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]]>First in an occasional series on women’s issues in the Orthodox community New York There was a mood at last Sunday’s Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) Conference. It was a feeling of confidence, strength and forward-thinking. The feeling was hardly one of woman as victim or second-class citizen. Instead, it was Orthodox woman as leader, as re-inventor, as… News - Local 2010-03-18T19:00:55+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/baltimore_recalls_dr_arnall_patz/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/baltimore_recalls_dr_arnall_patz/#When:19:00:37Z
]]>Dr. Arnall Patz — whose pioneering work in infant blindness is likely to have saved the eyesight of hundreds of thousands of newborns worldwide since the 1950s — died March 11 in his sleep at his Pikesville home. He was 89. The director emeritus of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins was widely acclaimed as a pivotal… News - Local 2010-03-18T19:00:37+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/jewish_gun_advocates_aim_for_bagel_brain_jews/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/jewish_gun_advocates_aim_for_bagel_brain_jews/#When:19:00:31Z
]]>A Wisconsin group of gun rights advocates took what many consider a cheap shot at two Maryland lawmakers recently with a flier that referred to the legislators as “Bagel Brain Jews.” The flier was mailed to homes in Montgomery County and included photographs of Sen. Brian E. Frosh (D-16th) of Montgomery County and Del. Samuel I.… News - Local, News - Home page 2010-03-18T19:00:31+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/crime_drops_in_pikesville_owings_reisterstown/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/crime_drops_in_pikesville_owings_reisterstown/#When:19:00:03Z
]]>Overall crime in the Owings Mills-Pikesville-Reisters- town areas continued dropping last year, as did all such activities throughout Baltimore County, according to the recently released Baltimore County Police Year End Crime Report 2009. In Precinct 3 (which covers Owings Mills and Reisterstown), overall crime dropped 11.1 one percent. In Precinct 4 (Pikesville and much of Randallstown), the drop… News - Local, News - Home page 2010-03-18T19:00:03+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/new_old_shul_in_east_baltimore/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/new_old_shul_in_east_baltimore/#When:19:00:01Z
]]>Driving for years southbound on Park Heights Avenue and Reisterstown Road, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gafnei says he was always struck by the prevalence of former synagogues dotting the urban landscape. “I saw these shuls that had become something else, and it made me upset,” said the Tel Aviv-born Rabbi Gafnei. “I’d think, ‘How did this happen?’ In Israel,… News - Local 2010-03-18T19:00:01+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/how_ethan_schuman_helps_mexicos_jewish_anusim/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/how_ethan_schuman_helps_mexicos_jewish_anusim/#When:18:53:21Z
]]>It is certainly no surprise to discover Jewish exotica when traveling to hidden recesses of the classical European or North African world.  A stroll through an antique market or peeking around an old shu’s basement can result in the discovery of some fantastic artifacts of a distant past.  It is amazing indeed however to uncover a long lost… News - Local 2010-03-18T18:53:21+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/sam_burgerman_noveys_mitzvah_madness/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/sam_burgerman_noveys_mitzvah_madness/#When:18:50:48Z In my 17 years at Jewish day schools (first at Krieger Schechter, and on to Beth Tfiloh for high school), the idea that tzedakah is about more than charity was hammered home. The word’s root, tzedek, implies not only generosity, but also justice. It’s certainly a message that Sam Novey, another Schechter graduate, has taken to heart. Now… News - Local 2010-03-18T18:50:48+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/how_can_you_defend_this_man/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/how_can_you_defend_this_man/#When:18:48:30Z What’s wrong with these people?   In an attempt to buttress the tarnished credibility of Rabbi Menachem Youlus, the Washington , DC , area Torah scribe who boasts that he has “rescued” over 1,000 Holocaust-era Torah scrolls, Save a Torah, Inc., Youlus’s 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt organization, has now issued a report by two allegedly “independent”… News - Local 2010-03-18T18:48:30+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/brothers_win_discrimination_suit/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/brothers_win_discrimination_suit/#When:16:43:10Z A pair of Jewish brothers who live in the Baltimore metropolitan area won a $115,000 settlement from a Texas-based human resources firm in a religion-based harassment case, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced last week. While working at an office in Edgewood, Scott and Joey Jacobson alleged they were called “dirty Jew,” “dumb Jew,” “stupid Jew” and… News - Local, News - Home page 2010-03-18T16:43:10+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/jewish_museum_hits_50/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/jewish_museum_hits_50/#When:19:00:57Z
]]>It’s called “The Synagogue Speaks.” To commemorate its 50th anniversary, the Jewish Museum of Maryland will open a multi-media exhibition in its newly-restored Lloyd Street Synagogue. Tours of the exhibition will be held Sunday, March 21, from noon to 4 p.m. at the synagogue, 11 Lloyd Street. A reception will be held next door in the lobby of… News - Local 2010-03-11T19:00:57+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/restaurateur_sid_mandell_remembered/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/restaurateur_sid_mandell_remembered/#When:19:00:26Z
]]>Sidney “Sid” Mandell, whose Woodmoor delicatessen for decades was Northwest Baltimore’s unofficial communal Jewish kitchen, died March 2 in his sleep at age 93. From 1954 through 1980 — following more than two decades working alongside his brother, Joe, at other area family-owned eateries — a visit to Sid Mandell’s restaurant was a neighborhood staple of social life… News - Local 2010-03-11T19:00:26+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/beth_am_hires_new_rabbi/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/beth_am_hires_new_rabbi/#When:19:00:23Z
]]>Shortly before Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg delivered his Shabbat sermon during his “tryout weekend” in late January at Beth Am Synagogue, a worshipper fainted suddenly. But Julian L. Lapides, the Reservoir Hill congregation’s president, remembers being highly impressed with the rabbi’s composure and poise during the unnerving episode, in which three physicians labored for a short time… News - Local, News - Home page 2010-03-11T19:00:23+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/water_main_break_drains_owings_mills/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/water_main_break_drains_owings_mills/#When:19:00:12Z
]]>It was around the middle of the day last Saturday, March 6, when Owings Mills resident Esther Jacobson first noticed she had lost water at her home. By the following day, the taps were bone dry. Mrs. Jacobson and her husband utilized the water in their hot tub to fill the bathroom toilet so they could flush, while… News - Local 2010-03-11T19:00:12+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/heeeres_ronnie/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/heeeres_ronnie/#When:18:45:35Z
]]>Snapping his fingers to the rhythm, charging around the stage like a panther and holding the final note of a Vegas standard, Ron Gartner — with a sneer on his lips and his sweaty tuxedo shirt unbuttoned — summons the zeitgeist of a bygone era. It was a time when Frank, Dino and Sammy were on top of… News - Local 2010-03-08T18:45:35+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/a_teen_fights_als/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/a_teen_fights_als/#When:20:00:37Z
]]>My name is Sierra Levin and I am in the tenth grade at Owings Mills High School. About a year ago, my cousin’s mother was stricken with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and after a terrible battle with this disease, she passed away. I decided to use my Sweet 16th Birthday to raise awareness and money to benefit… News - Local 2010-03-04T20:00:37+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/gov._omalley_meets_baltimore_jewish_leaders/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/gov._omalley_meets_baltimore_jewish_leaders/#When:19:00:58Z
]]>Gov. Martin O’Malley, fresh from his historic trip to Iraq, addressed several hundred in attendance for Tuesday evening’s Baltimore Jewish Council-hosted Advocacy Day. The governor’s remarks were the keynotes of a day where buses of Jewish community members from both the Baltimore and suburban Washington, D.C. areas came to Annapolis to meet with local elected officials. Discussions, ranging… News - Local, News - Home page 2010-03-04T19:00:58+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/notes_from_a_journey/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/notes_from_a_journey/#When:19:00:50Z
]]>Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) recently returned from leading a bipartisan six-member delegation to Vienna for the winter meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. While there, the chair of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, which monitors human rights, attended Shabbat services at the Vienna Synagogue and met with Holocaust survivors organized… News - Local 2010-03-04T19:00:50+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/joey_green_creative_wacky_recycling/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/joey_green_creative_wacky_recycling/#When:19:00:45Z
]]>He’s been called “the Pantry Professor” and “Heloise from Hell,” and with good reason. Joey Green has been collecting off-label uses for ordinary household items for years. Need to clean your carpets? Try a Pampers diaper. Stuck without shaving cream? Reach for a jar of peanut butter. Sunburned and out of aloe? Take the Nestea plunge (literally).… News - Local, News - Home page 2010-03-04T19:00:45+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/seven_mile_to_take_over_safeway/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/seven_mile_to_take_over_safeway/#When:21:52:17Z In an email sent out this week, Seven Mile’s management wrote, “With Gratitude to the ONE ABOVE, we want to announce to our Friends and Customers news about our future plans. In the next few months, we plan to move to 201 Reisterstown Road around the corner from our current location (formerly Safeway). We look forward to your… News - Local, News - Home page 2010-03-02T21:52:17+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/the_j.t._just_teasing/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/the_j.t._just_teasing/#When:20:00:42Z
]]>Scroll With It, Baby Australian snowboarder Torah Bright, a Mormon, electrified the sports world and won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver last week. After accepting her medal, Ms. Bright thanked her family, in particular her older brother Mishnah, her younger sisters Chumash and Talmud, and her great-uncle Kabbalah. Watch Your Mouse! After suffering a… News - Local 2010-02-25T20:00:42+00:00