Hope Hicks, formerly President Donald Trump's most trusted and longest serving aide, is expected to return to the administration in the coming weeks, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Hicks, who departed in early 2018, will return in the coming weeks as a senior adviser reporting to Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law. Her official title will be counselor to the president. Since her departure, she has served as the head of communications for the Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, among other entities owned by Rupert Murdoch. Hicks served as Trump's closest adviser, following the president from the campaign to the White House. She ended her tenure as the White House communications director in March 2018 while Special Counsel Robert Mueller...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says decision by UN Human Rights Commissioner to publish list of 112 companies shows 'unrelenting bias.' US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned the decision yesterday by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to publish a list of 112 companies which do business in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. "It is outrageous that the @UNHumanRights Commissioner @mbachelet would release the database of companies operating in Israeli-controlled territories. Its publication confirms the unrelenting anti-#Israel bias so prevalent at the @UN," Pompeo tweeted Thursday. "The U.S. has not and will never provide any information to support the compilation of these lists. We call on @UN member states to join us in rejecting t...
LAS VEGAS (JNS) — A former security guard pleaded guilty on Monday for possessing bomb-making components in an attempt to kill people at a Las Vegas synagogue and of drawing up plans to attack a bar catering to LGBTQ customers. Conor Climo, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of an unregistered firearm—specifically, the component parts of a destructive device, announced federal authorities. He is scheduled to be sentenced on May 14 and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nevada said in a statement. “Law enforcement’s swift action on this case, and today’s resulting guilty plea, is part of DOJ’s national strategy to disrupt and proactively stop potential bias-motivated mass violence,” ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next month, appearing for the first time before the panel as questions swirl about whether he intervened in the case of a longtime ally of President Donald Trump. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., released a letter Wednesday to Barr “to confirm your agreement to testify” on March 31. In the letter, Nadler and committee Democrats write that they have concerns that Barr has misused the criminal justice system for political purposes. “In your tenure as attorney general, you have engaged in a pattern of conduct in legal matters relating to the president that raises significant concerns for this committee,” Nadler and the Democrats w...
NEW ORLEANS (AP-PR Newswires) – Officials with the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE) announced the new museum will open in fall 2020 in New Orleans. Exhibits will explore the ways Jews in the American South influenced and were influenced by their communities, covering 13 states and more than 300 years of history – including Colonial, Civil War, World War II and the Civil Rights Movement. “This will be the only museum in the country to focus exclusively on the history and culture of Jews across the South,” said Jay Tanenbaum, museum chairman. ...
NEW YORK (A) – An alternative meaning for a controversial anti-Semitic epithet often used by fans of English soccer club Tottenham has been included in a list of new entries in a leading dictionary of British English. The definitions of the words “yid” and “yiddo” — derogatory terms for Jews — have been updated in the Oxford English Dictionary to include “a supporter of or player for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.” With concern from Tottenham and Jewish community leaders that the definition was misleading and the words’ offensive meaning had not been highlighted, the dictionary included further context. “Originally and frequently derogatory and offensive, though also often as a self-designation,” the OED added in ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. Education Department is investigating foreign gifts made to Harvard and Yale as part of a broader review of international money flowing to American universities, officials said. The department said Wednesday it is reviewing whether the Ivy League schools potentially failed to report hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts and donations from countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran and China. The department previously opened investigations at Georgetown University and Texas A&M as part of a campaign to scrutinize foreign funding and to improve reporting by universities. “Unfortunately, the more we dig, the more we find that too many are underreporting or not reporting at all. We will continue to hold colleges and universities accountabl...
Nir Gilad, a young Israeli who had recently returned to Judaism, decided to go on a cruise with the “Diamond Princess”, a luxury liner. Gilad requested that the company provide him with special kosher meals and the company agreed to accede to his request. However when Gilad arrived at the ship, he was shocked to discover that the kosher meals had not been ordered. Gilad decided immediately not to ascend onto the ship even though it entailed considerable financial loss. Gilad was upset to miss out on the cruise but after a week he heard that the corona virus had broken out on the ship and it was stranded near Japan with no country allowing the ship entry. At present the liner has 175 diagnosed cases of corona virus, making it the worst outbreak of the virus outside mainland Ch...
A Minnesota congresswoman has called AIPAC a “hate group” inciting against her after the Israel lobby featured her in an attack ad, JTA reports. “AIPAC claims to be a bipartisan organization, but its use of hate speech actually makes it a hate group,” US Rep. Betty McCollum, a Democrat, said in a statement on Wednesday. “By weaponizing anti-Semitism and hate to silence debate, AIPAC is taunting Democrats and mocking our core values,” she charged. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee declined to comment. The lobby removed and apologized last week for at least two Facebook ads that slammed “radical” Democrats in Congress, and altered an online petition that said Israel’s harshest critics in Congress pose a threat “maybe m...
Rep. Eric Swalwell told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday that House Democrats could seek to impeach President Donald Trump again in the near future after he tweeted about the harsh sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone. “Might you impeach him over this, over Roger Stone and the sentencing?” Tapper asked. “We’re not going to take our options off table,” Swalwell responded. “We don’t wake up in the morning wanting to impeach him. We want to work with him on prescription drugs, background checks and infrastructure. But we’re not going to let him just torch this democracy because he thinks that he’s been let off once and we’re not going to do something about it.” Read more at The Daily Wire.
President Trump addresses sentencing of Roger Stone while speaking with the press at the White House.
“If Abbas was truly interested in peace, he wouldn’t be here, he would be in Jerusalem,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told the UN Security Council on Tuesday, reports Lahav Harkov for the JPost.  “Complaining instead of action – that is not leadership. Abbas says he wants sovereignty for the Palestinian people, but he has done everything to avoid it.” Danon praised the U.S. approach for not “accept[ing] out-of-date concepts…[and] a formula that has failed for over 70 years….Abbas refuses to be pragmatic [and] refuses to negotiate….Only when he steps down can Israel and the Palestinians step forward. He will never be a partner for real peace.” Earlier, Danon said, “The Palestinian people de...
The US lawmakers across the political spectrum rejected the UN report blacklisting 112 Israeli companies over ties with West Bank settlements. On Wednesday, hours after the release of the document by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chief Jim Risch, a Republican from Idaho, issued a statement condemning the report as “unacceptable”. “This action is only further evidence that the OHCHR, which is supposed to be the lead human rights office in the United Nations, is overly politicized and focusing a disproportionate amount of time and resources on Israel,” he said, urging the body to look at real crises instead, such as the fighting in Syria. The House Committee for Foreign Affairs struck a similar tone, ...
A woman in her 80s has become the first person with the new coronavirus to die in Japan, the country’s health minister said Thursday, cautioning it was not clear if the virus caused her death. “The relationship between the new coronavirus and the death of the person is still unclear,” Katsunobu Kato said at a late-night briefing, adding that “this is the first death of a person who tested positive.” According to reports in the Japanese media, the virus was only identified after the patient’s death. The victim was not from the cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo. This makes the third death from the COVID-19 virus, first found in the Chinese city of Wuhan, outside mainland China, with the other two deaths happening in Hong Kong and the Philippines. Read...
An Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason had spotted a string of cyberattacks targeting Palestinian Authority officials over the past few months, Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. According to the company, as cited by the newspaper, the attacks were conducted by Hamas-affiliated hackers, with the modus operadi said to be similar to the hacks against Israelis. The attackers reportedly tried to gain unauthorized access to the victims’ mobile phones in order to monitor their communications and snoop on them using the phone’s camera and microphone. Read more at i24NEWS.
Nearly 15,000 cases of the deadly coronavirus were reported in one Chinese province on Thursday — a jump officials in the country said was linked to how they’re diagnosing new cases, a report said. The 14,840 new cases in the Hubei Province were recorded because officials stopped using kits to diagnose patients and instead began counting patients who have been screened and identified by doctors, The New York Times reported. In addition to the new cases, 242 new deaths were also reported in the province on Thursday local time, according to the report. Read more at NY POST.
New Hampshire and Iowa have voted, boosting Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg to the top of the delegate race in the Democratic primary. But the race is far from settled, and we are weeks away from more than a dozen states chiming in. Here are eight questions we have about the race going forward. 1. How does the Democratic establishment respond to Sanders? He won New Hampshire – though not with nearly as strong support as he had in 2016. He narrowly missed out on winning the most delegates in Iowa. It’s still early, and these early nominating states are suited for Sanders’s strengths – but it’s time for the Democratic establishment, which was already nervous about Sanders’sability to beat President Donald ...
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 13,  2020 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Rena & Moshe Meystel  on the birth of a son. Mazel Tov grandparents Linda & Michael Elman יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
Officers from Baltimore County and Baltimore City were injured serving a warrant in northeast Baltimore, according to police. BALTIMORE, MD — Police said three people were shot, one fatally, when authorities tried to serve a warrant in northeast Baltimore Wednesday. Two officers were injured, and the suspect was killed, according to authorities. One of the victims was a Baltimore County police officer, while the other was a member of the Baltimore Police Department. Both were taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center for treatment. They had been serving on a joint task force, according to officials. Police said the task force was attempting to serve a felony arrest warrant around noon in the 5900 block of Radecke Avenue, and when officers confronted the suspect, sh...
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