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Rabbi Benjamin Shalva: "Poetry felt like it was a path to heal and do something with that energy.” (Provided photo)
“House of Mourning” is largely inspired by the Pikesville-based rabbi’s experiences as a hospice chaplain.
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Carter Arnott Polakoff: "We are hoping we can create experiences where you're acting as a family together." (Provided photo)
Port Discovery’s latest exhibitions, “Galactic Builders” and “SKIES,” are part of a multi-year, multi-million dollar transformation of the museum focused on expanding innovation, accessibility and inclusion for families.
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Laurel Snyder: "When I started out, I thought I was writing for grownups. And then at some point, it became very clear to me that I just wanted to write for children." (Provided photo)
Laurel Snyder’s “The Book of Candles: Eight Poems for Hanukkah” makes the celebration of the Festival of Lights accessible to Jews of all backgrounds as well as readers who simply curious about the holiday.
Read MoreLarry Plant talks about why he decided to join Jmore’s inaugural nonprofit board of directors.
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Members of the Pertman-Abel families visit the exhibition “1945: Not the End, Not the Beginning” at the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews. (Provided photo)
Twenty-one descendants of Chaim and Frieda Pertman recently visited the birthplaces of their respective parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.
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Among the Baltimore-based Jewish artists featured in "Modernisms" is Herman Maril, who passed away in 1986. (Photo courtesy of the Jewish Museum of Maryland)
The Jewish Museum of Maryland’s “Modernisms” exhibition will be on display in the Cohen-Weinberg Gallery through Feb. 15, 2026.
Read MoreDr. Hana Bor, a longtime local Jewish educator, talks about why she decided to join Jmore’s inaugural nonprofit board of directors.
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Pamela Ehrenberg: "It’s helpful to keep the creative muscles going, to have different projects going so when one gets stuck, there’s something else or multiple [projects] to work on.” (Photo by Alexandra Taylor)
Pamela Ehrenberg’s latest offering is “The See-You-Soon Spice Box.”
Read MoreAvi Greenlinger talks about why he decided to join Jmore’s inaugural nonprofit board of directors.
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High Point Hospital in Port Chester, New York, opened in 1951 on the former estate of the Straus family that owned Macy's department store. The facility closed in 1993 and was razed by a fire two years later. (Provided photo)
After the death of her mother in 2020, the Mount Washington filmmaker decided to learn about where Sally Yesko disappeared for a year.
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Pikesville-based cellist Amit Peled is shown here at the historic Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis playing "Hatikvah." (Provided photo)
The Peabody Institute professor, who was born in Israel, was kicked out of a Vienna restaurant for speaking Hebrew with a pair of fellow classical musicians.
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