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January 23, 2020 at 10:27 am
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 23, 2020 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Sarah and Yehuda Baruch Kessin on the birth of a son.
Mazel Tov grandparents Rabbi & Mrs. Paysach Diskind and Rabbi & Mrs. Shaul Englesberg and great-grandmother Mrs. Rivka Diskind.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
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January 23, 2020 at 10:16 am
Denial is not a river in Egypt
A small child believes that by closing his eyes, the “monsters” he fears cease to exist.
When Moshe foretold of the plague of barad (hail), he warned Pharaoh that any person or animal left in the fields would be killed. “Whoever among the servants of Pharaoh feared the word of Hashem chased his servants and livestock to the houses. And whoever did not take the word of God to heart – he left his servants and livestock in the field.” (Exodus 9:20-21)
Who were these Egyptians who, after witnessing six makos – plagues – of the Lord still ignored Moses’ warning? With ample evidence that Moses’ warnings were to be heeded and with the “price” for ensuring their workers and livesto...
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January 23, 2020 at 10:13 am
Vice President Pence Delivers Remarks at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum to Mark the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
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January 23, 2020 at 10:09 am
President Rivlin: *We are also standing here today, Kings, leaders, heads of state, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, “So we remember. So we don’t forget.” On behalf of the Jewish people, and as President of the State of Israel I thank you from the bottom of my heart for coming here. Thank you for your solidarity with the Jewish people. Thank you for your commitment to Holocaust remembrance. Thank you for your commitment to the citizens of the world who believe in liberty and human dignity. For millions of my people who were exterminated in the Holocaust, and for the millions of victims of the Second World War, the allies’ choice came too late. But they managed to stand up to the Nazi monster and say – no more. At the end of the day, liberty, human dignity and the a...
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January 23, 2020 at 9:03 am
Jay Sekulow discusses his team’s plans to defend the president in his Senate impeachment trial.
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January 23, 2020 at 9:01 am
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a leading ally of President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that 45 Republicans are ready to dismiss the charges against the president and he would keep pushing to rally a majority of GOP senators to end the impeachment trial.
“There are 45, with about five to eight wanting to hear a little more,” Paul said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I still would like to dismiss it, but there aren’t the votes to do it just yet.”
With support from other Trump allies, Paul said he would continue to pressure his colleagues in the coming days to move on from the trial and listening to the House’s Democratic managers, including Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
“I will push it at some point,” Paul said. &...
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January 23, 2020 at 9:01 am
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that France will be inflexible about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and that his country is determined Tehran will never acquire nuclear weapons.
“In the current context, France is determined that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon, but also that we avoid all military escalation in the region,” Macron said.
Macron made the comments in Jerusalem after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin ahead of commemorations marking 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz.
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January 23, 2020 at 8:58 am
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will attend Friday’s March for Life, the annual gathering of antiabortion protesters commemorating the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion decision on abortion.
While other U.S. presidents have addressed the annual rally by phone or sent video greetings, Trump would be the first to address the crowd in person.
His appearance was announced during the first week of the president’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, and as his bond with groups opposing abortion grows stronger. Just a few days, ago the pro-life group SBA List and its affiliated super PAC announced it would spend $52 million to help the president’s reelection and work to protect the GOP’s Senate majority, Politico...
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January 23, 2020 at 8:55 am
Tesla Inc.’s market value has climbed above Volkswagen AG’s for the first time to more than $100 billion, a threshold that will trigger a huge payout for Elon Musk if he can sustain the feat for months.
The electric-car maker’s shares jumped as much as 4.6% shortly after the open of regular trading Wednesday. At the early intraday high of $572.11, Tesla’s market capitalization was roughly $103.1 billion, exceeding Volkswagen’s $99.8 billion and trailing only Toyota Motor Corp.
While Musk’s skeptics view as absurd Tesla being worth more than a carmaker that sold almost 30 times as many vehicles last year, Volkswagen’s Herbert Diess isn’t one of those cynics. He’s been arguably the most vocal CEO running a traditional carmaker to acknow...
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January 23, 2020 at 8:54 am
President Trump on Wednesday shattered his previous record for most tweets in a day since taking office, tweeting more than 130 times while House Democrats made their opening arguments in his impeachment trial.
The president had tweeted 132 times as of 6:20 p.m., according to Factbase Feed, a data firm that tracks Trump’s tweets, speeches and daily activities. That number tops his previous personal high of 123 tweets in a day.
Trump also set a personal record for retweets in a day as president with more than 110, according to Factbase.
Read more at The Hill.
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January 23, 2020 at 8:49 am
It’s an exhilarating feeling we can all relate to — FedEx notifying you that your package has been delivered.
But before you mindlessly click on that text message that looks like it’s from FedEx, take a second look because it could be a scam.
Some people around the country are receiving text messages that show a supposed tracking code and link to “set delivery preferences.” The text is deceiving as it uses the recipient’s real name.
The link directs people to a fake Amazon listing and then asks them to take a customer satisfaction survey, according to HowToGeek.com. After answering a couple questions, the scam then asks for personal information and a credit card number to claim a free gift.
The Duxbury Police Department in Massachusetts warned o...
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January 23, 2020 at 8:44 am
President Vladimir Putin said during a visit to Israel on Thursday that he had given assurances to the mother of Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman jailed in Russia on drug charges, that “everything will be okay” for her daughter.
Israel has called on Russia to release Issachar who was sentenced by a Russian court to seven and a half years in jail for drug offenses in October.
The New Jersey-born woman was arrested in April last year after police found nine grams of cannabis in her bags during a stopover at a Moscow airport.
Putin, who is in Jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, made the comments at a meeting with Issachar’s mother and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more at Algemeiner
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January 23, 2020 at 8:38 am
ZAKA Chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav to the World Holocaust Forum: Deal with the dignity of the dead, before commemoration.
ZAKA recently received inquiries from tour guides and visitors to the extermination camps in Poland about the phenomenon of thousands of human bones floating above ground after the rain.
Jerusalem, January 23, 2020 - In coordination with government officials in Poland, a ZAKA delegation and representatives of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe (CPJCE) recently visited the camps in order to assess the phenomenon. Engineers from the Polish government also participated in the delegation.
The delegation discovered many examples of human bone emerging from the ground. This phenomenon was witnessed over a wide area in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where...
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January 22, 2020 at 10:09 pm
Amid growing concerns about the spread of a new potentially fatal coronavirus, Chicago’s O’Hare and Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airports on Wednesday became the latest in the U.S. to begin conducting expanded screenings of travelers arriving from Wuhan, China.
More than 1,200 people have been scrutinized since U.S. health officials began screening passengers at John F. Kennedy, Los Angeles and San Francisco international airports last week. No one has been found to have the virus or been hospitalized through those screenings.
The virus has killed at least 17 people and sickened hundreds more. More than 470 people have fallen ill in China, and cases have been identified in Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.
On Wednesday, authorities in Wuhan suspended all outboun...
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January 22, 2020 at 10:00 pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on Thursday with the mother of a young Israeli-American woman imprisoned in his country.
Naama Issachar, 26, was arrested at a Moscow airport last April after she was found to be in possession of a negligible amount of cannabis during a stopover on the way home to Israel from a trip to India. She was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for drug smuggling, a charge she denies.
It is widely believed that political reasons were behind her heavy sentence, and a campaign is underway to free her.
According to a report published on Wednesday by the Israeli news site Mako, citing a Kremlin official quoted by the Russian news site Vedomosti, Naama’s mother Yafa will join Putin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting at the Pri...
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January 22, 2020 at 9:55 pm
The first day of the Senate trial of President Donald Trump on impeachment charges proved to be a modest hit on television, with an average of 11 million viewers tuning in during the afternoon hours and more than 7.5 million sticking around to watch on cable news during the evening on Tuesday.
The marathon procedural session was carried on the six leading broadcast and cable networks during the daytime. The broadcast networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) switched to regular entertainment programming in the evening, ceding the coverage to Fox News, MSNBC and CNN.
An average of 11.01 million viewers watched the proceedings between 12:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern time, across the six networks, according to Nielsen Media Research. The audience fell to an average of 7.55 million during prime-time hours (...
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January 22, 2020 at 9:52 pm
The new leader of Islamic State has been confirmed as Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, according to officials from two intelligence services. He is one of the terror group’s founding members and has led the enslavement of Iraq’s Yazidi minority and has overseen operations around the globe.
The Guardian has learned that Salbi was named leader hours after the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in October. The name that the group gave for Baghdadi’s replacement at the time, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi, was a nom de guerre not recognised by other senior leaders or intelligence agencies.
In the three months since the raid that killed Baghdadi, a fuller picture of Salbi has been pieced together by regional and western spies, placing him at the center of ISIS de...
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January 22, 2020 at 9:50 pm
Amazon AMZN, -0.24% has beaten Google GOOG, +0.10%, Apple AAPL, +0.36% and Microsoft MSFT, -0.48%, to become the world’s most valuable brand, according to a global report.
The value of the e-commerce giant’s brand has soared 17.5% to a record $220.8 billion - the first brand to top $200 billion - the Brand Finance Global 500 index found. Google, which comes second, also climbed in value, while third-placed Apple and fourth-placed Microsoft saw their brand values dip.
Samsung 005930, -1.61% ranked fifth on the list, while three Chinese brands - Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 1398, -0.88% , Huawei and insurer Ping An made it into the top ten, alo...
