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September 10, 2019 at 10:58 am
srael will hold a ceremony to commemorate the 9/11 Twin Tower attacks on Tuesday afternoon at the Jerusalem Park. As a tribute to the Tribute in Lights representing the Twin Towers, Jerusalem's skies will be lighten up – reaching up to 300 meters.
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The Tribute in Light is an art installation of 88 searchlights six blocks south of the World Trade Center on top of the Battery Parking Garage in New York City, which creates two columns of light representing the Twin Towers in remembrance of the September 11 attacks.The event is organized jointly b...
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September 9, 2019 at 8:43 pm
Mazel Tov to Shaindy Lerner on her engagement to Ahron Yosef Tendler (Monsey)! Mazel tov to the parents, Shaya and Brenda Lerner of Baltimore and Mordechai and Michelle Tendler of Monsey!!
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September 9, 2019 at 5:24 pm
BALTIMORE, Md. (WBFF) - Officials say a suspicious vehicle that prompted the evacuation of much of downtown Baltimore turned out to be a van filled with stolen diesel fuel.
Baltimore officials originally reported that the a vehicle with 1,000 gallons of gasoline was found in a parking garage on Calvert Street between Pratt and Light streets.They used a robot to investigate the vehicle, on the second floor of the garage, and determined that suspicious devices on the van were "basically used to steal diesel fuel."
Police Col. Richard Worley said "it's not a lot" of diesel fuel. He said there appears to be no "ill intent" with the suspicious vehicle, as far as possible terroristic activity.
A large portion of downtown Baltimore was evacuated, between East Baltimore Street, Conway Stre...
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September 9, 2019 at 3:02 pm
Mazel Tov to David and Shoshana Friedman on the birth of a grandson, born to Avrumie (Abe) and Shlomit Friedman. Mazel Tov to grandparents, Menachem and Taina Gross of Long Beach, NY and to great grandmothers, Leah Friedman and Dina Fried.
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September 9, 2019 at 12:47 pm
BALTIMORE —
Police investigating a suspicious vehicle Monday morning in a parking garage in downtown Baltimore found containers of gasoline, sources told the 11 News I-Team.
Police were called shortly after 11 a.m. to a parking garage in the 100 block of East Pratt Street. Police and building sources told the I-Team that a van entered the garage early Monday morning and parked. Security later smelled gasoline and police saw containers of gasoline inside and started an investigation.
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A city official told the I-Team that law enforcement was doing a final sweep of buildings around the parking garage where the suspicious vehicle is parked. If they don't find anything, the all clear will be given about 4 p.m.
Bomb technicians and hazardous materia...
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September 9, 2019 at 12:37 pm
Just weeks after lambasting Baltimore as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” President Donald Trump will visit the Maryland city to huddle with congressional Republicans – a gathering that could draw local protests and reignite an ugly feud between the White House and the black-majority locality.
The White House confirmed Sunday that Trump would address House Republicans at their biennial retreat this Thursday. Republican lawmakers and aides – who chose the city for their three-day gathering before Trump decried it as “the Worst in the USA” – weren’t sure the president would want to attend.
Trump’s attendance could elate GOP lawmakers still licking their wounds from last fall’s midterm shellacking by the Democrats, who...
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September 9, 2019 at 11:56 am
Our 2019-20 theme, “Building and Rebuilding,” speaks to OCA’s commitment to build upon our vision of Community, Individuality, and Excellence in all aspects of our school. We are proud of OCA’s strong foundation of community warmth and cohesiveness; our progressive, child-centered, and empirically-based instructional methods; and our goal of achieving excellence in everything we do. In designing our theme for this year, we chose to take it a step further by encouraging students to see themselves as an important part of who we are as an institution. Enjoy this video recap of the first day of the school year where students were introduced to the concept of Building and Rebuilding and settled in for a year of learning, growth and, of course, fun!
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September 9, 2019 at 10:29 am
Joseph’s knee hurts, badly. He can’t really get around pain free, let alone do his daily morning power walk. He takes some non-prescription pain killer. For a few hours, there is some relief although a dull ache is always there. How long can he keep taking these pills? They begin to bother his stomach by the third day of taking them. Debra’s lower back is always in pain. She has a special pillow for the back of her chair in the office she works in, but still has to get up every 20 minutes to walk around. Sleeping is difficult for her and her quality of life has been deteriorating. Elazer is in chronic left shoulder pain. He was our hiking a few weeks ago and slipped while climbing down a hill. He used his h...
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September 9, 2019 at 7:46 am
In Devarim, Perek Chof Gimmel, posuk gimmel the Torah commands Bnei Yisroel not to allow a mamzer to marry a Jewish woman.
There is a famous machlokes Rishonim on the concept in halacha that when you have a safek on a d’Oraysa, we pasken lechumra: is this psak lechumra mi’d’Oraysa or it is only mi’d’Rabbonon? The Rashba on Kiddushin, daf ayin gimmel amud bais brings a Teshuvas Ha’Rambam that since the gemara had to teach us that only a mamzer vadai is unable to marry a Jewish woman, but a mamzer safek may do so, we see that safek d’Ora...
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September 8, 2019 at 9:35 pm
Mazal Tov to Rabbi Chai Posner, who was unanimously voted as Beth Tfiloh Congregation's next senior rabbi, effective January 1, 2022. Following his retirement in December of 2021, Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg will transition to the role of rabbi in residence through December 2025, at which time Rabbi Posner will take on the full range of responsibilities of senior rabbi.
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September 8, 2019 at 9:18 pm
BALTIMORE, MD — The 2019 Urban Mobility Report presented a troubling finding that commuters across the nation — especially drivers who have to commute in the Baltimore area — already know too well: Traffic congestion in the United States is at an all time worst.
The recently released report by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute was based off hundreds of speed data points for every 15 minutes of the average day for almost every mile of major road in urban America.
Drivers in our city spend on average 59 hours each year in traffic delays, the 22nd highest amount in America. Baltimore also ranks 32nd in excess fuel per commuter, due to congestion, and 32nd in congestion cost per driver.
Here are the congestion statistics for Baltimore:
Yearly de...
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September 8, 2019 at 9:02 pm
Question #1: Required???
“Must I physically send away the mother bird? I am squeamish!”
Question #2: Keep the Babies
“Must I take the young to fulfill the mitzvah?”
Question #3: Educated!
“I am so excited about the opportunity to fulfill this special mitzvah, with all its rewards, but I want to make sure I do it properly. Can you please enlighten me?”
Well known and poorly understood
This week’s parsha includes the laws of a mitzvah, or more accurately, two mitzvos that are both well-known and yet poorly understood. The Torah teaches that when we happen to find a nest of birds, we are to send away the mother and keep the young; that is, either the baby birds or the eggs. An entire chapter of Mish...
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September 8, 2019 at 8:50 pm
At the beginning of this week’s parsha, the process of prosecuting the idolater is discussed. Regarding his or her demise by stoning it is stated, (17:7) “and you shall wipe out the evil from your midst.”
Immediately thereafter, we are taught of the procedure regarding the zakein mamreh, the elder who engages in a dispute with the Sanhedrin and advises others in contradiction to their decree. He is put to death for this insurrection, about which it is said, (17:12) “and you will wipe out the evil from Yisrael.”
R’ Moshe Shternbuch, in Ta’am VaDa’as, explains the slight discrepancy between the two phrases. He notes that the nature of the zakein mamreh is such that in his disagreement with the Sanhed...
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September 8, 2019 at 5:49 pm
With Israeli elections just days away, many American Jews are watching closely, hoping that Benjamin Netanyahu will finally be defeated.
American Jews, overwhelmingly Democrats and liberals, have a litany of complaints about Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. They believe he insulted President Barack Obama by trying to prevent the passage of his Iran nuclear deal with an address to a joint session of Congress. They claim Netanyahu’s 2018 law declaring Israel the nation-state of the Jewish people has eroded the country’s democracy. Above all, they blame Netanyahu for the lack of progress on the Palestinian front.
There is a reasonable chance that Netanyahu will win. If he does not, though, the victor will most certainly come from Israel’s ...
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September 8, 2019 at 5:48 pm
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) —
Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman, joined the Republican race against President Donald Trump on Sunday, aiming to put his Appalachian Trail travails behind him for good as he pursues an admittedly remote path to the presidency.
"I am here to tell you now that I am going to get in," Sanford said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday." ''This is the beginning of a long walk."
When asked why he was taking on an incumbent who's popular within the party, Sanford, who has acknowledged his slim chances by saying he doesn't expect to become president, said: "I think we need to have a conversation on what it means to be a Republican. I think that as the Republican Party, we have lost our way."
Sanford joins Joe Walsh, ...
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September 8, 2019 at 4:56 pm
A former Hezbollah leader was found dead in his apartment outside of Beirut Sunday, Lebanese media outlets reported.
Sheikh Ali Hatoum, who was a senior member of the Iranian-backed Shia terrorist organization before his departure from the group two years ago, was found dead in his home in Bourj el-Barajneh, a suburb of Beirut.
Citing unnamed sources, Lebanon24 reported that there was “no security action related to the killing of the [Hezbollah]” official, noting that Hatoum was no longer affiliated with the terror group.
No cause of death has been reported thus far, and local officials are expected to make a public statement on the discovery of Hatoum’s remains.
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September 8, 2019 at 4:55 pm
Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecoms group, has been fined 30 million shekels ($8.6 million) for what the competition regulator said was an “abuse of the firm’s monopolistic position” in telecommunications infrastructure.
The antitrust authority also imposed a financial penalty of 500,000 shekels on a senior Bezeq official and said on Wednesday it intended to levy a further 8 million shekel fine on Bezeq for misinformation during the authority’s investigation.
The regulator said Bezeq blocked competitors from deploying wired communications networks using the company’s infrastructure, which “could adversely affect the development of competition in the supply of internet, television and wired telecoms services.”
Bezeq declined to comment.
Israe...
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September 8, 2019 at 4:55 pm
A former cab driver was recently charged in Montreal for assaulting a Jewish man in a parking garage, according to the Montreal Gazette.
Video footage of the altercation on July 28 shows a yarmulke-clad man taking a photo of a taxi driver, who then gets out of the car and punches the victim repeatedly until a parking supervisor intervenes.
According to B’nai Brith Canada, which called the attack a hate crime, the victim was waiting for the taxi to move from the entrance of the building’s underground garage when the driver allegedly yelled, “I won’t move for any […] Jews.”
The victim tried taking a photograph of the taxi to file a complaint.
The cab driver fled the scene after the attack, though his company, Taxi Champlain, discovered his identity an...
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September 8, 2019 at 4:55 pm
A 45-year-old man is in critical condition after he was shot on Chai Landau Street in Beer Sheva
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Eliah Yitzchak Tubul who was one of the first responders at the scene said: “We treated the injured man at the scene. He was in critical condition after he was shot in his upper body. After receiving the initial treatment he was transported by an intensive care ambulance to Soroka hospital for further care and treatment.”
