Playing matchmaker: Barry Bogage
When Barry Bogage became the first executive director of the Maryland Israel Development Center, he accepted the task of working toward economic growth and...
Living in Yiddish: Ken Moss
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Ken Moss, 46, watched two of his kids participate in a virtual Yiddish performance, then he hopped onto a...
Fostering peace in the Middle East: Avi Meyerstein
By Lisa Woolfson
Within the more than 5,000 pages of the budget bill was a few pages establishing an international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace, with...
Keeping faith: Maryrita Wieners
By Tony Glaros
Growing up in the Philadelphia of the 1960s, where it wasn’t uncommon to find as many as five Catholic churches within a...
Making history: Marvin Pinkert
A changing of the guard is underway at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, as the current executive director, Marvin Pinkert, is retiring.
A resident of...
Welcoming everyone to the JCC: Barak Hermann
About 28 years ago, Barak Hermann graduated college with an associate’s degree in hotel marketing and a bachelor’s in social science with a minor...
Making the system work: Del. Sandy Rosenberg
12/2/20: Update: The Maryland Stadium Authority will award a contract for the planning and design of a new racing facility at Pimlico in January.
Del....
With modesty and style: Shirah Wealcatch
“Rent the Dress, Own the Night” is the tagline for Liylah, an in-store and online rental boutique for modest evening gowns in Pikesville’s Greenspring...
Ante up for the IDF: Jennie Schwartz
By Justin Regan
Jennie Schwartz, 53, is an OB-GYN from Reisterstown who’s been playing cards all her life. From family game nights as a kid,...
Curator of a music museum: Jonathan Palevsky
Jonathan Palevsky, interim general manager at WBJC 91.5, is honored to give Baltimore’s its own local classical music station.
Palevsky, 60, grew up in Montreal,...
