Baltimore, MD - Oct. 28, 2025 - Two historically Black colleges and universities in Maryland received a total of $101 million in donations in a span of less than two weeks from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, the schools announced this month.
The unrestricted gifts — $63 million for Morgan State University announced on Oct. 15 and $38 million to University of Maryland, Eastern Shore announced Friday — are in addition to $60 million that Scott gave the schools five years ago. Morgan State got $40 million then, and UMES received $20 million.
Scott also donated $25 million in 2020 to Maryland’s second-largest HBCU, Bowie State University, the largest single gift in the school’s history. In total, Scott has donated $186 milli...
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Baltimore, MD – Oct. 24, 2025 – BJL regrets to inform the community of the petirah of Chaya Statman, a’h, wife of Yossi Statman mother of Yanky (Aliza) Statman, Yitzy (Rebecca) Statman, Shira (Avi) Lipman and sister of David (Renee) Bienenstock.Shiva will be observed at 2309 Whitley Road, Baltimore, MD 21209 and David Bienenstock at 6607 Greenspring Ave, Balto., MD 212092309 Whitely:Shacharis: Sunday: 8:00 am / Mincha/Maariv 6:00PMShacharis: Monday - Wednesday: 7:00 am / Mincha/Maariv 6:00PMShacharis Thursday - 7:00 am Please no visitors between: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm and after 9:00 pm*******6607 Greenspring AveShacharis Monday - Thursday 8:00 am
Mincha/Maariv (Shkia) Monday - Wednesday 5:55 pm
Please no visitors between...
Baltimore, MD - Oct. 28, 2025 - On Monday, October 27, around 6:20 p.m., a man entered Market Maven and stole a pair of Tefillin from the self-service stand at 1630 Reisterstown Road.
Chabad of Maryland launched the stand shortly after October 7, 2023, providing shoppers a moment to pray, give charity, and connect spiritually. The stand attracted visitors almost daily, making this theft especially disheartening. It now sits empty, leaving a visible gap in the community’s spiritual space.
Baltimore County Police are investigating the incident.
Anyone with information should contact Market Maven management, Baltimore County Police, or Chabad of Maryland.
(L-R) Rabbi Yankee Barron-Chabad of Columbia, MD, Oren Yesko, and Market Maven Store Manager Eli Siegel
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BDE: Rabbi Moshe Hauer, ZTV'L
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Baby Aryeh Leib is fighting for his life after being diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare any aggressive liver cancer. 💔
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Jerusalem, Israel - Oct. 28, 2025 - The World Zionist Organization (WZO) announced that the 39th World Zionist Congress will convene in Jerusalem from October 28 to 30, 2025, bringing together Jewish leaders and delegates from more than 40 countries for the largest global Zionist gathering of its kind.
Known as the “Parliament of the Jewish People,” the Congress serves as the only democratic global forum where Jews worldwide elect representatives to influence Israel’s national institutions, Jewish education, and priorities related to Jewish peoplehood. Delegates will set global Zionist policies and help guide the allocation of more than $1 billion annually toward strengthening Israel and Jewish communities worldwide.
This year’s Congress, held in the Jerusal...
Baltimore, MD – Oct. 29, 2025 – 8:47AM - A car accident on Smith Avenue, en route to Bais Yaakov, is causing significant delays stretching all the way back to Royal Farms
A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday indefinitely barred the Trump administration from firing federal employees during the government shutdown.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston granted a preliminary injunction that bars the firings while a lawsuit challenging them plays out. She had previously issued a temporary restraining order against the job cuts that was set to expire Wednesday.
Illston, who was nominated by Democratic President Bill Clinton, has said she believes the evidence will ultimately show the mass firings were illegal and in excess of authority.
The Republican administration has slashed jobs in education, health and other areas it says are favored by Democrats. The administration has also said it will not tap roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to kee...
Baltimore, MD - Oct. 28, 2025 - Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is expected to announce over $4 million in assistance for residents and federal workers impacted by the ongoing federal government shutdown.
On Day 28 of the federal government shutdown – with federal food assistance benefits about to run out, the U.S. is moving toward a hunger crisis. Some 40 million Americans who rely on critical federal food assistance are set to see their benefits dry up in just days.
The funds will go towards food assistance, child care and rental assistance. The press conference is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday at The Food Project.
Scott will be joined by Maryland Reps. Kweisi Mfume and Johnny Olszewski and The Food Project Executive Director Michelle Suazo.
Washington, D.C. - Oct. 28, 2025 - The government shutdown has officially entered its 4th week, with Democrats and Republicans still at a stalemate on day 28.
Funding for several federal programs is expected to end on Saturday, Nov. 1, with Congress not getting any closer to reopening the government.
The shutdown is now the second-longest in U.S. history, just days away from becoming the longest in U.S. history. The longest shutdown was 35 days during President Donald Trump’s first term.
On November 1, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides food assistance to approximately 42 million people, will run out of funding, resulting in the federal food aid program ending until further notice.
SNAP is the largest food aid program in the United Stat...
Tel Aviv, Israel - Oct. 28, 2025 - The IDF struck Hamas-used infrastructure in southern Gaza after members of the terror group fired at soldiers, the Prime Minister's Office confirmed on Tuesday.
Hamas fired an anti-tank missile and gunshots at IDF troops in Rafah, marking an additional ceasefire violation by the terrorist group.
"The response to [Hamas's] current violations will be much more significant than the response last time," an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post.
The IDF is returning fire in order to stop Hamas from further endangering soldiers on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line, according to a military source.
Following a situational assessment and with the approval of Defense Minister Israel Katz, the security restrictions that h...
Baltimore, MD – Oct. 21, 2025 – BJL regrets to inform the community of the petirah of Shlomo Aryeh Ribakow, z'l, son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Ribakow, and brother of Dovid Ribakow, Yehoshua Ribakow, Yaakov Ribakow, Daniel Ribakow, Aaron Ribakow and Moshe Ribakow, Ilana (Chesky) Finkelstein, Adina (Chezky) Kosman, and Shira Ribakow.Shiva will be observed at 3316 Olympia Ave., Baltimore, MD 21215 until Tuesday morning, Oct. 28.
Minyanim:
Shacharis (Fri., Sun., Mon. & Tue.) - 7:45am
Mincha Erev Shabbos - 3:30pm
Maariv Motzei Shabbos - 7:05pm
Mincha (Sun. & Mon.) - 5:00pm
Maariv (Sun. & Mon.) - 8:00pm
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Amazon.com plans to announce thousands of corporate job cuts across the organization as early as Tuesday, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest cost-cutting move for the tech giant that is seeking to slim down and conserve cash.
The layoffs cut across the organization, hitting human resources, cloud computing, advertising and a number of other business units, the people said. While the total number of reductions hasn’t been finalized—and not all of them will happen immediately—as many as 30,000 people could be affected, one of the people said.
Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy has been on a yearslong campaign to cut expenses as the company ramped up spending on artificial intelligence, as it faced increased competition for its cl...
The Art and Practice of Living Wondrously is an inspiring and ambitious anthology curated by Dr. Ronit Ziv-Kreger, Director of Education at Momentum.
Momentum is an international organization dedicated to empowering Jewish mothers through transformative experiences, from life-changing trips to Israel and global leadership summits to an expansive multimedia platform and resources for Jewish living and learning. Since its founding in 2008, Momentum has engaged more than 24,000 participants from over 450 partner organizations in 35 countries through its flagship Momentum Journey of Growth program. In 2023, the organization was honored with the Jerusalem Unity Prize for promoting unity without uniformity in Israel and across the Jewish world.
In this thoughtfully curated collection, Ziv-Kreg...
Ditsa Or’s Unspoken Speech
The following text was never read aloud. Ditsa Or prepared it carefully and worked on it for a long time, but in the end—overcome by emotion, speeches, and embraces—she did not deliver these words.
Hostage Avinatan Or returned this week to the community of Shiloh, stopping at each station along the route where children and adults waited, overcome with excitement. For two years the Binyamin Regional Council has accompanied dozens of the fallen in silence and tears; standing on the same roadside and seeing someone come back from the abyss felt deeply healing.
Below is part of what Ditsa intended to say at the event:
“My brothers and sisters, ‘For this boy have I prayed,’” Ditsa began. “Just as thousands of years a...
