Baltimore cream cheese shortage? Local food services weigh in
As if 2020’s toilet paper shortage and this year’s supply chain crisis were not bad enough, rumblings of a possible cream cheese shortage have...
Make giving part of your tax strategy
By Allison L. Kierman
Thanksgiving may be over, but here’s something that’s still related to giving thanks: There are fewer than 30 days left in...
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...
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...
Some Americans are moving to Baltimore’s sister city 9 miles from Gaza
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...
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 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...
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,...
Israel’s health minister wants to make it easier for women to get abortions
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...