White House officials misspelled the name of the Red Sox in an announcement about the 2018 World Series championship team visiting Washington to meet with President Trump on Thursday, before declaring them the “World Cup Series” champions in a separate e-mail sent afterward.
On a page listing upcoming “Live” events to be streamed online from the White House, the announcement about the team’s arrival called the team the “Socks,” instead of Sox.
“President Trump Welcomes the 2018 World Series Champions The Boston Red Socks to the White House,” the statement read.
A second gaffe came in an official email to reporters:
“Remarks by President Trump Welcoming the 2018 World Cup Series Champions Boston Red Sox,” the e-mail’s subject line proclaimed.
 

The 19-year-old accused of opening fire in a Chabad shul in Poway near San Diego last month, killing one and injuring three others, was charged Thursday with 109 federal hate crimes and civil rights violations – making it possible for him to face the death penalty, authorities said.
John Earnest had been facing state murder and attempted murder charges in connection with the April 27 attack on the Chabad of Poway, California. Federal authorities added dozens of charges of their own, alleging in a criminal complaint that the shooting was motivated by Earnest’s animus toward Jews and that he was also responsible for a March 24 arson at a mosque in Escondido, California.

President Donald Trump on Thursday said former secretary of state John Kerry should be prosecuted for discussing the Iran nuclear deal with officials from that country after leaving office.
Trump raised the issue during a freewheeling exchange with reporters after an event on health care at the White House, accusing Kerry of telling Iranian officials not to speak with members of the Trump administration.

Uber priced its IPO at $45 per share in preparation to start trading early Friday, the company announced on Thursday.
This gives Uber an initial market cap of $75.5 billion, far below the $120 billion banks reportedly sought for Uber at the start of the IPO process.
The company will  start trading Friday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “UBER” and is expected to raise $8.1 billion in the IPO, plus $500 million in a private placement from PayPal.
Read more at Business Insider.
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An Israeli flag outside the South Side Sandwich Shop in Lakewood, NJ, owned by Yosef Mutterperl, is still flying above the store on Cedar Bridge Avenue, despite efforts to have him take the flag down.
The effort to have the flag removed began with individuals contacting the KCL, the certifying agency that supervises the kashrus at the store. The KCL, according to sources, reached out to one its senior rabbinic advisors regarding this matter, Matzav.com learned exclusively. This rabbinic advisor felt that in light of the fact that the store is located in an area of bnei Torah, not far from the Lakewood Yeshiva, the flag should preferably be taken down.

The Hatzolah of Lakewood announced that they will be changing the organization’s name to Hatzolah of Central Jersey to better reflect the services they offer the local Jewish community.
The EMS volunteer group was established over 30 years ago, operating in the small neighborhood surrounding the growing Lakewood Yeshiva. Decades later, the Jewish community of Lakewood has now expanded and grown tenfold, with Jews branching out to local towns such as Brick, Jackson, Howell and Toms River and Hatzolah servicing all these new neighborhoods. What started as a few calls to Hatzolah a week has now become nearly 10,000 calls a year.

The BBC has sacked Danny Baker saying he showed a “serious error of judgement” over his tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s baby.
The tweet, which he later deleted but which has been circulated on social media, showed an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes with the caption: “Royal Baby leaves hospital”.
The BBC Live presenter was accused of mocking the duchess’s racial heritage. The corporation said Baker’s tweet “goes against the values we as a station aim to embody”.
Baker claimed it was a “stupid gag”.

On Israel’s Independence Day, a blind IDF soldier received Israel’s Presidential Medal of Excellence.
Sergeant Ori Salmon was part of an IDF project called Special in Uniform, which seeks to integrate special needs and disabled Israelis into the army.
A non-commissioned educational officer, Salmon was born blind and volunteered for the IDF despite her disability.
“Both my elder brothers, parents, and extended family all proudly served the IDF, and they all recall this period as a very special and wonderful time in their lives,” she told a group of Special in Uniform IDF volunteers.