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March 22, 2019 at 3:44 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the United States sanctions on North Korea (all times local):
2:25 p.m.
President Donald Trump says he is reversing his administration’s decision to slap new sanctions on North Korea, ordering them withdrawn.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders says Trump “likes Chairman Kim and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be necessary.”
Trump says in a tweet that, “It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea.”
But he says, “I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!”
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about which sanctions Trump was referring to. His a...
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March 22, 2019 at 3:44 pm
Philadelphia - Some problem police officers in Philadelphia have been assigned to monitor security cameras in a highly sensitive Homeland Security intelligence facility.
The location has become a sort of holding area for officers on restricted duty, meaning they are unfit for street duty because of pending criminal charges or accusations of wrongdoing, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer .
Among those assigned to the unit is a homicide detective accused of making secret cash payments to an imprisoned informant and a former detective accused of coercing false confessions.
Police Commissioner Richard Ross defended the practice in an email to the newspaper, saying that it’s a low-risk and “efficient” use of officers who work under stringent supervision, and that they h...
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March 22, 2019 at 3:41 pm
‘Life, Liberty & Levin’ host Mark Levin joins ‘Hannity’ to discuss the radicalized Democrats’ push to abolish the Electoral College, lower the voting age, and stack the Supreme Court.
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March 22, 2019 at 3:40 pm
Reaction and analysis to veteran journalist Ted Koppel’s comments from Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.
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March 22, 2019 at 3:36 pm
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, an avowed progressive, is continuing to support AIPAC amid calls for Democrats to skip this year’s policy conference in Washington, D.C. De Blasio’s team confirmed he will deliver remarks at the annual conference this weekend — another example of daylight between him the left flank of the Democratic Party on the issue of Israel.
He plans to speak about “the progressive pro-Israel movement” in front of an estimated 18,000 people at the conference Monday, his spokesperson Jaclyn Rothenberg said. On Sunday, he will be interviewed on stage by AIPAC’s national director for progressive engagement, Marilyn Rosenthal.
Earlier this week, the liberal group MoveOn called on Democratic presidential candidates to forgo the confer...
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March 22, 2019 at 3:35 pm
Left looks to blame Trump for mosque attacks; Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson weighs in on critics calling Trump racist.
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March 22, 2019 at 3:33 pm
Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shaprio weighs in on the entitlement generation on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
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March 22, 2019 at 3:27 pm
Chareidim give significantly more of their time and money to charitable causes than other Israeli populations.
The Chareidi Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) found that while 59% of Israeli Jews give tzedokah, among chareidim the figure is 89%, with 67% giving over $140 monthly. Among religious Zionists, the figure was 80%.
Volunteering of time for charitable causes is prevalent among 21% of secular and traditional Jews, while for religious Zionist and chareidi Jews, the figures are 33% and 38%, respectively.
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March 22, 2019 at 3:22 pm
Agudath Israel of America warmly welcomes the announcement made by President Donald Trump recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights, a mountainous range overlooking Israel, were captured after Syria attacked Israel during the Six Day War and have been in Israel’s hands for nearly 52 years.
All who are familiar with the geography and military history of the region recognize the strategic importance of the Golan Heights. Syrian control of the mountain range posed a mortal danger to Israel. It furnished Syria and terrorist groups a formidable military advantage, providing them with a base from which to launch deadly attacks against Israel and its citizens in the lowlands below. For the past 52 years, with Israeli control of the area, the threat of Syrian...
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March 22, 2019 at 3:22 pm
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...
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March 22, 2019 at 3:17 pm
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
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March 22, 2019 at 12:56 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...
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March 22, 2019 at 12:52 pm
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...
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March 22, 2019 at 12:48 pm
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...
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March 22, 2019 at 12:06 pm
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 ...
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March 22, 2019 at 12:05 pm
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...
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March 22, 2019 at 11:57 am
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...
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March 22, 2019 at 10:42 am
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...
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March 22, 2019 at 10:18 am
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...
