You Should Know

Meet local Jews in their 20s and 30s.

You Should Know…Rabbi Mitchell Berkowitz

Rabbi Mitchell Berkowitz serves the Montgomery County Jewish community as an associate rabbi at B’nai Israel Congregation in Rockville. Coming from a household that...

You Should Know… Malki Karkowsky

The Capital Jewish Museum (CJM) in Washington, D.C., created a new role on their leadership team in early September, and named Malki Karkowsky, a...

You Should know… Akira Morgenstern

Akira Morgenstern comes from a long line of tennis players. His father and grandfather both played and were a vital part of getting him...

You Should Know… Rabbi Jenna Stein Turow

Rabbi Jenna Stein Turow has been working in the D.C. area as a community rabbi for the Den Collective since 2021. She grew up...

You Should Know…Rabbi Healy Shir Slakman

Rabbi Healy Shir Slakman, 29, recently returned to Temple Micah as assistant rabbi and director of spiritual arts, where she is leading music programming...

See Jane Dance

Jane Raleigh makes dance happen, whether it’s at a two-year-old’s birthday party, a friend’s wedding or on the Opera House stage at the Kennedy...

You Should Know…Meyer Shapiro

Meyer Shapiro has been in a wrestling ring for almost as long as he can remember. His father got him started in the sport...

You Should Know… Ben Assaraf

Ben Assaraf, one of five children, grew up adjacent to a kibbutz. Not an Israeli kibbutz, but the Rollins Park Apartments in Rockville behind...

You Should Know… Ben Joel

McLean resident Ben Joel is passionate about learning and teaching. The 18-year-old saw how people’s education deteriorated during the COVID pandemic and and co-founded...

You Should Know… Abby Kerbel

If you don’t know Abby Kerbel, you likely know someone in her family or someone who knows her, or her family. Her father, Steve,...