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Installation of Safety Barriers to Enhance Security Across All Baltimore Metro Subway Stations

Baltimore, MD – Dec. 21, 2023  – An ongoing initiative is underway to implement additional safety measures at all Baltimore Metro subway stations, according to WBAL.  The Maryland Transit Administration is installing short, vertical posts with the purpose of preventing passengers from accidentally stepping off the platform between rail cars. These safety measures also aim […]

Giuliani Files For Bankruptcy After Staggering $148M Verdict

Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy Thursday, days after a jury ordered him to pay a staggering $148 million to two ex-Georgia election workers Giuliani baselessly accused of committing fraud in the 2020 election. Giuliani’s Chapter 11 petition, filed in U.S. bankruptcy court in New York, lists between $1 million and $10 million in assets and between […]

Likud MK Danny Danon: 'Resist International Pressure And Keep Fighting'

Likud World Chairman MK Danny Danon visited the town of Kfar Aza in southern Israel with an international delegation that came to see the aftermath of the October 7th massacre. “We thank Governor Huckabee and the ambassadors who came to support us, it is not taken for granted,” Danon stated. “We ask them to be vocal in […]

Hamas: No Deal Until War Ends

Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas official and spokesman for the organization, has said that the terror group’s leadership is steadfast in its decision to insist on a ceasefire in Gaza before holding negotiations on a new prisoner swap which would see innocent Israeli hostages freed in exchange for convicted terrorists. Speaking to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Abu […]

Who Knows Five: Reviving Synagogue Choral Music With A Chanukah Concert (Video)

Baltimore, MD  – Dec. 20, 2023 – Who Knows Five held a Chanukah concert on 3 December at Arugos Habosem (Rabbi Taub’s shul). This local choir, founded in 2007, revives the European tradition of synagogue choral music. Composers from Germany, Austria, France, England, Eastern Europe, Italy, and America have left a legacy of beautiful and […]

Opinion: Why I Can’t Stop Writing About Oct. 7

This will be my last column for the year, and it will be more personal than most. It’s an effort to explain, to myself as much as to readers, why I can’t stop writing about Oct. 7 and its aftermath. A few weeks ago, my mother was watching footage of a Jewish student being taunted and mobbed […]

A Hidden Sefer Torah Donated to Yad Vashem's Synagogue Serves as an Everlasting Witness to the Holocaust and the Destruction of Europe's Jewish Communities (Photos)

First time: Israel’s Chief Rabbinate Council to convene at Yad Vashem Jerusalem, Israel  – 21 December 2023 – A surviving Torah scroll from before the Holocaust, concealed within the walls of a former synagogue in WaÅ‚brzych that was destroyed during the riots of the November Pogrom of 1938, “Kristallnacht“, finds its eternal home at Yad […]

Israel: Travel with Foreign Passports Extended for Another Year

In the wake of the Corona pandemic, a massive backlog for Israeli passports was formed. The Ministry of Interior addressed this issue with a so-called Passport Marathon last summer, as reported by Chaim V’Chessed. This effort was relatively successful in enabling most Israeli citizens to obtain passports. However, this did not assist Israeli citizens residing abroad who […]

Toyota Recalls 1 Million Vehicles In US Due To Airbag Deployment Defect

Baltimore, MD – Dec. 21, 2023 – Toyota is recalling nearly 1 million vehicles in the United States due to a potential defect that may cause the passenger airbag not to deploy in a crash, according to  FOX45. The recall affects various models from the 2020 and 2021 model years, including Toyota Camry, Rav4, Sienna, […]

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