SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Women who use certain types of hormones after menopause still have an increased risk of developing breast cancer nearly two decades after they stop taking the pills, long-term results from a big federal study suggest. Although the risk is very small, doctors say a new generation of women entering menopause now […]

An elderly man fell down an escalator on Agam Kineret Street in Netanya.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Shalom Ben Moshe who arrived at the scene in 30 seconds said: “I work at the location where the man fell as a Kashrut supervisor. I suddenly heard screams of people asking for help. I ran over and saw the man who suffered a major head injury as well as injuries to his limbs and upper body. I treated him at the scene for his injuries. As I was doing so another United Hatzalah volunteer arrived and helped me bandage the man’s wound and stabilize his condition. When the ambulance arrived later, the man was transported to Laniado hospital for further treatment and observation.”
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As President Donald Trump faced a critical vote on his impeachment Thursday, his top political advisers said the process had already begun to reap benefits for his reelection campaign.
“This lit up our base, lit up the people that are supporters of the president. They’re frustrated, they’re upset, and that motivates voters,” campaign manager Brad Parscale told reporters during a briefing Thursday. “They have ignited a flame underneath them.”
Parscale – who prefaced his remarks by saying he did not believe Trump deserved to be impeached – said that “every metric” he tracks, from fundraising to voter sentiment to volunteer recruitment, shows a political benefit for the president.

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It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of Rebbetzin Shifra Weiss a”h of Yerushalayim. She was 83 years old.
Rebbetzin Weiss was the wife of Rav Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, gaon av bais din of the Badatz of the Eidah Hachareidis in Yerushalayim.
The levaya was held today in Yerushalayim and kevurah took place on Har Hazeisim.
Yehi zichrah boruch.
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President Trump has been discussing with his campaign advisers whether or not to participate in the general election debates in 2020, two people close to the situation told The New York Times.
According to the sources, Trump doesn’t trust the Commission on Presidential Debates, the nonprofit organization that puts on the debates. Specifically, Trump is apprehensive of who will be chosen by the organization to moderate the debates, the Times reports.
Trump’s campaign reportedly declined to comment on what their plan was for the debates at a state-of-the-race campaign briefing in Arlington, Va.
Read more at The Hill.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. and China have reached a Phase 1 trade deal, de-escalating a 17-month dispute between the economic powers. The U.S. is dropping plans to impose tariffs Sunday on $160 billion in Chinese imports and is reducing some existing tariffs on Chinese goods. In return, Trump […]

MANHATTAN, NY (AP) – A juvenile suspect has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old Barnard College freshman, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity Friday. Tessa Majors, of Charlottesville, Virginia, was walking in […]

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman, Rabbi, Ahavas Israel Passaic
I received a phone call early this morning.
It was from Mayor Hector Lora the mayor of Passaic.
I consider Mr. Lora a good friend, a sensitive individual and a caring man.
He was my first phone call today.
He said that he had heard that the horrific attack in Jersey City was no random attack as first was reported, rather, it was a targeted anti-Semitic incident.
He then informed me that although there is no credible threat against the Jewish community in Passaic, he is placing a mobile police command center in front of the Shul on Van Houten Ave.