On Monday, AirBNB, the home-rental company that is often used by tourists to rent apartments in locations around the globe, announced that it would not allow Jewish settlements to be listed in Judea and Samaria. AirBNB stated:
We concluded that we should remove listings in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank that are at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.
This is the sheerest form of corporate anti-Semitism in recent memory. Not only did AirBNB specifically target “Israeli settlements,” according to Professor Eugene Kontorovich of George Mason Law, they’ve announced that they will only disallow listings in Israeli settlements when those listings are owned by Jews. In other words, if a Jew owns ...
Washington - Big technology and internet companies came under heavy selling pressure again on Monday, leading to broad losses across the stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly fell 500 points. Apple, Microsoft and Amazon, the most valuable companies on the market, sustained some of the worst losses. Facebook, another longtime investor darling that has been falling out of favor, also fell sharply. The jittery trading came after two days of gains last week as investors hoped that the U.S. and China were moving closer to settling their costly trade fight, which has been a major uncertainty for investors. Those hopes faded after the two countries clashed at a Pacific Rim summit over the weekend. A steep loss for Boeing, a major exporter which would stand to suffer greatly in...
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 19, 2018 - A Minyan is needed today 4:30 PM at 3307 Pinkey Rd. for an aveil who is just returning to Baltimore. The community's help in making the minyan would be a tremendous chessed.
In the process of vanquishing his opponent wrestler, Yaakov Avinu was left with an injured thigh. To commemorate this event, the Torah teaches al kein lo yochelu benei Yisroel es gid hano’she asher al kaf hayarech ad hayom hazeh ki naga bechaf yerech Yaakov begid hano’she, “Therefore, the children of Israel may not consume the sinew that was displaced, which lies upon the ‘spoon’ of the thigh, since he struck the ‘spoon’ of Yaakov’s thigh on the displaced sinew (Bereishis 32:33 with Rashi).” As we will see shortly, this pasuk is written with precision, and we derive most of the halachos of this mitzvah from its words. We see from the pasuk that Yaakov’s injury was that his “sinew” was “displaced.” The word...
Jerusalem, Israel, Nov. 19, 2018 - For seventeen years, a special, bittersweet event has been held at Beit Hanasi in Jerusalem, Israel. President Reuven and Nechama Rivlin, on Monday evening, 11 Kislev, hosted 60 children celebrating their Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah, all from families affected by terrorist attacks, sponsored by the Organization of Victims of Terrorism. During the event Nehorai Zarka ben Saadon, the son of Michael ben Saadon ז"ל  who was killed in a terrorist attack in Eilat, in 2007, spoke on behalf of the children.  “Hanuka will soon be here, a holiday of light and thanksgiving. A symbol of the victory of the spirit. We, the family of victims of terrorism, will defeat the darkness and the difficulty, with God’s help, and...
A Muslim-American radio host’s lawyers are seeking a court order to get bank records for a neo-Nazi website publisher after questioning his father under oath about money donated by the site’s readers. Greg Anglin, the father of The Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin, recently testified that he helped his son collect and deposit between $100,000 and $150,000 in readers’ mailed donations over a five-year period, a court filing last Friday revealed. On Oct. 31, attorneys for SiriusXM Radio show host Dean Obeidallah deposed Greg Anglin for the federal lawsuit they filed against his son last year in Columbus, Ohio. The suit says Andrew Anglin falsely labeled Obeidallah as the “mastermind” behind a deadly bombing at a concert in England. Obeidallah’s att...
Washington - Three Senate Democrats filed a lawsuit Monday arguing that Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s appointment is unconstitutional and asking a federal judge to remove him. The suit, filed by Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, argues that Whitaker’s appointment violates the Constitution because he has not been confirmed by the Senate. Whitaker was chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and was elevated to the top job after Sessions was ousted by President Donald Trump on Nov. 7. The Constitution’s Appointments Clause requires that the Senate confirm all principal officials before they can serve in their office. The Justice Department released a legal opinion last week that s...
Trenton, NJ - A woman charged with scamming GoFundMe donors out of more than $400,000 with a fake story about a homeless veteran was duped by her former boyfriend and genuinely thought she was helping the man, her attorney said Monday. James Gerrow told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that Mark D’Amico was “calling the shots” in the alleged scheme that resulted in criminal charges last week against Katelyn McClure, D’Amico and homeless Marine Johnny Bobbitt. The criminal complaint alleges the three concocted a feel-good story about the couple reaching out to help Bobbitt after he gave McClure his last $20 when her car ran out of gas in Philadelphia last year. Then McClure and D’Amico allegedly spent all the money on luxury items and casino tri...
Ethiopia - Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews gathered in the capital, Addis Ababa, to protest the Israeli government’s decision not to allow all of them to emigrate to Israel, leaving their families divided between the two countries. Representatives of the 8,000 Jews in Ethiopia urged the Ethiopian Jews living in Israel to think carefully before voting for Israel’s ruling party, the Likud, over the delays in repatriation to Israel. The Ethiopian Jews claim they are being blocked from emigrating to Israel, despite a 2015 pledge to allow them to do so by the Israeli government. “I urge Ethiopian Jews to think twice before voting for the Likud party because the party’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, is not keeping his words to help us emigrate to Israel,” Neggousa Zemen...
CHICAGO (AP) — Firefighters broke through a wall in one of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers to rescue six people who were trapped in an elevator. The Chicago Fire Department responded early Friday following a report that the six visitors, including a pregnant woman, were trapped at the 875 North Michigan Avenue building, formerly called the John Hancock Center. Officials say the visitors had just left a restaurant at the 100-story building. Battalion Chief Patrick Maloney says it was a "pretty precarious situation" because some cables were broken on the elevator. He says crews went through a wall more than 10 stories above the ground from a parking garage. He says it was an express elevator, so there weren't door openings at each floor. Maloney says the rescued visitors wer...
Washington - The White House Correspondents’ Association announced Monday that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow will address its annual dinner next year, breaking from its tradition of featuring an entertainer following the pushback over comedian Michelle Wolf’s sharply anti-Trump performance last time. At a time of increasingly tense relations between President Donald Trump and the White House press corps, Chernow said the association asked him to “make the case for the First Amendment and I am happy to oblige.” He’ll also share his perspective on American politics and history at the April 27 event in Washington, said Olivier Knox, the association’s president. “As we celebrate the importance of a free and independent news media to the h...
YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who became one of the auto industry’s most powerful executives by engineering a turnaround at the Japanese manufacturer, was arrested Monday and will be fired for allegedly underreporting his income and misusing company funds, the automaker said. The scandal reverberated across the globe and abruptly threw into question Ghosn’s future as leader of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, which sold 10.6 million cars last year, more than any other manufacturer. Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa said Ghosn was taken into custody after being questioned by prosecutors upon arriving in Japan earlier in the day. Ghosn is of French, Brazilian and Lebanese background and lives in both France and Japan. Nissan said Ghosn, 64, and anot...
CHICAGO (AP) — It is Saturday morning, and 10-year-old Henry Hailey is up at the crack of dawn. Still in PJs, his microphone-equipped headphones glowing blue in the dim basement, he fixates on the popular online game “Fortnite” on a large screen. “What?! Right as I was about to finish it, I died,” he calls out disappointedly to his friend Gus, a fellow fifth-grader playing the game from his home just a few blocks away. “Dude, I should NOT have died.” The digital battles resume, and Henry’s enthusiasm never wanes. Would he play all day if his parents let him? “Probably,” he concedes with a slight grin. But they do not. Like many other parents, the Haileys are on a reinvigorated mission to limit screen time for Henry and his 15-y...
Alan Dershowitz said Saturday on Fox & Friends that Democrats on the extreme left are “tolerating anti-Semitism” to avoid being alienated by their base.
Insight from Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chair of the House Judiciary Committee.
Rep. Diana DeGette announced suddenly on Monday that she was abandoning her bid for the No. 3 job in the House Democratic leadership, ending the only official challenge to one of the party’s top leaders. DeGette (D-Colo.) had challenged Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), the highest-ranking African American in House leadership, for the majority whip post. But facing a backlash from members of the Congressional Black Caucus, DeGette dropped her bid — ensuring, for now, that Clyburn will remain in the top ranks. Any major shake-up in the Democratic leadership now depends on whether a small group of incumbents and freshmen can muster the votes to keep top leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) from seizing the House speaker’s gavel in January. If that bid is successful, it could kick...
Baltimore County police say a driver crashed her car into a Cockeysville post office on Monday morning. Police responded at around 11:30 a.m. The driver, police say, penetrated the building in the 100 block of Wight Avenue, leaving a sizable hole, after confusing the accelerator with the brake. No one was hurt, but a building inspector was notified.
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Brad Weldon lost his home to fire when he was a kid, so when a deadly wildland blaze came roaring toward his ranch house in the pines where he lives with his 89-year-old blind mother, he wasn’t going to let disaster strike twice. Weldon and his mother’s caregiver, armed only with a garden hose and buckets, successfully fought the flames for 24 hours. At times, they had to lie down in the dirt to “avoid burning up” as 60 mph (97 kph) winds drove flames through the forest. Having saved his home in Paradise, Weldon’s not leaving what he now calls the “hell zone.” “If they take me out of here, it will be at gunpoint,” Weldon said. “My mom says they’ll have to beat her ass, too. She ain’t go...
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN Home-renting company Airbnb Inc said on Monday that it had decided to remove its listings in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, enclaves that most world powers consider illegal for taking up land where Palestinians seek statehood. A statement on Airbnb’s website said: “We concluded that we should remove listings in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank that are at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.” It did not say when the decision, which according to Airbnb affects some 200 listings, would take effect. The full Airbnb statement follows: There are conflicting views regarding whether companies should be doing business in the occupied territories that are the subject of historical disputes betwee...
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