To our distinguished community,
As friends, admirers, and students of Rabbi Bauman and his family, we have all experienced a very difficult week.
My goal with these words is to clarify some facts and perhaps answer some questions.
Left wing parties reluctant to partner with former PM in light of ties to financier at center of sex trafficking scandal, worrying it could hurt their anti-corruption image
Police officer's spouse says family received threats and can't return home; cop's father claims Tekah was part of group trying to steal phone at time of shooting
Alert heard in Nir Yitzhak and Sufa, sending residents rushing to bomb shelters; projectiles fired hours after IDF increases Iron Dome missile defense batteries in south of country
Over two dozen Republicans join bipartisan proposal requiring US president to get authorization from Congress before taking military action; White House vows to veto measure
Rome – Pope Francis sent a letter to the Argentine Jewish political umbrella organization DAIA ahead of the 25th anniversary this month of the attack that killed 85 people at the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. “Since the first day, my heart has been with the relatives of the victims, Jews or Christians,” wrote [...]
New York – They literally don’t see it coming. “Clear-air turbulence,” which evidently jolted an Air Canada flight Thursday over the Pacific Ocean, strikes almost literally out of the blue, with no visible warning in the sky ahead. An aircraft’s radar can’t spot it coming either. But passengers can certainly feel it. Some on the [...]
Buenos Aires – A state Supreme Court in Argentina fired the secretary and niece of its president for an anti-Semitic post on Facebook. Natalia Anabel Valle, a lawyer and the former secretary of her aunt, Emilia Valle, the president of the Supreme Court of Chaco, posted a picture of children playing in a schoolyard with [...]
New York – Stocks are ending a week of steady gains with more record closes for major U.S. indexes. Technology, industrial companies and retailers put up some of the biggest gains on Friday, as they have for much of the year. HP and Boeing each rose 1.8% and Home Depot added 2%. Ford climbed 2.9% [...]
Washington – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is getting support from an unlikely source — the president — in her fight with freshmen Democrats. Republican Donald Trump is defending top Democrat Pelosi and says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York should treat Pelosi “with respect” — in Trump’s words. Trump also says Pelosi is “not a [...]
Elad, Israel – More than a dozen rabbis from the city of Elad near Tel Aviv issued an edict declaring all dogs bad and warning residents that keeping them will make them accursed. The edict, dated June 14, contains the signatures of all the Sephardic rabbis in Elad, a city of about 46,000 residents where [...]
Chevy Chase, MD – Mark Talisman, who as an aide to an Ohio congressman helped write and muster support for a key measure in the fight to free Soviet Jewry and went on to devote himself to Jewish advocacy and historical memory, has died. He would have been 79 next week. His death was announced [...]
Jerusalem – Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 bankrolled a large investment in high tech for Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister who’s again running for office, Haaretz reported. The report Friday follows several revelations on financial ties between Epstein, a billionaire who was convicted in 2008 in the United States of soliciting a [...]
The price of bitcoin fell by more than 10% after the chair of the Federal Reserve told Congress that Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency raises “many serious concerns.”
Bitcoin, the world’s top cryptocurrency by market capitalization has surged this year, in part because of Facebook’s announcement of its own proposed virtual currency, Libra. Experts say Facebook’s momentous entrance could accelerate the adoption of alternative currency and payment systems, lifting the prospects of other cryptocurrencies in the process.
Over 300,000 people have signed on to a Facebook event pledging to raid Area 51 in Nevada in a quest to “see them aliens.”
The event, titled “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” is inviting users from around the world to join a massive dash into the area.
“We can move faster than their bullets,” the event page, which is clearly written with tongue in cheek, promises those who RSVP for September 20.
Read more at CNN. {Matzav.com}
The United States has decided not to impose sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for now, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, in a sign Washington may be holding a door open for diplomacy.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on June 24 had said Zarif would be blacklisted that week, an unusual public stance because the United States typically does not preview such decisions to keep its targets from moving assets out of US jurisdiction.
Blacklisting Iran‘s chief negotiator would also be unusual because it could impede any US effort to use diplomacy to resolve its disagreements with Tehran over Iran‘s nuclear program, regional activities and missile testing.
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