Family adapts to COVID by scheduling bar mitzvah ceremony, party for different dates
For 13-year-old Zachary Burrows, the pandemic hasn’t only changed the way he goes to school and socializes. To keep attendees safe from coronavirus, he...
Beth El hires new executive director
Beth El Congregation of Baltimore is getting ready to welcome its new executive director, Ben Wachstein, who will begin April 1 after a six-month...
Community members learn new skills while social distancing
At Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Cantor Ann Sacks has noticed an uptick in the number of adults enrolling in her classes on biblical and prayerbook...
5 tips for first-time overnight campers
By Michael Vyskocil
Whether you’ve attended summer camp as a child or whether your child is the first in your family to go to camp,...
With most votes counted in Israeli election, neither Netanyahu nor his opponents have majority
With the vast majority of votes counted from Tuesday’s Israeli election, it appears that neither Benjamin Netanyahu nor his opponents have a clear path...
How to make a Zoom bar or bat mitzvah work for your family
By Jennifer Zwilling and Jon Rosenwasser
In March, just as the pandemic was forcing a shutdown of most routine social and economic activity in the...
60s+ group reaches out to previously overlooked part of community
Bolton Street Synagogue understands that finding one’s place in a new congregation and becoming part of its family can be hard. That’s why its...
Community seders provide alternative holiday experience
If a traditional family seder is not in the cards for this Pesach, an alternative community seder might be an unconventional way to cap...
Howard County rabbi takes matzah baking on the road
Rabbi Hillel Baron is bringing the matzah bakery experience to kids with his portable Brooklyn Matzah Bakery.
“There are two kinds of matzah: There’s machine-made...
Pandemic brings ‘sister shuls’ closer
By Suzanne Pollak
Beth Shalom Congregation in Columbia and Shaare Tefila Congregation in Olney are about 25 minutes apart by car. But when it comes...