New parents persist through pandemic
Caring for and raising a newborn child is hard enough under the best of circumstances, and a once-in-a-century pandemic, along with an economic downturn,...
Month of Jewish disability programming ends with a Purim party
Jewish Community Services capped off their list of events for Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month with a Feb. 24 Purim party.
JDAIM is...
Woman with ALS builds community support group
By Jan Lee
Every Monday at 4 p.m., Anita Baron logs on to Zoom to connect with a small group of congregants from her synagogue,...
The mixed multitude: Baltimore Jews reflect on their interfaith families
Lisa Reiffen, a resident of Elkridge, had family who suffered in the Holocaust. She knows that if she had been there then, she would...
Courageous Conversations series fosters understanding
Americans have long been living in a divided society, but Beth Shalom Congregation hopes to help heal over some of those divisions through the...
The benefits of summer camp, according to camp directors
By Michael Vyskocil
How many children attend camp each summer? According to the American Camp Association, 14 million kids and adults go to camp every...
New Baltimore Jewish Council position to focus on anti-Semitism
A new position at the Baltimore Jewish Council will focus on addressing and educating on anti-Semitism.
The new position will be filled by Emily Goodman,...
Alternative experiences await children at Jewish summer camps
While many children spend the year looking forward to a traditional camp experience of wilderness exploring, s’more roasting and color warring, others may feel...
Beth Israel religious school implements curriculum with electives
Beth Israel Congregation is shaking things up by implementing a new curriculum for third through seventh graders at its religious school, the Joseph and...
Rabbi Sheftel Meir Neuberger, who devoted his life to Ner Israel, dies at 77
Faculty and students at Ner Israel Rabbinical College are in mourning this month, remembering the life of the school’s president, Rabbi Sheftel Meir Neuberger,...