Yeshivat Rambam has small fire on main campus

JewishByte Baltimore – Yeshivat Rambam experienced a small electrical fire in the main campus at 6300 Park heights Ave. All were safely evacuated and are safe. Here is a statement from Executive Director Rabbi Lutch.

Nor’easter to dump up to 20 inches of snow in parts of MD

JewishByte Baltimore- Old Man Winter and Mother Nature are again conspiring to paint Maryland white with a coastal Nor’easter with significant snow accumulations beginning Friday morning, continuing through Friday night and into Saturday

TorahSweets- Special Meal – Parshas Yisro

TorahSweets- Special Meal
Guest post by JewishByte Contributor, Rabbi Yosef Tropper of CloseToTorah.com

Two questions. What does the beginning of the verse have to do with the end? There should be two separate verses, one describing Yisro’s offerings and the second about the meal they ate “before Hashem”?
ויקח יתרו חתן משה עולה וזבחים לאלקים ויבא [...]

Prayer Comes In Many Flavors at the State House

JewishByte Baltimore  – By Len Lazarick
Did you hear the story about the rabbi and the swami?
Actually it wasn’t a rabbi, as the story was first told, but a celibate swami who asked for help in keeping his distance from the women in the Senate chamber last week. Since Maryland Senate officials wouldn’t accommodate him, the [...]