Jerusalem cultural center launches rich online offerings
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By Larry Luxner
When Passover last year became the first Jewish holiday to take place since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a...
NY Times’ Bret Stephens is editing a new Jewish journal, starting with an...
By Asaf Shalev
New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens has taken on a side gig as the editor of a new limited-run journal of...
Rosh Hashanah won’t be first school day in Montgomery County
The Montgomery County Board of Education last week voted unanimously to begin the next school year on Aug. 30, rejecting a plan that would...
Should the work of thinkers whose actions have been deplored remain in canon? Discuss.
Last week, more than 500 rabbis and cantors signed a letter condemning Jewish academics and leaders for including sociologist Steven M. Cohen in their...
These seniors are more at ease after COVID vaccine, but still cautious
“I was on a treasure hunt,” said Wayne Martin.
For weeks, the 76-year-old Rockville resident searched high and low for the elusive COVID vaccine. He...
Doug Emhoff hosts the White House’s first online Passover seder
There was virtual wine spilled and nostalgia for gefilte fish, as well as a serious message to consider the role of women in the...
Preparing for a newer normal at B’nai Shalom of Olney
Over the last few months, Eve Margol, director of the Early Childhood School at B’nai Shalom of Olney, and her staff have begun preparing...
Synagogues hesitant to reopen despite vaccine rollout
By Eric Schucht and Isabella Lefkowitz-Rao
As Passover begins on Saturday night, the threat of the pandemic seems to be diminishing. More and more people...
Israel’s first Black Cabinet member knows the aliyah struggle
To immigrate to Israel from Ethiopia, Pnina Tamano-Shata’s family had to trek on foot through the desert to Sudan in the middle of a...
White supremacist propaganda incidents in DC area doubled in 2020, ADL says
On May 25, 2020, the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan distributed anti-Semitic and racist propaganda in Frederick.
Members of the Loyal White...