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Kurt Weill's "Street Scene," a blend of opera and musical, will be staged with a Baltimore twist by Peabody Opera Theatre at the Modell-Lyric Performing Arts Center.

Goodwill, Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, Catholic Relief Services, The Associated received millions in private donations in 2013

By Doug Donovan

Nov 2, 2014

They may have moved to Michigan, but this couple's story begins in D.C.

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Police searching the Towson University office of a prominent Georgetown rabbi accused of secretly recording women in a ritual bath found a backpack with an assortment of tiny cameras hidden in everyday household objects, including a computer charger, a clock and a tissue box, according to a warrant filed in a Maryland court.

By Peter Hermann

Oct 25, 2014

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Why Israel isn't rushing to fight ISIS

Why African-Americans don't support Israel

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Heartlights, an interdemominational religion class for special needs adults, has been going on for more than 50 years at Towson Presbyterian Church

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The Met's first performance of 1991 opera by John Adams about the hijacking of a cruise ship and murder of wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer sparks fresh controversy.

A Washington, D.C., rabbi who serves as an associate professor at Towson University has been suspended with pay by the school after being arrested and charged by D.C. police last week with voyeurism, school officials said on Tuesday.

By Joe Burris

Oct 21, 2014

I have recently had several spirited conversations with an old friend from high school over the Israel and Hamas conflict and the larger questions surrounding Israeli settlements, the Palestinian Intifadas and a dual state solution. My friend, a self-proclaimed Zionist and American Israel Public Affairs Committee member, often lamented that Israel was misunderstood and could not figure out why more African Americans were not vocal supporters of it.

Sol Hirsch, a former National Weather Service forecaster whose career spanned three decades, died Oct. 5 at his Pikesville home of complications from heart disease. He was 91.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 17, 2014

Newly acquired collection makes Baltimore the epicenter of forgery research worldwide

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Ida Goldberg, who raised funds for Jewish schools and had an award given out in her honor at the Talmudical Academy, died of renal failure Sept. 27 at the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital. The former Mount Washington resident was 104.

University of Maryland grad Peter Mehlman's debut explores the minor irritations and curiosities of daily life

High-priced High Holidays?

Recent anti-Semitic incident demonstrates only that Baltimore County is populated by at least one moron with a BB gun

The media gaffe police have a legitimate role in uncovering serious misstatements of elected officials, but they can take their job to ludicrous and petty levels

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I encourage all who stand for peace and goodwill to join The Associated and the countless other organizations in Baltimore and the world in making tomorrow better than today. As put forth by Rabbi Hillel who was one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmudic era, "…and if not now, when?"

The Havre de Grace Community-wide Yard Sale is coming 8 a.m. to 4 p.m

The Eldersburg Jewish Congregation and Rabbi David Greenspoon will be having High Holy Days services.

Jon B. Singer, a Baltimore businessman who was active in Jewish philanthropic charities, died Aug. 31 at his Pikesville home of pancreatic cancer. He was 71.

Instead of Americans trying to persuade Muslims of the world that terrorism is un-Islamic, why shouldn't Muslims be working harder to convince us?

Philip Filner, a retired molecular biologist and community activist, died of pancreatic cancer Sept. 6 at his Lutherville home. He was 75.

The University System of Maryland Board of Regents voted Thursday to sell the vacant and deteriorated former Hebrew Orphan Asylum in West Baltimore to the Coppin Heights Community Development Corp. for redevelopment as a community health center, according to a university spokesman.

Registrations are being accepted for Hebrew school in Carroll County, with classes starting Sept. 4 at the Eldersburg branch of Carroll County Public Library.

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Why Jews don't support the GOP

News and events at religious organizations around Baltimore County.

Why Jews don't vote for GOP presidential candidates

Bernard I.H. Kramer, a retired Baltimore public school vice principal who earlier had been an English department chairman, died Aug. 14 at Autumn Ridge Nursing Center in Pikesville of complications from a stroke. He was 92.

As people of different faiths gathered Sunday at the Baltimore Basilica for a prayer service for peace in Iraq, Archbishop William E. Lori implored the crowd to keep praying after news of the crisis no longer dominates headlines.