Committee makes one amendment to outline as restriction movement expanded to 1 kilometer The Knesset’s (Israel Parliament) Constitution, Law and Justice Committee approved Thursday night, in a majority of eight versus five, the coronavirus regulations and restrictions that came into effect on Friday at 2 pm (Israel Summer Time) and will extend for three weeks. Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more:  bit.ly/32HUBnJ Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens: bit.ly/34zdGuF The key clauses which the members of the committee wanted to amend were the 500-meter (1640-feet) movement restriction, the prohibition on takeaways from restaurants and coffee shops, and the permission to attend protests. The commit...
Baltimore County Public Schools released a plan Thursday to return students to school in phases. On Monday, teachers were able to begin teaching virtual classes from their classrooms if they wanted to. In a message to staff, Superintendent Darryl Williams laid out the next steps, WBAL-TV 11 reports. The timeline released by school district officials On Oct. 19, all teachers and staff will return to school buildings. By Nov. 13, small groups of students will return to school buildings. Those include students with disabilities who attend separate public day schools (like Ridge Ruxton School) and self-contained regional programs. They also include students in preschool, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten. Families of these students will be surveyed early next month to determine who wa...
As reported yesterday, Israel has abruptly suspended the entry permit process for students. Chaim V’Chessed has been swamped with various inquiries regarding this new situation. We therefore wish to clarify: •             At this time, permits are not being granted to any students, married or single. •             The suspension of permits is supposedly only until the end of the current lockdown. However, it is uncertain when authorities will actually start granting permits once again. •             Student visa holders who are considering travelling during the Yom Tov season should bear ...
Dozens of nursing home residents had to be retested for the coronavirus after problems were found with their initial tests, WBAL-TV 11 reports. Joe DeMattos, president of the Health Facilities Association of Maryland, said the tests were returning false positives. Nursing homes have been testing patients on a weekly basis since late spring. "Most skilled nursing and rehab centers in Maryland have had weekly tests that have resulted in one or two positive results. And in last week's batches, in these nursing homes, they popped 20 to 30 positive results. So that was way out of sorts," DeMattos said. When facility operators had the results retested, most came back negative, he said. "The real danger is getting a false positive and then moving somebody -- who is ultimately negati...
Someone approached me to suggest an appropriate verse to imprint on a protective face mask he was interested in marketing. My instinctive response was a passage in the Midrash that reflects on a verse we say every day, authored by King David himself — his signature verse to his remarkable Book of Tehillim — and which is prominently featured in the Malchiyos blessings on Rosh Hashana.  On the verse, כל הנשמה — Let all souls, תהלל י-ה — praise G-d, Rebbi Levi states in the name of Rebbi Chanina: על כל נשימה ונשימה, for every breath that you take, one must praise the Creator.  This past year was ‘breathtaking’ in many ways. Certainly, in the raising of our consciousness of the preciousness of each breath, an invo...
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Mossad chief Yossi Cohen referred Wednesday to the signing ceremony with the UAE and Bahrain and declared in a channel 13 interview that he “truly hopes that an agreement with Saudia Arabia is within reach.” Cohen said that “there are significant efforts to add additional countries to the atmosphere of peace and normalization with Israel and I am in favor of this. I’m convinced that this is possible. I am definitely expecting good news, I hope even within this calendar year.” Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more:  bit.ly/32HUBnJ Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens: bit.ly/34zdGuF Cohen also explained the importance of the agreements signed at the White Ho...
Eyeglasses could offer additional protection against transmission of coronavirus, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Ophthalmology. Researchers found that of 276 patients admitted to a Wuhan, China hospital over 47 days, only 16 wore glasses. The city was the original epicenter of the virus, which is believed to have originated in a so-called "wet market" there. Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more:  bit.ly/32HUBnJ Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens: bit.ly/34zdGuF Researchers hypothesized glasses may reduce susceptibility to the virus by discouraging wearers from touching their faces or helping block transmission of the virus through the tear ducts....
AUSTRALIA (VINnews) — Chairman of Chabad in Australia’s capital Canberra, Rabbi Shmueli Feldman, together with Rebbetzin Chasia Feldman, Principal of the Canberra Jewish School, paid an official visit to the UAE Embassy in Australia. Rabbi and Rebbetzin Feldman were greeted by UAE Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Abdulla Al Subousi, together with senior diplomats at the embassy and shared a lengthy and friendly discussion followed by a presentation ceremony. The visit took place just hours after the signing in Washington, DC of the historic peace accord between the UAE, Israel, and Bahrain, and facilitated by the United States. Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more:  bit.ly/32HUBnJ Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for br...
President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday morning that the real result of the presidential election may never be known. He wrote: “Because of the new and unprecedented massive amount of unsolicited ballots which will be sent to ‘voters,’ or wherever, this year, the Nov 3rd Election result may NEVER BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED, which is what some want.” Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more:  bit.ly/32HUBnJ Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens: bit.ly/34zdGuF For months, there has been concern Trump with the idea that mail-in ballots are more susceptible to fraud. Elections experts say cases of U.S. mail-in voting fraud are definitely possible. Read more at The Washington Post.
FBI Director Chris Wray made clear that Antifa is not a made-up, right-wing conspiracy theory and that the FBI has cases involving those connected to it. Appearing at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday, Wray explained that while Antifa is not an organization in the traditional sense, it is a movement and there have been suspects who claimed to be a part of it. “Antifa is a real thing. It’s not a group or an organization. It’s a movement, or an ideology may be one way of thinking of it,” Wray said. “And we have quite a number — and I’ve said this quite consistently since my first time appearing before this committee — we have any number of properly predicated investigations into what we would d...
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 17, 2020 -  Rabbi Menachem Goldberger - Sings and Speaks Erev Rosh HaShannah Click here to watch       Access Passcode: j=M=Mo*7
Russia is seeking to hurt Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential campaign through social media and influence operations, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday. Moscow is carrying out efforts to sow discord in the U.S. “primarily to denigrate Vice President Biden and what the Russians see as an anti-Russia establishment,” Wray told lawmakers during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on threats to the nation. “Russia continues to try to influence our elections, primarily through what we call malign foreign influence,” Wray said. It’s an assessment sharply at odds with that of President Donald Trump, who still dismisses as a hoax the intelligence community’s finding that Russia worked to help him win the White House in 2016. Read more a...
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Democrat legislative leaders have agreed on a budget deal that will raise taxes on about 35,600 millionaires. The deal will push the tax rate to 10.75%, from 8.97%, for those with incomes above $1 million. It also includes a maximum $500 tax rebate for about 800,000 households, those with at least one child and income below $150,000, Murphy and lawmakers announced today at a press conference. Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more:  bit.ly/32HUBnJ Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens: bit.ly/34zdGuF “We do not hold any grudge at all against those who have been successful in life,” Murphy said. But “now is the time,” with families suffering job losses, to a...
Chicago has seen homicides spike 52% from the same time frame last year, according to police records. USA Today reports that Cook County, which is the country’s second-largest county, reported more homicides so far this year than it did in all of 2019. Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more:  bit.ly/32HUBnJ Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens: bit.ly/34zdGuF According to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, 95% of the incidents involved people of color. The newspaper reports that dozens of children under 10 residing in Chicago have been shot, some fatally, as the city deals with the coronavirus pandemic, unemployment, and ongoing protests. Read more at NEWSMAX.
Forty-four percent of New York City residents making $100,000 or more have considered moving out of the five boroughs since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus began, with nearly three-quarters citing the cost of living, a new poll found. The Siena College Research Institute released its findings Wednesday of a survey commissioned by the Manhattan Institute. Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more:  bit.ly/32HUBnJ Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens: bit.ly/34zdGuF It found 37% of those making six figures – who pay 80% of the income taxes and 22% of the overall tax revenue – likely will not be living in New York within two years. Read more at NEWSMAX.
Moderna Inc. released details of its plan for analyzing data from its COVID-19 vaccine trial, offering an unusual under-the-hood look at the study of a top vaccine candidate. In a statement ahead of an investor meeting the company is holding on Thursday, Moderna said the trial has now enrolled 25,296 of an expected 30,000 volunteers, and more than 10,000 have received two doses of the vaccine. Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more:  bit.ly/32HUBnJ Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens: bit.ly/34zdGuF While the broad outlines of major drug trials are available on a U.S. government website, details of how and when data-monitoring boards overseeing the trials plan to analyze data are often kept confidential by pharmac...
A TSA explosives expert at JFK Airport prevented a possible mid-air disaster, after TSA officers spotted an "unusual suspicious item" inside a traveler’s carry-on bag earlier this month "that could have resulted in a tragic outcome had the item been carried onto an aircraft," the federal agency said Wednesday, according to 1010WINS radio. The bag was pulled and searched, and the item was determined to be "two large electronics wired to what appeared to be a tampered power source," the TSA said in a press release quoted in the report. Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more:  bit.ly/32HUBnJ Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens: bit.ly/34zdGuF "It was deemed that the power component was hazardous becau...
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 17, 2020 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Rabbi Eyal And Ayda Bendicoff on the birth of a daughter. Mazel Tov Grandparents Chaim and Lyn Bendicoff and Dr. Jerry and Elka Rottman יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בתם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 17, 2020 - Shofar Blowing Listings for 2nd Day Rosh Hashana 5781 in Baltimore. For a larger, printable copy, click on the graphic below or click here to download. Please note: the 10:45 AM Tekios at Kol Torah is no longer pertinent due to space issues
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