Recipient of educational award Pam Solomon has finally found her place
Pam Solomon only started working as a teacher at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Greater Baltimore three years ago, but she’s already made...
Can young people save the world? This Jewish teen environmental activist thinks so
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Amelia Fortgang remembers her grandmother taking her to a peace march when she was just 3 years old. The pair held...
Talking synagogue life with Valerie Thaler
Valerie Thaler earned a Ph.D. in Jewish history from Yale University in 2008 and is now executive director of Congregation Beth Israel in Owings...
From overseas and one coast to another, Rabbi Meeka Simerly has found her calling
Rabbi Meeka Simerly never intended to move to the United States. The Israeli native, now 57, came to America on vacation when she was...
Serving the U.S. Naval Academy: Rabbi Yonina Creditor starts chaplaincy position, stressing four tenets:...
Talking to Rabbi Yonina Creditor is an exercise in efficiency. She tells it like it is in a way that’s both straightforward and positive,...
You Should Know … Svet Jacqueline
For Svet Jacqueline, covering events related to the war in Ukraine comes full-circle, in a way; it brings her directly back to her Eastern...
Saving lives at work and off hours: David Vitberg
Flashing lights, ear-splitting sirens, fire trucks, rescue ambulances. For David Vitberg, then a yeshivah boy in Setauket, N.Y., it was a teenage kid’s dream.
At...
You Should Know … Sara Sternman
Sara Sternman grew up in an Orthodox household in Baltimore City, the oldest of nine children (her youngest sibling is 12). Her parents, Shmuel...
Making decisions with care and vigilance: Government liaison Rabbi Ariel Sadwin
How does one go from learning in kollel to becoming a government liaison for the region’s Jewish community? “That was a leap,” said Rabbi...
You Should Know … Molly Silverman
Some people can’t help but get involved.
That can certainly be said about Molly Silverman, 20, a student at the University of Maryland’s Robert H....
