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March 21, 2018 at 12:09 pm
JERUSALEM (AP) — A fragment of an enigmatic Dead Sea Scroll has gone on public display at Jerusalem's Israel Museum for the first time since its discovery 70 years ago.
The Genesis Apocryphon, the sole copy of an ancient Jewish text elaborating on stories from the first book of the Bible, dates to the first century B.C. and was among the first seven scrolls found in the Judean Desert in 1947. The Associated Press previewed the exhibit Tuesday.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Jewish texts found in desert caves in the West Bank near Qumran in the 1940s and 1950s, date from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D. They include the earliest known copies of biblical texts, documents outlining the beliefs of a little understood Jewish sect, as well as related texts lik...
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March 21, 2018 at 12:04 pm
BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal regulators have cited a Baltimore hospital in connection with a January incident in which a mentally ill woman was discharged and left at an open-air bus stop wearing only a flimsy gown and socks.
The Baltimore Sun reported Tuesday that a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services investigation found the University of Maryland Medical Center violated patient rights as well as several patient safety and hospital management regulations.
The 22-year-old woman had been treated for a head wound, but authorities say she became resistant while being discharged. Security intervened and escorted the visibly disoriented woman outside, where temperatures were in the 30s (near zero Celsius).
The hospital, which previously apologized for a lack of "basic hu...
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March 21, 2018 at 11:48 am
The Agudah celebrates 96 years of serving Klal Yisrael
Life requires movement. Where there is movement there is life, and where there is life there is a different kind of movement; growth, progress and accomplishment. For over 96 years Agudas Yisrael has been the movement of Torah true yidishkeit.
What is a movement? A movement is people uniting behind similar ideals, visions and goals. A movement harnesses the power of numbers to advance those goals. The Agudah has been furthering and continues to further the goals and ideals of Torah and our community, taking the timeless principles of Torah and applying them faithfully to each and every circumstance under the guidance of our Gedolim. It is a movement that has shown the capacity to persevere, and function as effectively today as it did...
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March 21, 2018 at 11:31 am
Shachar Strug of elite Duvdevan unit buried at military cemetery in Tel Aviv. Strug apparently killed by bullet from his comrade's weapon.
Staff Sergeant Shachar Strug, 20, the soldier from the elite Duvdevan special operations force who was killed yesterday by an unintentionally discharged bullet, was laid to rest today, Wednesday, at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery in Tel Aviv.Among those present at the funeral were Minister Ze'ev Elkin (Likud), Givatayim mayor Ran Konik, and Boaz Kukia, the father of Ron Kukia, murdered in a terror attack in Arad in November.Strug went to high school in Givatayim, and enlisted in the Duvdevan unit a year ago. He is survived by his parents and sister, all of whom eulogized him at the funeral.
A fellow soldier in ...
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March 21, 2018 at 11:29 am
The wintry mess will continue around Maryland for a little while longer.
A Winter Storm Warning is in effect from 2 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday.
There will be variable travel conditions Wednesday as the snow continues. Snow ends before 10 p.m. Wednesday evening. Some roads will remain snow covered Wednesday, even with the sun up and air temperatures warming above freezing.
SHA said it is not in danger of running out of salt and that it has been replenishing its supply between storms.
Temperatures return to the 40s Thursday and Friday.
From the National Weather Service:
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 PM EDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 4 to 8 inches are expected.
* WHERE...The District of Columbia, portions of ...
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March 21, 2018 at 11:22 am
Baltimore, MD – Mar. 21, 2018 – Schools may be closed, but, at TOV Pizza we are open and ready to serve you from our tasty menu.
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March 21, 2018 at 11:05 am
GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — In the latest school shooting in America, the gunfire was over and done with in less than a minute.
This time, the shooter, a 17-year-old student, was killed. Authorities said a 16-year-old girl who had some type of relationship with the shooter was critically wounded, and a 14-year-old boy also was wounded.
The school resource officer who responded inside of 60 seconds and fired off a shot at the attacker was praised as a hero.
The violence erupted as classes were beginning Tuesday at Great Mills High School in southern Maryland, in a community where many families have military ties, with parents working at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station or Andrews Air Force Base.
It came a month after 17 people were killed at a Florida high school, and intensified ...
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March 21, 2018 at 10:39 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — At 32 years old, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman controls a vast fortune, a well-heeled military and the future of a nation in the throes of sweeping economic and social change. His ambitious bid to remake Saudi Arabia received a ringing endorsement Tuesday from President Donald Trump as the future leader opened a marathon tour of the United States.
Soaking in Trump's plaudits in the Oval Office, Prince Mohammed said little and left most of the talking to his host, who offered an optimistic forecast of lucrative U.S. arms sales to the kingdom and more Saudi investment in the United States. Thousands of American jobs will result, Trump said, even voicing approval for the crown prince's "tremendous" move last year to push aside his older cousin to be...
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March 21, 2018 at 10:37 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump convened some of the nation's top law enforcement officials Tuesday to rail against so-called sanctuary cities as he continues his crackdown on jurisdictions that flout federal immigration laws.
He accused cities that fail to cooperate with immigration authorities of putting the nation at risk by releasing "thousands of criminal aliens" who should be deported.
"In many cases they are very bad actors. We have gang members, we have predators, rapists, killers — a lot of bad people," he said.
Trump's latest immigration salvos came as negotiators on Capitol Hill tried to hash out a government-wide spending bill that appears increasingly unlikely to include big money for the president's promised border wall.
Trump and his J...
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March 21, 2018 at 10:35 am
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A North Carolina man accused of trying to recruit people to conduct terrorist attacks in the name of the Islamic State group has been found guilty on federal charges in Ohio.
A jury in Akron found 37-year-old Erick Jamal Hendricks guilty Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and attempt to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization.
Hendricks was arrested in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2016, on a federal complaint filed in Cleveland.
Authorities say he contacted people over social media trying to recruit them. Authorities also say he told one person his goal was to create a terrorist cell that would conduct attacks in the United States.
A message was left for Hendricks' attorney.
Hendricks could be sentenced to life in prison....
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March 21, 2018 at 10:32 am
Baltimore, MD – Mar. 20, 2018 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Mrs. Chava Israel, z"l, mother of R' Chaim Leib Israel, Mrs. Sura Miriam Werczberger, Rebetzin Malka Feiga (Rav Shaya) Taub and sister of R’ Mendu Fried.
Shiva is being observed at 1849 50th Street (18th & 19th Ave) Boro ParkRebetzin Malka Feiga (Rav Shaya) Taub can be reached at 914.218.1304. She will be sitting shiva in NY the entire week.
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
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March 21, 2018 at 10:24 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Twelve Republican state legislators in Pennsylvania have signed on to resolutions introduced Tuesday that seek to impeach four Democratic justices on the state Supreme Court over rulings in a congressional redistricting case.
The four nearly identical resolutions argue the justices acted improperly through rulings that gave lawmakers about three weeks to enact a new district map and then produced a court-drawn map.
The court ruled a 2011 GOP-crafted map, among the most gerrymandered in the nation, violated the state constitution's guarantee of free and equal elections. The replacement it came up with is widely expected to help Democrats as they seek to flip U.S. House seats now held by Republicans.
"If we allow this to stand without taking action, the f...
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March 21, 2018 at 10:19 am
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the Austin bombings (all times local):
8:45 a.m.
The mayor of the suspected Austin bomber's hometown says the suspect lived only two blocks away from him in a part of the city known as Old Town.
Pflugerville Mayor Victor Gonzales told The Associated Press on Wednesday that police had surveillance on the home overnight Tuesday, though he said he didn't personally know the family.
Gonzales says he had concerned neighbors approaching him because of the large police presence in the neighborhood. He says he let them know everything would be OK.
Authorities say the suspect blew himself up overnight in his vehicle in a hotel parking lot in another suburb as a SWAT team closed in on him.
A law enforcement official has told the AP that th...
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March 21, 2018 at 10:05 am
Jerusalem - It was only on September 5 that Lt.-Col. Dror learned what his target would be. For months, he had been training alongside seven other pilots for a longrange strike in an unspecified country.
All Dror knew was the range, and that the target was a building that needed to be destroyed. On some days he would draw an imaginary line in his head using the range for which he was training and try and figure what might be the target. It could have been anywhere from Syria to Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt or beyond.
He knew it was something special. As a deputy commander of the Israel Air Force’s 69th “Hammer” Squadron, Dror had flown hundreds of combat operations. In each of those cases he knew the target ahead of time. In this case, though, only a handful of people e...
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March 21, 2018 at 9:57 am
Baltimore, MD - March 21, 2018 - The chances you will get a ticket for speeding or running a red light in the city just increased. A total of 42 new red-light and speed cameras went up Monday at locations throughout the city, and if you're caught on camera, you could pay a pretty penny.
Nineteen speed cameras have been added to locations outside schools within the city. If you get caught, prepare to pay a $40 fine. Nineteen more red-light cameras are also up on city streets. Running a red light will cost you $75.
Also, six cameras are dedicated to ticketing trucks for driving on streets that restrict vehicles over three-quarters of a ton.
"The idea is to keep heavy vehicles off the street to give the residents peace and peace of mind with the shaking and the noise from the trucks,...
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March 21, 2018 at 9:36 am
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. (AP) — The heated battle over immigration exploded in a small Southern California city as elected officials took steps to opt out of a state law limiting cooperation between police and federal deportation agents.
Residents in the tight-knit Orange County community of Los Alamitos packed the City Council chambers Monday night as leaders voted 4-1 in favor of a measure to declare the city exempt from California's so-called sanctuary law, citing constitutional concerns.
The move in the city of 12,000 mostly American-born residents has stoked intense passions among those opposed to illegal immigration and those who think local police should focus on crime-fighting, not deportation.
Longtime resident and former Mayor Gerri Mejia urged council members to pass t...
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March 21, 2018 at 9:35 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump warned Tuesday night of dire consequences should Democrats take the House in this year's midterm elections, but predicted Republicans are "going to win."
Speaking at the National Republican Congressional Committee's annual March fundraiser, Trump said that, "on issue after issue," House Democrats are "way outside of the American mainstream."
"Democrats like to campaign as moderates, but they always govern like radicals," he said, warning that, if they win, Democrats will block efforts to secure the borders, "release dangerous criminals," and try to raise Americans' taxes, among other ills.
He also vowed to campaign tirelessly to help GOP candidates win, telling a room full of Republican party leaders and donors, "I'll be...
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March 21, 2018 at 7:21 am
The Kotel was 'cleaned out' of notes that have been stuffed into it all year long, using a special device.As elsewhere in Israel, the people responsible for the Kotel (Western Wall) are getting ready for Passover by doing a general cleaning – in their case, of the notes that have been stuffed into the cracks of the Kotel by the millions who visit it every year.
In a custom that has become universal – with non-Jews, as well as Jews, writing out prayers that are “left” in the wall for G-d to address – the wall is filled with notes of all sizes and shapes, all containing pleas for good health, happy families, and myriad other needs. According to Jewish tradition, a prayer rendered at the Kotel – the wall outside the holiest site in Judaism, the...
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March 21, 2018 at 7:19 am
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the Austin bombings (all times local):
5:55 a.m.
President Donald Trump is tweeting his praise of law enforcement after the suspect in the Austin bombings after the bomber blew himself up as police closed in.
In a Wednesday morning tweet, Trump said: "AUSTIN BOMBING SUSPECT IS DEAD. Great job by law enforcement and all concerned."
Austin has been targeted by four package bombings since March 2 that killed two people and wounded four others. A fifth parcel bomb detonated at a FedEx distribution center near San Antonio early Tuesday.
Police Chief Brian Manley said at a news conference that investigators zeroed in on the suspect and located his vehicle in a suburban Austin hotel. He says police were waiting on a tactical team for hours when th...
