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March 25, 2019 at 11:23 am
More than two years after the mass arrest of protesters at President Donald Trump’s inauguration, two federal prosecutors walked into a District of Columbia courtroom earlier this month in a little-noticed hearing and told a judge that their investigation had ended and they would no longer pursue any of the cases.
The cases began with one of the most sweeping arrest actions ever in the nation’s capital. Authorities said rioters caused about $100,000 in property damage across 16 blocks downtown. The government said the group used “black bloc” tactics, dressing in dark colors and wearing masks, scarves or goggles to blend in with similarly dressed demonstrators who used rocks and crowbars to shatter windows of businesses and vehicles.
In all, 234 people were arreste...
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March 25, 2019 at 11:18 am
Mueller’s report does not show evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia in 2016, Attorney General Barr says, though it does not fully exonerate the president.
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March 25, 2019 at 11:15 am
Republicans clamored for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff's head Monday, attempting to turn him into the face of a new campaign of recriminations against Democrats who pursued and promoted allegations of collusion between President Donald Trump and the Russian government.
Top White House aides, Republicans on Capitol Hill and supporters of Trump raced to paint the California Democrat as an overeager disciple of a theory debunked by the Justice Department in a summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings released Sunday.
Their offensive comes as Schiff is forging ahead with a renewed congressional investigation of the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia. His committee is slated to publicly interview on Wednesday Trump associate Felix Sater about h...
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March 25, 2019 at 11:14 am
President Rivlin:
“Integrating children and adults with autism in society is a task of the highest priority which every one of us can and must engage with”
President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin today, Sunday 24 March / 17 Adar II, hosted an event at Beit HaNasi for the first time to mark World Autism Awareness Day, which falls each year on April 2. Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, children and adults on the autism spectrum and representatives of various NGOs also participated in the event.
During the event, 11-year old Roi Mor, who was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum at the age of a year and a half, performed an original composition called ‘Harmony’. Roi has exceptional musical talents and he composed this piece at the age of 10. There was also an exhibi...
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March 25, 2019 at 11:05 am
Kfar Saba, Israel - Luck and miracles saved the seven members of the Wolf family from certain death, when a rocket destroyed their home in Moshav Mishmeret just before 6 a.m.
“I nearly lost my family,” said Robert Wolf, as he stood outside the shell of his house, on a tree-lined street with single family homes in the middle of the country, close to Kfar Saba.
“If we had not gotten to the bomb shelter in time, I would now be burying all my family,” he said. “That is two grandchildren, one 5 months old, one 2 years old. That would be my third child, with his wife, my wife, myself and my youngest daughter. They would all have been dead if we didn’t do what we had been supposed to do.”
At Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba where most of the family was...
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March 25, 2019 at 3:26 am
KFAR SABA, Israel (AP) — An early morning rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck a house in central Israel on Monday, wounding seven people and prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut short a trip to Washington. The developments set the stage for a potential major conflagration, shortly before Israel's upcoming elections.
The rocket attack destroyed a residential home in the community of Mishmeret, north of the city of Kfar Saba, wounding six members of the family. The Magen David Adom rescue service said it treated seven people overall, including two women who were moderately wounded. The others, including two children and an infant, had minor wounds.
The sounds of air raid sirens jolted residents of the Sharon area, northeast of Tel Aviv, from their sleep shortly...
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March 25, 2019 at 3:20 am
'Hamas is responsible for rocket attack, none of its leaders have immunity,' Finance Min. Kahlon says.
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu), who also serves as a member of Israel's Diplomatic-Security Cabinet, emphasized that "all organizations in Gaza are terrorist organizations."
Responding to a Monday morning rocket attack, which damaged a family home in Israel's Sharon region and injured six civilians, Kahlon said, "This is a serious event which the other side needs to pay a heavy price for."
Mishmeret, where the rocket fell, is 80 kilometers (50 miles) away from Gaza.
"Hamas is responsible for the fire, and none of its leaders have immunity. All organizations in the Strip are terrorist organizations, and we need to treat them that way, including go...
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March 25, 2019 at 3:14 am
MDA Spokesperson, Zaki Heller: Further details re the rocket attack in the Sharon.
Summary: At 05.22 this morning several calls were received at the MDA Sharon Region 101 Dispatch Center of a rocket attack on a residence in a village in the Sharon region. Large numbers of MDA teams, including Medicycles, Ambulances and Mobile Intensive Care Units (MICUs) were immediately dispatched to the scene. MDA Paramedics and EMTs treated 7 victims with injuries including: A woman in her sixties in moderate condition with blast injuries, minor burns and shrapnel wounds; a woman in her thirties in moderate condition with shrapnel wounds; two men, 60 and 30, as well as a girl aged 12, a 3 year old boy and a year and half old infant who were all lightly injured from shrapnel wounds. All were evacuated b...
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March 25, 2019 at 3:01 am
Tel Aviv - Sirens sounded in central Israel and police and medics said a house was on fire and six people were wounded on Monday after a suspected rocket attack from the Gaza Strip.
The early morning incident in Mishmeret, an agricultural town north of Tel Aviv, came at a time of high tension ahead of the anniversary of Gaza border protests and an April 9 election campaign in Israel.
Police said a house was on fire and there were reports it had been hit by a rocket. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it was treating six of the building’s occupants for wounds.
That came minutes after the Israeli military activated air raid sires in the area and said one rocket had been launched out of Gaza, a Palestinian enclave whose dominant Hamas Islamists and other militant gro...
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March 25, 2019 at 2:56 am
In Vayikra, Perek Yud, posuk tes the Torah tells the Kohanim that they are not allowed to drink wine or alcoholic beverages upon entering the Ohel Moed.
In Meseches Taanis, daf yud zayin, amud bais the Gemara brings down shitas Chachamim that Kohanim are prohibited from getting drunk in today’s times since there is a chance the Bais Hamikdosh will be rebuilt quickly and then the inebriated Kohen won’t be fit to serve in the Bais Hamikdosh. Tosfos asks the following question regarding this opinion. If we are all tamei meis and need a week to become pure, why does it matter if the Kohein is drunk; in a week’s time that problem doesn’...
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March 25, 2019 at 2:47 am
Two women were moderately hurt and five others, including a toddler, lightly wounded after a rocket fired by Gaza militants struck a residential house in a community north of Kfar Saba; Netanyahu cuts his Washington trip short in light of the rocket attack
An early morning rocket from the Gaza Strip struck a house in central Israel on Monday, wounding seven people, an Israeli rescue service said, an attack that could set off another round of violence shortly before the Israeli election.
The sounds of air raid sirens woke up the residents of the residential Sharon area, northeast of Tel Aviv, sending them scurrying to bomb shelters. A strong sound of an explosion followed.
The Israeli military said it identified a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip. Israeli police said the rocket hit a...
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March 25, 2019 at 2:43 am
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will "respond forcefully" against Hamas and terrorists in the Gaza Strip, after a rocket was launched Monday morning at Israel. The rocket hit a private home in Moshav Mishmeret in the Kfar Saba region, wounding the six residents in the house, all of which were evacuated to Meir Hospital.Netanyahu said, "I spoke to the IDF Chief of Staff, head of the Shin Bet and head of Intelligence and that he sees this as a criminal act against the State of Israel."He is returning early from his trip to the United States.
Of those injured, one 50-year-old woman was mildly wounded with burns and wounds from shrapnel, three adults were lightly wounded and two toddlers were lightly wounded. Several neighbors are being treated for shock and four dogs were...
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March 25, 2019 at 2:40 am
PM prepares to return home early to Israel following rocket attacks from Gaza, cancelling address at annual AIPAC conference.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has cancelled a planned appearance at this year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington DC, following an escalation on the Israel-Gaza border over the weekend.
Netanyahu, who had been slated to speak at the AIPAC policy conference on Tuesday, has decided to cut short his Washington visit and return home early on Monday to deal with the security situation, following rocket attacks from Gaza into central Israel.
According to a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office Monday morning, Netanyahu will return home Monday, following his meeting with President Donald Trump.
“In the ...
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March 25, 2019 at 2:37 am
Rocket fired from Gaza hits home in a moshav in the Sharon region. Seven people injured.
A rocket fired from Gaza early Monday morning hit a house in Moshav Mishmeret in the Sharon region.
Magen David Adom reported that seven people were injured, among them a 60-year-old woman in moderate condition with shrapnel wounds and burns, a 30-year-old woman in moderate condition with shrapnel wounds and five people who were lightly injured.
Magen David Adom reported that seven people were injured, among them a 60-year-old woman in moderate condition with shrapnel wounds and burns, a 30-year-old woman in moderate condition with shrapnel wounds and five people who were lightly injured.
In addition, several victims were treated for shock, as well as a number of individuals who were suffered lig...
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March 24, 2019 at 9:56 pm
Baltimore, MD - Mar. 24, 2019 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Jaime Penjos on the birth of a daughter.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בתם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
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March 24, 2019 at 9:41 pm
Annapolis, MD — A controversial end-of-life bill passed a key Senate test Friday afternoon, marking the furthest any bill of this kind has ever advanced in the Maryland General Assembly.
It's a very different version of the bill than it was coming in, but the End of Life Option Act soared out of its Senate committee Friday.
The measure got the green light from the Senate committee Friday, an 8 to 3 vote passing the panel's test decisively yet quietly with no fanfare -- and barely an audience.
Well-funded lobbying groups on both sides of the issue this session were no-shows.
It makes sense, since the bill taken up here is a totally retooled version of the Senate's End of Life Option Act.
"I would never have voted for the piece of legislation that cam...
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March 24, 2019 at 9:35 pm
Escondido, CA - A note referencing the recent terrorist attacks in New Zealand was found at the scene of a possible arson fire at a Southern California mosque, police said Sunday.
Nobody was hurt, and members of the Islamic Center of Escondido were able to extinguish the small blaze before firefighters around 3:15 a.m., officials said.
The incident was being investigated as arson and a possible hate crime, said police in the city about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of downtown San Diego.
A note was found in the parking lot referencing the shootings this month that killed 50 people at mosques in the city of Church, New Zealand, police Lt. Chris Lick said. He did not elaborate about the contents of the note.
Investigators did not release information about a suspect.
The fire caused min...
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March 24, 2019 at 9:32 pm
New York - Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand on Sunday called President Donald Trump a “coward” who “punches down” and says that he is “tearing apart the moral fabric of our country.”
Gillibrand also urged the full release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in the Russia investigation, stressing that “nobody in this country, not even the president, is above the law, or immune from accountability.” Attorney General William Barr was expected to release a summary of principal conclusions as soon as Sunday, but Democrats want to see the full details.
In what her campaign billed as Gillibrand’s first major speech as a presidential candidate, the New York senator said the Trump International Hotel & Towe...
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March 24, 2019 at 9:30 pm
Beijing - - Ahead of fresh high-level trade talks this week, China is not conceding to U.S. demands to ease curbs on technology companies, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing three people briefed on the discussions.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are scheduled to travel to Beijing for talks starting on March 28, the White House said on Saturday.
The FT report said Beijing had yet to offer “meaningful concessions” to U.S. requests for China to stop discriminating against foreign cloud computing providers, to reduce limits on overseas data transfers and to relax a requirement for companies to store data locally.
China made an initial offer on digital trade that the United States judged as insufficient, the report sa...
