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December 7, 2022 at 12:11 pm
Members of the 'Citizens of the Reich' movement were arrested in 11 German federal states, Austria and Italy
German police launched nationwide raids on Wednesday and made 25 arrests against members of a far-right "terror group" suspected of planning an attack on parliament, federal prosecutors said.
Individuals belonging to the "Citizens of the Reich" (Reichsbuerger) movement, who refuse to recognize modern Germany state and are in favor of the German 1871 Reich. Twenty two of those detained were German citizens. They are suspected of "having made concrete preparations to violently force their way into the German parliament with a small armed group," prosecutors said in a statement.
More than 3,000 officers including anti-terror units took part in the early m...
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December 7, 2022 at 12:06 pm
Former President Trump’s legal team hired an outside group to search at least two of his properties for any remaining classified documents, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Trump Tower in New York and the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., were both searched in recent weeks, after a federal judge asked the former president’s lawyers to ensure that they fully complied with a May subpoena, according to the Post.
The outside group reportedly did not find any additional classified documents at the two residences, the Post reported.
A grand jury issued a subpoena to Trump in May requesting that he turn over any classified materials in his possession, after the National Archives and Records Administration discovered classified documents a...
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December 7, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs said on Tuesday he would challenge House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for speaker on the floor of the House in January.
Biggs, who has served three terms in Congress, had previously challenged McCarthy in the vote to determine the Republican candidate for speaker. He was soundly defeated 188 to 31.
He wrote in an op-ed in the Daily Caller on Tuesday that he was opposed to McCarthy becoming the next speaker.
“We cannot let this all too rare opportunity to effectuate structural change pass us by because it is uncomfortable to challenge the Republican candidate who is a creature of the establishment status quo, or because the challenge is accompanied by some minimal risk," Biggs wrote.
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December 7, 2022 at 11:57 am
Lee Zeldin, the Republican Jewish congressman who mounted a stronger-than-expected but failed bid to be New York’s governor, says he has decided not to run to be the chairman of the Republican National Committee.
But in a sign that he expects to have continued influence despite exiting Congress, Zeldin, who has been the top-ranked Jewish Republican in the country, this week joined the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
That means he will play a key role in animating political giving by Republican Jews at a time when the future of the Republican Party is under contention. Zeldin, a Long Island Republican whose strong showing in New York is credited with flipping four formerly Democratic congressional seats there, issued a blistering statement on Wednesday morning accusing the...
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December 7, 2022 at 11:55 am
A sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according to a letter published by her France-based son.
Iran has been gripped by unrest since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in police custody on Sept 16., and is facing a three-day general strike movement which started on Monday.
Badri Hosseini Khamenei, who lives in Iran and is the sister of Ayatollah Khamenei, criticized the clerical establishment starting from the time of the Islamic Republic's late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to her brother's rule, the letter, dated "December 2022", said.
"I think it is appropriate now to declare that I oppose my...
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December 7, 2022 at 11:55 am
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy was named TIME’s 2022 Person of the Year on Wednesday for his “success as a wartime leader has relied on the fact that courage is contagious.”
Zelenskyy was given the award along with the “Spirit of Ukraine” to mark the country’s defiance against Russia’s invasion.
"Zelenskyy's success as a wartime leader has relied on the fact that courage is contagious," TIME explained, referring to his refusal to leave Kyiv as it was under attack from Moscow. The act inspired Ukrainians to stand up to Russian aggression and gave him a reputation as a heroic figure.
"It spread through Ukraine's political leadership in the first days of the invasion, as everyone realized the President had stuck around," TIME said...
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December 6, 2022 at 11:48 pm
Governor-Elect Moore highlights partnership with Councilman Schleifer
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 6, 2022 - Tonight’s Annual Reception in honor of Councilman Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer was jam packed with political star power. The brightest star in the room however, was Maryland’s biggest political star, Governor-Elect Wes Moore. Not only was it impressive for the Governor-Elect to choose Councilman Schleifer’s event as his very first post-election appearance in our community, but it was his respect and endorsement of Councilman Schleifer that truly resonated with the large crowd of enthusiastic supporters.
Governor-Elect Moore thanked the Councilman, and stated it was an “honor to stand here in partnership with someone I know I will need, lean on and ...
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December 6, 2022 at 11:31 pm
As previously reported here, Baltimore native Chaya Fried (nee Kronglas) and her husband, Dov, have been actively advocating to protect the Snipiskes Cemetery of Vilna, where 50,000 orthodox Jews were buried between the 1400s and 1831, including the Vilna Gaon. Their battle was against efforts to turn the cemetery into a source of business revenue for the local non-Jewish community, which would desecrate the graves and violate Jewish law.The efforts against the cemetery were contrary to myriad of American legislation and agreements, including a signed agreement between the U.S. and Lithuanian governments in 2002 that would provide protection for the cemetery, and the 2014 U.S. Protection of Cemeteries Act that mandates the protection of cemeteries abroad, like the Jewish cemetery in Vilna,...
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December 6, 2022 at 10:59 pm
Congress is poised to use the annual defense policy bill to eliminate the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate — a major concession by President Biden’s Democratic allies that helps clear the way to passing the sweeping package before year’s end.
In a compromise with Republicans, House Democrats are allowing language into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that repeals the coronavirus vaccine mandate for U.S. service members a year after it was enacted, House Armed Services Committee ranking member Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) confirmed to The Hill Tuesday.
The bill, which lays out how an $847 billion Defense Department top line will be allocated in fiscal 2023, is tentatively set to be released as early as Tuesday evening a...
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December 6, 2022 at 10:33 pm
Sen. Raphael Warnock defeats Herschel Walker in heated Georgia runoff, handing Democrats 51 seats
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December 6, 2022 at 4:14 pm
A New York jury on Tuesday found the Trump Organization guilty of tax fraud following a more than monthlong trial.
Jurors began deliberating on Monday and returned the guilty verdict on Tuesday afternoon, according to The Associated Press.
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December 6, 2022 at 4:10 pm
New York-based Center for Jewish History launching the DNA Reunion Project
DNA testing is helping Holocaust survivors locate long-lost loved ones.
The New York-based Center for Jewish History is launching the DNA Reunion Project, which offers free DNA kits to Jews who endured the Nazi genocide and have been searching for family members they haven't seen since World War II.
"DNA can be a miraculous tool for making connections between people when the paper trail is severed and our (Jewish) community is particularly affected by that and we put our heads together and said 'this is a technology that should be used more widely by this community because it can do miraculous things,'" Jennifer Mendelsohn, a co-founder of the project alongside Dr. Adina Newman, told i24NEWS...
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December 6, 2022 at 4:10 pm
A granddaughter was born to Rabbi Mordechai Sternberg, ZT'L, the Rosh HaYeshiva Yehsuivat Har Hamor, who was niftar yesterday at the age of 74, on the day of his funeral Tuesday.
The child was born to Ephraim and Emuna Shachor, Rabbi's Sternberg's son-in-law and daughter.
During the levayah, Rabbi Avichai Sternberg, son of Rabbi Mordechai Sternberg, gave a eulogy: "There is no substitute for a father. We were lucky to have a father and more than that - we are lucky to have a father. He was a father who was so present in the lives of his children, a grandfather who was present in the lives of his grandchildren - and that presence was not only expressed in the practical contexts - but in a personality that was present and found in each of the children and grandchildren. We w...
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December 6, 2022 at 3:55 pm
Former President Donald Trump's fired National Security Adviser John Bolton said during a televised interview Sunday he "is prepared to get into the race" for president in 2024 to stop his former boss.
"I think to be a presidential candidate you can't simply say I support the Constitution; you have to say I would oppose people who would undercut it," Bolton told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "We used to have a thing in the House of Representatives called the House Un-American Affairs Committee. I think when you challenge the Constitution itself the way Trump himself has done, that is un-American. I'm prepared to get in the race."
Bolton, who served as one of Trump's national security advisers from 2018-19 before being fired, was reacting to a Tr...
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December 6, 2022 at 3:53 pm
Boston, Massachusetts city councilors recently voted to allow residents age 16 and 17 to vote in municipal elections, WBUR reports.
Councilors voted 9-4 to pass a petition calling to lower the voting age for municipal elections, provided they meet the other preexisting criteria for casting a ballot.
"We have a lot of young people who are working — oftentimes two jobs — just to help support their families, paying taxes, and on the frontlines protesting and trying to find ways to have their voices heard. And every day we make decisions on their behalf," said Councilor Julia Mejia, one of the petition's co-sponsors.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will make the next move on the issue when the docket reaches her desk. If passed, it would move onto the state Legislature, ...
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December 6, 2022 at 3:02 pm
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 6, 2022 - More Israeli produce being sold in our markets! Citrus fruits that grew during Shemita are now being sold in Costco and other stores. Buyer beware.
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December 6, 2022 at 2:45 pm
The CEO of the American Jewish Committee, Ted Deutch, will joint a White House roundtable on combating antisemitism along with other heads of US Jewish organizations.
Deutch applauded the Biden administration for hosting the summit, which will take place on December 7.
AJC said in a statement that it has long called for such a meeting with antisemitism and other hate crimes in the US dramatically increasing in recent years.
“Antisemitism is not a problem for the Jewish community alone. Venomous hate targeting Jews threatens American society, indeed our democracy,” Deutch said. “By convening this important roundtable, the Biden administration has demonstrated that it recognizes the severity of the problem and is committed to taking additional steps, in partnership with ...
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December 6, 2022 at 2:23 pm
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol plans to recommend that the Justice Department make criminal charges tied to the assault, according to panel Chairman Bennie Thompson (D., Miss.).
Mr. Thompson, speaking to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday, said a formal decision hadn’t yet been made, and that the committee hadn’t decided on a range of details surrounding the referral, including whom it planned to refer and whether the referrals would include former President Donald Trump.
“We’ve not made a decision as to who, but we have made decisions that criminal referrals will happen,” he said.
The Jan. 6 committee met Friday to discuss the matter and review recommendations made by ...
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December 6, 2022 at 1:48 pm
Gov. Larry Hogan issued an emergency cybersecurity directive to prohibit the use of certain Chinese and Russian-influenced products and platforms, including the popular social media site TikTok.
According to a release, it states that these entities present an unacceptable level of cybersecurity risk to the state, and may be involved in activities such as cyber-espionage, surveillance of government entities, and inappropriate collection of sensitive personal information.Hogan added the following statement:
"There may be no greater threat to our personal safety and our national security than the cyber vulnerabilities that support our daily lives," said Hogan. "As the cyber capital of America, Maryland has taken bold and decisive actions to prepare for and address cybersecurity threats. To ...
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December 6, 2022 at 1:05 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - Dec. 6, 2022 - Winter is here, with much shorter cold days with less sunlight. Feeling the winter blues and feeling forgetful?
Memory expert Rena Yudkowsky of Memory Matters has provided BJL with tips to incorporate into your daily routine to improve how your brain works, and help short-term memory.
Meditate to Clear Your Thoughts
Your brain never stops, even when you are asleep. So, finding ways to help your brain to relax is crucial. Meditation can do that for your brain. The common advice is to clear your thoughts, but that might not be helpful. Better advice is to observe your thoughts and let them pass by. Focusing on the tefillah when you daven is good for your health!
Get More and Better Sleep
Sleep is ...
