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November 20, 2017 at 5:45 am
Police received a report last week of a burglary in a yeshiva in Mitzpei Ramon. Eleven pairs of tefilin and Taleisim were stolen from the premises.
Police launched an investigation into the burglary and a suspect was taken into custody, a 51-year-old local man.
On erev Shabbos, police moved in and arrested the suspect. The stolen tefilin were recovered from his property. Police on Sunday returned the valuable items to the yeshiva on Sunday.
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November 20, 2017 at 5:44 am
HaGaon HaRav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita arrived at Mayanei HaYeshua Hospital this morning, Monday, 2 Kislev, for preplanned tests and follow-up.
The rav has been admitted to a regular unit and is conscious and alert.
The tzibur is asked to be mispallel for Rav Aharon Yehuda Leib ben Gitel Feiga for a refuah shleima bsoch cholei am yisrael.
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November 20, 2017 at 5:44 am
A special session was held in Knesset on Sunday, Rosh Chodesh Kislev, marking 40 years since the historic visit to Jerusalem by the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The event was opened with comments by Speaker Yuli Edelstein, followed by remarks from Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat. Other officials and former officials addressed the special session as well.
At the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had the following to say regarding that event: “Today we mark 40 years to the historic visit of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Jerusalem and Israel. President Sadat took a bold step, he came to the Knesset; he came to Israel. He was welcomed by the entire nation. Since then, the peace treaty with Egypt has survived despite its ups ...
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November 20, 2017 at 5:44 am
In the video below we see police confiscated deli, poultry & meats, which were to be delivered to stores in Israel. The raid, which involved health inspectors and police, took place in Yahud.
It is explained the products that were confiscated were not store in compliance with Ministry of Health/Agriculture requirements and as a such, deemed unfit for human consumption.
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November 20, 2017 at 5:43 am
Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for about four hours on Sunday over a pair of corruption scandals surrounding the long-ruling Israeli leader.
It was the sixth time police have questioned Netanyahu over the two scandals which have yet to threaten his rule but have chipped away at his public approval ratings. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri confirmed that investigators arrived at Netanyahu’s official residence early Sunday.
The first investigation reportedly concerns allegations that Netanyahu improperly accepted lavish gifts from wealthy supporters, including Australian billionaire James Packer and Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan. A second investigation reportedly concerns Netanyahu’s alleged attempts to strike a deal with publisher Arnon Mozes...
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November 20, 2017 at 5:43 am
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s been having “very good discussions” with Republican senators who oppose or have concerns about tax-cut legislation expected to be voted on after Thanksgiving.
Mnuchin tells “Fox News Sunday” that he wants to make sure the lawmakers’ views are incorporated before the Senate vote.
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin opposes the measure, saying it doesn’t cut business taxes enough for partnerships and corporations. Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and Susan Collins of Maine also have reservations about the bill, and Mnuchin says he’s met with them as well.
House Republicans passed their tax-cut bill last week.
President Donald Trump has said he wants to sign legislation cutting taxes for corporations ...
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November 20, 2017 at 5:42 am
President Donald Trump says he should have left three UCLA basketball players accused of shoplifting in China in jail.
Trump’s tweet Sunday comes after the father of player LiAngelo Ball minimized Trump’s involvement in winning the players’ release in comments to ESPN.
“Who?” LaVar Ball told ESPN on Friday, when asked about Trump’s involvement in the matter. “What was he over there for? Don’t tell me nothing. Everybody wants to make it seem like he helped me out.”
Trump has said he raised the players’ detention with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the leaders’ recent meeting in Beijing.
The players returned to the U.S. last week. They have been indefinitely suspended from the team.
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November 20, 2017 at 5:42 am
There are more than a few Israelis who do not identify with the Badatz Eida Chareidis and its hashkafa. In fact, a campaign has been renewed against the badatz, to encourage people to refrain from buying items with an Eida Chareidis hashgacha to avoid supporting an organization which funds anti-IDF campaigns and way of life.
Buying such products the video explains, makes one a participant in funding and campaigning against the IDF.
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November 20, 2017 at 5:25 am
Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after orchestrating the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, died Sunday after nearly a half-century in prison. He was 83.
Manson, whose name to this day is synonymous with unspeakable violence and madness, died of natural causes at Kern County hospital, according to a California Department of Corrections statement.
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November 19, 2017 at 11:22 pm
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 19, 2017 - Working non-stop and around the clock to help Baltimore City, it seems that Councilman Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer is doing everything short of leaping tall buildings with a single jump. And many are taking note. Less than a year since he entered office, Schleifer has received numerous recognitions and awards that took others years to obtain, including his induction on November 8, 2017, into the Maryland Retails Association’s (MRA) Hall of Fame.
At a special ceremony in honor of the occasion, the MRA’s recognition put Yitzy among the ranks of Maryland legends including Frank Purdue, The Paterakis Family, Paul Diamond, z'l, and William Donald Schaefer, who had previously received the recognition. A small bu...
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November 19, 2017 at 9:28 pm
Baltimore, MD - Oct. 26, 2017 - I’ve spent countless years as a therapist working with people who are dealing with chemical dependency, and have noted the various trends of drug use during that time. This current opioid epidemic is extremely alarming, hitting the community very hard and, unfortunately, taking the lives of our neighbors, friends and family members.
The statistics are staggering. Here in Maryland, the number of opioid related deaths has more than doubled in just two short years, and the numbers are even higher among women.
This is a crisis that will require everyone to work together. The governor has declared a state of emergency. State schools are mandated to provide prevention education as part of the curriculum. The face of addiction is everyone....
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November 19, 2017 at 9:26 pm
Students’ modesty protected by studying online with no cameras; can make contact by chat or voice only
AFULA, ISRAEL – Israel Sci-Tech Schools, which for several years has been making important in-roads in the education and career development of ultra-Orthodox students, has begun a new program in its Orayta School, teaching students how to create apps. The courses are taught online without cameras in accordance to their modesty standards. Students and teachers communicate via telephone calls and an online chat portal. Many ultra-Orthodox students have long been excluded from studying technology because they lacked computers at home and in their schools, as well as prohibitions in modesty that presented challenges for secular teachers lecturing on their subjects. These challeng...
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November 19, 2017 at 8:07 pm
Just before the Jewish High Holy Days this fall, Judge Rachel Freier was rushing around her kitchen, as she perpetually is. She had just cooked a salmon dish for Sabbath dinner. She was talking to her daughter in Israel on her headset. She was at a countertop, cutting apples and wrapping tuna salad sandwiches to take to work, because at night court in Brooklyn, where she presides, there’s little to eat that’s kosher.
Stepping outside her townhouse in Borough Park, Brooklyn, she climbed into her purple and white minivan emblazoned with the emblems of the female volunteer emergency medical service she founded in her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. A trained paramedic, she keeps her medical bags in her vehicle, just in case.
“My car is like my second home,” she said...
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November 19, 2017 at 1:53 pm
Honda is recalling about 900,000 of its Odyssey minivans because the second-row seats may tip forward if not properly latched.
The recall announced Saturday covers vehicles from the 2011-2017 model years. About 800,000 of the affected minivans were sold in the United States.
Honda says it has received 46 reports of minor injuries related to the issue.
It says the Odyssey's second-row seat may tip forward during moderate to heavy braking if it isn't properly latched after adjusting it side-to-side or reinstalling a removed seat.
The company is working on a way to repair the issue and says it will notify owners when one is available. It will be free.
Until then, Honda has put instructions for properly latching the seat on its website for owners.
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November 19, 2017 at 1:20 pm
Five Sifrei Torah were stolen from a synagogue in Jaffa over the weekend – only to be returned shortly afterwards, thanks to the cooperation of Israeli police and local Palestinian Authority forces in the city of Hevron, south of Jerusalem.
Torah scrolls, which are written out meticulously by hand by Torah scribes (sofers), cost tens of thousands of shekels to produce, and are frequently targeted by thieves.
Arab thieves operating in Jaffa, part of the city of Tel Aviv, stole five such scrolls from the Beit David synagogue on Bikkurei Tzion Street over the weekend.
After Israeli police were notified of the theft, Israeli authorities contacted PA security forces, who helped locate the stolen religious items in the city of Hevron, some 45 miles away in Judea, south of Jerusalem.
Ch...
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November 19, 2017 at 1:17 pm
President Reuven Rivlin turns down former IDF Sargent Elor Azariya's request for clemency for shooting death of Arab terrorist.
President Reuven Rivlin will not grant former IDF Sergeant Elor Azariya a presidential pardon, it was announced Sunday evening, despite the recommendation by Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman.
Azariya, who was convicted in January for the March 2016 shooting death of an Arab terrorist shortly after a stabbing attack on an IDF soldier in Hevron, was sentenced in February to 18 months in prison.
In September, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot slashed four months from Azariya’s sentence, following a written appeal on Azariya’s behalf.
The former soldier’s legal defense team later submitted a pardon request to President ...
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November 19, 2017 at 1:01 pm
Thousands of Shluchim posed for a group photo in front of Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017. They are among more than 5,000 Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinic emissaries and communal leaders from 90 countries hailing from as far away as Bangkok and Kenya that are gathering for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries.
One highlight each year is the traditional group photo of thousands of Shluchim at the front of the building on 770 Eastern Parkway – Chabad’s central headquarters.
This year, for the 13th year, tens of thousands of viewers from around the world will be able to view the International Kinus HaShluchim banquet live – here on YWN – on a broadcast made possible by the organizers...
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November 19, 2017 at 1:00 pm
The U.S. Secret Service says an individual has been taken into custody after attempting to jump a security barrier on the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House.
President Donald Trump was inside the White House during the Sunday morning incident.
The Secret Service tweeted at about 8 a.m. Sunday that someone tried to jump a row of metal bike racks that are being used to create a second row of fencing outside the executive mansion.
Those racks were installed in response to a series of fence-jumping incidents in recent years, including a man who made it into the White House in 2014.
Pedestrians were briefly barred from walking in front of the White House during Sunday’s incident.
The Secret Service hasn’t immediately provided more details.
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November 19, 2017 at 12:10 pm
Following the High Court of Justice ruling that supermarkets should not be opened in Tel Aviv on Shabbos, the coalition is forming a compromise with the chareidim. The compromise in the works is that the chareidim will give up retroactive legislation that will also ban the opening of supermarkets in Tel Aviv on Shabbos. In return, the Interior Ministry, which is run by Shas Chairman Minister Aryeh Deri, will have the authority to enforce labor laws on the day of rest. In addition, the coalition will advance a government proposal that the status quo will not permit the opening of businesses on days of rest in local authorities.
At a meeting at the beginning of the week, Deri demanded that a bill be drafted to give authority, not only to Ministry of Labor inspectors, but also Interior Minis...
