President Trump’s personal assistant Madeleine Westerhout resigned from her job abruptly, a White House official and another person familiar with the situation told NBC News late Thursday.
One of the sources said that Westerhout left the job because she shared personal information about the president’s family and Oval Office operations at an off-the-record dinner with reporters earlier this month near Bedminster, N.J., where a Trump-owned golf club that the president often visits in summer months is located.
The Times reported that Westerhout was immediately labeled a “separated employee” and would not be allowed to return to the White House on Friday after Trump reportedly learned of her alleged conversation with journalists.

United Nations – The U.N. Security Council warned Thursday that violations of the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon in the latter country’s south “could lead to a new conflict that none of the parties or the region can afford.” The council warning came in a French-sponsored resolution adopted unanimously that extends the mandate […]

Episode #1: Leah and Simcha Goldin on the fight to bring their soldier son's remains home; an in-depth look at the status of Israeli women with activist Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

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.
Read more at COLLIVE.

By COLlive reporter
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.

Washington – The majority of American voters do not approve of President Donald Trump’s assertion that U.S. Jews who vote for the Democratic Party are disloyal, a poll found. The results of the national online survey of 1,987 registered voters showed a split along party lines. Asked “Do you approve or disapprove of Trump’s statements […]

MIAMI (AP) — Unsure where Hurricane Dorian is going to land over Labor Day weekend, many Florida residents faced a sense of helplessness as they prepared for what President Donald Trump said could be an “absolute monster” of a storm. “All indications are it’s going to hit very hard and it’s going to be very […]

Suspects reportedly say they shot pellets from passing car as a prank; two will remain in custody until Saturday evening

Changes close loopholes that previously shut out some claimants; second, third, fourth and in some cases fifth generation descendants can apply, says interior ministry