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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...

Guilty plea in murder of visiting Israeli

A suspect has pleaded guilty to first degree murder charges in connection to last year’s killing of Efraim Gordon, an Israeli man who was...
Dr. Mort Mower in an F-16 fighter jet during a JNF function

Dr. Mort Mower, medical inventor and JNF innovator, dies at 89

When Russell Robinson, CEO of the Jewish National Fund-USA, asked his friend and colleague Dr. Morton Mower, who died April 25 at 89, what...
Rabbi Ari J. Goldstein (fourth from left) performs magic tricks for a child at a refugee center in Przemysl, Poland

Rabbi Ari Goldstein offers support to Ukrainian refugees in Poland

During his journey in April to the Polish-Ukrainian border, Rabbi Ari J. Goldstein of Temple Beth Shalom in Arnold recalled meeting many Ukrainian refugees...