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June 29, 2022 at 8:32 pm
The Biden administration announced Wednesday that is paying $3.2 billion for 105 million doses of an updated Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for a fall campaign, pending Food and Drug Administration signoff on the new formula.
The order is a major step in the administration’s efforts to move forward with a new vaccination push this fall, in a bid to blunt a renewed COVID-19 surge when the weather turns colder in much of the country.
The updated vaccine is expected to target the omicron variant, with the goal of providing improved protection.
The new doses are expected to begin to be delivered “as soon as late summer 2022 and continue into the fourth quarter of this year,” Pfizer said in a news release.
The Biden administration is usi...
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June 29, 2022 at 8:31 pm
'Biden administration's approach to rescuing Americans in distress in Iran has failed spectacularly'
A US citizen held for nearly seven years in Iran made an appeal from prison Wednesday to President Joe Biden, urging a deal to free Americans regardless of the outcome of nuclear diplomacy.
In an op-ed published in The New York Times, 50-year-old Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi said he was concerned about repercussions he might suffer for speaking out while confined to Tehran's infamous Evin prison.
"But I am compelled to break that silence now because I believe that the Biden administration's approach to rescuing Americans in distress in Iran has failed spectacularly so far and unless the president intervenes immediately, we are likely to...
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June 29, 2022 at 6:00 pm
The Secret Service said on Tuesday that it will have more to say about allegations that former President Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his vehicle and then lunged at the head of his security detail when informed he would not be able to join his supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“The Secret Service has been cooperating fully with the select committee since its inception in spring of 2021 and we will continue to do so by responding formally and on the record to the committee regarding new allegations that surfaced in today’s testimony,” the agency said in a statement.
The revelation about Trump’s behavior came Tuesday from Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows who testified before the House commit...
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June 29, 2022 at 5:24 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who led a broad but fragile coalition government that came unraveled barely a year after taking office, announced Wednesday that he will not run in upcoming elections.
His government announced last week that it would dissolve the Knesset ahead of elections expected this fall, but the voting required for dissolution has been bogged down by disputes with the opposition.
“I strived as prime minister to care for all citizens, regardless of who they voted for,” he said in a brief prime-time address. “We proved this year that people with all different opinions can work together.”
Bennett’s office said he will continue to serve as alternate prime minister in a caretaker government to be led by Yair Lapid, the architect of th...
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June 29, 2022 at 4:41 pm
Co-founder and chairman of the ZAKA volunteer emergency response organization Yehuda Meshi-Zahav was niftar today at the geriatric-psychiatric Herzog Hospital in Yerushalayim. He was 62 years old.
Meshi-Zahav was found unconscious at his home in the Yerushalayim suburb of Givat Ze’ev. He was rushed to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in critical condition, and remained unconscious until his passing today.
Meshi-Zahav was revered by all sectors in Israel. ZAKA is perceived by many as an organization that bridged the gaps between the religious and secular sectors. He was an intended recipient of the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement.
Details of his levayah have yet to be made public.
Yehi zichro boruch.
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June 29, 2022 at 12:42 pm
A Baltimore City police officer is still fighting for his life after being dragged by a car during a traffic stop.
On Wednesday, a heavy police presence in West Baltimore is believed to be related to that incident. A person was just taken into custody following what police described as a “possible barricade situation” on Druid Hill Avenue.
The whole area was blocked off by SWAT teams Wednesday morning. As of noon, detectives were still on the scene.
WJZ has learned from sources that this thing may be connected to a an incident Tuesday night where a sergeant was hit during a traffic stop and dragged about two blocks. The driver of the vehicle hit another car along the way before escaping.
The officer was taken to Shock Trauma to receive treatment for his injuries a...
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June 29, 2022 at 12:29 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - June 29, 2022 - Data presented at the 12th Annual International Cyber Week Conference revealed that 1,500 attacks were halted during the last year by Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) teams.
In his first public speech, Gaby Portnoy, Director General of Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), presented the new INCD project aimed to diminish cyber-attacks at the beginning of the international conference held at Tel Aviv University on June 28-30, 2022. The Cyber-Dome - a new big-data, AI, overall approach to proactive defense. Portnoy presented in the annual Cyber Week event led by the INCD and Tel-Aviv University cyber research center. According to Portnoy, "The Cyber-Dome will elevate national cyber-security by implementing new mechanisms in the national ...
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June 29, 2022 at 12:10 pm
Unilever today announced it has reached a new arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel which will ensure the ice cream stays available to all consumers.
The company has sold its Ben & Jerry’s business interests in Israel to Avi Zinger, the owner of American Quality Products Ltd (AQP), the current Israel-based licensee. The new arrangement means Ben & Jerry’s will be sold under its Hebrew and Arabic names throughout Israel and Judea and Samaria under the full ownership of its current licensee.
Under the terms of Unilever’s acquisition agreement of Ben & Jerry’s in 2000, Ben & Jerry’s and its independent Board were granted rights to take decisions about its social mission, but Unilever reserved primary responsibility for financial and ...
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June 29, 2022 at 12:04 pm
Baltimore, MD – June 27, 2022 - It is with regret that Baltimore Jewish Life (BJL) informs the community of the petira of Shirley Zimberg, a’h, mother of Sarah (Eliezer) Lachman (301.300.1555), Dena (Nechemya) Finkelstein and Lenny Zimberg.Shiva is being observed through Sunday morning, July 3, at 15966 Fairfax Street, Southfield, MI, 48075Minyanim:Shacharis: 7:00 AMincha/Maariv: 7:20PMBila HaMaves LaNetzach
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June 29, 2022 at 11:49 am
Gov. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., said the Biden administration again will prevent South Dakota from celebrating the Fourth of July with fireworks at Mount Rushmore.
After the administration rejected Noem's permit request for fireworks last year, the state in September applied to hold fireworks at the national memorial this year. The request was denied.
"We are not going to be able to host those fireworks this year at Mount Rushmore. I am suing [President] Joe Biden and the White House over not allowing us to move forward with that. The fact is that they're violating federal law by not letting South Dakota celebrate our independence over that great monument," Noem said on "The Chad Prather Show."
"One of the reasons that they are doing that, I think, is specific to punishing...
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June 29, 2022 at 11:43 am
Congressman Lee Zeldin has emerged from the four-way Republican primary for governor as the winner, beating out Andrew Giuliani, the son of Rudy Giuliani, according to a race call from The Associated Press.
Zeldin, of Long Island, had the backing of Republican Party leaders across the state who voted earlier this year to make him their designated candidate — a distinction that gave him an automatic spot on the primary ballot without petitioning.
But incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul is the candidate to beat in this race. New York has more than twice as many registered Democrats than registered Republicans, with independent voters also outpacing the GOP.
Hochul, a Democrat from Buffalo, who had been New York's No. 2 official, rose to power in August after former Gov...
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June 29, 2022 at 11:31 am
Baltimore, MD – June 29, 2022 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Yisroel Moshe and Devora Raczkowski on the birth of a son.
Mazel Tov grandparents Zvi and Tzilah Raczkowski and Stewie and Shari Greenberg of Woodmere, NY.
Mazel Tov to great grandparents, Jerry and Rachel Bernstein, Joan and Nathan Rothman, and Florence and Ozzie Greenberg and to great-great grandmother, Ilse Warburg.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
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June 29, 2022 at 11:18 am
A new COVID wave appears to be starting in New York City, fueled by the strongest subvariant of the omicron strain of coronavirus to date, one of the city's top epidemiologists said Tuesday.
The BA.5 subvariant, first seen in South Africa and then Portugal, is considered by some experts to be the "worst version" of omicron seen yet, given its apparent capacity to escape prior immunity and transmit more readily.
Dr. Jay Varma, a Weill Cornell epidemiologist and formerly then-mayor Bill de Blasio's top public health advisor during the pandemic, said infections appear to have stabilized at a high level in the city, rather than dropping.
"The decline of reported #COVID19 cases in NYC has stopped. Reported cases are at a high plateau, which means actual transmis...
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June 29, 2022 at 11:17 am
The Biden administration is planning to give between 25,000 and 30,000 courses of the Jynneos vaccine—the only one approved by federal regulators—to high-risk states as part of its monkeypox strategy, to be unveiled Tuesday evening, sources told The Washington Post.
“Over the next week or so, the plan is to distribute some portion of the existing Jynneos, but not all of it, because they want to save doses for confirmed close contacts,” an official said. The nation’s Strategic National Stockpile was stocked with more than 36,000 courses of Jynneos as of June 14, the Post reported, but the U.S. will obtain 150,000 more for distribution in late July. James Krellenstein, co-founder of PrEP4ALL, has been critical of the slow response as the vir...
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June 29, 2022 at 11:11 am
Young Muppet Elmo proudly got his coronavirus vaccine, weeks after the United States made the shots widely available for children under 5.
The furry red Sesame Street resident, who has been 3½ years old since 1984, acknowledged in his signature falsetto voice that there was “a little pinch, but it was okay.” His Muppet father, Louie, told Elmo, who was wearing a green bandage on his arm, that he was “super-duper” while getting his shot.
“I had a lot of questions about Elmo getting the covid vaccine. Was it safe? Was it the right decision? I talked to our pediatrician so I could make the right choice,” Louie says to the camera in a clip shared online Tuesday. “I learned that Elmo getting vaccinated is the best way to keep hims...
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June 29, 2022 at 11:10 am
Former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann is claiming that a handwritten note regarding a potential statement for then-President Donald Trump to release during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was written by him during a meeting at the White House that afternoon, and not by White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
At Tuesday's Jan. 6 committee hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney displayed a handwritten note which Hutchinson testified she wrote after Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows handed her a note card and pen to take his dictation.
Sources familiar with the matter said that Herschmann had previously told the committee that he had penned the note.
"The handwritten note that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was ...
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June 29, 2022 at 11:10 am
Baltimore, MD – June 2022 - 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...
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June 29, 2022 at 11:10 am
A series of recent incidents inside Iran attributed to Israeli agents has significantly undermined the Iranian security establishment’s confidence in its own intelligence operations, and led to the recent shakeup in leadership, an Iranian cleric and former vice president said.
According to a report by The New York Times Wednesday, the replacement of Hossein Taib, head of the intelligence unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), last week was a direct result of Israeli security operations in Iran, along with the failure of Iranian plots abroad.
The report cited former Iranian Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who spoke with the Times by phone.
“The security breaches inside Iran and the vast scope of operations by Israel have really undermine...
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June 29, 2022 at 11:06 am
Two couples, both new parents, enjoyed a rare evening out. They naturally spoke about parenthood, with its many joys and challenges. When one of the mothers asked the other how their baby was sleeping, the other replied, “through the night without a peep.” The husband of the first mother looked at her incredulously and said, “You’re not parents, you’re babysitters!”
His meaning was amusing but clear. To be a “real” parent was to endure the difficulties of parenthood which, in his estimation, included impossible nights.
So too any role of leadership and responsibility. If leading was easy, anyone could do it. Leadership always entails confronting challenges and conflicts. Moshe certainly knew this on...
