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May 24, 2019 at 5:36 pm
Baltimore, MD - May 24, 2019 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Mr. and Mrs. Aron Rosskamm on the birth of a son
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
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May 24, 2019 at 5:05 pm
A Weekly Shtikle mazal tov to my niece and nephew, Fraidy and Shmuel Clinton of Lakewood on the birth of a baby boy Wednesday night. Mazal Tov to the extended Bulka, Shonek and Jakobovits families with a special mazal tov to Oma Jakobovits as this was the second of two great great grandchildren born this week.
At the very beginning of the parsha we have the very famous question of Rashi: "Ma inyan shemittah eitzel Har Sinai?" Why is Har Sinai mentioned in connection to the mitzvah of shemittah more so than any other mitzvah? This phrase is so well-known that it has become a Hebrew colloquialism equivalent to, "What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?" Rashi's answer is that just as the entire mitzvah of shemittah and all its minutia were all spell...
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May 24, 2019 at 4:49 pm
Following reports that Eilat’s new Ramon Airport plans to operate two bus lines that will make 80 trips to Eilat every Shabbos, MK Bezalel Smotrich wrote to Transportation Minister Yisroel Katz that the decision is based on a mistake.
Noting that the rationale for the chillul Shabbos is that Eilat has a status quo of running Shabbos bus lines, Smotrich argued that the law only applies to existing bus lines, but the two new lines never existed and were not replacing defunct lines.
Tourists should make do with cabs on Shabbos as in all Israeli airports, he said.
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May 24, 2019 at 4:46 pm
Israel Police officers on Friday morning arrested an Arab who was documented setting fire to a number of locations in Yerushalayim’s Mount Scopus area, 0404 News reported.
The suspect was identified by lookouts and his actions were documented. Forces called to the area searched for and located the suspect, arresting him.
A security source told 0404 News that the arson was nationalistically motivated.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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May 24, 2019 at 4:44 pm
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg on Thursday hammered President Trump for saying he had bone spurs to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War, saying he faked the disability.
“Well, I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability in order to avoid serving in Vietnam,” Buttigieg, an Afghanistan War veteran, said during a livestreamed interview with The Washington Post.
“Yeah, at least not that one,” he doubled down when asked if he thought the condition was faked. “This is actually really important because I don’t mean to trivialize disability, but I think that’s exactly what he did.”
Read more at The Hill.
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May 24, 2019 at 4:42 pm
A get refuser who was jailed for 18 years was sentenced to another 15 months by a Yerushalayim court for persisting in his refusal.
The decision to send him back behind bars was based on a 2016 decision of the attorney general that defying a bais din’s order to divorce one’s wife is a criminal offense.
The state bais din rejects a private bais din’s spurious decision that the marriage was void. Paradoxically, feminist organizations helping the wife do accept the private bais din’s opinion and are against the husband returning to jail.
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May 24, 2019 at 4:19 pm
One can look in the Torah and find the exact dates on which Rosh Hashana (Vayikra 23:24), Yom Kippur (23:27), Succos (23:34), Shmini Atzeres (23:36) and Pesach (23:5) are to be observed. For Shavuos however, no such Pasuk exists. Rather we are told that starting from the second day of Pesach we are to count 7 weeks and the following day bring the Karban Omer. The next day, after the counting is complete, is the Yom Tov of Shavuos (23:16,21). Most Mepharshim learn that this was deliberately set up to mirror the fact that Bnei Yisroel were told at the time of Yitzias Mitzrayim that fifty days after their departure, they would receive the Torah. Thus, the Yom Tov of Shavuos has come to commemorate Matan Torah, even though the Torah’s reference revolves arou...
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May 24, 2019 at 1:27 pm
Parshas Behar/ Baltimore Zmanim / Eruv is UP!
Baltimore, MD – May 24, 2019
Omer 34
Parshas: Behar
19 Iyar
Chatzos: 1:04 PM
Hadlakas Nairos: 8:03 PM
Shkiah: 8:21:22 PM
Tzais HaKochavim: 9:12 PM
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May 24, 2019 at 12:51 pm
A French-Jewish taxi driver was mugged and beaten in what he said was an anti-Semitic crime by perpetrators who targeted him because of his Jewish-sounding name.
33-year-old Israel Hai was picking up a passenger in Clichy Sous-Bois near Paris at the appointed spot when a group of about 10 young men surrounded the car and pulled the victim out by his hair, kicked him, and stole his jewelry. They then stole his car, glasses, wallet and his shoes, he said.
Bruised and barefoot, Israel asked passersby to drive him to a police station, where officers also referred him to medical attention.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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May 24, 2019 at 12:50 pm
The Simon Wiesenthal Center awarded former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley with its highest honor – the Humanitarian Laureate Award – at its Midwest Region’s 2019 Spirit of Courage Benefit dinner in Chicago on Thursday.
The award was granted to her by Rabbi Marvin Hier for her “courage and compassion in protecting global human rights and the State of Israel,” the Wiesenthal Center wrote in a press release.
“Nikki Haley personifies the legacy of Simon Wiesenthal, who reminded the world that freedom is not a gift from heaven, rather, it is something that we must fight for each and every day,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Weisenthal Center.
Read more at JPOST.
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May 24, 2019 at 12:46 pm
Rep. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, became ill during a public meeting on speed cameras with Mayor de Blasio on the Upper West Side.
When de Blasio asks Nadler if he was OK, Nadler can be heard responding with a faint “no” before putting his hand over his face.
Doctors were rushed to his side.
WhatsApp Video 2019-05-24 at 12.39.54 PM from BaltimoreJewishLife.com on Vimeo.
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May 24, 2019 at 11:35 am
A sampling of recent weeks’ gun news:
Pursuant to a tip, authorities found more than 1000 firearms in a home in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood (not quite reaching the record of the 1,200 guns and seven tons of ammunition L.A. police seized from another home in 2015).
A Fawn River, Michigan mother, Pauline Randol, was shot dead, allegedly by her 9-year-old adopted son.
A Highlands Ranch, Colorado school, with 1,850 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, was attacked by a gunman who shot nine high schoolers, killing one of them.
On the last day of classes at the University of North Carolina, a gunman killed two people and injured four.
Murder/suicides by gun took place in Maine, Florida and California.
An estimated 1.4 million Americans have died in...
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May 24, 2019 at 11:06 am
Ahead of the announcement of the American Middle East peace plan being called the “deal of the century,” and in light of concerns in Jordan that the deal may threaten the kingdom’s stability, scathing articles have recently appeared in the Jordanian press, including in the government daily Al-Rai, containing calls for, among other things, a new Palestinian intifada in the West Bank in order to thwart the deal.
The following are excerpts from some of these articles:
Al-Rai: A serious intifada in the West Bank is the best way to thwart the ‘deal of the century’
In his April 26 column in the government daily Al-Rai, titled “How Shall We Deal with the Deal of the Century?,” journalist Muhammad Ali Marzouq Al-Zuyoud wrote: “I believe that the c...
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May 24, 2019 at 11:00 am
Baltimore, MD - May 24, 2019 - Listen to Rabbi Moshe Hauer - Behar 5779 - Quality Over Quantity - 3rd Aliyah
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May 24, 2019 at 10:43 am
Washington - The FBI, focused intently for years on combating terrorism from abroad, is turning more attention to home-grown, U.S. domestic violent extremists, a senior FBI counterterrorism official said on Thursday.
Arrests related to domestic terrorism in the current fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1, are at 66, exceeding international terrorism arrests, now at 63.
Terrorism cases are “the FBI’s number one priority,” the FBI official said, noting that every one of the bureau’s U.S. field offices is affiliated with a local “joint terrorism task force” involving both federal and local law enforcement agencies.
While militants linked to international terrorism can be prosecuted under U.S. federal laws introduced after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on Was...
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May 24, 2019 at 10:40 am
Washington - Sometimes even the president of the United States needs somebody to vouch for him.
No, Trump insisted Thursday, he did not have a temper tantrum a day earlier when he cut off a White House meeting with congressional Democrats after just three minutes.
To prove it — in the middle of a meeting with farmers — he called on five members of his staff to bear witness to his demeanor.
One by one, his advisers dutifully stepped forward to testify, saying Trump had been “very calm,” albeit “direct,” in his meeting with the Democrats. Then the president questioned the mental capacity of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had irked him Wednesday with her suggestion that he was engaged in a “cover-up” as he directed aides to refuse to coopera...
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May 24, 2019 at 10:38 am
New York - To make your morning commute easier and less time consuming, Google announced today that New York City has joins the list of destinations that they have been working with transit agencies in more than 30 cities around the world—from London to Singapore to Moscow—to enable Google Pay and simplify how you ride on public transit.
Starting May 31st, The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will enable the “pay per ride” feature on your phone with a public pilot at select subway stations and Staten Island buses.
Google said, they continue to work with The Metropolitan Transportation Authority to bring more features with Google Maps and Google Assistant to make commuting even easier, no matter your destination.
Using Google Pay on MTA is par...
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May 24, 2019 at 10:35 am
Seoul - North Korea said Friday that nuclear negotiations with the United States will never resume unless the Trump administration moves away from what Pyongyang described as unilateral demands for disarmament.
The statement by an unnamed North Korean foreign ministry spokesman published in state media was the country’s latest expression of displeasure over the stalled negotiations as it continues to press Washington to soften its stance on enforcing sanctions against the North’s crippled economy.
It came as President Donald Trump prepares to travel to Japan this weekend for a summit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in which the North Korean nuclear issue will likely be high on the agenda.
In the statement carried by Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency, the N...
