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Miriam Marazin during her photoshoot

Baltimore residents help put Orthodox women back in the picture

A practice in some religious Jewish communities of removing women from photographs is facing pushback from the nonprofit Chochmat Nashim and its Jewish Life...

Rubashkin to share ‘The Inside Story’ in Baltimore

In 2010, Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, then the CEO of Agriprocessors — at one time the largest kosher meat producer in the nation — was...
OneTable event in New York City in 2017

Pearlstone, OneTable partnership brings new Shabbat experience to Baltimore

Baltimore-area residents who need a helping hand with hosting or joining a Shabbat meal at the end of the week are about to receive...
From left: Tova Natanzon, Rony Natanzon, Berly Hershkovitz and Avi Hershkovitz

Hundreds attend FIDF gala at Martin’s West

Close to 500 attendees joined in the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces 2021 Baltimore Chapter Gala at Martin’s West on Dec. 6. The...
Leslie Seid Margolis

Leslie Margolis supports social justice at Bolton Street

While she may not have begun her life with a great zeal for Judaism, Leslie Seid Margolis, president of Bolton Street Synagogue’s board of...

Baltimore cream cheese shortage? Local food services weigh in

As if 2020’s toilet paper shortage and this year’s supply chain crisis were not bad enough, rumblings of a possible cream cheese shortage have...
Rabbi Rory Katz

Chevrei Tzedek takes Chanukah outdoors with a hike

While many celebrated the Festival of Lights with traditional latkes, dreidels and gelt, on Dec. 5, members of Chevrei Tzedek Congregation switched things up...
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Jewish philanthropy meets growing needs, even during COVID

Across the nation, Jewish organizations aiding communities here and abroad are rising to challenges created by the pandemic — with the help of their...
A view inside the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam

The Spinoza scholar who was banned from Amsterdam synagogue is now invited to visit...

An organization responsible for Amsterdam’s historic Portuguese Synagogue has apologized to a Baltimore-based scholar whom a resident rabbi declared persona non grata due to...
Tzvi Haber

Tzvi Haber launches imadi for children with health issues

Children with chronic illnesses or intellectual disabilities, and their families, now have a new place to turn to for support. An organization called imadi, which...