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July 18, 2018 at 5:17 pm
Israel continues its path towards becoming a major player in biomedical technology following vote of confidence in Israeli ecosystem from three life science giants
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. July 18th, 2018 - Eli Cohen, Israeli Minister of Economy and Industry: “The decision by these three multinationals to operate in Israel is an important vote of confidence in the State of Israel and the Israeli economy. Expanding these R&D centers will help position Israel as a leading player in the field of biomedicine, while creating high quality jobs in the fields of engineering and manufacturing, generating additional exports worth billions of dollars. These three companies join 320 other foreign multinationals active in Israel, positioning the country as an international leader in inno...
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July 18, 2018 at 5:06 pm
Baltimore, MD - July 18, 2018 - 4:57 PM - A Carnival - created by 7-11 year olds - benefitting Ahavas Yisrael, is happening now at 3809 Menlo Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21215
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July 18, 2018 at 4:55 pm
Baltimore, MD – July 18, 2018 – This Public Service Announcement is to notify the community of a portable speed camera newly placed directly across the street from Cross Country Elementary School near the corner of Pinkney Road on Cross Country Blvd.Please be advised...
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July 18, 2018 at 4:51 pm
Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger said the Baltimore County police officer who opened fire on theft suspects in Rosedale after a vehicular pursuit will not face charges.
A Baltimore County grand jury on Wednesday declined to indict Officer First Class McCain, Shellenberger's office said, after hearing the facts of the case and viewing body-worn camera video.
Baltimore County doesn't release the first names of officers involved with shootings, per an agreement with the police union. McCain, however, was also involved in a fatal shooting last year while working off-duty security at a Catonsville grocery store. Prosecutors ruled that shooting justified. He was also involved in a combat shooting in 2006 that didn't result in a fatality.
The ...
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July 18, 2018 at 4:25 pm
The job posting for the next Baltimore police commissioner was posted Wednesday as the city seeks its third commissioner in three years.
At the same time, the mayor made it clear Wednesday that Interim Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle is very much in the running.
The job posting is four pages long and spells out the challenge of the job. Among its requirements: "Experience working through a consent decree in a community that has residents who suffer from strained relationships with police together with high crime, poverty and public health challenges in a large city and in a tense labor relations environment is highly preferred."
Mayor Catherine Pugh said Wednesday that she has received as many as seven applications, but Tuggle seems to have an inside track....
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July 18, 2018 at 4:15 pm
Detroit - Ford is recalling about 550,000 cars and SUVs in North America to fix a gearshift problem that could cause the vehicles to roll away unexpectedly.
The recall covers certain 2013 through 2016 Fusion sedans and some 2013 and 2014 Escape small SUVs.
Ford says a bushing that attaches the shifter cable to the transmission can fall off. If this happens, the driver could shift into park but the vehicle could be in another gear. That could let the vehicle roll, increasing the risk of injury or crash.
The company says it doesn’t know of any crashes or injuries. Ford is advising owners to use the parking brake.
Dealers will replace the shifter bushing at no cost. Owners will be notified by July 30. Parts should be available late this quarter.
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July 18, 2018 at 4:13 pm
New York - Soy and almond drinks that bill themselves as “milk” may need to consider alternative language after a top regulator suggested the agency may start cracking down on use of the term.
The Food and Drug Administration signaled plans to start enforcing a federal standard that defines “milk” as coming from the “milking of one or more healthy cows.” That would be a change for the agency, which has not aggressively gone after the proliferation of plant-based drinks labeled as “milk.”
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb talked about the plans this week, noting there are hundreds of federal “standards of identity” spelling out how foods with various names need to be manufactured.
“The question becomes, have we been enforcin...
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July 18, 2018 at 4:13 pm
Albany, NY - Public health and agriculture officials are warning New York residents, farms and visitors to take precautions outdoors as a new tick species has been found in the state.
The Departments of Health and Agriculture and Markets issued a warning Tuesday for an insect commonly known as the “longhorned tick,” which was recently discovered in multiple locations in Westchester County.
Health experts worked with researchers at Fordham University in the Bronx and at New York Medical College to identify the new species. The identifications were confirmed by researchers at Rutgers University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Officials say the tick can also pose a threat to livestock. The tick is native to the Pacific region but has been found recently in New Jersey, V...
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July 18, 2018 at 4:11 pm
Rabbi Haim Druckman says Moshe Nissim's Conversion Law outline would solve issue of illegitimate conversions, should not be opposed.
Rabbi Haim Druckman, head of Yeshivat Or Etzion and chairman of the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva and Ulpanot network, explained in an interview with Arutz Sheva why he believes the Conversion Law formulated by former minister Moshe Nissim should not be dismissed.
"This is not the lesser evil, but rather a good thing," Rabbi Druckman said. "In the reality that exists without the Conversion Law, the whole issue of conversion is being eroded and severely damaged, because the Supreme Court has already recognized private conversions, albeit by an haredi court. If there is no law that prevents this, then there should be such a law."
"Without a law, the en...
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July 18, 2018 at 4:09 pm
Ex-Chief Rabbi Lau and son, the current chief rabbi, slam attempts to weaken Chief Rabbinate, at conference against conversion reforms.
The former chief rabbi, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, sharply criticized proposed conversion reforms and attempts to weaken the rabbinate in Israel.
Legislation proposed by a committee headed by former Likud MK Moshe Nissim would create a state-run authority, distinct from the Chief Rabbinate, that would oversee conversions.
"The Chief Rabbinate will remain like a chief of staff without soldiers, a general without fighters. For matters related to the honor of Heaven - do not retreat, do not give up, fight for truth, the truth of the Torah. What belongs to the Torah of Israel is the basis, and for this we are fighting," said Rabbi Lau."It is not easy to be a...
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July 18, 2018 at 12:50 pm
Washington - The body of a Secret Service agent who died in Scotland during President Donald Trump’s overseas trip was being returned to the United States on Wednesday.
Special Agent Nole E. Remagen suffered a stroke Monday during Trump’s trip to Belgium, the United Kingdom, Scotland and Finland. The 19-year veteran died in Scotland on Tuesday. He was surrounded by immediate family and Secret Service colleagues.
“Our hearts are filled with sadness over the loss of a beloved and devoted Special Agent, husband, and father,” President Donald Trump said in a statement. “Our prayers are with Special Agent Remagen’s loved ones, including his wife and two young children. We grieve with them and with his Secret Service colleagues, who have lost a friend and a ...
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July 18, 2018 at 12:50 pm
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Nineteen people drowned when a boat loaded with as many as 150 people who were thought to be migrants capsized off the northern coast of Cyprus, a Turkish Cypriot official said Wednesday.
Tolga Atakan, the transport minister in the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus, told The Associated Press that rescue crews were searching for 25 missing passengers in an area where a passing cargo ship reported spotting people in the water.
The Turkish coast guard said it rescued 103 of the capsized vessel's passengers and took them to Turkey. One seriously injured person was being treated at a hospital in the northern part of Cyprus' capital, Nicosia, Atakan said.
Atakan said the nationalities of the passengers have not been confirmed. When asked if th...
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July 18, 2018 at 11:49 am
Chief Rabbinate informs public: Artichoke forbidden to eat by Rabbinate served in restaurant holding Tzohar kosher certification.
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel, which is waging a quiet battle against restaurants and businesses joining the Tzohar Rabbinical Association alternate kashrut network, informs the public that a product prohibited by the Chief Rabbinate for eating is being served in a restaurant enjoying Tzohar certification.
The product is an artichoke imported from Italy. Laboratory tests conducted by the Chief Rabbinate found them highly infested, and they were therefore not approved by the Chief Rabbinate's import department.
Chief Rabbinate enforcement head Rabbi Rafi Yochai published a document last year warning rabbis and kashrut inspectors not ...
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July 18, 2018 at 11:47 am
DETROIT (AP) — In March of 2016, Keith Reynolds flew from California to Atlanta so he could claim his spot in line at 4 a.m., and get a three-hour head start on his West Coast competitors.
Tesla was taking $1,000 deposits for its new electric car, the Model 3, priced starting at $35,000. And Reynolds had to have one. He managed to land near the top of the waiting list.
Flash forward more than two years, through much-publicized production delays. Reynolds is still waiting.
And now, like others in the U.S. on a waiting list of about 420,000 worldwide, he worries that the looming phaseout of a $7,500 federal tax credit will put the cost of the car out of his reach.
"The tax credit was going to be huge," says Reynolds, 45, who works in digital advertising, lives in Laguna Hills, Cali...
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July 18, 2018 at 11:46 am
Detroit - Marriott International plans to remove plastic straws and drink stirrers from all of its 6,500 hotels and resorts worldwide by next year.
The world’s largest hotel company said Wednesday that the move will eliminate approximately 1 billion straws and 250 million stirrers by July 2019.
Bethesda, Maryland-based Marriott says the year-long timeframe will let hotels deplete their existing supplies and identify alternatives to plastic straws. Customers will be given alternatives upon request.
Marriott is the latest big company to ditch plastic straws. Starbucks and American Airlines announced plans to eliminate plastic straws last week. Hilton Hotels and Hyatt Hotels Corp. have also said they plan to stop using plastic straws by the end of this year.
The push to ban the stra...
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July 18, 2018 at 11:38 am
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
Hundreds of matzeivos in Yerushalayim’s Har Menuchos cemetery have been damaged in what appears to be a vandalism attack by persons seeking to grab the precious metals.
This includes damage to the actual tombstones as well as the small openings affixed to permit placing a yahrzeit light inside. The doors of these openings have been torn off, at times, presumably stolen for their metallic value by weight. The damage is primarily to the plots belonging to a veteran chevra kadisha, not far from the kever of the Sephardi Rav of Yerushalayim, HaGaon HaRav Shalom Mashash ZT”L.
Those who have been exposed to this sight are family members who have recently come to visit the kevarim of their loved ones. “A hole was made in my father’s matzeivah&rd...
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July 18, 2018 at 11:33 am
New York - The S&P 500 hovered at five-month highs on Wednesday, with gains in financial and industrial stocks due to strong earnings from marquee companies offsetting losses in the technology and energy sectors.
On a day when highly valued tech stocks were one of the biggest drags on the benchmark index, Amazon.com Inc became the second company after Apple to top $900 billion in market value before retreating.
Morgan Stanley rose 3.3 percent after its profit topped analysts’ estimates on gains in fixed income and equities trading businesses.
Berkshire Hathaway’s Class B shares rose 3.9 percent and were the biggest boost to the S&P 500 after the company eliminated a restriction on its ability to buy back its stocks.
The S&P financial sector <.SPSY> ros...
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July 18, 2018 at 11:32 am
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
The chareidi civil service not only failed to meet its recruitment goals, but also failed in its social and economic goals while hardly contributing to the integration of chareidim into the economy. This is the conclusion of a new study by Assaf Malchi, a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute.
The study is of particular importance because, as part of the exemption from recruitment law, the intention is to extend the validity of the chareidi civilian service and even to set service goals for the army.
Malchi concludes that “the chareidi civilian service brings more economic and social harm than benefit, which is an empty policy tool – a false and partially failed civil service.” The study reveals that fewer than half of the service gradua...
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July 18, 2018 at 11:27 am
The following is via YWNMet Council already runs the largest kosher food distribution in the world and spends nearly $10 million on free kosher food distribution each year. Now, as part of their ongoing effort to provide even more and better food to the over 180,000 people every year they serve, CEO David G. Greenfield announced the creation of a new role – Food Czar – to fight for more food for the Jewish poor. “As the voice of Jewish poverty, it is our job to fight for the neediest New Yorkers. That’s why I decided to create a new position to be laser-focused on what the neediest New Yorkers need – more food.”
After searching far and wide for months, Met Council announced that Jessica Chait, formerly Chief of Staff to UJA-Federation’s CEO Eric G...
