2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (860+ words) Suzanne Louise Dagurt, a Baltimore fundraiser and community volunteer who spent decades supporting medical research and philanthropic causes, died in Towson on March 5. She was 87. Dagurt, known to family and friends as Susie and "Sue Sue," built a career in…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (471+ words) At most universities today, the script is predictable. Students pass a sweeping political resolution. Administrators respond with vague talk of "dialogue" and "listening." No one leads. Nothing is resolved. At Cornell, President Michael I. Kotlikoff did something different. He said no....

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (555+ words) On opening day, Major League Baseball quietly brought artificial intelligence onto the field. For more than a century, arguing balls and strikes was forbidden, because the home plate umpire's judgment was final. No appeals. No second chances. No higher authority....

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (247+ words) Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the Seder table to tell an ancient story that refuses to stay in the past. The Haggadah does not present the Exodus as distant history, but as lived experience: "In every generation, each…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (243+ words) That might be defensible if the argument was serious. It isn't. Haaretz, long aligned with Israel's secular liberal intelligentsia, has made a habit of treating religious institutions " and the voters who support them " as suspect. Here, it goes further, effectively…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (760+ words) When Miri Baum gave birth to her fourth child, she spent the better part of the first year and a half of his life in and out of the hospital. Baum gave birth to her son, Rafi, at 30 weeks gestation....

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (384+ words) While Israel is often the target of animus from opponents of the Jewish state who question its fundamental right to exist, there is a heightened level of debate regarding the validity of what pro-Israel groups call communities in Judea and…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (550+ words) Rabbi Cantor Emily Ellentuck lived her entire life in Tucson, Arizona until 2024, when she moved to Baltimore to become the religious school director at Beth El Congregation. When Ellentuck was in high school, her mother served as vice president of…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (263+ words) John Lithgow stars as the towering " literally and figuratively " author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach." Over the course of its two acts, Dahl's British Jewish publisher and an American Jewish sales rep dispatched…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (268+ words) At Chevrei Tzedek, social justice and activism is more than just a value. In fact, it's literally part of their name, said synagogue chair David Saltzberg. "Tzedakah or justice is a literal translation, so that's been a fundamental pillar of…...