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September 24, 2020 at 11:22 am
For the first time since March, new unemployment claims fell below 10,000.
There were 9,185 new unemployment claims filed for the week of Sept. 19.
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The Maryland Department of Labor reports unemployment claims by type: regular or pandemic related assistance (PUA and PEUC). There were 5,280 regular claims and 3,905 PUA and PEUC claims.
The Unemployment Insurance Claim Center hours have been extended weekdays to 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., and claims centers will be open on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon -- call 410-949-0022.
The BEACON One-Stop Online Application website was launched April 24 and has posed ...
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September 24, 2020 at 11:15 am
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 24, 2020: The following was sent this morning to members of Shomrei Emunah:
Halachic Guidance from Rabbi Marwick for Yom Kippur 5781
Mikvah for Men on Erev Yom Kippur: Many men have a personal custom to go to the mikvah before Yom Kippur. Mens mikvaos tend to be crowded and difficult to sanitize. Therefore, unless one can secure a private appointment, I do not think it advisable for men to go to the Mikvah his year. Gedolei HaPoskim advise that, in these unusual circumstances, standing under a running shower – with the water flowing over your head and body for 3-4 minutes is an acceptable substitute. (This leniency applies only to men’s immersion because it is a custom, not a halachic requirement.)
Medical Concerns and F...
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September 24, 2020 at 11:12 am
Their financial situation deteriorated amid the coronavirus pandemic, but also during a period when normalization agreements were being negotiated between several Gulf states and Israel.
Palestinian officials have a feeling that the recent normalization agreements between Gulf states and Israel have led to a sudden decrease in funding from Arab states to the Palestinian Authority.
According to The New Arab and data from the Palestinian Finance Ministry service, Ramallah has received no aid from Arab countries since March, in addition to a 50% decrease in foreign aid.
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Ramallah's t...
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September 24, 2020 at 11:01 am
A few weeks ago, just after 12 p.m., in the city of Kiryat Malachi in Israel’s southern region, a 35-year-old man was working at his job in a steel factory using a slicing machine, when he accidentally turned the machine to the wrong setting. The faster speed caused a piece of sharp steel to snap off and slice his left arm.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Ben-Hur Malcan was at work when he got the emergency alert from United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center notifying him of the emergency. Ben-Hur rushed to the factory, arriving in just under three minutes together with a number of other volunteers. He entered a scene of pure chaos. Ben Hur saw that the local team of responders were at a loss of how to help treat the man as the steel was still embedded inside his arm. The s...
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September 24, 2020 at 10:58 am
MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni opened the Knesset meeting this morning with words of thanks to Hakadosh Baruch Hu (G-d) for His many kindnesses and pronounced the berachah (blessing) of “Hagomel” —“Who does good to the undeserving and Who has rendered every kindness to me.”
MK Gafni related: “I didn’t realize what it was all about. It was Shabbos (Sabbath). Suddenly I felt that I couldn’t walk and before I knew it, I had fallen. I wanted to go down to Minchah (Afternoon Services) so my children wouldn’t worry about me. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. It’s probably nothing, i thought to myself, but I did need to take care of the gash near my eye before Mincha so I went to Ezer Mizion’s Emergency First Aid Station...
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September 24, 2020 at 10:55 am
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 24, 2020 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Rabbi & Mrs. Baruch Leib Gross on the birth of a son.
Mazel Tov grandparents Mr. & Mrs. Fishel Gross and Mr. & Mrs. Yaakov Herber
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
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September 24, 2020 at 10:28 am
Procession of Muslim EMS volunteers and vehicles from United Hatzalah disseminate guidelines, tips, information, and posters, to help combat the spread of Corona in hard-hit Muslim Neighborhoods of East Jerusalem.
September 24th, 2020 - Jerusalem - As part of a new partnership that took place between the Jerusalem Municipality and United Hatzalah of Israel, more than 20 EMS volunteers driving ambucycles, an ambulance, fly cars, and an ATV, drove through the neighborhoods of East Jerusalem in order to undertake community outreach and spread awareness of the dangers of Covid-19 to the residents.
The East Jerusalem communities, which are made up of primarily Muslim populations, have been among the hardest hit by the disease over the past few months and have some of the hig...
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September 24, 2020 at 10:24 am
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 24, 2020 - The following emails were sent to TA staff & parents this morning:
September 23, 2020
Dear Rebbeim, Faculty and Staff,
We want to begin by wishing all of our families a Gmar Chasima Tova, and our wishes for a year of hatzlacha and bracha. As the Yom Tov season of Tishrei is upon us, we find it necessary to share the following with our entire TA family.
As you know, we have had cases of COVID in TA. It is important that you know that despite the administration and staff’s best efforts and considerable time spent to develop safe plans for the reopening of our Yeshiva, some of the COVID spread that we have experienced happened within the walls of TA. We have analyzed and identified exactly what took place and have ta...
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September 24, 2020 at 9:02 am
We are again at a crossroads. Both in the Jewish calendar, entering into Yom Kippur, where life and death decisions will be made, and in the world of COVID-19, with a disconcerting continuing rise in cases in our area, where life and death decisions will be made.
“Mi Bamageifa” (and who will die by plague…):
In just the past 24 hours, I have been inundated with numerous pressing shailos from communities all over regarding COVID-19 exposures. Here are but a few of the quarantine questions that Rabbonim and shul presidents have asked me.
“Our Rosh Hashana chazzan said wearing a mask was too difficult. He davened for the amud without one. He developed symptoms and tested positive the following day…”
“Our Rav gave a drash...
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September 24, 2020 at 8:58 am
The economy has recovered only about half the 22 million jobs lost to the pandemic
The U.S. government provided its latest snapshot Thursday of the pace of layoffs, which have remained elevated but have been declining as some sectors of the economy have rebounded in the six months since the viral pandemic erupted.
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits each week was 870,000 for the week ending September 19, the Labor Department said.
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The economy has recovered only about half the 22 million jobs that were lost to the pandemic. Many employers, especially small retailers, hotels, restaurants, air...
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September 24, 2020 at 8:30 am
The government met through the night on Wednesday to determine the next steps required to stop the spread of coronavirus infection. The ministers ultimately approved a total lockdown beginning Friday at 2 p.m., which will last at least two weeks.
The following regulations were approved by the government:
• All workplaces, except essential ones, will operate in accordance with approved regulations
• Marketplaces – closed
• Travel – only one kilometer from home, unless for an approved reason
• Prayer and demonstrations – in open spaces only, up to 20 people and within one kilometer from home
• Synagogues – closed, except for prayers on Yom Kippur in accordance with the ...
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September 24, 2020 at 6:57 am
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 24, 2020 -— Yeshivas Ner Yisrael Baltimore Campus On Lockdown After COVID Positive Cases
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September 24, 2020 at 6:52 am
Dear TAG Parents,
At 9:30 this evening, we received a phone call from the NYC Department of Health ordering that the school be closed effective immediately. We have not been provided with any specific details as relates to the reasons, causes or duration of the closure. We anticipate a meeting with the DOH tomorrow morning at which we hope to receive additional information which we will share with you.
We apologize for this late notification; however, we were given no warning that this closure was pending. Indeed, as you all know, TAG COVID policies met and exceeded all published State and CDC Guidelines.
Please note: Other than the classes that had already been quarantined, we HAVE NOT been instructed to quarantine other students.
Unfortunately, as we all know, everything is in the ha...
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September 24, 2020 at 6:49 am
Moving thirty families to quarantine on camp grounds in upstate New York so as not to miss a day of the Zman, even during COVID-19...Replacing lunch on a Taanis with a Mussar Vaad , then learning straight through unti maariv Motzei-taanis...These statements sound like anecdotes from a biography of earlier generations. However these stories are all in a day’s work for Kollel Cheshek Shlomo.
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September 23, 2020 at 10:30 pm
BROOKLYN (VINnews) – A second lockdown is starting to emerge as a real possibility in several areas of Brooklyn and Queens, where the number of confirmed COVID cases has been rising steadily in recent weeks.
Speaking today at a press conference alongside Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City’s Health + Hospitals CEO and president Dr. Mitchell Katz discussed the uptick in the “Ocean Parkway Cluster”, which includes Borough Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst, Williamsburg and Far Rockaway, where positive rates have tripled over the last six weeks, and Kew Gardens, where COVID cases have doubled over the same time period. Dr. Katz, who grew up and attended a synagogue in the Ocean Parkway area and still has relatives living nearby, urged residents to take the necessary preca...
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September 23, 2020 at 10:25 pm
Scientists in Houston on Wednesday released a study of more than 5,000 genetic sequences of the coronavirus, which reveals the virus’s continual accumulation of mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious.
That mutation is associated with a higher viral load among patients upon initial diagnosis, the researchers found.
The study, which has not been peer-reviewed, was posted Wednesday on the preprint server MedRxiv. It appears to be the largest single aggregation of genetic sequences of the virus in the United States thus far. A larger batch of sequences was published earlier this month by scientists in the United Kingdom, and, like the Houston study, concluded that a mutation that changes the structure of the “spike protein” on the surface of the ...
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September 23, 2020 at 10:22 pm
President Donald Trump announced to a Catholic prayer breakfast on Wednesday that he’s signing an executive order purporting to protect babies born prematurely, in an appeal to anti-abortion voters ahead of November’s election.
“I will be signing the Born Alive Executive Order to ensure that all precious babies born alive, no matter their circumstances, receive the medical care that they deserve,” Trump said in a videotaped address to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more: bit.ly/32HUBnJ
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Trump has occasionally seized on remarks in January by the governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, to falsely accuse ...
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September 23, 2020 at 10:18 pm
Over 9,000 New York City employees will be furloughed for five days between October and March to save about $21 million as the city battles a severe budget shortfall from the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday.
“It’s a difficult one because it will affect real people and their lives, it will affect their families,” de Blasio told reporters.
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The furloughs will impact city employees in managerial positions and non-union employees, he said.
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September 23, 2020 at 10:16 pm
Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the richest woman in Russia and the widow of Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow, Senate Republicans revealed in their report on the younger Biden’s work in Ukraine.
Baturina is referenced in the 87-page report, which was released Wednesday, addressing her payment to Biden’s investment firm in early 2014.Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more: bit.ly/32HUBnJ
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“Baturina became Russia’s only female billionaire when her plastics company, Inteko, received a series of Moscow municipal contracts while her husband was mayor,” it said in providing background on ...
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September 23, 2020 at 10:13 pm
The city is ramping up efforts to crack down on coronavirus “clusters” in Brooklyn — with a “serious uptick” in cases popping up in predominantly Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.
The mayor pointed out two areas of concern with dense Jewish populations at his press briefing: the Ocean Parkway cluster, encompassing Midwood, Borough Park and Bensonhurst, and a cluster in Williamsburg.
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The Edgemere-Far Rockaway area and Kew Gardens are also seeing a surge in COVID-19.
“We have a lot to do because we’re seeing a serious uptick...
