Simmons: Animal Abuse Reference Wasn't About 'The' Holocaust
Russell Simmons says he wasn't making a direct comparison between people and animals when he used references to a holocaust and slavery in talking about animal welfare recently.
Simmons spoke at an event last week calling for the banning of carriage horses in New York City, and was lambasted for saying animal abuse was a "holocaust." The Anti-Defamation League was among those criticizing him.
He told The Associated Press on Sunday that he wasn't comparing the conditions of carriage horses ...
Degel MKs Convene With Maran HaRav Shteinman
Degel Hatorah MKs Moshe Gafne and Uri Maklev together with party secretary Yaakov Asher convened with Maran HaGaon HaRav Aaron Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita, reportedly to discuss a number of matters including the growing machlokes with the chassidish Agudas Yisrael faction. The 90-minute meeting took place on Sunday morning 3 Menachem Av.
Gafne and the others explained to Rav Shteinman Agudas Yisrael Deputy Ministers Meir Porush and Yaakov Litzman has signaled they are opposed to the law and ...
US-Led Airdrops Shower Leaflets Over Islamic State Territory
A U.S.-led coalition dropped new leaflets over the de facto capital of the Islamic State group in Syria, warning those below that "freedom will come" to the region, activists said Sunday.
A Raqqa-based anti-Islamic State group and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the leaflets had drawings showing dead extremists and their flag turned upside down. Four fighters with the main Kurdish militia, the People's Protection Units, or YPG, walked down a street in the picture, ...
Rav Arush: I Will No Longer See Women in 'Kabolas Khal'
HaRav Shalom Arush, Rosh Yeshivas Chut Shel Chessed, has announced he will no longer accept women wishing to meet with him. According to a Kikar Shabbos report, due to the story surrounding the prominent rav from Tzfas, [ link to article 2] he has decided he will no longer have kabolas khal for women.
The rav is quoted telling his talmidim that “the yetzer hora among rabbonim is stronger than among others” and therefore feels rabbonim must not receive women wishing to speak with them ...
TEHILLIM - HaRav Matisyahu Solomon Taken To Hospital
Please take a moment to be Mispallel for HaRav Matisyahu Solomon Shlita, the Mashgiach of Lakewood's BMG, who was just rushed by Hatzolah to the hospital.
Sources tell YWN that the Mashgiach did not attend the Levaya today for Rebbitzen Rishel Kotler after not feeling well the past few days. His condition deteriorated this morning until Hatzolah was called.
He was taken to Kimball Medical Center by Lakewood Hatzolah Paramedics
The tzibur is requested to be Mispallel for Matisyahu Chaim ...
No Retreat, No Surrender for Free-Speaking Candidate Trump
Once again, Donald Trump isn't backing down from comments that have inflamed the Republican presidential race. And some of his rivals are no longer treating him with kid gloves.
Republican presidential contenders Marco Rubio and Rick Perry said Trump, with his latest bombast, has demonstrated he is not fit to be president.
At an Iowa candidate forum on Saturday, Trump dismissed Republican Sen. John McCain's reputation as a war hero, saying the aviator was merely taken captive after being ...
Badatz Orot Eliyahu Likely to Close Down
Using the Chief Rabbinate of Israel mailing list to get his message out, Tzfas Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu Shlita sent a letter around the world disassociating himself with Badatz Orot Eliyahu, headed by Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg. Rabbi Sheinberg is a talmid chacham who has semicha from HaGaon HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu ZT”L, a prominent dati leumi rav and noted mekubal in that community.
In 2012 the two launched their Badatz Orot Eliyahu, perhaps the first and only dati leumi ‘badatz’ ...
Plan For Second Trial For Boston Bomber Prompts Backlash
A state prosecutor's insistence that Boston Marathon bomber Dzkokhar Tsarnaev should stand trial a second time has triggered a backlash.
Some people feel it would re-traumatize victims and amount to a waste of taxpayers' money.
Tsarnaev was sentenced to death after being convicted by a federal jury in the bombing, as well as the killing of MIT police Officer Sean Collier three days later.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan says she still plans to put Tsarnaev on trial for state ...
Are Reports of Pollard's Release in November 2015 Reliable?
Reports appear in numerous media outlets that Jonathan Pollard is slated for parole on November 21, 2015. It is pointed out that a similar notice appeared on the US Federal Prisons website but this time around there appears to be an added air of legitimacy because Mr. Pollard, 61, will have served 30 years imprisonment, enough to satisfy his life sentence.
Amid reports seeking to connect a possible Pollard release to American’s recent deal with Iran, it is reported that a scheduled Pollard ...
Schumer: Airlines Won't Put Fares On Third-Party Websites
Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for a federal investigation of airlines who won't allow their fares to show up on third-party websites like Expedia and Orbitz.
The New York Democrat says Sunday that the practice prevents consumers from seeing all their options when booking a fight.
The Justice Department is already investigating possible collusion among major airlines to limit the number of available seats to keep fares high. Schumer says the investigation should be expanded to look at ...
Chareidi Threats Regarding Budget Cuts Lead to Motzei Shabbos Meeting with PM
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has informed coalition members that budgetary realities will compel an across the board cut. The cuts will include funding promised to the chareidi parties in coalition agreements earmarked for yeshivos and mosdos, as well as monthly child allowance payments. The response from Yahadut Hatorah has been loud and clear, “budgetary cuts will not be tolerated”, adding if the cuts are made it may result in the collapse of the ...
Ex-President George HW Bush 'In Good Spirits' After Fall
A spokesman for George H.W. Bush says doctors are pleased with the progress the former president is making since he fractured a bone in his neck during a fall last week.
Jim McGrath said Sunday that Bush is doing better and his spirits are good.
The 91-year-old Bush took a tumble at his summer home in Kennebunkport on Wednesday and remains hospitalized.
The 41st president fractured his C2 vertebra, the second one below the skull, but doctors say it didn't impinge on his spine or lead ...
Rabbi Berland Sends a Message to his Chassidim From Undisclosed Location
Rabbi Eliezer Berland has sent a message to his talmidim, his first communication with chassidim since fleeing Holland.
Rav Berland, who is Rosh Yeshiva of Shuvu Banim, lost an appeal to the Supreme Court in Holland and faced extradition to Israel to stand trial for alleged assaults against women. The Rav managed to flee Holland before he was taken into custody for extradition, presumably to a country that does not have an extradition treaty with Israel.
The message was sent on erev ...
VIDEO: PM Netanyahu: Iranian Leader Sends a Clear Message
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday, 3 Menachem Av, spoke to the media at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. The prime minister opted to continue speaking out against the deal signed between Iran and the P5+1 in Vienna, adding, "If someone thought that the extraordinary concessions to Iran would lead to a change in its policy, they received an unequivocal answer over the weekend in Iranian ruler Khamenei's aggressive and contrary speech. The Iranians ...
Medicaid Enrollment Surges, Stirs Worry About State Budgets
More than a dozen states that opted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act have seen enrollments surge way beyond projections.
Those numbers raise concerns that the added costs will strain state budgets when federal aid is scaled back starting in two years.
Some lawmakers warn that the price of expanding the health care program for poor and lower-income Americans could mean less money available for other state services, including education.
In Kentucky, enrollments during the ...
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