There are reports of a major power outage in Southern Israel due to a Gaza rocket hitting a power supply station
Baltimore, MD – Mar. 25, 2019 - Judge Ruchie Freier inspired over 350 people in Baltimore last night with a message of conviction and perseverance. Judge Freier detailed how an infusion of maternal wisdom, strong faith and a dose of not accepting “no” when you know you are right can propel one to accomplish great things. The talk at Ner Tamid was moderated by Avital Chizik Goldschmidt, an editor at Forward and teacher of journalism at Yeshiva University and sponsored by the Schuster family in memory of Dr. Frank F. Schuster. Judge Freier described her personal journey from Bais Yaakov student to becoming the first Chasidic woman to hold public office in US history. Judge Freier went to law school while raising six children, started two vital community organizations a...
Israeli warplanes attacked the offices of Hamas chairman Ismail Haniyeh in the Rimal neighborhood of the northern Gaza Strip. The building which was attacked serves as an office for many military meetings and was previously attacked during Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012. Earlier, a five-story building was attacked in the Rimal neighborhood of the northern Gaza Strip. The building was used by Hamas for military purposes, such as the Ministry of Public Security. Israeli fighter jets also attacked a three-story building that served as a secret headquarters of the Hamas terrorist organization, which serves the general security, general intelligence and military intelligence of the organization, and that the Hamas military intelligence department is responsible for intelligence gatherin...
Fort Lauderdale, FL - The community of Parkland, Florida, is focusing attention on its suicide prevention programs after two survivors of the Florida high school massacre killed themselves in a week. Parkland Mayor Christine Hunschofsky said Monday that community leaders, government officials, parents, police and others held an emergency meeting Sunday after a second Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student apparently killed himself over the weekend. That came a week after a recent graduate, who was close friends with victim Meadow Pollack, killed herself after her family said she suffered from survivor’s guilt. The Feb. 14, 2018, shooting at the 3,200-student school killed 14 students and three staff members and wounded 17 others. Some students have begun counting the two suic...
Egypt declined to send a delegation to mediate believing the clash is unavoidable at this point, Al Arabiya television station reported on Monday. The IDF began striking Hamas terror targets along the Gaza Strip, IDF spokesperson said on Monday afternoon.    The Israeli airstrike began striking targets across the Gaza Strip in response to a long-range rocket struck a civilian home in central Israel in the morning. “The IDF has began attacking terrorist targets belonging to the Hamas terror organization across the Gaza Strip. More details to come,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement.The Hamas rocket directly hit the family residence of the Wolf family in Moshav Mishmeret, shattering the house. Had the family not been able to get to a b...
A Missouri man was sentenced to three years of probation Thursday for toppling more than 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis in February 2017, which resulted in $30,000 worth of damages. Alzado Harris, 35, of Northwoods was also ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution after admitting to police he was drunk, on drugs and angry at a friend when he knocked over about 120 headstones at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, about 9 miles west of St. Louis. Vice President Pence visited the cemetery shortly after the crime, which happened during a time when Jewish organizations around the country were receiving bomb threats, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported. Prosecutors said Thursday there was no evidence suggesting Harris’ actions were anti-Semitic in na...
Jerusalem - Gaza militants fired at least 10 rockets toward Israel after an Israeli airstrike destroyed the offices of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, as air raid sirens wailed across southern Israel. Israeli media report at least 10 missiles fired toward the southern Israeli town of Sderot late Monday. There are no immediate reports of casualties. The latest escalation of violence began early Monday when a rocket fired from Gaza struck a home in central Israel, wounding seven people. Israel has vowed to respond “forcefully,” raising the prospect of a fourth war between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers. Israel struck targets throughout Gaza late Monday in response to a rocket attack that struck a house and wounded seven people in central Israel. The Israeli milita...
Paris - One of the main groups representing Muslims in France said on Monday it was suing Facebook and YouTube, accusing them of inciting violence by allowing the streaming of footage of the Church massacre on their platforms. The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) said the companies had disseminated material that encouraged terrorism, and harmed the dignity of human beings. There was no immediate comment from either company. The shooting at two mosques in New Zealand on March 15, which killed 50 people, was livestreamed on Facebook for 17 minutes and then copied and shared on social media sites across the internet. Facebook said it raced to remove hundreds of thousands of copies. But a few hours after the attack, footage could still be found on Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet In...
Washington - U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s conclusion that Donald Trump did not collude with Russia to win the presidency in 2016 gives the president a powerful weapon to use against his Democratic opponents and a potential boost to what is shaping up to be a tough bid for re-election in 2020. Mueller’s conclusion that neither Trump nor his aides conspired with Russia in 2016 takes away a central charge that Democrats have flung at Trump for two years - that he did not win the presidency fairly or cleanly. The allegations have played out on an endless loop on cable TV news shows, overshadowing Trump’s presidency from day one. Democrats have vowed to continue congressional investigations into the 2016 election campaign and Trump’s business practices. But wi...
Aberdeen, MD - Mar. 25, 2019 - For the first time, a Purim Party was celebrated for the soldiers and employees of Aberdeen Proving Ground, thanks to the efforts of Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum and the Jewish Uniformed Service Association of Maryland (JUSA).  The Soldiers and employees heard the story of Megilas Esther had a Purim feast, enjoyed Hamantashen and received camouflage Shalach Manos boxes from Koshertroops.  JUSA plans to hold other Jewish events for Soldiers and Veterans. If you know of a Jewish Soldier or Veteran that resides in Maryland please email Rabbi Tenenbaum at, RabbiCT@JewishUSAMD.org. The Soldiers and employees heard the story of Megilas Esther had a Purim feast, enjoyed Hamantashen and received camouflage Shalach Manos boxes from Koshertroo...
Jerusalem, Israel - Mar. 25, 2019 - Har HaBayis, the Temple Mount in English, and in Arabic,  al-Haram al-Sharif, is a most striking and visible symbol on the Jerusalem Old City skyline, with the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque. The rectangular complex is one-sixth of the area of Jerusalem’s Old City, comprising about 150,000 square meters.  One of the best views of the area is from King Herod's Phasael Tower at the top of the Tower of David. From this elevated vantage point, one can see old Jerusalem as well as newer areas outside the Walls of the Old City, and on a clear day, even the Mountains of Edom in Jordan are visible.  Beginning in 1839, the same year that the camera was invented, first attempts were made to photograph Har HaBayis.  Fr...
Baltimore, MD – Mar. 21, 2019 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Mr. Victor Reznick, z'l, cherished husband of the late Bessie Reznick (nee Rosinsky); loving father of Rabbi Leibel (Shoshana) Reznick, Wayne (Helen) Reznick, and Howard (Dvorah Sora) Reznick; beloved brother of Ida Weitzman and the late Herman Reznick, Aaron Reznick, Rose Ansell, and Eva Silverman; devoted son of the late Velvel and Shaindel Reznick; Victor had a sizeable flock of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and even great-great-grandchildren. Shiva is being observed at the Reznick home, 3208 W. Strathmore Avenue, beginning motzei Shabbos and ending Thursday morning after Shacharis.Shiva Calls Welcome: 8am-12pm 3-7pm 8-10pm MINYAN SCHEDULE Shac...
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Washington - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strongest election challenger, Benny Gantz, called on Monday for unity and moderation in a speech to a major pro-Israel U.S. lobby group that has been uneasy at Netanyahu’s courting of far-rightists. Gantz’s appearance at AIPAC was overshadowed by a rocket strike on Israel from Gaza that prompted Netanyahu to cancel his own speech at the event so he could return and oversee retaliation. Gantz, a retired army general who is a centrist newcomer to politics, went briefly off-script to commend Netanyahu’s decision, before delivering veiled censure of the conservative premier’s electioneering, which has included dismissive rhetoric about Israel’s Arab minority and appeals to ultranationalists. &ldquo...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (all times local): 8:30 p.m. The Israeli military is reporting air raid sirens in southern Israel. The sirens are the first sign of renewed rocket fire out of the Gaza Strip following a series of Israeli airstrikes. Israel struck targets throughout Gaza late Monday in response to a rocket attack that struck a house and wounded seven people in central Israel. The Israeli military says it struck a five-story building in Gaza City that “serves the terror organization’s military wing.” The building houses Hamas administrative offices belonging to the organization’s domestic intelligence agency. An Israeli airstrike destroyed another multi-story building that the military said was a secret Hamas ...
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai has ordered all public bomb shelters opened today. The emergency announcement comes as Israeli aircraft bombard Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip following a rocket attack earlier in the day that destroyed a home in central Israel, injuring seven people. While Hamas has claimed the rocket an ‘accident’ the city is not ruling out a possible escalation as tensions rise in the region.
14 were injured during riots in Ketziot prison in the south of Israel, after two guards were stabbed by a number of rioting prisoners belonging to the Hamas terror group. The guards received initial treatment on the premises after one was stabbed in the neck and the other in the hand by a said makeshift knife. All the wounded were transferred to Soroka hospital, where two guards, and two prisoners were in a medium to critical condition, according to a statement by Inbar Gunter, a Soroka spokeswoman. Others had been released from medical care overnight. The reasons for the stabbing were as yet unclear, although there has been continuous tensions in the establishment in the last few weeks, after prison authorities cracked down on illegal communications from the outside. Read more at ...
President Trump says he would want to see Benjamin Netanyahu reelected as prime minister in the April 9 Knesset elections. Seconds after he recognized Israeli control over the Golan Heights alongside Netanyahu at the White House, a reporter asks Trump whether he would like Netanyahu to win the elections. “Yes I do, yes I do,” the president answered. Read more at Times of Israel.
New York - Attorney Michael Avenatti, who represented a woman’s battles against U.S. President Donald Trump, has been charged with extorting more than $20 million from Nike, according to a criminal complaint filed by federal authorities in New York. The U.S. Attorneys offices in New York and Los Angeles separately filed charges against Avenatti, with the California case accusing him of embezzling a client’s money to cover his own debts, as well as using phony tax returns to obtain millions of dollars in loans from a bank. Avenatti threatened to expose allegations of misconduct from Nike employees unless the apparel company paid him and an unnamed co-conspirator $22.5 million to “buy Avenatti’s silence,” the New York complaint said. Read more at Reuters
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