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October 12, 2018 at 4:01 pm
Beirut - The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah made no mention of weapons capability on Friday in his first speech since Israel claimed that the Islamic militant group has a missile-launching facility near Beirut’s international airport.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah’s comments were his first since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month— holding up an aerial image of the alleged missile sites — accused Hezbollah in a speech before the U.N. General Assembly of setting up rocket factories near Beirut’s airport and using civilian infrastructure to hide them.
Nasrallah made no direct comment about the allegations, only saying “we should not help the enemy in its psychological war against our country, people and government.”
“Deliveri...
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October 12, 2018 at 3:35 pm
Today, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, submitted comments to the U.S. Treasury Department expressing deep concern over proposed tax regulations that would undermine state-sponsored scholarship programs that enable thousands of students to attend Jewish day schools.
The proposed regulations are to implement the new limits to the deductibility of the State and Local Tax (SALT) payments contained in the new tax law Congress passed last year. The proposed regulations would provide that individual taxpayers who receive a state or local tax credit for contributing to state-supported scholarship programs would have to reduce any charitable deduction for that contribution on their federal taxes by the amoun...
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October 12, 2018 at 3:31 pm
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
Rishon L’Tzion HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef, during a recent shiur, told a remarkable story of how a meeting between him and the head of the Mossad led to releasing an agunah, for the Mossad confirmed her husband was dead, murdered in Belgium.
According to an exclusive Kikar Shabbos News report, a meeting between a dayan selected by the Russian mafia led to the information, and the Mossad confirmed the man in question had indeed been murdered in Belgium, permitting the Chief Rabbi to release the agunah.
The Rishon L’Tzion explained, there was a young chareidi woman named Chana, who was in her 30s. Her husband, who was Bukharin, disappeared. The case was brought before former Rishon L’Tzion HaGaon HaRav Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron during his tenure, but...
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October 12, 2018 at 3:30 pm
Brooklyn, NY - The lawyer for a Williamsburg resident whose conviction in the 2013 early morning beating of an aspiring fashion designer was overturned by an appellate court called the decision a disturbing lesson on the misuse of DNA evidence.
Mayer Herskovic, the only man to stand trial in the assault on Taj Paterson that left the then 22 year old bruised, bloodied and blind in one eye, was sentenced to four years in prison in March 2017 and was facing a maximum 15 year sentence, as previously reported on VIN News (http://bit.ly/2ydTkGu).
Herskovic’s lawyer, Donna Aldea, filed an immediate stay of execution of judgment that kept him out of jail while the appeal was pending.
The decision to overturn Herskovic’s conviction came on Wednesday, with the appeals court ru...
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October 12, 2018 at 3:30 pm
New York - When Toys R Us closed its doors, customers mourned the loss of a beloved brand that conjured memories of their own childhood.
Retailers, on the other hand, saw an opportunity.
Rather than cede any more ground to online behemoth Amazon, companies like Target, Walmart and Party City ramped up their offerings. Now, ahead of the pivotal holiday season, they’re going even further by focusing on making their stores a dynamic shopping experience. That means creating play areas for kids, offering demos of new toys and staging events like scavenger hunts in the stores.
Retailers are trying to grab a piece of the nearly $3 billion left on the table by Toys R Us, or 12 percent of the U.S. toy market, according to NPD Group Inc., a market research group.
Last month, Party City ope...
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October 12, 2018 at 3:29 pm
New York - Woah, what was that?
After months of relative calm, Wall Street has been jolted by a sudden run of turbulent trading.
The swoon wiped more than 1,300 points from the Dow Jones Industrial Average over two days and dragged the benchmark S&P 500 index down more than 5 percent. The VIX index, which measures how worried traders are about a decline in stocks, climbed Thursday to its highest level since February, when the S&P last had a correction, or a 10 percent drop.
What now?
Experts say this new eruption of market volatility should not be surprising, especially after the long stretch of relative calm investors have enjoyed.
Over the summer, traders set aside worries about the escalating U.S.-China trade dispute and instead focused on more encouraging developments: sol...
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October 12, 2018 at 3:28 pm
New York - The internet is riddled with long-forgotten accounts on social media, dating apps and various shopping sites used once or twice. Sure, you should delete all those unused logins and passwords. And eat your vegetables. And go to the gym.
But is it even possible to delete your zombie online footprints — or worth your time to do so?
Earlier this month, a little-used social network notified its few users that it will soon shut down. No, not Google Plus; that came five days later, following the disclosure of a bug that exposed data on a half-million people. The earlier shutdown involved Path, created by a former Facebook employee in 2010 as an alternative to Facebook. Then there’s Ello sending you monthly emails to remind you that this plucky but little-known social netw...
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October 12, 2018 at 3:22 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says hackers accessed a wide swath of information — ranging from emails and phone numbers to more personal details like sites visited and places checked into — from millions of accounts as part of a security breach the company disclosed two weeks ago.
Twenty-nine million accounts had some form of information stolen. Originally Facebook said 50 million accounts were affected, but that it didn't know if they had been misused.
The news comes at a jittery time ahead of the midterm elections when Facebook is fighting off misuse of its site on a number of fronts . The company said Friday there's no evidence this is related to the midterms.
On Friday Facebook said hackers accessed names, email addresses or phone numbers f...
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October 12, 2018 at 2:43 pm
The following message and accompanying photo was posted to Facebook:
Sitting in the window seat on this flight to Israel is Roland. Who is Roland? A 54-year-old blue-collar worker from the south of Germany, Roland is a professional house painter by trade. He travels to Israel once or twice a year.
When Roland gets off the flight he will not go to the beach or to eat humus. He will meet up with several other professional German friends and together they will go wherever they are needed and renovate the homes of Holocaust survivors.
According to Roland, the work is extremely rewarding and redeeming because at some point he usually sees through the project that the Holocaust survivor’s heart fills with joy. Some even speak to him in German, a language they haven’t sp...
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October 12, 2018 at 2:43 pm
Parshas Noach / Baltimore Zmanim / Eruv is UP!
Baltimore, MD – Oct. 12, 2018
Parshas: Noach
Today: 3 MarCheshvan
Chatzos: 12:53 PM
Hadlakas Nairos: 6:14 PM
Shkiah: 6:32:17 PM
Tzais HaKochavim: 7:23 PM
Kiddush Levanah: Oct. 12, 2:40 PM through Oct. 24, 9:02 AM
Kiddush Levanah may only be said at night
BAHAB: Monday, Oct. 15, Thursday, Oct. 18, Monday, Oct. 22,
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October 12, 2018 at 1:38 pm
This is your last chance to RSVP for Agudath Israel of Maryland's 10th anniversary gala event on Sunday! While some people are excited to hear from Governor Larry Hogan and other elected officials, I am particularly looking forward to the tribute to Maryland's Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. David Fowler. I met Dr. Fowler together with Agudath Israel Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, Rabbi Ariel Sadwin, nine years ago (see article below), and I came away from the meeting amazed at how sensitive and accommodating the medical examiner was to the religious needs of our community.
The medical examiner is not a position most people think about on a regular basis. However, for families who suffer the tragic loss of a loved one, especially when it is an unexpected death or under unusual cir...
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October 12, 2018 at 1:15 pm
Hamburg, NY - New York’s most conservative congressional district is unexpectedly in play as Republican incumbent Chris Collins, one of President Donald Trump’s first supporters, fights insider trading charges while seeking re-election.
Republican leaders in a western New York district that Trump swept overwhelmingly in 2016 are counting on party and presidential loyalty, even if it means voting for someone that even they wanted off the ballot.
“This district is Trump country, and it will continue to be,” said Erie County Republican Party Chairman Nicholas Langworthy. “It’s a conservative Republican district, and I expect that when the dust settles on election night it will re-elect a conservative Republican to the seat.”
Democratic challenger N...
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October 12, 2018 at 12:57 pm
Washington - Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen balked at President Donald Trump’s growing attacks on the Fed and expressed confidence in her successor, Jerome Powell, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“The Fed is certainly not crazy in terms of what it’s doing,” Yellen said at the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, South Korea, the Journal reported Friday.
“Removing monetary policy accommodation is a thoroughly sensible strategy. It’s been well communicated,” Yellen added. Yellen led the Fed for four years.
Yellen said she has confidence in Powell.
Trump continued his attack on the Fed this week, saying Powell is making a mistake by being too stringent with monetary policy. He blamed the Fed for causing a massive drop in stocks this we...
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October 12, 2018 at 12:41 pm
Santa Monica, CA - A Southern California school district has suspended a teacher who recounted how a senior aide to President Trump ate glue as a third-grader.
Nikki Fiske told the Hollywood Reporter that when Stephen Miller was a student in her classroom, he was a loner with a messy desk who played with glue. She calls Miller “a strange dude.”
The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District placed Fiske on “home assignment” while it decides what to do, if anything, about the disclosures. The district says it’s concerned about the public release of student information.
The 72-year-old Fiske could not be reached for comment.
Miller, who was taught by Fiske in 1993, grew up to be a senior adviser at the White Hous...
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October 12, 2018 at 12:24 pm
Jerusalem - An Israeli court on Friday upheld the barring of an American student from the country over her alleged activities in support of an international boycott campaign by pro-Palestinian groups.
Lara Alqasem, 22, had filed an appeal with Tel Aviv District Court after being refused entry upon flying into Israel last week on a student visa. She has been held in an airport detention center. The court rejected the appeal on Friday. Read more at Reuters
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October 12, 2018 at 12:13 pm
Our 16 year-old son Aidan needs a kidney to live. Not necessarily your kidney, but someone's. You can help simply by sharing this post on FaceBook and elsewhere. Together we can find that angel willing to do the extraordinary by giving the gift of life to save our son Aidan.
Aidan has end-stage renal failure with only 21% kidney function remaining and dropping. Aidan needs an angel to step forward to save his life by donating a kidney (blood type O). Tall order. We know. It's a big ask. So we are not asking. But we are asking for help in another way - by sharing this post - even if you're not a donor. Sharing this website address (Kidney4Aidan.com) with a short message on Facebook or other social media mentioning Ki...
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October 12, 2018 at 11:49 am
ICANN has scheduled the Root Zone Key Signing Key (KSK) Rollover for today, and it could affect some DNS users all over the world.
By Rolling the KSK, ICANN implies that a new cryptographic public and private key pair will be generated and the private key will be distributed to internet service providers, enterprise network administrators, and Domain Name System (DNS) resolver operators.
KSK Rollover operations began in October 2016 and were scheduled for October 2017. However, ICANN announced that the rollover has been postponed due to the fact that “a significant number of resolvers used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Network Operators are not yet ready for the Key Rollover.”
A draft plan was announced on February 1, 2018, after receiving...
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October 12, 2018 at 11:49 am
The Trump administration’s often overlooked list of achievements has surpassed those of former President Reagan at this time and more than doubled since the last tally of accomplishments after his first year in office, giving President Trump a solid platform to run for reelection on.
As Trump nears the two-year mark of his historic election and conducts political rallies around the country during which he talks up his wins in hopes it will energize Republican voters, the administration has counted up 289 accomplishments in 18 categories, capped by the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
They include 173 major wins like adding more than 4 million jobs and another 116 smaller victories, some with outsized importance such as the 83 percent one-year increase...
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October 12, 2018 at 11:49 am
VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Air Force explosive experts removed a World War II-era artillery rocket that was being used as a garden decoration in a Florida neighborhood.
TCPalm.com reports the Army Corps of Engineers were working in a Vero Beach neighborhood Thursday when they noticed the 2-foot (0.6-meter) training rocket. They notified the explosives team at nearby Patrick Air Force Base. Members examined the rocket and said while it appeared to be disarmed it may still contain explosives.
The Vero Beach area was a major military training site during World War II and the Air Force believes the rocket came from that era. Contractors have mapped a 20,000-acre area they’re searching for buried World War II training ordnance.
Last year, a construction crew unearthed a la...
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October 12, 2018 at 11:40 am
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza's Health Ministry says five Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire at a protest near the fence dividing the territory and Israel.
The ministry said Friday that 50 other protesters were wounded by live bullets.
Thousands of Palestinians marched Friday after convening at five locations along the fence, burning tires and throwing rocks toward Israeli troops, who responded from across the barrier with tear gas and gunfire.
Gaza's Hamas rulers have staged near-weekly protests since March, pressing for an end to a stifling Israeli-Egyptian blockade.
Since the protests began, at least 150 Palestinians have been killed while participating or being present at the demonstrations. An Israeli soldier was also killed by a Gaza sniper in the s...
