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3 days ago | 
baltimoreschild.com | Braden Hamelin
Amber and Tirrell Bethel are both patient care technicians in the medical field who have lived in Baltimore for almost their entire lives. The couple work night shifts, with Amber Bethel also working as a licensed esthetician, which can make their schedules tricky to balance along with raising 5-year-old twins, Aiden and Jade Jones. But the pair makes it work with excellent communication and dedication to all areas of their lives.
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4 days ago | 
jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin
Congregation Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom will host 18-year-old Israeli violinist Noga Barlev for a concert on May 21 alongside Andrew Stewart, the congregation’s music director. Barlev is a talented violinist, having come to the U.S. previously to participate in the highly regarded Perlman Music Program Summer Music School in New York and is currently a student at the New England Conservatory in Boston.
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4 days ago | 
jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin
Hundreds of Baltimore Jewish community members gathered at Chizuk Amuno Congregation in Pikesville early in the morning on May 8 for a “Unite for Israel” breakfast hosted by Jewish National Fund-USA. They heard from Jewish activist Shabbos Kestenbaum about his experience at Harvard University before, during and since Oct. 7. The breakfast served as a fundraising opportunity for JNF, a vital part of its work to provide for the future of Israel.
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4 days ago | 
jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin
Two eighth grade students at Cheder Chabad of Baltimore recently showed off their familial connection and expansive Jewish knowledge, coming away from the international Sefer Hamitzvos competition as Kol HaTorah Kula trophy winners. The two students, Chonon Geisinsky and Mendel Labkowsky, are first cousins and best friends who have been a part of an educational program called Chidon Sefer Hamitzvos – International Championship since fourth grade when they joined together.
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5 days ago | 
jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin
Tami Scherr’s journey to work in special education started in college, when she met a friend who had cerebral palsy and witnessed all the ways that people with special needs were treated unfairly by society. Scherr decided to pursue a degree in special education at Towson University. She spent the first 23 years of her career working with children with autism at the Kennedy Krieger Institute before becoming a teacher in Baltimore County Public Schools.
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5 days ago | 
baltimorestyle.com | Braden Hamelin
This weekend is a great time to get out and explore the Baltimore region. From a chili cook-off to horse racing tradition and a baseball rivalry series, here are some of the area’s best happenings!The 150th Preakness StakesMay 17, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.Pimlico Race Course | 5201 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore, MD 21215An annual tradition in Baltimore entering its 150th year, the second horse racing event in the Triple Crown, held two weeks after the Kentucky Derby.
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1 week ago | 
baltimorestyle.com | Braden Hamelin
The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum has received $150,000 from the Wells Fargo Foundation as their inaugural donation supporting planned preservation and expansion of the historical grounds, Poe Baltimore, the non-profit that stewards the site, announced on May 1. The museum had already submitted plans for an up to 17,000 square feet expansion project with the Baltimore City Urban Design and Architectural Planning Board (UDAAP) back in April.
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1 week ago | 
jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin
In April, 4Front Baltimore, the JCC of Greater Baltimore and The Associated, along with community members, came together at the Owings Mills JCC to celebrate a rededication of the Meyerhoff Teen Commons space following several months of renovation meant to revitalize the home base of the 4Front program. It had been around two decades since the space had last been updated. It needed some changes to improve the design and atmosphere and add adaptability for various groups that will use the space.
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1 week ago | 
jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin
It’s been almost three years since the first students walked through the doors of B’Yachad Oakland Mills Jewish School, the result of a collaboration between Columbia Jewish Congregation and Kol Nefesh, neighbors in the Oakland Mills Interfaith Center. The school started after the pandemic when Rabbi Michael Hess Webber from CJC and Kol Nefesh spiritual leader Stephanie Weishaar discussed the idea to combine their kids and resources into a program that serves the needs of both communities.
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1 week ago | 
jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent threat to shutter the office of the U.S. Security Coordinator in Jerusalem would be a reckless move that would endanger both Israeli and Palestinian security. What may appear on the surface as a symbolic or cost-cutting gesture would, in practice, dismantle one of the few functioning mechanisms of cooperation between two sides sliding toward unchecked instability.
