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Federal Lawsuit Filed Against Frederick County Public Schools Over Antisemitism
At the conclusion of the 2024-25 school year, New Market Middle School teacher Leslie Williamson retired early after a 23-year tenure with Frederick County...
Opinion
D’var Torah: Names Are Not Just Labels
By Rabbi Jon Roos
This week’s Torah portion is Devarim: Deuteronomy 1:1 — 3:22
I can tell how and from where people know me by the...
You Should Know
Annandale’s Rachel Gomberg Shares Passion for Jewish Music
Rachel Gomberg began singing before she uttered her first word, and now she’s passing on that same love for music to the next Jewish...
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Last Word
Rockville’s Rabbi Gary Pokras Reflects on Impactful Decade at Temple Beth...
As a teenager, Rabbi Gary Pokras wanted nothing to do with religion. He begrudgingly accompanied his parents to High Holidays services at the shul,...
Food & Dining
Lifting Spirits at a Montgomery County Kosher Distillery
The sprawling 29-acre property that makes up Song Dog Farm Distillery in Boyds was nearly a decade in the making for a Jewish couple...
WJW Podcast
Nation and World
JD Vance Tells Joe Rogan that Jeffrey Epstein had ‘Connections’ to...
Grace Gilson | JTA
Vice President JD Vance claimed that the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had ties to the “highest levels” of Israeli...
Arts & Culture
Nathan Straus Made His Fortune at Macy’s — and Spent It...
Charles Munitz | JTA
What do the ultra-wealthy owe the rest of us? It may be the defining argument of our second Gilded Age.
While Elon...
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Meet the North American Families Who Are Moving to Israel Right Now
By Peter Ephross
At first glance, the recent celebration outside a northern New Jersey synagogue looked a lot like a bar or bat mitzvah party. Dance...
More Than a GPA: Inside the Movement to End Letter Grades in Jewish Education
By Debra Rubin
At least three times each school year, middle school pupils at the Oakland Hebrew Day School write divrei Torah, or essays on a...
How Teachers Are Harnessing AI to Democratize Israeli Education
By Elana Sztokman
When veteran Israeli educator Meirav Seror asked her high school literature class in Beersheba how they might use artificial intelligence to study for...
These Schools Build Druze Israeli Identity, One Student at a Time
By Elana Sztokman
The front courtyard of the Amal high school in the western Galilee village of Yanuh Jat, with its stone terraces, flower-lined walkways...

















































