Pickleball Is Picking Up: Instructors Say It’s Healthy for Both Mind and Body
Pickleball started in 1965 with three men and some spare equipment; it was founded by Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell and Barney McCallum on Bainbridge...
‘U.N. Exhibit Remembers’ When the World Turned Its Back on Stateless Jewish Refugees
Andrew Silow-Carroll | New York Jewish Week via JTA
In 2017, Deborah Veach went back to Germany, looking for the site of the displaced persons...
BBYO Leader: ‘Teens Need Tools to Understand Antisemitism and How to Respond’
Growing up in Owings Mills and attending the Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, Nora Leavey says she has a strong and solid Jewish identity,...
New Grant for Maryland Students to Enable High-Schoolers to Learn in Israel
Mara Fahl
High-school students in the state of Maryland have a new way to access Israel-education experiences with the establishment of generous grants towards tuition...
From Poland to Israel to America, Artist Edna Emmet Helps Color the World
Edna Kurtz Emmet retired recently from the Waldorf School of Baltimore, where she taught art for 33 years.
Although she no longer teaches in an...
In Turkey, Festival Revives a Jewel of the Sephardic World and Aims to Break...
IZMIR, Turkey — Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has been a popular tourist destination for both Jewish travelers and others interested...
Massive trove of prewar Jewish artifacts unearthed by construction workers in Poland
Construction workers renovating an old tenement house in Lodz, Poland, unearthed a surprising find: an untouched cache of hundreds of Jewish artifacts believed to...
You Should Know … Danielle Frye
Danielle (“Dani”) Frye is a natural with kids. After all, she has been exposed to them her entire life.
Growing up on Long Island, N.Y.,...
Marc Irwin brings musicality everywhere he goes, even to synagogue
The Classic Theatre of Maryland is celebrating a full decade of professional theater in Annapolis. And local Jewish musician Marc Irwin has been along...
Armenia has had few Jews and a poor relationship with Israel. That could be...
YEREVAN, Armenia (JTA) — Just outside a remote village two hours’ drive east of Yerevan, in a clearing reachable only by hiking down a...
