Community Comes Out for JCC’s ‘Harvest Fest’
This year, the annual celebration of Sukkot featured a bean-to-bar exploration of chocolate, including a mouthwatering chocolate buffet.
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A young "Harvest Fest" attendee gets swept up in the reason for the season. (Photo by Robyn Stevens Brody)
This year, the annual celebration of Sukkot featured a bean-to-bar exploration of chocolate, including a mouthwatering chocolate buffet.
Read MoreThe Oct. 9th gathering included prayers for the hostages and a candle-lighting.
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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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Attendees listen as names of Palestinian infants killed in the war in Gaza are read aloud during a vigil organized by the Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Maryland, College Park, campus in October of 2024 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, via JTA)
Eighteen Jewish student groups at College Park vowed to boycott future meetings over the timing of the vote.
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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.
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Dr. Eugene L. Klupt was an active member of Frederick's Beth Sholom Congregation and served on the synagogue's board of trustees. (Photo courtesy of Sol Levinson & Bros.)
Dr. Eugene Klupt was an active member of Frederick’s Beth Sholom Congregation and served on the synagogue’s board of trustees.
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New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is shown speaking at a rally last October in midtown Manhattan's Bryant Park. (Bingjiefu He/Wikimedia Commons, provided by JTA)
A Texas resident who grew up in the Boston area, Jeremy Fistel, 44, attended Orthodox day schools in his youth.
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The Myerberg Stage at the Greenwald Amphitheater at Pearlstone will open to the public for the first time on Sunday, Oct. 19, at the Harvest Music Festival. (Provided photo)
The Oct. 19th Harvest Music Festival will feature such bands as Wharf Rats, Nachamu, Phoam and Nuke the Soup.
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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.”
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Sarah Hurwitz: "I want to urge Jews to reclaim our tradition because I so strongly believe we still have something to say to the world." (File photo)
In her new book “As a Jew,” Hurwitz describes her own personal Jewish renaissance and why American Jewry needs to search its soul.
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Last May, Israel embassy workers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were killed by a gunman as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
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The statement calls on Jewish and non-Jewish community leaders to combat hate, violence and discrimination.
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