Dialogue across religious communities: Ben Sax
As the Jewish scholar at The Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Beth Am Synagogue member Ben Sax has made it his mission...
Continuing a family legacy: Michael Greenebaum
Michael Greenebaum’s great-great-grandfather was on a train headed to Washington, D.C., when he got off a stop too early and wound up in Baltimore....
Playing the kernel of American music: Brian Berele
By Bob Jacobson
Pikesville native Brian Berele, 64, majored in history at William & Mary college in Virginia. Though his passion for history endured,...
Michelle Bar-av is lifted up by community
Jewish community has been a lifesaver for Michelle Bar-av and her family.
When her daughter, Lilah Henderson, was diagnosed with cancer when she was 13,...
Thinking eclectic thoughts: Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan
By Eric Schucht
Two years ago, BB&T Bank and SunTrust Bank merged into a single entity: Truist Bank. Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan took note of the...
The JCC lady: Debbie Schwartzman
Sometimes, when Debbie Schwartzman, 65, is out at the store, community members recognize her as “the JCC lady.”
Schwartzman worked as part of the JCC...
All that jazz: Mitch Mirkin
By Bob Jacobson
The annals of American jazz are filled with the names of Jewish players, composers, writers and business people. Yet, in the jazz...
Playing matchmaker: Barry Bogage
When Barry Bogage became the first executive director of the Maryland Israel Development Center, he accepted the task of working toward economic growth and...
Living in Yiddish: Ken Moss
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Ken Moss, 46, watched two of his kids participate in a virtual Yiddish performance, then he hopped onto a...
Fostering peace in the Middle East: Avi Meyerstein
By Lisa Woolfson
Within the more than 5,000 pages of the budget bill was a few pages establishing an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace, with...
