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April 18, 2018 at 11:43 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A preliminary examination of the blown jet engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that set off a terrifying chain of events and left a businesswoman hanging half outside a shattered window showed evidence of "metal fatigue," according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Passengers scrambled to save the woman from getting sucked out the window that had been smashed by debris and a registered nurse and emergency medical technician on the flight rushed to try to help her. She later died, and seven others were injured.
The pilots of the twin-engine Boeing 737 bound from New York to Dallas with 149 people aboard took it into a rapid descent Tuesday and made an emergency landing in Philadelphia. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling and passengers said their ...
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April 18, 2018 at 11:40 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Southwest Airlines pilot who made an emergency landing Tuesday after the jet apparently blew an engine, got hit by shrapnel and lost a window, is being praised for her "nerves of steel" in helping to prevent a far worse tragedy after the catastrophe killed one passenger and left seven others hurt.
Tammie Jo Shults was at the controls of the Dallas-bound Flight 1380 when it made an emergency landing in Philadelphia, said her husband, Dean Shults. The twin-engine Boeing 737 that left New York with 149 people board was hit by shrapnel that smashed a window and damaged the fuselage, killing a passenger and injuring seven others, authorities said. The pilot took the plane into a rapid descent as passengers using oxygen masks that dropped from the ceiling braced for ...
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April 18, 2018 at 11:37 am
Members of 8th Armored Brigade, the oldest armored brigade in the IDF, reunite 70 years after they fought together.
The Eighth Armored Brigade, known as the 'Old Man's Brigade,' was the first armored division in the IDF and participated in all of Israel's wars, from the War of Independence in 1948 through Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
After the War of Independence, the Eighth Armored Brigade became a reserve brigade, and today, 70 years after the establishment of the brigade, reservists from the brigade gathered to remember all the soldiers of the brigade who fell in combat over the last 70 years on Yom Hazikaron.
This year, the traditional memorial ceremony took on a unique significance, when for the first time Yoram Sadeh, the son of the legendary founder an...
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April 18, 2018 at 11:31 am
Powerful bomb, apparently intended for Independence Day attack, found hidden on PA truck delivering goods to Jewish communities in Samaria.
Security inspectors on Wednesday located an explosive device in a PA Arab truck at the Reihan crossing, west of Jenin.
The powerful explosive device was hidden in the roof of the truck.
The truck had merchandise intended for Jewish communities in the seam zone. Police sappers are now working to neutralize the threat near the crossing. The Arab driver was arrested.
The head of the crossings authority at the Defense Ministry, Erez Sidon, praised security forces' activities at the crossing in cooperation with police sappers. "I am proud of the security inspectors who acted exactly as we expect them to, from the identification of the suspi...
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April 18, 2018 at 11:27 am
New York…It is common knowledge amongst retailers that the calendar determines the extent of the sales growth for the Passover season. When the holiday has a Shabbat during the interim days (Chol Hamoed), sales can potentially spike by double digit numbers. When the holiday falls as it did this year, with four Chol Hamoed weekdays (Monday thru Thursday), sales growth may be only half of what a Shabbat might yield. In its post-Passover survey, Kosher Today found an average 4%-7% growth this year amongst retailers, which is still significant. A Midwest supermarket that caters to the kosher market said that “sales were better than last year by far, about 3-5% better.” He added: “Matzos and juice slowed. The growth came from big jumps in secondary categories, including...
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April 18, 2018 at 11:26 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on developments related to Israel's Memorial Day (all times local):
5:50 p.m.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issues a veiled warning to Iran, saying his country will defend itself against anyone that tries to harm it.
The premier's remarks at a Memorial Day ceremony on Wednesday come amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran over an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria last week that left at least four Iranian military personnel dead.
On Wednesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei called for "offensive plans against the enemy," without specifically naming Israel.
Netanyahu says Israel will stand firm against "continued incitement by our neighbors, a great many of whom refuse to come to terms with our existence," and cautions t...
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April 18, 2018 at 11:15 am
BOSTON (AP) — The killing of a Massachusetts police officer has some Republicans calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty for the murder of law enforcement officers.
Recent attempts to restore capital punishment in the state have faltered, most recently after the killing of another police officer two years ago and in 2013, after the Boston Marathon bombing.
The death of Sean Gannon, a Yarmouth K-9 officer who was fatally shot in the head while serving an arrest warrant last Thursday, has again raised the issue. Gannon's funeral is scheduled for Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the Massachusetts Republican Party sent out a message on Twitter reaffirming the party's backing of capital punishment for criminals who kill police officers.
An aide to Republican Gov. Charlie Ba...
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April 18, 2018 at 11:00 am
HOUSTON (AP) — Barbara Bush didn't hesitate to tell people that her trademark pearl necklaces were fake. Americans liked that everything else about the snowy-haired first lady was real.
The wife of the nation's 41st president and mother of the 43rd brought a plainspoken, grandmotherly style to buttoned-down Washington, displaying an utter lack of vanity about her white hair and wrinkles.
"What you see with me is what you get. I'm not running for president — George Bush is," she said at the 1988 Republican National Convention, where her husband, then vice president, was nominated to succeed Ronald Reagan.
Mrs. Bush died Tuesday, according to a statement from family spokesman Jim McGrath. She was 92.
A funeral is planned Saturday at St. Martin's Episcopal ...
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April 18, 2018 at 10:45 am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on the plane that made an emergency landing in Philadelphia (all times local):
9:35 a.m.
A retired registered school nurse says she performed CPR on the woman who passengers say was partially sucked out of the window of a Southwest Airlines plane that had been hit by engine debris.
Officials say Jennifer Riordan of Albuquerque, New Mexico, died after the plane heading from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Dallas made an emergency landing Tuesday in Philadelphia.
Peggy Phillips spoke to WFAA-TV upon her arrival in Dallas Tuesday night. She says shortly after takeoff there was a loud noise and the plane started shaking like it was "coming apart."
She says they started losing altitude and the masks came down.
She heard a lot of commotion a few ro...
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April 18, 2018 at 10:09 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — Is Israel a success as it turns 70? As Israelis commemorate the milestone this week, satisfaction and a grim disquiet share the stage.
It has a standard of living that rivals Western Europe, without the natural resources. It can boast of scientific achievements and military and technological clout beyond its modest size. It controls most of biblical Israel, and despite widespread criticism of its policies toward the Palestinians, it has cultivated good diplomatic ties with most of the world.
But it's also a country that is weary from decades of conflict with the Palestinians. It is riven by religious, ethnic and economic divisions. It is still seeking recognition in a region that has not fully come to terms with the presence of a Jewish state.
Its founding de...
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April 18, 2018 at 10:09 am
BERLIN (AP) — Two young men wearing yarmulkas were attacked and insulted in an apparent anti-Semitic assault in Berlin by three other men, who whipped one with a belt, Berlin police said Wednesday.
The German government expressed shock over Tuesday's attack in the city's trendy Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, which was caught on video by one of the victims and quickly went viral.
German Foreign Heiko Maas tweeted that "it is intolerable if young men are being attacked here just because they wear a kippa."
"Jews shall never again feel threatened here. It's our responsibility to protect Jewish life here," Maas added, in reference to the killing of six million European Jews by Germany under the Nazis in the Holocaust more than 70 years ago.
Berlin police said the two vi...
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April 18, 2018 at 10:09 am
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's presidency has banned all government bodies from using foreign-based messaging apps to communicate with citizens, state media reported Wednesday, after economic protests organized through such apps shook the country earlier this year.
Chief among those apps is Telegram, used by over 40 million Iranians for everything from benign conversations to commerce and political campaigning. Iranians using Telegram, which describes itself as an encrypted message service, helped spread the word about the protests in December and January.
Telegram channels run on behalf of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri were already shut down Wednesday.
A report on the website of Iran's state television broadcaster sai...
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April 18, 2018 at 10:08 am
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is attempting to rewrite history on his rationale for firing James Comey as FBI director last year.
In a Wednesday morning tweet sent as Comey promotes his criticism-filled new book, Trump says he "was not fired because of the phony Russia investigation." But in an interview days after the sudden firing, Trump revealed that the probe into potential collusion during the 2016 campaign was on his mind at the time he made the decision.
The White House's initial explanation for Trump's decision was Comey's handling of the Clinton email investigation, and it released a memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein justifying the decision. But two days after firing Comey, Trump undercut that rationale.
In the interview with...
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April 18, 2018 at 10:08 am
HAVANA (AP) — The Latest on the meeting of Cuba's legislature and the scheduled end of Raul Castro's presidency (all times local):
9:45 a.m.
Cuba's government is embracing social media as it convenes the National Assembly to elect a successor to President Raul Castro.
State-run media and government-controlled Twitter accounts are promoting what is expected to be a historic handover of the presidency to the first non-Castro to lead the country in nearly 60 years.
The accounts are using the hashtag "Somos Continuidad" or "We are continuity." It's an apparent effort to convey the message that the Cubans shouldn't expect radical change when a new president is announced on Thursday.
Internet access has increased dramatically over the past two years but the co...
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April 18, 2018 at 9:29 am
Rabbi Menachem Bombach teaches children in haredi Betar Illit of IDF fallen soldiers and obligation to remember and honor.
Rabbi Menachem Bombach of the haredi city of Betar Illit in Judea runs a junior yeshiva where he teaches his students on Memorial Day about the IDF's fallen soldiers and the obligation to honor and respect them, and to act for good in this world in their merit.
Studies have shown that 90% of haredim who complete IDF service integrate successfully into the job market. Among these are 87% of soldiers serving in the haredi Shachar program, and 88% of Netzah Yehuda infantry soldiers.
About 7,000 haredi men currently serve in the army. In 2016 2,850 haredim enlisted in the IDF, a 400-soldier increase from the previ...
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April 18, 2018 at 9:25 am
Hundreds participated in the Yom Hazikaron ceremony last night in Jerusalem’s German Colony. Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) commemorates Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror. Soldiers from a wide assortment of companies marched in memory of the nation’s fallen soldiers and terror victims, and particularly moving was watching the volunteer Special in Uniform corps among them.
Unlike many other countries, most of Israel’s wars have been fought on home turf. This, coupled with the fact that Israel is a small country with a population of only 8 million, contributes to the doleful reality that there is hardly an adult in the country who isn’t personally familiar with at least one casualty of war or terror.
Lt. Colonel (Res.) Tiran Attia, program dir...
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April 18, 2018 at 8:53 am
New poll shows over half of Charedim respect the Memorial Day siren.
A new poll by Hadashot Haskupim showed that 48% of haredim believe that the proper thing to do during Memorial Day sirens is to stand quietly in respect, Kikar Hashabbat reported.
The poll, conducted as the outlet's weekly poll, including thousands of haredi listeners.
The results showed that 48% believe that when in a haredi is in a public place when the siren goes of, she or he should stop what they are doing and stand silently. An additional 15% said that the proper thing to do is to recite chapters from the Mishnah in memory of the fallen. Nineteen percent said they believe the siren is a custom "copied" from the gentiles and should therefore be ignored, and 18% said they completely ignor...
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April 18, 2018 at 8:52 am
President Trump's daughter, son-in-law reportedly considering representing Trump admin at opening of US embassy in Jerusalem.
Will President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner attend the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem?
According to a report carried by The Times of Israel Wednesday afternoon, the president’s Orthodox Jewish daughter and son-in-law are considering flying to Israel next month to represent the Trump administration at the May 14th unveiling of the US embassy in Jerusalem.
President Trump vowed on December 6th to relocate the US embassy from its present location in Tel Aviv to the Israeli capital, fulfilling a campaign promise to implement the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, which requires the State Departmen...
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April 18, 2018 at 8:51 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Notorious Mexican drug lord and escape artist Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is having psychological problems that could hinder his ability to fight U.S. drug-trafficking charges, his lawyer and wife said Tuesday.
"We have noticed that his mental state has deteriorated, not just his memory but ... the way he understands things," attorney Eduardo Balarezo told reporters following a pretrial hearing in federal court in Brooklyn. "He's not the man he was when I first met him."
Appearing alongside the lawyer, Emma Coronel said she hasn't been allowed to communicate with her husband since he was turned over to U.S. authorities in 2017.
"My worry is his health because I know that he is in bad shape psychologically," Coronel said. "He feels bad from what lawyers are ...
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April 18, 2018 at 8:46 am
This article is adapted from my upcoming sefer on the laws of Loshon Hora in contemporary times. All halachos mentioned herein are complex and part of a larger framework. The purpose of the article is to raise awareness of these essential halachos. Hence, one should not draw any practical conclusions without first consulting a rav.
Introduction
In most cases of relating Loshon Hora for a constructive purpose, it is not relevant if the speaker has been solicited for the information or not. When there is a sufficiently constructive purpose, the information may be related whether asked for it or not; when a constructive purpose does not exist, the prohibition remains in all circumstances.
Nevertheless, when it comes to shidduchim, many rabbonim draw a distinction, as we will explain. Ther...
