One of three residents of Montgomery County, Md. who contracted the coronavirus on a cruise in Egypt attended a Jewish mourning ritual at a retirement community before before getting diagnosed with the disease and exposed between 70 and 100 attendees to it. In the ritual, known as sitting shiva, family members of the deceased receive…
(JTA) — A University of Maryland student was arrested for sending anti-Semitic text messages to a female student “because of her religious beliefs,” university police told local media. The female student began receiving messages on her cellphone in December from a person she did not know while she studied in the library on the College…
(JTA) — The University of Maryland “regrets” that a student government vote on an Israel divestment resolution will be held on Passover — but the student government said the date could not be changed. On Wednesday, the Student Government Association is set to vote on a bill that calls on the university to divest from…
At a high school in Maryland, there’s a list circulating that ranks a group of female students on their looks, The Washington Post reported. The list includes the names of 18 girls in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, in a heavily Jewish area of Maryland. The list, typed in the…
(JTA) — A Chabad House serving Towson University in Maryland filed a federal lawsuit against Baltimore County alleging religious discrimination and defamation after a judge affirmed an order to demolish an over 4,000 square-foot addition. Chabad of Towson filed the $10 million lawsuit on Thursday in U.S. District Court. It charges that the order to…
A Jewish woman who is a longtime federal contract worker has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct at “train rape” parties when they were both in high school, the third woman to level accusations against him in recent weeks. Julie Swetnick claims in a sworn affadavit that she was a victim of…
Shidduchs have been known to happen at Camp Moshava, the kibbutz-inspired, social justice-focused Maryland summer camp. But the sweetest hookup story – literally – might involve David and Laura Alima. Nearly 20 years after they first locked eyes as Camp Mosh counselors, the Baltimore couple’s running an artisan ice-cream business that’s drawing national attention for…
Gerald Fishchman, the editorial page editor of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, was a “quirky” and supersmart writer who penned a popular Christmas column despite being Jewish. Fischman, 61, was shot dead along Thursday with four others in what police said was a targeted attack on a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland by an alleged…
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