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July 13, 2019 at 9:56 pm
Barry made landfall just before 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon near Intracoastal City in Louisiana as a tropical storm, just hours after it was briefly upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane.
The National Weather Service said the storm brought with it 70 mph winds while forecasters warned of dangerous storm surge and heavy winds to the region.
National Hurricane Center director Ken Graham said that Barry had gathered "a big slough of moisture" and was expected to dump rain on the area throughout the weekend.
The storm is expected to inflict the most damage on Louisiana and parts of Mississippi, with wind and rain affecting more than 3 million people.
Videos showed water overtopping a levee in Plaquemines Parish south of New Orleans, where fingers of land extend deep into the Gulf of M...
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July 13, 2019 at 9:51 pm
Police in Washington state say an armed man was shot and killed early Saturday after trying to attack a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center.
The Seattle Times reported that the unidentified man appeared outside of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma with a rifle and threw incendiary devices at both the facility and nearby propane tanks, at one point setting a vehicle on fire.
Officers responded to the incident around 4 a.m. and called out to the man before shots were fired. It was not clear how many shots were fired or whether the man fired at police.
Police spokesman Loretta Cool said the officers weren't wearing body cameras, but the area is covered by surveillance cameras from the detention ...
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July 13, 2019 at 9:48 pm
A transformer fire caused a large-scale power outage in parts of New York City Saturday evening, knocking out traffic lights, stalling elevators and limiting subway service.
As of 9 p.m. Saturday, Con Edison reported that nearly 46,000 customers were without power in an area that included Midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side. The New York Fire Department said the outages impacted an area from 71st Street south to 42nd Street and east from the West Side Highway to 5th Avenue.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said late Saturday that Con Ed was hoping to begin restoring power to affected customers by midnight.
"While fortunately no injuries occurred as a result of this incident, the fact that it happened at all is unacceptable," Cuomo ...
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July 13, 2019 at 9:47 pm
Yomam V'Laylah: Minneapolis from Agudath Israel on Vimeo.
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July 12, 2019 at 5:49 pm
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook Inc this week over its investigation into the social media company's handling of user data, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday.
The FTC has been investigating allegations Facebook inappropriately shared information belonging to 87 million users with the now-defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. The probe has focused on whether the sharing of data and other disputes violated a 2011 consent agreement between Facebook and the regulator.
Shares of Facebook rose after the news was reported by the Wall Street Journal earlier on Friday and closed up 1.8%. Facebook earlier this year said it had set aside $3 billion to pay for what it said could be a $5 billion ...
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July 12, 2019 at 5:39 pm
The New Jersey Department of Health is warning residents about a confirmed case of measles in an Ocean County resident who potentially exposed individuals in Ocean County on July 10.
Anyone who visited the Center for Health Education Medicine and Dentistry (CHEMED) at 1771 Madison Ave., Lakewood, NJ 08701 on July 10 between 1:45 and 6 p.m. may have been exposed to measles.
The Department recommends that anyone who visited CHEMED during those specified dates/times should contact a health provider immediately to discuss potential exposure and risk of developing the illness. If you have been exposed, you are at risk if you have not been vaccinated or have not had measles. Individuals potentially exposed on these dates, if infected, could develop symptoms as late as July 31.
Anyone who...
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July 12, 2019 at 5:28 pm
The United States has decided not to impose sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for now, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, in a sign Washington may be holding a door open for diplomacy.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on June 24 had said Zarif would be blacklisted that week, an unusual public stance because the United States typically does not preview such decisions to keep its targets from moving assets out of US jurisdiction.
Blacklisting Iran‘s chief negotiator would also be unusual because it could impede any US effort to use diplomacy to resolve its disagreements with Tehran over Iran‘s nuclear program, regional activities and missile testing.
The sources did not give specific reasons for the decision, which came after two m...
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July 12, 2019 at 5:25 pm
New York - They literally don’t see it coming.
“Clear-air turbulence,” which evidently jolted an Air Canada flight Thursday over the Pacific Ocean, strikes almost literally out of the blue, with no visible warning in the sky ahead. An aircraft’s radar can’t spot it coming either.
But passengers can certainly feel it. Some on the Air Canada flight were slammed against the ceiling, and more than two dozen were taken to hospitals after it made an emergency landing in Honolulu.
Clear-air turbulence happens most often in or near the high-altitude rivers of air called jet streams. The culprit is wind shear, which is when two huge air masses close to each other are moving at different speeds. If the difference in speed is big enough, the atmosphere can’t han...
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July 12, 2019 at 5:06 pm
Police are investigating how a truck driver smashed into a car on the side of the highway, killing a woman and her 2-month old baby.
The father of the family involved in a deadly accident on Highway 7 on Thursday, in which a mother and her two-month-old son were killed, is a 35-year-old IDF officer with the rank of major in the air force.
Channel 2 News reported that the police confiscated the truck driver's cell phone to investigate the possibility that he was using it while driving. A blood sample was also taken to check whether he was driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
The details of the investigation revealed that the father of the family had stopped at the side of the road in a very safe manner. A truck, which was forbidden to enter the lane,...
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July 12, 2019 at 4:50 pm
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its Beetle model this week at its plant in Puebla, Mexico. It’s the end of the road for a vehicle that has symbolized many things over a history spanning eight decades since 1938.
It has been: a part of Germany’s darkest hours as a never-realized Nazi prestige project. A symbol of Germany’s postwar economic renaissance and rising middle-class prosperity. An example of globalization, sold and recognized all over the world. An emblem of the 1960s counterculture in the United States. Above all, the car remains a landmark in design, as recognizable as the Coca-Cola bottle.
The car’s original design — a rounded silhouette with seating for four or five, nearly vertical windshie...
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July 12, 2019 at 4:35 pm
New York - Stocks are ending a week of steady gains with more record closes for major U.S. indexes.
Technology, industrial companies and retailers put up some of the biggest gains on Friday, as they have for much of the year. HP and Boeing each rose 1.8% and Home Depot added 2%.
Ford climbed 2.9% after announcing a deal with Volkswagen to share the cost of developing self-driving and electric vehicles.
Health care companies lagged the market. Johnson & Johnson fell 4.1%.
The S&P 500 rose 13 points, or 0.5%, to 3,013, its first close above 3,000 points.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 243 points, or 0.9%, to 27,332. The Nasdaq added 48 points, or 0.6%, to 8,244.
Bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 2.11%.
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July 12, 2019 at 4:27 pm
Norfolk, VA - July 12, 2019 - 4:28 PM - From Norfolk: Please stop what you are doing and say tehilim Kapital 69 right away. No news, but we've been told to do this.The Rav said to reiterate that nothing new is happening. This was a last push before shabbos.Please continue to prepare for shabbos and we should all have a shabbos of comfort and peace.
Click here to read Kapital 69
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July 12, 2019 at 3:07 pm
President Trump on Friday criticized Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez amid a dispute between the freshman congresswoman and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Trump told reporters outside the White House that Ocasio-Cortez is “being very disrespectful to somebody who’s been there a long time.”
Ocasio-Cortez “should treat Nancy Pelosi with respect,” he added.
Read more at The Hill.
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July 12, 2019 at 2:59 pm
When a media offering chooses to not identify a quoted speaker, it loses a bit of credibility. But the words attributed to several unnamed Jewish federation leaders in a recent report in the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon had the ring of truth. And of some wisdom.
Jewish federations, of course, are community-wide nonprofits — sort of “super-pushkes” — that raise money to fund local causes and other Jewish ones overseas, including Israel.
The first Jewish federation in North America was founded in Boston in 1895. Today, there are local federations in over 100 American cities and some 300 smaller communities. And, in addition, there is a national umbrella organization called the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). Its slogan, adopted in 2012, is &l...
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July 12, 2019 at 2:57 pm
“The entire congregation of the children of Israel arrived at the desert of Zin in the first month, and the people settled in Kadesh. Miriam died there and was buried there. The congregation had no water; so, they assembled against Moses and Aaron.” (Bamidbar 20:1-2)
The death of Miriam, a tragic loss for the Jewish people, was compounded by the lack of water in the desert after her passing. Rashi explains that the juxtaposition of these two details is extremely important:
“From here [we learn that] all forty years they had the well in Miriam’s merit (20:2).” The miraculous well which sustained the Jewish people over the last forty years had dried up. It was the merit of Miriam which sustained the people for the last four decades.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe...
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July 12, 2019 at 2:47 pm
Torah thoughts should be grounded in a clear reading of sources, from the verses themselves to Midrash and primary commentaries. The following does not meet that standard. As such, it is presented as a reflection.
Jewish life is built on the hope of rebirth, resurrection. The second blessing of our every Amidah prayer focuses on G-d’s promise to bring the dead back to life, an idea that the Mishnah and then Maimonides considered and codified as a fundamental of our faith. The birth and rebirth of the Jewish people is associated with the springtime, Chodesh ha’Aviv, the month of Nissan, when the natural world experiences its own rebirth from the death of winter. During that season we invoke the Prayer for Dew, Tefillas Tal, something ou...
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July 12, 2019 at 2:31 pm
This weeks Parsha relates one of the most difficult stories which took place in the Midbar. With Bnei Yisroel complaining about the lack of water after the death of Miriam, Hashem instructs Moshe to “speak” to the rock and it would yield water. (Chukas 20:8) Instead, Moshe Rabbeinu “strikes” the rock. The rock does in fact yield water but Hashem tells Moshe that on account of his not “believing in him”, he would not be Zoche to lead Bnei Yisroel into Eretz Yisroel. (20:12) This leaves us to deal with the age old question – How could Moshe Rabbeinu hit the rock. Why on this singular occasion did he deviate from Hashem’s instruct
In order to properly answer this question, it is helpful to understand some ba...
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July 12, 2019 at 2:28 pm
To our distinguished community, As friends, admirers, and students of Rabbi Bauman and his family, we have all experienced a very difficult week. My goal with these words is to clarify some facts and perhaps answer some questions. As you know, Rabbi Bauman was caught in a riptide in the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach in the early afternoon on Tuesday. The force of the water was so strong that nobody present was able to save him. The rescue crews were nearby and on the scene immediately. It is true that Rabbi Bauman entered the water to rescue children in distress. Those children were rescued by a heroic bystander and are safe. The nature of the riptide was such that the bystander either did not see or could not reach Rabbi Bauman. We do not know the identity of the bystander. The ...
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July 12, 2019 at 1:36 pm
Coronado, CA - U.S. Coast Guard members boarded a semi-submarine racing through the waves, one of 14 operations seizing cocaine and marijuana since May in international waters off Mexico and Central and South America.
The agency released dramatic video of the encounter with smugglers on Thursday.
It shows a Coast Guard vessel pulling alongside the submarine as someone yells orders in Spanish for it to stop. The submarine continues to move as Coast Guard members then get close enough to board it as one repeatedly pounds on the hatch before it opens and people on board appear with their hands raised as they surrender.
The Coast Guard says cocaine and marijuana with an estimated street value of $569 million was seized during the operations in the past two months.
Vice President Mike Pen...
