Yeshivas Toras Simcha (YTS) is completing its seventh year of service to the Baltimore Jewish community.
We interviewed a few parents about their experiences at the yeshiva, in preparation for their imminent matching campaign to raise much-needed funds: What made you choose YTS? Rabbi Mordechai and Miriam Salzberg (MMS): We were truly impressed with the warmth, attention and care given to each talmid. The focus on each boy and teamwork to […]
Yeshivas Toras Simcha Welcomes Rabbi Hillel Shepard as Menahel
The YTS Board of Directors We are excited to announce that the new menahel of Yeshivas Toras Simcha, starting with the 2023-2024 school year, will be Rabbi Hillel Shepard, currently menahel of the Mesivta of Cincinnati. Rabbi Shepard, a talmid of Philadelphia and Ner Yisroel, brings significant chinuch experience to Yeshivas Toras Simcha, including teaching […]
Simcha Begins New Shacharis/Mincha Minyanim
BJLife Newsroom Yeshivas Toras Simcha, now in its seventh year of service to the Baltimore community, started a Shacharis minyan this morning. “Baruch Hashem that we have reached the milestone where we now have enough bar mitzvah boys to have a daily shachris minyan,” commented Rabbi Dovid Kapenstein. The boys were so very excited to […]
A Serendipitous Meeting, If There is Such A Thing
Hillel Fuld I was at a concert last night and was approached by a “Stranger” named Frank Storch from Baltimore. He told me a crazy story. He had heard of Ari’s murder but before that, he didn’t know him. Frank has been working in security helping educational institutions with their security needs for 50 years. […]
A Single Impact’s Parsha & Pizza
49 individuals attended A Single Impact’s Parsha & Pizza on Wednesday, February 8th. Frum single, divorced, and widowed women and men of ALL AGES heard an inspiring Dvar Torah from A Single Impact Board Vice President, Dr. Leslie Klein and then enjoyed some pizza and mingling. For info about upcoming Parsha & Pizza speakers and […]
Ohel Moshe Clears The Way For Its New Mikdash M’at
BJLife Newsroom Mazel Tov to Cong. Ohel Moshe (Rabbi Zvi Teichman) on knocking down its old building, a first step in clearing a path to the long-awaited expansion of their Mikdash M’at which is in design and permitting phases. May it be with tremendous hatzlacha.
Celebration
BJLife Newsroom On Motzei Shabbos, January 24, 2023, the social hall at Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion was filled with over 250 people celebrating BJSZ’s annual event, which honored Drs. Sam and Lorna Durso, and the fellows of the BJSZ Kollel: R’ Yehuda Leib Birnbaum, R’ AJ Esral, R’ Nosson “Nate” Miller, R’ Mordy Pollock, and […]
Can the Maryland General Assembly solve the “Carpool Crisis”? Two of our community’s state legislators take up the fight
In the ever-busy lives of Orthodox Jewish day school parents, few items occupy the collective focus like that of school transportation. Whether one has children attending only one school or children attending multiple schools, trying to arrange who gets where and when is a formidable challenge for even the most organized homemaker. And while the […]
Baltimore County Council Passes Plastic Bag Ban; Key Amendment to Spare Many Local Businesses
Our readers may remember the op-ed printed in our January 19 issue discussing the proposed plastic bag ban in Baltimore County (Baltimore Jewish Home Jan 19, 2023, p. 64, “Baltimore County Wants YOU to Be a Reusable Bag Lay”). After a long period of discussion, and a huge amount of feedback from Baltimore County residents […]
RAJE Students Return from Another Epic Poland-Prague Trip
Last month, 40 RAJE students from around the country, including a large portion from the local RAJE Maryland branch, spent 7 days visiting Jewish heritage and Holocaust sites throughout Poland and the Czech Republic. The trip began in Warsaw, journeyed throughout Poland and Galicia to Lublin, Lizensk, Lancut, and Krakow and concluded with a lively […]