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One recent afternoon, two dozen teenagers stayed late at Hoover Middle School in Potomac, Md., for a presentation on Jewish culture. They tasted matzoh brittle, spun dreidels, colored Purim masks and watched a video of a rabbi blowing a ram’s horn. Some clowned or texted, but one student...

By Anju Kaur, SikhNN staff writer, Washington Bureau Harpreet Singh Khalsa, a newly converted Sikh, stopped at a Maryland 7-Eleven convenience late one night in January when a police officer noticed him. The officer followed him into to the store because he was wearing a dastaar and...

Vaaheguroo Jee Kaa Khalsaa Vaaheguroo Jee Kee Fateh Guru Harkrishan Institute of Sikh Studies (GHISS) is pleased to announce the 15th Annual Sikh Youth Gurmat Camp in Maryland from July 31 - August 7, 2010. The registration deadline is July 12, 2010 and only the first 100 registrants...

A teaching package on Sikh culture, which was part of the social studies curriculum this year in eight elementary schools in Howard County, Maryland, will be incorporated into all of the county’s approximately 39 elementary schools in the next school year, a county education-official said. Kaur...