Baltimore cream cheese shortage? Local food services weigh in
As if 2020’s toilet paper shortage and this year’s supply chain crisis were not bad enough, rumblings of a possible cream cheese shortage have...
Some Americans are moving to Baltimore’s sister city 9 miles from Gaza
By Linda Gradstein
When people ask Nechama Greenfield why she and her husband chose to move just nine miles from Gaza in June, less than...
Alex Edelman’s new comedy show raises questions about Jewish identity
If you click through Twitter, you may come upon a list of some 250 accounts called “Jewish Nat’l Fund Donors.” But it’s safe to...
Meet the Jewish founder of the world’s only bobblehead museum (and meet his Chanukah...
By Jacob Gurvis
A crochet museum in Joshua Tree, Calif., features countless crochet animals that appear in airport ads worldwide. The National Mustard Museum in...
Center Stage explores Crown Heights riot in ‘Fires in the Mirror’
One August evening in 1991, long-simmering tensions between the Black and Orthodox Jewish residents of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, boiled over after 7-year-old Gavin Cato,...
The easiest jelly doughnut recipe ever
By Shannon Sarna
Latkes are far more popular during Chanukah than doughnuts here in the U.S. While you can find latkes in the freezer section...
MIDC welcomes new executive director
As the new executive director of the Maryland/Israel Development Center, David Speer wants to eventually grow the organization and attract a younger and more...
What’s in stock at Baltimore’s Judaica shops
Chanukah is early this year — it begins the evening of Nov. 28 — and if you are wondering what local gift shops have...
Gene Drubetskoy’s journey for the American dream
When Gene Drubetskoy was 8 years old, his parents told him they were moving from the Ukrainian city of Kyiv to the local village...
A prolific Jewish writer has collected 4,000 tiny dreidels found by Eastern European treasure...
By Shira Hanau
Even when Arthur Kurzweil sits by himself in his study, he doesn’t feel that he’s alone. After all, he has the dreidels...