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Baltimore Jewish Council with Gov. Larry Hogan

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...
Campers at J Camps

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 virtual Tu B'Shevat seder

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...
Monica Stewart and Donna Friedman

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,...
Panelists at the event, “Honoring Dr. King: The Enduring Relevance of ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail'"

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...
Tamar Schwarzbard

This young US immigrant in Jerusalem is telling Israel’s story to the world

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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...
Congregation Beth Israel livestream

Texas hostage crisis was a watershed moment in the livestreaming of American synagogues

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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...
A Police vehicle sits outside of the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas

‘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...
SWAT team members deploy near the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas

All Texas synagogue hostages ‘out alive and safe’ after harrowing 12-hour standoff

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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...
The first Birthright Israel group during the pandemic

Onward Israel merges with Birthright to magnify reach

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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...