Ben Harris, Author at JMORE

Ian Yosef Hertzmark at his farm in Randallstown, Md.

Ian Yosef Hertzmark of Migrash Farm: “I am not an outright capitalist, but I do believe in market forces and I do believe that to a certain extent, we are in a watershed moment in terms of consumerism and consumption." (Mike Tintner via JTA)

Arts & Life Coronavirus Food & Drink

Flour Power!

June 15, 2020February 24, 2021 Ben Harris

Ian Yosef Hertzmark of Migrash Farm in Randallstown has seen his sales of flour more than double during the pandemic.

Approximately 65 people currently work at the Pearlstone Center in Reisterstown. (Photo provided)

Community Coronavirus Local Maryland News

Pearlstone Center to Reduce Workforce Staff Due to the Pandemic

June 5, 2020March 11, 2021 Ben Harris

The Pearlstone Center in Reisterstown will reduce its staff by 75 percent.

Geoffrey Sorenson was unable to comfort his late grandmother, Holocaust survivor Gerda Garbatzky of Long Island, N.Y., when she was dying from the coronavirus. (Photo Courtesy of Geoffrey Sorenson)

Community Coronavirus Religion

Social Distancing Severely Impacts the Shiva Process

March 18, 2020February 24, 2021 Ben Harris

Grieving Jews are reckoning with changes that are unfolding with almost unbelievable speed, as coronavirus regulations impact the shiva process and the Kaddish prayer.

President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

President Donald Trump, left, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2017. (U.S. Embassy Jerusalem/Flickr)

International Israel National News Politics

The Jewish Year in Review: #MeToo, Embassy Move, Gap Between Israel and the Diaspora

September 11, 2018March 13, 2021 Ben Harris

This year, North American Jews grappled with the #MeToo movement, the Trump administration relocated the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and actress Natalie Portman made headlines for turning down a chance to collect a top prize in Israel.

Leonard Cohen's grave, next to three generations of his family, in the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim cemetery in Montreal. (Ben Harris)

Arts & Life

A Montreal Pilgrimage in the Footsteps of Leonard Cohen

April 24, 2018 Ben Harris

“He came into the world a Montreal Jew and he left the world a Montreal Jew,” said Gideon Zelermyer, the cantor at Shaar Hashomayim, who presided over the burial with the synagogue’s rabbi.