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March 16, 2018 at 10:23 am
WASHINGTON — All seven service members aboard a military helicopter died in a crash in western Iraq on Thursday, United States officials said on Friday. The crash is under investigation but is not believed to be a result of enemy action.
The aircraft, an HH-60 Pave Hawk, crashed near the city of Qaim, where the American military uses a base as a logistics center and resupply hub. Iraqi security forces responded quickly and secured the area, according to a statement from Brig. Gen. Jonathan P. Braga, the director of operations for the American-led coalition battling the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
The Defense Department said it would not release the names of the deceased American service members until their families have been notified.
The helicopter crashed about 18 ...
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March 16, 2018 at 9:28 am
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of the Vishnitzer Rebbe of Monsey, Hagaon HaRav Mordechai Hager ZATZAL. He was 95.
The Rebbe was Niftar on Friday morning, with his children at his bedside at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.
The Rebbe was the elder of the Admorim today.
The Rebbe was known for his devotion to learning Torah: Learning around 18 hours a day and...read more at YWN
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March 15, 2018 at 9:18 pm
President Trump has decided to remove H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser and is actively discussing potential replacements, according to five people with knowledge of the plans, preparing to deliver yet another jolt to the senior ranks of his administration.
Trump is now comfortable with ousting McMaster, with whom he never personally gelled, but is willing to take time executing the move because he wants to ensure both that the three-star Army general is not humiliated and that there is a strong successor lined up, these people said.
The turbulence is part of a broader potential shake-up under consideration by Trump that is likely to include senior officials at the White House, where staffers are gripped by fear and uncertainty as they await the next move from an impuls...
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March 15, 2018 at 9:13 pm
MIAMI (FOX 13) - The Miami fire chief says four people were found dead in the rubble of a collapsed pedestrian bridge near Florida International University's campus in Miami.
The pedestrian bridge, just installed over the weekend, came crashing down on a South Florida highway Thursday afternoon atop of several vehicles.
Fire Chief Dave Downey said at a news briefing Thursday evening that four deceased people had been found at the scene by first responders. He also says nine victims were removed "early on" and taken to hospitals. But he did not elaborate on their conditions.
Downey said "search and rescue mode" would continue after nightfall, with technical rescue crews and K-9 teams sifting through the rubble.
Gov. Rick Scott also spoke to reporters, saying "everyb...
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March 15, 2018 at 9:09 pm
Lebanese PM says his country plans to increase its military presence along its southern border, says Israel "remains the primary threat".
Lebanon plans to increase its military presence along its southern border with Israel, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
Hariri spoke at a meeting in Rome, where he is seeking financial support for Lebanon’s armed forces.
Bolstering the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and internal security forces is seen as a way for the international community to keep the Hezbollah terrorist group, which has helped sway the Syrian civil war in President Bashar Al-Assad’s favor, from broadening its clout in the Lebanese heartland.
“We will be sending more LAF troops to the south, and we stress our intention to dep...
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March 15, 2018 at 8:52 pm
PM Netanyahu welcomes appointment as Secretary of State of Mike Pompeo, known for his opposition to Iran deal.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday welcomed the appointment of Mike Pompeo as U.S. Secretary of State.
"During my meetings with Pompeo I was very impressed with his abilities and experience. I believe that in his role as Secretary of State we will also work very well together," Netanyahu said in a statement.
President Donald Trump named Pompeo, who previously served as head of the CIA, as the replacement for Rex Tillerson, whom he dismissed on Tuesday.
Trump later stated that the reason behind the dismissal of Tillerson was his support for the 2015 nuclear deal signed between Iran and world powers.
“Rex and I have been talking about this for a lo...
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March 15, 2018 at 8:43 pm
The governments of former Israeli Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir sought to transfer the Arabs living in the Gaza Strip to Judea and Samaria, according to documents published this morning by journalist Hagai Huberman and Ariel University Associate Professor Miriam Billig.The documents were located within the framework of a joint study on the perception of the Gaza Strip by Israeli governments since the establishment of the state.Huberman presented several documents, including those documenting internal discussions at the end of the Six-Day War. In 1967, he said, General Haim Herzog, Moshe Sasson, Shaul Bar-Haim, and David Kimhi, members of a special committee appointed by then Prime Minister Eshkol, suggested to Eshkol that "the Arabs of the Gaza Strip be transferred to the Jord...
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March 15, 2018 at 8:38 pm
Scientists: Cuba sonic attacks may have been caused by malfunctioning bugging devices. Rich Edson reports from the State Department.
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March 15, 2018 at 8:32 pm
Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas widened an investigation Wednesday into a bomb explosion that targeted Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah as he made a rare visit to the strip a day earlier.
The interior ministry in Gaza said it had launched a “high-level investigative committee” into the bomb attack, which was a further blow to faltering reconciliation talks between Hamas and president Mahmud Abbas’s secular Fatah party.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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March 15, 2018 at 8:28 pm
Media sound convinced President Trump fired Tillerson for being too tough on Russia; Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz provides insight on ‘Fox News @ Night.’
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March 15, 2018 at 8:22 pm
The Israel Defense Forces carried out artillery strikes against five Hamas and Islamic Jihad outposts in the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning after a number of improvised explosive devices planted along the border fence were detonated.
There were no injuries to Israeli forces as a result of the explosions on the security fence but the incident was described as “very serious,” the army said.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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March 15, 2018 at 8:20 pm
NATO’s chief says European members and Canada spent a total of almost 5 percent more on defense last year compared to 2016, amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to boost military budgets.
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that eight allies are likely to spend the target NATO benchmark of 2 percent of their GDP on defense this year. Five nations were doing so — the U.S., Britain, Estonia, Greece and Poland — but new estimates show Poland has dipped under.
The benchmark concerns how much each country spends on its own defense, not what it pays into NATO.
NATO’s 29 allies invested more than $900 billion on defense in 2017, with U.S. spending accounting for two-thirds of that.
Germany increased spending by 6 percent last year.
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March 15, 2018 at 8:16 pm
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — American authorities are moving ahead with Poland's request to extradite a 99-year-old Minnesota man to be tried on allegations he was involved in a World War II massacre of civilians, Polish prosecutors said Thursday.
Polish authorities issued an arrest warrant last year after opening a case following a series of 2013 reports in which The Associated Press identified the man as Ukrainian-born Michael Karkoc, an ex-commander in an SS-led Nazi unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians during the war.
Karkoc's family denies that he was involved in any war crimes. On Thursday, his son, Andriy Karkoc, issued a statement saying, "My father was, is and remains innocent. We look forward to his complete exoneration."
Last July, Poland asked U.S. ...
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March 15, 2018 at 5:37 pm
MIAMI (AP) — The Latest on the collapse of a pedestrian bridge at a Florida university (all times local):
5 p.m.
Officials at the scene of a bridge collapse at a Florida university say they are drilling holes into the debris to look for survivors.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Division Chief Paul Estopinan said at a Thursday news conference that rescuers are searching the rubble for people who may still be trapped underneath but they did not know how many that might be.
The pedestrian bridge was installed Saturday at Florida International University in the Miami area.
Estopinan said there had been reports of workers on the 174-foot span before it collapsed, and he confirmed that emergency workers did make some "surface rescues." He said two victims were cut out of the wreckage.
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March 15, 2018 at 5:32 pm
MIAMI (AP) — A pedestrian bridge being built across an eight-lane highway collapsed at a Miami-area college Thursday, crushing eight vehicles under massive slabs and killing multiple people, authorities said.
Search and rescue missions were underway. Eight people were taken to hospitals. The number of fatalities was not immediately known.
"The main focus is to rescue people." said Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez. "As soon as those efforts are over, our homicide bureau will take the lead."
The main companies behind the bridge's construction have faced questions about their work and one of the companies was fined in 2012 when a 90-ton section of a bridge collapsed in Virginia.
In Miami, the 950-ton, 174-foot span was assembled by the side of the highway and moved into pl...
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March 15, 2018 at 5:32 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has owned up to making things up.
For a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump was by his own admission unprepared — deficient in the fundamentals of the Canada-U.S. trade relationship that he'd been railing about since the campaign.
He insisted to Trudeau that the U.S. was running a trade deficit with Canada, a statement contradicted by U.S. government statistics. He was winging it, he confided to donors at a private Missouri political fundraiser Wednesday night.
"I didn't even know," he said. "I had no idea."
Others might be mortified at being caught short. Not this president.
For Trump the showman, the episode illustrated his skill at improvisation. Still, it was a rare admission that he will say thi...
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March 15, 2018 at 5:27 pm
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reviewing a recommendation to fire the former F.B.I. deputy director, Andrew G. McCabe, just days before he is scheduled to retire on Sunday, people briefed on the matter said. Mr. McCabe was a frequent target of attack from President Trump, who taunted him both publicly and privately.
Mr. McCabe is ensnared in an internal review that includes an examination of his decision in 2016 to allow F.B.I. officials to speak with reporters about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. The Justice Department’s inspector general concluded that Mr. McCabe was not forthcoming during the review, according to the people briefed on the matter. That yet-to-be-released report triggered an F.B.I. disciplinary process that recommended his termi...
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March 15, 2018 at 5:13 pm
Baltimore, MD - March 15, 2018- As we head into the home stretch weeks before the cooking and baking marathon begins for Pesach, kashering your kitchen may be the next thing on tap—literally and figuratively! Hagolah (dipping items such as silverware, pots, and silver bechers in boiling water); Iruy (pouring boiling water on sinks and counters); as well as Oven Kashering, all pose potential safety hazards for those who are not mindful of--or are nervous about--what they are doing.
It was Hatzalah that approached STAR-K Kosher Certification about the high number of kashering-related injuries that Hatzalahs treat, globally, especially days before Pesach. Sharing these same safety concerns for kosher consumers, STAR-K and Hatzalah have partnered to present “Kashering Safety Tips&...
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March 15, 2018 at 5:11 pm
Baltimore, MD - Mar. 9, 2018 - As our community continues to grow, the number of banquets, fundraisers, lectures, and other community-wide events taking place throughout the year continues to grow as well.
25 years ago, the Agudah Community Calendar was created and has since functioned as a vital community resource providing our organizations with a central calendar so that conflicting events are avoided or limited to whatever extent possible. This calendar is benevolently coordinated by Mrs. Chaya Pollock and has directly contributed to the shalom between our many community organizations for which Baltimore is renowned. We would like to thank Mrs. Pollock for her hard work for the last 25 years and for agreeing to continue coordinating this calendar as it ...
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March 15, 2018 at 4:49 pm
At the onset of the laws governing the bringing of sacrifices it alludes to the very first קרבן, offering, that was presented to G-d.
אדם כי יקריב מכם קרבן לד' (ויקרא א ב), When a man among you brings an offering to G-d.
The Torah addresses man as 'אדם' rather than the more common usage of איש. Rashi, quoting the Midrash, tells us that this is coming to teach us a vital rule regarding offerings that is derived from the very first sacrifice that was offered by אדם, Adam, the first morning after his creation.
Just as Adam, the first man, never offered sacrifices from stolen property, since everything was his, so too, you must not offer sacrifices from stolen property.
The Holy Shelah poses the obvious question. How can we derive the l...
