A permanent home for Chabad of Ellicott City
Just a few years ago, many of the Jewish residents of Ellicott City believed themselves the only Jews in town, until Rabbi Yanky Baron...
Bet Chaverim ready for new school facility
Staff at Bet Chaverim Religious School are looking forward to making their own mark on the new educational facilities their students will get to...
Olympics-bound Team Israel plays ball at Maryland stadiums
By Jesse Berman and Lexi Gopin
On their way to the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Team Israel made a few stops in Maryland to play...
How US laws against Israel boycotts could hit Ben & Jerry’s
Ben & Jerry’s decision this week to pull out of an agreement that allowed its Israeli franchisee to sell its product in what the...
How the Jewish world is responding to Ben & Jerry’s decision to exit Israeli...
By JTA Staff
Kosher supermarkets are rethinking their inventory. Politicians are emptying their freezers. And the foreign minister of Israel is vowing to get involved...
This is the secret to how Israel’s leading technology institute manages to drive so...
By Renee Ghert-Zand
In the century or so since its founding as Israel’s first university, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has acquired a reputation as...
No more ‘bar’ mitzvah: Synagogues changing ways to support LGBTQ youth
By Stewart Ain
Over the last year, no fewer than five young people came out publicly as LGBTQ at the Society for the Advancement of...
Youth groups transition to in-person programming
For teens, the pandemic has created and added to anxiety and social isolation. One thing that may help is youth group programming, brought to...
Some Israelis are still traumatized 2 months after the deadly violence between Arabs and...
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Given the torrent of news developments in Israel since its brief war with Hamas in May — a new prime minister and...
With merger, Baltimore is set to become a center of Jewish environmental work
By Rudy Malcom
Baltimore is poised to become a national leader in the Jewish outdoor food, farming and environmental education movement.
On July 8, the Pearlstone...
