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April 7, 2021 at 9:48 pm
Jordan's King Abdullah II said Wednesday that a sedition attempt has been quashed and that he has mended his relationship with his half-brother, who the government had accused of spearheading a plot against the country’s leaders.
Abdullah made his first public remarks on the internecine feud in a letter to the public Wednesday, maintaining that the Mideast nation is secure.
“I speak to you today, my family and my tribe, in whom I place my implicit trust, and from whom I draw determination, to assure you that the sedition has been nipped in the bud, and that our proud Jordan is safe and stable,” he wrote in the English version of the letter.
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April 7, 2021 at 9:43 pm
Iranian authorities admitted Wednesday that the Islamic Republic has manufactured 55 kg of uranium enriched to up to 20 percent – the point at which it is highly enriched – indicating quicker production than the 10 kg a month rate required by an Iranian law that created the process in January, reported Reuters.
The update came a day after Tehran and Washington held what they described as “constructive” indirect talks in the Austrian capital, Vienna, in an attempt to find a path back to the 2015 Nuclear Deal between the Islamic Republic and world powers.
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April 7, 2021 at 9:39 pm
Vice President Harris moved into her official residence at the Naval Observatory Tuesday evening after an initial delay due to repairs.
“What a historic moment. The first time in our nation’s history, a daughter of immigrants, Kamala Devi Harris takes Marine 2 for the first time to her new home, the Vice President’s Residence,” Opal Vadhan, an aide to Harris, tweeted after the vice president returned from a trip to Chicago.
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Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff had previously been living at the Blair House for the past...
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April 7, 2021 at 9:38 pm
A Missouri man who used the cryptocurrency bitcoin to try to buy a highly lethal chemical weapon that could kill 300 people told the would-be seller, “I plan to use it soon,” federal authorities said Tuesday.
Writings found in the Columbia home of the man, Jason William Siesser, “articulated Siesser’s heartache, anger and resentment over a breakup, and a desire for the person who caused the heartache to die,” the Justice Department said in a press release.
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Siesser, 46, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday after ple...
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April 7, 2021 at 9:36 pm
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, the US military’s elite language school in Monterey, California, has dropped Hebrew from its roster of languages due to low demand.
Natela Cutter, a spokeswoman for the institute, said Tuesday that the current class underway would be the last in Monterey, but the language would still be available through contractors in the Washington DC area, a system used for languages that have been removed from the Monterey curricula in recent years.
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She said the last time the school cut languages, in 2016, five...
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April 7, 2021 at 9:31 pm
Israel and Russia on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on internal security matters.
The agreement covers cooperation in fighting violent and financial crime, terror and terror financing, weapons trafficking and other fields, according to Public Security Minister Amir Ohana.
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“This is a significant diplomatic achievement that will lead to increased personal security for the citizens of both Israel and Russia, and will strengthen ties between the countries,” Ohana said in a statement.
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April 7, 2021 at 9:15 pm
President Biden will announce gun control measures on Thursday that an administration official described as an initial set of actions aimed at addressing all forms of gun violence.
The president will detail several initiatives to be achieved through a mix of executive and legislative action, the official told reporters.
Biden will call on the Department of Justice to issue proposed rules to stop the proliferation of so-called "ghost guns" within 30 days. Ghost guns refer to kits that allow the recipient to assemble the firearm using provided parts. These guns do not have commercial serial numbers and are difficult to track.
The Justice Department will be given 60 days to issue a separate rule on stabilizing braces, which can turn a pistol into a more accurate weapon that fires like...
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April 7, 2021 at 8:41 pm
CORRECTION: Baltimore, MD - Apr. 7, 2021 - A new red light camera was not installed at the corner of Park Heights and Strathmore yesterday, where there are 2 traffic lights in succession near Bnos Yisroel but, an Inductive Loop Detector, has been.What does an Incutive Loop Detector do? Once a vehicle is detected by the loops, the traffic light system is signaled that there is someone waiting to proceed. The lights for the cross traffic will then begin to change after a safe time period before the light turns green for you.###Baltimore, MD – Apr. 6, 2021 – A new red light camera was installed today at the corner of Park Heights and Strathmore where there are 2 traffic lights in succession near Bnos Yisr...
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April 7, 2021 at 6:19 pm
One in three people who overcome COVID-19 suffer from a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis six months on, according to the largest study so far published on the mental toll that long COVID takes on survivors.
Authors said the research, printed Wednesday in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, proved that COVID-19 patients were significantly more likely to develop brain conditions than those suffering from other respiratory tract infections.
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Studying the health records of more than 230,000 patients who had recovered from COVID-19, they found that 34 percent were ...
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April 7, 2021 at 4:02 pm
Nahariya - On Tuesday night, United Hatzalah together in partnership with the Galilee Medical Center, security forces, and the Municipality of Nahariya, held a joint training exercise on the beach promenade in the southern part of the city. The purpose of the exercise was to train the first responders from all partnering organizations and the medical staff from the Hospital in responding to an imagined terror attack resulting in a mass-casualty incident on the promenade.
Dozens of EMTs and paramedics, as well as members of United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit, participated in the surprise drill and provided medical care for the 30 plus people who were pretending to be injured in the incident. The scenario which was chosen was a marine infiltration by terrorists in...
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April 7, 2021 at 3:55 pm
When the proposed New York State Executive Budget was released in late January, things did not look good for the nonpublic schools as represented by Agudath Israel and its coalition partners. The economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the state's fiscal equilibrium, with multi-billion-dollar deficits anticipated. Virtually every funding stream available to yeshivas and other nonpublic schools was facing cuts from previous year's levels.
More ominous, though, was proposed language that threatened the very existence of Mandated Services Aid (MSA). The MSA program, originally promoted by the legendary Agudah leader Rabbi Moshe Sherer z”l, is the largest single source of funding for non-public schools in New York. Originally enacted in 1974, it cent...
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April 7, 2021 at 3:51 pm
President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin spoke this evening, Wednesday 7 April / 25 Nissan, at the official ceremony opening Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, at Yad Vashem. This year, the central theme of the ceremony was “Until the Very Last Jew: Eighty Years Since the Onset of Mass Annihilation”. As is customary, six Holocaust survivors lit torches in memory of the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust.
President Rivlin’s remarks in full:
“Elizabeta Guttmann, born in Hungary, was a young girl when the Second World War broke out. In 1943, Elizabeta, together with her sisters and parents, was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her parents and three little sisters were killed in the camp. Elizabeta clung on to her life and survive...
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April 7, 2021 at 3:46 pm
In categorizing kosher animals and fish, the Torah delineates the characteristics that make an animal or fish kosher. Does it chew its cud and have split hooves? Does it have fins and scales? So long as an animal or fish fits the criteria, it is considered kosher. The Torah does not list the names of specific animals or fish that “made the cut”, just the criteria. However, when it comes to birds, the Torah takes a very different approach.
Rather than list the avian characteristics that render a bird either kosher or non-kosher, the Torah lists twenty non-kosher species leaving every other species, by not being listed, to be considered kosher.
Among these twenty non-kosher species listed in Parashat Shemini, are the tinshemet, the ke’a...
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April 7, 2021 at 3:43 pm
Are you entering the work force? Are you trying to update your business and professional skills? Are you trying to increase your capabilities? You can go to a regular college program, but that will take you four years. Instead, choose Agudah’s COPE division Junior Accounting Course, now available both in person, and remotely through Zoom.
COPE’s three-and-a-half months long intensive junior accounting course is custom designed for individuals with little or no experience in business or accounting. Students will thoroughly learn the accounting cycle as well as accounting for all types of business.
Classes are taught by a staff of instructors who are hand-picked for their real-world experience and dedication to helping students learn. In addition, this cours...
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April 7, 2021 at 1:37 pm
Nearly half of the nation’s new COVID-19 cases are concentrated in just five states — including New York, which had the highest number of new infections across the country last week, data show.
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Together, New York, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey accounted for 44 percent of all new infections between March 29 and April 4 with about 197,500 cases out of around 452,000 seen nationwide, data from John Hopkins University show.
Read more at NY Post.
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April 7, 2021 at 1:31 pm
An Orthodox Jewish couple sued two New York City agencies that supervise affordable housing lotteries Tuesday, saying their family of eight faced religious discrimination when they were repeatedly rejected because of their family’s size.
In the Manhattan federal court lawsuit, Chaim Katz and Chana Katz maintain they faced discrimination from two affordable housing lotteries when they applied for a three-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 2017.
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Their lawyer, Justin Kelton, said they were repeatedly rejected on the basis that the tw...
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April 7, 2021 at 1:20 pm
The Biden administration has distributed more than 150 million stimulus checks as of Wednesday from the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill.
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have sent out roughly 156 million payments to people, totaling roughly $372 billion, according to the Treasury Department.
The majority of these latest payments went to Social Security recipients and beneficiaries, providing a cash infusion more than a year into the pandemic.
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During the transition, Biden aides said the president’s chief goals for his first...
