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The traveling exhibition "Upon Thy Gates: The Elaine K. and Norman Winik Mezuzah Collection" features 73 of the 167 mezuzot gifted by the Winiks to the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education in Portland.
The traveling exhibit, “Upon Thy Gates: The Elaine K. and Norman Winik Mezuzah Collection,” will be at the Jewish Museum of Maryland through Apr. 12, 2026.
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At the "Unity Supper" at Liberty Grace Church in Baltimore's Ashburton community, Galilee Dreamers work on art projects with their local peers from the Elijah Cummings Youth Program, the Baltimore Jewish Council and Art with a Heart. (Photo by Melissa Gerr)
Twenty-four members of the Galilee Dreamers program came to Baltimore last week to meet with peers and others.
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This chalk mural of unity between Baltimore and Minneapolis was created by local artist Bridget Cimino. (bridgetciminoart.com)
As the conversations about racial injustice continue in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Minneapolis-St. Paul transplant and WYPR producer Melissa Gerr says we all must be part of it.
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe -- The massive size (more than 4 acres) can be seen best from above – on foot it feels like approaching a cemetery of mausoleums. There are 2,711 rectangular concrete blocks, all different heights and aligned in a grid formation. The ground they cover rises and falls – there is no flat surface. It is a sobering site.
“Meaningful reconciliation” is part of what I felt standing in the presence of the many memorials to Jewish lives and lineages destroyed in Germany.
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St. Paul, Minn., native and Baltimore transplant Melissa Gerr is a producer and contributor at WYPR's "On the Record." (Photo by Justin Tsucalas)
While it’s undeniable that TV images told one story, it was the fellowship and dedication of neighbors helping each other that to me feels like the true-blue Baltimore.
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Executive chef Aharon Denrich says of the food service industry: "It's who I am, it's something that I've always wanted to do. I haven’t felt as passionate about anything else." (Photo by Jennifer Braudaway, Humanim)
Aharon Denrich is the executive chef of City Seeds, a “culinary social enterprise” that provides professional culinary training to those with barriers to employment.
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Serving as Pigtown Main Street’s executive director is “the most rewarding job I’ve ever had,” says Ben Hyman. (Photo by Melissa Gerr)
Pigtown Main Street is part of Main Street America, a network of nonprofits launched in 1980 to breathe new life into urban neighborhoods.
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Lydia Walther-Rodriguez, lead community organizer of the immigrants’ rights group CASA of Baltimore, speaking to the group. (Photo by Melissa Gerr)
Among the event speakers were Lydia Walther-Rodriguez, lead community organizer of the immigrants’ rights group CASA of Baltimore; Molly Amster, Baltimore director of Jews United for Justice; and Rabbi Linda Joseph, the Australian-born spiritual leader of Owings Mills’ Har Sinai Congregation.
Read MoreMusic has been a passion for Ellen Katz since she was a little girl, and nothing makes the 72-year-old Baltimore native’s heart sing like sharing that joy.
So much so that she’s created a one-woman performance she calls a “supermusical.”
