Arts & Life
You Should Know … Eve Rosenbaum
Eve Rosenbaum, 32, started playing baseball before she could walk or talk. Now, she works as the assistant general manager for the Baltimore Orioles.
Rosenbaum...
Shoresh gears up for its first Jewish music festival
Yona Openden, a co-chair of Shoresh’s Jewish Roots Music Festival, hopes the festival will provide younger generations of Jewish people with an opportunity to...
Making music with Michael Raitzyk
By Bob Jacobson
In 1993, when the JCC of Greater Baltimore’s board decided to sponsor a band, then-cultural coordinator Claudine Davison reached out to Michael...
You Should Know
Opinion
Parshat Korach: Resolving disagreements
Rabbi Tyler Dratch
Parshat Korach includes the most satisfying account of divine justice in the entire Torah. Korach assembles a group of 250 leaders who...
A Supreme win for school choice
There was an important decision by the U.S. Supreme Court last week that has not attracted a lot of attention. The case is Carson...
Israel’s recurring stalemate
Israel’s Knesset is expected to dissolve itself this week. Under the governing coalition’s rotation agreement, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will become the acting prime...
Nation and World
World briefs: Yad Vashem director meets pope at Vatican and more
Brazilian Jewish school takes in hospital patients escaping a fire
A Jewish school in Rio de Janeiro took in more than 150 patients escaping a...
World briefs: Aliyah from Ethiopia resumes and more
Survey: Americans not paying attention to BDS movement
A Pew Research Center survey released on May 26 found that American adults are just not paying...
Older, better, not faster, yet smarter
By Bob Roth
After dining at a restaurant recently, I was nearly giddy with excitement. I called my dad, immediately sharing my enthusiasm for the...
Top Picks
- The Etymology of Hate
Every word that we speak carries its own history. A tale of travel, a silly story or heavy hatred in its every syllable. Ethnophaulisms, or ...
- Fire consumes Camp Airy dining hall, but not the memories of it
A massive two-alarm fire has consumed the dining hall at Camp Airy for Boys in Thurmont, a part of Camps Airy and Louise, according the ...
- Celebrities you didn’t know were Jewish and Hispanic
Hispanic Heritage Month, which ends Oct. 15, is a fabulous time to appreciate the big names in the Hispanic Jewish community. Joaquin Phoenix: We know, right? ...
- What is your favorite Passover tradition?
Wendy Merrill: Watching my daughter do the four questions. Adam Plunka: Going to synagogue for the second night of Seder and spending it with good friends. Azi Rosenblum: Replacing soup ...
- Dr. Vered Stearns, oncologist at Johns Hopkins, is on the cutting edge of breast cancer research
By Jan Lee Vered Stearns was barely 5 years old by the time she had decided on her future career path. It may not be the ...
Food & Dining
Fish bake summer dinner
By Keri White
My sister made this for a crowd at the beach last weekend. It showcased the local fish, was simple to prepare and...
A unique dessert for a wonderful Abba
By Ilana Meiller
“I miss eating bread pudding,” my father suddenly told me on a recent afternoon. The timing of our conversation could not have...
Fabulous Flounder
By Keri White
I recently rediscovered the joys of flounder.
This fish is a blank canvas of delicate deliciousness, though it is often overlooked as bland...
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