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June 19, 2021 at 9:57 pm
Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Reinman is, first and foremost, a noted author of acclaimed sefarim and a talmid chochom who has spent his years in the beis medrash. He is also the bestselling author of a classic series of books - including The Promised Child and The Marrano Prince - written under the pseudonym Avner Gold. A talmid of Rav Yitzchok Hutner who later learned in Lakewood, Rabbi Reinman is a brilliant linguist with many fascinating stories and insights to share, which he does so eloquently in this episode of Inside ArtScroll. A delight to listen to, you’ll be entertained and impressed as you hear about Rabbi Reinman’s life and accomplishments. [Purchase Rabbi Reinman’s Avner Gold books HERE and his other books HERE.]
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June 19, 2021 at 9:56 pm
President Rivlin will visit the United States of America at the invitation of President Biden; the presidents will meet on Monday 28 June / 18 TammuzDuring his visit, the president will hold meetings at the United Nations, meet representatives of the American Jewish community and hold other farewell meetings in Washington DCPresident of Israel Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin will make a farewell visit to the United States of America at the invitation of President Joe Biden.On Monday 28 June / 18 Tammuz the president will meet with US President Biden. Timing of the meeting to follow. The president will return to Israel on Wednesday 30 June / 20 Tammuz.
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June 19, 2021 at 9:55 pm
Young homeless people in the Big Apple will soon be getting $1,250 in no-strings-attached cash each month — in a $2.5 million city-backed experiment to see if they use it to get off the streets and try to get jobs.
The “Trust Youth Initiative” — partially funded by the city — will start with up to 40 homeless people ages 18 to 24, “especially Black, Indigenous, Latinx and LGBTQ youth,” the organizers said in a release.
They will get the monthly cash for up to two years, with no limits on how they spend it — and larger up-front payments available to get into housing.
A “rigorous evaluation” will then “compare the outcomes and experiences” of the target group with others getting smaller stipends and regular homel...
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June 19, 2021 at 9:54 pm
Netanyahu family to remain in Prime Minister's Residence until July 10. Until then, no official meetings will take place there.
The offices of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu have reached an agreement on when the Netanyahu family will vacate the Prime Minister's Residence on Balfour St.
It was agreed that the Netanyahu family will end their stay at the residence on July 10. Until then, no official meetings will be held at the residence.
The next day, the residence will be used by Prime Minister Bennett.
On Friday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett conveyed a message to opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu that he must vacate the official Prime Minister's Residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem within two weeks.
Earlier it was report...
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June 19, 2021 at 9:50 pm
Rabbi Meir Schuster ztz"l was always a mystery to me. Not long after my wife and I arrived at Ohr Somayach in the summer of 1979, Rabbi Schuster ztz"l began asking us to host guests on Leil Shabbos. On Thursday night, the phone would ring, but when either I or my wife picked it up, there would be silence on the other end. Eventually, I learned to respond, "Is that you, Rabbi Schuster?" as a prelude to the inevitable question, "How many can you take for Shabbos night?"
But what I could never figure out is his how someone so shy that he could not initiate a phone conversation with someone he knew could force himself to approach dozens of complete strangers every single day. Yet I knew that he did. My friends and I in the Ohr Somayach beis medrash nicknamed him the Pied Piper. Every day, and...
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June 18, 2021 at 5:58 pm
Today, the OU welcomed introduction in the U.S. Senate of the bipartisan “Pray Safe Act of 2021,” legislation that will establish a clearinghouse on safety and security to govern best practices for faith-based organizations. U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) introduced the legislation Thursday. The clearinghouse at the Department of Homeland Security would operate in conjunction with the Department of Justice, the White House and other governmental agencies and departments to educate and publish online best practices and recommendations for the safety and security for faith-based including day schools, synagogues, churches and other houses of worship.
The clearinghouse would, among other things, provide information on targeted violence and terroris...
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June 18, 2021 at 5:58 pm
Tomorrow, 9 Tammuz, is the 6th yahrtzeit of my sister-in-law, Batsheva Yeres. The shtikle is dedicated le’iluy nishmasah, Batsheva Blima, a”h bas HaRav Moshe Yosef HaLevi, ybl”t.
The Weekly Shtikle is dedicated le'iluy nishmas my Oma, Chaya Sara bas Zecharia Chaim, a"h.
This week's shtikle is dedicated for a refuah sheleimah for my father.
Please include Reuven Pinchas ben Yehudis in your tefillos.
This week's parsha contains the unfortunate events of mei merivah. The tragic outcome of that incident was that neither Moshe nor Aharon were allowed to enter Eretz Yisroel. Moshe's role is clear although the actual understanding of exactly what the wrongdoi...
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June 18, 2021 at 2:47 pm
Baltimore, MD - June 18, 2021 - 2:43PM - An electric line snapped and is down at the corner of Smith avenue and Labyrinth Road knocking out power too many in the area. Traffic is backed up on Smith to 7 Mile Lane.
Steer clear of the area.
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June 18, 2021 at 1:58 pm
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), who stirred controversy as former President Trump’s White House physician, said Thursday he is circulating a letter among House GOP colleagues that calls on President Biden to take a cognitive test to prove he is mentally fit to be commander in chief.
Jackson began collecting signatures for his letter this week during GOP meetings and House votes. It will be sent to Biden and his team in the next day or two, he said.
“Just everything that has been going on for the last year and a half … [Biden] doesn’t know what’s going on, where he’s at. He’s very confused all the time,” Jackson said in a brief interview with The Hill.
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June 18, 2021 at 1:40 pm
Baltimore City businesses will have a few extra months to comply with the city's upcoming plastic bag ban. Due to the economic impacts of the pandemic, Mayor Brandon Scott pushed the ban's start date to Oct. 1 of this year.
The ban was scheduled to lift in July.
Once the ordinance takes effect, businesses will not be able to distribute plastic bags at check out. Any other bags distributed will require a 5 cent surcharge.
Over the next few months, Baltimore's Office of Sustainability will distribute reusable bags to residents who need them.Businesses in Westminster will need to phase out plastic bags on July 1.
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June 18, 2021 at 11:52 am
Perhaps Israel's most difficult manifestation of Deceit Democracy came in 1992 when voters' predilections for a right-wing government were subverted by the quirks of that year's election rules and the foolish hubris of too many right-wing political figures.
The Israeli Left has had an obsessive compulsion to cry out constantly about the sanctity of Israeli Democracy. Ironically, no institution has done more to shame, tarnish, and cheapen Israeli democracy than Israel's Left, including the latest deceit that has unfolded with formalizing the Naftali Bennett government. His Yamina party that literally campaigned as "right-wing oriented" (the word's very definition) now has coalesced with an amalgam of left parties: (i) Yair Lapid's moderately left Yesh Atid, ...
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June 18, 2021 at 11:40 am
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will force a vote Tuesday on a sweeping bill to overhaul federal elections.
Schumer informed his caucus of the schedule during a closed-door meeting on Thursday, a Senate Democratic source familiar with the meeting told The Hill.
The bill, known as the For the People Act, is expected to fall short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP filibuster and advance past a first procedural hurdle.
But Democrats are scrambling to try to figure out a way to unify their 50-member caucus, which would at least allow them to keep the spotlight on Republican opposition instead of their own internal divisions.
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June 18, 2021 at 11:33 am
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June 18, 2021 at 11:12 am
As Bnei Yisroel continue through the midbar on their way to Eretz Yisroel, we are shown in vivid clarity, the face of evil. Moshe requests permission from Edom to pass thru their land (Chukas, 20:14) He pleads, recalling how they had just come out from the suffering of Mitzrayim, but the king of Edom refuses them passage. (20:18) Moshe then promises to be paying customers for any water or vines they would consume along the way. The King reiterates his contempt by responding to this pledge with a threat to wage war if Bnei Yisroel dare tread on his land. Such hatred that they would not even sell us food and water nor let us traverse the boundary highway. Not only do we not want you in our land, we don’t want your commerce, we don’t want your t...
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June 18, 2021 at 11:12 am
People who have had severe COVID-19 and worry about going through another bout of it can relax: New research finds that less than 1% of people who’ve had a severe coronavirus infection get re-infected.
For the study, University of Missouri researchers analyzed data from more than 9,100 COVID-19 patients at 62 health facilities in the United States.
Only 0.7% of patients with severe COVID-19 infection contracted the virus a second time, with a mean re-infection period of 116 days. Of those who were re-infected, 3.2% died.
Non-white patients had a higher risk of re-infection than white patients, according to the study published recently in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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June 18, 2021 at 11:09 am
This weeks Parsha relates one of the most difficult stories which took place in the Midbar. With Bnei Yisroel complaining about the lack of water after the death of Miriam, Hashem instructs Moshe to “speak” to the rock and it would yield water. (Chukas 20:8) Instead, Moshe Rabbeinu “strikes” the rock. The rock does in fact yield water but Hashem tells Moshe that on account of his not “believing in him”, he would not be Zoche to lead Bnei Yisroel into Eretz Yisroel. (20:12) This leaves us to deal with the age old question – How could Moshe Rabbeinu hit the rock. Why on this singular occasion did he deviate from Hashem’s instruction?
In order to properly answer this question, it is helpful to understand som...
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June 18, 2021 at 11:06 am
There’s a bipartisan push on Capitol Hill and beyond for a full-blown investigation of the coronavirus outbreak by a national commission like the one that looked into 9/11.
The proposal comes amid lingering questions over the government’s response to the crisis and the origin of the virus that has killed more than 600,000 Americans.
A bill introduced by Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine would establish such a commission.
“The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic is more than 200 times that of the 9/11 attacks — but Congress has yet to establish a similar blue ribbon commission to investigate the vulnerabilities of our public health system and issue guidance for how we as a nation can better protect the American...
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June 18, 2021 at 11:04 am
Before the COVID-19 pandemic was the drug epidemic. Its relentless toll added a record 90,722 overdose deaths in the U.S. for the year through November 2020, a grim number obscured by coronavirus casualties that recently topped 600,000, according to federal data released Wednesday.
As the virus transfixed the nation, the drug crisis spread to largely untouched parts of the country — exacerbated by the recession and millions of job losses. Not only stores and restaurants shuttered: Counseling services moved online, inpatient clinics closed and mobile clinics pulled back. Without support, many Americans relapsed and some turned to drugs for the first time.
Before the pandemic, U.S. unemployment hit a half-century low of 3.5%; today, the country is still missing almost 8 million peopl...
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June 18, 2021 at 10:58 am
This week, I received a letter in the mail from the United States. I recognized the logo on the envelope, 'YDT', the yeshiva in which my children learned when we were in the U.S. I opened the letter with curiosity and I found a check for a small sum of money. On the side of the check was written: 'Return of money related to COVID-19, for lunches you purchased but did not receive.'These plain words really inspired me. We fled New York when COVID broke out during the horrible times in the beginning when 1,000 people were dying each day. We figured we would return soon, but never did. Lectures I was supposed to give in Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and Cleveland were canceled. Instead, I found myself back in Israel making omelets for the kids while...
