When discussing venues to promote his new book “Hutzler’s: Where Baltimore Shops” (The History Press), Michael J. Lisicky suggested Barnes & Noble on Joppa Road to his Charleston, S.C.-based publisher. That bookstore happens to be the former site of the now-defunct department store’s Towson satellite, an irony not…
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The familiar scenes of the 20th century’s tragedy and trauma flashed across the video — Palestine’s Jewish pioneers, Holocaust survivors, Israelis at war, Soviet Jews being liberated and so on.

But when the lights came back on and the speakers approached the microphone, those present were told they…
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How do you boil down a century of living, especially for a woman who never seems to let up? As you watch Anne Veditz sit in the lobby of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, manning the Judaic Shop’s booth during the annual holiday boutique, it’s hard to imagine she will…
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A quarter million dollars will come into the Baltimore Jewish community in Fiscal Year 2009 — which runs through June 2010 — in the form of federal Homeland Security grants to 10 area organizations.

“Thanks to the effort of our elected leaders in Washington, Annapolis, Baltimore City and surrouding…
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