CPR was b”h successful and the child was taken to the nearby Yoseftal Medical Center for observation.
A short time later, a 4-year-old boy was found unconscious at a pool at a hotel in the Dead Sea area.
The hotel is being rented by a large group of Chareidi families. B”h a United Hatzalah volunteer was in the vicinity of the pool at the time, and immediately performed CPR on the unconscious child.
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August 16, 2017 at 10:04 am
Need some chips fast? Amazon has you covered.
The Seattle-based company launched a service Tuesday that lets Prime members in five cities pick up things like snacks, cold drinks or phone chargers within two minutes of ordering them online. Customers need to head over to an Amazon location to collect their order.
The service, called Instant Pickup, is the latest move by the e-commerce giant to grow its presence in physical stores. Amazon.com Inc. has been opening brick-and-mortar book shops around the country and is buying organic grocer Whole Foods.
For now, the pickup locations are near college campuses in five cities: Atlanta; Berkeley, California; College Park, Maryland; Columbus, Ohio; and Los Angeles.
Amazon says it plans to expand the service into more locations in the coming mon...
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August 16, 2017 at 10:04 am
Weeks before the statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, became a flashpoint in the nation’s struggle over race, it was the focus of emotional debate in the state’s Republican primary election.
Corey Stewart, an outsider candidate for governor sometimes compared to President Donald Trump, seized on possible removal of the Confederate general’s memorial as an “attempt to destroy traditional America.” Stewart, who said in an interview Tuesday that such an action “hits people in the gut,” found unexpectedly strong support, forced his main opponent to defend the statue and almost won.
Now the fight over “traditional America” is throwing a spotlight on the Republican Party’s struggle with race in the age of Trump. The d...
