Beirut – The leader of Hezbollah said on Friday that Washington was seeking to open channels of communication despite ramping up sanctions against the Iran-backed movement’s officials. U.S. President Donald “Trump’s administration is seeking to open channels of communication to Hezbollah in Lebanon through mediators. … These are the American pragmatists,” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said [...]

Newark, NJ – United Airlines expects to cancel more than 8,000 flights through October because of the grounding of its Boeing 737 Max planes. United said Friday that it is dropping its 14 Max jets from the schedule until Nov. 3 — a month longer than previously planned. The airline has used spare planes to [...]

President Trump praises outgoing Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta outside the White House after the Cabinet member announces his departure amid questions over his role in the Jeffrey Epstein plea deal.
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Dear Friends,
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.
As you know, Rabbi Bauman was caught in a riptide in the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach in the early afternoon on Tuesday. The force of the water was so strong that nobody present was able to save him. The rescue crews were nearby and on the scene immediately.

Tim Trickey buckled up just in time.
The Australian passenger aboard an Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Sydney felt the plane tremble. It reminded him: he needed to fasten his seat belt. Then, the plane dropped.
“You just watched everyone’s head in the plane – who wasn’t wearing a seat belt – just hit the roof like a jack-in-a-box,” Trickey told KITV. “It was pretty scary to see.”
The sudden bout of wrenching turbulence launched scores of passengers into the air and sent some so high they slammed into the baggage compartments above. The violent, if brief, plummet injured at least 37 people and diverted the flight to Honolulu for an emergency stop on Thursday.

Sen. Kamala Harris defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an interview that aired Friday, saying she has found her fellow California Democrat to be “very respectful of women of color,” an assessment at odds with comments earlier this week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
During an appearance on the New York-based radio show “The Breakfast Club,” Harris was asked about Ocasio-Cortez’s assertion in a Washington Post interview that Pelosi had been “just outright disrespectful” with “the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”

Letter From HaRav Sender Haber, Rov In Norfolk Virginia, Regarding Difficult WeekTo 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.

Demonstrator shouted 'dirty Zionist' and 'filthy race' at Jewish philosopher and writer Alain Finkielkraut at Paris march

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

Images of stringed semsemia found engraved on Biblical-era tombs; now instrument is highlight of jam sessions on waterway's coastline

Nir Hefetz, who turned state's witness, reportedly says prime minister's wife vetoed appointments; PMO: 'another cycle of lies'

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 [...]

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