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August 26, 2016 at 2:57 pm
Parshas Aikev / Shabbos Mevorchim Elul / Baltimore Zmanim / Eruv is UP!
Baltimore, MD – Aug. 26, 2016
Parshas: VaEschanan
Today: 22 Menachem Av
Chatzos: 1:08
Hadlakas Nairos: 7:28 PM
Shkiah: 7:46:01 PM
Tzais HaKochavim: 8:37 PM
Rosh Chodesh: Shabbos, September 3 and Sunday, September 4
Kiddush Levanah: Sunday, Sept. 4 7:35 PM – Friday, Sept. 16, 2016 1:57 PM
Kiddush Levanah may only be said at night
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August 26, 2016 at 2:47 pm
Agudath Israel hailed the decision issued today by the federal court in favor of Yeshiva Naos Yaakov.
United States District Judge Freda Wolfson ruled that the denial of the variances by Ocean Township, NJ violates RLUIPA. Agudath Israel of America helped to draft RLUIPA (The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act) which became law in 2000. RLUIPA prohibits local zoning boards from imposing or implementing zoning and other land use regulations in a manner that significantly affects the free religious exercise of a person, assembly, or institution. This decision will allow the yeshiva to build a dormitory-based facility.
Rabbi Avi Schnall, Agudath Israel's New Jersey director, said, "This decision makes a statement that the religious liberties of institu...
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August 26, 2016 at 1:32 pm
Orlando, FL - Two months after a gunman killed dozens inside an Orlando nightclub, the sound of popping balloons prompted shoppers to frantically flee an Orlando mall, injuring nine.
Orange County Sheriff’s Officials spokeswoman Deputy Rose Silva tells news outlets there was no gunman at the Florida Mall. The loud sounds were actually from six large balloons being popped as part of an industry-standard inspection for the grand opening of former ‘NSync singer Joey Fatone’s new restaurant.
Deputies say an announcement was made on the PA system informing shoppers and employees that the test was about to be conducted, but the loud noises still caused people to run.
Orange County Fire and Rescue officials say nine people were treated at the scene, including four wh...
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August 26, 2016 at 1:18 pm
Istanbul - Turkey opens one of the world’s biggest suspension bridges on Friday, creating a new link between two continents with the latest megaproject in a $200 billion building spree that President Tayyip Erdogan hopes will secure his place in history.
The bridge across the Bosphorus Strait, which divides Asia and Europe, is built in the style of New York’s Brooklyn Bridge and boasts pylons higher than the Eiffel Tower. It is 1.4 km (0.9 mile) long and 59 meters wide, with eight vehicle lanes and two high-speed rail lines.
Erdogan is seeking to use such projects to drive economic growth and secure a place as Turkey’s most significant leader since the modern republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
“Be proud of your power, Turkey,” said a TV...
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August 26, 2016 at 1:02 pm
BH, we are settling in. Or trying to. Still in our temporary apartment so we can only settle so much. Our lift is now in storage until we are ready for it. I have been hard at work with the kitchen designer and the kablan (contractor) and hope to start renovations on our actual apartment probably the beginning of Elul. Our deadline to be out of our temporary apartment is the end of October, so this will be challenging. But, that is a worry for another time.
Last Shabbos we were with our son and family in Bnei Brak. We stayed over for Sunday and went on a very fun trip to a park in Kibbutz Chofetz Chaim. When we returned to Yerushalyim about 7:00, it was time to shower and change to get ready to go to 2 bar mitzvahs. One was in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood and the other was in Har Nof. We...
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August 26, 2016 at 1:01 pm
Baltimore, MD - Aug. 25, 2016:
Dear Community Members,
On 08-26-16, between 2:15 am and 2:45 am, there was a residential burglary in the 3500 block of Barton Oaks Road. An unknown suspect entered an unlocked rear door to gain entry into the residence. Cell phones, electronics and cash were stolen. Please record all of your serial numbers for your cell phones, electronics, and other serialized property.
Please be vigilant of suspicious subjects or vehicles roaming through the neighborhood. If you notice any suspicious activity, safely get a good description of the subjects or vehicles (including license plates) and immediately contact 911. We offer Free Home Security Surveys, where a uniformed officer will respond to your home and give you suggestions ...
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August 26, 2016 at 12:58 pm
Some American journalists assigned to the political beat are having a hard time. Their dilemma is named Donald Trump, a man they don’t feel they can cover objectively.
Those troubled are reporters with a liberal bent, and that, of course, means most of the profession. The vast majority of mainstream print and electronic media personnel are well entrenched on the left end of the political spectrum. To be sure, one needn’t be a social or political liberal to regard the Republican presidential candidate with concern — many in Mr. T.’s own party are distancing themselves from him — but “progressive” citizens have a particular revulsion for the controversial candidate.
And so, while the intrepid reporters soldier on in the quest for fairness...
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August 26, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Baltimore, MD – Aug. 25, 2016 - It is with deep sorrow and regret that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Daniel Lansky, A’H, husband of Elana (Zylberminc) Lansky, father of Coby, Aaron and Gabi Lansky, son of Rabbi & Mrs. Nachum Lansky.
Shiva will take place at 6529 Pebble Brooke Road Baltimore, MD 21209.
Shacharis- 8:00 AM Mincha/Maariv- 7:30 PM Mincha Friday- 2:00 PM
The Lansky family will be sitting shiva until Wed. morning. Please respect the following schedule.
Friday - until 2 pm.
Motzei Shabbos - until 11 pm.
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday - No visitors between 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm and not after 10 PM
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
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August 26, 2016 at 12:38 pm
Manhattan, NY - New York City subway riders are likely to get bugged over a lot of things — but a recent incident was one for the books.
The New York Post ( http://nyp.st/2c1fvpK ) says a woman trying to sell crickets and worms lost her grip on her odd cargo when she got jostled Wednesday evening on a “D’’ train.
Rider Chris Calabrese says startled passengers had crickets on their arms; his girlfriend was crying. The worms wriggled on the floor.
Passengers moved to the other end of the subway car. Someone pulled the emergency brake and the train halted on the Manhattan Bridge.
Calabrese says it was “the craziest thing” he’d ever seen on a train.
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August 26, 2016 at 9:47 am
As reported NY1′s Amanda Farinacci, the Jewish community is being priced out of Williamsburg, Brooklyn and they are looking into two new neighborhoods on Staten Island.
Would-be buyers from the Jewish community are not waiting for houses to go on sale, rather they are canvassing homeowners asking if they are willing to sell.
“They’ve been a little aggressively trying to get property around here,” said one Staten Island resident.
“A guy came and knocked on her door and was asking to buy the house for like $800,000,” another noted.
They have also been posting flyers around the neighborhood.
“My name is Noah. I am looking to buy a house in Manor Heights,” one reads. “If you are interested in selling your house, please call.”
Ho...
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August 26, 2016 at 9:39 am
Updated: Aug. 25, 2016 - 9:39 AM - B'Chasdei HaShem the boys have been found and theydanced and celebrated at Camp Stolin
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Bear Mountain, NY - New York state police searched throughout the night for two Brooklyn teenagers who got separated from their group in suburban Bear Mountain State Park.
Volunteers were assisting with the search on Friday morning.
The 16-year-old boys are from Brooklyn and were part of a group from Karlin Stolin Camp in Highlands in Ulster County. They were last seen hiking on Thursday afternoon in the park, which is in Rockland County.
Names of the boys for Tehillim:Moshe Tzvi ben Esther Yosef Yitzchok ben Rina
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August 26, 2016 at 9:26 am
Jerusalem - Israeli soldiers on Friday shot and killed an apparently unarmed Palestinian who ran toward their position in a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, and the incident was under review, a military spokeswoman said.
A Palestinian official said the 38-year-old man suffered from mental illness, and several unsourced Israeli news websites reported that no weapons were found on his body.
“(Israeli) forces identified a suspect running toward an IDF (Israel Defence Forces) post in Silwad,” the military spokeswoman said. “Upon the suspect’s advance, the forces shot the suspect, resulting in his death. The incident is currently being reviewed.”
Asked whether the Palestinian had been armed, she said that “the details are still being ...
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August 26, 2016 at 9:17 am
Jerusalem - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prevented a coalition crisis Friday, after a long night of negotiations with Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz and haredi parties over construction on train lines on Shabbat.
On Thursday night, the heads of the haredi parties threatened to leave the coalition if the government is not more careful about respecting the Sabbath.
The final compromise reached was that construction along the Ayalon Highway would continue to take place on Shabbat, because the road is congested on most weekdays and the work would endanger lives.
However, construction on train lines that would not endanger lives, like between Ben Gurion Airport and Modiin or between Bet Yehoshua and Atlit, would not take place on Shabbat.
In addition, a committee to coor...
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August 26, 2016 at 9:17 am
Tehran, Iran - The whirling hum of a dialysis machine could have been the soundtrack to the rest of Zahra Hajikarimi’s life but for an unusual program in Iran that allows people to buy a kidney from a living donor.
Iran’s kidney program stands apart from other organ donation systems around the world by openly allowing payments, typically of several thousand dollars. It has helped effectively eliminate the country’s kidney transplant waiting list since 1999, the government says, in contrast to Western nations like the United States, where tens of thousands hope for an organ and thousands die waiting each year.
Critics warn the system can prey on the poor in Iran’s long-sanctioned economy, with ads promising cash for kidneys. The World Health Organization ...
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August 26, 2016 at 9:17 am
New York - Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Tim Kaine, will not campaign or run ads on Sept. 11.
A campaign official has confirmed that Clinton will refrain from stumping on the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
A national nonprofit named 9/11 Day sent letters this week to presidential candidates, asking them to stop their public political activities that day. It wants to instead focus on service and remembrance.
In addition, 9/11 Day is urging people running for Congress to refrain from campaigning.
In 2012, the organization made a similar request; both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama complied.
“We would like to rekindle that spirit of unity and togetherness that marked the mood after the attacks,&rd...
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August 26, 2016 at 9:16 am
Chateaurenard, France - Burkinis must be banned throughout France, ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy said at his first campaign rally for the 2017 presidential election.
Hundreds of supporters waving French flags chanted his name and applauded as Sarkozy, who led France from 2007-2012 before losing an election to Socialist Francois Hollande, promised to protect the French people.
“I will be the president that re-establishes the authority of the state,” Sarkozy told supporters packing a sports hall in Chateaurenard, a Provence town where Sarkozy’s Les Republicains just beat the far-right FN in regional elections last year.
Several French coastal towns, including on the Riviera, have banned the full-body swimwear worn by some Muslim women on the grounds that it brea...
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August 26, 2016 at 9:16 am
Singapore - The world’s first self-driving taxis began picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday.
Select members of the public can hail a free ride through their smartphones in taxis operated by nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup. While multiple companies, including Google and Volvo, have been testing self-driving cars on public roads for several years, nuTonomy says is the first to offer rides to the public.
Its launch in Singapore is beating ride-hailing service Uber, which plans to offer rides in autonomous cars in Pittsburgh, by a few weeks.
NuTonomy is starting small — six cars now, growing to a dozen by the end of the year. The ultimate goal, company executives say, is to have a fully self-driving taxi fleet in Singapore by 2018, to help...
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August 26, 2016 at 9:10 am
Washington - Donald Trump defeated 16 rivals in the Republican primaries by being the most anti-immigrant of them all, promising to build a giant wall on the border and deport millions. He labeled opponents like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio as weak and amnesty-loving, and his extreme rhetoric pushed the entire debate over immigration to the right.
But suddenly, Trump is sounding like some of the people he defeated. In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” show Wednesday, Trump talked about how tough it is to break up families for deportation, suggesting that maybe upstanding people who’ve been in this country for years should be allowed to stay if they pay back taxes and insisting, just as Bush and Rubio were repeatedly forced to do, that such actions...
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August 26, 2016 at 9:10 am
New York - For years following the events of September 11, 2001 in lower Manhattan, the disaster and its aftermath may have affected women and their babies who were not even conceived yet, according to a new study.
Researchers found that among women who were rescue or recovery workers responding to the events of 9/11, or women who resided below Canal Street in the World Trade Center’s neighborhood, those with the most intense exposures to the disaster had doubled rates of preterm delivery and low birthweight babies over the next few years.
“Associations between disaster exposure and adverse birth outcomes have been demonstrated repeatedly in the past,” said lead author Carey Maslow, deputy director of research for the World Trade Center Health Registry. ...
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August 26, 2016 at 9:09 am
Orlando, FL - Two Florida hospitals will not seek payment of medical bills from the dozens of people treated for injuries suffered in the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June, officials at the health facilities said.
The move leaves the hospitals with estimated unreimbursed costs topping $5.5 million, they said on Thursday.
Forty-nine people were killed and 53 were wounded by gunman Omar Mateen before police fatally shot him after a three-hour standoff inside the gay dance club on June 12.
U.S. authorities said Mateen was self-radicalized and acted alone, without assistance or orders from abroad, to commit the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
“It was incredible to see how our community came together in the wake of the senseless Pulse shoo...
