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...
You Should Know … Dr. Emily Taylor
Dr. Emily Taylor, 34, finds joy in helping others hear better.
After growing up in Owings Mills, Taylor decided to become an audiologist. When she...
A century after first bat mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony has come a long...
By Sasha Rogelberg and Jesse Berman
For some Jewish tweens, Judith Kaplan Eisenstein’s reality was their worst nightmare.
The evening before, Eisenstein’s father, Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan,...
Neil Rubin on his journey from JT editor to Beth Tfiloh educator
From sit-downs with the son-in-law of Louis Farrakhan to providing wall-to-wall coverage on the death of Yitzhak Rabin, Neil Rubin saw and reported on...
What permanent daylight saving time could mean for the Jewish community
A bill making daylight saving time permanent could have sizable implications for observant Jews, whose daily schedules are tied to the rising and setting...
Avi Melamed is changing mindsets about Israel
These days, navigating the college scene as a first-year university student takes more than an acceptance letter and a campus map. It takes analytical...
Beth Am to host scholar-in-residence Sarah Wolf
During her scholar-in-residence weekend at Beth Am Synagogue, one topic Sarah Wolf plans to cover is the type of discourse some have termed “cancel...