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September 17, 2017 at 12:09 pm
Rebitzen Chana Yetta Wosner A”H, 96, was niftar in Mayanei HaYeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak on erev Shabbos. She was the wife of HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Halevy Wosner ZT”L, the Shevet Halevy.
She was the widow of Rav Yaakov Shmarya ZT”L, who was rav of Kehillas Chassam Softer Petach Tikvah. Fifteen years ago, she was married the Shevet Halevy.
The rebitzen was born in Tzefas to Rav Aharon David Kahan, the father of the Rebbe from Toldos Aharon ZT”L and her mother, Moras Scheindel Bracha A”H, grandchild of HaGaon Rav Avraham Yitzchak Heller.
The levaya began on motzei Shabbos at 10:30PM and kvura was in Har HaZeisim.
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September 17, 2017 at 12:03 pm
The Marseille prosecutor’s office says four young female U.S. tourists have been attacked with acid in Marseille’s main train station by a woman who has been arrested.
A spokeswoman for the prosecutor office told The Associated Press that two of the tourists have been injured in the face in the attack Sunday in the Saint Charles train station and one of them has a possible eye injury. She says all four of the tourists, who are in their 20s, have been hospitalized, two of them for shock.
She did not have any more details and spoke on condition of anonymity, per the French judicial system.
There was no immediate information on where the U.S. tourists were from.
Marseille is a port city in southern France that is closer to Barcelona than Paris.
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September 17, 2017 at 10:30 am
Less then then three months post kidney transplant, BJL's great friend, Yaakov Hagler, gives it his all as he leads Selichos again at Rabbi Weinberger's Aish Kodesh
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September 17, 2017 at 10:18 am
A prominent medical journal published pseudo-scientific attacks on Israel for years—until it took the demonization one step too far. What accounts for its unprecedented turnaround?
The British publication The Lancet is one of the most influential medical journals in the world, and for many years, was used as a major platform for anti-Israeli demonization campaigns under the façade of science and medicine. Between 2001 and 2014, 264 articles on Palestinian and Israeli issues were published, a majority consisting of political opinion or commentary with little medical content.[1] Many included distorted or unsupported claims that Israel was responsible for premature births, deaths of Palestinians at checkpoints, cancer deaths, psychological disorders, and mor...
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September 17, 2017 at 10:01 am
With Rosh Hashanah shopping in full swing in Jerusalem’s Geula neighborhood, Toldos Avraham Yitzchak on Sunday afternoon, 26 Elul, beginning at 1:15PM from the beis medrash, will march to the induction center on Rashi Street.
The protest is in response to the arrest of a grandson of the Rebbe Shlita, who was taken into custody for failing to report for service. The event is backed by the Eida Chareidis and a large turnout is expected. The admor has called on his tzibur from Beit Shemesh to participate on Sunday too.
It is also reported that askanim of the chassidus did their utmost to have the detainee released before Shabbos, albeit without success. Now they fear he will be held by authorities through Rosh Hashanah.
Avraham Yitzchak Taub was stopped at Ben-Gurion International Ai...
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September 17, 2017 at 9:59 am
London police say a second man has been arrested in connection with the London subway attack.
Police said Sunday that a 21-year-old man was arrested late Saturday night in Hounslow in west London and is being held under the Terrorism Act. He is being questioned at a south London police station but has not been charged or identified.
Two men are now in custody for possible roles in the bombing attack on a rush-hour subway train Friday morning that injured 29 people in London. An 18-year-old man was arrested Saturday in the departure area of the port of Dover, where ferries leave for France.
The two arrests indicate police and security services believe the attack at the Parsons Green station was part of a coordinated plot, not the act of a single person.
“We are still pursing numer...
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September 17, 2017 at 9:51 am
Jerusalem, Israel - Spet. 17, 2017 -mHealth Israel, the largest connected health community in the Middle East, hosted a conference at the Jerusalem Cinematheque on Thursday.
Founded by in 2013, mHealth Israel with more than 4,500 active members, aims to create global awareness of Israel as a world leader in health technologies and actively connect Israeli digital health startups with global healthcare leaders.
“This is our fourth year running mHealth Israel, and it is incredible to see the growth of the community and the significant global interest in the breakthroughs being produced by our innovators,” said Levi Shapiro, founder of mHealth Israel. "By bringing together the newest developments in the Israeli mHealth ecosystem, and ve...
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September 16, 2017 at 10:41 pm
As we consider during this month of Elul how we can make things better, an area that deserves our attention – and where we can certainly do a lot better - is how we as a community treat the singles in our midst. Here are some specific ideas and impressions, gleaned from conversations and communications with a number of singles in our community.
There is one thing our singles clearly do not want, and that is our pity. Baruch Hashem, the single men and women in our community are strong and capable people, living productive lives and accomplishing great things both personally and professionally. They are fine, thank you.
What they would really appreciate is our respect.
Respect
Yes, respect. They deserve our respect and recognition for who they are and ...
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September 16, 2017 at 10:39 pm
An environmental activist who acknowledges dumping paint over Wall Street’s iconic “Charging Bull” statue has been arrested.
Courtney Fallon says the blue paint she dumped on the bull statue Thursday represents “rising sea levels” following President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement to combat global warming.
A sash draped over the neighboring “Fearless Girl” statue read: “Draw the blue line.”
New York police say Fallon was arrested Friday on charges of making graffiti and criminal mischief.
Fallon tells the Daily News she used corn oil and chalk so it could be removed easily.
Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio says it wasn’t right to vandalize property even though he also oppos...
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September 16, 2017 at 10:37 pm
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country is nearing its goal of “equilibrium” in military force with the United States, as the United Nations Security Council strongly condemned the North’s “highly provocative” ballistic missile launch over Japan on Friday.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency carried Kim’s comments on Saturday — a day after U.S. and South Korean militaries detected the missile launch from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
It traveled 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) as it passed over the Japanese island of Hokkaido before landing in the northern Pacific Ocean. It was the country’s longest-ever test flight of a ballistic missile.
The North has confirmed the missile as an intermediate range...
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September 16, 2017 at 10:36 pm
Noisy demonstrators disrupted shopping at upscale suburban malls on Saturday and later marched through a popular district of bars and restaurants to protest a white St. Louis police officer’s acquittal in the killing of a black man, but the second day of protests was peaceful following sporadic vandalism and violence a night earlier.
A few hundred people shouted slogans such as “black lives matter” and “it is our duty to fight for our freedom” as they marched through West County Center mall in Des Peres to decry the judge’s verdict Friday clearing ex-officer Jason Stockley of first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith.
A short time later, a group demonstrated at Chesterfield Mall and a regional food festival. No arrests were report...
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September 16, 2017 at 10:20 pm
The Trump administration declared its firm support Thursday for a bill that would suspend U.S. financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority until it ends what critics have described as a long-standing practice of rewarding Palestinians who kill Americans and Israelis.
The State Department announcement comes nearly six weeks after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee backed the measure. The legislation, which is named after an American who was stabbed to death in Israel by a Palestinian, reflects bipartisan outrage over what lawmakers have termed a “pay to slay” program endorsed by the Palestinian Authority.
“The Trump administration strongly supports the Taylor Force Act, which is a consequence of Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization&...
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September 16, 2017 at 10:18 pm
The top commander of U.S. nuclear forces said Thursday he assumes the Sept. 3 nuclear test by North Korea was a hydrogen bomb, suggesting a heightened U.S. concern that the North has advanced to a new level of nuclear firepower, even as it launched yet another ballistic missile over Japan into the Pacific Ocean.
Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten, commander of Strategic Command, told reporters that while he was not in a position to confirm it, he assumes from the size of the underground explosion and other factors that it was a hydrogen bomb — which is a leap beyond the fission, or atomic, bombs North Korea has previously tested.
Just moments after Hyten spoke at his headquarters near Omaha, word spread that North Korea had launched a mid-range ballistic missile over Japan. Defense...
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September 16, 2017 at 10:13 pm
The Forest Service has spent more than $2 billion battling forest fires around the country — a record as wildfires blacken the American West in one of the nation’s worst fire seasons.
Wildfires have ravaged the West this summer with 64 large fires burning across 10 states as of Thursday, including 21 fires in Montana and 18 in Oregon. In all, 48,607 wildfires have burned nearly 13,000 square miles (33,586 square kilometers).
The fires have stretched firefighting resources, destroyed more than 500 homes and triggered health alerts as choking smoke drifted into major Western cities.
The Forest Service, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is the nation’s primary firefighting agency.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the severe fire season means offici...
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September 16, 2017 at 10:10 pm
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is considering issuing subpoenas to President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman and two FBI officials close to fired director James Comey as part of the panel’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections.
It would be the second time the panel has subpoenaed Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman. Grassley, R-Iowa, and California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the panel, subpoenaed Manafort in July but rescinded it a day later when he agreed to turn over documents and continue negotiating about setting up an interview with the panel.
Grassley indicated Thursday that negotiations over an interview have since stalled.
“All I can tell you is I’m not very satisfied...
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September 16, 2017 at 9:58 pm
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September 16, 2017 at 9:44 pm
A homemade bomb planted in a rush-hour subway car exploded in London on Friday, injuring 29 people and prompting authorities to raise Britain’s terrorism threat level to “critical,” meaning another attack may be imminent.
The early morning blast sparked a huge manhunt for the perpetrators of what police said was the fourth terrorist attack in the British capital this year.
Prime Minister Theresa May, acting on the recommendation of the Joint Terrorism Analysis Center, raised the country’s threat level from “severe” to “critical” — its highest possible level. May said military troops would augment the police presence in a “proportionate and sensible step.”
Earlier, May said the device had been “intended to caus...
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September 16, 2017 at 9:20 pm
A drug trafficking case against Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman won’t be dismissed even though his lawyers argued the U.S. government violated international law by charging him with different crimes after he was extradited, a federal judge said on Friday.
El Chapo was transported from Mexico to New York in January to face charges that he oversaw a multibillion-dollar international drug trafficking operation that laundered money and oversaw a ruthless campaign of murders and kidnappings. His lawyers argued in court papers that the government charged him with different crimes after he was en route to the U.S.
Judge Brian Cogan ruled Friday that El Chapo can’t raise the issue without protest or objection from Mexico.
El Chapo’s lawyers said t...
