More than 1,000 Jews rally outside the US Capitol in support of abortion rights
By Julia Gergely
WASHINGTON (JTA) — As it was originally conceived over the last year, the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice was meant to be...
Arnold Rifkin, former marine and TV engineer, dies at 93
One memory of his father, Arnold Charles Rifkin, that stands out to Alan Rifkin involved a trip to the cinema on his 10th birthday.
The...
Owings Mills JCC evacuated after bomb threat; threat deemed noncredible
The JCC of Greater Baltimore received an antisemitic email bomb threat on Saturday, May 14.
The JCC in St. Louis received a similar threat, but...
Associated to launch trio of new organizations this summer
A major shake-up is coming to The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore and its programs with the impending launch of three new organizations this...
JT wins 5 awards at regional journalism competition
The Baltimore Jewish Times won five awards in the MDDC Press Association journalism contest. The awards recognize work done in 2021.
The JT’s editorial, “It...
World Briefs: Belgian Orthodox Jew overpowers attacker and more
In Antwerp, Haredi Orthodox Jew overpowers, tackles attacker
It began like countless other antisemitic incidents in Antwerp: A man shouted insults and made threatening gestures...
‘We had our lives on the line’: Abortion activists reflect on 50 years of...
By Sasha Rogelberg
This year feels a lot like 1970 for those who remember it.
Memories of a controversial war with consequences felt in the United...
Lufthansa apologizes for expelling ‘large group’ of Chasidic Jews from flight to Hungary
By Jacob Henry
Lufthansa apologized for kicking identifiably Jewish people off a flight from New York City to Budapest last week after some Chasidic individuals...
MMAE to host art show/book reading with artistic couple
As an artist, Ann Kibel Schwartz enjoys experimentation, with different types of artistic mediums, which can go as far as creating art that attempts...
Annette Saxon receives lifetime achievement award
Looking back on her long history of involvement in Baltimore’s Jewish community, Annette G. Saxon — the recent recipient of the Federation of Jewish...