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Gideon Aronoff is the executive director of the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism

Masorti speaker outlines crises in Israel

Does Conservative Judaism hold the answer to Israel’s troubles? It was a question Beth Shalom Congregation sought to answer during a recent presentation featuring...

Mule-heart: The life, death and legacy of Gary Stern

The length of the small intestines of a normal human being can vary from 10 to 25 feet. When Gary B. Stern died in...
From left: Rabbi Andy Gordon, Elaine Richman, Rabbi Jennifer Weiner, Sam Dansicker, Mina Wender and Ken Bell

Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom gives Torah to Bolton Street

Representatives of Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Congregation made a guest appearance at Bolton Street Synagogue’s Friday night services on June 11 to present Bolton Street...

New owners acquire Goldberg’s New York Bagels

Goldberg’s New York Bagels has new owners. In May, current co-owners Chaim Lazar and Mark Prince took over the bagel shop from its previous...
Erica Bloom collects meals for JVC’s Bunches of Lunches program

Associated agencies provide more than 137,000 meals and boxes of food for the hungry

In April of 2020, toward the beginning of the pandemic, Jewish Volunteer Connection hoped to collect up to 250 meals for those facing food...
Justin Fair

Inside the mind of Justin Fair

This community planner wants to design a more inclusive Jewish world By Justin Regan Every artist has their canvas. For community planner Justin Orlando Fair, that...
Rabbi Mikey Hess Webber

Incoming rabbi looks forward to meeting congregants in person

Rabbi Mikey Hess Webber has served as Columbia Jewish Congregation’s rabbinic intern for nearly a year and is now about to become the congregation’s...
Teens in the Shinshinim program, from left: Zohar Shinehorn, Tamar Maor, Noya Karavani, Ofir Yasur, Noam Trock and Yam Agami

Shinshinim bid farewell to Baltimore

Five years ago, Noam Trock decided she wanted to join the Shinshinim program, which sends Israeli teens to volunteer in Jewish communities around the...

Documents shed light on investigation into Efraim Gordon’s death

Documents released by the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office shed light on the investigation into the May 3 murder of Efraim Gordon, an Israeli...

As many of five suspects in Efraim Gordon case

There are now a total of five suspects in Efriam Gordon case, according to WJZ-TV. Gordon, an Israeli who was visiting Baltimore to attend a...