Vaccination campaign reaches out to Orthodox community
With many Americans hesitant or unwilling to be inoculated against COVID-19, the Baltimore City Health Department has partnered with several universities, through the VALUE...
Record-breaking aliyah from North America projected for 2021, with 5,000 expected to make the...
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Leah and Yehuda Smolarcik are moving to Israel from Chicago with their four children this summer. The challenges over the past year...
What the pandemic can teach us about loneliness
By Bob Roth
During the pandemic, we have collectively increased awareness of what the experts in their fields had on their radar all along. The...
Weaving home hospitality into Birthright trips forges new bonds between young Israelis and Diaspora...
By Michele Chabin
When Jack McCormack signed up for a Birthright trip several months ago, he looked forward to visiting Israel’s holy, historical and cultural...
New mosaic of Elijah Cummings unveiled
A new mosaic has been unveiled at the Cummings Courthouse by The Elijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel, in honor of the organization’s founder,...
Baltimore rabbis encourage vaccinations in new video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK5tUd8r5PI
Baltimore rabbis are appealing to the community to get the COVID-19 vaccine in a new YouTube video. Published Aug. 6 on the Baltimore City...
Ora Imanoel brings the flavors of Iran to Baltimore
In 2013, Ora Imanoel was operating a successful catering business called Mazza From Heaven with a close friend, Pearl Dwek.
The cuisine was as unique...
Tale without a whale? Beit Tikvah holds Shabbat service on Jonah and prophecy
Does the book of Jonah have any thing to do with a whale? Worshippers who attend Congregation Beit Tikvah’s Aug. 14 morning Shabbat service...
Delta variant disrupts High Holiday plans
By Jesse Berman and Shira Hanau
With COVID-19 vaccines readily available, it was finally beginning to look like synagogues could breathe easier, and that High...
Maryland will review whether it has contracts with Ben & Jerry’s
Following a call by Maryland Jewish organizations for the state government to review if it has contracts with Ben & Jerry’s, Maryland Secretary of State...