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April 22, 2018 at 11:30 am
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is wrongly claiming North Korea has agreed to "denuclearization" before his potential meeting with Kim Jong Un.
North Korea said Friday it would suspend nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missile launches before summits with the U.S. and South Korea. Kim also said a nuclear test site would be closed and "dismantled."
The North stopped short of suggesting it has any intention of abandoning its nuclear arsenal. But Trump tweeted Sunday that the North has "agreed to denuclearization (so great for World), site closure, & no more testing!"
South Korea's president has said Kim isn't asking for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Korean Peninsula as a condition for abandoning his nuclear weapons. If true, it w...
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April 22, 2018 at 10:31 am
Israeli Air Force experiences drastic leap in capabilities with purchase of the Seahawk, the sibling of the venerable Blackhawk helicopter.
Israel has purchased through the US government’s Foreign Military Sales Program 8 ex US Navy Seahawks. This purchase was made back in 2016 as the US Navy phased out the SH-60F in favor of a newer platform such as the MH-60R. When this purchase materializes and these helicopters start flying over the Israeli coastline, the IAF will experience a leap forward in capabilities despite the fact that the Seahawk helicopters it has purchased are actually older than the current platform it operates – the SA365 “Panther”.
The Seahawk is manufactured by Sikorsky and is the sibling of the venerable Blackhawk. The benefits this helicopte...
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April 22, 2018 at 10:23 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates again has accused Qatari military fighter jets of coming dangerously close to an Emirati commercial airliner landing in Bahrain. Qatar did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority said the alleged incident happened Sunday morning with a flight carrying 86 passengers.
The UAE alleged that "Qatari fighter jets flew very close to the Emirati aircraft, less than 700 feet (210 meters), leaving just a few seconds to the captain to maneuver."
The Dubai-based newspaper Gulf News identified the affected flight as Emirates flight No. EK837. Emirates declined to comment.
This marks just the latest allegations between Qatar and the UAE over their flights and airspace ...
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April 22, 2018 at 10:18 am
In an op-ed published Thursday in The New York Times, three European parliamentarians argued that the United States Congress should preserve the nuclear deal with Iran.
Parliamentarians Delphine O of France, Omid Nouripour of Germany, and Richard Bacon of Britain argued that the nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is “the most important and promising step taken toward nonproliferation in the past 20 years,” and that it serves as a “safeguard against a nuclear Middle East.”
The assertion that the JCPOA strengthens nonproliferation is demonstrably false.
Rather than being a step towards nonproliferation, the nuclear deal undermined the nonproliferation regime by demonstrating that a serial nuclear cheater could be allowed a...
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April 22, 2018 at 10:00 am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck a voter registration center in the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing at least 48 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
Public Health Ministry spokesman Wahid Majro said another 112 people were wounded in Sunday's attack, updating an earlier toll. Gen. Daud Amin, the Kabul police chief, said the suicide bomber targeted civilians who had gathered to receive national identification cards.
The large explosion echoed across the city, shattering windows miles away from the attack site and damaging several nearby vehicles. Police blocked all roads to the blast site, with only ambulances allowed in. Local TV stations broadcast live footage of hundreds of distraught people gathered at nearby hospitals seeking word abou...
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April 22, 2018 at 9:15 am
Jerusalem, Israel - Apr. 22, 2018 - The golf cart that was used for years by the HaGaon Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, zt"l, to move around the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem, and identified closely with the appearance of the Posek, will be put up for public sale. After the death of Rabbi Elyashiv, the scooter was also used by the successor to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leadership of the Shas movement, Rabbi Shalom Cohen. In two weeks the scooter will be put up for sale by Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem with an opening price of $5,000.
The cart was originally purchased by a close associate of Rabbi Elyashiv, later to be mayor of Jerusalem, Uri Lupoliansky, through his Yad Sarah organization to help the ultra-Orthodox leader move from his home at 10 Hanan Street in Mea She'ar...
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April 22, 2018 at 7:21 am
Hezbollah leader threatens Israel again as tensions with Iran continue.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened Israel again on Saturday, claiming his group has rockets that could hit all of Israel.
“The forces of the resistance today have the ability, the power and the missiles to hit any target in Israel,” said Nasrallah.
Nasrallah’s deputy, Naim Qassem, warned several days ago that Iran would respond to an air strike on a military base in Syria which was attributed to Israel and in which seven Iranian personnel were killed.
"The elimination of the Iranians by Israel at the airbase will be met with a response,” Qassem told Al-Mayadeen TV.
"By bombing the T-4 airport, Israel wanted to create an equation that shows that it controls the rul...
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April 22, 2018 at 7:19 am
Russia conveys unambiguous message to Israel that there is nothing preventing it from selling S-300 missile defense system to Syria.
In the past few days, the Russian government has conveyed an unambiguous diplomatic message to political sources in Jerusalem that, if it should feel the need to, Russia intends to sell the advanced S-300 missile defense system to the Syrian regime.The Russians explained that after the American intervention in Syria and the recent bombing in cooperation with Britain and France, they were committed to helping the Syrians defend themselves in the best possible way.
Last week, Israel emphasized to Russia that the sale of the advanced S-300 missile defense system to the Syrian regime constituted the crossing of a red line.
A political source who reveale...
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April 22, 2018 at 7:17 am
Three people were killed, and 4 others were wounded in a shooting inside a Waffle House at 3571 Murfreesboro Pike in Antioch near Pin Hook Road.
The shooting took place at approximately 3:30 a.m. Sunday. According to police at the scene, a white man who was wearing a green jacket went into the restaurant and started firing. They described the gun he used as an AR-15. Police are still searching for him at this time.
At least one victim was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in critical condition.
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April 21, 2018 at 10:43 pm
Baltimore, MD – Apr. 22, 2018 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Helaine Benesh Schaffer, z’l, MSW, LCSW-C, loving mother of Gabriella Berkow; beloved wife of the late Lt. Col. Brett Schaffer; adored sister of Dr. Samuel (Elaine) Benesh; devoted daughter of the late Gertude Goldberg, Dr. Raymond Goldberg, Leonard Benesh, and Adele Benesh; loving companion of Arnold Politzer; dear step-mother of David (Katherine) Schaffer, and Erica (Michael) Schaffer; step-sister of Nancy Weiss, Robert Goldberg, and Gary Abrams. She was the most selfless, kindest, supportive, loving, caring, compassionate, brilliant,and fun person to all of those who knew her. She helped the hearts and lives of her family and friends, and the thousand...
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April 21, 2018 at 10:42 pm
A 50-year-old Jewish man was severely beaten and nearly choked to death while walking home from Shabbos prayer services at a nearby synagogue.
The incident occurred at around 2:30pm on Rutland Road near Schenectady Avenue as the victim was returning home from prayer services at a synagogue in the nearby Kingsbrook Jewish Hospital.
Speaking to CrownHeights.info the victim described the harrowing attack in vivid detail; “As I was walking home I passed a man smoking a cigar on the corner of Rutland and Schenectady and I said ‘good afternoon’ to him,” he said, adding that it’s a nice neighborhood and everyone is close.
“As soon as [I greeted] him he began yelling at me ‘you fake Jews, who are you saying hello to? Your fake Jews and you stole all my ...
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April 21, 2018 at 10:24 pm
Israel Katz thus holds Hamas responsible for Islamic Jihad’s threats to kill Israeli soldiers and generals
Israel’s Intelligence minister, Israel Katz, said on Friday that targeted killings of Hamas leadership will be renewed if Islamic Jihad follows through on Thursday’s threats to kill Israeli soldiers and generals.
“The threats by the PIJ Terror organization to shoot at IDF officers by snipers from Gaza, constitutes crossing a red line. Hamas must know that any attack on IDF commanders at the border to Gaza will immediately lead to a renewal of targeted killings of the Hamas leadership.”
Katz thus holds Hamas responsible for Islamic Jihad’s video which shows fighters from the militant group lining up their sniper rifles on a staircase and t...
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April 21, 2018 at 10:17 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into whether AT&T, Verizon and a standards-setting group worked together to stop consumers from easily switching wireless carriers.
The companies confirmed the inquiry in separate statements late Friday in response to a report in The New York Times.
The U.S. government is looking into whether AT&T, Verizon and telecommunications standards organization GSMA worked together to suppress a technology that lets people remotely switch wireless companies without having to insert a new SIM card into their phones.
The Times, citing six anonymous people familiar with the inquiry, reported that the investigation was opened after at least one device maker and one other wireless company filed complai...
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April 21, 2018 at 10:14 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The No. 3 House Republican leader has been released from a hospital after follow-up surgery related to the wounds he received from a shooting at a GOP baseball practice 10 months ago.
Rep. Steve Scalise (skuh-LEES') of Louisiana is out of MedStar Washington Hospital Center after successful surgery Monday and is expected to recover at home for several days.
That's according to a statement from the medical center and his office. An earlier statement said he had "a series of planned, inpatient procedures."
Scalise suffered shattered bones and damaged internal organs in the June shooting that left him near death. U.S. Capitol Police and other officers killed the gunman, who held grievances against President Donald Trump and the GOP.
Scalise's viewed a...
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April 21, 2018 at 10:11 pm
A 23-year-old Cleveland man has been arrested for allegedly leaving harassing telephone messages, which at the time were described as “anti-Semitic,” “vile” and “blasphemous,” at Heights Jewish Center Synagogue in University Heights, Temple Israel Ner Tamid in Mayfield Heights and Northern Hills Synagogue in Cincinnati back in January.
Abdulrahman Abukhalil was arrested on April 17 on two counts of harassing communication and was transported to University Heights Police Department jail, according to a University Heights police.
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April 21, 2018 at 10:03 pm
BEIRUT (AP) — Chemical weapons inspectors collected samples from Syria's Douma on Saturday, two weeks after a suspected gas attack there followed by retaliatory strikes by Western powers on the Syrian government's chemical facilities.
The site visit, confirmed by the Organization of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, would allow the agency to proceed with an independent investigation to determine what chemicals, if any, were used in the April 7 attack that medical workers said killed more than 40 people.
Douma was the final target of the government's sweeping campaign to seize back control of the eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus from rebels after seven years of revolt. Militants gave up the town days after the alleged attack.
The U.S., France, and Britain blamed...
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April 21, 2018 at 9:54 pm
Former first lady Barbara Bush has been laid to rest at her husband's presidential library in Texas.
Family spokesman Jim McGrath says the ceremony was "a very brief but poignant and beautiful ending to a very moving and incredible day. It would have been exactly what Barbara Bush wanted."
About 1,500 people attended a private funeral earlier Saturday in Houston for the wife of former President George H.W. Bush. He and the couple's son, former President George W. Bush, were among four former U.S. presidents at the service.
Barbara Bush was buried in a gated plot at her husband's presidential library at Texas A&M University in College Station, which is about 100 miles (161 kilometers) from Houston. The couple's daughter Robin is also buried there. She wa...
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April 21, 2018 at 9:51 pm
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea announced that it will suspend nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missile launches ahead of its summits with Seoul and Washington, but stopped short of suggesting it has any intention of giving up its hard-won nuclear arsenal.
The announcement, which sets the table for further negotiations when the summits begin, was made by leader Kim Jong Un at a meeting of the North Korean ruling party's Central Committee on Friday. It was reported by the North's state-run media early Saturday.
Kim justified the suspension to his party by saying the situation around North Korea has been rapidly changing "in favor of the Korean revolution" since he announced last year that his country had completed its nuclear forces.
He said North Korea ...
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April 21, 2018 at 9:49 pm
PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. health officials on Friday told consumers to throw away any store-bought romaine lettuce they have in their kitchens and warned restaurants not to serve it amid an E. coli outbreak that has sickened more than 50 people in several states.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded its warning about tainted romaine from Arizona, saying information from new illnesses led it to caution against eating any forms of the lettuce that may have come from the city of Yuma. Officials have not found the origin of the contaminated vegetables.
Previously, CDC officials had only warned against chopped romaine by itself or as part of salads and salad mixes. But they are now extending the risk to heads or hearts of romaine lettuce.
People at an Alaska correctio...
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April 21, 2018 at 9:44 pm
Investigators have arrested two female juveniles after a pregnant teacher was carjacked at Villa Cresta Elementary School, Baltimore County police told WBAL-TV 11 News early Saturday afternoon.
The incident occurred on Friday.
Four girls in their late teens carjacked the woman, who is in the early stages of pregnancy, at around 12:22 p.m., police spokeswoman Officer Jennifer Peach said.
The four girls were buzzed into the school when they said they were there to ask about registering a child. After talking to office staff, they left the school and were in the parking lot as the victim was walking to her car, carrying her purse and cell phone. They approached the teacher and knocked the phone out of her hand. The teacher turned to run but fell, dropping her purse. The girls took the ph...
