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Making Passover Special

This year, as we gather around the Passover table with family and friends, we encourage you to include some personal touches in your Seder. Incorporate questions that integrate the Passover themes with your Jewish values. Check out some new Haggadahs. Or make your Passover table […]

Raising a Child Jewishly | Jen and Jake Lieberman

Jake and I both grew up in Jewish households, which really impacted our Jewish identities. We grew up going to Hebrew school, spending summers at Jewish overnight camps, becoming a bar/bat mitzvah and celebrating every Jewish holiday with our loved ones. We also both went […]

Conversational Starters for Your Seder 

The Seder is full of symbols and songs, there to provoke questions and wonder. The Haggadah, Seder Plate, Matzah, Marror, and four cups of wine are tools to connect our past and to ensure that this legacy is passed on for generations to come. As […]

Meet Judy Finifter 

She is especially enjoying is participating in the Jewish Grandparents Network-Baltimore, where she sits on the Advisory Committee and attends programs with her granddaughter. A national organization, headed by Lee Hendler, the Jewish Grandparent’s Network was created to recognize the role of grandparents in supporting […]

Aviv Engelhart | A Book Drive Bar Mitzvah

Inspired by a book drive between The Associated and Associated Black Charities, Aviv Engelhart donated hundreds of books to a Baltimore City School.

Meet Jill Collier Silbert, Community Connector

I have been using “We Rock the Spectrum” for events because it is a sensory gym that accommodates children of all abilities. They have a ton of sensory equipment for all needs. At the last program that I hosted there numerous families came up to […]

Get to Know Mindy Silverman

My husband Matt and I seemed to always travel in the same social circle dating back to our days at PHS and University of Maryland. We were married in 2006 by Rabbi Steven Schwartz and we have two boys, Ben (15), Sam (11) and two […]

Ryan Gensler, Personal Growth with JCC’s 4Front

4Front allows Jewish teens like me to further explore skills learned in school and elsewhere and bring them together in a cumulative project/presentation showcasing all that we have learned. For example, Social Innovation Fellowship will conclude with a Demo Day where each team will pitch […]

Becoming a Teen Ambassador for Healthy Relationships 

Through this program, I have learned that domestic violence has no bounds or limits: all people of all genders and ages can fall victim to abuse. I have learned that abuse can exist in the forms of not only physical and emotional abuse but also […]

General Contractor Selected for The Associated’s Park Heights Project

Southway Builders, Inc. General Contractor for the redevelopment of The Associated’s Park Heights campus project in Northwest Baltimore City.