Anat Kimchi Stabbed To Death On Chicago Street

 

Chicago police are searching for the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a University of Maryland graduate student over the weekend.

Anat Kimchi, 31, is being remembered as a brilliant student in the field of criminology. She was working on her doctorate in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland.

Kimchi is the daughter of Avi and Chava Kimchi as well as a sister to Itamar and Ofer Kimchi.

Kimchi was found around 4 p.m. Saturday during a visit to Chicago after someone fatally stabbed her on the loop in downtown Chicago.

Authorities said the man who stabbed Kimchi hid in the shrubs and Kimchi likely didn’t see him coming, WBAL-TV’s sister station in Chicago, WMAQ, reported.

Kimchi was a prestigious flagship fellow University of Maryland doctoral student, and a graduate of Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville.

Gary Lafree, chairman of the university’s Criminology and Criminal Justice Department, told The Chicago Tribune, “She was one of our best students, just about to embark on a professional career.”

The university issued a statement, saying: “The University of Maryland grieves the loss of Anat Kimchi, a brilliant young scholar. We offer our condolences to her friends and family during this difficult time.”

Police said they are reviewing security video and have strong leads on a man who was not yet in custody, WMAQ reported.

Late Monday afternoon, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot told The Chicago Sun-Times that police know who stabbed Kimchi and are scouring various homeless encampments downtown.

Kimchi’s family is mourning her and asked for privacy at this time.

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Tischler Loses But Says He Won Even though he only has 220 votes

 

A tight race for the City Council seat for the 48th district to replace Chaim Deutsch is brewing with 85% of first choice ballots counted. Former teacher Steven Saperstein is in first place with about 32% of the vote, while Mariya Markh is in a close second with about 31% of the vote.

Thus far, the biggest takeaway from this race is the lack of votes that stardom-seeker Heshy Tischler has received. Tischler, who had spent thousands of dollars on advertising in the run-up to election day has only managed to convince less than 220 votes (thus far) that he’s the right person to hold public office.

In a video message Tischler says he heard that he lost, but says “really I believe I won.”

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Julia Yonkowski goes to ATM to withdraw $20, discovers almost $1B in account

 

A Florida woman reportedly withdrew $20 from an ATM and was stunned to discover her account boasted a jaw-dropping balance of nearly $1 billion — which she’s hasn’t been able to return because she can’t get a real person to talk to at her bank. 

When Julia Yonkowski, of Largo, checked her Chase Bank balance before making the small withdrawal Saturday, her receipt showed a balance of $999,985,855.94 in her account, WFLA reported.

“Oh my God, I was horrified. I know most people would think they won the lottery but I was horrified,” Yonkowski told the news outlet.

“When I put in for the $20, the machine came back and said we’ll give you the $20 but that’ll cause an overdraft and you will be charged and I said, ‘Oh just forget it,’” she said, adding that she hasn’t touched her account since.

“I know I’ve read stories about people that took the money or took out money, and then they had to repay it and I wouldn’t do that anyway because it’s not my money,” Yonkowski told WFLA.

“It kind of scares me because you know with cyber threats. You know I don’t know what to think,” she added.

But despite her best efforts so far, the accidental quasi-billionaire has been unable to reach Chase to correct the matter.

“I just can’t get through. I get tied up with their automated system and I can’t get a person,” she told the outlet.

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Miss New Jersey Pageant Contestant Tells Off Woke Media With Courage and Bravery

 

BREAKING: Beauty queen goes OFF on campus and social media censorship in Miss New Jersey pageant - @Justine_Brooke pic.twitter.com/ezRSlUx1WD

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) June 21, 2021

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Time to tell Goyishi Politicians to Stop Wearing Yarmulkas

A request: Could we please stop having (male) non-Jewish politicians wear Yarmulkas when meeting w/ Jewish groups?

There's no Jewish law/tradition for gentiles to wear Yarmulkas. If anything, it projects a sense of extreme pandering& maybe even a tinge of cultural appropriation. pic.twitter.com/NOqIU1Ba8O

— Shlomo Zuckier (@ZuckierShlomo) June 21, 2021

 

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1981 Film Warned New Yorkers to Get out Before it's too late

 

Don’t watch this. You most probably wouldn’t understand it or agree with it. But if you listen carefully you will be paralyzed by its brilliance and verity. pic.twitter.com/efVQiKKbhQ

— 🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 (@LionelMedia) June 21, 2021

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"Does the president support killing a 15 week old baby ? Actually Yes!

 

REPORTER: "Does the president believe that a 15-week-old, unborn baby is a human being?"@PressSec: "Are you asking me if the president supports the right to choose? He does." pic.twitter.com/BnKpaqG5d1

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 21, 2021

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Bless this man

 

Bless this man. pic.twitter.com/KhkuIQk4wF

— 🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 (@LionelMedia) June 20, 2021

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Unhappy marriages can be fatal, increasing male death rate by 19%: Israeli study

 

Men who are unhappy in their marriages are at higher risk of death, especially from strokes, Tel Aviv University scholars have concluded.

“What we found, which is surprising, is that dissatisfaction among men with their marriage is a risk factor for death, of a similar magnitude to smoking, or men failing to exercise,” Dr. Shahar Lev-Ari, the public health researcher behind the study, told The Times of Israel.

His team insists that the research shows that health authorities should start promoting marriage therapy, in order for people to get sick less frequently and live longer.

“Marital education programs for couples should be implemented as part of health promotion strategies for the general population,” they wrote in a newly published peer-reviewed academic article.

The researchers revived decades of health data on 10,000 Israeli men, from a Tel Aviv University study that started in 1965. As it began, participants were asked to rank their marriage’s success on a scale of one to four.

“Revisiting this data, when we are more aware of links between psychological wellbeing and physical health, we found that their marriage satisfaction at the start of the study was actually a predictive factor for death in general and for death by strokes,” Shahar Lev-Ari said.

Men who were dissatisfied with their marriage were 19 percent more likely, on average, to die during the 32-year-long study than others of their age who were satisfied.

Fatal strokes were 69% more common among those who felt they had an unsuccessful marriage compared to those who indicated a very successful marriage.

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Two New York City kosher restaurants send Pride emails, then apologise

 

When Rabbi Mike Moskowitz got the Pride email from Kasbah BBQ & Deli, a kosher restaurant on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, he immediately went to Facebook to offer his feedback.

“Very impressed!” wrote Moskowitz, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ inclusion in Orthodox communities. He the restaurant and shared the rainbow-colored image that touted “diversity in all many flavors,” along with a 10% discount code.

Moskowitz’s reaction stemmed from the fact that Kasbah Deli caters to Orthodox Jews. While acceptance of LGBTQ Jews has grown within some Modern Orthodox communities in recent years, that is far from the norm in most Orthodox communities, which largely view the biblical prohibition on same-sex relations as binding. Pride Month, celebrated annually in June, is not widely acknowledged in most Orthodox spaces.

The email was news to Kasbah Deli, too. “This is our old logo, something here is wrong and we are looking in to it,” Kasbah commented.

It wasn’t the only New York City kosher restaurant to be surprised by its own Pride email. A kosher deli in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights called Mendy’s sent a formal retraction and apology to customers just hours after its email went out, blaming the incident on a marketing company.

“Mendy’s would like to apologize for an email that went out this morning that you may have found offensive,” its retraction email said. “We work with a non-Jewish company on marketing and promotions and, as the result of a miscommunication, the wrong campaign was launched on our behalf. We are now working with them in order to educate them so that they can better-serve the needs of our community going forward.”

Both Mendy’s and Deli Kasbah send promotions through a service offered by 9Fold, a company that operates digital services for restaurants.

Reached by phone, an employee of Mendy’s said the discount code (15% off with code TOGETHER) had been sent out “without talking to the owner.” The employee declined to give his name or comment further.

Deli Kasbah’s email offered a 10% discount code. A representative of the restaurant said the manager was out of town and could not comment about the email.

But the restaurant’s Facebook accounted responded quickly to the post from Moskowitz, who is currently a scholar-in-residence at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, an LGBTQ synagogue in Manhattan.

“We don’t know where was this sent from we are looking in to it our self’s as well,” it wrote.

“Thank you and to be clear, we are very supportive of it and hope that you do not apologize for celebrating people,” Moskowitz answered. “If I can be supportive in any way, please PM me.”

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