President accuses European leadership on right and left of becoming permeated with anti-Semitism, denounces violence in US

Jerusalem – Israel has begun commemorating its Holocaust Remembrance Day in memory of the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in World War II. The solemn day began Wednesday evening with the main ceremony at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. It is one of the most melancholy days on Israel’s calendar. [...]

Washington – The Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday and signaled that no rate hikes are likely in coming months amid signs of renewed economic health but unusually low inflation. The Fed left its benchmark rate — which influences many consumer and business loans — in a range of 2.25% to 2.5%. [...]

Jason Greenblatt Visits Chabad Of Poway, Is Menachem Avel Family Of Lori Kay HY”D [PHOTOS]Assistant to President Trump, Jason D. Greenblatt travelled to Poway, California, Wednesday. Greenblatt went on behalf of the Trump Administration, and to relay their heartfelt sorrow for Poway’s loss, following the horrific shooting attack this past Shabbos at the Chabad House in Poway.

Ed Mosberg, a veteran participant in the March of the Living, says he doesn't fear death: 'I already died 70 years ago when the Germans murdered my whole family not far from here'

Another Blow For Schumer As Democrats Look To Reclaim SenateSenate Democrats are stinging from a trio of high-profile failures to recruit candidates who could help reclaim the majority, including Stacey Abrams’ announcement that she would pass up a U.S.
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New York – New York has become the first major city in the U.S. to offer free phone calls from jails. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that the city has fully implemented a law passed by the City Council last August to eliminate fees for inmate phone calls. The Democratic mayor says the free [...]

Easter church and hotel terror attacks in Sri Lanka a week before his video appearance underscored in blood Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's new message

Moshe Ya'alon calls report that Netanyahu confidant working to convince ultra-Orthodox lawmaker to defect for coalition a 'moral low'

 Two Injured When A Tree Collapses, Striking A Truck & Scooter(PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE)
A tree collapsed on Derech Chaim Street in Pardes Chana on Wednesday afternoon, leaving two people injured.
Magen David Adom reports that paramedics and EMTs treated two victims, a 30-year-old who was the driver of the scooter hit by the tree, who was listed in moderate condition at the time of transport.

Adam Levin scores highest-ever tally for a runner-up, falls only $18 short of beating reigning champion who has bulldozed everyone else

Augusta, Maine – Maine has become the first state to ban single-use food and drink containers made from polystyrene foam, commonly known as Styrofoam. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills signed the bill into law Tuesday. The Natural Resources Council of Maine said that Maine’s the first state to enact such a ban. Similar legislation passed Maryland’s [...]

A human-rights non-governmental organization that has a special consultative status in the United Nations released a report last week that documented the fact that several hundred people were summoned, arrested and detained over the course of a year by the terrorist group Hamas solely because of their political beliefs.
Between March 1, 2018, and March 1 of this year, the Hamas security service summoned, arrested and detained 742 people, including five women, for exercising their beliefs, according to a report by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, which mentioned bans on press coverage, in addition to restrictions on the media and censorship of entertainment deemed to be against Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip.

Washington – Private tensions between Justice Department leaders and special counsel Robert Mueller’s team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion Wednesday as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report and aimed his own criticism at the special counsel. Testifying for the first time since releasing [...]

 Bernie Sanders’ Adviser Enraged By Video of US Amb. Freidman Asking Rav Povarsky For Bracha For Trump’s Re-ElectionA Bernie Sanders’ adviser was enraged by a video of US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman asking Hagaon HaRav Berel Povarsky for a Bracha for President Donald Trump’s re-election.
Matt Duss, a foreign policy adviser for the Jewish Senator from Vermont, took exception to the video which was recently posted to Twitter.

Gil Messing, tapped to take over as military flack, secretly recorded his friend, Ronen Moshe, leading to his indictment, as well as then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman

Ramat Gan, Israel – Under a fluorescent light, an archivist from Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial snaps photos and scans into her mobile database the last remnant that a pair of elderly siblings have of their long-lost father — a 1943 postcard Samuel Akerman tossed in desperation out of the deportation train hurtling him toward [...]

An Australian court on Wednesday found a man guilty of plotting to blow up an Etihad Airways flight out of Sydney at the behest of the Islamic State militant group, by hiding a bomb in the luggage of his brother.
Police had accused the man, Khaled Khayat, and another brother, Mahmoud Khayat, of planning two terrorist attacks that also included a chemical gas attack on the flight to Abu Dhabi in July 2017, police said.
The third brother was unaware that he was carrying a bomb, disguised as a meat mincer, in his luggage, as he tried to check in at the airport, police said.
But the device was taken out of his luggage when it was deemed too heavy and the bomb never made it past airport security.

VIDEO/PHOTOS: 8000 Mispallalim Visit The Kever Of Yehoshua Bin Nun(VIDEO AND PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE)
Under the protection of security forces, 8000 mispallalim entered the PA (Palestinian Authority) occupied village of Kifl Haris in Shomron on Tuesday night, to be mispallel at the kever of Yehoshua bin Nun.

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