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Baltimore, MD - Sept. 11, 2025 - This past Sunday, the greater Ranchleigh community gathered for a beautiful and uplifting Hachnasas Sefer Torah.
The new Torah, commissioned by Dr. & Mrs. Moshe Silver in honor of their family and to mark Dr. Silver’s second siyum of Shas, was donated to Mercaz Torah U’Tefillah. A lively procession accompanied the Torah from the Silver home and down Baythorne Road to the shul, led by a chariot-style truck and children holding torches, with joyous music and dancing led by the renowned Dushinsky Zemiros Group of Eretz Yisroel.
The celebration culminated as the members of Kollel Zichron Yehoshua Heschel of Zidichov each holding Sifrei Torah from the shul, warmly welcomed the new Sefer Torah to its home.
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Baltimore, MD - Sept 8, 2025 - On Sunday night, hundreds from the Baltimore community, including rabbinic and community leaders, gathered at Talmudical Academy to pay tribute to Larry Katz, zatzal. Special Guest Speaker Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Executive Vice President of Agudath Israel of America, spoke of Larry’s impact on the national scene, his dedication to the klal, and the respect and deference leading roshei yeshiva gave to his judgment on communal matters, particularly regarding accreditation of yeshivos. Due to their trust and appreciation for his unwavering honesty, he was called upon to help mediate situations beyond Baltimore’s confines.
R’ Yehuda Lefkovitz, longtime president of TA, spoke of Larry’s leadership in guiding TA through many challenges, ...
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Baltimore, MD - Sept. 11, 2025 - Explore the latest issue of Baltimore Jewish Home.
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Baltimore, MD - Sept. 9, 2025 - BGCubed welcomes all women and girls to an inspiring pre–Rosh Hashana evening with Rabbi Joey Haber. Admission is $10 per person, and everyone will receive this year’s new Shabbos zmanim magnets! Doors open at 6:45, and Rabbi Haber will begin promptly at 7:00 iyH. We look forward to sharing this meaningful evening together.
Baltimore, MD – Sept. 12, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Avigdor and Ahuva Neuberger on the birth of a son.
Mazel Tov grandparents Meir & Racheli Neuberger and Daniel & Yael Alyeshmerni
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
Baltimore, MD – Sept. 12, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Rabbi & Mrs. Akiva Meister on the birth of a son.
Mazel Tov grandparents Rabbi & Mrs. Dovid Meister.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
In Sefer Dvarim, we are treated to one of several places where Hashem uses a particular term of endearment for B’nei Yisroel, referring to us as the “Am Segulah”, a treasured nation (Vaeschanan, 7:6, Re’ei,14:2 and Ki Savo 26:18). There are a myriad of other places where B’nei Yisroel are referred to as the “Am Hanivchar” – the “chosen people” (Vaeschanan, 4:37), Hashem’s “children” (Re’eh, 14:1-2) and even Hashem’s “first born” (Shemos, 4:22),. What is the meaning of this special status?
Contemporary scientists would scream that there are no superior genome by race, class or ethnicity – and they may be right. But consider, Since the dawn of the 20th century,...
Chicago, IL - Sept. 12, 2025 - This morning, while carrying out an enforcement operation targeting a criminal illegal alien, the alien resisted arrest, attempted to flee the scene and dragged a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer a significant distance with his car.
The officer sustained multiple injuries and is in stable condition. The illegal alien was pronounced dead.
“We are praying for the speedy recovery of our law enforcement officer. He followed his training, used appropriate force, and properly enforced the law to protect the public and law enforcement,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “Viral social media videos and activists encouraging illegal aliens to resist law enforcement not only spread misinf...
Baltimore, MD – Sept. 12, 2025 - (BJL) An individual has been spotted in the Strathmore and Woodcrest area, following an Amazon truck and stealing just delivered packages off porches.
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 12, 2025 - A troubling audit of State Highway Administration finances could draw the scrutiny of a legislative oversight panel in Annapolis later this year, lawmakers said Thursday.
State Highway Administration officials “knowingly charged” nearly $360 million in unauthorized expenses to federal fund projects in an attempt to hide a deficit in the state’s Transportation Trust Fund, according to a report released Thursday by the Office of Legislative Audits.
The audit looked at the period between Nov. 1, 2020, and Oct. 31, 2024, based on a complaint to the office’s fraud, waste and abuse hotline reporting a recent “rapid increase in the federal funds receivable balance.”
It found that expenditures for more than 500 projects with $...
Baltimore, MD – Sept. 12, 2025 – BJL regrets to inform the community of the petira of Judith S. Stein, a’h, mother of Paul Stein, Robert (Edie) Stein, Michelle (Michael) Stein Glick, and sister of Jay (Roni) Schulhof.
The levaya was in Pittsburgh earlier today.
Shiva will be observed at the Imperial House, 5600 Munhall Rd, Apartment 412 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Sunday & Monday
Selichos and Shacharis: 7:30 am
Visitation: 1:00 - 4:00 pm and 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Mincha/Maariv: 7:15 pm
Tuesday:
Selichos and Shacharis: 7:30 am
The remainder of shiva will be observed outside of Pittsburgh with more information to follow
בלע המוות לנצח
Annapolis, MD - Sept. 12, 2025 - A midshipman was shot during a lockdown Thursday evening at the U.S. Naval Academy, the congresswoman representing Annapolis confirmed.
Reports of an active shooter on the Annapolis campus, known as the Yard, sent the school into lockdown at 5:07 p.m. There was no active shooter at the Academy, but the incident sparked a wave of misinformation and sent security on a sweep.
U.S. Rep. Sarah Elfreth (D-District 3) said Friday morning that the midshipman was shot in the shoulder while law enforcement searched every building at the Academy.
A Maryland State Police Aviation command helicopter flew the injured midshipman to the University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Elfreth said. He is expecte...
Annapolis, MD - Sept. 12, 2025 - Maryland political leaders from both sides of the aisle were united Wednesday in their call for an end to political violence, after the fatal shooting of high-profile conservative political activist Charlie Kirk during an event at a Utah college campus.
“Today, Maryland, the country, and the world saw yet another act of heinous political violence on American soil,” Gov. Wes Moore (D) said in a written statement Wednesday evening.
“Political violence is unacceptable. We will not tolerate it – not now, not ever,” his statement said. “In the wake of today’s events, we share a collective responsibility to condemn this tragedy in the strongest possible terms and be bold in our commitment to greater unity and ...
The Baal HaTanya – Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the “Alter Rebbe” – was the regular Torah reader in the city of Liozna. One year, on Shabbos of Parshas Ki Savo, he was out of town and someone else read the Torah in his place. The Alter Rebbe’s son – DovBer, who would later become the “Mitteler Rebbe” – was at shul that week (he was almost bar mitzvah aged) and he began feeling anguish and pain due to the curses that were read in the Tochacha (section of admonition). His heartache was so strong that even a few weeks later, his father doubted that DovBer would be able to fast on Yom Kippur.When they asked the Mitteler Rebbe, “Don’t you hear this parsha every year?” he replied: “When father reads, one hears no curs...
As soon as the nation entered the Land, they were instructed to assemble by two mountains. The Levites would stand in the valley between them, first facing Mount Grizim where six of the tribes stood, pronouncing twelve blessings upon those who adhere to the law enumerated. They would then turn to the six other tribes situated on Mount Avel and utter the twelve curses that would befall those who failed to follow these precepts.
The Torah goes on to list the twelve curses and their associated sins.
Starting with accursing those who conceal molten images, the Torah goes on to list, degrading parents; moving property boundaries; misleading the blind; bestiality; laying with one's father's wife; laying with one's sister, daughter of his father or mother; laying with a mother-in...
President Donald Trump said Friday he’ll send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns there with the support of the mayor and the governor.
Trump, a Republican, said on Fox News Channel “the mayor is happy” and “the governor is happy” about the pending deployment. The mayor is a Democrat, and the governor is a Republican.
He said the city is “deeply troubled” and “we’re going to fix that just like we did Washington,” where he’s sent National Guard and surged federal law enforcement.
Since sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, Trump has openly mused about sending troops to some of the nation’s most Democratic cities — including Chicago and Baltimore — claiming...
The UN General Assembly approved a resolution advanced by France and Saudi Arabia calling for support for a two-state solution, recognizing a Palestinian state on Friday.
The resolution was approved by the majority of 142 countries in favor, with 10 voting against it and 12 abstaining from the "New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution."
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon responded to the resolution, stating, "This one-sided declaration will not be remembered as a step toward peace, only as another hollow gesture that weakens this Assembly’s credibility…This is not diplomacy. It is theatre.
"The only beneficiary is Hamas…When terrorists are the ones cheering, you...
Baltimnore, MD - Sept. 12, 2025 - Members and supporters of conservative youth organization Turning Point USA are mourning the death of the group’s founder, Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot at a speaking engagement at a college in Utah on Wednesday.
Kirk was a close ally of President Donald Trump, who announced the 31-year-old activist’s death in a post on Truth Social. Trump wrote that “no one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie.”
In 2013, Kirk started Turning Point after dropping out of Harper College in Illinois when he was 18, and the organization quickly grew into what some described as “the dominant force in campus conservatism.”
Debra Lea, a conservative influencer and commentator...
This Motzaei Shabbat, Ashkenazi communities will begin saying Selichot, joining Sephardim who have already been immersed in these prayers since Elul began. With Selichot starting, the lead-up to the Yamim Noraim feels more immediate—you can almost sense the approach of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Selichot revolve around repeatedly calling out to Hashem’s thirteen attributes of mercy, the 13 Middot. In the next month, we return to these words nearly a hundred times—they become the heartbeat of our tefillot.
A Divine Mirror
We’re not just meant to recite the 13 Middot and move on. Each time we say them, we turn the spotlight back on ourselves. Hashem is merciful—are we showing mercy? He doesn’t repay evil with evil—do we hold back and try to giv...
Jerusalem Corridor – Sept. 12, 2025 – At 1:08 p.m., Magen David Adom’s (MDA) 101 emergency dispatch received a report of two people injured in a stabbing incident at Kibbutz Tzova, located in the Jerusalem corridor.
MDA teams arrived quickly and began treating the victims. A 60-year-old man was found in serious condition with a stab wound to the chest, while a 23-year-old man sustained moderate injuries. Both were evacuated to hospital.
Senior EMT Ro’i Ben Shoham described finding the younger victim conscious but wounded in the parking lot, where he received immediate care including bandaging, bleeding control, and oxygen before being transported by a Mobile Intensive Care Unit. Security guards on site neutralized the attacker and handed him over to security force...
