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World Briefs: Last Surviving Prosecutor of Nazis at Nuremberg Dies at 103 and more

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Last Surviving Prosecutor of Nazis at Nuremberg Dies at 103 Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving member of the prosecuting team at the Nuremberg trials that...

Preparing for Seders in Baltimore

Between cleaning, selling chametz and cooking up a feast, Passover is a holiday that requires a lot of preparation. Like in all years past, Baltimore...

Baltimore Genealogist Jennifer Mendelsohn Reunites Jewish Families

Jennifer Mendelsohn is something of a star in the field of genealogy. The Mount Washington resident attained national renown as a genealogy guide to Dani...

35th Annual Jewish Film Festival Celebrates Jewish Art

For 35 years, the William & Irene Weinberg Family Baltimore Jewish Film Festival has been showing Jewish movies from all over the world, touching...

Inside Harbor Minyan, Downtown Baltimore’s Egalitarian, Lay-Led Congregation

In 2013, three members of Baltimore’s downtown Jewish community had a problem. They wanted to start attending services at a minyan, but at the...

Matzah Balls, Four Questions and a Postwar Celebration: Seniors Recall the Passover Seders of...

The matzah ball debate was alive and well at Bill Fox’s childhood seders. The matzah balls were either called feathers — the light, fluffy kind...

World Briefs: Stanford Digitizes Thousands of Pages of Nuremberg Trial Documents and more

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Stanford Digitizes Thousands of Pages of Nuremberg Trial Documents, Available to Public Stanford University digitized thousands of pages and documents from the International Military Tribunal...

Beth Tfiloh High Schooler Helps Bring Passover to Ukraine

The son of 1970s refugees from the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Lviv, Adrian Maydanich, 17, wanted to bring Passover to the tens of...

Amid Protests and Strikes, Beth El Congregants Experience Israel

Forty-nine members of Beth El Congregation in Pikesville spent ten days in Israel, seeing its most popular and picturesque sites from March 20 through...

Yom HaShoah Marks 80th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

This year during Yom HaShoah, Jewish people around the world will be remembering the atrocities of the Holocaust. But 2023 also marks the 80th...