Oscars 2022: The most memorable Jewish moments
By Andrew Lapin
The Oscars went on as usual Sunday night — although you wouldn’t know it from the morning-after conversation. A violent altercation between...
War in Ukraine could put a crunch on ‘shmura’ matzah supplies
By David I. Klein | JTA
On Feb. 24, two shipping containers laden with 20,000 pounds of shmura matzah were slated to head out of...
Senate unanimously confirms Deborah Lipstadt as antisemitism monitor
The Senate in a voice vote unanimously confirmed Deborah Lipstadt, the Holocaust scholar who endured delays and a contentious hearing in her nomination to...
JT journalists taste test Passover desserts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Xi2CCFiWU
Journalists from the Baltimore Jewish Times, the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, Washington Jewish Week and Baltimore's Child came together virtually to hold a taste test...
Inflation hits Passover seders
Will inflation prove to be the 11th plague for Passover this year?
Some Baltimore-area grocers and consumers are taking note of higher than normal prices...
Ukrainians welcomed in Israel with kittens and paperwork
By Fran Kritz
JERUSALEM – A ballroom at Jerusalem’s Caesar hotel on Jaffa Road was strikingly quiet, considering that it was Purim in the rest...
Associated volunteers meet with Ukrainian refugees in Poland
On a recent mission to Poland to meet with Ukrainian refugees, Robin Neumann, a volunteer with The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore, recalled hearing...
You Should Know … Ofir Ben-Ari
When Krieger Schechter Day School needed someone with the skillset to direct their eighth-grade, Hebrew-language production of “Fiddler on the Roof,” they found their...
Madeleine Albright, first woman secretary of state and a refugee who discovered her...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Madeleine Albright was the quintessential late 20th-century Jewish diplomat, haunted by the Holocaust and determined to use what tools her adopted...
Passover stuffed cabbage rolls
Chanie Apfelbaum | The Nosher via JTA
There’s nothing like Passover to remind us where we come from. In many Jewish homes, Passover traditions are...