Not Your Average Joe’s opened its second Maryland location in the Georgetown Square Shopping Center in Bethesda on July 13. Pictured: Not Your Average Joe’s CEO Steve Silverstein presents Bethesda grand opening community partner The Children’s Inn at NIH CEO Jennie Lucca with a $10,000 donation at the ribbon cutting ceremony. Photo courtesy of Not Your Average Joe’s15 Maryland natives moved to Israel on July 13. They boarded a Boeing 777 chartered by Nefesh B’Nefesh that departed New York’s JFK International Airport carrying 221 new immigrants from 14 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and four Canadian provinces. Pictured: The Hefetz family of Silver Spring before boarding the Israel-bound plane. Photo by Shahar AzranRockville resident Elaine Amir has been installed as president of the Rockville-based Foundation for Jewish Studies. She succeeds Arnold A. Hammer, who led the organization for the past three years. Pictured: Amir and Hammer. Photo courtesy of Foundation for Jewish Studies
