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CONTENTS

Vol. 333 No. 4. | July 26, 2013 | Candle lighting 8:07 p.m.

LOCAL NEWS 13 BRIEFS 16 MAKING MOVES ON MAIN STREET

Advocates in Reisterstown hope to revitalize historic district, earn statewide recognition 18 VERSTANDIG PICKS UP THE PIECES

Pikesville company makes its mark revitalizing dilapidated, vacant properties 20 FLOWERS FOR POWERS 22 A CLEAR VISION

Year 1 reflection with Dr. S. Dallas Dance 25 SUPER TEACHER

One unlikely educator is celebrating 30 years with Torah Institute 26 SPECIAL VOLUNTEERS

Six Bnos Yisroel students learn science, job success through NIH summer internship program 29 JEWS ON BIKES David Stuck

Meet the Lonsmen

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL NEWS

31 EU GUIDELINES

COVER STORY

Wake-up call or roadblock? 34 CLOUD OF SECRECY

Kerry lures both sides back to peace negotiations

TOP STORY Audrey Polt takes storytelling and makes it beautiful

38 INSIDE THE MOSSAD

39 ‘SOME WERE NEIGHBORS’

A conversation with Dan Raviv USHMM exhibition focuses on collaboration, complicity in the Holocaust

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JON CARDIN ANNOUNCES ATTORNEY GENERAL RUN

ARTS & LIFE 51 RETHINKING ROOSEVELT

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IN EVERY ISSUE 6 THE SEEN 40 WORTH THE SCHLEP

OPINION

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7 OPENING THOUGHTS

55 MILESTONES

8 EDITORIALS

56 OBITUARIES

42 MISHMASH

10 FROM THIS VIEW

54 THE JEWISH VIEW

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The writers on “Fashion Police” have had plenty of practice taking swipes at big-name stars. Now they’re using the expertise to go after their own boss, Joan Rivers. In a three-minute video called “Dear Joan: Can We Talk?” the disgruntled writers come down on Rivers for not taking their side in a labor dispute with the E! television network. In April, the writers went on strike “seeking the basics: health insurance, a pension plan and fair pay consistent with industry standards,” according to the video. “That [Joan Rivers] won’t support her fellow Writers Guild members is astonishing,” one writer said. “To me it’s just a basic fairness issue.” The group claims it attempted to sit down and talk it over in person, but that Rivers was unreceptive. The writers believe the veteran Jewish comic has the power to get their demands met and are frustrated by their lack of support. It’s convincing stuff, but, as they say, there are two sides to every story. We’re hoping Rivers finds some new writers to draft her response.

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Lea Michele Pleas For Privacy In the wake of her boyfriend Cory Monteith’s tragic death, Lea Michele released a statement requesting to be left alone. “We ask that everyone kindly respect Lea’s privacy during this devastating time,” a rep for the actress told People. The Jewish “Glee” star, 26, was in Mexico when she learned that Monteith was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room on Saturday. “She was shaking when she heard the news,” a friend told the New York Daily News. The Canadian-born Monteith, 31, who co-starred with Michele on “Glee,” openly struggled with substance abuse (his last rehab stint was in April) and died from a mixture of heroin and alcohol.

Aly And Amar’e At The Maccabiah Jewish gymnast extraordinaire Aly Raisman was among the 1,100-strong U.S. contingent at the 19th Maccabiah Games that started last Thursday. Some 8,000 athletes from around the world descended on Israel for the quadrennial event known as the Jewish Olympics. Another big-name American to look out for at the games is Amar’e Stoudemire. The new York Knicks star, who traveled to Israel a few years ago to explore his Jewish roots, isn’t lacing up his nikes to play, but instead he is serving as an assistant coach for the Canadian basketball team. The Games run through July 30.

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Madonna reunited with ex-husband and director Guy Ritchie to celebrate their son Rocco’s bar mitzvah on Saturday. e coming-of-age celebration took place at the Kabbalah Centre in new York and included a small gathering the previous night. Madonna has been known for her involvement in Kabbalah studies since the 1990s. e singer posted a photo on her Instagram of Rocco completing the writing of a Torah scroll with the caption, “We ﬁnish the last letter of the Torah for Rocco’s Bar Mitzva! Lucky 13! happy Birthday! Potential ……… responsibility!!!! — Madonna.”

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Opening oughts Simone Ellin

On a recent Saturday afternoon, I was taking a dip at my community pool when a neighbor struck up a conversation. the conversation ended when he used a Yiddish racial slur that made my stomach turn. I wish I could say this was the first time I had heard a neighbor or an acquaintance say something like this. While not all such comments are as blatantly racist as the one made by my neighbor, I am continually saddened and angered by the comments uttered by fellow Jews who assume we all feel the same about “those people” and, ironically, who would never consider themselves racists. a few hours aer my conversation at the pool, I was ﬁnishing dinner at a local restaurant. Suddenly, a hush fell over the dining room. I turned to see Patrons watched as the long-awaited verdict in the State of Florida v. George Zimmerman trial was announced. not guilty. I can’t say I was surprised by the verdict. It depressed me nonetheless. an april 2012 Newsweek/the Daily Beast poll taken after trayvon Martin’s killing showed that majorities of both whites (72 percent) and blacks (89 percent) believe the country is divided by race. But twice as many blacks (40 percent) as whites (20 percent) say it is very divided. and just 19 percent of whites say that racism is a big problem in america versus 60 percent of blacks. e assumption that racial bias is no longer a “big problem” prompted the Supreme court’s decision last month to strike down a major part of the Voting rights act of 1965, which had previously mandated nine states with historically racist voting practices to gain federal approval before they could lawfully change election laws. Despite the historic election and re-election of the nation’s ﬁrst africanamerican president, what seems painfully obvious to me is that many

americans — and many american institutions — remain fundamentally racist. racism is so ingrained in our psyches, most of us don’t even realize we harbor deep-seated prejudices against those who look different than ourselves.

Why not use this as an opportunity to re-examine our views (and our words) about our African-American neighbors? as psychodynamic mental health professionals agree, as long as conflicts remain unconscious, human beings will continue to behave in ways that are powerfully destructive. Such is the case when it comes to unconscious racism. Until we acknowledge our prejudices and take steps to control their negative eﬀects, they will continue to govern our speech and behavior, resulting in pain, fear, violence and sometimes even murder. as Jews, we know firsthand the dangers of prejudice and oppression. Our deep identification with oppressed people led many Jews to support african-americans during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Yet, the fact remains — racism is alive and well in today’s Jewish community. there are those of all denominations who teach racism to their children, perpetuating the ugliness of bigotry and ensuring it continues into future generations. the Zimmerman trial and its aftermath epitomize stark differences in the way blacks and whites, liberals and conservatives view the issue of race in 21st -century american society. Whether we believe the verdict was fair or not, why not use this as an opportunity to re-examine our views (and our words) about our african-american neighbors? JT Simone Ellin is a JT staff reporter sellin@jewishtimes.com

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HIAS In Search Of A Mission HIAS, once known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is looking for a new purpose. Founded in New York at the turn of the 20th century, the organization was created to assist with the resettlement of Jewish immigrants who needed help getting acclimated to their new homes. e organization thrived through its first half-century and experienced a revival, which inv-ested it with new purpose, in the 1980s and 1990s, when HIAS helped absorb and resettle hundreds of thousands of Jews who fled the Former Soviet Union. Since then, the Jewish world has experienced unprecedented change: ere are virtually no more Jewish refugees. Rather than being held against their will in one place and expelled from another, virtually every Jew today has freedom of movement, and the vast majority of Jews live in democratic societies. e era of the wandering Jew is over. is raises the question: Is there still a need for HIAS? We are not so sure. We do know that there is no need for an agency with the Jewish resettlement mission of the early 1900s. And the current leadership of HIAS knows that, too. So, HIAS is planning to shi its focus from Jewish immigrant aid in North America to broader refugee care and resettlement overseas. According to reports from HIAS, the agency is planning to take its

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resettlement expertise and infrastructure across the ocean and apply those skills to the many millions of non-Jewish refugees who could benefit from them. Under this new approach, the HIAS name would live on, and it is hoped that the newly focused organization would be supported by Jews and others as a universal cause in favor of world immigrant resettlement. HIAS has other choices. ere are some highly active and successful organizations, such as the Avi Chai foundation, that have a built-in sunset timetable. Among other things, sunset provisions stem from the recognition that missions change and that organizations lose effectiveness over time. But it takes a certain maturity and healthy doses of self-confidence and self-awareness for an organization to declare success and move on. Very few organizations are able to do that. Instead, they get caught up in their own stories and start believing their own PR, and they view themselves as indispensable societal contributors. HIAS has had its successes. It served well for close to a century as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Now its leadership acknowledges that the organization’s original mission is no longer necessary. Rather than search for a new mission in order to justify its continued existence, perhaps it would be better for HIAS to consider an orderly sunset.

Helen Thomas made a groundbreaking career in journalism by being pointed, persistent and fearless. She broke down barriers in journalism for women — she was the first female member of the White House Correspondents Association and the Gridiron Club. And she had a career longevity that most would envy. When she first reported for duty at the White House for United Press International, John F. Kennedy was president. For Thomas, who died July 20 at 92, it was an impressive run for a tenacious journalist. en came her infamous “go home” remark in 2010. At a White House celebration for American Jewish Heritage Month, a rabbi asked Thomas, then a columnist for Hearst Newspapers, for her thoughts on Israel. “Tell them to get out of Palestine,” she said, and “go home” to Germany, Poland or the United States. The video of those remarks went viral and created an uproar. Despite her apology, Thomas’ career was over. But it was hard to dismiss seven decades of tenacious journalism. Perhaps there were mitigating circumstances for the outburst: She was 89, after all. She came from a Lebanese Christian background. She had switched roles from a reporter to a columnist. And she was, of course, pointed, persistent and fearless. Others said her hostility to Israel had been there all along and that her anti-Semitism ran deeper still. We are not among those who consider Thomas to have been an anti-Semite. But we find it hard to ignore her animosity toward Israel. Nonetheless, we would like to remember how she survived professionally against the odds and how she showed that a journalist’s job is not to be awed by those in power, but to approach them with a respectful degree of skepticism. She also provides a lesson on why choosing one’s words carefully can avoid a world of trouble.

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Here’s a Hint For Hollywood if it’s looking for a real green hero. Look to israel. if there is a group of people who know a little something about sustainability, about surviving more than one near apocalypse, you can ﬁnd it there. i say this because at the movies, on tV, in books and even in the form of Disneyeque animation, we’ve seen the world destroyed in a wave after wave of dystopian, post-apocalyptic depictions. at the movies this summer, there’s nonstop incarnations of end-of-days scenarios with “after earth,” “Pacific rim” and even the comedy “this is the end.” But let’s rewind the reel a little to get some perspective. in 2007, the Pulitzer Prize for literature went to “the road,” Cormac McCarthy’s hauntingly beautiful, dark as night, novel that became a movie about a father and son traipsing across a scorched, barren earth. and while readers were raising “the road” onto best-seller lists, al Gore did his own personal remake via a PowerPoint presentation and altered the linguistic landscape turning the term “an inconvenient truth” into a phrase that’s been recycled and reapplied to causes of every kind. in 2008, with Pixar’s “Wall-e,” Mother earth was abandoned by humans with a lone robot to clean up. More recently we’ve gone from Denzel Washington’s wasteland, “the Book of eli,” to “oblivion” (another tale of post-apocalypse, though this time we were done in by invading aliens who we had to nuke). each work, in its own way, presents a bleak vision that hasn’t been seen in pop culture since the Cold War, when doomsday scenarios were a constant, from “Fail safe” and “Dr. strangelove” to television’s “e Day aer.” But while threats of nuclear-style

armageddon was the cause célèbre back then, a sense of environmental catastrophe is rampant today, radiating its message like gamma rays. exploiting the trend, every corporate brand has had to rethink its image as it lays claim to green. Fashion-wise, green’s become the new black. But the green that businesses are really responding to is cash because of the inconvenient truth that environmental sustainability has become one of consumer purchasing behavior’s top inﬂuences. Likewise, Hollywood picking up (err, championing) this movement has adapted and transformed storylines and reaffixed disasters, from creating masterpieces of extreme nuclear apocalypse to the newest and latest “eco” kind. in “after earth” the audience was greeted with an opening narration about earth’s evacuation after a vague environmental catastrophe. But having framed and shot these stories from every angle already, these latest attempts appear dried out and parched, rendering scrawny scores on rotten tomatoes based on ho-hum reviews. now back to our hero. the determination to find a solution to the ecological challenge is a real storyline that’s thriving in israel, embraced by its youth, and has become the “eco”nomic engine of the country. israel, surrounded by countries drenched in oil, has solar panels everywhere and water tanks on their rooftops. Pay phones and street lights are all powered by the sun. agritech, cleantech, eco-living are vibrant areas of growth in israel. While environmental apocalypse makes for a good villain on the screen, the tiny country donning the blue and white is coming to the rescue in real time. JT Abe Novick, whose work is at abebuzz.com, is a local freelance writer.

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From is View SCENEior Shoshana Krupp

Making the Decision to Get Help for a Loved One Making the decision that your aging parent or loved one needs help is one of the most diﬃcult decisions you will ever have, and it may even be met with resistance. Whether it is family or an outside service that will provide the care, you are making a wise decision. So how do you recognize that your loved one needs help? here are some signs: > Poor grooming, such as sloppy appearance or infrequent bathing. > Difficulty with basic tasks, such as eating, dressing, walking, cooking and managing medications. > isolating by not maintaining outside friendships, interests or hobbies. > an erratic attitude, such as being paranoid, acting extremely argumen-

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Your Say … The following letters reflect the opinions of our readers. The JT will run only letters directly related to an article published in the print or online editions. Letter writers must currently reside in Maryland, formerly be from Maryland or subscribe to the JT. Send letters to editor@jewishtimes.com. The JT will not publish letters sent via U.S. post.

you?” He said, “Could I have your autograph?” I said, “Why?” He said it was because of that fabulous story about me in the JT. I laughed, and we continued walking and talking. I just want to thank Chava and Stanley, Simone Ellin, the JT and everyone who has been so friendly. The only thing I would like to correct is to inform the community that I am not 69 years old yet, [I am 68]. Frada Wall Baltimore

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The July 5 issue of the Baltimore Jewish Times had an article titled “The Best Medicine,” which was all about my volunteer work at the Hackerman Patz House and the Jones family from New Mexico I met while doing volunteer work there. Cameron Jones, 7 years old at the time (four years ago), was there for leg surgery. He and his family were living at the Hackerman Patz House, across from Sinai Hospital. I had shared my story with Chava and Stanley Drebin about my visit to New Mexico when the Jones family invited me to visit them a little over a year ago because they were no longer coming to Baltimore because Cameron’s doctor moved to Florida; they told me how much Cameron missed me. Several days later I got a call from Simone Ellin who told me she wanted to interview me about my story. I agreed. … I just wanted to let JT [readers] know that I have heard from people I haven’t heard from for a very long time via telephone, and several people have mailed me copies of the article telling me how much they liked it. People I don’t even know have approached me on the street, in grocery stores and everywhere else to let me know how much they liked the article. They recognize me from the picture that was with the article. The other day I was walking up some steps in a building when a gentleman behind me said, “Excuse me miss.” I said, “Yes, what can I do for

A Childhood Memory Joan Chaskelson of Reisterstown is not the only JT reader who remembers kosher “bacon” (“B-A-A-A-Con Up A Storm,” June 28). In the 1960s, it was sold as Beef-Fry and was indeed considered a treat. I have searched high and low on the Internet [to ﬁnd it] to no avail. Right now it remains a tasty childhood memory. Richard Crystal Pikesville

Not The Rabbis’ Opinion Contrary to the position of the Zionist Organization of America (“Bravo,” July 12) as formulated by its German-born national president Morton Klein, Judaism is not a civilization, let alone a religion of blood and soil. e West Bank settlers are anything but, as Marc Caroﬀ claims, “the living embodiment of our shared Jewish heritage.” e bona-ﬁde living embodiment of Jewish character and identity is the Torah, which, according to Jewish tradition, was given at Sinai, which is located far from the boundaries of the land of Israel. In Judaism, people come before territory. Halacha speaks of pikuach nefesh and knows nothing of pikuach cheza. In privileging people over property and shalom (peace) over lebensraum, I am fiercely proud to be in accord with the view on this subject expressed by none other than Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, who indicated that when it comes to returning land, it is not the rabbis’ opinion, but

it is the IDF generals’ opinion that counts; and it is the people of Israel who are holy, not the land. … All the more so today. … Issachar Friedmann Baltimore

Alive And Well The placement of my letter at the end of all the letters to the editor about your June 21 issue (“Fusion of Faiths”) was surprising. You gave priority to Ruth Guggenheim’s letter in which she clarified that she was warning the Jewish community about the so-called danger that “Jews for Judaism, the only full-time international organization” is combating, instead of endorsing it. I was pleased that she recognized that the Messianic Jewish community really does fit within the pale of Judaism, even though she may not like it. Unfortunately, she misused her clarification opportunity when she wrote, “We see daily the destruction and pain this movement has caused thousands of Jewish individuals and families.” … is has dramatically changed and you know it. Why continue to stir things up with such statements? Next came Rabbi Benjamin Sharff ’s letter in which he clarifies that embracing both Yeshua and Judaism “does a disservice to both Christians and Jews.” Yet, Rabbi Sharff misses the fact that there were a million such people in the first century C.E., and there are at least a million today who have managed to embrace Yeshua and his message and comfortably continue to practice Judaism. Aer these two letters, there were several more … and finally mine. I have to wonder if the placement of these letters was based on when they were received or some sort of JT editorial bias. Either way, I’m glad this issue is alive and well in the Jewish community, as evidenced by your decision to publish “Fusion of Faiths: Can Jews believe in Jesus?” ank you. Rabbi Barry Rubin Emmanuel Messianic Jewish Congregation Clarksville, Md.

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Union Craft Brewing co-owners (from left) Jon Zerivitz, Adam Benesch and Kevin Blodger are gearing up for their one-year anniversary celebration.

Union Cra Brewing Celebrates First Anniversary Baltimore’s own home-grown brewery, Union Cra Brewing, will celebrate its one-year anniversary on Saturday, July 27, with music, food, art and … beer. “People seem to like it, so we keep making more,” Adam Benesch, one of the brewery’s three owners, said of the beer. In its first year, Union Craft has made 14 beers, producing about 1,400 barrels, which is approximately 43,000 gallons of beer. Bars throughout Maryland have it on draft and sell it in cans. Saturday’s celebration, which is a ticketed event, features food from Woodberry Kitchen, Birroteca and The Food Market, WTMD’s Scott Mullins hosting radio show “The Dirty Soul Party” live, two beer releases including an anniversary barley wine, limited edition glassware and the Globe Poster show. The poster show is a display of iconic posters from concerts, films and other shows that were produced in Baltimore between the 1950s and 1980s. “It’s kind of a nice celebration of local food, beer, music and art,” Benesch said. Saturday’s event showcases what Union Craft has been creating for the past year — not just beer,

but a community. The brewery has hosted movie nights every Friday in June, food truck rallies, Baltimore Bike parties and the sold-out inaugural Charm City Folk & Bluegrass Festival in April. “We love providing great beer for our great city and state. Beyond providing and producing, we really want to promote our community and create community events here,” Benesch said. He and co-owners Kevin Blodger and Jon Zerivitz brewed their ﬁrst Union Cra beer in June 2012, and released it that July. Benesch said they come up with ideas for beer they themselves would enjoy and let Blodger, the brew master, work his magic. “We want them to be very approachable, not tremendously high in alcohol,” he said. Union Craft Brewing’s One-Year Anniversary Celebration is Saturday, July 27, from 7 p.m. to midnight, at 1700 Union Ave., Suite D, Baltimore. Cost is $20 general admission, $35 VIP, which includes admission, three food tickets, a limited edition glass and one beer. Only open to those over 21. Buy tickets at missiontix.com/events/product/17766/ 1st-anniversary-celebration. — Marc Shapiro

Meltzer Takes Over As LifeBridge CEO LifeBridge Health has a new president and chief executive officer, but he’s a very familiar face. Neil Meltzer, who will be succeeding Warren Green, took over the position on July 1. He worked in the system since 1988, when he first joined Sinai Hospital as its vice president of operations. “I feel like I’m well-prepared in terms of understanding, in great detail, the organization,” he said. Having worked with almost every organization in LifeBridge, Meltzer feels properly positioned to move the company into the future. His immediate goals are to finalize LifeBridge’s new strategic plan, retool and prepare for the health care reform and solidify the organization’s team. Meltzer’s understanding of all levels

of the health care system comes from the fact that he started literally at the bottom. One of his first jobs was cleaning mice cages in a basement research lab at a hospital in Massachusetts. When he came to Baltimore in 1988, he said the city pleasantly surprised him by truly welcoming his family. “I had never worked for a Jewish organization before,” he said. “It was actually both refreshing and embracing to be part of an organization that truly believes in the values of Judaism, and I think as a result of that, my family felt very comfortable and very welcome.” In his time at LifeBridge and Sinai Hospital, he created the Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, the

Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute, the Herman and Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital, LifeBridge Health & Fitness and the Office of Medical Education. He also helped expand the Krieger Eye Institute and restructure the Operations Improvement department and Sinai Physician Partners group. Meltzer is also a member of the American College of Health Care Executives, chairman of the Jewish Hospital Task Force of the Jewish Federations of North America, an executive committee member of the Maryland Hospital Association, a member of the Greater Baltimore Committee, and he serves on the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s National Health Care Workforce Commission.

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Park School Student Earns National Merit Scholarship The selection committee at the National Merit Scholarship Corporation uses SAT scores to whittle down a field of 1.5 million college scholarship applicants to a smaller group of semifinalists. After that, the organization examines extracurricular and community activities engaged in by the student. When one looks at the overall contributions from Ben Miller, who graduated from The Park School of Baltimore last spring, one can understand why he was among the just under 8,000 students nationwide picked as National Merit Scholars this year.

At Park, Miller, who is set to attend Washington University in St. Louis this fall, was student council president, varsity tennis team captain, senior leader of Vocal Chords (the school’s male a cappella group) and a pianist and vocalist in the varsity jazz band. He also worked with Jewish Volunteer Connection as a part of the Diller Teen Fellows Program — a group of 20 students who aspire to attain leadership positions in the Jewish community — and was a board member of OSTRYG (Temple Oheb Shalom’s youth group). Through Diller, Miller set up a chess club at Levindale Geriatric

Center, where residents could play each other or be taught (by Miller) to play the game. “It doesn’t surprise me to hear he won [the scholarship],” said JanineMarie Boulad, Levindale’s manager of volunteer services. “He took a lot of the initiative and was very excited and proactive about the project.” To become a finalist, each semifinalist had to complete a detailed scholarship application, which included a written essay detailing (in addition to extracurricular achievements) examples of student leadership and academic prowess. It also required a letter of recommendation

from a school faculty member. en, each ﬁnalist (15,000 in 2013) had to provide their SAT scores to supplement the PSAT scores already provided. A little more than half of those students wound up earning National Merit Scholarship honors. “It’s definitely nice,” he said of the scholarship. Miller, who will receive $2,000 each year as a result of his scholarship, said he plans to study mathematics and economics at Washington University, as well as to continue to take classes in Mandarin, music and history. — David Snyder

Tamir Goodman Debuts Basketball Training Creation

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Tamir Goodman says the Zone190 will help basketball players train for actual game scenarios.

Goodman said that the challenges he endured while attempting to rehab his knee, which plagued the latter portion of his pro career, helped provide the inspiration for the device. He remembers spending hours in the gym without anyone to practice with him. “This would’ve been my dream, to have something like this,” Goodman said. “Something really negative, my career-ending injury, ended up turning into something very positive that will hopefully help a lot of basketball players.”

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It seems like a long time ago that Talmudical Academy of Baltimore graduate Tamir Goodman was solely known for being a professional basketball player. Since hanging up his high tops in 2009, he’s become a public speaker, a writer and an inventor. Last week, Goodman, 31, unveiled his latest creation, and this one undoubtedly takes him back to his basketball roots. Enter the Zone190, which Goodman is touting as the most practical and multidimensional basketball training apparatus on the market. The basis of the Zone190 is its capacity to replicate game scenarios in a practice environment. Using the contraption, a player can hone his or her shooting, passing, dribbling, footwork, body positioning and endurance abilities — devoid of a partner. With its trampoline-like material, Zone190 enables athletes to bounce the ball oﬀ its surface and practice catching and shooting from diﬀerent angles on the court. Unlike other models on the market that only allow the ball to travel in one direction, Zone190’s 190-degree, 7-foot-long surface area allows for a “multiangled pitch-back.” It also is equipped with a retractable defensive arm in the center that simulates a defender trying to block the shot and two other “defensive hands” on either end that mimics an opponent trying to steal the ball.

Goodman noted that Zone 190, which costs $499 plus tax and shipping, has been in the works for more than three years. Those in the game endorsing the apparatus include Israel-born NBA player Omri Casspi and former NBA assistant coach Brendan Suhr, who dubbed the Zone190 the “most innovative product I’ve seen for player development in years.” Said Goodman, “I hope this will help as many athletes as possible reach their potential in a fun way.” — David Snyder

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Jon Cardin Announces Attorney General Run Jon Cardin, Maryland delegate for District 11 in Baltimore County, announced Monday that he is running for Maryland Attorney General. “I couldn’t wait any longer,” Cardin said. “I ﬁrmly believe that Maryland’s citizens are facing tougher and tougher challenges, and I am prepared to be the next attorney general.” He joins what is expected to be a jam-packed attorney general’s race. State Sen. Brian Frosh (D-16) announced an exploratory committee for attorney general in October. State Del. Bill Frick (D-16) is raising campaign funds but has not officially announced his candidacy. State Del. Aisha N. Braveboy (D-25) is also eyeing the position. Cardin has a record of tackling complex issues such as cyber-bullying, voting rights, campaign finance and the environment. “Cyber issues are going to be the next frontier for the attorney general,” he said. When Cardin noticed that Maryland’s 2012 cyber-security bill didn’t deal with social media harassment or threats, he went to work on Grace’s Law, which is now considered one of

the toughest cyber-bullying laws in the nation. Working with constitutional experts and the ACLU, Cardin, the lead sponsor on the law, made sure the bill protected minors as well as First Amendment rights. In addition to cyber issues, as attorney general Cardin would also prioritize subjects such as identity theft, predatory lending and business practices and electronic gang activity. “I vow to be two steps ahead on each one of those,” he said. Baltimore County Councilwoman Vicki Almond thinks Cardin is prepared for the office. “He has a variety of issues that he’s worked on, so I don’t think he’s strictly [concerned with] one subject or another,” she said. “I think he’s interested in everything that brings some order and justice to the state.” Moshe Starkman, a Republican consultant and past president of the Maryland Young Republicans, said Cardin has a record of supporting increased taxation and expanded government and not fiscal responsibility or government accountability. “My hope is that he will draw upon his diverse education, place the

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interests of the state over that of his party and advocate for the interests of the state of Maryland over federal political interests,” Starkman said in a Facebook message. Some point to Cardin’s August 2009 proposal to his girlfriend, for which he staged a raid of the boat they were on using a police helicopter and marine unit, as an irresponsible act. He wound up paying Baltimore City $300 for the act, a cost that several critics, including City Councilman William H. Cole IV, said was too low. His uncle, U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, said his nephew is a committed public servant.

“Jon is a consensus builder who will bring a common-sense approach to the office of attorney general, balancing the need for strong consumer laws and environmental protection with a sense of economic growth,” the senator said in a statement. In addition to his work on environmental and cyber issues, Cardin feels his efforts on campaign finance and voting rights makes him an ideal candidate. “I think every single entity deserves a voice,” Cardin said. “Every person deserves to be protected. They deserve to be heard.” JT Marc Shapiro is a JT staff reporter mshapiro@jewishtimes.com

Hoyer, Miller Back Brown-Ulman Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown was formally endorsed by several high-proﬁle Maryland democratic leaders Monday morning at a news conference in Waldorf. House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer and State Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., as well as several state senators and delegates, endorsed Brown for governor and Ken Ulman for lieutenant governor. “Anthony Brown and Ken Ulman have proven their commitment to fighting for Maryland’s middle-class families, and I believe in their vision of a better Maryland for citizens across our state,”

Hoyer said in a statement. “That’s why I’m going to work hard to make sure that they win this critically important race.” Brown and Ulman’s challengers include Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler and state delegate Heather Mizeur, who represents the 20th District in Montgomery County. Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, who also served as Baltimore County’s executive from 1994 until 2002, is also considering running. Previous endorsements for Brown-Ulman include Gov. Martin O’Malley, Congressman Elijah

Cummings, Congresswoman Donna Edwards and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. “I’m honored to have the support of such a broad and diverse coalition of Democratic oﬃcials, community leaders and hard-working Marylanders,” Brown said in a statement. “Leadership in Maryland means creating more good-paying jobs, making meaningful investments in our schools and making health care more accessible to all of our families — these are the things that I will continue ﬁghting for each and every day.” JT — Marc Shapiro

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Making Moves on Main Street Advocates in Reisterstown hope to revitalize historic district, earn statewide recognition The history of Reisterstown’s Main Street goes back to the 1700s, when town founder John Reister first bought land and built an inn. Some 300 years later, the shape of the historic buildings, brick sidewalks and small-town feel are reminiscent of Reisterstown’s deep roots. In recent years, Main Street seemed to be on the decline. With shopping center vacancies, an aging population and the Great Recession, Main Street took a hit. While several shops were able to weather the storm, the area experienced a bit of musical chairs as restaurants opened and closed. Enter the Reisterstown Improvement Association, formed in November 2010. e group has been working to beautify Main Street and re-establish it as a destination through partnering with Bloomin’ Artfest, the annual spring art festival, and Music on Main Street, a Friday night summer concert series. “It seems evident to me that this is a community that creates activity and really wants to grow as a community,” said Irwin Kramer, a Main Street-based attorney. Last November, Baltimore County noticed the RIA’s efforts and decided to put some of its own muscle behind the group, assigning Amy Mantay, western sector coordinator at the planning department, as Main Street manager for two years. With Mantay on board, the Reisterstown Main Street Committee grew out of the RIA. Its aim is to earn the historic district Main Street Maryland status. The achievement wouldn’t just be a fancy title, the program offers towns on-site visits and design assistance, training on commercial revitalization, education about grants and loans and opens the area to additional 16

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The Reisterstown Main Street Committee meets at Reter’s Crab House and Grille.

funding possibilities. “The time is now to make a move on Main Street,” Kramer, who heads the Main Street Committee’s design subcommittee, said. “e time is now to take what was once the center of all activity in Baltimore County and restore it, so that future generations can enjoy the history of this place.” In order to apply for Main Street Maryland status, Main Street needs five active subcommittees — organization, promotion, design, economic restricting and clean, safe and green, and it must have a program manager, a board of directors, a budget and a defined central business district with historic commercial buildings. The committee hopes to apply for the designation this fall.

“We’re trying to make Main Street a destination instead of a drivethrough,” said Calvin Reter, 83, a lifelong resident of the Reisterstown/ Owings Mills area. Reter, like many other longtime Main Street advocates, has seen revitalization efforts come and go over the years. This time, with help from Mantay, the effort seems to really be taking off, and the community is taking notice. “I think when you see new things going on, it makes you … want to be a part of that excitement,” said Baltimore County Councilwoman Vicki Almond. “I think enthusiasm and good work spreads.” In addition to Music on Main Street, which has been drawing

hundreds to Franklin Middle every Friday night this summer, a new farmers’ market has also brought hungry crowds to Main Street every Sunday. An effort to refurbish Reisterstown’s historic community cemetery is also under way in conjunction with the RIA. Members of the clean, safe and green subcommittee have held two Main Street cleanups, filling dumpsters with trash that was strewn about. “I think we’ve made a great deal of progress,” Mantay said. “[The effort is] meeting a need that’s been missing out here for a while.” Jonathan Schwartz, Almond’s senior council assistant and a member of Temple Emanuel in Reisterstown, said he thinks Reisterstown has a

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Driving by the old Fields building in the 1400 block of Reisterstown Road in Pikesville, most people might see an eyesore. But commercial realtor Carl Verstandig sees opportunity. His company, Pikesville-based America’s Realty, purchased the building in June and plans to rebuild and revamp it, and fill it with new tenants. “What we do is re-create what’s needed,” Verstandig, president and CEO of America’s Realty, said. “We look at the area, we come in, we buy it cheap because it’s vacant and rundown, we ﬁx it up, and we re-tenant it.” at model is what has been building America’s Realty for 29 years. What started as a small, family business, is now a company that owns 219 shopping centers in 29 states and is valued at about $1.8 billion, Verstandig estimated. Still, Verstanding, 59, won’t rest on his laurels. He works 12- to 14-hour days, seven days a week. “I went to Israel last year for two weeks,” he said. “I came back with a $5,000 phone bill because I couldn’t stay off the phone.” To understand Verstandig’s work ethic, one needs to look no further than his parents, Samuel and Zelda. The couple met at Auschwitz and escaped together with the help of a guard his father befriended. After marrying in Poland, the couple moved to Brooklyn, where they lived above a toy store with no heat or air conditioning. His father worked at a belt factory. The family, which included Verstandig’s older sister, moved to Baltimore when Verstandig

was 8 years old. In Baltimore, Samuel worked up to 18 hours every day at a neighborhood grocery store on Harford Road, which he had purchased. When he was old enough, Carl would work there aer school. He said his parents taught him the importance of freedom and of having the ability to work. Verstandig got into redevelopment in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when he bought 15 vacant 7-Eleven buildings, started his own mini-mart company and leased the buildings to individual operators. From there, he started buying up vacant and rundown shopping centers in the Baltimore area. “That worked out real well, and then I got brave and decided to go ahead and try larger centers,” he said. “We took over a 600,000-square-foot defunct mall in New York [that had] lost its anchor.” Fast forward to 2013, the work of America’s Realty can be seen all over the country, as well as the Reisterstown Road corridor. Club Center, where Goldberg’s Kosher New York Bagels and Umami Bistro are located, the strips in front of Club Center and several other buildings in Pikesville are owned by America’s Realty. e old Master Lumber Company buildings, on Reisterstown Road next to the Owings Mills Boulevard overpass, were also redeveloped by America’s Realty. Stanley Drebin, owner Goldberg’s Bagels, said Club Center was probably about 50 percent vacant when he moved there in 2008 after Verstandig gave him an offer he couldn’t

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Carl Verstandig stands in front of the Fields of Pikesville building, which his company bought in June. He plans to revitalize it and fill it with new tenants.

refuse. He had outgrown his previous Reisterstown Road location. “When I moved in here, my sales … went up like 40 percent,” Drebin said. And America’s Realty isn’t the only company seeing success in redevelopment. Jesse Tron, spokesman at the International Council of Shopping Centers, said there is more redevelopment than new development occurring right now. Successful projects require a lot of legwork and studying the market, he said. “You really have to sort of do your homework,” Tron said. “It takes somebody who has the patience and an eye for the right types of projects.” While there is a lot of inventory right now, Tron said companies like America’s Realty will probably have to be more selective when new development is booming again. Steven Verstandig, Carl’s son, who has worked in the business since he was 16 years old, said selecting the right property is the reason the company is so successful. “We see value where other people don’t,” he said. “Basically, what we do is we go ahead, and we go in and lease property that most people wouldn’t have the ability to go ahead and get leased.” Like his father, Steven works 60 to 80 hours a week, and the 30-yearold hopes to turn the business into a family legacy. But it’s not just the Verstandig family benefiting from the company’s

success. Jim Martin, who owns Elkridge- based Prompt Restoration, said investing in six shopping centers with America’s Realty has turned him into a millionaire. “It’s put me over the top,” Martin said. In addition to partnering in investments, Martin’s company revitalizes the buildings that need improvements, and the work is constant. For the Fields building in Pikesville, Verstandig already has Masada Tactical, a self-defense and fitness studio, signed on to take a new space and is in talks with a gourmet kosher market, about which he can hardly contain his excitement. While his life does revolve around work, he has picked up one hobby over the years. When golf didn’t work out, he got himself a boat. “I tried golf, but unfortunately, with golf, what happens is they won’t let you be on the phone,” he said. “With the boat, I can have an earpiece in, and I can work and I can enjoy myself boating.” While he may seem like a workaholic to those who don’t know him, his relaxed demeanor shows that he is doing exactly what he wants to be doing. “I feel real good about working, that’s sort of my Super Bowl,” he said. “It’s not even about the money now, it’s more of a goal orientation. It’s just fun.” JT

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North Oaks resident Edith Sherr receives flowers from Abby Levin (left) and Lexi Thomas, who created a nonprofit that delivers flowers to seniors.

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and noticed some pretty flowers nearby. They rushed to pick the flowers and ran straight into Lexi’s house to put them in her mother’s empty coffee mugs. The girls then came up with the idea to deliver the flowers to local hospitals and nursing homes. Lexi’s mother, Sherri Sibel Thomas, said she was taken aback by their choosing to do such a meaningful mitzvah. Since then, Flowers for Powers has grown and touched the lives of

countless people in need. The Flowers for Powers official Facebook page has more than 700 “likes,” and the girls were featured and interviewed by WBAL-TV’s Jennifer Franciotti. And most recently, on July 14, the Flowers for Powers duo was interviewed by FOX 45 News. The healing power of the girls’ flowers has graced the hallways of GBMC, Sinai Hospital, FutureCare and Atrium Village, among others. When asked what the official mission of Flowers for Powers is, the girls responded in unison, “to spread healing powers and smiles to every patient in the world.” “It’s personal for me because both

of my grandmothers passed away, and I want to help people who have diseases like my grandmothers had. I just want them to feel happy,” Abby said. Lexi and Abby, both congregants at Har Sinai Congregation in Owings Mills, recently visited North Oaks Retirement Community in Pikesville. One of the more than 60 residents receiving ﬂowers from Flowers for Powers was Paula Oppenheimer, a fellow Har Sinai congregant. “The flowers are just as beautiful as the girls,” she said, as she thanked and hugged them. “We try to make the flowers different, so everyone gets flowers that are unique to them just like each patient

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A CLEAR ALTHOUGH DR. S. DALLAS DANCE’S office sits high on a hill at the Baltimore County Public Schools headquarters on North Charles Street, there can be no mistake: is superintendent is grounded in what is necessary to move the county and its diverse student population forward. Earlier this summer, Dr. Dance sat down with the Baltimore Jewish Times to reflect on his first school year with Baltimore County. JT: What attracted you to Baltimore County? Dance: e diversity in population and

in the community. It really is a melting pot, and that’s the best environment for students to grown and learn.

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Year 1 reflection with Dr. S. Dallas Dance By Justin Hayet

When you were announced as the new superintendent, many people were shocked and a bit skeptical. After all, you are only 31 years old.

It’s never the age of a person that determines anything; it’s their character and skills. Looking at our nation’s history and the challenges we have faced, we’ve had a lot of people at really young ages accomplish really incredible things. What did you learn about yourself during your first year?

Professionally, I’ve grown, making sure that I have a consistent message … that it is people, not programs, who are going to move our county forward.

Why did you visit every school?

Every single year I will visit every single school. Period. The reality is, I don’t know what’s happening unless I’m there. It keeps me grounded. I can’t do my job in an office, I can only do it by going to schools. What is your impression of the Jewish community in Baltimore?

It’s the diverse population that attracted me. I live in the Pikesville community, many of my neighbors are Jewish, and I am always outside having conversations with them. We are all people, and regardless of our religious orientations, we can have conversations around how we can move our county forward.

The Jewish community has an array of services and agencies open to everyone with The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. Have you found any Jewish partners?

It was important for us this year to build very solid relationships in and around our community. I was able to visit many of our churches and synagogues. We built those relationships as we were developing our strategic plan, so now we have a ﬁve-year road map, and we have a structure in place through our oﬃce of communications that deals with community outreach. We are in a really good place to say … how the various community organizations can work with us on how we can reach our goals.

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Where do you want the school system to be in 10 years?

I see a school system that has a portfolio of options for all of our families and a school system in which adults will be facilitating in classrooms and not just be the primary teachers. But I posed this question: How do we … provide an array of options to our community so we are not just onesize-fits-all? There are students throughout the nation who are gifted but bored. So how do we personalize their learning so they are learning at their own pace, so we are not slowing anyone down? When folks move to Baltimore County, they are not moving here just because it’s a great place to live, but also because there’s a school system that provides a portfolio of options to every single kid.

I’m here for you. Jill Meshey, fitness coordinator, cherishes the positive impact she has on the health of residents at North Oaks. With an undergraduate degree in exercise science and a master’s in gerontology, she’s the perfect fit for a wellness program aimed a few generations higher than her own. Need to work on your strength, your balance, your posture or your Wii bowling score? Jill is your go-to person. You can join her classes or meet with her one on one. Living here and knowing her is going to be fun.

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What keeps you motivated?

When I’m in this office, which I rarely am, I always like to make sure there are pictures of my son around. When I go to schools, I see my son [in the students], because what I’ve always said is that the day I stop making decisions as if I were making them on behalf of my own child, that is the day I need to get out of education. Anything else?

Never, never, never, never give up. We have a vision for where we want to see education in our county, and … we can never, ever give it up. e moment we take our eyes oﬀ our vision, then we have thrown in all the cards, which is something we will never do. JT Justin Hayet is a JT intern jhayet1@binghamton.edu

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MARY JO GIULIONI, third-grade teacher and co-director of the Resource Program at Torah Institute, which works with children with learning diﬀerences, is spending the summer reminiscing about the last three decades — three decades spent working at an Orthodox Jewish school. What makes those 30 years even more special is that Giulioni is Catholic. “The fact that my faith means so much to me, helps me appreciate people whose faith means so much to them,” she explained. “The whole staff is striving not just to be good teachers, but to be good people, and our administrators are always doing what’s honest and right. That’s a beautiful place to work.” Mention Giulioni, and students and teachers smile. The first reaction: Giulioni is an amazing teacher. As the Resource Program coordinator, she helps identify and assist children who struggle in the classroom. The program originally consisted of a single teacher, and in the years under Giulioni it developed into a sophisticated program. “She is an absolutely wonderful teacher and person. Everyone excels in her class,” said Rabbi Mordechai Nissel, Torah Institute principal. Rabbi Nissel said Giulioni has transformed the program into an amazing place, where “children are happy to be there and are all learning, and all feel a huge sense of pride. … She has the best interest of our children. … She is ﬁghting for every service we could get for them from the state.” In addition to all the work she does for the Resource Program, she is also a beloved teacher in the mainstream classroom. One student, she said, moaned to her his last day of school, “This is the

Mary Jo Giulioni proudly displays a plaque that honors her 30 years as a Torah Institute educator.

saddest day of my life.” When she asked him why, the res-ponse was “because I won’t have you as a teacher anymore, and you taught me so much.” At the beginning of the school year, her new students are quick to tell her what they can’t do, or what they are not good at. What gives her the most satisfaction is helping her students develop their gifts and talents. She said it’s her job as a teacher to help each child realize his strength and to help him achieve his potential. The best part of teaching, is “the fact that I get to help them [students] get excited about learning, and I get to help them love learning,” she said. Her best memories in the classroom are when she ﬁnishes reading a really good novel to her third-graders. “The whole class bursts into spontaneous applause,” she said. Yisrael Ezra, who recently had Giulioni, said she was his favorite teacher. “She gives out prizes,” he said. Another student, Yaakov Glenner, now in seventh grade, said, “She reads books at the beginning of every class and at the end of every class.” Yaakov said Giulioni would make class fun with her stories and raﬄes, and he saw even at a young age how she worked with every child at his level. Another former student, Tuvia Rappaport, said she was the only teacher who “didn’t have to scream for the class to be quiet.” What’s next for Giulioni? In just several weeks she’ll be back to school with everyone else, ready for another year at TI. JT Rachel Finkelstein is a JT intern rachelfemail@gmail.com

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SPECIAL VOLUNTEERS Six Bnos Yisroel students learn science, job success through NIH summer internship program By Rachel Finkelstein

It all started last year when a student approached Dr. Linda Samuels, high school science teacher at Bnos Yisroel of Baltimore. The student asked Dr. Samuels for help finding summer work in a lab. Dr. Samuels began asking around and eventually got into contact with Dr. Daniel Edelman of the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda. Unfortunately, he told Dr. Samuels, there was nothing available; if people want to intern at the NIH, they need to apply a year in advance.

“This program is [exposing us to] all the other fields of science that we were not previously exposed to.” — Sheindel Iah

Every summer, explained Dr. Samuels, an estimated 8,000 applicants seek internships at the NIH. Dr. Edelman had cautioned that even with an advanced application, there was only a slight chance that students from a small private school like Bnos Yisroel could get into the program — 26

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unless the school started a bridge program. And so, that’s what the school did. This summer, from June 24 to Aug. 15, six girls from Bnos Yisroel’s junior and senior classes — Sheindel Ifrah, Malka Katz, Esti Anflick, Haddasi Miller, Margalit Addess and Gitty Purec — are interning at the NIH through a new program called the Bnos High School Scientiﬁc Bridge Program. (e girls are divided into two groups, each interning for four weeks.) ese internships give the girls opportunities to witness and experience diﬀerent aspects of biomedical science at the NIH, as they are considered “special volunteers” and are part of a group of 1,000 NIH interns. The purpose of this program, Dr. Samuels said, “is to bridge the girls from a high school curriculum into a real-world experience.” The girls certainly are getting a lot of real-world experience this summer. Not only do they spend most of their time in the labs, but they also are learning how to write an official science research paper, how to do literature searches in the medical library and how to deal with a supervisor and work schedule. Assistant high school principal Libby Spero said, “I think it is an outstanding opportunity. … [The interns] are all girls who are capable and interested in doing something in the science field.” “I was always interested in science,” said Gitty. “I always want to know the reasons behind things.” Sheindel described the program as

Working in an NIH lab has given the Bnos Yisroel students an exciting real-world experience.

being “about bringing in a minority group that’s not usually catered to: frum girls who go to a Jewish private school. … We get a lot of reactions [at the NIH] like, ‘Oh, you go to private school so you probably have all these high-tech labs, and you probably have all this fancy stuff, and you probably know so much more.’” Sheindel said what the people at NIH don’t know is that because the girls go to an Orthodox day school, they aren’t given the same type of science education as students who attend public or secular private schools. “is program is [exposing us to] all the other ﬁelds of science that we were not previously exposed to,” she said. Haddasi explained her reason for applying for the program. “I was very interested in science, and [I knew it would be] a great opportunity to broaden my horizons and to experience interactions in science, to be in a place where people work in labs because I’ve never really had the chance to experience that,” she said.

To qualify for the program, the girls had to write a cover letter and submit a resume in addition to filling out an application. Each girl was also interviewed by Dr. Edelman. e girls were told that the most important qualification, according to Margalit, was that they were expected “to be committed to this.” Malka noted that Dr. Edelman highlights different real-world scenarios that would concern an Orthodox Jew and “asks us how we would react to them. en, [by asking our opinions] he guides us through what we would say.” Esti said after just a few weeks at the NIH, she already knows she wants a career in science. “Everyone we met is just so excited about being in the science world,” she said with smile. “The main goal of the NIH, and [medical] science in general, is to help the well-being of people. That’s the mission, and I want to be part of it.” JT Rachel Finkelstein is a JT intern rachelfemail@gmail.com

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they rode with. They decided to form their own club and came up with their own logo featuring a serpent from the Tribe of Dan. “e Tribe of Dan didn’t like where they were so they decided to get up and go” just like the Lonsmen, said president Mark Lobel of Rockville. That logo is plastered on their T-shirts, leather jackets, vests and

wherever else possible. But don’t think these riders all look alike. Their bikes and helmets cover most colors of the rainbow. There is Susan Berman who wears Harley jewelry and carries a Harley purse. She’s the most stylish, said several of the female riders. While Lobel estimated that 70 percent of the members are Jewish, clearly that’s not the biggest draw for many of the riders. ere is no Jewish content during their excursions. However, that Jewish bond and the know-how to properly schmooze helps them all get along despite their varied backgrounds, several members noted. Mark Epstein, a self-described lawyer-turned-biker, said “The nice thing about this group is the variety.” When confronted with the question of why they ride when Jews aren’t known for that, they all shake their heads. “Yeah, Jews don’t use guns, they don’t drink,” they responded, as they all nibbled on their breakfast of bagels and lox. “I hear that all the time,” said Irene Gellar, a teacher at Beth Tﬁloh Dahan

Community School in Pikesville. “Well then, you don’t know our kind of Jews,” she said. Gellar has been riding for 10 years and even wore her motorcycle gear into school for her Purim costume. e students “think it is cool,” she said. For her, riding “connects me with a nice group of people. It exposes me to some out-of-the-box things.” For Saralee Bernstein, “it’s liberating, and it’s time I spend with my husband.” He drives. “I’m a sightseer,” she said. Ellie Lobel rode for the first time when she was 55 years old. She calls it a new chapter in her life and explained that it’s a great thing for a couple. This way, her husband, Mark, doesn’t have to feel guilty about spending one day a week on his bike and away from his wife. “I have to have an outlet. I don’t play poker, and I don’t play baseball,” said Evan Katzman of Gaithersburg. Katzman, who has a flower wholesale business, is what’s warmly referred to as a prospect. He was on his first ride with the group and not yet ready to be voted in. jewishtimes.com

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The Lonsmen, of Washington, D.C. and Maryland, meet for breakfast ahead of a five-hour ride.

About the only membership requirement is that you have to be a licensed rider who owns a motorcycle with at least 650 cc displacement. Call 1-877-939-5267 for information, or visit www.trailtour.com Lonsmen aren’t team players. They want to get on their bikes, feel the wind, check the scenery and be outdoors. Team sports just aren’t their thing. The benefit of the group is the excuse it gives members to spend the entire day on their bikes. Many of the men have been riding since their early teens. The women generally joined their husbands after marriage, riding in the back of the motorcycle; they are now hooked. Not Jamie Margolies. She agreed to try biking with her husband but not before making one demand. “I said that was great, but I’m not riding in the back,” she said. Today, she drives her own motorcycle. Do they worry about the danger, cringe from all the loud noise? “It is dangerous. There is no question. So is skiing. So is taking a shower,” said Katzman, who noted he often has to warn his 10-year-old daughter to be careful on the wet floor. But they are careful riders. After all, they aren’t young adults anymore. They know the rules and politely 30

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warn the riders behind them by raising their arms when passing an obstacle on the road or a jogger or walker. All members receive a nickname, and that is what they are called much more frequently than their true name. John Ger of Olney operates cemeteries for a living. His nickname is Undertaker “even though technically I am not. You have no say in your nickname,” he said. There is Lafont, a rider who doesn’t see well so everything has to be in large type for him. Steve Fine of Rockville is Uzi. The energy consultant used to live in Israel and served in the IDF. Whoopie got his name because everyone thinks he looks like Ted Danson, who at one time dated Whoopie Goldberg. They call Harry Zarin of Rockville Dr. Phil, since he is a college counselor. He bought his first bike when he was a graduate assistant. Jamie Margolies is Lady Gadiver, an embalmer, who also loves to scuba dive. While teasing may be the norm and riding the draw, when it all comes down to it, explained John Strong of Derwood, “It’s the comradeship. We all look out for each other.” JT Suzanne Pollak writes for JT’s sister publication, Washington Jewish Week.

Amy and Steve Gertz of Reisterstown have been riding together for more than 10 years.

Riders strap on their helmets before revving up their engines.

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Israeli Economics Minister Naftali Bennett samples halvah at a factory in Ariel, a Jewish community located over the Green Line.

EU Guidelines While new European Union guidelines directed at Israel’s settlement activity caused an uproar in Israel and consternation among many of its supporters, the rules’ real power seems for now to be largely symbolic. But the rules, which would ban EU funding to Israeli institutions in the West Bank, Golan Heights and East Jerusalem beginning Jan. 1, seemed to send a different message, depending where the recipient was on the political spectrum. Those on the right saw them as a thumb on the scales for the Palestinians in peace talks with Israel. Those on the left said it was an early taste of what Israel is in for if in the absence of a negotiated settlement. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu immediately denounced the rules, when it was clear their release was imminent. “We will not accept any external edicts on our borders,” he said, and advised the Europeans to focus on ending Syria’s civil war or handling Iran. “These problems are little more urgent,” he said. To Netanyahu’s right, Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett said Israel should respond to the EU

Wake-up call or roadblock? by David Holzel

with facts on the ground in the West Bank. “More kids, more trees, more vineyards, more homes — that is the real answer to the EU,” he told settlers at a West Bank outpost. But two key centrists in Netanyahu’s coalition said Israel can’t afford to ignore EU criticism. Even as Minister of Finance Yair Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni denounced Europe’s “miserable directive,” coming just as Secretary of State John Kerry is trying to restart peace talks (“They will encourage nothing but delay in the resumption of peace negotiations,” Lapid wrote in The New York Times), both made it clear that Israel cannot continue with the status quo in the territories. “The decision is a jolting wake-up call,” said Livni, who leads Israel’s peace negotiations with the Palestinians. “It saddens me that we have reached this point, but I hope that it will motivate all those who think we can live with the current stalemate.” “Time is not in our favor,” Lapid said, “and every day that Israel is not in peace negotiations is a day that our international standing is further damaged.”

Bibi taken by surprise? After the EU announced on July 16 that it would release the guidelines on July 19, Netanyahu went to work lobbying the Europeans to change their mind. But the prime minister’s initial response suggests that he was blindsided, Michael Koplow, program director of the Israel Institute, said. “Initially, the way he reacted seemed like he was taken by surprise, which was a surprise to me. The Europeans have been clear, saying this was coming down the road. They’ve been drafting this move for a while.” The guidelines codify an agreement reached by EU last December, stating that “all agreements between the State of Israel and the EU must unequivocally and explicitly indicate their inapplicability to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.” It is not an economic boycott, and it doesn’t affect agreements between Israel and the 28 EU member states. “It largely strengthens existing EU rules and does not affect trade or the private sector,” Lapid wrote in the Times. e text, which applies to “grants, prizes and financial instruments funded

by the EU,” restricts the support to “Israeli entities having their place of establishment within Israel’s pre-1967 borders.” But it also requires Israel to sign a clause in financial contracts saying that saying that the settlements are not party of Israel. Responding to the furor, Catherine Ashton, the EU’s top diplomat, reiterated the EU’s “long-held position that bilateral agreements with Israel do not cover the territory that came under Israel’s administration in June 1967.” “In no way will this prejudge the outcome of peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians,” she said in a statement. “The EU … fully supports Secretary Kerry’s intense efforts to restart negotiations at a particularly delicate stage.”

Reaction in Washington In Washington, the bipartisan Congressional Israel Allies Caucus wrote to Ashton expressing their “deep concern,” over the guidelines. “The new guidelines will only

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serve as a disincentive for the Palestinian Authority to engage in serious final status negotiations,” wrote the caucus, whose leaders include Reps. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.), Trent Franks, (R-Ariz.), and Brad Sherman (D-Calif.). “The cause of peace is not advanced by the EU placing blame for lack of progress solely on Israel’s shoulders. This is simply not the case.” Writing on the Weekly Standard blog, Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, echoed the congress members. “EU hostility to the West Bank settlements is not new, but this formulation is remarkable,” he wrote. “The stumbling block to negotiations right now is the Palestinian refusal to come to the table. How does this punitive measure against Israel motivate Mahmoud Abbas to start talking? Does it not in fact signal him to keep staying

away, only to see the EU hit Israel harder and harder?” Abrams wrote that by including the Golan in the same category as the West Bank, the Europeans were saying the Palestinian Authority and the Syrian government were equivalent as potential negotiating partners. David Harris of the American Jewish Committee made the same point in his denunciation of the guidelines. “And, when the EU refers to the Golan Heights, does Brussels know something about a peace partner in Damascus today that the rest of us may have missed, amidst the widespread carnage there that has resulted in more than 100,000 fatalities to date?” he wrote in a statement, adding, “The EU ought to recognize what should be obvious, namely, that Palestinian recalcitrance, not settlements, has been, and remains, the foremost obstacle to peace.”

Koplow said while that may be true, the truth isn’t doing Israel any good. In his blog, Ottomans and Zionists, Koplow wrote: “The Israeli government and outside observers can rage all day that settlements are not the primary cause of the conflict, and there is a large measure of truth to this, but …Israel is suffering because much of the world believes that the settlements are indeed the main problem and will not be convinced otherwise. For better or worse, Israel has to acknowledge that this is the reality.” Since the guidelines don’t go into effect until Jan. 1, Israel has until then to make them moot, Danielle Spiegel Feld, senior associate for the Israel Policy Forum, wrote on its website. “If the Israelis and Palestinians manage to make progress on their own between now and [ Jan. 1], it will be far more difficult for the EU to

justify imposing the type of external intervention in the conflict that the new guidelines represent. Moreover, if the U.S. believes real progress is underway, it will have a significant incentive to lobby against the EU’s meddlesome interventions on Israel’s behalf, “she wrote. The guidelines have no real teeth — at least for now, Koplow said. “Until the EU does something to affect trade relations, this is largely symbolic,” Koplow said. Europe is Israel’s largest trading partner, with $36.6 billion in trade in 2012, according to the Export Institute. So the guidelines are a “harbinger of things to come if Israel doesn’t alleviate Europe’s concerns about its settlements,” he said. JT David Holzel writes for JT’s sister publication, Washington Jewish Week. JTA Wire Service contributed to this article.

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Cloud Of Secrecy Kerry lures both sides back to peace negotiations We don’t know. That’s the operative phrase of the new round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks announced Friday and ostensibly set to begin in the coming days in Washington. We don’t know their parameters, or if Israel will freeze settlements, release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners or agree to negotiate based on its pre-1967 borders. We don’t know whether the Palestinian Authority has agreed to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. We don’t know how long Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will hold oﬀ on taking Israel to the International Criminal Court. Most of all, we don’t know whether they’ll lead anywhere. The talks, according to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, will last six to nine months with the intended outcome of a two-state, final-status agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. For now they will involve the chief negotiators for both sides: Saeb Erekat for the Palestinians, and Tzipi Livni and Isaac Molho for the Israelis. The rest of the details, as Kerry said in his Friday announcement, are “speculation” and “conjecture.” “The agreement is still in the process of being formalized, so we are absolutely not going to talk about any of the elements now,” Kerry said, adding that “the people who know the facts are not talking about them. The parties have agreed that I will be the only one making further comments about this.” Kerry’s dogged efforts to simply

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (left), pictured here with Secretary of State John Kerry, is worried about the creation of an Iranian-sponsored terrorist entity in the West Bank.

bring both sides to the table — including six trips to the region this year — have been characterized by their secrecy. During his months of shuttling between Jerusalem, Ramallah and Amman, Kerry has praised progress toward negotiations but kept details under wraps. Following Kerry’s announcement on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he hopes the talks will prevent the establishment of a binational state in Israel and the creation of an Iranian-sponsored terrorist entity in the West Bank. “ese will not be easy negotiations, but we will enter into them with integrity, sincerity and the hope that this process will be conducted responsibly, seriously and substantively — and, I must say, at least in the opening stages, discreetly,” he told his Cabinet on Sunday. “roughout this process, I will strongly uphold, as I already have, the security needs of the State of

Israel and other vital interests.” Signs of the rocky road ahead were evident almost immediately, with Palestinian oﬃcials denying Monday that any agreement had been reached to participate in ﬁnal-status negotiations. A Palestinian spokesperson said the upcoming meeting would only be a preliminary one; formal negotiations would take place only when Israel consented to freeze settlement expansion and negotiate based on the 1967 lines. Israeli ministers shot back that they would agree to none of those stipulations. Israel is set to release 82 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture ahead of the talks, but Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz told Israel Radio that “a settlement building freeze isn’t on the table.” The biggest question that no one can answer, of course, is whether this round will succeed where so many others have failed. Israelis and Palestinians have been talking peace for

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elections and has no power in Gaza, which has been controlled by Hamas since 2006. Kerry has gained backing for the negotiations from the Arab League, but Hamas, deemed a terrorist group by Israel and the United States, has come out against the talks. In Israel, Netanyahu supports the talks, but a majority of his coalition opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state. In January’s election, Jewish Home — a pro-settler party — won 12 of the Knesset’s 120 seats running on a platform of opposing a Palestinian state. Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett, Israel’s economics minister, threatened Monday to vote against the coalition’s proposed budget unless Netanyahu advances a bill that would put any peace deal to a national referendum. Netanyahu said Sunday he would do that. And in recent weeks, as Kerry was galvanizing support for the talks, prominent members of Netanyahu’s Likud Party — including Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon — came out against Palestinian statehood. On Saturday, Danon said he trusts Netanyahu but opposes settlement evacuation or a release of Palestinian prisoners. “We must not repeat the injustice of the past and uproot thousands of Jews from their homes,” Danon said in a statement. “I also hope that we

learn from previous mistakes regarding the release of prisoners with blood on their hands. These murderers must not be released as an ‘act of good will’ or as a prize for returning to the negotiating table.”

“We must not repeat the injustice of the past and uproot thousands of Jews from their homes.” — Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon

Should Netanyahu’s coalition turn on him, the prime minister could count on support from across the aisle. Labor Party Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich, who leads the opposition, has said her party would support Netanyahu should a peace deal come to the table. “I hope that Prime Minister Netanyahu, who declared loud and clear that he supports the two-state solution, will make the necessary decisions,” Yachimovich said, according to The Times of Israel. “We should not just settle for a renewal of negotiations but do everything possible to work toward real accords.” JT Ben Sales writes for JTA Wire Service.

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I NSIDE THE MOSSAD A conversation with Dan Raviv By Justin Hayet | Photo by Dara Kramer

Dan Raviv is a Washington, D.C.based national correspondent for CBS and host of its “Weekend Roundup.” He is also known for co-authoring “Every Spy A Prince: e Complete History of Israel’s Intelligence Community.” He posts weekly on his blog at israelspy.com. e JT recently caught up with Raviv to talk about his new book, “Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars.” JT: How did you first become interested in Israeli intelligence and the Middle East?

DAN R AvIv: I was a writer for CBS Radio in Boston and then in New York. … CBS sent me to Israel in July of ’78. I heard CBS wanted to beef up its Middle East coverage because Anwar Sadat had just visited Prime Minister Menachem Begin [in 1977]. ere was a great CBS investment in the story, and radio news was going to hire another person for the Tel Aviv bureau. I volunteered right away and got it. Three of your books are co-authored by Yossi Melman. How did that partnership develop?

I met Yossi [when he] was working in London for an Israeli news station. We began writing articles about things people didn’t really understand. At one point, we realized we could probably put a lot of those stories together and write a book. Together we wrote, “Behind the Uprising” about Israel’s secret relationship with the king of Jordan. We began to touch upon secrecy and spies, which later became our specialty.

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Dan Raviv says his specialty as an author is “secrecy and spies.”

“Spies Against Armageddon” is about Israeli intelligence agencies and operations. How do you research something shroud in secrecy?

It’s all about people and not much about documents. It is people telling their stories. We went through this with “Every Spy A Prince” [1990] and decided to revisit the subject 22 years later because so many other things have happened. A lot of them were retired and ready to get their touch on history. It all is about people trusting you and telling you their stories. Since it is espionage, there are a lot of people who would not talk to us. Yossi is an Israeli, and our sources know his track record of being careful and accurate while still being patriotic. None of our sources want to harm Israel. Has the landscape of Israeli intelligence changed since 1990 when “Every Spy A Prince” was published? Have recent developments affected the goals and operations of the Israeli intelligence community?

e basic layout of the Israeli agencies hasn’t changed, and it seems to work [with the] three [major] agencies: Shin Bet [domestic], Aman [military] and Mossad [worldwide]. A decade ago, Ariel Sharon felt the Palestinian issue wasn’t progressing and was convinced that Iran was becoming more dangerous. Iran was already on Israel’s radar, as were indications that Iran was working on a nuclear bomb. … The [real] change, as seen in our 1990 and 2012 books, was from Palestinian terrorism to tackling the Iranian issue.

Israeli intelligence operations are often seen as violent and deadly. Why?

Most intelligence operations are about collecting information, eavesdropping and having an eye on open sources. Israeli capabilities for a small country are simply amazing. We calculated that over the 60 years of the Mossad’s existence, about 50 assassinations have taken place. The image seems to be that thousands of enemies of Israel have been assassinated. What can Israel do to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon?

When Director [Meir] Dagan retired at the end of 2010, he did not hide his boast that the Mossad had postponed a nuclear bomb by at least 10 years. Yossi and I … found out that explosions, assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists and the introduction of computer viruses like Stuxnet … were used in recent years. Dagan has hinted that there is a lot more sabotage to do with the eventual hope that the government might change. Do you think there is a global misconception about the Mossad?

To the extent that the world thinks that the Mossad is frighteningly efficient, I do not think that’s a misconception. The Mossad [is] excellent at what it does, with the occasional errors. Critics of Israel make the Mossad sound like an assassination squad, and that may be a misconception; it’s far more subtle than that.

Some people don’t realize that there is a Jewish component, too. Out of sentiment and tradition, the Mossad has often embarked on missions that are aimed at rescuing, protecting and avenging Jews. The situation in Syria brings fear of the unknown to an already unstable and historically dangerous neighborhood. Still, does a broken and divided Syria provide an opportunity for Israel?

When I spoke to people in Israeli intelligence at the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, they said it was great that [Bashar] Assad is probably going to fall. … Now, Israeli intelligence seems to be divided. In a coldhearted way, one of them recently told me, it is in Israel’s best interest is for things to continue as they are. However, after a moment of silence, [the source] added, “Don’t get me wrong … it is terrible that so many people are dying within kilometers of our boarders.” Mossad agents make tremendous sacrifices in order to secure Israel. Why?

Intelligence people feel like they are fighting every day to keep Israel safe. … I recently spoke to a woman who is currently in the Mossad, and she told me, “I don’t do it for [Binyamin] Netanyahu or for whoever is in power; I do it for my kids.” JT Justin Hayet is a JT intern jhayet1@binghamton.edu

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‘Some Were Neighbors’ USHMM exhibition focuses on collaboration, complicity in the Holocaust By Emily Minton

avenues including looting, taxation, deportation and killing. The exhibition also features chilling video interviews with non-Jewish witnesses and perpetrators, many of whom carried out the execution of Jews during the Holocaust, to allow the visitor to explore the reasons and motives behind the complicity and collaboration including pressure, self-interest and anti-Semitism.

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at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, allowing visitors to explore and think about the concepts of collaboration and complicity of individuals during the Holocaust. Entitled “Some Were Neighbors,” the exhibition, which took nearly six years to complete and was underwritten in part by grants from the David Berg Foundation, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, the Benjamin and Seema Pulier Foundation, the Lester Robbins and Sheila Johnson Robbins Traveling and Special Exhibitions Fund (established in 1990) and Sy and Laurie Sternberg, has been open since the museum’s 20th anniversary on April 28 and will stay at the museum for several years. Susan Bachrach, curator of special

exhibitions explained that “Some Were Neighbors” represents the museum’s shi to large thematic exhibitions that help people understand how the Holocaust was possible. “It reflects our educational programming of ‘why,’ and asks visitors to focus on ordinary people and think beyond Hitler and the Nazi regime, which is the typical way to think about the Holocaust,” she said. Bachrach added that the word “neighbor” was chosen to represent a variety of people including workers, teenagers, policemen, religious leaders, teachers and friends, many of whom turned against their Jewish peers during the Holocaust. “For many survivors, the most painful memories they have are with betrayal,” she said. “We use neighbor

here as a metaphor for someone close to you to evoke that connection and to make visitors realize that we’re talking about ordinary people.” Opening with the quote, “At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and … every decision is individual,” by Raul Hilberg, a refugee from Nazism and a leading Holocaust scholar, Bachrach explained that the exhibit shines a light on the individual stories of those who acted in a complicit manner during the Holocaust, explaining “the primary view is that Jews were killed in gas chambers. This presents a totally different perspective.” Complete with a variety of stories, photos and artifacts, the exhibition highlights acts of complicity and collaboration through a variety of

“For many survivors, the most painful memories they have are with betrayal.” — Curator Susan Bachrach

“Some Were Neighbors” ends with a “Reflect and Share” section encouraging visitors to think about the exhibit and what they would do in similar situations. “We want people to ask themselves, ‘Would I have taken the risk to help?’ and think about their individual choices,” said Bachrach. “I hope people will be disturbed by this exhibition and that it will provoke people to think about the Holocaust and how it happened in a deeper way — what are our ethical and moral responsibilities that might ensure that this never happens again.” JT To learn more about “Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust,” visit ushmm.org. Emily Minton writes for JT’s sister publication, Washington Jewish Week.

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Community calendar for July 28 to Aug. 10

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Hadassah Check It Out Challenge: 8K, 5K and 1-mile run/walk to raise funds for Check It Out. 7:30 a.m., Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore. $40. Visit active.com.

Gizmos, Gadgets And Gears: A hotbed of contraptions, challenges and creative inspiration. Maryland Science Center, 601 Light St., Baltimore. Contact 410-685-5225 or visit marylandsciencecenter.org.

Craig Clifford’s Reclamation: A Baltimore Clayworks exhibit. Runs through Aug. 10, Baltimore Clayworks, 5707 Smith Ave., Baltimore. Contact 410-578-1919 or info@ baltimoreclayworks.org.

Bliss Point, Brett Freund Solo Exhibition: Features Freund’s work as the Lormina Salter Fellowship Artist. Runs through Aug. 10, Baltimore Clayworks, 5707 Smith Ave., Baltimore. Contact 410-578-1919 or info@baltimoreclayworks.org.

Parkinson’s Global Quilt Exhibit: See a quilt created by more than 600 people affected by Parkinson’s. Runs through Sept. 1, Tudor Heights Assisted Living & Memory Care, 7218 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore. Contact 410-318-8000.

JCS Entrepreneur and Business Meetup: Facilitate success through collaboration, brainstorming and idea exchange. 5:30 p.m., Weinberg Park Heights JCC, 5700 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore. Visit meetup.com/JCSEBM.

Understanding, Living With and Treating Parkinson’s Disease: A panel discussion with physicians from the Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders Center of Maryland. Includes a light buffet. 7 to 8:30 p.m., Tudor Heights Assisted Living & Memory Care, 7218 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore. Contact 410-318-8000.

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Urban Pirates: An interactive pirate adventure aboard the Fearless, Baltimore’s only pirate ship. Learn to dress, talk and walk like a pirate while searching for treasure and blasting enemies with water cannons in the Inner Harbor. Runs through Oct. 31, Fells Point, 912 S. Ann St., Baltimore. Visit urbanpirates.com.

Shabbat Service at the Beach with Temple Bat Yam: Service led by Rabbi Susan Warshaw with music by Cheryl Taustin and Phyllis Alpern. 7 p.m., Ocean Pines Beach Club, 49th Street and Coastal Highway in Ocean City.

Central Alarmers Bowling Fundraiser: Fundraiser to help the Baltimore County Central Alarmers replace their 17-year-old food truck. AMF Timonium Lanes, 2165 York Road, Timonium. Contact nbcjuniorchamber@gmail.com or 443-224-6700.

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Woman of Two Worlds: Exhibition of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte’s life. Runs through June 9, 2014, Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument St., Baltimore. Visit mdhs.org/betsy-bonaparte/ the-exhibition.

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The Maryland State Boychoir: Free concert. 7:30 p.m., MSB Center for the Arts, 3400 Norman Ave., Baltimore.

Divided Voices: Maryland in the Civil War: Maryland’s largest and most comprehensive Civil War exhibit. Runs through Dec. 31, 2015, Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument St., Baltimore. Visit mdhs.org/maryland%E2% 80%99s-largest-civil-warexhibit-opens-april-16th.

National Jewish Retreat: An annual celebration of learning with top Jewish speakers and thinkers. Runs Aug. 6 through 11. All day, Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, 5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, Va.

National Museum of American Jewish Military History Lunch ‘N Learn: Hear some interesting stories about American Jewish military veterans. Noon to 2 p.m., National Museum of American Jewish Military History, 1811 R St. NW, Washington, D.C. Visit nmajmh.org.

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Blacktip Reef at the National Aquarium: Come face-to-face with the coral-filled seascapes and diverse creatures of the world’s Indo-Pacific reefs. All day, National Aquarium, 501 E. Pratt St., Baltimore. Visit aqua.org.

Patio Party At The Maryland Science Center: Live, familyfriendly music, good food, beer, wine and soft drinks. 5 to 8 p.m., Maryland Science Center, 601 Light St., Baltimore. Contact 410-685-5225 or visit marylandsciencecenter.org.

“The Wizard Of Oz”: The first-ever educational exhibit based on the beloved movie classic. Come over the rainbow with Dorothy and Toto on an exploration of the colorful Land of Oz. Journey from the sepia-toned Gale Farm to the vibrant Emerald City, and experience the adventures of Dorothy and her friends. All day, Port Discovery Children’s Museum, 35 Market Place, Baltimore. Visit portdiscovery.org.

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Family members share a happy moment during this August 1988 outing. Can you identify anyone in this photo? Contact Jobi Zink, 410-732-6400, ext. 226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org. To see more of the Jewish Museum’s extensive collection and find out who has been identified in past photos, visit http://ow.ly/2QOgZ.

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how do you preserve your memories? Abba Zev Hill: Looking at my friends’ pictures on Facebook. I don’t actually own a digital camera.

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The NexT WAZe? By now almost everyone has heard of WAZE, the Israeli navigation app that Google has agreed to purchase for $1.3 billion. But most people have not heard of the following six Israeli startups reported by Fast Company most likely to follow in WAZE’s success. More than 34 million users are already using the web-platform WIX, founded in Tel Aviv in 2006 by graduates of an Israeli elite intelligence unit. WIBBITZ allows anything published online to be turned to video and will be available shortly for iPhone. Powermat technology can already be found at more than 1,500 locations in the United States including Starbucks outlets and Madison Square Garden, allowing devices to be powered wirelessly. Launched in 2011, Bizzabo harnesses social media to create interactive communities around business events. It has been at thousands of events worldwide during its short two years. Roomer allows marketplace visitors to sell their unused, nonrefundable hotel reservations. And last but not least, Parko connects drivers looking for a parking spot in a specific location with drivers leaving a parking spot in that location. Which one of these amazing Israeli startups do you think is the next WAZE? — Baltimore Jewish Council

Good Reads Sara Schuman: Photo albums.

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Rivka’s War By Marilyn Oser Mill City Press 2013, 262 pages

Norma Samson: Albums. … I also keep photos on the refrigerator.

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“Rivka’s War” is a must-read. When i first picked up this book, i was skeptical. The storyline seemed fine from the cover’s description, but the beginning few pages were hard to endure. however, within a short while, the story encapsulated me, and i was glad i decided to read it. “Rivka’s War” tells Rivka’s story, a young woman from Russia, born and raised in the early 1900s. as the Great War breaks out, Rivka’s family is torn apart. all that she knew — and the traditional life that she planned for — dissipates. instead, as the

czar’s army suffers, Rivka is recruited to join the war. she is in a women’s unit, run by a hardcore peasant officer. her delicate hands become the hands of a soldier; she learns to shoot, take and give orders and to fight for mother Russia. But the war goes badly. Rivka is on the losing side of Russia’s internal strife, and finally she is forced out of the field and onto another adventure. Ultimately, she travels to Palestine. ere, she becomes a spy and involved in yet another war — the Jewish war to secure israel from the British. is time, she is more successful in her mission. Ultimately, Rivka meets the unlikely love of her life. Rivka’s story is a historical fiction that opens the reader up to the times, and that touches the heart. — Maayan Jaffe

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TOP STORY Audrey Polt takes storytelling and makes it beautiful By Maayan Jaffe

Jews are known as the people of the book. But we are also the people of the story.

Photos of scrapbook by David Stuck

“Our Bible is the written-down version of hundreds of thousands of stories,” said Noa Baum, an award-winning storyteller, noting the Jewish pairing of Torah Shebichtav (written law) with Torah Shebaal Peh (oral law). “The Talmud is years of debates that are now written down,” she said. “The Haggadah [on Passover] is all about telling our Jewish story.” Personal stories are the foundation of what over time became the Jewish narrative. Whether it was Moses or Joshua, Hillel or Shamai, the lives of our Jewish leaders (and lay people) help us understand our faith and from where we come. Today, said Jewish Museum of Maryland curator Karen Falk, storytelling has become the language for what many people do professionally — journalists, museum curators, novelists, marketers — they are all telling stories. “Stories are powerful. Stories change the way we think about the world,” said Falk. Telling our personal stories oﬀers validation and catharsis, said Baum. Stories encourage people to communicate, and they have the power to heal. “There is a huge hunger and need for us, as humans, to be heard and validated. Storytelling is one way of doing it,” she said. “Everyone has stories,” said Jennifer Rudick Zunikoff, a local storyteller, teacher and coach. She said that we have to see our own stories as having enough value to tell them.

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Sadye and Samuel Goldseker, with children Sheldon and Audrey, 1951.

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Samuel Goldseker (youngest, center) with his siblings in Mlynov, Russia in 1906; three of his siblings perished in the Holocaust. Audrey Polt with her Aunt Frieda and Uncle Max Abramowitz in Jerusalem, 1988.

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Audrey Polt is a storyteller. “My mission is to get people to tell their own stories,” she said. Polt, a senior consultant for Creative Memories, has a basement full of stories, bound in hundreds of beautiful albums, full of historic photos, keepsakes … and stories. (Polt has made more than 250 albums in the last 16 years.) Son Rich Polt said his mother comes from a long line of storytellers.

“On the Abramowitz side [Audrey’s mother’s side], these were storytellers. … They were always getting together –22 first cousins. Uncle Max [Abramowitz] would be sitting with the kids, all gathered around him, telling stories,” Rich Polt said. Uncle Max was the oldest of his eight siblings; Polt’s mother, Sadye was the youngest. She recalled how at Chanukah time, he would come into the home, Chanukah gelt in

hand, and li the children up and ﬂip them over. en he would tell his stories. “He told stories with morals,” Polt recalled. On the other side, the Goldseker side [Audrey’s father], was a line of Russian immigrants. “ere was a richness to their past. eir lives were somehow profound and tragic and inspirational,” said Rich Polt. “From the Goldseker side, my mother got this

sense of curiosity about her past.” Sixteen years ago, Polt harnessed that curiosity and love of lore into her career with Creative Memories. While Rich Polt said his mother recognizes that for many “storytelling is a dying art form,” as families move farther apart from one another and connect less over their shared past, his mother is doing her part to keep Baltimore’s Jewish collective memory alive.

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Mind To Paper It starts in Polt’s basement studio,

Audrey Polt (center) consults with Jennifer Berman (left) and Lisa Billig during a recent workshop at her home.

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where the shelves are lined with albums of varying weights and colors. One is a heritage album, chronicling the life of her late father. Another, of similar design, tells the story of her late mother, who passed away when Polt was in her 20s. It took a lot of research to make that one. On the table are many of her recent projects including a historical memoir for one client (two over-sized albums) her grandson Samuel Nathan’s album, in which she flips to a whole page about his namesake, Abraham Nathan Abramowitz. She makes a new album each year for each of her two grandchildren. “I know [Rich] doesn’t have time to look through it all now,” said Polt. “But I know one day he is going to read all of this.” And while at ﬁrst glance it may seem just like another scrapbooking project, Polt’s projects are very much the opposite. “Audrey has a unique ability to facilitate the creation of these lasting albums. They are not only magnificent scrapbooks, which capture our stories for posterity, but they really help the individual or their loved ones focus on the essence of their life,” said sister-in-law Shelley Goldseker. “What could be a more treasured keepsake than that?” Polt has assisted hundreds of people in transmitting their values and virtues from their minds to paper, through pictures and stories. She does so, explained Goldseker, “by asking probing questions,” to help guide people through the process. And she listens. Storyteller Donald Davis explains in his book “Writing As A Second Language: From Experience To Story To Prose” that a listener is like a magnet that pulls the story out. “Whether you are talking about a traditional story, a crafted story, or just sharing personal memories,” said Baum, “you need that listener.” And the medium. Stories can be written, sung, danced, painted — or any combination. Polt works with photographs. “People keep pictures in boxes and drawers and never do anything with them. A lot of people put pictures in albums. But pictures are nothing without the stories behind them,” said Lisa Billig, for whom Polt just completed a large family history project. “Why take pictures if you are not going to do anything with them?” Writing one’s history can be daunting, Polt recognized, and said some see this as a deterrent to getting started. She said it shouldn’t be. “History starts with you and me. I started this with me and my parents. You can’t give up just because you don’t have some information. You start with what you know,” she said. “You don’t have to be a good writer. You tell it from the heart.”

Megan Molitoris and mother Carol Saucier select photos for an album they are working on together.

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( Memory Keeper ) record, recorded when a child was confirmed at 12 and added [his or her] marriage to that same sheet of paper,” said Weisberg. “It is a shame that synagogues don’t keep these records for our Jewish families.” Weisberg noted that it is especially challenging because of the pogroms and other wars — “most records that did exist were burned.” Through other’s personal stories, however, one can surmise a lot about his or her own Jewish life at a given period of time. And those stories can transmit Jewish values that might otherwise be lost to this mobile, independent generation. “We used to celebrate Jewish holidays together — 70 or 80 of us — Passover, Chanukah, Rosh Hashanah,” recalled Billig. “When we document these holidays we spent together, it instills this wonderful Jewish sense of family. When the kids see that, and how nice it is to be passed down from generation to generation, maybe it instills in them [a desire to] marry within the religion, too, and to create a wonderful family environment with

Jewish traditions and values.” A shared sense of the past, said Polt, is one of the single most important factors in a child’s wellbeing. She said new research shows that understanding one’s past helps build conﬁdence. In fact, a recent article published in e New York Times referenced Dr. Constantine Sedikides study showing that “nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, boredom and anxiety. It makes people more generous to strangers and more tolerant to outsiders. Couples feel closer and look happier when they’re sharing nostalgic memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nostalgia to literally feel warmer.” e study also found that people tend to have a healthier sense of self-continuity if they “nostalgize” more frequently. Likewise, in her book “Story Proof: e science behind the startling power of a story,” Kendall Haven writes that there is evidence to prove that “stories are more eﬀective and powerful than any other narrative structure.”

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“There is this personal feeling of having my mother’s presence still with me, knowing her, reading it, sharing it with my family. It gives me a little bit of satisfaction,” said Plaut. Plaut sees the album as a tribute to her mother. She said that through the album, the story can resonate into the future and touch anyone who will hear it — more distant family, friends. The story of Plaut’s mother is representative of the story of many of the Jewish people during World War II. Preserving memories becomes especially important when talking about Jewish families. According to family historian Lynn Weisberg, who entered the field as a second career after working on an album for her own family with Polt, it is very difficult to go back very far in history to understand and trace Jewish families. “If you are from a Catholic family, they had Bibles that they were very diligent about writing in every time someone was born. Also, the church kept a birth

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hen a loved one passes away, one of Polt’s albums can serve as a treasure trove for the remaining relatives. “When a person dies, it is like a library burns down,” said Polt. “e stories will all disappear. is [the albums] keeps the stories alive.” “Memory is the greatest gift we have, and lots of memories get lost through the generations,” said Brenda Nudelman, who worked with Polt on her “ings I Learned About Life Along the Way/Messages from Mom” album. “It is not just a matter of date, time and place. It is a matter of interpreting what existed at the time. It is important for a child to know about his grandparents and great grandparents — not just where they arrived [as immigrants, for example], or where the ship docked, but what life was like for them as told through family stories.” Just ask Rita Plaut. After her mother, a Holocaust survivor, passed away, Plaut asked Polt to help her create a legacy album. She said she still looks at it regularly and then feels a deep connection to her mom.

Lynn Weisberg says that it is especially challenging to trace the lineage of Jewish people because of the pogroms and other wars.

Audrey Polt shows her grandsons, Ethan (left) and Samuel, their personal scrapbook albums. jewishtimes.com

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Falk described Polt as a walking museum. She said Polt has the eyes of a curator and is able to take photographs and mesh them together to tell a story. She is preserving her family’s memories, said Falk, but she is also telling the story of Baltimore’s Jewish community. A few years back, Falk determined to put together an exhibit about the Jewish people’s relationship with food. She put out a call to the public, looking for pictures around food — people eating with their families, celebrating holidays. Polt responded. “I went over there, and I spent most of a day looking at her family albums. … I was in heaven, in hog heaven,” recalled Falk, who took back close to 50 prints from Polt’s albums and scanned them for use in the exhibit. “One picture became, in my opinion, the iconic image and face of the exhibition. It was of her mom serving matzo ball soup on Passover in 1954.” Polt smiled at the thought of this. “My mother died very young and no one ever really got to know her. She was at home and she never left the house,” said Polt. “For her to be the face of the exhibit was a real honor and a tribute to her.” Also, when the museum put on “Jews on the Move” earlier this year, Polt again contributed an iconic photo. e exhibition was about white ﬂight from downtown Baltimore to the suburbs. Polt’s photo of her husband and his brother mowing the lawn, said Falk, “was this image that was in people’s imaginations, and there it was in reality. … It is a fantastic picture of suburbia. You don’t mow the lawn in the city.”

It’s not a stretch to understand Polt’s vocation as making history. As Billig put it, “You never know who will read your album in 30 or 50 years.” Elaine Witman, former director of Shofar Coalition, a program of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, said she worked with Polt to create a farewell album for Joan Kristall, a Shofar therapist, before she moved to Israel. Witman said the goal of the album was to give Kristall a window into her accomplishments with Shofar, to serve as a platform through which her colleagues could let her know how much they valued her work. The album, more than 30 pages of personal notes, artistic expressions and photographs, tells the story of how Kristall inspired, motivated and guided her staff. But it also tells the story of how the Jewish community of Baltimore is dedicated and committed to the healing and wholeness of each person who has suffered from a traumatic experience. “If it was found in 150 years,” pondered Witman, “it would show the dedication and conviction for each and every member of Jewish Baltimore, regardless of age — that they deserved to be healthy.” Polt has an album chronicling 9/11 and her feelings about the attack. She has another, which focuses on the turn of the century. In that one, are pictures of what things cost in 2000, news clips of world happenings, pictures of the kinds of foods that people ate at the time. Said Polt, looking back at her album: “Now, 2000 seems an innocent time.”

Top to bottom: • Sadye Goldseker serves matzah ball soup on Passover in 1954. • Brothers Leslie Polt, 17, and Gilbert, 4, mow their suburban lawn in 1959. This photo became the face of a recent Jewish Museum of Maryland-Johns Hopkins exhibit. • Audrey Polt stands with a poster of her mother: the face of the Chosen Food exhibit at the JMM. • Elaine Witman and Joan Kristall celebrate their work with the Shofar Coalition. Witman worked with Polt to create a farewell album for Kristall when she left for Israel a few years ago.

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Maayan Jaffe is JT managing editor — mjaffe@jewishtimes.com

Lynn Weisberg examines a photograph used for some of her recent genealogy work.

Today, many people store their photos on Flickr.

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ey are not printing them and they are forgetting their stories because they are writing them and sharing them on Facebook,” she said, noting this new line is meant to make album making more attractive to young peoples — making albums in less time, but still meaningfully. Where is the place for Polt’s work in the future? Rich Polt said he can imagine his sons and their first cousins gathering in several decades, sitting down and opening their albums. “ey’ll look at pictures of their moms and dads — maybe we’ll still be around, maybe we’ll be gone — look at pictures of their bubbies and of their great-grandfather, and they’ll have that narrative, the stories right there,” he said. “It wouldn’t be the same if these stories were housed — or lost — on a hard drive or sitting on a backup drive in a ﬁreproof cabinet or safety deposit box. It will be alive, a living record of the past. And they’ll be able to gather around it, laugh, tell the stories and learn.” Rich Polt said he doesn’t like to think about it, but he knows that one day his mom will be gone. Then, he’ll inherit more than 200 albums, but the onus will be on him and wife Jennifer to pick up the mantel. “There is no way I can do it with the same energy and passion my mom brings to it,” said Rich Polt. “But I have a feeling the importance of doing it will start to climb on my priority list.” JT

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here is one more layer to the work Polt does, and that stems beyond the written word or images to what preservationists call “the writing support.” According to Abigail Quandt, head of Book and Paper Conservation and a senior conservator of manuscripts and rare books at The Walters Art Museum, the paper (or in Quandt’s specialty, the parchment) “is a critical part of the whole artifact. If the parchment itself is damaged by whatever means, then the information that is written upon its surface is lost. So it is really critical to preserve the parchment and to keep it stable for the long term.” In Polt’s case, this means using acid free paper and other decorations. She purchases all of her supplies in bulk and provides those to the people for whom she makes albums; those who want to can also purchase them from her for their own album projects. She noted that albums should be stored in a cool, dry place. Quandt noted, however, that modern day problems relate less to paper and more to electronic media. She said there are conservators around the world dealing with “this difficult problem.” “With digital copies, you rely on machines to read them. If the machines themselves or the software isn’t kept up to date, we’ll have a problem,” she said. It’s a problem not lost to Polt, who has recently begun creating digital albums, too. “What is happening today, is we have a generation of young people with pictures on their telephones.

The Book of the Faiyum is an Egyptian work inked on papyrus, dating to the Roman Period (14 - 15 CE).

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Roosevelt n their recently released book, “FDR and the Jews”, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman, both history professors at American University, utilize hundreds of new sources and years of historical research to present a balanced view of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Breitman had previously written about Roosevelt but was frustrated by the lack of documentation available, as Roosevelt famously did not allow for written records of his meetings. In the mid-1990s, papers from Sumner Wells, Roosevelt’s under secretary of state, were donated to the Roosevelt Library. This was the opportunity Breitman had been looking for. His research led him to Wells’ diary and an entry in April 1938 in which he wrote that FDR wanted to get the Jews out of Europe. “Now, I have to do the book,” he thought. When his literary agent suggested an approach that he estimated would take him 10 years to complete alone, he turned to AU colleague Allan J. Lichtman for help. “I was not easily convinced,” said Lichtman, who thought the story on FDR and the Jews had been told. Breitman convinced him that while the story had been told, it was incomplete and not historically sound. No one had looked at FDR’s relationship with the Jews for the entirety of his life. And, some of the books were written by authors who were not professional historians. “[Historical research] is hard, tedious, lonely work,” said Lichtman. “It’s not for everyone.” “A lot of previous work was political

argument disguised as history to prove a point,” he continued. He cautioned against reading history backward and looking at events through a contemporary lens. “Jews, at the time, were Roosevelt’s biggest supporters,” said Breitman. “Overwhelmingly,” echoed Lichtman. “But the predominate view of FDR and Jews today is negative,” said Breitman. ere are those who “hold out everything negative and ignore the positive,” said Lichtman. Using the same standards, “We could prove Abe Lincoln was a racist and didn’t do enough.” The authors also compared FDR to his political rivals at the time, much in the way people living then would have. It’s easy to say “he should have done something else,” said Lichtman. “Everything can be perfect in hindsight.” The writers put Roosevelt’s decisions in the greater context of what was happening both nationally and globally. Decisions on the Holocaust were not made in a bubble but had to be balanced against economic strife at home and a world war abroad. According to Breitman, there are two symbols of alleged American indifference to the Holocaust: the SS St. Louis and the decision not to bomb Auschwitz. “Both are off,” especially, if one “doesn’t understand historical constraints.” In November 1938, after Kristallnacht, with U.S. immigration quotas for Jews full, Roosevelt pushed Latin American countries to take the immigrants. “Americans were against more immigration, and FDR was advised

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that Congress was not only opposed to opening up immigration, it was inclined to cut it even further,” explained Breitman. FDR made a ruling that German and Austrian Jews in the U.S. on visitors’ visas could stay. For this, he got flack from Congress. He instructed Wells that ﬁnding a place for Jewish immigrants was high priority. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, the only sitting Jewish American ambassador, met with foreign ministers in Latin America and emphasized that it was very important to America that they allow the Jews in. FDR personally met with Cuban strongman Col. Fulgencio Batista in the hope that Cuba would accommo-

date more German Jews. Batista had been seeking a reduction from the U.S. in the sugar tariff. So perhaps it was no surprise that days later, Batista would announce during a speech in New York City that Cuba was pleased to help FDR with the terrible situation in Europe. Cuba charged $500 for tourist visas. By May 1939, there were 5,000 to 6,000 German and Austrian refugees in Cuba. But, as the St. Louis sailed, Cuba, under pressure from Cuban antiSemites, changed its policies. The 22 passengers with Cuban immigration visas were allowed in. Those with tourist visas were not. At the time, FDR was very sick. jewishtimes.com

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The situation was being handled by the state department. Permitting the passengers to disembark in Miami, even temporarily, would have, acc-ording to the book, “ruined FDR’s Good Neighbor Policy and undermined America’s standing in Latin America” at a time when war was approaching. According to Breitman and Lichtman, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau intervened and had the Coast Guard quietly track the St. Louis while he negotiated with other countries. Transcripts of phone calls between Morgenthau and Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Morgenthau and the Coast Guard commander, “made it plain that the point of this tracking was to keep alive the chance to find a solution.” Popular culture, as seen in movies like “The Voyage of the Damned,” add to the fiction that the Coast Guard was attempting to prevent passengers from landing in the U.S. The authors make clear the complexity of the situation: “They could not legally enter the United States without jumping ahead of other Jews on the waiting list. They could not enter as visitors without a place of return. The administration’s political calculus was almost as clear as the legal situation. If the president tried to evade immigration laws, his opponents in Congress would exploit his vulnerability to reduce chances of revising the Neutrality Acts [laws passed in the 1930s to keep the U.S. out of war].” “People think FDR sent them to death camps, but there weren’t death camps then. There wasn’t a war then,” explained Lichtman. “He couldn’t violate the law, and he couldn’t allow them to jump those on the waiting list,” added Breitman. “Either way was a big problem.” According to Lichtman, FDR was facing having to mobilize an isolationist Congress and public and motivate them for war. “The last thing he wanted was a fight in

Congress on immigration.” Ultimately, Belgium, the Netherlands, England and France accepted the refugees who thought they had been saved. It was only after Belgium, the Netherlands and France were taken over by the Nazis that the passengers were taken to the camps. The decision not to bomb Auschwitz, both historians said, was also considered and rejected by other countries, including Great Britain. Said Breitman, “The Nazis killed before and after the death camps. Bombing [Auschwitz] would have made killing less efficient.” “At best,” added Lichtman, “it would have affected the edges of the Holocaust.” What was more effective was Roosevelt’s War Refugee Board, which according to the authors, saved an estimated 200,000. “The War Refugee Board was the only organization set up by a government anywhere in the world to rescue Jews,” said Lichtman. In the end, the authors argue FDR must be judged for the time in which he lived. “All these decisions were made under extreme uncertainty. We had an army smaller than Belgium,” said Lichtman. The U.S., following common practice in those days, had ramped down its military following World War I. In the 1930s, we were demobilized except for the Navy and that was only because of commerce. He continued: “The U.S. of the 1930s is not the U.S. of today.” It was only by the end of the war that the U.S. achieved the status of a major world military power. “People want a moral exemplar,” concluded Breitman. “Presidents are not saints,” agreed Lichtman. “To be a successful president, you have to be supremely political. It’s easy for those who are out of power to criticize.” JT Meredith Jacobs is managing editor of JT’s sister publication, Washington Jewish Week.

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THE HOLOCAUST MESSENGER WHO CONFRONTED FDR Seventy years ago on July 28, an eyewitness to the Nazi atrocities against Europe’s Jews brought the horrifying news directly to the most powerful man on earth. It was the moment that President Franklin D. Roosevelt came face to face with the Holocaust. By the time he was 26, Polish underground member Jan Karski had been imprisoned by the Soviets, had been tortured by the Gestapo and had nearly drown while escaping from a hospital in German-occupied Slovakia. After all he suffered, it would have been understandable if Karski had ended his service at that point. Instead, he chose to risk his life again in order to alert the Free World about Hitler’s mass murder of European Jewry. Karski, who was Catholic, was smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, as the Nazis were deporting hundreds of thousands of Warsaw’s Jews to the gas chambers of Treblinka. Walking through the ghetto, he saw corpses piled in the gutter, emaciated children clothed in rags, and dazed men and women slumped against decrepit buildings. When gunfire suddenly erupted, Karski’s comrades hurried him into a nearby apartment. He watched as two uniformed teenagers with pistols came down the street. “They are here for the ‘Jew hunt,’” Karski was told. Hitler Youth members would amuse themselves by venturing into the Jewish part of the city and by shooting people at random. Days later, Karski and a compatriot, disguised as Ukrainian militiamen, took a six-hour train ride to a site in southeastern Poland called Izbica. It was a “sorting station.” When Jews were shipped to a death camp, Karski learned, the Germans would ﬁrst take them to Izbica, rob them of their last belongings and then send them oﬀ to the gas chambers.

Determined to tell the world what he had seen, Karski made his way across occupied Belgium, Germany and France, his life in danger every step of the way. anks to an injection from a sympathetic dentist that swelled his jaw, Karski was able to avoid conversations that might have revealed his Polish identity. From France, he hiked across the Pyrenees into Spain and then traveled to London. British officials were chilly. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden showed little interest in Karski’s account of the slaughter of the Jews, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent word that he was too busy to meet the Polish courier at all. Karski headed for Washington. On July 28, 1943, he met with President Roosevelt in the Oval Office for more than an hour. Karski began by describing the activities of the Polish underground. The president listened with fascination, asked questions and offered unsolicited advice, some of it a bit eccentric—such as his idea of putting skis on small airplanes to fly underground messengers between England and Poland during the winter. Then Karski turned to the plight of the Jews. is was not the ﬁrst time FDR heard about the mass murder of Europe’s Jews. For nearly a year, detailed reports about the killings had been reaching the White House. In fact, when American Jewish leaders had their very first meeting with the president on this subject, in December 1942, FDR told them he was already “well acquainted” with the massacres they described. But the meeting with Karski was the first time President Roosevelt encountered an actual eyewitness to the killings. Despite Karski’s harrowing firstperson account of the atrocities, the president was not moved. FDR was, as Karski politely described it, “rather noncommittal.”

Courtesy of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

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Jan Karski, a Catholic, brought President Roosevelt face to face with the Holocaust with his first-person accounts.

Roosevelt viewed the suffering of the Jews as just another unfortunate aspect of what civilians suffer in every war. He did not believe it was justified for the U.S. to use any resources to rescue Jews from the Nazis. Nor did he want to have to deal with large numbers of rescued Jewish refugees, clamoring to be admitted to the United States. Ironically, though, just six weeks earlier, the Roosevelt administration had established a U.S. government commission “for the protection and salvage of artistic and historic monuments in Europe.” As he rose to leave the Oval Office, Karski asked the president if there was any message he wanted to send to those suffering under the Nazi jackboot. The president leaned back, his trademark cigarette holder balanced in one hand, and said, “Tell them we shall win this war!” Despite President Roosevelt’s lack of interest in the fate of the Jews, Karski did not lose heart. In the months to follow, he authored a har-

rowing book-length account of the situation in Hitler’s Europe, called “Story of a Secret State,” and delivered hundreds of lectures throughout the United States about his experiences. The story of Karski’s eﬀorts to alert the world about the Holocaust has begun to gain public attention, especially in schools. It was included in a recent series of animated shorts about America’s response to the Holocaust (www.ey SpokeOut.com), created by e David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and Disney Educational Productions. And at a White House ceremony earlier this year, Karski was posthumously awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom. It was a ﬁtting tribute to a man whose life symbolized the need to speak out when — as President Barack Obama recently put it —”so many others stood silent.” JT

Rafael Medoff, Ph.D., is director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C. His latest book is “FDR and the Holocaust: A Breach of Faith.”

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used to say there is nothing more whole than a broken heart. You can also say there’s nothing more whole than broken tablets. In fact, in addressing the Jewish people as they prepare to enter the Promised Land, Moses recalls their rebellious times in the desert, and in speaking of the new set of tablets, he also refers to the first set hewn by God that he broke after witnessing Israel’s infidelity. Whatever happened to the shivrei luchot, the broken tablets? According to rav Yosef (Baba Batra 14b), the broken tablets were also placed in the ark for the Israelites to carry with them throughout their journeys. So too in our own inner sanctums, we carry our past with us as we journey through life, and that we should embrace, not erase. Sadly, I regularly meet people who are so ashamed of their past that they try to deny it, at times even cover it over, as opposed to bringing it with them as they grow and become their even greater selves. As reish Lakish (Yoma 86B) says, “So great is repentance that when one repents, his/her sins turn into merits.” In short, they are not wiped out but rather transformed into positive forces in our lives. No one knew this better than reish Lakish. After all, before he met rav Yochanan and became the revered reish Lakish, he was a gladiator and bandit. The truth is that it is tempting to forget completely one’s past or, for that matter, even the “you” of yesterday. At the same time, though, we are a composite of our past and present selves, and that is not something we can easily forgot. Nor should we. our past experiences serve to form who we are and if channeled purposefully serve a positive force in our current experience. or as King Solomon wisely teaches, “Sheva Yipol Tzaddik Vekam” (Mishlei 24:16): A righteous one is not one who

never falters, but rather someone who falls and gets up, falls and gets up, again and again. Psychologist Martin Seligman found that more than IQ, good looks or social intelligence, it is a person’s “grit” or ability to withstand life’s stresses and learn from and integrate their failures that is most predictive of future success. We would also do well by developing spiritual resiliency. Because the challenge of life and its many obstacles is not that we never falter — that would be impossible — but rather that we have resilience. Aer all, no one is perfect, no matter how righteous. To think otherwise is pure illusion.

We are not running away from our past but rather harnessing it and integrating even our failings. As we approach the high holidays and look to better ourselves, we are not running away from our past but rather harnessing it and integrating even our failings. It’s no wonder that we link the sins leading to Tisha B’Av to rosh hashanah through seven special haftarot of consolation, the shiva d’nechemta. For the repentance of the days of awe actually emerge from the devastation of Tisha Ba’Av. We read from these seven haftarot of consolation, and we move from despair to repair. If we redouble our efforts we can become stronger and grow from our moments of weakness, both as a people and as individuals. JT Rabbi Etan Mintz is spiritual leader at B’nai Israel Congregation on Lloyd Street.

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Happy Birthday! Alice Rosenbush (left) recently celebrated her 94th birthday with four generations of family members. Shown here: Rosenbush, Sophie Sibel (great-granddaughter), Amy Sibel (granddaughter) and Lynn Davidov (daughter). Mazel tov, Alice!

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Community | Obituaries BECKER — On July 19, 2013, IRVING L.; beloved husband of Janice Becker (nee Morrow); cherished father of Adriane Becker, David Becker and Benjamin (Suzie) Becker; devoted brother of Jack (Fran) Becker and Arlene (Don) Pristoop; loving grandfather of Daniel Joseph Becker. Interment at Shaarei Tfiloh Cemetery, 5800 Windsor Mill Road. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 5216, Glen Allen, VA 23058. BLOOM — On July 16, 2013, RUTH FAY (nee Miller); beloved wife of the late Daniel Bloom; loving mother of Bob (Holly) Bloom, Lisa (Mitchell) Reisberg, Rachel (Mark) Baglin and Jonathan (Ivana) Bloom; devoted sister of Ann Easterly; loving grandmother of 10 and great-grandmother of two. Interment at King David Memorial Gardens, Falls Church, Va. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, 6101 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20852.. GERBER — On July 15, 2013, SOLOMON I.; cherished husband of the late Mary Gerber (nee Deitchman); adored father of Melvin (late Karen) Gerber, Arlene (Phillip) Miller and Marilyn (Michael) Krinsky; devoted brother of Allen (late Suzanne) Gerber and the late Bernard Gerber, Ida Gerber, Gertrude (Morris) Beker and Rosalie Gerber; cherished grandmother of Edward (Oliva) Gerber, Shari Silbert, Jill (Dean) Katz, Randi (Marty) Sonenshine, Jeffrey (Kim) Gerber and Jaimi (Keith) Hall; also survived by nine loving greatgrandchildren. Interment at Workmen Circle Cemetery, German Hill Road. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to Beth Israel Congregation, 600 Camden Ave., Salisbury, MD 21804. GOODMAN — On July 18, 2013, PAUL; beloved husband of the late Pauline Goodman (nee Klugman);

loving father of Richard (Diana) Goodman and Jeffrey (Sandra) Goodman; devoted brother of Betty Hankin and the late Frances Botwinik; cherished grandfather of Bryce, Juliana, Charlotte and Rebecca Goodman. Interment at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Berrymans Lane. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to the Alzheimer’s Association, 1850 York Road, Suite D, Timonium, MD 21093. GREENWALD — On July 20, 2013, MIRIAM “MIMI” G. (nee Weller); beloved wife of Alan F. Greenwald; devoted mother of Larry (Lauren) Greenwald and Mark Greenwald; loving sister of Herbert (Jackie) Weller; cherished grandmother of Shaun, Mollie, Jake, Bevin and Emma Greenwald. Interment at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Berrymans Lane. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to Gilchrist Hospice Care, 11311 McCormick Road, Suite 350, Hunt Valley, MD 21031. KROL — On July 16, 2013, ROSE (nee Greenblatt); beloved wife of the late David Krol; devoted mother of Bernard (Diana) Krol and Harriet (Alan) Friedman; cherished grandmother of Bradley (Ashley) Friedman, Jennifer Friedman, Lauren Krol and Devin Krol; adored great-grandmother of Georgia Friedman and Elliott Friedman. Interment at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Berrymans Lane. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to the U.S. Holocaust Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024. LAZINSKY — On July 21, 2013, ROSE D. (nee Delson); cherished wife of the late Joseph W. Lazinsky; beloved mother of Phyllis (Leonard) Attman and Harriet (Lowell) Glazer; adored sister of the late Minnie Girshin, Goldie Kirson and Hyman Delson; devoted grandmother of Cindy (Jack) Bienenfeld, Shellye (Steve) Gilden, Jeffrey Attman, Wende (Michael) Levitas and the late Marci Crosby; cherished great-grandmother of Nicole, Jonathan

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POSNER — On July 21, 2013, MARTIN LOUIS; beloved husband of the late Harriet Posner (nee Brill); beloved father of Paula (Dr. Jay) LeBow; devoted brother of Alan (Linda) Posner; loving grandfather of Ashley LeBow Mutch (Elliot Mutch) and Courtney LeBow. Interment at Hebrew Young Mens Cemetery, 5800 Windsor Mill Road. Please omit flowers. SOLOMON — On July 20, 2013, LEONARD; beloved husband of Sylvia Solomon (nee Schiﬀ ); devoted father of Bruce J. (Marlene) Solomon, Stuart (Leslye) Solomon and Sharon Solomon (Pat Pattison); loving brother of Marvin Solomon and the late Jack Solomon and Garry Solomon; dear brother-in-law of Harriett, Helene and Phyllis Solomon and Howard (Barbara) Schiﬀ; cherished grandfather of Barry Solomon, Allison (David) Parsons, Gregory (Casie) Solomon, Andrea Solomon

SPEERT — On July 21, 2013, ROBERT A.; beloved husband of Gloria Speert (nee Cohen); beloved father of Leslie Speert Donnelly, Eleanore Speert, Elliott Speert and Paul (BethAmy) Speert; dear stepfather of Bobby Libowitz and the late Andy Libowitz; devoted brother of Janet Steinberg and the late Louis (Buddy) Marcus; loving grandfather of Sarah Donnelly, Joe (Angela) Donnelly, Arielle Speert, Mariah Speert and the late Stephen Donnelly. Interment at Hebrew Friendship Cemetery, 3600 E. Baltimore St. Please omit ﬂowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, 7401 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore, MD 21208 or B’nai B’rith, 2020 K St., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20006. ZIMMERMAN — On July 20, 2013, SAMUEL H.; beloved husband of the late Louise Zimmerman (nee Schultz); loving father of Michael (Barbara) Zimmerman, Dr. Edward “Buzz” (Andrea) Zimmerman and Robert (Myrna) Zimmerman; cherished brother of the late Sada Loebelson, Bertha Price and Anne Tenzer; devoted grandfather of Aaron (Alycia) Zimmerman and Andrew, Sarah, Jacob, Hannah, Alondra and Stephanie Zimmerman. Interment at Arlington Cemetery, Chizuk Amuno Congregation, North Rogers Avenue. Please omit ﬂowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to Chizuk Amuno Congregation, 8100 Stevenson Road, Baltimore, MD 21208. The Baltimore Jewish Times updates obituaries regularly on its website, jewishtimes.com/obituaries. To submit an obituary, contact David Snyder at dsnyder@jewishtimes.com or 410-902-2314.

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LEN BERNHARDT Just Listed-STEVENSON VILLAGE-Terrific 2 bedrm, 2 bath & solarium mid level unit in great move in condition. All parquet floors, Master bedrm w/priv bath and walk in closet. Up dated kitchen,washer & dryer in unit, sliders to balcony. Immediate possession. Priced to sell. ANNEN WOODS-Stunning prof decorated 3 bedrm townhome W/Huge master suite W/walk in closets and dressing room. Livrm W/firepl & slider to priv brk patio. 1st flr den. Secure gated community W/pool and tennis Cts. Reduced price to sell. Office 410-821-1700 • Cell 410-207-2467 • Home 410-484-0829 Search all active listings on my website at cbmove.com/len.bernhardt

L IBBY BERMAN TWO OUTSTANDING CONDOS – YOU MUST SEE! 7 SLADE – UNIT 622 – LARGE, CORNER UNIT WITH COMPLETELY REDONE KITCHEN, LOTS OF BUILT-INS AND EXTRA CLOSETS. $105,000. PAVILLION IN THE PARK – MAGNIFICENT AND SPACIOUS END UNIT WITH GORGEOUS FLOORING, BUILT-INS AND DÉCOR. $340,000

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HELMSLEY COURT |$989,000 Nancy Sacks 443-418-6300

PINES AT DEEP RUN |$858,000 Randi Sopher 410-299-7222

VALLEY BROOK | $539,900 Harriett Wasserman 410-458-5300

REGENCY PARK | $529,900 Harriett Wasserman 410-458-5300

FALLS ROAD CORRIDOR| $499,000 Harriett Wasserman 410-458-5300

VALLEY HILLS | $499,900 Harriett Wasserman 410-458-5300

CONDOS GARDEN AT MCDONOGH - $154,900 2BR 2BA NEW LISTING Harriett Wasserman 410-458-5300

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MILFORD MILL | $239,900 BURNCOURT - Rental $1,450 2 BR, 2 BA Harriett Wasserman 410-458-5300 Kathleen House 410-236-5919

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Dmitry Fayer

Rebecca Conway

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Realtor

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410-653-SOLD(7653) Marc Goldstein

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Donald Eugene Kaplan

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NEW LISTING

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ANNEN WOODS $129,900 (CAN)

$340,000

Updated 2BR/2BA first floor Condo in secure bldg! New carpet, freshly painted. Eat-in kit and over 1300 sf. Pool & tennis courts.

(QUA) Large 3BDR, 3.5 BA end of group Townhome in great location, granite kitchen, hardwood floors on main level, backs to woods.

UNDER CONTRACT

SOLD IN 3 DAYS

AVALON EAST $299,900 (KES)

TIMBERSCAPE $299,900 (WHI)

Rare model! 1st fl MBR, granite kit, LR w/FP, hdwd flrs. Secluded patio, 2 car garage.

4BR/2/2BA Colonial w/granite kit, hdwd flrs, 1st fl FR. MBR suite, fin'd walkout LL. Court location.

UNDER CONTRACT

UPPER FALLS $284,900 (FRA)

SOUTHFIELD $229,900 (SOU)

GREENS AT SMITH $224,900 (HER)

BEL AIR SOUTH $204,900 (BAR)

Privacy + convenience! 4.47 level acres, well percs 9 gpm. Adjoins state park!

3BR/3.5BA end Townhouse w/eat-in kit, open flrplan. MBR w/walk-in, fin'd LL, fenced yard.

3BR/3.5BA end Townhouse w/huge kit, MBR suite w/walk-in, fin'd walkout LL. Treed lot in court location!

3BR EOG Townhouse w/central kit, LR w/FP, MBR suite, fin'd LL. New carpet

FURNACE HILLS $169,900 (SIL) 3BR Townhouse w/eat-in kit, open LR/ DR, fin'd LL, fenced yard. Court location.

UNDER CONTRACT

PARK VILLAGE $149,900 (PAR) 2BR/2.5BA two-story Condo w/eat-in

NORTHWOOD $149,900 (NOR)

FALLS GABLE $134,900 (TYL)

GARDENVILLE $129,990 (DAY)

WOODMOOR ESTATES $125,900 (MIN)

2BR/2BA terrace lvl Condo w/2 MBR suites, cherry kit, hdwd flrs. Overlooks woods!

Renovated 3BR/2BA Townhouse w/granite kit, custom baths, hdwd flrs. New windows & HVAC.

3BR/2.5BA Split Level w/updated kit, hdwd flrs, FP in MBR, walkout bsmt. Backs to trees..

CATONSVILLE $159,9000 (WIN) Renovated Colonial on gorgeous lot backing to trees! Updated kit & bath. All neutral. Move-in ready.

Renovated 3BR/3BA Townhouse kit, 2 mbr suites, dual patios, new w/granite kit, new baths, new HVAC, HVAC. hdwd flrs. Agent/Owner..

ANNEN WOODS $149,900 (COB)

GRDN AT MCDONOGH $139,900 (VAL)

2BR/2BA brick Townhouse in gated 2BR/2BA top flr Condo w/open flrpln, comm! Updated eat-in kit, hdwd flrs, sunlit kit, vaulted ceilings. Balcony overlooks trees. FR w/vaulted ceiling.

COLDSPRING NEWTOWN $99,900 (CLO)

GREENSPRING VALLEY $79,900 (SPR)

3BR/2.5BA garage Townhouse w/updated kit, lrg MBR suite, dual decks.

2BR Colonial on 1/2 acre! Eat-in kit, 1st fl laundry.New carpet, freshly painted.

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3223 MIDFIELD RD Dramatic exciting 4 bedroom rancherwith floor to ceiling 2 way fireplace. Gleaming maple floors. 4 sets of sliding glass lead to fenced private yard.Gourmet kitchen most people only dream of. Lower level man cave and gym area with 3rd bath. Immaculate. WOW. www.homerome.com

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This four level split is sitting on a .32 acre lot, with a driveway that can hold a half dozen cars. The spacious eat-in kitchen has an open floor plan with lots of windows overlooking the pet friendly fenced in yard. Plenty of wood cabinets and counter space. Planning desk makes a nice breakfast bar. Three bedrooms with cathedral ceilings. www.homerome.com

6810 TMBERLANE RD, 21209, GREENSPRING/SMITH

Elegant Seventh floor Co-op has two bedrooms and two baths.. Movable wall panels between the Living room and 2nd bedroom allow the space to be opened for entertaining and closed for private office or guest room. Granite and stainless kitchen, Breakfast room, Lots of closets, balcony, gleaming hardwood floors and move in condition. www.homerome.com

11 Slade Ave, Unit 707 2 Bedroom/2 Bath

Master bedroom with His & Hers Bathrooms and THREE walk in closets. Marble floors in foyer, dining room, living room and 2nd bedroom (now used as a den) Convenient laundry inside the unit. Garage parking and full service luxury! www.homerome.com

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Beautiful three bedroom, 2 1/2 bath rancher with a two car garage, in-ground pool, two level sun-room, finished club-room on .78 acre of lush landscaping with vegetable and flower gardens. www.homerome.com

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living, for vacationing and for entertaining. 4-5 BRs (2 on main level with full accessible bath) Dock, decks, hot tub, casita/ lanai. Move in ready!

Custom Built Waterfront Home. Panoramic River Views A home for

6831 South River Dr. Custom Contemporary

Great location in McDonogh Township! Huge gourmet kitchen w/lots of cabinets and granite overlooking open space from “Trex” deck. 2 Full and 2 half baths. Finished lower level w/walkout. Move in condition! www.homerome.com

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3521 AUTUMN DRIVE HUGE GARAGE

Luxury Penthouse more spacious than most homes w/ 3 BR & 3 baths. Marble Foyer, grand LR, formal DR & 3 skylights. Views from your private Master B/R balcony. Granite, tile, molding, art niches, wood floors and exciting gourmet kitchen any chef’s dream-check out the red granite breakfast bar. Full Laundry room & garage parking. A home for grand entertaining! www.homerome.com

PARK TOWERS EAST 3 BEDROOM, 3 BATH

Sprawling white brick Stevenson WI Rancher designed by Alex Baer. Gourmet 33’ kitchen with great room, Living room with walk around gallery, wood, granite, wine cooler, 2nd kitchen/laundry room, Gracious one level elegance. Florida rooms off master bedroom and living room overlooking heated in ground pool. 30' Master BR with fireplace and abundant built in storage. Entertain in luxurious style !!!! www.homerome.com

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STONE HOME 3703 CLARINTH ROAD

42 ACRE FARM & BRICK RANCHER! Call for Details 410-530-2400

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3 Bedroom 3 new baths stone home with gleaming wood floors. Stainless sinks, gas stove, dishwasher, fridge and ceramic floor. 3 Finished levels, 2 fireplaces, level fenced yard and a garage! www.homerome.com

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