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Baltimore, MD - Jan. 20, 2025 - Seven Mile Market invites family and friends to join us again this year to celebrate 36 wonderful years of serving the greater Baltimore community! Our Customer Appreciation Event will be January 26 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. (times are approximate). The event promises to be bigger and better than ever, with many familiar vendors returning and new ones joining!
There will be Food Sampling by A&B, Golden Taste with Sara Lasry, iKonic, Kayco, Klein’s Ice Cream, Meal Mart, Mehadrin Dairy & Ice Cream, Natural & Kosher, Norman’s, Pure Bakes by Danielle, Reisman’s, Schtark Cheese, Shefa Dips, Sprinkles Ice Cream, and Stern’s. There will be steep sale pricing on many items storewide throughout the week. All iKippahs will be...
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Baltimore, MD – Are you nervous about Kashering for Pesach; unsure you will get it done properly? Are you afraid the water will ruin your cabinets and create a mess in your kitchen? Are you moving into a new house and need the kitchen kashered; stress-free? Click here.
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Baltimore, MD - Jan. 16, 2025 - The Reisterstown Road Plaza (RRP) is stepping into a bold new chapter, embracing change while honoring its roots as a community gathering place. With the removal of the iconic “drum” that has long defined its entrance, this milestone marks the beginning of a comprehensive transformation aimed at reimagining the space. “We are excited to welcome in a new era with a fresh new look and feel,” a representative of Tide Realty Capital, the Plaza’s new local owner, told BJL.The upcoming facade overhaul is just the first step in a broader effort to revitalize the Plaza, creating a more welcoming, modern, and community-oriented town center. The redesign seeks to foster deeper community engagement, offering updated spaces for l...
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Baltimore, MD - Jan. 20, 2025 (BJL) 10:39PM - A serious accident has occurred on Smith Avenue between Labyrinth and Seven Mile. The right lane heading towards Seven Mile is blocked.
President Donald Trump, while signing a slew of executive orders in the Oval Office on Monday night following his inaugural parade event, was asked if he was confident he could keep the ceasefire in Gaza and complete the three phases of the deal.
"I'm not confident," Trump replied. "It's not our war. It's their war. I'm not confident, but they're very weakened on the other side."
Trump said he looked at a picture of Gaza and said it's like a "massive demolition site" and that it's "really got to be rebuilt in a different way."
The President said Gaza is a "phenomenal location on the sea" with the best weather.
"You know, everything's good," he said. "Some beautiful things could be done with it, but it's very interesting,...
Cuba’s president condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to put the island back on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, calling Trump’s actions “an act of arrogance and disregard for the truth.”
“President Trump, in an act of arrogance and disregard for the truth, has just reinstated the fraudulent designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel wrote on X. “This is not surprising. His goal is to continue strengthening the cruel economic war against Cuba for the purpose of domination.”
“The result of the extreme economic siege measures imposed by Trump has been to cause shortages among our people and a significant increase in the migratory flow from Cuba to the United Sta...
President Donald Trump ordered the secretary of defense or military service secretaries to “order as many units or members of the Armed Forces, including the Ready Reserve and the National Guard, as the secretary of defense determines to be appropriate” to support the Department of Homeland Security at the border.
Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border on Monday, authorizing additional use of Defense Department resources at the border.
The executive order also directs the secretaries of defense and homeland security to work with the Attorney General on revising policies where applicable to ensure “use of force policies prioritize the safety” of DOD and DHS personnel at the border.
“America’s sovereignty is under attack &h...
President Donald Trump said in an Oval Office signing ceremony Monday evening that his administration will impose 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada on February 1, an extraordinary change in North American trade policy that could raise prices for American consumers.
Trump still outlined his broader trade policy for his second term in an executive action Monday. But that action — described by sources as a “placeholder” — doesn’t institute new global tariffs that Trump promised on Day One.
As a candidate, Trump proposed sweeping and across-the-board tariffs: up to 20% on imports from all countries, with a 25% tax on goods from Mexico and Canada, plus a punishing 60% levy on goods from China. He also pledged to use tariffs as a negotiating tool on other...
President Donald Trump issued two executive orders hours after taking office directing his Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to open broad investigations into Biden administration “censorship of free speech” or “weaponization” of law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Taken together, the two executive orders reflect Trump’s repeated promise during his campaign to go after we he viewed as improper efforts by Biden administration efforts to criminally pursue his allies or other conservatives.
But Trump himself has pledged to seek retribution on his own political opponents — and his pick for some top administration jobs signals that he plans to keep that a priority.
“The American people have witnessed...
With the families of hostages held in Gaza standing behind him, President Donald Trump reiterated his promise to bring them home.
Trump, speaking to a crowd of supporters in Capital One Arena on Monday, said he has had conversations with the families. Earlier, his US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said the newly-inaugurated president would also meet with them today.
“And some of them are just saying, ‘No, my son is gone. But please, just bring home his body,’” Trump said.
He also referenced the hostages that were released on Sunday as part of ceasefire deal that was finalized last week.
“We never stopped praying for you, and we’re so glad that you’re reunited with your friends and families,” Trump said.
“S...
President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, a significant move cutting ties with the United Nation’s public health agency on his first day in office.
Trump has long been critical of the WHO, and his administration formally withdrew from the organization in July 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic continued to spread.
The text of the executive order cites the “organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states,” as reasons for the US withdrawal.
“That’s a big one,” Trum...
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
Many of the 51 former officials are long retired and no longer hold active clearances — meaning that the move may have limited practical impact on their careers — but the order nevertheless suggests that Trump intends to act on threats he’s made to penalize national security and intelligence professionals whom he deems to be his enemies.
“They should be prosecuted for what they did,” Trump said of the 51 former officials who signed the letter, at a...
In one fell swoop, President Donald Trump ended all of the nearly 1,600 cases stemming from the January 6 US Capitol attack.
He signed a proclamation Monday pardoning nearly all 1,270 people convicted in the January 6 attack, directing the Justice Department to drop about 300 pending cases, and ordering the release of a small group of 14 other defendants who were charged in the most serious sedition cases. (Trump misspoke earlier tonight when he said the pardon would cover about 1,500 people.)
These actions go farther than many — including Trump’s own advisers and GOP allies — were expecting. Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson said in recent days that Trump should only pardon nonviolent offenders.
But the proclamation he signed, granting a “fu...
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was confirmed unanimously by the Senate to be the next secretary of state, making him the first of President Trump's Cabinet picks to receive congressional approval.
Rubio, a senator since 2011, was confirmed during a floor vote by the full Senate Monday night, several hours after Trump took his oath of office earlier in the day. The full Senate floor vote occurred following a separate vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which also voted unanimously in favor of Rubio's nomination Monday.
Rubio enters his role as secretary of state with a strong foreign policy background as a longtime member of the Senate's Foreign Relations and Intelligence Committees. He is also a first-generation Cuban American.
H...
Jerusalem, Israel - Jan. 20, 2025 - "Congratulations Donald Trump, Israel loves you" was posted on a large banner outside of the Friends of Zion Museum. The event timed to coincide with the inauguration swearing-in ceremony on January 20, 2025, was attended by about a thousand people. Ambassadors, businessmen, dignitaries, and key figures in US-Israel relations filled the multiple levels and areas of the Friends of Zion campus in Jerusalem, Israel.
Crowds arrived early and crowded into the entrance to the museum well before the announced start time. The guests were served an American-style buffet dinner of hotdogs and burgers, before the live broadcast and a panel discussion.
The Soloman Brothers provided live music. Hundreds of red hats and Israeli an...
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 20, 2025 - This past shabbos, Parshas Shemos, we celebrated the bar mitzvah of my youngest child.
It was an incredible experience and so grateful on many levels and I’m still processing this milestone.
For weeks, my husband and I were busy preparing, each one with our own to-do-list, along with juggling the responsibilities of regular life. Somewhere in between that, I lost track of the news, however I continued to daven daily for our people with my Tehillim for Hostages whats app group, and using the tefillah card I have at home for the safety of our Chayalim, return of our hostages and healing for those injured in the war. Almost like background noise, I knew there was talks of a cease-fire and a potential hostage release. I didn...
Steven Witkoff, US President Donald Trump's Special Envoy to the Middle East, recounted his recent efforts that helped secure the ceasefire and hostage release deal that went into effect yesterday (Sunday) in an interview with Israel's Channel 12 News.
Witkoff said that he was emotional when he saw the photographs of the three hostages who were released Sunday afternoon and their first meetings with their families. "I myself had tears in my eyes when I saw the pictures. As a family member, I can't imagine what it must have been like for these parents to have welcomed back their daughters and knowing that they weren't going to lose their children."
He said that he believes President Trump "felt fulfilled" when he saw the images of the freed hostages reuniting with...
Minutes before leaving the presidency, Joe Biden pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying Monday that his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.”
“Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” he said as his presidential term was ending.
The family pardons were the surprise finale in a series of unprecedented presidential actions by the Democrat, who has been known as an intuitionalist during his half-century in politics. Biden also pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and allies who have been targeted by Republican Presi...
Vivek Ramaswamy will launch a campaign for governor in Ohio early next week and is parting ways with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, two sources familiar with his plans told NBC News.
Ramaswamy’s interest in seeking office in his home state is not a surprise. But his decision to leave DOGE now removes him from the high command of a federal spending watchdog group that he was supposed to run with Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO and owner of X.
“He’s leaving DOGE. He’s going to announce early next week for governor,” said one of the sources, who was granted anonymity to discuss preparations for a campaign that has not officially launched. “It became increasingly clear over the las...
