|
June 19, 2019 at 10:40 am
House Democrats are intent on questioning one of President Donald Trump’s most trusted former advisers about potential obstruction of justice, Russian attempts to woo Trump associates during the 2016 campaign and hush-money payments to women alleging affairs with Trump.
Hope Hicks, the onetime White House communications director who is mentioned more than 180 times in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, is scheduled to testify privately Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee, which plans to release a transcript upon conclusion.
The session constitutes a breakthrough for Democrats, their first interview with a former White House official since Trump has asserted executive privilege to bar current and former aides’ cooperation.
A White House lawyer wi...
|
June 19, 2019 at 10:35 am
The United Nations on Tuesday joined the chorus calling for an independent investigation into the death of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, a day after he collapsed and died inside a Cairo courtroom.
“Concerns have been raised regarding the conditions of Mr. Morsi’s detention, including access to adequate medical care, as well as sufficient access to his lawyers and family, during his nearly six years in custody,” said Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Morsi, who suffered from diabetes and liver disease, was held in solitary confinement for six years. He had complained during earlier court proceedings that he was denied the insulin dosage and special diet he required and as a r...
|
June 19, 2019 at 10:33 am
Baltimore, MD/Ramat Bet Shemesh, IL – June 17, 2019 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Mrs. Yitta Leventhal, a’h, wife of Mr. Hershey Leventhal, mother of Rabbi Avrohom Leventhal, Chaim Leventhal, Cheryl Phillips and Tamara Leventhal.
The Levayah will take place today at 6:30 PM at Bet Shemesh Cemetery (Not Eretz HaChaim)Shiva will be observed in Baltimore at at 6531 Gardenwick Road, 21209, beginning Monday evening, June 17, @8:15 with Mincha, through Sunday morning, June 23, after Shacharis.Baltimore Davening Schedule:Shacharis: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday - 8:00 am Mincha/Maariv: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday - 8:15 pm Early Mincha: Friday - 5:00 pm
Shiva will...
|
June 19, 2019 at 10:30 am
Baltimore, MD – June 18, 2019 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Mrs. Estelle Itzkowitz, a’h, mother of Mr. Marvin Itzkowitz.
Shiva will be observed at 6729 Greenspring Av., Baltimore, MD, 21209Visiting hours 10am -2pm and 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Shacharis: 6:30 AM
Mincha/Maariv: 8:20 PM (Erev Shabbos: 5:00 PM)
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
|
June 19, 2019 at 10:03 am
Annual bike ride to benefit children and families of Chai Lifeline
New York, NY, June 18, 2019—On July 16 more than 200 women, including several from the Baltimore area, will clip in and ride 100 miles as part of Tour de Simcha. The annual, all-female cycling event benefits Chai Lifeline, the international children’s health support network which provides emotional, social, and financial support to children with serious illness and their families.
Participants will embark from Woodbridge, NJ, and ride along miles of scenic, rolling hills until they reach The World’s Greatest Finish Line, the entrance gate to Camp Simcha Special, Chai Lifeline’s overnight camp for children with chronic illnesses and medical challenges, located in Glen Spey, NY. As the...
|
June 19, 2019 at 9:54 am
Baltimore, MD - June 2019 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for Yiddishkeit and for HaShem with their children. Unfortunately, our schedules are hectic and many people don’t have the time to prepare themselves to utilize the Shabbos table to its fullest. Therefore, we at ACHIM <https://achim.org/> created TableTalk as a pre-packaged talking points pamphlet which is attractive, fun and has something for everyone. Limited copies are distributed to many shuls on a weekly basis but they are snatched up very quickly. Get yours ASAP or click on the graphic below and print your own.
What’s in it and what’s all the excitement about?
TableTalk features
weekly halachic dilemma c...
|
June 19, 2019 at 9:49 am
Outrage from pro-Israel and Jewish groups is growing at U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for her remarks on Monday on her Instagram account that the United States is “running concentration camps on our southern border,” in reference to the Trump administration’s policies regarding illegal immigration.
“AOC should ask Holocaust survivors and ex-GIs who liberated Dachau what that charnel House was like,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the SWC’s associate dean and director of global social action for the leading international Jewish Human Rights NGO, told JNS. “She is insulting victims of genocide.”
“AOC and others should stop demonizing Trump as a Nazi and instead forge bipartisan fix to disastrous humanitarian situation at our Southe...
|
June 18, 2019 at 10:52 pm
Orlando, FL - President Donald Trump officially opened his 2020 campaign Tuesday with a speech exaggerating what he’s done for the economy.
From his rally in Orlando, Florida:
TRUMP: “It’s soaring to incredible new heights. Perhaps the greatest economy we’ve had in the history of our country.”
THE FACTS: The economy is not one of the best in the country’s history.
The economy expanded at an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the first quarter of this year. That growth was the highest in just four years for the first quarter.
In the late 1990s, growth topped 4 percent for four straight years, a level it has not yet reached on an annual basis under Trump. Growth even reached 7.2 percent in 1984.
While the economy has shown strength, it grew 2.9% in 2018 &...
|
June 18, 2019 at 10:49 pm
Orlando, FL - President Donald Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign on Tuesday by presenting himself as the same political insurgent who shook up the Washington establishment four years ago and who is now a victim of an attempted ouster by Democrats.
At a packed rally at an arena in Orlando, Florida, Trump made clear he would run for re-election as an outsider, just as he did in 2016. Whether he can pull it off remains far from certain as Trump has been in office now for 2-1/2 years.
He revisited campaign themes from four years ago, decrying illegal immigration, the news media and his 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
“Together we stared down a broken political establishment and we restored government by and for the people,” Trump said. “As lo...
|
June 18, 2019 at 10:39 pm
Baltimore, MD, June 19, 2019 — The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 1000 traditional rabbis in matters of public policy, today condemned Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for trivializing the Holocaust, falsely denying that she did so, and failing to apologize. "'Never Again' will Jews allow anti-Jewish slurs to go unchallenged, even if they are uttered by media darlings," said Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Eastern Regional Vice President of the CJV. In comments on Instagram Monday evening, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that detention centers are "concentration camps" and said she only wants to talk to those "concerned enough with humanity... that 'Never Again' means something." Defending herself on Twitter, she alternately denied comparing detention cent...
|
June 18, 2019 at 8:50 pm
San Francisco - Alphabet Inc’s Google announced on Tuesday it would set aside $750 million in land and $250 million in financing to spur developers in the San Francisco Bay Area to build at least 20,000 homes and rehabilitate other housing over the next decade.
Google, which told Reuters it has 45,000 employees in the region, has been the target of local activists who for several years have said the company’s growth and high salaries have contributed to rising rents and housing shortages. They have called on Google and other Silicon Valley tech companies to invest in affordable housing and rethink expansions.
Google said housing had reached a “crisis point” in the Bay Area but declined to comment on whether its announcement in a blog post on Tuesday was a response...
|
June 18, 2019 at 8:48 pm
Baltimore City Police officials are investigating a photo found posted on social media of what appears to be an officer asleep in his patrol car.
The photo was shared to police on Monday after it was found circulating on Instagram, police say.
The photo shows the officer in a black Baltimore police patrol car, who appears to be sleeping.
"We are looking into the circumstances of the picture. What we have seen raises serious concerns about public safety, officer health and wellness, and officer performance," police spokesperson Matt Jablow told WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5.
Officials have yet to comment on when or where this incident took place.
|
June 18, 2019 at 8:44 pm
Sacramento, CA - California public health officials would have more oversight of doctors and schools with high numbers of medical exemptions for vaccinations under a legislative compromise announced Tuesday.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and the bill’s author disclosed the deal aimed at cracking down on fraudulent exemptions issued by sympathetic doctors.
The updated measure by Sen. Richard Pan removes a provision that would have required health officials to approve every exemption requested.
Under the amended bill, health officials would take a more targeted approach, concentrating on doctors who write five or more exemptions each year and schools with a vaccination rate below 95 percent.
Newsom, a Democrat, said he supports immunizations but has expressed doubts about giving state official...
|
June 18, 2019 at 8:39 pm
Washington - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday rejected reparations for slavery in part because it would be hard to know whom to pay.
The Kentucky Republican spoke to reporters on the eve of a rare House hearing on what compensation, if any, the U.S. might owe for the economic and other damage done by slavery. The session Wednesday before a Democratic-led subcommittee is Congress’ first on the issue in years.
Asked about reparations, McConnell responded: “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living are responsible, is a good idea.”
“We tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation, elected an African American p...
|
June 18, 2019 at 8:37 pm
Dallas - Waiting outside a federal courthouse, photographer Tom Fox took in Dallas’ 8 a.m. bustle. People dressed for work got out of cars. A homeless man danced on a street pole.
But when what initially sounded like a truck backfiring clarified into gunshots, the routine assignment for a veteran journalist morphed in a moment.
As shots echoed off the tall buildings, an armed officer dashed past The Dallas Morning News photographer. A man came around the corner half a block away and Fox pulled out his long lens — focusing in on green military-style garb, a mask and a belt full of ammunition. The gun barrel swung around. Fox squeezed off a last frame. And he ran for cover behind a column in the building’s façade.
“I was just praying in that corner that he w...
|
June 18, 2019 at 8:35 pm
Orlando, FL - The hometown paper of the Florida city where Donald Trump is making his reelection announcement says it won’t endorse the president.
The Orlando Sentinel said in an editorial Tuesday that some readers may wonder how the publication can eliminate a candidate before anyone knows who his opponent will be, so far in advance.
The Sentinel answers that it’s “because there’s no point pretending we would ever recommend that readers vote for Trump.”
The publication says it has had enough of “the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies.”
The chair of the local Republican Party didn’t immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
|
June 18, 2019 at 8:34 pm
Washington - Joe Biden touted fundraising figures on Monday that suggest he has taken in at least $19 million this quarter, a sum that — if true — would top what all of his leading rivals raised during the last period.
With nearly two weeks to go before the end of the second quarter, the former vice president told attendees at a New York fundraiser that he’s accepted contributions from 360,000 donors, who gave an average of $55 apiece.
The math suggests Biden collected about $19.8 million. Multiple people in Biden’s campaign declined to confirm on Tuesday how much he has raised since entering the race in April.
But the figure is sure to draw notice from rival campaigns, who are preparing for next week’s debates while furiously trying to raise money before t...
|
June 18, 2019 at 7:38 pm
Baltimore, MD - June 18, 2019 - Unfortunately with multiple incidents taking place at houses of worship across the Country, shul security is of primary importance to our community. The Baltimore Shomrim Safety Patrol in consultation with security experts is in the process of offering a security initiative for our local institutions. The initiative utilizes new state of the art interactive communications technology to enhance security and law enforcement response. More information will be forthcoming. Should your shul be interested in participating or learning more, kindly have your security director or President e-mail us at securitydome@shomrim.net
|
June 18, 2019 at 7:37 pm
Baltimore, MD – June 18, 2019 - Last night just before 11pm, Baltimore County Police were dispatched to 2801 Smith Ave, Shoppers, for a call of an armed robbery.
The suspect pointed a handgun at Shoppers’ unarmed security guard inside the store and announced a robbery. The security guard yelled out to everyone in the store to head toward the rear of the store which most did, many escaping out on to Woodcourt Road just behind the shopping center. The security guard exited as well.
The suspect forced a female employee to open a register. Once she opened the register, she fled to the back of the store. The suspect then removed an undisclosed amount of money from the register and fled the scene.
Police are reviewing evidence in this active investigation
Anyone with info of this...
|
June 18, 2019 at 6:06 pm
A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s yet-to-be-unveiled peace plan was a “conspiracy” the Palestinians would “thwart.”
The Trump administration’s initiative is set to kick off next week with an economic workshop in Bahrain focused on investment in the Palestinian territories, which the Palestinians are refusing to take part in.
According to the Israeli news site Mako, Nabil Abu Rudeineh said, “The position of the president and the Palestinian leadership, which is centered on Jerusalem, the prisoners, and Palestinian identity, will thwart all the conspiracies, workshops, and meetings.”
Rudeineh appeared to denounce the presence of representatives of Arab countries at the...
