MMAE to host art show/book reading with artistic couple
As an artist, Ann Kibel Schwartz enjoys experimentation, with different types of artistic mediums, which can go as far as creating art that attempts...
Annette Saxon receives lifetime achievement award
Looking back on her long history of involvement in Baltimore’s Jewish community, Annette G. Saxon — the recent recipient of the Federation of Jewish...
Never too late to learn to swim at the JCC
The aquatics team at the JCC of Greater Baltimore noticed something the last time it offered free swim lessons: At least 50% of participants...
Jewish Maryland doctor Ron Elfenbein indicted for health care fraud
A Jewish doctor and resident of Anne Arundel County has been indicted by a grand jury of health care fraud in the approximate amount...
Guilty plea in murder of visiting Israeli
A suspect has pleaded guilty to first degree murder charges in connection to last year’s killing of Efraim Gordon, an Israeli man who was...
Dr. Mort Mower, medical inventor and JNF innovator, dies at 89
When Russell Robinson, CEO of the Jewish National Fund-USA, asked his friend and colleague Dr. Morton Mower, who died April 25 at 89, what...
Rabbi Ari Goldstein offers support to Ukrainian refugees in Poland
During his journey in April to the Polish-Ukrainian border, Rabbi Ari J. Goldstein of Temple Beth Shalom in Arnold recalled meeting many Ukrainian refugees...
Rabbi Chai Posner settles into a position that is joyfully beshert
On a recent chilly, spring Sunday, Rabbi Chai Posner, 39, seemed relaxed, yet exhilarated, sitting in his office at Beth Tfiloh Congregation and School,...
BZD brings Anne Frank photo exhibit to Beth El
While reflecting on the Anne Frank: Private Photo Album Exhibit, Caren Leven, executive director of the Baltimore Zionist District, was struck by the sense...
Six years after fatal car accident, Maryland announces new highway project
When remembering her late friend, Neely Tal Snyder, one particular image of the mother of three stands out to Lisa Bodziner, the executive director...