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What to Read This Year 

Looking for your next book to read?  We asked our community to recommend some of their favorite Jewish fiction and nonfiction books, all with a Jewish lens. Here are their suggestions to get you reading this year.  I also want to recommend her newest book, Good Grief.  It centers […]

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Buckle Up and Grab a Cup

In the latest episode of Mensches in Cars Getting Coffee, Yanky met Stephen Knable, The Associated’s Harry Greenstein Young Leadership Award winner, for a thoughtful conversation over hot chocolate. Stephen may not be a coffee drinker, but the discussion was rich all the same. Stephen […]

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Meet Gedalia “Jed” Winchell 

He met his wife through a mutual connection from Israel. She was from Baltimore.  “I was living in LA at the time. When Shani was suggested, she sounded great, and I had a trip planned to Baltimore, so I figure why not? but then a snowstorm hit, and I had to cancel my trip rather than risk […]

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Rekindle Fellowship: Bringing Jewish and Black Leaders Together

Rekindle Fellows just wrapped up its second year, bringing Jewish and Black leaders together through dialogue to strengthen the Baltimore community.  Held in collaboration with The Associated, Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning, Associated Black Charities, the Baltimore Jewish Council and the Elijah Cummings Youth […]

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A Third-Generation Story: Carrying it Forward

And recently, Jess participated in the second cohort of the Rekindle Fellowship. This program, a partnership between The Associated, The Elijah Cummings Youth Program, Associated Black Charities, the Baltimore Jewish Council and Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning, brings together Baltimore’s Black and Jewish leaders […]

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Meet Esther Shapiro

Baltimore Roots, D.C. Wings Esther attended Krieger Schechter Day School from fourth to eighth grade and then switched to public school for high school. But her Jewish education didn’t stop when she started ninth grade at Towson High School.  Esther continued her learning through the […]

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Seaside Community Center Opens in Ashkelon as Regional Hub for Healing and Support

“This center is more than a building,” said Jason Horowitz, assistant vice president of Israel and global initiatives at The Associated during the recent dedication. “It’s the result of the decades-long partnership between The Associated, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Ashkelon Municipality.” […]

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Odesa Update

Nearly four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Odesa, the country’s largest port city, has come under some of its heaviest attacks yet. In recent weeks, our partner city of Odesa has faced an intensified wave of drone and missile attacks, damaging homes, ports […]