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Kol HaLev Cantor Takes ‘Voices of the Heart’ … to Heart

Cantors, or chazzanim, are known to be among the most versatile of clergy members, wearing many different hats in addition to their kippahs. Take, for...

‘A Difference in People’s Lives’: Dina Greenbaum Brings Background of Family Care to Baltimore

Dina Greenbaum has worked as a case manager for Chai Lifeline, a Jewish organization dedicated to providing aid and care to families with children...

BBYO Leader: ‘Teens Need Tools to Understand Antisemitism and How to Respond’

Growing up in Owings Mills and attending the Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, Nora Leavey says she has a strong and solid Jewish identity,...

New Grant for Maryland Students to Enable High-Schoolers to Learn in Israel

Mara Fahl High-school students in the state of Maryland have a new way to access Israel-education experiences with the establishment of generous grants towards tuition...

In Turkey, Festival Revives a Jewel of the Sephardic World and Aims to Break...

IZMIR, Turkey — Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has been a popular tourist destination for both Jewish travelers and others interested...

World Briefs: Jewish LGBTQ Donor Network Names New Executive Director and more

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Jewish LGBTQ Donor Network Names New Executive Director The Jewish LGBTQ Donor Network announced that it named Neil Spears as its new executive director. The agency...

Massive trove of prewar Jewish artifacts unearthed by construction workers in Poland

Construction workers renovating an old tenement house in Lodz, Poland, unearthed a surprising find: an untouched cache of hundreds of Jewish artifacts believed to...

Interfaith concert draws hundreds for inspiration as the calendar turns to 2023

It was billed as a night of music and prayer, a collective and contemplative way to send off one year and ring in the...

Marc Irwin brings musicality everywhere he goes, even to synagogue

The Classic Theatre of Maryland is celebrating a full decade of professional theater in Annapolis. And local Jewish musician Marc Irwin has been along...

Red Cross needs blood donations, say those who make it a habit of volunteering

Faygie Holt | Special to the JT When John Miller was growing up in Owings Mills in the 1970s and ’80s, he watched his father,...