A walkthrough of your local Dunkin’ Donuts store from a kashrus perspective with R’ Sholem Fishbane, Director of Kashrus for the Chicago Rabbinical Council and Executive Director of AKO.
Baltimore, MD - May 26, 2024 - Baltimore City Police Commissioner Richard Worley says the city is still recovering from the policies of former State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby.
"In the past, we weren't able to enforce the laws, now we can enforce the laws and our cops will do it," said Worley on Wednesday.
As State's Attorney, Mosby refused to prosecute many low-level crimes, announcing at a news conference in 2021, "Clearly the data suggests that there is no public safety value to prosecuting low-level crimes," said Mosby.
The decision came five years after Mosby's failed prosecution of six city police officers for the death of Freddie Gray.
"Police became a dirty word under Marilyn Mosby," said Attorney David Ellin, who represented one of those six cleared off...
Baltimore, MD - May 26, 2024 - An investigation into the former Pikesville High School athletic director is raising serious questions over why he was hired by Baltimore County Public Schools in the first place.
Dazhon Darien was arrested in April and charged with theft, retaliating against a witness and stalking.
He’s accused of trying to frame Pikesville Principal Eric Eiswert using a fake recording of racist and antisemitic comments that police say was created with artificial intelligence.
On Thursday, Baltimore County Schools Superintendent Dr. Myriam Rogers faced questions over the school system’s hiring practices, which have come under scrutiny following Darien’s arrest.
As first reported by The Baltimore Banner, and independently confirmed by Project Balti...
בֶּן הֵא הֵא אוֹמֵר, לְפוּם צַעֲרָא אגרא: (אבות ה:כג)
The Conclusion
Because Masechet Avot initially consisted of five perakim, the fifth perek’s last words are also the masechet’s (original) last words and are, therefore, especially important. Avot’s last words are a three-word statement from Ben Hei Hei: “L’fum tza’ara, agra — Reward is proportional to the pain (experienced in the process).”[1]
This important point lies at the heart of avodat Hashem. At the Pesach Seder, the Rasha asks his father, “Mah ha’avodah ha’zot lachem — What does this work mean to you?”[2] The Yerushalmi has a slightly different version of the question, in which the Rasha expresses his...
Red Alert sirens were activated today (Sunday) for the first time in several months in cities in central Israel as a barrage of eight rockets were fired at Israel's coastal cities. This is the first time in four months that terrorists from Gaza launched a rocket attack at the central region.
The sirens were activated in Kfar Saba, Herzliya, Hod Hasharon, and Ra'anana.
Residents of Tel Aviv reported hearing explosions.
The IDF stated, "Following the sirens that sounded in central Israel a short while ago, eight projectiles were identified crossing from the area of Rafah into Israeli territory. A number of the projectiles were intercepted by the IDF Aerial Defense Array."
The Hamas terrorist organization claimed responsibility for the barrage and said it launched rockets toward...
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Hamas claimed in an official statement on Saturday night that it was able to lure soldiers into a tunnel in the Gazan city of Jabalia, where terrorists killed them and kidnapped their bodies.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit clarified in a statement after midnight, “The IDF clarifies that there is no incident in which a soldier was abducted.”
Earlier on Saturday, the IDF cleared for publication that a reserve soldier from Battalion 6828 of the Bislach Brigade (828) was seriously injured during a battle in northern Gaza.
“The soldier was evacuated to a hospital for medical treatment, and his family has been notified,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.
On Wednesday, I received a horribly anguished call from an acquaintance. She was angry with me, with us, with the Jewish community. She had seen the just-released horrific October 7 footage of several bloodied female soldiers in Nahal Oz in the hands of the monstrous Hamas terrorists. She was clearly broken by it and could not understand why the Jewish world was not doing everything to get them out, why we were not going to Congress with every rabbi, every shul, and every Jew and just saying, “This is crazy! This is inhuman! Get them out of there now!” She has a point. We surely have been making efforts. Advocacy for the hostages has been constant since October 7, and that message, those posters, and a plethora of associated symbols have become ubiquitous. Hostage famil...
Jerusalem, Israel - May 25, 2024 - Hundreds are currently participating in the traditional Lag B'Omer bonfire at the Western Wall Plaza, in the presence of the rabbi of the Western Wall and holy sites, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, in honor of the holy Tanna Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
In the section dealing with our obligation to reach out and come to the aid of our neighbour, there is a glaring discrepancy, pointed out by Meshech Chachmah, in two adjacent pesukim. The first deals with the ger toshav, a non-Jew who has sworn off avodah zarah but is not subject to all of our mitzvos. We are commanded to support him in his time of need. The pasuk (25:35) ends off, "vachai imach." The next pasuk, dealing with the prohibition of charging interest, ends of, "vechei achicha imach." The message seems almost the same but the word vachai turns into vechei.
Meshech Chachmah explains the difference between these two similar terms. One might summarize it as follows: Chei is to live whereas chai&nb...
Baltimore, MD – May 24, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Binyamin Silver & Etty Graff on their engagement.
Mazel Tov to Moshe & Maggie Silver and Menachem & Debbie Graff
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
Baltimore, MD - May 24, 2024 - 3:13PM - REISTERSTOWN ROAD IS SHUT DOWN IN FRONT OF 7-11 AT SLADE
Baltimore, MD – May 24, 2024 – 2:44 PM – A major traffic accident has occurred at the intersection of Reisterstown Road and Slade Ave.
Avoid the area.
The Head of the National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, and the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oren Marmorstein, on Friday released a statement responding to the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Israel to halt its operation in the Gazan city of Rafah.
“The charges of genocide brought by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice in the Hague are false, outrageous and morally repugnant,” they said.
“Following the horrific attack against the citizens of Israel on October 7th, 2023, Israel embarked upon a defensive and just war to eliminate Hamas and to secure the release of our hostages. Israel is acting based on its right to defend its territory and its citizens, consistent with its moral va...
Baltimore, MD – May 24, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Shimshie Parnes (Hollywood, FL) & Faigy Klein (Baltimore, MD) on their engagement.Mazel Tov Eli & Rikki Klein and Rabbi Moshe Borcuh & Naama Parnes
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
“And you shall count for yourselves, from the morrow of the rest day from the day you bring the omer as a wave offering seven weeks; they shall be complete. You shall count until the day after the seventh week, [namely,] the fiftieth day, [on which] you shall bring a new meal offering to the Lord (Vayikra 23:15-16).”
God commands us to count the days from Pesach until Shavuos. Why the need to count? The commentaries provide many layers of insight, yet on the most basic level, God was teaching us an important lesson: the exodus was not an ends; it was a means towards establishing a life of holiness and meaning. We left Egypt in order to accept the Torah at Mount Sinai. The Torah, with its plethora of commandments and life lessons, provides us the ability to find the holin...
