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Baltimore Jewish Council with Gov. Larry Hogan

Groups push aid for the disadvantaged during Md. legislative session

By Leenika Belfield-Martin Maryland lawmakers have headed back to the statehouse for the 2022 session, and local advocacy groups are right behind them, making sure...
Campers at J Camps

Camp programs respond to emerging mental and emotional health needs of campers

While the COVID-19 pandemic has given summer camps ample opportunity to practice keeping campers safe from illness and looking after their physical health, are...
Columbia Jewish Congregation's virtual Tu B'Shevat seder

Columbia Jewish Congregation’s Tu B’Shevat seder explores kabbalistic symbols and mindfulness

Zoom gatherings are no longer a novelty but a norm, yet Columbia Jewish Congregation managed to infuse something special into the medium during their...
Monica Stewart and Donna Friedman

School nurses reflect on nearly two years of COVID

When Jane Brophy, head nurse at Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital, gets home from work, she puts down her bag,...
Panelists at the event, “Honoring Dr. King: The Enduring Relevance of ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail'"

Dramatic readings and discussions underline MLK’s timely message

Jews United for Justice, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and more than a dozen organizations commemorated the birthday and work of Martin Luther King Jr. with...
Sen. Ben Cardin

In online event, lawmakers reflect on Jan. 6 riot

By Leenika Belfield-Martin Six days into 2021, as the nation was wrestling with the effects of an ongoing pandemic and the economic issues that followed,...
fruits and nuts for Tu B'Shevat

Tu B’Shevat events move online amid omicron surge

As cases of the omicron variant surge, Tu B’Shevat approaches. Tu B’Shevat celebrates the new year of the trees. This year, the holiday begins the...
David Ben Moshe

Baltimore native ends hunger strike for Israeli citizenship

David Ben Moshe, a Baltimore native, has been trying to become an Israeli citizen for over three years now. On Jan. 3, he began a...
Audrey Polt holds her mother’s heritage album

Why do we want to pass down our memories?

Rich Polt, a Towson resident, thinks of memories as heirlooms. He runs the company Acknowledge Media, producing legacy videos based on conversations with loved...
Sean Siegel

Q&A with the new JNFuture campaign executive

Sean Siegel always knew the importance of standing up for his people — from growing up in a culturally Jewish household in the Los...