A Group of Israeli Emissaries Toured a Palestinian Museum in DC, and Came Away...
For Rotem Yerushalmi, a professional campus pro-Israel advocate, what stood out during a recent visit to the Museum of the Palestinian People was an...
Preparing for Seders in Baltimore
Between cleaning, selling chametz and cooking up a feast, Passover is a holiday that requires a lot of preparation.
Like in all years past, Baltimore...
Baltimore Genealogist Jennifer Mendelsohn Reunites Jewish Families
Jennifer Mendelsohn is something of a star in the field of genealogy.
The Mount Washington resident attained national renown as a genealogy guide to Dani...
35th Annual Jewish Film Festival Celebrates Jewish Art
For 35 years, the William & Irene Weinberg Family Baltimore Jewish Film Festival has been showing Jewish movies from all over the world, touching...
Inside Harbor Minyan, Downtown Baltimore’s Egalitarian, Lay-Led Congregation
In 2013, three members of Baltimore’s downtown Jewish community had a problem. They wanted to start attending services at a minyan, but at the...
Matzah Balls, Four Questions and a Postwar Celebration: Seniors Recall the Passover Seders of...
The matzah ball debate was alive and well at Bill Fox’s childhood seders.
The matzah balls were either called feathers — the light, fluffy kind...
Beth Tfiloh High Schooler Helps Bring Passover to Ukraine
The son of 1970s refugees from the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Lviv, Adrian Maydanich, 17, wanted to bring Passover to the tens of...
Amid Protests and Strikes, Beth El Congregants Experience Israel
Forty-nine members of Beth El Congregation in Pikesville spent ten days in Israel, seeing its most popular and picturesque sites from March 20 through...
Yom HaShoah Marks 80th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
This year during Yom HaShoah, Jewish people around the world will be remembering the atrocities of the Holocaust. But 2023 also marks the 80th...
Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Women’s Seder Celebrates Sisterhood and Social Justice
Women congregants at Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Congregation came together to celebrate Passover in advance of the holiday at the synagogue’s women’s seder event, held...
