Kemp Mill schools name Wecker as principal
Correction: March 9, 2023, 12:40 p.m.
The length of Rabbi Wecker's career in Jewish education has been corrected in the story.
Rabbi Mordechai Wecker said he...
Getting medieval at Congregation Har Tzeon-Agudath Achim
The grandeur of Constantinople. The inclusive society of Norman-ruled Sicily.
Those are the two places that Gary Fellman would visit if there were a time...
Maryland General Assembly Considers Permanent Body to Tackle Hate Crimes
Faygie Holt | JNS
A bill passing through Maryland’s General Assembly aims to establish a permanent Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention at a...
Local pulpit rabbis on Israel: ‘We don’t give up on family’
A New York City rabbi recently made national headlines when he announced that, as an act of protest against extremists in the government of...
Temple Rodef Shalom clothes Nicaraguan refugees for winter weather
When Temple Rodef Shalom put out an urgent request for warm winter clothes for political refugees arriving from Nicaragua, the response from congregants was...
World Wide Wrap Around Town
Student's learned the fine art of wrapping tefillin at area synagogues on Feb. 12.
Congregation Beth El readies a new semester of adult education
Of Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County’s 1,000 members, almost 300 of them — as well as other Jewish learners across the country —...
Why does Israel demolish houses after terrorist attacks?
Less than a hour after a terror attack in eastern Jerusalem on Feb. 10 killed three people, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a...
Three ‘exemplary’ Jewish educators awarded
Three local educators are recipients of a newly established award in memory of three of the Washington Jewish community’s master educators.
MollyBeth Rushfield, a lower...
Ted Lerner, Nats owner, father of White Flint, Tyson’s Corner, dies at 97
Ted Lerner, who died Feb. 12 at age 97, was as famously workaholic as he was shy.
So it was a big deal when Washingtonian...
