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September 12, 2023 at 2:56 pm
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on Monday warned that China was building up its military to prepare for a potential war with the U.S., and he said America must optimize its forces to counter the rising threat.
Speaking at the Air and Space Forces Association Warfighter Symposium at National Harbor, Md., Kendall said the U.S. must be ready for a “kind of war we have no modern experience with,” though he stressed “war is not inevitable.”
“Our job is to deter that war and to be ready to win if it occurs,” Kendall said. “We’re all talking about the fact that the Air and Space Forces must change, or we could fail to prevent and might even lose a war.”
Kendall said it was vital to prepare for war because China is developin...
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September 12, 2023 at 1:58 pm
Tonight, on September 12, 2023, a shooting incident occurred targeting a vehicle on Route 60 near the Arab town of Hawara.
The initial report came in at 20:17 to the MDA 101 emergency center in the Yarkon region. The victims, two individuals around 30 years of age, remained fully conscious and primarily suffered from shrapnel wounds. MDA EMTs and paramedics quickly arrived on the scene to provide medical assistance.
In an update provided at 1:47 PM, the MDA spokesperson noted that the injuries sustained were mild head wounds caused by glass shrapnel. The victims were being treated by MDA EMTs and paramedics in collaboration with an IDF medical unit. Following the onsite emergency care, the victims were evacuated to Beilinson Hospital for further treatment. Details surrounding the s...
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September 12, 2023 at 1:31 pm
The US Treasury Department today (Tuesday) imposed sanctions on a network of Hezbollah financiers in South America in an effort to combat the illegal financing of the terrorist organization.
The Treasury statement reads: "The United States is today designating key Hezbollah operatives and financiers operating a network in South America and Lebanon that generates revenue for Hezbollah’s terrorist activities and provides cover for its presence in Latin America. Today’s action, taken in collaboration with partners in the U.S. government, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, underscores our commitment to pursuing the financiers, supporters and facilitators who sustain Hezbollah’s ability to threaten the security, stability, and prosperity of Lebanon and the global ...
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September 12, 2023 at 1:16 pm
Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, according to JNS, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) honored Staff-Sgt. Yossi Bluming, originally from Potomac, MD, as an Outstanding Soldier, a recognition bestowed upon members who excel in their duties and foster positive relations in the IDF and the communities they serve. Bluming, who immigrated to Israel from the U.S. three years ago, currently commands a unit of 18 combat soldiers tasked with challenging assignments across various regions in Israel. The ceremony also marked the 50-year anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, highlighting the brigade’s historic bravery. As a Charedi soldier and a member of the Chabad movement, Bluming emphasized that serving in the IDF allowed him to retain his religious identity, encouraging other Charedi teens to con...
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September 12, 2023 at 1:15 pm
Skygazers in Maryland still have a few opportunities to see a newly discovered green comet hurtling along a path that will take it close to Earth and the sun before it disappears for another 400-plus years.
Comet Nishimura, discovered Aug. 11 by Japanese amateur astronomer Hideo Nishimura, is already visible from Earth, but will make its closest approach to our planet on Tuesday. But the best chances to see it may be Sunday, when it makes its closest approach to the sun and reaches peak brightness.
The National Weather Service’s seven-day outlook calls for showers Tuesday night, partly cloudy skies Wednesday night, then clear skies Thursday through Saturday nights, and partly cloudy on Sunday evening.
During its close approach to Earth, the half-mile-wide comet will stil...
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September 12, 2023 at 11:56 am
Silver Spring, MD - Sept. 12, 2023 - Moms Night out - Silver Spring! Chai Lifeline Mid Atlantic launched the new year in Silver Spring with a beautiful evening out for our incredible mothers! Thank you Marc and Yael Azran for graciously opening your home to host our event and to Eeta Travis of Art by Eeta for leading us in a creative alcohol-ink class to create stunning challah trays. The evening ended with a delicious buffet and warm feelings!
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September 12, 2023 at 11:53 am
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 12, 2023 - On Sunday evening, Erev Rosh Hashanah 5784, Yeshivas Mekor Chaim (YMC) was fortunate to host renowned songwriter and composer Eitan Katz for an uplifting Elul Kumzitz. The evening was shared by YMC students, their parents, and community members, who joined together for an evening of achdus and uplifting melodies in an intimate kumzitz-like setup at Suburban Orthodox. Eitan Katz, accompanied by a violinist and local talent Eli Cohen and Matt Schoenfeld, played soulful nigunim that touched the hearts and souls of the audience. Interspersed between the uplifting nigunim, Rabbi Silber, Rabbi of Suburban Orthodox and Dean of YMC, shared deeply moving words chizuk about a simple hunter who meets Eliyahu Ha’Navi to remind us that we all have the abilit...
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September 12, 2023 at 11:44 am
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday said he will seek to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden based off the House GOP’s investigations into his family’s foreign business dealings.
“Today, I am directing our House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy said the probe will be led by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) in coordination with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.), who have been leading the investigations.
“I do not make this decision lightly. And regardless of your party, or who you voted for these facts should concern all Ameri...
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September 12, 2023 at 11:10 am
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 12, 2023 - 11:08AM - A downed tree is blocking Park Heights Ave. between Hooks Ln. and Greenspring Valley Rd.
Seek alternate routes
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September 11, 2023 at 10:20 pm
Reuven buys a new suit but will not wear it until he has it checked for shatnez. When does he make the bracha of Shehecheyanu; when he purchases the suit, or when the begged becomes wearable after it is checked for shatnez?
Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 223:4 writes that when someone buys new kailim, the bracha of Shehecheyanu should be said at the time of buying, even though he has yet to use them. This is because the bracha is going on the simcha that he has in buying it. Reb Akiva Eiger writes in his hagahos that if we are dealing with kailim that require tevillah in the mikva, does one say the bracha when he makes the purchase or rather af...
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September 11, 2023 at 10:11 pm
Baltimore, MD – Sept. 11, 2023 - It is with regret that Baltimore Jewish Life (BJL) informs the community of the petira of Yente Siegel (Potash) a'h, wife of the late R' Shmuel Dovid Siegel, zt'l, mother of Sholem Potash, Henoch Potash, Shloime Potash, Menachem Potash, Yuda Potash, & Yossel Potash, z'l
Siegel Stepchildren: Azriel Siegel, Sara Westreich, Miriam Florans, Fayge Young, Chaim Siegel.
Sholem Potash: Contact at 845-494-7351 from 4 am EDT to 12 pm EDT or at sholem@culinarydepot.com
Sara Westreich: Contact at 416-704-3208
Shiva will be observed at Rechov Rabeinu Gershom 24, Yerushalayim
Shiva Visitation Hours: 10:00-2:00; 4:00PM – 10:00PM
Bila Hamaves LaNetzach...
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September 11, 2023 at 10:03 pm
New York City will cut overtime pay for its police officers and three other agencies to help reduce costs driven by the city’s unprecedented migrant crisis, City Hall announced Monday. Jacques Jiha, the budget director for Mayor Eric Adams’s administration, told the city’s police, fire, corrections, and sanitations departments in a Saturday memo to each submit an overtime pay reduction plan “to reduce year-to-year OT spending.”
He also wrote the four departments must submit monthly reports “to track overtime spending and their progress in meeting the reduction target” once Adams issues the order.
Jiha also noted the current assistance provided by President Joe Biden and New York governor Kathy Hochul is not enough, prompting City Hall&r...
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September 11, 2023 at 9:58 pm
The American explorer from Westchester County trapped in a Turkish cave for more than a week was rescued early Tuesday morning, officials announced.
Mark Dickey — who fell ill on Sept. 2 more than 3,000 feet below the entrance of the Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountain — was carried out on a stretcher and given first aid once rescuers reached the surface, the Speleological Federation of Turkey said in a statement.
“He is fine and is being tended to by emergency medical workers in the encampment above,” the speleological federation said of Dickey, a Croton-on-Hudson resident.
Dickey, who was suffering from stomach bleeding, was too weak to pull himself out of the Morca cave so rescuers across Europe rushed to aid the...
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September 11, 2023 at 9:53 pm
President Biden said Monday that he was at the World Trade Center site in New York City one day after the 9/11 attacks — despite his own autobiography placing him in DC.
The 80-year-old president also claimed he saw the fireball caused by the plane that struck the Pentagon in northern Virginia from Washington’s Union Station, when his own book says he merely saw “a brown haze of smoke.”
“Ground Zero in New York — I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building. And I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell,” Biden told US troops in Anchorage, Alaska, on the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
“It looked so devastating because the way you could, from where you could stand. Shanksville, Pa., the Pent...
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September 11, 2023 at 7:06 pm
Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday asked the federal judge presiding over his election subversion case in Washington to recuse herself, saying her past public statements about the former president and his connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol call into question whether she can be fair.
The recusal motion from Trump’s lawyers takes aim at U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, a former assistant public defender who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama and has stood out as one of the toughest punishers of Jan. 6 defendants. The request is a long shot given the high threshold for recusal and because the decision on whether to recuse belongs to Chutkan, who is unlikely to see cause to step aside from the case.
Even so, the request that she give ...
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September 11, 2023 at 6:55 pm
Today marked the 22nd anniversary of the disaster that unfolded on September 11, 2001. The date is laden with meaning for many Americans, and for the Jewish community in particular. Among the approximately 3,000 casualties of that tragic day were several hundred members of the Jewish people; a somber fact openly acknowledged by Al-Qaida, which stated its intent to target as many Jews as possible.
For Rabbi Mordechai Jungreis, shlit”a, the esteemed Niklesburg Rebbe, this anniversary is a profound day of reflection. It goes beyond remembering in sorrow; it is also a time to appreciate the far-reaching impact of even small acts of chesed, and to recognize the significant work that still lies ahead. It is this philosophy that compels him to visit the former site of the World Trade Cente...
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September 11, 2023 at 5:03 pm
The Biden administration has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens detained in Iran by issuing a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of U.S. sanctions. In addition, as part of the deal, the administration has agreed to release five Iranian citizens held in the United States.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed off on the sanctions waivers late last week, a month after U.S. and Iranian officials said an agreement in principle was in place. Congress was not informed of the waiver decision until Monday, according to the notification, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
The outlines of the deal had been previously announced and the waiver was expected. But the n...
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September 11, 2023 at 4:36 pm
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 11, 2023 - The Pikesville Branch, including the book drop, is closing Thursday, September 21, through Saturday, October 7, for a new shelving project and other minor renovations. The last day for customers is Wednesday, September 20 at the end of business. Please pick up any holds by the 20th or have them rerouted to another branch of your choice by calling the Pikesville Branch at 410-887-1234. Any holds not picked up will be available for seven (7) days after the branch reopens. Find a nearby location here
