Category: In the News

• Rabbi Jessy Dressin Makes ‘Space’ for Building Community – Jewish Times Article

  

  Rabbi Jessy Dressin’s journey to the rabbinate was a bit of an unconventional one. By the time she attended University of Maryland, College Park for her undergraduate, she already knew that she wanted to be a rabbi — but she found that she wasn’t looking for a position as a rabbi at a synagogue. Instead,…

• Its congregation moved away. Now the ‘Shul in the Park’ will serve a new purpose.

  

  When Rabbi Jessy Dressin moved to Baltimore in 2012, the same year she was ordained, she lived in an apartment in Bolton Hill and regularly walked by the old synagogue on the edge of Druid Hill Park. The Shaarei Tfiloh Synagogue stood like a silent fortress as she imagined each time she passed what more…

• Third Space at Shaarei Tfiloh to Hold Launch Event June 9th

  

  In 1996, Shaarei Tfiloh Synagogue, located near Mondawmin Mall and The Maryland Zoo, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  Come to the launch event of Third Space at Shaarei Tfiloh, which bills itself as “a place for gathering and a gateway to meaningful engagement and community, grounded in Jewish culture and learning.” Based…

• New Jewish Organization to Open at Historic Shaarei Tfiloh Synagogue

  

  Shaarei Tfiloh Synagogue A new Jewish nonprofit organization is breathing life into a historic Jewish space at Shaarei Tfiloh Synagogue. The synagogue, also known as The Shul in The Park, sits across from Druid Hill Park in the Mondawmin neighborhood of West Baltimore. Third Space, a new center for Jewish life and learning, will open…