Baltimore, MD – Apr. 26, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Dr. and Mrs. Rafi Strum on the birth of a daughter. Mazel Tov to the grandparents Rabbi & Mrs. Naftali Strum and Dr. & Mrs. Yossie Scheller and great-grandparents Rabbi George Strum and Chazzan Isaac & Zahava Koll
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בתם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
Baltimore, MD – Apr. 26, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Pesach Aharon Horowitz on the birth of a son.
Mazel Tov to grandparents Rabbi & Mrs. Yaakov Horowitz (Labyrinth)
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
Baltimore, MD – Apr. 26, 2024 – (PP) Maryland braces for an early taste of summer as temperatures soar into the 80s and possibly reach a high of 91 degrees on Monday. A surge of heat is expected to sweep through the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region by Sunday, bringing dry and partly cloudy conditions. The summer-like temperatures are forecasted to persist into Monday and Tuesday before a weak cold front brings a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Record-breaking highs are anticipated, with Monday potentially surpassing the record of 91 degrees set in 2017. Additionally, unusually warm lows in the low to mid-60s are expected for Tuesday.
IAF aircraft on Friday evening struck and eliminated Mosab Khalaf, a senior terrorist in the Jamaa Islamiya terrorist organization who advanced a large number of terror attacks against Israel, in the area of Meidoun in Lebanon.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that “the Jamaa Islamiya terrorist organization recently planned and promoted a large number of terror attacks from Lebanese territory against Israel in the area of Har Dov, as well as additional areas in northern Israel.”
“The terrorist Mosab Khalaf cooperated with the branch of the Hamas terrorist organization in Lebanon, coordinating and carrying out terror attacks against Israel,” the IDF said.
“Khalaf’s elimination was carried out to harm the terrorist organization’s capability ...
Pesach Zmanim 5784/2024 - Click on the graphic below for a larger, printable version with a light background.
As a citizen of the United States of America, I have probably seen the iconic American flag thousands of times over my life. I know exactly what it looks like. The top left section contains 50 white stars on a blue background (which represents the 50 states), and the remainder of the flag is comprised of 13 red and white stripes (which represents the 13 original colonies).Perhaps it is because I have seen it so many times and I know what it should look like, that when I met someone a few weeks ago with a backwards American flag sewed on his jacket sleeve, it really caught my attention. It was totally backwards. Instead of the blue background with stars oriented on the top left section of the flag, the blue background with stars was on the top right section of the flag, with the red and whi...
Dear European Jews in the 30s,I owe you an apology. For the last 40 years, I’ve accused you of being blind, and quite frankly, stupid! I’ve said it thousands of times.“Why didn’t they get out? How did they not see the writing on the wall? Were they that comfortable and assimilated that they really believed it’d be ok? And even if they believed that, when Germany started legislating against Jews, how was THAT not enough of a sign to get out??”For years, I thought you were weak. I thought you were led to the gas chambers like sheep to the slaughter.For years, I thought that your mistakes could never be repeated again. I thought we, the Jewish nation, would surely see the writing on the wall.I said Never Again and deep down, I thought it would never happen ...
A protester participating in an anti-Israel demonstration at George Washington University in Washington, DC was photographed holding a sign reading "Final Solution," the name of the Nazi's plan to exterminate the Jews.
Anti-Israel demonstrations that have been spreading through university campuses in the US and Europe in the past month have been taking an increasingly antisemitic tone.
There have been numerous instances of assaults and intimidation against Jewish students.
On Friday, the Association of University Heads in Israel published a statement expressing concern over the wave of antisemitic demonstrations on American college campuses over the last week and a half. Read more on Arutz-7
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was injured in a car crash while leaving the scene of the attack in Ramle. He is being taken for examination in a hospital.
An 18-year-old girl was severely injured today (Friday) in a stabbing attack in the city of Ramla.
MDA teams provided her with first aid at the scene and evacuated her to the Asaf Harofeh Hospital with a stab wound on her upper body. The terrorist who carried out the stabbing was eliminated by an armed civilian a short while later. A helicopter is searching the area due to concerns of additional terrorists.
According to one report, the injured woman managed to say that an Arab stabbed her before she lost consciousness.
MDA Medicycle Unit EMT Mendy Amitai recounted :"We arrived rapidly at the scene and found an 18-year-old conscious female with a stab wound to her upper body. We dressed the injury and stopped the bleeding, and she was evacuated in an MDA MICU to hospital, conscious and i...
The United States will not impose sanctions on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) units accused of "gross human rights violations" against Palestinians in the West Bank, reported ABC News.
The outlet obtained a note written by the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, where America's top diplomat said that Washington "will not delay the delivery of any U.S. assistance and Israel will be able to receive the full amount appropriated by Congress."
The U.S. President Joe Biden's administration determined the crimes Israeli battalions committed prior to the October 7 attack.
The officials argue that its process of reviewing human rights violations has been fair and that Israel was not given preferential treatment, noted ABC News.
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Baltimore, MD – Apr. 26, 2024 - 9:15AM - Smith Ave. is shut down at the corner of Baythorne due to a crash involving a school bus.
Israel's negotiating teams on the issue of the hostages in Gaza presented today (Thursday) several outlines to the members of the Security Cabinet.
According to one of the outlines, Israel will demand the release of 20 hostages, including women, female soldiers, the elderly and patients with serious medical conditions, and in return, Israel will agree to the return of residents to the northern Gaza Strip, Channel 12 News reported.
According to the report, Israel will not announce the end of the war as part of the plan. It was also reported that the price for the deal that Israel will pay will be very heavy, but at this stage, no further details can be published.
New Hope party chairman MK Gideon Sa'ar said in response to the reported outline, "We had to repeat for th...
Baltimore, MD – Apr. 2024 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for Yiddishkeit and for HaShem with their children. Unfortunately, our schedules are hectic and many people don’t have the time to prepare themselves to utilize the Shabbos table to its fullest. Therefore, we at ACHIM created TableTalk as a pre-packaged talking points pamphlet which is attractive, fun and has something for everyone. Limited copies are distributed to many shuls on a weekly basis but they are snatched up very quickly. Get yours ASAP or click on the graphic below and print your own.What’s in it and what’s all the excitement about?TableTalk features:• Weekly halachic dilemma creating l...
Mass arrests, outrage and turmoil rippled across U.S. college campuses as authorities clamped down on a growing number of anti-Israel demonstrations.
Students at Emory University, Northwestern University, Cornell University, George Washington University, Princeton University and the City College of New York set up solidarity encampments on Thursday morning, the latest to join a fast-growing list of prestigious institutions.
Students are calling for an end both to the Israel-Hamas war and their universities' investment in companies that profit from it or, more broadly, do business with Israel.
Dozens of protesters have been arrested since Wednesday night, including at the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin and Emerson College.
As more arrests w...
More than two centuries of Egyptian persecution and oppression had shuttered the Jewish imagination. We couldn’t imagine anything beyond the squalor and misery of our endless nightmare. To liberate our imaginations in the buildup to our redemption, Hashem instructed the Jewish slaves to tell the epic story of the Exodus to their children and grandchildren. This announcement was a revelation. Slaves do not typically raise families. Children of slaves belong to their owners and can be sold away as chattel. Furthermore, adult slaves can be ripped away from their children, sold, and relocated, never to be heard from again. To the Jewish slaves the prospect of children, let alone grandchildren, was unfathomable.
Hearing that they would one day tell their story to future generations unsha...
Baltimore, MD - Apr. 25, 2024 - The Captain of the Port established a fourth channel, the Fort McHenry Limited Access Channel, which will run the length of the northeast side of the federal channel, and provide additional access to commercially essential traffic.
The limited access deep draft channel has a controlling depth of a minimum of 35 feet, a 300-foot horizontal clearance, and a vertical clearance of 214 feet. Additional restrictions for transits are outlined in MSIB 043-24, including weather limitations which may impact the transit window.
Starting Monday, April 29, operations to remove the M/V DALI will require suspension of transits through the Fort McHenry Limited Access Channel. Once deemed safe, the channel will reopen for commercial traffic.
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The current lack of moral clarity is painful. The world – including some of our best friends and many of our own people – cannot seem to see why this nation is different than those it is fighting for its very survival. It is the perfect time for Pesach, the festival of ma nishtana, of noticing distinctions and underscoring differences to achieve moral clarity. The name itself – Pesach, Passover – implies differentiation as it recalls the divine providence exercised at that midnight moment when the plague struck only the Egyptian dwellings and passed over the Jewish homes in between. G-D needed to not only get the right address but also correctly identify the firstborn within the Egyptian families. According to the Talmud (Bava Metzia 61b), this is the reason t...
“Hashkafah”
In Tanach, the root “shakaf” means “to look” (Bereishit 19:28, Shemot 14:24) or “to be seen” (Melachim I 6:4, Shir HaShirim 6:10). Recently, the term “hashkafah” has been used to refer to our outlook on life.
As opposed to the term “machshavah,” which refers to philosophical studies (such as metaphysics), hashkafah refers to how we understand our world's workings and how we are meant to live within it.
Hashkafah has become an area of significant interest. Unlike the Rishonim, whose philosophical discussions focused mainly on issues of machshavah, recent generations have concentrated more on understanding the nature and goals of our existence.
The Central Agreed Tenets
Often, people use hashkafah...
