Recently Concluded General Assembly Session Shows State Making Stronger Shift...
To many, Maryland’s political climate can be likened to a NASCAR race: nothing but left turns. Over the past two years, Maryland’s Democratic-controlled General Assembly has pushed through a series of...
View ArticleBeing There For Our Children
Engaged parents make all the difference in the life of a child. The nature of contemporary society has made engaged parenting all the more challenging, as the increasing demands on our time and...
View ArticleWhat About Caregivers?
“No Place Like Home” and “Location, Location” (April 19) addressed services for those who can afford Elite HomeCare Services, The Lisa Vogel Agency, Jewish Community Services’ comprehensive...
View ArticleWake-Up Call
In response to “Ready to Respond” (April 26), the Boston tragedy last week only proved the need for all of us to be more vigilant [and] to pay attention to our surroundings. Our citizens should have...
View ArticleOnly In Israel
I am not the kind of person who writes letters to the editor or responds to columnists (although I must confess that I did recently write to criticize The Washington Post over its biased journalism in...
View ArticleNo Place Like Eddie’s
Regarding the article, “Happy Anni-versary, Eddie’s” (April 12): In 1991, my wife, Fran, discovered Eddie’s of Roland Park soon after we moved into our Colonnade condo on University Parkway. For nine...
View ArticleJewish Law For Israel
There are several points in Ben Sales’ article “Kotel Compromise notwithstanding, Israel facing uphill battle over pluralism” (online only, April 19) that require further comment. Regarding Women of...
View ArticleSmart Meters, Dumb On So Many Levels
Thank you for running the informative article on BGE trying to replace all of our electric meters with smart meters (“Smart Meters: Dumb Choice,” April 12). These are being installed in every house,...
View ArticleTiming Is Everything
Highlighting the April 5 edition of the JT dedicated to Yom Ha’Shoah 5773 was the editorial “Yom Ha’Shoah’s Necessary Story.” It emphasized the importance of “remember[ing] the horrors of the Holocaust...
View ArticleLocal Jewish Gymnast Set For National Competition
Gymnast Sydney Needle, 14, of Sparks will compete this weekend in the Level 9 Eastern Championships in Battle Creek, Mich. Needle qualified by placing fourth in the Region 7 all-around with a score of...
View ArticleHostess with the Mostest
Does Lisa Ferentz ever sleep? The Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work’s Social Worker of the Year for 2009, the founder and president of the Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy Education and...
View ArticleSol Levinson & Bros. To Offer Virtual Tour
After launching its revamped website in March, Sol Levinson & Bros., Inc. General Manager Matt Levinson told the Baltimore Jewish Times that the Pikesville funeral home would continue to strive to...
View ArticleJontiff — Sandler
Betty and Mark Jontiff of Owings Mills happily announce the engagement of their daughter, Dena Lynn Jontiff, to Ian Zachary Sandler, son of Dawna and Larry Sandler of Reisterstown. Dena is the...
View ArticleThe Wayward Moon
“The Wayward Moon” by Janice Weizman is way amazing. The historical novel travels with Rahel, a 17-year-old Iranian Jewish woman preparing to meet her fiance. Just moments before the event, an enemy...
View ArticlePop Goes The Fizz
SodaStream, an Israeli company, recently made its mark on the global market by providing an alternative and environmentally friendly way for consumers to prepare their own carbonated beverages. By...
View ArticleMay 3, 2013
Empowered: Ethiopian-Israeli Tsega Melaku is one of five Israeli women chosen to participate in U.S. State Department conference Arts For All: Modell Lyric seeks to ‘excite, educate and entertain’ Home...
View ArticleHECHT
On April 30, 2013, LAWRENCE EMANUEL; loving nephew of the late Hannah R. Hecht; loving cousin of Rabbi Stuart J. Robinson, Esq. (Michelle C. Ross, DVM, Ph.D, USAR Col., ret.), Thomas and Jonathan,...
View ArticleDISMAN
On May 1, 2013, LEV; dear husband of Elvira Disman (nee Stomakhina); loving father of Yelena (Mikhail) Maksimenko and Vitaliy (Victoria) Disman; cherished grandfather of Yevgeniy Maksimenko and...
View ArticleJewish Firefighter Dies Following April House Fire
Reisterstown volunteer firefighter, Gene Kirchner, died early Thursday afternoon at Shock Trauma. Kirchner, 25, was critically injured in an April 24 house fire at 19 Hanover Road in Reisterstown....
View ArticleA ‘Scandal’-ous Encounter in the Holy Land!
A contingent of stars from the hit ABC-TV series ‘Scandal’ and ‘Once Upon a Time’ have been exposed to a whirlwind of Israeli medical and viticultural innovations during their week-long trek across...
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