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June 4, 2020 at 12:09 pm
Baltimore, MD - June 2, 2020 - If you have ever had an idea that could help your community- this article is for you.
As we approach the summer months in 2020, it is probably fair to say that no one reading this could have imagined our family, community, country or world in the place that we now find it. Life as we knew it just a few months ago is, for the foreseeable future, dramatically changed.
For some of us, COVID 19 has been an opportunity. This includes businesses that have taken advantage of new patterns of supply and demand and individuals that have found ways to re-orient to a more fulfilling home life. For many, however, COVID 19 has presented unique obstacles and insurmountable problems. This includes both personal and financial challenges.
The Orthodox Jewish com...
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June 4, 2020 at 11:55 am
Israeli police announced Thursday that they have opened an investigation into claims of police brutality, after a volunteer police officer was filmed beating and kicking a 65-year-old yeshiva dean in the head in Petah Tikva.
The incident in question occurred on Monday, when a N., a volunteer police officer – who also serves as a volunteer MDA first responder – was filmed punching and kicking Rabbi David Pick outside of a synagogue on Arlozorov Street in Petah Tikva.
Witnesses say the altercation occurred following an argument between N. and Rabbi Pick regarding the wearing of face masks.
N. allegedly accused students at Rabbi Pick’s yeshiva, Avi Ezri, and at the local synagogue of not wearing their masks, and held Rabbi Pick responsible. Yeshiva officials say N. harass...
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June 4, 2020 at 11:54 am
As sad as it is ironic, those who have seized the opportunity during protests over the killing of George Floyd to vandalize police vehicles and attack officers, deface buildings and loot stores are perpetuating racism.
Because, by their actions, they effectively reinforce the prejudices of people who view people of color as unbridled and lawless. Instead of images of black or brown scientists, doctors, lawyers, teachers or social workers, what the face of a nonwhite person conjures in their minds is a threat.
That’s what was perceived by the white woman who was firmly perched at the precipice of the news cycle until the killing of Mr. Floyd pushed her off. A black man who was bird-watching in New York’s Central Park politely asked her to restrain her unleashed dog and she res...
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June 4, 2020 at 11:53 am
1. Maryland hospitalization peaked at 1,700 beds on 4/30 and as of 6/4 is down to 1,096. A decrease of 35.5%.2. Baltimore City hospitalization peaked at 437 beds on 5/4 and as of 6/2 is down to 327. A decrease of 25.2%3. The testing positivity rate peaked in Maryland at 26.92% on 4/17 and as of 6/4 is down to 8.91%. A decrease of 66.9%
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June 4, 2020 at 11:13 am
Why are Americans surrendering to violent mobs? Because they've been told they have to.
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June 4, 2020 at 11:12 am
Faced with staggering unemployment numbers that are likely to remain elevated through the election, Senate Republicans are reversing their positions on ending a federal increase of state unemployment benefits after July.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vowed in a conference call with House Republicans last month that Senate Republicans would block the $600 weekly boost to state unemployment benefits from the federal government.
Also last month, GOP senators involved in planning for a phase four coronavirus relief bill said there was overwhelming support for entirely ending the federal enhancement of state unemployment benefits.
Now with the national unemployment rate projected to hit or exceed 20 percent, the highest number since the Great Depression, a growing ...
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June 4, 2020 at 10:55 am
Michael White, the first American detained in Iran during the Trump administration, has been released.
The United States Navy veteran is en route from Tehran on a Swiss government flight, after nearly four months of negotiations between State Department officials and the Iranian government, according to a senior U.S. official.
Switzerland is the intermediary between the U.S. and Iranian governments and facilitated negotiations to release the 48-year-old.
A senior U.S. official told Fox News that as part of the deal to free White, the U.S. agreed to release an Iranian-American doctor, Majid Taheri. Taheri served 16 months for violating American sanctions against Iran and was sentenced Thursday to time served. He’s lived in the U.S. for 33 years and is a medical doctor in ...
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June 4, 2020 at 10:46 am
Tensions have exploded in recent days between President Trump and a batch of current and former military officials who are critical – to varying degrees – of how he's handled the unrest in the wake of George Floyd's death in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department.
The officials, including Trump's current Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, his former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and several others, have either implicitly broken with Trump in statements on policy or explicitly denounced his leadership — and Trump has fired back.
"Probably the only thing Barack Obama & I have in common is that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis, the world’s most overrated General," Trump said in a...
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June 4, 2020 at 10:39 am
Israeli security guards at the Hashmonaim crossing near the city of Modi’in, in central Israel, arrested a Palestinian man on Wednesday for allegedly trying to carry out a stabbing attack.
The guards, embedded with the Defense Ministry’s Border Crossings Authority, spotted the suspect “suspiciously walking in the direction of the crossing,” the ministry said in a statement.
“The guards ordered him to stop, at which point the suspect threw a knife on the ground and was arrested. There were no casualties,” the ministry added.
Recent weeks have seen an uptick in violent incidents as tensions between Jerusalem and Ramallah have increased over Israel’s plan to apply sovereignty to large parts of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley.
Mahmoud al-Ha...
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June 4, 2020 at 10:33 am
Since yesterday’s shocking announcement that unmarried students are barred from returning to Israel, the phones in Chaim V’Chessed have not stopped ringing: from irate yeshiva and seminary heads whose programs were due to restart to parents who had already purchased tickets for their children, and many more.
Chaim V’Chessed was quoted on newsites across the globe. Our CEO, Rabbi Paysach Freedman, was interviewed on Radio Kol B’Rama about this ongoing saga.
In this post, we will attempt to make some sense out of the current situation. Bear in mind that this is a developing issue, and we are in uncharted territory.
“I have a flight tonight- should I fly?“
Within moments of our publication of the ban, we w...
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June 4, 2020 at 10:15 am
Johns Hopkins reported 19,699 new COVID-19 cases and 995 virus-related deaths in the country on Wednesday.
The United States has reported a total of 1,851,520 cases of coronavirus, including at least 107,175 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University’s tally.
The new rise comes as state struggle to reopen in the aftermath of the deadly pandemic that saw over 100,000 deaths in the U.S alone.
Read more at CNN.
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June 4, 2020 at 10:11 am
Baltimore, MD – June 4, 2020 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petira of Irwin Mayer Yarmo, z’l, father of Yocheved Mencer.Shiva is being observed at 8 Orleans Rd., Rancho Mirage, California, 92270
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
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June 4, 2020 at 9:46 am
Former Defense Minister Naftali Bennett condemned the decision to suspend the order against Palestinian Authority banks through which salaries are paid to murderers of Jews and their families and called on Prime Minister Netanyahu to reinstate the policy.
"Netanyahu, restore the order prohibiting the transfer of salaries to terrorists which Gantz cancelled," Bennett wrote on Twitter, blaming his replacement as Defense Minister for the change in policy.
"Gantz has succumbed to the PA's pressure, which was pressured by the families of terrorists. Why? Because the order was successful. The banks had to stop transferring terrorist funds.
"You can restore the order today and prevent the next murder," Bennett told the prime minister.
The order against the banks was signed less...
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June 4, 2020 at 9:45 am
A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official announced on Wednesday that the PA refused to receive the tax revenue dues from Israel because it had ended all agreements with Israel, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Hussein Al-Sheikh, the PA “minister of civil affairs”, tweeted that "we confirm our rejection to the money of the tax revenue dues from Israel."
"Refusing to receive the money is an implementation of the Palestinian leadership's decision that all agreements and understandings reached with the Israeli government ended," he wrote.
Israel's security cabinet last year approved the freezing of 507,697,000 shekels ($140,350,300) from the tax money it collects on behalf of the PA over the PA’s payments to terrorists who carried out atta...
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June 4, 2020 at 9:32 am
A top settlement leader fired back at the Likud Thursday, doubling down on his criticism of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s sovereignty plan.
In an interview with Galei Tzahal Thursday, David Elhayani, the chief of the Jordan Valley Regional Council who also serves as the chairman of the Yesha Council – the umbrella group representing Israelis living in Judea and Samaria – reiterated his concerns regarding the US peace plan, warning it could leave Israel vulnerable to an ‘existential threat’, and compared the offer for Israel to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria in exchange for final status talks with the Palestinian Authority to being threatened ‘with a gun to the h...
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June 4, 2020 at 9:23 am
According to a new study by Tel Aviv University in conjunction with Magen David Adom and the Israeli Health Ministry’s Center for Disease Control, some 2.5 percent of Israel’s population, or some 200,000 people, have had COVID-19, most of whom may not have developed symptoms.
As of Tuesday morning, the official number of Israeli COVID-19 cases was 17,219.
The numbers are based on tests for coronavirus antibodies conducted among 1,700 people throughout Israel. The tests examined data from samples of blood donations taken from the Magen David Adom blood bank, as well as the blood bank of the Center for Disease Control.
Representative sampling conducted in other countries has found that rates of exposure to coronavirus are between 1 percent and 6 percent.
Interestingly, higher...
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June 4, 2020 at 9:23 am
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday defended his ongoing coronavirus-related restrictions on nonessential businesses and places of worship as protesters and looters continue to flood city streets over the death of George Floyd.
The democratic socialist told reporters during a press conference that the protesting and the desire to return to work and to church are “not the same” issues.
“When you see a nation, an entire nation, simultaneously grappling with an extraordinary crisis seeded in 400 years of American racism,” Mr. de Blasio said. “I’m sorry, that is not the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services.
Read more at The Washington Times.
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June 4, 2020 at 9:19 am
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz directed the military on Monday to pick up the pace of preparations for the application of Israeli law to the Jordan Valley, and parts of Yehuda and Shomron.
“I instructed Chief of Staff [Lt. Gen. Aviv] Kochavi to accelerate the IDF’s preparations for the political measures under way in the Palestinian arena, and updated him on the progress in the political arena,” Gantz tweeted. To this end, he added, he will appoint a project coordinator and integrated team to deal with the operational aspects of Israel’s next moves in Yehuda, Shomron and the Gaza Strip.
Gantz, the leader of the Blue and White Party and who also serves as vice premier, briefed a gathering of his faction earlier in the day on the progress being made with U.S. ...
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June 4, 2020 at 9:18 am
Five Jordanians are standing trial in their home country for planning terrorist attacks against Israeli targets in the Shomron, French news agency AFP reported on Tuesday.
According to a Jordanian official, the suspects’ trial began last February at a Jordanian military court that handles terrorist crimes. They were arrested earlier that month.
It still was unclear why the suspects’ identities and their arrest have been kept under wraps until now. Israel has not commented on the issue at this time.
The report of their arrest comes amid Israeli-Jordanian tensions over Israel’s intention to apply sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and parts of Yehuda and Shomron in early July.
On Tuesday, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned of “grave conse...
