Yiddish-language concert to debut at Beth El Congregation
“Yiddishe Nightingale,” a Yiddish-language concert, is premiering at Beth El Congregation of Baltimore. And Beth El Cantor Thom King will be one of the...
Friday round up: Feb. 11
Hazon’s Shmita Prizes recognize art by Baltimore-area residents
Two Baltimore-area artists, Rabbi Benjamin Shalva and Anna Fine Foer, are among the winners of this year’s...
February brings Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month
February is in full swing, and with it comes Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month, which some view as a chance for the...
Who is Anne Frank in 2022?
By Lisa Traiger
More than 75 years after Anne Frank — the best-known victim of Hitler’s murderous master plan to exterminate the Jews — perished...
UN panel: Possibly just 7 Jews remain in Yemen
Systematic persecution of Jews in Yemen by Houthi rebels and a previous government has driven the ancient community almost entirely out of the country,...
Hazon’s Shmita Prizes recognizes art by Baltimore area residents
When Sara Shalva, the chief arts officer of the JCC of Greater Baltimore, suggested to her husband, Rabbi Benjamin Shalva, that he submit a...
Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom hosts joint Shabbat service with other Reform synagogues
Every so often, Reform congregations in the Baltimore area will come together for a joint Shabbat service in partnership with the Union for Reform...
Friday round-up: Feb. 4
Moses Montefiore plans a Jewish music venue
Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah Hebrew Congregation is working to create a new music venue meant specifically for Jewish...
Are Jews white? Is Whoopi Goldberg Jewish? ‘The View’ Holocaust controversy, explained
She may not have meant to, but this week Whoopi Goldberg waded into a charged discourse that has polarized the Jewish community — and...
Surviving the Holocaust through a child’s eyes
When she was a child, Sabina Katz was in one of the last groups of children to safely leave Danzig, Germany, on a Kindertransport...
