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The graphic for producer Sharon Mashihi's nine-part fictional podcast, "Appearances," which she created six years before the current war on Iran. The series paints an intimate portrait of a Jewish Iranian-American family, much like Sharon’s own.

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For Jewish Iranian-Americans, the war with Iran is uniquely painful

Tom Hall, Amy Walters, Sam Bermas-Dawes, Rob Sivak

Sharon Mashihi, the daughter of Jewish Iranian immigrants to the US, talks with Tom about exploring the diaspora’s conflicted wartime emotions — in her podcast and in her own life.

Anna Deavere Smith's powerful play about Black and Jewish communal strife in New York City in 1991 is getting a timely new production at Baltimore's Center Stage. (poster art credit Gilah Press)

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Views on "Fires in the Mirror": the playwright, scholars, Center Stage

Tom Hall, Malarie Pinkard-Pierre, Rob Sivak

A closer look at Anna Deavere Smith's potent drama, now at Center Stage, about a 1991 communal conflict between Blacks and Jews in Brooklyn.

Lombard Street was the epicenter of Jewish life in Baltimore before the population's migration north and west (uncredited historical photo c/o Pinterest)

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What’s the story of Jewish migration & segregation in Baltimore?

Aaron Henkin

Why are so many of Baltimore’s Jews now in the northwest corner of the city?

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Baltimore Jewish Community Seeks Security After Pittsburgh Shooting

Rachel Baye

Lee Gedansky’s son turns 13 in December. Their family plans to celebrate with a bar mitzvah at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.A bar mitzvah often comes…