As coronavirus health metrics continue to improve, Baltimore City is getting ready to ease some restrictions Monday morning. 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 Under the restrictions, diners at restaurants could only stay for an hour. With that restriction gone, the new rules allow any restaurant to increase its indoor capacity to 25% and outdoor dining to 50%. The announcement came Wednesday from Mayor Brandon Scott, who felt optimistic on current COVID-19 health trends in the city -- along with the help of vaccines. Still, he remains cautious. "We do not want folks to take this a...
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 21, 2021  - 9:07PM - Here’s our final call for the Monday morning snow event. Only change was to add a 1-3” zone for northern Maryland into Pennsylvania. 3” seems to be a bit high, but not out of the question if heavier snowfall rates occur. Elsewhere, sleet and freezing rain could cause a light glaze of ice on some surfaces. This combined with snow could make for hazardous travel impacts for the Monday morning commute. Because of this, the NWS has issued a WINTER WEATHER ADVOSORY for northern Maryland and much of Pennsylvania.
Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim, said today that bochurim in the Mir from the Diaspora should remain in Eretz Yisroel for Pesach, because it is unclear that they’ll be able to return to Eretz Yisroel after Yom Tov due to the current Covid-19 situation. 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 In a letter written by Rav Finkel, he says that the hanhalah of the yeshiva will do everything for the ruchniyus and gashmiyus of the talmidim during bein hazemanim. Rav Finkel wr...
Federal agents seized $2.82 million worth of cocaine-coated corn flakes, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a news release on Friday. CBP officers in Cincinnati intercepted a large shipment of cereal that was headed to a private residence in Hong Kong from South America. 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 Officers opened the box and saw cereal with white powder, with flakes coated in a “grayish substance.” They tested the flakes and the substance, and found that they contained cocaine. The shipment had 44 pounds of co...
President Biden’s pick for surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, was paid more than $2 million last year for coronavirus-related consulting and speeches, according to ethics documents filed this month obtained by The Washington Post. 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 According to the financial disclosures, Murthy received hundreds of thousands of dollars each in consulting fees from companies such as Netflix, Airbnb and Carnival Cruise Line, among others. The filing shared by the Post shows that Murthy made more than $540,000 in consulting fees from Netflix, $410,000 f...
The family of a Texas boy who apparently froze to death — after the family’s mobile home lost power during an intense cold snap — have filed a $100 million lawsuit against the region’s utility providers, blaming them for the tragedy. 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 Cristian Pavon Pineda, 11, was found lifeless in a bed next to his toddler brother Monday, as temperatures inside plunged into the single digits and the family struggled to keep warm. Power grid operator ERCOT and electricity provider Entergy failed to warn people of the dangerous conditions and ...
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors found uranium particles at two Iranian nuclear sites that Iran tried to block access to, according to a Friday report. Iranian authorities had stonewalled the inspectors from reaching the sites for seven months before the inspection, and Iranian officials have failed to explain the presence of the uranium, the Reuters news agency reported, citing diplomats familiar with the UN agency’s work. 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 inspections took place in August and September of 2020, the report said. The IAEA keeps its findings secret a...
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A federal judge on Friday threw out a libel lawsuit filed by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) against CNN over coverage saying he was involved an effort to dig up dirt on now-President Biden regarding dealings with Ukraine. 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 U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain threw out the suit, which sought $435 million in damages, on a technicality. Nunes’s legal team argued that the court should apply the laws of Virginia or Washington, D.C. to the case, while Swain said the laws of Nunes’s home state of California should be applied. “Plaintiff &helli...
Nearly half of Republicans say they would abandon the party as it is currently structured and join a new party if former President Trump was its leader, according to a new poll released Sunday. A Suffolk University-USA Today poll found that 46 percent of Republicans said they would abandon the GOP and join the Trump party if the former president decided to create one. Only 27 percent said they would stay with the GOP, with the remainder indicating they would be undecided. 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 “We feel like Republicans don’t figh...
 A coalition of 17 state attorneys general is calling for the cancellation of up to $50,000 in federal student loan debt for all borrowers. The Democratic attorneys general, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, sent a letter to congressional leaders on Friday supporting resolutions that call on President Biden to use executive action to forgive outstanding student loans. 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 existing repayment system for Federal student loans provides insufficient opportu...
Nearly half of people who contract mild or moderate cases of COVID-19 still experience symptoms six months later, according to a new study published by Israeli researchers. The research, which is slated to be published this month in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infection, evaluated 103 people over the age of 18 who had coronavirus between April and October 2020. The people had mild to moderate symptoms, meaning that while they were not asymptomatic, they were not hospitalized with a more severe case of the disease. Participants were interviewed up to four times over the course of the study. 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 Jo...
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale was one of the busiest people in the cable news business for several years, but he has almost completely disappeared from the network’s programming over the past month or so. What happened? Dale became a veritable household name among cable news viewers during Trump’s presidency after his work for the Toronto Star, tallying and debunking false or misleading statements by Trump, landed him a national gig with CNN. 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 Since joining CNN in June of 2019, Dale has appeared or been mentioned on the netw...
The Biden administration has waived ethics rules to allow a top Department of Homeland Security official to make policy in areas on which she lobbied for her former employer, Amnesty International. Why it matters: The waiver is the first granted under Biden’s new ethics pledge, which allows the White House to shelve restrictions on former lobbyists in the administration if doing so is deemed in the national interest. 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 What’s new: A memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget, dated Feb. 9 and released publicly on F...
A veteran Bronx superintendent once praised by Chancellor Richard Carranza for her successes in the classroom claims her career was derailed by his “equity” agenda — forcing her to take a demotion in a desperate bid to preserve her pension, according to a $150 million lawsuit. Karen Ames, a 30-year Department of Education employee, says she was targeted by Carranza’s “Disrupt and Dismantle” campaign to oust or marginalize longtime employees because she is over 40, and Jewish. 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 agenda of Chancellor Carranza an...
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 19, 2021 -Yeshivas Ner Yisrael will be having Hespaidim in the Yeshiva Bais Medrash on Sunday night, Feb 21 at 8:30PM EST.  You can watch online at https://nirc.edu/hesapaidim-smn/ or call in to listen  301 715 8592  Meeting ID: 832 5074 7962 Passcode: 454264 one tap +13017158592,,83250747962#,,,,*454264# Speakers: Rosh Hayeshiva, Moreinu Harav Aharon Feldman, shlit”a Harav Moshe Heinemann Harav Ezra Neuberger Rabbi Yaakov Frand There will also be Hespaidim live from Mechinas Ner Naftali – Chicago on Wednesday, February 24th 7:30-8:45 p.m. CST/ 8:30 – 9:45 p.m. EST. You can watch online at https://nirc.edu/hesapaidim...
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