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Dr. David Pelcovitz Enlightens Baltimore about "Th...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Margie... | Published 02/22/12 | Comments (0)
Baltimore, MD-Feb. 22 - At first, I thought it was comical that of all the different venues for which I write, I happened to be covering an article on the...
Mesila's "A Frum Family's Guide for Deal...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Margie... | Published 02/22/12 | Comments (0)
Baltimore, MD-Feb. 22 - The Mesila seminar held in Baltimore’s Congregation Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion, this past Monday night, not only told it like it is, ...
Jewish Jordan Tamir Goodman on Jeremy Lin
Article by Dan Steinberg | Published 02/22/12 | Comments (0)
All I can say is I’m ashamed I didn’t think to call Tamir Goodman myself, to ask the former Jewish Jordan what he thinks about the Jeremy Lin phenom...
Montgomery County and Beit Shemesh Sisters - Why Not?
Article by Suzanne Pollak | Published 02/22/12 | Comments (0)
Should Montgomery County become a "sister city" to the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh? A public meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 13 to enable those who ...
65,000 in City, County Likely Overcharged on Water Bill...
Article by Julie Scharper | Published 02/22/12 | Comments (1)
More than $40 million corrections to bills in one year Baltimore's water system likely overcharged more than 65,000 customers in the city and Baltimore C...
O'Fishel's 11th Annual Brachos Out Loud Con...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Margie... | Published 02/22/12 | Comments (1)
Baltimore, MD-Feb. 22-Tomorrow, Thursday, February 23, Rosh Chodesh Adar, O’Fishel’s much anticipated “Brachos Out Loud” contest will ki...
An Aliyah Diary - Episode #31 - Humility, or I Plan to ...
Article by Susan Leibtag | Published 02/22/12 | Comments (1)
Ulpan is, let's just say, a humbling experience. Let's also say that today after Ulpan I came home and raced to find my bottle of Excedrin and gulped ...
This Sunday: Bais Yaakov Baltimore BY Kidz 4 Kidz Chine...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Isaac ... | Published 02/22/12 | Comments (1)
Baltimore, MD - Feb.1 -The Bais Yaakov Dolphin Club by Kidz for Kidz Chinese Auction is back by popular demand for its second annual extravaganza. The phenomena...
Yom Kippur Katan: No Small Endeavor
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Tehill... | Published 02/22/12 | Comments (1)
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 22 - After a very eventful summer, both in America and abroad, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, Shlita was asked what we, frum Jews, could do to reve...
Parshas Terumah -The Shechina Dwells in Our Efforts (Vi...
Article by Rabbi Yechezkel Weinfeld | Published 02/21/12 | Comments (0)
A Sicha from HaRav Yechezkel Weinfeld on Parshas Terumah "The Shechina Dwells in Our Efforts." ...
Behind Lurman, Lobos Take the Title in Yeshiva AFI Cham...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Isaac ... | Published 02/21/12 | Comments (2)
Jerusalem, IL - Feb. 21 - The Holy Land Football League, which is a mix of bochurim from assorted Yeshivos in Yerushalayim, played their championship game...
Parshas Terumah - Cedars of Hope
Article by Rabbi Yosef Tropper | Published 02/21/12 | Comments (0)
The building of the Mishkan required many raw materials such as gold, silver, copper, wool and precious stones. The Jews donated more than enough of their perso...
Jewish Star: Judges Decide (Video)
Article by Staff Reporter | Published 02/21/12 | Comments (1)
It's finally here: the highly anticipated online show of the judging session of A Jewish Star 2012. View the video and join Avraham Fried, Eli Gerstner, ...
Parshas Terumah - Raiding the Pushka and Related Questi...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Rabbi ... | Published 02/20/12 | Comments (0)
Question #1: TREMENDOUSLY APPEALING! Yehudah presents the following dilemma: “I often feel pressured to pledge to the tzedakah appeals in shul; however, ...
An Aliyah Diary - Episode #30 - The Washer, The Car, an...
Article by Susan Leibtag | Published 02/20/12 | Comments (0)
Sounds like the name of a scary movie, right? Stephen King-ish if you ask me. Today started out nicely with a conversation with my new client for whom I am goin...
A Talmid Recollects His Special Relationship with Rabbi...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Hillel... | Published 02/20/12 | Comments (2)
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 20 - On Tu B’Shvat 5772 thousands of individuals, families and a yeshiva lost a Rebbi. Rabbi Yosef Tendler, ZT’L who was part o...
Confessions of a Giants Fan
Article by Rabbi Avi Shafran, Editor at l... | Published 02/20/12 | Comments (3)
I’m tapping this out in my office at Agudath Israel of America’s national headquarters in Manhattan to the tune, so to speak, of blaring horns, bo...
Mishpacha Magazine: You Can Trust Me
Article by Yisroel Besser for Mishpacha M... | Published 02/20/12 | Comments (1)
As a young man who’d visited Lakewood and was then swept into the pioneering kollel, Rav Yosef Tendler was guided by the words of Rav Aharon Kotler: "You ...
BALTIMOREJEWISHLIFE.COM EXCLUSIVE: Orthodox Silver Spri...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Margie... | Published 02/19/12 | Comments (1)
Baltimore, MD - Feb.19 - Yair Rozmaryn always enjoyed collecting sports trading cards, as a young boy, and this avocation carried into adulthood. The 29-year ol...
Baltimore City and Baltimore County Presidents' Da...
Article by BJLife News Room | Published 02/19/12 | Comments (1)
Baltimore City: Monday is not a scheduled curbside waste or recycling collection day. There will be NO BULK TRASH collection scheduled. All Citizen Co...
Jewish Women Unite! (Video)
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Chayei... | Published 02/19/12 | Comments (0)
Lately in the news we hear the following stories: Many people are struggling to find work. We are praying for so many people to feel better. Many ...
Letter to the Editor
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/The No... | Published 02/19/12 | Comments (4)
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 18 - A couple of weeks ago, we were Zocheh to see why Baltimore is such a special community. We would like to relate our experience, and s...
Halachically Speaking -The Beracha of Shehechiyanu
Article by Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits | Published 02/19/12 | Comments (0)
The beracha of shehechiyanu applies to many different areas such as Yom Tov, the birth of a boy, purchasing new items, performing mitzvahs and eating new fruits...
An Aliyah Diary - Episode #29 - They're going to t...
Article by Susan Leibtag | Published 02/19/12 | Comments (0)
Ooooh boy. I am very glad that the Israeli police were not patrolling my neighborhood last night. I was in Beit Shemesh for Shabbos and drove home around 7:30. ...
Moroccan Man Planning Suicide Attack on US Capitol Arre...
Article by CNN Wire Staff | Published 02/17/12 | Comments (0)
U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI on Friday arrested a Moroccan man who was planning a suicide attack on the Capitol, police and a federal law-enforcement officia...
Agudath Israel of New Jersey Decries Legislature's...
Article by BJLife News Room | Published 02/17/12 | Comments (0)
Rabbi Meir Brody, director of Agudath Israel of America’s New Jersey regional office, reacted to the New Jersey legislature’s decision to upend the ...
Islamophobia as an Offensive Weapon
Article by Jonathan Rosenblum | Published 02/17/12 | Comments (0)
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling for the dismissal of New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and the appointment of an ou...
An Aliyah Diary - Episode #28 - New Neighbors
Article by Susan Leibtag | Published 02/17/12 | Comments (0)
Yesterday was a big day. After over two years of planning, frustration, waiting, more waiting, and more planning Gila and Donny (and kids, they didn't forg...
Tzedakah Issues Check Fraud Alert
Article by Staff Reporter | Published 02/17/12 | Comments (3)
Tomchei Tzedakah just received a call from someone in Lakewood: $7300 was withdrawn from his account – this past Motzoei Shabbos he had written a mu...
Parshas Mishpatim - Kidnapped!
Article by Rabbi Zvi Teichman | Published 02/16/12 | Comments (0)
This week we read a long list of laws primarily related to civil life and welfare. In what seems as a potpourri of many diverse topics, the commentators t...
Baltimore County Completes $76M in 911, Radio Upgrades ...
Article by Tyler Waldman | Published 02/16/12 | Comments (0)
The county added 10 radio towers and revamped its 911 call center as part of a long-term capital project. It was nine years ago, almost to the day, that Bal...
Parshas Mishpatim - Holiness & Halacha, Intertwined
Article by R' Shaya Gross | Published 02/16/12 | Comments (0)
This week’s Parsha, Parshas Mishpatim, enumerates many laws relating to the daily life of all Yidden. Why after the super high at Mount Sinai, in last wee...
Houston's Orthodox Community Wants to "CHAT&q...
Article by BJLife News Room | Published 02/16/12 | Comments (0)
So you would like to investigate a move to Houston based on the Orthodox Union choosing it as the first community of its Affordable Orthodox Living program?&nbs...
Parshas Mishpatim - Dikdukianisms
Article by R' Eliezer Bulka | Published 02/16/12 | Comments (0)
אשה וילדיה (כ"א:ד) האשה וילדיה תהיה לאדניה There is a גמרא, I believe it is in בבא קמא but I could not loca...
Parshas Mishpatim - Keep your Enemy's Donkey Close...
Article by R' Eliezer Bulka | Published 02/16/12 | Comments (0)
In this week's parsha, we are commanded to come to the aid of our fellow Jew whose donkey is crouching under his burden and needs help to load it on. Th...
Parshas Mishpatim - The Talis Exchange and Other Lost S...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Rabbi ... | Published 02/16/12 | Comments (0)
Question #1: THE TALIS EXCHANGE Dovid asked me the following shaylah: “I placed my talis in shul and, upon returning, discovered that it had been replace...
Parshas Mishpatim - Messengers and Messages
Article by Rabbi Yissochor Dov Krakowski | Published 02/16/12 | Comments (0)
Towards the end of the Parsha (23, 20) Hashem tells Moshe Rabeinu that he is going to send a Malach in front of us to protect us and to bring us to Eretz Yisroe...
Cry No More (Video)
Article by Yaakov Shwekey | Published 02/16/12 | Comments (3)
A breathtaking music video that is sure to move you like never before ...
Hisoreri, Hisoreri - Wake up, Wake up - An Almost Nucle...
Article by Yochonon Donn | Published 02/16/12 | Comments (0)
Brooklyn, NY - Harav Moshe Wolfson, shlita, spoke Tuesday night in a rare mid-week assembly for his kehillah, Emunas Yisroel in Boro Park, asking bluntly why th...
Kol Torah Celebrates at Annual Melava Malka
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Isaac ... | Published 02/16/12 | Comments (1)
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 16 - This past Motzaei Shabbos was a very special night on the Kol Torah calendar - the annual Melaveh Malkah. While this much-hyped event ...
An Aliyah Diary - Episode #27: The Man on the Side of t...
Article by Susan Leibtag | Published 02/16/12 | Comments (0)
Yesterday, I saw a car stopped on the side of the road - a very busy, highway-like road that is heavily traveled. It is rush hour so there is lots of traffic.I ...
Swiss Matzah Baking Chaburah (Photo Essay & Video)
Article by BJLife News Room | Published 02/15/12 | Comments (0)
This week a Swiss chabura lead by HaRav Moshe Chaim Levy, Rav of IRG - Adas Yeshurun in Zurich, gathered at the matzah bakery it Atarot, outside of Yerush...
Making the Most Out of Your Moment - What Judaism Teach...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Chaim ... | Published 02/15/12 | Comments (0)
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 15 - One of the most compelling sports stories to hit the sports world this year has been about New York Knicks Point Guard, Jeremy Lin.&nb...
STAR-K Interactive Mikvah-nar to Address Worldwide Ques...
Article by Star-K/Margie Pensak | Published 02/15/12 | Comments (0)
Next Wednesday, February 22, at 8:00 pm ET, STAR-K plans to make history by hosting the world’s first “Mikvah-nar ”. STAR-K’s Rabb...
Kosher on Campus: Not Just for Jews
Article by Gabi P. Remz | Published 02/15/12 | Comments (0)
"Sometimes it's just better." The group's complexion changes every few minutes. It starts with a girl from Korea, a Panamanian Jew and a redhead dra...
An Aliyah Diary - Episode #26 - Wedding Safes and Ulpan
Article by Susan Leibtag | Published 02/15/12 | Comments (0)
Yes, you read that correctly- a wedding safe. No, it's not a prenup, it's a real honest to goodness safe that you see at weddings here. There is a guy...
Baltimore to Unveil New Grand Prix Contract
Article by Julie Scharper | Published 02/15/12 | Comments (0)
Safeguards will protect city from losses, officials say Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration has struck a five-year deal with a new team to man...
Statement of the OU on Same Gender Marriage Bill in NJ
Article by BJLife News Room | Published 02/15/12 | Comments (0)
Consistent with its tradition and Jewish religious principles, the leadership of the Orthodox Union expresses its opposition to the redefinition of marriage and...
Kamenetz Announces New Economic Development Strategic P...
Article by BJLife News Room | Published 02/14/12 | Comments (0)
Towson, MD - Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz today announced a new strategic operations plan for the Department of Economic Developm...
OU's Fourth Annual Kosher Essay Contest Underway
Article by BJLife News Room | Published 02/14/12 | Comments (0)
It’s baaaak! Building on the success and enthusiastic response to the previous contests, the Fourth Annual OU Kosher Essay Contest for grades 7-12 i...
Parshas Mishpatim - New Rules of Physics or Translating...
Article by Rabbi Ari Storch | Published 02/14/12 | Comments (0)
In the end of this week’s parsha the shalosh regalim are mentioned. The same general language to refer to them is repeated again towards the end of Ki S...
Never Too Late: Baltimore Couple in 90s Makes Aliyah
Article by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu | Published 02/14/12 | Comments (1)
The oldest couple to make aliyah has landed in Israel from Baltimore. Welcome to Israel, Phillip and Dorothy Grossman, ages 95 and 93. They are part of a Nefe...
Mayor Rawlings-Blake Delivers State of the City Address...
Article by Staff Reporter | Published 02/13/12 | Comments (2)
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Talks About Baltimore's Present, Future In first address as newly-elected Mayor of Baltimore, Mayor Rawlings-Blake provides d...
OU Designates Houston as First "Affordable Orthodo...
Article by Staff Reporter | Published 02/13/12 | Comments (4)
Deep in the heart of Texas, a new OU program is born: Houston Designated as first affordable orthodox living communuty “Affordable Orthodox Living&rdquo...
Reception Honoring Waterbury Yeshiva (Photo Essay)
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Moish ... | Published 02/13/12 | Comments (11)
Baltimore, MD – Feb. 13 - Yesterday morning, members of the Baltimore community, gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Wolasky for a brunch reception...
An Aliyah Diary - Episode #25 - The Job Interview
Article by Susan Leibtag | Published 02/13/12 | Comments (0)
Today I have a job interview via Skype. Sounds easy, right?Let's see - we have our internet, we have our computer, what could go wrong?Ha!First, the electr...
OU Objects to Obama's Budget Proposal Which Will H...
Article by BJLife News Room | Published 02/13/12 | Comments (2)
Today, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, objected to one aspect of Presid...
Book Review: The Secrets of the Stars by Rabbi Ari Stor...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Yochan... | Published 02/13/12 | Comments (0)
I recently picked up the new book, The Secrets of the Stars, by Rabbi Ari Storch. It offered me an entirely new perspective about the mazalos (constellatio...
Charedi Like Me
Article by Rabbi Avi Shafran, Editor at l... | Published 02/13/12 | Comments (0)
Back in 1961, a man named John Howard Griffin, a white native of Mansfield, Texas, published a remarkable book. “Black Like Me” was his account of...
MD Jewish Community Advocacy Day Draws Hundreds (Photo ...
Article by BJC Staff | Published 02/13/12 | Comments (2)
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 10 - This past Tuesday evening, hundreds of members of Baltimore’s Jewish community joined their counterparts from Washington, D.C. f...
A Lesson in Kiddush Hashem from "Ordinary" Pe...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Dovid ... | Published 02/13/12 | Comments (7)
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 12 / 19 Shevat 5772 - It appeared as a typical Sunday morning shopping experience at the Greenspring Shopping Center. To my wondrous ...
Montgomery County Delays Israeli Sister-City Partnershi...
Article by Victor Zapana | Published 02/12/12 | Comments (0)
This is not what Montgomery County officials expected when they started signing sister-city agreements. After arranging the first one last year, county offic...
Parshas Mishpatim - World's Greatest Doctor
Article by Rabbi Yosef Tropper | Published 02/12/12 | Comments (0)
A most vital Jewish axiom is expressed in the words of our Parsha. The verse tells that if two men are fighting and one strikes the other and inflicts a wound, ...
A Tribute to Rabbi Yosef Tendler, z'l: Following i...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Margie... | Published 02/12/12 | Comments (1)
Baltimore, MD-Feb. 9/16 Shvat- It seemed much too soon after the levaya held sixteen days ago for Rebbetzin Chana Weinberg, a”h, to return to the same bei...
Shlomo's Recipe of the Week: Restaurant-Style Buff...
Article by Shlomo's Kosher Fish & Me... | Published 02/13/12 | Comments (0)
Restaurant-Style Buffalo Chicken Wings Prep Time: 15 Min Cook Time: 15 Min Ready In: 2 Hrs Ingredients 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 teasp...
An Aliyah Diary, Episode #24: Birthday, Mezuzos, Ulpan
Article by Susan Leibtag | Published 02/12/12 | Comments (0)
Actually the title should be "Ulpan, Mezuzos, Birthday" but in this country you read right to left. Ha! A little Hebrew humor for you. Today we went to ...
Waterbury and Baltimore: Mirror Images
Article by BJLife Staff | Published 02/13/12 | Comments (0)
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 8 - The place to be this Sunday morning, Feb. 12, is at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Wolasky, 6713 Westbrook Road, where the Brun...
Remembering M. Leo Storch, z'l, on his 40th Yahrze...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Margie... | Published 02/12/12 | Comments (0)
Baltimore, MD-Feb. 11/19 Shvat- I never had the honor and privilege of meeting Mr. M. Leo (Moshe Aryeh) Storch, z“l. His untimely passing took place in 19...
The Hardest Part of Saying Goodbye to Rabbi Tendler
Article by Rabbi Eliyahu Fink | Published 02/11/12 | Comments (0)
My eight year old son knew that I went to Baltimore to attend the funeral of Rabbi Yosef Tendler, Of Blessed Memory. My wife told him that Rabbi Tendler w...
Parshas Yisro - Dikdukianisms
Article by R' Eliezer Bulka | Published 02/10/12 | Comments (0)
On top of Old Smokey... (י"ט:י"ח) וְהַר סִינַי עָשַׁן כֻּלּוֹ As רש"י writes on this pasuk, there is a very distinct d...
Maryland High School Changes Headwear Policy After Kipp...
Article by Esther French | Published 02/10/12 | Comments (0)
Students will no longer be asked to obtain a letter of justification from a spiritual leader in order to wear a religious head covering. Northwood High School...
Rabbi Yosef Tendler, Of Blessed Memory
Article by Rabbi Eliyahu Fink | Published 02/10/12 | Comments (4)
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 9 - Rarely does a day go by without the words of Rabbi Yosef Tendler echoing through my mind. This is how great an impact one man was able ...
An Aliyah Diary - Episode #23 - Your Email is Not Worki...
Article by Susan Leibtag | Published 02/10/12 | Comments (1)
If you recall, we received a broken washing machine the other day. The installer told us that he was going to report the damage and the company would call us. W...
Parshas Yisro - An Exquisite Duet
Article by Rabbi Zvi Teichman | Published 02/09/12 | Comments (0)
As the Jewish nation was now poised to receive the Torah, God sought to entice them to consent in accepting the Torah willingly. God declares that if they are ...
Parshas Yisro - Uncanny Shabbos Regulations
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Rabbi ... | Published 02/10/12 | Comments (0)
Question #1: A CANDID QUESTION! Chayim calls me on the phone: “Prior to our marriage, I was taught that one may open cans on Shabbos, provided one does ...
Parshas Yisro - Just Passing Through
Article by Avraham Cohen | Published 02/09/12 | Comments (0)
Most of this week’s Dvar Torah is from Artscroll’s ‘Torah Treasury’ Regarding the names of Moshe’s two sons, the Torah tells us &...
Rabbi Yosef Tendler - 50 Years of Accomplishment
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Rabbi ... | Published 02/09/12 | Comments (0)
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 9 - 16 Shevat - I have just returned from the funeral of Rabbi Yosef Tendler, and while the emotions are fresh, I will put down some of the...
A Conversation With Rabbi Yosef Tendler - Early Years a...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Rabbi ... | Published 02/09/12 | Comments (12)
Rabbi Yosef Tendler is the Menahel (Principal) of Ner Israel’s High School and has had an impact on thousands of talmidim. The following is his st...
URGENT: 4 PM TODAY EST - Live Broadcast - Join Tens of ...
Article by BJLife News Room | Published 02/09/12 | Comments (0)
As you are surely aware, Harav Elyashiv shlita, Yosef Sholom ben Chaya Musha, needs great rachamei Shomayim. The notice below from Mr. Michael Rothschild ...
Levayah of HaRav Yosef Tendler, a'h, Today, Feb. 9...
Article by Ner Israel | Published 02/10/12 | Comments (2)
Boruch Dayan Emes: With deep sadness, we regret to inform you of the Petira of Harav Yosef Tendler ZTZ'L, Rosh Mechinas Ner Yisroel. The levaya for Harav...
Hakaras Hatov, Beyond Words - Remembering Rabbi Yosef T...
Article by Margie Pensak | Published 02/09/12 | Comments (1)
In 1971, Rabbi Mayer Kurcfeld came to Baltimore to learn in Ner Yisroel. It is often difficult enough for the average fifteen-year-old to adjust to an out-of-to...
BWI Among Airports to Adopt Prescreening Program
Article by Candus Thomson | Published 02/08/12 | Comments (1)
Low-risk passengers can keep shoes and belts on during security checks Before year's end, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport wil...
Petira of Rav Shloma Margolis, z'tl
Article by Casriel Bauman | Published 02/08/12 | Comments (1)
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rav Shloma Margolis zt”l, father of Mrs. Brenda Willner and Reb Avrohom Margolis, from Baltimore. R...
Today: Accumulation of 1-3" Expected
Article by Staff Reporter | Published 02/08/12 | Comments (0)
The National Weather Service is calling for 1 to 3 inches of snow in north and central Maryland from noon to 10 p.m. Wednesday, with a high near 39 and east w...
Parshas Yisro - Liberty to Take Responsibility
Article by HaRav Yecheskel Weinfeld | Published 02/08/12 | Comments (0)
Sicha on Parshas Yitso By Rabbi Yecheskel WeinfeldYerushalim - 5772...
MVA: Vehicle Registration Renewals Now Available Online...
Article by Janet Metzner | Published 02/07/12 | Comments (0)
Vehicle owners can now sign up for email reminders from the MVA, and can register vehicles online. The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration can now send em...
Etz Chaim Celebrates Tu B'Shvat (Photo Essay &...
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Margie... | Published 02/07/12 | Comments (0)
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 7 - Celebrating Tu B’Shvat came early this year for those who participated in the Etz Chaim’s Tu B‘Shvat program, on Sund...
Parshas Yisro - True Partners
Article by Rabbi Yosef Tropper | Published 02/07/12 | Comments (0)
It is well known that the Aseres HaDibros, Ten Commandments, which appear in this week’s Parsha, are divided into two tablets (Luchos) which represent the...
Agudath Israel of America Statement on Federal Appeals ...
Article by BJLife News Room | Published 02/07/12 | Comments (1)
As a result of a 2-1 vote by a three-judge panel in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the will of the majority of Californians who endorsed the traditional defi...
Tu B'Shevat in Jerusalem (Photo Essay)
Article by BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Shira ... | Published 02/07/12 | Comments (0)
School children all over Israel learn by song that on the holiday of Tu B’Shevat, the new year of trees, “Shkadea Porachat,” the almond...
An Aliyah Diary - Episode #21 - More Good Stuff and The...
Article by Susan Leibtag | Published 02/07/12 | Comments (0)
Once again I'd like to list a few of the wonderful things about living in Israel, and then I shall regale you with the tale of the Gas Man. [Note: every ti...
Outpouring of Tefillos for Posek Hador
Article by BJLife News Room | Published 02/07/12 | Comments (0)
Jerusalem - Feb. 7 - The quiet of a normal Israeli evening was shattered last night, as the urgent message was broadcast from loudspeakers, through email, by ...
Mark Renbaum Takes Helm at Schwaber Holdings
Article by Janet Metzner | Published 02/06/12 | Comments (1)
Reisterstown resident is named chief executive officer of the Pikesville commercial and retail real estate company. Schwaber Holdings, a Pikesville real esta...
Taking Volunteering 'On the Move'
Article by Dayna Leder - Program Associat... | Published 02/06/12 | Comments (0)
With busy school and work schedules, sports schedules and social lives it is harder and harder for families to spend quality time together. Parents are ...
Parents Charged for Bringing Kids Late to School
Article by Emma Brown | Published 02/06/12 | Comments (1)
Amy and Mark Denicore are headed to a full-blown trial to defend themselves against charges that they violated Virginia law by making their kids late to eleme...
Maryland Casinos Generate $13 Million in Revenue in Jan...
Article by AP | Published 02/06/12 | Comments (0)
The Maryland Lottery says the state’s two casinos have generated nearly $13 million in revenue in January. The Lottery said Monday that the Hollywood ...
An Aliyah Diary - Episode #20: We Tour Herzliya
Article by Susan Leibtag | Published 02/06/12 | Comments (0)
What adventures we had today - first, we were surprised by the oven installer who said he was coming on Tuesday - no really, I KNOW the scheduler said Yom Shl...
Tehilim Needed: Posaik HaDor Maran Rav Elyashiv Critica...
Article by BJLife News Room | Published 02/06/12 | Comments (0)
Jerusalem - Maran HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, 101, is currently in critical condition in Shaarei Tzedek Hospital. The Posaik HaDor was resuscitated successfull...
Open Season on Charedim - And Torah
Article by Rabbi Avi Shafran, Editor at l... | Published 02/06/12 | Comments (3)
One hopes that readers here are not part of the population that peruses tabloids like the New York Post. If they were, though, they would have seen a recent opi...