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July 13, 2019 at 10:23 pm
More than a dozen rabbis from the city of Elad near Tel Aviv issued an edict declaring all dogs bad and warning residents that keeping them will make them accursed.
The edict, dated to June 14, contains the signatures of all the Sephardic rabbis in Elad and the city’s chief rabbi, Mordechai Malka, the news site Bhol reported Friday. Most of Elad’s approximately 46,000 residents are charedi.
“We have heard and have seen that lately, a serious phenomenon has spread in our city Elad, in which young boys and children walk around publicly with dogs. This is strictly forbidden, as explained in the Gemara and by the Rambam, anyone raising a dog is accursed and especially in our city where many women and children are afraid of dogs,” the anti-canine edict states...
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July 13, 2019 at 10:19 pm
EDGEFIELD, S.C. (AP) — Leroy Nolan has spent the last 26 years behind bars at a federal prison for a drug conviction. In the prison factory, he works making T-shirts, backpacks and other products that are later sold to government agencies, nonprofits and others.
But what has become a decades-long routine for Nolan behind the barbed wire, steel gates and concrete walls of FCI Edgefield, a prison in rural South Carolina, will all change on Friday when he walks out the front door. The 67-year-old is among about 2,200 federal inmates who will be released that day by the federal Bureau of Prisons under a criminal justice reform measure signed into law last year by President Donald Trump.
The measure, known as the First Step Act, gives judges more discretion when sentencing some drug off...
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July 13, 2019 at 10:18 pm
"The settlements are unnecessary", Joe Biden told a rally participant, "The only answer is two state solution"
During one of the recent election rallies, a Jewish activist approached US presidential candidate Joe Biden and said: "I'm an American jew, who is very concerned about what Netanyahu's government is doing to Palestinians currently".
Biden answered briefly: "There's no answer but a two state solution".
The young man continued and asked: "I am wondering if you think that the occupation is a human rights crisis, and if you'll pressure Israel when you're president"
"The answer is I think the settlements are unnecessary", Biden answered, "The only answer is two state solution, number one. Number two: the Palestinians have to step up to stop the hate. So, ...
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July 13, 2019 at 10:11 pm
Sen. Kamala Harris defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an interview that aired Friday, saying she has found her fellow California Democrat to be “very respectful of women of color,” an assessment at odds with comments earlier this week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
During an appearance on the New York-based radio show “The Breakfast Club,” Harris was asked about Ocasio-Cortez’s assertion in a Washington Post interview that Pelosi had been “just outright disrespectful” with “the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”
“That’s not my experience with Nancy Pelosi,” said Harris, a Democratic presidential primary hopeful. “And I’ve known her and worked with her for years. I’...
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July 13, 2019 at 10:08 pm
Vice President Pence on Friday called it an “outrage” to equate migrant detention facilities with concentration camps, pushing back on criticism of the crowded facilities at the southern border.
Pence made the remarks after visiting detention centers in Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border that the administration says show the strain immigration enforcement agencies are under.
“I hope first and foremost that we put to the lie this slander against Customs and Border Protection. People saying that families and children are being held in concentration camps is an outrage,” Pence told CNN.
“The Nazis killed people. Our Customs and Border Protection, as you heard today, are saving lives every day,” he added.
Read more at The Hill.
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July 13, 2019 at 10:05 pm
At least 26 people were killed in an attack on a Somalian hotel by suspected al-Shabaab fighters, according to a senior state official.
The dead included two Americans, a Canadian and a Briton, as well as three each from Kenya and Tanzania, Ahmed Mohamed Islam, the president of the country’s Jubbaland state, said Saturday. At least 56 other people were injured, including two Chinese, in the attack on the Cas-casey hotel in the port town of Kismayo, he said at a news conference.
“Four attackers stormed the hotel,” Islam said. “One blew himself up in the first place. One was caught alive in the security operations, while the other two were killed.”
The attack came after three al-Shabaab members were executed on Wednesday. They had been sentenced to death by S...
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July 13, 2019 at 10:04 pm
A rocket fired from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip exploded in an open area in southern Israel on Friday night, causing no injuries or damage.
The launch occurred a day after the IDF mistakenly killed a Hamas operative who had been trying to prevent Palestinians from getting close to the Israel-Gaza border fence.
The IDF apologized for the incident, calling it a “misunderstanding,” yet Hamas still vowed revenge.
Due to the heightened tensions, the IDF has deployed extra Iron Dome aerial defense batteries in southern Israel.
On Friday afternoon, around 6,000 Palestinians violently confronted IDF troops along the border, throwing rocks, firebombs and explosive devices.
One IDF vehicle was damaged by a Molotov cocktail.
Soldiers responded with riot-dispersal means, and several d...
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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.
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