An adaptable feast: Jewish restaurants change with the times
Before the pandemic hit, Accents Grill, one of the kosher establishments owned by restaurateur Lara Franks, featured an in-store Shabbat carryout deli, offering traditional...
Jewish Queer Youth to open drop-in center in Baltimore area
By Eleanor Linafelt and Andrew Silow-Carroll
The New York City-based Jewish Queer Youth organization received a $1 million donation to expand its social services to...
At Yeshiva U., students get used to their basketball team winning again and again
In early 2019, before his college’s men’s basketball team began a historic and unlikely winning streak, Jonathan Malek and three friends decided to catch...
Rabbi Martin Siegel builds bridges with Chabad movement
It may not be often that a non-Orthodox rabbi becomes heavily involved in the Chabad movement, but Rabbi Martin Siegel is no ordinary rabbi.
While...
In wake of COVID surge, organizations implement restrictions
Just when we thought we were out, the pandemic pulls us back in.
On Dec. 29, the United States reached 300,886 average new daily cases...
The Baltimore Jewish Times’ 5 most-read stories of 2021
A lot has happened this past year. A mob attacked the Capitol, Congress impeached former President Donald Trump for a second time and President...
Harry Reid, the two-fisted majority leader with deep Jewish ties, dies at 82
When Harry Reid was 19, he wanted to marry Landra Gould. Her Jewish parents had other ideas.
Reid, a middleweight boxer who converted to the...
Strangers in a strange land: BHC applies to sponsor Afghan family
Baltimore Hebrew Congregation is gearing up to live out the principle of loving the stranger, as the synagogue prepares to demonstrate its capacity to...
Local Jewish leaders share their New Year’s resolutions
New Year’s Eve would not be quite the same without a New Year’s resolution, and many members of Baltimore’s Jewish community have theirs at...
Chaim Walder, popular haredi Orthodox author accused of sexual abuse, found dead in suspected...
By Shira Hanau
Chaim Walder, an Israeli haredi Orthodox children’s book author who was accused last month of sexual abuse by several teenage girls, was...
