http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en jkrznaric@alteryourview.com Copyright 2008 2008-05-13T20:22:01-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/painful_episode/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/painful_episode/#When:15:39:00Z “The school’s motto “Esse Quam videri—`to be rather than to seem’ – emphasizes the development of one’s integrity, courage and compassion for others. Boys’ Latin welcomes young men from diverse backgrounds and educates them in a supportive student-centered environment.” – parts of the Boys’ Latin mission statement. Aaron Linkoff, a player on the Boys’ Latin eighth-grade… News - Local, News - Home page 2008-05-13T15:39:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/new_orthodox_singles_group/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/new_orthodox_singles_group/#When:19:00:01Z It’s a place to socialize for Orthodox graduate students and other young adults. It’s not Hillel, and it’s not Chabad. It’s called the Baltimore Chevra, and it’s run by peers for their peers. The group was started with 20 members in 2005 by Gary Kasper, a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University. He said he was… News - Local 2008-05-08T19:00:01-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/israels_fallen_recalled_here/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/israels_fallen_recalled_here/#When:19:00:00Z A siren, loud and long and heart-rending. Seven candles. Somber music. An Israel Defense Forces helmet atop a table, draped in black. “Lizkor,” read the sign in front. “Remember.” Last Tuesday night, May 6, marked the beginning of Yom HaZikaron, the day of remembrance for Israel’s fallen soldiers.  A community-wide commemoration organized by the Baltimore Zionist District brought… News - Local 2008-05-08T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/bhu_acting_head_leaving/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/bhu_acting_head_leaving/#When:19:00:00Z Dr. David S. Ariel, Baltimore Hebrew University’s acting president since last fall, recently announced he will leave that position to become president of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in Oxford, Great Britain. He is expected to remain at BHU through the middle of this summer. “I think I have been able… News - Local, News - Home page 2008-05-08T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/dershowitz_blasts_israel_critics/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/dershowitz_blasts_israel_critics/#When:19:00:00Z Professor Alan M. Dershowitz spent a Sunday in Baltimore that few who heard him speak will ever forget. During the day, May 4, he spoke on behalf of the University of Baltimore School of Law. His topic was “Defending Truth: Legal and Moral Imperatives of Holocaust Denial.” That evening, he carried his message to… News - Local, News - Home page 2008-05-08T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/beth_tfiloh_baseball_scores_big/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/beth_tfiloh_baseball_scores_big/#When:19:00:00Z A siren, loud and long and heart-rending. Seven candles. Somber music. An Israel Defense Forces helmet atop a table, draped in black. “Lizkor,” read the sign in front. “Remember.” Last Tuesday night, May 6, marked the beginning of Yom HaZikaron, the day of remembrance for Israel’s fallen soldiers.  A community-wide commemoration organized by the Baltimore Zionist District brought… News - Local 2008-05-08T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/emissary_to_poland_remembering_dennis_misler/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/emissary_to_poland_remembering_dennis_misler/#When:18:00:00Z Dennis Misler died in Konstancin near Warsaw, the capitol of Poland, his adopted country. At the time of his death, Dennis was a President of a not-for-profit organization called PAJA which stands for the Polish American Jewish Alliance for Youth Action. Dennis and his Polish American friend started PAJA in 2000 with the desire to help… News - Local 2008-05-08T18:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/exhibit_recalls_jewish_oasis/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/exhibit_recalls_jewish_oasis/#When:03:00:00Z After World War I and before the Great Depression, a cadre of Masons from the Washington, D.C., area headed east in search of sun and a few weeks break from their lives of urban commerce. They planted themselves in the remote Anne Arundel community of Shady Side, where their seven-decade sojourn marked a curious chapter in… News - Local 2008-05-02T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/lumber_company_is_a_family_affair/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/lumber_company_is_a_family_affair/#When:19:00:01Z There’s a black, hand-operated adding machine atop a filing cabinet in the back office of National Lumber Co. It’s labeled “total office equipment, 1933.” “I lugged that machine back and forth every night to my home, to price up the bills for that particular day,” recalled 90-year-old Leonard Fruman, who took over the business from his… News - Local 2008-05-01T19:00:01-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/student_helps_israeli_peers/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/student_helps_israeli_peers/#When:19:00:00Z Thanks to Zach Guttman’s compassion and creativity, students at the Netzach Israel Middle School in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi are accumulating a supply of sports equipment to add to the enjoyment of their school day. Zach, 11, a sixth-grade student at Pikesville’s Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community Middle School, established a Kids Helping Kids… News - Local 2008-05-01T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/lawmakers_chronicle_bills_journey/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/lawmakers_chronicle_bills_journey/#When:19:00:00Z As the hours of the 2008 General Assembly wound down, an intense drama played out behind closed doors.  Legislators agreed they needed to repeal the computer services tax they passed in the fall special session. But replace it with what? The solution that emerged was eventually, in part, the “millionaire’s tax,” a surcharge on earnings above… News - Local, News - Home page 2008-05-01T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/subway_guy_chews_the_fat/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/subway_guy_chews_the_fat/#When:19:00:00Z Jared Fogle, the man who has put Subway on the caloric sonar screens of untold numbers of Americans, will be in Pikesville next week. Mr. Fogle, 30, will be at the new kosher Subway, located at 706 Reisterstown Road in Pikesville, from 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6, and from noon to 2:30 p.m.… News - Local, News - Home page 2008-05-01T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/close_ties/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/close_ties/#When:19:00:00Z Israel and the United States are on different sides of the world. The people speak different languages. They make their purchases with different currencies. However, Israel and the United States have something other than democracy to bring them together — business, information technology, biotechnology and homeland security, to be specific. “Those are the areas… News - Local 2008-05-01T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/anti_semitic_concert_notes_upsets_viewers/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/anti_semitic_concert_notes_upsets_viewers/#When:19:00:00Z Dr. Roger Marcus could hardly believe his eyes. There he was at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, enjoying a concert sponsored by the Shriver Hall Concert Series, when he read the translated text of the song being sung in Latin. The text accused Jews of crucifying Christ. “That was the first time I’d… News - Local, News - Home page 2008-04-24T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/mother_daughter_rescue_woman_at_seder/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/mother_daughter_rescue_woman_at_seder/#When:19:00:00Z Unlike matzoh, Chelsea Smith rises to the occasion on Passover. Chelsea, an Owings Mills High School sophomore, proved that point last Sunday night, April 20, when she helped save the life of an elderly relative — a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor — by thinking quickly and utilizing her cardiopulmonary resuscitation training. “It’s an experience I’ll… News - Local, News - Home page 2008-04-24T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/patz_highlights_cilmate_change_health_risks/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/patz_highlights_cilmate_change_health_risks/#When:19:00:00Z There aren’t many people who can say they’ve won the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Jonathan Patz is one of them. A Baltimore native raised in Pikesville, he became a bar mitzvah at Beth Am Congregation, and for that occasion he did an extra Torah portion at Chizuk Amuno Congregation. Now a medical doctor with… News - Local 2008-04-24T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/brandon_walkers_newest_fun_video/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/brandon_walkers_newest_fun_video/#When:19:00:00Z You loved him in his popular breakthrough video, “Chinese Food On Christmas.” Now, local singer/satirist Brandon Walker is back with his follow-up effort, the Passover-themed “Get Down With Moses.” The theme of the song and its video are simple enough. “It’s a bad- a-- Moses who goes around town and parts stuff,” Mr. Walker said.  The… News - Local 2008-04-24T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/hockey_against_cancer/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/hockey_against_cancer/#When:19:00:00Z The concept of tikkun olam (repairing the world) will be more than evident at an upcoming area fund-raising event that’s the first of its kind here. Hockey Fights Cancer Maryland will be held Sunday, May 4, at the Ice World skating rink in Abingdon. The event is celebrating its 10th anniversary nationally, but this will be… News - Local 2008-04-24T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/dan_morhaims_general_assembly_scorecard/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/dan_morhaims_general_assembly_scorecard/#When:19:00:00Z Each legislative session gets extensive media coverage. High-profile issues and human-interest items receive the most attention, so you’ve probably read about utility rates, foreclosures, tech tax repeal, and the Smith Island Cake. But there are bills that the media overlooks, and these bills often have significant impact on state policy and average citizens. The following are… News - Local 2008-04-24T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/passover_and_pollard_an_open_letter_to_bush_olmert/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/passover_and_pollard_an_open_letter_to_bush_olmert/#When:19:00:00Z Dear Mr. President and Mr. Prime Minister, I am very proud to be an American, to be Jewish, and to be a supporter of Israel. That pride is borne of the great national character reflected by both countries – an ingrained commitment to freedom, democracy, and humanitarian values – which in turn nourish our… News - Local 2008-04-24T19:00:00-05:00