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Attendees participate in a 2019 Services in the Park event.

Beth Am’s Shabbats in the park return for the summer

Can a washboard band be part of Shabbat services? At Beth Am, the answer is a firm “yes.” Services in the Park is an opportunity...
Rebecca Brown with her son, Lev

Macks Center program provides expectant mothers with community

Pregnancy and childbirth are stressful enough without the added burden of a pandemic and the isolation of social distancing. The Macks Center for Jewish...
A baseball sitting on a field

Team Israel will make stop in Maryland for pre-Olympic exhibition game

Team Israel Baseball is coming to Maryland. On their way to the Olympics, Team Israel will stop in Maryland for an exhibition game with...
Former state Sen. Barbara A. Hoffman

Former State Senator Barbara Hoffman dies at 81

When a nightly news report during the Yom Kippur War showed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting down an Egyptian plane, Alan Hoffman and his...
From left, Kimberlee Swift, Luann Carra and Baltimore City Councilmember Zeke Cohen

Fells Point neighbors paint over antisemitic graffiti

When Kimberlee Swift of Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood first saw the large swastika painted on a light post outside of her house on June...

Baltimore Jewish Times recognized for excellence in editorial writing

The Baltimore Jewish Times won first place in editorial writing at the American Jewish Press Association’s Rockower Awards for excellence in Jewish journalism. The...
Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida

American Jews mobilize in response to deadly building collapse in Surfside, Florida

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By Asaf Shalev and Ben Sales As the United States woke up to news of the building collapse in Surfside, Florida, it quickly became clear...
Marc B. Terrill and Beth Goldsmith

Associated Annual Meeting reviews work from past year

At The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore’s Annual Meeting, Beth Goldsmith, chair of the board, described the start of the past fiscal year in...
Shlomo Kushner

Here is part 2 of the Best of Jewish Baltimore 2021

Here is part two of the results from the Baltimore Jewish Times’ annual Best of Jewish Baltimore reader’s choice competition. These businesses, nonprofits, institutions...
Eli Seliger looks at a baby in London, April 2021

Orthodox dad leans on Jewish community to survive 2-month COVID coma

What would it be like to go to sleep one day and suddenly wake up in a world turned upside down by COVID-19? Eli Seliger,...