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November 12, 2019 at 5:32 pm
In this exciting episode of SHMUZIK we take a look at the life of a talented musician. Ever wonder what the wedding/concert life is like. Tune in for a candid conversation with three of the biggest musicians in the industry; Danny Flamm of New York Brass Co., woodwinds expert Mark Fineberg and drummer extraordinaire Gal Gershovsky.
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November 12, 2019 at 5:32 pm
LONDON (AP) — Hillary Clinton says she’s “dumbfounded” that the U.K. government has failed to release a report on Russian influence in British politics before the country holds a national election next month.
The former U.S. presidential candidate told British media that the public needs to know what is in the report by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee before voters go to the polls on Dec. 12.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has said it needs more time to review the security implications of the report before it is released. Critics, however, allege the report is being withheld until after the election because it is embarrassing to Johnson’s Conservative Party, which is trying to win a majority and push through Jo...
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November 12, 2019 at 5:15 pm
The weather is getting colder, and people are pulling out their space heaters. We just wanted to remind you that you should NEVER plug a heater into a power strip. These units are not designed to handle the high current flow needed for a space heater and can overheat or even catch fire due to the added energy flow. Please share and stay safe this Winter season.
This is an image from our fire station when a surge protector was misused. The point comes down to proper use. Even the best equipment can fail if not used correctly. No one manufacture is at fault, yet it’s all about the end users ability to use the product safely. #UCFD1
Umatilla Country Fire District #1 shared an alarming photo of a melted and charred power strip on Facebook showing the damage an ov...
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November 12, 2019 at 5:09 pm
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Efforts to improve state regulations that oversee proper licensure and how teachers are prepared for class came to a halt Tuesday.
The Kirwan Commission held a hearing Tuesday that focused on the state's 61,000 public school teachers. The focus for most of the day was on teachers and what needs to happen to make sure they're prepared and properly licensed to be in the classroom.
From the start, there was pushback from teachers over the changes proposed by the Maryland State Board of Education. Teachers said the changes are too much, too soon.
"I think there's a much larger issue at hand and that is whether or not we are going to invest in people or seek to make them compliant," said Chris Lloyd, president of the Montgomery County Education Associati...
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November 12, 2019 at 5:05 pm
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 12, 2019 - There are 2 covenants associated with Avraham Avinu-the bris of chessed, and the bris milah. Although we usually associate the bris milah as symbolizing the relationship between man and Hashem, chessed also shows this connection, through the person emulating Hashem. A Jew is identified by both of these covenants. Even when a person has strayed far from Judaism, he can still be connected to Avraham Avinu and the Jewish people through the bris hachessed and bris milah.
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November 12, 2019 at 5:02 pm
Citing overwhelming demand and a long wait list, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City announced Tuesday that it will stop taking applications for public housing on Dec. 13.
Though actions taken this year have nearly halved the list from 27,000 to 14,000, officials said the wait time -- as long as seven years on average -- is too long to take new applicants.
“This is a decision we wish we didn’t have to make but by continuing to accept applications we would be performing a disservice and creating a false sense of hope that we can accommodate applicants in the near term,” HABC president and CEO Janet Abrahams said in a statement. “The applicants at the top of our waiting list right now have been waiting on average between five and seven years. We work very hard t...
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November 12, 2019 at 5:01 pm
Former president Jimmy Carter was hospitalized Monday for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, the Carter Center said in a statement.
The pressure was triggered by bleeding in the brain caused by recent falls, and the procedure is scheduled for Tuesday morning, the center said. He was admitted to Emory University Hospital on Monday evening and was resting comfortably with his wife, Rosalynn Carter, the center said.
Carter, a Democrat, was hospitalized last month with a minor pelvic fracture after falling in his Georgia home. The 95-year-old fell on Oct. 6 and required stitches above his left brow.
In 2015, Carter announced that doctors had discovered a form of melanoma that spread to his brain.
“I just thought I had a few weeks left, but I was surprisingly at ease,&rdquo...
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November 12, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Google has partnered with one of the largest health care systems in the country to collect data on millions of American patients, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The venture, called Project Nightingale, allows Google to obtain access to personal health care data from Americans across 21 states through its partnership with Ascension, people familiar with the matter told the Journal, which also relied on internal documents for its report.
The data Google has access to includes lab results, doctor diagnoses, hospitalization records and health histories with names and date of births. Neither patients nor doctors were informed that Google was collecting the data, according to the Journal, and at least 150 Google employees have access to the information.
Read more at The Hill.
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November 12, 2019 at 4:57 pm
Russian hacker Alexei Burkov was extradited from Israel to the United States on Monday night, Hebrew-language broadcaster Channel 12 reported.
The Russians requested Israel extradite Burkov to Moscow, but on Sunday the Israeli court rejected the petition filed on the hacker’s behalf.
The court’s “decision constitutes a breach of his rights as well as Israel’s international obligations,” the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv tweeted.
The Embassy added that “this step does not contribute to the relations between Russia and Israel.”
Read more at i24NEWS.
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November 12, 2019 at 4:54 pm
Stebbins Anderson, the furniture and housewares store in The Shops at Kenilworth, is closing Dec. 31 after more than 150 years in business, its owner said.
“It was really difficult,” said owner Ken Knight. “It hurts. In the internet world, if you don’t have the dollars to have several stores to set up avenues to sell your products, you can’t compete. I’m in a world of shrinking sales due to the internet.”
Stebbins has 18 full-time employees and 22 part-time employees. Everything in the store is 30% off. Though Knight and his wife, Bonnie, bought the store in 2015, he has been with the store for more than 30 years, when he was hired as an accountant.
"Traffic in malls gets smaller every year," he said.
Stebbins began in 1867 as a Towson co...
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November 12, 2019 at 4:48 pm
NEW YORK (VosIzNeias) — The Intercontinental Hotel in Manhattan was filled up with approximately 400 Jews on Tuesday at an event organized to give thanks and generate support for President Trump from the Jewish community.
The event organized by noted philanthropist Louis Scheiner was said to have raised $5 Million for President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee.
The event was emceed by Mr. Kivi Bernard.
The event kicked off with popular Jewish singer Beri Weber performing the national anthem, and the Jewish classic Tov Lehodos.
The “Birchas Hanasi,” a special Blessing dedicated for world leaders was recited by Rabbi Yosroel Reisman, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath.
Rabbi YY Jacobson then introduc...
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November 12, 2019 at 4:42 pm
The Nasdaq secured a fresh record while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 closed just shy of one after President Trump touted the benefits that his pro-American policies have had on the U.S. economy.
Trump, speaking at the Economic Club of New York, said: “We have ended the war on American workers, we have stopped the assault on American industry, and we have launched an economic boom the likes of which we have never seen before" while also noting the record run the U.S. stock market is having.
He also addressed his progress on redoing trade deals with the likes of China as well as the United States Mexico Canada trade agreement or USMCA. He also applauded his record on job creation.
Traders continue to keep a close eye on U.S.-Chin...
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November 12, 2019 at 4:23 pm
PM Netanyahu Holds Security Assessment with DM Bennett, IDF Chief-of-Staff Kochavi, ISA Director Argaman, NSC Chairman Meir Ben-Shabbat and Other Senior Officials
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Tuesday, 12 November 2019), at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, held a security assessment with Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi, ISA Director Nadav Argaman, National Security Council Chairman Meir Ben-Shabbat and other senior security establishment officials.
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November 12, 2019 at 4:04 pm
The federal trial of political trickster Roger Stone is set to resume Tuesday as former Trump campaign staffer Rick Gates is expected to testify for the prosecution and the focus returns to calls Stone made to members of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s election operation.
Former Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon told the federal jury in Washington last week that Stone was seen as an “access point” to WikiLeaks, with knowledge about the release of hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. But Bannon said he never asked Stone to contact WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, nor was he aware of anyone else on the campaign reaching out to the anti-secrecy group.
Stone, 67, has pleaded not guilty to lying to Congress about his efforts to learn more ab...
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November 12, 2019 at 4:03 pm
President Reuven Rivlin addressed the rocket fire Tuesday from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, sought to strengthen the political echelon and called for avoiding political clashes.
”May the hands of all the security forces be strengthened – the efforts to succeed this morning have been a long time in the making. I know that before their eyes, and the eyes of the Israeli government that approved the operation, is Israel’s security only,” Rivlin said.
“This is not a time for political clashes and they do not add honor to anyone who deals in them – it is time to stop making such statements immediately,” the president emphasized.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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November 12, 2019 at 4:03 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that a survivor and relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting can pursue their lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 26 people.
The justices rejected an appeal from Remington Arms, which argued it should be shielded by a 2005 federal law preventing most lawsuits against firearms manufacturers when their products are used in crimes.
The case is being watched by gun control advocates, gun rights supporters and gun manufacturers across the country because it has the potential to provide a roadmap for victims of other mass shootings to circumvent the federal law and sue the makers of firearms.
The court’s order allows the lawsuit filed in Connecticut state court by a survivor and relatives of ...
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November 12, 2019 at 4:03 pm
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, widow of Maryland 7th District Rep. Elijah Cummings, will run for her late husband's seat, she announced Monday. She also said she will undergo preventative surgery Friday.
Cummings, who announced her candidacy Monday night on MSNBC prior to an official Tuesday kickoff event, resigned Monday as chair of the state Democratic Party.
"I want to represent the issues," she told supporters Tuesday. "I want to represent Elijah and I want to carry his legacy forward and build upon that legacy."
However, Cummings will not be active on the campaign trail in the early weeks. She is set to undergo a preventative double mastectomy Friday, as her mother recently died of cancer. Although the recovery period for the surgery is two to four weeks, Cummings said ...
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November 12, 2019 at 3:50 pm
GAZA CITY (AP) – An Israel airstrike in the Gaza Strip has killed Bahaa Abu el-Atta, a senior militant with the Islamic Jihad group, setting off the worst bout of fighting in recent months. Israeli officials described el-Atta as the mastermind of recent attacks against Israel and the militant group’s top commander in Gaza. Tuesday’s violence marked the latest in a long history of fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad, an armed group that is backed by Iran.
Here’s a look at the Islamic Jihad movement:
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Islamic Jihad is the smaller of the two main Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip, and is vastly outnumbered by the ruling Hamas group. But it enjoys direct Iranian backing, both financially and militarily, and has become the driving force ...
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November 12, 2019 at 3:31 pm
BRUSSELS (AP ) – The European Union’s top court ruled Tuesday that EU countries must identify products made in Israeli settlements on their labels, in a decision that was welcomed by rights groups but sparked anger in Israel.
The European Court of Justice said that when products come from an Israeli settlement, their labels must provide an “indication of that provenance” so that consumers can make “informed choices” when they shop.
The EU rejects Israeli settlement expansion, saying it undermines the hopes for a two-state solution by gobbling up lands claimed by the Palestinians. Israel says the labeling is unfair and discriminatory and says other countries involved in disputes over land are not similarly sanctioned.
The volume of settlement goods com...
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November 12, 2019 at 3:21 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday that he no longer plans to sue over the House impeachment proceedings and will instead follow President Donald Trump’s directions and decline to cooperate.
It’s the latest reversal in position by Mulvaney, who last week asked to join the lawsuit of another Trump adviser before changing his mind Monday and saying that he intended to bring his own case. It appears to resolve once and for all a four-day legal dispute that exposed divisions among current and former Trump administration officials about how best to respond to Democratic demands for cooperation and testimony.
In a court filing Tuesday, one day before the impeachment inquiry enters a critical phase of public hearings, Mulvaney said h...
