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September 23, 2016 at 8:14 am
How long do you think you’ll live? Sorry to be so blunt, but don’t we all think that we’ll always some “more time”? I am thinking about many people I have known – some of them very close, some just acquaintances, some very young, some old – who, over the past year, have become very sick or who have died. When these people are young or have never been sick, it is a terrible shock to hear the news – how can this be!? Didn’t they have more time!? I didn’t even have a chance to say goodbye, or tell them what a special person they were!
That’s because we are complacent and think we have more time. But time is a precious commodity, and we tend not to cherish it as much as we should. I am always reminded of a mussar thought R&rsqu...
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September 23, 2016 at 8:02 am
It’s hard to describe the feeling of Shabbos here. There is a peace, a serenity that is palpable. People coming and going from shule. The sounds of kiddush or zemiros from open apartment windows. The streets literally filled with children playing jump rope. Or enjoying the ability to zoom down hilly streets on their bimba (Israeli version of a children’s riding toy) without a car in sight. But like so many experiences in life, Shabbos in Yerushalayim cannot be properly experienced without first experiencing Eruv Shabbos in Yerushalayim.
I am still very new to Shabbos preparations in Israel. We are still in our temporary rental apartment while our own apartment is being renovated. THAT is, of course, a whole series of articles in itself – our shiputzim (renovations). But ...
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September 22, 2016 at 11:25 pm
Baltimore, MD – Sept. 22, 2016 - It is with deep sorrow that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah of Mr. Moshe Hakakian, a'h, father of Aharon Hakakian, Avraham Hakakian Jaleh Attar, David Hakakian, Saeed Haken and Rabbi Eliyahu Hakakian
Shiva will be observed at 3200 Bonnie Road, Baltimore, MD 21208
Shacharis: Fri/Mon/Wed: Selichot 6:30 AM Shacharit 7AM - Sun: Selichot 7AM Shacharit 7:30AM
Mincha/Maariv 6:45 PM
Friday Mincha 3:00 PM
The family requests no visitors between 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
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September 22, 2016 at 11:04 pm
Baltimore, MD Daily Dvar Halacha - Sept. 22, 2016 / 19Elul 5776 - Why Does G D Need Us To Praise Him So Much On Rosh Hashanah?
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September 22, 2016 at 10:39 pm
Computer hackers swiped personal information from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts in what is believed to be the biggest digital break-in at an email provider.
The massive security breakdown disclosed Thursday poses new headaches for Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer as she scrambles to close a $4.8 billion sale to Verizon Communication.
The breach Thursday dates back to late 2014, raising questions about the checks and balances within Yahoo — a fallen internet star that has been laying off staff to counter a steep drop in revenue during the past eight years.
At the time of the break-in, Yahoo’s security team was led by Alex Stamos, a respected industry executive who left last year to take a similar job at Facebook.
Yahoo didn’t explain what took so long to uncover a breach ...
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September 22, 2016 at 8:32 pm
Lakewood, NJ - An Orthodox Jewish teen standing outside a Lakewood area Walmart found himself the victim of a bias incident when he was pushed and told to leave the area by an unidentified Hispanic woman.
According to the Howell Police Department, the encounter took place on September 5th at approximately 10 PM at the Route 9 Walmart Supercenter Howell, approximately two miles north of the Lakewood border.
Detective Sergeant Christian Antunez of the Howell Police Department said that the woman walked up to the teen, who was standing in front of the store with friends and confronted him aggressively and without provocation, despite attempts by a male companion to restrain her.
The woman asked the teen if he was from Lakewood and then said “Go back to Lakewood you [expleti...
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September 22, 2016 at 7:52 pm
In this week’s Parshah, the Torah warns of a series of dire consequences that will befall the Jewish nation even if they are performing all of the mitzvos, so long as they commit one particularly severe sin: the sin of not serving Hashem with happiness (28:47 - see Rabbeinu Bachaye).
Why is it so important to Hashem that we serve Him with happiness? Furthermore, happiness is an emotion. You either are happy, or you are not. How can Hashem punish us if we do not feel happy? Lastly, the Torah never commands us outright to be happy. If so, why is the punishment for not being happy so severe? Furthermore, if it is so important to be happy, why didn’t the Torah command us to be happy in the first place?
Chaim was a hard working father. He woke up each morning at 6am to start his d...
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September 22, 2016 at 2:45 pm
Facility would ensure victims of terrorist attacks do not encounter perpetrators at same hospital, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan tells Israel Hayom • Erdan says plan will help counter pressure on prisons to release inmates on medical grounds.
The Public Security Ministry and the Israel Prison Service announced a tentative plan on Wednesday to use part of the Ayalon Prison as a special hospital for terrorists, days after an Israeli border policewoman was admitted to the same trauma unit as the man who stabbed her.
The plan, which is still being finalized, was proposed by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan. Once implemented, the hospital facilities will include some 70 beds spread over three floors.
Erdan told Israel Hayom that such a model exists in many countr...
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September 22, 2016 at 2:31 pm
Belzer Yeshiva Bochur, 18-year-old Yosef Yisrael Gold Z’L was niftar suddenly on Thursday morning, 19 Elul in Bnei Brak.
Yosef collapsed suddenly in yeshiva during the morning hours in front of his friends, as they were learning Gemara. EMS was summoned and CPR was initiated but their efforts were unsuccessful.
Yosef was a resident of the United States, a son of HaChossid Rav Aharon Gold of the Belzer community in Boro Park. He reportedly owns a clothing store on 13th Avenue. Members of the chassidus worked quickly to make certain the family in America was notified before the word spread quickly, as it usually does.
The Levaya began at 3:00PM from the Belzer Yeshiva in Bnei Brak and at 5:30PM from the main Belzer Beis Medrash in Kiryat Belz and to Har Menuchos.
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September 22, 2016 at 2:30 pm
Lakewood, NJ - A fender bender in Lakewood turned ugly on Wednesday as one of the drivers emerged from his car shouting anti-Semitic expletives and allegedly turning violent.
The incident happened yesterday afternoon and according to the Asbury Park Press, involved three cars.
34 year old Elijah D. Chandler of Jackson, was one of those involved in the accident. Video posted to the Ocean County Police Blotter Facebook page showed Chandler in an angry tirade, claiming that an Orthodox Jewish man had caused the collision by running a red light and striking a car that was presumably involved in the accident.
“You [expletive] can’t even drive,” said Chandler. “Go back to your country. Go back to your [expletive] country. You [expletive] ran t...
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September 22, 2016 at 12:52 pm
Bill O’Reilly’ Discusses Media Comparisons Between Hitler YM’S And Donald Trump
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September 22, 2016 at 12:48 pm
The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist’s storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: the earliest evidence of a biblical text in its standardized form.
The passages from the Book of Leviticus, scholars say, offer the first physical evidence of what has long been believed: that the version of the Hebrew Bible used today goes back 2,000 years.
The discovery, announced in a Science Advances journal article by researchers in Kentucky and Jerusalem on Wednesday, was made using “virtual unwrapping,” a 3D digital analysis of an X-ray scan. Researchers say it is the first time they have been able to read the text of an ancient scroll without having to physically open it.
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September 22, 2016 at 12:11 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - Sept. 22, 2016 - Cars with diplomatic license plates lined Hanasi Street in Jerusalem, Israel on Thursday morning. President Reuven & First Lady Nechama Rivlin hosted a reception at Beit Hanasi, the Israeli President's official residence, for foreign ambassadors and members of the diplomatic corps serving in Israel, in honor of Rosh Hashannah. Attending were 90 ambassadors and diplomats representing countries from around the world, including Israel’s neighboring countries, Egypt and Jordan.
With the diplomats seated in the main hall, the President, began his remarks,“Thank you for joining us to raise a toast and celebrate the new Jewish year. I want to start by saying that Israel is proud of our cooperation with each of y...
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September 22, 2016 at 11:37 am
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir on Wednesday addressed the security situation in his sector, hailing the two years since Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip as the quietest in decades, while warning that Hamas was preparing for the next round of fighting.
Zamir spoke at a Kibbutz Movement gathering to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of 11 Negev communities, which, at the time, greatly expanded the size of the area under Jewish control during the British Mandate and greatly aided the Jewish population's ability to hold on to the Negev Desert during the 1948 War of Independence.
Discussing some of the security challenges facing Southern Command, Zamir told the audience, "Over the past decade, sinc...
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September 22, 2016 at 11:27 am
The controversial president of the UK’s largest student union has “completely denied the right of Jewish students to define their experiences of antisemitism,” an official from a major British student group said.
Josh Nagli, campaigns director at the Union of Jewish Students (UJS), was responding on Facebook to a recent Guardian interview with National Union of Students (NUS) President Malia Bouattia, who has come under repeated fire for purported antisemitic and anti-Zionist rhetoric.
Asserting that Bouattia must adhere to an NUS policy that “treat[s] racist incidents to be any incident which is perceived to be so by the victim or any other person,” Nagli slammed the student union president for her application of double standards w...
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September 22, 2016 at 11:27 am
A video produced by Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign team which dismissed concerns over antisemitic abuse has been withdrawn after an angry response from British Jews.
The video was taken off YouTube on Wednesday night after Gillian Merron, chief executive of the Board of Deputies, spoke to Jon Lansman, chair of Momentum's steering committee, about its contents. Mr Lansman is said to have apologised to her, promising that it would be withdrawn and a public apology issued.
To date, no such statement or apology has been issued. The video, "Five questions Corbyn supporters are tired of hearing", can still be viewed on Jeremy Corbyn's Facebook page.
It features supporters of the Labour leader explaining why they are backing him. The final question asks: "Do you pr...
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September 22, 2016 at 11:13 am
A Jewish child walking home from school in London on Wednesday evening was forced to remove his kippa by a gang of bullies, the UK’s Evening Standard reported.
According to the report, the 11-year-old boy was surrounded in the Hackney neighborhood of the British capital by a group of unfamiliar older children, who threatened to beat him up if he did not take off his skull cap.
The boy was not injured in the incident, but the report said he was “badly shaken.”
“He lives near where the incident took place and had his rucksack over his shoulders as he was walking home from school,” a spokesman for north London’s Shomrim neighborhood watch group was quoted as saying. “The child said he tried to run away but the youths blocked his way.”
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September 22, 2016 at 10:21 am
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conveyed a message of warning to US President Barack Obama not to make any moves on the Israeli-Palestinian front during his lame-duck period between November and January, the Hebrew news site Walla reported on Monday.
According to the report, Netanyahu expressed his concerns on Sunday, during a meeting at his summer house in Caesarea with a delegation of American hard-hitters from both sides of the political aisle, who are in the region on a fact-finding mission. Among members of the delegation visiting the Middle East (with stops in the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia and Turkey) are Democrats Dennis Ross and Philip Gordon, and Republicans James Jeffrey, Meghan O’Sullivan, Zalmay Kha...
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September 22, 2016 at 10:20 am
Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani reacts on ‘Hannity’ to violence in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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September 22, 2016 at 10:14 am
Jerusalem - The Jerusalem District Court has sentenced 21-year-old John Kakish, a resident of Jerusalem, to nine years in prison for stabbing two Jewish ultra-Orthodox minors in May, 2015.
Justice Raphael Carmel previously found Kakish guilty on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and today pronounced the stabber’s sentence for what both the court and district attorney concluded to be a “hate crime.” Additionally, the court ordered Kakish to compensate each of his victims with NIS 10,000 (USD 2,650).
“The accused was a known juvenile delinquent from a difficult family background, he suffers from mental disability and has serious impulse control issues. All this is aggravated by the fact that he tends to abuse alcohol,” Carmel wrot...
