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Rabbi Rory Katz

Chevrei Tzedek takes Chanukah outdoors with a hike

While many celebrated the Festival of Lights with traditional latkes, dreidels and gelt, on Dec. 5, members of Chevrei Tzedek Congregation switched things up...
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Jewish philanthropy meets growing needs, even during COVID

Across the nation, Jewish organizations aiding communities here and abroad are rising to challenges created by the pandemic — with the help of their...
Iron Dome missile defense interceptors over Ashkelon

Some Americans are moving to Baltimore’s sister city 9 miles from Gaza

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By Linda Gradstein When people ask Nechama Greenfield why she and her husband chose to move just nine miles from Gaza in June, less than...
A view inside the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam

The Spinoza scholar who was banned from Amsterdam synagogue is now invited to visit...

An organization responsible for Amsterdam’s historic Portuguese Synagogue has apologized to a Baltimore-based scholar whom a resident rabbi declared persona non grata due to...
Tzvi Haber

Tzvi Haber launches imadi for children with health issues

Children with chronic illnesses or intellectual disabilities, and their families, now have a new place to turn to for support. An organization called imadi, which...

Infrastructure law could mean millions for Jewish nonprofits

In what has become an increasingly rare occurrence in the nation’s capital, on Nov. 15, President Joe Biden signed a major piece of legislation...
Chaim Walder

A journalist breaking Orthodoxy’s biggest sexual abuse stories says he wishes he didn’t have...

In March 2021, reporting by Haaretz journalists Aaron Rabinowitz and Shira Elk revealed allegations of sexual abuse against Yehudah Meshi-Zahav, the founder of Zaka,...
Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz

Israel’s health minister wants to make it easier for women to get abortions

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By Shira Hanau As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Washington on the most significant abortion case to reach the court in decades, Israel’s...
The Esther Ann Menorah

Menorahs showcase Jewish life around Baltimore

Some are homemade, some are family heirlooms and some are 30 feet tall. Across the Baltimore area, you can find all different types of...
David Speer (left) and Barry Bogage

MIDC welcomes new executive director

As the new executive director of the Maryland/Israel Development Center, David Speer wants to eventually grow the organization and attract a younger and more...