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Marc B. Terrill and members of his family gather with Ashkelon leaders to celebrate the dedication of the roundabout. (Provided photo)
The dedication of a traffic roundabout was a tribute to Terrill’s founding of and commitment to the Baltimore-Ashkelon partnership.
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The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, set for sale and likely demolition, houses murals by multiple Jewish artists.(Heather Diehl/Getty Images via JTA)
An appeal to New York’s Jewish Museum for help cites President Trump’s record of demolition as a real estate developer and history of preservation failures.
Read MoreA Westminster resident, Katz was a longtime volunteer for the Carroll County Humane Society.
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A line of interfaith leaders protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport last week. (Courtesy of Rabbi Aaron Weininger, provided by JTA)
The Baltimore Jewish Council joined many of the nation’s Jewish organizations and others in expressing outrage about the unrest in Minneapolis and around the country.
Read MoreA New York native who recently moved to Baltimore, Scott was a lover of sports, arts and U.S. history.
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Author Eli Schaap: "With this knowledge, I feel more connected and blessed to discover a woman I didn't really know."
In “The Jewish Woman Who Fought the Nazis,” Eli Schaap unearths his mother Bep’s story of saving Jews in Holland during the Holocaust.
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Otto Busse came to Bialystok in 1943 and set up a painting business where he employed Jews, who were spared the deportation to the camps. Background, the liquidation of the Białystok Ghetto, Aug. 15–20, 1943. (Public Domain; ZIH archives, Poland via JTA)
Otto Busse secretly supported the Jewish resistance in the Bialystok ghetto, defying Nazi rule and saving Jews like the late Baltimore resident Bluma Shapiro.
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Flowers are left at a makeshift memorial in the area where Alex Pretti was shot dead a day earlier by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. (Octavio JONES / AFP via JTA)
The voices have included both progressive Jewish groups and mainstream groups that say they represent American Jewry from across the political spectrum.
Read MoreFor more than four decades, Bronfein was a leading businessman and visionary in the local community.
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Out for Blood: Larry Ziffer makes a donation at the Howard W. Brill Memorial Blood Drive. (Blood Bank of Delmarva)
More than 100 donors participated in last week’s Howard W. Brill Memorial Blood Drive.
Read MoreA renaissance man, the Ellicott City resident and New York native found his life’s calling in emergency medicine.
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