The New York Times said Sunday that an anti-Semitic cartoon which appeared in its international edition this past Thursday was the work of a single editor who was working “without adequate oversight”.
“We have investigated how this happened and learned that, because of a faulty process, a single editor working without adequate oversight downloaded the syndicated cartoon and made the decision to include it on the Opinion page. The matter remains under review, and we are evaluating our internal processes and training. We anticipate significant changes.”
The statement included an apology for the cartoon, which the paper acknowledged was anti-Semitic and “unacceptable”.

Police investigating the fatal shooting rampage at the Chabad of Poway said on Sunday they believe the gunman acted alone and was not part of any organized group.
The suspect, 19-year-old John Earnest, has been booked into custody on one count of murder in the first degree and three counts of attempted murder in the first degree, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said in a statement.
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Miramar, Florida Mayor Wayne Messam discusses his 2020 White House bid.
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By Bret Stephens
 
As prejudices go, anti-Semitism can sometimes be hard to pin down, but on Thursday the opinion pages of The New York Times international edition provided a textbook illustration of it.
Except that The Times wasn’t explaining anti-Semitism. It was purveying it.
It did so in the form of a cartoon, provided to the newspaper by a wire service and published directly above an unrelated column by Tom Friedman, in which a guide dog with a prideful countenance and the face of Benjamin Netanyahu leads a blind, fat Donald Trump wearing dark glasses and a black yarmulke. Lest there be any doubt as to the identity of the dog-man, it wears a collar from which hangs a Star of David.

Israel’s Delek group, controlled by Yitzhak Tshuva, is close to clinching Chevron’s oil and gas fields in the British North Sea, which have a price tag of around $2 billion, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Delek, via its North Sea oil and gas operator Ithaca Energy, could reach an agreement within days, two of five sources said.
U.S. oil major Chevron Corp kicked off the sale of its central North Sea oil and gas fields Alba, Alder, Captain, Elgin/Franklin, Erskine and Jade, as well as the Britannia platform and its satellites last July, with the help of U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley.

Will the infighting sabotage their 2020 chances?
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By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld

-Rav Moshe of Premishel, author of Mateh Moshe (1606)
-Rav Chaim Menachem Heschel of Zhinkov (1837-1893). Succeeded his father, Rav Meshulam Zusya, and expanded the Chassidus throughout Russia, Ukraine, and Serbia. Some of his divrei Torah are found in the sefer Shemuos Tovos.
-Rav Yosef Friedman of Rimanov (1913)

Democrats and the Justice Department are in a standoff over the terms of Attorney General William Barr’s planned testimony before the House Judiciary Committee this week, raising the prospect that the hearing might not go forward at all.
A senior Democratic committee aide said Sunday that Barr risks being subpoenaed if he refuses to testify over his objections to the lawmakers’ desired format for the hearing.

A passenger on a JetBlue flight stopped at John F. Kennedy International Airport tonight at about 9 p.m. was evaluated and cleared following concerns that they were infected with measles, officials said.
The plane was secured at a JFK handstand area after it landed in New York from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, WPIX reported. All customers were cleared and the flight deplaned normally.
Sources indicate that the “concerns” aboard flight 410 from Santo Domingo to JFK were unfounded, and were started after someone alerted flight staff about a child who “appeared to have measles,” when, in fact, the symptoms were nothing more than mosquito bites.
The family in question – the parents and three children – were all vaccinated.