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Baltimore, MD – Nov. 18, 2025 – BJL regrets to inform the community of the petirah of R' Hayim Gross, z’l, father of HaRav Pinchos Gross.Levaya and shiva details to follow .בלע המוות לנצח
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Baltimore, MD – Nov. 15, 2025 – BJL regrets to inform the community of the petirah of Rabbi Shlomo Porter, z'l, husband of Mrs. Shoshana Porter, and father of Esther Porter, Elky (Rabbi Chaim) Brener, Rabbi Yisroel (Chaya) Porter, Rabbi Nosson (Esther) Porter, Rabbi Mayer (Miriam) Porter, and brother of Dr. Jack Porter.Shiva will be observed at 6105 Western Run Dr., Baltimore, MD 21209The family wishes to express their deep appreciation for the many tributes, messages, and memories that have already been shared. Each one has brought comfort and meaning during this difficult time. All are encouraged to continue sending additional tributes, pictures, and memories to rabbiportermemories@gmail.com.Minyanim:Shacharis: 7:30amMincha: 4:30pm (Erev Shabbos: 1:00PM)Maariv: 9:45pmThe...
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Baltimore, MD – Nov. 14, 2025 – BJL regrets to inform the community of the petirah of Dr. Arthur G. Shapiro, z”l, husband of Rivka Shapiro, and father of Sylvie Shapiro (Steve Grossman), Iris (Ed) Miller, Miquelle (Jake) Serure, and Ilanit (Stuart) Samuels.Shiva Will Begin In on Tuesday at 3141 Royal Palm Avenue. Miami Beach, FL 33140Visiting:Tuesday-Thursday: 10:00am-2:00pm & 5:00pm-9:00pmFriday: 10:00am-2:00pmMotzaei Shabbos: 7:00pm-10:00pm
Shiva meal coordinator: Susan Kenigsberg 954.529.5261
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For over three decades, One Israel Fund has served as the premier organization in North America supporting Israel’s Biblical Heartland, funding hundreds of essential projects each year, from medical and recreation to education, community impact and preventative security. Every initiative represents a lifeline, strengthening communities and protecting families who live with courage and conviction on the frontlines of Jewish history.
The evening promises an extraordinary program that combines meaning, inspiration, and uplifting entertainment. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a steadfast voice for Israel in the U.S. Congress, will headline the event with a powerful address. The program will also feature Nathaniel “@NateBuzz” Buzolic, bel...
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Baltimore, MD - Nov. 14, 2025 - Honoring the memory of his wife, Miriam (Fink) Mintz, a'h, Mendel Mintz shares how her spirit and devotion inspired the founding of Miriam’s Library, bringing hope and educational opportunities to Baltimore’s Jewish community.
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Garett Park, MD - Nov. 18, 2025 - After sending at least 42 threatening letters to over 25 American Jewish sites, a Maryland man pleaded guilty on Monday to 17 counts of threatening communications and eight counts of obstructing the exercise of religious belief.
Garrett Park resident Clift Seferlis faces a maximum penalty of 19 years in prison, three years supervised release, and a $5,650,000 fine for sending threatening letters and postcards to Jewish museums, community centers, schools, non-profits, a kosher delicatessen, and synagogues in Washington, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts.
Some of the letters, which were sent between March 2024 and June 2025, threatened arson or explosive attacks on the sites.
Many also contained references to Gaza, ...
Washington, D.C. - Nov. 18, 2025 - The Trump administration announced Tuesday that the Department of Education signed a series of interagency agreements to shift power from a handful of its offices and programs to other federal agencies as it works to dismantle the federal department for good.
"The Trump Administration is taking bold action to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states," Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a Tuesday press release. "Cutting through layers of red tape in Washington is one essential piece of our final mission. As we partner with these agencies to improve federal programs, we will continue to gather best practices in each state through our 50-state tour, empower local leaders in K-12 education, resto...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman committed his country to increasing his planned investment into the U.S. economy to nearly $1 trillion over the next year on Tuesday.
MBS made the announcement while meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, saying the investments will take place across the U.S. economy. Trump initially stated that the investment would amount to "at least" $600 billion, but the Saudi leader confirmed the higher amount during his remarks.
"You've agreed to invest $600 billion into the United States and because he's my friend, he might make it a trillion, but I'm going to have to work on him. But it's 600. We can count on 600 billion. But, that number could go up a little bit higher," Trump said Tuesday.
"That means inves...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling on neighboring nations to join in the Jewish state's fight to expel Hamas out of the region.
"Israel extends its hand in peace and prosperity to all of our neighbors and calls on them to normalize relations with Israel and join us in expelling Hamas and its supporters from the region," Netanyahu's office wrote on X.
The statement follows the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) endorsement of President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza. The council adopted the plan, which would end the war and deploy an international stabilization force, on Monday.
In an address to the council, Waltz described Gaza as "a hell on earth" after two years of conflict, saying the resolution offered the world a...
Jerusalem, Israel - Nov. 18, 2025 - In July 2023, inspired by a video of Rachel Goldberg-Polin speaking at Kever Rachel, Shayna Levine-Hefetz sat down at the piano. As she played, music flowed through her, imagining Rachel in conversation with her Biblical namesake. In that moment, the idea of Heroines was born.With Toby Klein Greenwald's support, Shayna began collecting ideas for songs that connect our modern-day heroines to their Biblical counterparts, some through humor, others through tears. As the project evolved, two more Rachels joined Rachel’s Song, and many more heroines emerged, some celebrated in their communities, others becoming national icons. For Toby and Shayna, co-authoring the show became a sacred mission: getting to know these wome...
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 18, 2025 - An estimated 1.7 million gallons of untreated sewage flowed into Baltimore's Jones Falls, according to the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE).
MDE received a report Thursday morning of an overflow that began around noon Wednesday.
Officials say the location of the overflow was the 2200 block of Huntington Avenue. When they arrived, the overflow was ongoing.
As a result, the city set up a bypass around the manhole Thursday afternoon to stop the over flow according to Jay Apperson, spokesperson for MDE.
At the time of this writing, the cause remains unknown.
Most of the sewage was getting into a stormdrain that leads into the Jones Falls.
The investigation is ongoing.
In Bereishis (27:6) the posuk tells us that Yitzchak asked Eisav to go find an animal so he could give Eisav a bracha. This story leads to a few questions regarding the appearance of activity that is opposite of bein adam lachaveiro. Rivkah convinces her son Yaakov to take Eisav’s clothing that was entrusted to her in order to fool her husband. She was taking her son’s trust and completely misusing it.
Yitzchok, upon hearing Yaakov’s voice, starts to feel his clothing and Yaakov lets Yitzchok be fooled. We know that a blind man has a tvias ayin on a kol; he can identify his wife based on voice. Yitzchok’s behavior needs to be analyzed.
When Yitzchok figures out that he was fooled, he does not a...
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 18, 2025 - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is expected to vote on its findings that caused a massive container ship to crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed and killed six construction workers.
The vote on Tuesday comes a day after Maryland officials more than doubled the estimated cost to replace the bridge, and added two years onto the projected completion date, which is now set for 2030.
That projected cost is now between $4.3 and $5.2 billion, after being estimated for a cost of about $1.9 billion.
Gov. Wes Moore said Monday that preliminary estimates for the cost and timeline of the rebuild were made less than two weeks after the bridge collapsed in March 2024.
“Since then, national economic conditions ...
Gush Etzion, Israel - Nov. 18, 2025 - -An Israeli man in his 30s was murdered on Tuesday afternoon at the Gush Etzion Junction when two terrorists drove their vehicle into pedestrians at the intersection.
The terrorists then exited their car, armed with knives, and attempted to stab additional victims. The terrorists were neutralized at the scene.
Magen David Adom medics and paramedics, together with an IDF medical team, pronounced the death of a man around 30 who was wounded in the stabbing.
Three additional wounded were evacuated to hospitals in Jerusalem: a woman around 40 in serious condition, a man around 30, and a 15-year-old boy, both in moderate condition with penetrating injuries.
MDA Paramedic Uriel Lavi said: “When we arrived at the scene, we understood it ...
San Francisco, CA – Nov. 18, 2025 - Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was hit by an outage on Tuesday, knocking several major websites offline for global users.
E-commerce platform Shopify, job search engine Indeed, Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, President Donald Trump’s Truth Social and Elon Musk’s social media platform X appear to have been affected by the Cloudflare issues, according to Downdetector, which itself could not be accessed for some users. NJ Transit reported issues with some of its digital services “due to a vendor.”
OpenAI’s status page also indicated its ChatGPT and Sora short-form video app were having issues due to “an issue with one of our third-party service providers....
The UN Security Council on Monday approved the US-backed resolution to establish an international force in Gaza.
13 countries voted in favor. Russia and China abstained.
The proposal is based on US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for the Gaza Strip. Its main elements include establishing an international force to stabilize the region, disarming Hamas, and creating a “pathway to the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
Presenting the resolution before the Council, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said that the resolution is “a bold, pragmatic blueprint born from President Trump's 20-point Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, forged in the fires of diplomacy with Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, [Jordan], Turkey, Pakistan, and Indo...
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 11, 2025 - For 70 years, Ner Tamid has been a center for Jewish life in Baltimore; home to its very popular preschool, the birthplace of Etz Chaim, Rabbi Slanger's, z'l, Yeshiva, Rabbi Gross’s shul (Derech Chaim), Yeshivat Rambam, and more. Today, Ner Tamid, under the leadership of Rabbi Yisrael Motzen, serves the entire Baltimore community as a place where every Jew is welcome, a place of authentic growth, and a source of inspiring Torah classes and leadership. On November 16th, Ner Tamid will launch a Causematch campaign. Please consider participating to support this vital cornerstone of the Baltimore community.On November 23rd, all donors are invited to attend an inspiring and celebratory evening featuring a special talk on “The...
Baltimore, MD – Nov. 17, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Mr. and Mrs. Shmuel Leshnoff on the birth of a son.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
