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June 17, 2019 at 1:26 pm
Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi has collapsed during a court session and died, according to state television.
The state broadcaster said on Monday that Morsi, 67, was attending a session in his trial on espionage charges when he blacked out and then died. His body was taken to a hospital, it said.
Morsi, a senior figure in the now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, was elected president in 2012 and was later ousted by the military.
Read more at The Guardian.
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June 17, 2019 at 1:21 pm
Baltimore, MD - June 17, 2019 - Melissa Hyatt was sworn in Monday as Baltimore County’s 14th police chief and the first woman to lead the department. She is also the first Jew to occupy this position.
Her father, Major Sydney Hyatt (Retired BPD), pinned the badge on his daughter.
In a ceremony at Towson’s Patriot Plaza, Hyatt said she would never forget the sacrifice of first responders who had died in the line of duty and would work hard to get to know the department she now leads.
“Today, I’m going to spend some time getting out into the precincts,” Hyatt said in an interview after being sworn in. She wants to “Spend a lot of time in the community … [and] make sure I get out and spend some time with the troops.”
Hyatt was ...
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June 17, 2019 at 12:54 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt on Sunday expressed his support for recent statements by U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in favor of Israeli annexation of some parts of Yehuda and Shomron.
“I will let David’s comments stand for themselves,” Greenblatt said during the annual Jerusalem Post conference in New York, when asked about an interview with Friedman published in The New York Times last Saturday. “I think he said them elegantly and I support his comments.”
In the article, Friedman said “under certain circumstances, I think Israel has the right to retain some, but unlikely all, of the West Bank.”
He also said he would not “want to prejudge” a scenario of unilateral Is...
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June 17, 2019 at 12:54 pm
COCKEYSVILLE, Md. — York Road is closed in both directions Monday at Ashland Road in Cockeysville due to a water main break, according to the Maryland State Highway Administration.
A 12-inch main broke, affecting 40 water services along York Road, including businesses, said Department of Public Works spokesman Kurt Kocher.
MDOT SHA said there is no estimated time the road could re-open.
Traffic reporter Lacee Griffith said drivers can try to avoid the area by taking McCormick Road to Beaverdam Road or I-83.
This water main break happened just less than 3 miles north of a water main break and road collapse on York Road last week.
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June 17, 2019 at 12:45 pm
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says if he won he wouldn’t reverse President Trump’s controversial decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv from Yerushalayim.
“I think what’s done is done,” Buttigieg told “Axios on HBO” in a clip shared Sunday. “We need a big picture strategy on the Middle East, I don’t know that we’d gain much by moving it to Tel Aviv.”
Despite saying he wouldn’t reverse Trump’s actions, Buttigieg said that “doesn’t mean he did the right thing.”
“Here’s the problem with what he did,” Buttigieg said. “If you’re going to make a concession like that…you don’t do that without getting some kind of con...
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June 17, 2019 at 12:43 pm
MK Yair Lapid met secretly with former Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper reports.
It is possible that Barak is examining the possibility of cooperation with Lapid ahead of the elections for the 22nd Knesset.
On Friday, it was reported that Barak is considering forming a new party that will include prominent figures from the left, such as Tzipi Livni, Dan Meridor and former Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. (res.) Yair Golan.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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June 17, 2019 at 12:41 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Israel will not let Iran obtain a nuclear weapon, as Tehran says it will break the uranium stockpile limit set by the nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days.
“Today Iran threatened to enrich its uranium beyond the limits of the nuclear deal — this does not surprise us,” says Netanyahu. “In the event it acts upon its threats and violates the nuclear deal, the international community must immediately impose the sanctions that were set previously. Israel will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.”
Read more at Times of Israel.
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June 17, 2019 at 12:39 pm
Hamas on Monday confirmed that millions of Qatari aid dollars had entered the Gaza Strip for distribution to needy families, claiming that a new phase of understandings with Israel was now underway, Ynet reported.
The Gaza Strip’s ruling faction said the new understandings would include improvements to the blockaded enclave’s water and electricity supplies, relaxed import and export rules, and expansions to industrial projects in Gaza.
Palestinian media also reported that a delegation of Qatari technical experts was in the strip to meet with the Energy Ministry’s Deputy Chairman Samir Muttair. The team is reportedly to begin work on installing a new electricity line aimed at improving Gaza’s electricity supply.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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June 17, 2019 at 12:37 pm
An Israeli company that specializes in helping law enforcement agencies break into cellphones announced it has found a way to break into any iPhone ever made, as well as many Android phones.
The Petah Tikva-based Cellebrite was reportedly the company the FBI used in 2016 to hack into the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter after Apple refused the US government’s request to build a backdoor into its famously secure operating system.
The announcement from Cellebrite came in the form of an update this week to its website promoting the iPhone-hacking technology, dubbed “UFED Premium,” as “the only on-premise solution for law enforcement agencies to unlock and extract crucial mobile phone evidence from all iOS and high-end Android devices.”
Read more at Ti...
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June 17, 2019 at 12:37 pm
Temporary Annex Space to be Available to Customers with Scheduled REAL ID Appointments through May 2020
GLEN BURNIE, MD (June 17, 2019) – Howard County residents now have 258 additional opportunities each day for an appointment to satisfy the federally mandated REAL ID requirement. Today, Lt. Governor Boyd K. Rutherford and the Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration (MDOT MVA) officially opened its newest customer service space, an office in the Columbia Business Center adjacent to the MVA Columbia Branch. The new Columbia Annex is available for customers who make REAL ID appointments. With the additional capacity, staff at Columbia can provide 2,133 REAL ID appointments weekly. In late May, MDOT MVA opened a similar temporary office space in Parkville t...
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June 17, 2019 at 12:36 pm
Baltimore, MD - June 17, 2019 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Raisey & Tzvi Feigenbaum on the birth of a daughter.
Mazel Tov to grandparents Mr. & Mrs. Fred Weiss.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בתם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
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June 17, 2019 at 12:01 pm
The BSO management cut off salaries to all musicians at midnight Monday
BALTIMORE — The management of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra locked out its musicians at midnight Monday.
The BSO Board of Directors approved a lockout on Sunday. With no agreement between musicians and management reached, the lockout went into effect at midnight.
"Due to the Baltimore Symphony's urgent need to address longstanding financial issues and change its business model, the BSO has made this extremely difficult decision," said President and CEO Peter Kjome in a statement on the BSO's website.
In a statement from the BSO musicians overnight, they stated the Symphony's management is out of cash and will not pay the musicians' salary. Health insurance will also be cut off at the en...
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June 17, 2019 at 12:01 pm
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke on Sunday at the Jerusalem Post conference in New York, and was not particularly concerned by the Iranian nuclear program.
“I doubt there will be a military confrontation,” Olmert said in wake of the recent tensions between Tehran and Washington. “We saw in the past that this is a brilliant strategy that the American president adopted. He brings the atmosphere to tension to the point where it seems very threatening in order to force the other party to sit down for negotiations. It happened with North Korea, and he ended up being Kim Jong Un’s friend.”
“I think he is hinting that he wants to sit down with the Iranians and negotiate with them … I’m not sure Iran has an interest in fighting the US. We s...
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June 17, 2019 at 12:00 pm
Baltimore, MD - June 17, 2019: The National Weather Service in Sterling Virginia has issued a* Flash Flood Watch for portions of Maryland, The District ofColumbia, Virginia, and West Virginia, including the followingareas, in Maryland, Anne Arundel, Carroll, Central and EasternAllegany, Central and Southeast Howard, Central and SoutheastMontgomery, Extreme Western Allegany, Frederick MD, NorthernBaltimore, Northwest Harford, Northwest Howard, NorthwestMontgomery, Prince Georges, Southeast Harford, SouthernBaltimore, and Washington. The District of Columbia. InVirginia, Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria, Clarke, EasternLoudoun, Fairfax, Frederick VA, and Western Loudoun. In WestVirginia, Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan, Western Grant, andWestern Mineral.* From 2 PM EDT this afternoon through th...
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June 17, 2019 at 11:45 am
Whether you like the term or not, the Shidduch Crisis is arguably the most painful and sensitive issue that the frum community is grappling with today. Singles, their parents, educators and shadchanim are wracking their brains to help more singles build a bayis ne’eman b’yisroel, but so far their efforts have been individualized, and have yet to be introduced to a wider audience.
On Sunday morning, June 2nd, more than 225 men and women gathered at Young Israel of Midwood for the inaugural gathering of Compass, a brand-new initiative of Agudas Yisroel of America to seek answers and solutions for those “in the parshah.” The program was sponsored by Dovie and Dena Nierenberg, whose daughter got engaged shortly after they committed to sponsoring this event!
The M...
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June 17, 2019 at 11:17 am
Agudath Israel of America welcomes the notice that accompanied final regulations issued Tuesday by the US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Tuesday’s notice ensures that in limited situations, certain taxpayers contributing to scholarship tax credit programs will not be penalized for their donation. This is good news for the hundreds of thousands of students across the country receiving tuition scholarships funded through tax credit programs. More specifically, this past Tuesday’s final regulations generally require taxpayers to reduce the amount of their charitable contribution deduction by the amount of any state or local tax credits received in exchange for the contribution (the “quid pro quo rule”). Without Tuesday’s n...
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June 17, 2019 at 11:17 am
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days, the spokesman for the country’s atomic agency said Monday while also warning that Iran could enrich uranium up to 20% — just a step away from weapons-grade levels.
The announcement by Behrouz Kamalvandi, timed for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, puts more pressure on Europe to come up with new terms for Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal.
The deal has steadily unraveled since the Trump administration pulled America out of the accord last year and re-imposed tough economic sanctions on Iran, deeply cutting into its sale of crude oil abroad and sending its economy into freefall. Europe has so far been unable to offer Iran a w...
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June 17, 2019 at 4:42 am
Cleaning workers at the prime Minister’s residence are accusing the wife of the Prime Minister, Sarah Netanyahu, of forcing them to work on Shabbos, even without payment.
The workers claim, among other things, that Netanyahu ordered them to sign their clock in, and then forced them to stay and continue to clean the house.
In a letter sent by the Prime Minister’s Office’s advisor and accountant, it was written that the workers complained about Mrs. Netanyahu, who forced them to work on Shabbas, and did not give them overtime.
The Prime Minister’s Office has not responded to the allegations.
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June 17, 2019 at 4:41 am
PIKESVILLE, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland State Police arrested a police impersonator who attempted to conduct a traffic stop on I-695 last night.
Around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, a trooper on the outer loop of I-695 at Green Spring Avenue observed a 2012 black and white Chevy Impala with blue and white flashing lights attempting to make a traffic stop on a gray Honda Accord.
“When our trooper was passing by this vehicle, he could tell that something just wasn’t right,” state police spokeswoman Elena Russo said.
The trooper pulled behind the Impala and immediately made contact with impersonating police officer, later identified as 54-year-old Timothy Ervin Trivett of Yorktown, Virginia.
Trivett was wearing what appeared to be police equipment, body armor and a uniform. Th...
