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July 11, 2019 at 10:55 pm
An attempt is made by Moshe to take a shortcut on the Children of Israel’s journey to the promised land through the territory of Edom.
In what appears to be a heartfelt appeal, Moshe sends a three-pronged message to the King of Edom.
Firstly, he asserts their familial connection as ‘brothers’. The two nations, Israel and Edom, being the respective descendants of those famous fraternal twins, Yaakov and Esav. Strangely though rather than using the name most familiar to Esav - Yaakov, Moshe refers to Yaakov by his other name, Yisroel.
Moshe then notes the travail the Jewish nation has endured in their recent history in Egypt, where evil was foisted upon them and their ‘forefathers’. Rashi points out, that although the patriarchs didn’t experience slaver...
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July 11, 2019 at 10:30 pm
Baltimore, MD – July 11, 2019 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah Priscilla Drebin, a”h (Penina bas Shmuel), mother of Yaacov Drebin
Shiva is being observed at 3404 Labyrinth, Baltimore, MD, 21215
Please, no visitors between 1:00 - 3:00 pm or after 9:00 pm.
Minyanim:
Shacharis: Friday - Wednesday 6:30 am, Sunday 8:00 AM
Mincha: Friday: 6:00 pm
Mincha-Maariv: Sunday -Tuesday 8:10 pm
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July 11, 2019 at 10:30 pm
Baltimore, MD – July 11, 2019 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah Carol R. Rider, a’h, wife of Henry Rider, mother of Jodi & Melanie Rider, sister of Anne Loise (Howard) Perlow and Mary (Rommi) Aharon
The levayah will take place on Sunday, July 14, at 3:00 PM at Levinson’s
Kevurah will be at Beth Jacob Cemetery, 2901 Baltimore Blvd., Finksburg, MD
Shiva will be observed at 3512 Old Court Road, Baltimore, MD, 21208
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July 11, 2019 at 9:44 pm
Washington - The number of people screened at airport checkpoints last Sunday set a record as people streamed home after a four-day holiday weekend.
The Transportation Security Administration said Thursday that its officers screened 2,795,014 passengers and airline crew members, barely beating a record set just five weeks earlier, over the Memorial Day weekend.
TSA screens about 2.2 million people on an average day.
The top four days and eight of the busiest 10 in TSA history have occurred this year, as airlines report booming travel demand.
TSA says that despite Sunday’s record crowds, fewer than 1% of passengers waited 30 minutes or more in checkpoint lines. The agency is telling summer travelers to arrive at the airport two hours before a domestic flight and three hours before...
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July 11, 2019 at 9:43 pm
Washington - Some are watching old video of his previous testimony. Others are closely re-reading his 448-page report. And almost all are worrying about how they’ll make the most of the short time they’ll have for questioning.
Robert Mueller, the Democrats know, will be tough to crack.
The stern, reticent former FBI director has said he won’t answer questions beyond what is in the report on Russia’s election meddling and the Trump campaign and possible obstruction of justice when he comes to Congress on July 17.
Mueller is expected to testify in front of the Judiciary and intelligence committees for two hours each, with time split evenly between Republicans and Democrats, though that timing is still a subject of negotiations. That means Democrats will have to be ...
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July 11, 2019 at 9:39 pm
New York - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden promised on Thursday to end “forever wars” and reassert American leadership to combat authoritarianism and global instability he says are proliferating under President Donald Trump.
Biden outlined his foreign policy vision in a speech in New York, indicting Trump’s “America first” approach as belligerent, short-sighted, incompetent and ultimately threatening to U.S. interests and democracy across the world.
“The world’s democracies look to America to stand for the values that unite us. ... Donald Trump seems to be on the other team,” Biden said, hammering the president for “embracing dictators who appeal to his vanity” and emboldening a worldwide rise of nationalism, xenopho...
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July 11, 2019 at 9:38 pm
Washington - President Donald Trump told prominent conservative social media figures on Thursday at a White House forum that he is being treated unfairly by big tech firms which he says suppress conservative voices.
“We’re not going to be silenced,” Trump said, without offering evidence. “Big tech must not censor the voices.”
Dozens of pro-Trump online personalities convened at what the White House billed as a gathering of “digital leaders” where invitees discussed what they say is censorship on social media platforms.
Still Trump appeared to acknowledge questions about the online behavior of some conservative users of social media. “Some of you guys are out there—but even you should have a voice,” Trump said.
Trump—who ...
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July 11, 2019 at 9:33 pm
Cape Canaveral, FL - A former astronaut is back at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after helping to shatter a pair of records for a round-the-world airplane flight over the North and South poles.
Terry Virts was part of the team whose 46-hour, 39-minute and 38-second polar circumnavigation flight ended Thursday where it began. They set the duration and speed records in a Qatar Executive Gulfstream G650ER aircraft. Their average speed was 535 mph (861 kph).
Dubbed “One More Orbit,” the flight paid homage to next week’s 50th anniversary of humanity’s first moon landing.
Virts’ former space station crewmate, Russian Gennady Padalka, was on the first two legs of the flight. Padalka, the world’s space champ with 879 days in orbit, left during a fue...
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July 11, 2019 at 9:30 pm
West Milford, NJ - A New Jersey man is promising to give his neighbor’s dog a steak for chasing a black bear from his backyard.
Mark Stinziano tells WABC-TV his home security camera captured what happened Tuesday night when the bruin decided to snack on the bird feeder behind his West Milford home.
The video shows the bear pulling down the bird feeder when the neighbor’s dog, Riley, races into the yard. Riley slammed into the startled bear, which scrambled to escape.
Riley’s owner, Alan Tlusty, says his dog always chases the bear whenever he sees him in the yard.
Stinziano says Riley also checks on his children when they are in the pool.
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July 11, 2019 at 9:27 pm
New York - As Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell kept the focus Thursday on global risks that could trigger a Fed rate cut in coming weeks, his colleagues from regional Fed districts painted a rosier picture of continued U.S. economic growth and a solid business outlook.
The contrasting remarks show the dilemma the Fed faces as it heads toward an end-of-month monetary policy meeting now broadly expected to end with a rate reduction.
On one hand - emphasized by Powell in Congressional hearings Wednesday and Thursday—global trade and economic risks have put a dent in investment, inflation is well below the Fed’s 2% target, and the U.S. expansion may need a shot in the arm.
But as they polled businesses in their districts, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic ...
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July 11, 2019 at 9:26 pm
Chicago - An item found during an expansion project at a Jewish school in Chicago may give a whole new meaning to the phrase “buried treasure.”
The Chicago Tribune (http://bit.ly/2Gb0G1r) reported that construction workers who were excavating a portion of the Anshe Emet Synagogue’s parking lot as part of the construction of a 25,000 square foot building for the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School unearthed a 3,000 pound, locked cannonball safe two weeks ago.
The safe is badly rusted and numerous efforts by construction workers, locksmiths and safe crackers to open the safe have so far proven to be fruitless, reported CBS News (https://cbsloc.al/2Ga0JdO).
Experts estimate that the safe, whose walls are at least 18 inches thick, was made sometime around 1906. ...
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July 11, 2019 at 9:22 pm
The police will likely close most of the cases against members of Ethiopian community who participated in last week’s wide-scale protests over police brutality across Israel, the demonstrators who met with the attorney general said Thursday.
The protests ignited after the killing of unarmed Salomon Tekah by an off-duty police officer, the second Israeli of Ethiopian background killed by the police this year. Protestors assert that the killings are part of a larger problem of police brutality and racism against Israelis of Ethiopian origins.
On Wednesday, leaders of the protests met with the attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, acting police commissioner, Moti Cohen, and state prosecutor, Shai Nitzan to discuss the arrest of protestors and police conduct generally with Israelis of ...
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July 11, 2019 at 9:20 pm
Top UK Jewish groups expressed outrage on Thursday after the BBC program Panorama broadcast a blistering hour-long special on antisemitism in the Labour party.
Since far-left MP Jeremy Corbyn seized control of the party in 2015, Labour has been wracked with antisemitism scandals, several of them touching Corbyn himself. Polls show the overwhelming majority of British Jews consider him personally antisemitic.
The program detailed many of the upheavals that the party has faced, including former London mayor Ken Livingstone’s false claim that Zionists collaborated with Hitler, for which he was only temporarily suspended; activist Jackie Walker’s claim that the Jews controlled the trans-Atlantic slave trade; and a general atmosphere of antisemitic attitudes toward Israel and its ...
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July 11, 2019 at 9:19 pm
The Palestinian Finance Ministry rejected the accusation that they were increasing terrorist stipend as “absolutely false and hypocritical” and said Washington was lending financial support to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
“It is known to everyone that Israel’s illegal colonial settlements, funded by American taxpayer money, continue to be the obstacle to peace,” a ministry spokesman said.
PA fiscal records show no marked increase in what they refer to as “assistance for prisoners and detainees”. Monthly payments were around 42 million shekels ($11.85 million) in December 2018, decreasing to 38.4 million shekels ($10.83 million) in April 2019.
Payments spiked to 75 million shekels ($21.15 million) in May 2019, which a ministry spok...
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July 11, 2019 at 9:18 pm
The UN is set to host a conference next year “aimed at developing new steps in the fight against global terrorism,” the Israeli UN Mission said on Wednesday.
The initiative is being led by UN Deputy Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism Vladimir Voronkov.
The event will be attended by terror victims from 121 countries.
“The UN understands that terrorism is not just part of the Middle East, but rather a global threat that must be dealt with in a wide range of tools and swift force,” Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon said. “We thank Deputy Secretary-General Voronkov for his contribution to the struggle against terror, and we will ensure that Israel’s experience will be reflected in the conference.”
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July 11, 2019 at 7:17 pm
Baltimore, MD - Few people want to admit they speed, but a Baltimore woman called the 11 News I-Team after getting a ticket that she said the city should never have issued.
It turns out Carrie Cammarato was right. The I-Team confirmed that the speed enforcement camera was wrong, and that problem means the city has to refund hundreds of drivers who received erroneous tickets and paid the fines.
Cammarato said that, when the speed camera ticket arrived in the mail, it surprised her, but so did the information on it. At issue was a $40 ticket generated from a speed camera in the 5200 block of North Charles Street near Northern Parkway. Cammarato said she has no problem with the fine, but she thinks the ticket is unfair.
"I knew the cameras were there," she said.
Cammarato said she passed...
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July 11, 2019 at 7:13 pm
As expected, federal prosecutors on Wednesday asked a judge to sentence Joaquin Guzmán, the brutal Mexican drug cartel leader known as “El Chapo,” to life in prison.
Prosecutors said in February — when Guzmán, 62, was convicted of 10 broad counts of drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and money laundering — the he should never leave prison. They had agreed not to seek the death sentence in exchange for Guzmán’s extradition from Mexico.
In a sentencing letter filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, prosecutors asked Judge Brian Cogan to send Guzmán to maximum security for life, plus 30 years.
“The overwhelming evidence at trial showed that the defendant was a ruthless and bloodthirsty leader of the Sinaloa Cart...
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July 11, 2019 at 7:12 pm
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has denied reports that its naval forces attempted to seize a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, despite U.S. claims that one of its surveillance aircraft captured footage of the incident.
British warship HMS Montrose reportedly chased the small Iranian craft away from the British Heritage tanker. The vessel trained its guns on the assailants, but the Iranian crews heeded verbal warnings and backed off before warning shots were fired.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a U.S. official said the Iranian action “was harassment and an attempt to interfere with the passage,” according to Reuters.
But the IRGC naval forces public relations department released a statement disputing the reports. The service claimed i...
