A 19-year-old accused of spray-painting swastikas and other Nazi-related graffiti at a Jewish cemetery in upstate New York has pleaded guilty to a hate crime charge. WARWICK, N.Y. (AP) — A 19-year-old accused of spray-painting swastikas and other Nazi graffiti at a Jewish cemetery in upstate New York has pleaded guilty to a hate crime charge. The Times Herald-Record of Middletown reports that Eric Carbonaro pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of tampering with evidence and fifth-degree conspiracy as a hate crime. Several swastikas, the words "Heil Hitler" and the letters "SS" were found in October 2016 on the entrance to the Temple Beth Shalom's...read more at US News
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 21, 2018 - Listen to Rabbi Goldberger's latest vort on True Power and Self Worth  
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Florida eye doctor linked to Sen. Bob Menendez to 17 years in prison for stealing $73 million in one of history's largest Medicare frauds. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra sentenced Dr. Salomon Melgen for 67 crimes, including health-care fraud, submitting false claims and falsifying records in patients' files. He could have given Melgen a life sentence. In a separate case, Melgen was accused of bribing Menendez, D-N.J. Those charges were recently dropped after their New Jersey trial ended with a hung jury. Federal prosecutors in that case abandoned efforts to retry Menendez and Melgen. In addition to his prison sentence in the Medicare fraud case, Melgen was ordered to pay $42.6 million in restitution. Prosecutors said M...
This lecture series, "The 70 Most Difficult Questions in Judaism" delivered by Rabbi Elyahu Kin between 2007-2009, discusses some of the more challenging and esoteric questions in Jewish Philosophy and Mysticism that people often raise. This last lecture of the series deals with one of the most unusual commandments in the Torah - to wage an eternal battle with Amalek.
Jerusalem - Qatar is helping Israel avoid another Gaza war by funneling relief money to impoverished Palestinians with Washington’s blessing, a Qatari diplomat said on Thursday, describing the cooperation as evidence of Doha’s distance from Islamist Hamas. Since coming under an embargo last year by its U.S.-allied Gulf Arab neighbors, Qatar has made its aid to the Gaza Strip - and the coordination with Israel needed for disbursement - a focus of its diplomatic contacts with the Trump administration. “Gaza is on the verge of collapsing,” Ambassador Mohammed Al-Emadi told Reuters in an interview in Jerusalem, after he met Israel’s regional cooperation minister and security officials. “This is what we are preventing: a war, the next war. We don’t w...
NEW YORK (AP) — Bohemian or traditional? Walmart is launching a new online home shopping experience in the coming weeks that will let shoppers discover items based on their style. The move, announced Thursday, is the first glimpse of the company's broader campaign to redesign its site with a focus on fashion and home furnishings. The overhauled website will be launched later this year and will mirror how people shop for different items. While some purchases like groceries are transactional, others like fashion and home furnishings require more discovery. Later this spring, Walmart is rolling out its new Lord & Taylor dedicated page as part of its partnership with the department store chain's parent company Hudson's Bay. Walmart's home shopping site will inc...
The Judicial Selection Committee elected Chavi Toker to head the Jerusalem Magistrate Court on Thursday, making her Israel's first-ever female Charedi judge. The nine-member committee, headed by the Justice Minister, is responsible for all judicial appointments in Israel. Aside from the Justice Minister, the committee is composed of an additional cabinet minister, two MKs, including one from the opposition, two Bar Association representatives, and three Supreme Court justices, including the Chief Justice. Toker is the daughter of Rabbi Rafael Volf, a well-known Bnei Brak-based public figure who was considered to be the right-hand man of Rabbi Menachem Shach, ZTL,  the longtime leader of the Lithuanian Charedi world until his death in 2001. She is married to the son of...
A Wichita bank is suing a local woman after it says she made more than 50 withdrawals last month from an ATM that was spitting out $100 bills in place of $5s. Central National Bank is seeking return of $11,607.36 plus interest from Christina C. Ochoa of Wichita, according to a lawsuit filed Jan. 22 in Sedgwick County District Court. The bank contends Ochoa quickly realized the ATM wasn’t working like it was supposed to and calculated subsequent withdrawals to maximize the amount of cash it dispensed by mistake. Ochoa’s mother, Christy L. Ochoa, is also named in the suit because she drove her daughter to the ATM, located at 4838 W. Central, to make the series of withdrawals, which stretched over a five-day period from Jan. 13 to Jan. 17. They were drawn on a Central National B...
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 22, 2018 - Have you ever paid a shiva call in the tri-state area and noticed additional amenities made available to aveilim there, not offered in Baltimore? In all likelihood, they were provided by Misaskim, an organization which offers unique assistance to bereaved families during the week of shivah, in addition to other related services. Now, thanks to the local efforts of community members, spearheaded by Reb Aryeh Leib Freedman, Misaskim of Maryland can offer our aveilim similar items and services. The independent, locally-run, non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization was founded in memory of R’ Aryeh Leib’s father, Rabbi Mendel (HaRav Menachem Mendel Don ben R’ Aryeh Leib) Freedman, z’l, a pillar of the Baltimore Jewish community who was the pri...
PARKLAND, Fla.—Police cars line the approach to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. They sit at all four corners of the crossroads of Coral Springs Drive and Holmberg Road, dotting the street ahead and in the school parking lot, beyond the chain-link fence and the yellow crime-scene tape stretched thin around the perimeter. At night, their flashing lights illuminate the area, like blue and red memorial candles for the dead. The meeting was held on Monday morning at Chabad of Coral Springs, where the governor was greeted by two students from Hebrew Academy Community School in nearby Margate, of which Denburg (left, looking on) serves as dean. Seventeen markers with the names of the deceased have been set up at the top of an embankment on the street side of the school fence, and ...
The Shabbos before Purim we leyn the infamous story of Amalek and their brazen attack on Klal Yisroel, immediately after Kriyas Yam Suf.  In so doing, we fulfill the Mitvas Aseh of “Zachor”, remembering what Amalek did to us.  In perhaps the most draconian Tziva given to us as an Am, we are commanded to “Timche Es Zecher Amalek” – wipe out the memory of Amalek for all time.   Accepting that Amalek’s attack was despicable and an affront to Hakodosh Baruch Hu, what was so outrageous and evil that it warranted this most severe Tziva of “Timche Es Zecher Amalek”?  Indeed, there are numerous examples of what would appear to be more serious offenses where no such Tziva was given.  The Dor Hafl...
Worshipers visiting the grave of the biblical leader to mark the death anniversary of Moses, whose place of burial is unknown, find graffiti on the wall; 'The grave of Joshua is a holy place. I call on security forces to capture the rioters,' says Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan. About a thousand people visited the grave of the biblical leader Joshua in the village of Kifl Haris near the settlement of Ariel on Wednesday night. The visitors were shocked to discover swastikas and writings spray-painted on the wall at the grave complex. This wasn't the first time offensive comments were written on the walls at the Samaria region site, and it was also set on fire several times in the past. The Jewish worshipers visited the grave to mark the Seventh of Adar, the t...
The Lawfare Project threatened legal action against Google, Yahoo and Twitter in Spain for failing to address the proliferation of Holocaust-denial websites and antisemitic materials on their platforms, announced Brooke Goldstein, director of the legal think tank and litigation fund. “Unless Google, Yahoo and Twitter take down the anti-Semitic content on their platforms, they will be taken to court in Spain and elsewhere,” she said. Goldstein spent the past week visiting the Spanish Parliament to learn more about legislative initiatives against discrimination based on national origin. She also met with members of the Jewish community in Spain who have been subject to boycotts that restrict relations with companies that import Israeli products or have connections to Israeli ci...
A former State Department official and associate of Sen. John McCain has invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify in connection with questions from the House Intelligence Committee about the anti-Trump dossier’s Russian sources, according to a law enforcement source. David J. Kramer, who is a central player in how the unverified Trump dossier made its way to the FBI in late 2016, testified before the committee in December in a closed-door session, indicating he had information about the dossier’s sources. A subpoena was issued for mid-January, as first reported by The Washington Examiner. The law enforcement source confirmed, however, that Kramer did not appear and has exercised his Fifth Amendment rights.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has left hospital after routine checks in the United States and is fine, a senior Palestinian official told Reuters today. Abbas, 82, will be returning to the West Bank on Friday after what officials described as “ordinary” checks in the U.S. city of Baltimore. They gave no further details. Abbas's motorcade makes its way from Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital
An armed school resource officer on campus where a gunman killed 17 people never went inside the high school or tried to engage the gunman during the attack, a Florida sheriff said Thursday. Israel said school resource officer Scot Peterson “was absolutely on campus through this entire event. He was armed, he was in uniform.” Israel said Peterson should have gone in and “addressed the killer, killed the killer.” That officer has now resigned. Read more at NBC.
The No. 2 FBI official said Thursday that he personally visited the FBI’s call center this week as part of a review of how it fumbled a tip on the teen accused of carrying out a massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, as he addressed, in some detail, the mounting criticism the bureau is facing over its handling of the matter. Acting Deputy Director David Bowdich, appearing at a Justice Department news conference about fraud perpetrated against the elderly, said that while he could not address specific people or organizations criticizing the bureau, he was deeply concerned about his agency’s public standing. The night before, National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch had asserted during a CNN Town Hall on gun violence that she was focusing her “condemnat...
Baltimore, Md - Feb. 22, 2018 -  5:47 PM - Please help make a minyan at Mincha/Maariv at the Gross Shiva house @  6005 Western Rrun.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff: Deputy on duty at school where 17 were killed never went inside to engage shooter and has now resigned.
As Yosef was about to succumb to the seductions of the wife of Potiphar, an image of his father appears to him pleading, “Yosef, your brothers will have their names inscribed upon the stones of the Ephod and yours amongst theirs; is it your wish to have your name expunged from amongst theirs and be called an associate of harlots?” (סוטה לו:) Yosef restrains himself, attaining the appellation הצדיק, the ‘righteous one’, for all of eternity. The Ephod, one of the garments worn by the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest, was an apron that had straps that rose up from behind him to cover his shoulders and had two gold settings, which contained two precious shoham stones. On these stones the names of all the twelve tribes were engraved. There was another garment t...
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