Annapolis, MD - Dec. 11, 2024 - A renewed effort to expand alcohol sales beyond liquor stores has the backing of a powerful new ally — Gov. Wes Moore (D) told Maryland Matters that he “wants something on my desk at the end of the session.”
The General Assembly has tried before to allow alcohol sales in grocery stores — and perhaps other retailers. Moore said that while he will not make the bill an official part of his 2025 legislative package, his office will push for passage of a bill in the coming session.
“I think it’s time to address this issue because it’s something that I have heard literally in every single corner of the state from Western Maryland to the Eastern Shore. From Oakland, Ocean City, Montgomery County and everywhere in be...
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I am Esti, Lali’s mother.
Our Lali is a child we longed for and waited for five years. She is all the light and joy of our home, and all I want is for her to stay here with us.
Not long ago, she started feeling unwell. We took her to doctors, and what they discovered simply broke our hearts—she has cancer. Since then, nothing has been the same. We are trying to stay strong for her, but inside, we are falling apart.
Her treatments cost a lot, far beyond what we can manage alone. I am asking you, anyone who can contribute, to help us save Lali. Every donation, every bit of support—it’s for her and for us.
Please daven for Leah bas Esther for a full recovery.
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Baltimore, MD – Dec. 9, 2024 - BJL regrets to inform the community of the petira of Rabbi Michoel Glazer, z’l, son of Rabbi & Mrs. Shmuel Glazer, father of Sara Esty (Naftoli) Silberberg, Bassie (Shlioime) Tendler, Yossi Glazer, Eli Glazer, Moshe Glazer, and Chayala Glazer, and brother of Mrs. Devory (Rabbi Moshe) Matz, Mrs. Leah (Rabbi Elchonon) Ciment, Rabbi Yaakov Moshe (Shoshana) Glazer, Rabbi Dovid (Shani) Glazer and Shoshana (Binyomin) Rubinfeld.
The levayah will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 2:30PM at Levinson's, 8900 Reisterstown Rd, Pikesville, MD 21208.
Kevura will take place at the Agudah Cemetery in Rosedale.Shiva through Monday morning, Dec. 16, will be observed at 427 Yeshiva Lane, Pikesville, Maryland ...
FBI Director Christopher Wray told the bureau workforce Wednesday that he plans to resign at the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January, an announcement that came a week and a half after President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the job.
Wray said at a town hall meeting that he would be stepping down “after weeks of careful thought,” three years short of the completion of a 10-year term marked by high-profile and politically charged investigations, including that led to two separate indictments of Trump last year.
Wray’s intended resignation is not unexpected considering that Trump had settled on Patel to be director and had repeatedly aired his ire at Wray, including in a television interview broadcast Sunday...
I can just hear his voice in my ears: 'Unbelievable, how thousands of yidden are davening for another yid, just because he's a fellow yid!'
Even though this picture was just taken this month, somehow it feels like an eternity ago. Time moves weirdly these days. I just really wanted to take a moment to publicly express my hakaras hatov for the thousands of people who have reached out, who have been saying tehillim, and who have been keeping my father-in-law in mind in your tefillos.
The whole Krohn family (including my in-laws) have been seeing the tehillim, the parnas hayoms, the mitzvos being done, the letters, the messages, the tefillos... and it is all giving them tremendous chizuk. And is undoubtedly making a tremendous difference.
So from the bottom of our hear...
Syria's rebels are ignoring Israel's moves in the area due to fear of the Jewish state and a wish to prioritize gaining power at home, Sky News Arabia reported.
Mahmoud al-Afandi, a political researcher, told Sky News Arabia that, "Syria has fulfilled the conditions for a failed country, and what happens [now] is a random transfer of power."
"Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is afraid of Israel and the US," he told the site. "Even a statement regarding the Israeli strikes is hard for the terror group, which wants international recognition. If it clashes with Israel today, it certainly will not receive that."
He continued, "The coalition of the Syrian opposition has condemned the Russian aggression against Ukraine, but it is not publishing a similar statement re...
A proposed merger between grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons was halted Tuesday by two judges overseeing separate cases, leaving the $24.6 billion deal in legal limbo.
U.S. District Court Judge Adrienne Nelson issued a preliminary injunction blocking the merger Tuesday after holding a three-week hearing in Portland, Oregon.
Later Tuesday, Judge Marshall Ferguson in Seattle issued a permanent injunction barring the merger in Washington after concluding it would lessen competition in the state and violate Washington's consumer-protection laws.
The legal setback comes nearly a year after the FTC, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown and a bipartisan coalition of states filed a lawsuit challenging the proposed merger, saying it would eliminate competi...
Russia convinced former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad that he would lose the struggle against rebel organizations in his country, and offered him and his family refuge and help in escaping, US media reports said on Wednesday.
According to reports, Russian intelligence agents organized the escape, and flew Assad via an air base in Syria before turning off the plane's transmitter to avoid tracking.
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov commented on the reports, saying that Moscow had transferred Assad to their country "in the most secure manner."
Ryabkov was further asked if they intend to prosecute Assad for his humanitarian crimes in Syria, to which he responded that Russia is not a party to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. However, he stated that hi...
Israel’s concern that the instability in Syria could spill over into its territory has led it to major action in the neighboring country, essentially opening an additional front in the multi-front war it has been engaged in for fourteen months.
Over the weekend, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took control of the demilitarized buffer zone in Syria that was established as part of a 1974 cease-fire reached between the two hostile countries.
In that buffer zone is Mt. Hermon's highest peak, the highest point on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
“The territory guarantees strategic control over the whole southern Syrian arena, which generates an immediate threat to Israel,” Kobi Michael, a researcher at INSS and the Misgav Institute for National S...
The Baltimore City Circuit Court clerk made a very public call Tuesday for city agencies to proactively test the water at the Mitchell and Cummings courthouses to ensure it’s safe to drink.
Concerns are mounting over possible water contaminated with legionella at Baltimore buildings owned and operated by public entities.
This comes after water test results revealed last month that one of the six state-owned buildings at State Center is contaminated with legionella bacteria.
“At the end of the day, people really shouldn’t be working in these buildings. It’s a problem,” said Patrick Moran, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Maryland. “They’ve got to get a handle on infrastructure in the city and the ...
Columbia University’s alliance of anti-Israel activist groups is reinstated to Instagram after being suspended from the platform earlier this week.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of dozens of student groups, was suspended after posting plans for a protest targeting university trustees that included an image of a figure holding a Molotov cocktail.
That protest targeted Barnard College, the women’s college associated with Columbia. Barnard condemned “inflammatory posts with violent imagery” and stepped up security measures on campus in response.
Meta, Instagram’s parent company, did not respond to a request for comment on the suspension at the time.
Instagram is the student group’s main platform for organizing and advertisi...
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 11, 2024 - The Baltimore County Council held a hearing Tuesday where more than 70 residents, former Baltimore County officials and state lawmakers provided feedback on what they want to see in the next County Executive.
With the County Council chambers packed with people, the hearing lasted for hours.
As current Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski heads to Congress, his resignation will take effect on January 3, 2025. Now, the Baltimore County Council is tasked with appointing his replacement. Currently, the 10 candidates who have applied for the job include Tara E. Ebersole, Jim Brochin, Barry F. Williams, Paul Drutz-Hannahs, Katherine A. Klausmeier, Aris Melissaratos, Gregory A. Dennis, Yara A. Cheikh, George Perdikakis, Sr., Willi...
The defense establishment is worried about a domino effect from the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria leading to the deterioration in stability of the Palestinian Authority or even its collapse.
Galei Tzahal military correspondent Doron Kadosh reported that the defense establishment was closely monitoring the PA's stability and pointed to a few indicators that need to be monitored.
The defense establishment points out the unusual clashes and exchanges of fire in recent days between the PA security forces and the militants from terror organizations in Jenin and Tulkarm. At this stage, the incidents are limited to northern Samaria, but there is concern that they will spread to other locations.
In addition, incitement on social media is growing, as Hamas tries to call on the ...
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 2024 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for Yiddishkeit and for HaShem with their children. Unfortunately, our schedules are hectic and many people don’t have the time to prepare themselves to utilize the Shabbos table to its fullest. Therefore, we at ACHIM created TableTalk as a pre-packaged talking points pamphlet which is attractive, fun and has something for everyone. Limited copies are distributed to many shuls on a weekly basis but they are snatched up very quickly. Get yours ASAP or click on the graphic below and print your own.What’s in it and what’s all the excitement about?TableTalk features:• Weekly halachic dilemma creating l...
White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says there is no update on the efforts to secure a hostage release and ceasefire deal in Gaza.
"We are not on the verge of signing an agreement," Kirby emphasized at the beginning of his remarks, but added: "But we are working on it very diligently. There's still a lot of work to do. Hamas continues to be ‘the main stumbling block,’ but we are putting a lot of pressure on it."
Regarding the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, he said, "Hamas should now feel isolated, following the ceasefire deal in Lebanon, and its leaders should agree to a deal to end the war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that, even in exchange for the release of all remaining hostages, Israel will not agree to end the war perman...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Wednesday blamed Israel and the United States for the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, accusing the countries of planning the dictator’s collapse, and vowing that the so-called Axis of Resistance, of which Assad’s government was a part, will only grow stronger moving forward.
“There should be no doubt that what happened in Syria was plotted in the command rooms of the United States and Israel. We have evidence for this,” the Shiite cleric said, in remarks quoted by state media.
The remarks, delivered to a crowd of supporters, were Khamenei’s first public comments on Syria since the dramatic toppling of the Assad regime on Sunday by a jihadist-led coalition of rebel groups, following a two-week lightning offe...
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 10, 2024 - Baltimore County police are urging drivers to prioritize student safety.
Since citations began to be issued on November 4, the Baltimore County Department has issued 7,437 citations.
This is because school bus cameras continue to capture drivers failing to stop as the buses are picking up or dropping off students.
Maryland law requires drivers traveling in both directions to stop at least 20 feet from a stopped school bus with activated flashing red lights.
Drivers who don't stop are subject to a $250 fine.
The IDF announced on Tuesday evening that it has struck 320 “strategic targets” in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime over the weekend. The operation is meant to destroy much of Syria's arsenal to prevent it from falling into the hands of Islamist and terrorist forces.
Over 350 fighter jets took part in the operation, which has been given the name "Bashan Arrow." As much as 70 to 80 percent of the Assad regime's military capabilities have been destroyed.
The IDF attacked 320 targets from Damascus to Tartus, including advanced tanks, aircraft, helicopters, air defense systems, missile ships, rockets, weapons production sites, weapons depots, Scud missiles, cruise missiles, coastal missiles, drones, and more.
Activities in Syria are still continuing on the grou...
