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February 18, 2018 at 1:27 pm
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 18, 2018 - Last Monday night Chai Lifeline went head to head in a few intense games of laser tag. Our kids had a blast shooting at each other and volunteers. They were true warriors! Teaming up with others or going lone soldier, our kids racked up points. Hiding behind walls or staying low, lasers were being shot everywhere. Glow in the dark style laser tag made all of their smiles shine even brighter! Afterwards they were able to win again in the arcade, getting various prizes. Whether they win or lose, our kids always have an amazing time at a Chai event!
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February 18, 2018 at 12:07 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - February 18, 2018- ZAKA, a UN-recognized volunteer search, rescue and recovery organization that has amassed over two decades of experience in mass casualties, has just completed a three-day light search and rescue training course in Guatemala. 45 volunteers from different local community and emergency organizations came together to participate in the unique INSARAG-course, led by ZAKA Chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav and ZAKA International Rescue Unit Chief Officer Mati Goldstein.
This, in order to ensure that local volunteers have the requisite skills to offer immediate, real-time assistance to the emergency forces in their own community or region in the event of a mass casualty incident. Experience that ZAKA gained in, among others, the Nepal and Haiti earthq...
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February 18, 2018 at 12:07 pm
An analysis of last week’s incursion of an Iranian drone into Israeli airspace and Israel’s military response to it in The New York Times characterized the incident as “a sharp escalation of long-brewing hostilities.” This is an accurate characterization of the clash, as one of Islamic Republic’s goals, as evidenced by statements of its political and military leaders, since its founding in 1979 has been the destruction of Israel.
Iran’s behavior since the conclusion of the nuclear deal in July 2015 has shown that with an infusion of billions in cash and a blind eye towards its aggression has allowed it to pursue its goal. The first direct military confrontation between Israel and Iran reflects Iran’s continued efforts...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:58 am
An Israel Air Force Pilot who was seriously injured last Saturday after his plane was shot down by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile has been released from the hospital, following an improvement in his condition.
Last Saturday, Israeli aircraft shot down an Iranian “Simorgh”-type unmanned aircraft that had violated Israeli airspace.
During a retaliatory strike on several Syrian and Iranian military targets around Damascus, including the command unit which had controlled the Simorgh drone, a Syrian S-200 surface-to-air missile caused critical damage to one of the F-16I fighter jets involved in the strikes.
The F-16I managed to return to Israeli airspace before the pilot and navigator were forced to bail out of the plane.
While the navigator was lightly injured du...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:58 am
Pressure is growing for tougher gun-control laws after a mass shooting at a Florida high school, with thousands of angry protesters at state rallies demanding immediate action from lawmakers, and more demonstrations planned across the country in the weeks ahead.
Organizers behind the Women's March, an anti-Trump and female empowerment protest, called for a 17-minute, nationwide walkout by teachers and students on March 14. The Network for Public Education, an advocacy organization for public schools, announced a day of walkouts, sit-ins and other events on school campuses on April 20, the anniversary of the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado that left 12 students and one teacher dead.
Plans for the protests circulated widely on social media on Saturday, as students, ...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:53 am
Stunned by a horrific shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead, the Florida Legislature is grappling with what to do in the aftermath.
Legislators have just three weeks left in their annual 60-day session. Normally, lawmakers are trying to wrap up work on a new state budget in the final days.
But the shooting Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland has revived an ongoing legislative debate about how to respond to gun violence.
Democrats want the Legislature to take up gun control bills that have languished again this year, but Republican legislative leaders are talking about boosting mental health programs in Florida's public schools as well considering measures that would bolster safety on school campuses.
Gov. Rick Scott ...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:46 am
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The request was simple: organize or attend a sign-waving rally supporting Donald Trump. But some of the Florida Republicans on the receiving end of those requests now know that they didn't come from Republican allies, but from Russian adversaries.
Caught up in an elaborate Russian plot without their knowledge, a handful of these small-time Trump supporters said their votes were not swayed and they didn't do anything they weren't happy to do. Still, their interactions with the Russians highlight the ways, both big and small, that the nation's campaign process was infiltrated.
"I was going to do what I was going to do anyway. I was a Trump supporter, they didn't convince me," said Jim Frishe, a real estate development consultant a...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:43 am
A passenger in a vehicle that was fired upon outside the National Security Agency campus says the unlicensed teen driver made a wrong turn, panicked and hit the gas.
Passenger Javonte Alhajie Brown told The Washington Post Friday that the 17-year-old driver was following GPS directions to reach a friend's house in a Maryland suburb, but he turned onto a restricted-access road that leads to the top-secret installation.
"I woke up with him slapping me in the face screaming, 'I'm going the wrong way. I don't know how I got here,'" Brown said.
"I was screaming at him," Brown continued, "'How the hell did you do this? And why aren't you stopping?'"
Brown, 24, told the newspaper that he had been too tired to drive Wednesday morning ...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:41 am
Thousands of angry students, parents, teachers and neighbors of a Florida high school where 17 people were killed demanded Saturday that immediate action be taken on gun-control legislation, insisting they would not relent until their demands were met.
The rallies in Fort Lauderdale and St. Petersburg gave a political outlet to the growing feelings of rage and mourning sparked by the carnage. Authorities say a former student who had been expelled, had mental health issues and been reported to law enforcement, used a legally purchased semiautomatic rifle to kill students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
"Because of these gun laws, people that I know, people that I love, have died, and I will never be able to see them again," Delaney Tarr, a student at the sch...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:35 am
Former Vice President Joe Biden is tiptoeing toward a potential presidential run in 2020, even broaching the possibility during a recent gathering of longtime foreign policy aides.
Huddled in his newly opened office steps from the U.S. Capitol, Biden began a planning meeting for his new diplomacy center by addressing the elephant in the room. He said he was keeping his 2020 options open, considering it a real possibility. He insisted he had made no decision, and didn't need to yet, according to five people who either attended the meeting or were briefed on it by those who did.
Biden also expressed interest in bringing those in the room onto his team if he decides to launch a campaign. At the same time, he gave them an out: There would be no hard feelings if they decided th...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:34 am
'I told him there’s no basis for this comparison, between the act of Poles and the acts of Jews during the Holocaust.'
Prime Minister Netanyahu held a phone conversation with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in the wake of inflammatory comments the Polish leader made over the weekend blaming Jews for the Holocaust.
Netanyahu told Israeli journalists at the Munich security conference that he "told him there’s no basis for this comparison, between the act of Poles and the acts of Jews during the Holocaust". Netanyahu said that he pointed out that "the goal of the Holocaust was to destroy the Jewish people and that all Jews were under sentence of death".
Netanyahu also reiterated to his Polish counterpart that "the distortion regarding Poland could...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:33 am
After Polish PM claims 'Jewish perpetrators' also responsible for Holocaust, Israel cancels planned trips for National Service volunteers.
Israel has nixed plans to send National Service volunteers to visit Poland, following recent claims by the Polish Prime Minister that there were “Jewish perpetrators” in the Holocaust.
On Saturday, Poland’s Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, told journalists at the Munich Security Conference that a recently-passed law banning the phrase” Polish death camp” or reference to Polish complicity in the Holocaust would not impact the condemnation of individual “perpetrators” of the Holocaust who happened to be Polish.
During his comments, Morawiecki added that while there were some “Polish pe...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:33 am
Suspected terrorists planned to detonate roadside bomb targeting Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman's convoy, Shin Bet security agency says • Separate Islamic Jihad cell also arrested • Shin Bet: One suspect motivated by receiving a prisoner's pension.
A recent plot by Palestinian terrorists to assassinate Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman was thwarted in a joint Shin Bet security agency, IDF and police operation, it was cleared for publication Sunday after a court-issued gag order was lifted.
According to the security agency, an Islamic Jihad terrorist cell had planned to place a bomb on a road which the defense minister’s convoy was expected to travel.
A separate Islamic Jihad cell, the Shin Bet said, had also been recruited and operated near Bethlehem ...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:31 am
Police continue crackdown on wild driving on Judea and Samaria roads after tragic accident killed two children from Shavei Shomron.
Israel Police continue its crackdown on traffic offenses in Judea and Samaria, following the tragic deaths of two children in a January traffic accident.
Extra traffic police units were deployed in Judea and Samaria this past week in a special operation aimed at stepping up enforcement of traffic laws on Route 60, Judea and Samaria's main traffic artery. During the week-long crackdown, police issued 616 citations, disqualified 19 drivers licenses and impounded 16 vehicles.
In addition, police ticketed 31 drivers for using their cell phone while behind the wheel, and stopped 996 vehicles. In one egregious incident, an Arab driver was arrested near S...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:24 am
A White House spokesman said today Democrats and mainstream media outlets have “created chaos more than the Russians,” despite a federal indictment outlining a Russian conspiracy to sway U.S. elections.
In an interview on Fox & Friends, Hogan Gidley, the deputy White House press secretary, seemed to echo President Trump, suggesting that Friday’s indictment against 13 Russians is proof there was “no collusion” between Trump’s campaign and the Kremlin. The Democrats and mainstream media, he said, “continued to push this lie on the American people for more than a year, and frankly Americans should be outraged by that.” While the indictment handed down by special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday made no mention of members of Trump&...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:22 am
White House senior adviser Jared Trump has made more requests for classified intelligence information than almost any other member of White House staff, despite not having a final security clearance, the left-leaning Washington Post reports. Kushner’s requests for information are surpassed only by staffers on the National Security Council, a source familiar with the matter was quoted as saying.
Kushner is one of dozens of staffers operating with an interim security clearance. He is allowed access to the president’s daily briefings along with a slew of other top-secret documents.
White House officials have reportedly expressed concerns about Kushner’s security clearance in private, including Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, who on Friday announced major ...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:21 am
The Knesset House Committee convened on Tuesday to mark Gush Katif Day, commemorating the evacuation of Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005.
Nearly 13 years after the settlers were evacuated from 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and from four others in the West Bank, the Knesset committee was told that 160 families still have not been assigned permanent housing in place of the homes they were forced to evacuate.
However, it emerged that all but 28 of those families are expected to move into new homes within the coming year.
The remaining 28 families have used up the grants they received as compensation from the state after the evacuation and cannot afford to purchase new homes. To assist them, the state has offered to install prefabricated structures on their lo...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:19 am
The Israeli Air Force attacked six Hamas targets all across the Gaza Strip today, including an offensive tunnel running from the Zaytun neighborhood in Gaza towards Israel, Ynet reports. Returning fire, a rocket launched from the strip landed on the roof of a residence in the Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council. The family was home, but no one was harmed as the rocket failed to explode.
Ynet reports that the rocket was launched mere hours after four IDF soldiers were wounded—two seriously and two moderately—when an explosive device detonated near the border fence. The IDF responded to the rocket’s launch by again attacking a Hamas outpost in northern Gaza.
Residents reported hearing explosions after Code Red alarms were triggered in several Sha’ar HaNegev and Es...
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February 18, 2018 at 11:17 am
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Eliezer Zvi Biegeleisen z”l of Lakewood, he was nine years old.
Eliezer Zvi was a son of R’ Meir and Chava Esther Biegeleisen.
The levayah will be held at 10 p.m. at the Congregation Sons of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Chapel, located at 613 Ramsey Street, off of East 7th Street, in Lakewood.
The family will be sitting shivah at 1675 Hidden Lane.
Yehi zichro boruch.
