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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 (The Daily Record)
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…
BGE Presents $325,000 in Environmental Stewardship Grants to 51 Maryland Nonprofit Organizations
The company awarded $325,000 through 3rd annual Green Grants program.
BGE toasted representatives from more than 50 nonprofit organizations this past October for their commitment to environmental preservation…
City Paper Editor Remembers Neely Tal Snyder z”l
…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…
Jewish Community Farming (MEDIUM)
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…
Pearlstone Celebrates New Eco-Friendly Cabin
Lovingly nicknamed the “Mud Mansion”, this high-efficiency, four-season cabin combines sustainability with conventional building techniques. Designed and constructed using sustainable and recycled…
Farming the Jewish Way
I recently joined more than 150 people at the Pearlstone Center near Baltimore for the 5th annual Beit Midrash to learn about the Jewish calendar and how it connects to sustainability and farming. The…
The Baltimore Jewish Times The Pearlstone Center Named One of North America’s Most Innovative Jewish Nonprofits
The Pearlstone Center, an agency of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, has been named one of the nation’s 50 most innovative Jewish nonprofits in Slingshot ’12-‘13, a resource…