Dean Malissa wanted to be an actor. He ended up as George Washington
By Jarrad Saffren
George Washington’s legacy is quite literally the United States of America.
So when Daniel Shippey became the nation’s foremost Washington impersonator at Mount...
At Yeshiva U., students get used to their basketball team winning again and again
In early 2019, before his college’s men’s basketball team began a historic and unlikely winning streak, Jonathan Malek and three friends decided to catch...
In wake of COVID surge, organizations implement restrictions
Just when we thought we were out, the pandemic pulls us back in.
On Dec. 29, the United States reached 300,886 average new daily cases...
Lee Sherman goes from student to executive director
When asked about his proudest accomplishments as the executive director of Chizuk Amuno Congregation and Schools, Lee Sherman pointed to how the synagogue has...
The Baltimore Jewish Times’ 5 most-read stories of 2021
A lot has happened this past year. A mob attacked the Capitol, Congress impeached former President Donald Trump for a second time and President...
Harry Reid, the two-fisted majority leader with deep Jewish ties, dies at 82
When Harry Reid was 19, he wanted to marry Landra Gould. Her Jewish parents had other ideas.
Reid, a middleweight boxer who converted to the...
The top Jewish pop culture stories from 2021
By Andrew Lapin
Jewish pop culture had quite the “Unorthodox” year.
A new reality-TV sensation, a raunchy indie-film spin on shivas and a rare glimpse into...
Chaim Walder, popular haredi Orthodox author accused of sexual abuse, found dead in suspected...
By Shira Hanau
Chaim Walder, an Israeli haredi Orthodox children’s book author who was accused last month of sexual abuse by several teenage girls, was...
The secret history of Jews and Chinese food
There are members of the American Jewish community who may honestly have a preference for lo mein over latkes, for hunan chicken over hamantaschen,...
Elissa Ness funds a community
When Elissa Ness first learned that she would be receiving The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore’s Carole Sibel Outstanding Fundraising Achievement Award, she couldn’t...