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Baltimore, MD — Dec. 13, 2025 — The BJH today announced the official launch of THE BUZZ, a new WhatsApp-based platform designed to give Baltimore residents a centralized, curated feed of promotions, events, specials, and community announcements. The BUZZ operates as a sister channel to the widely followed BJL News & Information Feed — the community’s long-standing, trusted source for real-time news and reliable updates.
Built on the same commitment to clarity, accuracy, and consistency that has made BJL the region’s most dependable news presence, The BUZZ was created to meet a growing need within the community: a clean, organized space dedicated exclusively to local deals, offerings, and happenings. While BJL continues to focus on timely and essential n...
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Baltimore, MD – Dec. 2, 2025 – BJL regrets to inform the community of the petira Mr. Barry Ziman, z’l, brother of Mr. Benyamin Ziman.The levayah will take place on Wednesday, December 10 at Robinson Funeral Home, 34 Main St, Centerbrook, CT 06409Shiva through Tuesday morning, Dec. 16 will be observed begining Thursday, Dec. 11 at 6906 Dorset Place, Baltimore, MD 21215The family respectfully requests no visitors between 2–4 PM or after 10 PM.PLEASE NOTE: Park on Labyrinth or Fallstaff Shacharis: 7:00 AM (Thu, Fri, Sun, Mon, Tues)Mincha/Maariv: 4:30 PM (Thu, Sun, Mon)Friday Mincha: 2:00 PMMotzai Shabbos Maariv: 5:30 PM
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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 - We are again pleased to repost the following at the request of our readers:Menorah Safety
Never leave Chanukah candles unattended and never go to sleep while Chanukah candles are burning
Place the Menorah on a sturdy heat resistant surface away from anything that can catch fire including walls, curtains, cabinets, wooden and plastic tables, tablecloths, etc
Light candles out of childrens reach and where they cannot be knocked over
Keep surfaces and surrounding areas clear from burned matches, wick trimmings, oil residue, and other debris
Do not light “school project” Menorahs made from materials that can burn (wood, plastic, paper etc)
When Cooking Latkes
Keep small children away fr...
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...
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 13, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Dovi & Yaffa Stern on the birth of a daughter .
Mazel Tov grandparents Jonathan & Chana Esther Stern and Rocky & Bracha Caine
Mazel Tov great-grandparents Stanley & Ranessa Labovits, Hal & Vicki Caine, and Trudy Farber
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בתם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 13, 2025 - Snow will fall fast at times — up to an inch per hour — mainly overnight between midnight and 5:00 AM early Sunday.
Western Maryland and areas west of D.C. won’t see much; many of those spots may not even reach an inch.
For Baltimore and the central corridor, the heaviest snow is expected right along I-95, especially north of Laurel and into Baltimore County and Harford County. Most places in that zone should get 1–3 inches.
There may be a narrow strip where totals get close to 5 inches, but it’s hard to pinpoint because it depends on how the heavier snow bands set up. Right now, that “max zone” looks most likely somewhere along I-95, north of central Harford County.
Snow should taper off and move out by late mor...
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 12, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Nachum Brandt and Racheli Wolf on their engagement.
Mazel Tov to Ted and Jayne Brandt and Josh and Ahuva Wolf
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 12, 2025 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Nir & Noa Dangor on the birth of a daughter.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בתם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
Yosef dreamt a dream which he told to his brothers, and they hated him even more.
He said to them, "Hear, if you please, this dream which I dreamt: Behold — we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, when, behold! — my sheaf arose and also remained standing: then behold! — your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf."
His brothers said to him, "Would you then reign over us? Would you then dominate us?"
And they hated him even more — because of his 'dreams' and because of his talk. (בראשית לז ה-ח)
In a simple reading of the text, Yosef initially shared a dream with his brothers, which aroused their hatred towards him, although the nature of the dream is not depicted.
He then asks them to listen to an apparent second d...
Jerusalem, Israel - Dec. 11, 2025 - At Jerusalem’s Menachem Begin Heritage Center on Wednesday evening, U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee joined Olga Deutsch, Vice-President of NGO Monitor, and founder Prof. Gerald Steinberg for a wide-ranging discussion.
Huckabee was well into his remarks when he told the audience countries should “take a hike” from the ICC’s politicized accusations and push back against the unfair condemnation of Israel. He criticized the unquestioned use of casualty figures delivered by the Gaza authorities. "Dumb cannot be fixed, but ignorance can be fixed," he told the attentive audience. Accepting unverifiable information is not acceptable. He emphasized that silence is a response, and we must speak up against...
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 11, 2025 - Two fast-moving winter weather systems known as clippers will move through Maryland this weekend. Combined, the systems could potentially bring up to four inches of snow to some parts of the state, according to the latest forecasts.
The first clipper is expected to pass over the Baltimore region Friday afternoon into the evening hours and could impact the after-work commute, The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang said in their latest forecast.
Lack of moisture to fuel the storm could limit overall snow potential, according to the National Weather Service; however, if the system strengthens, up to an inch of snow is possible for the Beltway area.
"We’d venture there’s a 10 to 20 percent chance of an i...
