http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en nrubin@jewishtimes.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-10T19:04:19+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/komen_supporters_ponder_next_steps/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/komen_supporters_ponder_next_steps/#When:19:00:56Z
]]>After a tumultuous two weeks for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, which saw it defund and then restore funding for Planned Parenthood, local supporters of the former are absorbing lessons and pondering their future support. On Tuesday, Jan. 31, the Komen Foundation, well-known for its breast cancer awareness programs and charity, said it would no… News - Local 2012-02-09T19:00:56+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/sheldon_bermans_moment/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/sheldon_bermans_moment/#When:19:00:41Z
]]>Sheldon Berman has spent his life dedicated to helping the State of Israel and the Baltimore Jewish community. Now — as he battles inoperable brain cancer (quite well, thank you) — the community is dedicating a day to honor him. Berman will be honored with a brunch at the Beth Tfiloh Sagner Auditorium this Sunday, Feb. 12. Howard… News - Local 2012-02-09T19:00:41+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/krieger_schechter_picks_new_head/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/krieger_schechter_picks_new_head/#When:19:00:40Z
]]>Krieger Schechter Day School, Baltimore’s K-8 Conservative Jewish private school, has announced the successor to Dr. Paul D. Schneider, who has led the Stevenson school for nearly three decades. Bill Zarch, 41, who has spent the past 16 years in Jewish education and is currently head of school for the Lander-Grinspoon Academy, a Solomon Schechter Day School in… News - Local 2012-02-09T19:00:40+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/state_archivist_sncf_archives_might_not_be_enough/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/state_archivist_sncf_archives_might_not_be_enough/#When:19:00:38Z
]]>French railway giant SNCF —  whose Maryland affiliate is vying for a large state contract —  may still not be complying with state law, despite finally making digital copies of its World War II archives available to researchers and museums this week, according to the state’s top archivist. “I can say that the newspaper announcement of making images… News - Local 2012-02-09T19:00:38+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/carl_jacobs_on_bouncing_back_from_shooting/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/carl_jacobs_on_bouncing_back_from_shooting/#When:19:00:32Z
]]>On that horrific day nearly a dozen years ago when he was shot twice at a stoplight in midtown Baltimore, Carl P. Jacobs says he had one thing on his mind while struggling to remain conscious and drive his Toyota Solara away from the crime scene. “My wife didn’t want me to go into the [check cashing] business… News - Local 2012-02-09T19:00:32+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/area_rabbis_jump_into_same_sex_marriage_debate/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/area_rabbis_jump_into_same_sex_marriage_debate/#When:19:00:46Z
]]>When on Jan. 24, 2012, Gov. Martin O’Malley introduced a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland, the political battle was again on; a similar measure passed the state Senate in 2011, but died in the House of Delegates. This year, however, advocates for the measure believe they will prevail. That’s because while the new bill still gives… News - Local 2012-02-02T19:00:46+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/baltimore_hadassah_cell-a-brates/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/baltimore_hadassah_cell-a-brates/#When:19:00:37Z
]]>Cell-A-Brate they did! More than 600 people floated throughout the diverse offerings of the rooms of the Woodholme Country Club after the sun went down on Saturday, Jan. 28. They had arrived for the always highly anticipated Hadassah of Greater Baltimore’s Cell-A-Brate event, which raises funds for research for a variety of ailments that may benefit from… News - Local 2012-02-02T19:00:37+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/how_chaim_peri_changed_lives/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/how_chaim_peri_changed_lives/#When:19:00:25Z
]]>Dr. Chaim Peri believes in second chances. At Yemin Orde, the youth village that he has directed for three decades in northern Israel’s Mount Carmel region, approximately 500 teenagers from 20 countries who were abandoned, abused or orphaned have found a home and an opportunity to heal.  Peri’s new book “The Village Way: Teachings from Yemin Orde… News - Local 2012-02-02T19:00:25+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/tips_for_unemployed_and_over_40/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/tips_for_unemployed_and_over_40/#When:19:00:08Z
]]>With age comes wisdom, insight, contentment and … employability? Well, not so much. The older one gets, the harder it seems to be to find a job. That’s because it is harder: The AARP organization says older job seekers these days remain out of work for about a year, as compared to 40 weeks among younger job seekers.… News - Local 2012-02-02T19:00:08+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/remembering_karl_goodman/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/remembering_karl_goodman/#When:18:20:19Z Karl H. Goodman, Attorney at law, our father, our Zaydie, hero to all; I wrote those words as part of a longer poem, for a gala dinner, given by Chabad of Park Heights, in honor of my father. Who knew that only 5 months later, my dear father would suddenly pass away in the prime of his life?… News - Local 2012-02-01T18:20:19+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/cumberlands_jewish_business_roots/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/cumberlands_jewish_business_roots/#When:18:00:16Z It was 1948 and Jewish businesses in downtown Cumberland lined both sides of Baltimore Street and Centre and Mechanic streets as well. The nucleus of the downtown was Rosenbaum’s Department Store. The store had five stories with four elevators reaching each floor. The first floor consisted of menswear, ladies accessories and shoes. Second floor was foundations and lingerie,… News - Local 2012-02-01T18:00:16+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/fiddler_returns_to_baltimores_big_stage/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/fiddler_returns_to_baltimores_big_stage/#When:19:00:51Z Residents of the little shtetl of Anatevka will briefly take up residence in Baltimore next month, as the classic musical “Fiddler On The Roof” arrives for a three-day stay — Feb. 2-4 — at the Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric Theatre. The large cast — after all, it is a whole village —… News - Local 2012-01-26T19:00:51+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/rebbetzin_weinberg_pioneer_in_battling_domestic_abuse_dies/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/rebbetzin_weinberg_pioneer_in_battling_domestic_abuse_dies/#When:19:00:51Z Rebbetzin Chana Weinberg died last Monday, Jan. 23. The German-born rebbetzin, a universally well-respected advocate of women’s rights and domestic abuse awareness in the Jewish community, was the wife of Ner Israel Rabbinical College’s late rosh yeshiva (dean), Rabbi Yaakov S. Weinberg. Her late father, Rabbi Yaacov Yitzchok Ruderman, was the yeshiva’s founder and first rosh yeshiva. Rebbetzin… News - Local 2012-01-26T19:00:51+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/olivers_local_triumph/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/olivers_local_triumph/#When:19:00:30Z On a recent evening in Bolton Hill, a diverse group of children, teenagers and adults gathered at Memorial Episcopal Church to rehearse for the Feb. 3 premiere of the Memorial Players’ production of “Oliver!” The atmosphere was full of energy, excitement, warmth and camaraderie. The play’s director and choreographer, Timoth David Copney, and its co-producer, Julie Modlin, took… News - Local 2012-01-26T19:00:30+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/camp_shoreshs_night_of_magic/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/camp_shoreshs_night_of_magic/#When:19:00:12Z Rabbi David Finkelstein, Rabbi Asher Stein, Rabbi Tzvi Tuchman and dozens of other Camp Shoresh staff and volunteers were their typical crazed selves in the evening hours of Saturday, Jan. 21 – which means they were energized, joking, running around and getting a million tasks done at once. After all, it was show time – time, that is,… News - Local 2012-01-26T19:00:12+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/insiders_eyes_on_israels_economic_success/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/insiders_eyes_on_israels_economic_success/#When:19:00:07Z Despite underfunded key business opportunities and a legendary bureaucracy, Israel could be the world’s economically healthiest democracy — as seen by its historic low 5.6 percent unemployment rate. So noted Dr. Orna Berry, former chief scientist of Israel’s Ministry of Industry and Trade and current vice president and general manager for the Israel Center of Excellence, during a… News - Local 2012-01-26T19:00:07+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/mara_neimanis_painful_tribute_to_mother/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/mara_neimanis_painful_tribute_to_mother/#When:19:00:42Z
]]>In her acclaimed aerial theater pieces, actress/writer Mara Neimanis always tells stories — stories of doomed aviator Amelia Earhart, of the cultural struggles of Native Americans, of college students’ perspectives on pressing contemporary issues, and even of Greek myths.  In “Naomi’s Flight,” the piece that she will premiere Feb. 2 at the Creative Alliance in Highlandtown, the… News - Local 2012-01-19T19:00:42+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/state_lawmakers_on_their_priorities/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/state_lawmakers_on_their_priorities/#When:19:00:30Z Maryland’s 2012 General Assembly opened in Annapolis last week, setting off the 90-day frenzy known as “the session.” The governor’s budget, the death penalty, same-sex marriage and more are expected to be hot-button issues. Area legislators also have other priorities, some of which are briefly described below. Sen. Bobby Zirkin (D-11th) State Sen. Bobby Zirkin has spent recent… News - Local 2012-01-19T19:00:30+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/friendship_circle_for_disabled_kids_families/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/friendship_circle_for_disabled_kids_families/#When:19:00:30Z
]]>Parenting is tough. Very tough. Parenting a child with special needs is much tougher. It also can be lonely and isolating, for both the child and the parent. Baltimore’s first Friendship Circle branch aims to change that. A Jewish nonprofit organization that originated 15 years ago in Det-roit, the program now services Jewish families who have… News - Local 2012-01-19T19:00:30+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/levines_know_to_cell-a-brate_with_hadassah/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/levines_know_to_cell-a-brate_with_hadassah/#When:19:00:04Z
]]>The dark, swirling colors evocative of an autumn afternoon are the work of 41-year-old Baltimorean Stephanie Levine. It’s a painting that evokes power; its vibrancy is full of emotions, and in many ways it speaks to the character of the artist. Stephanie Levine has cerebral palsy. Wheelchair-bound her entire life, she boasts an enormous amount… News - Local 2012-01-19T19:00:04+00:00