A federal judge on Monday scheduled a Wednesday court hearing for Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), forbidding the government from moving forward with deportation efforts before then.
Lawyers for Khalil, a legal immigrant and leading pro-Palestinian demonstrator whose arrest was cheered by President Trump, have also filed a motion seeking his return to New York.
Khalil’s attorney, Amy Greer, said in a statement to The Hill that it hadn’t been immediately clear where ICE took Khalil. His team had originally thought New Jersey, but reports, including from The New York Times, indicated he had been taken to Louisiana.
Trump and his administration celebrated Khalil’s detentio...
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Baltimore, MD – Mar. 5, 2025 - BJL regrets to inform the community of the petira of Susan Merims, a’h, mother of Laura (Rabbi Mayer) Kurcfeld and Marshall (Cheryl) Merims.
The levayah will take place on Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 12:00 noon at Brown-Wynne Funeral Home 200 Southeast Maynard Road, Cary, NC 27511Click here for Livestream Shiva will be observed through Wednesday morning March 12, 2025 (No minyanim):26 Jones Valley Circle, Baltimore, MD 21209 Please only park in spaces marked "Guest"Visitation:Monday and Tuesday - 9:00am-12:00pm, 1:00-5:00, 7:00-9:00pmBila Hamaves Lanetzach…
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir held talks today (Monday) with commanders of operational units of the rank lieutenant colonel and above, and clarified that the war is not over and that they should prepare for battle.
"The IDF operates in seven arenas in a multi-arena combat procedure. We have accumulated great operational experience from the war that must be utilized," said Zamir.
He also said that "the release of the hostages is a top goal. We need to return them all. When I was at the Western Wall, that was my message - the wellbeing of the IDF soldiers and the return of our dear hostages."
He also said that "the trust of citizens in the IDF and the trust of IDF soldiers in their commanders are the bedrock of our existence. The IDF does not belong to me, all my considerations are for th...
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Submissions will be published in a future issue of the BJH.
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Baltimore, MD - March 6, 2025 - Explore the latest issue of Baltimore Jewish Home.
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Washington, D.C. - Mar. 10, 2025 - The US Department of Education announced that 60 institutions of higher learning have been warned that they could lose federal funding over their handling of antisemitic incidents on campus after Columbia University lost $400 million in federal grants last week.
The letters are addressed to all US universities that are presently under investigation for Title VI violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination. In addition to Columbia, fellow Ivy League institutions Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and Cornell received warnings.
“The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite US campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless antisemitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life ...
Pro-Palestinian cyberhacking group Dark Storm claimed that it hacked X/Twitter on Monday.
This comes after X CEO Elon Musk claimed that the social media platform experienced a massive cyberattack that "was done with a lot of resources," he wrote. "Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved."
The social media site was down for several hours for over 40,000 users internationally, according to Downdetector.com.At 5:40 p.m., the app had approximately 28,570 outage reports, the website found. Some 57% of users reported problems with the app, while 32% reported issues with the website.
Earlier X/Twitter outages
Reuters previously reported that the social media site was down for some 11,000 people, user-submitted data on the outage-tracking websit...
Elon Musk is blaming nationwide protests against his electric car company Tesla on left-wing billionaire George Soros, billionaire Democratic mega-donor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and others, claiming they are bankrolling the destructive "protests."
The protests at dealerships and other locations have occurred even as some Tesla vehicles and charging stations have been damaged and destroyed, though it is not clear that the protests and the vandalism are linked. Musk, Tesla's CEO, took to his social media platform X on Sunday morning to say an investigation found five ActBlue-funded groups were responsible for Tesla "protests."
"An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla ‘protests’: Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise &...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the unprecedented direct talks last week between representatives of the American government and representatives of the Hamas terrorist organization upon his arrival in Saudi Arabia today (Monday).
"That was a one-off situation in which our special envoy for hostages, whose job it is to get people released, had an opportunity to talk directly to someone who has control over these people and was given permission and encouraged to do so. He did so," Rubio told reporters.
He added that the talks that Trump hostage envoy Adam Boehler engaged in with Hamas officials had not "borne fruit."
In addition, the Secretary of State clarified that the US will continue efforts to free the hostages through special envoy Steve Witkoff and other mediating countr...
U.S. stocks tumbled on Monday, with concerns about the effects of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on economic growth spooking investors.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 890.01 points, or 2.08%, while the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 slid 4% and 2.69%, respectively. The Dow and the S&P 500 saw their worst day since Dec. 18; the tech-heavy Nasdaq had its worst day since September 2022.
Trump on Sunday declined to explicitly rule out a full-blown recession for the U.S. economy this year, telling Maria Bartiromo in a "Sunday Morning Futures" exclusive interview that the country will see a "period of transition" as his policies take effect."I hate to predict things like that," he said of a recession. "There is a period of transition...
A delegation of Israeli negotiators departed for Doha on Monday afternoon and is expected to begin indirect talks with Hamas later in the day through mediators, based on a framework proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s special Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff. The initial discussions will focus on the structure of the negotiations and the issues to be addressed. Witkoff himself is expected to join the talks on Tuesday or Wednesday.
In an interview with Fox News earlier in the day, Witkoff said, “We need deadlines” for the next stage of the cease-fire deal, reiterating his claim that this is the only way to advance the stalled negotiations. Last week he stressed that “Trump has had enough.” According to Witkoff, “This has to happen. The way these host...
The Knesset's (Israeli parliament's) Special Committee for Foreign Workers held a discussion on Sunday to examine the needs of wounded and disabled IDF soldiers and the response foreign caregivers could provide.
During the discussion, data from the Defense Minister revealed that the number of registered IDF wounded and disabled veterans rose from 62,000 to 78,000 since the war began on October 7, 2023. "Most of them are reservists and 51 percent of the wounded are up to 30 years old," the ministry's report said. The number will increase, the ministry assesses, as post-trauma cases emerge.
The committee chairwoman, Knesset member Etty Atiya (Likud), emphasized the need to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy for the wounded and to remove obstacles. "There is no dispute that the I...
Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Negev, Galilee and National Resilience and Nefesh B’Nefesh in partnership with The Jewish Agency for Israel further their joint mission to alleviate Israel’s critical shortage of healthcare professionals
New Jersey - March 9, 2025 — Over 500 Jewish doctors and healthcare professionals gathered on Sunday at the 10th annual MedEx event in Teaneck, New Jersey, hosted by Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Negev, Galilee and National Resilience and Nefesh B’Nefesh and in partnership with The Jewish Agency for Israel. MedEx serves as a cornerstone initiative, streamlining the Aliyah process for medical professionals and ensuring their s...
The stock market kicked off the week with losses Monday amid growing concern about the state of the U.S. economy and the impact of President Trump’s trade policy.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened with a loss of 1 percent Monday, falling 402 points after the opening bell. The Nasdaq composite was down 2.9 percent, and the S&P 500 index was down 1.8 percent.
Stocks have fallen steadily since the start of March in response to a string of underwhelming economic data and whipsaw tariff announcements from the Trump administration.
Wall Street has become increasingly fearful of a recession after public and private-sector job data, consumer confidence surveys and inflation readings showed the economy backtracking from progress made during the end of the Biden administration.
T...
Baltimore, MD - Mar. 10, 2025 - Baltimore City will begin enforcing parking rules 24-7 beginning Monday.
“The 24-hour enforcement plan would help to improve parking compliance as overnight enforcement will allow agents to cite habitual offenders, including commercial vehicles parked illegally,” Mayor Brandon Scott said.
The mayor says the city is stepping up a service that’s been lacking, saying it will give neighborhoods some much-needed attention.
“Towable offenses such as abandoned vehicles can also be cited,” Scott said.
More parking tickets means more revenue for the city.
On the fourteenth of Adar, we celebrate Purim. The principal mitzvot of the holiday are reading Megillat Esther, giving gifts to the poor, sending packages of food and drink to friends, and holding a Purim feast. But the holiday includes many other customs, too, such as spinning noisemakers, eating hamantaschen, and, of course, dressing up in fancy costumes. The Lubavitcher Rebbe called on us to learn an important lesson from the costumes:
“When we see someone dressed up on Purim as a frightening animal or a clown, it doesn’t occur to us to be angry, or afraid, or to take that person seriously. After all, it’s just a costume. But in everyday life we frequently meet people who seem to be walking around in disguise. One is disguised as someone arrogant, another as someone ...
Jerusalem, Israel - March 9, 2025 - The MIXiii HealthTech conference held in the International Conference Center in Jerusalem, Israel, on March 4-5, 2025, was a testament to Israel’s unwavering innovation spirit, despite the challenges faced in recent times.
Israel is still reeling from the effects of war, however, this year saw an impressive turnout of 1,700 professionals, including representatives from Teva, Philips, the U.S. embassy, and delegations from the Czech Republic.
As in the past, Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, had a significant presence at the event. The Yissum exhibition booth activity reflected the global interest in Israeli research and technology.
“We have truly seen that the innovat...
