Baltimore, MD – March 11, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Chaim Dovid Mandanipour (Baltimore) and Chaya Radparvar (Brooklyn) on their engagement!
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
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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…
Baltimore, MD – March 11, 2025 - 12:12PM - The traffic light is out in both directions at the intersection of Sudbrook and Reisterstown.
Reminder: The rule for when traffic lights are out is to come to a stop at the light and to treat the intersection or roadway as a regular stop. If it is a four-way intersection, treat it like a four-way stop. If it is a two- or three-way intersection, treat it as a two- or three-way stop, respectively. The same right-of-way rules also apply, such as allowing vehicles in or at the stop first to proceed first and allowing the vehicle on the right to proceed if two vehicles arrive at the stop at the same time.
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Submit a photo of your child or family’s Purim costume for a chance to win $100 to a local restaurant of your choice.
Two runners-up will win $50 to a restaurant of their choice.
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Deadline for submissions: March 17th
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Costumes will be judged by a panel of kids, teens, and adults.
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Baltimore, MD - March 6, 2025 - Explore the latest issue of Baltimore Jewish Home.
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Baltimore, MD - March 11, 2025 - Johns Hopkins University is among 60 colleges and universities around the country that received warnings from Education Secretary Linda McMahon Monday that they could face penalties under the Civil Rights Act if they fail to protect Jewish students from antisemitism during pro-Palestinian campus protests.
Last year, the Beach at Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus was the site of an encampment by pro-Palestinian protesters who called on the university to divest “from all companies with ties to the state of Israel.”
The encampment ended two weeks after it began after university officials agreed to review its investments.
Although Johns Hopkins is the only colleges in the state to receive McMahon’s warning, American University ...
Baltimore, MD - March 11, 2025 - The top 10 highest-paid Baltimore City employees in fiscal year 2024 all hailed from the city’s fire and police departments, according to data analyzed by The Baltimore Sun.
Most of the top earners took in between $150,000 and $250,000 more than their expected salaries for the fiscal year. The highest-paid employee was a paramedic, who made more than $245,000 beyond his listed salary, for a total income of $358,586.
The city’s police commissioner, Richard Worley, ranked third on the list, taking home just over $320,000 in gross pay last fiscal year, but other highest-paid positions included police lieutenants and sergeants, battalion fire chiefs, firefighters and EMTs. The data comes from the “Baltimore City Employee Salaries&...
Baltimore, MD – March 10, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Avi and Dina Dear on the birth of a daughter.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בתם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
What can be wrong with canned corn? All the ingredients are kosher. Let's listen to Rabbi Mordechai Stareshefsky a Rabbinic Coordinator at the OU as he explains some potential issues with the most basic food items. This serves as a reminder why one should always ensure that there is a good hechsher on everything they buy.
Baltimore, MD – Mar. 10, 2025 - BJL regrets to inform the community of the petira of Ari Gruner, z’l, husband of Henya Gruner and father of Rivky Gruner, Avraham Moshe Gruner, Chaim Yossi Gruner, Solomon Gruner, Kayla Gruner, Zevi Gruner and Shayna Gruner.
The levayah will be held on Tuesday morning, March 11, 2025 at 9:30AM at Levinson’s
The kevurah will take place in New York.
Shiva details to follow
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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...
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...
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...
