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September 5, 2019 at 3:47 pm
Mazel tov to Mr and Mrs Jonathan Klein on the birth of a granddaughter, Tzipora Faiga Stempel, born to Sabrina and Aaron Stempel of Chicago.
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September 5, 2019 at 3:46 pm
You are warmly invited to join us at the Kvias Mezuza at our new Bais Medrash, Aish Kodesh, under the leadership of R' Nesanel Kostolitz, at 6207 Ivymount Rd between (Edenvale and Rogene), tomorrow, Sept 6, 2019!
Mincha at 3:45pm followed by the Kvias Mezuza and L’chaim. We anticipate finishing before 4:30pm, and hope you will join us!
Weeknight Seder HaLimud is from 8pm to 10pm, Sunday through Thursday, and the Rav shlita is available to receive walk in shailos and get to know you
Maariv will be at 9pm Sunday-Thursday night.
Gershon Seidel is organizing Shabbos Davening, please contact him on 443-629-4111 if you are interested.
Please tell your friends! If you have a friend who would like to be added to this list, kindly forward me the name, email and ph...
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September 5, 2019 at 3:36 pm
In this week's parsha, the Torah commands us to adhere to our Sages' guidance and instructions (17:11). Rashi illustrates this concept with the following example: even if they tell you that your right is your left and your left is your right, you must listen to them.
How can we possibly accomplish this? How can an intellectually honest person accept guidance even if it appears that it is completely wrong? My right is definitely my right!
R' Ashear relates that there was a man by the name of Yosef. Yosef woke up one morning with a very important business meeting that day. However, his day did not go well. When he got to his car that morning, he saw a ticket on his windshield. He was very dismayed to see it, as he realized it was due to him park...
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September 5, 2019 at 1:30 pm
Three World Bnei Akiva (WBA) emissaries who were just dispatched to the Jewish community in Hollywood, Florida were given 45 minutes to evacuate earlier this week as Hurricane Dorian was approaching. The emissaries, all of whom are just high school graduates landed in Hollywood just two weeks ago. "We began with news of the approaching storm, but the meteorological service does not actually know until the last minute about the hurricane’s level of severity or whether there is a need to prepare for absorption or evacuation," the emissaries said. "Automatic evacuation is usually not encouraged in the community. Instead, it is preferred to be prepared as much as possible and to remain as long as there is no real danger. We were therefore instructed to fill our home with water and other ...
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September 5, 2019 at 11:45 am
MARYLAND — With two areas of the state under separate tropical storm warnings, the Maryland Emergency Management Agency ramped up efforts to prepare for Hurricane Dorian, raising its activation level to "partial." The move was made due to Hurricane Dorian's potential impact on the lower Eastern Shore in particular, according to officials.
The partial activation took effect at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5, and was one level below full activation, the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) reported.
Hurricane Dorian is located about 140 miles south-southwest of Wilmington, North Carolina, as of 11 a.m. Thursday, and was moving north at 8 mph. It is packing maximum sustained winds of 110 mph.
"Hurricane Dorian remains a dangerous hurricane and is expected to move across or j...
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September 5, 2019 at 11:23 am
1) “Chachamim” vs. “Pikchim”
Gra has a very famous and classical piece here which is just so relevant. Perek 17, pasuk 19. It says, “lo sateh mishpat”. Don’t pervert justice. “Lo sakir panim”. Don’t show favor to anyone. “lo sikach shochad”. Don’t take bribery. “ki hashochad ya’avir einei chachamim”. Because bribery will blind the eyes of the wise. “v’yisaleik divrei tzaddikim”, and it will pervert the words of righteous people. And, the Gra points out a very interesting thing. When it describes the bribery in this pasuk in Shoftim, it talks about how it blinds the eyes of chachamim. Whereas in parsh...
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September 5, 2019 at 8:00 am
An annual $200 license to mark food as kosher in the heavily Jewish Broward County in Southeast Florida may change next week following complaints by business owners.
The annual county license does not guarantee that a business outlet’s food is safe or kosher, only that the owner has a reason for calling it kosher, according to the Florida Sun Sentinel.
Neighboring Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties do not have similar fees. Broward has been collecting the permit fees for nearly 40 years, but on Sept. 10, commissioners will vote on whether or not to repeal the kosher-license regulations.
Business owners are angered by the $200 fee, with Eric Rutner, who owns Diamond Kosher Caterers, saying, “To me, it functioned as a tax on being Jewish.”
He said to show his products a...
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September 5, 2019 at 7:59 am
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis in northern Israel do not have access to a bomb shelter or secure location, Israel’s Ynet news site reported on Wednesday.
According to the report, the Israel Builders Association released a study based on data from the Central Bureau of Statistics that found that as many as a million Israelis in the northern part of the country lack a bomb shelter or secure location near their homes in case of an attack.
The report comes amid heightened tensions between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, which launched a rocket attack against an Israel Defense Forces’ vehicle on Sunday.
The government approved an NIS 5 billion ($1.4 billion) security plan a year ago, authored by then-defense minister Avigdor Lieberman, but the plan was eventually canceled. Lo...
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September 5, 2019 at 7:58 am
A shooting attack in upstate New York was averted today thanks to the timely action of the Sullivan County Police Force.
A man planning to shoot up the Walmart in Sullivan County in Monticello and numerous other places was arrested by State police in the parking lot of Walmart in Monticello before he could begin an attack.
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September 5, 2019 at 7:55 am
A recently appointed aide at the U.S. Department of Labor, Leif Olson, resigned late last week after a 2016 Facebook post that appeared to be anti-Semitic was reported by Bloomberg.
Olson, 43, began at the department’s Wage and Hour Division on Aug. 12 after being cleared by the White House as a senior policy adviser to be part of the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda. He resigned on Friday.
The Facebook post under fire, Olson told Bloomberg, “was sarcastic criticism of the alt-right’s conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic positions.” The post was in response to then-U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan defeating alt-right and anti-Semitic activist Paul Nehlen in the Republican primary in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional district.
Olson said Ryan “...
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September 5, 2019 at 7:55 am
Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson offered an unorthodox suggestion Wednesday for dealing with Hurricane Dorian: using “the power of the mind” to will the storm elsewhere.
Dorian has largely spared Florida the worst of its wrath, but it is forecast to make a much closer approach to the U.S. coastline between late Wednesday and Thursday, with Georgia and the Carolinas in its path.
The storm has devastated much of the Bahamas, where the official death count stands at seven but is expected to rise as authorities reach damaged areas. Nearly three out of every four homes on Grand Bahama are underwater, according to authorities, and aerial images of the island of Great Abaco show a pulverized landscape.
In a now-deleted tweet, Williamson, an author and onetime s...
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September 5, 2019 at 7:51 am
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered Wednesday evening a historic, albeit controversial, public address at a state ceremony in the city of Chevron, announcing that “Chevron will not be free of Jews.”
The state memorial service, which commemorated the Jewish victims of the 1929 Arab riots, was the first time an Israeli leader made a public address in the flashpoint city where less than 1,000 Jewish settlers live within a city of 200,000 Palestinians.
“We have accomplished historical justice, and returned to the city of the patriarchs,” Netanyahu said. “I’m proud that my government approved the Jewish Quarter Plan a year ago to build dozens of new housing units for Chevron Jews. We do not come to dispossess anyone, but nobody will d...
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September 5, 2019 at 7:48 am
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday demanded an Oct. 15 snap election after lawmakers seeking to prevent a no-deal Brexit dealt him a humiliating defeat in parliament which he cast as an attempt to surrender to the European Union.
Parliament’s move leaves Brexit up in the air, with possible outcomes ranging from a turbulent no-deal exit to abandoning the whole endeavor — both outcomes would be unacceptable to swathes of the United Kingdom’s voters.
An alliance of opposition lawmakers backed by 21 rebels from Johnson’s Conservative Party defeated the government on Tuesday on a motion allowing them to try to pass a law which would force a three-month extension to Britain’s EU exit date.
Johnson cast the rebellion as an attempt to surrender to th...
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September 5, 2019 at 7:48 am
The official death toll in the Bahamas from Hurricane Dorian has risen to 20, according to Wednesday reports, and is expected to climb further.
Dorian, the strongest hurricane ever to hit the Bahamas, devastated the archipelago nation. Winds up to 185 mph and torrential rains destroyed or severely damaged nearly half the homes of the 70,000 residents in Abaco and Grand Bahama, The Associated Press reported.
Bahamian Health Minister Duane Sands told the AP that 17 of the deaths are from Abaco and three are from Grand Bahama. Dorian is also blamed for one death in Puerto Rico as well as one in North Carolina.
Read more at The Hill.
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September 5, 2019 at 7:47 am
Google will pay $170 million to settle allegations that it illegally collected data about children younger than age 13 who watched toy videos and television shows on YouTube, settling a long-running government investigation but leaving some in Washington once again furious that regulators had been outmatched by Silicon Valley.
In a sweeping complaint, state and federal regulators alleged Google knew that some channels on YouTube were popular among young viewers and tracked kids’ viewing habits for the purpose of serving them targeted ads, ultimately raking in “close to $50 million” from just a short list of channels that violated federal children’s privacy laws.
The settlement – brokered by the Federal Trade Commission and the attorney general of New York &n...
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September 5, 2019 at 7:47 am
Britain may be headed toward new elections after rebel lawmakers served Prime Minister Boris Johnson a devastating loss Tuesday on his first key Brexit vote.
A rough day for Johnson, in which 21 members of his own Conservative Party voted against him to take control of the parliamentary agenda, concluded with the prime minister introducing a bill seeking a general election. He suggested he would seek action on that election bill Wednesday if he sees a second defeat and Parliament approves legislation to delay Brexit by another three months.
“Parliament is on the brink of wrecking any deal we might be able to strike in Brussels,” Johnson said. “Because tomorrow’s bill would hand control of the negotiations to the E.U. And that would mean more dither, more delay, mo...
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September 5, 2019 at 7:47 am
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Wednesday announced she would formally withdrawal a bill allowing extradition to mainland China to “allay public concerns,” meeting the least difficult of the five protester demands amid a deepening political crisis.
Lam, however, stopped short of announcing a fully independent investigation into the crisis including the police’s response and use of force – and many are already rejecting her concessions as too little and too late.
She had already suspended work on the bill in June, but a day later, about 2 million people took to the streets, the first clear indication that it was an insufficient step. Lam then labeled it “dead,” but the protests continued; growing in intensity, scale and scope. Protesters had insisted tha...
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September 5, 2019 at 7:46 am
On Monday, a preparatory meeting took place in the Israeli consulate in Kiev ahead of the annual mass pilgrimage of Jews to Uman for Rosh Hashanah.
Organizers expect that the annual pilgrimage to the grave site of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, which is located in the relatively small town of Uman, will surpass 50,000 people this year. In light of the massive amount of visitors, most of whom come from Israel, Israel’s Foreign Ministry organized a meeting of the major organizations involved in running and securing the event. Among those present were Israeli Ambassador to the Ukraine Mr. Joel Lion, a representative of Israel’s police force, local health agencies and law enforcement and Chief Operations Director for United Hatzalah David Krispel.
During the meeting, each representati...
