Awesome Con beams down to D.C.
Adding to the usual parade of Brooks Brothers-clad people walking the streets of Washington last weekend were thousands of superheroes, supervillains and Star Trek...
Silver Spring volunteer fire department marks 100th anniversary
When a fire engulfed the Post Office in Silver Spring in 1915, nearby residents joined a bucket brigade and began throwing water at the...
Waiting in the wings
On a sunny Saturday in Federal Hill Park in Baltimore, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley declared, “To all who can hear my voice —...
Five objectionable words
J Street rallied its supporters last week, urging its members to call their members of Congress to decry language amended to a free trade...
You Should Know… Bayla Whitten
Fresh off performing an array of Carole King’s hit songs at a sold-out performance at the JCC of Northern Virginia last weekend, Bayla Whitten...
Keeping pollution out of the Chesapeake Bay
Tifereth Israel Congregation is going green.
The Conservative synagogue in Northwest Washington, D.C., recently installed a combination of linked rain gardens and permeable pavers as...
To understand Israel, understand its insecurity
At the end of March 2002, following the Passover eve massacre in Netanya and a month during which 135 Israelis were killed by terrorists,...
Groups back U.S.-China deal to cut carbon emissions
Jewish and environmental groups reacted positively to last week’s news that the United States and China had reached a climate agreement to cut carbon...
All moved in
Workers are still painting walls and putting finishing touches on a soaring, three-story-high atrium, but the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington has moved into...
The science of a Shabbat meal
Astronomer Alan Gersch sees the universe on the dinner table
