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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
Speaker discusses war’s impact on Ukraine’s Jewish community
For the country’s Jewish community, Ukraine — the site of World War II’s infamous Babyn Yar massacre — has become a more tolerant place...
Synagogues spiel the beans on choosing their Purim themes
Every year, come Purim time, synagogues go out of their way to outdo one another’s spiels and Megillah readings, crafting the themes of their...
Downtown Baltimore loses its last kosher cafe
Downtown Baltimore is losing its final kosher eatery.
Van Gough Cafe, a kosher cafe near the Fells Point area, will close its doors for the...
Liberal Baltimore native runs for Congress in deep-red West Virginia
By Lee Chottiner
Barry Wendell hardly fits the mold for a West Virginia politician. Not only is he a liberal Jew from Baltimore in a...
