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June 18, 2021 at 10:18 am
I was born in the mid 90’s, and as far as my memory takes me, I associate the 7-Mile Market grocery store here in Baltimore with their blue bags. I would venture to say that probably the biggest חוק since the Parah Adumah was the recent change that 7-Mile Market made to switch these iconic blue grocery bags to white grocery bags.
Last week, when the change was completed, the city of Baltimore went into a state of shock and utter disbelief. But what…? How could they…? Those blue bags were…! What’s going to be…?
Let’s face it, change is hard. It doesn’t really matter what it is. Whether it is moving from America to Israel, switching jobs, dumping one chavrusa for another, getting married, having a child, or even going from ...
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June 18, 2021 at 10:15 am
Baltimore, MD – June 15, 2021 - It is with regret that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petira of Mrs. Lydia R. Berman, a’h, wife of Ted Berman, z'l, mother of Ronnie (Estelle) Berman, (410.935.7319), Larry Berman (Angela Dotson), Sheldon, Z’L, (Ann) Berman, and sister of Yale (Pat) Kellman.
Shivah will be observed at 6635 Chippewa Dr., Baltimore, MD, 21209No visitors 12-2, 5:30-7:30 and after 9:30
Mincah Erev Shabbos: 3:00 PMMaariv Motzaei Shabbos: 9:30 PMShacharis: 8:00 AMMincha/Maariv: 8:15 PM
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach…
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June 18, 2021 at 10:12 am
Arab rioters clashed with Israeli police on the Temple Mount Friday, nearly a month after a wave of rioting in the capital and across other mixed cities.
Rioters hurled rocks at police following a demonstration on the Temple Mount, which organizers said was held in protest of slogans chanted against Islam’s Prophet Muhammed by some participants at the Flag March in the Old City of Jerusalem earlier this week.
Following the demonstration, which was held at the end of Friday prayers and featured Palestine Liberation Organization flags, a number of demonstrators began hurling stones at Israeli police officers.
Security officers responded by firing rubber bullets at the rioters.
Thus far, three rioters have been injured and evacuated for treatment.
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June 18, 2021 at 10:04 am
A report Thursday claimed that, just before former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu left the office on Sunday, his staff shredded documents that were being stored in safes.
A spokesperson for Netanyahu called the report “total lies. No such thing ever happened.”
If true, the allegations detailed by the Haaretz daily would represent an ignominious and likely illegal final act by the Likud leader, as his efforts to hold on to power reached their conclusion, after 12 years in office.
The paper quoted unnamed staffers who worked in Netanyahu’s bureau who said that they had been told to shred documents on Sunday morning, hours before a coalition of parties working to oust Netanyahu from office took power. They said that the order had come from Netanyahu himself.
The Prime...
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June 18, 2021 at 10:03 am
Just days out from the Democratic mayoral primary, Eric Adams still leads the field, according to a New York Post poll of 1,000 likely Democratic voters.
The survey, which was conducted in conjunction with pollster McLaughlin & Associates from June 10-15, found that 21.3 percent of respondents ranked the former NYPD captain and current Brooklyn borough president as their first choice.
Another 16.5 percent selected the progressive Maya Wiley, a former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio, as their top choice, narrowly edging out the 16.2 percent who ranked former Sanitation and NYCHA head Kathryn Garcia first.
Pollster John McLaughlin cautioned that while Adams may be in the driver’s seat, Wiley and Garcia loom large in his rearview mirror down the stretch to what could be a photo f...
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June 18, 2021 at 9:59 am
Jordan has decided not to participate in a high-profile joint project with Israel and the Palestinian Authority to dig a canal connecting the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, public broadcaster Kan reported Thursday.
According to anonymous sources, Amman decided to end the joint pipeline project, assessing that there was “no real desire on the part of the Israelis” for the plan, which had stagnated for several years, and not progressed forward.
According to Kan, Jordan would now focus on an internal project of pumping water from the Red Sea and desalinating it at a plant in the Gulf of Aqaba.
However, even if donors are found to fund this internal water supply project, its construction could take five or six years, and the kingdom will have to continue to purcha...
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June 18, 2021 at 9:59 am
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that Republicans will oppose a compromise election reform proposal put forward by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).
“I would make this observation about the revised version … all Republicans I think will oppose that as well if that were to be what surfaced on the floor,” McConnell told reporters, referring to Manchin’s proposal.
McConnell’s comments, which came during a press conference with GOP senators railing against the For the People Act, are the latest signal that the election bill will fail during a procedural vote next week due to a GOP filibuster.
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June 18, 2021 at 9:22 am
Baltimore, MD - June 18, 2021 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Aaron Burstyn and Aviva Braier on their engagement.
Mazel Tov to Harry & Linda Burstyn
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן
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June 18, 2021 at 8:49 am
Baltimore, MD - June 18, 2021 - This Shabbos, Parshas Chukas, Ner Tamid - Greenspring Valley Synagogue (6214 Pimlico Rd, Baltimore, MD 21209) is pleased to welcome world renowned Chazzan Yaakov Motzen who will be davening Musaf.
Pesukei d’zimra begins at 8:45 AM. Mussaf at approximately 10 AM
About Cantor Yaakov Motzen
Cantor Yaakov Motzen is a native of Tel Aviv and the fifth generation of a family of Cantors. He attended the Kol Torah, Be'er Yaakov and Ponovezh yeshivot in Israel and studied music and vocal technique with the late Yosef Goland, the principal baritone in the Berlin opera in the late 1920's. He also studied liturgy with the renowned Cantor Yitzchak Eshel, obm. Additionally, he served in the Israel Defense Forces.
Yaakov served as vice president of...
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June 17, 2021 at 11:33 pm
Ask any bedouins, desert travelers, or third-world countries how much they would bewilling to pay for a rock that would provide unlimited water - and they will tell you thatsuch an item would revolutionize the world and would be literally priceless. It is for thisreason that, historically, cities were usually only built near sources of water or else thecity would not survive. Yet, the Jewish nation traveled throughout the desert for over 40years without any hydration problem whatsoever. How? They had the Ba'er Mayim, anincredible miraculous rock from which sprout enough water for the entire nation ofmillions of people. In fact, the Midrash states that there was so much water thatemanated from the rock, that it created entire rivers.
In this week's parshah, the Torah reveals to u...
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June 17, 2021 at 10:19 pm
A memorial service was held on Wednesday at the gravesite of Lt. Col. Yonatan (“Yoni”) Netanyahu, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother, who lost his life 45 years ago during “Operation Entebbe,” a successful counterterrorism hostage-rescue mission carried out by Israeli commandos at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on July 4, 1976.
The service, held on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, was attended by family and friends, including Netanyahu, now the opposition leader, and his wife, Sara, as well as President-elect Isaac Herzog and many Likud members.
Herzog, the main speaker at the event, described the late officer as the symbol of bravery in Israeli ethos.
“In the 45 years since Entebbe, Yoni has become engraved in our hearts and minds a...
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June 17, 2021 at 10:15 pm
Ebrahim Raisi, the favorite in Iran’s presidential election, used his position at the heart of the judiciary for grave rights violations, including mass executions of political prisoners, activists say.
The ultraconservative Raisi had his path to the president’s office smoothed by the disqualification of many other candidates – including relatively conservative figures – by Iran’s religious overseers.
At 60, the mid-ranking cleric is still fairly young for a figure who has held a succession of key prosecutorial positions, starting almost immediately after the fall of the shah in the Islamic revolution of 1979.
As deputy Tehran prosecutor, campaigners allege, Raisi played a key part in the executions of thousands of opposition prisoners when, activ...
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June 17, 2021 at 10:10 pm
As early voting in the mayoral race is well in progress, New Yorkers had the last chance to hear from the candidates directly at the final debate in the race for the Democratic nomination. The debate focused on the grave issues facing New York City: crime, homelessness, economic progress, and the lack of affordable housing.
The stakes were high for all the candidates, as it came just six days before the Democratic primary, which is all but certain to determine the next mayor of New York. And with the polls indicating a very close race. Especially between front runners Andrew Yang and Eric Adams who sharpened their differences on many topics, but mostly around public safety and crime.
The debate served as an opportunity for the candidates to highlight their policies and plans for the futu...
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June 17, 2021 at 9:59 pm
A total of 100 Minnesota National Guard members is on standby ahead of a possible resurgence of unrest in Minneapolis following new information in an officer-involved shooting and the recent arrest of a man who allegedly drove his SUV into a crowd of protesters.
Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday “gave the Minnesota National Guard a warning order to start preparing to assist local law enforcement should they need help,” per the request of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey after demonstrators this week erected barricades and clashed with police in a city intersection. The recent actions, which in some cases have turned violent, follow the shooting death of Winston Boogie Smith Jr., who was killed by U.S. marshals when they tried to arrest him on a felony warrant.
After sever...
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June 17, 2021 at 9:56 pm
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s dream run up the global wealth rankings is faltering after a media report raising questions about some offshore investors triggered a rout in his conglomerate’s six listed stocks.
The 58-year-old tycoon lost more money this week than anyone else in the world, with his personal fortune tumbling by about $9 billion to $67.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index based on Wednesday closing prices. Just days ago, he was closing the gap with Mukesh Ambani as Asia’s richest man. Adani Group stocks continued to fall on Thursday.
The U-turn in shares started Monday after the Economic Times reported that India’s national share depository froze the accounts of three Mauritius-based funds because of insufficient information o...
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June 17, 2021 at 9:53 pm
As an intense and record-breaking heat wave continues to roast the American West, the highest temperature occurred on Wednesday at the lowest point in North America: Death Valley.
By Wednesday evening, high temperatures in Death Valley, California, pushed to 125 degrees, according to the National Weather Service, with an AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperature of 130. Death Valley is the record-holder for the highest air temperature ever recorded on Earth, a sizzling 134 degrees Fahrenheit in 1913. The high temperature of 125 degrees came just within 9 degrees of that world record.
Death Valley is certainly living up to its name as AccuWeather forecasters are cautioning that “most outdoor activity is potentially life-threatening” in such extreme he...
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June 17, 2021 at 9:51 pm
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the U.S. is on track for a strong rebound from the coronavirus pandemic even as the economy hits inflationary speed bumps on the path to full recovery.
Powell spoke to reporters after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) — the Fed’s monetary policymaking arm — announced that it would hold its baseline interest rate range steady at 0 to 0.25 percent and continue to purchase $120 billion in Treasury and mortgage bonds each month.
During the press conference, Powell brushed off fears that the recent inflation surge would force the Fed to slam on the brakes with an interest rate hike sooner than expected. The Fed chief said that while price increases could continue to heat up, the unrepaired damage to the U.S. e...
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June 17, 2021 at 9:45 pm
Perhaps the most pivotal moment in the entire story of our forty-year journey through the wilderness is depicted in this week’s reading.
At the thirty-eight year ‘yard line’, Miriam dies, and the well suddenly stops yielding its waters. They protest and complain, demanding water.
Moshe is upset with the nation and in frustration hits the rock rather than speak to it.
G-d takes Moshe and Aharon to task, decreeing that they will not be destined to lead the people into the land, remaining shunned from their long-awaited entry to the promised land.
From this juncture and on, the entire nature of their relationship with their challenges is no longer one where open miracles lead their way.
They try to negotiate permission with the king of Edo...
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June 17, 2021 at 9:41 pm
Baltimore, MD – June 17, 2021 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Mr. and Mrs. Yitzchok Aaron Bortz on the birth of a son.
Mazel Tov grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Dovid Bortz
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
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June 17, 2021 at 3:09 pm
United Torah Judaism lawmakers were enraged to learn Wednesday that the new government plans to set up a special committee to review the longstanding regions-secular status quo in Israel.
The panel, set to be formed under the Religious Services Ministry, is expected to look into controversial matters such as conversion, kashrut, commerce on the weekends, and public transportation on Shabbat.
"It turns out that the prime minister doesn't only break his campaign promises, but also breaks his word in office," said UTJ MK Uri Maklev, referring to a past statement by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who said the government is unlikely to visit the issue of the status quo.
United Torah Judaism leader Moshe Gafni: "There will be a war for every T crossed and I dotted and, G...
