Maryland

After a Maryland teacher’s death, a 200-piece Judaica collection finds new life in a Jewish museum

For 35 years, Kaylie’s mother, Deborah Brodie, had amassed a collection of over 200 Jewish ritual objects, which she had used as a hands-on classroom for her Hebrew school students with special needs

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
A photo of the interior of Deborah Brodie and Jay Brill's residence in Rockville, Maryland.
Observers film ICE agents as they hold a perimeter after one of their vehicles got a flat tire on Penn Avenue on February 5, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Maryland sues Trump administration to halt construction of ICE facility

The Trump administration, according to Maryland's attorney general and government, purchased the property without conducting an environmental review or receiving public input.

|ByREUTERS
Sam Halpern

Sam Halpern: Managing the fast-paced breaking news desk

Behind the Bylines: "As someone who came up as an intern and is currently a desk manager, I’d say the thing that got me from there to here is just working hard."

|ByAARON REICH
A Shia Muslim waves a giant black flag in protest against ISIS and the use of terrorism in the name of Islam during a religious procession of US Shia Muslims at Lafayette Square, outside the White House in Washington, DC on December 06, 2015.

Maryland man who tried joining IS pleads guilty to planning attacks against Jews, Israel supporters

“I’m just gonna get out in 20 years, and I’m just gonna do it here. Okay? Jihad will never stop. I’ll come, and I’ll kill you.”

|ByESTHER DAVIS

'No mercy for Jews' graffiti found in Maryland

The antisemitic message in the graffiti was accompanied by an image of three people hanging from a noose.

NOVEMBER 14, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN
Antisemitic graffiti depicting three hanged people and the words "no mercy for Jews".