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Joan Grayson Cohen

Organizations receive funds to support Holocaust survivors

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By Isabella Lefkowitz-Rao and Selah Maya Zighelboim Two Maryland Jewish community social service organizations are slated to receive parts of a $720 million grant for...
Mark Schenerman

Beth Israel presentation to explore how vaccines work

Can vaccines mutate a person’s DNA? This is the sort of concern Mark Schenerman, a member of Beth Israel Congregation who holds a doctorate in...
From left: Rabbi Eli Yoggev and Phaygi Chinn

With help from preschoolers, Beth Tfiloh rabbi proposes to preschool administrative assistant

Normally on Fridays, Beth Tfiloh Congregation has a Kabbalat Shabbat service for its preschoolers. But something different happened at the service this past Friday. Beth...

What permanent daylight saving time could mean for the Jewish community

A bill making daylight saving time permanent could have sizable implications for observant Jews, whose daily schedules are tied to the rising and setting...
Avi Melamed teaches a class

Avi Melamed is changing mindsets about Israel

These days, navigating the college scene as a first-year university student takes more than an acceptance letter and a campus map. It takes analytical...
Alien-themed b'nai mitzvah celebration by Innovative Party Planners

From aliens to Coachella, b’nai mitzvah party themes entertain

In the more than 25 years that her company has been planning b’nai mitzvah, Heidi Hiller, the CEO and creative director of Innovative Party...
From left: Hannah, Neil, Marissa, Alicia and Ellie Berlin, in Cancún, Mexico

Neil Berlin, lifelong fixture of Camps Airy and Louise, dies at 44

When thinking about her late husband Neil Berlin, Alicia Berlin remembers a man who allowed his personality to shine through in his work for...
Professor Sarah Wolf

Beth Am to host scholar-in-residence Sarah Wolf

During her scholar-in-residence weekend at Beth Am Synagogue, one topic Sarah Wolf plans to cover is the type of discourse some have termed “cancel...
Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg and Rabbi Chai Posner

‘Passing of the torch’: Beth Tfiloh celebrates installation of Senior Rabbi Chai Posner

Rabbi Chai Posner has become the fourth senior rabbi in Beth Tfiloh Congregation’s 100-year history. Beth Tfiloh installed Posner as its new senior rabbi in...
Lara Diamond

What’s in a surname?

By Bob Jacobson Dick Goldman, past president of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland, still gives talks on Jewish genealogy now that he has retired...