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November 16, 2017 at 9:50 am
Israel: New-Look Labor Leader Vows To Unseat Netanyahu
After falling out with Benjamin Netanyahu as a junior member of the Cabinet last year, Avi Gabbay is now a leading candidate to replace the scandal-plagued prime minister. Buoyed by a rags-to-riches personal story and a centrist worldview that appeals to Israel’s traditional swing voters, the new leader of the opposition Labor Party has seen a big bump in the polls. But the 50-year-old former telecom executive has his sights set on more than just victory at the ballot box: He believes his business background and everyman persona could enable him to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians — something Netanyahu rarely even mentions anymore. “I don’t know if we can reach a deal, but we have to exert energy into it again and not neglect it anymore,”...
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November 16, 2017 at 9:48 am
Tzohar Rabbis Offers A Course To Become A Mashgiach Kashrus
It now appears clear to all except officials in the Chief Rabbinate of Israel that the latter’s monopoly over kashrus supervision in Israel has come to an end. While the Chief Rabbinate continues to fight to maintain the status quo that existed in the past, others are looking to the future, including Tzohar Rabbis, with the organization offering training to certify one as a mashgiach kashrus. The Tzohar Rabbinical Association, in cooperation with the Emunah movement, will soon develop a training course for mashgichim. The course said the two organizations will be subsidized and will take place in the form of seven weekly and intense meetings. The course will consist of two stages, the first stage will be basic for the training of the students, and in the second stage the enro...
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November 16, 2017 at 9:44 am
Rav Lt.-Colonel Gil Gilad Appointed To Head IDF Kashrus
Rav Lt.-Colonel Gil Gilad was appointed head of the Kashrus Branch of the IDF Rabbinate. Lt.-Col. Amir Zuzut retired from the IDF Rabbinate after serving as head of the Kashrus Branch for two years, and Rabbi Gilad will replace him. Rabbi Gilad served in the past as the rabbi of the Base 1, Officers’ Training Base, and the commander of the 162nd Division in the Southern Command. IDF Chief Rabbi Brigadier-General Rabbi Eyal Karim, said during the ceremony that “Rabbi Goren began to observe the kashrus of 36 kitchens, and today we are firmly guarding kashrus throughout IDF bases.”
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National News
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November 16, 2017 at 9:43 am
New Center Helping Trace Roots Of Jews In New England
The vibrant and influential history of New England’s Jewish population chronicled in a vast repository of documents stored at the New England Historic Genealogical Society is being celebrated Wednesday. The Jewish Heritage Center at the Boston-based genealogical society is not just a resource for people tracing family roots, but a trove of information for scholars researching the Jewish influence on New England’s economy and the history of anti-Semitism. It also preserves the records of Jewish philanthropies and synagogues. “The information archived here provides some context and shows what part Jewish immigrants played in growing the community,” said Stephanie Call, the center’s manager. The Jewish Heritage Center oversees the archives of the America...
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Israel News
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November 16, 2017 at 9:41 am
MK Hazan To Stand Trial For Attacking and Threatening Public Officials
Mk Oren Hazan said in a statement on Wednesday that he has decided to forgo his diplomatic immunity and is therefore expected to stand trial for assaulting a public official, embarrassing a public official, and misconduct in a public setting. According to the law of immunity, Hazan could have asked the Knesset for diplomatic immunity within the first 30 days of the charges being filed against him, however, he decided to forgo that option. In April, Hazan was accused of attacking a public official after he attacked the Director of City Hall of Ariel and embarrassed the city’s Mayor during a dispute over the outstanding property tax owed by his mother for a restaurant that she owns in the city. The restaurant, which is called Baba Grill, is located in Ariel and in 2014 Hazan&r...
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International News
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November 16, 2017 at 9:33 am
China Sending Envoy To North Korea Following Trump Visit
Following President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, China said Wednesday that it would send a high-level special envoy to North Korea amid an extended chill in relations between the neighbors over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and missile programs. Song Tao, the head of China’s ruling Communist Party’s International Department, will travel to Pyongyang on Friday to report on outcomes of the party’s national congress held last month, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Xinhua said Song, as president and party leader Xi Jinping’s special envoy, would carry out a “visit” in addition to delivering his report, but gave no details about his itinerary or meetings. It also made no mention of Trump’s trip to Beijing or the North’s...
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International News
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November 16, 2017 at 9:29 am
NATO Chief Says They’ll Have Enough Forces In Afghanistan
NATO’s chief said Wednesday he is certain the alliance will have sufficient forces to fulfill its training mission in Afghanistan after months of lobbying allies to increase troop contributions. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday that NATO will meet the requirements set out by Gen. John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander for Afghanistan, who has said he needs close to 16,000 troops to fill the NATO training mission. Stoltenberg said the troop level will go from 13,000 to around 16,000. “I’m absolutely confident that we will have sufficient forces when we move into 2018,” Stoltenberg said. “We are still receiving pledges and announcements about more troop contributions from allies.” Stolt...
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National News
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November 16, 2017 at 9:27 am
Workers At California Elementary School Stopped ‘Horrific Bloodbath’
A tiny Northern California elementary school would have turned into a “bloodbath” if not for quick action by school workers who rushed small children inside and locked down the building, thwarting a gunman on a deadly mission, authorities said. Kevin Janson Neal repeatedly shot into Rancho Tehama Elementary School while trying to get inside. He eventually got frustrated and left. “There is no doubt that he did not want to give up,” Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said Wednesday. “I really, truly believe we would have had a horrific bloodbath at that school if that school hadn’t taken the action that it did.” The school has about 100 children in kindergarten through fifth grade and four certified teachers, according to its web...
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National News
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November 16, 2017 at 9:26 am
US Opposes Nazi Speech, But Will Vote No At UN To Banning It
The United States government wants you to know: It really, truly doesn’t like Nazis. At the United Nations this week, the U.S. plans to vote against a yearly resolution that condemns the glorification of Nazism, State Department officials said Wednesday. Although it may seem counterintuitive — who wouldn’t want to condemn Nazis? — officials said free speech protections and other problems with the resolution make it impossible for America to support. Introduced by Russia, the resolution calls on all U.N. nations to ban pro-Nazi speech and organizations, and to implement other restrictions on speech and assembly. That’s a non-starter in the U.S., where First Amendment protections guarantee all the right to utter almost anything they want — even pra...
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Local News
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November 16, 2017 at 9:24 am
Gov. Hogan Releases Statement On Baltimore Police Officer
Gov. Larry Hogan released a statement Wednesday night on the Baltimore Police detective that was shot in the line of duty.  Larry Hogan 11 hours ago Tonight the First Lady and I are praying for the Baltimore Police Department Detective who is in Shock Trauma after being shot in the line of duty earlier this evening. Please join us in praying for his recovery. The individual responsible for this heinous crime will be found, charged, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The Baltimore Police Department has our full support as they track down this violent criminal and bring him to justice. May God bless the brave men and women of the Baltimore Police Department and all law enforcement who serve and protect us every single day. 1.7...
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Israel News
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November 16, 2017 at 9:22 am
MK Maklev: They Have It In For The Chareidi Children
The Knesset Committee for Distributive Justice & Social Equality on Wednesday, 26 Cheshvan, discussed the inequality in the budgeting policy and wage conditions in the unofficial educational institutions after it was revealed that the institutions of the Ministry of Education are discriminated against by the Ministry of Education. In the course of the hearing, MK Uri Maklev blamed the severe discrimination in funding institutions and said that “the approach must change, the institutions receive only forty percent, the root of the evil begins with missing budgeting, and this is punishment of children in non-official/recognized mosdos”. “Parents do not send [their children] because they want more, but they are demands that come from a way of life and a certain h...
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Local News
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November 16, 2017 at 9:21 am
2 Suspects In Locust Point Slaying Arrested In Atlanta, 1 At Large
Baltimore police say two of the suspects in the early Tuesday robbery and murder of Alex Wroblewski have been identified and are now in custody in Atlanta. Earlier Wednesday, police announced an arrest warrant against one suspect, Tanya Hayes, and said she had a last known address in Atlanta. The other two suspects' names have not yet been released publicly. Hayes and her boyfriend, who police say shot Wroblewski, were arrested in Atlanta, Baltimore police spokesman Chief T.J. Smith said. Hayes' 20-year-old son remains at large and is currently being sought by authorities.
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November 16, 2017 at 9:20 am
Baltimore Police Detective Fighting For His Life At Shock Trauma (Video)
The Baltimore police homicide detective shot Wednesday afternoon is on life support in the intensive care unit at Shock Trauma as doctors say he suffered a brain injury. View image on Twitter
  Jim Russ WBAL 1090 ✔@JimWBALTraffic .@BaltimorePolice @CommishKDavis says 18 year veteran homicide detective was shot in the head and gravely wounded while conducting a follow up investigation of a previous homicide in west Baltimore this afternoon. The detective is fighting for his life at Shock Trauma @wbalradio 9:37 PM -...
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November 15, 2017 at 9:53 pm
Daily Dvar Halacha - Nov. 15, 2017 - 26 Mar Cheshvan 5778 - Tie My Left Shoe First Because Of Tefillin? What About Lefties? Women
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National News
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November 15, 2017 at 9:41 pm
Agudath Israel Commends House Committee on Taylor Force Act
Agudath Israel of America, a national Orthodox Jewish organization, commends the members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee for unanimously reporting out the Taylor Force Act, bipartisan legislation that will, among other things, terminate the current practice of providing payments to terrorists and their families.   The action by the House Committee is a meaningful step forward in the U.S. fight to combat terrorism. Providing aid to a regime, the Palestinian Authority, that rewards and glorifies murder against innocents casts a shadow on our nation's commitment to that fight.  It does more than "send the wrong message" - it indirectly provides material support to these nefarious acts.  The House Committee has declared that this is intolerable.   We congrat...
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November 15, 2017 at 9:28 pm
Watch: Brit Hume Says Special Counsels Are Always A Bad Idea (Video)
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November 15, 2017 at 9:26 pm
Big Vote Totals Don’t Convert To Wins For House Democrats
The Democrats’ big wins in Virginia’s elections last week weren’t enough to gain control of the House of Delegates, and some say gerrymandering is to blame. In all 100 House races combined, Democrats won 54 percent of the vote, compared to 44 percent for Republicans. But Democrats only won 49 seats in the 100-seat chamber. Democrats and some redistricting advocates say the discrepancy is a result of Republican gerrymandering that packs absurd supermajorities of Democrats into a handful of districts to clear the field for Republicans in all the remaining districts. Virginia’s boundary lines have been subject of multiple lawsuits alleging gerrymandering. Others say natural demographics work against the Democrats in urban areas where liberal Democratic voters ...
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Israel News
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November 15, 2017 at 9:24 pm
Israel Police Operation 700: Enforcement And Concern For The Neighborhood Of A-Tur In The Capital
Twenty persons suspected of participating in disturbances were arrested under arrest warrants in Operation 700 in A-Tur in the capital. M-1 weapons were seized, business licensing conditions were examined, and enforcement was carried out against house arrest and execution, while improving and renovating infrastructure and safety hazards, with emphasis on central streets in the heart of the neighborhood. Garbage dumps were cleared, scrap removed, and the invasion of public areas addressed. Police and Border Police were operating in the A-Tur neighborhood of the eastern capital in the framework of Operation 700, an integrated police enforcement operation to locate and arrest rioters alongside enforcement activities in cooperation with the municipality. The operation is intended to de...
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Local News
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November 15, 2017 at 9:22 pm
Rise In Teen Suicide, Social Media Coincide; Is There Link?
An increase in suicide rates among U.S. teens occurred at the same time social media use surged and a new analysis suggests there may be a link. Suicide rates for teens rose between 2010 and 2015 after they had declined for nearly two decades, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why the rates went up isn’t known. The study doesn’t answer the question, but it suggests that one factor could be rising social media use. Recent teen suicides have been blamed on cyberbullying, and social media posts depicting “perfect” lives may be taking a toll on teens’ mental health, researchers say. “After hours of scrolling through Instagram feeds, I just feel worse about myself because I feel left out,” said Caitl...
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International News
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November 15, 2017 at 9:21 pm
Germany: 2 Ex-Guards Indicted For WWII Stutthof Camp Deaths
German prosecutors said Wednesday they have indicted two former Nazi SS guards in their 90s on charges of being accessories to murder while they worked at a World War II concentration camp. Both men served as guards at the Stutthof concentration camp, located near what is now the Polish city of Gdansk, Dortmund prosecutor Andreas Brendel told The Associated Press. The indictments were filed against a 93-year-old man from Borken who served in Stutthof from June 1942 to September 1944 and a 92-year-old man from Wuppertal who was there from June 1944 to May 1945. The charges were filed last week at the state court in Muenster but only announced Wednesday because the defendants first had to be notified. Both deny they had any knowledge of killings at the camp, Brendel said. About 65,...
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