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Baltimore, MD – Jan. 26, 2025 - BJL is heartbroken to inform the community of the petira of Risa Levi, a’h, wife of Aaron Levi, mother of Eliyahu Levi, Elan Levi, and Adir Levi, daughter of Marilyn and Joseph Bench, sister of David (Drorit) Bench and Felicia Zwebner and daughter-in-law of Phyllis (Barry, z'l) Levi
The levaya will take place Tuesday morning, January 28 at 9:30 am at Sol Levinson. Kevura will follow at Chevras Ahavas Chesed Cemetery (9780 Liberty Rd, Randallstown, MD 21133). Shiva will be observed at 2706 Copperfield Court, through Monday morning, Feb.3. Minyanim:Shacharis: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Monday- 7:30 amShacharis: Sunday - 8:30 amMincha/Maariv: Tuesday - Thursday and Sunday - 5:05 pmMincha: Friday - 2:00 pmVisiting hours: After ...
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Baltimore, MD – Jan. 25, 2025 - BJL regrets to inform the community of the petira of Mrs Anita Lane, a’h, mother of Mrs. Michele (Abe) Loewenthal.
The levayah will be held Tuesday, 1/28/2025, 12:30 at Congregation B'nai Tzedek, 10621 S. Glen Road, Potomac, MD. Kevurah will take place at Judean Memorial Gardens, 16225 Batchellors Forest Rd, Olney MD.
SHIVA SCHEDULE
Tuesday – Bruce and Leslie Lane (5104 Moorland Lane, Bethesda, MD
6:30PM
Minyan at 7:30PM (Maariv)
Wednesday – Bruce and Leslie Lane (5104 Moorland Lane, Bethesda, MD
1:00 – 4:00PM
6:30PM
Minyan at 7:30PM (Maariv)
Thursday – Michele and Abe Loewenthal (6205 Green Meadow Way, Baltimore, MD)
9am – 12 p...
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 31, 2025 - Yesterday, Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum, director of the Jewish Uniformed Service Association of Maryland-Chabad (JUSA) and a Federal Law Enforcement Chaplain, visited the site of the plane crash at Reagan National Airport, where he recited Tehillim (Psalms) in memory of the victims. Afterward, he went to the command center to offer support and meet with the first responders who had been on duty since the time of the plane crash. With his colleague and fellow Law Enforcement Chaplain Rabbi Mordechai Newman, Rabbi Tenenbaum spent time with some of the families of the victims, providing them with comfort and support. He said, it was heartbreaking to witness the families of those whose lives were forever changed in an instant by the plane crash.
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Baltimore, MD – Jan. 29, 2025 - BJL regrets to inform the community of the petira in Israel of Mrs. Rochel Eilberg, a’h, mother of Mrs. Yocheved (Eliyahu) Eskanazi and Deena Katz
Baltimore:Shiva in Baltimore is being observed at 3114 Marnat Road, Baltimore, MD , 21208Visiting times: Wed: 7-9 pm Thurs:11-1, 2-5, 7-9 Fri: 10-12 Motzaei Shabbos 7:30-9:30Sun. No hours Mon. 2-5, 7-9 Israel:Deena Katz will be sitting in Beit Tuvei Ha'ir, Room 454. 36 Malchei Yisroel, Yerushalayim
Bila HaMaves LaNetzach…
Every word, every letter in the Torah is used for a specific reason and purpose. We are reminded of this concept often through the teachings of Chazal where they will derive significant meanings from a word missing a letter, which it would customarily have (chaser), or a word having an “extra” letter - one which it normally would not have (maleh). The Gemarah goes even further and teaches us that Hashem told Moshe Rabeinu that not only were nekudos important but that one day, a great man named Rebbi Akiva will learn halachos out of the “crowns” written on top of the letters in the Torah (Menachos 29b). This idea is driven home quite clearly in Parshas Bo.
In this Parsha, we are deep into the maccos brought upon Pharoh for his stubborn ...
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 31, 2025 – 11:15AM - The traffic signal at Cross Country & Clarks Lane is flashing yellow, again.Reminder:Flashing red and yellow lights on a traffic control signal does not mean the light is ‘non-functioning’. Drivers approaching a red flashing light must stop and can only proceed when the intersection is clear, and drivers approaching a yellow flashing light should slow down and use caution but can proceed through the intersection without stopping.
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 31, 2025 - The North Avenue District Courthouse in Baltimore is closed Friday after a shooting.
North Avenue and Hartford Road are closed. Officials ask the public to avoid the area.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said a 35-year-old man entered the Eastside District Court on North Avenue in Baltimore around 8:40 a.m. Friday.
"As he went into the courthouse, he was clearly suffering from behavioral crisis, he was walking back and forth," Worley said. "Sheriff's deputies and the bailiffs tried to interact with him. At some point, he withdrew a firearm from his body, pointed it at his head. The deputies tried to get him to drop his weapon."
Worley said a bailiff is preliminarily believed to have fired two shots, striking the man in the lower extremi...
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 31, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Dovid Shugarman & Chaya Dobin on their engagement!
Mazel Tov to Laibel & Rita Shugarman and Avi & Sara Dobin and to grandparents David & Renee Bienenstock.
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 30, 2025 - BJL regrets to inform the community of the petira of Yehoshua Betzalel Teitelbaum, z’l, son of Dr. & Mrs. Chuny Teitelbaum, and brother of Shmuel Ovadia Teitelbaum, Yisroel Teitelbaum, Mrs. Shira (Dr. Dovie) Bechhofer, Mrs. Miri (Avi) Mayer and Mrs. Adina (Avi) Abrams.
The Levayah will be this morning, Jan. 30, at 10:45 am at El Al cargo, 123 N Hangar Rd, Jamaica, NY 11430.Click here for Levayah via ZOOM
The Kevurah in Eretz Yisroel will be at 10:00 am Friday morning at the Eretz Hachaim cemetery in Beit Shemesh.
Shiva will be observed in the Teitelbaum home, 1263 East 10th Street Brooklyn, NY 11230.
Dr. & Mrs. Chuny Teitelbaum, Yisroel and Mrs. Shira (Dovie) Bechhofer are in Eretz Yisroel and will return to Brooklyn from...
Baltimore, MD – Jan. 31, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Yossi Egert (Monsey) & Leeba Gold (Baltimore) on their engagement!
Mazel Tov Isser & Esther Leah Egert and Eli & Aviva Gold and grandparents Mr. & Mrs. Yossi Zoimen
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
When a large segment of a community is enduring similar challenges, we often borrow and utter a sentiment expressed in this week's portion when the Egyptians realized the full repercussions of the plague of the Firstborn, "There was no house that there was no corpse."
Why do we emphasize the 'house' being affected rather than a more accurate expression that there was simply no person that didn't suffer a loss?
We are taught that it wasn't just a mother's firstborn child that was doomed, but any child who was the first to be spawned by his father — even if his mother had previously given birth to others — was also doomed.
In one of the chapters in Psalms where King David records the marvels that transpired in Egypt, he mentions how, "He sm...
After 482 days in Hamas captivity, Israeli hostages Arbel Yehud, Gadi Moses, and Agam Berger returned home on Thursday, revealing harrowing details of their ordeal—including how they clung to their faith, refusing to eat leavened bread on Passover and attempting to fast on Yom Kippur, despite their captors’ cruelty.
The IDF observers from Nahal Oz, including Agam Berger, made a conscious effort to observe Jewish traditions even while being held underground and in Hamas-controlled apartments in Gaza, Ynet reported.
Despite the dire conditions, they refused to eat chametz (leavened bread) on Passover and attempted to fast on Yom Kippur, a difficult task given the severe malnutrition they suffered.
Berger, the last IDF observer to be released, said that holding o...
Annapolis, MD - Jan. 30, 2025 - Maryland standardized reading test scores for fourth graders jumped from 40th in the nation in 2022 to 20th place in 2024, according to the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress report released Wednesday.
The NAEP, often referred to as the Nation’s Report Card, also said reading scores for Maryland eighth graders improved from 25th to 21st during the same period.
State Superintendent Carey Wright said one reason for the gains is the fact that it has been a statewide priority to incorporate the science of reading in all 24 school systems, starting this school year. The program, which Wright led during her tenure as state schools chief in Mississippi, focuses on teaching students based on phonics, comprehension and vocabulary.
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Towson, MD - Jan. 30, 2025 - The Baltimore County Police Department would like the public to be aware of a phone scam in which the caller is posing as a member of law enforcement. These callers may use urgent language to pressure the resident into making an immediate payment via wire transfers or other means. Through fraudulent means the name of a legitimate police department may appear on caller ID. The criminal may also use the name of an officer legitimately employed with the Department. If you receive such a call, hang up immediately and report it. As a reminder, the Baltimore County Police Department does not solicit monetary funds.
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The Prime Minister's Office announced that Israel has obtained an agreement to ensure the safety of the hostages who will be released in the future following disturbing scenes of masses of Gazans and Hamas terrorists surrounding the hostages who were released today.
"Pursuant to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand, the mediators have conveyed a commitment, according to which the safe exit of our hostages who are due to be released in the next phases has been assured," the PMO stated. "Israel insists that the lessons be learned and that strict care be taken in the next phases regarding the safe return of our hostages."
Earlier this afternoon, Prime Minister Netanyahu together with Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered that the release of the terrorists slated to ...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) intends to issue a preliminary report on the collision within 30 days, officials said Thursday.
"Our intention is to have a preliminary report within 30 days, and the final report will be issued once we've completed all of our fact-finding and investigation,” NTSB board member Todd Inman told reporters during a news conference.
The agency will not determine a probable cause for the accident, he said.
“Nor will we speculate about what may have caused this accident,” he added.
The flight data recorders havenot yet recovered , which isn't unusual NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said.
A U.S. Air Force veteran discussed the challenges of flying a military helicopter in congested airspace, saying that “aircraft lights and ground lights all look the same at night.”
“It's really hard to tell. And I've heard a lot of people say, 'I can't believe they just ran into it,' but they probably never saw the aircraft until the very last second, or they'd already hit it,” Jim Cardoso, the Senior Director for the University of South Florida’s Global and National Security Institute and a U.S. Air Force veteran, told Fox News Digital.
“And people find that hard to believe, but this giant aircraft at night is just two more lights added to all the other lights in the D.C. area,” he said.
Cardoso said that...
Arlington, VA - Jan. 30, 2025 - Staffing at the air control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration report reviewed by The New York Times.
The controller who was handling helicopters Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from the airport runways, the Times reported. Those assignments are typically assigned to two controllers.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the FAA.
The air control tower at Reagan airport has been understaffed for years with 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023. However, staffing targets set by the FAA and the controllers’ union call for 30.
