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by Ben Sales, JTA | 7 hours ago | Community, Community Resources, LGBT, Religion
(JTA) — Some college students who think about becoming rabbis aren’t sure whether they will want to work in a synagogue or school. Others get hung up on which seminary to attend or denomination to join. Lior Gross had a different dilemma: How to speak Hebrew in... read more
by Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg | Nov 16, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Spirituality
“First they came for the socialists …” said Martin Niemöller, the German pastor who came to resist Nazi dictatorship. “Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to... read more
by Carol Sorgen | Nov 15, 2018 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Education, Elderly, Family, Parenting, Religion, Spirituality
“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.” –Psalm 133:1 Not long ago, Dr. Terris A. King, senior pastor of Ashburton’s Liberty Grace Church of God, reached out to Beth Tfiloh Congregation’s Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg. The... read more
by Josefin Dolsten, JTA | Nov 13, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Religion, Spirituality
(JTA) — The death toll and damage continue to rise in California in the wildfires ravaging the state. More than 6,400 homes have been damaged and at least 31 people have been killed, according to CNN. Like other Californians, Jewish residents are evacuating their... read more
by Hillel Kuttler, JTA | Nov 9, 2018 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Elderly, Religion
JERUSALEM (JTA) – For decades as an adult, Lore Mayerfeld kept a doll on a chair in an off-limits bedroom or high on a shelf. Her children – and later her grandchildren and great-grandchildren – knew not to play with the toy for fear of breaking it. Dressed in... read more
by Cnaan Liphshiz | Nov 9, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Religion
KALININGRAD, Russia (JTA) — Walking to school and back, Michael Wieck twice a day would pass by one of Europe’s largest and most spectacular Jewish places of worship: Koenigsberg’s New Synagogue. The mammoth shul was built in 1896 in the Aesopian style in the... read more
by Staff Report | Oct 31, 2018 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Education
At a surprise check presentation on Oct. 30, Voya Financial Inc., a leading provider of retirement plans for educators, awarded Deidre Rabuck, assistant principal of the Kennedy Krieger School: Fairmount campus, its national second-place award for its Voya Unsung... read more
by Peter Arnold | Oct 31, 2018 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Education, Parenting, Schools
With his young family, thriving political career and law firm Zirkin & Schmerling, State Sen. Robert A. “Bobby” Zirkin (D-11th) has plenty to keep him busy. But Zirkin recently started a brand new project. A fixture on the Annapolis political scene since 1999 and... read more
by Aliza Friedlander | Oct 31, 2018 | Community, Religion
Chizuk Amuno’s new senior rabbi cherishes the sanctity of community and the tenets of Conservative Judaism. As a teenager, Rabbi Joshua Z. Gruenberg admits he didn’t dream of being a pulpit rabbi. Basketball, rather than the bimah, was usually on his mind. “I thought... read more
by Hanni R. Werner | Oct 30, 2018 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Education
Erin Michele Levitas once said, “I want to inspire people. I want someone to look at me and say, ‘Because of you, I didn’t give up.’” Those closest to Erin, a Stevenson resident who died in January of 2016 just a month shy of her 23rd birthday, say she would be proud... read more
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