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The top Jewish pop culture stories from 2021

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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

Chaim Walder, popular haredi Orthodox author accused of sexual abuse, found dead in suspected...

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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...
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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

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...

David Harrison leads Beth El through unending pandemic

Despite any Martin Sheen-related quips that could suggest otherwise, David Harrison, board president of Beth El Congregation of Baltimore, doesn’t let his position or...
Miriam Marazin during her photoshoot

Baltimore residents help put Orthodox women back in the picture

A practice in some religious Jewish communities of removing women from photographs is facing pushback from the nonprofit Chochmat Nashim and its Jewish Life...
Erica Brown

Erica Brown’s ‘hineni’ moment

Erica Brown wept when she learned that her mentor, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, had died. It was days after the tumultuous 2020 U.S. presidential...
“Are You Jewish" art piece

Jewish Museum exhibit examines how barriers can protect and exclude

Who feels safe anymore? Can you “circle the wagons,” while keeping open arms? And how has Judaism’s call to “build a fence around the...
Joe Biden and Naftali Bennett

Is the Biden-Bennett honeymoon over? Here are 6 US-Israel issues that are raising tensions

“Behind closed doors” is a phrase that crops up a lot in conversation with senior U.S. and Israeli officials these days. That’s the place...
From left: Bill Fox, Myra Fox and FIDF CEO Steven Weil at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces 2021 Baltimore Chapter Gala

William Fox shows no sign of slowing down

When asked what his proudest accomplishment has been, William Z. Fox, 79, said that, aside from family, it’s how a young Jewish kid from...