The Jewish Home | JULY 7, 2022
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Health Access California, said, “This will represent the biggest expansion of coverage in the nation since the start of the Affordable Care Act in 2014. In California, we recognize [that] everybody benefits when everyone is covered.” Not everyone is happy about the change: Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, noted that the free health care will turn California into “a magnet for those who are not legally authorized to enter the country.” He added, “I think many of us are very sympathetic to the immigrant community, but we really wish we had better control of who enters this nation and this state.”
Terror at Parade A mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago, Illinois, suburb of Highland Park has left six people dead and 30 others injured. The injured in the attack range in age from age eight to 85, Dr. Brigham Temple, medical director of emergency preparedness at NorthShore University health center, said. NorthShore is treating 26 of the injured; at least four of the
injured are believed to be children. The person of interest has been named as Robert E Crimo III, 22. He was arrested by police hours after the attack after a brief chase by North Chicago police. It is believed that he carried out the shooting from a rooftop of a business just minutes after the parade started. He was using a high-powered rifle.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker told a news conference, “If you are angry today, I’m here to tell you to be angry. I’m furious. I’m furious that yet more innocent lives were taken by gun violence. “While we celebrate the Fourth of July just once a year, mass shootings have become our weekly – yes, weekly – American tradition. “There are going to be people who say that today is not the day, that now is not the time to talk about guns. I’m telling you, there is no better day and no better time.”
Highland Park’s mayor, Nancy Rotering, said her community was “terrorized by an act of violence that has shaken us to our core.” She added, “On a day that we came together to celebrate community and freedom, we are instead mourning the tragic loss of life and struggling with the terror that was brought upon us.” According to police, five adults died at the scene and a sixth died in a local hospital; one child was critically injured and taken for medical treatment. Two Mexicans were among the wounded, and a third was among the dead. A Jewish woman, Jacki Sundheim, was also killed.
Hot Dog! Well, he did it again. Competitive eater Joey Chestnut once again won the Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest, making it his 15th win as he devoured a stomach-popping 63 hot dogs and buns in 10
minutes on Monday in Coney Island. Chestnut has won the long-running Independence Day contest seven consecutive times and 15 of the last 16 years.
He put away 15-and-a-half more hot dogs than his closest competitor, Geoffrey Esper, but came up well short of his own personal record of 76 set last year. Truthfully, Chestnut should have been on the DL list, as he was plowing through hot dogs with his right foot in a cast. According to Joey, though, he was feeling OK (I guess it’s all relative) despite the injury. In the women’s contest, Miki Sudo won her eighth championship, slamming 40 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. Sudo has now won eight of the last nine women’s titles after missing last year’s competition while pregnant.
