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June 19, 2024 at 9:48 am
Pro-Israel Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) voiced rare criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday after the latter published a video in which he accused the US of withholding arms from Israel, a claim which the White House has denied.
"If you are looking to undermine the bipartisanship of the US-Israel relationship, then release a public video attacking the Biden Administration, which, despite hysterical opposition from the far left, has held firm in support of Israel for eight months and counting," Torres wrote.
He continued: "Disagreements should be had in private. Hamas is emboldened by even the appearance of a ruptured relationship.
"I call out my own country, the US, when it fails to keep its differences with Israel private. I will do the same ...
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June 18, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Baltimore, MD – June 18, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Shua Schuchman (Baltimore) & Hannah Klerer (Edison, NJ) on their engagement. Mazel Tov to the parents Eitan and Ariella Schuchman and Sari and Michie Klerer
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
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June 18, 2024 at 5:49 pm
Approximately 250 rockets were launched on Wednesday towards northern Israel, disrupting the holiday calm with successive alerts. Rockets that exploded in open areas caused fires. In the city of Tiberias, a siren was activated for the first time since October.
These launches come after the assassination of senior Hezbollah official Sami Taleb Abdullah, whose rank was equivalent to a brigadier general in the IDF.
For the past 20 years, Abdullah had led rocket fire toward Kiryat Shmona, the Galilee panhandle, and the Golan Heights. He is the highest-ranking Hezbollah commander to have been killed so far in the war.
Abdullah was also active during the Second Lebanon War, serving as a brigade commander and developing rockets in the region.
Yesterday, following at...
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June 18, 2024 at 5:06 pm
The Northern Command Commander, Major General Uri Gordin, and the Head of the Operations Directorate, Major General Oded Basiuk, conducted a joint plans approval and situation assessment in the Northern Command today.
As part of the situation assessment, operational plans for an attack in Lebanon were presented and approved, and decisions were made to further accelerate the preparations by ground forces.
Meanwhile, during the day, Air Force aircraft attacked UAV launch cells from Hezbollah’s air unit. The unit has led dozens of attacks using explosive and reconnaissance UAVs against Israel and IDF forces. "The IDF will continue to thwar Hezbollah activities in the area," the IDF stated.
Additionally, in the evening hours, Air Force fighter jets attacked several Hezbollah terror ta...
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June 18, 2024 at 4:30 pm
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced an executive action allowing certain undocumented spouses and children of US citizens to apply for lawful permanent residency without leaving the country – a sweeping election-year move that could offer deportation protections to hundreds of thousands of people.
The action will provide legal status and protections for about 500,000 American families and roughly 50,000 noncitizen children of immigrants under the age of 21 whose parent is married to a US citizen, a senior administration official said. It amounts to one of the federal government’s biggest relief programs for undocumented immigrants since the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was announced by then-President Barack Obama in 2012.
The action is ai...
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June 18, 2024 at 4:05 pm
Baltimore, MD - June 18, 2024 - (BJL) Did you know you have until June 30th to pay your parking tickets before penalties resume? If you have 3 or more unpaid parking citations that are 30 days or older from the violation date, now is the time to settle them.https://pay.baltimorecity.gov/parkingfines
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June 18, 2024 at 3:57 pm
Baltimore, MD – June 18, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Menachem and Leah Lasdun on the birth of a son.
Mazel Tov to grandparents Rabbi & Mrs. Yitzchok & Janet Pollock, Mrs. Brendle Lasdun and great-grandparents Mrs. Margo Lasdun and Mr. & Mrs. Ismar and Sandy Berlinger
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
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June 18, 2024 at 3:56 pm
The United States has halted inspections of avocados and mangoes in Mexico's Michoacán state following the attack and detainment of two U.S. Department of Agriculture employees, according to U.S. officials.
The workers with the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service were recently attacked while carrying out their work inspecting avocados, and have since been released, U.S. ambassador Ken Salazar said in a statement Tuesday.
His statement gave no further details on the incident. He said the inspections will be suspended until the safety issues have been resolved.
Michoacán Gov. Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla told reporters on Monday that Mexican authorities were in contact with U.S. officials and were working to resolve the situation, ac...
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June 18, 2024 at 3:37 pm
Foreign Minister Israel Katz warned that the Hezbollah terrorist organization would be destroyed in a war with Israel after a Hezbollah drone filmed sensitive sites in the Haifa area.
"Nasrallah boasts today about filming the ports of Haifa, operated by international companies from China and India, and threatens to attack them," Katz said.
"We are very close to the moment of decision to change the rules against Hezbollah and Lebanon. In an all-out war, Hezbollah will be destroyed and Lebanon will be severely hit," he said,
"The State of Israel will pay a price on the front and home fronts, but with a strong and united nation, and the full power of the IDF, we will restore security to the residents of the north," the Foreign Minister said.
Earlier, the Lebanese Al Mayadee...
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June 18, 2024 at 3:26 pm
The Biden Administration reacted with seeming bewilderment to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement that it is "inconceivable" that the US would hold up munitions and weapons shipments to Israel during the war against Hamas.
"We genuinely do not know what he is talking about. We just don't," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a press briefing today (Tuesday). "There was one particular shipment of munitions that was paused."
"We continue to have these constructive discussions with Israelis for the release of that particular shipment," she added. "There are no other pauses, none, no other poses or hold in place."
"Everything else is moving in due process," Jean-Pierre said.
Earlier, Netanyahu stated during a video address, "When Secretary...
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June 18, 2024 at 9:16 am
Dozens of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are alive, but Israel cannot accept ending the war until all the hostages are released in a deal, a senior Israeli negotiator told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Monday.
Dozens “are alive with certainty,” he told AFP anonymously. “We cannot leave them there a long time, they will die.”
He additionally told AFP that they were being held largely by Hamas terrorists – this, in contrast to civilians or members of other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip such as, for example, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Hamas may “breach their commitment” if Israel does not wait until after hostages are released to end the war, the official said, and may “drag out the negotiations for 10 years.&rd...
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June 18, 2024 at 9:06 am
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June 18, 2024 at 6:27 am
The IDF on Monday said that its Division 162 has defeated half of Hamas’s battalions in Rafah, including killing at least 550 terrorists, as well as destroyed around 200 tunnel shafts, and eliminated the terror group’s last major rocket inventory.
Further, the IDF said that within a couple of weeks it would likely be in control of all of Rafah and that the final battles with the remaining two Hamas battalions in parts of Tel al-Sultan and the eastern part of Shabura are already underway.
In addition, the IDF said that the tunnel network in Rafah, especially near the Philadelphi Corridor with Egypt has been found to be even more complex than those found in Khan Yunis, Jabaliya, and the military quarter of Gaza City.
Currently, the IDF says Division ...
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June 18, 2024 at 6:24 am
A newly surfaced document has revealed that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and intelligence systems had detailed knowledge of Hamas's plan to raid Israel and kidnap 250 people weeks before the October 7 massacre.
The document, which was compiled in the Gaza Division, outlined Hamas's intentions and was known to top intelligence officials, according to a report by Kan News.
The document, titled "Detailed End-to-End Raid Training," was distributed on September 19, 2023, and described in detail the series of exercises conducted by Hamas's elite units.
These exercises included raiding military posts and kibbutzim (collective communities in Israel), kidnapping soldiers and civilians, and maintaining the hostages once they were in the Gaza Strip.
The repo...
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June 18, 2024 at 6:21 am
Two key Democratic holdouts in the House and Senate have signed off on a major arms sale to Israel, including 50 F-15 fighter jets worth more than $18 billion, after facing intense pressure from the Biden administration and pro-Israel advocates to allow the transaction to move forward, three US officials familiar with the matter told The Washington Post on Monday.
The decision, which has not been previously reported, underscores the substantial appetite in Washington to continue the flow of arms to Israel despite concerns from younger members of Congress that the United States should use its leverage to pressure Israel to reduce the intensity of the war and allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza.
According to The Washington Post, after months of holding up the arms sale, Re...
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June 18, 2024 at 6:15 am
The Baltimore City Council on Monday passed next fiscal year’s budget, which included an unchanged annual property tax rate.
Outside the chambers, groups clashed over a proposed measure that would cut city property taxes nearly in half over a seven-year period. The group Renew Baltimore wants to see the charter amendment on the November ballot.
“We want to change the trajectory of Baltimore City. We want to change it from a city that’s declining a population every month to a city that’s growing and bustling and thriving and surviving,” Ben Frederick, with Renew Baltimore, told 11 News last week.
The group believes the measure will grow the city’s population and economy, while creating jobs. A representative for the group told 11 Ne...
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June 18, 2024 at 6:14 am
Former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is set to begin her one-year house arrest sentence this week.
Mosby, 44, was convicted in May of lying about her finances to make early withdrawals from retirement funds during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jurors in Mosby’s federal mortgage fraud trial returned a split verdict in February.
Last month, Mosby was sentenced to 12 months of home confinement, 100 hours of community service and three years of supervised release.
Mosby asked a federal appeals court to halt the seizure of her Florida condominium. That appeal came less than a week after she filed an appeal of her federal convictions on both mortgage fraud and perjury.
Mosby has maintained her innocence.
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June 18, 2024 at 6:09 am
This week's parashah begins with the lighting of the Menora in the Mishkan, "Speak to Aaron and say to him: 'When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall cast their light toward the face of the menorah'." Throughout the generations, commentators have written that just as in the times of the Mishkan, in our times too, each individual must kindle his own flame in the world.
Some 30 years ago, Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz would travel often to Alaska, seeking Jews there. In one of his visits to this northernmost state, he arrived in a small town. In answer to the rabbi's inquiries, the mayor said that he wasn't familiar with any local Jews, but that he was welcome to address the students in the school and tell them a little bit about Judaism.
The rabbi seized the oppo...
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June 17, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Towson, Md - June 17, 2024 - Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski today announced that County government offices, District and Circuit Courts, Baltimore County Public Library branches, and County-run senior centers will be closed on Wednesday, June 19 in recognition of Juneteenth National Independence Day. In addition, CountyRide and Towson Loop service will not operate. Parking meters must be fed and Baltimore County Revenue Authority parking garages will be open as usual. Trash and recyclables will be collected according to the normal schedule. County trash and recycling drop-off facilities will be open. Residents can visit www.baltimorecountymd.gov/solidwaste for more information about recycling and trash collection, including schedules and drop-off center...
