PJ Library Baltimore

Come visit Jewish Connection Network's PJ Library table in Legends Park at tonight's Orioles game, as part of Jewish Heritage Night! Grab some swag and a book about a Jewish heroes. We are so proud and honored to be here! ✨️🇮🇱✨️🇺🇲✨️

What starts as a bedtime story can grow into something much bigger.

At this year’s PJ Library International Conference, Baltimore parent connectors Ellie Batkhan, Beth Am Synagogue Parent Partner Connector, and Jenna Lessans, Krieger Schechter Day School (KSDS) Partner Connector, reflected on how PJ Library helped them build friendships, navigate parenting and create meaningful Jewish connection through every stage of family life.

From playdates to holiday celebrations and everyday moments in between, PJ Library helps families feel seen, supported and connected to community.

Read more about how PJ Library is helping families connect in meaningful ways across Baltimore: thejewishnetwork.org/building-belonging-through-pj-library

Building Belonging Through PJ Library - Jewish Connection Network PJ Library Baltimore helps families build Jewish community connection through books, relationships, and meaningful shared experiences.

Bring your family to PJ Library's next Family Shabbat, featuring Shabbat songs/dances, storytime, hands-on activities, playground time, and Taharka ice cream in honor of Shavuot! It's free, it's fun, and it's the place to be! Register today to save your spot: https://www.thejewishnetwork.org/event/tot-shabbat-shavuot/

Together with fellow PJ Library professionals, various federations, community partners, parent connectors, and staff members from the national Harold Grinspoon Foundation office, our Jewish Connection Network professionals Lindsay Gaister Montague, Amy Goldberg, and Jenna Lessans engaged in meaningful learning, collaboration, and idea-sharing at this year's PJ Library International Conference in Springfield, MA!

They have just returned home, inspired and energized, with new insights, tools, data, and relationships that will help deepen and expand our family engagement work in Baltimore.

It was also a great honor for them to be in the presence of Harold Grinspoon himself, whose generosity and vision are extraordinary, and whose commitment to building Jewish communities continues to shape and elevate this important work across the globe.

As part of this year's Good Deeds Month, Jewish Connection Network and PJ Library Baltimore were so grateful to have partnered with Adamah Adventure Camp at Pearlstone, whose spirit and focus on caring for the earth added a beautiful layer to the evening (and the month).

Together, families sang and danced during Family Shabbat, and then made nature crafts to take with them so they could help beautify their own neighborhoods.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and showed up with open hearts! And to the incredible people who worked together to make it all happen, thank you also... this is how connection begins… and grows! ✨💙

Hi PJ Library Baltimore and Jewish Connection Network friends!

Our Good Deeds Month Family Shabbat & Service Project with Adamah Adventure Camp at Pearlstone is still on for tonight!

We have moved the event inside Kenilworth Mall, to the tables by the big fountain on the first floor.

5:15pm- Pizza
5:45pm- Family Shabbat service & storytime
6:15pm- Service craft projects to take home
7:15pm- Event ends and we say Shabbat Shalom!

If you have any additional questions, please contact Lindsay Gaister Montague: [email protected]

We can't wait to see you soon!

Grandparents, this one’s just for you 💙

Make Shavuot even sweeter with ice cream tastings (yes, samples included 🍦), meaningful traditions and easy ways to connect with your grandkids.

You’ll also have time to explore the Jewish Museum of Maryland and connect with other grandparents along the way.

Hosted by Lisa Akchin, The Network’s Intergenerational Multifaith Family Connector.

Come curious, leave inspired: thejewishnetwork.org/cool-grandparents-school

LAST CHANCE to sign up for our Family Shabbat & Service Project with Adamah this Friday in Towson!

Register today: thejewishnetwork.org/gdm2026-family-shabbat

Join The Network’s PJ Library team and Adamah Adventure Camp for a family-friendly evening of Shabbat, connection and hands-on giving back 💙

Create bird feeders, kindness rocks and plant flowers while celebrating together as a community.

🍕 Come early for a pre-event pizza hang with our Connectors at 5:15 p.m. (kosher available upon request or bring your own dinner!)

Register today: thejewishnetwork.org/gdm2026-family-shabbat

Join The Network’s PJ Library team and Adamah Adventure Camp for a family-friendly evening of Shabbat, connection and hands-on giving back 💙

Create bird feeders, kindness rocks and plant flowers while celebrating together as a community.

🍕 Come early for a pre-event pizza hang with our Connectors at 5:15 p.m. (kosher available upon request or bring your own dinner!)

Register today: thejewishnetwork.org/gdm2026-family-shabbat