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July 31, 2024 at 2:40 pm
The US State Department raised its travel advisory level to 4, the highest level, on Wednesday after Israel eliminated Hezbollah military chief Fuad Shukr.
The State Department stated: "Do Not Travel to Lebanon due to rising tensions between Hezbollah and Israel. If you are in Lebanon, be prepared to shelter in place should the situation deteriorate. The US Embassy strongly encourages US citizens who are already in Southern Lebanon, near the borders with Syria, and/or in refugee settlements to depart.
"Since October 8, Hezbollah has conducted attacks against Israel that have escalated in recent weeks, culminating in a July 27 rocket attack on Majdal Shams, a town in the Golan Heights, which killed 12 children. This strike has increased the risk of further escalation between Hizballah and...
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July 31, 2024 at 2:28 pm
Delta Air Lines Chief Executive Ed Bastian said the carrier took a $500 million hit from the CrowdStrike CRWD -1.26%decrease; red down pointing triangle technology outage that hurt its operations.
With more than 5,000 flight cancellations over several days, Delta faced deeper disruption and took days longer than rivals to get back on track after the outage knocked key systems offline. The U.S. Department of Transportation is investigating how the airline handled the disruption and its customer response.
Delta has hired prominent litigator David Boies, chairman of the firm Boies Schiller Flexner, and notified CrowdStrike and Microsoft MSFT -0.96%decrease; red down pointing triangle to prepare for litigation, acco...
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July 31, 2024 at 1:22 pm
Khaled Meshaal, tipped to be the new Hamas leader, became known around the world in 1997 after Israeli agents injected him with poison in a botched assassination attempt on a street outside his office in the Jordanian capital Amman.
The hit against a key senior figure of the Palestinian militant group, ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, so enraged Jordan's then-King Hussein that he spoke of hanging the would-be killers and scrapping Jordan's peace treaty with Israel unless the antidote was handed over.
Israel did so, and also agreed to free Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, only to assassinate him seven years later in Gaza.
For Israelis and Western states, the Iran-backed Hamas, which has directed suicide bombings in Israel and fought frequent wars again...
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July 31, 2024 at 1:15 pm
Lakewood, NJ - July 31, 2024 - Middlesex County Judge Joseph Paone has thrown out the charges against SCHI founder Rabbi Eisemann this morning, just as the prosecution wrapped up their arguments.
Explaining his decision, Judge Paone said the prosecution completely failed to show any evidence that Rabbi Eisemann committed the crimes they were alleging.
The jury has now been dismissed, meaning the case is effectively over and an appeal is unlikely at this point.
See here for a complete history of the decade long saga.
There is still a staggering amount of legal fees that must be paid to cover the cost of the trial to date. Please help Rabbi Eisemann so he can fully return to his Avodas Hakodesh with a piece of mind and not be burdened by the nearly $350,000 in outstanding...
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July 31, 2024 at 12:06 pm
One of the bodyguards of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh leaked information to the assassins who eliminated him, Iranian media reported on Wednesday.
According to the report, an Israeli-made Spike short-range missile was launched at the leader's bedroom in northern Tehran from within Iranian territory.
Sky News Arabia, citing Iranian sources, reported that the Hamas political leader was killed by a missile that was launched from a building near the one where he was staying.
Senior Iranian officials told the New York Times earlier in the day that Tehran’s top leadership was "in utter shock," by the dramatic assassination.
According to the officials, this assassination also questions Iran's security reputation and its ability to protect its borders against suc...
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July 31, 2024 at 10:34 am
Today, the Chief of the General Staff, LTG Herzi Halevi, visited the brigade-level exercise of the Kfir Brigade on the northern border, with the Commanding Officer of the Northern Command, MG Ori Gordin, the Commanding Officer of the Central Command, MG Avi Bluth, the Commanding Officer of the Training Command, MG David Zini, the Commanding Officer of the 99th Division, BG Barak Hiram, the Commander of the Ground Forces Training Center (“Mali”), BG Kobi Heller and other commanders.
The exercise took place in cooperation with different units, during which the soldiers of the Kfir Brigade practiced a variety of extreme scenarios, combat in thicketed and mountainous terrain, the activation of fire, and combat in a built-up area, as part of increasing the readiness for combat in t...
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July 31, 2024 at 10:19 am
U.S. measles cases are nearly triple what they were last year, including one to nine cases in Maryland, according to data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
With five months left to go in the year, 26 states and the District of Columbia have reported 188 cases of measles, about half of which (49 percent, or 93) were severe enough to require hospitalization, mostly among people under the age of 5.
Last year, the nation saw 58 measles cases in four outbreaks. This year, there have been 13 outbreaks, the largest of them traced to a migrant shelter in Chicago in March in which 60 illnesses have been linked.
Seven states — Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Vermont — joined the growing list o...
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July 31, 2024 at 10:07 am
Baltimore, MD – July 2024 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for Yiddishkeit and for HaShem with their children. Unfortunately, our schedules are hectic and many people don’t have the time to prepare themselves to utilize the Shabbos table to its fullest. Therefore, we at ACHIM created TableTalk as a pre-packaged talking points pamphlet which is attractive, fun and has something for everyone. Limited copies are distributed to many shuls on a weekly basis but they are snatched up very quickly. Get yours ASAP or click on the graphic below and print your own.What’s in it and what’s all the excitement about?TableTalk features:• Weekly halachic dilemma creating l...
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July 31, 2024 at 10:01 am
Baltimore, MD - July 31, 2024 - Dr. Janet Sunness - The Mitzvah to Settle The Land of Israel
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July 31, 2024 at 5:25 am
The Hamas terrorist organization announced on Wednesday morning that the organization's leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was eliminated in the Iranian capital of Tehran.
Earlier, media outlets in Iran, citing the Revolutionary Guards, reported that Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were killed in an attack on the home in which they were staying in Tehran.
Saudi media reported that Haniyeh was killed in his bedroom by a precision-guided missile that was launched towards him at 2:00 a.m. Tehran time.
Haniyeh was visiting Tehran in order to take part in the swearing-in ceremony of the new Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, which took place on Tuesday.
In a statement, Hamas blamed Israel for the elimination, saying, "The Islamic resistance movement Hamas mourns its leader Ismail Haniyeh, wh...
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July 30, 2024 at 9:44 pm
The United States on Tuesday reiterated its commitment to Israel’s security, after Israel eliminated senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut.
“Our commitment to Israel’s security is ironclad and unwavering against all Iran-backed threats, including Lebanese Hezbollah,” said US National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson in a statement.
“The attack by Lebanese Hezbollah this weekend, which killed 12 children and teenagers playing soccer, was horrific. Israel has a right to defend itself against the severe threats it faces,” added Watson.
“At the same time, the United States is continuing to work on a diplomatic solution to end these terrible attacks and allow citizens on both sides to safely return to their homes,&rdq...
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July 30, 2024 at 9:37 pm
Baltimore County, MD - July 30, 2024 - Despite a last-minute push from Democratic leaders, a campaign to expand the Baltimore County Council by four seats failed to gather enough signatures to appear on the Nov. 5 ballot.
A host of politicians at the local and state level, including Democrats County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. and Maryland House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, last week endorsed the Vote4More campaign led by Linda Dorsey-Walker. Proponents of the measure say expanding the council by four would have allowed more women and minorities to participate in public life. They argue it also would have resolved complaints that the county’s current district makeup disfavors Black candidates in an area where they make up 30% of the population.
Baltimore County elections director ...
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July 30, 2024 at 8:54 pm
Words matter. Words have meaning. Words created our universe.
Hashem created the world through ten verbal pronouncements beginning with His declaration that "there should be light" and concluding with His announcement that Man should "procreate and inhabit the world".
Thousands of years later, Hashem crafted a moral and religious foundation for all humanity through the Aseret Ha'Dibrot, first spoken and afterwards carved into stony luchot. Both our physical world and our spiritual experience were fashioned through divine words.
Hashem gifted humans with the capacity for creative speech, similar to His. Though many animals communicate, they do so in a very rudimentary manner. They convey to one another basic survival needs such as feeding, migration, protection from predators, matin...
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July 30, 2024 at 5:08 pm
The United States would help Israel defend itself should a full-scale war break out with Lebanon, the country’s Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told reporters in the Philippines as Lebanon braced for an IDF counterstrike.
“We remain concerned about the potential of this escalating into a full fight. And I don't believe that a fight is inevitable,” Austin said.
He spoke as the almost ten months of IDF-Hezbollah cross violence threaten to escape into a third Lebanon war following a Hezbollah strike that killed an Israeli on Tuesday and 12 Druze children on Saturday.
The international community, led by the US and France has scrambled to contain the situation, as they pushed for a diplomatic resolution.
“I think that you know, we'd li...
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July 30, 2024 at 5:05 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Tuesday, 30 July 2024), is currently holding a security assessment via conference call, at the Kirya in Tel Aviv.Participating in the discussion are the Defense Minister, the Strategic Affairs Minister, the IDF Chief-of-Staff, the Director of the Mossad, the Director of the ISA, the Director of the National Security Council, the Prime Minister's Chief-of-Staff, the Prime Minister's Military Secretary, the Cabinet Secretary, the Head of IDF Intelligence, the Head of IDF Operations, the Head of the IDF Strategy Directorate and Head of Research at IDF Intelligence.
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July 30, 2024 at 4:52 pm
New York, NY - July 30, 2024 - Agudath Israel of America, along with The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, submitted an amicus “friend of the court” brief in a case seeking to hold UCLA accountable for failing to address antisemitic activity on campus. The lawsuit, Frankel, et al. v. Regents of the University of California, et al., was brought by three Jewish students attending UCLA, Yitzchok Frenkel, Joshua Ghayoum, and Eden Shemulian, and describes how UCLA administration initially permitted a pro-Hamas encampment to exist on campus and allowed the establishment of a “Jew Exclusion Zone” at the University earlier this year.
The brief urged the court to grant a preliminary injunction requiring UCLA to take measures ensuring that s...
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July 30, 2024 at 4:12 pm
Former US President Donald Trump accused his presumptive Democratic rival in this year's presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris, of having a problem with Jews in a radio interview.
Speaking with WABC radio, Trump said that Harris's dislike could be seen in the photographs from her meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week.
“You can see the disdain. No. 1, she doesn’t like Israel. No. 2, she doesn’t like Jewish people. You know it, I know it and everybody knows it and nobody wants to say it,” Trump said.
“She dislikes Jewish people even more than [President Joe Biden] did,” he added.
The former President that "if you’re Jewish, if you vote for a Democrat, you’re a fool, an absolute fool. They h...
