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October 15, 2018 at 2:39 pm
President Trump during an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday said he doesn’t “trust everybody” in the White House.
His comment came in response to one made by first lady Melania Trump during an interview last week, in which she said there are people who work in the West Wing she can’t trust.
“I feel the same way,” Trump told CBS’s Lesley Stahl on Sunday. “I don’t trust everybody in the White House. I’ll be honest with you.”
Read more at The Hill.
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October 15, 2018 at 2:36 pm
Several Jewish groups on Friday scolded Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price for sending a political mailer equating President Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler, Y'sh.
Price, who is not up for re-election this year, sent the mail ad to his constituents this week. The ad juxtaposed images of Trump and Hitler and compared the two point by point. For instance, it stated both men had “used racism to rise to power” and urged people to vote for Democratic candidates in the Nov. 6 election.
The Dallas-area organizations said that bringing up the Nazi leader for anything other than education or in reference to the Holocaust was “highly inappropriate and offensive.”
“This reference diminishes the inexpressible horror perpetrated and orchestrated by Adolf Hi...
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October 15, 2018 at 2:35 pm
Former President Jimmy Carter in a new interview said he regrets putting an end to playing “Hail to the Chief” whenever the president enters the room.
“I went too far in — because I did — I did away with all the ruffles and flourishes and that sort of thing for a little while. But it was so unpopular with the American public — because they wanted to show reverence to the president that I undid it,” Carter told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in a new interview on Sunday.
The conversation with Carter, 94, is part of an MSNBC special, “Headliners,” featuring Carter, who is the oldest living ex-U.S. president.
Read more at The Hill.
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October 15, 2018 at 2:33 pm
Israeli drones struck a spy device in southern Lebanon on Sunday night, according to Lebanese media reports.
The Naharnet news site said the explosion was heard in the southern town of Zrariyeh, near the Litani River, amid “heavy overflights” by Israeli drones.
Lebanese Armed Forces were called to the scene and opened an investigation into the incident, the report said. There was no comment from the Israel Defense Forces.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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October 15, 2018 at 2:30 pm
Sydney - Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison is open to recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to moving its embassy to the capital, Australian media reported on Monday.
Morrison is scheduled to make the announcement on Tuesday when he is to deliver a foreign policy statement explaining why Australia will vote “no” to recognizing the PA as the chair of an important bloc of nations called the G77 in the UN, The Australian reported.
Morrison is also expected to adopt a much tougher position against Iran, and announce a review whether Australia should follow the US and abandon the Iranian nuclear deal.
Morrison credited former Australian ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma for influencing his opinion on the embassy move.
“The previous discussion was...
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October 15, 2018 at 2:28 pm
Washington - President Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that he was “comfortable” in the White House after almost two years in office, despite political storms over immigration, tariffs and his nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“It was a little surreal to say I’m the president of the United States, but I think that’s true with everybody,” Trump told the CBS television news program “60 Minutes.”
“Even my friends, they don’t call me Donald, they call me Mr. President. And I say: ‘Will you please loosen up?’ I’ve learned on the job. I have.”
“Now I very much feel like POTUS,” Trump added, using the acronym for president of the United States.
The interview...
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October 15, 2018 at 2:25 pm
Lodi, CA - Authorities say a skydiver fell to her death when her parachute failed to open over California’s Centrall Valley.
The Stockton Record reported Monday that the veteran jumper was using her own equipment and the plane carrying her took off from the Skydive Lodi Parachute Center on Sunday. Her name has not been released.
The Record reported that at least 15 skydivers using the center have died in jumps between 1999 and 2017. Federal authorities raided the center in January following several similar fatalities over the last couple of years. The results of the investigation have not been announced. Two years ago, the industry’s licensing organization suspended 20 skydiving instructors. The U.S. Parachuting Association also ordered 120 instructors to undergo more trainin...
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October 15, 2018 at 2:19 pm
Beijing - Amid gathering gloom over the state of the Chinese economy, exporters of motorcycles, tractors, photocopiers and Christmas tree lighting will join thousands of other companies peddling their wares at China’s largest trade fair Monday.
Many of those exporters will have something in common - uncertainty over future U.S. orders as a trade war with the United States rages. The turmoil has added to concerns over the health of the Chinese economy, already under pressure from a cooling property market, a crackdown on corporate debt and risky lending practices, and a nationwide anti-pollution campaign.
The United States over the summer levied tariffs of up to 25 percent on $250 billion of Chinese goods as punishment for what it says are unfair trade practices by China. The latest...
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October 15, 2018 at 2:14 pm
Washington - President Donald Trump gazes out over his rally crowd and lets loose a stream of insults with a theatrical flourish and playful grin. He jabs at Cory Booker the “disaster” mayor, Elizabeth Warren the “Pocahontas” pretender and “sleepy” Joe Biden.
“I want to be careful,” Trump tells the crowd, feigning a confession. He doesn’t want to hit his potential challengers too badly, he says, because then the Democrats may find “somebody that’s actually good to run against me. That would not be good.”
The venue may be Council Bluffs, Iowa, or Erie, Pennsylvania, or Topeka, Kansas, but the formula is largely the same.
Start with a few derisive nicknames, mix in some dreamy-eyed reminiscences of Election Night 2016...
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October 15, 2018 at 2:04 pm
Washington - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday “rogue killers” may have been behind the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ordered an internal investigation into the case.
Trump said he had spoken with King Salman about Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi policies, and that he was sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo immediately to meet the king and travel to other places as needed.
Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist, vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago to get marriage documents. Turkish officials have said authorities believe he was murdered there and his body removed.
Saudi Arabia has strongly denied killing Khashoggi and denounced such assertions as &...
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October 15, 2018 at 2:01 pm
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
Williamsburg Hatzolah is treating multiple children at the Shopron Cheder in Williamsburg for a chemical substance in their eyes.
Hatzolah was on the scene just before 1:30PM Monday afternoon, at the Yeshiva located at 18 Warsoff Place near Flushing Avenue.
At least four Hatzolah ambulances were on the scene. It was unknown what type of chemical was in the air. Read more at YWN
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October 15, 2018 at 1:58 pm
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump got a bird's-eye view Monday of Florida communities left in ruins by Hurricane Michael, including houses without roofs, a toppled water tower and 18-wheel trucks scattered in a parking lot during a nearly hour-long helicopter tour of portions of the Panhandle.
Trump initially saw uprooted trees and houses with blue tarps covering damaged roofs after his helicopter lifted from Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso. But the severity of the damage worsened significantly as Trump approached Mexico Beach, a town of about 1,000 people that was nearly wiped off the map in a direct hit from the hurricane and its 155 mph (250 kph) winds last week.
Many of the houses in Mexico Beach had no roofs. In some cases, only the foundations were lef...
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October 15, 2018 at 1:58 pm
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
A local businessman who heads the Jewish community in the central Russian republic of Tatarstan has been hospitalized after an unknown package exploded in his office.
Footage published by the regional Investigative Committee branch showed a hole blown inside an office table belonging to construction and sales company director Mikhail Skoblionok.
An explosive device detonated when an employee at the office tried to open a newly received package, injuring two people, police in the Muslim-majority Russian region told Interfax.
“Skoblionok and his assistant received burns and eye injuries as a result of the detonation of an unknown device,” investigators said Monday. Read more at YWN
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October 15, 2018 at 1:56 pm
Baltimore, MD – Oct. 15, 2018 - TA was dealt an unfortunate blow this morning with a water main break in the Scotts Hill neighborhood causing the school to close for the day. However, learning Torah doesn’t stop!
Many rebbeim setup conference call lines and had their classes learn over the phone, while others were able to setup up their shiurim in local shuls around the community.
Below are Rabbi Yossi Flamm’s 9th grade and Rabbi Meir Khaver’s 5th grade conducting shiurim in Shomrei Emunah and Darchei Tzedek, respectively.YCC TA thanks the shuls for their hospitality
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October 15, 2018 at 1:48 pm
Lakewood Bachur missing since Thursday has been found alive and well
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October 15, 2018 at 12:34 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - Oct. 15, 2018 - President Reuven Rivlin hosted at Beti Hanasi, in Jerusalem, Israel, a swearing-in ceremony for regional rabbinical court dayanim, on Monday morning, October 15/ 6 Cheshvan. Twenty-four judges were sworn in at the ceremony before the president of the higher rabbinical court, Chief Rabbi David Lau, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Rishon Letzion Rav Yitzhak Yosef, Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked, and Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water, Yuval Steinitz, who headed the judicial appointment committee.
In the audience were family members and other dignitaries including, Jerusalem Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar, and Rav Chaim Druckman, who received special mention from Rav Lau during his remarks.
Each new da...
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October 15, 2018 at 11:32 am
Brooklyn, NY - A Staten Island man is under arrest in the early morning attack of a 62 year old Chasidic man as he walked down 13th Avenue on his to the synagogue this morning in Borough Park.
As previously reported on VIN News (http://bit.ly/2yhyw0V), surveillance footage captured the vicious beating, sparking both fear and anger in Borough Park and prompting elected officials to call on the NYPD and the Brooklyn district attorney’s office to take swift action.
Police said that they were called to the scene by a 911 call reporting the incident at the corner of 13th Avenue and 46th Street where they arrested 37 year old Farrukh Afzal, a driver with Church Avenue Car Service, and charged him with hate crime as an assault, criminal mischief and harassment.
Afzal was previously arres...
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October 15, 2018 at 11:31 am
Jerusalem - Israel has cleared its F-35 stealth fighters to resume full duties, a military statement said on Sunday, after they underwent precautionary tests following the crash of a different model of the plane in the United States.
The Sept. 28 crash in South Carolina prompted the Pentagon to say on Thursday that all U.S. and international F-35s made by Lockheed Martin Co had been grounded so their fuel tubes could be inspected.
In its statement, the Israeli military said its fleet had remained on operational standby during the testing. Read more at Reuters
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October 15, 2018 at 11:29 am
Jerusalem - Israel’s Supreme Court has suspended the planned deportation of an American graduate student who has been held in detention while fighting an expulsion order over her involvement in the boycott movement against Israel.
The court ruled Sunday that Lara Alqasem’s deportation be frozen until judges have a chance to hear the appeal in the coming week.
Yotam Ben-Hillel, Alqasem’s lawyer, submitted the appeal on Sunday.
Alqasem, 22, arrived in Israel on Oct. 2 with a student visa to study at Israel’s Hebrew University, where classes began Sunday. But she was barred from entering the country over alleged involvement in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Alqasem, who says she is no longer a boycott activist, has remained in detention while...
