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September 22, 2020 at 10:07 am
As first reported by Chaim V’Chessed, the process for entry of students to Israel was abruptly suspended on Thursday, September 17. At the time, it was unclear whether other entry permits to Israel would cease being issued, as well.
Chaim V’Chessed CEO, Rabbi Paysach Freedman dialogued with a senior official in the Foreign Ministry over the past few days. The official confirmed that permits for exceptional circumstances, such as births, weddings and bar/bat mitzvas will continue to be issued
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September 22, 2020 at 7:46 am
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 14, 2020 - Our world is tired. Tired of uncomfortable masks and failing markets. Tired of changing guidelines and challenging circumstances. Tired of children at home and heart-breaking stories. Tired of uncertainty and unknowns. The shofar calls us to wake up, but we are exhausted. Simply put, we are weary and ready for the COVID crisis to end.
Once in a lifetime crises call for one of a kind inspiration. Rabbi Y. Y. Jacobson is a wildly sought out speaker, who has been energizing and invigorating audiences around the globe. One of America’s premier Jewish thinkers and leaders, he serves as a mentor to hundreds of thousands and is considered one of the most passionate and mesmerizing communicators of Torah and Hashkafa...
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September 21, 2020 at 10:32 pm
Israel's CollPlant Biotechnologies and the US-based United Therapeutics Corporation are expanding their partnership to begin the production of 3D-printed kidneys, the companies announced on Monday.
The collaboration agreement combines CollPlant's proprietary recombinant human collagen (rhCollagen) and BioInk technology with the regenerative medicine and organ manufacturing capabilities of United Therapeutics.
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United Therapeutics has paid CollPlant $3 million to exercise an option to license, on an exclusive basis, CollPlant's technology for 3D bioprinting of human kidneys. This expanded collab...
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September 21, 2020 at 10:17 pm
ABU DHABI (VINnews) — For the first time in history, a synagogue in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, opened on Rosh Hashana for public prayers.
Rabbi Levi Duchman, who serves as the rabbi of the 1500-strong local Jewish community, has been active until now in Dubai, one of the seven emirates which make up the UAE, but there has never been official communal prayers in Abu Dhabi until now. Duchman said that he had organized Torah classes and study groups in the capital city previously, but there had never been a public minyan until this Rosh Hashana.
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The new synagogue operates in a central and prominen...
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September 21, 2020 at 10:08 pm
Picture a female jurist who has consistently defied social expectations imposed on women and whose legal thinking is closely bound up with her faith. No, I’m not talking about Amy Coney Barrett, reported to top President Trump’s list of candidates to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat. I’m talking about Ginsburg herself.
Ginsburg believed fervently that conventional expectations shouldn’t hinder women as they seek their full, fair share of public life. Nor was she shy about how her Jewish faith shaped her judicial mind. In an essay for the American Jewish Committee published in 1993, she wrote: “Laws as protectors of the oppressed, the poor, the loner, is evident in the work of my Jewish predecessors. . . . The biblical com...
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September 21, 2020 at 9:56 pm
Louisville police have declared a state of emergency as the Kentucky city braces for a grand jury decision on the fate of three cops involved in the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor.
Acting Police Chief Robert Schroeder said Monday that days off and vacation requests for all Louisville Metro Police Department personnel are canceled until further notice pending state Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s announcement on whether the cops involved in the March shooting will face criminal charges.
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“To ensure we have the appropriate level of staffing to provide for public safety services ...
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September 21, 2020 at 9:53 pm
President Donald Trump said Saturday he’s given his “blessing” to a proposed deal that would see the popular video-sharing app TikTok partner with Oracle and Walmart to become a U.S. company.
Trump has targeted Chinese-owned TikTok for national security and data privacy concerns. The announcement comes just a day after the Commerce Department announced restrictions that if put in place could eventually make it nearly impossible for TikTok fans to use the app.
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Trump said if completed the deal would create a new company likely to be based in Texas.
“I have given the deal my blessing,&r...
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September 21, 2020 at 9:52 pm
Bahrain broke up a plot by militants backed by Iran to launch attacks on diplomats and foreigners in the island nation home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, just days after normalizing relations with Israel, Saudi state television reported Sunday.
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry and its state media did not immediately acknowledge the arrests. Bahraini government officials, who routinely claim breaking up plots by militants backed by Iran, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Saudi state TV report aired footage of what appeared to be police raiding a home with a hidden passage. The footage showed assault rifles and explosives, apparently seized in the raid. A Saudi state TV reporter said those planning the attacks wanted to carry them out in revenge for the U.S. ...
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September 21, 2020 at 9:48 pm
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden had another gaffe on Sunday when he said an estimated 200 million people have already died from the coronavirus, even though the number of American casualties is closer to 200,000.
“If Donald Trump has his way, the complications from COVID-19, which are well beyond what they should be — it’s estimated that 200 million people have died — probably by the time I finish this talk,” he said during a campaign speech.
The U.S. population is estimated to be slightly 328 million people, meaning nearly two-thirds of the nation would have perished from the disease by now if Biden’s verbal confusion was true.
Read more at Fox News.
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September 21, 2020 at 9:46 pm
A huge trove of secret government documents reveals for the first time how the giants of Western banking move trillions of dollars in suspicious transactions, enriching themselves and their shareholders while facilitating the work of terrorists, kleptocrats, and drug kingpins.
And the US government, despite its vast powers, fails to stop it.
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Today, the FinCEN Files — thousands of “suspicious activity reports” and other US government documents — offer an unprecedented view of global financial corruption, the banks enabling it, and the government agencies that watch as it flourishe...
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September 21, 2020 at 9:38 pm
President Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats wants Congress to create a bipartisan commission to oversee the upcoming U.S. election as fears mount that an international actor could again interfere in the high-stakes race.
In an opinion piece published by The New York Times just 47 days ahead of the Nov. 3 election, Mr. Coats said the suggested commission would monitor electoral systems and “confirm for the public that the laws and regulations governing them have been scrupulously and expeditiously followed — or that violations have been exposed and dealt with — without political prejudice and without regard to political interests of either party.”
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September 21, 2020 at 9:30 pm
A Jewish school in Montreal was ordered closed for two weeks on the eve of the High Holidays following an outbreak of the coronavirus that infected at least 15 students.
The temporary closure of Herzliah High School reportedly was the first time since the fall term began that an entire school in Quebec province was sent home.
The Quebec health department made the move after a number of students in several classrooms tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.
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Initial speculation was that the students became infected during a Sept. 6 bar mitzvah reception attended by some of them. But school officials then inves...
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September 21, 2020 at 9:28 pm
The U.S. Postal Service must live up to its responsibilities to timely process election mail by treating it as a priority, a New York judge ordered on Monday, adding that the agency’s workers should be permitted to make extra deliveries and work overtime near the November presidential election.
The written decision by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero came after several individuals, including candidates for public office, sued. They said President Donald Trump, the postal service and its new postmaster general were endangering election mail.
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Marrero gave both sides until noon Friday to settle the case...
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September 21, 2020 at 9:22 pm
Excuses/reasons to sell? The stock market’s giant vat of worries is spilling over on Monday.
Global banks are tanking over allegations of a money-laundering scandal, second-wave COVID-19 worries, and a possible delay to badly needed fiscal stimulus in the U.S., due to political tussling after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Deutsche Bank strategists also see a looming financial crisis, tipped by a “growing overvaluation of assets and mounting debt levels,” and driven by the massive fiscal and monetary policy stimulus efforts.
“Financial crises have often been ...
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September 21, 2020 at 9:09 pm
The Department of Justice on Monday declared New York City, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon, as “anarchist jurisdictions” in the first move to rescind their federal funding, The Washington Times reports.
President Donald Trump issued a memo earlier this month asking the DOJ to determine jurisdictions that it thought were not properly enforcing the law, as he repeatedly criticized cities led by Democrats for their response to the ongoing protests.
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Attorney General William Barr said in a statement that the cities “have permitted violence and destruction of property...
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September 21, 2020 at 9:05 pm
School in Maryland can apply for funding to use for reopening — specifically for building readiness and transportation.
MARYLAND — To encourage a return to classrooms for in-person learning, State Superintendent of Schools Karen Salmon said she would be offering $10 million in funding to local school systems. The Maryland Department of Education gave more details Monday on the program.
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Each school district will be able to get a $200,000 base as well as a per-student allocation on top. To qualify, schools must begin in-person instruction by the start of the second quarter of the 2020-2021 ...
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September 21, 2020 at 9:01 pm
President Donald Trump Monday said has to assume Democrat nominee Joe Biden is a “professional” who knows how to debate, even if he doesn’t know if the former vice president is “all there.”
“He doesn’t seem to be answering questions, and he can’t answer questions,” the president said on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.” “He did much worse a little while ago when he was on the stage with the Democrats, he couldn’t do well. He did OK with Bernie [Sanders]. It was sort of a tie. It was nothing great. I always say it was Winston Churchill, but it was OK.”Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more: bit.ly/32HUBnJ
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September 21, 2020 at 6:34 pm
NEW YORK (WABC) -- NYPD officer Baimadajie Angwang, a community affairs officer in the 111 precinct in Queens and a US Army Reservist at Fort Dix, has been arrested for allegedly acting as an agent of China.According to the criminal complaint, Angwang acted "at the direction and control" of Chinese government officials at the consulate in New York to report on the activities of ethnic Tibetans, assess potential ethnic Tibetan intelligence sources and use his official position at the police department to give consulate officials access to senior NYPD officials.
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He is also accused of committing wire fraud...
