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Excited for Gramp Camp! His and Her Tales of Jewish Camp
Gramp Camp is made possible in partnership with the Jewish Grandparents Network and the financial support of The Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds.
Tiyul Adventure Camp Stories
Last summer, when Micah Loveland was looking for an overnight camp, he jumped at the chance to spend a week at The Associated’s Pearlstone Center.
Sukkot: A Spiritual Connection to our Environment
Sukkot: A Spiritual Connection to our Environment
By: Ilana Ungar, Pearlstone JOFFEE Fellow
As our fields are at the height of abundance and our days filled with sunshine we reach a joyful holiday, our…
Living Judaism: Pearlstone Eyes Future with Intentional-Living and Hands-On Learning
On a chilly Wednesday morning in April, a school bus filled with fourth graders from Liberty Elementary School in West Baltimore pulled up in front…
Finalists announced for Lippman Kanfer Prize for Applying Jewish Wisdom
The top prize winner in the Local category is Hadran Alach: Bringing Our Jewish Agricultural Heritage to Life, a program of the Pearlstone Center in Baltimore, MD. Each year Pearlstone inspires over 20…
Pair of Associated agencies named to most innovative list
Two Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore programs and agencies – the JCC’s Charm City Tribe and Pearlstone Center – have been named as two of North America’s top 50 innovative Jewish…
City Paper Editor Remembers Neely on His Last Issue
…As my time here was winding down last week, tragedy struck, as it too often does in Baltimore. Neely Snyder, a 37-year-old mother of three daughters and a friend of mine, died in a car accident in Reisterstown…
Unique Gathering on Jewish Community Farming
In January 2015 at a unique gathering convened by the Leichtag Foundation with the strong support of Urban Adamah and other practitioners, Jewish farmers from across North America and from Israel came…
Trails to the Future
It was a farm-to-table experience on Monday night at the Pearlstone center, honoring outgoing board chair Ilene Vogelstein and incoming board chair P.J. Pearlstone, and attendees were invited to partake…
Baltimore Green Week kicks off with goats and chickens
For the children visiting the Pearlstone Center’s sustainable farm Sunday, the chickens and baby goats might have been the main event. But supporters of the Family Farm Day said they hope that interaction…