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Baltimore, MD – Nov. 5, 2024 - It is with regret that Baltimore Jewish Life (BJL) informs the community of the petira of Mrs. Sonya Loeb, a”h (שרה בת יוסף דוב, ע"ה), mother of Jan Loeb, Evette Kranz, and Elisheva Potesky.Shiva in BALTIMORE begins today:Mr. Jan Loeb will observe Shiva in Baltimore at 6300 Ivymount Rd., Baltimore, MD, 21209 beginning Sunday 11/10 at 2pm through Monday morning 11/11 after Shacharis.Sunday Mincha / Maariv - 4:40pm (Break from 6:30pm - 7pm) Monday Shacharis - 7:15amBila HaMaves LaNetzach…
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We're excited to announce our return to Baltimore, with an exclusive real estate event!Join us for expert guidance on purchasing property in Israel, featuring Ben Levene, CEO of CapitIL Real Estate, as he nears his 200th global event. "Our events have been instrumental in helping Anglos purchase property in Israel, and with the impact of October 7th, these gatherings are more critical than ever," says Levene.What to Expect:How to Finance Up to 75% of Your PropertyNavigating New Tax Regulations – Discover how the latest changes could benefit youInvestment Hotspots – Find great opportunities in Ramat Eshkol, Shaarei Chesed, Ramot, and RBSIsrael vs. U.S. Real Estate – Learn why investing in Eretz Yisroel could be your smartest financial moveFor security purposes, only t...
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Don't want to shlep to New York for productions such as the likes of Rachel’s Place? Well, you don't have to anymore! Now, we have our very own group in Baltimore featuring some of the greatest female talent in the community! Mary Poppins provides a unique opportunity for women to join together in singing, dancing, and acting.
Come and listen to our professional chorus and let them bring you into the musical numbers - this is not your typical choir.
Step in time with the chimney sweeps as they dance across the rooftops!
Get on your toes for a beautiful ballet number!
Sing along with your childhood favorites. Can you say the word? Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Experience the magic of Mary Poppins as she changes the lives of the Banks Family at Cherry Tre...
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Baltimore, MD - Nov. 7, 2024 -Read the Current Issue of Baltimore Jewish Home.
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Just before Tuesday’s presidential election, the Biden-Harris administration quietly waived mandatory terrorism sanctions on the embattled Palestinian government—even as it determined that the government's leaders are paying imprisoned terrorists and fomenting violence in breach of U.S. law.
The State Department, in a non-public notice to Congress, determined that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are not complying with agreements to curb terrorism against Israel and end the "pay-to-slay" program, which rewards imprisoned terrorists for committing acts of violence.
Those violations should trigger American sanctions, barring members of the Palestinian government from obtaining U.S. visas. The Biden-Harris administration nonetheless...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has spoken with US President-elect Donald Trump three times in the last five days since the November 5 elections.
“These were good and very important conversations” and were "designed to further tighten the strong alliance between Israel and the USA,” Netanyahu said.
He stressed that he and the incoming President were aligned on the dangers posed by Iran."We see eye to eye on the Iranian threat in all its components and the danger it poses,” Netanyahu told his government at its weekly meeting on Sunday.
He and Trump are also aligned on the “great opportunities before Israel,” particularly with regard to peace and the opportunities to expand it, Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu's relationship ...
Arutz Sheva-Israel National News's English-language Facebook page was suspended last week following a series of reports against the page's posts.
The reports may have stemmed from anti-Israel and antisemitic reporting campaigns against Israeli and Jewish pages.
According to Facebook's policies, all users could report content that would appear to them as offensive or inappropriate. The system is meant to prevent the publishing of hate speech, immoral content, or mis and disinformation.
While covering the current war, the page, which has 151,999 followers, received several complaints against various reports on the war's events including the elimination of senior Hezbollah official Nabil Qaouk on September 28th, an official IDF announcement about the commencement of the...
Salim Ayyash, a senior figure in the Hezbollah terror organization, was eliminated on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike, al-Arabiya reported.
In December 2020, an international tribunal sentenced Ayyash in absentia to five concurrent life sentences on terrorism-related charges connected to the February 2005 suicide truck bombing in Beirut that killed Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Earlier in the day, reports on social media claimed he was eliminated in a strike in the al-Qusair area on the Syria-Lebanon border.
Hariri was killed only a few months after finishing his term as prime minister.
The attack also killed 21 others, including former Lebanese Minister of Economy and Trade Bassel Fleihan, and wounded 226 persons.
For his participation in the attack, th...
Silver Spring, MD – Nov. 9, 2024 - On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass" that took place on November 9–10, 1938, Char Bar, a Kosher restaurant in D.C. was vandalized with broken windows early Shabbos morning, November 9. This incident recalls the tragic events of Kristallnacht, when Nazi forces destroyed Jewish businesses, homes, and shuls across Germany and Austria.
President-elect Trump has officially won Arizona, avenging his 2020 election loss in the crucial swing state.
The race in Arizona was called by the Associated Press on Saturday evening. With Arizona, Trump has secured 11 more electoral votes, and has won 312 electoral votes in total. His opponent, Vice President Harris, only garnered 226 electoral votes.
Trump's Arizona pick-up ends the battle for swing states in the 2024 presidential election. In addition to Arizona, he picked up electoral votes in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
President Biden won the state of Arizona by less than one-half of 1% in the 2020 election and the results in the key area of Maricopa County were also slim, with Biden beating Trump by 2%.
Before Biden won Ar...
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has reported France Insoumise MP Marie Mesmeur to the Paris Prosecutor after she made a post on X/Twitter condoning Thursday's violent attacks on Israelis in Amsterdam.
In the original post, made on 8 November, Mesmeur wrote, "These people here were not lynched because they were Jewish, but instead because they were racist and supported a genocide."
This came after multiple Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were beaten, thrown into canals, chased with knives, and targeted by attackers in vehicles on Thursday night.
Mesmeur's comments caused outrage among politicians and Jewish groups, with The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) accusing Mesmeur of justifying "pogromist violence."
Mesmeur, wh...
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 9, 2024 - It may have been around 70 degrees today, but eventually, winter will get here.
When it does, Baltimore City leaders say they'll be ready for it.
"Our snow team is thoroughly prepared for the winter ahead, and we are ready to perform a successful program that requires more than just the plows that you see out on the streets," said Corren Johnson, director of the Department of Transportation.
That program includes more than 300 people per shift, space for 15,000 tons of salt, and 36,000 gallons of brine.
But Mayor Brandon Scott says half the battle is getting the city's snow team ready.
The other half, making sure the people of Baltimore are prepared as well.
"I encourage all residents to act now and assemble emergency supply kits f...
Billionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman on Friday vowed to pull his Pershing Square firm from the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam after sick soccer thugs ran amok to target Israeli fans in a string of anti-Semitic attacks in the Netherlands.
Jew-hating agitators violently assaulted supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Dutch city before and during their game against elite club Ajax that saw more than 60 people arrested on Thursday night and left 10 people injured.
Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema said Maccabi’s traveling faithful had been “attacked, abused and pelted with fireworks” around the city by what she branded as “Antisemitic hit-and-run squads.”
Ackman, who is Jewish, wrote on X that he would “seek approval” from Pershi...
President-elect Trump is set to meet President Biden at the White House next week following his decisive election victory over Vice President Harris.
The event will take place Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. EST, the White House announced Saturday in a statement. Traditionally, the visit is meant to signify a peaceful transfer of power between the incoming and outgoing president.
The ritual was paused in 2020 amid Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that the election was stolen. The former president has not conceded his prior loss to Biden and did not attend the inauguration in 2021.
Trump was declared the winner of the White House race earlier this week and went on to sweep the battleground states. Harris conceded&nbs...
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 9, 2024 - A second DPW worker has died while on duty in Baltimore.
Timothy Cartwell, a solid waste worker assigned to the Reedbird Sanitation Yard, sustained fatal injuries while collecting trash in the alleyway of 1800 Baker Street on Friday.
He was taken to Shock Trauma where he later died from those injuries.
It's unclear what those injuries were at this time.
"We are fully committed to supporting all employees affected by this tragedy. Counseling services and support are available to staff through the City’s Employee Assistance Program," DPW said.
The circumstances surrounding Cartwell's death are under investigation by the Baltimore Police Department.
Cartwell is the second worker to die while on duty this year.
This summer, Ronald Sil...
Qatar will no longer serve as a diplomatic mediator between Israel and Hamas, a diplomatic source told AFP on Saturday.
According to the source, Qatar has declared that "as long as there is a refusal to negotiate a deal in good faith," they cannot continue acting as mediator.
The source added that, "as a consequence, the Hamas political office no longer serves its purpose."
Another source told Reuters that Qatar will not serve as mediator until both sides show "sincere willingness" to return to the negotiating table.
US and Qatari sources told CNN that in recent weeks Qatar agreed to remove Hamas from its territory, following a US request. The move aims to pressure the terror group to agree to a ceasefire-prisoner swap deal which will end the war in Gaza.
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US President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, will not be part of the administration in his second term as President.
“I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation. I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Haley ran against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination before the last election, but dropped out of the race after multiple primary losses to Trump, including in her own state&nbs...
After leaving Mitzrayim and returning to Eretz C'na'an, the shepherds of Lot and Avraham engage in a dispute as the land they were occupying was not vast enough to accommodate all of them. The pasuk recounts (13:7) that there was a riv between the shepherds. When Avraham attempts to settle the dispute with Lot, he beseeches him, "Al na sehi merivah beini uveinecha." Avraham uses the word merivah, rather than riv, to refer to the dispute. Malbim explains that riv refers to the actual act of dispute, while merivah refers to the factors that caused the dispute. Avraham was indicating to Lot the cause for the friction between the shepherds. The country was surely large enough for both of them to settle peacefully. Howev...
