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Temple Mount in Jerusalem

The fighting in Gaza, Jerusalem and across Israel, explained

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By Ben Sales and Ron Kampeas Rocket attacks in Israel. Airstrikes in Gaza. Violence in Jerusalem’s holiest sites. Protests across the city. It feels like Israel...

19 organizations partner for Shavuot all-night learning

Get your cheesecake ready, Baltimore. Nineteen local Jewish organizations are participating in a virtual Shavuot event on May 16 from 7:30 p.m. until 5 a.m....

Chabad of Downtown looks forward to in-person programming

Before the pandemic, Chabad of Downtown in Little Italy usually hosted a themed Shabbat dinner on the first Friday of every month. In what looks...

Officials dispute antisemitism as motive in Israeli visitor’s murder

Local officials are disputing antisemitism as a motive in the May 3 shooting death of Efraim Gordon, a 31-year-old Israeli who had come to...
Yair Lapid

Israeli centrist Yair Lapid is given an opportunity to replace Benjamin Netanyahu

Yair Lapid, an Israeli centrist, has officially been given the opportunity to remove Benjamin Netanyahu from power. On Wednesday, President Reuven Rivlin gave Lapid the...
Steven Raichlen at Pearlstone for Project Fire

Pikesville native returns home to film cooking show

When families sit down to watch a show about American barbecuing, they may not be expecting to be greeted by a self-described Jewish intellectual...
Ida Schmidt-Chait at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ida’s story: A Holocaust survivor’s childhood home becomes a memorial

Pikesville resident Ida Schmidt-Chait (née Rosenberg) learned of the Ringelblum Archive during a trip back to Poland in 2017, more than six decades after...
Israeli flag

Did Netanyahu just lose? Here’s what happened Tuesday in Israeli politics

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to form a government by the deadline imposed by Israeli law, thrusting the country into uncertain political...
Rev. Dr. Henry W. Schneeberger

Chizuk Amuno marks 150th anniversary

From its origins in a dispute over a synagogue choir, to its commitment to Jewish education in Baltimore and beyond, to its history of...
Mourners at the funeral of someone who died at the Lag B'Omer stampede

What is Israel’s Mount Meron and why were so many Orthodox Jews gathered there...

“If you haven’t seen the joy of Lag b’Omer on the grave of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, you haven’t seen joy at all,” wrote...