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Critics view the businesses as exploitative cultural appropriation in the wake of a tragedy. Advocates argue it reflects respect and nostalgia for Jews in addition to providing a vehicle for at least some preservation of heritage sites.
Read MoreJewishness in America is cartographic; it’s about finding our place. Most of us enjoy the privileges of whiteness that undergird many of our country’s institutions, and yet we are not part of the Christian majority that dominates so many facets of American life.
Read MoreI look forward with great joy to saying a Shehecheyanu on June 10, and again upon arriving in my new home of Baltimore.
Read MoreThe Book of Ruth tells the story of a non-Jewish woman who decides to become Jewish in part because her late husband’s Jewish mother had great leads on jobs in the agricultural sector.
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An immigrant woman walks with her child towardsthe Hungarian town of Szeged in 2015. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Every year for millennia, Jews read the Book of Ruth during Shavuot, beginning this year at sundown on May 19. It is often read as a story of unwavering loyalty, of the rewards for kindness or as a model for conversion.
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Saar Gez (left) and Molly Krief of The Highlighs perform a number during the festival. (Photo by Ed Bunyan)
On May 6, The Jewish Federation of Howard County hosted a festival celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary at Temple Isaiah in Fulton.
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While merger plans proceed between Har Sinai and Temple Oheb Shalom, the fate of Har Sinai's property at 2905 Walnut Ave. in Owings Mills remains murky. (Provided)
“It’s inspiring for me to be visiting this congregation,” says Rabbi Rick Jacobs. “Anyone who has studied Reform Judaism has studied Har Sinai. I’m excited to celebrate the past and see where the congregation is today.”
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Temple B’nai Israel’s new home will be a nearly 9,500-square-foot building at 7199 Tristan Drive, on six acres of rural land in Easton. (Photo by Alan Mickelson)
The new home of the 68-year-old Reform temple will be a nearly 9,500-square-foot building at 7199 Tristan Drive, on six acres of rural land.
Read MoreThe interactive projects represented 35 landmarks in Israel.
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Passover Haggadah from Vienna, 1930. This colorfully illustrated French and Hebrew Haggadah was published in Vienna. Caption on image: "Eating Matzah." (Photo courtesy Jewish Museum of Maryland)
May each of us not only experience slavery and freedom but also count the path we are on to attain a new level of spirituality, morality and community that allows justice to flourish.
Read MoreWhen the Torah lays out a prescription for a just society, its starting point is an affirmation of human equality – each of us is created in the “image of God” (Gen. 1:27) and is considered, therefore, equally holy and entitled to equal treatment under the law.
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