US President says Democrats are anti-Israel and anti-Jewish and "it's a disgrace". US President Donald Trump on Friday repeated his claims that Democrats are “anti-Israel” and “anti-Jewish”. “The Democrats have very much proven to be anti-Israel,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House en route to Florida, according to the Washington Post. “There’s no question about that. And it’s a disgrace. I mean, I don’t know what’s happened to them, but they are totally anti-Israel. Frankly, I think they’re anti-Jewish.” Trump made similar comments two weeks ago, after the House of Representatives passed a broad resolution that called out bigotry of all kinds without directly c...
Parshas Tzav / Baltimore Zmanim / Eruv is UP!   Baltimore, MD – Mar. 22, 2019 Parshas: Tzav Today:    15 Adar II (Shushan Purim) Chatzos: 1:14 PM Hadlakas Nairos: 7:02 PM Shkiah:                   7:20:33 PM Tzais HaKochavim:  8:11 PM
President Donald Trump on Friday continued to claim there was "no collusion" between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia as Washington braces for special counsel Robert Mueller's highly anticipated report. "I have no idea about [the] Mueller report," Trump told reporters outside the White House before he departed for a meeting with foreign leaders at his private Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. "We're going to see what happens, it's going to be very interesting...there was no collusion, there was no obstruction — everybody knows it. It's all a big hoax." He added that Attorney General William Barr "will ultimately make a decision" about the report's release. Trump noted that he did not know when Mueller would submit his report when asked if the report w...
Rav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, never issued predictions of when Moshiach is coming, said his son-in-law, Rav Yitzchok Kolodetzky. Rav Kolodetzky was referring to a story that when someone asked Rav Chaim whether to get an Israeli ID before the elections in order to vote, he replied that Moshiach will have come by then. “The gedolei Yisroel of all generations had the Thirteen Principles imbued deep in their hearts and constantly expected Moshiach’s arrival every day,” Rav Kolodetzky clarified. “Therefore, in general, when they are asked questions about the far-future, they spontaneously reply that they expect Moshiach to have come by then. “But he never established a time or date when he would certainly come and oft...
Atlanta - Nearly four decades after voters unceremoniously rejected then-President Jimmy Carter’s bid for a second term, the 39th president has reached a milestone that electoral math cannot dispute: He is now the longest-living chief executive in American history. Friday is the 172nd day beyond Carter’s 94th birthday, exceeding by one day the lifespan of former President George H.W. Bush, who died Nov. 30 at the age of 94 years, 171 days. Both men were born in 1924: Bush on June 12, Carter on Oct. 1. It’s yet another post-presidency distinction for Carter, whose legacy since leaving office has long overshadowed both his rocky White House tenure and the remarkable political rise that led him from his family peanut farm and a state Senate seat to the governor’s man...
Jakarta - Indonesian airline Garuda plans to cancel a $6 billion order for Boeing 737 MAX jets, it said on Friday, saying some passengers would be frightened to board the plane after two fatal crashes, although analysts said the deal had long been in doubt. The news came as another 737 MAX customer, Norwegian Air, played down the significance of a move by Boeing to make a previously optional cockpit warning light compulsory. Norwegian said that, according to Boeing, the warning light would not have been able to prevent erroneous signals that Lion Air pilots received before their new 737 MAX plane crashed off Indonesia in October, killing 189 people. Indonesia’s national carrier Garuda is the first airline to publicly announce plans to scrap an order since the world’s entire ...
Jerusalem - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says it’s “possible” that President Donald Trump is like Queen Esther, who saved Jews in the Old Testament. Pompeo made the statement in an interview  with a Christian broadcast outlet this week on a trip to the Middle East. The interviewer asked if Trump is “like Queen Esther,” who interceded with her husband to save Jews in what was then Persia and is now Iran. Trump has backed new sanctions on Iran aimed at reducing its ability to threaten Israel. Pompeo said in response that “As a Christian, I certainly believe that’s possible.” The secretary of state recently drew criticism for holding a briefing exclusively for “faith-based” journalists. Pompeo on Friday vow...
Much of the early parts of Sefer Vayikra emphasize the ability of every person to bring a Korbon according to his means.  The meal offering brought by the poor is just as welcome as the bull offering brought by the wealthy.  Indeed, the Gemara and Medrash on Vayikra says that “there will always be poor people and rich people so they may help each other.”[1]  Judaism has caring for the poor and the warning about the dangers of wealth throughout its teachings. Mitzvos of tithing, Leket, Shikcha and Peah along with loaning without interest are cornerstones of the Torah’s economic model.  We are taught that Parnassa is one of the few keys that Hashem does not give over to any messenger.  [2]Wealth is very much viewed as a tool as opposed to a goal unt...
Berlin - Raed Saleh was 5 years old when his family left their Palestinian village in the West Bank for a better life in Germany. Now 41, the Muslim has become one of Berlin’s top politicians and is spearheading efforts to rebuild a synagogue in the German capital that was destroyed by the Nazis 80 years ago. What may sound utopian in parts of the world where hostilities between Muslims and Jews run high has become a reality in Berlin: Jews, Muslims and Christians have joined forces to rebuild what used to be one of the city’s biggest synagogues. In recent years a surviving section of the Fraenkelufer Synagogue, which stands on the banks of a canal in the city’s Kreuzberg neighborhood, has become home to a vibrant and diverse community for Jews from across the world, bu...
Jerusalem - Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman has aroused the scorn of the haredi community by posting a satirical Purim video where he dresses up as a haredi rabbi and permits two policies fiercely opposed by the haredi establishment, and bans a controversial practice of the Chief Rabbinate. In his sixteen-second video, the former defense minister dons fake peot, side-locks, a bad imitation of a haredi fedora, fake glasses, and declares himself to be the “great, righteous rabbi of Kishinev,” where he was born. “I rule that public transport on Shabbat is permitted, civil marriage is permitted, and DNA tests are prohibited. Amen,” intones “Rabbi” Liberman. The haredi political parties United Torah Judaism and Shas have long opposed public trans...
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, revealed in a letter to White House counsel Thursday that Jared Kushner’s lawyer said in December that he “continues to use” WhatsApp to conduct official White House business. Kushner’s lawyer Abbe Lowell also reportedly told Cummings that he wasn’t sure whether Kushner had ever used the messaging app to transmit classified information. The criticism of Kushner was part of a much longer letter rebuking counsel Pat Cipollone for the White House’s refusal to provide documents that the committee has requested. Cummings indicated that he could subpoena the documents if the White House does not cooperate. Lowell disputed Cummings’ account of their December conversation: &ldquo...
Rabbi Eytan Feiner currently serves as the full-time Rav of Congregation Kneseth Israel, more popularly known as The White Shul, in Far Rockaway, New York. He also delivers monthly shiurim at Lander’s Yeshiva and at Machon Basya Rochel Seminary, lectures extensively throughout the New York area and beyond, and is the summer Rabbi of Chai Lifeline’s Camp Simcha. Rabbi Feiner previously served as a Maggid Shiur and Senior Lecturer at Aish HaTorah in Yerushalayim, taught weekly in Yeshivat HaKotel, Michlala, the Gra Shul in Sha’arei Chesed, and at various Yeshivot and Seminaries throughout Eretz Yisroel, and lectured for the popular Gateways programs.
A Health Ministry study of 11,000 patients in 26 hospitals found the highest level of patient satisfaction at Bnei Brak’s Maayanei Hayeshuah Hospital, founded in 1978 to treat patients in accordance with halacha. Maayanei Hayeshuah also had the least number of patients hospitalized in corridors due to lack of space.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook left hundreds of millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed the lapse . By storing passwords in readable plain text, Facebook violated fundamental computer-security practices. Those call for organizations and websites to save passwords in a scrambled form that makes it almost impossible to recover the original text. "There is no valid reason why anyone in an organization, especially the size of Facebook, needs to have access to users' passwords in plain text," said cybersecurity expert Andrei Barysevich of Recorded Future. Facebook said there is no evidence its employees abused access to this data. But thousands of employees could have s...
Jerusalem - - Israel said on Thursday a U.N. report critical of its use of lethal force during Palestinian protests on the Gaza border was biased and should have included a demand that the enclave’s dominant Hamas group take action to stop anti-Israeli violence. A U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the demonstrations, which began nearly a year ago, said this week that Israel should investigate the shootings of more than 6,000 people, far beyond the criminal inquiries it has announced into 11 killings. Issuing an official response to the commission’s report, Israel said it had “serious concerns about the factual and legal analysis conducted by the commission, its methodologies and the clear evidence of political bias against Israel”. Gaza health authorities say some 20...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday requiring U.S. colleges to protect free speech on their campuses or risk losing federal research funding. The new order directs federal agencies to ensure that any college or university receiving research grants agrees to promote free speech and the exchange of ideas, and to follow federal rules guiding free expression. "Even as universities have received billions and billions of dollars from taxpayers, many have become increasingly hostile to free speech and to the First Amendment," Trump said at a White House signing ceremony. "These universities have tried to restrict free thought, impose total conformity and shut down the voices of great young Americans." The order follows a growing chorus of complaints from conservatives who...
Milwaukee - A fight between beer giants escalated Thursday after MillerCoors filed a lawsuit against Anheuser-Busch that accused its rival of trying to “frighten” consumers into switching to Bud Light with “misleading” Super Bowl ads. MillerCoors said in the lawsuit filed in Wisconsin federal court that St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch has spent as much as $30 million on a “false and misleading” campaign, including $13 million in its first commercials during this year’s Super Bowl . The ad showed a medieval caravan pushing a huge barrel of corn syrup to castles for MillerCoors to make Miller Lite and Coors Light. The commercial states that Bud Light isn’t brewed with corn syrup. Chicago-based MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch have the biggest U....
Washington - The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on two Chinese shipping companies it says helped North Korea evade sanctions over its nuclear weapons program, the first such steps since a U.S.-North Korean summit collapsed last month. The U.S. Treasury Department also issued an updated advisory that listed 67 vessels that it said had engaged in illicit transfers of refined petroleum with North Korean tankers or were believed to have exported North Korean coal. The department identified the newly sanctioned firms as Dalian Haibo International Freight Co Ltd and Liaoning Danxing International Forwarding Co Ltd, which it said had helped North Korea evade U.S. and international sanctions. Reuters was unable to locate contact details for either company to seek comment. The move...
Damascus - The Syrian government vowed to recover the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as its allies and enemies alike condemned U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday for moving to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the territory seized in war. Trump’s statement on Thursday marked a dramatic shift in U.S. policy over the status of a disputed area that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East conflict and annexed in 1981 - a move not recognized internationally. Against this backdrop of hostility toward the U.S. move, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Beirut after visiting Israel on Friday. He is expected to pile pressure on the government to curb the influence of the Iran-backed Hezbollah. The declaration is the latest in a series of moves that have fueled anger amon...
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