US president came under fire for describing Rep. Cummings' district as a 'disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess'

Democratic Camp politician says rabbis, ministers and MKs are 'igniting hatred' that leads to assaults

Dikla Hasdai, who suffers from muscular dystrophy, appeals to public for financial help with future care of couple's three children, two of whom also have disabilities

The World Happiness Report was released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations on March 20, the date that the United Nations has declared to be the International Day of Happiness.
The report ranks countries on six key variables that support well-being: income, freedom, trust, healthy life expectancy, social support and generosity.
Finland was ranked number one on the happiness index, followed by Denmark, Norway, Iceland and The Netherlands.
“The top 10 countries tend to rank high in all six variables, as well as emotional measures of well-being,” says report co-editor John Helliwell, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of British Columbia.

US director of national intelligence to step down after a turbulent two years in which he and the president were often at odds over Russian interference in the 2016 election

Rav Nachman Bulman (1925-2002). His parents, Reb Meir and Ettel Bulman were Gerrer chasidim who had moved to the Lower East Side from Poland. Reb Meir had lost his first wife in childbirth and his second wife in a pogrom. He had also lost two children. In their 40s, the Bulmans received the Imrei Emes of Ger for a bracha for children. The result of that blessing was Nachman, who was born in New York. He attended Yeshivas Rabbenu Yitzchak Elchonon and then studied in its rabbinical program. He received semicha and a B.A. (in philosophy) from Yeshiva College. During the week, he learned in the Litvishe yeshiva way. On Shabbos and Yom Tov he absorbed the atmosphere of his parents’ Polishe shteibel with a love of chassidus.

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s attacks on the city of Baltimore and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., saying that some people will be offended by anything the president says.
One day earlier, Trump had tweeted that Cummings’s district is a “rodent-infested mess” where “no human being would want to live.”
“Do you understand that that is offensive to the Americans who do live there?” host Margaret Brennan asked on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”
“I understand that everything that Donald Trump says is offensive to some people,” Mulvaney replied.
Brennan continued to press him, repeating Trump’s statement that “no people would want to live there.”

Orlando, Fl – U.S. Sen. Rick Scott said Sunday that he was never told by Homeland Security officials in 2016 when he was Florida’s governor that Russian hackers had gained access to voter databases in two Florida counties ahead of the presidential election. Scott said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he was never contacted [...]

Running till August 18, play by David Schechter launches Folksbiene's 104th season with rare English production, alongside the Museum of Jewish Heritage's huge Auschwitz exhibit