President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is canceling a planned trip to Poland and will remain in the United States to monitor Hurricane Dorian, which is headed toward a potential landfall in Florida or elsewhere along the East Coast by early next week.
The president had been set to travel to Poland this weekend to participate in a World War II commemoration ceremony. Vice President Mike Pence will make the trip instead, Trump said.
An Orthodox Jewish man was hit in the face with a rock on Thursday, in the second violent anti-Semitic attack this week in the Brooklyn’s neighborhood of Crown Heights.
The man, who works in deliveries, was in a truck that stopped in traffic when a group of African American youths approached and threw a stone into the truck, breaking the glass of the driver side window. The rock hit the Jewish man in the eye, and he sustained cuts to his face.
The victim filed a report with the New York Police Departement. He did not go to the hospital.
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force will be investigating the incident as a possible bias crime.
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Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was injured in the shooting attack at Chabad of Poway in California this past Pesach, has received a prosthetic finger to help his hand function properly.
Rabbi Goldstein was about to deliver a sermon on the final day of Pesach when a gunman entered his synagogue near San Diego and opened fire, killing community member Lori Kaye. The rabbi was miraculously saved but lost a finger in the attack.
At his public appearances following the anti-Semitic attack, during press conferences, public lectures and a highly visible meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House, Rabbi Goldstein was seen wearing a blue cast which covered his hand.
Seven new Israeli companies have received medical cannabis growing licenses under the country’s new regulation, according to one person familiar with the matter who spoke to Calcalist on condition of anonymity. The new growers, expected to triple the supply currently available in Israel, are scheduled to start supplying pharmacies by the end of the year.
The new growers are Elpis Flora, Brlev Agricultural Crops, S. Sydan, Rami Sela, Natali Buskila, Shavit Agro, and Medical Cannabis Growing Limited Partnership, which is controlled by Tel Aviv-listed Together Pharma, according to the source. Elpis Flora recently experienced a fire that destroyed their harvest. Of the six remaining, one grower failed the ministry’s tests.
The doorbell-camera company Ring has quietly forged video-sharing partnerships with more than 400 police forces across the United States, granting them potential access to homeowners’ camera footage and a powerful role in what the company calls the nation’s “new neighborhood watch.”
The partnerships let police automatically request the video recorded by homeowners’ cameras within a specific time and area, helping officers see footage from the company’s millions of Internet-connected cameras installed nationwide, the company said. Officers don’t receive ongoing or live-video access, and homeowners can decline the requests, which Ring sends via email, thanking them for “making your neighborhood a safer place.”
Rav Shmuel Salant, Rav of Yerushalayim (1816-1909). Born in Bialystok, Russia, his father passed away soon afterwards, and he was sent off to study in Salant, Lithuania, where it had alreadybeen arranged that he would eventually marry Toiba, the oldest daughter of Rav Yosef Zundel of Salant, from whom Rav Shmuel took his surname. Soon after his marriage, Rav Shmuel moved to Volozhin, where he was appointed magid shiur. He made aliyah in 1841. From 1848 to 1851, Rav Shmuel served the Yerushalayim community as a meshulach.
Marriott International announced Wednesday that it will discontinue single-use bottles of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel at its 7,000 properties worldwide.
The world’s largest hotel chain will replace the small bottles with larger pump-topped dispensers by December 2020.
Marriott estimates that the switch will prevent an estimated 1.7 million pounds of plastic going to landfills each year.
Read more at The Hill.
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For nearly a year, Paul Steber had been planning, prosecutors say.
The 19-year-old from Massachusetts had chosen a university in North Carolina to begin his freshman year because, he told authorities, it was easier to get guns there. Since last Christmas, prosecutors said, Steber had been thinking about committing violence: He studied past mass shootings and had stocked his dorm room with weapons.
But the plan never came to be.
Rav Shmuel Salant, Rav of Yerushalayim (1816-1909). Born in Bialystok, Russia, his father passed away soon afterwards, and he was sent off to study in Salant, Lithuania, where it had alreadybeen arranged that he would eventually marry Toiba, the oldest daughter of Rav Yosef Zundel of Salant, from whom Rav Shmuel took his surname. Soon after his marriage, Rav Shmuel moved to Volozhin, where he was appointed magid shiur. He made aliyah in 1841. From 1848 to 1851, Rav Shmuel served the Yerushalayim community as a meshulach.
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