Baltimore

All women production retells David’s journey from shame to servant king

An all-women musical brings King David’s epic journey from outcast to servant king to life on stage in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh.

Goliath is dead!
US President Donald Trump an announcement in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, August 22, 2025

US judge blocks Trump from withholding funds from Los Angeles, other sanctuary cities

A Nazi's salute at a neo-Nazi rally in Kansas City, Missouri. (Dave Kaup/Reuters)

Neo-Nazi leader sentenced to 20 years for plot to sabotage Baltimore power grid

 A CHALKING at a Students for Justice in Palestine event at the University of Maryland includes a Palestinian flag along with ‘From the river to the sea.’

US Education Department investigating Baltimore schools on antisemitism allegations


Merger positions Baltimore as the new epicenter of Jewish work

Pearlstone, a Jewish retreat center and outdoor education site, is absorbing into Hazon, the country’s largest faith-based environmental organization.

Jewish Museum of Maryland, Lloyd St., Baltimore City, Maryland Lloyd Street Synagogue on the left and the Chizuk Amuno Synagogue on the far right

Headstones in Jewish cemetery defaced in southeast Baltimore

More than a dozen gravestones were defaces with swastikas and other antisemitic messages.

Swastika painted on car in Kibbutz Hatzerim in the Negev.

Baltimore police charge 3 teens with murder of Israeli man

Efraim Gordon was fatally shot multiple times May 3 in what police said appeared to be a robbery. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died.

Baltimore police

Israeli man visiting Baltimore for a wedding shot dead in apparent robbery

Video surveillance from homes in the heavily Jewish area in the northwest part of the city shows three youths approaching Efraim Gordon as he leaves a car. One then shoots Gordon.

Baltimore police

Rabbi Sheftel Neuberger, president of Ner Yisrael, passes away

"A GREAT MAN HAS PASSED AWAY," wrote Rabbi Dov Lipman, a former member of Knesset who studied at Ner Yisrael.

Yahrzeit candle

Baltimore rabbinical college reports large outbreak of coronavirus

The rabbinical college, which is an ultra-Orthodox educational institution, was forced to close,

Jewish Museum of Maryland, Lloyd St., Baltimore City, Maryland Lloyd Street Synagogue on the left and the Chizuk Amuno Synagogue on the far right

Jewish pitchers Kremer and Fried have rare off days

Orioles' Israeli rookie still happy with first taste in majors • Atlanta ace twists ankle in final start before playoffs.

JEWISH PRIDE was certainly on display this year among pro baseball players, with Dean Kremer pitching for the Baltimore Orioles with a Star of David necklace flying.

Israel’s Kremer dominates Yankees in debut as pitcher for Orioles

Orioles pitcher, 24, becomes first blue-and-white draftee to reach baseball’s highest level.

DEAN KREMER

Towson shifts to online following an increase in positive COVID-19 results

The shift is slated to last for the remainder of the semester.

Towson University

Baltimore Jewish community helps out those impacted by explosion

Two people were killed and four people were hospitalized in serious condition.

Fire trucks are seen at the scene of an explosion in a residential area of Baltimore Fire trucks are seen at the scene of an explosion in a residential area of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. August 10, 2020.