COMMUNITY RESOURCES
■ COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
■ HOLOCAUST
■ ISRAEL ADVOCACY
■ JEWISH YOUTH
■ LIBRARIES & RESOURCES
■ SOCIAL SERVICES
& CHARITABLE GIVING
■ SPECIAL NEEDS
■ YOUNG ADULTS
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
■ ACHARAI: The Shoshana S. Cardin
Leadership Institute
5806 Park Heights Ave.

Baltimore, MD 21215
410-843-7497 acharai.org
Executive Director: Beth Gansky
info@acharai.org ACHARAI strengthens the Baltimore
Jewish community by providing senior
volunteer leaders of synagogues, agencies,
day schools and other Jewish organizations
with intensive leadership development
skills as seen through a lens of Jewish val-
ues. ACHARAI Fellows Program partici-
pants grow their individual and collective
leadership skills, forming a network that
reaches throughout the Jewish commu-
nity. ACHARAI continues to support its
graduates’ leadership journeys through
the Presidents’ Circle and one-on-one
leadership coaching.

Ahava Baby
Macks Center for Jewish Education (CJE)
5708 Park Heights Ave.

Baltimore, MD 21215
410-735-5026 cjebaltimore.org/ahava-baby
Lisa Bodziner
lbodziner@cjeb.org Ahava Baby is for you, your family and
your sanity! If you are a new parent and
looking for fun, neighborhood-based
Jewish programming where you can meet
others at a similar life stage as yourself
then this program is for you! Contact Lisa
Bodziner for more information.

The Alvin & Lois Lapidus Center
for Healing & Spirituality at Beth El
Congregation 8101 Park Heights Ave.

Baltimore, MD 21208
410-484-0411 soulcenterbaltimore.org
Founder & Spiritual Director:
Rabbi Dana Saroken
dana@bethelbalto.com Managing Director: Rachel Siegal
rachels@bethelbalto.com Th e Alvin & Lois Lapidus Center for
Healing & Spirituality (Th e Soul Center)
is a spiritual start-up powered by Judaism.

Th e Soul Center’s mission is to transform
Jewish life in Baltimore through innova-
tive programming in mindfulness, healing
and rejuvenation. Th e Soul Center off ers
an accessible experiential way for people to
plug in and tune in, to connect to others
and themselves.

The Arc Baltimore*
7215 York Rd.

Baltimore, MD 21212-1528
443-279-3299 thearcbaltimore.org
Christopher Knoerlein
cknoerlein@thearcbaltimore.org and children with intellectual and develop-
mental disabilities and their families.

The Associated: Jewish Community
Federation of Baltimore
101 W. Mount Royal Ave.

Baltimore, MD 21201
410-727-4828 associated.org
President: Marc B. Terrill
information@associated.org Th e Associated: Jewish Community
Federation of Baltimore strengthens
and nurtures Jewish life by engaging
and supporting community partners in
Greater Baltimore, Israel and around
the world.

Babies, Books and Bagels
Macks Center for Jewish Education (CJE)
5708 Park Heights Ave.

Baltimore, MD 21215
410-735-5013 Brenda Footer
bfooter@cjebaltimore.org Enjoy growing together with community
and your baby throughout the year. Ba-
bies, Books and Bagels is a partnership
program between the JCC and CJE and is
scheduled six to eight times over the year.

For babies 0-16 months. Contact Brenda
Footer for more information.

Dedicated to providing advocacy and high
quality, life-changing supports since 1949
in Baltimore County and City, Th e Arc
Baltimore supports more than 6,000 adults
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