When the 17-year cicadas emerge in MD this month, scientists will be buzzing. Gov. Hogan has declared May and June "Magicicada Months."
The approaching emergence of billions of 17-year cicadas in Maryland and nearby states will provide fodder for scientists to study, allow residents to help researchers spot the swarms, and may liven up dining since there are even recipes featuring the insects.
Gov. Larry Hogan on Friday issued a proclamation declaring May and June 2021 as Maryland Magicicada Months to generate public awareness about the insects.
Brood X periodical cicadas are only found in the eastern United States and emerge once every 17 years. In Maryland, they will begin to emerge in early May and will die off by the end of June.
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Baltimore, MD - May 3, 2021 - Effective Monday, May 3, 2021, all beer in Maryland can be assumed to be from after Pesach and is permitted to be purchased anywhere.
ל"ג בעומר בחצר הקודש קראלי
Lag BaOmer in Krula
צילום: שאט די דאט
אייר תשפ"א
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May 3, 2021 at 12:53 pm
Major jewish organizations partner in effort
NEW YORK – The Orthodox Union (OU), the nation’s oldest and largest umbrella organization for the North American Orthodox Jewish community, will bring together Jewish organizations, synagogues and communities in May to raise awareness and educate the community on the impact of mental and emotional health. May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States.
The OU, along with its partners in this initiative – Yeshiva University, the Rabbinical Council of America, Shalom Task Force, National Council of Young Israel, RELIEF, the Digital Citizenship Project, Chai Lifeline, Our Path, a project of Amudim, and other partners to be announced – will offer many crucial resources which can be used by communities and individ...
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May 3, 2021 at 12:49 pm
ZAKA volunteer Haim Spielberg, who took care of the scene: "This is one of the most difficult disasters I have dealt with during my volunteering for the ZAKA organization. I received a call from ZAKA about a mass casualty incident. When I arrived, I saw dozens of people lying on the floor, having been pushed into a narrow passage. Everywhere, there were cries for help. Medics and paramedics were administering CPR on some of them. There was the smell of death and bereavement in the air as more and more stretchers with lifeless people were carried from the scene."
He added: "While we were working at the scene, it was so distressing to hear the constant ringing of the cellphones of the deceased. Tears flowed from my eyes when I saw the words Dad or Mum on the phone screen. The resc...
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May 3, 2021 at 12:28 pm
“Dr. Grove, I got COVID,” was the first thing she said to me when I returned her call. She has severe asthma and she was a bit worried. Fortunately, she did not have severe a case so the first thing she said did not worry me. It was the second thing she said that worried me. “I got my vaccine, too”. My next thought was that she must have contracted her infection between the first and second vaccine doses and, as if she read my mind and before I could ask, she concluded, “And I got my second dose in February.” Ugh. This means she got COVID even though she was fully vaccinated. That wasn’t the only call like this I got last week.
The second call was from someone who wasn’t feeling well. She called me to ask what she should do since she was exp...
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May 3, 2021 at 12:27 pm
As documented extensively by Chaim V’Chessed, student visa holders currently in Israel who wish to travel, and then return to Israel, must obtain permission to return to Israel before departing the country. Until today, this process has been arduous. This morning, Chaim V’Chessed received word of applicants camping- out in front of the Misrad HaPnim as early as 5:30 AM.
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Now, an online process has been established to alleviate this difficulty. At this link, persons with valid students visas can apply for a permit to return t...
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May 3, 2021 at 11:25 am
Baltimore, MD - May 3, 2021 - Tragedy struck in Baltimore on the 3700 block of Fords Lane when an Orthodox Jewish man was shot and killed walking into his relatives’ home. Authorities told BJL that Ephraim Gordon ZT''L, 31 years old, had traveled from Israel to Baltimore for only a short time, to attend a family chasunah held on Lag Baomer.
At approximately 12 AM Monday morning, May 3rd, police received reports of a man shot but by the time police arrived on the scene the murderer had fled. Three juveniles had been reported walking up Fords Lane when Gordon's car approached the driveway. Using this as a crime of opportunity, he was shot and the perpetrators fled.Efraim worked in the IT industry, and was an entrepreneur. He was known as a positi...
Baltimore, MD - May 3, 2021 - Last night there was a murder on Fords Lane. A 31 year old Orthodox Jewish man who was visiting his family was killed while walking into their house around 1:30 AM. May his Neshama have an Aliyah and his family be comforted. We are constantly on a unified front working to fight for the safety of the community. It has been, and continues to be, both our top priorities from day one in office. The community has now suffered the ultimate loss from the horrific violence plaguing this City. Our efforts to ensure the safety of our constituents will not only continue, but will increase. The murderer must be apprehended and prosecuted. Justice must be served. And we must never wake up to anything like this again. המקום ינחם �...
ל"ג בעומר בחצר הקודש בעלזא
עריכת השוה"ט לכבוד ל"ג בעומר בשילוב שמחת הבר מצווה לנכד כ"ק מרן אדמו"ר מבעלזא שליט"א
הבחור אלעזר יחזקאל שרגא ני"ו בן הרה"צ רבי אהרן מרדכי רוקח שליט"א חתן כ"ק גאב"ד מאקאווא שליט"א
Lag BaOmer in Belz
צילום: אנשיל בעק
אייר תשפ"א
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yamina party chief Naftali Bennett met in secret last week, according to a report released by Kan Sunday evening.
Negotiating teams from the Likud and Yamina parties also met secretly last week, the report said.
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According to the report, after the meetings, the clandestine talks between the two sides continued via telephone over the weekend, with the goal of preventing Yesh Atid chief Yair Lapid from receiving a mandate to form a coalition government should Netanyahu fail to build a coalition by the deadl...
ל"ג בעומר בחצר הקודש באיאן
Lag Buomer in Boyan
צילום: שוקי לרר, משה גאלדשטיין
אייר תשפ"א
"What is happening at the moment [at the site] does not respect the place or human life," he said.
In the midst of preparing for a national day of mourning for the victims of the Mount Meron tragedy, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau told Army radio that the management of the site must be determined.Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more
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“The site needs to be handled differently. What is happening at the moment does not respect the place or human life. The state is obligated to take responsibility for it,” Lau said.
Frustration over who takes responsibility was alre...
The new data is a dramatic turnaround from just February when more than 3,000 soldiers were infected
The IDF said on Sunday that for the first time since the start of the pandemic no soldier has tested positive for the coronavirus over the last 24 hours.
The IDF reported its first case of the coronavirus on March 2, 2020, when a soldier who worked part-time in a toy store tested positive for the disease.
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The number of conscripts, career officers and civilian army employees who have been infected has continued to vary over the past fourteen months with...
Rabbi Batzri lost 3 close relatives. "G-d picked the most beautiful flowers from His garden, but it is so, so hard."
Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri lost three relatives in the Meron tragedy last week, including his wife’s cousin, Rabbi Yisrael Alnekaveh, aged twenty-four, and two young nephews, Yosef David Elhadad, eighteen years old, and his younger brother Moshe Mordechai, twelve years old.
On Sunday, Rabbi Batzri was interviewed on Radio 103FM, and in a voice choked with tears he related his personal experience of the unprecedented disaster.
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The hackers threatened to release 110 gigabytes of data belonging to H&M Israel unless its demands are met
Iranian hackers reportedly broke into the computer system of clothing retailer H&M Israel and are threatening to release customer data, Israeli media reported on Sunday.
An Iranian hacker group identified as "N3tw0rm" has warned that it could release 110 gigabytes of data belonging to H&M Israel unless its demands, which have not been publicly specified, are met.
Several other Israeli companies have recently been targeted in similar cyber attacks.
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Announcement an example of increasing financial ties post-Abraham Accords
Israelis for the first time can trade on Dubai's Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX).
The exchange said in a statement on Sunday that it has received a permit from the Israel Securities Authority allowing for Israeli corporations to become members of the DGCX and use its services and platforms and also act as market makers.
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The announcement is another example of the business and economic ties rapidly being established since the signing of the Abraham Accords in Sept...
Embassy tweets cartoon featuring Grim Reaper clad in US flag with a Star of David on the scythe
China's embassy in Japan drew public outcry recently after posting an anti-Semitic image on its official Twitter handle.
Last Thursday, the embassy tweeted a picture displaying the United States as the Grim Reaper, adorned in a Stars and Stripes gown, leaving a trail of blood behind as it walks from one door to another.
On these doors are names of Middle Eastern countries, and the reaper's scythe is painted in the colors of the Israeli flag and has a Star of David on it.
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JERUSALEM (JNS) – They came from all over Israel and the world to celebrate Lag B’Omer, in the first open religious event in the country since the start of the pandemic. Forty-five would end up crushed to death, while more than 150 were injured.
Some of the people killed in the stampede at Lag B’Omer celebrations on Mount Meron were laid to rest on Saturday night, with the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine having identified the 45 bodies by Sunday.
The following is a list of those whose names were released by Sunday morning:
Menachem Zakbach (24) from Modiin Illit
Menachem Zakbach. Credit: Courtesy.
David Kraus (33) from Beit Shemesh
David Kraus. Credit: Courtesy.
Yosef Amram Tauber, an American citizen
Yosef Amram Tauber. Credit: ...
