Bnei Brak Mikve Employees Taking First Aid Courses
All Bnei Brak mikve employees will take first aid courses and first aid equipment will be placed in the city’s mikvaos. The plan is the initiative of Bnei Brak Councilman Ezra Avraham Green, who is responsible for the city’s mikvaos. Green will be working with Asher Slomowitz, who is the head of Hatzalah Gush Dan.
It was explained that tens of thousands of people use the city’s mikvaos monthly, so it is quite obvious why the first aid course are essential.
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Trump Surges In Polls Among GOP
Real estate mogul and Republican presidential contender Donald Trump says he's apologized to Sen. John McCain about comments mocking his war hero status.
Trump questioned McCain's military service during a speech to supporters over the weekend saying he wasn't a war hero.
"He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured," said Trump.
But on Tuesday, Trump said it's time to move forward.
"He's already been apologized to. I sent the statement. I gave news ...
ISA Interrogators Threaten Detained Youths
On Monday, 4 Menachem Av, Honenu attorneys Yuval Zemer and Aharon Roza were finally allowed to meet with some of the youths who have been detained for more than one week on suspicion of involvement with an arson incident at a church in the region of the Kinneret.
The detainees revealed to the attorneys that they were abused by the ISA interrogators who threatened them, humiliated them and shouted at them. They are being held in an ISA facility, in solitary confinement under extremely harsh ...
Iran's Parliament Committee To Review Text Of Nuclear Deal
Iranian lawmakers set up a special committee to review the landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers last week after the country's foreign minister earlier on Tuesday presented parliament with a copy of the agreement.
The development came a day after the U.N. Security Council unanimously endorsed the deal, which reins in Iran's nuclear program and authorized measures leading to the end of U.N. sanctions imposed on Iran.
Under Iran's constitution, parliament has a right to reject any ...
Yavniel: Family Insist Rav Toledano Was Murdered While Police are Calling the Death a Suicide
Police have labeled the death of Rabbi Asher Toledano, director of the mosdos in Yavniel a suicide but family members insist the rav was murdered. Family members explain he was murdered due to his control over the estate of Rav Shick ZT”L, the Tzaddik of Yavniel.
Rabbi Toledano died of his injuries in Poriah Hospital in Tiveria. He arrived with a plastic zip tie locked around his neck. It is pointed out the rav arrived in the hospital on the day there was to be a court hearing to rule over ...
UK Officials Charge 2 Men With Trying To Join ISIS
British prosecutors have charged two men with trying to join the Islamic State extremist group in Syria.
One of the men is also charged with planning a terrorist attack on U.S. military personnel in Britain.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Tuesday that 24-year-old Junead Ahmed Khan and his 22-year-old uncle Shazib Ahmed Khan have been charged with trying to join the extremist group. Junead Khan was also charged with plotting to attack U.S. military personnel.
"We have concluded that ...
Jerusalem: Chareidim on Board for Funding for Reformed Movement Affiliated 'Hebrew Union College'
The Jerusalem City Council has approved funding for the Reform Movement affiliated Hebrew Union College, Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) reports on Tuesday, 5 Menachem Av. According to the report, the approval for funding was made with the knowledge of chareidi city councilmen.
Councilman Chanan Rubin of the Hisorarus party told Galei Tzahal “I spoke with chareidi councilman and told them there is a concept of ’70 faces to torah’ and this is a Jewish concept. The understood that Jerusalem is ...
Germanwings Crash Families Accuse Airline of Ignoring Them
A group of parents whose children were killed in the Germanwings plane crash in March have written a scathing letter to Lufthansa's CEO, accusing him of ignoring their needs and feelings.
The parents of 16 students from the town of Haltern killed in the crash have accused Carsten Spohr of never having spoken with relatives to apologize.
In the letter, provided Tuesday by their lawyer, they say "we've heard nothing from you."
Lufthansa says Spohr has talked with many victims' families ...
Things To Know About Ohio's John Kasich Who Just Entered GOP Race For Whithouse
A snapshot of things to know about Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who's declaring his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday:
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THE BRIEF
Kasich rose to prominence in 1997, when as House Budget chairman he became the chief architect of a deal that balanced the federal budget for the first time since 1969. He rode his reputation as a fiscal conservative to a White House bid in 2000, but soon dropped out. After 18 years in Congress, Kasich left Washington in 2001 ...
Knesset Approves 5 Years Imprisonment for Rock-Throwing
The Knesset on Monday 4 Menachem Av approved a bill in a 69-17 vote that increases the punishment for rock-throwing to five years imprisonment. It was a stormy plenum session as Arab Members of Knesset the rock attacks against civilians but the bill passed its second and third (final) votes. The bill addresses hurling a rock or another object at a traveling vehicle.
It is explained the bill was aimed at assisting law enforcement in cutting the number of rock attacks, adding there are ...
German Officials To Ask US For Clarity On Latest Spy Claims
Germany's Foreign Ministry says it's asking the U.S. government to clarify the latest spying allegations published by WikiLeaks.
The secrecy-spilling website published a document late Monday that it claimed was a summary of a 2005 conversation involving Germany's foreign minister.
WikiLeaks alleges that the conversation was intercepted by U.S. intelligence, though it didn't say which agency might have done so or how.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday while it couldn't ...
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