Susanna Garfein: Na’aleh Executive Director Finds Purpose In Jewish Leadership
Susanna Garfein was raised in the Reform movement to be “a joyful Jew.”
The executive director of Na’aleh is the daughter of a rabbi in...
Ashley Pressman: Baltimore City Resident Unites Nature, Judaism and Learning
Ashley Pressman is senior program director at Adamah, an organization that looks to unite people and the planet through work centered in Jewish values.
She...
Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg: Longtime Spiritual Leader Reflects On 16 Years At Beth Am...
Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg said what drew him to the rabbinate was a calling, a sense that he wanted to serve God and the...
Dana Gloor: Ready to Help Lead Baltimore Hebrew Congregation as its Next President
When Dana Gloor attended services for the first time at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, she encountered a feeling she had never experienced before. “It struck...
Marilyn Zvili: A Longtime Fixture at the Gordon Center
When Marilyn Zvili started working at the Gordon Center in the mid 1990s, the world was very different. Today, she is an operations assistant,...
Esther Greenberg: JCC’s Chief Advancement Officer Gets Ready to Step Down After 16 Years
Esther Greenberg is the chief advancement officer of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore.
For more than a decade, she was a Baltimorean doing...
Robert ‘Bob’ Manekin The Visionary at the Heart of The Associated’s New Goldsmith Campus
Bob Manekin has met some interesting people in the many decades he has been a pillar of Baltimore’s Jewish and real estate communities, one...
Toby Kaplowitz: Netivot Shalom Member Enriching Lives at Krieger Schechter Day School
Toby Kaplowitz, the director of lower school Jewish life and learning and K-8 director of student life at Krieger Schechter Day School in Pikesville,...
Rabbi Cantor Emily Ellentuck: Making the Beth El Community Stronger
Rabbi Cantor Emily Ellentuck lived her entire life in Tucson, Arizona until 2024, when she moved to Baltimore to become the religious school director...
Bolton Street Synagogue’s Rabbi Andy Gordon: Building Jewish Community in Baltimore City
When Rabbi Andy Gordon was 10 years old, one of the teachers at his Jewish day school said, “you’re going to be a great...
