Bar Mitzvah
Family Celebrates B’nai Mitzvah of their Adopted Children
For Renée and Andrew Dain, the concept of adoption comes down to two of their most cherished values – family and Judaism. The Dains, who live in Ellicott City and belong to Pikesville’s Temple Oheb Shalom, recently adopted Renée’s three half-siblings, Raquel, Gregory...
Bar Mitzvah Boy Makes Generous Donation to the Children’s Guild
A few months before his bar mitzvah last January, Jacob Hahn toured the Northeast Baltimore group homes and TranZed Conference Center of the Children’s Guild. The guild provides services, programming and resources for children, adolescents and families with emotional,...
This Teen Had a Gender Neutral B’nei Mitzvah
(JTA) — When Esther Thorpe came out as non-binary a year ago, identifying neither as male nor female, Miriam Taylor Thorpe was worried. Esther’s mother already had a child come out as gay and feared that Esther, 14, would have trouble finding a Jewish community...
Women Don’t Read Torah … Or Do They?
“Mazel tov!” “Yasher Koach!” These phrases were recently thrown at me, along with handshakes and hugs, as I left the bimah and made my way to my seat in Beth Am Congregation’s magnificent sanctuary in Reservoir Hill. The previous five minutes were a blur, but these...
The Parting Shot
Just as the cold snap clipped the autumn leaves off the trees and ushered in a frost, my seventh-grade students and I set about our annual ritual — making tallitot, or prayer shawls. Since this will be the year the students become b’nai mitzvah, they’ll be able to...Upcoming Events
Apr
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6:00 pm Salon Series: Women’s Voices @ Everyman Theatre
Salon Series: Women’s Voices @ Everyman Theatre
Apr 29 @ 6:00 pm
Enjoy intimate staged play readings (with cocktails!) by emerging women playwrights and directed by the women of Everyman Theatre’s Resident Acting Company (Dawn Ursula, Beth Hylton, Deborah Hazlett, Paige Hernandez and Megan Anderson) in the[...]
May
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all-day Play-A-Role Series @ Everyman Theatre
Play-A-Role Series @ Everyman Theatre
May 3 all-day
Play-A-Role events at the theater include a meal and play reading, and are enhanced with props, costume pieces and backstage stories from your Resident Company host about the recent Everyman productions of these beloved plays.[...]
8:00 pm The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa @ Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric
The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa @ Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric 
May 3 @ 8:00 pm
This hologram tour from Eyellusion includes former Zappa bandmates guitarists Ray White and Mike Keneally, bassist Scott Thunes, multi-instrumentalist Robert Martin, percussionist Ed Mann, and drummer and Zappa archivist Joe “Vaultmeister” Travers. It also promises[...]
Publisher’s Notes
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