Last Wednesday morning and afternoon, June 7, Kappa Guild Inc. celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding at the philanthropic group’s annual donor event. The four-hour gathering — which was the guild’s 50th anniversary donor event — was held at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in Pikesville. For seven decades, the Baltimore-based guild has brought together women to improve the quality of care for critically ill children and children with special needs. From its inception, the guild’s purpose was “helping children in need,” a phrase that became its mission statement. The guild was founded in ..read more

By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA) — For years, a subset of Jews who eat only at kosher-certified restaurants have bent the rules by taking advantage of a growing trend: fully vegan eateries. Now, a ruling issued by the Conservative movement has given that practice its official imprimatur, declaring that Jews may eat at vegetarian or vegan restaurants that don’t have kosher supervision.  In practice, the ruling’s target audience is small. Most Jews who eat only in certified kosher restaurants are Orthodox and pay little if any attention to Conservative opinions on Jewish law. According to a 2020 ..read more

On this episode of “The Food Enthusiast,” Dara Bunjon talks with chef and cookbook author Peter Minaki, a leading expert on Greek food and the creator of the popular “Kalofagas — Greek Food & Beyond” blog. For more from Peter Minaki, visit kalofagas.ca and follow @kalofagas on Instagram and @Kalofagas1 on Facebook. His cookbooks are available here. Catch a new episode of The Food Enthusiast every Thursday at 1 p.m. at facebook.com/jmoreliving. You May Also Like The Food Enthusiast with Guest Hiroko Shimbo Dara Bunjon talks with celebrity chef, cookbook author and restaurant consu ..read more

“It’s time to get together/It’s up to you, what’s your pleasure?” –“Celebration” by Kool & the Gang Yes, it’s prom season once again, a time of dazzling tuxedos and opulent evening gowns, tasteful corsages and dashing boutonnieres, raucous dance moves, and other forms of merriment and mayhem. But this year, the folks at Atrium Village took the traditional prom concept to the next level. The Owings Mills senior living community recently held what was billed as a “real senior prom” for its residents, many of whom range in age from their 70s and older and graduated from high school more than ..read more

A summer job can be more than just a means for a high school or college student to earn extra cash. It can also offer a young person the opportunity to explore a potential career path. That was certainly the case for Roland Park resident Matthew Kylin, a 2021 graduate of the George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology. Jmore recently spoke with Kylin, who attends the University of Connecticut, about how the three summers he spent working as a counselor for children with special needs at J Camps’ inclusion program at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore inspired him to p ..read more

Pikesville resident Charles “Chuck” Donen passed away on Tuesday, June 6, at the age of 93. Last December, Jmore posted an article about Donen and his wife of nearly 67 years, Ellen, when the wedding of their grandson was livestreamed to Pikesville’s North Oaks Senior Living community, where they lived since 2015. The Donens were unable to attend the wedding in West Point, New York. Besides his wife, Donen is survived by his children, Steven R. Donen, and Cindy Ann (Rabbi Jay R.) Goldstein; his grandchildren, David Hirsh (Nina) Goldstein, Joshua Elan (Rebecca) Goldstein and Shira Yochana Golds ..read more

Colin Vineberg, a senior at St. Paul’s School for Boys in Brooklandville, was recently selected a 2023 First Tee College Scholar by the PGA Tour First Tee Foundation Inc. First Tee is a nonprofit youth development organization supported by the PGA Tour. Since 1997, First Tee has reached millions of young people through its network of 150 chapters, 11,000 schools and 1,900 youth centers. Headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, First Tee programs are delivered in all 50 states and select international locations. This year’s First Tee Scholarship class includes 24 students from across the na ..read more

By Rabbi Avromi Mostofsky My late grandfather, Rabbi Jacob S. Green, was the longtime and beloved spiritual leader of Baltimore’s Har Zion and Rogers Avenue synagogues. He performed hundreds of weddings, and prepared at least as many boys and girls to become bar and bat mitzvah. Tonight, June 6, will be his one-year yahrzeit, or anniversary of his passing on the Hebrew calendar. Over the past two years, I’ve been researching my grandfather’s life, particularly his time at Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yizchak Elchanan (now known as the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in New ..read more

MileOne Autogroup and MileOneCares held a fundraising event last Sunday morning and afternoon, June 4, to help Chestnut Ridge Volunteer Fire Company in its purchase of a new ambulance (“Medic 505”) and Advanced Life Support (ALS) Units, along with essential life-saving medical equipment. The Towson-based organization has pledged to match up to $250,000 in donations to the Chestnut Ridge Volunteer Fire Company in an effort to raise a total of $565,000 for this cause.  To support this fundraising initiative, Heritage | MileOne Autogroup and Mile ..read more

By Jeremy Ben-Ami Many of Israel’s founders understood that the type of state Israel would become greatly depended on grappling with the conflict between two peoples over one small piece of land. But today, many of Israel’s leaders and some of its biggest supporters abroad have taken to avoiding talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two states or peace. In my view, anyone who believes that Israel needs to strike a balance between its Jewish and democratic identities cannot ignore the unresolved conflict. Israel must grapple with it head-on. Two fundamental truths make these topics unavo ..read more