The first time officers shot rubber bullets at MSNBC host Ali Velshi and his crew Saturday night in Minneapolis, he was willing to believe that the officials didn’t know they were press. The second time, Velshi said, they knew and shot anyway. “We put our hands up and yelled, ‘We’re media!’” Velshi said. “They responded, ‘We don’t care!’ and they opened fire a second time.” Velshi, who said he was hit in the leg by a rubber bullet, is just one of many journalists across the country who sustained injuries from police or protesters while covering the George Floyd protests this weekend. And this occurred after Minnesota Gov.

Hagaon Rav Ben-Tzion Mutzafi, one of the most chashuve Sefardi poskim in Israel, was asked by one of his students whether to send someone who suffers from emotional problems to an alternative practitioner. The Rav did not mince words in his reply to the shaila and what he thought about the question itself. The student wrote in his letter: “Many people suffer from fears and worries in our generation and unfortunately, family doctors prescribe harmful pills. Today there are natural healers.” Rav Mutzafi responded: “I don’t know from where you’re taking this resonsiblity on your shoulders – the refuah of patients with issues that can lead to sakanas nefashos and even to loss of life.

Airlines are starting to see a slight rise in bookings, but air travel remains down about 90%, prompting speculation about which carriers might go under. JetBlue Airways CEO Robin Hayes admits he doesn’t know how quickly air travel will recover from the coronavirus outbreak, and no matter what, his will be a smaller airline. Hayes, however, is confident that all large airlines in the U.S. will survive. He talked recently with The Associated Press about making passengers feel safe while flying, what types of trips people will take first, and how COVID-19 will bring permanent changes to the airline business. Answers have been edited for length. Q. How are bookings now? A. The low point in terms of demand was around the middle of April when the U.S.

A fourth day of protests against police brutality kept New York City on edge Sunday, as thousands of people marched and many protesters and officers tried to keep the peace after days of unrest that left police cars burned and hundreds of people under arrest. Demonstrators paraded through multiple neighborhoods, chanting, kneeling in the street, and falling silent for a minute in front of the neon-adorned NYPD station in Times Square in honor of people killed by police. Through most of the day, in most of the city, a tense truce held, with officers keeping their distance and occasionally dropping to a knee in a gesture of respect. But after dark, there were ugly confrontations. Demonstrators in downtown Brooklyn and parts of Manhattan pelted officers with objects and set fires.

Compiled by Rabbi Yair Hoffman These thoughts and sayings were culled from the first volume of Mishnas Rabbi Aharon One must empathize even when the other gains no benefit. One who does not feel another’s pain, and certainly a community’s pain, violates a grave sin. A man’s actions are measured by how much desire he had to do them in the first place. Spiritual losses are far more devastating than material losses. Spiritual gains far outweigh material gains. A person’s innermost intent, for good or bad, has ramifications for generations to come. The main growth of a human being lies in his ability to accept rebuke. Man was created to help others. If instead he hurts others – he has lost the justification for his existence.

U.S. retailers large and small have closed some of their stores across the country because of disruptions caused by the widespread street protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Target, CVS, Apple and Walmart all said Sunday that they had temporarily closed or limited hours at some locations for safety reasons. In some places, their stores have been burned, broken into or looted as protests turned violent. Amazon said Sunday that it has adjusted its routes and suspended deliveries to keep its drivers safe in some cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and Minneapolis. A spokeswoman, Kelly Cheeseman, said Amazon is also abiding by local curfews that have required people to remain off streets after a specified hour at night.

A senior official in the direct chain of command for defending Washington D.C. told Fox News that more than 50 Secret Service officers have been injured Sunday night so far, and that some rioters were throwing bottles and Molotov cocktails. U.S. Marshals and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents have been deployed to the streets of D.C. in an extraordinary move to beef up security alongside local police and Homeland Security agents, including the Secret Service, the Justice Department confirmed late Sunday. Fox News has learned U.S. Attorney for D.C. Mike Sherwin is heavily involved in the operation. Additionally, the entire Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump spent much of Sunday using Twitter as a bullhorn to urge “law and order” and tougher action by police against protesters around the country. Joe Biden quietly visited the site of protests in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, and talked to some of the demonstrators. Earlier, he wrote a post on Medium expressing empathy for those despairing about the killing of George Floyd. That low-key, high-touch approach may be a sign of how the presumptive Democratic nominee presents himself in the five months before the presidential election, emphasizing calm and competence as a contrast to a mercurial president. It is an approach that carries the risk of being drowned out by the much louder, more persistent voice of Trump.

Israel’s new Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced during a press conference on Sunday night that there will be new parameters in place to determine who will be able to receive a test for Covid-19 Coronavirus ad that these new parameters will include people who show no symptoms of the virus. Until recently the regulations only allowed people who showed some symptoms of the virus and were exposed to a person with a confirmed case of the virus. According to Edelstein people will now be allowed to be tested if they fit into one of the following seven categories: 1: Family members of a person who is confirmed to have the virus even if they don’t have any symptoms.

Rav Stern of Jerusalem had everything that many work a lifetime to achieve: A talmid chacham, a rosh kollel, and a mashgiach, with a wonderful Rebbetzin & 14 happy children. Despite appearances however, a diagnosis had quietly turned their home to chaos. Since Rebbetzin Stern’s battle with cancer began, the Rav has become solely responsible for raising his large family. This is in addition to running a kollel, and tending to his wife’s needs. As is the case in families hit by such trauma, the older kids have learned to care for the younger kids. The Rebbetzin is confined to her bed, fighting bravely against the disease. It did not take long for financial pressure to take hold.