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FILE - Jewish Bay Area residents stage a sit-in protest in the lobby of Senator Alex Padilla's office in San Francisco calling for a stop to the Israel-Hamas war, August 27, 2025. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

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FILE - Rabbi Seth Adelson, of Congregation Beth Shalom, a Conservative synagogue located just blocks from Tree of Life in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, sits for a portrait with Audrey Glickman, a Tree of Life member who survived the 2018 synagogue attack, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski, File)

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Palestinian flags dotted the Ocean City boardwalk on Saturday afternoon as over a hundred demonstrators gathered for a March for Palestine, urging a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

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As the first night of Hanukkah unfolds, casting its warm glow on homes and communities, the celebrations among the Jewish faithful are tempered by the somber backdrop of the Israel-Hamas conflict, now in its two-month mark.

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The executive director of the Maryland Office for the Council on American-Islamic Relations has temporarily been suspended from the Maryland Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention. According to the Attorney General, Zainab Chaudry shared social media posts in early October that have created challenges for the commission to work. Now, multiple Maryland Muslim organizations are calling for her to be reinstated.