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August 8, 2019 at 9:50 pm
Sefer Devarim encapsulates many of the events which transpired earlier in Sefer’s Shemos, Vayikra and Bamidbar. Parshas Devarim in particular chronicles much of the travels, wars and mistakes made by Klal Yisroel in the Midbar. Moshe Rabbeinu singles out the M’raglim for particular criticism in this weeks Parsha. He similarly brought up the M’raglim with Shevet Reuven and Gad at the end of Parshas Mattos. At that time, the leaders of Shevet Reuven and Gad had approached Moshe Rabbeinu to request that their Chelek be granted on the “other” side of the Yarden. Moshe Rabbeinu responded with a blistering criticism of the request, (Mattos 31:1-15) comparing them to the M’raglim who also did not want to go into Eretz Yisroel. &nb...
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August 8, 2019 at 9:50 pm
Jerusalem - Hundreds of people attended Thursday’s funeral of an 18-year-old Israeli soldier who was found dead hours earlier with stab wounds near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the killing as a terror attack and vowed the killers would be brought to justice. Israeli troops raided a nearby Palestinian village and the military said it was sending reinforcements to the West Bank.
The killing threatened to inflame tensions between Israelis and Palestinians just over a month before Israel’s parliament elections. In response to the incident, Netanyahu’s nationalist allies called for further West Bank settlement construction and a heavy handed response.
The soldier was identified as 18-year-old Dvir Sorek, from the West Ban...
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August 8, 2019 at 6:39 pm
Brian Nadeau, an FBI agent with experience investigating public corruption, will become the Baltimore police deputy commissioner in charge of the Public Integrity Bureau, Commissioner Michael Harrison announced Thursday.
During a brief press conference at police headquarters, Harrison said Nadeau "has served the region and country with distinction."
Nadeau is assistant special agent in charge at the FBI's Baltimore field office. He previously headed the FBI's public corruption unit.
It is the second time Harrison has attempted to fill the position. In May, he selected former city prosecutor Michelle Wilson to oversee internal affairs. Wilson, who now works for Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, had recently accused State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby of perjury in a wrongf...
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August 8, 2019 at 4:16 pm
We regret to inform you of the passing of Mr. Moshe Chomsky, the brother of Mrs. Chaya Liebes, and extend our condolences to the entire family. The levaya was yesterday and shiva is in Lakewood. Mrs. Liebes's cell phone is 443-560-7390. HaMakom yenachem osam b'soch shar avai'lay Tzion ve'Yerushalayim.
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August 8, 2019 at 3:22 pm
We are all familiar with the sad reality that we are yet in exile because we are still guilty of ‘baseless hatred’.
Where does an attitude of baseless hatred stem from?
The Maharsha points to the verse where Moshe admonish the nation for their having accused G-d, as it were, for hating them.
You slandered in your tents and said, “Because of G-d’s hatred for us did He take us out of the land of Egypt...(דברים א כז)
It was this sinful and baseless allegation of hatred from G-d that engendered their future challenge with the struggles of baseless hatred that would plague their relationships, that would somehow rectify this original sin.
What connection is there between their frustration with G-d and the difficulties they would face among&nbs...
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August 8, 2019 at 2:49 pm
Mazel tov to Jenny and Avraham Weinschneider on the birth of a girl! Mazel Tov to grandparents Leslie and Jeffrey Silverberg and great-grandmother Dorothy Hettleman.
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August 8, 2019 at 8:46 am
On Monday evening, August 5, Chayeinu, Delegate Dalya Attar and Congregation Ner Tamid jointly sponsored a program about addiction that featured a Narcan training session. Ms. Attar opened the program, attended by over 200 people, by declaring, “Never again should we need to attend a funeral of a young person who has died of an overdose” and shared her personal loss of a friend to addiction. She declared that we as a community must address this issue in order to save potential victims from this deadly disease. She explained that Narcan (the commercial name for Naloxone) is a drug that can rapidly reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. A local day school administrator saved the life of a student with Narcan this past spring. It can be easily adm...
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August 8, 2019 at 7:14 am
Rabbi Sharel Rosenblatt, Rabbi Yossi Froman, and Yinon Achiman of Ohr Torah Machanaim spoke this morning following the murder of the yeshiva student Dvir Sorek.
Rabbi Sharel Rosenblatt noted, "We're all hurting; hurting, sad, and our hearts are broken over a dear and beloved student who was taken from us, who was murdered in cold blood. Dvir Sorek, a student who from the moment he entered the yeshiva with his embracing eyes, his sweet peyot, his love of Torah, his love of mankind, his melodies and poetry that enveloped us all in magic, was beloved by all students."
"It is a great loss for the family; of course, we embrace them and send them all our love, and to Yeshivat Machanaim and Ohr Torah Stone. It's a great loss to Israeli society, a person who truly loved ...
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August 8, 2019 at 7:13 am
Dvir Sorek is the hesder student at Ohr Torah Mahanayim murdered last night in Gush Etzion, it has been cleared for publication.
Dvir, 19, a resident of Ofra, was the son of journalist Yoav Sorek, editor of the "Hashiloach" publication, and his wife Rachel, and was grandson of Rabbi Binyamin Herling, who was murdered in a terror attack on Mt. Ebal.
Sorek was murdered last night and his body found toward morning near Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion. Security forces dispatched to the scene began extensive searches.
His yeshiva said that he had gone to Jerusalem to buy books for the yeshiva, and at night was on his way back to the yeshiva.
At a certain point, contact was lost with him. At 7:30 pm police received a report of a missing person, and forces began extensive sear...
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August 8, 2019 at 7:07 am
The body of a yeshiva student was found early Thursday morning, with stab marks on his body, near the community of Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion.
IDF Spokesman Ronen Manelis said that a report was received during the night about an 18-year-old man who had not been heard from since the evening. Troops who were called to the scene discovered his body not far from Migdal Oz.
The student is a resident of the town of Ofra and a student in a yeshiva in Migdal Oz, in a period of unpaid service but is defined as an IDF soldier.
At this stage, the IDF understands that a terrorist squad is operating in the area and an effort is being made to locate the squad. IDF, Shin Bet and Israel Police forces are on the scene and searching the area.
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August 7, 2019 at 10:09 pm
A Palestinian man who faced death threats after saving the lives of Israeli children following a terrorist attack that killed their rabbi father was awarded Israeli residency by Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Tuesday.
The unnamed 28-year old man and his wife, who has a nursing degree, were traveling in the vicinity of their home near Hebron on July 1, 2016, when they encountered the overturned vehicle of Rabbi Miki Mark and his wife, Chava, which had gone off the road near Otniel after being sprayed with bullets in a terrorist attack.
Rabbi Mark was killed and Chava Mark seriously wounded in the attack.
Despite tensions between Palestinians and Israelis in the region, the couple immediately stopped and helped evacuate the Marks’ trapped, injured and frightened teenage children fr...
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August 7, 2019 at 10:07 pm
Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, whose congressional district includes Dayton, where nine people were killed in a mass shooting over the weekend, endorsed a ban on military-style weapons Tuesday, going further than many of his GOP colleagues on stricter gun laws.
The mass shooting, which came some 13 hours after a deadly mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, was personal for Turner, not only because it occurred in his district but because his daughter and a family friend were at a bar across the street from where the shooting began.
“As they ran home, I followed their progress & prayed for them & our community. Thank you to @DaytonPolice for their bravery in stopping this evil,” Turner tweeted Sunday morning.
Two days later, Turner, who has...
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August 7, 2019 at 9:29 pm
Israel’s Welfare and Social Services Minister Haim Katz will soon be charged with a number of criminal offenses related to fraud and breach of trust, Hebrew media reported on Wednesday.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit is currently preparing indictments against the Likud Party politician and will submit them to the Jerusalem Magistrate court in the coming days.
Katz is accused of using his office to advance the financial interests of businessman Mordechai Ben Ari in what authorities say was an illicit quid pro quo scheme.
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August 7, 2019 at 9:27 pm
Kabul - The United States and the Taliban have resolved differences in peace talks over the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and guarantees from the insurgents that they will cut ties with other extremist groups, a Taliban official said Tuesday.
The U.S. side did not immediately provide details about the latest round of talks held in Qatar, where the Taliban maintain a political office. But Zalmay Khalilzad, the American envoy who has been leading the talks since they began late last year, tweeted that they had made “excellent progress.”
The two sides have been meeting for the last two days, and technical teams were continuing discussions on Tuesday in Doha. The Taliban official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss...
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August 7, 2019 at 5:32 pm
After buying roughly half of Rite Aid's stores two years ago, Walgreens expanded its American footprint to more than 9,500 stores. The planned closures represent less than 3% of Walgreens locations.
The closures will cause "minimal disruption to customers and patients," Walgreens said in a statement. The company will also find jobs for affected employees in nearby locations. Walgreens did not provide a list of the stores that it plans to close.
Parent company Walgreens Boots Alliance announced in June it would close 200 of its more than 2,400 Boots stores in the United Kingdom. The company expects the combined closures to save it $1.5 billion annually by the end of fiscal year 2022. Earlier this year, Walgreens issued a weak profit outlook for 2019, so it pledged to cut costs to boo...
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August 7, 2019 at 5:32 pm
Signs of main streets in Tel Aviv were replaced overnight in protest of what some feel is Israel’s weak policy against Hamas and Arab terror.
Among the new streets are The Sderot Boulevard, Red Alert Road, Hamas Road and another named after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
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August 7, 2019 at 5:32 pm
Israel’s Defense Ministry has authorized plans for the construction of more than 2,300 homes in Jewish communities in Yehuda and Shomron, following sessions of the Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee on Monday and Tuesday.
According to reports, 838 homes passed all stages of construction approval, with another 1,466 approved in the early planning stage. The majority were approved for smaller Jewish communities as opposed to major blocs.
The permits will provide retroactive legalization to Givat Salit in the northern Jordan Valley; Ibei Hanahal in the Judean Desert southeast of Bethlehem; and Haroeh Ha’ivri east of Yerushalayim, which was approved for an educational campus.
The last time the Civil Administration convened, in April, it authorized 3,659 cons...
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August 7, 2019 at 3:41 pm
BaltimoreJewishLife has become aware of the following important information that may be applciable to members of our day school commnunity. ies
1. The Maryland State Department of Education notified BOOST awardees of their award. Parents must accept the award by August 9th. Please be sure to follow BOOST’s instructions so as not to lose this valuable assistance. If you have any questions, you may email MSDE boost.msde@maryland.gov.
2. The Children’s Scholarship Fund is an organization which provides scholarship funds to low income residents of Baltimore City for children in kindergarten through eighth grade. They are accepting applications for the 2020-2021 school year with a deadline of October...
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August 7, 2019 at 1:40 pm
Following a prolonged outage due to the ransomware attack, the Baltimore City water bill payment site is finally back online. A notice on the payment site reads as follows:ALERT: DPW began issuing new water bills on Wednesday, August 7th. New bills will be generated and mailed in batches of 10,000 per day. Your new water bill charges will not appear in the online system until your August bill (including charges for April, May, June and July) is generated and mailed.https://cityservices.baltimorecity.gov/water/
