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December 13, 2018 at 8:06 pm
Portland, OR - A 92-year-old Holocaust survivor was struck and killed by a car while crossing a street in Oregon.
The Oregonian says Alter Wiener, who survived three years in Nazi concentration camps, was struck Tuesday in Hillsboro and died at a hospital.
Wiener wrote an autobiography called “From a Name to a Number” and spoke to thousands of Oregon school children about his experiences.
He was born in 1926 in Chrzanow, Poland. His father was murdered by the Germans when Wiener was 13. Two years later, he was sent to a forced labor camp.
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education says Wiener returned to his hometown in 1945 and found 123 relatives had perished. Only five cousins survived.
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December 13, 2018 at 8:05 pm
Washington - U.S. health officials have traced a dangerous bacterial outbreak in romaine lettuce to at least one farm in central California.
Food regulators said Thursday that other farms are likely involved in the E. coli outbreak and consumers should continue checking the label before purchasing romaine lettuce.
The Food and Drug Administration said 59 people have now been sickened by the tainted lettuce. Officials said a water reservoir at Adams Brothers Farms in Santa Barbara County tested positive for the bacterial strain and the owners are cooperating with U.S. officials.
The government also narrowed the source of the outbreak to three California counties: Santa Barbara, Monterey and San Benito. The FDA said lettuce from other areas harvested after November 23 should be safe to ea...
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December 13, 2018 at 7:56 pm
Throughout the entire tense-filled episode, from the summoning of Binyonim down to Egypt; the discovery of the stolen goblet in his sack; and Yosef demanding Binyomin remain with him with the brothers returning empty-handed to their forlorn father, there is nary a peep from Binyomin.
Binyomin was no ‘child’; he was already a father of ten children and thirty two years old when this story takes place. Yet during the dramatic negotiation between Yehuda and Yosef where they discuss the fear and worry of their father, portraying the despair and grief he will experience if the ‘lad’ doesn’t return, not once is Binyomin offered a choice or opinion. Even during the discovery of the clandestinely placed goblet, Binyonim is unusually silent not offering even a smidg...
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December 13, 2018 at 7:54 pm
Flights were delayed Thursday afternoon at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport as crews repaired a light that popped out at the center of the intersection of the two main runways.
Repair crews cleared the runways around 4:15 p.m. and airline operations resumed.
No large jet commercial flights were being allowed in or out of the airport since 2:30 p.m. SkyTeam 11 Capt. Roy Taylor said airplanes that were en route to the runway returned to the terminal, and some flights that were headed to BWI-Marshall were diverted to other airports.
Small commuter jets were able to arrive and depart, SkyTeam 11 reported.
The airport tweeted at 3:20 p.m., "Airport maintenance personnel are working to repair an airfield light that is located in the intersection of the airport...
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December 13, 2018 at 5:55 pm
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s office condemned the latest acts of violence in on Thursday, though it did not explicitly refer to two terror attacks against Israelis in the this week.
The PA leader also blamed the prevailing “climate” driving the uptick in violence on Israeli military raids in Palestinian cities, settler incitement against the PA president, and the stalled peace process.
“The climate created by the policy of repeated raids into cities, incitement against the president and the absence of horizons for peace is what led to this unacceptable series of violence, which we condemn and reject, and for which the two sides are paying the price,” Abbas’s office said in a vaguely worded statement.
Read more at Times ...
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December 13, 2018 at 5:51 pm
Rabbi Eliyahu Merav, father of Yossi Cohen, one of the soldiers who were murdered in the terror shooting attack at the Givat Asaf junction earlier today, spoke to Channel 10 News about his son’s final words, Arutz Sheva reports.
“Yossi was a beautiful and pure soul. He went on a mission. We sent him with great love,” the bereaved father told the news station. “When we sat at a Shabbos meal and everyone thanked us for something, Yossi said, ‘I thank God that I have the right to protect the people of Israel with my body.’” Yossi was a pure soul, a devoted child who only wanted to help since he was a little boy, and G-d took him.“I served in the IDF and became religious after the Yom Kippur War. I am an Israeli, I am the product of a crisis in ...
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December 13, 2018 at 5:40 pm
New York - New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said on Thursday that she had filed a lawsuit against Target Corp, Walmart Inc and toy importer LaRose Industries over the sale of lead-contaminated children’s toys.
Underwood said her office conducted tests in New York City, Long Island, and the Syracuse and Buffalo areas on “Cra-Z-Jewelz” jewelry-making kits that were imported by LaRose and found levels up to 10 times higher than the federal limit.
The kits were supplied by LaRose and sold at Walmart and Target stores.
According to Underwood, the companies violated several state laws in 2015 and 2016 and the lawsuit is seeking civil penalties collectively ranging from $70 to $6,000 for each “Cra-Z-Jewelz” kit the companies sought to sell in New York.
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December 13, 2018 at 5:34 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump offered a simple defense Thursday to accusations he broke campaign finance law by directing attorney Michael Cohen to orchestrate hush-money payments to conceal Trump's alleged affairs: He was following terrible advice from a bad lawyer.
"I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law. He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law. It is called 'advice of counsel,'" Trump wrote on Twitter.
The advice-of-counsel defense is a real thing. But Trump's ability to use it, if he were ever formally accused of a crime, is far from certain. And it could be risky.
"People talk about advice-of-counsel as a defense more than it's actually asserted, and it's rarely successful," said Dane Ciolino, a constitutional law pro...
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December 13, 2018 at 5:31 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the nationwide emailed bomb threats (all times local):
3:45 p.m.
Businesses and schools across the U.S. were evacuated because of a bomb threat hoax.
Officials in Atlanta, New Orleans, and Anchorage, Alaska, say businesses received emailed bomb threats Thursday that were part of what they believe is a nationwide hoax.
Police are working with the FBI to investigate every threat.
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3:15 p.m.
Authorities say bomb threats sent to dozens of schools, universities and other locations across the U.S. appear to be a hoax.
The New York City Police Department said the threats sent Thursday were meant to cause disruption and compel recipients into sending money and are not considered credible.
Some of the emails had the subject line: “Think Twice.&r...
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December 13, 2018 at 5:30 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators voted Thursday to recommend that the U.S. end its assistance to Saudi Arabia for the war in Yemen and put the blame for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi squarely on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in a direct challenge to both the longtime Middle East ally and President Donald Trump’s handling of the relationship.
The succession of bipartisan votes came two months after the Saudi journalist’s slaying at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and after Trump persistently equivocated over who was responsible. U.S. intelligence officials concluded that bin Salman must have at least known of the plot, but Trump has repeatedly praised the kingdom.
Senators made clear where they put the blame. The resolution, passed by unanimous agreement, s...
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December 13, 2018 at 5:21 pm
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 13, 2018 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Mr. Avraham Cohen, Z’L, (Yerushalayim) beloved father of Ronit Bergman.
The levayah took place in Yerushalayim.
Mrs. Bergman is sitting Shiva until Tuesday evening at her home at 3001 Temple Gate Road.
Visiting Hours
12:30pm -2:30pm and 5:00 pm -7:00pm.Motzei Shabbos hours 7: 00 – 9:00 pm
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December 13, 2018 at 5:18 pm
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 12. 2018 - Thursday Night, December 13, join us for an Open House for Prospective Parents for TTI-Texas Torah Institute in Dallas, Texas.
Meet the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Shlomo Pacht at 8pm at the home of Phil and Rivka Bogart, 3000 Temple Gate, 21209.
For more information, please call or text 410-978-0460.
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December 13, 2018 at 4:22 pm
Miami Beach, FL - An early morning coffee ritual at a popular Miami Beach eatery turned ugly this morning after two men in yarmulkas were assaulted by a man for no apparent reason.
The incident took place at approximately 5:30 this morning at the kosher Dunkin’ Donuts located on 41st Street at the corner of Sheridan Avenue.
CBS News (https://cbsloc.al/2UI7wkP) reported that Michael Lefkowitz was approached by an unknown man who asked him if he had heard a story about a woman [sic] in another country. Lefkowitz said that when he replied in the negative, the man began to hit him. Two of Lefkowitz’s friends immediately tried to subdue the attacker, who broke free and fled the scene.
Dunkin’ Donuts worker Patricia Saint Aude said that the suspect had been in the shop...
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December 13, 2018 at 4:18 pm
New York - Authorities say bomb threats sent Thursday to dozens of schools, government buildings and other locations across the U.S. appear to be a hoax.
Law enforcement agencies across the country dismissed the threats, which they said were meant to cause disruption and compel recipients into sending money and are not considered credible.
Some of the emails had the subject line: “Think Twice.” The sender claimed to have had an associate plant a small bomb in the recipient’s building and that the only way to stop him from setting it off was by making an online payment of $20,000 in Bitcoin.
“We are currently monitoring multiple bomb threats that have been sent electronically to various locations throughout the city,” the New York City Police Department&rsqu...
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December 13, 2018 at 4:18 pm
Mexico City - U.S. Democratic leaders rebuked President Donald Trump on Thursday for saying Mexico will pay for a border wall through a new trade deal, while Mexico’s new president said the topic has not come up in his talks with Trump.
The Republican president vowed during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign to build a wall along the border with Mexico to slow the flow of illegal immigration, and he has long pledged that Mexico - not U.S. taxpayers - would fund it.
In a Twitter post early on Thursday, Trump said that unspecified savings for the United States as a result of the renegotiated trade deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada would pay for the wall.
“Just by the money we save, MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL!,” he wrote.
While some U.S. businesses st...
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December 13, 2018 at 4:16 pm
Paris - The suspected gunman, who killed three people at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, has been killed, two police sources said on Thursday, ending his 48-hours on the run.
Cherif Chekatt was killed in the Neudorf/Meinau area of the city after a police operation was launched around 2100 hrs (2000 GMT) on Thursday about 2 kilometers from where he launched his attack on Tuesday.
Chekatt was killed after firing on police officers, who returned fire, one of the sources said.
Reuters reporters near the scene heard three to four gunshots after a huge police operation with armed forces from the BRI and RAID units. A police helicopter had been circling overhead.
The death toll from Tuesday’s attack rose to three as police on Thursday combed the city in the east of France for a second...
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December 13, 2018 at 3:59 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - Dec. 13, 2018 - Rabbi David Fuchs, a rabbi at the Nahal Haredi Organization, who was acquainted with the soldiers who fell today (Thursday) in the terrorist shooting near Givat Assaf, expresses in anguish: “They were such sweet boys, always wore smiles on their faces. Their friends loved and admired them; they were friends with everyone. I saw them today, just a half-hour before the attack. They were in the midst of guarding the station as I passed by them in my car on my way to deliver Torah lectures in pillboxes, but I didn’t want to stop to avoid disturbing them. To hear that guys like that, boys who were so full of energy, happy, upbeat, have fallen is indescribably painful. I met now with their friends; everyone is in terrible shock. The anguish causes ...
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December 13, 2018 at 3:31 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian woman accused of being a secret agent admitted Thursday that she conspired to infiltrate the American gun-rights movement to gather intelligence on conservative political groups as Donald Trump rose to power.
Maria Butina, 30, agreed to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge as part of a deal with federal prosecutors.
The case, which is separate from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, has offered insight into how Moscow seeks to influence American policy.
Prosecutors say Butina and her Russian patron, Alexander Torshin, used their contacts in the National Rifle Association to pursue back channels to American conservatives during that campaign, when Republican Trump defeated Dem...
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December 13, 2018 at 3:30 pm
The Fatah movement, the main organization of the PLO, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, praised the murderers that the IDF eliminated last night.
The Twitter account of the movement published Thursday morning pictures of the two terrorists who were killed tonight with the inscription “The heroic martyr” on each of them.
“The heroic fallen of the homeland, in their pure blood, are sketching the map of our homeland. For a free and Arab Palestine. Honor and glory to you.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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December 13, 2018 at 2:32 pm
New York - President Donald Trump has now been abandoned by two of his most powerful protectors — his longtime lawyer and the company that owns the National Enquirer tabloid — bringing a perilous investigation into his campaign a step closer to the Oval Office.
Both Michael Cohen and American Media Inc. now say they made hush money payments for the purposes of helping his 2016 White House bid, a campaign finance violation. The women alleged affairs with Trump, and federal prosecutors say the payments were made at Trump’s direction.
The admissions by Cohen and AMI conflict with Trump’s own evolving explanations. Since the spring, Trump has gone from denying knowledge of any payments to saying they would have been private transactions that weren’t illegal.
On...
