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November 22, 2017 at 10:43 am
President Donald Trump started off his first day of Thanksgiving vacation Wednesday by resuming his taunts of the father of a UCLA basketball player detained for shoplifting in China, calling him an “ungrateful fool.”
In a series of tweets fired off before dawn, the president complained yet again that LaVar Ball, father of LiAngelo Ball, hasn’t given him credit for the release of his son and two other UCLA basketball players after they were accused of shoplifting while in China for a basketball game.
Tweeting from his Florida vacation home, Trump said: “It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence – IT WAS...
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November 22, 2017 at 10:40 am
The FBI says it has reason to believe U.S. Rep. Bob Brady unlawfully concealed a $90,000 payment made by the Philadelphia Democrat’s campaign to get an opponent to quit a 2012 primary race.
According to federal court documents unsealed Monday, the FBI requested a search warrant and has obtained one CD of data from an email account belonging to Brady.
Brady has not been charged with a crime, but the filings confirm the powerful congressman is under investigation for the payment. His attorney says they’ve already provided the emails to authorities and that Brady has done nothing wrong.
The primary opponent and a former aide have pleaded guilty to concealing the payment. Two political consultants also have been charged in the case.
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November 22, 2017 at 9:58 am
Four of six oil executives arrested in Caracas for alleged corruption are U.S. citizens, a Citgo Petroleum official said.
On Tuesday, Venezuela's military intelligence agency arrested six top executives of the U.S. subsidiary of state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA, as part of what authorities are calling an anticorruption purge. Four of the six executives are naturalized U.S. citizens, said a company official, who asked to remain anonymous because he wasn't authorized to speak to the press.
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November 22, 2017 at 9:46 am
Please be Mispallel for the Vishnitzer Rebbe of Monsey, who was placed back on a respirator on earlier this week and is undergoing a serious procedure on Wednesday afternoon.
Thousands of Vishnitzer Chassidim will be gathering in Batei Midrashim around the globe to recite Tehillim all day.
The Rebbe, Hagaon HaRav Mordechai Hager Shlita, is the elder of the admorim today.
The Rebbe, who is around 95-years-old, is known for his devotion to learning Torah: He learns around 18 hours a day and asks his Chasidim to study at least two hours every day.
He has thousands of Chassidim around the globe.
Please be Mispallel for Mordechai ben Margulia.
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November 22, 2017 at 9:45 am
President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed efforts to bring peace to war-torn Syria during an hour-plus phone call on Tuesday. Iran, North Korea and Ukraine also were on the agenda, the White House said.
Trump called it a “great call” Tuesday afternoon as he left the White House to spend Thanksgiving in Florida. Noting the length, he said he and Putin spoke “very strongly about bringing peace to Syria” and “very strongly about North Korea.”
Trump’s phone call with the Russian president came a day after Putin met with Syrian President Bashar Assad. Putin hosted Assad at a Black Sea resort ahead of a summit later this week with Russia, Turkey and Iran. Assad was called to Russia to get him to agree to potential peace i...
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November 22, 2017 at 9:45 am
There were a pair of anti-semitic incidents in London this week, which sadly is an all-to-common occurrence.
Three Orthodox Jewish children, aged 11, 12 and 14, were threatened and verbally abused while returning home from school.
Campaign Against Anti-Semitism reports the perps were three people traveling in a white mini-delivery van at approximately 12:55 on Friday afternoon, at the junction of Spring Hill and Clapton Common in Stamford Hill.
The driver was described as an adult male, and also visible in the van were two passengers, an adult female and a boy aged approximately 10 years old. All three were described as white. The female passenger shouted: “If you cross the road, I’ll drive over you” and then added: “I’m going to kidnap you”...
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November 22, 2017 at 9:39 am
A Shai (Shomron – Yehuda) Police spokesman reports Israeli police arrested 19 persons suspected of trading in gold from Yehuda and Shomron to Israel proper as well as money laundering and tax evasion of more than half a billion shekels.
Israel Police led the case, working with other enforcement authorities against economic crime, while promoting an effective chain of treatment, which includes exposing the offenses, investigating them, collecting evidence and prosecuting them.
In the course of the past year, the Israel Police led a covert investigation in cooperation with Customs VAT investigations in Jerusalem and a diamond unit in the Israel Tax Authority, which revealed that gold dealers from Israel would buy gold from merchants from Ramallah, process it in factories, creat...
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November 22, 2017 at 9:37 am
As North Korea marches toward nuclear mastery, President Donald Trump slaps the country back on an American blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism. But is it anything more than bluster?
After all, former President George W. Bush removed North Korea from that same list nearly a decade ago, also in an attempt to halt its march toward nuclear mastery.
Aside from a pretty good illustration of just how hopeless the decades-long effort to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions can seem, the contrasting approaches also show that the list has always been more about symbolism than substance.
The top U.S. diplomat, Rex Tillerson, acknowledged as much — and undercut Trump’s declaration that it was part of a “maximum pressure campaign” to isolate North Kore...
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November 22, 2017 at 9:33 am
We regret to inform you of the Petirah of Harav Zev Tikotsky, Z”L, the Shver of Rosh Yeshivah Reb Malkiel Kotler, who was Niftar this morning. He was 88.
Harav Tikotsky Z”L, from Lakewood, was a Magid Shiur for many years and renowned Talmid Chochom.
Levaya details will be published when available.
The Niftar will be taken to Eretz Yisroel for Kevurah.
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November 22, 2017 at 9:25 am
His nation is a smoldering ruin, much of it held by rival armed factions, domestic or foreign. Half the population is displaced, hundreds of thousands have died and much of the West regards him as a tyrant and human rights abuser. But Syrian President Bashar Assad appears to have survived the war and is likely to hold onto power for the foreseeable future.
The sides in Syria’s civil war are preparing for the eighth round of U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Geneva intended to set a political transition to end the nearly 7-year-old conflict. Barring any surprises, no negotiated resolution is likely to lead to Assad’s ouster.
One reason is military. Assad’s forces have had the momentum on the ground the past year, backed by an overwhelming Russian air campaign and fight...
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November 22, 2017 at 9:23 am
Nurimaro Park, 26, is one of about 800,000 people who had benefited from an Obama-era program that extended protections to immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
While he knew the significance of the protection he received under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, he had one problem: he didn’t have the money to pay the $495 registration fee required to renew his participation in the program for two more years.
Park worked as a private tutor, and money was tight in the late spring and summer months when school was out. He figured he could re-enroll at the end of the year — the rules of the program allowed people to renew lapsed registrations as long as a full year hadn’t passed.
In September, though, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced ...
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November 22, 2017 at 9:19 am
Decades after they were banned from the airwaves, Big Tobacco companies return to prime-time television this weekend — but not by choice.
Under court order, the tobacco industry for the first time will be forced to advertise the deadly, addictive effects of smoking, more than 11 years after a judge ruled that the companies had misled the public about the dangers of cigarettes.
But years of legal pushback by the industry over every detail means the ads will be less hard-hitting than what was proposed. Tobacco control experts say the campaign — built around network TV and newspapers — will not reach people when they are young and most likely to start smoking.
“Their legal strategy is always obstruct, delay, create confusion and buy more time,” said Ruth...
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November 22, 2017 at 9:18 am
Members of the Hisorarus party were astonished on Monday, 2 Kislev, to discover the approval of a budget update of about 400,000 NIS for the Bnei Akiva Baka branch was thwarted in the Jerusalem Finance Committee by Councilwoman Chagit Moshe.
The session included discussion for a building for the Bnei Akiva Baka branch, the largest branch in Jerusalem with 700 members. The branch was located in Efrata School and at the initiative of awakening moved to the agricultural farm complex and now the building is supposed to be significantly expanded.
Chagit Moshe is prevented from voting on the matter because her husband serves as the director of the Youth Movements Department. This is a conflict of interest, and therefore they expected that the council member would leave the conference roo...
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November 22, 2017 at 9:17 am
A 22-count indictment was returned Tuesday against a New Jersey man in the slayings of eight people during a truck attack on a bike path in New York City.
Sayfullo Saipov, 29, of Paterson, was charged in Manhattan federal court with providing material support to the Islamic State group, along with eight counts of murder and 12 counts of attempted murder in aid of racketeering. Numerous counts carry a potential penalty of death.
He was arrested after people were run over by a vehicle Oct. 31 in a midday attack that authorities immediately labeled terrorism.
His lawyer did not return a message seeking comment.
In a release, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the attack a “calculated act of terrorism in the heart of one of our great cities.”
Acting U.S. Att...
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November 22, 2017 at 9:15 am
Hodaya Asulin on way home with classmate Tehila meet sudden huge explosion; since then she has not regained consciousness.
Hodaya (Odelia) Nechama Asulin from Mevo Horon, who was critically wounded seven years ago in a terrorist attack near a bus stop near Binyanei Ha'uma on Sderot's Shazar Boulevard, passed away.
Her funeral will take place today (Wednesday) at Mevo Horon at 13:30.
In 2011, a Muslim named Hussein Ali Hassan al-Qawasmi left a bomb at a bus stop in Binyanei Hauma adjacent to the kiosk. A tourist was killed and 68 civilians were wounded, including Asulin, who was 14. The murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment and another 60 years in prison.
Since then, Asulin has been unconscious and treated under close supervision. In the past two weeks, her c...
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November 22, 2017 at 9:13 am
Eleven months after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, trials have begun for the more than 160 people arrested during violent anti-Trump protests in Washington on Inauguration Day.
The protesters are being tried in small batches in a process that is expected to extend deep into 2018. The first trial, which began Monday and is expected to continue for about a month, accuses the first batch of six protesters of inciting a riot and destruction of property — charges which could result in prison sentences of over 60 years.
The charges stem from a violent Jan. 20 protest, in which hundreds of demonstrators dressed in black, many with their faces masked, marched downtown toward Franklin Square. Some marchers broke windows in a bank and a Starbucks, and a limousine parked on...
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November 22, 2017 at 9:07 am
Members Of Knesset Who Have Stopped Their Sessions To Say Tehillim At The Knesset Shul For Harav Shteinman, shlita
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November 22, 2017 at 9:02 am
Baltimore, Md - Nov. 21, 2017 - Join us at Kollel Nachlas Hatorah of Machzikei Torah (6216 Biltmore Ave) for the upcoming Legal Holidays and hear inspiring Shiurim on your day off from various different speakers. These special shiurim are arranged in addition to the regular schedule of learning at Kollel Nachlas Hatorah.
Our regular schedule on Monday through Friday includes shiurim and chavrusa lerning from 9:30am-12:00pm.
Come join us and grow in Torah on a daily basis or whenever you are available.
This Thursday November 23rd we will be having a special Shiur at 9:30am by the Rosh Kollel, HaRav Nechemiah Goldstein about the kashrus of Turkey.
We will be honored to hear the second shiur, at 10:15 am, from HaRav Eliyahu Reingold, Rosh Kollel, Kollel Zichron Amram, on the...
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November 22, 2017 at 7:09 am
According to a report from Mayanei Yeshua’s Professor Moti Ravid, speaking with Ronen Katz of Kol Berama Radio a short time ago, HaGaon HaRav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita has lost consciousness. Maran’s condition is “very serious”.
Yeshivos and kollels worldwide are reciting Tehillim as are chareidi radio stations in Israel.
Yesterday, it was reported the rav’s condition was stable, and he remained for observation but it now appears he has taken a turn for the worse. Earlier today, doctors reported the rav was moved to an ICU and he was not informed of the petira of his daughter, Rebitzen Rochel Devorah Berlin A”H, whose levaya will take place soon. The rebitzen was the oldest daughter of the rav, 72.
Ponevezh Rosh Yeshiva HaGaon HaR...
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November 22, 2017 at 5:56 am
A federal jury has awarded $15 million to a wrongfully convicted man in his lawsuit against the Baltimore Police Department and two detectives.
The Baltimore Sun reports that Sabein Burgess said "justice has been served" after the verdict Tuesday.
The 47-year-old Burgess spent nearly two decades in prison after being convicted in 1995 of killing his girlfriend. He was sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison. Burgess was released in 2015 after being exonerated.
Burgess' lawyer Jon Loevy says the $15 million verdict is among the largest in the country for a wrongful conviction case.
In the civil trial, Burgess accused now-retired homicide detectives Gerald Goldstein and Steven Lehman of pinning the crime on him without pursuing other credible leads.
