Growing up, I was an avid baseball fan. The Baltimore Orioles were my team. My oldest child was born just hours after my wife and I attended a game. We are still uncertain if the disappointment of yet another Oriole loss or the kosher hot dog stand fare induced the labor. There is one player, however, and not even an Oriole, that gained my deepest respect. Nolan Ryan. To me he was a true celebrity. Nolan Ryan would remain after a game and sign autographs for all those waiting. Long after the bus took his teammates to the hotel, Nolan was there talking to the fans. A taxi driver remarked that he once drove Nolan Ryan to the hotel over three hours after the game ended. When asked why he was so dedicated to the fans, Nolan replied, “because it’s the fans who make me who I am. ...
Maryland will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the state’s first confirmed cases of COVID-19, on Friday, March 5, Gov. Larry Hogan announced. The governor will declare Friday a day of remembrance in honor of the more than 7,700 Marylanders who have lost their lives during the pandemic. 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 A twilight ceremony will be held at the State House Friday evening, and in coordination with local leaders, buildings across the state will be lit up amber. "One year ago at this time, we could not have fathomed the toll that the pandemic would take on each and ev...
Baltimore, MD – Mar. 2021 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for Yiddishkeit and for HaShem with their children. Unfortunately, our schedules are hectic and many people don’t have the time to prepare themselves to utilize the Shabbos table to its fullest. Therefore, we at ACHIM created TableTalk as a pre-packaged talking points pamphlet which is attractive, fun and has something for everyone. Limited copies are distributed to many shuls on a weekly basis but they are snatched up very quickly. Get yours ASAP or click on the graphic below and print your own.What’s in it and what’s all the excitement about?TableTalk features:•    Weekly halachic dilemma creating l...
One Thursday towards the beginning of February, a mother and her seven-year-old daughter, were crossing the street at a crosswalk in Nahariya, when they were struck by a passing vehicle that was driving too quickly to stop.  Witnesses urgently called emergency services for help. United Hatzalah dispatch instantly located nearby volunteer EMTs and notified them about the emergency. Doron Almog was at work when he received the alert. He quickly raced to the location of the accident on his ambucycle as safely as possible. He found the two victims lying on the road, with numerous injuries. The mother sustained a serious head wound and leg fractures, while the little girl had suffered blunt force trauma and likely fractures to her arms and legs. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to...
Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that President Joe Biden’s prediction that life will mostly be back to normal by March next year is too optimistic, Breitbart reported. Fauci, who is Biden’s chief medical adviser, said at an event organized by the University of Edinburgh that “I don’t think we’re going to be completely normal a year from now. But I hope we’re well on the way to normality so that we can ultimately get the world protected at the same time as we get economic recovery so that all the unintended consequences of shutting down begin to normalize, including other health issues that have arisen because of the shutdown.” Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more ...
Lawmakers on Wednesday formally introduced legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for young people brought to the U.S. as children ahead of House Democrats’ plan to hold an “immigration week” later this month. 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 American Dream and Promise Act would allow the young people known as “Dreamers,” as well as others given temporary status when fleeing unrest in their home country, to apply for citizenship. The legislation provides a path to citizenship for 2.5 million people, including those given Temporary Protecte...
Israel on Sunday will begin its campaign to vaccinate some 120,000 Palestinians who are legally employed in Israel and West Bank settlements, Israel’s military liaison to the Palestinians announced Wednesday. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which is in charge of Palestinian civilian affairs, said it will roll out the immunization campaign at checkpoints and industrial zones across the West Bank. The government approved the plan on Sunday. 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 Around 87,000 Palestinians hold work permits in Israel, and an additi...
A bipartisan group of more than a dozen lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bill banning members of Congress and senior staff from buying and selling stocks, most bonds and options contracts. Called the Ban Conflicted Trading Act, the measure is intended to prevent lawmakers and high-level staffers from enriching themselves through trades based on potentially market-moving information. Lawmakers and senior staffers are already banned from making investment decisions based on nonpublic data obtained through their positions by the STOCK Act, a law signed by former President Obama. The practice of insider trading is also illegal under several federal securities laws. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more ...
When Israel's worst environmental disaster in recent years threatened the lives of thousands of sea creatures along the shoreline, In a special initiative by the IDF’s Nature Defense Forces and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, thousands of IDF soldiers have mobilized to aid in the cleanup and joined the effort to repair the damage including a group of Special in Uniform volunteers. In February a large oil tanker accidentally ejected oil along Israel's shores tossing tar along the beaches and causing Israeli environmentalists to immediately sound the red alarm.  The oil spill, which was hailed as Israeli's worst environmental disaster in recent years polluted Israel's shoreline and posed an immediate danger to all wildlife in the area. Among the animals...
The Biden administration has still not briefed senators directly on last week’s airstrike at a facility in Syria allegedly used by an Iran-allied militia group, as Democratic lawmakers continue to express anger over the move. Administration officials instead offered a briefing for Senate aides Tuesday, which Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told Politico he attended to get some semblance of justification for the strike from Biden’s team. 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 Connecticut senator, who serves on the Foreign Relations Committee, told the outlet he was n...
More than 100 illegal immigrants who tested positive for the coronavirus — after their arrival in Texas ​​since late January — have been released by the Border Patrol into the Lone Star State ​and are free to travel to other parts of the US, according to reports. 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 Felipe Romero, a spokesman for the border city of Brownsville, told Fox News that they are telling the migrants who tested positive to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines to quarantine and maintain social distance, but that Brownsville doesn&rs...
The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits rose slightly last week even as coronavirus caseloads drop nationwide and many states ease restrictions on business activity. Figures released Thursday by the Labor Department show that 745,000 Americans filed first-time jobless claims in the week ended Feb. 27, slightly lower than the 750,000 forecast by Refinitiv economists. Last week's figure was revised up from 730,000 to 736,000. 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 Weekly jobless claims have remained stubbornly high for mon...
It happened as he drew near the camp and saw the Calf and the dancing, that Moshe’s anger flared up.  He threw down the Tablets from his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain. (Shemot 32:19) The thoughts Moshe must have thought when he came down that great mountainside!  After encountering God face to face, after receiving the Torah and then to encounter… this!  Witnessing the utter depravation of the people… it is unimaginable the ache that must have twisted Moshe’s stomach!  Reacting to what was before him, what choice did he have?  There was only one appropriate response to the shameful degradation of this people… to destroy the gift he had carried down the mountain to them; to shatter the Luchot! According to th...
It’s the latest case of vaccine alarmism. Many Americans are worried that Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine is an inferior product that may not be worth getting. Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota recently told The Washington Post that he was now seeing not only “vaccine hesitancy” but also “the potential for brand hesitancy.” The perception stems from the headline rates of effectiveness of the three vaccines: 72 percent for Johnson & Johnson, compared with 94 percent for Moderna and 95 percent for Pfizer. But those headline rates can be misleading in a few ways. The most important measure — whether the vaccine prevents serious illness — shows the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to be...
One of the big topics in Maryland is getting attention on the federal level as well: Vaccine equity and access. Maryland health officials said the state would be ramping up the number of shots given at the state's mass vaccination sites. But volume alone will not solve the state's problem of COVID-19 vaccine equity and access, community leaders said Wednesday. U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, held a virtual roundtable, in which he said economic help is on the way. He told community leaders and advocates that help is on the way in the stimulus bill that passed the House. He said the bill includes more money for vaccines and vaccine distribution. Van Hollen highlighted a White House promise that more federal vaccines will be flowing directly into ...
New unemployment claims stayed around the same during the final week of February from the week before. There were 12,124 new unemployment claims filed in Maryland for the week of Feb. 20. That's down from 12,283 the week prior. 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 Maryland Department of Labor reports unemployment claims by type: Regular or pandemic related assistance (PUA and PEUC). There were 7,002 regular claims and 5,122 PUA and PEUC claims. The DOL said there was an average of 2,592 new unemployment claims per week in Maryland between Dec. 28, 2019, and March 7, 2020. Read more at ...
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