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Rabbi Shira Stutman: "We're all so siloed right now because of COVID, but we also have different opportunities to meet people that we would've never met before. So we need to have conversations about how we can harness the Jewish resilient spirit at this particular time."

Cardin Leadership Symposium to Feature D.C. Rabbi Hailed as an Innovator

August 24, 2020 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Jmore spoke with Rabbi Shira Stutman about her upcoming keynote at the second annual Shoshana S. Cardin Leadership Symposium, reaching today’s young Jews, and more.

Sara Shalva: “We want the JCC to be a national model for innovative programming and inclusive community.”

Sara Shalva, the JCC's chief arts officer (Provided photo)

Community-Wide Virtual Program Offers High Holiday Preparation and Insights

August 18, 2020 Staff Report

The Associated and Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning will offer a daily virtual program during the month of Elul to help people prepare for the holiday season.

A mural of Freddie Gray's face and the movement inspired by his death while in policy custody graces a wall in West Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester community. (Photo by Solomon Swerling)

Memories of Freddie Gray and those Fiery ‘Five Days’ of Reckoning in Baltimore

August 11, 2020 Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg

Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg is proud of the way Beth Am’ers and others in the Jewish community showed up during the Baltimore Uprising following the death of Freddie Gray five years ago, but, like Wes Moore, he also has regrets for what he was not able to do.

President Trump is a fan of Andrew Jackson’s and made a point of adding a portrait of the seventh president to the Oval Office soon after his inauguration.

Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

July 24, 2020 Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg

We must be more attentive to the ground on which we stand, writes Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg.

Beth Tfiloh's former synagogue facility was located at the corner of Garrison Boulevard and Fairview Avenue in Forest Park. The congregation moved to Pikesville in 1966. (Photo provided by Beth Tfiloh)

Beth Tfiloh, Liberty Grace Students to Develop Walking Tour Mobile App

July 23, 2020 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Youngsters from Pikesville’s Beth Tfiloh Synagogue and Ashburton’s Liberty Grace Church of God are collaborating on a mobile app historic walking tour project.

Chizuk Amuno posts Black Live Matter banners

Chizuk Amuno’s Rabbi Joshua Z. Gruenberg says the decision to post the banners was reached following discussions with the Pikesville synagogue’s executive board and clergy team. (Photo by Jmore)

Chizuk Amuno Places Banners on its Campus Supporting Black Lives Matter

July 10, 2020 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

The Pikesville synagogue of 1,100 families and individuals offers signs of solidarity with the new civil rights movement.

(Photo by Howard Chai on Unsplash.com)

Lessons from The G.O.A.T.

July 8, 2020 Rabbi Eli Yoggev

Rabbi Dr. Eli Yoggev of Beth Tfiloh Congregation writes about what the Torah and Michael Jordan can teach us about resilience and determination.

The Pikes became a first-run theater in 1958, featuring such classics as "The Graduate," "The Producers," "Blazing Saddles," "Hester Street" and "The Frisco Kid."(Photo by Terrell D. Anderson)

Hidden Wisdoms

June 10, 2020 Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg

How do we measure “good” neighborhoods from “bad” ones, asks Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg, and change our perceptions of urban Baltimore?

The embroidery-and-fabric collage titled "Shavuot" by Esther Krinitz. (File photo, collection of Bernice Steinhardt and Helene McQuade)

Why Shavuot Sows Confusion among some Diaspora Jews

May 28, 2020 JTA

Among some Jews, Shavuot is a two-day festival. Meanwhile, others observe only one day. Talk amongst yourselves.

Let Them Eat Cake: Sweet, tasty and symbolic of the milk and honey of the Promised Land, cheesecake is a Shavuot staple. (Pixabay, via JTA)

Practical Tips for a Successful At-Home Shavuot this Year

May 26, 2020 Rabbi Eli Yoggev

Rabbi Dr. Eli Yoggev of Beth Tfiloh offers practical tips to help you make the most out of Shavuot this year.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Kayla Gruenberg, a seventh grade student at Krieger Schechter Day School, celebrated the rite of passage of becoming a bat mitzvah before family members, friends and her community on May 16 at Chizuk Amuno Congregation. (Photo by Michael Temchine)

Sailing through a Potentially Rudderless Time

May 21, 2020 Rabbi Joshua Z. Gruenberg

As rabbi of a local synagogue, Chizuk Amuno’s Rabbi Joshua Z. Gruenberg always thought his daughter Kayla’s bat mitzvah would be a public happening in a packed sanctuary. The pandemic changed all that, but not the day’s meaning.