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Police are investigating how three trays of mail, including absentee ballots, ended up in a ditch in Wisconsin, a swing state whose voters could prove crucial in the upcoming elections. The Outagamie County Sheriff's Office said the mail was found around 8 a.m. Tuesday morning near the intersection of highways 96 and CB, near the Appleton International Airport. and was immediately returned to the U.S. Postal Service, Fox 11 reported. "The United States Postal Inspection Service immediately began investigating and we reserve further comment on this matter until that is complete," USPS spokesman Bob Sheehan said in a statement. The incident comes a mere five weeks before the presidential election, which has been steeped in partisan bickering over the sys...
Statement Of U.S. Attorney Freed On Inquiry Into Reports Of Potential Issues With Mail-In Ballots HARRISBURG - On Monday, September 21, 2020, at the request of Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis, the Office of the United States Attorney along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Scranton Resident Office, began an inquiry into reports of potential issues with a small number of mail-in ballots at the Luzerne County Board of Elections. Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more:  https://bit.ly/32HUBnJ Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens: https://bit.ly/32wc4iG Since Monday, FBI personnel working together with the Pennsylvania State Police have conducted numerous interviews and recovered an...
The attorney general of Florida has asked state law enforcement officials and the FBI to investigate Mike Bloomberg for his role in paying off the legal debts of 32,000 convicted felons so they can vote in the November election. The New York Post reported that Ashley Moody, a Republican, has put in the request to probe the payments. Bloomberg and more than 44,000 other people nationwide contributed to a fund that paid the court fees and fines of ex-convicts in Florida who needed to settle their debts with the state in order to regain their right to vote. 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 In a letter to the FBI and its sta...
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening ordered a meeting to be held immediately after Simchat Torah of the Supreme Planning Council of the Civil Administration, with the aim of approving extensive construction in Judea and Samaria. Arutz Sheva has learned that Netanyahu has approved the promotion of more than 5,000 housing units in dozens of localities, after freezing construction planning in Judea and Samaria since last February so as not to jeopardize the peace agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. 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 In recent days, there have been contacts between the heads of the local c...
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 24, 2020 - Ohr Chadash Academy (OCA) sent out their Chagim/Travel guidelines this morning.
National airline requests gov’t ministers reconsider sale of shares to Eli Rozenberg, as it asserts he is a frontman for his non-Israeli father, which goes against regulations El Al has said it opposes a yeshiva student’s recent purchase of a controlling stake in the company, accusing him of being a frontman for his father, businessman Kenneth Rozenberg, who is not an Israeli citizen and legally cannot hold shares in the Israeli flagship airline. 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 A letter from El Al’s attorneys seen by The Times of Israel Wednesday requested that government ministers reject allowing the 27-year old new...
Cabinet Minister Shay slams gov't decision, says made against experts' recommendation Israel’s coronavirus czar Prof. Ronni Gamzu said that the strident lockdown measures to commence Friday at 2 pm (Israel Summer Time) will come at a “tremendous” economic cost. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Gamzu reiterated his opposition to the comprehensive lockdown. 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 “I recommended the Cabinet to tighten the instructions and not shutter the state, but it decided otherwise and I respect that,” he stipulated, according to outlet N12. The government decided early...
Some 56,901 cases of coronavirus are currently active across the country Israel Health Ministry figures published on Thursday show that 6,808 new coronavirus cases were detected in the last 24, bringing the total number of people infected since the start of the pandemic to 206,332.  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 data also showed that at least 1,335 people have died in Israel from COVID-19 since March.  Some 56,901 coronavirus cases are currently active across the country, among which 667 patients are in serious condition and 164 people have been placed on artificial respirators. The Health Ministry also said it had carr...
Sudanese-Israeli Friendship Association to be inaugurated in Khartoum on September 26 Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sudan's Sovereignty Council chair Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan are likely to meet in the coming days in Uganda, i24NEWS learned.  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 sources close to the Sovereignty Council speaking to the Arabic edition of i24NEWS, on Saturday, September 26, Sudanese-Israeli Friendship Association will be inaugurated in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. The event, where media will be invited for coverage, will set off a normalization process between t...
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. 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 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 ...
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...
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. 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 Ramallah's t...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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. 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 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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