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January 27, 2020 at 6:56 pm
Parshat Bo chronicles the dramatic redemption of the Jewish people from a two hundred-year nightmare of backbreaking slavery and oppression. The great “night of redemption” is punctuated by celebratory rituals which ultimately become incorporated into the Pesach seder. However, before the Jews are informed of these ceremonies, they are instructed to reconfigure their calendar to designate the month of Nissan – not Tishrei- as the launch of the calendar year. This scheduling change delivers two lessons: Firstly, it installs Pesach at the start of each year highlighting the seminal nature of our liberation from slavery and our historical Covenant with G-d. Pesach is celebrated at the launch of a new calendar year, showcasing the importance of historical memory.
However, th...
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January 27, 2020 at 6:46 pm
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 27, 2020 - The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) today reported that a Maryland resident met the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) criteria for testing for 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). This individual is in good condition and is being monitored while awaiting test results, to be reported by the CDC laboratory.
“The Maryland Department of Health is closely monitoring the rapidly changing situation with 2019 N-CoV, both in the U.S. and in China,” said MDH Deputy Secretary of Public Health Fran Phillips. “As we learn more, Marylanders are encouraged to practice everyday actions to promote good health and to protect yourself and your loved ones from respiratory viruses like the coronavirus — wash your hands t...
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January 27, 2020 at 4:53 pm
Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas reportedly refused to take a phone call from U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of the White House’s expected release of its long-awaited Mideast peace plan for the Israelis and Palestinians.
“There were attempts by Trump to hold a phone call with Abbas, but the latter refused,” an unnamed high-ranking Palestinian official told the state-run Turkish outlet Anadolu.
P.A. Social Affairs Minister Ahmad Majdalani confirmed the Anadolu report to the Gaza-based Dunia al-Watan news site, saying that Abbas recently “refused a phone call from Trump.”
The P.A. stated its rejection of the Trump administration’s peace plan before it has even been made public, as it is reportedly said to be favorable towards the Jewish state...
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January 27, 2020 at 4:47 pm
Watch: President Donald Trump hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponent Benny Ganz at the White House on Monday ahead of unveiling the "Deal of the Century" tomorrow. "What a strange system you have," Trump commented about Israel's third election cycle.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he will be unveiling the “Deal of the Century,” his peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians, on Tuesday.
“This is a plan that’s very important to peace in the Middle East,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday.
“They say Israel and the Palestinians, they have to make peace before you can really have peace in the Middle East. People have been working on this for many, many years ...
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January 27, 2020 at 3:53 pm
It wasn’t until the 1990s that Zofia and Andrzej Pilecki found out their father was a hero. As teens in postwar Poland, they had been told he was a traitor and an enemy of the state, and they listened to news reports about his 1948 trial and execution on the school radio.
In fact, Witold Pilecki was a Polish resistance fighter who voluntarily went to Auschwitz to start a resistance, and he sent secret messages to the Allies, becoming the first to sound the alarm about the true nature of Nazi Germany’s largest concentration and extermination camp.
Auschwitz was liberated 75 years ago on Monday. In a new book, “The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz,” former war correspondent Jack Fairweather unearths the story of Pi...
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January 27, 2020 at 2:57 pm
PARIS (AP) — Anti-Semitic acts increased in France last year by 27%, acts against Muslims inched higher while anti-Christian acts remained stable but highest of all, France’s interior minister said Sunday, denouncing the situation as intolerable.
On top of that, acts described as bearing a racist and xenophobic character, mostly threats, more than doubled between 2018 and 2019 — increasing from 496 to 1,142, according to a statement by Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.
“Expressions and acts of hate, whether they target origins or religious beliefs, whether they take the form of physical violence or verbal threats, are an intolerable attack on our common project, the foundations of our social … pact,” the statement said.
To mobilize against force...
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January 27, 2020 at 2:55 pm
BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group vowed in an audio message released Monday that the extremists will start a new phase of attacks that will focus on Israel and blasted the U.S. administration’s plan to resolve the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Despite carrying out deadly attacks throughout the world over the past years, IS has rarely targeted Israel. The audio appears to try to win the extremist group popularity in the region at a time when President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” is expected to be announced in the U.S. soon.
The Palestinians have not been consulted on the much-trumpeted deal and have pre-emptively rejected the U.S. proposal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington Sunday night vowing to “m...
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January 27, 2020 at 2:53 pm
In an unprecedented political move, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main political challenger Benny Gantz are traveling to Washington to meet separately with U.S. President Donald Trump just prior to the rollout of the administration’s long-awaited Middle East peace proposal.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence invited Netanyahu to the White House at a meeting between the two at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem last week, and said that on the recommendation of the prime minister the invitation was being extended to Gantz as well.
Netanyahu published a video stating that he is traveling to Washington with “a great sense of mission and great responsibility.” He called Trump’s plan Israel’s “greatest opportunity,” and added that &ldqu...
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January 27, 2020 at 2:51 pm
Israel’s Health Ministry on Friday issued a travel warning for Wuhan, China and surrounding areas, following the death of 55 people in China and some 2,000 globally from a new virus.
According to information pieced together by the World Health Organization and Chinese health authorities, the Novel coronavirus, also known as 2019-nCoV, Chinese Acute Respiratory Syndrome (CARS) or Wuhan coronavirus , likely started from an animal source and spread to humans in a market in Wuhan, the capital city of China’s central Hubei province.
Israelis were advised to avoid travel to the region unless “absolutely critical,” while the ministry stated that it was in contact “with all the international bodies and experts in Israel and abroad,” and promised that “th...
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January 27, 2020 at 2:23 pm
Because of your generosity, Ezer Mizion, world’s largest Jewish registry, has reached the MILLION MARK! What does that mean? The success of a bone marrow transplant is dependent on the genetic match between donor and recipient. With Israel’s wide range of ethnic groups, many of them IDF recruits, we have succeeded in amassing a registry of ONE MILLION potential donors. These registrants are of highly varied genetic makeup so that when a cancer patient is in need of a bone marrow transplant, the chances of finding a DNA match in time, before it’s too late, are very good! However, there are still many who wait in hope and prayer for the match that will mean LIFE and we will not stop enlarging the registry until until every single request received from any...
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January 27, 2020 at 2:18 pm
News Alert
High Court Allows Implementation of Immigration Rules Denying Residency Over Public Assistance
The Supreme Court allowed a Trump administration rule denying green cards to legal immigrants who use or are likely to use public aid, as litigation continues.
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January 27, 2020 at 1:52 pm
President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin today, Monday 27 January / 1 Shevat, participated in the International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony marking 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau at the site of the death camp. Survivors of the death camp, President Duda of Poland, the President of the World Jewish Congress Ron Lauder and the head of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Dr. Piotr Cywiński spoke at the ceremony, which concluded with the Kaddish and El Maleh Rachamim prayers. At the end of the ceremony, the president walked together with the presidents of Germany and Poland and over 50 other leaders from around the world who participated in the ceremony. They walked beside the railway tracks to the entrance of Birkenau (Auschwitz I) to the memorial built the ruins of the cre...
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January 27, 2020 at 1:38 pm
But members of GOP leadership immediately sought to downplay the former national security adviser's revelations.
It’s “increasingly likely” that more Republicans will join calls to seek testimony from John Bolton in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Sen. Mitt Romney said on Monday, with Bolton's new revelations throwing into doubt how Trump’s trial will proceed.
And Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) — who has signaled that she is open to supporting witnesses, as she did in former President Bill Clinton's 1999 trial — said it will "strengthen the case" for witnesses. Still, members of GOP leadership immediately sought to downplay the Bolton news.
Just days ago, the Senate GOP appeared ready to defeat a vote to hear mo...
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January 27, 2020 at 11:13 am
During his trip to Israel last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin personally told Issachar’s mother, Yaffa, that her daughter would be freed.
The Moscow region pardon commission discussing the case of Israeli-American Naama Issachar recommended that she is pardoned and released, Russian media reported on Monday.The commission forwarded their recommendation to Russian President Vladimir Putin who now holds the ball on her case.
"Naama, her relatives and lawyers hope that President Putin will make the decision to grant Naama Issachar as soon as possible, in accordance with his constitutional authority," Issachar's defense team commented.Issachar officially requested a pardon on Sunday in hopes it would lead to her release from a Russian jail, where she is serving a 7.5-year ...
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January 27, 2020 at 10:14 am
Baltimore, MD - Jan.26, 2020:
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Royal Farms is trying to build a gas station next to its existing store at the corner of Smith Avenue and Old Pimlico Road. We strongly oppose this action within a residential neighborhood at an already busy intersection.
Such an establishment will result in:
1. Risk of increased level of crime, which already exists at this site. 2. Danger to children crossing the street into an already packed parking lot with limited visibility. 3. Increased risk of health hazards and damage to the environment due to gas emissions, exposure to toxic chemicals, and air & soil pollution. 4. Additional traffic congestion leading to chance of bodily injury and longer traffic delays. 5. Danger to adults and children walking to adjacent syn...
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January 27, 2020 at 10:13 am
A bomb scare in shul moves Rosh Chodesh Davening/Laining outside at Bal Harbor's Hechal Shalom Or Oziel
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January 27, 2020 at 9:59 am
Netanyahu's associates assess that Netanyahu will give up annexation of the Jordan Valley, and will declare the annexation of Maale Adumim, according to Galei Tzahal.
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January 27, 2020 at 9:58 am
Gazan Arabs with Israeli mothers get citizenship to spy inside of Israel for Hamas, photographing army bases and Iron Dome missile batteries
Israeli security forces uncovered a Hamas intelligence-gathering network inside of Israel, the Shin Bet internal security agency revealed Monday.
The network, which was operated by Hamas terrorists inside of the Gaza Strip, included Israeli Arab citizens from central Israel.
The Shin Bet internal security agency discovered and dismantled the spy network three and a half weeks ago, according to an indictment filed Monday.
According to the indictment, which was filed at the Central District Court, Rejab Dakah, a 34-year-old Israeli Arab resident of the central Israeli city of Lod, and Rami al-Amoudi, a 30-year-old resident of Tel Aviv-Yafo, we...
