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Harrison Spatz, is a dentist at the University of Maryland who specializes in dentures. Spatz, who is from New York, now lives downtown near the University of Maryland. He is involved in Chabad of Downtown.

City Council President Brandon Scott visited the Inner Harbor Community Sukkah, hosted by Chabad of Downtown.

BALTIMORE (WBFF) - Baltimore city leaders and the Jewish community came together at the Inner harbor on Tuesday morning to celebrate the harvest holiday of Sukkot.

BALTIMORE (WBFF) - Baltimore city leaders and the Jewish community came together at the Inner harbor on Tuesday morning to celebrate the harvest holiday of Sukkot.

BALTIMORE (WBFF) - Baltimore city leaders and the Jewish community came together at the Inner harbor on Tuesday morning to celebrate the harvest holiday of Sukkot.

Meanwhile, at Chabad of Downtown’s Matzah Madness event in Baltimore on Thursday, March 15, young professionals baked matzah for the purposes of education and enjoyment. The event included pizza and beer, so the matzah was not kosher for Pesach, but it made for a great evening activity.

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Before he became a mashgiach in Columbus, Ohio, Ron Reitman, 40, spent a handful of years on and off in Baltimore between 2006 to 2011, deeply ingrained in various Jewish community events and organizations that allowed him to “be with my people serving a greater good,” he said.

“I moved to Little Italy, and the first week here, my roommates hadn’t moved in yet, and I didn’t know anyone,” says Atlanta-born Perrin Shapiro, 24, a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison. “My mom sent me a link to the [Downtown] Chabad, which was literally the next block over, and that’s where I met [my boyfriend].”

Since opening Chabad of Downtown in 2008, Rabbi Levi and Chani Druk say they have welcomed more than 10,000 guests to their center, ranging from young Jewish professionals who work in the city to other Jews in the region who simply enjoy a Jewish milieu.