Brachos Bee at Yeshivas Toras Simcha
Photos by Dovid Kapenstein Rabbi Shai Scherer directed a brachos bee program for Yeshivas Toras Simcha students. Students were given packets with which listed various foods and their corresponding brachos. The difficulty of the brachos increased the older the grade. Over the last two weeks the students studies these packets. Two students were chosen to represent each […]
Post Oct 7th – RAJE Poland-Prague Trip More Relevant than Ever Before
By Staff As the world celebrates the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 38 RAJE students from across the U.S. including students, staff & board members from Baltimore, returned from a life-changing 7 day journey visiting Jewish heritage and Holocaust sites throughout Poland and the Czech Republic. The trip began in Warsaw, journeyed throughout […]
Baltimore’s Elman Retina Group’s Dr. Sid Schechet Heroically Restores Sight to Wounded Israeli Soldier
By: BJLife Israel Newsroom Sid Schechet, M.D. of the Elman Retina Group, took two weeks off from his busy practice to volunteer as a retina surgeon at the Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva. Soroka is the major trauma center for wounded soldiers. Since arriving on Monday, Dr. Schechet has been operating non-stop for more […]
Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion Celebrates Leadership and Legacy
BJLife Newsroom Photo Credits: Creative1080 Shlomo Rotberg Baltimore, MD – On Motzei Shabbos, January 20, 2024, Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion was filled with almost 250 people celebrating BJSZ’s Special Event, which honored Phil and Rivka Bogart, and Andrew and Lenie Singer and Family. The theme of the special event was “Tapestries of […]
he Associated Announces Redevelopment of Park Heights Complex
The Associated We are pleased to announce an exciting redevelopment of our Park Heights complex in Northwest Baltimore City. This investment will implement the final phase of an 18-month strategic plan growing out of The Associated’s 2020 Centennial Anniversary. The 10-acre campus will be renamed the Goldsmith Campus in recognition of a major donation by […]
Parshas Mishpatim
Rabbi Berel Wein The Torah does not allow us to have illusions about how people will behave when money, emotions, negligence and spite are present in society and in the lives of people. The Torah reading of this week deals with the difficulties and pettiness of human life. I find this to be extraordinary since […]
Putting You First
Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow The Gemara in Bava Kama (92) says that whoever davens for his friend and he needs that same relief, he will be answered first. Does this mechanism work even though one knows that he will be answered first? The Acharonim cite proof from our Gemara. Iyov prayed that his friends should be […]
Coffee Talk
Allan Rolnick, CPA America has always been a land of opportunity, but most Americans don’t seem very good at managing those opportunities. The average American has just $87,000 saved for retirement, dimming hopes for endless days of pickleball in the sun. Nearly 4 in 10 can’t cover $400 in an emergency, which explains a landscape […]