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July 13, 2020 at 1:20 pm
One Saturday in mid-April, a group of Orthodox Jewish leaders held a conference call with a Minnesota doctor as they grappled with spiking coronavirus cases in their New York area communities.
Dr. Michael Joyner of the Mayo Clinic is leading a nationwide study on the use of blood plasma to treat patient...
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July 13, 2020 at 1:03 pm
Baltimore, MD - July 13, 2020 - Please note that many types of produce given out at the various community distributions in Baltimore require checking for insects prior to consumption. They are arranged by the city and county and are not under kosher certification. This includes the bagged salads and greens, they are not certified and have not been checked unless they bear a reliable hechsher on the bag. Please click here to see the guide for reference or see below.Click on the graphic below for a larger, printable copy
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July 13, 2020 at 12:45 pm
WASHINGTON (Newsmax) – The Trump administration is cracking down on leakers by planting information to see if it gets out to reporters, reports Axios.
President Donald Trump’s chief of staff “[Mark] Meadows told me he was doing that,” one former White House official told the news outlet. “I don’t know if it ever worked.”
Politico last week reported that the Trump administration opened an internal investigation to try to uncover who leaked intelligence about Russians paying the Taliban to kill American soldiers following a New York Times report titled, “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says.”
Trump, according to Politico, seems to be more worked up about the Russia leak considering th...
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July 13, 2020 at 12:15 pm
Jerusalem District Chief Superintendent Shimi Marciano and Rabbi Rami Brachyahu, the Chief Rabbi of the Israel Police, met Monday with Batya Getter, the 13-year-old girl who was confronted by police over not wearing a mask, and her family.
Superintendent Marciano said at the beginning of the meeting: "We are glad you came, our goal today is for you to [see the police in a better light]. The police have many tasks, mainly to maintain public safety, and recently, we have been tasked with maintaining public health and ensuring that the public wears masks in order to prevent the spread of the disease. I want you to know that the cops are good people who look after the public and care for them. I hope you leave here today smiling and feeling good.
Rabbi Brachyahu said: "The police w...
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July 13, 2020 at 12:02 pm
Baltimore, MD - Jul 13, 2020 - Early estimates show that Chodosh oats may be on the market by July 23, wheat by July 30, Durum wheat by Aug 13th and Barley by Aug 8th. Please note that these dates are estimates based on current crop progress and condition. These dates can change and probably will. We will not have exact dates until the actual harvest sometime at the end of July. Use these dates for planning purposes as the final dates will be somewhere in these ranges.
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July 13, 2020 at 11:33 am
The Israel Nurses Association (INA) threatened a general strike on Sunday over what it claims are worsening work conditions caused by the coronavirus crisis.
“We are collapsing,” INA head Ilana Cohen wrote in a letter to Finance Minister Israel Katz. “If we do not immediately receive extra manpower, we will strike,” Ynet reported.
Cohen also complained that hospitals purchased ventilators “but did not train nurses to operate them.”
The reopening of hospitals’ coronavirus wards as a result of a second-wave outbreak, emergency rooms filled with COVID-19-infected patients and the quarantine of many nurses all have exacerbated the manpower shortage that nurses say they already faced before the start of the pandemic.
According to the Health Ministry...
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July 13, 2020 at 11:04 am
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Chareidi factions of Shas and UTJ met independently with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and demanded a cessation of what they deemed biased and discriminatory enforcement of coronavirus public health regulations. The MKs met with Netanyahu as well as Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and Public Security Minister Amir Ohana after numerous demonstrations by Chareidim as well as threats from MKs to leave the government if it does not deal with the unfair targeting of the community.
“The Chareidi community is suffering from unfair discrimination,” Shas head and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said at the meeting, according to a statement his office released Monday afternoon. “I call on the prime minister and the public security minister to work f...
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July 13, 2020 at 10:51 am
WORMS, GERMANY (VINnews) — Vandals desecrated dozens of graves in what is believed to be the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe in the city of Worms, Germany. The tomb of Maharam Rothenburg which is situated in the cemetery was also vandalized, according to a report by the European Jewish Association (EJA).
Worms was a famous medieval Jewish center, where Rashi established his Beis Midrash in the 11th century. The oldest legible tombstone dates back to 1058/59 and Jews lived in the city for over a thousand years until the Holocaust. Legend has it that they were descended from the tribe of Benjamin which migrated from the land of Israel to Germany.
“The Jewish community in Germany is in shock after unknown individuals vandalized and desecrated dozens of gravestones in the ancien...
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July 13, 2020 at 10:47 am
JERUSALEM (JNS) – The Israeli Air Force on Sunday unveiled a new squadron of joint special forces, united under a single umbrella.
The units that will be part of the “Wing 7” squadron are the Airborne Combat Unit, Search and Rescue Unit 669 (“Shaldag”) and the Frontal Landing Unit. The new wing will include an Intelligence unit and a school for Special Forces.
“We are in times of regional change, with a global pandemic and a battlefield becoming more complex every day,” said IAF commander Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin during the opening ceremony at the Palmachim Air Force Base, where Wing 7 will be housed. “Our commanders understand that these changes force us to adapt to the challenges that the future holds. There is an enhanced capability that ...
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July 13, 2020 at 10:44 am
OHIO (Newsmax) – Ohio’s Cuyahoga County has set up a hotline to report people who are violating Gov. Mike DeWine’s order that face masks must be worn, The Hill reported on Sunday.
The county, which includes Cleveland, announced the hotline over the weekend after DeWine issued the order earlier in the week mandating masks in the state’s 12 counties with the most coronavirus cases.
County Executive Armond Budish explained that county employees will get in touch with the subject of each complaint to let them know that one has been filed against them and will also inform the relevant city or village, Cleveland.com reported.
“This is not intended to be going out and finding people not wearing masks,” Budish told Cleveland.com. “We want people to wear...
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July 13, 2020 at 10:38 am
To the Baltimore Community,TA Dinner Distribution this week will be Monday and Thursday from 4-6pm. DO NOT arrive before 3:45pm.It has come to our attention that individuals have been coming to TA early and taking advantage of an earlier dinner distribution that is NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, but is open only to our TA Camp parents, as they are picking up their campers during carpool dismissal. Please note that having non-camp parents come onto campus before 3:45pm poses a serious safety risk to our campers and staff. Please be courteous and respectful of our camp needs as we run our carpool dismissal in a safe and efficient manner. B"H there are plenty of meals for all between the hours of 4-6pm. Anyone arriving to TA before 3:45pm for dinner pickup, who is not a TA Camp parent, will be asked...
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July 13, 2020 at 10:27 am
U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) have called on U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to ensure that kosher and halal food are included in federal emergency food programs in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
In a letter sent on Wednesday, Gillibrand and Stabenow, whose states represent large Jewish and Muslim populations, respectively, called on Perdue “to ensure that kosher and halal food are being included in the Farmers to Families Food Box Program, and what steps USDA has taken to receive feedback from Jewish and Muslim communities to ensure their religious dietary needs are met by the program.”
“Americans of all backgrounds and faiths are experiencing increased hunger during this pandemic, and many programs have been put fo...
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July 13, 2020 at 10:23 am
Republican Sen. John Barrasso says the bill can’t be ‘handout heaven’ like what was passed by House Democrats.
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July 13, 2020 at 10:21 am
An innovative, non-pharmaceutical treatment that filters the blood of cancer patients, similar to dialysis, is currently undergoing clinical trials at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel.
Called immunopheresis, this revolutionary technology removes proteins produced by malignant cells that block the body’s natural immune system, enabling the body to better attack and destroy cancerous tumor cells.
Professor Gal Markel, director of the Ella Lemelbaum Institute for Immuno-Oncology at Sheba Medical Center explained that certain cancer cells can protect themselves from the body’s immune system by producing proteins that circulate in the patient’s bloodstream and sabotage the ability of the immune cells to battle disease. He said that the existence of these proteins has been ...
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July 13, 2020 at 10:18 am
New York City on Sunday reported zero new coronavirus deaths for the first time since early March, a milestone that comes as the virus spikes in other parts of the country.
Preliminary health data from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene showed that no one died from the coronavirus in New York City on Saturday, the first time zero new deaths have been reported there since March 13, according to multiple reports.
Officials recorded no confirmed death the day before, too, but did report two probable deaths, according to NBC4.
Read more at The Hill.
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July 13, 2020 at 10:13 am
Beijing said it will sanction three U.S lawmakers and one ambassador in retaliation for similar actions the Trump administration took against Chinese officials last week over alleged human rights abuses against China’s minority Uighur population in the western region of Xinjiang.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying announced the “corresponding sanctions” on Monday, Reuters reported.
Hua said the U.S. move “seriously damaged China-U.S.-relations,” and that Beijing “will respond further according to the development of the situation,” according to The Associated Press. She did not spell out the sanctions beyond saying they would correspond to the ones issued by the U.S., the AP noted.
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July 13, 2020 at 10:09 am
Prof. Raanan Rein said the article is 'important' for bringing the two nations closer
A professor of Hebrew studies from Saudi Arabia has published an article in an Israeli academic journal, the first such occurrence in history.
Prof. Mohammad Ibrahim Alghbban published an article in Kesher, a journal from the Shalom Rosenfeld Institute for Research of Jewish Media and Communication at Tel Aviv University (TAU).
The article is titled "A Contribution Towards Improving the Image of the Prophet Muhammad in The Eyes of Israeli Public: Muhammad’s Alliances and Mail Exchanges with Jews of The Arabian Peninsula," according to the TAU press release.
Alghbban, head of Hebrew Studies program in the Modern Languages Department at King Saud Unive...
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July 13, 2020 at 10:09 am
Immigration and absorption minister says all efforts focused on coronavirus response
The current agenda of the Israeli government does not include a plan to apply Israeli laws to any West Bank areas, Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata said Monday.
In her interview for Reshet Bet radio, she hinted there was overall little clarity as to when any measure of the sort would be put before the government -- and whether that would happen at all.
She stressed that at the current time, the government was prioritizing the measures to contain the COVID-19 coronavirus above everything else.
Under a coalition agreement, a plan to apply Israeli laws to West Bank areas, as envisaged in a peace plan released by US President Donald Trump earlier this year, could have...
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July 13, 2020 at 10:06 am
Arab media maintain that pro-Iranian Shi'ite militia is attempting to cleanse country of last remaining Jews
The Houthi militia in Yemen, is reportedly rounding up the country's few remaining Jews, Egyptian newspaper Al Mesryoon claimed in a recent article.
According to the report as cited in Israeli outlet Arutz7, after being rounded up, the Houthis allegedly forced the Jewish residents of the Kharif District to sell their "homes, land and all their properties to Houthi leaders." There were further reports that the Houthis also pressure the Jews to leave Yemen.
Al Mesryoon further maintained that Yemen's tiny Jewish population - thought not to number more than approximately 100 - has consistently faced "systematic discrimination and human rights vio...
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July 13, 2020 at 9:54 am
Israel recorded Monday 611 new coronavirus infections since midnight, bringing its total active cases to 20,251 -- its largest confirmed figure up to date.
Over the course of Sunday, 1,221 individuals were found positive for COVID-19, according to the Health Ministry's coronavirus tracker.
The number of patients in serious condition has risen to 160, including 51 patients on respirators -- an increase of three from yesterday. Read more at i24
