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October 10, 2019 at 8:30 pm
The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a "professional" tie is Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials.
Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only "in the executive branch." The Washington Examiner has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left. On Sept. 26, the New York Times reported that he was a CIA officer. On Oct. 4, the newspaper added that he "was detailed to the National Security Council at one point."
Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community's inspector general, told members of Congress that the whistleblower had a "professional tie" to a 2020 Democrat...
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October 10, 2019 at 8:00 pm
Rabbi Menachem Bakush rescues 10-year-old who fell into a river in India.
An Israeli rabbi rescued a boy who nearly drowned in India two weeks ago.
Rabbi Menachem Bakush, a Chabad envoy and paramedic on behalf of United Hatzalah in the city of Manali, India, received an urgent report: A ten-year-old boy from the village of Jah near the city of Teva had fallen in the river. Without thinking twice, the rabbi left his home quickly and rescued the boy.
"It's our job to help people wherever they are and to save their lives. I consider this a great mission," the rabbi explained to the Mako website, who a few days later treated an Israeli traveler who had altitude sickness, and even volunteered to fly with her to a New Delhi hospital for further medical treatment.
A few months a...
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October 10, 2019 at 6:53 pm
Baltimore, MD - Oc. 10, 2019 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Mordy and Dassi Lazar on the birth of a son.
Mazel Tov to Grandparents Rabbi & Mrs. Yankel Shuvalsky and Mr. & Mrs. Avi Lazar
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
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October 10, 2019 at 6:46 pm
Inspections of some older Boeing jets have turned up structural cracks in more than three dozen of them, raising a new safety issue for the company already dealing with two deadly crashes involving a newer version of the same plane.
Boeing said Thursday that airlines worldwide have inspected 810 planes following an order from U.S. safety regulators. Of those, 38 — or 5% — had “findings” requiring repairs.
Airlines are under orders to inspect certain Boeing 737 NG planes for cracking in a part that helps keep wings attached to the fuselage.
Boeing declined to identify which airlines found problems, but Brazilian carrier Gol said it has grounded 11 planes so far, and U.S.-based Southwest Airlines grounded two.
The NG is a version of the popular 737 that has been p...
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October 10, 2019 at 6:42 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday criticized a judge’s ruling barring his agency from relying solely on databases that have at times led to the wrongful detention of American citizens.
Speaking Thursday at the White House, Matthew Albence called the September ruling an example of “judicial overreach” that threatened public safety.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge André Birotte Jr. bars ICE from issuing requests known as “detainers” based solely on database searches considered to be unreliable. It applies to states that do not explicitly authorize civil immigration arrests using detainers.
ICE cross-checks jail rosters around the U.S. with federal databases that track people’s na...
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October 10, 2019 at 6:34 pm
The American Jewish population has grown 10 percent in the last seven years and is mostly liberal, 65 or older and white, according to a new American Jewish population estimate of the 48 contiguous U.S. states by Brandeis University’s Steinhardt Social Research Institute.
As of 2018, there are approximately 7.5 million Jews in the contiguous United States, which is about 2 percent of the U.S. population. The United States is home to the largest Jewish community in the world even above Israel, which has 6.5 million Jews according to recent government statistics.
“The cynicism about American Judaism, and this belief that we are a shrinking population, we are a vanishing population, is incorrect,” said Leonard Saxe, director of the Steinhardt Center at Brandeis University,...
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October 10, 2019 at 5:56 pm
A day after the anti-Semitic attack in Halle, the head of the community recalls the moments of terror.
The chairman of the Jewish community in the German city of Halle, Max Privorozki, on Thursday visited the local synagogue for the first time since Wednesday’s shooting attack, in which a neo-Nazi terrorist tried to break into the synagogue and murder worshipers during Yom Kippur prayers.
Privorozki, who was in the synagogue at the time of the shooting, saw the entrance door to the synagogue which the shooter was unable to penetrate and thus could not break into the synagogue and murder more people.
“Yes, I'm standing here in front of this door for the first time since the incident,” Privorozki told Antonia Yamin, Chief Europe Correspondent of Kan 11 News...
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October 10, 2019 at 5:47 pm
A large demonstration by protesters demanding climate change policy reform blocked traffic for nearly two hours in Manhattan’s Times Square, resulting in 62 arrests for civil disobedience.
The protest, which began before 10 a.m. Thursday, forced the closure of intersections including Seventh Avenue at 44th Street and Broadway at 46th Street.
Activists wearing life jackets surrounded a green boat that dropped anchor with the words “Act Now” written on it.
Read more at ABC7.
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October 10, 2019 at 5:46 pm
A counterterrorism analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency has been charged with leaking top-secret details about foreign countries’ weapons systems to two journalists, including a reporter with whom he apparently was romantically involved, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Henry Frese, 30, of Alexandria, Virginia, “was caught red-handed disclosing sensitive national security information,” according to the Justice Department, which billed the case as part of the Trump administration’s prosecutorial crackdown on leakers who provide such materials to the news media and public.
After a federal indictment of Frese was unsealed Wednesday, the department said in a statement that his alleged “unauthorized disclosure of TOP SECRET information could reasonably ...
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October 10, 2019 at 5:46 pm
The Israel Defense Forces had successfully dealt with many security challenges over the past year, “in both nearby and far-off arenas,” Israel Defense Forces’ Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on Monday, but the “challenges are not over.”
Speaking at a memorial ceremony for the soldiers who fell in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Kochavi said, “Last summer was full of security incidents, both above and below the surface, in both nearby and far-off arenas.”
In the Gaza Strip, he said, “rocket fire was avoided and neutralized, and infiltration attempts were thwarted time and again.” In Judea and Samaria, he continued, “the intelligence and operational effort that prevented many, if not all, terrorist attacks continues.”
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October 10, 2019 at 5:45 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday denounced the just-launched Turkish invasion of the Kurdish region of northern Syria.
“Israel strongly condemns the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas in Syria and warns against the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds by Turkey and its proxies,” the prime minister stated.
Netanyahu’s remarks are a rare split with US President Donald Trump, who effectively gave Turkey a green light to undertake the invasion and pulled American troops out of the area.
Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked also weighed in on the situation in northern Syria, drawing an oblique comparison to the Holocaust, tweeting, “Our national memory requires us to revolt against violence directed against another nation. Such is the Turkish violenc...
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October 10, 2019 at 5:43 pm
Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Monday morning blamed the violence of Arab society for a recent wave of murders in Israel’s Arab sector, drawing criticism from Arab Knesset members.
“Arab society—and I say this with great pain—is a very, very violent society,” said Erdan in an interview with Radio Jerusalem. “Instead of lawsuits, they pull out a knife.”
Erdan lamented the phenomenon of “honor killings,” and said he would not allow the discussion to fade into the background.
“A mother can allow her son to murder his sister because she’s going out with a man the family doesn’t like,” he said. “I will not allow this discussion to be sidetracked.”
Joint Arab List Party leader Knesset m...
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October 10, 2019 at 5:43 pm
It may be early October, but parts of the northern United States have been transformed into a winter wonderland as an early-season snowstorm unloads record-setting snow across the region.
This is the second storm in less than two weeks to spread snow over parts of the northern U.S. However, unlike the late-September storm, this new storm is stronger and forecast to evolve into a full-on blizzard by week's end.
Snow started to fall on Tuesday from the Cascades to the northern Rockies as the storm began to unfold.
Spokane, Washington, was one town that was hit particularly hard by the snow on Tuesday. A record-breaking 3.3 inches of snow fell, the first measurable snow in the month of October since 2001. It also made this month the third-snowiest October on r...
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October 10, 2019 at 4:49 pm
Stocks climbed Thursday after President Trump disclosed plans for a White House meeting with Liu He, China's vice premier and chief trade negotiator, spurring speculation that the world's two largest economies are moving closer to a trade deal.
The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 150 points, or 0.6 percent, while the broader S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq also gained less than 1 percent. The major averages have been whipped around in recent days amid conflicting reports on the chances of any sort of agreement between the U.S. and Chinese negotiators, who are in Washington for two days of talks.
On the earnings front, Delta Air Lines reported better-than-expected earnings but missed on revenue. The airline gave a disappointin...
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October 10, 2019 at 4:26 pm
The video "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Agudath Israel of California," was presented at the Agudath Israel of California's Inaugural Dinner
The Honorable Elan Carr, the Department of State's Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism
More than 225 people turned out on September 8th in support of Agudath Israel of California at a gala dinner at the Sheraton Universal Hotel. With a theme of “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” the dinner highlighted Agudath Israel of California’s 33 year history of community service and also offered a glimpse of the future with the upcoming launch of Camp Agudah West, opening in the summer of 2020 on a 180 acre campus in Big Bear Lake, California.
While Agudath Israel of California has been serving the West Coast c...
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October 10, 2019 at 4:21 pm
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. will hand over to Iraqi authorities nearly 50 Islamic State members who were transferred from Syria in recent days, two Iraqi intelligence officials said Thursday.
The officials said the IS members were expected to be handed over by Friday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
The move comes after Turkey began a military offensive into northern Syria against U.S.-backed Kurdish-led fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces who are holding more than 10,000 IS members. Those include some 2,000 foreigners, including about 800 Europeans.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that some of the “most dangerous” IS members had been moved, but he provided no details.
U.S. officials said Wednesday that ...
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October 10, 2019 at 4:20 pm
References to Israel, the Jewish people and peace have been removed from 2019-20 Palestinian Authority textbooks, according to a recent study.
The study, which was carried out by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), states that the changes in P.A. textbooks for grades one through 12 represent radicalization and are “a clear deterioration in content,” and that the textbooks now fail to meet UNESCO standards.
IMPACT-se, which tracks educational material in the Middle East, found that the only signed peace agreement between Israel and the P.A. still mentioned in the textbooks (and now covered less favorably and in less detail than previous versions) is the 1993 Oslo Accords.
Whereas older textbooks mentioned Jerusalem as the...
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October 10, 2019 at 4:19 pm
Turkey said its forces took over “designated targets” during the second day of its offensive in Syria, Reuters reported on Thursday.
The Turkish military is attacking Kurdish forces in Syria and the NATO country said it intends to create a “safe zone” to return millions of refugees to Syria.
President Trump announced on Monday the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from the Syria-Turkey border area, which opened the way for the Turkish offensive.
“Our heroic commandos taking part in ‘Operation Peace Spring’ are continuing to advance east of the Euphrates [river],” the Turkish Defense Ministry posted on Twitter. “The designated targets were seized,” it said in a later statement.
Turkey has hit 181 Kurdish militia targets with air...
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October 10, 2019 at 4:18 pm
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The 2018 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life,” while the 2019 prize went to Austrian author Peter Handke.
Mats Malm, the Swedish Academy’s permanent secretary, says Handke was honored “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”
The shortlist was made of eight names of which two were picked for the 2018 and 2019 awards, said Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy.
With the glory comes a 9-million kronor ($918,000) cash award to be shared a gold medal and a diploma. The laureat...
