Baltimore, MD - March 26, 2025 - Maryland officials are marking the one year anniversary since the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge with a commemoration ceremony on Wednesday morning.
Gov. Wes Moore and other officials from the State of Maryland are holding the ceremony to honor the six lives lost in the collapse, and to honor the first responders.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is expected to be in attendance, as well.
In Memoriam: My Nephew, Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, Z'L
Baltimore, MD - March 25, 2025 -It’s so strange to see the words. It does not seem real, at least not to me. But for his wife, his children, his parents, his Talmidim, his Chasidim, and the hundreds whom he was Mekarev, it is all too real. Painfully so. My nephew, Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, was one of the rarest people I ever knew. For those of you who appreciate, or hate, my megalomania, hear me loud: he was way smarter than me. And he knew far more Torah than I ever will. There aren’t that many people of whom I have ever made such a proclamation.
When Eliyahu was a 3-year-old, he attended a small nursery in Baltimore. His teacher had given each student a paper with an outline of an apple on it and told them all to color the appl...
Baltimore, MD - March 2005 - The years a bochur spends building himself in yeshiva are the most precious of his life.
This is where he builds everything—his foundation in Torah, his middos, his hashkafos, and his entire identity as a ben Torah. These are the years that shape his future, and we have to make the most of them.
At Mesivta Shaarei Chaim, we give everything to provide a growth-oriented environment where bochurim turn themselves into true B’nei Torah. Now, we’re ready to write our next chapter and move into an amazing new building. But we need your help to get there.
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We’ve already taken the step of purchasing the new campus. But without proper renovations, we can’t move in, and our bochurim can’t continue b...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the U.S., including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and demanding that all ballots be received by Election Day.
The order says the U.S. has failed “to enforce basic and necessary election protections” and calls on states to work with federal agencies to share voter lists and prosecute election crimes. It threatens to pull federal funding from states where election officials who don't comply.
The move, which is likely to face swift challenges from voting rights organizations, is consistent with Trump’s long history of railing against election processes. He often claims elections are being rigged, even before the results ar...
Information revealed in a recording by Colonel Elad Shushan, head of investigations on battles at Kibbutz Nirim on October 7th, which was published on Tuesday evening on Kan News, disclose that on October 7th, Hamas sent 120 Nukhba terrorists to Be’er Sheva.
"We seized this document four months after the October 7th massacre. We can see several large forces here, 120 terrorists heading towards Be’er Sheva, but they did not reach their destination," Col. Shushan said in the recording.
He added: "These 120 terrorists did not reach their destination, they were stopped on the way ... and they didn't say, 'We didn't succeed – we'll go back to Khan Yunis.' They just directed the fighting to a community close to them."
Findings indicate that the ...
Since fighting in Gaza was renewed at the beginning of last week, the IDF has killed 150 terrorists, including 10 top Hamas officials, the Jerusalem Post learned Tuesday.
Additionally, the military has targeted 420 terror infrastructure sites, including buildings, tunnels, and vehicles.
In certain areas, the military has entered a full kilometer into Gaza, such as around the Nitzanim Corridor in central Gaza.
Also, the IDF has aggressively attacked and evacuated areas from which terrorists have fired rockets.
In addition to central Gaza, Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, parts of Khan Yunis, Shaboura, and Tel Sultan, the IDF has been evacuating and moving into Jabaliya.
Katz attempted intervention in military probe
IDF sources were still not ready to give an accountin...
In a rare event in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, hundreds of Gazan citizens marched in the northern town of Beit Lahiya carrying white flags, calling to end the Hamas rule, and even calling to hand over the Israeli hostages.
The protests took place in front of the Indonesian Hospital in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. One protester who filmed the events questioned where Qatari Al Jazeera and its Gaza correspondent Anas al-Sharif are, implicitly referring to the channel’s no criticism of Hamas policy.
“The people are demanding the press to cover these events!” he said. “People are demanding freedom, they’re demanding a halt to the hostilities against Gaza, they’re demanding peace and an end to this war.” One of the...
Attacks on Tesla dealerships, cars and equipment are “rudimentary” and require little planning, according to an FBI and Department of Homeland Security assessment, which says lone offenders are the ones carrying out the attacks.
“These criminal actions appear to have been conducted by lone offenders, and all known incidents occurred at night, making identification and arrest of the actors difficult,” the assessment says.
It comes as incendiary devices were found at a Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas, on Monday.
“While they may perceive these attacks as victimless property crimes, these tactics can cause accidental or intentional bodily harm,” the assessment dated March 21 and obtained by ABC News says. “Some individuals with political or social g...
President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Devon Archer, arguing that the former business partner to Hunter Biden was treated unfairly.
Archer become a key figure in House Republicans’ investigation into Biden’s business dealings after he was convicted in 2018 by a federal jury on charges of defrauding a Native American tribe by fraudulently issuing and selling more than $60 million of tribal bonds.
The White House on Tuesday argued that after Archer was prosecuted in a fraud investigation, the “tone and tenor” changed when he cooperated and served as a witness against the Biden family.
“And many people have asked me to do this. I think he was treated very unfairly. And, I looked at the records, studied the records, and he was. He was a v...
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Natan Sharansky, former Chairman of the Jewish Agency and government minister, addressed the evolving experiences of Jews worldwide in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre at the Jewish People Policy Institute conference. The event, held in honor of Diaspora Week, was titled "Diaspora Jewry After October 7."
Sharansky criticized the silence of international women's rights organizations regarding severe violations of women's rights, which he described as unprecedented in modern history. He noted that not a single such organization publicly acknowledged these violations.
Recounting his visits to US college campuses following the October 7 attack, Sharansky said he inquired whether any progressive organizations had expressed outrage or sympathy for Israel but found none. He men...
Delegations from Russian and Ukraine on Tuesday agreed to a ceasefire in the Black Sea following talks with Trump administration officials this week in Saudi Arabia.
"The United States and Russia have agreed to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea," the White House said in a statement following talks in Jeddah.
Similarly, just moments later, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, who is leading the delegation confirmed that "All parties have agreed to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea."
Though he also emphasized that "all movement by Russia of its military vessels outside of [the] e...
Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong held closed-door meetings with faculty over the weekend to address mounting concerns about the school’s future amid federal investigations, the Wall Street Journal reported. Armstrong warned of potential funding cuts while also attempting to downplay fears that the university’s recent agreement with the government compromised its academic independence.
At the center of faculty frustration is Columbia’s response to federal scrutiny, particularly regarding its mask policy. While the university’s agreement with the Trump administration included a commitment to banning identity-concealing masks during unauthorized protests, Armstrong reassured faculty that there was no outright mask ban. This contradicti...
The lawsuit filed on Monday against anti-Israel groups that are alleged to have aided Hamas on campus returned focus back to campus activists and their ties to the Palestinian terror group.
This is because "Within Our Lifetime" is not the first group to be sued for ties to Palestinian terror organizations, particularly Hamas, in recent years.
Within Our Lifetime (WOL)
WOL leader, Nardeen Kiswani, is a Palestinian-American born in Jordan.
She was involved in the establishment of NYC SJP in 2015, forming a coalition of chapters across the City University of New York schools.
NYC SJP then evolved into WOL in 2018.
Head of WOL, Nerdeen Kiswani, posted on X/Twitter on October 8, 2024, that "October 7th has always been a day against Nazism, and now it's counterpart Zionism!"...
A mysterious pyramid-shaped structure dating from when the Ptolemies and Seleucids ruled Israel, documents written on papyrus, 2,200-year-old weapons and fabrics – surprising discoveries being revealed in a new Judean Desert excavation
The Israel Antiquities Authority and Ministry of Heritage invite the public to join an experience of discovery in one of the richest desert excavations ever conducted, illuminating and transforming our historical knowledge of a unique site
A huge 2200-year-old pyramidal structure with a way station beneath it – from the days of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid rulers— is now being unearthed in the Judean Desert, north of Nahal Zohar, by a joint Israel Antiquities Authority/Ministry of Heritage excavation, with volunteers from all over the count...
The Jerusalem District Court has issued a temporary garnishee order to seize 50 million shekels of Palestinian Authority funds for Rabbi Leo Dee, whose wife Lucy and daughters Maia and Rina were murdered in a shooting attack two years ago.
Rabbi Dee sued the PA and the Hamas terror organization in October for the murder of his family members.
"I call on all the other terror victims in Israel to do the same and to seize the PA's funds that go to pay the salaries of terrorists. Together, we could take the enemy's assets," Rabbi Dee stated.
Director General of the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD), Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amir Baram, opened the first international conference of the Rehabilitation Department today (Tuesday) at Tel Aviv University. Emphasizing the Ministry's commitment to comprehensive care for wounded security forces personnel, he stated: "When Israeli soldiers and commanders go into battle, they have great confidence in the defense establishment and the State of Israel, across the entire chain of casualty care – evacuation, treatment, and rehabilitation."
"When our young soldiers swear their oath of allegiance, they make a profound commitment, not merely reciting words. Their strength and resolve demand an equally strong rehabilitation system. The continuum of care for our wounded must maintain consisten...
Leading US-based anti-Israel activist groups including Columbia University Apartheid Divest and Within Our Lifetime and heads like Mahmoud Khalil had prior knowledge of the October 7 Massacre, alleged a Monday lawsuit by the families of the Hamas-led attack's victims.
The victims are seeking damages for activists aiding and abetting Gazan terrorist organizations, with some groups, whom Hamas members reportedly saw as operatives, reactivating just before the pogrom and others issuing protest and propaganda materials as the event unfolded in southern Israel.
The suit was filed to the New York Southern District Court against Within Our Lifetime and its leader Nerdeen Kiswani, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and representative Maryam Alwan, Columbia-Barnard Jewish V...
Baltimore, MD - March 24, 2025 - Average gasoline prices in Baltimore have increased by 1.7 cents per gallon over the past week, reaching an average of $2.99 per gallon, according to GasBuddy's survey of 663 stations in the area.
Despite the rise, prices are still 53.7 cents per gallon lower than they were a year ago.
The cheapest gas station in Baltimore was priced at $2.77 per gallon yesterday, while the most expensive was $3.29 per gallon, marking a 52-cent difference. Across the state, prices ranged from $2.75 to $3.65 per gallon.
Nationally, the average price of gasoline has risen by 6.3 cents per gallon in the last week, now averaging $3.08 per gallon. This is 42.5 cents per gallon lower than the same time last year.
Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, e...
