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]]>A new traveling Israeli art exhibition touring this country is taking up its first U.S. lodging in an unexpected Baltimore venue. It’s neither the Jewish Museum of Maryland nor one of the Jewish Community Center campuses. Rather, the temporary home for this vibrant display of Israeli modern art — which opens today, Feb. 10 — is the Maryland… News - Cover Story 2012-02-09T19:00:55+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/buds_of_jewish_life_at_washington_college/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/buds_of_jewish_life_at_washington_college/#When:19:00:40Z
]]>There’s an old saying that there are Jews in every corner of the world. Even if that’s true (and I’m guessing it probably isn’t), you are more likely to find a minyan in Bangladesh — or I suppose on Gilligan’s Island — than on some sections of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Why that’s the case, I don’t know. The… News - Cover Story 2012-02-02T19:00:40+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/carrie_fishers_wild_ride/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/carrie_fishers_wild_ride/#When:19:00:08Z Carrie Fisher wants you to know she’s doing just fine, thank you very much. Despite years of drug abuse, several failed romantic relationships (a marriage to musician Paul Simon and one with the father of her child who left her for another man), and, oh, that time she woke up in bed next to a dead friend, the… News - Cover Story 2012-01-26T19:00:08+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/could_this_new_mobile_app_save_american_judaism/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/could_this_new_mobile_app_save_american_judaism/#When:19:00:39Z
]]>In a spacious, high-ceilinged studio/rehearsal space in Midtown Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, a tall, leggy young woman stands next to a baby grand piano played softly by Professor William Riley. Amid an array of old brass instruments, framed autographed photos of music luminaries, racks and cubbyholes crammed with string instruments (guitars, ukuleles, mandolins, balalaikas) and music books, Native… News - Cover Story 2012-01-19T19:00:39+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/family_business_motocross_elephants_and_a_jewish_legacy/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/family_business_motocross_elephants_and_a_jewish_legacy/#When:19:00:47Z
]]>For Juliette Feld, a trip to the “office” with Daddy meant visiting with the lions, elephants, trapeze artists and ice skating princesses. As the youngest of Feld Entertainment owner Kenneth Feld’s three daughters, Juliette grew up in a world that most of us only observe from the balconies of crowded arenas. She and her sisters, Alana and… News - Cover Story 2012-01-12T19:00:47+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/reform_movements_big_transition/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/reform_movements_big_transition/#When:19:00:36Z
]]>It’s been an amazing ride for Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie — and a groundbreaking one, for the Reform movement and for Judaism in general. Since 1996, Rabbi Yoffie has served as the unchallenged president of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the congregational arm of the Reform movement in North America , which represents an estimated 1.5 million… News - Cover Story 2012-01-05T19:00:36+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/our_12_favorite_jewish_power_couples/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/our_12_favorite_jewish_power_couples/#When:19:00:02Z
]]>­Jewish Baltimore is full of leaders and innovators — movers and shakers, if you will — in a variety of fields. Some of the most influential members of our community are just one-half of a duo often dubbed as “power couples.” While the term power can be defined in numerous ways, the phrase “power couple” almost exclusively refers… News - Cover Story 2011-12-29T19:00:02+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/mother_of_lockerbie_bombing_looks_back/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/mother_of_lockerbie_bombing_looks_back/#When:19:00:34Z
]]>If you’ve got kids, you’ve had them — those moments when you’re faced with the terrifying reality that despite your best intentions and unending love, you cannot protect your children from every danger. A devastating illness, a car accident, crime, a plane crash — these are things that can happen to anyone, and usually they cannot be… News - Cover Story 2011-12-22T19:00:34+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/chanukah_the_meaning_of_miracles_today/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/chanukah_the_meaning_of_miracles_today/#When:19:00:18Z
]]>Almost everyone who ever went to Hebrew school (except perhaps those who dozed off) knows the story of the Chanukah miracle, of how the victorious royal Hasmonean family only had a single cruse of pure oil, enough to light the menorah for a single day, but the oil lasted for eight days. But from a contemporary and rational… News - Cover Story 2011-12-15T19:00:18+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/drew_millers_heroic_fight_with_als/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/drew_millers_heroic_fight_with_als/#When:19:00:16Z
]]>Drew Miller has skillfully viewed the monitor of a television camera his entire life.  As an Emmy Award-winning cameraman, the images he transmitted included nuances of a fleet running back hitting the slightest space on the offensive line before it closed. He would show us backhanded stops deep in the hole between third and short, and then an… News - Cover Story 2011-06-09T19:00:16+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/uniquely_baltimore_passover_traditions/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/uniquely_baltimore_passover_traditions/#When:19:00:41Z
]]>A Dahan Family Tradition Rochelle Eisenberg Staff Reporter Each Passover season, as we sit down at the table to retell the story of our exodus from Egypt, families bring their own sets of traditions, stories and memories to the seder table. Some are bound by traditions passed from generation to generation; others by new ideas developed to… News - Cover Story 2011-04-14T19:00:41+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/world_of_98_rocks_josh_spiegel/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/world_of_98_rocks_josh_spiegel/#When:19:00:47Z
]]>So it’s not exactly the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, but 98 Rock newsman extraordinaire Josh Spiegel aka Spiegel! let it be known to on-air personalities Mickey, Amelia and to the hundreds of thousands who were listening that he wanted to be on the cover of the BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES. We received e-mails and phone calls from listeners… News - Cover Story 2009-11-19T19:00:47+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/a_jewish_journey_of_addiction_and_recovery/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/a_jewish_journey_of_addiction_and_recovery/#When:19:00:43Z
]]>Ryan Botwinik stepped inside and closed a large, glass door, sealing himself off from East Baltimore Street. The sounds of midday traffic and sidewalk chatter dissipated, and a cluster of seated men turned their heads simultaneously in his direction. Mr. Botwinik strode confidently into the weathered former bank building — adjacent to the onetime home of the Baltimore… News - Cover Story, News - Special Reports, Substance Abuse 2009-07-02T19:00:43+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/district_11s_dynamic_legislative_team/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/district_11s_dynamic_legislative_team/#When:18:58:17Z
]]>The Hebrew value of the number 11 has several definitions. One is the word “cluster.” Another is “to be strong and mighty.” Still another can be interpreted as “to shine, gleam or glitter.” Others define the number 11 in terms of “good and pleasing” and “to speak softly,” and as “the sound of a heart beating.” These words… News - Cover Story 2009-04-16T18:58:17+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/how_to_have_a_wild_chanukah/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/how_to_have_a_wild_chanukah/#When:20:00:28Z Welcome to the BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES’ Chanukah issue. This year, the holiday begins at sundown on Sunday, Dec. 21, and ends at sundown on Monday, Dec. 29. For this issue, we talked to families about how they celebrate Chanukah, rated the jelly doughnuts from four different bakeries, hung out with a Jewish storyteller and more. Enjoy Chanukah with… News - Cover Story 2008-12-18T20:00:28+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/vine_country/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/vine_country/#When:19:00:34Z A thick autumn fog enveloped Temple Emanuel of Maryland on a recent weekday morning. Wet leaves clung to each other in scattered piles on the front lawn of the temple’s campus as cars and trucks whizzed by on slippery, congested Connecticut Avenue. A persistent drizzle fell on this stately, tree-lined Montgomery County hamlet near Washington, D.C., and a… News - Cover Story, News - Special Reports, Reinventing Synagogue 2008-11-20T19:00:34+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/willow_creek_rising/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/willow_creek_rising/#When:19:00:00Z “Come on already, Mom!” In a spacious, busy parking lot in this northwest Chicago suburb among patchworks of rolling farmlands, nondescript office parks and sprawling housing subdivisions, an 8-year-old boy looked over his shoulder and flashed an expression of severe annoyance at his yawning, sluggish mother. “Let’s go! Let’s go!” the boy, wearing a T-shirt, baseball cap, jeans… News - Cover Story, News - Special Reports, Reinventing Synagogue 2008-05-08T19:00:00+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/hard_pill_to_swallow/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/hard_pill_to_swallow/#When:18:06:00Z
]]>Robert M. Stutman, a retired Drug Enforcement Administration special agent, was speaking to a group of area businessmen recently at an airport hotel. The focus of this meeting was to talk about how drug abuse impacts the workplace. But before Mr. Stutman, a former Randallstown resident now living in Florida, got to the office, the business execs wanted… News - Cover Story, News - Special Reports, Substance Abuse 2007-10-19T18:06:00+00:00