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October 17, 2019 at 8:56 pm
As Donald Trump faces the toughest political test of his presidency, he essentially has two options: Dig in and fight, or walk away before he faces an almost certain impeachment in the House of Representatives.
Trump’s instincts, of course, are to fight, and he’s given no indication so far that he’s about to back down as the Democratic leadership builds its case. The impeachment forces are banking that they can prove Trump made a quid pro quo deal with Ukrainian leaders to withhold aid in exchange for an investigation into Hunter Biden, son of Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden.
Despite the unlikelihood that Trump would shrink from the battle, one Wall Street firm has put together a what-if case should he decide to resign before being impeached.
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October 17, 2019 at 8:53 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the European Union said Thursday that President Donald Trump directed him and other envoys to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on Ukraine policy and that he disagreed with the directive.
Gordon Sondland’s closed-door testimony to House impeachment investigators was aimed at distancing himself from Trump and Giuliani’s efforts to pressure Ukraine into investigating Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Sondland said he was disappointed Trump instructed him to work with Giuliani, a directive that sidestepped the role of the State Department and the National Security Council. He also said he believed it was wrong to invite a foreign government to conduct investigations to influence American elections.
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October 17, 2019 at 8:51 pm
Senate Republicans blocked a vote Thursday on a House-passed resolution that condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria, a military move that paved the way for a Turkish offensive against the Kurds.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., attempted to force Senate passage Thursday afternoon of the bipartisan House resolution that passed on an overwhelming 340-60-4 vote Wednesday.
“He does not grasp the gravity of the situation. He doesn’t understand it,” Schumer said of Trump. “The most important thing we can do right now is send President Trump a message that Congress, the vast majority of Democrats and Republicans, demand to reverse course.”
But several Republican senators, led by Sen. Rand Paul of ...
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October 17, 2019 at 8:50 pm
Democrats prepared Thursday to derail a Republican-backed resolution to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., for his handling of the impeachment inquiry as another key witness testified on Capitol Hill.
President Donald Trump has been calling on House members to support a censure of Schiff. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., praised Schiff’s work in a morning news conference, saying, “I value the way he is conducting this.”
On Thursday morning, Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, told House impeachment investigators Thursday that President Donald Trump urged him to work with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on matters related to Ukraine.
The revelation came as Sondland, a key figure in the probe, appeared b...
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October 17, 2019 at 8:48 pm
Baltimore, MD - Oct. 17, 2019 - In Baltimore, today, the winds are blowing in from the west at speeds of up to 23 miles per hour which has been enough to create headaches for many in the community.
If you have photos of Sukkahs that have been affected send them here.
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October 17, 2019 at 7:09 pm
Baltimore, MD - Oct. 17, 2019 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Itael & Hersh Toibman on the birth of a son
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
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October 17, 2019 at 7:02 pm
Israeli ambassador to Ukraine Joel Lion tweeted, "Ukraine has to do more to fight antisemitism, if not, violence will spread from effigies to human beings."
Israeli ambassador to Ukraine Joel Lion asked police on Thursday to find and punish people who left a red paint-spattered effigy of tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky, who holds a Ukrainian Jewish community leadership post, on the steps of the main synagogue in Kiev.Lion tweeted, "Ukraine has to do more to fight antisemitism, if not, violence will spread from effigies to human beings."
Kolomoisky, one of Ukraine's richest men, is in the public eye over his business ties to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who came to fame as the star of TV show on a channel Kolomoisky owns. The tycoon has been in a protracted legal battle with the a...
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October 17, 2019 at 6:57 pm
“I want to send a message that we cannot as African-Americans progress without coalitions, and our greatest coalition partner has been the Jewish people in America,” Cummings told WBALTV 11 in May.Congressman Elijah Cummings, of Maryland's 7th District, the Democratic chairman of the US House Oversight and Reform Committee, which along with two other committees is conducting inquiry that might lead to the impeachment of US President Donald Trump, died early on Thursday, October 17."At approximately 2:45 a.m. on Thursday October 17, 2019, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (MD-07) passed away at John Hopkins Hospital due to complications concerning longstanding health challenges," his office said in a statement.
Cummings was first elected to Congress in 1996 and became ch...
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October 17, 2019 at 6:52 pm
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed at the Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on Thursday evening, ahead of his meeting on Friday with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
The Secretary was met by the US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, and Ambassador Zvi Aviner Vapni, Head of the North America Bureau at the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
The State Department on Wednesday confirmed that Pompeo will visit Israel on Friday and would discuss with Netanyahu the developments in Syria and the continued need to counter the Iranian regime’s destabilizing behavior in the region.
Pompeo’s visit to the region follows Turkey's launching of a cross-border assault in Syria against Kurdish fighters it sees as terrorists.
Earlier on Thursday, Turkish President Recep...
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October 17, 2019 at 6:52 pm
The antisemitic attack comes shortly after a Syrian man who sought to enter a Berlin synagogue with a knife during the first week of October.
he Berlin police reported on Thursday that a 29-year-old man attempted to strike a 34-year-old man while voicing an antisemitic insult in the district of Kreuzberg.The police notice said that "during the clarification of the facts it became known that the inebriated 29-year-old had to leave the premises shortly before, as he had already expressed antisemitism there. The police state protection agency is now investigating for incitement, insult and attempted assault.”
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October 17, 2019 at 6:38 pm
CEYLANPINAR, Turkey (AP) — The commander of Kurdish-led forces in Syria on Thursday said they will abide by a cease-fire agreement announced in Turkey by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. But his comments suggested a smaller “safe zone” than Ankara has demanded, underscoring the ambiguities in the American-Turkish deal.
Mazloum Abdi, speaking on Kurdish Ronahi TV, said the extent of the cease-fire stretches about 100 kilometers (60 miles) along the middle of the border — between the towns of Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ayn. That is the region where Turkey has largely made its gains in nine days of fighting.
“We hope that this cease fire will be successful, and we will do our best to make it successful,” Abdi said Thursday, describing it as a “tentative ag...
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October 17, 2019 at 5:11 pm
Louise Ellman, a member UK’s parliament with the Labor opposition, has quit Jeremy Corbyn’s party after more 55 years years of membership.
Announcing the move on Wednesday, she said anti-Semitsm has been allowed to foster in the party since Corbyn took over it.
In a statement posted on Twitter, she also condemned the Labor leader of being unfit for the prime minister’s office.
“I have made the truly agonising decision to leave the Labour Party after 55 years. I can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM. I will continue to serve the people of Liverpool Riverside as I have had the honour to do since 1997.”
“Jeremy Corbyn — who spent three decades on the back-benches consorting with, and never confronting, anti-Semites,...
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October 17, 2019 at 4:37 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House acknowledged Thursday that it held up military aid to Ukraine as President Donald Trump pushed the country’s new leader to investigate the Democratic National Committee in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, a central question in the House impeachment inquiry .
Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said that Trump did nothing wrong in linking the aid to Ukraine’s investigation. He said the probe would simply be part of the Justice Department’s ongoing review of the 2016 election.
House Democrats, who are investigating whether the president engaged in a political quid pro quo when he asked the new Ukraine president to do a “favor,” immediately called it an admission of guilt.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of ...
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October 17, 2019 at 4:32 pm
WASHINGTON (JNS) — White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner will visit Israel next month in the aftermath of the Sept. 17 elections, which have still resulted in no clear government coalition.
He plans to meet with Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, reported McClatchy.
Kusher will be accompanied by Avi Berkowitz, who will succeed Jason Greenblatt as the Trump administration’s envoy to the Middle East, and Brian Hook, U.S. special envoy for Iran.
However, it remains unlikely that political components of the White House’s Mideast peace plan will be released.
Economic components were put forth in June at the “Peace to Prosperity” summit in Bahrain that was boycotted by the Palestinian Authority, which has already repeatedly r...
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October 17, 2019 at 3:30 pm
Now is the time for Hillary Clinton to jump into the 2020 race for the White House and take advantage of the weak and fractured field, said Ben Shapiro on Thursday.
Shapiro claimed cracks are beginning to show with the current front-runners for the Democratic nomination and said voters aren't responding to their initial policy proposals.
"It appears there is some roiling tension inside that Democratic field. People are not satisfied with the field they have," he said on "The Ben Shapiro Show."
"Honestly, if Hillary Clinton were to make her grand reentrance, now would be about the time she should do it. Because the fact is, a lot of people are dissatisfied with [Joe] Biden. A lot of people are dissatisfied with [Elizab...
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October 17, 2019 at 3:26 pm
The Likud-led religious right-wing bloc in Israel’s Knesset has signed a pledge not to join a minority government led by Netanyahu’s arch-nemesis, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz.
As of Wednesday, 52 out of 55 lawmakers from Likud, Shas, United Torah Judaism and the Jewish Home-National Union alliance vowed to only join a government led by Prime Minister Netanyahu.
The deal likely to disrupt a scenario where Gantz forms a minority center-left coalition, which would be backed from the outside by the predominantly Arab Joint List and Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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October 17, 2019 at 3:25 pm
President Trump on Thursday mourned the death of Rep. Elijah Cummings, tweeting that the late congressman and fierce critic of the administration would be “hard, if not impossible, to replace.”
“My warmest condolences to the family and many friends of Congressman Elijah Cummings. I got to see first hand the strength, passion and wisdom of this highly respected political leader,” Trump tweeted. “His work and voice on so many fronts will be very hard, if not impossible, to replace!”
Cummings died early Thursday morning “due to complications concerning longstanding health challenges,” his office said. He was 68.
Read more at The Hill.
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October 17, 2019 at 3:14 pm
David Correia, the fourth defendant in a campaign finance case involving business associates of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, was arrested Wednesday morning at a New York City airport, officials said.
Correia has been charged with participating in a scheme to use foreign money to build political support for a fledgling recreational marijuana business in Nevada and other states, according to an indictment unsealed last week that also charged Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman with conspiracy and making false statements to campaign finance regulators.
The other defendants were quickly arrested by the FBI, but Correia had been traveling in the Middle East, and returned to the U.S. to surrender to authorities at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Correia made a br...
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October 17, 2019 at 3:10 pm
Giant Tallis Being Prepared for Kol Nearim at The Pupa Bais Medrash
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October 17, 2019 at 3:10 pm
World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder blasted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for the uptick in anti-Semitic crimes in the city.
“This is a crisis for all New Yorkers,” Lauder told The New York Post. “And Mayor de Blasio needs to understand press releases won’t fix the problem. We need actions, not words. Whatever is being done now clearly isn’t enough.”
“As the elected leader of the city with the largest Jewish population in the U.S., Mayor de Blasio has a special obligation to take the lead on combating anti-Semitic violence,” he said. “As Jews here feel more and more vulnerable, how many can believe this mayor considers their safety his priority? There are Holocaust survivors living here who are afraid to walk ...
