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Working to address the mental-health crisis among children and teenagers

Though many consider the COVID-19 pandemic to be over, the effects it has had on young people’s mental health are not so easily dealt...

Pikesville man, once a refugee from Egypt, pays it forward in Israel

Mara Fahl | Special to JT Joseph Marzouk arrived in Baltimore with his parents and baby sister at the age of 6 following the expulsion...

Why does breast cancer strike African-American women harder? Start with social inequality

Ellen Braunstein | Special to JT October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In the United States, an African-American woman is about 40% more likely to...

Accused killer opens fire on police

  The man charged in the August murder of Jewish Baltimore resident Aryeh Wolf remains at large after a shootout with police on Tuesday. Avery Miler,...

Multifaith congregations share physical space with goal of boosting spiritual interaction

As one of five religious organizations occupying the Oakland Mills Interfaith Center, Bet Aviv is in a rather unusual position where it coexists, physically...

World Briefs: Biden to host first-ever White House Rosh Hashanah party and more

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Biden to host first-ever White House Rosh Hashanah party U.S. President Joe Biden is bringing a Jewish High Holiday celebration to the White House for...

Baltimore-based artist provides space for representation and healing

Elena Volkova is the recipient of the 2022 Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Artist Travel Prize awarded by the Baltimore Office of Promotion...

‘The struggle is in the juggle’

Women running for state and local politics speak out about balancing the fine line between home and work. If 2010 was the year of the...

For Jews with eating disorders, new traditions aim to make Yom Kippur a safer...

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Shonna Levin is an Orthodox Jew, but she didn’t spend last Yom Kippur in a synagogue. The activist in Brooklyn, N.Y., had planned to set...

Big shoes to fill: Marc Terrill to end tenure as Associated president

When Marc B. Terrill announced back in the late 1990s that he was leaving his fundraising management position at Combined Jewish Philanthropies after just...