Parshas Chukat
Rabbi Berel Wein The Torah reading of this week deals with a ritual in the Temple – that of the Parah Adumah – which is characterized as being a commandment beyond the ken of human understanding and rational interpretation. It remains a primary example of certain commandments that, at their very core, are not easily […]
Wednesday is the Day to Wed
Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow Mazal tov to all those who finished Maseches Yevamos. We began Maseches Kesuvos on Friday. I remember that a few minutes after I was engaged and we had a mock l’chayim ceremony, my future shvigger opened her notebook. She promptly started a lengthy discourse about the dates available for the wedding. She […]
Crook on the Hook
Allan Rolnick, CPA Fifty years ago, on June 17, a former CIA officer and four Cuban anti-communists carrying bugging devices found themselves handcuffed outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. What started out as “a third-rate burglary” morphed into “a cancer on the Presidency” and then a “long national […]
Coffee, French pastries and Jewish political advocacy were on the menu at Croustille Café last week.
Nearly 40 community members gathered on Wednesday morning to chart a future of bold activism, inpursuit of increased state support for day schools and yeshivas in Maryland. Yanky Statman, Ari Gross,Jerry Wolasky and Yehuda Neuberger hosted the parlor meeting to introduce the Orthodox Union’sTeach MD project. The OU operates day school advocacy offices in states across […]
David Bagan, Founder and President of Chaverim of Baltimore
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I grew up in Baltimore and went to TA. I spent some time afterwards in yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael and came back to New York to learn at Sha’ar Yashuv. My wife is from Long Island, NY, and we have four wonderful children. We love living in Baltimore, […]
Spotlight on Dalya Attar
Tell us about yourself: My name is Dalya Attar. I am a mother of two children, an 8-year-old son Aaron and a 10-year-old daughter Ilana. I attended Bais Yaakov of Baltimore from nursery through high school. I knew from when I was in middle school that I wanted to be an attorney with a focus […]
Adolescent Depression
Rabbi Azriel Hauptman The teenage years are difficult ones for both teens and parents. The teenagers are grappling withfinding their identity in this no man’s land between childhood and adulthood. Their bodies andminds are changing which can lead to a very confusing period in their lives. The parents arepulling their hair out trying to figure […]
Baltimore Community Celebrates its Winners Once Again!
On Sunday, June 19th, The Chesed Fund & Project Ezra, recognized and awarded 20 outstanding individuals who have gone above and beyond in service and/or safety for our community. The sponsors of the ceremony, Bruce and Lois Kauffman noted that we have such a unique and special community. Bruce said, “Our community is filled with […]
Parshas Korach
Rabbi Berel Wein This week’s reading describes the rebellion of Korach and other disastrous incidents that occurred to the generation that left Egypt who were destined to expire in the Desert of Sinai. After the previous debacles: the complaints against Moshe by Miriam and Aharon, the demand for food, the ingratitude towards the manna that […]
The Key to Success in Chinuch
Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow Rav Yitzchak bar Bisna was the gabbai in charge of opening the doors to the beis midrash. He did his job without fail, until one fateful day when he lost his keys. He realized on Shabbos that he had dropped the keys in a public thoroughfare. He could not carry the keys […]
