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OU training programs provide education for future kosher certifiers

Thirty-year-old Zvi Spiegel said “it was a given” that he keep kosher, growing up in an observant home in New York. But he noted...

‘Keepers of the quilt’ Woman spearheads project to keep memories of COVID victims alive

COVID-19 has taken a toll on everyone. Though self-quarantining is no longer the norm and it has been a while since people started going...

The trials and trauma of infertility: Two families share their stories

Ellen Braunstein | Special to the JT Ronna Flaks, 35, once retreated to the bathroom to cry at the sight of one too many swollen...

This expanding Jewish university is doing some unusual things

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Stewart Ain | JTA When New York granted university status last February to what had been known until this year as Touro College, it signaled...

A family bat mitzvah leads to a career as a rabbi

When Rabbi Jenni Greenspan was a child, her family attended a relative’s bat mitzvah ceremony. It was one of the first times she said...

World Briefs: Former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke shares Nobel Prize in economics and...

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Former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke shares Nobel Prize in economics Ben Bernanke, the Jewish former chairman of the Federal Reserve, shared the Nobel Prize...

HeBros annual golf outing works to bolster group members, assist Baltimore SEED School

Black and Jewish businessmen teed off on Oct. 17 at the seventh annual HeBrOpen Golf Outing, a fundraising-based golf tournament held in Baltimore. Players...

Columbia scores big in two national rankings on livable cities

Columbia, Md., has made headlines twice in just a few weeks — and for good reason. The fairly new locale in terms of American history...

New J Life program aims to foster direct, creative family interactions under arts umbrella

The Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore is always looking for new ways to engage the Baltimore area’s Jewish population. With the launch of...

The ancient Jewish practice of ‘hakhel,’ an every-seven-years’ gathering, gets a 21st-century revival

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Jackie Hajdenberg | JTA Every seven years in ancient times, Jewish men, women and children would gather at the Temple on the first day of...