TV official defends the clip, in which a man playing Scrabble with a Haredi Jew is frustrated that he cannot use the derogatory term to score points

25 years after Jewish center bombing, Treasury Department says Salman Raouf Salman remains a threat; State Dept. offers $7 million reward for information on his location

Iranian and Hezbollah operatives said hurt or killed in strike; some reports say the site recently received shipment of ballistic missiles from Islamic Republic

Herzliyah-based company reportedly tells buyers its tech is able to obtain all of an individual’s info from media giants' servers; company denies the claim

 El Chapo Was Whisked Away Within Hours Of SentencingOnly hours after receiving a life sentence, convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was forced to make a sudden departure to the highest-security prison in the U.S. to serve the term, his lawyer said Thursday.
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Iran Denies Trump Claim That US Destroyed Iranian DroneIran said Friday it can provide images that disprove President Donald Trump’s statement that a U.S. warship destroyed an Iranian drone near the Persian Gulf after it threatened the ship.
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 Hasidic Man Sues McDonald’s; Was Told To Shave Beard To Get JobThis past Wednesday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against the owners of a McDonald’s restaurant near Orlando, claiming managers violated a Hasidic man’s rights.
The EEOC is the Federal agency charged with ensuring that discrimination does not take place in the workplace.

Emergency Message From Flatbush Hatzolah Ahead Of Dangerous HeatwaveThe weather service is forecasting a heat wave for the next few days. As of now, the worst two days, will be Shabbos & Sunday. We appeal to everyone that is here in the city to stay indoors as much as possible and to keep the air conditioners running.

A ULIP VS mutual fund is a debate that has been raging throughout the last ten years. While there is nothing particularly contentious if the potential customer has his preferences stratified, the trouble begins when one does not have a transparent perspective.
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Yeshiva “Equivalency” Regulations Q&A And Action AlertYou may have heard that the New York State Education Department recently published proposed Regulations about “substantial equivalency of instruction” required for students attending nonpublic schools.
This can have severe ramifications for yeshivos and day schools across the board in NYS, so we wanted to provide some answers to common questions we are receiving about this serious development.

 Tri-State Area Bracing For “Real Feel” Of 109 DegreesThe worst heat wave of the year has seized the tri-state, threatening three consecutive days of heat in the mid-to-high 90s, though it’ll feel more like a sauna, with stifling humidity making it feel like 104 degrees at a minimum.
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Trump Picks Son Of Late Justice Scalia For Labor SecretaryPresident Donald Trump has selected lawyer Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be his new labor secretary.
Trump tweeted news of the planned nomination on Thursday evening, less than a week after his previous secretary, Alexander Acosta, resigned amid renewed criticism of his handling of a 2008 secret plea deal with wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.

 Administration To Review Pentagon Computer ContractPresident Donald Trump said Thursday that the administration will “take a very long look” at a massive multibillion-dollar contract the Pentagon is preparing to award for a cloud computing system, citing “tremendous complaints” he’s heard about the process.
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Albany, NY – New York state parks are keeping their pools open longer to help people deal with a hot spell. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the extended hours will begin Friday and continue through Sunday at more than 30 parks statewide. Temperatures are expected to climb into the 90s around much of the state Friday [...]

Jerusalem – Ilhan Omar, who announced a new pro-BDS resolution in Congress this week, may enter Israel despite a law which would have prevented her, as well as any supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) Movement, from doing so. Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer announced Friday evening that “out of respect [...]

Washington – An armed 69-year-old man who was killed by police outside an immigrant detention facility in the state of Washington wrote in a manifesto that he came there because it was a “concentration camp.” Willem Van Spronsen was killed Saturday outside the Northwest Detention Center while holding an assault rifle and after placing flares [...]

Washington – The U.S. Treasury on Friday placed sanctions on a senior Hezbollah operative it said coordinated the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires. “We are targeting Salman Raouf Salman, who coordinated a devastating attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina against the largest Jewish center in South America 25 years [...]

Washington – Unionized campaign organizers working for Bernie Sanders’ presidential effort complained that their employment terms fall short of Sanders’ rhetoric on labor standards. Campaign hires have demanded an annual salary equivalent to a $15-an-hour wage, which Sanders, a senator who is Jewish and who describes himself as a democratic socialist, for years has said [...]

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