You Should Know

You Should Know … Alana Snyder

In a way, Alana Snyder has grown up with Holocaust. The Pikesville native, who still lives there, attended Krieger Schechter Day School from kindergarten through...

You Should Know … Jesse Elkin

Jesse Elkin was born in Owings Mills and raised in Pikesville, and after years away at college and work in Atlanta, he is back...

You Should Know … Elissa Brent Weissman

Elissa Brent Weissman loved living in Baltimore; it’s the city where she spent her college days, her early working years and where her two...

You Should Know … Danielle Frye

Danielle (“Dani”) Frye is a natural with kids. After all, she has been exposed to them her entire life. Growing up on Long Island, N.Y.,...

You should know … Tyler Scheff

Birthright Israel has made news of late due to talk of tight finances and new limits on participant numbers. While the organization grapples with...

You Should Know … Rebecca Levitan

Like a great many people, Rebecca Levitan works surrounded by books, though hers keep coming and going. For the past seven years, she has...

You Should Know … Hannah Shem-Tov

Meet Hannah Shem-Tov — mother of two, lover of house plants and outdoor family adventures, and a caregiver to kids through outpatient physical therapy...

You Should Know … Shlomo Leibtag

Shlomo Leibtag, a transplant from New York, now calls Baltimore home. The 29-year-old grew up in Woodmere, one of the Five Towns on Long Island....

You Should Know … Jack Green

The roots of Jack Green’s family in Alaska go back to 1922, after his great-grandfather from Galicia, Poland, made his way through Europe, over...

You Should Know … Adina Naftalin

Some people just know that Israel is in their future. For Adina Naftalin, it’s also a part of her past and present. The 20-year-old at...