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Orthodox Jewish Feminists Speaking Out
March 19, 2010First in an occasional series on women’s issues in the Orthodox community New York There was a mood at last Sunday’s…
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Baltimore Recalls Dr. Arnall Patz
March 19, 2010Dr. Arnall Patz — whose pioneering work in infant blindness is likely to have saved the eyesight of hundreds of thousands…
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Jewish Gun Advocates Aim For `Bagel Brain Jews’
March 19, 2010A Wisconsin group of gun rights advocates took what many consider a cheap shot at two Maryland lawmakers recently with a…
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Crime Drops In Pikesville/Owings/Reisterstown
March 19, 2010Overall crime in the Owings Mills-Pikesville-Reisters- town areas continued dropping last year, as did all such activities throughout Baltimore County, according…
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New ‘Old’ Shul In East Baltimore
March 12, 2010Driving for years southbound on Park Heights Avenue and Reisterstown Road, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gafnei says he was always struck by…
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How Ethan Schuman Helps Mexico’s Jewish Anusim
March 18, 2010It is certainly no surprise to discover Jewish exotica when traveling to hidden recesses of the classical European or North African…
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Sam ‘Burgerman’ Novey’s Mitzvah Madness
March 18, 2010In my 17 years at Jewish day schools (first at Krieger Schechter, and on to Beth Tfiloh for high school), the…
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How Can You Defend This Man?
March 18, 2010What’s wrong with these people? In an attempt to buttress the tarnished credibility of Rabbi Menachem Youlus, the Washington ,…
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Brothers Win Discrimination Suit
March 18, 2010A pair of Jewish brothers who live in the Baltimore metropolitan area won a $115,000 settlement from a Texas-based human resources…
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Jewish Museum Hits 50
March 12, 2010It’s called “The Synagogue Speaks.” To commemorate its 50th anniversary, the Jewish Museum of Maryland will open a multi-media exhibition in…
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Restaurateur Sid Mandell Remembered
March 12, 2010Sidney “Sid” Mandell, whose Woodmoor delicatessen for decades was Northwest Baltimore’s unofficial communal Jewish kitchen, died March 2 in his sleep…
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Beth Am Hires New Rabbi
March 12, 2010Shortly before Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg delivered his Shabbat sermon during his “tryout weekend” in late January at Beth Am Synagogue,…
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Water Main Break Drains Owings Mills
March 12, 2010It was around the middle of the day last Saturday, March 6, when Owings Mills resident Esther Jacobson first noticed she…
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Heeere’s Ronnie!
March 5, 2010Snapping his fingers to the rhythm, charging around the stage like a panther and holding the final note of a Vegas…
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A Teen Fights ALS
March 4, 2010My name is Sierra Levin and I am in the tenth grade at Owings Mills High School. About a year ago,…
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Gov. O’Malley Meets Baltimore Jewish Leaders
March 5, 2010Gov. Martin O’Malley, fresh from his historic trip to Iraq, addressed several hundred in attendance for Tuesday evening’s Baltimore Jewish Council-hosted…
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Notes From A Journey
March 5, 2010Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) recently returned from leading a bipartisan six-member delegation to Vienna for the winter meeting of the Parliamentary…
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Joey Green: Creative, Wacky Recycling
March 5, 2010He’s been called “the Pantry Professor” and “Heloise from Hell,” and with good reason. Joey Green has been collecting off-label uses…
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Seven Mile To Take Over Safeway
March 2, 2010In an email sent out this week, Seven Mile’s management wrote, “With Gratitude to the ONE ABOVE, we want to announce…
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THE J.T. (JUST TEASING)
February 26, 2010Scroll With It, Baby Australian snowboarder Torah Bright, a Mormon, electrified the sports world and won a gold medal at the…
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Common Cents
February 26, 2010If anything, the current economic crisis has emphasized the lack of financial literacy in this country. Credit card debt, living beyond…
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Havana Bound
February 26, 2010Sometimes, while traveling by air, we look outside of our plane’s window at 30,000 feet and wonder just what the land…
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Purim 101
February 26, 2010It’s Purim time. Costumes. Singing. Joy. The story of Purim, which takes place in Persia during the reign of King Ahasuerus,…
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Group Mixes Purim and ‘Israeli Apartheid’
February 25, 2010With homemade paper signs strapped to their torsos declaring “Purim Protest Parade Against Israeli Apartheid” and donning festive hats, five Jewish…
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