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February 18, 2018 at 8:02 pm
PARKLAND, Florida -- The 19-year-old suspect in the Florida school shooting that killed 17 people didn't know how to use a microwave, didn't pick up after himself and didn't know how to do his own laundry.
The family that took him in following his mother's death spoke to the Sun Sentinel.The paper published a story Sunday about the family, who said that what Nikolas Cruz did baffles them.They made Cruz buy a locking gun safe to put in his room the day he moved in. Cruz had a handful of guns, including the AR-15 and two other rifles that James Snead said would be considered assault rifles. Cruz, a hunter, also had knives, BB guns and pellet guns.Snead thought he had the only key to the cabinet but has figured out Cruz must have kept a key for himself. The family ke...
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February 18, 2018 at 7:56 pm
Three Jewish New Jersey brothers, Ned, Roger and Steven Landau, discovered that a strange painting they inherited from their mother in 2010 was painted by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn in the 17th century when an anonymous bidder bought it for $1.1 million dollars instead of not the $500 they were expecting.
Their grandfather apparently picked it up before the Great Depression.
Fortunately, suspecting the painting might be worth something, Ned did not sell it in a garage sale he held after their grandmother’s death.
Roger told Fox News that he did not learn of the good news the day of the auction because it was on Yom Kippur, and he didn’t answer his phone.
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February 18, 2018 at 7:56 pm
Britain’s Channel 4 announced the production of a documentary that tells the story of a secret organization of Holocaust survivors known as the Avengers, led by Vilna Ghetto survivor Abba Kovner, which planned to murder six million Germans in 1946 as retribution for the six million victims of the Holocaust.
The feature includes testimony from the last surviving members of the group as well as a 1985 tape recording in which the key members recorded what they did.
Avenger agents infiltrated waterworks of four German cities, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Munich, but failed to poison the water supplies. An attempt to target 50,000 SS officers held in POW camps in Nuremberg and Munich may have partially succeeded.
The group claimed that two future Israeli presidents, Chai...
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February 18, 2018 at 7:55 pm
The mass shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead has sparked calls for walkouts, sit-ins and other actions on school campuses across the United States aimed at pushing lawmakers to pass tougher gun laws.
Organizers behind the Women's March, an anti-Trump and female empowerment protest, called for a 17-minute walkout on March 14 to "protest Congress' inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods."
The Network for Public Education, an advocacy organization for public schools, meanwhile, announced a "national day of action" on April 20, the anniversary of the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, in which two students opened fire on their classmates, killing 12 students an...
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February 18, 2018 at 7:49 pm
In a cynical article titled, “Strongest army in the Middle East claims earthquakes only happen ‘if G-d wills them,'” Haaretz linked a fifth grade Civil Defense booklet with complaints that religion is being promoted in Israel’s secular school system.
Meant for distribution to religious and secular schools, the booklet emphasized, “We know and believe that all natural phenomena take place solely if G-d wills it and at His command.”
A section on earthquakes stated, after offering a scientific explanation for earthquakes: “It is important to know that this explanation is the scientific explanation for earthquakes. But we believe and know that every natural phenomenon which happens is only through Hashem’s will and command. Even ...
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February 18, 2018 at 7:49 pm
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Long Island man has died a day after after a piece of a fire escape fell off a building in SoHo, critically injuring him and another person.
Police said 58-year-old Richard Marchart succumbed to his injuries Saturday.
He and a 24-year-old woman were rushed to Bellevue Hospital “with serious, life-threatening injuries” shortly before 2 p.m Friday.
Marchant, a married father of three, lived in Garden City with his wife and high school-aged daughter, CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported. His two sons are in college.
The young female artist was on her way to a studio at the New York Academy of Art on Franklin Street.
Fire officials said the building on Howard Street was undergoing an inspection of its facade at the time t...
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February 18, 2018 at 7:42 pm
Westerbook, Holland’s transit camp where Anne Frank and 100,000 other Jews passed through on their way to concentration camps, has reconstructed the camp with virtual reality simulations that depict details down to bricks, strands of barbed wire, and imperfections on wooden shingles, Times of Israel reported.
The actual camp was destroyed in the 1960s and replaced with highly sensitive radio telescopes precluding people from entering the area. They have to make do with a museum located two miles away.
Virtual reality (VR) simulation is also available at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
VR was also used in 2015 by Germany’s Public Prosecution Service to demonstrate what accused war criminals could see of killing operations from where they were posted...
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February 18, 2018 at 5:37 pm
According to figures released by the Council for Higher Education, there were 12,300 chareidi students in Israel last year, comprising 4% of the student body in Israel. This was a 60% increase over 2013. 9% of those earning bachelor’s degrees are studying computer science and software engineering.
70% of chareidi students are females. In the general population, the proportion of men to women is reversed.
A quarter of chareidim who began learning for bachelor’s degree in 2015 dropped out, in contrast to only 8% of the general population.
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February 18, 2018 at 5:36 pm
In a Times of Israel blog, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of Efrat, recommended the abandonment of religious coercion.
Opposing “the promulgation of laws that secular Israelis neither understand nor accept,” he advocates influencing the secular “through their understanding that the religious community loves and respects them, and that the religious will make every attempt not to enforce, but to inspire.”
He says that “most Israeli citizens would understand and even agree to the closing of commercial businesses on (Shabbos)” and recommends “running non-Jewish-controlled bus lines for non-religious areas, so that secular Jews without cars would not experience undeserved hardship because of (Shabbos).”
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February 18, 2018 at 5:32 pm
Israeli President blasts Polish PM over 'Jewish perpetrators' Holocaust remark, says Israel 'will stop Iran's race to the nuclear bomb.'
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin castigated Poland’s Prime Minister over his recent claim of “Jewish perpetrators” during the Holocaust, calling the remark “a new low”, as the diplomatic stand-off between the Jewish state and Poland deepens following the passage of a Holocaust censorship law.
The controversial law would not only ban the phrase “Polish death camps”, but also prohibit claims that Poland collaborated with the German regime during the Holocaust.
“Saying that our people collaborated with the Nazis, is a new low,” said Rivlin during his address at ...
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February 18, 2018 at 5:32 pm
Four Israel Defense Force soldiers were wounded today when an explosive device detonated along the Israel-Gaza border. The soldiers from the Golani infantry brigades were removing a flag placed on the Gaza border fence according to standard procedure east of the Gazan city of Khan Yunis, when a bomb attached the flag detonated.
The four soldiers were evacuated to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva. Three of the soldiers underwent emergency surgery, but hospital officials said they were not in life-threatening condition. Two of the soldiers injuries are classified as serious. One soldier was moderately injured, and one lightly injured.
Saturday night, a missile launched from Gaza made a direct hit on an Israeli house in the southern Israeli town of Shaar HaNegev. The family was present at...
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February 18, 2018 at 5:18 pm
In an ongoing dispute over the passage of a Polish law criminalizing any terms linking Poland to the heinous crimes of the Holocaust, Israeli officials expressed outrage Saturday night following remarks by Polish Prime Minister Masteusz Morawiecki suggesting that some Jews also participated in perpetrating crimes of the Holocaust.
When asked by a reporter from the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronot at the Munich Security Conference, whether recounting one’s own family history would be punishable under the new law, Moraweicki responded stating, “Of course it’s not going to be punishable, not going to be seen as criminal to say that there were Polish perpetrators, as there were Jewish perpetrators, as there were Russian perpetrators, as there were Ukrainian; not only German per...
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February 18, 2018 at 5:15 pm
Ministers look to normalize embattled Gush Etzion neighborhood, vow that 'for every demolished house, we'll approve another town.'
Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) met Sunday evening with residents of the embattled Gush Etzion neighborhood of Nativ Haavot.
Nativ Haavot, part of the Gush Etzion town of Elazar south of Jerusalem, is slated for evacuation by the end of the month, following a Supreme Court decision in December 2016 ordering the neighborhood's demolition after a disputed strip of land was found to run through it. Fifteen families currently face eviction.
While the Prime Minister has pushed for the approval of a 70 million shekel ($19.8 million) spending packag...
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February 18, 2018 at 5:14 pm
US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster warned the international community that the time has come to act against Iranian proxies in the Middle East.
“What’s particularly concerning is that this network of proxies is becoming more and more capable, as Iran seeds more and more… destructive weapons into these networks,” McMaster said at the Munich Security Conference, according to Reuters.
Sounding the alarm on the urgency of halting Iranian efforts across the region, McMaster said, “So the time is now, we think, to act against Iran.”
McMaster accused Iran of planning to use “Hezbollah-style” proxy armies in Iraq and Syria to weaken and destabilize regional Arab governments.
He criticized the international community’s 2015 nuclear ...
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February 18, 2018 at 5:12 pm
Anonymous persons write Nazi symbols, anti-Polish expletives at entrance to Polish embassy in Tel Aviv.
A police spokesperson said that police had received a short while ago reports of swastikas and anti-Polish expletives drawn on a bulletin board and entrance gate at the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv.
Police have opened an investigation, collecting evidence in order to locate the perpetrators.
The incident comes after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday that the Holocaust included "Jewish perpetrators" as well.
"There were Polish perpetrators, as there were Jewish perpetrators, as there were Russian perpetrators, as there were Ukraine and German perpetrators," Morawiecki said at the Munich Security Conference in response to a question by Israeli journali...
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February 18, 2018 at 5:10 pm
A woman was killed in central Israel Sunday afternoon after a crane collapsed, crushing her car.
The woman, roughly 40 years of age, was killed as she sat in her car near a commercial center by the intersection of Hatzomet Street and Derech Hsharon.
MDA emergency first responders were called to the scene, but were forced to declare the woman dead shortly after their arrival.
Witnesses say part of a crane fell onto the woman’s car, crushing the vehicle – with the woman inside.
“We saw the vehicle crushed, and [next to it] on the street were pieces of the crane, which had fallen on the car,” said MDA’s Yarkon district chief Assi Dublinski. “Outside of the car there was a woman, about 40 years of age, lying on the ground, unconscious, who was not breath...
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February 18, 2018 at 5:06 pm
Terrorists from Gaza fire a rocket toward an open area in the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council. No injuries or damages.
Terrorists from Gaza on Sunday evening fired a rocket toward an open area in the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council in southern Israel.
There were no physical injuries or damages.
At about 9:50 p.m., the “Color Red” siren was sounded in Sderot and several communities in the Shaar Hanegev area. The IDF later said that it had identified a rocket that had been fired from Gaza into Israeli territory.
Overnight Saturday, the “Color Red” siren was heard in many localities in southern Israel, including Ashkelon, Sderot, the Eshkol Regional Council, the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council and the Sdot Negev Regional Council.
The IDF later said that n...
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February 18, 2018 at 5:04 pm
Jason Greenblatt condemns Hamas in the wake of the latest attacks on Israel.
Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump's Special Representative for International Negotiations, on Sunday evening condemned Gaza’s Hamas leaders in the wake of the recent attacks on Israel.
“HAMAS hides improvised explosive device to attack Israeli soldiers & is shooting rockets at Israel again! Such cowardly acts will only escalate violence, not build the prosperous society the people of Gaza deserve!” he tweeted.
His comments follow Saturday’s incident in which four IDF soldiers were injured when an explosive detonated as they patrolled near the Gaza border fence.
On Saturday evening, a rocket was fired from Gaza and hit a home in one of the communities in the S...
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February 18, 2018 at 4:57 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - Feb. 18, 2018 - Sunday evening, the opening session of the 44th annual Israel Leadership Mission of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP), led by chairman Stephen M. Greenberg, and CEO Malcolm Hoenlein, was held at the Inbal Hotel, in Jerusalem, Israel, with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin as honored speaker.
At a morning press conference, Hoenlein and Greenberg spoke about CoP's trip to United Arab Emirates with a delegation of 70 people, something that could not even be imagined a few years ago. Members of delegation walked on streets wearing yarmulakas and had kosher food served the entire visit. In past years smaller groups have visited Turkey, Egypt, and Morocco, before arriving in Jerusalem for thi...
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February 18, 2018 at 4:40 pm
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump vented his anger with the Russia investigation late Saturday night and Sunday morning, declaring that “they are laughing their (expletive deleted) off in Moscow” over the ongoing probe into Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election.
In a remarkable burst of tweets sent from his Mar-a-Lago resort, the president blamed the Obama administration for not doing enough to deter Russia and claimed he never denied the meddling took place — all while undercutting his own national security adviser who said Saturday that the interference is now “beyond dispute.”
“If it was the GOAL of Russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the U.S. then, with all of the Committee Hearings, Investiga...
