Year: 2019

Sputnik

The site of the Jewish temple is still considered holy by believers. There is a prophecy that promises the temple will one day be rebuilt. A glimmer of hope that the foretelling could come to pass has arisen after a connected prediction about foxes heading to the remains of the Second Jewish Temple, the Western Wall, was fulfilled literally.  Continue reading “Foxes Spotted on Jerusalem Temple Mount in Claimed Prophetic Sign About Third Temple”

The Mind Unleashed – by Elias Marat

Top law enforcement officials in the state of Ohio are upset at lawmakers, accusing the politicians of accidentally legalizing cannabis throughout the state.

As a result, prosecutors are now upset that they are no longer able to prosecute misdemeanor marijuana cases as they previously could, according to WBNS. And now, Ohio prosecutors are either holding off on pursuing charges against those in possession of the plant or throwing them out altogether.  Continue reading “Ohio Lawmakers Accidentally Legalized Marijuana, Top Cops Say”

Middle East Monitor

A US court has convicted Lee Elbaz, former CEO of Israel-based Yukom Communications, of three counts of wire fraud and one of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a global binary options scheme.

Barry Pollack, a lawyer for Elbaz, told Reuters by email on Thursday that the court jury in the US state of Maryland “got it wrong” and his client would appeal against her conviction on Wednesday. The US Justice Department did not immediately respond on Thursday to requests for comment.  Continue reading “US court convicts Israeli for role in binary options fraud”

BBC

The US has called China a “thuggish regime” after a Chinese state newspaper published the name and photo of a US diplomat talking to activists.

China dismissed the remark as what it called “gangster logic”. The Chinese have repeatedly accused the US of interfering in Hong Kong.  Continue reading “Hong Kong: US calls China a ‘thuggish regime’ amid fresh protests”

Daily Mail

An elderly man in Washington is suspected of fatally shooting his wife before killing himself because they could not afford to pay her high medical bills.

The couple has been identified as Brian Jones, 77, and Patricia Whitney-Jones, 76, reported the Lynden Tribune. Continue reading “Elderly couple found dead in murder-suicide left notes that they couldn’t pay high medical bills”

Yahoo News

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A U.S. judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants from Oregon to force the nation’s first sanctuary state to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement.

U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane, in Eugene said in his ruling late Wednesday that the Trump administration lacks the authority to impose conditions on the grants that were provided by Congress.  Continue reading “Judge rules for Oregon in sanctuary state case with Trump”

Times of Israel

AFP — In the heat of the summer, Sivan Noel and her sister Michal say they rarely venture outside of their family’s small, basement apartment in Tel Aviv.

The two girls, 11 and nine, risk being deported to the family’s home country, the Philippines, even though they’ve never set foot there.  Continue reading “Born in Israel, hundreds of Filipino children risk expulsion”

Times of Israel

Some 167 national, state and local Jewish organizations, including the major umbrella bodies of the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform streams, have called on the US government to meet the refugee resettlement admissions goal for this year.

The goal for fiscal year 2019 is 30,000, a historically low figure.  Continue reading “Jewish groups urge Trump administration to restore higher refugee quotas”

The College Fix

The school district claims he wasn’t punished. But it dragged him out of class for the day and warned him not to correctly identify the biological sex of a classmate again.

Liberty Counsel said an Ohio school district backed down after the religious liberty law firm warned that it could not punish a sixth grader for disagreeing with classmates who said a boy with gender dysphoria was actually a girl.  Continue reading “Sixth grader dragged out of class for saying gender-confused boy ‘is a boy’”

Coming Clean

A new Netflix documentary titled, “The Devil We Know,” tells the story of DuPont’s decades-long cover-up of the harm caused by chemicals used to make its popular non-stick Teflon™ products. The film shows how the chemicals used to make Teflon poisoned people and the environment—not just in Parkersburg, West Virginia, where DuPont had a Teflon plant, but all over the world.  Continue reading “‘The Devil We Know:’ How DuPont Poisoned the World with Teflon”

Insider Louisville

Though the stories reported from the Gaza Strip are horrible, it can feel far from Louisville, insulated in the middle of the United States. But not for Louisville native Josh Roberts. The 27-year-old enlisted in the Israeli Defense Force and is now a soldier in the Holy Land. Instead of running from this dangerous land, he ran to it, and now finds himself in the middle of this conflict.  Continue reading “Louisville native Josh Roberts joins Israeli Army, writes public letter home”