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Kathy Shapiro recently hosted a meeting of The Soul Center's P.O.D. (Podcasts Over Drinks) series in her Pikesville backyard. (Photo by Steve Ruark)
The P.O.D. series offers participants the opportunity to talk about a shared listening experience in a manner similar to that of book clubs.
Read MoreIf you do not take care of yourself throughout the summer and don’t eat well, sleep well, get exercise, etc., instead of coming back invigorated, you come back worn out “like a shmatte.”
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Open from 1893 to 1973, Gwynn Oak Park in Northwest Baltimore’s Woodlawn community was desegregated in 1963 after several years of protests.
(Photo from Wikipedia)
Many white families accustomed to frequenting the Gwynn Oak amusement park simply stopped coming.
Read MoreThe whole summer is a Jewish rollercoaster ride of emotion, beginning with a period of mourning and ending with the celebration of another year of life.
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Paul Golin, executive director of the Society for Humanistic Judaism: “Humanistic Judaism is a philosophy. We ask, “What is our purpose, what is the meaning of our lives?” (Handout photo)
Can Judaism exist without espousing a belief in a higher power? Paul Golin believes it can.
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A bridge over Northern Parkway near Sinai Hospital will enable cyclists, joggers and pedestrians to cross over the car-filled chasm.
(Photo by Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg)
In Reservoir Hill, once Baltimore’s urban Jewish epicenter, we are nearly surrounded by border vacuums.
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A children’s Haggadah from 1945 compares draws parallels between the Passover narrative and the Holocaust. (Yeshiva University Museum/Center for Jewish History)
The urge to make Passover speak to contemporary times isn’t a new one.
Read MoreMax is a frog-eyed figure whose head, rising straight from the waist of a pair of green trousers, is a round matzah.
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Elissa Strauss, left, and Gabrielle Birkner are the authors of the Kveller Haggadah. (Collage by Emily Burack)
The Passover seder can be boring for kids. A new Haggadah is trying to change that.
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The water justice seder, which is open to the general community, is “not meant to replace your family seder,” (Handout photo)
Volunteer-led gathering on March 31 will explore water rights issues and the Passover holiday.
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