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January 27, 2020 at 9:13 am
The Board of Deputies of British Jewry said that the BBC should apologize for a report on Wednesday evening about International Holocaust Remembrance Day that linked the Israel-Palestinian conflict to the Holocaust.
In a report broadcast on BBC News, international correspondent Orla Guerin described Israeli soldiers entering Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum to “share in the binding tragedy of the Jewish people.” She then said, “The State of Israel is now a regional power. For decades, it has occupied Palestinian territories. But some here will always see their nation through the prism of persecution and survival.”
Amanda Bowman, a senior vice president at the Board of Deputies, said “in an otherwise moving report on the experiences of ...
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January 27, 2020 at 9:11 am
All are asked to daven for a refuah sheleimah for Rav Chaim Dov Keller, rosh yeshiva of Telshe Yeshiva in Chicago, who is in need of rachamei Shomayim. Tefillah gatherings for Rav Keller were held last night in Chicago and Lakewood.
Rav Keller was born in New York City and subsequently attended the Telshe Yeshiva after it was established in Cleveland, Ohio by Rav Chaim Mordechai Katz and Rav Eliyahu Meir Bloch. Rav Keller became a close talmid of Rav Bloch. Rav Keller later married a daughter of Rav Leizer Levin zt”l, longtime rov of Detroit.
Together with his brother-in-law, Rav Avrohom Chaim Levin, Rav Keller was hand-picked by the leadership of Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland to oversee the establishment of a...
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January 27, 2020 at 9:08 am
Baltimore police report at least three shootings, one of which was fatal, over the weekend in Baltimore City.
Around 1:30 p.m. Sunday, police were called to the 2000 block of Bryant Avenue for a ShotSpotter alert. At the scene, police found a 42-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds.
The man was taken to an area hospital where he died of his injuries, police said.
At least two other shootings were reported over the weekend, including one on Saturday in which a man was shot in the face and another Sunday evening where a man was shot in the arm.
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January 26, 2020 at 10:35 pm
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that any negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program would have to be conducted with U.S. sanctions in place.
In an apparent response to comments made by Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during an interview on Friday with German newspaper Der Spiegel, Trump posted on Twitter in English and Farsi:
“Iranian Foreign Minister says Iran wants to negotiate with The United States, but wants sanctions removed. @FoxNews @OANN No Thanks!”
Iran’s Foreign Minister responded by tweeting on Sunday: “@realdonaldtrump is better advised to base his foreign policy comments & decisions on facts, rather than @FoxNews headlines or his Farsi translators.”
Zarif’s tweet also included an excerpt from the Der ...
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January 26, 2020 at 10:09 pm
A draft of a forthcoming book from former national security adviser John Bolton alleges that President Trump told him in August that he wanted to keep aid to Ukraine frozen until the country aided investigations into Democrats, including former Vice President Joe Biden and his son—a development that threatened to throw into turmoil the careful choreography of the Senate impeachment trial of Mr. Trump.
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January 26, 2020 at 9:18 pm
On Friday night, while sitting in Shul after davening, Baltimore shliach Rabbi Zalman Spitetzky, was held up at gunpoint.
On Friday night, around 7:00 p.m., two young men entered Khal Chassidim on Park Heights Avenue in Baltimore and one of them pointed a gun at a man.
That man was Rabbi Zalman Spitetzky, a melamed in the Chabad Cheder and a shliach who runs Chabad on Call in Baltimore. He visits hospital patients and is the shliach for the many Jews in the medical field in the Baltimore area.
As reported on Anash.org, and BJL, he had just recently organized the historic gathering to the old Tzemach Tzedek shul in Baltimore to mark 90 years since the Frierdiker Rebbe’s visit there.
Anash.org reached out to Rabbi Spitetzky who shared his experience:
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January 26, 2020 at 8:44 pm
Will kidney dialysis become a thing of the past? Israeli researcher discovers evidence that kidneys can be rejuvenated.
A groundbreaking study has shown that it is possible to rejuvenate damaged kidneys and improve their function, a procedure that could reverse chronic kidney disease, offsetting the need for dialysis. This is the first breakthrough in decades to combat this disease, often precipitated by hypertension and diabetes, and which affects a whopping 10% of the population worldwide.
The study was conducted by Professor Benjamin Dekel, head of Pediatric Nephrology and the Pediatric Stem Cell Research Institute in the Edmond and Lily Safra Children's hospital at Sheba Medical Center, and published this week in the prestigious Cell Reports medical journal.
In past studi...
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January 26, 2020 at 8:29 pm
WASHINGTON (VINnews) — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler announced on Sunday that he will be missing parts of the Senate impeachment trial in order to take care of his ailing wife.
“In December, following the House Judiciary Committee markup of the Articles of Impeachment against President Donald J. Trump, my wife was admitted to the hospital where she was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. She has undergone surgery and is taking further steps to address the spread of the cancer,” Nadler said in a news release Sunday.
“On Monday, I will be in New York with her to meet with doctors, determine a path forward, and begin her treatment. I am sorry to miss some of the Senate Impeachment Trial, which is of critical importance to our democracy.”
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January 26, 2020 at 8:02 pm
At least one rocket hit a dining facility or cafeteria at the site. Sirens sounded in the compound directing people to seek shelter.
Three rockets struck the US embassy compound in Baghdad on Sunday evening. At least one made a direct hit on a dining facility or cafeteria at the site. Sirens sounded in the embassy compound directing people to seek shelter.According to Iraqi sources, at least one person was injured in the attack, Israeli media source Walla News reported Sunday night.
It is the latest attack on the US embassy in Baghdad after weeks of rocket attacks near the embassy and a mass protest in late December.
Iraqi politicians led by Muqtada al-Sadr and Hadi al-Amiri have called for US forces to leave and Sadr encouraged a “million person” protest Friday to...
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January 26, 2020 at 7:57 pm
WASHINGTON (Israel Hayom) — Following reports that the Trump administration will present its Middle East peace plan later this week, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Craft has postponed a planned visit to Israel.
Craft was supposed to arrive in Israel later this week, accompanied by Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon, Israel Hayom reported. However, amid the recent diplomatic developments and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, Craft decided to postpone her visit until after the country’s March 2 general election.
Israeli and American representatives at the United Nations believe the unveiling of the Trump peace plan will spark resistance within the various U.N. bodies, specifically the Security Council.
Consequently, Craft and Dan...
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January 26, 2020 at 7:46 pm
Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American woman jailed for 7.5 years in Russia on drug-related charges, formally appealed for presidential pardon, NEWSru.co.il reported Sunday.
The news portal cites a statement from her advocates as saying that after a consultation on a recent statement from the Kremlin saying that Naama cannot get pardoned unless she personally appeals for it.
Naama has decided to do so, the statement reads, and filed the appeal under the established procedure through the administration of the prison she is being held in.
“Naama, her family and her defenders are hoping that, in line with his constitutional powers, the Russian president will soon make the decision to pardon and release her,” the statement says.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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January 26, 2020 at 7:41 pm
A new documentary, “Auschwitz Untold: In Color,” takes viewers for a chilling new look at the largest Nazi extermination camp, where over a million Jews would eventually meet their deaths.
Of the footage used, director, David Shulman says he had film documentation from Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Bergen and Belsen, among others, that mostly came “from the period of liberation and that period immediately around the liberation.”
But a rare source of material derived from “a very unique album generally called the Auschwitz album” is where Shulman found the most compelling documentation.
“It was an album of 193 photographs that were discovered by chance by a Holocaust survivor after she was liberated. This album is the only known record to exist of image...
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January 26, 2020 at 4:56 pm
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister is calling for strengthened efforts against anti-Semitism to ward off the possibility that many Jews decide to leave the country.
Heiko Maas said in an article Sunday for the weekly Der Spiegel that German politicians must do more “but there is one thing they can’t do: replace solidarity in everyday life.”
Maas’ comments came a day before the 75th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp and at a time of rising concern in Germany and elsewhere in Europe about anti-Semitism.
In October, a man tried to force his way into a synagogue in Halle on Judaism’s holiest day, later killing two passers-by before being arrested. The suspect posted an anti-Jewish screed before the a...
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January 26, 2020 at 4:52 pm
President Donald Trump and White House officials are looking for at least one Senate Democrat to vote against removing the president from office at the end of his impeachment trial, and they see Joe Manchin III, W.Va., as the most likely candidate.
Trump took particular pride that three House Democrats voted against his impeachment, White House officials said, and he would like to be able to get at least one Senate Democrat to vote for his acquittal so he can claim the decision was bipartisan.
Manchin has sided with Trump on tough votes before, such as the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But voting to acquit the president would be an even more politically charged decision, one that could help him maintain his reputation as a moderate back home but would probably ma...
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January 26, 2020 at 4:49 pm
The Israeli military has been placed on alert in anticipation of the release of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, currently scheduled for Tuesday.
The Israel Defense Forces Central Command has already deployed six battalions to Judea and Samaria, according to an Army Radio report on Sunday, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi cancelled a symposium on operational and combat systems upgrades which was to have been attended by all IDF brigadier-generals.
Combat battalions have been attached to every regional brigade and are ready to activate within hours, to prevent attacks, fend off violent riots and protect Jewish communities, according to the report.
Meanwhile on Sunday, the IDF struck Hamas several targets in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for a slew o...
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January 26, 2020 at 4:27 pm
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that it will now allow Israelis to travel to Saudi Arabia for religious or business visits.
The announcement is the latest sign of quiet but warming relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. It also came days before the White House is to announce its Mideast peace plan — which is expected to seek Saudi support.
Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have formal diplomatic relations. But the two sides have found common ground in their shared animosity toward Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu frequently boasts of back channel relations with Arab countries that do not have formal ties with the Jewish state. Israel has peace deals with only two Arab countries — Egypt and Jordan.
Under Sunday’s annou...
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January 26, 2020 at 4:22 pm
WASHINGTON (VINnews) — After accusations have been swirling for quite some time that Rep. Ilhan Omar legally married her brother in order for him to obtain a green card, the FBI has now opened an investogation into the matter, according to a report by The Post.
According to a source with knowledge of the event, two FBI agents held a meeting for several hours with an individual who handed over a trove of documents relating to Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.
At this meeting, the agents discussed the allegation that Omar married Elmi, a British citizen who is suspected of being her brother, in order for him to obtain a green card and study in America.
While the agents would not commit to launching an official investigation into Omar, they did say they would share t...
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January 26, 2020 at 4:18 pm
Senator Bernie Sanders has jumped to the lead in Iowa over Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden, while support for Elizabeth Warren has slipped, according to a New York Times/Siena poll released on Saturday.
Sanders had the support of 25% of likely caucus-goers, up six points since the previous version of the survey in late October — chiefly at the expense of fellow progressive Warren.
He’s pulled ahead of former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Buttigieg at 18% and former Vice President Biden at 17%. Warren was at 15%, down from 22% in October, and Senator Amy Klobuchar was at 8%, days after the two U.S. Senators received a joint endorsement from the newspaper.
Even with Sanders in the lead, the poll showed that 55% of those surveyed preferred a Democratic standard-bearer who is “m...
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January 26, 2020 at 4:17 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Friday commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, formally declaring a “National Day of Remembrance of the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz.”
“Driven by virulent hatred and unspeakable cruelty, the Nazis implemented a systematic and methodical plan to exterminate the Jewish people and others they deemed undesirable. Two out of three Jews in Europe and millions of other people were murdered. They were sent to ghettos, concentration camps and death camps where they were persecuted, imprisoned, starved, tortured and executed. It is simply unthinkable that such barbarity occurred just 75 years ago,” it states.
The proclamation goes on to...
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January 26, 2020 at 4:13 pm
Chinese health authorities are extending the holidays and deploying more than a thousand doctors and military personnel to the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak as the number of infections skyrocket and desperation grips the quarantined province of Hubei, where more than 50 million people are stranded with a severe shortage of medical supplies.
The United States, meanwhile, announced a third case of the coronavirus – a Chinese traveler from Wuhan who took ill in Orange County, California. Authorities say he is under care in isolation and the “risk of local transmission is low.”
In China, however, the rate of infection has been increasing daily, with a 50 percent jump in cases on Sunday, and local authorities expect a similar leap on Monday.
The national health comm...
