The Kingdom of Jordan has agreed to reopen a Jewish holy site and pilgrimage destination to Israeli visitors, following talks between Israel’s president and Jordanian Prince Ghazi bin Mohammed.
According to a statement released by the president’s office Sunday, President Reuven Rivlin spoke with Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz Sunday to update him that, following Rivlin’s meeting with Prince Ghazi bin Mohammed at the end of last week and in light of discussions following that meeting in the Kingdom, Jordan has decided to reopen the Har Aaron site for visits by Israeli groups.
The site has been closed to visitors for some four months, and is a site of pilgrimage particularly around the yahrtzeit of Aaron Hakohen.

German defense minister pledged to take on radicalism in the country’s armed forces, known as Bundeswehr, after reports emerged Sunday that a member of elite unit was to be suspended over suspected far-right radicalization.
According to Bild am Sonntag, the army was secretly investigating an officer with the elite KSK force and two other soldiers.
The latter two had allegedly made the banned Hitler salute during a private party hosted by the suspect who is to be suspended next week, according to the newspaper.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa’s government said Monday that another five children had died within the past day from a measles outbreak, bringing the death toll from the epidemic to more than 50 as authorities race to vaccinate the entire population. Samoa declared a national emergency last month and mandated that all 200,000 people […]

Watching events unfold in Israel is an experience in split-screen living. On the right side of the screen is the chaos outside our gates, in neighboring lands. And on the left side of the screen is the chaos inside.
On the left side of the screen on Tuesday, 15,000 Israelis gathered Tuesday evening outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art to demand legal justice for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the face of what they view as an anti-democratic usurpation of political power by Israel’s legal fraternity. They were condemned by the left, by the legal fraternity and its court reporters as enemies of the “rule of law.”

NEW YORK (AP) — At the end of another long day trying to sign up new clients accusing the Roman Catholic Church of sexual abuse, lawyer Adam Slater gazes out the window of his high-rise Manhattan office at one of the great symbols of the church, St. Patrick’s Cathedral. “I wonder how much that’s worth?” […]

President Donald Trump spoke on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran and other issues, the White House said in a brief statement.
“The leaders discussed the threat from Iran, as well as other critical bilateral and regional issues,” the White House said in an email statement.
Relations between Washington and Tehran have worsened since last year when Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on Iran.
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NEW YORK – (CHABAD.org) – Rabbi Mordechai Dov Altein, a long-serving Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi who was instrumental in the establishment of yeshivahs and other Jewish educational institutions in post-war America, passed away on Sunday. He was 100 years old. Born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1919, Altein would later recall that life in […]

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who pitched himself to Democratic voters as a campaign finance reformer who could win in red states, is ending his bid for the party’s presidential nomination.
“While there were many obstacles we could not have anticipated when entering this race, it has become clear that in this moment, I won’t be able to break through to the top tier of this still-crowded field,” Bullock said in a statement. “I leave this race filled with gratitude and optimism, inspired and energized by the good people I’ve had the privilege of meeting over the course of the campaign.”

HUNTINGTON, NY (VINnews) – Police in Long Island are looking for a pair they say used a BB gun to shoot and damage a glass door and a light at the Huntington Jewish Center late last month. Police have released surveillance footage of two male suspects and are asking the public’s help in identifying the […]

As the impeachment inquiry moves into a critical week, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies are debating the degree to which the president should participate in a process they have spent more than two months attacking.
On Sunday evening, White House counsel Pat Cipollone told the House Judiciary Committee in a five-page letter that Trump would not participate in its first impeachment hearing, scheduled for Wednesday. The invitation from Chairman Jerrold Nadler “does not begin to provide the President with any semblance of a fair process,” Cipollone wrote.