Andrew Guckes

For more than a decade, Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia has helped provide young people in Philly with the skills and knowledge they need to enter the workforce as part of its Helping Hands Summer Work Readiness Experience program.

Each summer in Baltimore, area educators from public, private, religious and Sunday schools gather to discuss curriculum about the Holocaust. For more than two decades, the Holocaust Educators’ Institute has hosted teachers to exchange ideas on teaching about the largest genocide in modern recorded history.

There is a perception that Annapolis, the state capital, is not all that Jewish, especially compared to the communities in and around the two major cities nearby — Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.

Much of Jewish communal life is rooted in tradition, but much is contemporary, as well. At the Baltimore Jewish Cultural Chavurah, even as the news gets increasingly polarizing and Israel and Zionism continue to be cultural flashpoints, members are not steering away from today’s news.

About a year and a half ago, Jewish Museum of Maryland Executive Director Sol Davis contacted Vlad Smolkin and requested he curate a new exhibit at the museum.

Seventy years ago, in 1956, a young singer named Elvis Presley released his self-titled debut album.

Not long ago, an observant Jewish family had a medical situation that required them to spend weeks at Baltimore’s Sinai Hospital.

Jennifer Sapp, director of aging services at Jewish Community Services, said there is something that people need to remember when they talk about aging, the elderly and the systems and accommodations that we make for them.

For Rabbi Nina Cardin, there has always been something attractive about being a rabbi outside of the structure of a congregation.

When Zev Sperling got to law school, he knew what he wanted to do. Or at least he thought he did.