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June 7, 2019 at 11:17 am
Parshas Bamidbar/ Erev Shavuos / Shavuos / Baltimore Zmanim / Eruv is UP!
Baltimore, MD – June 7, 2019
Omer 48
Parshas: Bamidbar
4 Sivan
Chatzos: 1:06 PM
Hadlakas Nairos: 8:13 PM
Shkiah: 8:31:23 PM
Tzais HaKochavim: 9:22 PM
Kiddush Levanah: June 5, 8:33 PM – June 17, 2:55 PM
Kiddush Levanah may only be said at night
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Motzaei Shabbos – June 8, Shavuos 1
Hadlakas Nairos: 9:44 PM
Sunday Morning, June 9
HaNaitz – 5:39:46 AM
Sunday Night – Shavuos 2
Hadlakas Nairos – 9:45 PM
Monday, June 10
Yizkor
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June 7, 2019 at 10:44 am
San Gabriel, LA - A gunman held police at bay for six hours Thursday, set fire to several homes and launched fireworks at surrounding SWAT team members before he charged outside with a shotgun and was shot dead, authorities said.
His name wasn’t immediately released but Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials described him as a homeless man who made frequent visits to a home where his relatives lived.
Officers were called to a junk-filled property containing several houses over reports that a man had fired gunshots during a family dispute, San Gabriel city spokesman Jonathan Fu said.
When officers arrived the man exchanged gunfire with them. Nobody was hurt. The man then barricaded himself in a home, Fu said.
Police from several local communities and members of a sheriff&rsq...
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June 7, 2019 at 10:42 am
St. Paul, Minnesota - U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar violated state rules when she used campaign funds to pay for personal out-of-state travel and help on her tax returns and must reimburse her former campaign committee nearly $3,500, Minnesota campaign finance officials ruled Thursday.
The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said the first-term Democratic congresswoman also must pay the state a $500 civil penalty for using campaign money to travel to Florida, where she accepted an honorarium.
The board found Omar’s campaign bought a plane ticket to Boston to speak at a political rally; paid for a hotel in Washington, D.C., where Omar participated in an interview for the Girl UP UN conference; and covered her travel to Chicago to accept an award and attend a fundraising lu...
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June 7, 2019 at 10:42 am
New York - The one-time bookselling giant Barnes & Noble is being acquired by a hedge fund for $476 million.
The national chain that many blamed for the demise of independent bookstores has been ravaged by Amazon.com and other online sellers. Independent bookstores have also persisted in the face of digital publishing.
The company said in October that it might put itself up for sale after it was approached by a number of potential buyers, including founder Leonard Riggio who opened Barnes & Noble stores across the country and turned it into a superstore.
Barnes & Noble said Friday that it’s being acquired by Elliott Management for $6.50 per share, an approximately 9% percent premium to the company’s Thursday closing stock price. Elliott bought the U.K. bookseller...
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June 7, 2019 at 10:40 am
Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the United States on Friday that what he described as unbridled economic egoism was a recipe for trade and maybe even real wars.
Putin, speaking at an economic forum in St Petersburg on the same platform as Chinese leader Xi Jinping, complained about what he called unfair competition and protectionism from the West and Washington in particular.
Specifically, the Russian leader complained about U.S. efforts to thwart Russia’s North Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe and what he called the campaign to force Chinese technology giant Huawei out of the global market.
Putin said the world risked slipping into an era where “general international rules will be exchanged for the laws of administrative and legal mechanisms by one country o...
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June 7, 2019 at 10:38 am
The Israeli Defense Forces announced on Friday that, in cooperation with the Shin Bet intelligence agency, it thwarted an attempt to smuggle rocket-manufacturing materials to Hamas in the Gaza Strip through Egypt’s Sinai coast.
According to the statement, the Shin Bet found that the suspects in question were en route to Gaza with prohibited materials used to make projectiles fired at Israel by Hamas militants, including two dozen barrels of fiberglass.
“On May 11, 2019, two Palestinian vessels entered the forbidden area of entry (on the maritime border) of the southern Gaza Strip, in violation of the security regulations and ceasefire directives,” the IDF statement read.
“The vessels were seized and the four suspects were transferred for further questioning,&rdqu...
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June 7, 2019 at 10:37 am
President Donald Trump attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an interview that aired Thursday night as “a nasty, vindictive, horrible person” in his first public comments since reports that she told colleagues she would like to see him in prison rather than impeached.
“I think she’s a disgrace,” Trump said on Fox News. “I actually don’t think she’s a talented person. I’ve tried to be nice to her because I would have liked to have gotten some deals done. She’s incapable of doing deals. She’s a nasty, vindictive, horrible person.”
The interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham was conducted at the site of a solemn ceremony in France commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Against the backdrop of a c...
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June 7, 2019 at 10:35 am
Glen Burnie, MD — There is good news for Maryland drivers who need to update their Maryland Real IDs: There is now more time to do so.
Officials explained to 11 News the process is relatively simple and can be shortened with an appointment.
Maryland drivers who need to update the documents that they have on file for the Real ID cards are getting a reprieve of sorts from the Motor Vehicle Administration, but officials said the time to act is now.
Most drivers try to avoid the MVA at all costs, but for this situation, drivers are going to have to make the trip.
"If you want to use your state driver's license or ID card to enter a federal facility or to board an airplane, you have to meet those standards," Chrissy Nizer, Maryland Department of Transportation MVA administrator, ...
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June 7, 2019 at 10:32 am
Baltimore City firefighters were assisted by crews from three neighboring counties to tackle a 4-alarm fire that broke out in an abandoned warehouse in east Baltimore on Thursday evening.
According to Baltimore Fire officials, crews were called to the 1100 block of Madison Street for reports of a fire around 8:30 p.m.
The fire was initially classified as a 2-alarm fire; however, it was reclassified as a 4-alarm fire, and additional units were called to the scene to assist, officials say.
Shortly after midnight on Thursday, Baltimore Fire tweeted out thanking crews from Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Howard counties for their assistance in covering the fire.
A Baltimore City Fire Department spokeswoman, Blair Adams, confirmed in an interview with the Baltimore Sun that ther...
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June 7, 2019 at 10:30 am
A Baltimore City Police sergeant has been released on bond after his arrest on Thursday due to an incident caught on body camera.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison announced charges against Sgt. Ethan Newberg, a 24 year veteran on the force, late Thursday night.
According to a Baltimore Sun report, Newberg was the second-highest paid city employee after making $243,000 in 2018.
Newberg is being charged with second-degree assault, false imprisonment and misconduct. He is currently suspended without pay, Harrison said.
Harrison was accompanied by Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby as he made the announcement.
According to Harrison, Newberg was "in the process of running a warrant check on a suspect when he claims a seco...
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June 7, 2019 at 10:03 am
Shavuos Decorations Go Up at KAJ – Breuers (Washington Heights)
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June 7, 2019 at 8:35 am
The U.S economy added 75,000 jobs in May, the Labor Department reported Friday, well below expectations.
Both the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate stayed even at 3.6 percent and 62.8 percent respectively.
Economists expected the U.S. to add roughly 185,000 jobs in May after a whopping gain of 263,000 jobs in April.
The federal report comes after the ADP National Employment report released Wednesday found that private payrolls in May increased by just 27,000 jobs.
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June 7, 2019 at 8:20 am
He is his father’s greatest defender and posts tweets that seem designed to infuriate the political left. “Calling him a troll or a provocateur would be to underestimate him,” one liberal columnist wrote.
In recent months, Yair Netanyahu, the 27-year-old son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has become a prominent and sometimes controversial public proxy for his father, occasionally eliciting comparisons to Donald Trump Jr.
In December, he spent four nights accompanying his parents to the inauguration of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro — and raised eyebrows back home by racking up a $2,560 bill at the Copacabana Hilton.
In March, he accompanied his father to Washington and addressed an event for young leaders at the Amer...
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June 7, 2019 at 8:16 am
New York - Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is plunging $500 million into an effort to close all of the nation’s remaining coal plants by 2030 and put the United States on track toward a 100% clean energy economy.
The billionaire Bloomberg’s investment in the Beyond Carbon initiative marks the largest ever philanthropic effort to combat climate change, according to the mayor’s foundation. The organization will bypass the federal government and instead seek to pass climate and clean energy policies, as well as back political candidates, at the state and local level.
“We’re in a race against time with climate change, and yet there is virtually no hope of bold federal action on this issue for at least another two years. Mother Nature is not waiting ...
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June 7, 2019 at 8:15 am
Moscow - Russia and the United States blamed each other for a near collision between their warships in the East China Sea on Friday with both countries accusing one another of dangerous and unprofessional behavior.
Russia’s Pacific Fleet said that the USS Chancellorsville, a guided-missile cruiser, had come within just 50 meters (165 feet) of the Russian destroyer Admiral Vinogradov which had been forced to take emergency action to avoid a collision, Russian news agencies reported.
They cited a Russian Pacific Fleet statement as saying the incident took place in the early hours of Friday morning in the eastern part of the East China Sea at a time when a group of Russian warships was on a parallel course with a U.S. naval strike group.
“The U.S guided-missile cruiser Chancell...
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June 7, 2019 at 8:14 am
London - British Prime Minister Theresa May steps down as leader of the governing Conservatives on Friday, officially triggering a contest to replace her that could see her party embrace a tougher stance on Brexit.
May announced she would step down last month after failing to deliver Britain’s departure from the European Union on time, deepening a political crisis in a divided country struggling to move on from a 2016 referendum on Brexit.
She will continue to work as prime minister until her party elects a new leader, a crowded race that will be defined by Brexit and competing approaches on how to deliver Britain’s biggest policy shift in more than 40 years.
“For the remainder of her time in office, she will be building on the domestic agenda that she has put at the h...
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June 7, 2019 at 8:11 am
New York - A man who was arrested in an alleged plot to buy grenades for an attack Times Square is expected to appear in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on Friday, local media reported, citing unidentified law enforcement sources.
The suspect, who was not identified, was arrested on Thursday after police and federal authorities learned he was inquiring about buying grenades and using them in Times Square, one of the most visited destinations in the United States, the New York Daily News reported.
His court appearance is expected to be set for later on Friday, ABC News reported.
New York police referred all inquiries on the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which declined to comment.
Authorities do not believe the man was linked to a wider plot involving other people, accor...
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June 7, 2019 at 8:10 am
"You are the greatest among us that will ever live, you are the pride of our nation, you are the glory of our republic and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts," says President Trump thanking WWII veterans.
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June 7, 2019 at 8:07 am
Amid a record-setting nationwide measles outbreak driven largely by New York cases, the Shulamith School for Girls in Cedarhurst says the state Education Department was wrong to twice overturn the school’s decision to bar Ilana and Nikolay Jinjihashvili’s two unvaccinated daughters after the parents sought a religious exemption.
The Jewish day school is now asking a federal judge to overturn Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia’s orders, calling them “illegal, void and unenforceable.”
“There are schools that have taken the position that under the school’s religious belief, as a matter of Jewish law, students should be vaccinated,” the school’s lawyer, Philip Kalban, told The Post. The parents may have a different and &ldqu...
