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May 25, 2020 at 8:59 am
The government approved on Sunday a plan that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Israel Katz proposed to inject an additional NIS 14 billion ($4 billion) into the economic aid program in order to resolve the crisis caused by the coronavirus.
Thanks to this new contribution, the aid plan will amount to a total of NIS 100 billion ($28 billion).
The funds will help revive businesses and new projects to encourage employment and reduce the unemployment rate.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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May 25, 2020 at 8:59 am
The coronavirus fatality rate estimate has fallen, according to the latest estimates of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to 0.26%, far below previous estimates.
The updated CDC figures show a 0.4% death rate for symptomatic cases of coronavirus, down-grading the estimated fatality rate from 1% of symptomatic cases.
With the CDC now estimating that more than a third (35%) of coronavirus cases are completely asymptomatic, the total fatality rate for the coronavirus is now believed to be 0.26%.
That still makes the current coronavirus pandemic twice as lethal as the seasonal flu, which kills about 60,000 people in the US every year.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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May 25, 2020 at 8:58 am
The U.S. jobless rate may still be in the double digits when President Donald Trump stands for re-election in November, a top White House adviser said.
While jobless data is a lagging indicator, business activity is already close to an “inflection point” toward recovery, White House aide Kevin Hassett said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
The job market, as shown by unemployment figures, is “probably about a month away” from that point, Hassett said. The jobless rate probably will peak above 20%, he said.
Eric Rosengren, president of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, said the unemployment rate would remain over 10% through 2020, risking a “severe outcome” in the labor market.
The insured unemployment rate, or the number of pe...
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May 25, 2020 at 8:54 am
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with giant murder hornets invading the US and a global pandemic, millions of 17-year cicadas will emerge from the ground this year.
As many as 1.5 million cicadas per acre may emerge, and people living in Southwest Virginia, parts of North Carolina and West Virginia could witness this unique phenomenon, Virginia Tech says in a news release.
Luckily, cicadas are harmless to humans. At most, the noise they make could become a nuisance.
“Communities and farms with large numbers of cicadas emerging at once may have a substantial noise issue,” said Eric Day, Virginia Cooperative Extension entomologist in Virginia Tech’s Department of Entomology.
Read more at CNN.
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May 25, 2020 at 8:42 am
There are several articles on the various topics germane to Shavuos available at RabbiKaganoff.com under the search engines, Dairy bread, Eruv Tavshillin, Nat, Shavuos, Yom Tov
Question #1: Plan-overs on Yom Tov
“I have been told that there is a way to cook more than you need on Yom Tov in order to have plenty of leftovers for Chol Hamo’ed or for after Yom Tov. How does that work?”
Question #2: Muktzah Grill
“I own a portable, charcoal-fired grill. Is it muktzah on Yom Tov?”
Question #3: Fireplace on Yom Tov?
“May I use my fireplace on Yom Tov?”
Answer:
When discussing the laws of Yom Tov, the Torah teaches kol melacha lo yei’aseh bahem, ach asher yei’acheil lechol nefesh hu levado yei’aseh lachem, “No work sh...
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May 25, 2020 at 8:39 am
Jerusalem, Israel - May 25, 2020 - It is the week before Shavuos. The Israeli radio has commercial breaks with ads for cheese and dairy products. Photos of cheese products and ingredients to make cheesecakes are at the top of the supermarket flyers found in mailboxes. Lists of speakers for Tikun Leil Shavous are published. This year online, but programs and scheduled for those Israelis who identify as secular have become increasingly popular over the past few years. The celebration of Shavuos illustrates a major difference found in the Jewish world. How many non-Orthodox Jews in the United States know of Shavous, or observe the holiday? Yet in Israel, the holiday of Shavuos is part of the culture.
Recently a nearly full-page newspaper advertisement sponsored by the R...
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May 25, 2020 at 8:38 am
The latest:
- There have been more than 1.6 million coronavirus cases in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
- The U.S. death toll has surpassed 97,000 people, according to Hopkins.
- Coronavirus outbreaks at meat processing plants are forcing North Carolina farmers to euthanize 1.5 million chickens, according to a state official.
- There will likely be longer air travel security lines as the Transportation Security Administration adjusts staffing with more people taking to the skies, according to Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf.
- During an unannounced press conference Friday, President Donald Trump said his administration would label houses of worship as "essential" to mandate their reopening.
With more sweeping reop...
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May 25, 2020 at 8:38 am
Two Palestinians storm troops patroling near Amichai, try stabbing them using what the IDF described as "sharp agricultural instruments." Soldiers engage, wounding their assailants. Troops unharmed, wounded terrorists taken to a hospital in Ramallah, the IDF says.
Two Palestinian terrorists were shot Monday while trying to carry out a stabbing attack against a group of soldiers operating near a central Samaria settlement, the military said.
According to available details, a group of eight Palestinians approached soldiers who were on patrol near Amichai, a settlement northeast of Ramallah. Two Palestinians then stormed the troops and tried to stab using what the IDF described as "sharp agricultural instruments."
The soldiers engaged, opening fire at their assailants and hitting them in...
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May 25, 2020 at 8:37 am
Standard commercial flights out of Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport will likely resume in early-to-mid July, airport officials said Monday.
Following the sharp decline in the number of new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Israel, along with the drop in new fatalities, a number of foreign airlines announced plans to resume flights to Israel in June.
The airlines included Air Canada, Delta, British Airways, easyJet, Ryanair, Alitalia, and Lufthansa. Dozens of other companies have also made preliminary plans to resume operations in Israel, while Israel’s largest airline, El Al, announced last week that it was extending its own moratorium on flights until June 20th.
Now, officials at Ben Gurion International Airport, Israel’s primary air t...
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May 24, 2020 at 7:25 pm
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May 24, 2020 at 5:33 pm
Hours before the first day of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahy’s trial was set to begin, Knesset Speaker Yuval Levin on Sunday blasted the indictments, calling them “unprecedented in western democracies.”
“This day … will be remembered as one of the lowest points in the Israeli judicial system,” he said in a Facebook post.
In a veiled reference to the arguments of American attorney Alan Dershowitz, Levin added, “The indictments against the prime minister are unprecedented in western democracies. Their place, if at all, is in the ethical, not criminal sphere, which is why legal experts in the world are criticizing them so harshly. Israel needs a fair, equitable and impartial law-enforcement system.”
He said that the trial about to...
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May 24, 2020 at 5:33 pm
New York Democrat Rep. Max Rose slams Mayor Bill de Blasio’s poor policy on city lockdowns.
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May 24, 2020 at 5:32 pm
A new study from scientists in the United States suggests that a significant majority of the population may already have some level of immunity to the coronavirus, a possible explanation for why so many individuals seem to experience few to no symptoms from the disease.
The study, written by researchers in California, New York and North Carolina and soon to be published in the journal Cell, discovered that certain types of cells in blood samples taken from donors in 2015-2018—well before COVID-19 arose—were reactive against the COVID-19 virus. In other words, those blood samples were at least partially immune from the coronavirus even though they had never been exposed to it.
“CD4+ T cell responses were detected in 40-60% of unexposed individuals. This ma...
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May 24, 2020 at 5:18 pm
The Chinese lab eyed as a potential source of COVID-19 has admitted having three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site — but insisted none are the source of the global pandemic.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology has since 2004 “isolated and obtained some coronaviruses from bats,” its director Wang Yanyi said in an interview that aired Saturday, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“Now we have three strains of live viruses… But their highest similarity to SARS-CoV-2 only reaches 79.8 percent,” Yanyi said, referring to the coronavirus strain that causes COVID-19.
Read more at THE NY POST.
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May 24, 2020 at 5:07 pm
Baltimore, MD - May 20, 2020 - We will all be learning the topic of Birchos HaTorah. Each Kollel will learn with members of its community first, and then we will all join together for an international iyun shiur on this topic. The schedule for this Sunday is as follows:
Local Baltimore Shiurim:
HaRav Nesanel Kostelitz, Rosh Kollel - 9:30-10:15 AM
HaRav Eliezer Lachman, Sgan Rosh Kollel - 10:15-11:00 AM
Join the local shiurim by teleconference. Phone number 978-990-5346, access code 2317967#
International Shiurim:
HaRav Malkiel Kotler, Rosh HaYeshiva, Beth Medrash Govoha - 11:00 Divrei Psicha
Followed by
Dayan Chanoch Ehrentrau, Av Bais Din, E...
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May 24, 2020 at 5:00 pm
Coronavirus patients stop being infectious 11 days after contracting the disease — even if they still test positive for COVID-19 on day 12, according to a new study.
Singaporean infectious disease experts said they found that the virus “could not be isolated or cultured after day 11 of illness,” according to a joint paper from the country’s National Center for Infectious Diseases and the Academy of Medicine.
Researchers looked at the “viral load” in 73 COVID-19 patients to measure whether the bug was still viable and could infect anyone.
“Based on the accumulated data since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the infectious period of [coronavirus] in symptomatic individuals may begin around 2 days before the onset of symptoms, and persists for a...
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May 24, 2020 at 2:30 pm
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May 24, 2020 at 2:13 pm
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May 24, 2020 at 1:05 pm
Baltimore, MD - May 21, 2020 - Last year's ELITE Shavuos Symposium, delivered to a packed house, was an incredibly uplifting experience that would be hard to match, but it looks like it will happen yet again this Monday Night May 25th at 8:15 PM. Joined by Mrs. Chani Juravel, Mrs. Miriam Lapides, and Mrs. Esther Kokis via zoom, the inspiration will be delivered straight to you! We invite Post Sem young women to register for this event by visiting www.eliterisebaltimore.com
While Covid-19 has impacted us all and social distancing has prevented in- person gatherings, ELITE's myriad shiurim continue remotely. Find out more by clicking on the chaburah tab on our website.
