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In September, friends and family joined Associated professionals for an evening celebrating six leaders who have made an incredible impact of Baltimore’s Jewish community.

Why do you think it’s important to get involved in the Jewish community in which you live and work?  I think it’s important to get involved in the Jewish community because the community that I grew up in gave so much to me. I went […]

A Baltimore City resident, Jodie Zisow-McClean was The Macks Center for Jewish Connection’s (formerly the Macks Center for Jewish Education) first LGBTQ Community Connector. Jodie and several other Community Connectors started their two year journey in September 2019, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic severely limited […]

The emotional labor required to initiate a repair request is unfair and, with the racial demographics so skewed, seemingly impossible. Being a leader in one’s community can be even harder, because when those hurts happen, there is often little recourse. Our desire for repair can […]

In this episode of Pull Up A Chair, Linda Miller and her daughter, Karen Singer, share stories of the power of giving back, paying it forward and life on a sheep farm!

Ukraine native Polina Blinder shares her thoughts about life in Odessa since the beginning of the Russian invasion. As Educational Program Coordinator of Migdal JCC, Polina coordinates programming for school children and teenagers and has recently shifted her focus to better meet the needs of […]

The Jewish Women’s Giving Foundation (JWGF) of Baltimore, a program of The Associated, was established more than 19 years ago by a forward-thinking group of women who believed in the transformative power of collective philanthropy.   Each year, JWGF convenes a group of women who […]

Once she joined, Siegel saw how dedicated the women in JWGF were. “It’s their calling, their passion. It’s been a great experience.”  Giving circles such as JWGF allow women to pool their resources to support organizations they believe in. They also teach women to be […]

In this episode of Pull Up A Chair, we look at a story of finding love at the JCC! Sam and Deborah Barsky share their love story. Spoiler alert — Deborah’s mom played a small role.

Liore talks how she engaged her daughter in Jewish life during the pandemic thanks to the Community Connector program through The Associated’s Macks Center for Jewish Education.