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January 21, 2021 at 3:01 pm
A Spanish version of the White House website appeared online Wednesday after President Joe Biden took the oath of office.
Spanish language content on the site was added in 2001, during the administration of former President George W. Bush.
During the administration of former President Barack Obama, content grew on the page titled “La Casa Blanca.”
That all changed when former President Donald Trump took office in 2017. Although the Trump administration at one point said it would restore Spanish language content, the official White House website remained English-only.
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January 21, 2021 at 3:00 pm
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 21, 2021 - It is with regret that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petira Mrs. Hilda Gershbaum, a’h, sister of Shachne (Sidney) Ely.
Shiva by phone only 410-764-8407 between 11AM-1:30PM and 6:30PM-8:30PM through Tuesday morning, Jan. 26.
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach…
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January 21, 2021 at 2:52 pm
"There is no public health reason for school boards to be keeping students out of schools," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said. "None."
MARYLAND — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said there is consensus among health experts and leaders at the federal level that schools should be reopening.
"There is no public health reason for school boards to be keeping students out of schools," Hogan said at a news conference Thursday, Jan. 21. "None."
President Joe Biden made reopening schools one of his top priorities for his first 100 days in office, Hogan said.
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January 21, 2021 at 2:39 pm
The number of people viewing Trump’s final speech as president far overshadowed Joe Biden’s inaugural address in online viewers among some of the establishment media outlets like ABC News and CBS News.
An apples-to-apples comparison of YouTube videos of Trump’s remarks at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday morning versus Biden’s shows the difference.
As of this writing, ABC’s coverage of the 45th president’s speech garnered over 265,000 views, while for Biden just over 73,000 clicked in.
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The same was true for C...
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January 21, 2021 at 2:32 pm
The Biden administration on Wednesday unfroze $27.4 billion in government funding that former President Trump locked up before leaving office.
Last Thursday, Trump used a budgetary legal provision calling on Congress to rescind funds from 73 programs that were fully funded in December’s $2.3 trillion omnibus spending bill. Trump signed the bill into law but complained about many of its provisions.
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The budget law allows the president to freeze relevant funds in the program for up to 45 days while Congress considers whe...
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January 21, 2021 at 2:29 pm
The National Archives and Records Administration officially launched a website for former President Trump’s Presidential Library.
The site was launched on Wednesday shortly after President Biden’s inauguration, and features the archived websites of the Trump White House and other sites such as former first lady Melania Trump’s Be Best Initiative.
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Also included are online resources to provide research information on Trump’s presidency, as well as information on the archived social media accounts of the former adminis...
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January 21, 2021 at 2:23 pm
The World Health Organization (WHO) is reportedly in the final stages of reviewing three coronavirus vaccines for international emergency distribution.
Reuters reported Wednesday that an internal document obtained by the newswire indicated that the WHO could in the coming weeks or months give the green light to the inoculations developed by Moderna, AstraZeneca and China’s Sinopharm and Sinovac.
The WHO has already approved the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
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According to Reuters, Mariangela Simao, WHO assistant director-general for...
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January 21, 2021 at 2:21 pm
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed raising taxes on the wealthy to a combined level of 14.7%, which would be the highest state-and-local tax rate in the nation.
The tax increase would raise $1.5 billion for the state, Cuomo said Tuesday in an address unveiling his 2022 budget proposal.
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The move would be part of a three-pronged approach — raising revenue, cutting expenses and borrowing — to cover the state’s historic budget shortfall due to Covid-19, Cuomo said.
Read more at CNBC.
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January 21, 2021 at 2:08 pm
The national social security agency released a document showing growing gov't welfare programs
The standard of living in Israel has declined for the first time in more than 20 years as the coronavirus crisis has taken its economic toll in 2020, a poverty report by Bituah Leumi, Israel’s national social security agency, showed on Thursday.
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According to Hebrew media, the standard of living dropped by 4.4 percent, a figure last registered during the Second Intifada crisis in 2001.
However, without government financial relief plans, such a...
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January 21, 2021 at 2:07 pm
House Speaker seeks Senate readiness 'for trial of Trump's role in instigating an insurrection on the Capitol'
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she will test the waters with Democrat lawmakers about the Senate’s readiness to launch an impeachment trial on former US President Donald Trump’s alleged role in the deadly riots at Capitol Hill, news agency Reuters reported.
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“I’ll be talking with the managers as to when the Senate will be ready for the trial of the then-president of the United States for ...
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January 21, 2021 at 2:07 pm
Facebook has no plan in place to lift an indefinite suspension on former President Donald Trump’s Facebook account even though he’s left office, NBC News reported.
Citing unnamed sources, the news outlet reported the ban will continue, with no current plan to lift it.
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The social network on Jan. 7 suspended Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the aftermath of the violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters, which disrupted the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory.
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January 21, 2021 at 1:31 pm
More than 2.3 million Israelis received the first dose of the vaccine and nearly 700,000 received both doses
Israel's coronavirus czar Nachman Ash said on Thursday that the country may extend its vaccination program to all age groups starting as early as next week.
"The next step is to make vaccines accessible to everyone," the former IDF chief medical officer told Army Radio in an interview.
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"It is possible that it will be next week. We will have a meeting and decide," he added.
More than 2.3 million Israelis received the first dose of the vacc...
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January 21, 2021 at 1:30 pm
Join us for our next Telekosher Conference Series, Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 12 Noon ET, when STAR-K Kashrus Administrator Rabbi Zvi Holland joins host Rabbi Zvi Goldberg to discuss, “STAR-K in the U.A.E.”, in addition to answering YOUR open line questions. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Now that the Abraham Accords have opened a world of opportunity for kosher supervision and travel in the U.A.E., join us for a fascinating discussion with Rabbi Holland on his recent return from Dubai and Abu Dhabi. His talk will address:
How STAR-K supervises U.A.E. productions
The accessibility of kosher food/Cholov Yisroel in the U.A.E
U.A.E. travel safety
STAR-K’s exciting new educational Ki Heim Chayeinu video series will also be discussed.
Rabbi Holland is Director of Special P...
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January 21, 2021 at 11:56 am
Rabbi Yudi Dukes, the longtime director of JNet, who inspired many mitzvah campaigns in his merit, passed away today, 8 Shevat, 5781, at the age of 39.
Yudi was hospitalized for 241 days, one of the longest corona related hospitalizations in the world. Throughout it all, thousands around the world davened, learned, and did mitzvos in his merit.
On Yud Kislev, Yudi was finally released home only to return to the hospital the next day due to liver failure.
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Yudi was the longtime director of the Jewish Learning Network, or JNet, a worldwide program that pai...
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January 21, 2021 at 11:39 am
Former public security minister replaces Ron Dermer, who held the position for past seven years.
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan will now take on the additional role of Ambassador to the United States, replacing Ron Dermer, who held the post for the past seven years.
Erdan takes office at a particularly sensitive time for bilateral relations between Israel and the United States, which will be sorely tested under the new administration of US President Joe Biden, having arguably reached their peak under the ousted former President Donald Trump.
Dermer, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's longtime adviser, played a pivotal role in the negotiations that led to the Abraham Accords, the series of normalization deals with Arab states in the...
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January 21, 2021 at 11:30 am
Israel Parliament Speaker Levin said to have initiated security review, with no intel on specific threats
Top Knesset (Israel Parliament), Public Security Ministry and Israel Police officials met Wednesday to review the Knesset Guard's preparedness for an event like the Capitol riots in the US on January 6, Israel's Channel 12 reports.
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According to the report, the review was initiated on instructions from Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin, in line with security efforts at state offices across the world following the Washington DC unrest.
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January 21, 2021 at 11:15 am
Gov. Larry Hogan encouraged unity after President Joe Biden's inauguration. Some Maryland leaders are already eying policy changes.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Maryland leaders said it's time to stop fighting and start uniting. Their calls for cooperation follow a contested election, an attack on the U.S. Capitol and a presidential impeachment.
Still, the state's Democratic congressional delegation is eager to undo some of former President Donald Trump's (R) strongest policies. Maryland's only congressional Republican, Rep. Andy Harris, congratulated the 46th president but condemned his "liberal agenda" presented "under the false guise of unity."
"Liberals hope to do all of this while pursuing a long-running cancel culture vendetta against a former presiden...
