Candlelighting Time

Recovering Jewish Addicts/Alcoholics, 12 Steps And Rosh Hashanah

It’s a Friday evening at the Jewish Recovery Houses’ House of Hope. Shabbat candles are kindled. Kiddush, the prayer over wine — in this case, grape juice — is said.

Rabbi Aryeh Goetz and his wife, Bracha, are there to lead residents of the house and guests from…
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Introducing Non-Jewish Europeans to Jewish Life

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Non-Koshered Meat Banned from Israeli Chains

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Camp Moshava Celebrates 75 Years

There’s just something special about Habonim Dror Camp Moshava, known to alums, campers, family and friends simply as ‘Mosh’.

In the interest of full disclosure, I write here that I was a camper there for three years in the 1960s.

My parents wanted me to get a better…
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Jewish Museum Fetes John Paul II’s Ties To Jews

A church bell’s chime is constantly heard in the large room, a space tastefully transformed into unpredictably curving pathways and nooks that give the feel of an old European town.
Upon turning one corner, the path goes through an entrance to a Nazi ghetto in Poland.…
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Weinberg Challenges Brings $16 Million To Area Day Schools

At a time when day school funding assistance is needed more than ever, the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore announced that it has successfully raised $5 million as part of the Associated/Weinberg Day School Initiative Campaign.

The campaign, a joint five-year partnership between the Associated and…
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Heshie Klein Named BCPD Chaplain

Rabbi Heshie Klein, 48, has been named possibly Baltimore’s first ever Orthodox Jewish Police Chaplain.
Rabbi Klein received his appointment Wednesday from Deputy Major Justin Reynolds at a ceremony held at the Police and Fire Training Academy.
“I’m excited with the anticipation of the responsibility,” said…
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