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Baltimore, MD - Jan. 23, 2025 - Now in our sixth year, Tashbar is an innovative trendsetting Torah school in the heart of the Baltimore community that has benefitted dozens of students to date.
Tashbar is truly a second home to our over 50 boys, who benefit daily from a stellar team of experienced Mechanchim and support staff who double as caring mentors.
Our tracked K-8 model allows children to join a class best suited to them and excel at their own pace. Tracks are on par with and correspond to mainstream grade levels. Learning is both traditional and experiential, harnessing innate childhood creativity, imagination, and thoughtfulness allowing for an immersive experience replete with development of real-world skills.
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Baltimore, MD - Jan 23, 2025 - Explore the latest issue of Baltimore Jewish Home.Click on the graphic below:
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Baltimore, MD - Jan. 16, 2025 - The Reisterstown Road Plaza (RRP) is stepping into a bold new chapter, embracing change while honoring its roots as a community gathering place. With the removal of the iconic “drum” that has long defined its entrance, this milestone marks the beginning of a comprehensive transformation aimed at reimagining the space. “We are excited to welcome in a new era with a fresh new look and feel,” a representative of Tide Realty Capital, the Plaza’s new local owner, told BJL.The upcoming facade overhaul is just the first step in a broader effort to revitalize the Plaza, creating a more welcoming, modern, and community-oriented town center. The redesign seeks to foster deeper community engagement, offering updated spaces for l...
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My name is Bracha, and I'm the mother of Shira - a sweet and brave little Israeli girl.
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Baltimore, MD - Jan. 20, 2025 - Seven Mile Market invites family and friends to join us again this year to celebrate 36 wonderful years of serving the greater Baltimore community! Our Customer Appreciation Event will be January 26 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. (times are approximate). The event promises to be bigger and better than ever, with many familiar vendors returning and new ones joining!
There will be Food Sampling by A&B, Golden Taste with Sara Lasry, iKonic, Kayco, Klein’s Ice Cream, Meal Mart, Mehadrin Dairy & Ice Cream, Natural & Kosher, Norman’s, Pure Bakes by Danielle, Reisman’s, Schtark Cheese, Shefa Dips, Sprinkles Ice Cream, and Stern’s. There will be steep sale pricing on many items storewide throughout the week. All iKippahs will be...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to the defense of billionaire and US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk on Thursday after the latter was accused of making a Nazi salute.
"Elon Musk is being falsely smeared," Netanyahu declared in a post on X.
He added: "Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.
"I thank him for this."
The X, Tesla, and Space-X CEO came under fire earlier in the week when during an address after President Donald Trump's ina...
"From Hamas's perspective, they are making a major comeback as a dominant force in Gaza," Dr. Michael Milshtein, a senior researcher at the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, told 103FM on Thursday regarding the developments in the Gaza Strip in the context of the hostage deal and the ceasefire.
"Their situation is not bad. It's terrible for us to say this because we wanted to see a battered, beaten, and maybe even barely existing organization. Yesterday, the education system in Gaza announced that schools will soon reopen, even though 85% of schools no longer exist. 6,000 Hamas police officers have been deployed throughout the strip, making it clear to everyone who is in charge and signaling that there's no point in talking about the 'post-war era,�...
Israel is on high alert for the publication of Hamas's two lists on Friday, it was announced on Thursday.
One list is expected to include the names of three kidnapped female soldiers as well as the name of Arbel Yehud from Nir Oz, who, according to intelligence estimates, is being held by a Salafi group linked to Islamic Jihad in Khan Yunis.
Four female hostages are set to be released on Saturday as part of the hostage-ceasefire deal.
Hamas is also supposed to pass on a list of the status of the remaining 26 hostages held in Gaza who are on the release list for the first phase.
For the first time, Israel will, therefore, receive official information about the fate of the Bibas family: Parents Shiri and Yarden and children Ariel and Kfir.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman told President Donald Trump he’s willing to expand investments and trade with the US in the coming four years by $600 billion, according to the kingdom’s state-run news agency SPA.
The crown prince, known as MBS, spoke to the American president in a congratulatory phone call on Wednesday, SPA said.
During the call, Prince Mohammed said the kingdom was eager to seize partnership and investment opportunities created by the new administration’s anticipated reforms, which could achieve “unprecedented economic prosperity.”
SPA did not provide further details or say what reforms the crown prince was talking about.
The commitment is large, even by the standards of oil-rich Saudi Arabia. It amounts to aro...
Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday.
The deal, agreed to by Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family members who own the company and lawyers representing state and local governments and thousands of victims of the opioid crisis, represents an increase of more than $1 billion over a previous settlement deal that was rejected last year by the U.S. Supreme Court.
It’s among the largest settlements reached over the past several years in a series of lawsuits by local, state, Native American tribal governments and others seeking to hold companies responsible for a deadly epidemic. Aside from the...
U.S. President Donald Trump has revoked security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former aide Brian Hook, both of whom served in his first administration, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
Representatives for the White House could not be immediately reached for comment on the report, which citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Trump on Tuesday said he had withdrawn protection for his former national security adviser, John Bolton.
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 23, 2025 - Baltimore's Board of Estimates has approved a significant increase in water and sewage rates, amounting to a 30% hike over the next 18 months, despite widespread public opposition. The decision follows two hours of complaints from residents who argue they cannot afford the increase.
"Baltimore City residents cannot afford even a $12 rate hike," one resident said during the hearing. Another added, "Some residents are being billed more than 10% of their income."
The rate hike is intended to fund critical infrastructure projects and comply with a federal consent decree that the city's Department of Public Works (DPW) has been under for over a decade. Public works officials insist the increase is essential, citing years of neglect.
"We are really ta...
American defense contractors will soon begin operating a checkpoint between the northern and southern Gaza Strip, Axios reported on Thursday citing two Israeli officials and a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
According to the report, armed guards from UG Solutions, a US private security company, will begin inspecting vehicles that wish to move from southern Gaza to the north per the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
The agreement states that vehicular traffic will only be allowed to cross the Netzarim Corridor, which cuts the Gaza Strip in half, using Salah al-Din Road. All vehicles will be subject to inspection by a multinational consortium.
Those operating the checkpoint will be Americans who previously served in the US Special Forces as well as others of v...
Annapolis, MD - Jan. 23, 2025 - Some Maryland lawmakers are seeking to make it easier for the state to tax the income of those living in Maryland on a limited basis.
A bill proposed by progressive lawmakers in both the Maryland House and Senate seeks to modify the residency classification of individuals who spend more than 90 days in Maryland annually. Current state law requires a person to reside in Maryland for at least six months to be considered a resident for income tax purposes.
Sen. James Rosapepe, D-Prince George’s and Anne Arundel Counties, told Spotlight on Maryland on Wednesday he believes now is the time to close what he feels are tax loopholes.
“Basically, we got people that have two or three homes in different states, and some of that is to try to avo...
President-elect Trump vowed Sunday that he would release long-classified government records on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
Trump made the pledge to a crowd during his Victory Rally at Washington, D.C.’s Capital One Arena, which has a 20,000-seat capacity, telling supporters it is the beginning of an effort to increase government transparency.
"As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents," Trump said.
"And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," he con...
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order designating Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
“Supported by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force (IRGC-QF), which arms and trains terrorist organizations worldwide, the Houthis have fired at US Navy warships dozens of times since 2023, endangering American men and women in uniform,” Trump’s order reads.
“Since seizing most Yemeni population centers by force from the legitimate Yemeni government in 2014-2015, the Houthis have launched numerous attacks on civilian infrastructure, including multiple attacks on civilian airports in Saudi Arabia, the deadly January 2022 attacks on the United Arab Emirates, and more than 300 projectiles fired at ...
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 22, 2025 - Baltimore City Democratic Central Committee members voted Tuesday night to recommend that Del. Dalya Attar (D) fill a vacancy in the state Senate, where she would become the first Orthodox Jewish woman to serve if approved by the governor.
Attar prevailed over a fellow delegate, Malcolm P. Ruff (D), and six other Democrats who interviewed over Zoom for the Senate appointment. Five of the eight central committee members from District 41 voted to forward Attar’s name to Gov. Wes Moore (D), while three voted for Ruff.
“That was fun,” said former state Del. Angela Gibson (D), one of the five who supported Attar, after the central committee members met off-camera for seven minutes. Their deliberations followed almost two hours of interviews of...
Washigton, D.C - Jan. 22, 2025 - Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown called birthright citizenship -- the notion that anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen -- "a reflection of our country’s ideals, a belief that every baby born on U.S. soil is a member of our great nation and deserves to play a part in its future." The lawsuit filed in Massachusetts by 18 states, the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco, says the 14th Amendment and repeat Supreme Court decisions have made it clear that citizenship is "unambiguously and expressly" endowed on anyone born here.
WASHINGTON — A day after President Donald Trump signed a slew of immigration-related executive orders, immigration researchers said during a Tuesday briefing...
