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November 27, 2022 at 7:00 pm
Since the Gemara notes that a source in this week’s parsha teaches that Yaakov introduced the Maariv prayers…
May I Eat before I Daven?
Question #1: Reuven calls me: I have not been well, and I need to eat something shortly after awaking. On weekdays, I go to shul to daven when I wake up and I can wait to eat until after davening, but I do not have this option on Shabbos. What should I do?
Question #2: Ahuva asks: It is difficult for me to wait for Kiddush until my husband returns from shul. May I eat something before he arrives home?
Question #3: Someone told me that a woman may not eat in the morning before she davens, but I remember being taught in Beis Yaakov that we may eat once we say the morning berachos. Is my memory faulty?
Answer:
The Gemara (Berac...
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November 27, 2022 at 5:02 pm
Fire officials are on scene for a crash that left two people dead on Sunday afternoon.
The crash occurred on West Northern Parkway and Greenhaven Drive.
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November 27, 2022 at 2:19 pm
A 62-year old man who was seriously injured in the Wednesday, November 23rd bombings in Jerusalem reported to his doctors and guests at Shaare Zedek Medical Center that his life had been saved in part due to the Tehillim (Psalms) book which was in his pocket when the explosion occurred.
On Wednesday morning, the man was travelling from his Jerusalem home to Meron in northern Israel, when he was struck by the force of the explosion.
While he was injured by the blast and several fragments of shrapnel from the bomb, he later discovered that one potentially lethal fragment had penetrated the rear cover of the book of Tehilim he was carrying.
The fragment made its way all the way through the pages of the book before coming to a full stop at verse 7 of Chapter 124. The verse reads Nafshe...
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November 27, 2022 at 2:01 pm
Ya'akov barely escapes his homicidal brother, fleeing from his family, penniless and alone. Traveling at night to a faraway sanctuary, he is uncertain about his future and uncomfortable about his past. Though his mother supported him and promoted his interests, his father always favored his violent older brother. Even though Ya'akov secured his father’s blessings, he never received his father’s explicit endorsement. As Yaakov departed for the unknown, he was still unsure whether his father endorsed his behavior. Carrying all that pain, uncertainty, and feelings of abandonment, Ya’akov flees to a safe refuge, hiding from his angry and vengeful brother. His nighttime journey is probably the loneliest scene in the entire book of Bereishit.
Lost and bewildere...
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November 27, 2022 at 1:54 pm
The Noam party signed a coalition agreement with the Likud Sunday night, giving Opposition Leader and Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu his second coalition deal.
As part of the agreement, the one-member Knesset faction, represented by party chief MK Avi Maoz, will receive control over a new authority which will be established in the next government.
Maoz will be appointed deputy minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, with control over a Jewish-National Identity Authority which will be created within the Prime Minister’s Office.
Furthermore, Maoz will be given control over the Nativ bureau, which is charged with managing relations between the State of Israel and Jews living in Eastern Europe.
On Friday, Otzma Yehudit signed a coalition agreement with the Likud, ...
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November 27, 2022 at 11:11 am
Iran has blamed foreign countries, including Israel, for a cyber attack on its semi-official Fars News Agency, which is affiliated with the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, AFP reported on Saturday.
Fars said in a statement posted to Telegram that its website was disrupted on Friday by a “complex hacking and cyberattack operation, and that “removing possible bugs… may cause problems for some agency services for a few days,” according to the report.
Cyber attacks are carried out against Fars “almost daily” by various countries, “including the occupied territories [i.e. Israel],” the statement continued.
Iran International reported on Saturday that a group called Black Reward claimed...
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November 27, 2022 at 10:42 am
'What we are talking about now is an artificial pancreas made of real human cells'
The world's largest diabetes awareness campaign has put the disease into focus again.
In the central Israeli town of Ness Ziona, a breakthrough diabetes treatment — although still in its pre-clinical phase — looks promising.
"What we are talking about now is an artificial pancreas made of real human cells," says Prof. Ariel Revel, medical director at Kadimastem.
The professor says he is working on a cure, not a treatment, using human cells that act exactly like the original human pancreas. It is sitting in the pre-clinical phase as it awaits an investigation of a new drug application.
"We are able in our new company to produce those cells which originated from stem cell...
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November 27, 2022 at 10:39 am
'I hope that Israeli and Palestinian authorities take the search for dialogue to heart in a greater way'
Pope Francis on Sunday condemned recent bombing attacks in Jerusalem that took the lives of two people and left another 18 wounded, urging Israeli and Palestinian authorities to seek dialogue.
Speaking during the Sunday blessing ceremony in St. Peter’s Square Vatican City the pontiff said that violence was “killing the future” for both sides of the conflict. He called the Jerusalem attacks “vile” and shared his concerns about the increase of violence in the region, including recent clashes in the West Bank city of Nablus.
"Violence kills the future, interrupting the lives of the youngest and weakening the hopes for...
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November 27, 2022 at 10:35 am
Multiple Israelis claim to have been met by an atmosphere of hostility and hatred at the World Cup in Qatar, with fans refusing to speak to Israeli journalists, waving Palestinian flags in the background of their videos and yelling at them.
Moav Vardy, KAN's foreign affairs reporter, was yelled at by a Saudi fan, who told him that "You are not welcome here, this is Qatar, this is our country, there is only Palestine, no Israel."
Other videos from Qatar show people immediately walking away when they find out the person interviewing them is Israeli. In one particular video, N12's Ohad Hemo begins to interview a group of Lebanese men who walk away when Hemo tells them he's Israeli. One of them then turns back and asks Hemo what he's doing there and then tells h...
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November 27, 2022 at 10:24 am
Half of Twitter's top 100 advertisers appear to no longer be advertising on the website. A report from Media Matters for America states that these 50 advertisers have spent almost $2 billion on Twitter ads since 2020 and more than $750 million just in 2022.
Seven additional advertisers have slowed their advertising to almost nothing, according to the report, which was published on Tuesday. These companies have paid Twitter more than $255 million since 2020.
Chevrolet, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., Ford, Jeep, Kyndryl, Merck & Co. and Novartis AG all issued statements about halting Twitter ads or were reported and confirmed as doing so. The others ceased advertising on the platform for a "significant period of time following direct outreach, controversies, and warnings ...
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November 27, 2022 at 10:19 am
רַבִּי אוֹמֵר... וֶהֱוֵי זָהִיר בְּמִצְוָה קַלָּה כְּבַחֲמוּרָה, שֶׁאֵין אַתָּה יוֹדֵעַ מַתַּן שְׂכָרָן שֶׁל מִצְוֹת.
וֶהֱוֵי מְחַשֵּׁב הֶפְסֵד מִצְוָה כְּנֶגֶד שְׂכָרָהּ, ושְׂכַר עֲבֵרָה כְּנֶגֶד הֶפְסֵדָהּ (אבות ב:א):
בֶּן עַזַּאי אוֹמֵר, הֱוֵי רָץ לְמִצְוָה קַלָּה כְּבַחֲמוּרָה, וּבוֹרֵחַ מִן הָעֲבֵרָה. שֶׁמִּצְוָה גּוֹרֶרֶת מִצְוָה, וַעֲבֵרָה גוֹרֶרֶת עֲבֵ�...
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November 27, 2022 at 10:16 am
Spirits at your Simcha Part 2
At simchas and events, a well-stocked bar is often a prime attraction. Are there any kashrus concerns with the beverages served in such venues? In this installment of Let’s Talk Kashrus, Rabbi Yitzchok Hisiger is joined by Rabbi Tzvi Haber, Director of Community Kashrus at the COR Kashrus Council of Canada, to discuss this fascinating topic.
Rabbi Yitzchok Hisiger: Thank you, Rabbi Haber, for joining us.
Rabbi Tzvi Haber: It’s a great pleasure.
Rabbi Hisiger: There are a number of other issues regarding bars. Let’s talk about those.
Rabbi Haber: One serious issue with bars that people may not be aware of is that the bartender, who is provided by the venue, is usually accustomed to going into the non-kosher kitchen where his lemons...
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November 27, 2022 at 10:16 am
Jerusalem - Early Sunday morning, just before 4:00 a.m., a man in his late 60s was not feeling well at an apartment on Abulafya Street near Nachalot. He began to make gurgling sounds and his wife and daughters woke up from the noise and rushed to his aid, only to find that the man had lost consciousness and was no longer breathing. They immediately called emergency services for help.
Yosef Black, together with Zeev Klein, Yosef Cohen, and Yisrael Manas were just finishing an ambulance shift and were driving by the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem to return the ambulance to headquarters when they received the alert from dispatch notifying them about the unconscious man. Black, who was driving the ambulance, quickly responded that the team was en route, flipped on the lights and siren...
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November 27, 2022 at 10:09 am
Gas prices in Maryland continued to drop on Saturday.
According to AAA, the average price for regular unleaded fuel in Maryland was $3.56 per gallon. This time last week, the price was $3.66.
Maryland's price of fuel was the same for the national average. The country's average on Saturday was $3.56 per gallon of regular gas.
Maryland ranked 25th out of the 50 states and Washington D.C. for cheapest regular fuel prices. Hawaii was the most expensive with it's average being $5.19 per gallon.
The three cheapest metros for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel in Maryland were Hagerstown ($3.50), Baltimore ($3.53) and Annapolis ($3.54).
The record average-high price for a gallon of regular gas in Maryland was $5.02 on June 14.
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November 26, 2022 at 6:41 pm
Twitter’s billionaire owner Elon Musk announced Friday that the platform would be launching differently colored badges to distinguish between accounts.
“Sorry for the delay, we’re tentatively launching Verified on Friday next week,” he tweeted.
“Gold check for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not) and all verified accounts will be manually authenticated before check activates.”
In another tweet, Musk said that all verified individual accounts would have the same blue check, but some would eventually be able to display a “secondary tiny logo showing they belong to an org[anization] if verified as such by that org[anization].”
The Tesla and SpaceX boss’ proposal for users to be able to pay to be...
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November 26, 2022 at 6:40 pm
Elon Musk on Thursday appeared to have personally been involved in deleting a Twitter account that posted antisemitic content and praised Palestinian terrorism against Israelis.
Twitter user Ian Miles Cheong alerted Musk to the account — called Jisr Collective — by tagging him in a post of screenshots of the account’s tweets, one of which praised twin terrorist bomb blasts in Jerusalem on Wednesday as “spectacular.”
Another post labeled Mizrahi Jews — Jews of Middle Eastern origin — as “traitors who joined white supremacist zionists,” likely referencing the 850,000 Mizrachi and Sephardi Jews who were forced to flee persecution in Arab and Muslim countries following the birth of the State of Israel.
“We all know what happens...
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November 26, 2022 at 6:24 pm
Aryeh Shechopek, a 16-year-old student, died at the scene
The death toll from Wednesday's terrorist bombing in Jerusalem rose to two after another victim died of his wounds on Saturday.
Tadasa Tashume Ben Ma'ada passed away from his wounds in Shaare Zedek Medical Center, the hospital's spokesperson said.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister-designate, offered condolences to the victim's family.
Two bombings at bus stops, one at the entrance to the city and the other at Ramot Junction in northern Jerusalem, left many wounded, including multiple in critical condition. Police suspect that both bombs were detonated remotely, filled with nails and bolts to cause as much damage as possible. Aryeh Shechopek, a 16-year-old student, died at the ...
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November 26, 2022 at 6:19 pm
Bizarre system highlights the level of depletion in Russia's missile stock, Britain says
Russia is likely removing nuclear warheads from aging nuclear cruise missiles and firing unarmed munitions at Ukraine, Britain's military intelligence said on Saturday.
The defense ministry said open source imagery shows wreckage of an air-launched cruise missile fired at Ukraine which seem to have been designed in the 1980s as a nuclear delivery system, adding that ballast was probably being substituted for the warheads.
Such a system will still produce damage through the missile's kinetic energy and unspent fuel. However, it is unlikely to achieve reliable effects against intended targets, the ministry added in its daily intelligence update posted on Twitter.
"Whatever Russia...
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November 26, 2022 at 6:17 pm
Witnesses who spotted the packages feared they contain explosives and called police
Dozens of sealed packets containing hashish washed up along Israel’s Mediterranean shore on Saturday, likely as the result of a failed drug smuggling operation, police said.
Israeli beachgoers found the packages on beaches in Haifa, Tirat Karmel and Zichron Ya’akov and other locales in the country's northern region. An unmanned dinghy carrying some 40 packages was spotted floating off the beach in Tel Aviv.
Witnesses who spotted the packages feared they contain explosives and called police. The incident comes amid an uptick in Palestinian terrorism that saw the first bombing in Jerusalem since 2016. On Saturday, however, the sapper units only found hashish.
"We remind the public...
