Groups push aid for the disadvantaged during Md. legislative session
By Leenika Belfield-Martin
Maryland lawmakers have headed back to the statehouse for the 2022 session, and local advocacy groups are right behind them, making sure...
Camp programs respond to emerging mental and emotional health needs of campers
While the COVID-19 pandemic has given summer camps ample opportunity to practice keeping campers safe from illness and looking after their physical health, are...
Columbia Jewish Congregation’s Tu B’Shevat seder explores kabbalistic symbols and mindfulness
Zoom gatherings are no longer a novelty but a norm, yet Columbia Jewish Congregation managed to infuse something special into the medium during their...
School nurses reflect on nearly two years of COVID
When Jane Brophy, head nurse at Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital, gets home from work, she puts down her bag,...
Dramatic readings and discussions underline MLK’s timely message
Jews United for Justice, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and more than a dozen organizations commemorated the birthday and work of Martin Luther King Jr. with...
This young US immigrant in Jerusalem is telling Israel’s story to the world
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Tamar Schwarzbard is grateful for getting to tell Israel’s story to the world every day—not through lectures or opinion columns, but via...
Texas hostage crisis was a watershed moment in the livestreaming of American synagogues
By Shira Hanau and Philissa Cramer
For most of the Shabbat services streamed from Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, over the course of the...
‘We were terrified’: Texas rabbi says he threw a chair at synagogue gunman to...
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker has publicly described for the first time the moment he and two other hostages escaped a gunman in his synagogue in...
All Texas synagogue hostages ‘out alive and safe’ after harrowing 12-hour standoff
By Ron Kampeas and Andrew Lapin
Update:
All four hostages at a synagogue in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area were declared “out alive and safe” by...
Onward Israel merges with Birthright to magnify reach
By Toby Tabachnick and Faygie Holt
Two organizations that provide Israel experiences for Jewish young adults, Birthright Israel and Onward Israel, announced their merger last...