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Jewish Queer Youth Drop-in Center in New York City

Jewish Queer Youth to open drop-in center in Baltimore area

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By Eleanor Linafelt and Andrew Silow-Carroll The New York City-based Jewish Queer Youth organization received a $1 million donation to expand its social services to...
Rabbi Martin Siegel

Rabbi Martin Siegel builds bridges with Chabad movement

It may not be often that a non-Orthodox rabbi becomes heavily involved in the Chabad movement, but Rabbi Martin Siegel is no ordinary rabbi. While...
JVC volunteers assemble care packages on Mitzvah Day at the Park Heights JCC

In wake of COVID surge, organizations implement restrictions

Just when we thought we were out, the pandemic pulls us back in. On Dec. 29, the United States reached 300,886 average new daily cases...

The Baltimore Jewish Times’ 5 most-read stories of 2021

A lot has happened this past year. A mob attacked the Capitol, Congress impeached former President Donald Trump for a second time and President...
U.S. Air Force security forces raven, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, maintains security aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Afghanistan, Aug. 24, 2021

Strangers in a strange land: BHC applies to sponsor Afghan family

Baltimore Hebrew Congregation is gearing up to live out the principle of loving the stranger, as the synagogue prepares to demonstrate its capacity to...

Local Jewish leaders share their New Year’s resolutions

New Year’s Eve would not be quite the same without a New Year’s resolution, and many members of Baltimore’s Jewish community have theirs at...

BZD to take 55+ group on in-person Israel tour

“Next year in Jerusalem” is going to ring very true for participants of the Baltimore Zionist District’s upcoming tour of Israel. BZD is currently organizing...

David Harrison leads Beth El through unending pandemic

Despite any Martin Sheen-related quips that could suggest otherwise, David Harrison, board president of Beth El Congregation of Baltimore, doesn’t let his position or...
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...