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Students participating in a special wartime program run through Leket Israel
Students participating in a special wartime program run through Leket Israel with corporate partners in which students who spend at least 160 hours doing volunteer farmwork earn a yearlong academic scholarship. (Courtesy of Leket Israel via JTA)
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Food Rescue Group Switches from Relying on Farmers’ Generosity to Helping Them Survive

JTA

After the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, the Israeli food rescue organization Leket Israel quickly pivoted its focus to address the labor crisis.

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Zips Cleaners
The Pikesville Community Mural will be featured on a prominent sidewall of Zips Cleaners, at 1220 Reisterstown Road in the heart of "downtown" Pikesville. (Staff photo)
Community Local Maryland 

Local Artists Encouraged to Apply for Pikesville Community Mural Project

Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Civic leaders hope the Northwest Baltimore suburb’s first publicly funded mural, on a sidewall of Zips Cleaners in the “Main Street” corridor, will be completed by May 30, 2024.

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Sandy Shapiro
Among Sandy Shapiro's communal endeavors was serving on the board of directors of The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore. In 2010, he served as chair of The Associated's annual campaign. (Photo courtesy of Sol Levinson & Bros.)
Community Local Maryland Obituaries 

Community and Scrap Industry Leader Sanford ‘Sandy’ Shapiro Dies at 83

JMORE Staff

Shapiro was the president of Cambridge Iron & Metal Co. in Baltimore, a family business started in 1909 by his Latvian-born grandfather, Isaac “Ike” Shapiro.

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Baltimore Hebrew Congregation president Gary Aiken
Baltimore Hebrew Congregation president Gary Aiken unveils the synagogue's new signs stating its support for Israel and the release of hostages abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7
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Baltimore Hebrew Replaces Pro-Israel Signs Vandalized Last Weekend

Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

A cross-section of civic and Jewish communal leaders were on hand at a ceremony to show support for BHC and denounce the destruction of property.

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Temple Oheb Shalom Side
Opened in September of 1960, the Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Congregation building was designed by Sheldon I. Leavitt in consultation with famed German-American architect and Bauhaus School founder Walter Gropius, a pioneer of the modernist movement. (Photo by Solomon Swerling, Jmore)
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Baltimore Heritage Group Offers a Look at Charm City’s Modernist Synagogues

JMORE Staff

In honor of the Festival of Freedom, the nonprofit preservation group takes a look at five Northwest Baltimore shuls embracing modernist architecture.

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Barbara Mandel
As First Lady of Maryland, Barbara "Bootsie" Mandel particularly took an active interest in the restoration of Government House, the historic 54-room official residence of the governor in downtown Annapolis. (Photo courtesy of Sol Levinson & Bros.)
Community Local Maryland National News Obituaries 

Former Maryland First Lady Barbara Oberfeld Mandel Dies at 103

Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Mrs. Mandel, known as “Bootsie,” was remembered by her family for her “kindness, courage, integrity and unrelenting optimism.”

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