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Baltimore teens on BBYO board

Four local teens to fill positions on the international BBYO board

Four Baltimore teens have been elected to positions on the international board of BBYO, a Jewish teen youth movement consisting of the high school...
Felicia Graber

Holocaust survivors struggle to get the vaccine

By Jan Lee When Baltimore County resident Irma Pretsfelder learned in early February that the Maryland Department of Health was offering coronavirus vaccines to older...
Liz Ressler with her family

New parents persist through pandemic

Caring for and raising a newborn child is hard enough under the best of circumstances, and a once-in-a-century pandemic, along with an economic downturn,...
Scene from "Masel Tov Cocktail"

‘Masel Tov Cocktail’ explodes stereotypes about being young, Jewish and misunderstood in Germany

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By Joe Baur There’s a swastika drawn inside of a high school bathroom stall. Dima Liebermann, the protagonist of the German short film “Masel Tov...
Anita Baron with her children

Woman with ALS builds community support group

By Jan Lee Every Monday at 4 p.m., Anita Baron logs on to Zoom to connect with a small group of congregants from her synagogue,...
Blackman family

The mixed multitude: Baltimore Jews reflect on their interfaith families

Lisa Reiffen, a resident of Elkridge, had family who suffered in the Holocaust. She knows that if she had been there then, she would...