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May 22, 2018 at 7:26 am
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Calling it a "historic step" toward justice, the Palestinian foreign minister asked the International Criminal Court on Tuesday to open an "immediate investigation" into alleged Israeli "crimes" committed against the Palestinian people.
The development was sure to worsen the already troubled relations between the internationally backed Palestinian Authority and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. Peace talks have been frozen for over four years, and contacts between the two sides are minimal.
Speaking to reporters at the ICC in The Hague, Netherlands, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said he submitted the "referral" to the court during a meeting with the ICC's chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda.
The referral sought a...
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May 21, 2018 at 11:49 pm
Baltimore, MD – May 22, 2018 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Mrs.Alicia Tron, z’l, mother of Sebi (Matisyahu) Tron.
The Levaya is taking place overseas and Sebi will unfortunately not be able to travel in time so he will begin Shiva immediately at his home through Monday AM: 2804 Laurelwood Court
MInyanim: Weekday Shacharis at 7:00am [Sunday & Monday Shacharis 8:00am] Mincha/Maariv at 8:05pm Friday Mincha 5pm Motzei Shabbos Maariv 9:12pm
Visiting hours are from 7am to 9:30pm
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
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May 21, 2018 at 11:02 pm
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
An IDF soldier was attacked on Monday afternoon, 7 Sivan, after entering Meah Shearim in a vehicle. Objects were hurled at his vehicle shortly before 1:00PM. He phoned the police explaining the situation, and that he was on Haran Street. Dozens of extremists began hurling objects at the vehicle.
Police arrived, with some making their way to the vehicle, escorting him out to additional waiting police. Police then began trying to identify persons who participated in the attack.
Police officials released a statement they will not tolerated attacks against uniformed persons and...read more at YWN
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May 21, 2018 at 10:56 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says that he will "demand" that the Justice Department open an investigation into whether the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign.
The extraordinary order on Sunday came hours before his legal team said that the special counsel indicated its investigation into the president could be concluded by September.
The Justice Department said later it had asked its internal watchdog to expand its existing probe of FBI actions.
Trump's demand is part of the White House's aggressive new strategy to combat the threat posed by special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation into the Russia probe.
The president's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, tells The Associated Press that Mueller recently shared a timetable that suggested tha...
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May 21, 2018 at 10:37 pm
We spend a lot of time thinking about and talking about nutrition and calories. Is this food fattening? Is that good for us? How processed is this? But even the healthiest choices can cause us to feel sick and put our stomach and digestive tracks in great distress if not handled correctly. At times, you might have noticed, particularly after eating at a catered affair or eating out in a restaurant that you don’t feel right. Perhaps you get a stomach ache, diarrhea, nausea or worse. Sometimes, you might get a little cold or upper respiratory infection. One in six people in the United States get sick each year from contaminated food. One of my clients, Yitzy, was really doing well in our program. He was dropping weight and his level...
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May 21, 2018 at 10:34 pm
Before Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes, attended the opening of the Paraguayan Embassy in Jerusalem, in the Malha Technology Park, Cartes stopped at Beit Hanasi and met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
The Paraguayan delegation was escorted by an official motorcade with motorcycles and VIP limousines. After a red carpet arrival and greeting by President Rivlin, President Cartes signed the official guest book in Spanish.
Translation of comment:
"I want to express in these lines, my great affection and admiration for this country that I love so much, Israel. I am renewing my appreciation and wish you to have better days in the future."
Further in their remarks, the presidents exchanged friendly and warm comment, including invitations to each others countries.
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May 21, 2018 at 10:18 pm
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Global stock markets rose on Monday as the United States and China put a trade war on hold, clearing some uncertainty for investors.
KEEPING SCORE: Britain's FTSE 100 was up 0.6 percent at 7,823 and France's CAC 40 rose 0.5 percent to 5,642. The German market was closed for a holiday. Futures augured gains on Wall Street. S&P futures rose 0.6 percent while Dow futures advanced 0.9 percent.
ASIA'S DAY: Asian markets closed mostly higher. Japan's Nikkei 225 rose 0.3 percent to 23,002.37. Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 0.6 percent to 31,234.35, while the Shanghai Composite Index advanced 0.6 percent to 3,213.84. South Korea's Kospi added 0.2 percent to 2,465.57. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 inched down 0.1 percent to 6,084....
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May 21, 2018 at 10:07 pm
Baltimore, MD - May 18, 2018 - The Baltimore community welcomed HaRav Yisroel Reisman, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Torah Vodaas, pulpit rabbi, noted author, and popular lecturer, for a special presentation on Wednesday evening, May 16. The occasion was a siyum of all of the Neviim and Kesuvim by a small devoted chabura led by HaRav Yissachar Frand, shlita. In his introductory remarks, Rabbi Frand noted that he had served as a scholar in residence at Rabbi Reisman's shul during the past year, so that this night's lecture had an element of reciprocity.
The Baltimore Connection
In truth, there are deeper connections between these two talmidei chachomim. Both Rabbi Reisman and Rabbi Frand have given exceptionally popular weekly lectures for decades within the same genre of Torah sc...
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May 21, 2018 at 9:56 pm
LANGLEY, Va. (AP) — New CIA Director Gina Haspel pledged to send more spies into the field during her swearing-in Monday as President Donald Trump offered up praise for the rank-and-file, who felt snubbed during his first visit to the headquarters of the premier U.S. intelligence agency.
"We must learn from the past, but we cannot dwell in the past," said Haspel, whose ascent from undercover operative to the top job was challenged because of her role in a program to harshly detain and interrogate terror suspects after 9/11.
"We must constantly learn, adjust, improve and strive to be better. We demand it of ourselves and America deserves nothing less," she said, drawing loud applause from her co-workers assembled inside the headquarters at Langley, in northern Virginia.
Haspel, 61,...
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May 21, 2018 at 9:47 pm
BALTIMORE (AP) — The last time Darryl De Sousa raised his hand and swore under oath he was being authorized as Baltimore's top police commander. On Monday, he took a very different kind of oath as he made his initial court appearance on criminal tax charges.
With over a dozen supporters watching in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Darryl De Sousa briefly appeared before a federal magistrate to hear a routine reading of the three misdemeanor charges against him. He was not required to enter a plea.
U.S. prosecutors allege that De Sousa "willfully" failed to file tax returns for 2013, 2014 and 2015. De Sousa has admitted his failure to file federal and state taxes for those years but has portrayed it as an oversight, saying he didn't "sufficiently prioritize" his personal ...
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May 21, 2018 at 9:45 pm
PERRY HALL, Md. (AP) — Rifle-toting police swarmed into a Baltimore suburb where a female officer was fatally injured Monday, searching for suspects believed to be armed after witnesses reported hearing a pop and seeing the officer run over by a Jeep.
Residents in a leafy community of suburban homes where the officer was injured described seeing her on the ground, badly hurt. Several people tried to keep her alive, but she was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Tony Kurek told The Associated Press his adult son was outside in the family's yard Monday afternoon in the northeast Baltimore County community of Perry Hall when the son saw the officer with her gun drawn, confronting the occupants of a Jeep.
"The next thing he heard was a pop, and he saw the Jeep take off and run ...
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May 21, 2018 at 9:41 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unlike the president, Robert Mueller hasn't uttered one word in public about his Russia investigation in the year since he was appointed special counsel. And that is rattling just about everyone involved.
What's he up to? When will he bring the probe to an end?
He doesn't have to say, and he's not.
A year into the investigation, the stern-looking prosecutor is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. In that time, the breadth and stealth of investigations surrounding President Donald Trump have unsettled the White House and its chief occupant, and have spread to Capitol Hill, K Street, foreign governments and, as late as last week, corporate boardrooms.
With lawmakers eying midterm elections and Trump publicly mulling whether he will sit for ...
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May 21, 2018 at 9:40 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. met during the 2016 campaign with a private military contractor and an adviser to Middle Eastern leaders, both of whom have since become a focus of investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller, a lawyer for President Donald Trump's eldest son said Saturday.
Erik Prince, an informal adviser to the Trump campaign and former head of Blackwater, and George Nader, a veteran operative who has advised the United Arab Emirates and helped American contractors secure business in the Middle East, met with Trump Jr. at Trump Tower to discuss a social media proposal, lawyer Alan Futerfas said in a statement.
"They pitched Mr. Trump Jr. on a social media platform or marketing strategy. He was not interested and that was the end of it," Futerfas...
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May 21, 2018 at 9:37 pm
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A 20-year-old Palestinian is in critical condition Sunday after publicly setting himself on fire but his motives remain unclear with family believing he was despairing over Gaza's dire living conditions and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules the territory, alleging personal problems.
Suicide is strictly forbidden in Islam and cases are rare in conservative Gaza but dozens were reported last year. Several cases of self-immolation have also been reported in Gaza over the past years. This was the first time, however, that one was filmed and posted online.
In the brief nighttime clip, Fathi Harb is already ablaze in front of a residential building. Onlookers rush to put out the fire with rugs and water.
Majda, the young man's mother, to...
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May 21, 2018 at 9:34 pm
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Portuguese theater director has cancelled his attendance at a major cultural festival opening in Jerusalem this week over Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
Tiago Rodrigues said he was dropping out of the Israel Festival so that his work will not "condone and promote a government that deliberately violates human rights." In a Facebook post on Thursday, he said he was joining a global cultural boycott of Israel that has seen some artists and musicians refuse to perform in Israel.
Rodrigues, who is also an actor and playwright, said he rejected the fact that the festival was not openly critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians while working in cooperation with Israeli government ministries.
The annual Israel Festival, which hosts Israeli an...
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May 21, 2018 at 9:32 pm
BEIT JALLA, West Bank (AP) — A small crowd of Palestinian protesters in the West Bank on Monday pelted an American diplomatic vehicle with eggs to protest the recent move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
The incident drew an angry American response and deepened a crisis in relations that has followed the U.S. Embassy decision.
The State Department said the diplomats were on a visit to "promote educational and cultural exchange" in the West Bank when they were accosted.
"The objective was clearly intimidation. The United States absolutely opposes the use of violence and intimidation to express political views," the statement said.
The protesters gathered as members of the delegation from the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem walked to their vehicle. The crowd held signs and shouted at ...
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May 21, 2018 at 9:30 pm
JERUSALEM (AP) — Paraguay opened its new embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, following in the footsteps of the United States and Guatemala.
President Horacio Cartes dedicated the embassy, making Paraguay the third country to transfer its diplomatic mission in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Romania, the Czech Republic and Honduras have said they are also considering doing the same.
President Donald Trump's announcement on Jerusalem in December was welcomed by the Israeli government. But it infuriated the Palestinians, who claim Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem as their future capital.
The U.S. Embassy move added fuel to the weekly Palestinian protests in Gaza demanding the right of return to Israel and the lifting of a decade-old naval blockade. The protests culminated last Mon...
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May 21, 2018 at 9:27 pm
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is alert and making a swift recovery after being hospitalized with a fever over the weekend and should be released within days, an aide and a hospital doctor said Monday.
Saeb Erekat said Abbas is in "very good health" after spending several hours visiting the Palestinian leader in a Ramallah hospital Monday.
"He's recovering and doctors expect him to leave the hospital within the coming two days," Erekat said.
Dr. Said Sarahneh, the medical director of Ramallah's Istishari Hospital, said Abbas had been diagnosed with pneumonia and responded to treatment quickly.
Later Monday, Abbas' office released a photo and brief video clip showing him walking in the hospital hallway, dressed in a blue bathrobe and flanked by...
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May 18, 2018 at 5:33 pm
Baltimore, MD - May 18, 2018- Reposted upon request:Baltimore, MD - Jan. 19, 2018 - Reposted upon request:
Baltimore, MD - June 9, 2016 - Important Letter to the Baltimore CoBaltimore, MD - Nov. 10, 2017 - Reposted upon request:
Baltimore, MD - June 9, 2016 - Important Letter to the Baltimore Community from the Vaad HaRabbbonim of Baltimore
Text of the above letter
Erev Shabbos, Parshas Bamidbar 5776
To our Dear Community Members,
We are privileged to live in a beautiful community of Torah and Chesed. But we must be aware and ever vigilant of our surroundings. Crime is an unfortunate reality with which we must contend. City and County police work hard to protect the citizens of our community day and night. Communal organizations like Northwest Citizens Patrol (NWCP0 and S...
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May 18, 2018 at 5:32 pm
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Friday it believes North Korea remains committed to improving relations despite strongly criticizing Seoul over ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills and insisting it will not return to talks unless its grievances are resolved.
South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Baek Tae-hyun said Seoul expects North Korea to faithfully abide by the agreements between its leader, Kim Jong Un, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in at their summit last month. The leaders issued a vague vow on the "complete denuclearization" of the peninsula and pledged permanent peace.
"We are just at the starting point and we will not stop or waver as we move forward for peace in the Korean Peninsula," Baek said.
North Korea has taken repeated verbal shots at...
