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Beth El Congregation Launches Podcast Network

Beth El Congregation recently announced the launch of a podcast network, in order to provide a new way for congregants to engage with the...
Attorney General Anthony Brown speaks at a podium

Suspension Lifted for Maryland CAIR Director on Maryland Hate Crime Commission

Zainab Chaudry’s suspension from the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention was lifted on Dec. 6 by Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown...
Items for sale at Beth Tfiloh's Judaica shop

What’s New at Baltimore’s Judaica Shops

Chanukah begins this evening, and local Judaica shops are full of gifts to help you celebrate the Festival of Lights. Here are some of them: Women...
Valerie Preactor speaks into a microphone while interviewing Eve Rosenbaum

Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Event Features Orioles Assistant GM

Wearing a Baltimore Orioles T-shirt written in Hebrew, Orioles’ Assistant General Manager Eve Rosenbaum shared tidbits about growing up in Bethesda and in the...

At Conservative Jewish Conference, Hundreds Gather in Baltimore for Learning

The “T’nuah B’yahad: Building our Movement Together” Shabbaton and Convening, a five-day convention of Conservative and Masorti Jews from across North America, recently came...
Participants on The Associated trip to Israel

Participants Reflect on Associated’s Mission Trip to Israel

The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore organized a trip to Israel for community leaders, rabbis and elected officials from Nov. 19-21. The intention of the...

Celebrating Chanukah and Doing Mitzvot at Chabad of Downtown

Chabad of Downtown is offering Baltimore’s young Jewish adult population an opportunity to do good for Israel while celebrating Chanukah. The upcoming YJP Drinks &...

Col. Erwin Burtnick, Founding Member of Maryland Jewish War Veterans and JUSA, Dies at...

Col. (Ret.) Erwin Allen Burtnick, one of the founding members of Jewish War Veterans of the USA’s Maryland department, died on Saturday, Nov. 25,...
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Prominent Conservative Jewish Leaders to Convene at Baltimore Convention

Baltimore will be hosting a convention of major leaders in the Conservative/Masorti movement, starting with a Shabbat celebration on Friday, December 1 through Saturday,...

Play About Civil Rights Leader Rabbi Has Its English-Language Debut at Beth Am

Beth Am Synagogue recently hosted the first-ever English-language performance of the World Zionist Organization-produced play “Heschel’s Passover Eve.” The one-man show, performed on Thursday,...