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June 14, 2019 at 8:49 am
Parshas Naso/Baltimore Zmanim / Eruv is UP!
Baltimore, MD – June 14, 2019
Parshas: Naso
11 Sivan
Chatzos: 1:07 PM
Hadlakas Nairos: 8:16 PM
Shkiah: 8:34:51 PM
Tzais HaKochavim: 9:25 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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June 14, 2019 at 8:48 am
Two congressional Republicans on Wednesday slammed Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, for saying on Tuesday, “If [Israeli] Prime Minister Netanyahu makes good on his threat to annex West Bank settlements, he should know that a President Buttigieg would take steps to ensure that American taxpayers won’t help foot the bill.”
“That’s not helpful. We need the Palestinian community united around peace,” South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told JNS. “If I were him, I would criticize Hamas. Israel is not the problem. Nobody’s talking about annexing anything.”
“The last time Israel gave up land for peace, it got rockets,” he continued. “So I hope...
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June 14, 2019 at 8:44 am
Third annual GlobalSTL Health Innovation Summit in St. Louis chooses 16 innovative companies, mostly Israeli, to present to healthcare execs and VCs.
Ten Israeli companies were among 16 chosen from more than 750 international digital health companies vying for the chance to present at the GlobalSTL Health Innovation Summit in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 5.
This is the city’s third annual GlobalSTL Health Innovation Summit, aimed at bringing transformational international technologies to the region’s $240 billion healthcare industry. Israeli companies have dominated the list at the highly curated event.
“Israeli entrepreneurs have found a lot of success in St. Louis,” said a spokesperson for BioSTL, biostl.org the local agency that sponsors GlobalSTL.
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June 14, 2019 at 8:19 am
Israeli police are investigating an allegation previously reported by Calcalist, that an Israeli winery scammed US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman out of $730,000. A lawsuit was filed in Tel Aviv district court in December by New York-based wine investment company Karraben Wine against Israeli wine company Montefiore Winery and its owner and CEO Arnon Geva. Friedman owned Karraben Wine prior to his appointment as ambassador but sold it to Texas-registered firm Mar Wine in March 2017 to avoid conflict of interest.
According to the lawsuit, Montefiore Winery and Geva had presented Friedman — and later a representative of Mar Wine — with fraudulent documents including financial reports, bank transfers, and correspondence, to persuade them to make an investment.
On Tuesday, K...
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June 14, 2019 at 8:12 am
Amman - Jordan’s King Abdullah reacts angrily to any suggestion that he might accept a U.S. deal to end the Arab-Israeli conflict that would make his country a homeland for Palestinians.
Speaking to the armed forces in March, he rejected the idea of Jordan as an alternative state for Palestinians, saying: “Don’t we have a voice in the end?”
Already facing economic discontent at home, Abdullah must navigate diplomatic moves by his U.S. allies that are upturning a regional status-quo that has underpinned Jordan’s internal politics and foreign relations for decades.
After Israel’s creation in 1948 Jordan absorbed more Palestinians than any other country, with some estimates that they now account for more than half the population.
Any changes to the inte...
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June 14, 2019 at 8:02 am
Defense attorney and former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz was honored at the headquarters of the Chabad – Lubavitch movement in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn on Thursday, in recognition of his work in the Sholom Rubashkin case.
Dershowitz was the guest of honor at the special event, which began at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and continued at the main synagogue at the Chabad movement’s headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway.
Hundreds gathered lined the street between 770 and the Jewish Children’s Museum, celebrating the completion of the Torah scroll, which was paraded down the street before being brought to the main synagogue at 770.
The Torah scroll was written with the support of a philanthropist who chose t...
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June 14, 2019 at 7:49 am
IDF Major General Yitzhak Brick: 'Every day 1,000 - 2,000 missiles could hit us in the next war - God help us.'
Former IDF ombudsman Maj. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Brick spoke about his meeting with Deputy Chief of Staff Eyal on a military podcast on 103FM on Friday. Zamir was a major general in the IDF during the writing of Brick's ominous report in January 2019 about the IDF's lack of readiness for a major military confrontation.
According to Brick, Zamir didn't debate the facts presented in the report. "Zamir said he accepts the fact that we are in serious trouble. He read the report, wrote down my recommendations and began implementing them, as did Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, who understood the problem even when he was deputy chief of sta...
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June 14, 2019 at 7:45 am
President Trump on Thursday said it’s “too soon” to consider making a deal with Iran amid mounting tensions between the two countries, despite the president’s recent insistence that he’s open to talking with Tehran.
Trump tweeted that he was appreciative of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe traveling to Iran to meet with Iranian leaders as a mediator, but that he felt he could not begin to “even think about making a deal.”
“They are not ready, and neither are we!” Trump tweeted.
Read more at The Hill.
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June 14, 2019 at 7:43 am
The House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed two former Trump officials who were key witnesses in Robert Mueller’s probe, part of the panel’s ongoing counterintelligence investigation into election interference and the president’s alleged foreign ties.
The summons for Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates and former national security adviser Michael Flynn require them to furnish documents to the panel by June 26 and appear for testimony on July 10.
The panel’s chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Thursday that it was “unacceptable” that neither Gates nor Flynn, both of whom pleaded guilty in Mueller’s probe to lying to the FBI, has appeared before the Intelligence Committee.
“The American people, and the Congres...
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June 14, 2019 at 7:42 am
It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the passing of habochur Yochanan Ruby, z”l. He was 24 years old.
Yochi, as he was known, sustained tremendous yissurim throughout his life, as he battled various medical challenges, yet he maintained his simchas hachaim throughout.
Yochi was a son of Rabbi and Mrs. Yechezkel Binyomin and Sima Masha Ruby.
The levayah will be held tomorrow at 9 a.m. at the Stoliner Bais Medrash, located at 4609 16thAvenue in Boro Park, Brooklyn. The levayah will then continue at noon at the Stoliner Shul of Lakewood, located at 153 East 7th Street in Lakewood, NJ. Kevurah will follow at the Deans Floral Park Cemetery, in Stolin’s Nachalas Bais Aharon V’Yisroel chelkah.
Yehi ...
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June 14, 2019 at 7:38 am
Avi Gabbay, chairman of Israel’s Labor Party, has announced that he is leaving politics after just two years as the party’s leader, and the scramble has begun to replace him with the party at an all-time low in mandates and morale.
Originally led by Israel’s founding father and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, and known as Mapai (“Worker’s Party of the Land of Israel”), Labor boasts that it founded the State of Israel. But the party, which led the country from 1948 until 1977, and won between 40 and 56 mandates during the nation’s first three decades, has struggled in recent years, dwindling to just six seats in April’s elections.
“Israel’s Labor Party is in danger of not even surviving the upcoming elections,” forme...
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June 14, 2019 at 7:36 am
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed on Thursday a bipartisan resolution, introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), condemning anti-Semitism.
“‘In the United States, Jews have suffered from systematic discrimination in the form of exclusion from home ownership in certain neighborhoods, prohibition from staying in certain hotels, restrictions upon membership in private clubs and other associations, limitations upon admission to certain educational institutions, and other barriers to equal justice under the law,’” said Cruz. “This is a shameful legacy, and it makes it all the more incumbent that we as a Senate, speak in one voice and stand resolved that the United States condemns and commits to combating all forms of anti-Semitism.”
Sub...
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June 14, 2019 at 7:35 am
A tree was planted outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City in honor of Anne Frank on Wednesday, which would have been her 90th birthday had she survived the Holocaust.
The sapling, donated to the UN by the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, is a descendant of the horse chestnut tree that grew outside the building in Amsterdam where the Frank family hid in the attic from the Nazis from 1942 to 1944, according to a commemorative plaque placed in front of the tree.
The plaque also read, “The tree is a living tribute to the legacy of Anne Frank and a reminder to educate against hatred and racism,” and included a quote from Frank: “Nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
The United Nations said on Instagram that the ...
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June 14, 2019 at 7:28 am
Baltimore, MD - June 14, 2019 - Listen to Rabbi Moshe Hauer - Ohr Hachaim on the Parsha - Naso
Click here to listen
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June 14, 2019 at 7:25 am
The square will be established in the central 17th Arrondissement, in the site of the future European Center of Judaism (ECJ), which is currently under construction.
n 1871, the historic Palace of Justice in the heart of Paris was largely destroyed by a fire. For centuries a residence of the French monarchs, in the 19th century the Palace was the headquarters of France’s judicial system.The restorations lasted over 20 years. When completed, the site of the Palace had also incorporated some of the surrounding streets. Among them, was Rue Jerusalem, a short alley where pilgrims coming back from the Holy Land were historically lodged, according to the 1844 Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments, a dictionary of the public streets, monument...
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June 14, 2019 at 7:19 am
ANNAPOLIS, Md. —
Imagine going to use your cellphone and nothing happens. The screen goes dark, but it's not your battery that's the problem.
Annapolis police said at least two people had their cellphone numbers stolen by scammers.
A scammer will steal your information, trick your cellphone company into believing they are you and then get a representative to transfer your number to a new device.
Angie Barnett, with the Better Business Bureau, said scammers are stealing your personal information from your cellphone. It's happening across the United States, including Maryland.
It's called port-out or porting.
A scammer gets your cellphone number, your name and personal information, like your Social Security number. The person then contacts your mobile provider...
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June 14, 2019 at 7:16 am
There have been at least 11 homicides in Baltimore in the last week, three of which occurred on Thursday alone, police say.
The Baltimore Police Department released a list identifying seven men who were killed in separate shootings since June 7, 2019. All of the shootings were scattered throughout the city.
Three of the 11 shootings took place on Thursday, according to police.
Around 11:30 a.m., a man suffering from a gunshot wound to the head died at an area hospital. Police report that the shooting happened along the 2200 block of Chelsea Terrace.
Just after 8 p.m., police were called to the 500 block of South Bentalou Street for a Shotspotter alert. Once on the scene, police found two men suffering from gunshot wounds. Both men were pronounced dead on the scene, police say.
Around ...
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June 14, 2019 at 7:15 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military on Friday released a video it said shows Iran’s Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting the Islamic Republic sought to remove evidence of its involvement from the scene. Iran denies being involved, accusing the U.S. instead of waging an “Iranophobic campaign” against it.
The U.S. Navy rushed to assist the stricken vessels in the Gulf of Oman, off the coast of Iran, including one that was set ablaze Thursday by an explosion.
The ships’ operators offered no immediate explanation on who or what caused the damage against the Norwegian-owned MT Front Altair and the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous. Each was loaded with pet...
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June 14, 2019 at 7:12 am
Mistakes happen. Most mistakes, though, don’t cost $25 million.
This one (almost) did. A misread of the Smart School Bond Act (SSBA) caused millions of dollars in lost technology equipment to New York yeshiva students. Fortunately, Agudath Israel of America and its partners, in the culmination of nearly four years of advocacy, were able to secure the fair and rightful share of the SSBA for nonpublic school students in New York State.
Background
It began on November 4, 2014, when New York voters approved the SSBA. The SSBA authorized $2 billion to improve education in NYS public schools. School districts could earmark some of that money for classroom technology. In that case, the districts must loan devices, equal to the proportionate share of the technology items ordered, to nonpu...
