Two Camps. One Legacy.
Mark Fine recalls the most memorable moments of his experience at Camp Airy with humor.
During his first summer as a counselor in 1996, he...
Yom HaShoah Committee collects artifacts for April commemoration
The images are iconic. We’ve seen them in still photographs and black-and-white documentaries. Scores of children and emaciated men and women crowded behind barbed-wire...
Young Ukrainian Jews are torn between fighting for their country — and leaving for...
As world powers work to defuse the military buildup between Ukraine and Russia, Vlodymyr Zeev Vaksman, a Jewish father in Odessa, is focusing on...
Barbara P. Katz, first woman president of the Maryland Historical Society, dies at 88
Correction 2/18/2022: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Barbara P. Katz was the first woman to serve as president of the...
Robert Chertkof and the Israeli ‘waterfall street’
While many are motivated by a passionate love for Israel, not as many can say they helped shape a small part of it. But...
Is a rabbi shortage sweeping the country? Local rabbis weigh in
As if shortages of COVID-19 tests, cream cheese and toilet paper were not enough, is America now being hit with a shortage of rabbis?
In...
Yiddish-language concert to debut at Beth El Congregation
“Yiddishe Nightingale,” a Yiddish-language concert, is premiering at Beth El Congregation of Baltimore. And Beth El Cantor Thom King will be one of the...
Friday round up: Feb. 11
Hazon’s Shmita Prizes recognize art by Baltimore-area residents
Two Baltimore-area artists, Rabbi Benjamin Shalva and Anna Fine Foer, are among the winners of this year’s...
February brings Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month
February is in full swing, and with it comes Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month, which some view as a chance for the...
Who is Anne Frank in 2022?
By Lisa Traiger
More than 75 years after Anne Frank — the best-known victim of Hitler’s murderous master plan to exterminate the Jews — perished...