Coffee, French pastries and Jewish political advocacy were on the menu at Croustille Café last week.
Nearly 40 community members gathered on Wednesday morning to chart a future of bold activism, inpursuit of increased state support for day schools and yeshivas in Maryland. Yanky Statman, Ari Gross,Jerry Wolasky and Yehuda Neuberger hosted the parlor meeting to introduce the Orthodox Union’sTeach MD project. The OU operates day school advocacy offices in states across […]
David Bagan, Founder and President of Chaverim of Baltimore
Tell us a little bit about yourself: I grew up in Baltimore and went to TA. I spent some time afterwards in yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael and came back to New York to learn at Sha’ar Yashuv. My wife is from Long Island, NY, and we have four wonderful children. We love living in Baltimore, […]
Spotlight on Dalya Attar
Tell us about yourself: My name is Dalya Attar. I am a mother of two children, an 8-year-old son Aaron and a 10-year-old daughter Ilana. I attended Bais Yaakov of Baltimore from nursery through high school. I knew from when I was in middle school that I wanted to be an attorney with a focus […]
Adolescent Depression
Rabbi Azriel Hauptman The teenage years are difficult ones for both teens and parents. The teenagers are grappling withfinding their identity in this no man’s land between childhood and adulthood. Their bodies andminds are changing which can lead to a very confusing period in their lives. The parents arepulling their hair out trying to figure […]