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House Fire on Bonnie Road (Photos) Charedi Female Pilot and Mother of Seven Flies Stranded Israelis Back to Israel Khamenei In Worst Mental State Due To Israeli Strikes, Report Says Baltimore Police: Five People Shot Within Three Hours On Tuesday Iran's Largest Crypto Exchange Loses $48M In Cyberattack FBI Intelligence Links China To Alleged Interference In 2020 Election Vaad HaRobbonim of Baltimore: Communal Asifa for Tefilah This Motzaei Shabbos First Flight Returning Israelis From Larnaca Lands In Israel Due to Safety Concerns, Neighbors and Backyard Camp Counselors Asked to Check Cross Country School Grounds Before Bringing Children IDF Promises: The Next Stage Will Be Surprising BJL Traffic Alert: Reisterstown Road & Seven Mile Lane Acheinu in the Storm: A Morah’s Reflections Major Breaking News: Israel Preparing to Assist Stranded Foreigners Amid Ongoing Crisis Thunderstorms, Up To 5 Inches Of Rain In MD Forecast, Flood Watch Issued Trump: 'We Now Have Complete & Total Control Of Skies Over Iran' Watch Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber - From the Eyes of a Child: Making Tefillah Real (Video) Baltimore Businessman To Challenge Governor Wes Moore, Calls For Education Refocus Baltimore City Councilman Yitzy Schleifer Slams Tax and Fee Hikes in $4.6B Baltimore Budget: “Now’s Not the Time to Raise Tens of Millions of Dollars in Taxes and Fees” Herzog Visits Missile-Hit Weizmann Institute: “Iran Targets Life, We Rebuild It” Fake MVA Scam Targets Maryland in National Surge of Phishing Messages
Baltimore, MD – June 18, 2025 – (BJL) Due to a house fire on Bonnie Road, traffic is currently blocked from entering Bonnie Road at the Seven Mile Lane intersection. Emergency personnel are on the scene. 
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Baltimore, MD - June 16, 2025: עת צרה היא ליעקבThe Vaad HaRobbonim is convening a communal Asifa for Tfila for Achainu Kol Bais Yisroel, this Motzaei Shabbos, Parshas Shlach, 10:30 pm, at Kol Torah (Rabbi Yosef Berger’s shul). May Hashem answer our Tefilos. 
Tel Aviv, Israel - June 18, 2025 - El Al operated the first repatriation flight this morning (Wednesday) from Larnaca to Israel, led by the haredi captain Nechama Spiegel from Beit Shemesh. The flight landed in Israel in the morning hours as part of the Ministry of Transportation plan to return Israelis who were stranded abroad following the suspension of flights during Operation Rising Lion. Spiegel, a mother of seven and the first haredi captain in El Al, made the flight as part of a series of flights approved by the government. According to the company's announcement, passengers on the flight were pre-assigned without additional cost. The company announced yesterday that it will operate rescue flights from destinations Larnaca, Athens, Rome, Milan, and Paris. The announcement no...
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, is said to be in the most difficult mental state he has ever experienced, Reuters reported Wednesday morning. The report states that Israel's attacks in Iran have had a severe impact on Khamenei's condition, leading him to worry about the possibility of strategic errors following the elimination of many senior officials around him. Sources close to Khamenei claim that the massive strike against the security elite surrounding him, which occurred at the start of Operation "Rising Lion," and the rapid replacement of many key figures, could lead to serious mistakes in Iranian decision-making. Iranian opposition channel Iran International reported in recent days that Khamenei was transferred by security forces to a ...
Baltimore, MD - June 18, 2025 - Gunfire in three different parts of the city injured five people within three hours on Tuesday, according to authorities. The first shooting erupted near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Laurens Street at 7:17 p.m. That's when three officers shot a male who allegedly had a gun and he shot back at them, injuring one of the officers, police said. That person was taken to a local hospital where he was listed in critical condition on Tuesday night. Meanwhile, the injured officer was taken to Shock Trauma. Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Richard Worley said during a press conference outside of Shock Trauma that there had been a brief struggle between the officers and the armed male prior to the shooting. Two hours later, at 9:16 p.m...
Iran’s top cryptocurrency exchange, Nobitex, appears to have been the target of a significant cyberattack on Wednesday, resulting in losses estimated at over $48 million, according to blockchain analyst ZachXBT. Shortly after news of the breach surfaced, a pro-Israel hacktivist group known as Predatory Sparrow (also called Gonjeshke Darande) claimed responsibility. The group accused Nobitex of aiding the Iranian government in evading international sanctions and alleged that the platform played a role in supporting Iran’s financial and military infrastructure. Predatory Sparrow warned that it would release Nobitex’s internal source code and sensitive data within 24 hours, cautioning users that any funds remaining on the exchange could be at risk. Nobitex tweeted it had ...
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The FBI has documents alleging Chinese ties to the production of fraudulent driver’s licenses and fake mail-in ballots intended to be used on behalf of then-presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden in the 2020 election, FBI Director Kash Patel said. Mr. Patel, in a late Monday post on X, said recently uncovered FBI documents “detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP,” the acronym for the Chinese Communist Party. “I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over” to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley for further review, he said. Mr. Patel posted a link to a news report that said an FBI intelligence report had raised concerns...
Tel Aviv, Israel - June 18, 2025 - The first repatriation flight from Larnaca as part of Operation “Safe Return” landed Wednesday morning at Ben Gurion Airport. The Airports Authority reinforced staffing at the airport to expedite the processing of passengers, who underwent a fast-track entry procedure and baggage collection. Returning Israelis were then transported to their vehicles in airport parking lots and via shuttles and trains to city centers across the country. The Airports Authority emphasized that due to the current security situation, the public should avoid coming to the airport to greet passengers or ordering taxis for pickup. Transportation Minister Miri Regev visited the control tower at Ben Gurion and spoke with the pilot of the first El Al repatriation fli...
Baltimore, MD - June 17, 2025: Dear All, Please be advised that the last day of the 2024-25 school year for Baltimore City Public School was yesterday. There are no plans for summer school at Cross Country Elementary Middle School this summer. There are plans to replace the HVAC system in the building. There will be HVAC workers on the site in the daytime. Hopefully the worker's vehicles will be parked in the parking lot and not on the street.Please keep this in mind when you send your children out to play in the school play areas. Last year the counselors at backyard camps brought their campers to the school playgrounds. This year we recommend that camp counselors and daycare operators assess the area for safety before bringing the children to a possible worksite. 
The IDF is continuing to strike targets in Iran as part of Operation Rising Lion. According to a defense official, the operation is in full swing, and the regime in Tehran took "a hard blow on its home field." According to the official, "We can't give details yet about the achievements, but they are impressive. We know how to act in every part of Iran, not without dangers and challenges." The IDF stated that the IAF will soon begin striking "new families" of targets. "The next step will be painful and surprising. Layer after layer, with orderly operational logic, which was planned out over the past year and a half at the Operations Directorate. We have plans for many days ahead." Operations Directorate Chief Maj. Gen. Oded Basyuk stated: "Yesterday, we neutralized the Iranian regim...
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Rabbi Zvi Teichman on Parshas Bhaalosecha-Defeating Our Enemies

On the twentieth day of the month of Iyar — after encamping at the base of Mount Sinai for nearly a year — the nation was instructed to begin their journey towards the promised land.


They journeyed from the Mountain of Hashem… (במדבר י לג)


The mountain we received the Torah on is alternately referred to as Mount Sinai, Mount Chorev, or the Mountain of Elokim — G-d, but never Har Hashem. Har Hashem is used solely in reference to the Temple Mount — Har HaMoriah.


The Ramban facing this dilemma therefore interprets — based on the Midrash — that this description is not simply naming the place of departure, but rather intimating that they 'fled like a child fleeing from school with joy, from the mountain where G-d appeared, lest He increase the number of commandments upon them!'  


This failing was the first in a series of sins the nation succumbed to.


After this episode they 'complained' about their venturing into a desolate and unknown wilderness, wondering how they could possibly survive. G-d's wrath flared, and a plague consumed them at the edge of the camp.


After Moshe interceded on their behalf the fires calmed.


After this the 'rabble' rousers complained how their diet was insufficient. Demeaning the marvelous manna, they pined for meat, alleging that their situation in Egypt was preferable over their fate in the desert. G-d indulged them by providing them with a month's supply of meat, with the instigators dying while the meat was still between their teeth.


After the report of the first sin of fleeing with joy from the mountain of G-d, the Torah inserts a two sentence paragraph, seemingly unrelated to the subject at hand, as if to symbolically stifle this developing pattern of ill behavior.


The verses which should have appeared fifty paragraphs earlier in the narrative of tribal formations, was relocated here to break the recording of three successive sins.


These verses which we recite when we remove and return the Torah from the Ark in a plea to G-d that as we journey, we should be protected from all our foes and those who hate us, so that the Divine Presence may reside tranquilly in our midst.


What message is there in this small paragraph that addresses the descent into patterns of sin?


What was so grave about our fleeing with glee that led to the other two subsequent sins?


A child runs out of school as soon as the bell rings. Is that an indication of his dissatisfaction with his teachers? Certainly not!


School for children is the first time they encounter daily restrictions. I must sit here; not go there; get permission to go to the bathroom; control my speech; eat when designated to, and on and on.


A child wants to roam and explore, to feel free to express oneself, and to play and enjoy. When school ends, despite the exciting accomplishments of the day, the instincts of a child erupt joyfully, not necessarily because they'd rather not learn, but simply to be unshackled from being controlled.


That is all well and fine with a child. He hasn't matured enough to understand the value of learning and the power inherent within it. But when we as a nation experienced the greatest thrill in the world — G-d's revelation at Sinai, we must never compartmentalize that accomplishment and place it aside so that we may nourish our instinct for 'freedom'. We must long for those moments of connection through Torah that bonds us with the Divine and reluctantly leave those moments of embrace to attend to the physical needs in our journey of life that we must engage in to survive on this earth.


They lapsed in this consciousness, eagerly looking forward to traveling and settling in the promised land, and too quickly forgot the delight in remaining in the school of Sinai, where the pleasure of engaging in Torah represents the greatest and ultimate freedom for our Neshamos — our souls.


There is no greater joy. Nothing compares.


When we allow instinct to roam free, then the moment we encounter difficulty we complain, the moment we sense hunger we seek resolve, forgetting that each challenge is an opportunity to discover G-d more deeply.


This pattern of submitting to instinct began subtly, where disguised in our desire to settle in the promised land, we forgot the greater joy contained in our proximity to Hashem in the Bais Medrash of Sinai. From there we unleashed more basic instincts permitting ourselves to lose sight of who we truly are.


Rabbi Shmuel Eliezer HaLevi Eidels, the renowned 16th century Talmudist known as the Maharsha, writes in his Chidushei Aggados, that the foes we refer to in the two-sentence prayer, refers to those unlearned in the ways of Torah who establish בתי כנסת — Houses of  Gathering, but are empty of aspiration for greatness and growth, dutifully fulfilling the yoke of devotion to G-d in prayer, but shirking the yoke of greatness inherent in devotion to Torah study. The 'haters' are those who are otherwise learned, having absorbed Torah, but have aligned themselves with those who seek the easier path of less resistance in serving Hashem.Hashem 


We beg to restore the Divine Presence beseeching of G-d, to scatter these negative influences in our lives.  


We are facing a growing number of enemies and haters who seek our utter destruction and disappearance from their lives. These are imaginary adversaries easily manipulated by G-d as He pleases. They are representations of our inner foes that prevent us from actualizing true freedom and absolute joy.


The day we conquer our internal foes is the day our illusory physical enemies will be disappear into thin air.


Arise, Hashem, and let Your foes be scattered, let those who hate You flee from before You!


Reside tranquilly, O, Hashem, among the myriad thousands of Israel.


באהבה,


צבי יהודה טייכמאן





















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Baltimore, MD - June 17, 2025 – 3:24PM – (BJL) A car is currently blocking the northbound lanes of Reisterstown Road at Seven Mile Lane. A tow truck has just arrived on scene.  
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Baltimore, MD - June 17, 2025  - With heavy rain and thunderstorms continuing, up to 5 inches of rain may fall Tuesday as storms push through Maryland. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for portions of the greater Baltimore-Washington region. “Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations,” according to NWS. “Creeks and streams may rise out of their banks. Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas. Low-water crossings may be flooded.” The flood watch will be in effect from 2 to 10 p.m. Tuesday. More severe weather looms for Thursday. Areas in the flood watch include: Frederick, plus Montgomery and Prince George's counties. A hazardous weather outlook...
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“It looks like it’s coming straight from the MVA,” one Baltimore resident said, “and it says if I don’t pay today, I could be arrested.”
While the scam is hitting states acros...
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