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Oct. 15, 2024:Dear friends,We are truly overwhelmed by the outpouring of generosity shown by the beautiful Baltimore Jewish community. Baltimore is, and always was, a city of chesed (kindness), and R' Dovid and I are proud to have grown up there. May this year bring growth, happiness, prosperity, and peace to all of you, to Am Yisroel, and to the world.Thank you for being by our side. Rochel Frid (née Reich) on behalf of R' Dovid and the family. Donate Now: https://bit.ly/SavingRavDovid Rochel Frid has been fighting a battle that no one should face alone. Her husband, a kind and loving father, is battling life with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), a cruel disease that has robbed him of his ability to move, speak, and live independently. Despite the tremend...
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Baltimore, MD - Oct. 15, 2024  - Always wanted to join Daf Yomi but needed a little nudge? Enter O'Fishel's Mitzvah Motivators Get Your HEAD in SanHEDrin Program, with incentives of up to $1,000! Details on mitzvahmo.com
Baltimore, MD – Oct.15, 2024 – Below are the STAR-K Restaurants & Certified Facilities with Sukkas Available Accents GrillAventura Assisted Living (formerly Tudor Heights) Caramels Pizza Cocoacinos/Pie 18 Cafe Croustille Cafe David Chu China Bistro Goldbergs Bagels King David Nursing Home Mama Leah’s Pizza Mangal Food Truck Serengeti Steakhouse Taam Thai Asian Fusion The Club Grill Yesh Hummus Grill Yossi’s Falafel
Baltimore, MD -Oct. 16, 2024 - 12:13PM: 1.    Outer Loop at Park Heights: The outer loop of the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) is closed at Park Heights Avenue with traffic building up back to I-83 due to an accident.2.    I-695 South from Exit 22: Bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-695 southbound starting from Exit 22 due to an accident.H/T: Bmore Traffic
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Baltimore, MD - Sept. 22, 2024 -  As always, Shabsi's Judaica looks forward to assisting you with all your Yom Tov needs. Click on the graphic below for a larger, printable version of Shabsi's Judaica Yom Tov season schedule!  
From Ohel Yakov: Baltimore, MD - Oct. 16, 2024  - We regret to inform you that David Bruckner, z'l, a former neighbor of Ohel Yakov, was niftar. There will be a Graveside Levaya today, 2:30 pm, at the Ohel Yakov cemetery. He had no family to speak of so anyone who can participate will be doing a great mitzvah. For further information, please contact Rabbi Akiva Feldman or Tzvi Badian (410-578-1568, hbadian@gmail.com).
Delta Airlines says it is extending its cancellation of all flights to Israel through at least April 2025. In a statement, the airline says that flights on its JFK-Tel Aviv route “will be paused through March 31, due to ongoing conflict in the region.” The airline canceled its flights to Israel following the October 7 Hamas attack, finally resuming them in June 2024 before canceling them again on July 31 after the targeted assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Over the past few days, IDF troops located and conducted targeted raids on a large network of underground infrastructure and tunnel shafts that included living quarters, and armories, and found a large quantity of weaponry. According to the IDF, the infrastructure was intended to aid Radwan forces as part of Hezbollah’s “Conquer the Galilee” plan. "The tunnel network was embedded in the heart of a town, beneath the homes of Lebanese civilians that were used by Hezbollah terrorists, who cynically exploited civilian infrastructure in southern Lebanon," the IDF stated. On Wednesday morning, the tunnel network was dismantled by IDF troops. Earlier in the day, with the direction of the IDF Northern Command, the IAF struck dozens of Hezbollah terrorist targets in the Nabati...
Troops from the Alexandroni Brigade's Battalion 7012 on Wednesday blew up Hezbollah's central operations command center in southern Lebanon. The command center was built across from the Ramim Ridge and the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona in the Galilee panhandle. In the village of Muhajbib, where the command center was located, troops exposed numerous shafts that led to underground infrastructure consisting of advanced command centers, berthing and planning rooms, communications rooms, and more. During the time that Battalion 7012 operated under the 8th Brigade, the troops seized hundreds of Claymore mines that were ready to be used, advanced shoulder-fired and anti-tank missiles, hundreds of hand grenades, hundreds of RPG grenades, hundreds of anti-tank mines, and ammunition. A...
We are about to enter זמן שמחתנו — the time of our gladness. Yet we are still reeling from the horrific events that began nearly a year ago, and are still occurring daily, that make it so difficult to rejoice. We will soon read over Sukkos from Koheles, where King Solomon speaks of aעת ספוד — time to wail, and a עת רקוד — time to dance. These two periods are contrasted as conflicting with each other, intimating they cannot coexist. There is a fascinating assertion made by two very diverse schools of thought. Both the Netziv, the famed Rosh HaYeshivah of Volozhin, and the great Chassidic master, the Holy Kohen of Lublin, Reb Tzadok, teach that on Sukkos there is an injunction to dance! Although all the holidays are referred in the Torah as חגים...
Over recent decades, Israel's defense establishment has invested billions in preparing for a potential strike on Iran, developing specialized munitions along the way. Some of these capabilities were only revealed after being sold to foreign air forces. Here’s what can be disclosed amidst these preparations. Last month, Israel conducted another strike in Yemen, deploying F-15 jets from a base 1,800 kilometers away, showcasing its renowned improvisation skills. These aircraft, initially designed for air combat, were modified in Israel for strike missions. The Israeli Air Force also equipped them to carry modern munitions from both American and Israeli manufacturers. However, an attack on Iran presents a far more complex challenge, despite the similar dis...
The YomTov of Succos represents multiple ideas within the Torah and the Mepharshim.  The Torah tells us that the Chag recalls how we lived in these makeshift houses as we left Mitzrayim. (Behar 23:43)  The Gemara questions whether we are commemorating the actual “houses” in which we lived temporarily or whether we are really referring to the Ananei Hakovod which divinely protected us when we were in the Midbar.  (Gemara Succah, 11b) Either way, The Gemara concludes we are recalling an event which took place in Nissan, around the same time as Pesach, immediately after Yitzias Mitzrayim, Indeed, Chazal say that Succos would be more appropriately celebrated in the spring but we shifted it to the fall so it would not appear that it was simply a comfortable time to co...
The STAR-K site offers helpful information related to the halachos of schach mats, certified schach manufacturers and local establishments that have a sukkah on their premises. Links to these are articles, podcasts and webinars are provided below for your convenience. Local Establishments The following are STAR-K certified restaurants and facilities in the Baltimore area that have sukkahs available for their customers: Accents Grill Caramels Pizza Cocoacinos/Pie 18 Cafe Croustille Cafe David Chu China Bistro Goldbergs Bagels King David Nursing Home Mama Leah’s Pizza Mangal Food Truck Serengeti Steakhouse Taam Thai Asian Fusion The Club Grill Tudor Heights Assisted Living Yesh Hummus Grill Yossi’s Falafel Schach-Related Articles, Podcasts and Webinars Kos...
Lufthansa, Germany’s biggest airline, has been fined a record $4 million for discriminating against Jewish passengers, the US Department of Transportation announced Tuesday. The fine stems from a May 2022 incident in which the airline prohibited 128 Jewish passengers from boarding. The DOT noted in a consent order that the passengers were wearing “distinctive garb typically worn by Orthodox Jewish men.” They were denied boarding as a group and were unable to connect in Frankfurt to Budapest from a New York flight because of “alleged misbehavior of a few.” However, the passengers did not know each other nor were they traveling together. In a press release, the airline said the incident “resulted from an unfortunate series of inaccurate commun...
Baltimore, MD – Oct. 15, 2024  - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Rabbi & Mrs. Yosef Wealcatch on the birth of a son. Mazel Tov to Grandparents Rabbi & Mrs. Yaakov Wealcatch יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
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