|
October 21, 2020 at 10:20 am
NEW YORK – The OU's Center for Communal Research has appointed Guila Benchimol Ph.D., Adina Bankier-Karp Ph.D. and Barak Hagler to its professional team as it expands its work in studying the issues of importance to the Jewish community and creating programming to better serve its constituents.
Benchimol returns to the Orthodox Union as a principal researcher after serving as a senior advisor on research and learning with the Safety Respect Equity Network (SRE), a Jewish network of over 125 organizations committed to creating safe, respectful, equitable workplaces and communal spaces in North America. As a researcher and public educator on sexual violence, she has crafted standards and policies for Jewish workplaces, institutions and communal spaces. Benchimol has been invited ...
|
October 21, 2020 at 10:16 am
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanks Israelis for their “great effort” in combating the pandemic, but says the easing of restrictions must be gradual.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that while the country’s nationwide lockdown has dramatically lowered COVID-19 morbidity, lifting the restrictions would be a drawn-out process.
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/3aYxo4v
In his opening address to the coronavirus cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said that, prior to the lockdown, “Israel was ranked first in morbidity per capita in Europe.”
“We imposed a lockdown and ...
|
October 21, 2020 at 10:04 am
BALTIMORE — Damage to an unmarked Baltimore police car led to the arrest of a 29-year-old man Tuesday.
Baltimore City Councilman Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer said he thinks the Baltimore Police Department's Northwestern District is an open target, and he called the 11 News I-Team about it.
Schleifer said he has been trying to get more security at the district for more than a year. He said signs at the parking lot that read "no trespassing," but they aren't keeping people out.
"The cost of inaction is becoming more expensive than the cost of action," Schleifer said.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/3aYxo4v
A brick was thr...
|
October 21, 2020 at 10:00 am
Menucha from Ciment Studios on Vimeo.
|
October 21, 2020 at 9:56 am
GLEN BURNIE, Md. — Maryland voter registration is keeping with historic trends, according to data from the state Board of Elections, but there are some new and sharp distinctions between the two major parties when it comes to mail-in voting.
In Anne Arundel County on Tuesday, voters who spoke with 11 News had different reasons for casting a ballot early through the mail.
"I just wanted to make sure that mine got directly to where it needed to go, where it was safe and secure," said Shonda Stansbury-Beck, an Anne Arundel County voter.
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/3aYxo4v
"We know that on Election Day, the polls are going ...
|
October 21, 2020 at 9:41 am
BALTIMORE — In-person learning is one step closer to reality for thousands of Baltimore City students.
The district's plan to use 25 schools to launch its reopening plan is starting to take shape.
Lakeland Elementary-Middle School in southwest Baltimore is one of the schools that is getting a head start on in-person learning. It's a much different look at the inside of a Baltimore City classroom since the coronavirus pandemic began.
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/3aYxo4v
Lakeland is one of the city's learning centers that's about to expand in order to accept more students. Until now, the ...
|
October 21, 2020 at 9:31 am
The deadline for registered Maryland voters to request a mail-in ballot for the Nov. 3 election has expired, but there are other ways for residents to cast a ballot this year. There will be a week of in-person early voting beginning Monday, followed by the regular Election Day voting.
Those that requested a mail-in ballot online can have the ballot mailed or emailed to them. If emailed, the voter would then be able to print and fill out the ballot, which can then be sent in by mail or released at a drop box.
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/3aYxo4v
Those who are not registered to vote ca...
|
October 20, 2020 at 10:41 pm
A national conservative group may challenge the outcome of the Nov. 3 elections by arguing that municipalities are improperly using hundreds of millions of dollars in private money to administer the polls, a lawyer for the group said Tuesday.
Attorney Erick Kaardal argued during a court hearing in Iowa that local officials have impermissibly accepted grants from the Center for Tech and Civic Life to help pay for election staffing, training, equipment and other expenses.
Kaardal is an attorney for the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, a conservative group that is representing plaintiffs in lawsuits seeking to block municipalities in several states from using the grants.
Read more at NEWSMAX.
|
October 20, 2020 at 10:41 pm
In a preemptive strike against court packing, Senate Republicans are proposing a Constitutional amendment to set the maximum number of Supreme Court justices to nine members.
And, a secondary move, is proposed by Republicans to require a supermajority vote in the Senate before the size of the Supreme Court can be enacted.
“For the sake of our liberties and the future of our country, we must preserve our independent judiciary,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told The Washington Times. “These proposals would do just that.”
Read more at NEWSMAX.
|
October 20, 2020 at 10:40 pm
President Trump has narrowed the gap in his race with former Vice President Joe Biden, but still needs to win over certain voter demographics if he expects to maintain the presidency in November, according to a poll released Tuesday.
The Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) and TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence (TIPP) poll was one of the few to accurately predict Trump’s 2016 victory amid of sea of other data indicating the opposite would occur.
It recently found that Biden’s lead slipped to a new low of 48.1% compared to Trump’s new high of 45.8%. That represents a 2.4 point bump for the president and 3.8 point decline for his opponent since the poll was launched on Oct. 12. The poll also gauges support for third-party candidates but...
|
October 20, 2020 at 10:40 pm
The Biden team is under fire for releasing a TV campaign ad last week depicting a Michigan bar owner struggling to keep his business afloat during the pandemic.
What the ad fails to mention is the man is actually a wealthy tech investor who made contributions to the former vice president’s campaign. He also supported Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders that kept businesses shuttered longer.
The ad, which was posted to YouTube on Thursday and aired Sunday on CBS during NFL games, features Joe Malcoun, who is listed as the “co-owner” of The Blind Pig, a once-popular bar and music venue in Ann Arbor, Mich. Malcoun blamed his business’ economic downturn on President Trump’s COVID-19 response.
Read m...
|
October 20, 2020 at 10:39 pm
The fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and a human rights group that he founded filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court on Tuesday with allegations that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince ordered him killed.
The civil lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages against Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also named more than 20 other Saudis as defendants. It coincides with complications in the U.S.-Saudi relationship over the 2018 slaying of Khashoggi, Riyadh’s human rights record, its role in Yemen’s civil war and other issues.
The Saudi embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit. The crown prince – known by his initials MbS – has denied ordering Khashoggi’s murder.
Read more at NEWSMAX.
|
October 20, 2020 at 10:39 pm
A day after claiming that the American people are tired of listening to Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that he gets along with the nation’s top infectious disease specialist while also complaining the doctor who has clashed with him at times over the coronavirus is not a “team player.”
Trump’s strained relationship with Fauci has political overtones as the president defends his record on the coronavirus just two weeks before Election Day. Polls show him trailing Democrat Joe Biden in key battleground states, but Trump says he’s confident of victory.
“He’s a nice guy,” Trump said of Fauci in a telephone interview with “Fox & Friends” from the White House ahead of an evening rally in Erie, Pennsylva...
|
October 20, 2020 at 10:39 pm
A new photograph has emerged of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden posing with Hunter Biden and Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakh oligarch who reportedly worked with the former veep’s scandal-scarred son.
The snap, first published by a Kazakhstani anti-corruption website in 2019, follows last week’s bombshell Post exposés detailing Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and a report claiming Rakishev paid the Biden scion as a go-between to broker US investments.
In the undated photo, shared by the Kazhakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery, the former vice president can be seen smiling with Kazakhstan’s former prime minister Karim Massimov and his son, who is flanked by Rakishev.
A Daily Mail report published Friday de...
|
October 20, 2020 at 10:39 pm
The US Senate will vote on Monday, eight days ahead of the presidential election, to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the Senate Majority Leader said Tuesday.
“We’ll be voting to confirm justice-to-be Barrett next Monday,” Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said at a press conference.
“I think that will be another signature accomplishment in our effort to put on the courts, the federal courts, men and women who believe in the quaint notion that maybe the job of a judge is to actually follow the law,” McConnell said.
Read more at NEWSMAX.
|
October 20, 2020 at 10:37 pm
Hashem commanded Noach in Bereishis 6:22 to bring all types of food into the Teiva for you (Noach and family) and them (all animals) to eat. The Gemara in Berachos 40a brings in the name of Rav Yehuda, in the name of Rav, that one must feed his animals first; only thereafter may he eat, as the posuk in Shema says, “I shall give grass in the field for your animals and then you shall eat.” The question is, why did Hashem command Noach to first take food for himself and afterwards to take food for the animals?
There are a number of ways to answer this question. The first one is that there is only a chiyuv for a person to feed the animal before hi...
|
October 20, 2020 at 6:40 pm
In an exclusive interview, U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism discusses the “raw hate” against Jews on social media and his causes for optimism.
Elan Carr has served as U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism since February 2019.
Previously, he was a deputy district attorney in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office. He was also a judge advocate in the American military’s judicial system, prosecuting enemy combatants before Iraqi judges at the Central Criminal Court. He also served as the international president of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi).
Carr, 51, a Republican, unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2014 against Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California.
He and his wife, ...
|
October 20, 2020 at 6:40 pm
As COVID-19 continues to ravage the country, there are three counties that remain unscathed by the virus. Esmeralda County in Nevada, Loving County in Texas, and Skagway in Alaska that technically calls itself a borough, have reported no cases of the disease. So far, statistics show there have been over 8 million cases of COVID-19 in the U.S., and roughly 220,000 deaths.
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/3aYxo4v
According to USA Today, each of the counties has fewer than 1,100 residents and they are all remotely located. Dr. Steven Woolf, a professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health and d...
|
October 20, 2020 at 6:34 pm
BROOKLYN (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – A light hearted joke made during roll call at a Monday night Zoom meeting of the Brooklyn Democratic Party had one committee member going on the offensive and bashing stereotypes about the Chasidic community.
David Schwartz, one of two committee members representing Brooklyn’s 48th Assembly District in the party and the only Chasidic member of the group, was late to roll call for the meeting, prompting one individual to suggest that perhaps he was attending a “10,000 man wedding,” referring to the marriage of the grandson of the Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, which was inaccurately described by the media as a 10,000 person event.
Hearing about the remark after being texted by a few colleagues, Schwartz took the opportu...
|
October 20, 2020 at 6:34 pm
NEW YORK(VINnews) — As countries rush to find an effective vaccine against coronavirus, many scientists are asking what can be done to prevent the spread of the virus in the meantime. Official guidance calls for masks, social distancing of at least two meters and washing hands regularly, but dental experts suggest that proper oral hygiene can also serve as a buffer against the spread of the virus. Brushing teeth before leaving the house could help to offset the virus’s effect because most toothpastes and mouthwashes contain detergents with anti-viral qualities, similar to those in hand sanitizers, which could dampen the effect of the virus.Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more: https://bit.ly/32HUBnJ
Join an official BJL WhatsApp gro...
