Baltimore, MD – Feb. 29, 2024 - 9:20AM - Market Maven will be temporarily closed due to a weather-related power disruption. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We will reopen as soon as BGE resolves the issue.We also ask that you avoid the Naylors and Reisterstown Road intersection to facilitate emergency crews' operations.
Thank you for your understanding.
Baltimore, MD – Feb. 29, 2024 – 7:10AM - The lights at the intersection of Park Heights & Strathmore are flashing yellow.As a reminder: flashing red needs to be treated like a stop sign. A four-way flashing red is a four-way stop sign. Flashing yellow means slow down and proceed with caution. Flashing yellow takes the right of way compared to flashing red.
Baltimore, MD – Feb. 28, 2024 - Meet and greet our brave first responders from Baltimore Police, Baltimore City Fire Dept., Hatzalah, Shomrim, Chaverim, and NWCP, who are handing out free Wheel Locks at the 5th Annual Crime & Safety Fair located on the second floor of the Park Heights JCC.
Baltimore, MD – Feb. 28, 2024 – The far-right lane headed northbound on Reisterstown Road in front of the Square Shopping Center at 303 Reisterstown Rd, where Sion’s Bakery is located, is flooded. Great caution should be taken.
Baltimore, MD – Feb. 28, 2024 – 6:55PM - An accident on 695 Inner Loop at Exit 20 has caused the closure of the 2 right lanes closed. Expect delays.
Baltimore, MD – Feb. 28, 2024 – 6:49PM - Baltimore Police and Councilman Isaac Yitzy Schleifer are handing out free wheel locks to Hyundai and Kia owners in the JCC parking lot.
The US government has launched an unprecedented investigation into a company that produces parts for Israel's life-saving Iron Dome missile defense system, Maariv reported Wednesday morning.
According to the report, Finkelstein Metals is accused of receiving prohibited government subsidies and selling products in the US at inflated prices.
Israeli officials are alarmed at the move by the US government and noted that Finkelstein Metals has only a 3% market share in the US and does 75% of its business there. They have also accused the US of violating the trade agreement between Israel and the US with this investigation.
Sanctions have already been imposed on Finkelstein Metals in a move that could affect supplies for Israel's defense industries, in particular the Iron ...
A new proposal for a bill that would end the blanket exemption given to Charedim should only be promoted with the consent of all of the parties in the coalition, including the haredi parties themselves, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a statement to the press on Wednesday evening.
The speech was Gallant's first public address on the issue after a series of legal, legislative, and security demands brought it to the fore earlier this month.
Gallant said that there was a "real and direct" need to lengthen the service of mandatory and reserve IDF soldiers but that "the war has proven that everyone must enter under the stretcher."
The issue of "sharing the burden" was a "national challenge for 75 years," but Israel was facing a challenge the likes of which it had not fac...
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 28, 2024 - Host Rabbi Zvi Goldberg and panelists Rabbis Sholom Tendler and Yaakov Teichman will review the key questions you should ask before booking your trip. The discussion will include:
How to figure out which hotels are reliable from the dozens that are availableIf it really matters who the certifier isIf you can truly rely on an ad that says "Glatt Kosher/Chassidishe Shechita/Cholov Yisroel/ Non-GebrochtsYOUR questions!Click here to Register
Rabbi Sholom Tendler administers STAR-K's Foodservice Division in Baltimore, overseeing more than 30 restaurants and caterers, including hotel venues. He is known throughout the professional kashrus world as an expert in insect identification and checking.
Rabbi Yaakov Teichman is responsible for the oper...
Insights From a “Speaking Fast”
I'm not usually one for joining initiatives, but this past Thursday was an exception. I encountered an incredibly heartfelt call from the families of the captives, supported by rabbis, urging a taanit dibbur, an hour without mundane speech, only Torah study and prayer.
In response, I shut down my electronic devices and picked up Mesillat Yesharim, a classic mussar text by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, the Ramchal. I delved into a special edition annotated with personal reflections and interpretations written by the late Hadar Goldin, whose body is still being held by Hamas in Gaza.
The Ramchal articulates in his preface that although people grasp the truth, the hustle of life often leaves them with little energy to live by it. He emphasized...
Jerusalem, Israel - Feb. 28, 2024 - The 13th International Jerusalem Winner Marathon is to be held on Friday, March 8, 1024, with anticipated participation of 35 - 45 thousand runners from all over Israel and around the world. The Jerusalem Municipality decided to hold the annual marathon as planned, as a tribute to the IDF, security forces, and rescue teams, aiming to strengthen social resilience during the ongoing war on the southern and northern fronts. The marathon's continuation will allow thousands of runners who have trained for months for the Jerusalem Marathon and other races worldwide to continue their training and achieve their sports goals set before the war.
The 'bar mitzvah' year Jerusalem Marathon launch was held at the Givat Ram Stadium on Wednesd...
Baltimore, MD – Feb. 28, 2024 – 2:27PM - There was a fire in the back side of Bonnie Ridge Apartments complex in the Brooklandville area of Baltimore County. A significant number of emergency personnel are on scene and the fire has been extinguished. This incident is across the street from Bais Yaakov and posed no threat to the institution.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday warned that Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas are trying to use Ramadan to inflame the region so as to achieve another October 7 disaster against Israel.
According to Gallant, their hope is to provoke Palestinians in the West Bank, Hezbollah, and Arabs and Muslims across the region to attack and turn their rage on Israel, using the Temple Mount and tensions in the West Bank as an excuse.
The defense minister has been a leading voice for smashing Hamas and earlier in the war, tried to persuade the war cabinet to launch a preemptive strike on Hezbollah.
Gallant calls for reducing tensions
However, at this point, he believes that fighting the war without hesitation must go hand in hand with reducing tensions in areas where there is no reason for there to ...
In a televised statement, senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh called on residents of the West Bank and Jerusalem to barricade themselves at the al-Aqsa Mosque at the beginning of Ramadan. Haniyeh also called for "a broad and international movement to break the siege on al-Aqsa Mosque."
Hostage negotiations
Haniyeh asserted that when it came to hostage negotiations, Hamas was demonstrating "flexibility," though the terrorist group maintained that they would continue fighting.
Haniyeh addressed the possibility of the IDF's invasion of Rafah and expressed hope that international efforts would restrain Israel's ambitions of an invasion.
In his own words, "The occupation and its partner, the United States, will not be able to achieve through politica...
Baltimore, MD – Feb. 28, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Alyse and Ilan Roth on the birth of a son.Mazel Tov grandparents Natalie Roth and Ken and Sherri Malc
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
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February 28 at 12:50 pm
Former President Trump asked a New York appeals court to put on hold the enforcement of the multimillion dollar penalties he faces in his civil fraud case, suggesting he’d post a $100 million bond while the process plays out.
Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay nearly $355 million, plus interest, in penalties after finding he conspired to alter his net worth to receive tax and insurance benefits. The total judgment against Trump, which climbs nearly $112,000 in interest each day he doesn’t pay it, now amounts to more than $454 million.
On top of that, Engoron ruled that Trump, his business and top executives could not obtain loans from New York banks for three years.
Trump’s lawyers wrote in court filings Wednesday that the staggering judgement makes it “im...
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February 28 at 12:39 pm
Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November.
McConnell, who turned 82 last week, was set to announce his decision Wednesday in the well of the Senate, a place where he looked in awe from its back benches in 1985 when he arrived and where he grew increasingly comfortable in the front row seat afforded the party leaders.
“One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter,” he said in prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press. “So I stand before you today ... to say that this will be my last term as Republican lead...
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February 28 at 12:35 pm
Iran has given Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah the green light to escalate its attacks along Israel's northern border, the Arabic Post reported on Wednesday, citing high-level Iranian and Lebanese sources.
The Islamic Republic has reportedly set conditions for Hezbollah, ordering it to launch a large-scale attack on Israel only after it "had become certain of Israel's intention" to carry out an invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
As per the report, Tehran gave the go-ahead amid fears that, after the IDF completes an invasion of Rafah, southern Lebanon "will be next."
Nasrallah calls emergency meeting with Quds Force chief over Israeli threats
A source from Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) told Arabic Post that Esmail Qaani, the IRGC...