Serving the U.S. Naval Academy: Rabbi Yonina Creditor starts chaplaincy position, stressing four tenets:...
Talking to Rabbi Yonina Creditor is an exercise in efficiency. She tells it like it is in a way that’s both straightforward and positive,...
Students learn lessons of Shoah, Rwandan and Uganda genocides as part of yearlong program
Students from 10 different schools around the Baltimore area gathered at the John Carroll School in Bel Air for a special program on Nov....
Three young Jewish fellows address needs in Baltimore as part of Repair the World
In September, the Repair the World Jewish service movement announced a new cohort of young adult fellows who will be working with them for...
Brandeis U reeling after bus accident leaves 1 student dead, dozens injured; Jewish students...
By Penny Schwartz
WALTHAM, Massachusetts (JTA) — The days before Thanksgiving break were supposed to be packed at Brandeis University’s Hillel: There was a talk...
Thousands of Chabad rabbis convene in New York amid banner year for movement
By Philissa Cramer
It was unseasonably cold on Sunday morning when thousands of rabbis crowded on risers in front of Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn to...
Saving lives at work and off hours: David Vitberg
Flashing lights, ear-splitting sirens, fire trucks, rescue ambulances. For David Vitberg, then a yeshivah boy in Setauket, N.Y., it was a teenage kid’s dream.
At...
The physical into the spiritual: Challah speaks to women and tradition
Women from all around the Baltimore area gathered in the ballroom of the Harborview Towers on Monday night with one goal in mind: to...
With a dark winter looming in Ukraine, Jewish groups send generators and other support
Philissa Cramer | JTA
Since Feb. 24, when Russian troops invaded Ukraine, Jewish groups from around the world have flooded the country with support —...
Back to the ‘I Do’s’ in a post-pandemic wedding world
By Jesse Berman and Heather Ross | Staff Writers
Those who grieved over the emptiness of their pandemic-era social calendars are enjoying a better 2022...
97-year-old Holocaust survivor tells family’s harrowing brush with Kristallnacht
Baltimore Jewish Council and The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore commemorated the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”), the wide-scale Nazi-led pogrom...
