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April 14, 2019 at 9:12 am
White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said Saturday that the White House was working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to try to send undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities.
“They have said they wanted all of these illegal aliens into their communities,” Gidley said on Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine.”
“We’re working with DHS, we’re working with ICE, to try and make sure that happens because after all, it’s what they want. They should not say ‘This is retribution politically,’ they should say, ‘This is an olive branch,'” he continued.
Gidley also said President Trump is “looking at any and all options” to send undo...
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April 14, 2019 at 9:11 am
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday swore in a new government headed by a loyalist from his dominant Fatah party, a move rejected by his Islamist rival Hamas as a blow to unity efforts.
Mohammed Shtayyeh, an economist and longtime Abbas adviser, will serve as prime minister of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA). Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki and Finance Minister Shukri Bishara will continue in their positions.
Shtayyeh was named Palestinian prime minister on March 10, replacing the independent university president Rami Al-Hamdallah. He will run the ministries of interior and religious affairs until new appointees are named for the two posts.
The rival Hamas group that runs Gaza called the move a blow to unity efforts that faltered since the two groups signed a...
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April 14, 2019 at 9:10 am
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center and Israel’s president both rebuffed Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for comments on the Holocaust on Saturday.
“We can forgive, but we cannot forget. That quote is mine. Those that forget their past are sentenced not to have a future,” Bolsonaro had said on Friday, talking about the Holocaust, according to AP.
The Yad Vashem memorial issued an official statement on Saturday, voicing their disagreement. “It is not in anyone’s position to determine who and if Holocaust crimes can be forgiven,” the statement said.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin also took to Twitter after Shabbat ended to take the Brazilian president to task. “None can order forgiveness on behalf of the Jewish people, and no interest ...
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April 14, 2019 at 9:09 am
One of Europe’s leading Orthodox rabbis on Friday called on Jewish parents to ensure that their children are properly vaccinated with the Passover holiday approaching, as a measles outbreak among Orthodox Jewish communities in New York showed no signs of abating.
“It is well known how dangerous measles is and the need to ensure all vaccinations are up to date,” Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt — the president of the Conference of European Rabbis — said in a statement.
Goldschmidt noted as the Jewish community prepared “for Pesach … they need to be aware that they may be exposing themselves and their families to the disease and to take the necessary precautions.”
The rabbi stressed that it was “also important to note that those travel...
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April 14, 2019 at 9:08 am
President Trump tweeted on Saturday night that his administration has the legal right to send undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities and demanded it happen.
“Just out: The USA has the absolute legal right to have apprehended illegal immigrants transferred to Sanctuary Cities,” he wrote. “We hereby demand that they be taken care of at the highest level, especially by the State of California, which is well known or its poor management & high taxes!”
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley on Saturday told Fox News shortly before the announcement that the administration was working with DHS and ICE to try to send undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities.
“They have said they wanted all of these illegal aliens into their communities,” Gidley said w...
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April 14, 2019 at 9:06 am
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro attempted to curb criticism over his comments that the Holocaust could be forgiven Saturday, saying that his words were being misinterpreted.
Bolsonaro on Thursday told a group of evangelical pastors in Rio de Janiero that “We can forgive, but we cannot forget. That quote is mine. Those that forget their past are sentenced not to have a future.”
In a clarification posted by Israel’s ambassador to Brazil Yossi Shelley late Saturday, Bolsonaro blamed “those who want to push me away from my Jewish friends,” for taking his speech out of context.
“To the people of Israel I wrote in the guestbook of the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem: ‘Those who forget their past are doomed to not have a future’ Therefore, any ...
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April 14, 2019 at 9:04 am
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed President Donald Trump, who shared a grim video featuring Rep. Ilhan Omar’s controversial 9/11 remarks alongside footage of the Twin Towers being attacked.
“Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Friday. “@IlhanMN’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress. We must speak out.”
She also shared an image of the words of “First they came … ,” the famous poem by German theologian Martin Niemöller that was inspired by the tragedies of the Holocaust.
The poem reads:
“First they came for the socialists, and I did n...
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April 14, 2019 at 9:03 am
New York - Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down.
All three social media platforms, including Facebook Messenger, were not loading as of early Sunday morning.
Downdetector.com, a site that monitors site outages, shows Facebook has been down since 6:30 a.m. in much of the world, with thousands of reported outages concentrated in northeastern U.S., Europe and the Philippines.
It was not immediately clear what caused the outage or how long the platforms would be down.
An email requesting comment about the outage was sent to Facebook.
#FacebookDown, #instagramdown and #whatsappdown were all trending on Twitter globally.
Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014.
There are more than 1.52 billion daily active Facebook users, according to the social media network’s...
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April 14, 2019 at 8:58 am
Baltimore, MD – Apr. 14, 2019 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Shirley Rose, a’h, mother of Ruth (Klotzman) Rose.
Shiva is being observed at 6809 Pimlico Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21209 through Monday evening
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
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April 13, 2019 at 10:37 pm
Baltimore, MD - Apr. 12, 2019 - Additional MMR Clinic To Be Held This Wednesday, Apr. 17 - Details To Follow...
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April 13, 2019 at 10:26 pm
Washington - Top Democrats on Saturday rushed to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar after President Donald Trump retweeted video that was edited to suggest she was being dismissive of the significance of the worst terrorist assault on U.S. soil.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded Trump for using the “painful images of 9/11 for a political attack” against the first-term Minnesota Democrat.
And presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, campaigning in New Hampshire, accused Trump of “trying to incite violence and to divide us, and every political leader should speak out against that.”
The video Trump retweeted Friday pulls a snippet of Omar’s recent speech to the Council on American-Islamic Relations in which she described the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Cente...
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April 13, 2019 at 10:01 pm
Damascus - An Israeli airstrike on a military position in central Syria early Saturday wounded six soldiers and destroyed several buildings, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported.
SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying the airstrike near the town of Masyaf, in Hama province, hit a military academy widely known as the Accounting School. It said Israeli warplanes fired missiles toward Syria from Lebanon’s airspace and that Syrian air defenses shot down some of the missiles.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Israeli airstrikes hit three targets, wounding 17 Syrian soldiers. It said there were also deaths, but it was not immediately clear how many were killed and whether they were Iranians or Iran-sponsored fighters. It said the strikes ...
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April 13, 2019 at 9:30 pm
Join us as we explore how gluten free kosher machine made matzos are baked for Passover. It all starts with the factory preparation to ensure a gluten free working environment - gloves, gowns, and the whole works. Once the place is fully scrubbed, the dough preparation starts. Complicated as the timing is for regular matzos to meet the 18-minute mix-to-bake limit, creating viable dough with ingredients such as spelt and oats is an exact science requiring precise measurements, not to mention the highest level shmura kashrut standards for Pesach. After coming out of the oven, the matzohs are individually examined, sorted, and packed for shipment after passing through the weigh station.
Music: "Space Run" by Yisroel Tzvi @ http://www.littleboxrecords.com
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April 13, 2019 at 9:20 pm
BALTIMORE (WBFF) - On Friday, hundreds in Baltimore’s Orthodox Jewish community turned out to Shomrei Emunah synagogue for a free measles vaccine clinic.
The Baltimore City Health Department helped put it together with Sinai Hospital and local leaders in just a few days after confirming last Friday a child in Pikesville has the measles.
Doctors and Jewish community leaders have been urging adults to make sure they and their children are up to date on their vaccines Friday’s clinic was mainly for adults.
It started at 10 in the morning. They had a steady stream of people during the day.
“You have hundreds of people going in there,” said Rabbi Eliezer Lachman.
“Everyone came out from all walks of the community,” said Fagie Rosen. “There's a...
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April 13, 2019 at 9:08 pm
The Israeli Air Force attacked Iranian targets in the city of Hama, Syria on Saturday night. In response, the Syrian air defense systems intercepted and downed some of the rockets.Reports of at least 3 Iranian militants dead and 17 injured from the Israeli attack.
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April 13, 2019 at 9:06 pm
Baltimore, MD – Apr. 12, 2019 – 3:11 PM - Due to overwhelming demand, the MMR clinic at Shomrei Emunah will not be able to process individuals who arrive after 3:15 before Shabbos. It is important to note that other options are and will be available for vaccination, including local pharmacies and other MMR clinics in the coming week, Be”H.
Stay tuned for details!
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April 13, 2019 at 8:59 pm
Ramallah, West Bank - A new government for the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority was sworn in Saturday, led by a veteran peace negotiator and harsh critic of Gaza’s Hamas rulers.
President Mahmoud Abbas picked Mohammed Ishtayeh as prime minister, a move that deepens the internal Palestinian divide at a time when prospects for a peace deal with Israel are possibly at their lowest point ever.
A longtime adviser to Abbas and a senior member of his Fatah party, Ishtayeh and his 24-member cabinet took the oath of office at Abbas’ headquarters in Ramallah.
Ishtayeh faces tremendous challenges, with the PA in a deep financial crisis following U.S. sanctions and Israel’s withholding of $138 million in key tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinians. Israel says ...
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April 12, 2019 at 6:09 pm
Rep. Ilhan Omar is "off her rocker" and her fellow member of Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is a "joke" who will be seen "ultimately as an asterisk" in history, according to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Omar, D-Minn. is facing fierce backlash after a speech at a Muslim rights group's event in which she described the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks as "some people did something."
Speaking on the Brian Kilmeade Show on Fox News Radio, Christie, who initially thought his wife was in the Twin Towers on the day of the attacks, said: "As somebody who had my wife two blocks away from the World Trade Center that day, my brother on the floor of the New York Stock exchange, and a number of people in our local parish here who passed away, a murder occurred.
"Multiple...
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April 12, 2019 at 6:05 pm
The violent weekly riots along the Israel-Gaza border, known as the “March of the Return”, resumed on Friday. An IDF spokesman told AFP that around “approximately 4,700 rioters and demonstrators” took part in various incidents along the frontier.
The Hamas-run “health ministry” in Gaza claimed a 15-year-old Palestinian Arab teenager was shot dead by the Israeli army during the renewed clashes.
At least 48 others were taken to hospital with a variety of injuries from clashes at several spots along the border, the ministry said without elaborating.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
