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February 17, 2020 at 4:05 pm
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's push to ban the sale of assault weapons has failed after members of his own party balked at the proposal
RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's push to ban the sale of assault weapons failed on Monday after some of his fellow Democrats balked at the proposal.
Senators voted to shelve the bill for the year and ask the state crime commission to study the issue, an outcome that drew cheers from a committee room packed with gun advocates.
Four moderate Democrats joined Republicans in Monday's committee vote, rejecting legislation that would have prohibited the sale of certain semiautomatic firearms, including popular AR-15 style rifles, and banned the possession of magazines that hold more than 12 rounds.
The bill was a top priority ...
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February 17, 2020 at 4:01 pm
MARYLAND — In 2019, there were 53 incidents of extremism and anti-Semitism in Maryland, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The figure for 2019 decreased from the 74 incidents reported in our state during 2018.
The occurrences in Maryland were among the 4,015 examples of extremist and anti-Semitic incidents that happened nationwide in 2019. The figure reported for 2019 is up almost 32 percent from the 3,052 incidents reported in 2018, according to the ADL.
Here is a sampling of the incidents in Maryland that the non-governmental organization included in its registry:
Anti-Semitic Incident - Vandalism: November 2019
Location: Bethesda
Description: A student at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School discovered swastika graffiti in a bathroom at the school.
Anti-Semitic Inciden...
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February 17, 2020 at 3:57 pm
Militia branch of Iranian Revolutionary Guard tried to raid historic site Sunday as revenge for Trump’s Deal of the Century.
The Iranian branch of the Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM) organization yesterday reported that the Iranian government is threatening to demolish the Tomb of Mordechai and Esther located in the city of Hamadan, reported Breaking Israel News' Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz.
The Iranian government plans to turn ...
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February 17, 2020 at 3:51 pm
A new Channel 13 poll conducted by Prof. Camille Fox revealed that if the elections were held today, the Blue and White Party would win 36 seats and the Likud would win 33.
According to the survey, the Joint Arab List would receive 14 seats, the Labor-Gesher-Meretz list would receive eight seats, and Yisrael Beyteinu would receive eight seats.
The Yamina, Shas, and United Torah Judaism parties would receive seven seats each.
The Otzma Yehudit party would fail to clear the electoral threshold to enter the Knesset.
The poll found the right-wing and haredi bloc falling to 54 seats while the left-wing bloc and the Arab parties would strengthen to a combined 58 seats. Neither side would be able to form a coalition without Yisrael Beyteinu.
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February 17, 2020 at 3:37 pm
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar will be forced to go into quarantine after he returns from a visit abroad to Singapore this week.
The precautionary requirement by Israeli health authorities is being taken in the light of the coronavirus which is rapidly becoming a world epidemic after it initially emerged in the Wuhan region in China, where tens of thousands of people have contracted the contagious virus.
Rabbi Amar is visiting Singapore to supervise the opening of the new Jewish cemetery there. Singapore is on the list of nations named by Israel’s Health Ministry as high-risk locations from which travelers must enter a 14-day mandatory quarantine upon their return to Israel.
When Rabbi Amar returns to the country, he will be required to maintai...
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February 17, 2020 at 3:29 pm
Delineating the various religious manuals delivered at Har Sinai, the Torah mentions the luchot or tablets containing the Ten Commandments, and a Sefer Torah containing the word of God and His 613 commandments. After listing these two Divine ‘compilations’ the pasuk includes a redundant phrase: “asher katavti” – which literally means these works were crafted by God. Obviously, both the luchot and the Torah were authored by God; why does the Torah stress this Divine authorship? Rabbi Meir of Dvinsk a late 19th century Rabbi otherwise known as the Meshech Chochmah (the name of his commentary on the Torah) claims that this extra clause alludes to a SEPARATE “book” which was delivered at Har Sinai. In addition to the Torah and the tablets God delivered...
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February 17, 2020 at 3:09 pm
QUEENS (VINnews) — An off-duty NYPD detective hanged himself at his mother’s house in Queens on Monday.
The detective had many years on the job, according to a report by the post.
The detective’s name was not immediately released, as the family had not yet been notified.
According to a source close to the incident, the detective was recently placed on modified duty and his guns were confiscated.
“Nobody seems to know why,” the source said.
The detective did not leave a note behind.
The tragic incident comes amid a wave of police suicides that shook the NYPD over last year. This incident marks the first, and hopefully last, of 2020.
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February 17, 2020 at 3:05 pm
Gov. Larry Hogan announced Monday Richard P. Henry has been appointed as Maryland's first inspector general of education.
Henry currently is the executive director of the Maryland State Department of Education's Office of Compliance and Monitoring and has over 30 years of law enforcement experience at the federal level, according to Hogan.
"For five years, our administration has been working hard to root out corruption, wrongdoing, and the mismanagement of state tax dollars by local school systems," Hogan said in a released statement. "With the appointment of the first Inspector General for Education in state history, we are reaffirming our commitment to providing more accountability for parents, teachers, and taxpayers and better results for our children. Henry has the experie...
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February 17, 2020 at 2:56 pm
Rev. Al Sharpton’s former campaign still owes over $900,000 more than 15 years after his failed 2004 presidential run. The reverend was defeated by former Secretary of State John Kerry for the Democratic nomination.
“I have asked Andrew Rivera, the finance chair of my 2004 campaign, to set up a meeting with the Federal Election Commission so that I can resolve any campaign debts related to Sharpton 2004,” Sharpton told the New York Post over the weekend. “I am willing to work out a settlement for all claims with my own money to the degree that I’m allowed and will raise money directly.”
He added, “Even if I am not legally liable for it, I am certainly morally responsible.”
Read more at WASHINGTON EXAMINER.
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February 17, 2020 at 2:55 pm
Joe Biden insisted his son Hunter is a good person who does not deserve the attacks President Trump has made toward him.
“My son’s a brilliant, honorable guy who — who feels so guilty for being put in this spot — that he put me in this spot,” the former vice president said Sunday in an interview with NBC. Host Chuck Todd described the attacks on Hunter by the president as “cruelty.”
Trump has slammed the 2020 Democrat’s son for taking a position on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma while his father was still vice president. The president also faced impeachment over his calls for Ukraine to investigation the Bidens but was later acquitted. The younger Biden admitted in an interview last fall that he had displayed “poor jud...
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February 17, 2020 at 2:52 pm
Israeli Kibbutz Afikim and private equity firm Fortissimo Capital are nearing the completion of a deal that will see them sell 50% of jointly held company computerized dairy farm management company Afimilk, incorporated as Afikim, to New Zealand-based LIC Livestock Improvement International for $70 million, two people familiar with the matter who spoke to Calcalist about the deal on condition of anonymity said. Calcalist first reported on the negotiations in May.
LIC has been approached for comment and has yet to respond.
Fortissimo will sell its entire stake, 30.5%, while the kibbutz, which holds the remaining 69.5%, is set to sell 19.5%, leaving the kibbutz and LIC with an equal stake, the people said. LIC, however, will be given the option to increase its stake and acquire control of ...
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February 17, 2020 at 1:30 pm
During Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech at a Likud election rally in Netanya on Saturday night, a woman attacked the Prime Minister and threw an apple at him.
Speaking on Sunday in an interview on Channel 12 News, the woman, Brinish Zehava Beck, criticized Netanyahu and said she “thinks that this country is led by a man who is very detached from the land we live in.”
“I was at the conference and I was shocked, it was my first time at a conference of people who are supposed to lead us and set us a personal example. All they did there was a campaign of incitement,” Beck said.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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February 17, 2020 at 1:22 pm
An Israeli child on Sunday found an explosive device attached to a balloon in the yard of her home in Moshav Shuva in southern Israel, according to the Israeli military.
The device is believed to have been launched from the Gaza Strip some three miles to the west, one of hundreds of such devices launched from the Hamas-controlled territory since 2018, often designed colorfully or attached to toys, specifically to attract the attention of children.
Hundreds of incendiary devices were launched into Israel in the dry summer months of 2019, causing dozens of fires which laid waste to thousands of acres of land, including national parks and agricultural lands.
Recent weeks have seen an uptick in “terror balloon” attacks, though Israeli media reported that Hamas had agreed to halt...
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February 17, 2020 at 1:22 pm
The United Arab Emirates became the first Arab nation to issue an operating licence for a reactor at a nuclear power plant, the country announced on Monday, hailing a “historic moment”.
Hamad al-Kaabi, the UAE representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the country’s national nuclear regulator “approved the issuance” of the operating licence for the first of four reactors at the Barakah plant.
“This milestone was achieved due to the UAE’s vision and its leadership to build a peaceful nuclear energy program to cater for the future needs of energy in the country,” he said.
Abu Dhabi Crownprince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed, the UAE ruler, welcomed the development, hailing a new chapter in the country’s nuclear program.
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February 17, 2020 at 1:21 pm
A New York City man who’s now been arrested 139 times thanked Democrats for guaranteeing his immediate release despite repeatedly swiping hundreds of dollars from unsuspecting subway commuters since the state’s new bail reform law went into effect Jan. 1.
Charles Barry, 56, has been arrested six times since the start of this year. He’s been released each time without having to post bail under New York’s new bail reform law since his alleged offenses were nonviolent, the New York Daily News reported. In the past, Barry’s served several stints in state prison and has a lengthy record, including six felonies, 87 misdemeanors and 21 missed court hearings, the newspaper reported, citing court records.
“Bail reform, it’s lit!” Barry yelled to rep...
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February 17, 2020 at 1:16 pm
Sanad al-Turman, a Palestinian resident of eastern Jerusalem who plowed his car into a group of Israeli soldiers on their way to a ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem earlier this month, wounding 12, uploaded a video of himself reciting a poem prior to the attack calling for the murder of Israelis.
The poem, uncovered by Israeli media watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch, includes quotations from the Quran, and the phrases “tear the gangs of invaders into pieces” and “let them taste instant death”:
“Stand proud and tall like the minarets / Send your bullets like the ‘stones of hard clay’ [Quran, Sura 105:4] / Tear the gangs of invaders into pieces, and let them taste instant death, by [angel] Gabriel / Burn the tyrants’ corpses and ...
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February 17, 2020 at 9:47 am
Ron Cobi, The Anti-Chareidi Mayor of Tverya was officially ousted from his position as mayor. The Committee appointed by the Interior Ministry will continue its work in the city.Just last year after Ron Cobe was elected and began his Anti Chareidi “leadership” in the city, the Sar HaTorah Hagaon Reb Chaim Kanievsky Shlit’a gave A Bracha that Ron Cobe should have a big (‘Mapala’) downfall, and today it finally happened. ...
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February 17, 2020 at 9:29 am
Israeli lawmaker Nir Barkat, who has been tapped to run the country’s Finance Ministry if incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wins next month’s general election, spoke to i24NEWS at its Tel Aviv studio to discuss Israel’s most pressing issues, including the Trump administration’s so-called “Deal of the Century,” Israel’s upcoming election, and his vision for the country’s economy.
Read more at i24NEWS.
