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Here come the brides: Weddings surge in 2022

Those who grieved over the emptiness of their social calendars during the pandemic are in for good news, as 2022 is looking to be...
Arnold Rifkin

Arnold Rifkin, former marine and TV engineer, dies at 93

One memory of his father, Arnold Charles Rifkin, that stands out to Alan Rifkin involved a trip to the cinema on his 10th birthday. The...
Rosenbloom Owings Mills JCC

Owings Mills JCC evacuated after bomb threat; threat deemed noncredible

The JCC of Greater Baltimore received an antisemitic email bomb threat on Saturday, May 14. The JCC in St. Louis received a similar threat, but...
Beth Goldsmith

Associated to launch trio of new organizations this summer

A major shake-up is coming to The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore and its programs with the impending launch of three new organizations this...

JT wins 5 awards at regional journalism competition

The Baltimore Jewish Times won five awards in the MDDC Press Association journalism contest. The awards recognize work done in 2021. The JT’s editorial, “It...
From left: Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) and her lawyer Gloria Allred on the steps of the Supreme Court in 1989

‘We had our lives on the line’: Abortion activists reflect on 50 years of...

By Sasha Rogelberg This year feels a lot like 1970 for those who remember it. Memories of a controversial war with consequences felt in the United...
Ann Kibel Schwartz and Donald Ray Schwartz

MMAE to host art show/book reading with artistic couple

As an artist, Ann Kibel Schwartz enjoys experimentation, with different types of artistic mediums, which can go as far as creating art that attempts...
Annette G. Saxon

Annette Saxon receives lifetime achievement award

Looking back on her long history of involvement in Baltimore’s Jewish community, Annette G. Saxon — the recent recipient of the Federation of Jewish...
Swim lessons at the JCC

Never too late to learn to swim at the JCC

The aquatics team at the JCC of Greater Baltimore noticed something the last time it offered free swim lessons: At least 50% of participants...
Dr. Ron Elfenbein

Jewish Maryland doctor Ron Elfenbein indicted for health care fraud

A Jewish doctor and resident of Anne Arundel County has been indicted by a grand jury of health care fraud in the approximate amount...