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The Anne Frank: Private Photo Album Exhibit is on display at Beth El Congregation of Baltimore

BZD brings Anne Frank photo exhibit to Beth El

While reflecting on the Anne Frank: Private Photo Album Exhibit, Caren Leven, executive director of the Baltimore Zionist District, was struck by the sense...
Neely Tal Snyder

Six years after fatal car accident, Maryland announces new highway project

When remembering her late friend, Neely Tal Snyder, one particular image of the mother of three stands out to Lisa Bodziner, the executive director...
Margie Simon

Chizuk Amuno group supports Afghan family

When images of Afghan civilians desperate to escape their country before the Taliban takeover first began reaching American viewers last year, many likely felt...
field of wheat

Why count the omer?

When the Temple stood, the omer period began with the sacrifice of barley on the second day of Passover and ended seven weeks later...
From left: Cantor Alexandra Fox and Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi

HSOSC to celebrate installation of clergy with a festival

Not long after Har Sinai Congregation merged with Temple Oheb Shalom, the new congregation was hit with the pandemic, placing severe limitations on the...
Dr. Dana Silver

Benefits of early diagnosis for children on the autism spectrum

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By Jesse Berman and Laura Farmer When someone hears the word “autism,” what first comes to mind are likely the disadvantages associated with the condition....

Local Jewish Federations to commemorate Yom HaShoah

One of the more upsetting aspects of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which Nazi Germany settled on its Final Solution for Europe’s Jews, was...
Steve, left, and Ron Samuelson at their store on Quarry Lake Drive

Samuelson’s jewelry business marks 100 years

Steve Samuelson recalls when he began working summers at his father’s business as a teen in the 1960s. Milton Samuelson ran a successful business...

BHC hosts death penalty event

What does it feel like to be sentenced to death by the state — then spend the next two decades waiting for it to...

ARIEL bridges gap between Eastern European Jews on both sides of Atlantic

When the Russian war machine began steamrolling onto Ukrainian soil, it cut the lines of communications between some Ukrainian Jews and their friends and...