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Guilty plea in murder of visiting Israeli

A suspect has pleaded guilty to first degree murder charges in connection to last year’s killing of Efraim Gordon, an Israeli man who was...
Dr. Mort Mower in an F-16 fighter jet during a JNF function

Dr. Mort Mower, medical inventor and JNF innovator, dies at 89

When Russell Robinson, CEO of the Jewish National Fund-USA, asked his friend and colleague Dr. Morton Mower, who died April 25 at 89, what...
Rabbi Ari J. Goldstein (fourth from left) performs magic tricks for a child at a refugee center in Przemysl, Poland

Rabbi Ari Goldstein offers support to Ukrainian refugees in Poland

During his journey in April to the Polish-Ukrainian border, Rabbi Ari J. Goldstein of Temple Beth Shalom in Arnold recalled meeting many Ukrainian refugees...
Rabbi Chai Posner

Rabbi Chai Posner settles into a position that is joyfully beshert

On a recent chilly, spring Sunday, Rabbi Chai Posner, 39, seemed relaxed, yet exhilarated, sitting in his office at Beth Tfiloh Congregation and School,...
The Anne Frank: Private Photo Album Exhibit is on display at Beth El Congregation of Baltimore

BZD brings Anne Frank photo exhibit to Beth El

While reflecting on the Anne Frank: Private Photo Album Exhibit, Caren Leven, executive director of the Baltimore Zionist District, was struck by the sense...
Neely Tal Snyder

Six years after fatal car accident, Maryland announces new highway project

When remembering her late friend, Neely Tal Snyder, one particular image of the mother of three stands out to Lisa Bodziner, the executive director...
Margie Simon

Chizuk Amuno group supports Afghan family

When images of Afghan civilians desperate to escape their country before the Taliban takeover first began reaching American viewers last year, many likely felt...
field of wheat

Why count the omer?

When the Temple stood, the omer period began with the sacrifice of barley on the second day of Passover and ended seven weeks later...
From left: Cantor Alexandra Fox and Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi

HSOSC to celebrate installation of clergy with a festival

Not long after Har Sinai Congregation merged with Temple Oheb Shalom, the new congregation was hit with the pandemic, placing severe limitations on the...
Dr. Dana Silver

Benefits of early diagnosis for children on the autism spectrum

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By Jesse Berman and Laura Farmer When someone hears the word “autism,” what first comes to mind are likely the disadvantages associated with the condition....