In an attempt to appeal to Orthodox customers, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC recently launched a glatt kosher menu that includes Israeli snacks like bamba and bisli, along with prepared meals of fish, chicken, and beef.
The meals come in sealed containers from a catering company in Potomac, Maryland and are heated to order. The hotel managers also added about a dozen kosher wines from Israel and the US.
“We had many guests from New York staying here that would come in for business meetings, and they wanted to get something to eat, but felt uncomfortable,” hotel manager Mikael Damelincourt explained.

A young boy was found unconscious  at a swimming pool in Kiryas Yoel.
 Hatzolah is performing emergency medicine on scene in order to stabilize the patient and transfer him to a hospital. 
The incident is the latest in a slew of water related tragedies that have struck the Jewish community over the summer.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that there is a “good chance” the United States and Iran could meet at the negotiating table.
Standing alongside French President Emmanuel Macron at a joint press conference at the Group of Seven, or G7, meetings in Biarritz, France, Trump said that it is “realistic” that such talks could happen in a couple weeks as the sanctions on the regime have affected the Islamic Republic “horribly.”
There is a “really good chance we will meet,” he added.
Tensions between Iran and the United States have intensified since the latter withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal, reimposing sanctions lifted under it alongside enacting new financial penalties against the regime.

Earlier today, IDF troops located an explosive device that was placed on a road near Elon Moreh, northeast of Shechem. Additional troops arrived at the scene and blocked the road as police sappers neutralized the explosive device.
The murder attempt follows the attack Friday at Ein Bubin Spring near the town of Dolev in Binyamin where 17-year-old Rena Shnerb was murdered in a bombing.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Representative Jerry Nadler visited the home of the revered Munkatcher Rebbe Shlita Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Rabinovich, where he was warmly welcomed by the Rebbe. The meeting served as opportunity to discuss various issues personally important to the Rebbe and to the community at large regarding criminal justice reform as it relates to the recently enacted First Step Act. The Congressman was accompanied by Ezra Friedlander, CEO of The Friedlander Group.

President Rivlin paid a condolence visit to the Shnerb family at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital after the murder of family member Rena Zel in a terror attack near Dolev on Friday, August 23rd.

He said “Your spirit and abilities, Rabbi Eitan, strengthen us. We cry but we also get up. It is most important for us to continue choose life and stay strong “

He was visiting the father of the family, Rabbi Eitan Shnerb who was wounded in the attack, and his son Dvir, who was more severely injure; both in the same room now. Near their bed were many close family members and friends who came to strengthen Eitan and Dvir and Tamar, the additional daughter of the Rabbi who was staying with them in the room.

The Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim (MTJ), one of the oldest yeshiva buildings in America located at 145 East Broadway, was vandalized with spray-painted symbols.
A worker there said he left Friday afternoon, and when he returned at 9 p.m., the graffiti was there.
The NYPD is investigating and looking at surveillance video. The hate crimes unit has been notified.
Read more at ABC News.
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Joe Walsh joins the race for the Republican nomination in 2020, GOP financier Dan Palmer weighs in.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have decided to reduce the amount of fuel transferred to the Gaza Strip by half, in a rebuke for the barrage of rocket fire at Israel over the past week, a Palestinian official said Monday.
A planned transfer was set to take place Monday morning through the Kerem Shalom crossing on the Israeli-Gaza border to Gaza’s only power plant.
Gazans rely on aid primarily from Qatar that is funneled through Israel but is sometimes halted during times of violent escalation on the border, putting pressure on the ruling Islamist group Hamas.
Read more at i24NEWS.