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November 11, 2019 at 9:31 pm
Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of the top Democratic presidential hopefuls, is proposing a plan to expand Veterans Affairs services and modernize facilities, according to an agenda he released Monday.
Sanders pledges to fill 50,000 job vacancies at the VA in his first year in office and ensure that those with military service in every state and territory have access to full health care services.
He also proposes investing $62 billion in funding for VA infrastructure to repair and modernize facilities.
Read more at The Hill.
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November 11, 2019 at 9:30 pm
President Trump on Monday said he will meet with representatives of the e-cigarette industry as he considers a ban on the sale of flavored vaping products.
“Will be meeting with representatives of the Vaping industry, together with medical professionals and individual state representatives, to come up with an acceptable solution to the Vaping and e-cigarette dilemma,” Trump tweeted.
“Children’s health & safety, together with jobs, will be a focus!”
The Trump administration announced in September it would start crafting a ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes products in an effort to address rising youth vaping rates.
Read more at The Hill.
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November 11, 2019 at 9:30 pm
A federal judge on Monday dismissed two New York officials from President Trump’s lawsuit over his state tax returns.
Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee in federal district court in Washington, D.C., ruled that the D.C.-based court doesn’t have jurisdiction over the New York officials: Attorney General Letitia James and state tax official Michael Schmidt.
“Mr. Trump bears the burden of establishing personal jurisdiction, but his allegations do not establish that the District of Columbia’s long-arm statute is satisfied here with respect to either Defendant,” Nichols wrote.
Read more at The Hill.
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November 11, 2019 at 9:30 pm
Iran’s foreign ministry reportedly said Sunday that an ex-FBI agent who has been missing since 2007 has no criminal case pending in any court in the nation, and that his whereabouts are still unknown.
Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi told reporters that an open case within the Revolutionary Court concerning Robert Levinson “was a missing person” filing, not a prosecution against the agent, according to The Associated Press, which reported on Saturday that a case existed after retrieving a filing Iran made to the United Nations.
Mousavi told reporters on Sunday that Levinson “has no judicial or criminal case in any Islamic Republic of Iran court whatsoever,” the news service noted.
“It is normal that a case is opened like it’s done for any missin...
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November 11, 2019 at 9:19 pm
Baltimore, MD – Nov. 11, 2019 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Mrs. Jean Shasho, a’h, mother of Mrs. Wendy Saull.
The Levayah will take place Wednesday, Nov. 13 at Levinson’s at 12:30 PM
Kevurah will be at United Hebrew Cemetery - 3901 Washington Blvd
Shiva will be observed at 7 Slade Apt 711, Baltimore, MD, 21208.
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
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November 11, 2019 at 9:13 pm
Baltimore, MD – Nov. 11, 2019 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of R. Raechel Silman, a'h, mother of Yaakov Eliezer Silman ("Jay"), Washington Heights, NY, Malka Nechama Weintraub, 6317 Wallis Ave, Baltimore, MD, Shimon Avraham Silman, Crown Heights, NY, Yehudit Bracha Silman-Greenspan, S Paul MN, Naomi Esther Zirkind, 3701 Glen Ave, Baltimore, MD.
The Levayah will take place 10:45 AM, Tuesday, 12 Nov at 770 Eastern Parkway, Crown Heights, NY,
Kevurah will be in Har HaTzeitim.
Shiva will start Tuesday in Crown Heights.
Baltimore descendants will be at home as of Wednesday morning. Weintraub visitng hours: no visitors before 10AM or after 10 PMZirkind visiting hours: 10 AM-12 PM, 2 PM-5 PM, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Bila HaM...
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November 11, 2019 at 9:01 pm
In Bereishis (18:23) the posuk tells us that Avraham asked Hashem, “Will you kill a tzaddik with a Rasha?” Avraham goes through a whole negotiation with Hashem that maybe there are fifty tzadikim, then he said forty-five, and continued going down until ten.
We can pose a few questions regarding the above exchange. Firstly, it sounds like Avraham is giving mussar to Hashem and if not for his davening it is as if Hashem might kill fifty or forty-five tzadikim etc. It would be hard to comprehend that Hashem would kill fifty or less tzadikim just for living in Sedom. Secondly, if there were tzadikim livi...
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November 11, 2019 at 6:56 pm
LATEST FORECAST | RADAR | CLOSINGS AND DELAYS | LISTEN LIVE
Full Forecast:
Monday: Increasing clouds, mild and a high of 62.
Monday night: Rain developing late, mainly after midnight with temperatures in the 50s before sunrise, even colder after sunrise.
Tuesday: Rain the morning, changing to snow, ending midday. Trace amounts of snow possible, mainly on non-paved surfaces. Temperatures will fall to the 30s, by afternoon.
The first snow of season looks like it will come Tuesday.
While many want to know the snow forecast, what will be more noticeable is the temperature difference. With temperatures reaching the 60s Monday, it will be 50 degrees colder by Wednesday morning, and wind chills will drop into the teens.
Early Tuesday morni...
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November 11, 2019 at 6:54 pm
CHICAGO (AP) – A winter storm has left about 3.4 inches of snow on the ground at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport but that was enough to cancel nearly 900 flights and cause flights to be delayed an average of almost an hour and a half. Across town, at Midway International Airport, another 97 flights have been canceled.
Icy conditions also caused a plane to slide off a runway at O’Hare as it came in to land Monday morning. None of the 38 passengers or three crew members on the flight from Greensboro, North Carolina, was injured.
The snow all but stopped by mid-afternoon. Now the National Weather Service expects temperatures that were already unseasonably low to plummet. The forecast high of 21 degrees (-6 Celsius) at the airport on Tuesday would be a full sev...
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November 11, 2019 at 6:27 pm
People are talking about the Angst documentary…
Community member: “I heard about the wonderful video on the topic of anxiety. Is there any way that I can listen to it?”
Community member: “Thanks for providing this for the women of the community. Is there something planned for the men?”
Adolescent psychiatrist: “Seemed well attended and received. Very interesting film. “
Head of school in Silver Spring: “This is fantastic! I would love to host this movie in Silver Spring too.”
Local school guidance counselor: “I thought the film was informative and well done. It gave a good explanation of what anxiety is and how it affects all different populations. It gives the watcher a broader understanding of anxiety and the toll it takes...
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November 11, 2019 at 6:23 pm
Lawyers representing Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Monday called on Hillary Clinton to retract her comments alleging that the 2020 presidential candidate was a favorite candidate of the Russians, accusing the 2016 Democratic nominee of defamation.
“Your statement is defamatory, and we demand that you retract it immediately,” Gabbard’s lawyer wrote in a letter, demanding that Clinton verbally retract the comments and post the retraction on Twitter.
Clinton’s spokesman declined to comment on the letter.
Read more at The Hill.
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November 11, 2019 at 6:23 pm
Three police officers and some 15 demonstrators were wounded during a police raid in the Judea and Samaria town of Yitzhar on Sunday night.
“Dozens of young men rioted and used severe violence, including throwing rocks, paint bottles and other objects” at officers, the Israel Police said in a statement, according to The Times of Israel. In addition to the injuries suffered by the officers, several police vehicles were also damaged, according to the statement.
Security forces had entered Yitzhar to arrest Neriah Zarog, 21, who was wanted for disobeying an administrative order issued in September barring him from the area for three months. Area residents have clashed with Palestinians and Israeli troops several times in the past.
Upon entering Zarog’s house, security for...
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November 11, 2019 at 5:59 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to give the keynote address at the annual Israeli-American Council’s annual summit next month, announced the organization on Monday. It would mark the president’s first appearance at a non-political Jewish organization.
The IAC conference will take place in Southern Florida from Dec. 5-8, with Trump slated to give remarks on Dec. 7. It is expected to bring together nearly 4,000 attendees from around the world for an event that shapes the Jewish communal conversation.
“It is an honor for us to host the president of the United States, who is addressing a non-political Jewish organization for the first time,” IAC co-founder and CEO Shoham Nicolet told JTA. “This is great news not only for our organization, but for the en...
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November 11, 2019 at 5:56 pm
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin struck a message of unity and warned against incitement during a state memorial service on Sunday for the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995.
“Twenty-four years after the murder and it is as if the question of our joint fate still remains open,” Rivlin said. “The nightmare that none of us thought could happen turned into reality. The fear that we will, with our own hands, bring about our own downfall, remains etched in our consciousness.”
Rivlin exhorted his listeners not to fall into self-destructive divisiveness, saying, “Do not believe the absurd, strange, and insane voices of the fringes. Do not believe those who speak about post-truth, alternative facts, and new theories. Post-truth means lies...
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November 11, 2019 at 5:52 pm
TEHRAN (AP) – The Tehran publishers’ league in Iran says it has outlawed buying or selling books by the bestselling Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari.
Iran’s culture ministry banned his books from publication in May. The ministry alleges they promote the theory of evolution and fabricate history.
The official IRNA news agency reported Monday on the new warning by the publishers’ league of “possible” legal prosecution for selling Harari’s books.
Hardliners in Iran have long criticized the circulation of his books, calling him a Zionist.
They’re concerned about the influence of Western culture, seeing it as part of efforts aimed at the “soft toppling” of the country’s Islamic system.
Titles by Harari on the banned list inc...
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November 11, 2019 at 5:51 pm
House Republicans have demanded testimony from Hunter Biden, the anonymous Ukraine whistleblower and a long list of other witnesses in the President Trump impeachment hearings set to start Wednesday.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who has unilateral power to deny the GOP’s witness wishes, said he was “evaluating” the Republicans’ list.
“This inquiry is not and will not serve, however, as a vehicle to undertake the same sham investigations into the Bidens or 2016 that the president pressed Ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit,” Schiff added.
Read more at THE NY POST.
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November 11, 2019 at 5:50 pm
President Trump took to Twitter late Sunday to urge Iran to release the retired FBI agent who had been missing in the country since 2007 and said it would be a very positive step toward easing tensions between the two countries since provocations on the Strait of Hormuz.
Robert Levinson’s disappearance has been the source of intrigue. He vanished during an unauthorized CIA mission. Iran acknowledged on Sunday that there is an open Revolutionary Court case involving Levinson.
“If Iran is able to turn over to the U.S. kidnapped former FBI Agent Robert A. Levinson, who has been missing in Iran for 12 years, it would be a very positive step,” Trump tweeted.
If Levinson is alive, he would be the longest-held prisoner in U.S. history.
Read more at FOX NEWS.
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November 11, 2019 at 5:48 pm
The president signed an executive order to end DACA in 2017, as he believes it gives the president ‘extraordinary powers’.
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November 11, 2019 at 5:45 pm
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz was booed Sunday as he entered the wedding of the son of charedi lawmaker Yaakov Asher, where protesters called him a “terrorist” and told him to “go to the Arabs.”
However, inside the function, Gantz was warmly welcomed, Hebrew media reported.
Gantz is currently trying to form a government, and one of the main stumbling blocks has been Blue and White’s insistence that a coalition unity government not include the ultra-Orthodox parties. Asher is a lawmaker from the United Torah Judaism Party.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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November 11, 2019 at 5:37 pm
It may be time to rethink how you hydrate in the sky.
A new study has found that many of the U.S.’s most popular airlines do not provide safe drinking water — and it may actually be making passengers sick.
The 2019 Airline Water Study conducted by DietDetective.com and the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center investigated 11 major airlines and 12 regional airlines, scoring them from 0 to 5 (5 being the best) on the quality of water they provide onboard. The scores were based on 10 criteria, including airline fleet size; the presence of coliform bacteria or E. coli in the water; and the amount of times they’ve violated the federal government’s Aircraft Drinking Water Rule (ADWR), which was implemen...
