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August 7, 2019 at 10:57 am
Tokyo - Japan’s Toshiba Corp reported on Wednesday a 10-fold jump in first-quarter operating profit as it stepped up cost cuts across divisions, but the profit missed analyst estimates.
The Japanese conglomerate posted an operating profit of 7.8 billion yen ($73.49 million) for the April-June quarter, up from 730 million yen a year earlier.
The result compared with the 11.63 billion yen average of 3 analyst estimates compiled by Refinitiv.
Toshiba maintained its annual profit forecast at 140 billion yen. It was in line with the target Toshiba set in its five-year plan.
($1 = 106.1300 yen)
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August 7, 2019 at 10:52 am
Israel - Shoshana Ovitz survived Auschwitz. The evil Dr Mengele took her mother away from her before her very eyes. After the war, she met her husband Dov, who lost his wife & children in the concentration camps. They moved to Haifa, where she worked as a tailor and helped her husband in his business.
Shoshana just celebrated her 104th birthday. As a birthday gift, she requested that all her decendants come together to the Kosel!
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August 7, 2019 at 10:49 am
Baltimore, MD – July 29, 2019 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Edgar London, of Randallstown, MD, at the age of 88 years old. He is survived by his loving wife of 60 years, Tonia London (nee Bamberger), children, Laurie London (Steven) Reamer and Marc (Nancy) London, siblings Eva Ritt and Ruth DeStefano, grandchildren, Taylor, Brian and David London, Jenna (Mike) Zeller, Marc Reamer (Elora Maisenhelder), and Aaron Reamer, great grandchildren, Alithea Reamer and Brileigh Zeller. He was predeceased by his parents, Charlotte and Max London.
Funeral services and interment will be held at Chevra Ahavas Chesed Cemetery - Randallstown on Thursday, August 8, at 11 am.
Shiva at 201 Teapot Co...
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August 7, 2019 at 7:55 am
FASTING
With the 9th of Av upon us, it’s a good time to go over how to prepare and how to break a fast. When I speak with my clients about fasting, I often hear, “I get so sick when I have to fast” or “I start out fine but I get a terrible headache”, and very common “I am fine during the fast, but after I break the fast, I can’t function for hours and I feel awful.” I know that many years ago, prior to learning how to prepare and break a fast, there were times I could have said all of the above. For the vast majority of people, if you prepare for and break the fast according to our tips, you will be just fine. Yes, you could get hungry and thirsty, but that is normal. Here are some simple instructions to help ...
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August 6, 2019 at 9:38 pm
Uruguay and Venezuela have discouraged their citizens from traveling to the United States, citing this weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio as indicators of danger and a rise in hate crimes.
In recent years, Germany, Ireland, Canada and New Zealand have issued similar warnings about travel to America.
In some cases, such alerts have been politically motivated responses to the United States declaring other countries dangerous, but a growing number of countries have taken America’s prevalence of mass gun violence as a serious threat to their citizens.
Venezuela’s warning to its citizens came amid political disagreements with the United States.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza urged Venezuelans to “take extreme precautions or postpo...
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August 6, 2019 at 9:37 pm
ANNAPOLIS, MD — Maryland lawmakers in 2013 passed "Grace's Law," a bipartisan bill that made it a misdemeanor to repeatedly and maliciously bully someone through use of a computer or cellphone. Five years later, some of the same legislators are back to update the law to reflect the new media landscape.
"Grace's Law 2.0," which is designed specifically for social media cyberbullying, passed in the Senate unanimously Thursday despite pushback from First Amendment advocates last week.
Lead sponsor Sen. Bobby Zirkin, D-Baltimore County, remained firm that this is to protect against "egregious" messages, intended to personally harm, posted online. He's determined to adjust laws to the speed of dissemination of such material.
"Facebook doesn't stop w...
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August 6, 2019 at 9:37 pm
Washington - Joe Biden maintained his lead for the Democratic presidential nomination as minorities gravitated toward the former vice president and his top rival, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, in search of the safest bets for beating President Donald Trump in 2020, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The Aug. 1-5 public opinion poll, released on Wednesday, showed that 22% of Democrats and independents would vote for Biden, a level that is unchanged from a similar poll that ran last month. Another 18% said they supported Sanders, up 2 percentage points from the July poll.
None of 23 other candidates received more than 9% in the poll.
Biden and Sanders offer Democrats sharply contrasting views on how to govern. Sanders leads the effort to expand government-run healthcare for all ...
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August 6, 2019 at 9:36 pm
Beijing - China threatened countermeasures on Tuesday if the United States deploys intermediate-range, ground-based missiles in Asia and warned U.S. allies of repercussions if they allow such weapons on their territory.
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Saturday he was in favour of placing ground-launched, intermediate-range missiles in the region soon, possibly within months.
Washington formally pulled out last week from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a 1987 pact with the former Soviet Union that banned ground-launched nuclear and conventional ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500-5,000 km (310 to 3,400 miles).
U.S. officials had accused Russia of not complying with the treaty but the withdrawal also allows the Pentagon to develop new weapons to counte...
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August 6, 2019 at 8:22 pm
Washington - Just what the fragile global economy didn’t need: An unpredictable escalation in President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, one that spreads the conflict to currency markets, threatens to involve other countries and raises the risk of a global recession.
At a time when growth in the United States and the world is already weakening and Trump has said he’ll impose new taxes on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese imports, Beijing is halting purchases of U.S. farm goods and the two sides are trading punches over the value of the U.S. dollar against the Chinese yuan.
The heightened hostilities could hobble world economic growth by depressing financial markets, discouraging trade and elevating uncertainty for businesses trying to decide whether and whe...
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August 6, 2019 at 8:06 pm
Wall Street - Technology and bank companies helped drive stocks broadly higher on Wall Street Tuesday as the market regained its footing a day after posting its biggest decline of the year.
The bounce came as investors welcomed China’s decision to stabilize its currency, easing some of the pressure in its trade war with the U.S. The move suggests Beijing might hold off from aggressively allowing the yuan to weaken as a way to respond to U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.
News that China allowed its currency to depreciate against the dollar to its lowest level in 11 years sparked Monday’s steep stock market sell-off, knocking the S&P 500 down 3%. The benchmark index had made up about a third of those losses in late-afternoon trading Tuesday.
“We’re getting a nice ...
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August 6, 2019 at 4:26 pm
The prophet Yirmiyahu was tasked with an impossible mission- to decry the fallen religious state of the Jewish nation and to predict its downfall. His unpopular message ultimately lands him in jail fearing for his life; no one likes a whistle-blower. It took great personal courage to oppose the bands of false prophets who reassured the nation that their merry party could continue. Yirmayahu was a different breed and he faced constant hostility from people blinded by selfishness and poisoned by corruption. Sadly, Yirmiyahu also personally witnesses the ultimate obliteration of Yerushalayim and he documents and laments the unbearable nightmare he experiences. Sefer Eichah oozes with the pain of abandonment and the darkness of a world beyond hope.
Yirmiyahu selects a very odd word to b...
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August 6, 2019 at 4:20 pm
Baltimore, MD – July 29, 2019 - It is with sadness thatBaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah Mrs. Jane Reifenberg Maytin, a’h,
Jane was predeceased by her husband Richard Maytin, and survived by her children, David (Audra) Antwerpen, Michael (Tanya) Antwerpen, grandchildren Alana, Samantha, Max, Bryce, Leo, and Brooke Antwerpen, and step-daughters, Nancy Adler and Lois Stelmack.
The levayah took place 12pm at Sol Levinsons
Family will be sitting at 13618 Blenheim Road, N, Phoenix, MD 21131, Tuesday following interment and Wednesday starting at 4pm.
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
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August 6, 2019 at 5:58 am
Orlando - Investigators were unable to corroborate specific allegations that a Transportation Security Administration supervisor instructed air marshals to racially discriminate against passengers at Florida’s busiest airport.
But investigators for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General uncovered other concerns about racial profiling of passengers by other TSA supervisors at Orlando International Airport, according to a report sent to lawmakers last week.
The Office of Inspector General launched the investigation a year ago at the request of U.S. lawmakers after three air marshals went public with the discrimination allegations about the supervisor.
The air marshals making the allegations said their concerns were raised while doing behavior detecti...
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August 6, 2019 at 5:56 am
Washington - Two Democratic senators asked U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday if “outside” influence caused him to delay awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract, after President Donald Trump suggested Amazon.com Inc
should not win it.
The contract, called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud, or JEDI, is part of a broad modernization of the Pentagon’s information technology systems.
Democratic Senators Mark Warner and Jack Reed asked Esper in a letter why the Defense Department was reviewing the contract and if Esper was directed by someone outside of the Pentagon to delay or cancel the contract, which was in final talks with Amazon Web Services. The senators publicly released a copy of the letter.
Trump in July said his administrat...
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August 6, 2019 at 5:53 am
Nefesh B’Nefesh, in cooperation with the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, The Jewish Agency, KKL-JNF and Jewish National Fund-USA, welcomed 95 new Olim this morning. The Olim on this group Aliyah flight were comprised of 35 families and singles ranging in ages from one year to 80 years old; and come from a variety of states, including Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia, Quebec and Texas.
“Summer is always the busiest season for Aliyah, and this year is no exception with over 2,000 Olim choosing to make Israel their home in these eight weeks alone,” said Co-Founder and Executive Director of Nefesh B’Nefesh, Rabbi Yehoshua Fass. “Nearly half of the Olim projected to make Aliyah each year arrive during the summer as it’s a natur...
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August 6, 2019 at 12:00 am
Turkey will launch an operation east of the Euphrates in northern Syria against the U.S.-backed Kurdish YPG militia, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday.
“We entered Afrin, Jarabulus and Al-Bab. We will go into the east of the Euphrates next,” Erdoğan said, referring to areas captured by Turkish-backed Syrian rebels.
Erdoğan has threatened to enter Syria for the past year-and-a-half, but was thwarted by the United States, which proposed establishing a 19-mile “safe zone” along the border in December.
However, Turkey has accused the United States of stalling on setting up the zone and has demanded it sever relations with the YPG, which Ankara sees as a terrorist organization. Turkish officials have said any such “safe zone” should ...
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August 5, 2019 at 11:58 pm
or as long as we’ve had access to public Wi-Fi networks—the ones in the airport, the Starbucks around the corner and your hotel room—we’ve been told the same thing. They’re unsafe. You should never enter sensitive information while on a public network, the advice goes, or even think about logging into your bank account. The second you log on, you’re practically begging hackers to steal all your data.
But while you should always think twice before entering sensitive information, the public Wi-Fi story has changed. In recent years, the internet itself has gotten more secure. So have your devices and the networks themselves. It’s still true that logging on to a public Wi-Fi incurs certain security and privacy risks—but they’re generally...
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August 5, 2019 at 11:32 pm
ANNAPOLIS, Md. —
Gov. Larry Hogan held a joint meeting with federal and state law enforcement officials to discuss a number of issues, including the threat posed by racially motivated extremists.
On Monday, Hogan met with Maryland State Police and FBI officials to review joint efforts to address violent crime in Baltimore.
In a statement, Hogan said the following: "We reviewed our joint efforts to address the violent crime crisis in Baltimore City and disrupt the gangs and criminal enterprises that are responsible for so much of the deadly violence."
Hogan said the meeting also focused on ways to combat threats posed by white supremacists, following the mass shootings in the Texas border city of El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio.
"In addition, after ...
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August 5, 2019 at 11:27 pm
Tel Aviv - The Tel Aviv Prosecutor’s Office has filed a criminal indictment in the city’s District Court against Natan Grossman, an owner of the Peleg-Yerushalmi affiliated HaPeles newspaper, as well as against Shmuel Elyashiv, Avraham Trager, Chaim Yavrov, Netanel Shtepfer, Shabtai Fein, Yisrael Tropper, and Moshe Brillman.
The indictment contains 27 counts of felony conspiracies to commit a crime, extortion, threats of extortion, and harassment by means of phones (multiple offenses), with the charges against each defendant detailed in the indictment.
The indictment says that Grossman, Trager and Elyashiv conspired to blackmail executives in large companies, including Strauss, Egged and Sano, with the intention of causing companies to advertise in HaPeles to generate revenue...
