A century after first bat mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony has come a long...
By Sasha Rogelberg and Jesse Berman
For some Jewish tweens, Judith Kaplan Eisenstein’s reality was their worst nightmare.
The evening before, Eisenstein’s father, Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan,...
Organizations receive funds to support Holocaust survivors
By Isabella Lefkowitz-Rao and Selah Maya Zighelboim
Two Maryland Jewish community social service organizations are slated to receive parts of a $720 million grant for...
Beth Israel presentation to explore how vaccines work
Can vaccines mutate a person’s DNA?
This is the sort of concern Mark Schenerman, a member of Beth Israel Congregation who holds a doctorate in...
With help from preschoolers, Beth Tfiloh rabbi proposes to preschool administrative assistant
Normally on Fridays, Beth Tfiloh Congregation has a Kabbalat Shabbat service for its preschoolers. But something different happened at the service this past Friday.
Beth...
What permanent daylight saving time could mean for the Jewish community
A bill making daylight saving time permanent could have sizable implications for observant Jews, whose daily schedules are tied to the rising and setting...
Avi Melamed is changing mindsets about Israel
These days, navigating the college scene as a first-year university student takes more than an acceptance letter and a campus map. It takes analytical...
From aliens to Coachella, b’nai mitzvah party themes entertain
In the more than 25 years that her company has been planning b’nai mitzvah, Heidi Hiller, the CEO and creative director of Innovative Party...
Neil Berlin, lifelong fixture of Camps Airy and Louise, dies at 44
When thinking about her late husband Neil Berlin, Alicia Berlin remembers a man who allowed his personality to shine through in his work for...
Beth Am to host scholar-in-residence Sarah Wolf
During her scholar-in-residence weekend at Beth Am Synagogue, one topic Sarah Wolf plans to cover is the type of discourse some have termed “cancel...
Here’s how you can help Ukraine from Baltimore
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has inspired Americans to take action in support of the besieged country in all kinds of ways, from American...