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August 16, 2018 at 11:55 am
Lecha Dodi, the special Tefillah (Prayer) through which we greet the Shabbos every week, can be heard all around the world. Every shul (Synagogue) is filled with the beautiful tunes of this prayer as we welcome the Shabbos Queen into our homes and hearts. This song, composed and sung by the American composer and singer Dovid Listhaus and Refoel Reyfer, a French producer and composer, shows the beauty of this song being known across the Globe. Enjoy and let the warmth of Shabbos always fill our hearts.
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August 16, 2018 at 11:54 am
Indianapolis - Federal prosecutors say they’ve made arrests in connection to anti-Semitic graffiti that was spray-painted at a suburban Indianapolis synagogue last month.
U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler is scheduled to discuss the arrests Thursday during a news conference in Indianapolis.
Nazi flags and iron crosses were spray-painted on two walls of a brick shed at Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in Carmel, just north of Indianapolis. The vandalism was found on July 28.
Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard condemned the vandalism. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb cited the incident when he asked the Legislature to pass a hate crimes bill.
Indiana remains one of only five states without a hate crimes law. Republican Senate leaders killed legislation this year that targeted crimes motivated by bias.
Ho...
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August 16, 2018 at 11:53 am
Trump tweets: “There is nothing that I would want more for our Country than true FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. The fact is that the Press is FREE to write and say anything it wants, but much of what it says is FAKE NEWS, pushing a political agenda or just plain trying to hurt people. HONESTY WINS!”
Trump is sensitive about his media coverage and says the press is “fake” and the “enemy of the people.”
Trump also is criticizing The Boston Globe, which spearheaded the newspaper editorial campaign. He tweets that the Globe “is in COLLUSION with other papers on free press. PROVE IT!”
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August 16, 2018 at 11:41 am
Baltimore, MD – Aug. 16, 2018 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Hannah Lewitinn, Z’L, sister of Samuel Pottash
Mr. Pottash is sitting shiva in Deal, New Jersey until Shabbos and then Baltimore through Sunday morning. Shacharis on Sunday morning will be at 8:00 am, 6702 Chokeberry Rd., Baltimore, MD 21209
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
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August 16, 2018 at 11:16 am
Claiming that FBI investigations into Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Carter Page FISA warrant were “corrupt to the core,” U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to handle both probes.
Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said FBI investigators were “in the tank” for Clinton and the FISA warrant process was abused — possibly in a criminal fashion.
“What do you think Democrats would be saying if a Republican — if the RNC [Republican National Committee] — hired a former British agent to go to Russia to get dirt on [Hillary] Clinton?” Graham asked Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, host of “The Ingraham Angle.”
Read more at Fox News.
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August 16, 2018 at 11:13 am
Israeli cyber-intelligence firm ClearSky has warned that Hamas is attempting to implant spyware on the mobile phones of Israelis who download a fraudulent Red Alert rocket-siren app.
The company’s security researches said last week that the spyware redirects users to a fraudulent website to download the malicious app, and warned consumers to beware of downloading apps from fake Facebook profiles or botnets on Twitter.
Once downloaded, the app takes control of the phone, allowing hackers to exploit the full range of the phone’s abilities, including to track the user’s location, take photos, record audio, send messages and make calls. It cannot be removed from the phone once installed.
ClearSky also said that the attack is in its early stages, and is already being addres...
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August 16, 2018 at 8:43 am
Wildfires strike California every year. But they’re getting worse, causing deaths and uprooting communities. But who’s to blame for these increasingly destructive wildfires?
According to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, it’s “environmental terrorist groups.”
During a radio interview with Breitbart News, Zinke said that “environmental terrorist groups” are preventing the government from managing forests and are largely responsible for the severity of the fires. But fire scientists and forestry experts pointed out that climate change is the main factor behind the problem.
Zinke claimed during the interview that an overabundance of fuel load-things like twigs and leaves that make it possible for fires to burn-make fires more intense.
“There ha...
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August 16, 2018 at 8:43 am
For all the discussion of Obamacare since its passage, it is too rarely known that the law effectively split the United States’ individual insurance market in two.
One group of Americans – about 8 million enrollees in 2017 – now pay, on average, less than a quarter of the cost of their health insurance, receiving ever-growing taxpayer subsidies to insulate them from Obamacare’s high premiums. But there is a second group of Americans who have faced the full premium increases driven by the law’s broken regulations. Roughly 5 million Americans, as of 2017, have chosen to pay those premiums without any subsidies, while another 28 million Americans remain uninsured, many priced out of coverage entirely.
The law’s skyrocketing subsidies have kept subsidized ...
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August 16, 2018 at 8:28 am
London - After British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn stirred outrage earlier this week when pictures surfaced of him attending a 2014 wreath-laying ceremony for the terrorists who massacred 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, new pictures from the event emerged on Wednesday.
The pictures show Corbyn alongside Tunisian terror chief Maher al-Taher, whose group claimed responsibility for the 2014 Har Nof synagogue massacre.
In the November 2014 attack, four prominent rabbis and a police officer, including three US citizens and one British citizen, were brutally murdered when two Arab suspects from east Jerusalem’s Jabl Mukaber neighborhood stormed the Kehillat Bnei Torah Synagogue in Har Nof, wielding axes, knives and a pistol.
The two perpetrators of the attack, who were ...
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August 16, 2018 at 8:13 am
Washington - The nation’s newsrooms are pushing back against President Donald Trump with a coordinated series of newspaper editorials condemning his attacks on “fake news” and suggestion that journalists are the enemy.
The Boston Globe invited newspapers across the country to stand up for the press with editorials on Thursday, and several began appearing online a day earlier. Nearly 350 news organizations have pledged to participate, according to Marjorie Pritchard, op-ed editor at the Globe.
In St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch called journalists “the truest of patriots .” The Chicago Sun-Times said it believed most Americans know that Trump is talking nonsense. The Fayetteville, N.C. Observer said it hoped Trump would stop, “but we’re not holding ou...
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August 16, 2018 at 8:12 am
New York - Airbnb faces tightening regulations in New York City that could take a big bite out of its profits.
On Wednesday, the short-term rental company offered a counter-measure designed to appease hostile politicians: a $10 million contribution to charities helping people with rising rents, homelessness, health care and education.
The San Francisco-based company says this money is a taste of what New York’s city and state governments could reap if restrictions were loosened while imposing hotel-style taxes. Most rentals for fewer than 30 days now require the owner’s presence.
Last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a bill that requires Airbnb to reveal the names and addresses of hosts, allowing the city to crack down on illegal listings. Critics say they’re pushing ...
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August 16, 2018 at 8:12 am
New York - New York City unveiled an ambitious plan on Wednesday to replace the notorious Rikers Island jail complex with four smaller lockups located in densely populated neighborhoods, including turning an Art Deco government building that went up in lower Manhattan in 1930 into a tower for up to 1,500 inmates.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials said they envision more humane settings that would feature community space, ground-floor retail outlets and offices for inmate support services. A proposal for a Bronx facility even calls for rezoning a portion of the site to allow for development of affordable housing.
“We’re taking a big step forward in the process of closing Rikers Island and creating a modern community-based jail system that is smaller, safer and fair...
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August 16, 2018 at 8:10 am
Washington - Republican President Donald Trump is mocking New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s remarks that America “was never that great.”
In a tweet Wednesday night, Trump repeats Cuomo’s “it was never that great” comment made during a bill signing event earlier in the day. Trump then adds: “Can you believe this is the Governor of the Highest Taxed State in the U.S., Andrew Cuomo, having a total meltdown!”
The Democratic governor made the much-criticized remarks while bashing Trump and his slogan “Make America Great Again.”
Cuomo is seeking a third term this fall and is considered a potential White House contender in 2020.
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August 16, 2018 at 8:07 am
Washington - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his tariffs on foreign steel are saving the U.S. industry and he predicted that in the future American steelmakers will mostly face domestic competition, the Wall Street Journal reported.
In a 20-minute interview with the newspaper, Trump said some people may complain that steel prices may be “a little more expensive” in the short term because of the tariffs, but that ultimately they will drop. (https://on.wsj.com/2KYrku2)
He told the Journal the 25 percent tariffs on steel will rescue an industry important to U.S. national security.
As a result of the tariffs, competition will be “internal, like it used to be in the old days when we actually had steel, and U.S. Steel was our greatest company,” he told the new...
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August 16, 2018 at 8:06 am
Milan - As Italy comes to terms with the disaster of this week’s bridge collapse, the government is accusing the highway operator for focusing too much on its financial interests, putting a spotlight on the country’s management of vital infrastructure.
The Italian government lashed out Thursday at Atlantia, the holding company of the Benetton fashion family that owns highway operator Autostrade per l’Italia. Atlantia has lost a quarter of its market value in the first trading since the government said it would take steps to revoke the concession to run half of the nation’s toll highways following the deadly bridge collapse in Genoa.
Atlantia’s share price slid to 17.57 euros from 23.54 euros in early trading, burning 5 billion euros ($5.69 billion) in market...
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August 16, 2018 at 8:05 am
Washington - resident Donald Trump on Wednesday acted on a threat and revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, citing a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information. Brennan, who served in the Obama administration, had retained his security clearance, as is custom, but had also become an increasingly sharp critic of Trump’s.
Trump says he is reviewing security clearances for nine other individuals: James Clapper, James Comey, Michael Hayden, Sally Yates, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Bruce Ohr. Some have been publicly critical of the president, while others are linked to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference.
Trump calls the investigation a “witch hunt.&rdq...
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August 16, 2018 at 8:02 am
“Repent, Harlequin!” said the Ticktockman…
So, begins a short story by science fiction writer Harlan Ellison. In it, the character of the Harlequin is effectively “chased down” by the unrelenting Ticktockman. I am not prepared to critique this short story, nor am I able to determine all the symbolism intended by Ellison. What I do recall from reading this story is the powerful sense of how the modern world grinds down the precious individuality and integrity of life.
The story resonates because we have all internalized the sense of the modern world taking away the thing that makes us most essential.
Schools, which identify us not by our names but by our student identification numbers. Bureaucracies in which we simp...
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August 15, 2018 at 9:30 pm
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
A well known Gabbai Tzedakah from Eretz Yisrael was badly wounded in a crash on Ocean Parkway in Flatbush on Tuesday night.
Please be mispallel for Nosson ben Yehudis Yittel
Sources tell YWN that Nosson (Nati) Yaffe was sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle when the driver lost control near Ave K, striking an oncoming vehicle in the opposite direction head-on.
Flatbush Hatzalah responded to the scene within moments of the crash, at around 10:30PM, and transported Yaffe to Maimonides Hospital. Yaffe and the young bochur who was driving were enroute to daven Maariv at Laundau’s. The driver, as well as the driver of the other vehicle, were not as seriously wounded.
Yaffe was diagnosed with at least 13 broken ribs and a broken sternum bone....
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August 15, 2018 at 9:24 pm
CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials unveiled some additional strategies in combating Mexican drug cartels Wednesday in Chicago alongside members of the Mexican government, military and federal police, who said one priority was to capture the leader of the increasingly powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
A joint news conference with the officials side by side was a display of bilateral cooperation amid ongoing tensions over President Donald Trump's trade and immigration policies, including over his vow to build a wall along the nearly 2,000-mile (3,218-kilometer) U.S.-Mexican border.
The new plans include putting greater emphasis on attacking cartels' financial infrastructure and calling for a new enforcement group based in Chicago that will c...
