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May 25, 2020 at 6:18 pm
The Rabbinical Alliance of America-Igud HaRabbonim, representing over 950 American Orthodox Rabbis announces proclamation appreciating Chevra Kadisha heroic efforts during the Covid Pandemic.
The Chevra Kadisha, literally the “sacred fellowship” is the volunteer group that performs the final rites and burial preparations for the Jewish deceased. According to Jewish tradition, Jewish burial is considered a sacred duty and a great kindness, and it is an honor to be included in this group of dedicated volunteers.
At this exceptionally challenging juncture in history when countless members of Klal Yisrael have succumbed to the deadly coronavirus in the New York/New Jersey areas and beyond, we can only pause and remember their unique legacies.
Because the deaths of these pre...
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May 25, 2020 at 5:26 pm
Many people have been using their extra time during the coronavirus lockdown wisely and have adopted new habits to keep themselves busy. In fact, a recent survey of 2,000 British adults reveals that 43% of people feel they’ve “changed their ways for the better” as a result of all the time inside these past few months.
Researchers sought to learn how habits and daily lives have changed as a result of the lockdown. Nearly half of those surveyed expect to keep up these new hobbies, skills, and daily habits they’ve taken on after the lockdown restrictions are lifted. Learning new computer skills, creating podcasts, participating in online fitness classes and going for long walks are some of the new activities people have turned to as a new means to occupy their time.
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May 25, 2020 at 5:21 pm
Prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications and sleep aids have risen during the pandemic, prompting doctors to warn about the possibility of long-term addiction and abuse of the drugs.
“Many physicians have a low threshold for prescribing them. It’s very problematic,” says Bruce J. Schwartz, deputy chair and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. “Many people do develop a dependency on these medications.”
Prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications, such as Klonopin and Ativan, rose 10.2% in the U.S. to 9.7 million in March 2020 from 8.8 million in March 2019, according to the latest data from health-research firm IQVIA. Prescriptions for antidepressants, including Prozac and Lexapro, rose 9.2% to 29.7 millio...
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May 25, 2020 at 3:13 pm
Baltimore, MD - May 25, 2020 - Shabsi's Judaica Center is here to help you with your Shavuos selections. Browse below through a selection of Pirkei Avos & Shavuos titles.
Click here or on the graphic below for a larger, printable copy.
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May 25, 2020 at 2:58 pm
Dinner Distribution This Week at TA will be Monday and Thursday , please note updated schedule details below.
Monday : 12-3pm has ended for today: Dinner pickup of 3 dairy meals.
Thursday : 8-11am: Dinner pickup of a Shavuos package. See below for details.
Right turn only onto campus, approach from Scotts Level Rd. No left turns onto campus, no illegal U-turns on Old Court Rd. or use of private property on Old Court Rd. to turn your car around.
We look forward to serving you!
Read details below for this week's menu, updated pickup details and important traffic reminders!TA Dinner Distribution This WeekMonday 12-3pm has ended for todayThursday 8-11am Shavuos Package PickupPlease Read Below for Important Details...
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May 25, 2020 at 2:32 pm
The New York Stock Exchange is set to reopen its famed trading floor Tuesday, but it won’t be going back to normal.
Only one-quarter of the NYSE’s usual population of traders will be back when the floor resumes business after a two-month closure prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. Traders who return must wear masks, avoid taking public transportation and follow tough social-distancing rules, with newly erected Plexiglas barriers to help them stay apart.
A visitor ban means splashy bell-ringings and celebrations to mark initial public offerings won’t be happening anytime soon. Media organizations that broadcast from the floor, like CNBC and Cheddar, aren’t coming back yet either. Read more at WSJ
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May 25, 2020 at 2:20 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The coronavirus hasn’t been kind to car owners.
With more people than ever staying home to lessen the spread of COVID-19, their sedans, pickup trucks and SUVs are parked unattended on the streets, making them easy targets for opportunistic thieves.
Despite silent streets and nearly nonexistent traffic, vehicle larcenies shot up 63% in New York and nearly 17% in Los Angeles from Jan. 1 through mid-May, compared with the same period last year.
And many other law enforcement agencies around the U.S. are reporting an increase in stolen cars and vehicle burglaries, even as violent crime has dropped dramatically nationwide in the coronavirus pandemic. It’s a low-risk crime with a potentially high reward, police say, especially when many driv...
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May 25, 2020 at 2:14 pm
Channel 12 News military and security correspondent Nir Dvori reported Monday that attempts have been made to sabotage Israel's ability to produce a vaccine for the coronavirus in the form of a cyber attack against the Israeli research institutes that are trying and trying to produce drugs to treat the disease as well as a vaccine.
This is not an attempt to steal information or intelligence, but to attack and sabotage efforts to combat the coronavirus. No damage was done to the research institutes as a result of the attacks.
Initial speculation has blamed Iran for the cyber-attack.
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May 25, 2020 at 2:12 pm
NETANYA (VINnews) — The Tzanz- Klausenberg Rebbe of Netanya, Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Halberstam, suffered a light heart attack Monday and was hospitalized in the city’s Laniado hospital founded by his father. The Rebbe, a member of the Agudath Yisrael’s Council of Torah Sages, is conscious and being treated by doctors at the hospital.
A local Tzanzer chasid told the Kikar Hashabat site that the Rebbe has been very depressed recently over the deaths of some prominent Chasidim in America from COVID-19. “There is no doubt that the matter has seriously affected the Rebbe,” the chasid said.
The Rebbe is expected to undergo a catheterization procedure at 8 PM (1PM USA time) and the Tzanz communities worldwide will organize minyanim to say Tehillim and study for his s...
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May 25, 2020 at 2:11 pm
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Within the space of a few hours, there were two terror attacks in the Jerusalem area Monday during the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
Two terrorists attempted to stab IDF soldiers patrolling near the settlement of Amichai which was built for in the Binyamin region north of Jerusalem for residents evacuated from Amona. The terrorists were shot and neutralized and there were no injuries to IDF soldiers.
Just a few hours later, a terrorist approached the border police checkpoint situated in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in south Jerusalem. The terrorist shouted Allah Akhbar and wielded a knife. Police at the outpost first used tear gas in an attempt to subdue him but when he drew nearer he was shot and seriously injured. There were no Israeli casual...
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May 25, 2020 at 2:10 pm
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA (VINnews) — As scientists worldwide frantically search for COVID-19 vaccines, epidemiologists also seek to find the source of the outbreak in order to be able to locate and prevent any future mutations of the virus from spreading and causing worldwide havoc. Most scientists were convinced until now that the virus emanated from an animal in China’s wet market but Professor Nikolai Petrovsky, a researcher from Adelaide’s Flinders University, claims that the virus may have come from a laboratory since it is ‘perfectly adapted to humans’ from day 1.
Professor Petrovsky says that the technology exists in labs worldwide which could enable a virus accidentally to be released from a lab when the viruses are not regulated properly.
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May 25, 2020 at 2:02 pm
In the wake of his arraignment at the Jerusalem District Court on Sunday afternoon and hours after conducting the first Cabinet meeting of the newly sworn-in government, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down for a lengthy chat with Channel 20‘s Boaz Golan. The following are translated excerpts from the interview.
Boaz Golan: Mr. Prime Minister, good evening. We are here after the first hearing [of your trial]. How are you feeling?
Netanyahu: I think it was an important day. You know why? Because for the first time, Israeli citizens heard the truth. The things that I said outside the courtroom were the truth. And the time has come to speak the truth. I also requested that there be a live broadcast—not one that’s cut and that all the transcript writers o...
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May 25, 2020 at 2:01 pm
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a video message posted on social media on Monday that “we will not allow Palestinian lands to be offered to anyone.”
In the video, which was addressed to American Muslims in honor of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan, Erdoğan said that the Har Habayis in Yerushalayim was a “red line” for all Muslims.
“I would like to reiterate that al Quds as-Sharif [the Temple Mount], the holy place of the three religions … is a red line for all Muslims in the world,” he said.
The appeal appears to be an effort by Erdoğan to mobilize the American Muslim against the U.S. government’s decision to allow Israel to apply its law to parts of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley.
Israel is w...
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May 25, 2020 at 12:39 pm
An attempted stabbing attack took place Monday afternoon in Yerushalayim, Israeli news site N12 reported.
The incident took place on Meir Nakar Street, near the Arab neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber in the eastern section of the city.
The suspect, who N12 said was a Palestinian resident of eastern Jerusalem, approached a group of police officers and shouted, “Allahu Akbar!”
The police officers used tear gas against the attacker, but he nonetheless attempted to stab one of them.
The police then shot the attacker in the stomach, leaving him seriously wounded.
The attempted attack was the second incident of its kind on Monday, after two terrorists tried to stab a group of IDF soldiers in the West Bank earlier in the day. The assailants were shot and wounded, while no soldiers we...
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May 25, 2020 at 11:57 am
"If these last few difficult months have reminded us of anything, it is that life is so fragile," Gov. Larry Hogan said on Memorial Day.
MARYLAND — As of Monday morning, the Maryland Department of Health reported 47,152 people have tested positive for the coronavirus. In the last day, 839 new cases of the virus have been confirmed.
Officials say 2,187 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus; lab results are pending for 115 others as of Monday.
Of those who have died, officials reported Monday morning that 1,001 were residents of Montgomery and Prince George's counties, where 526 and 475 have died from the illness, respectively.
"On this Memorial Day weekend, we pray for all of our fallen," Gov. Larry Hogan said in a video r...
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May 25, 2020 at 11:07 am
The Taz in Orach Chaim 494 writes that we delay davening Maariv on Shavuos night so that the counting of the Omer should be complete. The Magen Avraham 494 says that on the night of Shavuos we don’t make Kiddush until after tzais hakochavim so it should be temimos. The question can be asked; is it permissible for women, who are exempt from the mitzvah of Sefiras HaOmer because it is a time bound mitzvah, to daven Maariv earlier or make Kiddush early? Is the concept of temimos necessary in order to bring in Shavuos?
The Teshuvos Lehoros Nosan Vol 7:31writes that women, despite the fact that they are exempt from ...
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May 25, 2020 at 11:00 am
In a report to Congress, the Trump administration is pledging to buy 100 million swabs by the year’s end and distribute them to states to help expand the nation’s capacity to test for the novel coronavirus.
But the report, delivered on the Sunday deadline Congress set for a national testing strategy for the novel coronavirus, doubles down on the administration’s stance that individual states, not the federal government, should bear primary responsibility for carrying out diagnostic tests to help curb the pandemic.
The Washington Post obtained the 81-page document, called Covid-19 Strategic Testing Plan, from an individual on Capitol Hill who was not authorized to disclose it. Federal health officials did not release it publicly, submitting it to four congressional commi...
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May 25, 2020 at 10:54 am
Baltimore, MD - May 25, 2020 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Dani and Ora Zuckerbrod on the birth of a son.
Mazel Tov to the grandparents Shalom and Syma Kelman and David and Sharon Zuckerbrod.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
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May 25, 2020 at 10:54 am
Baltimore, MD - May 25, 2020 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Yosef and Rochel Zuckerbrod (Pittsburgh) on the birth of a daughter.
Mazel Tov grandparents David and Sharon Zuckerbrod and Jeff and Adele Sidney (Ottawa)
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בתם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
