Families cool off with fun
Kids and adults poured toppings onto their frozen yogurt in Rockville last week, as they socialized with other Jewish families.
For 7-year-old Adi Yitzhaky, it...
Rodef Shalom plans co-working space in NoVa
Temple Rodef Shalom, in Falls Church, is developing a co-working space with a Jewish bend, to provide a community area for professionals to work...
Holocaust survivor, teacher and business woman Margit Meissner dies at 97
Margit Meissner, a Holocaust survivor and long-time volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, died on July 10. She was 97.
Meissner lived a...
‘Occupation of the American Mind’ is on again in Takoma Park
The city of Takoma Park has rescheduled a showing of “The Occupation of the American Mind,” a move that has been condemned by the...
Kids take off at space camp
It’s a hot day in Washington and stuffy inside the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital, where are hard at work...
At Camp Kochavim, kids are ‘peers not helpers’
Lili runs into the hallway where a paper airplane competition is happening. She launches her plane but it doesn’t go very far. So she...
The wines of Vitkin
I recently attended a tasting in Silver Spring of wines from the Israeli Vitkin Winery in the company of winemaker Assaf Paz, amid a...
For millenial Orthodox Jews, a presidential debate is a religious obligation
Young people filter into a second-story apartment, settling on the sofa and floor for a home cooked meal, snacks and a grotesque amount of...
WHC child abuse claims substantiated by superintendent
Corrected July 12, 2019 9 a.m.
Officials have substantiated the multiple reports of child abuse against a former preschool teacher at Washington Hebrew Congregation.
And three...
Holocaust survivors get more aid and non-Jewish rescuers receive benefits under new German government...
The spouse of a Holocaust survivor will continue to receive a monthly pension for nine months after the survivor’s death under new agreements with...
