Baltimore, MD – Dec. 15, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Nachum Wildman on the birth of a son.
Mazel Tov to grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Eli Friedman
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 15, 2025 – BJL regrets to inform the community of the sudden petira of Nechemia (Chemi) Erlanger, z’l, brother of Mrs. Bracha Avigdor.
Shiva will take place in Eretz Yisraelבלע המות לנצח
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 14, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Aharon Lipnitsky and Ahuva Golub on their engagement.
Mazel Tov to Mr. and Mrs. Yaakov Lipnitsky and Mr. and Mrs. Eliezer Golub
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 14, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Sruli Hefter and Aviva Steinberg on their engagement.
Mazel Tov to Mr. & Mrs. Moshe Hefter and Rabbi & Mrs. Shimmy Steinberg
Mazel Tov to grandparents Mr. & Mrs. Zvi Hefter and Mrs. Rhoda (Steinberg) Pollak.
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 14, 2025 – 3:32PM (BJL) An accident on the inner loop of the 695 Beltway at the exit to I-83 North is causing significant traffic delays with 3 lanes of 695 East currently closed. (The inner loop travels from Pikesville toward Towson.)
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 14, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Menachem Kraus (Monsey) and Chaya Weimer (Baltimore) on their engagement.
Mazel Tov to Akiva & Yocheved Kraus and Mordechai & Rivkie Weimer
Mazel Tov to grandparents Yossi & Pearl Zoimen
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 14, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Aryeh Litt (Norfolk) and Sarah Naomi Weiskind (Baltimore) on their engagement.
Mazel Tov to Rabbi & Mrs. Gershon and Sara Litt and Ben and Ruchie Weiskind
Mazel Tov to grandparents Mr. Maurice Litt, Dr. Michael and Brina Weissman, Israel and Dora Lee Grinberg, Jeffrey & Pepi Cohen, and Mr. Ray Weiskind
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
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Baltimore, MD - Dec. 14, 2025 - Rabbi Shmuel Silber: How do we process the horrific events perpetrated against our people? Australia is half a world away, but the tragedy hits close to home.
We know that Yosef attributed everything he did to Hashem. But when we read the story of his interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream, the ability for which he attributes to Hashem, we don’t hear Hashem speaking to Yosef directly. So how did Hashem help? Rabbi David Fohrman, in lectures I heard over 15 years ago, suggested that Hashem made the very details in the dream to speak to Yosef personally. The story of Yosef’s life was embedded in it, and only Yosef could interpret it. I am writing this from memory, so please attribute to me any errors.
In Pharoah’s dream, as he relates it to Yosef (Bereishis 41: 18-21), he sees seven beautiful cows (וִיפֹ֣ת תֹּ֑אַר) grazing among the reeds (‘achu’). (וַ...
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 14, 2025 - The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America states:
“We are horrified by the shooting at a Chabad Chanukah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney. This act of violent extremism targeted a Jewish religious gathering during the most public expression of Jewish faith. This was a direct assault on Jewish life.
Chanukah is the most public of Jewish holidays. We mark the defeat of ancient antisemitic persecution by lighting our menorahs openly and unapologetically. That is precisely why this attack matters. It was meant to intimidate, silence, and drive Jews out of the public square. It will fail.
At a time when antisemitism is being normalized, excused, and even justified in public discourse, this attack is no longer shocking. It is th...
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 14, 2025 - BJL Snowboard - School Opening Status/Delays/Closings For Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025 As Of 7:34 AM
Talmudical Academy Elementary begins on time; Middle & High School 1-Hour Delay - Davening at 8:45AM
Torah Institute Beginning 10:00AMToras Simcha Opening at 10:00AM
Sydney, Autralia - Dec. 14, 2025 - At least 10 people were murdered and dozens wounded in a mass shooting incident at an outdoor Chanukah celebration in the Bondi Beach neighborhood of Sydney on Sunday.
At least 10 people, including shliach Rabbi Eli Shlenger, z'l, H'yd, were murdered and dozens wounded in a mass shooting incident at an outdoor Chanukah celebration in the Bondi Beach neighborhood of Sydney on Sunday.According to reports from the scene, two terrorists opened fire from a bridge at a celebration organized by Chabad, where hundreds of people (some reports say thousands) were gathered, including many families with small children, at about 7 p.m. Australian time.
Those present began fleeing the scene in a panic, and many tried to hide. Witnesses sai...
President Donald Trump sent a strong message to those accused of killing two U.S. Army soldiers and an American interpreter in Syria Saturday, noting the U.S. will retaliate against ISIS if forces are attacked again.
As Trump departed the White House for the Army-Navy football game Saturday afternoon, he said the country is mourning the loss of the soldiers and a civilian U.S. interpreter, who were ambushed by a lone ISIS gunman.
Three other soldiers were wounded but are "doing well," according to the president. They were taken by helicopters to the al-Tanf garrison, which is near the border with Iraq and Jordan, The Associated Press reported, citing Syrian state media.
Trump later posted to Truth Social, adding, "there will be very serious retaliation."
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Baltimore, MD – Dec. 13, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Mordechai and Esti Wiener on the birth of a son.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 13, 2025 - Shloshim of Rabbi Shlomo Porter, ZT'LClick on the graphic below
A shooter killed two people and injured eight at Brown University’s Providence, R.I., campus Saturday and the suspect is still at large, the university said.
The injured were at the local hospital in critical but stable condition.
University and local police were on the scene near Barus & Holley, a building that houses the university’s engineering and physics departments, according to campuswide alerts late Saturday afternoon.
Local authorities said an eyewitness saw the suspect—a man dressed in black—exit the building and walk away on foot. The suspect hasn’t been apprehended.
President Trump said he had been briefed on the shooting and that the FBI was on the scene.
Students on the Ivy League university’s campus began their final e...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz on Saturday night said they had ordered the assassination of number two Hamas official Ra'ad Sa'ad earlier in the day due to his leadership over the group's post-war rearmament activities.
In particular, they referred to an ambush of IDF soldiers using an improvised explosive device earlier in the day.
IDF sources also gave other specific examples of soldiers wounded by IEDs planted at Sa'ad's direction in recent weeks.
Sa'ad was also one of the few remaining living Hamas officials directly involved in planning the October 7 invasion and slaughter of around 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians.
The Shin Bet and the IDF said they received intelligence in real-time that he was...
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 13, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Gabe Vizgan (Brooklyn) and Shayna Hain (Baltimore) on their engagement .
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 12, 2025 - Dear BJL Reader,
Below is a transcript of the Hesped I gave at Ohr Someyach in Eretz Yisroel a few weeks ago. The loss of Rabbi Hauer is still so raw. It helps me to read and remember so many things about him.
Good afternoon, everyone.
First, thank you to Rabbi Breitowitz. It is such an honor just to be here and get to see him a couple of times a year. My name is Dovid Fink. I have been a talmid of Rabbi Breitowitz for about forty years. I was first a talmid of his at the University of Maryland Law School, when he was teaching Sales and Secured Transactions and Commercial Paper. He was known as the greatest professor in the university. But every time you saw him in the law school he had seforim in his hands, he was runn...
