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March 13, 2019 at 11:37 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli organization has minted a coin emblazoned with the face of Nikki Haley, President Donald Trump's former ambassador to the United Nations, to commemorate her defense of Israel in the world body.
The Sanhedrin, a Jewish group that says it aims to restore the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, is one of three organizations behind the coin.
The collector's coin, which costs $50, features Haley's face set against the U.N. building, and a rendition of the Jewish Temple on the back.
Hillel Weiss, spokesman for Sanhedrin, said Wednesday that Haley's criticism of the U.N., which he says "seeks to destroy the state of Israel," earned her the recognition.
He says the group last year sold 20,000 "Temple Coins" engraved with Trump's face to honor ...
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March 13, 2019 at 11:37 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of Israel's largest banks has agreed to pay $195 million for helping U.S. citizens avoid paying taxes by stashing their assets in offshore accounts.
The U.S. attorney's office says Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank Ltd. and two subsidiaries acknowledged guilt Tuesday in a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice filed in a California court.
The bank has more than 4,000 employees and a Los Angeles branch.
In court documents, Mizrahi-Tefahot acknowledged that from 2002 until 2012 it conspired with U.S. clients to avoid taxes on assets and securities by opening and maintaining offshore accounts under false or code names or through foreign entities.
The bank agreed to pay the government $53 million in restitution, plus the $24 million in fees ...
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March 13, 2019 at 11:19 am
Washington - President Donald Trump can’t get enough of Rep. Ilhan Omar.
As Democrats try to turn the page after the freshman lawmaker’s remarks, criticized by some as anti-Semitic, ignited an embarrassing, intra-party fight, the Republican president is trying to prolong and weaponize the issue for his 2020 campaign, asserting during a private weekend fundraiser that Democrats “hate” Jews.
While Trump publicly muses about winning over Jewish voters for his re-election, his motivations are more complicated and expansive. The president’s rhetorical escalation also is designed to unsettle the Democratic primary debate, exploit an issue that can energize his supporters and move past his own history of toying in anti-Semitic motifs.
Trump on Tuesday promoted com...
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March 13, 2019 at 11:18 am
New York - Travel websites have begun to respond to consumer concern and the grounding of Boeing’s 737 MAX planes by changing policies and introducing new options that exclude flights on those planes from customer queries.
Kayak.com is tweaking its search filters this week to allow customers to exclude particular types of aircraft from queries, the travel platform, part of the Booking.com stable of firms, told Reuters.
The changes come after a Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed in Ethiopia on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board.
As a growing number of countries ban or ground 737 MAX planes, anxious travelers have taken to social media and travel agents to check if they are booked on these aircraft.
CWT, a privately held company that manages business travel, said some of its clients wer...
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March 13, 2019 at 11:07 am
Baltimore, MD – Mar. 13, 2019 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Mrs. Joan Miller, a’h, mother of Ben Miller.
The levayah will take place tomorrow, Thursday, March 14, at the Levine Funeral Home in Philadelphia. Burial will follow at the Roosevelt Cemetery.
Shiva will be observed at 6007 Woodcrest Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21209, beginning with Shacharis Friday morning.
Minyanim:
Shacharis: 7:00 AM / Sunday - 8:00 AM
Mincha/Maariv: 7:05 pm (No Mincha erev Shabbos / No Maariv on Motzaei Shabbos)
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach…
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March 13, 2019 at 10:58 am
White Plains, NY - A federal judge, citing an “unprecedented measles outbreak” in suburban Rockland County, New York, has denied a request to let 44 unvaccinated children return to school.
Parents of students in the Green Meadow Waldorf School in Chestnut Ridge have sued the county health department. They say none of the school’s excluded children have contracted measles amid the county’s outbreak, which started last fall.
According to the Journal News , their lawyer, Michael Sussman, criticized the judge’s decision Tuesday to deny a temporary injunction that would have allowed the children back in classes.
On the same day, pediatric organizations expressed support for state legislation that would allow minors to get vaccinated without parental consent .
T...
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March 13, 2019 at 10:57 am
Washington - President Donald Trump says he’s not “thrilled” with California’s plan to halt death penalty executions.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom planned to sign an executive order Wednesday giving a reprieve to the 737 inmates on his state’s death row.
Trump tweeted Wednesday that voters don’t support Newsom’s decision on behalf of the “737 stone cold killers.” Trump says “Friends and families of the always forgotten VICTIMS are not thrilled, and neither am I!” Trump has cultivated an image of himself as a tough-on-crime president and has said drug dealers should face the ultimate penalty.
In remarks prepared for delivery Wednesday, Newsom calls the death penalty a “failure” that has discriminated against th...
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March 13, 2019 at 10:55 am
SAO PAULO (AP) — Authorities say hooded teenagers opened fire at a school in southern Brazil, killing six people before taking their own lives.
Wednesday's shooting happened in a public school in Suzano, a suburb of Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city.
The state government of Sao Paulo says two youths armed with guns and wearing hoods entered the school and began shooting at students and then killed themselves.
Authorities say five students and an administrator at the school were killed.
Latin America's largest nation has the largest number of annual homicides in the world, but school shootings are rare.
Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro recently announced that gun ownership controls would be loosened.
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March 13, 2019 at 10:53 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Wednesday it has uncovered a militant network run by the Lebanese Hezbollah group inside Syria, along the frontier with Israel.
The military said the network, which Hezbollah runs together with Iran's Revolutionary Guard, is stockpiling weapons, collecting intelligence and recruiting locals for attacks against Israel.
Hezbollah operative Ali Musa Daqduq is the network's commander and has been operating covertly and apparently without the knowledge of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, the Israeli military said.
"These operatives have been attempting to establish an additional terrorist front against Israel and destabilize the region over the last year," said Brig. Gen. Amit Fisher, the commander of one of Israel�...
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March 13, 2019 at 10:51 am
Ankara, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “thief” and a “tyrant” in the latest spat between the two leaders.
The dispute comes after Erdogan’s spokesman denounced Netanyahu as a racist for saying that Israel was the nation-state of the Jewish people only. Netanyahu then struck back calling Erdogan a dictator and criticizing the country for imprisoning journalists.
Speaking at an election campaign rally on Wednesday, Erdogan addressed Netanyahu as “the thief who heads Israel” in reference to corruption allegations against him.
Erdogan continued: “you are a tyrant. You are a tyrant who slaughters 7-year-old Palestinian kids.”
Israel and Turkey were once close allies. But und...
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March 13, 2019 at 10:45 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Spending on U.S. construction projects in January posted the biggest gain in nine months, as strength in nonresidential construction and government projects offset continued weakness in home construction.
The Commerce Department says that construction spending rose 1.3 percent in January following two months of declines. It was the biggest gain since spending was up 1.7 percent in April. Spending on residential projects fell 0.3 percent in January, the sixth consecutive monthly decline for a sector that was hurt last year by rising mortgage rates and higher home building costs.
Spending on nonresidential construction increased 0.8 percent in January with spending on office buildings, hotels and the category that covers shopping centers all showing gains.
Spending...
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March 13, 2019 at 10:44 am
BOSTON (AP) — A college admissions scandal moved from bombshell indictments to guilty pleas in a matter of hours, yet the full fallout from the federal case against the rich and famous could take months or more to unfold.
Big names such as actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin headline the list of some 50 people charged in documents released Tuesday that describe a scheme to cheat the admissions process at eight sought-after schools. The parents bribed college coaches and other insiders to get their children into selective schools, authorities said.
At the center of the scheme was admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer, founder of the Edge College & Career Network of Newport Beach, California, authorities said. Singer pleaded guilty and his lawyer, Donal...
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March 13, 2019 at 10:41 am
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers have resoundingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit divorce deal for a second time, leaving the country’s planned March 29 departure from the bloc in chaos and doubt.
With fears rising in both the U.K. and the EU of a chaotic British departure, British lawmakers now face two starkly different choices: no deal or delay.
A look at what might happen in the days ahead:
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DESTINATION NO-DEAL
The House of Commons voted 391-242 against May’s EU withdrawal agreement Tuesday, snubbing changes she secured from the bloc to allay concerns about the deal’s Irish border provisions. Lawmakers voted down the deal in January by an even bigger margin.
After the tally, May said Parliament would vote Wednesday on a motion ruling ...
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March 13, 2019 at 10:39 am
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Frantic rescue efforts were underway in Nigeria on Wednesday after a three-story school building collapsed while classes were in session, with scores of children thought to be inside. Witnesses said nearly a dozen students had been pulled from the ruins, but it was not yet clear if any were dead.
Associated Press video from the scene showed a few dust-covered children carried from the rubble, to cheers. But the crowd quieted as other children were pulled out and slung over rescuers' shoulders, limp and dangling.
Onlookers crowded around in the densely populated neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital and a city of some 20 million people.
It was not known how many students had been in a primary school located on the building's top fl...
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March 13, 2019 at 5:00 am
Question #1: Homebound
“As a mother of several small children, it is not easy for me to go out on Shabbos to hear Parshas Zachor. Am I required to do so?”
Question #2: Outreaching in the Afternoon
“At the outreach program that I run, many of our students do not arrive on Shabbos until the afternoon. Should we have a second Parshas Zachor reading for them?”
Question #3: Reading without a Brochah
“Why is no birkas haTorah recited on Parshas Zachor at a women’s reading?”
Answer:
Introduction:
This Shabbos we read the special maftir that begins with the words Zachor es asher asah lecha Amalek baderech be’tzeis’chem miMitzrayim, “Remember what Amalek did to you on the road as you were leaving Egypt.” According to the Ram...
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March 12, 2019 at 10:44 pm
A lawsuit worth $275 million was filed against CNN on Tuesday over the network's alleged "vicious" attack against Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann.
The lawsuit, filed just after 3 p.m. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, claims that CNN "elevated false, heinous accusations of racist conduct" against Sandmann and failed to adhere to "well-established journalistic standards and ethics."
Sandmann and his family previously announced they were filing a lawsuit against The Washington Post for $250 million in compensatory and punitive damages after the paper’s coverage of an encounter that went viral on social media.
Co-counsel for Sandmann, Todd McMurtry, in an exclusive appearance on Fox News&...
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March 12, 2019 at 10:13 pm
Former Vice President Joe Biden will run for president in 2020, a senior Democratic lawmaker told The Hill on Tuesday, a move that will shake up the crowded Democratic primary field and make him the clear front-runner for his party’s nomination against President Trump.
“I’m giving it a shot,” Biden said matter-of-factly during a phone call with a House Democratic lawmaker within the past week — a conversation the congressman recounted to The Hill and interpreted as a sure sign that Biden will run in 2020.
Biden did not share any details about when or where he planned to make his formal presidential announcement, the lawmaker said. Biden and his wife, Jill, just returned from vacation in St. Croix in the Caribbean, where they reportedly discussed potential pi...
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March 12, 2019 at 10:12 pm
Airline pilots on at least two U.S. flights have reported that an automated system seemed to cause their Boeing 737 Max planes to tilt down suddenly.
The pilots said that soon after engaging the autopilot on Boeing 737 Max 8 planes, the nose tilted down sharply. In both cases, they recovered quickly after disconnecting the autopilot.
As described by the pilots, however, the problem did not appear related to a new automated anti-stall system that is suspected of contributing to a deadly October crash in Indonesia.
The Max 8 is at the center of a growing global ban by more than 40 countries following a second fatal crash, this time in Ethiopia, in less than five months. In the U.S., however, the Federal Aviation Administration and airlines continued to permit the planes to fly...
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March 12, 2019 at 9:51 pm
Baltimore, MD - Mar. 12, 2019 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Hillel & Loni Goldman on the birth of a son
Mazel Tov to grandparents Dr. & Mrs. Emanuel & Noa Goldman and Dr. & Mrs. Elliot & Harriet Jacob
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
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March 12, 2019 at 9:48 pm
Ryanair will offer daily direct flights between Tel Aviv and Berlin starting in October, announced the airline on Saturday.
The flights will be between Ben-Gurion International Airport and Tegel Airport.
The route to and from Germany will be the firm’s third, as it already facilitates flights between Tel Aviv and Baden-Baden and Memmingen.
Tickets will go on sale this week with fares starting at a launch rate of $22.59 in each direction. The airline “will pick up some of the demand resulting from the bankruptcy and halting of activities by Germania Airlines, which operated flights between Tel Aviv and several German cities including Berlin,” reported the Israeli business news site Globes.
Additionally, Ryanair announced last week that it launched three weekly flights ...
