With new at-home paramedic service, Israel’s national ambulance service becomes telemedicine pioneer
By Michele Chabin
The elderly grandmother had a fever and felt weak, despite the antibiotics her family doctor had prescribed a couple of days earlier...
Benjamin Netanyahu replaced as Israeli prime minister after 12 years in office
By Ben Sales and Shira Hanau
After 12 years, seven elections and three corruption charges, Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer the prime minister of Israel.
Netanyahu,...
A Muslim market in Tucson offers kosher food and intercultural dialogue
By Nicole Raz
Tucked between a dance school and a ’60s retro lounge on a quiet street in Tucson, Ariz., sits a small Middle Eastern...
Associated agencies provide more than 137,000 meals and boxes of food for the hungry
In April of 2020, toward the beginning of the pandemic, Jewish Volunteer Connection hoped to collect up to 250 meals for those facing food...
With kids’ mental health suffering due to pandemic, Jewish experts step up help
By Stewart Ain
When New York was caught in the midst of a brutal wave of COVID-19 last spring, the daily death toll reaching as...
Inside the mind of Justin Fair
This community planner wants to design a more inclusive Jewish world
By Justin Regan
Every artist has their canvas. For community planner Justin Orlando Fair, that...
Incoming rabbi looks forward to meeting congregants in person
Rabbi Mikey Hess Webber has served as Columbia Jewish Congregation’s rabbinic intern for nearly a year and is now about to become the congregation’s...
Shinshinim bid farewell to Baltimore
Five years ago, Noam Trock decided she wanted to join the Shinshinim program, which sends Israeli teens to volunteer in Jewish communities around the...
Documents shed light on investigation into Efraim Gordon’s death
Documents released by the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office shed light on the investigation into the May 3 murder of Efraim Gordon, an Israeli...
As many of five suspects in Efraim Gordon case
There are now a total of five suspects in Efriam Gordon case, according to WJZ-TV.
Gordon, an Israeli who was visiting Baltimore to attend a...