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]]>Can Barack and Bibi embrace — if not in fact at least in principle? After all, the pressures are mounting for both President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu. On the surface, they face some parallel challenges — an Iranian drive for nuclear weapons, the need to quell slowly simmering Arab-Israeli violence lest it drag… News - Cover Story 2009-11-05T20:00:54+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/catching_up_with_baltimores_police_commissioner/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/catching_up_with_baltimores_police_commissioner/#When:20:00:33Z
]]>Baltimore City Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III was probably grateful for this conversation. After all, he’s been spending time in his office crunching budget numbers and figuring them out with crime statistics. So here he was, under the weather with a bad cold, drinking one of at least 10 Cokes he said he drinks a day, and… News - Cover Story 2009-10-29T20:00:33+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/topol_brings_fiddler_to_baltimore/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/topol_brings_fiddler_to_baltimore/#When:20:00:11Z
]]>So, we’re taught in journalism school to avoid getting too personal when it comes to a story interview. But sometimes, it’s OK to bring up that connecting event or fact. For me, it happened in 1971. My first date with a girl named Lisa Cohen would be to see the movie of the rock concert, “Woodstock.” Our second… News - Cover Story 2009-10-22T20:00:11+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/baltimore_mourns_rabbi_mark_loeb/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/baltimore_mourns_rabbi_mark_loeb/#When:20:00:08Z
]]>Upon first meeting, Rabbi Mark Gordon Loeb could come off as a rather imposing and even intimidating figure. A large man with a deep, rich baritone and the kind of penetrating gaze that, when fixed upon you, could make your knees quiver like mounds of Jell-O, he had a towering intellect and didn’t suffer fools well. He unabashedly… News - Cover Story 2009-10-15T20:00:08+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/inside_the_sukkahs_of_baltimore/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/inside_the_sukkahs_of_baltimore/#When:20:00:28Z What a sukkah looks like, it could be argued, says a lot about an individual or a family. Some sukkahs are large, elaborate and well-decorated, virtually a visual feast. Others are austere, small and no-nonsense in their approach to celebrating a holiday that commemorates the Children of Israel’s 40 years of wandering through the desert to physical freedom… News - Cover Story 2009-10-08T20:00:28+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/stevenson_university_transforming_owings_mills/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/stevenson_university_transforming_owings_mills/#When:20:00:33Z
]]>It was only 10 o’clock in the morning and already the temperature was hovering in the mid-80s. Nothing, though, could cool the excitement of move-in day. On Stevenson University’s Owings Mills campus, students and their families were arriving in timed waves. The goal was to avoid the backup that had happened last year, when everyone seemed to arrive… News - Cover Story 2009-10-01T20:00:33+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/10_commandments_what_do_they_mean_today/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/10_commandments_what_do_they_mean_today/#When:20:00:12Z Our cover story this week is the first of a two-part series. As we prepare for Kol Nidre on Sunday evening and the following days leading into Simchat Torah, the BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES asked five of our spiritual leaders, community leaders, students and community members to share their feelings on the code of our faith, the Ten Commandments.… News - Cover Story 2009-09-24T20:00:12+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/can_historic_pocomoke_shul_survive/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/can_historic_pocomoke_shul_survive/#When:20:00:27Z
]]>Judi Scher doesn’t like talking about it much. It’s, well, personal. You can see it in her hesitant eye contact and halting speech. Not really other folks’ business. But just about every single day, on the way to her family’s store in the mornings and on the way home in the evenings, Mrs. Scher drives by Congregation of… News - Cover Story 2009-09-17T20:00:27+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/spirituality_quilts_and_rosh_hashanah/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/spirituality_quilts_and_rosh_hashanah/#When:20:00:23Z
]]>Cover photo by Ben Sussman. “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons, days and years. And let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. And let them serve as signs… News - Cover Story 2009-09-10T20:00:23+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/how_tv_jews_moved_to_cable/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/how_tv_jews_moved_to_cable/#When:20:00:11Z
]]>It was back in May of this year when the 2009-10 fall television season was unveiled to advertisers in what’s called the “upfronts.” This is the opportunity for the networks to showcase their shows while attempting to gain interest and attract sponsors. New York Times ad columnist Stuart Elliott wrote a column describing the season that carried the… News - Cover Story 2009-09-03T20:00:11+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/how_social_networking_impacts_the_jewish_community/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/how_social_networking_impacts_the_jewish_community/#When:20:00:11Z
]]>Want to talk to a nice Jewish girl who shares your love for Sukkot and skydiving? Looking for someone to point you toward a place for an informal Shabbat dinner? Miles from a synagogue and want to chat with a rabbi in real-time? Need help interpreting that mesmerizing Torah passage — right now? Here’s a suggestion: walk over… News - Cover Story 2009-08-27T20:00:11+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/conservative_judaism_thrives_in_baltimore_but_troubled_nationwide/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/conservative_judaism_thrives_in_baltimore_but_troubled_nationwide/#When:19:59:34Z
]]>Being a flag-waver for Conservative Judaism nationwide these days breathes new life into the old expression, “If things are so good, how come I feel so bad?” Except in Baltimore, which is experiencing a reverse of the country’s trend of Reform Judaism passing Conservative Judaism in adherents. Membership units for Conservative shuls here are about 4,800 while the… News - Cover Story 2009-08-20T19:59:34+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/jack_markell_delawares_first_jewish_governor/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/jack_markell_delawares_first_jewish_governor/#When:20:00:42Z
]]>At first, the question seemed to baffle Gov. Jack A. Markell. Characteristically articulate, unflappable and well-polished, Mr. Markell, the first Jewish governor of Delaware who took office last January, appeared a bit flustered by a Baltimore visitor’s odd query. The visitor asked the governor for his reaction to a baseball cap sold in Charm City stores these days… News - Cover Story 2009-08-13T20:00:42+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/gila_shalits_painful_hamas_tale/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/gila_shalits_painful_hamas_tale/#When:20:00:06Z
]]>Before considering the sad political saga of Gilad Shalit — the Israeli soldier who was kidnapped by Hamas more than three years ago while walking his post at the Kerem Shalom crossing in the northeast corner of the Gaza Strip, and has not been seen since — one should contemplate what we know of him as a fellow… News - Cover Story 2009-08-06T20:00:06+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:20:00:43Z
]]>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 2009-07-02T20:00:43+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/open_for_shabbat/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/cover_story/open_for_shabbat/#When:17:05:45Z “Open on Shabbat.” That’s what the Rosenbloom Owings Mills Jewish Community Center will be, beginning 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 6. The vote tally was 97-33, with four abstentions. The approval to open came via secret ballot last Wednesday afternoon, May 27, by the board of directors of the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. The JCC is… News - Cover Story, News - Local, News - Home page 2009-05-27T17:05:45+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:19:58:17Z
]]>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 2009-04-16T19:58:17+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:21:00:28Z 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 2008-12-18T21:00:28+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:20:00:34Z 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 2008-11-20T20:00:34+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:20:00:00Z “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 2008-05-08T20:00:00+00:00