Senate President Emeritus Mike Miller died Friday afternoon. In a statement, the Miller family said: "At 4:25 p.m. this afternoon, Maryland Senate President Emeritus Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. passed away peacefully at his home, surrounded by loved ones. He was 78 years old. "He's survived by his wife, Patti, son, Tommy, daughters, Amanda, Michelle, Melissa and Melanie, sisters, Susan, Cynthia, Melinda, Nancy and Kim, brothers, Jonathan, David and Mark, and his 15 grandchildren, and was predeceased by his sister Judith."Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens Some called Miller "Iron Mike" for ...
Jerusalem, Israel - Jan. 16, 2021 - Motzaei Shabbos - On Thursday, Rosh Chodesh Shevat, Israel continued under COVID-19 restrictions and entered the second week of a two-week lockdown. Reported numbers of coronavirus in Israel: 9,172 new cases, with 7.6% of tests positive. Early afternoon, Balfour Street near the Prime Minister's Residence was quiet, a lone protester stood near the closed security gates. Clouds filled the sky, after a night of heavy rain, public parks were deserted in the chilly windy weather and because of the corona limitations. The walk from the Montefiore Windmill to the views from Derech Hevron, usually a popular tourist area, was quiet. After the rain, the air was clear enough to view the Jordanian mountain range from the lookout points of ...
This week's shtikle is dedicated for a refuah sheleimah for my father. Please include Reuven Pinchas ben Yehudis in your tefillos. This week's shtikle is dedicated le'iluy nishmas Dovid Pesach ben Tzvi Hirsh HaLevi whose first yahrtzeit is this coming Tuesday, 6 Shevat. In the plague of barad, hail, HaShem brought down hail accompanied by kolos, thunder. The hail also seemed to include rain. However, points out Minchas Yitzchak, when Paroah demands that Moshe pray that the plague end (9:28) he asks him to pray that the thunder and the hail should cease, but he does not mention the rain. This is because, as Rashi has mentioned many times, Egypt did not receive rain and relied solely on the Nile for irrigation. Therefore, Paroah would have...
Mayor calls on state to set up mass vaccination sites; vaccination spots filled this month Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is calling on Gov. Larry Hogan to set up mass COVID-19 vaccination sites to speed up vaccinating the city population. The city has a population of almost 600,000 people, and its only citywide COVID-19 vaccine site is at an Under Armour facility in Port Covington, where the number of vaccines administered is just 500 per day. "We know that we need to be doing more than 500 per day," Health Commissioner Dr. Letitia Dzirasa said. "We are clearly not where we would like to be with these numbers," Scott said. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to...
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Friday issued a proclamation declaring a state of emergency related to the 2021 presidential inauguration. The executive action will allow the state to more efficiently coordinate support and provide assistance to local jurisdictions within Maryland and neighboring states. The governor has also asked the White House for a presidential disaster declaration to reimburse state and local governments in Maryland for costs incurred by their response to last week's riot at the U.S. Capitol, as well as support to federal partners and the District of Columbia for the days leading up to, and including, the inaugural ceremonies. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on ...
Baltimore, MD -  Jan. 15, 2021 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Ephraim & Tova Cook  on the birth of a son. Mazel Tov grandparents Rabbi Simcha & Mrs. Esky Cook and Rabbi Fishel & Mrs. Devorah Firestone. יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
SAN FRANCISCO — WhatsApp said on Friday that it would delay a planned privacy update, as the Facebook-owned messaging service tries to stem an exodus of users worried about the changes. WhatsApp said it would push back the changes, to May 15 from Feb. 8, to give users more time to review what it planned to do. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens This month, WhatsApp notified its users that it would give them new options to message businesses using the service and was updating its privacy terms. WhatsApp’s notification said users would have to accept the new terms by February or no l...
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 15, 2021 - If you have been receiving meals from the Bnos Yisroel Food Distribution Program until now, we ask that you continue to pick up your food boxes from that location.
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 14, 2021 - It is with regret that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petira of A. Harold Goetz, z’l, father of  Aryeh Goetz, (443.839.6080),  Moshe Chaim Goetz (bet. 1PM-4PM through Tuesday 410.484.0538) and Renee Goetz; and brother of Marlene Braer Levaya is Graveside and private today at 3PM Bila HaMaves LaNetzach…
A Baltimore City judge on Thursday denied to block Baltimore's sit-down dining ban but concludes it is appropriate for the city to weigh the economic impacts in issuing such orders. “It’s simply not possible to quantify decision-making to that level of decision,” said Circuit Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill. “The mayor’s invested by statute with the authority to make these difficult decisions.” The judge denied restaurateurs a temporary restraining order, though the lawsuit remains active. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens “Not only are we ...
The Israel Defense Forces is drawing up plans for an attack on Iran’s nuclear program, the Israel Hayom daily reported Thursday in a front-page article. The newspaper said that IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi has asked for three alternate proposals to derail Tehran’s program, without elaborating on them. It only indicated one of the proposals is a military strike, noting that such a plan would require a significant budgetary boost for the Israeli military. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens Iran resumed enriching uranium to 20 percent last week, well in excess of the threshold set o...
The FBI is tracking an “extensive amount of concerning online chatter,” including calls for armed protests leading up to next week’s presidential inauguration, Director Chris Wray said Thursday. Wray, in his first public appearance since the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, said in a security briefing for Vice President Mike Pence that the FBI remains concerned about the potential for violence at protests and rallies in Washington and in state capitols around the country. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens Those events could bring armed individuals near government buildings a...
Harold Bornstein, the New York Jewish physician whose 2016 letter declaring Donald Trump “unequivocally the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency” turned out to have been written by Trump, is dead at 73. His death notice appeared Thursday in The New York Times. No cause of death was given. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens The letter released during the 2016 campaign was prompted by media demands for Trump’s health records after Trump accused his rival, Hillary Clinton, of obscuring health problems. Clinton had released a letter from a physician decl...
President-elect Joe Biden will no longer be taking an Amtrak train to Washington for his inauguration because of security concerns, a person briefed on the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The president-elect’s decision reflects growing worries over potential threats in the Capitol and across the U.S. in the lead-up to Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens Security in Washington has ramped up considerably in preparation for the inauguration after the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week by supporters of outgoing Pre...
Global death toll from COVID-19 tops two million just over a year after the virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The global death toll from COVID-19 topped two million on Friday, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University and quoted by The Associated Press. The milestone was reached just over a year after the coronavirus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens While the count is based on figures supplied by government agencies around the world, the real toll is believed to be significantly higher, in part beca...
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 15,  2021 – BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to this week’s  Baltimore Bar Mitzvah Bochurim and their mishpachos: Binyamin BernsteinYakov Brockmeyer Eli Elefant Isaac Grunhaus   If you know of any bochurim not mentioned above for this week, pls send details here
The Internal Revenue Service announced Friday that the nation's 2020 tax filing season will begin in February, a few weeks later than last year's January open.  However, its Free File program is now open Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens The federal agency, which wants to make sure there are no issues for taxpayers, will begin accepting and processing 2020 tax year returns on Feb. 12. The extra weeks will give the IRS more time "to do additional programming and testing of IRS systems after tax law changes that provided a second round of Economic Impact ...
Maryland will move to Phase 1B of the state's COVID-19 vaccination plan beginning Monday, Gov. Larry Hogan announced. Hogan said the state is entering the most challenging phase of the pandemic, and that getting vaccinated is critical to preventing more illnesses and more deaths. "Getting vaccinated is the single most important thing that you can do right now to save lives and to protect your friends and your family and your community," Hogan said. "By getting this effective and safe vaccine, all of us can play an important part in returning to normal, ending the damage to our economy, preventing more deaths, illnesses in our state and eliminating and eradicating this pandemic once and for all." "(I) urge all Marylanders who are currently eligible to receive the vaccine to do so,...
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