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What Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter could mean for Jewish users and antisemitism

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By Gabe Friedman and Philissa Cramer Let’s get one thing out of the way: Elon Musk is not Jewish. But his acquisition of Twitter comes amid...
People protest in reaction to the leak of the Supreme Court draft abortion ruling

For Orthodox Jewish groups, it’s wait and see on the reversal of abortion rights

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Orthodox Jewish advocacy groups are getting ready for a deep dive into state abortion laws — and a potentially delicate political balancing act. Laws severely...
Dr. Ron Elfenbein

Jewish Maryland doctor Ron Elfenbein indicted for health care fraud

A Jewish doctor and resident of Anne Arundel County has been indicted by a grand jury of health care fraud in the approximate amount...

Guilty plea in murder of visiting Israeli

A suspect has pleaded guilty to first degree murder charges in connection to last year’s killing of Efraim Gordon, an Israeli man who was...
Dr. Mort Mower in an F-16 fighter jet during a JNF function

Dr. Mort Mower, medical inventor and JNF innovator, dies at 89

When Russell Robinson, CEO of the Jewish National Fund-USA, asked his friend and colleague Dr. Morton Mower, who died April 25 at 89, what...
Rabbi Ari J. Goldstein (fourth from left) performs magic tricks for a child at a refugee center in Przemysl, Poland

Rabbi Ari Goldstein offers support to Ukrainian refugees in Poland

During his journey in April to the Polish-Ukrainian border, Rabbi Ari J. Goldstein of Temple Beth Shalom in Arnold recalled meeting many Ukrainian refugees...
Rabbi Chai Posner

Rabbi Chai Posner settles into a position that is joyfully beshert

On a recent chilly, spring Sunday, Rabbi Chai Posner, 39, seemed relaxed, yet exhilarated, sitting in his office at Beth Tfiloh Congregation and School,...
(Courtesy of Julia Fleischaker)

Julia Fleischaker shares her love of reading

One of the aspects of Baltimore that drew Julia Fleischaker, owner of the Greedy Reads bookstore, to move here after two decades of the...
The Anne Frank: Private Photo Album Exhibit is on display at Beth El Congregation of Baltimore

BZD brings Anne Frank photo exhibit to Beth El

While reflecting on the Anne Frank: Private Photo Album Exhibit, Caren Leven, executive director of the Baltimore Zionist District, was struck by the sense...
Neely Tal Snyder

Six years after fatal car accident, Maryland announces new highway project

When remembering her late friend, Neely Tal Snyder, one particular image of the mother of three stands out to Lisa Bodziner, the executive director...