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March 20, 2018 at 9:34 pm
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders vented frustration with the special counsel probe on Tuesday, but said that firing Robert Mueller would not be “the most productive step forward.”
Sanders was pressed by reporters to explain President Trump’s weekend tweets, in which he lashed out at the special counsel probe as a “witch hunt” and accused Mueller of stocking his team with Democrats.
“I don’t think any individual, including members of Congress, would like it if they had been accused of taking their seat in Congress by doing something nefarious when they hadn’t, particularly if it went on for more than a year into their time in office,” she said.
“My guess is they would be more than anxious to push back and certa...
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March 20, 2018 at 9:14 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that an electronic fence along the Israel-Egypt border has saved the Jewish state from jihadist attacks or what he believes would be worse — a tide of African migrants.
“Were it not for the fence, we would be faced with… severe attacks by Sinai terrorists, and something much worse, a flood of illegal migrants from Africa,” Netanyahu’s office quoted him as telling a development conference in the southern Israel desert town of Dimona.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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March 20, 2018 at 9:14 pm
Lawmakers scurry to get spending bill ready; chief congressional correspondent Mike Emanuel reports from Capitol Hill.
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March 20, 2018 at 9:13 pm
President Trump congratulated his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on his reelection victory despite his national security advisers warning him specifically not to do so, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Trump’s national security team had told Trump not to congratulate Putin on winning a fourth term during a phone call on Tuesday, even placing a section in his briefing materials that read “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in all-capital letters, according to the Post.
However, Trump did congratulate Putin during the call.
Read more at The Hill.
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March 20, 2018 at 9:08 pm
Zoning regulations impeding planned May 14th US embassy move, could delay implementation of embassy transfer.
Officials in the US State Department and the Israeli government are concerned that Israeli bureaucracy and local zoning regulations could seriously delay the planned relocation of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Channel 2 reported Tuesday night.
Last December, President Donald Trump ordered the embassy moved to Jerusalem, fulfilling his 2016 campaign promise to implement the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, a bipartisan law requiring that the US embassy in Israel be located in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital city.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson initially claimed the embassy move would take roughly two years, but later backtracked and said that pl...
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March 20, 2018 at 9:05 pm
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
pashkavil circulating in Meah Shearim calls for separate seating on the Jerusalem light rail, citing the obvious lack of modesty that exists today.
The pashkavil instructs the Tzibur to only get onto the last car of the train, adding this is to be done “politely and without causing a Chilul Hashem.” It adds that by the fact the car will be filled with bnei Torah, it will provide a modest preferable atmosphere.
It also states to ask the “Dear daughters to select another area to sit and this will lead to increased modesty”....Read more at YWN
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March 20, 2018 at 9:00 pm
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Emergency teams were responding Tuesday night to another reported explosion in Texas' capital, this one at a Goodwill store in the southern part of the city.
In a tweet, the Austin Police Department urged residents to avoid the area. Austin-Travis County EMS said there had been reports of at least one person injured, though it was not immediately clear how serious the injuries were.
It came as investigators who have pursued a suspected serial bomber terrorizing Austin for weeks uncovered what seemed like valuable new leads in the case.
Even before the report of the Goodwill blast, it had already been a busy day for authorities. Before dawn Tuesday, a bomb inside a package exploded around 1 a.m. as it passed along a conveyer belt at a FedEx shipping center...
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March 20, 2018 at 6:50 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - Mar. 20, 2018 - The 6th Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism sponsored by the State of Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Diaspora Affairs is meeting in the International Convention Center Jerusalem from March 19-21.
International academics and officials from Australia, Trinidad, South Africa and around the world are participating. Some of the Ambassadors to Israel were also in attendance.
The conference opened on Monday night, with a full program on Tuesday.
Opening plenary session included Tehilla Shwartz-Altshuler and Noam Katz, and keynote Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked. The justice ministers of Greece, Italy and Malta also addressed the forum. The four ministers then signed a "Joint Statement on Countering Online Hate Speech an...
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March 20, 2018 at 6:38 pm
Baltimore, MD – Mar. 20, 2018 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Reuben Cain, z’l, brother of David Cain.
David will be observing shiva through Monday morning at the Hyatt residence, 3204 Fallstaff Road, Baltimore, MD 21215
Minyanim: Tuesday Maariv - 7:30 Wednesday Shacharis - 9:00 (snow day) Mincha/maariv - 7:05 Thursday Shacharis - 7:30 Mincha/maariv - 7:05 Friday Shacharis - 7:30 Mincha - 4:00 Sunday Shacharis - 8:30 Mincha/maariv - 7:10 Monday Shacharis - 7:30
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
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March 20, 2018 at 4:44 pm
Stocks moved higher Tuesday, as the technology sector held its ground a day after a sharp sell-off
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 116.36 points, or 0.47%, 24,727.27. The S&P 500 gained 4.02 points, or 0.15%, to 2,716.94. The Nasdaq Composite was up 20.06 points, or 0.27%, at 7,364.30.
The Dow’s advance was propelled by gains in Boeing (BAOpens a New Window.) and Caterpillar (CATOpens a New Window.) while the Nasdaq remained under some pressure even after Monday’s big retreat in tech stocks.
The major tech names were mixed Tuesday, with Facebook experiencing its second-straight session of losses. The social media giant took a big hit on Monday, closing with a 6.8% loss, following news that a firm tied to President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign gat...
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March 20, 2018 at 4:19 pm
The officer who exchanged gun fire with a student who shot two classmates at Great Mills High School in Maryland Tuesday morning is Blaine Gaskill, a 34-year-old St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Deputy providing security at the school.
Officials didn’t confirm whether Gaskill hit the attacker, who was pronounced dead and has not been identified, or whether he took his own life. But if Gaskill’s shot stopped him, the deputy would be only second resource officer to gun down an active school shooter since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, according to a year-long Washington Post analysis of dozens of school shootings.
In either case, St. Mary’s County Sheriff Timothy Cameron said there was “no question” that Gaskill’s quick arrival at the...
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March 20, 2018 at 4:06 pm
Ever since he can remember, Boris Ramatsky has known the old wooden building with Stars of David over its windows in the center of Tomsk, Siberia. He’d pass it on his way to and from school as a child, and then to and from work as an adult. No plaque marked the structure as the Soldatskaya Synagogue, or Soldiers’ Synagogue, built by Jewish former child soldiers of the Czar’s army, nor its confiscation by Soviet authorities in 1930.
Like most other aspects of Jewish life in the Soviet Union, the history of the synagogue lurked in the shadows of memory.
“It wasn’t allowed to be spoken of, and so the adults tried not to say too much,” says Ramatsky. “But when we passed it, we always knew.”
Ramatsky’s grandfather, Menachem Yosef Ra...
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March 20, 2018 at 3:54 pm
A bill has been introduced in the Ohio House that would ban all abortions in the state.
Two Republican lawmakers introduced the legislation, which would block women from receiving abortions even when a mother’s life.
“The goal of this bill is to first of all continue to get the word out that life does begin at conception and move the debate in that direction, and to protect unborn Ohioans from being aborted,” Hood said.
Under the bill, a woman who gets an abortion could be charged with a crime.
Read more at The Hill.
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March 20, 2018 at 3:45 pm
The U.S. and South Korea will resume joint military exercises next month, after delaying them for the 2018 Winter Olympics, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
The Pentagon said that the United Nations Command has notified North Korea’s military of the upcoming exercises.
The drills come as President Trump prepares to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year.
Read more at The Hill.
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March 20, 2018 at 3:33 pm
Cambridge Analytica is suspending its chief executive, Alexander Nix, effective immediately, and is launching an independent investigation to determine if the company engaged in any wrongdoing, the company said.
The moves followed reports that the company improperly used data from millions of Facebook profiles without authorization.
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March 20, 2018 at 3:33 pm
BEIRUT — Syrian TV: Rocket fired on government-controlled neighborhood of Damascus kills 24, wounds 15.
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March 20, 2018 at 1:26 pm
Speaker Paul Ryan said he has received “assurances” that Robert Mueller won’t be fired, as questions swirl around whether President Trump will pull the plug on the special counsel.
“I received assurances that his firing is not even under consideration,” Ryan told reporters during his weekly news conference on Tuesday. “We have a system based upon the rule of law in this country, we have a justice system, and no one is above that justice system.”
Read more at The Hill.
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March 20, 2018 at 1:23 pm
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been taken into police custody for questioning over allegations that he received campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.
Police are investigating alleged irregularities over the financing of his 2007 presidential campaign.
Police have questioned him previously. A former aide, Alexandre Djouhri, was arrested in London recently.
Mr Sarkozy failed in a bid to return to power in 2012.
Judicial sources said he was being questioned in Nanterre, a suburb in western Paris.
In 2013 France opened an investigation into allegations that his campaign had benefited from illicit funds from Gaddafi. Mr Sarkozy has denied wrongdoing.
The sources said one of Mr Sarkozy's former ministers and a close ally, Brice Hortefeux, was a...
