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Baltimore, MD - Sept. 11, 2025 - Explore the latest issue of Baltimore Jewish 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, ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Thursday with Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was released from captivity in Iraq, and with her brother.
Elizabeth thanked the Prime Minister and all those involved in securing her release and caring for her and her family. During the conversation, she described the harsh conditions of her captivity and wished for the release of all hostages.
The Prime Minister congratulated her on her release, wished her good health, a full recovery, and told her that much efforts were invested for a long time to bring her back to Israel.
Netanyahu noted his appreciation for the help of many officials, led by US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Adam Boehler, and the efforts by Israeli Coordinator for the Hostages and the Missing Per...
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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.
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“הִנֵּה מַה־טּוֹב וּמַה־נָּעִים שֶׁבֶת אַחִים גַּם־יָחַד”
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is when brothers dwell together in unity.” (Tehillim 133:1)
Charlie Kirk was under no obligation to stand with the Jewish people. Yet when the world turned hostile, when Israel was vilified simply for protecting its children, Charlie stepped forward with clarity and conviction. He never wavered, never hesitated to raise his voice against the rising tide of hatred and falsehood.
Though he was not Jewish, he lived as our brother. His courage became a shield against the storm of slander and violence unleashed after October 7. In moments when others looked away or chose silence, Charlie chose truth. In times when com...
The Hamas terror organization published photos on Thursday from the funeral in Doha for those eliminated in Israel's strike on its headquarters in the Qatari capital, attended by the Qatari Emir.
The images show senior organization officials Osama Hamdan and Izzat al-Rishq, but acting Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya is nowhere to be seen.
Earlier in the week, al-Rishq's name was among those who were in the building that was struck in Doha. Al-Rishq, a member of Hamas's diplomatic bureau and the head of its office of Arab and Islamic relations, operated for years from Jordan, Syria, and Qatar.
Khalil al-Hayya is the acting leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip following the elimination of Yahya Sinwar. He resides in Qatar after years of operating in Gaza. He joined Hamas during t...
New York, NY - Sept. 11, 2025 - The United States will stop to remember the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Thursday, marking a dark moment in U.S. history.
The annual moments of silence and reading of names will be held on Thursday in Lower Manhattan at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
It marks 24 years since New Yorkers and Americans across the nation vowed to “never forget.”
What happened on September 11, 2001
"9/11" is an abbreviated date standing for September 11th, 2001. Terrorists carried out multiple, coordinated attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
Nineteen terrorists from al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist group, hijacked four planes. Two were deliberately crashed into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. The...
President Trump said that he was ordering all U.S. flags to be lowered to half-staff until Sunday night in honor of Charlie Kirk. In a social-media post, he called Kirk “a truly Great American Patriot.”
At roughly 5:20 p.m., flags at the White House were lowered to half-staff, following the death of Charlie Kirk.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at an event on Wednesday afternoon at Utah Valley University.
President Donald Trump confirmed Kirk's death in a post on Truth Social.
"The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie," Trump wrote. "He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!"Kirk was speaking at the university when shots rang out, appearing to strike him.
Baltimore, Md - Sept. 10, 2025 - As the clock winds down on a final Baltimore County redistricting map, council members Mike Ertel and Izzy Patoka introduced an amendment to the map Tuesday.
"This updated 2 one map does the best job of keeping communities together as much as possible while also complying with the Voting Rights Act in giving communities of color the most meaningful opportunities to elect their preferred candidates," Councilman Ertel said.
The amendment creates a majority-minority district in addition to two majority African American districts.
This is all being done in the midst of expanding the county from seven districts to nine.
But council members and some residents say they had little to no time to look over the amended plan.
"And then to provide or expect hours o...
Charlie Kirk, the powerful rightwing activist, Trump ally and executive director of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), has been shot on Wednesday while hosting an event in Utah.
In video posts circulating on social media, Kirk can be seen getting struck while speaking and sitting beneath a tent in the Utah Valley University courtyard. Kirk was there as part of The American Comeback Tour, which is hosted by the TPUSA chapter at Utah Valley. There is also video footage of students on campus running away from the sound of gunshots.
“Today at about 12.10 a shot was fired at the visiting speaker, Charlie Kirk,” the Uuniversity said in a statement. “He was hit and taken from the location by his security. Campus police is investigating, a suspect is in...
The Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reports that two senior Hamas officials, members of the organization’s political bureau, were wounded in yesterday’s strike on the Palestinian terror group’s headquarters in Qatar.
The report does not specify their names, but it claims that one of them was seriously injured and that both are hospitalized in a private hospital under strict security.
The newspaper further reports that the area of the headquarters that sustained the heaviest damage and was struck four times was the office of Hamas leader in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya, and that Hamas officials had gathered in the former office of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed by Israel in 2024 while in Tehran.
According to the report, one bomb fell in Haniyeh’s office, and...
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 10, 2025 - The Baltimore City District Courthouse, also known as the Civil Building, will relocate its operations from 501 E. Fayette Street to a new courthouse at 500 N. Calvert Street.
The courthouse will close at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, October 10, and will reopen on Tuesday, October 14, at 8:00 a.m. at 500 North Calvert Street, officials said.
All judges, commissioners, and Judiciary employees will move to the North Calvert Street courthouse.
The Commissioner's Centralized Application, located at 1 North Charles Street, will remain open until Sunday, October 12, closing at 9:30 a.m. It will reopen at the new location (500 North Calvert Street) at 12 p.m. the same day.
Officials advised that individuals with business at the East Fayette Street courthouse shou...
Israeli security officials expressed doubts Tuesday night regarding the success of the strike in Doha, Qatar, which targeted senior Hamas leaders.
At this stage, no final confirmation has been received that the high-ranking targets were eliminated in the operation. A security source told Kan News that the final conclusions are still unknown, but that it is possible that the strike did not achieve the desired result.
According to a report by Kan Reshet Bet, Israel informed the US that the chances that the Hamas officials were successfully eliminated "dropped significantly." Sources familiar with the talks between Washington and Jerusalem said that the operation "apparently did not meet our expectations," but added that investigations are still ongoing and...
As part of Operation “Gideon’s Chariots II”, the Population Warning Department of the Southern Command and Unit 504 began an effort on Tuesday to warn the civilian population in Gaza City.
The IDF is employing a variety of operational tools, including the distribution of voice messages, dropping of leaflets, sending text messages, and conducting phone calls, all with the goal of reaching as many civilians as possible.
The IDF calls on civilians in the Gaza Strip to heed the official instructions for their safety and to avoid staying in areas designated as dangerous.
The leaflets that were dropped read: "To all residents and people present in Gaza City and all its neighborhoods, from the Old City and Tuffah in the east to the sea in the west, the IDF is determined to de...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addressed the situation in Gaza today (Wednesday) and announced a series of new measures against Israel.
"What is happening in Gaza has shaken the conscience of the world. Man-made hunger cannot be used as a weapon of war. This must stop," she said.
Von der Leyen noted that the EU's aid to Gaza is larger than that of any other international actor, but, she said, "Europe must do more."
Among the measures she presented were suspending bilateral support to Israel, except funding for civil society and Yad Vashem; advancing sanctions against "extreme ministers" and "violent settlers"; partial suspension of the association agreement with Israel regarding trade matters; and the creation of an international donor group for the Palestinians...
