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Arrow Dynamics: Campers at Capital Camps in Waynesboro, Pa., brush up on their archery skills. (Photo courtesy of Capital Camps)
Jewish summer camps are looking to return to a sense of normalcy, albeit with particular safety guidelines in place.
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In 2020, Gil Abramson high-fives his granddaughter during a grandparenting event in Pikesville presented by the Macks Center for Jewish Education. (Photo by Steve Ruark)
The Saba-Ba: Grandparents on the Go! program aims to help pass stories and traditions to the younger generations.
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At a previous Yom HaShoah event, a Howard County resident and Holocaust survivor (center) lights a memorial candle with his grandson (left) and Rabbi Hillel Baron of Lubavitch Center of Howard County. (FIle photo)
For its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration, Howard County’s Jewish community will host a virtual gathering with Dr. Steven Luckert, senior program curator at the Levine institute for Holocaust Education at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
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Toddlers at the E.B. Hirsh Early Childhood Center navigate the wildly popular train table. (Provided Photo)
The unique collaboration begins July 1 and could serve as a national role model in the Jewish community.
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At a past Good Deeds Day, Dylan Turpin, 7, of Fells Point, Morgan Gable, a CHAI social worker who lives in Fells Point, and Damien Byer, 10, of Johnstown, Pa., (from left) collect trash near Western Run Stream . (Photo by Steve Ruark)
JVC’s annual day of community altruism will go on despite the pandemic, with service to-go projects, virtual opportunities and onsite volunteer activities.
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Emily Peisach Stern, Director, J Day Camp, Marty Rochlin, Director, Camp Airy from Camps Airy & Louise, and Lisa Handelman, Director, Capital Camps
J Day Camp’s Emily Peisach Stern, Camp Airy’s Marty Rochlin and Capital Camps’ Lisa Handelman joined “The Upside” to talk about what summer camp will look like in 2021.
Read MoreWinter break vacation will certainly be a lot different this year than in the past. Amian Frost Kelemer, CEO of the Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Center for Jewish Education, offers six ideas for stuff to do with your kids during winter break.
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Among the nonprofits to which Amanda Levine says her family will contribute is the Baltimore-based Health Care for the Homeless. (Photo by Matt Collamer on Unsplash)
For this season of giving, four community members reveal where their charitable dollars will go.
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Lisa Weisman Zajdel and her children were among the volunteers who came to "Mitzvah Day" in 2019. (Photo provided by The Associated)
From Sunday, Dec. 20, to Friday, Dec. 25, Jewish Volunteer Connection will present “Community Mitzvah Week,” five days of opportunities for meaningful service opportunities and learning experiences.
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Two years ago, more than 200 women and girls took part in the "Great Challah Bake." in Columbia.
(Photo by Ed Bunyan)
The Jewish Federation of Howard County’s annual ‘Challah Bake’ will be a virtual experience in 2020 due to the pandemic.
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Dr. Eili Y. Klein of Johns Hopkins Medicine:
“Any activity which has mixing with a large group of people either serially or in a big group is not a safe activity." (File photo)
Despite the typically outdoorsy nature of Sukkot, public health officials stress a sense of caution.
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