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From left: Robert Chertkof, Florence Chertkof and Russel Robinson at the dedication ceremony of the "waterfall street" in Nov. 2019

Robert Chertkof and the Israeli ‘waterfall street’

While many are motivated by a passionate love for Israel, not as many can say they helped shape a small part of it. But...
Rabbi Joshua Z. Gruenberg

Is a rabbi shortage sweeping the country? Local rabbis weigh in

As if shortages of COVID-19 tests, cream cheese and toilet paper were not enough, is America now being hit with a shortage of rabbis? In...
Cantor Thom King

Yiddish-language concert to debut at Beth El Congregation

“Yiddishe Nightingale,” a Yiddish-language concert, is premiering at Beth El Congregation of Baltimore. And Beth El Cantor Thom King will be one of the...
"That’s Not Land, That’s Sky"

Friday round up: Feb. 11

Hazon’s Shmita Prizes recognize art by Baltimore-area residents Two Baltimore-area artists, Rabbi Benjamin Shalva and Anna Fine Foer, are among the winners of this year’s...
Jamie Leboe

February brings Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month

February is in full swing, and with it comes Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month, which some view as a chance for the...
Anne Frank

Who is Anne Frank in 2022?

By Lisa Traiger More than 75 years after Anne Frank — the best-known victim of Hitler’s murderous master plan to exterminate the Jews — perished...
Rabbi Benjamin Shalva

Hazon’s Shmita Prizes recognizes art by Baltimore area residents

When Sara Shalva, the chief arts officer of the JCC of Greater Baltimore, suggested to her husband, Rabbi Benjamin Shalva, that he submit a...
From left: Rabbi Andy Gordon, Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Rabbi Andrew Busch, Cantor Ben Ellerin, Cantor Rosalie Will and Cantor Alexandra Fox

Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom hosts joint Shabbat service with other Reform synagogues

Every so often, Reform congregations in the Baltimore area will come together for a joint Shabbat service in partnership with the Union for Reform...

Friday round-up: Feb. 4

Moses Montefiore plans a Jewish music venue Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah Hebrew Congregation is working to create a new music venue meant specifically for Jewish...
Sabina Katz in 1945

Surviving the Holocaust through a child’s eyes

When she was a child, Sabina Katz was in one of the last groups of children to safely leave Danzig, Germany, on a Kindertransport...