Tag: Baltimore
Suspect arrested in alleged arson hate crime at Jewish Museum of Maryland
Baltimore Police officers arrested Assadollah Hashemi on Saturday, accusing the 66-year-old of an Aug. 4 arson attack outside the Jewish Museum of Maryland, according to a statement that the Baltimore Police Department provided to...
Demonizing Kohelet won’t silence calls for judicial reform
In the midst of a national convulsion in which opponents of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are willing to stop at nothing in their campaign to prevent the government from enacting judicial reform, the...
Baltimore-area JCC receives bomb threat, second in two weeks
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore received an anti-Semitic bomb threat on Tuesday, its second in less than two weeks.
The first one, sent on May 15, led to the evacuation of JCC’s Rosenblum Owings...
Three Baltimore teens charged with murder of visiting Israeli man
Three teenagers in Baltimore have been charged with first-degree murder for their alleged involvement in the fatal shooting of an Israeli man last month, reported The Baltimore Sun on June 4.
William Clinton III, 18, as well...
City park would honor 19th century lawmaker who stood up for Jews
Members of Congregation B'nai Abraham in Hagerstown are backing the idea of a park across from the synagogue to honor Thomas Kennedy, a Washington County state lawmaker who pushed for the right of Jews...
Jewish community gathers to discuss hate crimes
Responding to what the Baltimore Jewish Council is calling a startling rise in hate crime across the country, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh joined community leaders and others affected by this growing problem.
The Anti-Defamation...