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View ArticleBJC Names New Executive Director
The Baltimore Jewish Council named Howard Libit its next executive director on Thursday, Dec. 17. Libit is currently the treasurer of the BJC and the public affairs chief and director of strategic...
View ArticleNKF-MD Earns Four Stars
The National Kidney Foundation of Maryland’s fiscal management practices and commitment to accountability and transparency have earned the non-profit its first four-star rating from Charity Navigator,...
View ArticleRabbi Ari Israel Appointed to ACHARAI Fellows Program
Rabbi Ari Israel has been appointed to the Judaic Faculty position for the ACHARAI Fellows Program (AFP), the flagship offering of ACHARAI: The Shoshana S. Cardin Leadership Development Institute. As...
View ArticleGoldberg Joins Myerberg
The Edward A. Myerberg Center appointed Elliott Goldberg as its development director, announced the center’s executive director Gail Zuskin. Goldberg will coordinate fundraising activities for the...
View ArticleThe Yoke’s On Us
We all have received blessings at one time or another. We have certainly received compliments. Over the course of time, we learn that sometimes the compliments are clearly flattering. But occasionally,...
View ArticleTemple Emanuel May Become Part of Baltimore Hebrew
One of Baltimore’s Reform congregations may absorb another as Baltimore Hebrew Congregation and Temple Emanuel are in talks about Temple Emanuel becoming part of BHC. While nothing is finalized yet,...
View ArticleAll In on Climate
The organized American Jewish community reacted positively to the Paris climate agreement signed this month by almost 200 nations. The Dec. 12 accord aims to significantly curb carbon emissions in...
View ArticleCounterattack
Alarmed by what they called “Orwellian efforts” by the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement to link Israel with a multitude of free-speech issues roiling college campuses across the United...
View ArticleForensic Necessities
The announcement on Dec. 7 by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake that her administration would be spending almost $347,000 to hire 10 additional staff members to the police department’s crime lab is being...
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Morris Pancoe, with shovel, joins six other men at an unidentified groundbreaking ceremony, circa 1960. Can you identify anyone in this photo? Contact Joanna Church, 410-732-6400, ext. 226 or...
View ArticleIsrael to Establish College in Arab Town
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Council of Higher Education will vote on a call for proposals to establish a college for Arab-Israelis in an Arab town, the nation’s education minister said. “For the first time in...
View ArticleLet There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World By Seth M....
Speaking from Austin, Texas, in between his 55th and 56th speaking engagements, author Seth M. Siegel laments how the Barnes & Noble retailer places his book in the wildlife section. There isn’t a...
View ArticleHow are you celebrating the New Year?
Steve Rosenheim: The same way I celebrate every year: play music. Joanne Hock: Being with family and friends. Johnna Hock: Going to a party.
View Article‘True Liberation, At Last’
It was 52 years ago, in December 1963, when Felicia Graber arrived in the United States. Graber remembers it as a moment — of feeling safe, of arriving home. Her poem begins in February 1945, more than...
View ArticleLIBERATION
February 1945. Planes roaring overhead, people dancing, Men strutting drunkenly down the unpaved street, Laughing, singing and shouting: “The Russians are here! The Russians are here!” My uncle is one...
View ArticleHow Humble Is Too Humble?
When we open the Book of Exodus this week and turn to Parshat Shemot, we find that the Israelites are suffering under the tyranny of ego. Pharaoh, a despot who believes himself to be more powerful than...
View ArticleWell-Seated
It was love at first sight for Ethan Zweig. Ethan met Brooke Shemer briefly at a party on New Year’s Eve 2014. Afterward, they connected at Walt’s Inn in Baltimore. “Her smile really stuck with me,”...
View ArticleCheder Chabad Cyberthon Smashes Fundraising Goal
Cheder Chabad of Baltimore raised $165,200 to put toward its school’s scholarship fund through a 24-hour fundraising platform, charidy.com. The website requires campaigns to seek sponsors who will...
View ArticleGetting Their Mitzvah On
Jewish Baltimore woke up bright and early on Dec. 25, but the atmosphere was more about giving than receiving at the 10th annual Mitzvah Day. Organizers estimated 1,000 volunteers from the community...
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