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Hinenu Celebrates Passover With Community Liberation Seder

1 week ago | jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin

It was a packed house at 2640 Space in Charles Village for the Second Night Community Liberation Passover Seder on April 13 hosted by Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shtiebl. This year marked the second Passover Seder that Hinenu has put together for the community, and around 100 people attended the sold-out event while several more attended via Zoom.
Israel’s High Court Just Shattered the International Courts’ False Gaza Narrative

1 week ago | jewishtimes.com | John Spencer |Arsen Ostrovsky

By John Spencer and Arsen OstrovskyOn March 27, 2025, Israel’s High Court of Justice, led by Chief Justice Yitzhak Amit, delivered a measured, fact-driven and deeply legal judgment, reaffirming that Israel’s decision to halt aid to Gaza, following Hamas’ rejection of the U.S. proposal to continue the hostage-cease-fire negotiations, was fully compliant with international law.
Rabbi Elliot Kaplowitz Reflects on 10 Years With the Netivot Shalom

1 week ago | jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin

Rabbi Elliot Kaplowitz says that no one from his high school class in Livingston, New Jersey, was surprised to find out that he was becoming a rabbi. After graduating high school, Kaplowitz attended Brandeis University and earned a master’s degree in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies before going to Israel for rabbinical school at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.
Adrienne Reicher Receives the JES Innovative Educator Award

1 week ago | jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin

Adrienne Reicher’s only dream growing up was to become a teacher, a dream that was so apparent that her father got her a pointer and chalkboard for Chanukah as a child. So, Reicher went to the University of Maryland, got her degree in early childhood education and entered the job market right when Beth Tfiloh was starting its second full-day kindergarten program in 1977.
Rain Can’t Stop Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company’s Annual Chametz Burning

1 week ago | jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin

Dozens of Pikesville residents filed into the yard behind the Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company building despite frigid, rainy weather on April 11 as Jewish community members celebrated the start of Passover with a chametz burning event. The event was a collaboration between the PVFC and Beth Tfiloh Congregation and became the third annual chametz burning the firefighters have hosted as a service to the community.
Third Space Hosts Discussion on Black-Jewish History

1 week ago | jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin

When Marc Dollinger, a Jewish scholar and author, was preparing to write the second book in his career, he intended to write about the Jewish ethnic revival of the 1970s and the Soviet Jewry movement of his childhood. But as he began his research, Dollinger discovered the words “Black Power” repeatedly springing up. “I realized I was not writing a book about the ethnic revival in the 1970s.
Does the US Government Have the Right to Condition Funding to Universities?

2 weeks ago | jewishtimes.com | Alan Dershowitz

By Alan DershowitzMany left-wing university faculty members (a redundancy if there ever was one) are rebelling against the Trump administration’s threat to cut federal funding to universities that tolerate antisemitic actions against their Jewish students. They condemned the acting president of Columbia for accepting some of the administration’s conditions for restoring the $400 million that it threatened to cut, and she was forced to resign.
Del. Jon Cardin Reflects on Long Political Career

2 weeks ago | jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin

Del. Jon Cardin comes from a long line of Baltimore born and raised politicians, becoming a third-generation member of his famous family elected in the city. But he has made a name entirely for himself over a 19-year career in the Maryland House of Delegates. Cardin has served the Baltimore County area as its representative in the Maryland House of Delegates in two stints from 2003 to 2015 and 2019 to present, joining the elected body as one of a handful of Jewish members.
World Series-Winning Executive Honored as a Distinguished Alumni at Pikesville High

2 weeks ago | jewishtimes.com | Andrew Guckes

Amiel Sawdaye, a member of the Pikesville High School class of 1995, was honored by his alma mater last week at a ceremony that highlighted the Jewish Baltimorean’s accomplishments as a Major League Baseball executive, which includes being a part of three World Series titles with the Boston Red Sox. That isn’t to say, however, that the accomplished Sawdaye has always been the buttoned-up professional he is now.
Baltimore Hebrew Members Visit NC to Assist in Hurricane Helene Relief

2 weeks ago | jewishtimes.com | Braden Hamelin

While communities across North Carolina are recovering from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in September, the work is still ongoing as many people have yet to receive assistance in fixing homes damaged or destroyed by the wind and water. The situation on the ground called for more assistance.