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March 19, 2018 at 1:29 pm
Israeli forces on Monday made assessments of the home of a Palestinian assailant who fatally stabbed an Israeli security guard in the Old City on Sunday afternoon ahead of its expected demolition, the army said.
Israel Defense Force (IDF) troops, together with the Shin Bet security service and Border Police carried out an “engineering mapping” of the home of 28-year-old Abdul Rahmani Faddal in the village of Aqraba, near Shchem, in the northern West Bank.
Faddal was shot dead by an Israeli police officer after stabbing 32-year-old Adiel Kolman in the chest at Shaar Ha’Arayos, one of the seven open gates in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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March 19, 2018 at 1:22 pm
SAN FRANCISCO — A woman in Tempe, Ariz., died after being hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber, in what appears to be the first known death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on public roads.
The Uber vehicle was in autonomous mode with a human safety driver at the wheel when it struck the woman, who was crossing the street outside of a crosswalk, the Tempe police said in a statement. The episode occurred overnight, although the authorities did not specify whether it was late Sunday or early Monday. The woman was not publicly identified....Read more at NY Times
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March 19, 2018 at 1:18 pm
More than 400 schools in England have received a hoax email threatening to detonate a bomb on school grounds if money is not handed over, police said.
A number of schools were evacuated after receiving the emails, which demanded cash from them.
Humberside Police said counter-terrorism colleagues had advised that the threats were not "credible".
Schools in London, Manchester and North Yorkshire were among those that received the email.
Police forces in Cumbria, Cambridgeshire, Humberside, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Avon and Somerset and Northumbria Police also issued statements saying schools and colleges in their areas had been targeted.
In Humberside, 19 schools reported receiving the threat.
Humberside's Det Supt Tony Cockerill said: "We have spoken to all school...
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March 19, 2018 at 12:52 pm
(In part 1 of this series we mentioned different reasonable and attainable weight loss goals for Pesach and how to handle our health during the erev Pesach preparations. In part 2, we will look at Pesach itself and give you 8 practical tips on how to keep your health in a good place over the holiday)
Pesach
There are essentially three areas where we all tend to get into trouble: one - the amounts of food we consume sitting at our tables for our festive meals; two - the types of foods we eat; and three - the general lack of activity and exercise during Pesach.
Let’s first look at the portion control issue. It seems that during the holiday where we celebrate going from enslavement to freedom, we manage to enslave ourselves to many unnecessary calories, none of which do much to...
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March 19, 2018 at 12:52 pm
Up to $25,000 in seed funding to be awarded to each winning project
NEW YORK – The Orthodox Union (OU), the nation’s oldest and largest umbrella organization for the North American Orthodox Jewish community, has launched the OU Impact Accelerator to rapidly identify and invest in solutions for current and future Jewish communal needs.
The program will run over 18-months and is built on mentorship-based growth and early-stage funding for Jewish nonprofit entrepreneurs. Between four and six projects will be awarded up to $25,000 each.
“The Torah teaches us that we have a shared responsibility for each other, kol yisrael areivim zeh lazeh, and that the needs of others should always be our own concern,” said OU President Moishe Bane. “Ort...
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March 19, 2018 at 12:52 pm
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the bombings in Austin, Texas (all times local):
11:20 a.m.
Austin's police chief says officers have completed a sweep of the neighborhood where the latest in a string of bombings occurred and deemed it safe, but he asked those who live there to remain indoors until 2 p.m.
Police Chief Brian Manley said at a news conference Monday that although officers didn't find anything suspicious while canvassing the southwestern Austin residential neighborhood of Travis Country, investigators are still collecting evidence.
Authorities say that although Sunday night's bombing differed from three earlier this month, they believe they were the work of a serial bomber or bombers. Two men received significant injuries in Sunday's attack. It ...
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March 19, 2018 at 11:49 am
New York Times op-ed argues for fines scaled to income; reaction on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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March 19, 2018 at 11:30 am
Jerusalem - Yael Kolman began writing the eulogy for her son, Adiel, after hearing that he had been stabbed in a terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City, but before she knew he was dead.
On Monday, she stood on the stairwell in front of the synagogue in the Kochav HaShachar settlement in the West Bank and read those words out loud.
“My dear Adiel. It’s 2 a.m. What am I doing here in Kochav HaShachar, with a righteous family that is hosting us in our pain.
“Adiel, on the way [to the hospital], in the taxi, I thought of the eulogy even though they had not yet told me you had died. I felt that your energy was gone,” Yael said.
The body of her son, 32-years-old and a father of four small children, lay in front of her, stretched out on a table and wrapped i...
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March 19, 2018 at 11:30 am
Facebook Inc's shares fell more than 4 percent in premarket trading after media reports that a political consultancy that worked on President Donald Trump's campaign gained inappropriate access to data on 50 million Facebook users.
The move would knock $23.8 billion off the social network's market value of $538 billion as of Friday's close and shares in other social media companies including Twitter Inc and Snap Inc also dipped in early deals in New York.
One Wall Street analyst said the reports raised 'systemic problems' with Facebook's business model and a number said it could spur far deeper regulatory scrutiny of the platform.
The head of European Parliament said on Monday that EU lawmakers will investigate whether the data misuse has taken place, ...
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March 19, 2018 at 11:30 am
Sen. John McCain on Sunday praised special counsel Robert Mueller amid speculation that President Trump may be preparing to fire Mueller.
“Special Counsel Mueller has served our country with honesty and integrity. It’s critical he be allowed to complete a thorough investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election — unimpeded,” McCain tweeted.
Read more at The Hill.
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March 19, 2018 at 11:30 am
NEW YORK (AP) — When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.
But that's exactly what the company then run by Jared Kushner did, and with remarkable speed. Two years later, it sold all three buildings for $60 million, nearly 50 percent more than it paid.
Now a clue has emerged as to how President Donald Trump's son-in-law's firm was able to move so fast: The Kushner Cos. routinely filed false paperwork with the city declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned across the city when, in fact, it had hundreds.
While none of the documents durin...
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March 19, 2018 at 10:58 am
Baltimore, MD – Mar. 18, 2018 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of. Devorah Taitlebaum z’l, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ben Taitelbaum, (Pittsburgh) sister of R' Shlomo Taitelbaum, R' Shmuel Taitelbaum, R' Mordechai Taitelbaum, Mrs. Esther Lejtman, (Baltimore) and Mrs. Rivka EmanuelShiva is being observed at the home of theTaitelbaums, 6347 Waldron St., Pittsburgh, PA 15217 (The family requests no visits between 12-1 5:30-6:30 and not after 9:30 PM)Shacharis 7:15 AMMincha/Maariv: 7:20 PM
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
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March 19, 2018 at 10:46 am
(This article originally appeared in Times of Israel.)
I was dismayed to read Deborah Klapper’s blog post, Yeshiva College’s policies about women matter to us all, in which the author reprimands Yeshiva University for not permitting a woman to deliver the dvar Torah or derasha at the end of a Shabbos morning minyan.
Ms. Klapper accuses YU and its roshei yeshiva of depriving women a role in the teaching of Torah, as she conflates women teaching Torah in general with women delivering the dvar Torah or derasha at a minyan, with women serving as rebbeim for male students, and with women having a dominant role in a traditional yeshiva setting:
“Yeshiva College must make clear to our young adults that Torah and Halachah value the voices of women teaching Torah. &nb...
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March 19, 2018 at 10:45 am
The Trump administration is putting pressure on Senate Republicans to crack down on Democratic efforts to delay its agenda, fueling talk about the need for rules reform among Republicans on Capitol Hill.
White House patience with the Senate’s backlog of nominees is wearing out, as Vice President Pence made clear during a private meeting with the Senate Republican Conference on Tuesday, according to lawmakers who attended the discussion.
White House legislative affairs director Marc Short on Friday accused Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer of “weaponizing” the rules to keep executive and judicial branch positions vacant.
Read more at The Hill.
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March 19, 2018 at 10:10 am
Former IDF soldier convicted of killing wounded terrorist to be freed on May 10th after IDF judge drops one third of 14-month sentence.
An IDF parole board ruled Monday that former IDF soldier Elor Azariya will be freed after serving two-thirds of his 14-month prison sentence, enabling him to leave the army’s Prison 4 facility on the 10th of May.
While Azariya had requested that he be freed after completing half of his 14-month sentence, which would have enabled him to walk free in a matter of days, prosecutors requested that the former IDF sergeant be held until he had completed two-thirds of his term.
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March 19, 2018 at 8:54 am
A helicopter carrying Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner had to return to the airport Thursday after experiencing engine failure.
President Trump's daughter and son-in-law were flying to New York from Washington Thursday on board a two-engine helicopter when one engine failed, CNN reported Sunday.
According to CNN, the helicopter safely made it back to Ronald Reagan National Airport and the couple boarded a commercial flight.
It is unknown whose helicopter the White House advisers were on or why they were traveling.
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March 19, 2018 at 8:53 am
An Israeli man murdered in a terror attack in Jerusalem Sunday afternoon was brought to the Kochav Hashahar cemetery Monday morning, as mourners gathered to pay their last respects to the slain father of four.
Adiel Kolman, Z'L, H'yd, was stabbed to death in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday by an Arab terrorist.
The terrorist, later identified as 28-year-old Abed al-Rahman Bani Fa’adal, a resident of the Palestinian Authority-controlled town of Aqraba, near Shechem [Nabulus] in Samaria, fled the scene, but was shot and killed by security forces shortly thereafter.
Hundreds gathered at the Kochav Hashahar cemetery Monday morning, including Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home), who eulogized Kolman and promised that Israel would ‘avenge’ his ...
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March 19, 2018 at 8:38 am
Jerusalem, Israel - Mar. 19, 2018 - The Jerusalem Great Synagogue marked the dedication ceremony of the Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder Prayer for The State of Israel Wall and the Malcolm and Frayde Hoenlein Prayer for The Security and Emergency Services Wall on Monday morning, 3 Nissan 5788.
Among those greeting the honorees as they arrived and entered the synagogue were former Great Synagogue president Ascher Schapiro, current president Zalli Jaffe, and MK Avi Dichter.
The choir led by Chazan Chaim Adler under conductor Elli Jaffee began the ceremony singing "Halleluyah."
The Great Synagogue is popular with tourists from around the world. As President Jaffee said in his opening remarks, it is fulfillment of dreams and vision of founders of Is...
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March 18, 2018 at 10:45 pm
AUSTIN, Texas (KWTX) Two male patients have been identified and are being transported to a hospital in Austin after an explosion was reported Sunday night.
Austin-Travis County EMS reports the explosion was reported at a residence on the 4800 block of Dawn Song Drive.
Authorities are responding to the area in southwest Austin and are investigating.
EMS confirms two males in their 20s were injured and transported to South Austin Medical Clinic with serious but not life-threatening injuries and referred all inquiries to Austin police.
Police are instructing residents in the immediate area to remain indoors and follow officers' instructions when and if they are given.
These reports come nearly a week after three other explosions this month, leaving two dead and three injured.
