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Contents
November 2, 2012 Vol. 329 No. 1 Candle lighting 5:46 p.m. 7
Opinion Opening oughts, Editorials, From is View, Your Say …
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Briefs
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Epic(urean) Win Local nursing home wins first prize in Taste of the Town competition
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CHAI Announces New Executive Director Ken Gelula to step down aer 29 years
ELECTION 2012 36 David Stuck
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Baltimoreans will have a say about four congressional seats
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Elections 2012
In The District
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From The Economy To Health Care To Israel Ruppersberger, Jacobs take on the issues
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You Speak
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GA: Young Thought Leaders
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Hot election issues that push Jewish Baltimoreans’ social buttons
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Leaning To The Left Jews mostly remain loyal to Democratic Party
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Election Comments: Why I Support President Obama Why I Am Voting For Mitt Romney
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Head To Head To Head
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National & International News Israel In Pictures New photography project puts Jewish Jerusalem back on the map
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Rescued from Kristallnacht A family Torah reaches a new generation
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A Reform Rabbi in the Knesset? Gilad Kariv, head of Israeli Reform, is mulling a run
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Arts & Life Worth The Schlep Community calendar for Nov. 2 to Nov. 9
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Many Happy Returns
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Book features our bygone department stores
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Hurricane Sandy
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Remembering Pikesville’s Airport
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Jewish View
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Community Beshert, Milestones, Obituaries
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Amazing Marketplace
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Lebanese Decry ‘Homeland’
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Simmons’ Bid To Relaunch Led Zeppelin KISS bassist Gene Simmons told the British tabloid the Sun that he was once handed more than $320 million to help reunite the legendary hard rock band Led Zeppelin. “In 2009-10 I was given a few hundred million dollars in an account by a large concert promoter and given the task of reaching out to Jimmy and Robert; [I] tried to convince them to get back together,” Simmons said. He was urged to take on the task after Led Zeppelin’s successful 2007 reunion show in London. What happened? Speaking of singer Robert Plant, he said, “Of course, it didn’t work. Robert just doesn’t want to do it.”
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Officials in Lebanon are furious with the creators of the Showtime series “Homeland,” which is based on an Israeli show dealing with the intrigues of counterintelligence work. Some recent episodes of the Emmy Award-winning drama portrayed Israel’s northern neighbor as a dangerous and terroristflooded land. Lebanese Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud told the Associated Press that people in his country are extremely upset, mostly because the show was filmed in Israel. (Some scenes even show T-shirts with Coca-Cola in Hebrew and the Israeli soccer team Beitar Jerusalem). “Israel destroyed our country,” Abboud said. “Israel invaded and occupied our country. It was not filmed in Beirut and does not portray the real image of Beirut.” Abboud said his government is considered suing the show’s creators“ Sarah Silverman
Rabbi Vs. Silvermans Sarah Silverman is back in the headlines but not of her own doing. Rabbi Yaakov Rosenblatt, in an Oct. 11 op-ed for the Jewish Press in New York, slammed her use of biblical language and Jewish references in some videos. Many blogs focused on the response in the paper by the comedian’s father,
Donald, who referred to Rosenblatt as “Rabbi Idiot.” For some, the ensuing debate opened talk about the role of the modern Jewish women. Strangely, it seems that the one person who didn’t have much to say — other than a supporting tweet for dad — was Sarah herself.
Steven Spielberg knows how to fight anti-Semitism: Apply peanut butter. In a revealing interview, he told Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes” about the traumas of his childhood in suburban Phoenix, where he was bullied and mocked for being Jewish. “I denied it for a long time, my Judaism,” Spielberg said. “I often told people my last name was German, not Jewish. I’m sure my grandparents are rolling in their graves right now hearing me say that. But I think that I was in denial for a long time.” Spielberg’s mother said, “People used to chant ‘The Spielbergs are dirty Jews.’” One day, young Steven decided to retaliate. As he recalled, “I took Skippy peanut butter and smeared it all over [my anti-Semitic neighbor’s] windows.” Spielberg eventually decided to channel his emotions, and his relationship with his parents and religion, into filmmaking. The rest, of course, is history.
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Opening oughts Phil Jacobs
Buddy, I Already Miss You I think of how the Park Heights JCC has changed over the years to accommodate the Orthodox community and the Russian community as well. e JCC has become almost an evening and Sunday home to many regulars, who are there to exercise, shoot hoops, swim, take a Zumba class or schmooze with their friends. It’s a place where everybody knows your name. But the name the membership knows more than any other is Buddy’s. I know that even after he retires, he’s going to be around in case I need him. And I think there are a lot of us who are thankful for that. Buddy’s going to be handing over to his s uccessor a JCC of inclusion and continuity and one that has served this Jewish community for generations. Personally, a favorite Buddy memory comes from one of the few times I had a part in a play with the Jewish Theatre Workshop. It was in the production of “The Dybbuk.” While I was nervous and excited at the same time, I didn’t tell many of my friends about it. But during the play, I looked out into the lights and there sitting near the front was Buddy. He came to watch the play. And by the way, he said, through his infectious laugh, that my acting was good, but I should probably keep my day job. Buddy, this won’t be the last we write of you as you head toward your retirement. Know that you brought change to a community and made it better than when you arrived. There is no other JCC like the two you operate. Thanks Buddy, from me and a grateful community. JT
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Last ursday, I had lunch with Buddy Sapolsky, who will retire from his post as the Jewish Community Center’s executive director this winter. For the years that I returned to Baltimore from Detroit, and even after I left for the Washington Jewish Week, only to return to the JT, Buddy has been one of the constants of my professional life. I don’t know how else to say it, but I want Baltimore’s Jewish community to know how blessed it was to have Buddy lead its two JCCs into the future. It was no accident that the Jewish Community Center Association chose Baltimore when it introduced the idea of a Maccabi Arts Festival. This was an entirely new concept, showcasing children who weren’t necessarily into sports, but could sing, dance, paint, write and digitally make things. Many of us remember the hallways of the Owings Mills JCC during Arts Fest. It was quite literally music to everyone’s ears. It was the first of its kind, and it happened here in Baltimore. Again, when the Maccabi Arts Festival turned into the Maccabi Experience, having the athletes compete and the artists working on their disciplines, JCCA turned to Baltimore again. Perhaps, Buddy’s most difficult challenge was a handful of years ago, when the JCC Board and The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore board voted to keep the Owings Mills JCC open on Shabbat. Even that was handled with sensitivity and understanding by Buddy and his staff. As we sat there having one of our many lunches together, the thought came over me several times that Buddy would be retiring. Barak Hermann from New Jersey will be taking over the reins at that point.
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Political Commentary:
Jews Will Overwhelmingly Support Obama on Election Day David A. Harris Finally, we are now less than one week out from Election Day. Three presidential debates and countless campaign rallies later, both candidates have had a chance to make their case to Jewish voters. So with all the evidence in hand to make an informed choice on Election Day, it is no surprise that for most Jewish voters, the candidate they will choose to lead the country for the next four years is the man who has represented them for the last four — President Barack Obama. Since the New Deal, American Jews have consistently supported Democratic candidates. This November, we can expect a similar level of support, and with good reason. The president has demonstrated time and time again that his values and policies are aligned
with those of the Jewish community. One of those values is pursuing social justice, and President Obama’s work for a more fair, more equitable society is unprecedented. He has been a champion for women, seniors, students and the LGBT community as few others have. The very first law he signed as president, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, was a major step forward in the fight to end gender discrimination in the workplace. He has ensured that our seniors can retire in health and security by defending against Republican attempts to dismantle the social safety net. And not only did he end the anti-LGBT military policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but he is also the first president to openly support marriage equality.
Another of the most prominent Jewish values to appear in President Obama’s policies is bikur cholim, to help the sick. He has done this through the passage of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Already, children with pre-existing conditions are now able to get the care they need, and by the time the law is fully implemented, an additional 20 million Americans will have access to affordable health insurance. Jewish tradition teaches that it is a mitzvah to come to the aid of the ill, and that is precisely what the president has done with Obamacare. President Obama has also proven himself to be second to none when it comes to security assistance for Israel. Despite what Mitt Romney and the Republicans have claimed, no one has
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Political Commentary:
Time to Stop Digging and Start Building Matthew Brooks As Will Rogers said, “When you find yourself in a hole stop digging!” In the last four years, the Obama administration has dug our country deeper and deeper into several painful and dangerous holes. It’s time to stop digging and find better solutions. President Obama’s economic policies have eroded the earning power of the middle class and mired us in the slowest-growing post-recession economy in decades. A wave of new taxes will hit working families in January. Billions of taxpayer dollars were wasted on a useless “stimulus” and on “green” companies that went bankrupt. To date, Obama has added nearly $6 trillion to the national debt since taking office. Meanwhile, unemployment stood above 8 percent for 43 straight months during Obama’s tenure. Companies aren’t hiring — in large part because of the uncertainty and poor prospects created by heavy-handed government regulations
and a chaotic tax environment. Mitt Romney has a better solution. By lowering tax rates across the board, while eliminating deductions and loopholes for high-end earners, we can broaden the tax base and bring in more revenue without raising taxes on the middle class. Responsible bipartisan efforts to cut nonsecurity spending and reform the tax code, along with opening up more energy resources on this continent, will spur economic growth and cut the deficit. Lower corporate tax rates and more sensible regulations will make it possible for new businesses to start and for established businesses to grow. Another hole is being dug by the rising costs of health care and the looming bankruptcy of Medicare and Social Security. Obamacare is already adding to the cost of health care for families, and many employers have said they may have to drop their employee insurance plans under its restrictions. We will have to slash entitlement benefits and
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Ben Cardin is a seasoned politician in the finest sense. He has lengthy experience in government, knows how to get things done, works well with others, and hasn’t lost his touch. Following 20 years in Maryland’s House of Delegates, and 20 years in the U.S. Congress, Cardin is now seeking a second six-year term in the U.S. Senate. He deserves it. Cardin is a serious legislator, not given to grandstanding, and is accessible to his constituents. He brings a comforting level of maturity, judgment and reasonableness to his work, and has earned the respect and trust of his colleagues — on both sides of the aisle. During Cardin’s Senate term, he has devoted serious attention to work on issues of concern to his constituents, while taking leadership roles in both national and international activities. Of particular interest to our community, Cardin has shown rock-solid support for a strong American-Israel relationship throughout his career. And, he has a long, proud identification and involvement with the Jewish community, and a clear understanding of the issues of concern to our community. Cardin’s opponents — Republican Daniel Bongino, Independent Rob Sobhani and Libertarian Dean Ahmad — are political novices, and variously represent positions that are not in the best interests of Maryland, the United States or American Jews. Ben Cardin is the clear choice. We endorse him without hesitation.
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tell us: “Seventy years is the span of our years, or given the strength, 80 years.” Precisely, but how many of those years are meant to be productively spent working, contributing to society’s needs and saving up a nest egg for a period of time to follow, and how many living out a life of rest, enjoying that nest egg and the rewards of decades of a committed working life, as one prepares for the next stage? Retirement is the gi man gives himself aer all those decades of commitment — the untold years of getting to work through endless traffic jams, road accidents, the never-ending cycle of road improvements, pressure cycles, time restrictions, difficult people, sleepless nights and the endless slings and arrows of outrageous fortune to which we are all subject. And so, now we are ready to retire with the expectation of a well-deserved period of life, where we can kiss goodbye to all the above that have defined our lives, shortened our sleeping schedules, forced us through ulcers and depression and may very well have started us having to intake a whole series of medical concoctions that would stun an elephant. But is it ever so easy? Pablo Casals is known to have once stated, “To retire is to die.” Contrary to this diehard warning comes Catherine Pulsifer, who advises, “Retirement is a time to enjoy life, a time to do what you want to do how you want to do it.” So who’s right? It all depends. I have recently swelled the retirement numbers (in fact, it will have been just over a year since I retired as the rabbi of Ner Tamid Congregation aer serving as its spiritual leader for 25 years) in a state that is known to have one of the highest per-capita numbers of retirees in America. And the most
common question I receive from those who are aware that I am in this new stage of life is, “Well, what are you doing with your life these days?” ere are times I wonder from where that question derives. Is there surprise that I can actually find anything else to do following all those disciplined years of dedicated work? Or, perhaps, since there is so much you could be doing, how did you hold off from retiring for so long? What I have always been aware of — from working with so many people who have retired with mixed results — is to have a plan. As that lovely quote from Harry Fosdick goes, “Don’t just simply retire from something, have something to retire to.” And so I find myself following out a plan that allows me to pursue my passions and to enjoy life that is original in this way: no pressure. What does a former Orthodox rabbi do in retirement? What we don’t do is give up on the beautiful Jewish concept of learning and/or teaching. at is always the oxygen of intellectual and spiritual excitement. What we do is maintain a healthy lifestyle; I keep up a rigorous racquetball schedule, tempered by swimming and table tennis jousts. Recalculate our interests to include a more relaxed list of goals, like cooking, walking, taking the time to enjoy what is happening around us. So, in rabbi-like style, allow me to give you all this following blessing: May you reach your well-deserved stage of retirement in good health, in active style, enjoying your ever-growing families, your growing pursuit of passions and interests. And may you embrace and enjoy the greatest gift man has ever given himself. JT Rabbi Chaim Landau is the former spiritual leader of Ner Tamid Congregation and a member of the Baltimore Board of Rabbis. The views in this comment do not reflect those of the board or its members.
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From is View Autumn Sadovnik
Educators are Experts I once had a parent conference to discuss vocabulary tests. “My son always got 100 percent on his spelling tests. now that you are doing vocabulary tests, he only scores in the 80s. I am worried about his grade. aren’t these vocabulary words above level? Shouldn’t he get credit for what he knows? Isn’t this extra?” as a teacher, I was startled. here was a parent of a fourth-grader student in a gied class, concerned because her son was challenged. I couldn’t imagine why she would prefer higher scores with no learning over good scores that indicated growth. e educator in me asked, “don’t you want him to learn?” I didn’t say this, of course. She and I had different definitions of success; it’s an indistinct term, and the data points
can be misleading, especially for parents focused on one precious person. Is it really important that you ace your fourth-grade spelling test? What is more important, the score or the learning? Parents today feel a strong sense of empowerment. We know what is best for our children and feel that teachers should follow our lead. aer all, we Google! We read books! We feel that we are the experts on our own children. To some degree, we are. We spend more time with them than anyone else. We are advocates and champions. ese are valuable roles and attributes. But, we also need to be able to defer some guidance to formally-trained experts, and educators are formally-trained experts. Few of us squabble with pediatricians or the architect designing the buildings in which we live. We trust them with our health and safety. Why then is it so
easy to doubt a teacher? educators typically have a bachelor’s degree and frequently have master’s degrees and beyond. ey’ve studied articles and books and attend hundreds of hours of professional development. ey are helping other people’s children learn by the dozens. Where parents have a data sample of a handful of children, experienced teachers are working with hundreds over the course of just a few years. Why then do we puff ourselves up with so much superiority and doubt their methods? Unless a child is truly struggling in comparison to peers, the majority will learn to read whether the teacher starts phonics drills on the first day of kindergarten or chooses to hug them for the first 30 days before starting Greek roots. In that moment, when you are frustrated with your child’s
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raise taxes to punishing levels if we don’t get a handle on how Medicare and Social Security are structured. The answer to these problems lies in allowing increased competition to bring down costs while providing a secure safety net for those in need. Mitt Romney wants to repeal and replace Obamacare with a free-market system that protects people with pre-existing conditions and the poor. His plan for Medicare reform shields everyone age 55 and older from any changes to the system and will keep traditional Medicare available for those younger workers who choose it. That will strengthen Medicare and offer the same benefits at a lower cost to today’s younger workers when they reach retirement age. In foreign policy, Obama has pursued a naive and dangerous policy that has given our enemies new openings to harm us, as in Benghazi, Libya. Obama’s mixed messages and inaction during the Arab Spring have allowed Islamist forces to gain ground in several countries. He was silent during the 2010 freedom demonstrations in Iran, and his response to the civil war in Syria has not advanced freedom, peace or U.S. interests in the region. Romney proposes a principled policy that puts America’s national interests first and projects American diplomatic, economic and, if absolutely necessary, military strength to protect those interests. Romney understands that we must stand with our allies and continue the fight against the radical Islamists who threaten our security and our democratic values. The U.S.-Israel alliance has been badly hurt by the antipathy Obama has shown to Israel and her leaders. The military cooperation mandated by our pro-Israel Congress is strong, but the level of trust and cooperation between the two governments is low. President Obama has made the “1967 borders” and Israeli construction freezes starting points for negotiations, which reinforced Palestinian intransigence and made peace between Israel and the Palestinians even more elusive. Romney will stand with Israel, knowing that Israel is our best ally and an important partner with the U.S., understanding that strong strategic, economic and moral ties bind the two countries. One of the most dangerous threats
to American national security today is the possibility of a nuclear Iran. Congress supported sanctions on Iran (sometimes over the president’s objection), but the diplomatic effort to support those sanctions has been weak and ineffectual. That is why Russia and China have routinely stymied efforts to create a truly effective international sanctions regime that might deter the Iranians. A nuclear Iran would be an existential threat to Israel, a destabilizing force in the Middle East and a clear threat to America’s interests and those of our European and Asian allies. The president’s policies have given Iran almost four years to continue enriching uranium; they now approach the quantity and quality needed to create nuclear weapons.
The U.S.-Israel alliance has been badly hurt by the antipathy Obama has shown to Israel.
Romney is committed to stopping Iran from acquiring the capability to build nuclear weapons. Our national security, and the security of our most important allies around the globe, depends on a strong U.S. policy toward Iran. The American people face a significant choice in just a few days’ time: a choice between a government-run, top-down economy and a free-market, opportunity economy; a choice between the weakness that invites attacks and the strength to keep our country secure; and a choice between leaving our children a country that we have built and enriched with freedom and ingenuity or leaving them a country shackled in debt and diminished in scope. It’s not too late to stop digging holes and start building our country again. Matthew Brooks is executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
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Your Say … e following letters reflect the opinions of our readers. e Baltimore Jewish times strives to run all letters to the editor, as space provides. e publication edits only for grammar and clarity. Please send your letters to editor@jewishtimes.com.
Disturbed By Obama i’m a Jewish liberal, but i am greatly disturbed by President obama’s “red carpet” welcome to scores of radical islamists who have made hundreds of visits to the white house. this was discovered by steve emerson, director of the washington-based investigative Project on terrorism, by combing through white house visitor log entries. the meetings with lobbyists serving as fronts for hamas, hezbollah, the muslim Brotherhood and other islamic militant organizations have coincided with U.s. policy changes such as: > purging “radical islam” and “war on terror” from the government’s official language; > censoring islamic references in counterterrorism training materials used by the FBi, homeland security and the Pentagon; > removing the names of hundreds of high-risk islamists tied to the muslim Brotherhood from the U.s. no-fly list; > embracing the muslim Brotherhood regimes in egypt and elsewhere and closing the federal investigations into muslim Brotherhood networks in america; > quashing of federal indictments of radical islamic groups tied to hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups by attorney General eric holder. we’re talking about radical islamists who have penetrated the white house, are undermining american
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homeland security and support for israel. i seriously question obama’s allegiances.
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i guess now that the issue of the president being born outside the U.s. seemingly has been settled, we are back to the baloney implying that he is a secret muslim and that he wears a wedding band inscribed “the only God is allah.” For the rest of the story on this latest allegation, see snopes.com/politics/obama/wed dingring.asp.
i concur that the quality of keeping a loved one at home adds to one’s quality of life, but i disagree that it “neutralizes the heavy costs associated with a primary-care facility” (“JhU, associated study Concludes Dementia Patients Fare Better at home,” oct. 18). my spouse has end-stage alzheimer’s, which has progressed very rapidly in a little over four years. while i have maintained her at home, she requires assistance for all her activities of daily living — bathing, feeding, dressing and walking. i have found that the costs of maintaining someone at home are equal to, if not greater than, what a facility would cost. Not only is there a financial component to care giving, but there is a heavy physical and emotional component that must be dealt with. most of these families that worked hard in their careers and planned for a comfortable retirement now find they are faced with a financial disaster. Neither our current health system nor our community have addressed this. while Jewish Community services hired a case manager several years ago to help deal with some of these issues, we have not adequately addressed the needs of the family caregiver who is often on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Do we have a plan to give that person some respite for a few hours a week or offer other family-support programs? often caregiver spouses falls ill because they do not have the time to take of themselves. while Judaism teaches compassion, how many of our congregations have developed ongoing programs so that the caregiver is not isolated from the community? these issues are the same regardless of the illness – stroke, traumatic brain injury, etc.
while Pikesville’s michael levitas (“Pikesville resident ‘Plays with Cars’ For a living,” oct. 3) may have had “a big love affair with Porsche cars” and feels they “were just an incredible car company, and they had a fantastic product,” he and your Jt readers should be aware of the Porsche family’s integral ties to hitler and Nazism. Both the company’s founder, Ferdinand, and his son, known as ‘Ferry,’ met often with hitler, who in 1934 called the father “brilliant.” it was at hitler’s behest that Ferdinand developed the Volkswagen Beetle, or “people’s car.” in 1939, when the Volkswagen factory opened in wolfsburg, Ferdinand became its general manager. During world war ii, both father and son dedicated themselves to designing tanks and other motorized weapons for the Germans. to hasten production, the company employed forced laborers from the east, especially Poland. it was because of this activity that both Ferdinand and Ferry were arrested as war criminals by the French government. without trial, bail was set at 500,000 francs each, and although the son was able to procure the bail, Ferdinand remained in a Dijon jail for 20 months until august 1947. in the past 60 years, both Porsche and Volkswagen have found enthusiasm and acceptance for their products in the United states and see no advantage in reminding consumers of their past, but this past deserves at least a footnote in an otherwise excellent Jt profile.
Bernard Patashnik Baltimore
Benjamin Dubin Baltimore
Anita Colman Kansas
Not On The Lawn in “Not on the lawn” (From this View, oct. 26), rabbis Goldberger, hauer and hopfer ground their opposition to gay marriage in their “desire to reflect the values of torah with regard to sexual morality and to maintain the health and integrity of the institution of marriage.” Yet, as depicted in the lives of Biblical luminaries such as abraham, Jacob, moses, David and solomon, the torah (read “God”) approves of polygamy and concubines as sexual options. Gay marriage undermines the institution of (monogamous) marriage, but polygamy and concubines do not? moreover, doesn’t the U.s. law’s prohibition of divinely sanctioned polygamy and concubines constitute an infringement upon the religious freedom of torah-observant Jews? if New York City’s crackdown upon metzitza b’peh is seen as a violation of Jews’ religious freedom, then logically speaking, all the more so, polygamy and concubines, too. Baruch Shaw Clarksville
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The Real Truth according to the title chosen for simone ellin’s review of ellen Cassedy’s book, “we are here: memories of
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the Lithuanian Holocaust” (Oct. 19), the author “explores the Lithuanian Holocaust from all vantage points.” In fact, nnothing could be further from the truth. Cassedy neglects the most important vantage point of the history of the Shoa in Lithuania, the uniquely extensive role played by Lithuanians in the mass murder of Jews (not only in Lithuania, but also in Belarus and Poland), a fact incredibly omitted from Ellin’s review. In that respect, it is clear that Ellin was so captivated by Cassedy’s narrative that she failed to realize that the author presented her readers with a very one-sided picture of contemporary Lithuanian-Jewish relations in the wake of the Holocaust. Suffice it to say, the Lithuanian government, which has done more than any other country to hide the crimes of its nationals during the Shoa [and] to promote the canard of historical equivalency between Communist crimes and those of the Nazis (and in recent years tried to prosecute Jewish anti-Nazi Soviet partisans on trumped up charges of “war crimes”), is actively promoting Cassedy’s book. Her book effectively – as Ellin’s [review] – whitewashes Lithuanian Shoa crimes and presents a totally distorted picture of the country’s hereto almost completely failed efforts to honestly confront its World War II history. Those interested in the history of the Shoa in Lithuania would be much better off spending their time reading the late David Bankier’s book “Expulsion and Extermination,” published by Yad Vashem, which chronicles the extremely significant role played by Lithuanians in the mass annihilation of 96.4 percent of Lithuanian Jewry, noting the extreme cruelty with which the crimes were carried out, the extensive scope of local participation, its nationalist context and the fact that
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the perpetrators came from all strata of Lithuanian society. Also highly recommended is the wonderful website defendinghistory.com of Professor Dovid Katz, who was fired from his post of Yiddish professor at Vilnius University, where he established the course attended by Cassedy in the wake of his energetic efforts to defend the survivors falsely accused of war crimes by the Lithuanian authorities. Dr. Efraim Zuroff Director, Simon Wiesenthal Center Israel
Bad Ad The Oct. 4 issue of the JT featured a quarter-page ad for the Middle East Quarterly (page 17) published by Daniel Pipes. Pipes is a documented Islamophobe, whose hate-filled work apparently served as an inspiration for Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik and as a rationale for the “Innocence of Muslims” film responsible for the recent anti-American violence throughout the Middle East. Mr. Pipes even believes that the First Amendment right of free expression should not apply to Muslims. For example, in print (“Comic books missionize for Islam,” April, 2012), he has called for censorship of an English-language comic book described by The New York Times as “aimed specifically at young Muslim readers and focusing on Muslim virtues.” The publication in question — which Pipes denounces as “missionizing propaganda” — is the functional counterpart of Orthodox Judaism’s Uncle Moishy and the Mitzvah Men! This is how deep Pipes’ prejudice runs. In effect, he seems to view Islam and Muslims the way that the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” view Judaism and Jews. Roy Amadeus Annapolis
Jews In The NFL To get away from all the election bluster in recent letters, I would like to address a different topic that appeared in the article about Jewish players in the NFL (“Jews In The NFL,” Oct. 19). The article referenced Gabe Carimi’s contention that he researched whether Yom Kippur would fall on a Sunday during his career. I believe the JT published a similar comment from Carimi several months ago. I just want to point out that Carimi can rest easy, even if his career lasts for all eternity, since Yom Kippur can never fall on a Sunday. Of course, this “arrangement” exists such that Shabbat and Yom Kippur never occur on back-to-back days due to the inability to prepare for Shabbat (or Yom Kippur) if those days fell consecutively. Unfortunately, this won’t help Carimi on Monday, Thursday or even Sunday night. At
least, he can rest assured that Yom Kippur cannot fall on the Sunday night of the Super Bowl. Daniel Neuman Baltimore
Women At The Wall Everyone knows that the Western Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem is a focal point for Jewish prayer, as it is the nearest we all agree we can get to the Temple site itself. What everyone may not know is that the Western Wall has more than one section. In agreement with the Israeli Supreme Court, there is one section called the Western Wall Plaza, which follows the minhag Jerusalem, which is Orthodox, and another section called Robinson’s Arch, which is designated for Reform and Conservative services. Women at the Wall, unlike most visitors to the Wall, are fully aware that they are breaking the law by wearing men’s talitim or tefillin and
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Incredibly, throughout the presidential debates, one critical question was left unasked: Would you empower parents to send their children to the school of their choice? Those who control education also control our nation’s culture and all that evolves there from, including the role of government in directing our lives. The greatest government-sanctioned violation of our civil rights, and denial of our liberty, occurs every day when the government financially coerces parents to send their children to government schools. This has no place in a free society, and parental choice in education needs to be fully implemented now. It is therefore of vital importance that every voter be informed that the Republican Party’s explicitly published policy on this is to empower parents to send their children to the school of their choice, while the Democrats are firmly opposed. Empowering parents to raise and educate their children with minimal government intrusion will also cut costs in half, improve educational quality exponentially, level the political field for the average voter and vastly improve our economy and employment prospects. The actions we all take to achieve universal school choice will determine the future of our children and
all society. A wealth of information on this critical issue is available at the Heritage Foundation and the CATO Institute. Israel Teitelbaum Morristown, N.J.
Supreme Decision What is at stake in the upcoming presidential election is nothing less than the direction of the Supreme Court and, thus, the fate of issues such as the separation of church and state, the legal availability of abortion, immigration, marriage equality, food safety, the environment, etc. The next president will likely appoint one or even two members, who might well serve into the 2050s. A Romney victory would likely mean the appointment of someone self-righteous and authoritarian, someone of the mold of current Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. This jurist is an enemy of Judaism. How so? Because he believes that it is 100-percent kosher for the headstones of the graves of deceased American Jewish soldiers to be festooned with the Christian cross (Letters, “Cross To Bear,â€? June 8). As the Oct. 18 letter, “But He Is A Mormon,â€? indicated, this would be perfectly ďŹ tting for a devout Mormon president who views Jews as being in need of posthumous baptism. Leroy Oakmont Baltimore
Be More Careful Dear Nadja Pats (Letters, Oct. 26), Nobody "borrowed" your [President] Obama sign. You didn't secure it properly and the wind blew it down the street into a neighbor's bushes. Please be more careful with your things. —Your Meadowood Neighbors Phil Schatz Baltimore
Corrections In the Oct. 5 article "Not Your Bubbie's Bingo," the correct owner of the Pikesville Community Hall is Murray Rodman. Jon Sindler operates the parlor. The Baltimore Jewish Times regrets this error.
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Partnering Against Cancer
One year after fire, the Mount Washington Tavern prepares for grand reopening
Putting into practice an initiative to extend its cancer-care program to hospitals throughout the state, the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center has signed an affiliation agreement with Upper Chesapeake Health. The announcement of the partnership is a result of a collaborative planning process that dates to 2010. UCH, which is the umbrella organization for three medical centers that service residents in northeastern Maryland, can now provide its patients with access to cuttingedge cancer treatments and clinical research trials closer to home. “We want to form strong and meaningful partnerships with other hospitals in the state so that everyone in Maryland benefits from the expertise that’s here and has access to top-quality cancer care in their own backyards,” UMGCC Director Dr. Kevin J. Cullen said. “We are happy to partner with Upper Chesapeake and work with a number of their physicians to make state-ofthe-art cancer care readily available in that part of the state.” Expanded cancer-care services for Harford County and Cecil County residents will be fully integrated when a new $60-million cancer center opens on the campus of Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air in the fall of 2013. UMGCC assisted in the planning of the facility, which will include a hightech radiation treatment facility and an outpatient center, Dr. Cullen said. Additionally, physicians from both hospitals will continue to teleconference and share information to provide optimal decisions for their patients, regardless of which facility their patients visit. “We want to provide a seamless experience for patients and doctors,” Dr. Cullen said. — David Snyder
It’s been almost a year since the community was shaken by a fire that devastated the Mount Washington Tavern, a popular bar/restaurant. As the Tavern prepares to reopen in early November, co-owner Rob Frisch is looking to provide fans with a winning combination of history and modern convenience. “When they walk in,” said Frisch, “people will see that the whole first floor is now on one level. It’s more open than before. We’ve maintained the original front stone and brick wall and exposed the brick in the bar; it looks beautiful.” Frisch said the Tavern will still have a shuffleboard court and noted that the sky-bar has been converted to an all-year-round space. As part of the Tavern’s renovations, builders were able to modernize the space, making
The Mount Washington Tavern opens later this month.
it accessible by adding an elevator and making it safer with the installation of a sprinkler system. Before it became the Mount Washington Tavern in 1979, the establishment was known as Sparwassers. It was originally located across the street from its current Newbury Street location but relocated to its present site in the 1940s. Frisch, 52, and co-owner David Lichty, 46, began working at Mount Washington Tavern when they were both in their 20s. Five years ago, they purchased the business. Frisch said he is proud that 100 percent of the kitchen and bar staff and 80 percent of the wait staff who worked at the Tavern before the fire will be returning to work in the new tavern. Frisch described the Tavern’s new
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menu as “new American with a seafood twist,” but he wanted to assure regulars that they will still sell old favorites such as tuna tartar. A community fixture for decades, Frisch emphasized that the business is dedicated to the surrounding neighborhood. “e Tavern is still committed to the community,” said Frisch. “We’re sponsoring a fundraising project with all proceeds going to the Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital. For $75, you can buy a customized brick that will be placed in front of the entrance to the Tavern.” By the time the bar/restaurant opens, 350 of the 450 personalized bricks purchased so far will be placed in front of the entrance to the Tavern. — Simone Ellin
DFI Welcomes Friedman Fellows A group of 10 budding Jewish leaders are taking a leap forward. The Darrell D. Friedman Institute for Professional Development at the Weinberg Center has announced a new cohort of Friedman Fellows. These are young professional who have been in the field between six months and three years. The group will participate in KADIMA, a new leadership development pilot program facilitated by coach Beth Gansky. Cindy Goldstein, executive director of DFI, said KADIMA is meant to assist participants in clarifying and developing their professional and leadership goals and to provide tools to advance their careers. “They all show so much passion for their work in the Jewish community,” said Goldstein. “I look forward to seeing their growth as they develop themselves professionally and enhance the work they do in our community every day.” DFI puts $50,000 toward the Friedman Fellow program each year; this is the fourth year. The funds come from
an endowment established in honor of Darrell Friedman, former president of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore; the endowment is matched by the Weinberg Foundation. This year’s cohort includes: Sora Brill, donor services representative, The Associated; Carly Frank, campaign associate, The Associated; Ilana Knobel, special events coordinator, University of Maryland, College Park Hillel; Darren Levin, Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus fellow, Johns Hopkins University; Lane Levine, Supportive Community Network director, Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc.; Amanda Max, director of children’s service, Jewish Community Center; Lara Nicolson, family engagement associate, Center for Jewish Education; Jessica Shimberg, associate director of Jewish Life and Learning, University of Maryland, College Park Hillel; and Ahuva Spetner, program director, JEP Girls of MD. — Maayan Jaffe
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THE ASSOCIATED Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore 5 I P V H I U G V M 1 M B O O J O H * O O P W B U J W F 1 S P H S B N N J O H % F D J T J W F " D U J P O * O T Q J S J O H 1 I J M B O U I S P Q Z
Calendar of Events Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in Baltimore
Volunteer Opportunities with Jewish Volunteer Connection
Sunday, November 11 – Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Six-Word Memoirs at the GA − A Women’s Luncheon Monday, November 12, 2012; 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Hyatt Regency Baltimore 300 Light Street, Baltimore $75*, includes complimentary parking at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore. Featured speaker: Larry Smith, founder, Six-Word Memoirs Hosted by ASSOCIATED Women. Register at www.associated.org/womensga *Women who have already made their pledge to THE ASSOCIATED’s 2013 Annual Campaign will receive a $25 discount on the luncheon.
For more information, contact Liz Schuman at eschuman@associated.org or 410-369-9251.
Taste of IMPACT Thursday, November 15, 2012; 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. THE ASSOCIATED 101 West Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore Young adults (ages 22-45) who are looking to get more involved with IMPACT, the young adult division of THE ASSOCIATED, are invited to explore Jewish Baltimore, learn about IMPACT and THE ASSOCIATED, meet new people, give back to the community through hands-on volunteering and have fun all at the same time. For more information, contact Marisa Danto at mdanto@associated.org or 410-369-9296.
PJ on the Town at The Fire Museum of Maryland Sunday, November 18, 2012; 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. The Fire Museum of Maryland 1301 York Road, Lutherville Join PJ Library, the Macks Center for Jewish Education and Congregation Beit Tikvah to connect with families and take part in special activities while in the company of a REAL firefighter. Cost: $1 for one-year-olds, $2 for two-year-olds, $3 for three-year-olds, $4 for four-year-olds, $5 for children five to 12 and $10 for adults. For more information and to register, visit www.cjebaltimore.org/pjtown or contact Lara Nicolson at lnicolson@cjebaltimore.org or 410-735-5000.
CHAI’s Good Neighbor Day Sunday, November 18, 2012; 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Public Safety Training Facility 3500 W. Northern Pkwy, Baltimore (across the street from the Weinberg Park Heights JCC) Work together on projects to help seniors and adults with disabilities prepare their homes for winter as well as projects to strengthen and beautify our neighborhoods. For more information and to register, contact Chedva Rose at crose@chaibaltimore.org or 410-500-5325.
Lend a Hand at Senior Bingo Night Wednesday, November 14, 2012; 6:15 – 7:30 p.m. Courtland Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 7920 Scotts Level Road, Baltimore Help to call the numbers, assist residents one-on-one and get to know some of Baltimore’s most interesting senior residents. An optional kosher pizza dinner will be available (for $3 per person) to volunteers before Bingo night begins. For more information and to register, contact Rebecca Weinstock at rweinstock@associated.org or 410-843-7566.
Prepare Emergency Kits for the Homebound at CHAI’s Good Neighbor Day Sunday, November 18, 2012; 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Public Safety Training Facility 3500 W. Northern Pkwy, Baltimore (across the street from the Weinberg Park Heights JCC) Join Jewish Volunteer Connection’s Mitzvah Maker program to help assemble and deliver emergency preparedness kits to homebound clients of Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc. (CHAI), on Good Neighbor Day, a community-wide day of service. For more information and to register, contact Erica Bloom at ebloom@associated.org or 410-369-9302. 110212
Showcasing the best of the Federation movement, this premier national Jewish communal event tackles critical issues. Attend or volunteer at the Baltimore Convention Center. Marketplace open to the general public, Sunday, November 11, 2012 from 5:45 – 7:00 p.m.; Monday, November 12 from 3:45 – 6:45 p.m. $25 entrance fee on site only. For more information, visit www.associated.org/ga2012 or call Bonnie Garonzik at 410-369-9210.
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A tree crashes on Chatsworth Avenue in Reisterstown. Hurricane Sandy left 1.5 million people without power.
HURRICANE SANDY Hurricane Sandy crashed into the greater Baltimore-metro area Monday aernoon with rains flooding the streets and winds reaching 80 to 90 mph. In late June, the summer derecho caught everyone by surprise. e Jewish community was more prepared this time around. According to Mark Smolarz, chief financial officer for The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, a meeting was called last Sunday by Ken Gelula, executive director of Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc., of area Jewish leaders, city officials and neighborhood association heads to coordinate a plan
to serve the area’s most vulnerable during the hurricane. e meeting focused especially on how to handle frail seniors and people with disabilities in the event of massive power loss. According to reports, at least two people died and more than 1.5 million people lost power in the immediate region as a result of the storm. On Tuesday morning, just over 308,000 were le without electricity. According to Tom Klines, senior meteorologist for AccuWeather, the weather is slowly improving, and “there are no other big storms on the horizon.” e Baltimore Jewish response team, including Jewish Volunteer Connection, was set up with walkie-talkies, and
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members were in constant contact with one another throughout the experience. A member of the team was Jewish Community Services Executive Director Barbara Gradet, who told the Jewish Times that JCS began hurricane preparations the Friday prior, reaching out to clients, caregivers and their families to ensure that they had the food, medicine and water they needed to weather the storm. JCS staff was not on-premise Monday, but the team was constantly monitoring the hotline, and caseworkers were in touch with their clients. In addition to dealing with the physical needs of patients, referring them to emergency personnel or city/county
offices as necessary, JCS also counseled some clients who were dealing with hurricane-related panic. e Orthodox Chesed Fund handed out free flashlights and batteries to those in need. “It is very helpful that there are coordinated efforts in this community,” Gradet said. e Owings Mills Jewish Community Center was set up as an emergency shelter in Baltimore County. This, explained Executive Director Louis “Buddy” Sapolsky, was the result of the center receiving a full-building generator from the state during the derecho. In the summer of 2011, the JCC took in around 500 young adults who See Hurricane Sandy on page 22 jewishtimes.com
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time frame for assessment. BGE announced that customers may experience multiple outages throughout the week. Extended outages could result from restoration work. More than 4,100 employees, contractors and out-of-state linemen, tree personnel and support staff were mobilized in Baltimore on Monday and Tuesday at four staging sites. As of Tuesday, BGE was not providing individual estimated restoration times like it does with normal storms. Gradet cautioned that often the aftermath of inclement weather can be equally or even more challenging than the storm itself. She said that after the derecho JCS saw many clients who needed emergency funds to restock their refrigerators and replace medications that had spoiled. “For the people who are the most vulnerable and who may not have anyone in town looking out for them,” said Gradet, “we are the family.” JT
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were working on the Eastern Shore during Hurricane Irene. For Sandy, cots were set out in one of the JCC gymnasiums, and the Red Cross provided food. In addition, the Red Cross and other emergency workers were on hand to deal with medical concerns. In the end, however, according to Sapolsky, only a handful of people actually utilized the JCC during the hurricane. “As always, we are doing everything we can to be supportive,” said Sapolsky, who noted that the JCC itself did lose power and was running on its generator. Sapolsky said he did not know for how long the JCC would be kept as a shelter. The Owings Mills facility was open for normal business from 12 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, and both JCCs resumed normal operations on Wednesday. “It is hard to tell how much people in this area were impacted,” said Sapolsky. “I know a lot of people are out of power, but the lack of people coming here means people are coping.” 22
In all, 32 emergency centers were opened across the state, and several hundred people utilized those facilities. During a Monday briefing, Gov. Martin O’Malley described the storm as “dangerous” and “deadly.” “Trees will fall, poles will be knocked over, electric lines will go down, and there will be massive power outages,” the governor said. “I encourage everyone to hunker down and stay inside. ... Stay off the roads.” On Tuesday, the government requested that all non-emergency vehicles stay off the roads until 12 p.m. O’Malley noted that the roads did still have a substantial amount of debris on them. However, O’Malley said during his morning briefing that Maryland was “very fortunate to be on the kind end of the violent storm.” Several major bridges were shut down during Sandy, including the Bay Bridge and the Tydings Memorial Bridge across the Susquehanna River. Flooding was expected to last for several days. President Obama signed pre-disas-
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ter emergency declarations for several states, including Maryland. The predisaster declaration means that Maryland is now eligible for federal disaster funding through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ensuring the already-strained state budget is not stretched any thinner as a result of another disaster. President Obama ordered federal aid to supplement state and local efforts in areas affected by this severe weather. Klines told the JT that this was a “once-in-a-lifetime storm, ... highly unusual.” The Edison Electric Institute, the association of U.S. shareholderowned electric companies — and its member companies — coordinated with federal and local government officials and strongly urged customers to put safety first. EEI said that with winds moving across a 1,000-mile area, it could take up to two days for the hurricane to clear the area, and only then could any restoration efforts begin; on Tuesday, local energy suppliers were stating the same
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Marylanders who signed up for early voting were able to resume plans to get out and cast their ballots on Wednesday morning. To accommodate the number of registrants, polls stayed open longer, from 8 a.m. through 9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. Gov. Martin O’Malley said the additional day and hours made up for all but 60 minutes of the planned early voting.
The Asociated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore has opened a Hurricane Relief Fund to contribute to recovery and rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Donations can be made online at associated.org/sandy. Donors may also call 410-369-9300.
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ON THE INTERNET NEW YORK – At 10 p.m. on Monday, as the full brunt of Hurricane Sandy was bearing down on the northeastern United States, filmmaker Sandi DuBowski posted an urgent online message. DuBowski’s elderly parents had declined to leave their home in Manhattan Beach, a neighborhood of southern Brooklyn that sits on a small peninsula flanked by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and Sheepshead Bay on the other. The neighborhood is in Zone A, low-lying areas of New York City that the mayor had ordered evacuated on Sunday afternoon in advance of the looming storm. “The water has made it up to the first floor of the house,” DuBowski wrote. “They have gone up to the 2nd floor. Is there anyone who can rescue them and their neighbors tomorrow morning before the next high tide? I am scared how much higher it will go. Their power and phone is out.” A flurry of messages followed, including contact information for relief organizations and city officials and simple words of prayer and encouragement. Friends reposted the appeal to their own Facebook walls to widen its circulation. “I’m so moved,” DuBowski said Tuesday, his voice betraying the strain of the night before. “Hundreds of people were forwarding this and searching for any avenue to help. It was a harrowing night.” Finally, early Tuesday DuBowski got a piece of good news. A neighbor with a cellphone had reached his mother, who had barely enough time
to tell him she was alright before the phone went dead. DuBowski duly posted the update on Facebook. “I know they’re alive,” he said. “I hope they’re OK. I think they’re OK.” For many trapped in New York and other northeastern cities besieged by this week’s storm, social media outlets — principally Facebook and Twitter — instantly transformed into lifelines, enabling residents to commiserate, appeal for help (or offer some) and share information, including pictures and video from the storm. As the skies darkened Monday, video was posted showing the facade of a building in Manhattan being sheared off by the wind and of an explosion at a substation that knocked out power to most of lower Manhattan. Users linked to press conferences by the governors of New York and New Jersey, traded ideas for passing the time marooned at home in the dark, and even exchanged funny doctored photos to lighten the mood. One showed the Statue of Liberty taking cover behind her pedestal as Sandy approached. In the wake of the storm, Facebook emerged as a vital source of information in assessing damage. A photo of a tree breaking through the roof of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Connecticut, posted on Facebook on Tuesday, garnered a dozen comments in under an hour, including a link to make a donation. But the real energy occurred as the storm was unfolding late on Monday and continued even as the power losses began in earnest, with users switching to mobile phones to keep
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Photos of storm damage, like this one from Astoria, Queens, were shared widely on Facebook and other websites.
in touch. Often, their final messages were announcements that power had been cut and they were going mobile, enabling their friends to construct virtual maps of the cascading power outages. “I could follow, Oh I know Ivan is on 34th and 9th. OK they’re down,” said Alexis Frankel, who lives in an area of Queens that was relatively unscathed by the storm but spent hours posting dozens of storm updates. “You could follow the domino effect of how the storm was progressing, which I found particularly helpful.” For some in less affected areas, Facebook became a means to experience what less fortunate friends were living through. “Friends in Philly were closing laptops and asking, ‘Are we in the same place?’ said Ahava Zarembski, who lives in downtown
Philadelphia and never lost electricity during the storm. “All of the excitement moved to the web and what’s happening and totally not tapping into what’s happening outside.” For a brief period, Facebook functioned in ways that critics claim it never does: bringing people together for actual, in-person socializing. At Zarembski’s house, this resulted in a pre-hurricane lunch and dance party. “That happened because I was posting online what I’m doing, which was basically cooking and baking and telling people to come over. And they did,” she said. “People were stuck and getting cooped up. There was this weird energy and excitement, where energy meets fear. People felt the need to be together.” JT Ben Harris writes for the JTA Wire Service.
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2012 GA encourages students, young adults to have their voices heard Who is the millennial Jew? is is a question that young Jewish adults and their older counterparts will be able to tackle together next Sunday at the 2012 Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly. Upwards of 3,000 people are expected to attend the event; 10 percent of those participants will be college students. Another large percentage will be young adults between the ages of 22 and 35. “Our students are the future Jewish leaders of the world,” said Rabbi Debbie Pine, Executive Director of the Hillel at Johns Hopkins University. Speaking on behalf of her fellow local Hillel executives, Rabbi Pine said, “We are sending students to the GA to see and experience the organized Jewish world at its best. We believe that the GA is a vibrant, broad and exciting opportunity to see and experience many aspects of Jewish life.” She noted that at the GA, students will have an opportunity to feel a part of the larger Jewish leadership world
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and to have personal meetings with those great leaders. is year, GA co-chairs have been working directly with Hillel — locally and nationally — to ensure a strong contingency. In addition, the GA will offer a special Student Institute on Sunday. According to GA co-chair Genine Fidler, the institute will offer programming focused specifically on the student cohort and will explicitly work to develop the connection from college to community. Rabbi Ari Israel, Hillel at College Park’s executive director, told the JT that between 35 and 40 students will be attending the GA from his campus. As such, his students will be taking part in a four-hour introduction to the GA, arranged by Hillel International. There are also followup plans, a means to keep the youth connected and energized about Jewish communal life aer the GA. Rabbi Israel said the student rate– $169 with no hotel and $299 with two nights in triple occupancy —
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made it easier for students to attend. Above and beyond the national student price, e Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore offered subsidies for local Hillel participants. “One of our goals is to do our best to integrate our students into the broader Jewish community,” explained Rabbi Israel. “We want to prepare them to live Jewish lives in the future. ese students graduate with degrees in business, economics, physics, and education — we want them to graduate with a degree in Judaism, too. e GA is a wonderful place to gather and talk about the issues affecting all of us.” In addition to the 300 students in attendance, there will be a large contingency of younger adults taking part in the GA; because GA registration does not require one to indicate his or her age, the exact number of young adult participants is not currently known. Locally, Harel Turkel, Dara Schnee and Dan Klein are serving as youngadult recruitment co-chairs. Fidler said the team has been recruiting locally and nationally through their personal contacts, which include the Wexner Foundation Jewish leadership program, The Associated’s Business and Professional Group and others. Nationally, JFNA’s Young Leadership Cabinet has encouraged its members to attend through such channels as email marketing and social media, and one-on-one solicitations. Each of the GA plenaries will feature the voices of young adults from Birthright Israel, Young Leadership Cabinet, as well as representatives from the federation’s overseas partners. “e GA is a place for young adults to see and participate in the kinds of thoughts and ideas that interest them on a national and international level and to see this community as one they can move right into,” said Fidler. “Young adults can connect with people
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who care about the same things they do and hear what the leading thoughts, ideas and challenges are in their areas of interest.” JT
Are You A Young Adult? Sessions the young, and young-at-heart, may want to attend S U N DAY, NOV. 11 : Do t he Write Thing: A three-day seminar for students and young adults interested in Jewish journalism; run by the World Zionist Organization Quizrael: A trivia, quiz game that will run like a talk-show, with prizes M O N DAY, N OV. 12: S ocial Explosion: An interactive lab experiment about how to use social media to achieve organizational goals Connected or Disconnected: Who is the New Millennial Jew? This will be a discussion with Wayne Firestone and students about Jewish identity and affiliation Cre at in g Change for Tomorrow : E ngaging t he Next G ene ration : A look at the best practices for next-gen engagement from around the country The Baltimore Schmooze: An annual networking event for young social entrepreneurs and innovators
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What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of nursing homes? For most, it’s definitely not gourmet cuisine. But that may be changing. On Oct. 18, FutureCare CherryWood, a Reisterstown nursing home, defeated a dozen local restaurants in the Reisterstown-Owings MillsGlyndon Chamber of Commerce’s 9th Annual Taste of the Town competition. Believe it or not, FutureCare beat out some of our most popular local eateries including e Grill at Harryman House, Mr. Charles Market and Santoni’s Marketplace & Catering. How did this happen? We asked Marla Bosley, FutureCare CherryWood’s director of admissions.
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eral staff members attending. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Reisterstown Community Crisis Center. This year, we decided to enter one of our signature dishes. We think our kitchen does an excellent job every day meeting the dietary needs of our short-term rehab patients, as well as our long-term care residents. Were you sur prised b y the win?
We were pleasantly surprised that we won, especially since this was our first year entering the event. Our entire dietary team did an excellent job of planning, preparing and serving our winning entry. All the vendors did a terrific job of showcasing their specialties.
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Our goal at CherryWood is to meet and exceed our patients’ and residents’ dining needs. We hope this win will let the community know that our residents are able to enjoy great food along with excellent nursing and rehab care. FutureCare CherryWood won the Taste of the Town competition with its fiesta herb-encrusted chicken and chocolate bread pudding. Second place was Santoni’s potato martini bar, and tied for third place were Harryman House’s duck confit and Mr. Charles’ catfish tacos. JT Simone Ellin is a JT staff reporter sellin@jewishtimes.com
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Aharon Denrich has experienced the highs and lows of the U.S. economy over the past eight years. Denrich, along with his parents, Stuart and Leslie, opened Mr. Charles Market in 2004. The Denriches felt they had the perfect location, as the gourmet shop, which also offers a selection of wine and beer, is nestled among upper-income homes along Park Heights Avenue in Owings Mills. For the first several years, business fared well. Residents frequented the market to sample the high-end cuisine and take home a prepared meal. That all changed four years ago, when the nation entered the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Within a span of a few months, millions of Americans lost their jobs, home values plummeted and retirement funds dried up due to a drop in the stock market. The situation was made worse for those who lost everything, or nearly everything, in the Ponzi scheme perpetrated by New York financial mogul Bernie Madoff. When the economy tanks, Aharon Denrich, 34, said, discretionary spending is the first thing to go. “Business just fell off precipitously,” he said. “People stopped going out to eat because they couldn’t afford it. It got really scary for a while, and we wondered if we were going to be able to ride it out.” Stuart Denrich added: “We’re still trying to hang on, wondering just when the country will finally turn the corner. Every time we just about reach that point, there seems to be a setback.” Are we better off economically now than we were four years ago? at is the question being asked by Denrich and millions of other voters across the country, as they prepare to choose between incumbent President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and challenger Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican. The economy, according to recent polls, is the most crucial issue on the minds of voters heading into the Nov. 6 presidential election. A September poll of Maryland voters by Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies found more than 46 percent of those surveyed listed the economy/jobs as the most important issue facing the state. Taxes ranked second at 12 percent and none of the other 15 answers received more than 10 percent. Consider the following: • The national unemployment rate has gone from 5 percent in 2008 to 7.8 percent today, although the rate peaked at 9.7 percent in 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. • The number of people receiving food stamps went from 32 million in 2009 to 46 million in 2012, according to Politfact. • In the Baltimore-metro area, the average home sale price decreased from $316,000 in August 2008 to
$284,000 in August 2012, according to Metropolitan Regional Information Systems (MRIS). “Whoever is president still has a lot of work to help get the country back to where we were, if that’s even possible,” Stuart Denrich said. “It’s going to take years for many people to recover from the recession, if they ever truly recover at all.”
Widespread Suffering Tracey Cohen Paliath, director of economic services for Jewish Community Services, has witnessed the suffering of many people firsthand. Over the past three years, Paliath has worked with dozens of people, providing job assistance and emergency funds so they could pay their mortgages and utility bills and purchase medications. “is recession has been devastating, there’s no doubt about it,” Paliath said. “ere’s no other way to describe it.” Paliath said this recession has impacted people from all walks of life, from the service and manufacturing fields to the highest levels of business. Many, she added, are out of work for the first time in their lives. “I’ve helped everyone from waiters to CEOs,” she said. “There’s no sector of the economy that wasn’t impacted. Many people didn’t even know how to apply for a job online because they had been at the same place of employment for 20 to 25 years. They didn’t understand the digital nature of it.” JCS Executive Director Barbara Gradet said it’s not just the volume of people needing help that is on the rise, it’s the depth of their problems. That, she said, has made the recovery even more difficult. Gradet said JCS had about 800 clients in 2008, a number that grew to 1,400 over the last year. In addition, JCS has doled out about $1.4 million in emergency funds over the last year compared to $700,000 in 2007 — the year before the recession hit.
“Helping people find work is just part of the problem,” Gradet said. “We have people who don’t know what services are available to them; others have too much pride to ask for help, while others are dealing with the physical and mental toll associated with losing — or not being able to find — a job.” Jeremy Snyder was one of those people,. The 25-yearold Baltimore resident, who didn’t turn to JCS for help, sent out dozens of resumes seeking work after graduating from Salisbury University in 2009 with a degree in geographic information systems. Snyder applied online to all types of jobs, both in and out of his field, with little luck. Over the next few years, he worked several odd jobs before finally landing an entry-level position in his field. “It was depressing at times,” he said. “You see others getting jobs and wonder whether all the work you did in college was worth it. Work is a central part of [most people’s] identity.” Paliath said dealing with the emotional toll of unemployment is completely normal. “Depression and isolation can set in for many,” she said. “It can impact marriages, how children — upset over problems at home — are faring in school, and [it can] lead to a sense of panic by people wondering what will happen next.” Helping people understand the current state of the
MANY BALTIMORE JEWS ‘JUST MANAGING’ As a result of the economic downturn, one in three respondents (as opposed to one in five 10 years ago) reported that their households are “just managing,” including some who “cannot make ends meet.” Twelve percent of Jewish households have incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty standard of $37,000 for a family of three. • 64 percent of Jewish single-parent households are just managing or cannot make ends meet. • 27 percent of Jewish seniors living alone have incomes that are below 200 percent of the federal poverty standard. • 43 percent of Jewish households report they were negatively impacted by the economic downturn. This includes households that reported a loss in job (18 percent), a reduction in salary or income or someone who took a lower-paying job. 2010 Greater Baltimore Jewish Community Study, associated.org/yourfuture
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Aharon Denrich and his father, Stuart, said their business was rocked by the economic downturn—and has yet to recover.
• Create 60,000 jobs by funding exploration of new natural gas • Double the number of work/study jobs
• Provide aid to states to hire more teachers: cost — $85 billion to create 1.5 million jobs
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• Launch a public works jobs program: cost — $75 billion to create 1.3 million jobs
• Cut $5 billion from defense spending; create new Veterans Jobs Corp • Extend unemployment benefits: cost — $62 billion to create approximately 1.2 million jobs
“LET’S FACE IT, MANY OF THOSE LOST JOBS ARE NEVER COMING BACK.”
• Extend Bush tax cuts only for families making less than $250,000 a year • Extend payroll tax cut, costing $175 billion but creating 2.3 million jobs • Extend the tuition tax credit • Eliminate tax breaks for companies that move jobs overseas • Give tax breaks to companies that build in distressed areas and train workers • Reduce tax credits for oil exploration; give tax credits for alternative energy development • Tax cut for businesses that hire longterm, unemployed veterans or students; cost — $65 billion to create 845,000 jobs Sources: Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address; the 2011 American Jobs Act
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economy is a role JCS plays for many of its clients, Gradet said. For some, that could mean additional job training, while for others it could mean just getting back to work, even if it’s part time or as a volunteer. “Let’s face it,” Gradet said. “Many of those lost jobs are never coming back. In many ways, we are dealing with a jobless recovery, as businesses have learned how to be profitable with fewer employees. We offer emergency help where we can, but it’s all about getting people back on the road toward being self-sufficient.”
Changing Economy Vladimir Kats understands the economy’s changing dynamics all too well. Kats, 34, is an associate broker with Kats & Associates at Keller Williams Realty Baltimore. He has tapped into a sector of the real estate market that was virtually unknown before a few years ago: short sales. As the economy worsened, so did the housing market, and more and more people lost their homes. According to MRIS, Inc., there were 419 bank-owned homes active on the market in the Baltimore-metro area in September 2012 compared to 402 during the same month four years ago. The peak was 1,746 in December 2010. Kats said much of that decrease can be attributed to the rise of short sales, in which the proceeds from a home
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sale fall short of the balance of the mortgage, yet the lien holder on the property allows the sale to go through and often forgives the difference. According to MRIS, there were 1,604 active short sales on the market in the Baltimore-metro area this past September, compared to 937 in September 2008.This past August, there were 254 short sales in the area compared, to just 16 four years prior. “The banks’ worst enemy is an oversupply in the market,” Kats said. “That could be at least one of the reasons why banks are slow to foreclose.” “Also, it’s often less expensive for a bank to allow the homeowner to short sale the home rather than take it into foreclosure in which a bank will get far less during a sale. Many banks are offering homeowners financial incentives to short sale to avoid foreclosure,” he explained. Kats said he is beginning to see the real estate market stabilize but added job creation needs to be a centerpiece of the next administration, whether from Obama or Romney. “ere’s a model for improving the economy,” Kats said. “We’ve stabilized the real estate market and the banks, but instead of stressing job creation, the government thus far has concentrated on stimulus packages. You can’t truly stimulate the economy if people aren’t working.” Daniel Waldman takes a similar approach. e 37-year-old
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Keller Williams Realty Baltimore associates, including President Vladimir Kats (center, right), have assisted with hundreds of the county’s home short sales.
Pikesville resident worked for various public-relation firms for years and sought to move up in the industry. While everyone Waldman reached out to was receptive to his unique digital public relations and marketing experience, he received the same response: “We don’t get enough work to justify hiring you.” So, in 2009 and at the height of the recession, Waldman formed Evolve Communications, which helps agencies of all sizes grow their business by providing them with marketing and PR solutions to sell their clients. “It’s a changing landscape today,” Waldman said. “You need the ability to be mobile and adjust to an ever-changing economy. You need to find ways not only to be creative, but to do it in an affordable way.” The Denrich family shared that sentiment. Once business in their market slowed, they altered their business model. This included doing more corporate catering events and reorganizing their menu to offer more affordable options, including a Sunday brunch. They also reduced the amount of money spent on advertising and are working to expand their customer base through social media. While business is still challenging, Aharon Denrich said things slowly have been improving, although not as fast as he would like. “Why do you think places like McDonald’s are posting amazing profits?” said Denrich, referring to the iconic fast-food chain that had a profit of more than $1.46 billion in its last quarter. “It’s because they sell food at a cheap price. People didn’t used to look at the prices when we first opened.” Denrich noted that customers today look at price over
quality. When it comes to the presidential race, he said, “I’m not sure if it’s better to go with the devil you know or the devil you don’t know. But I’m definitely looking at what each candidate can offer to help reduce the burden on small businesses. It’s hard in today’s climate to make it as the neighborhood store.” Denrich said one factor that has hindered his ability to keep prices lower is the cost of fuel. A gallon of regular gasoline averages around $3.58 today compared to $2.44 on Election Day four years ago, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic. Prices at the pump had fallen as low as $1.84 a gallon at the time of Obama’s inauguration in January 2009. “The price of gas impacts everything,” he said. “When the food delivery services have to spend more on gas they pass the [cost] along to us, and we have no choice but to pass it along to the customer. “When a family has to spend $70 to $100 just to fill up their car, they have less money to spend in other areas. Whoever is president needs to find a way to get these fuel costs under control. It’s just brutal for everyone.” As to what the future of the nation’s economy holds, Palaith said she is unsure. While she believes that the worst of the recession is behind us, the damage done will linger for many years to come. “Are we better off now than four years ago?” Palaith said. “Yes, but nowhere close to where we need to be. The good news is we’re getting people back to work. The bad news is it’s often in jobs nowhere near the salary and prestige level where they were before. If you can’t adjust, you’re going to get left behind.” JT Ron Snyder is a JT staff reporter — rsnyder@jewishtimes.com
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• Cap federal spending at 20 percent of gross domestic product; introduce a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget • Freeze federal hiring until employment is down 10 percent; lower wages and benefits for government workers, saving $47 billion • Cut non-security discretionary spending by 5 percent to balance the budget • Cut funding to Amtrak, PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities • Make Bush tax cuts permanent • Eliminate dividend and capital gains taxes for those earning less than $250,000 a year • End estate tax and the Alternative Minimum Tax • Lower all income tax rates by 20 percent by cutting deductions except for: mortgage interest, charitable donations and health-care expenses for the middle class • Tie unemployment benefits to worker retraining; improve job training by transferring federal programs to the states • Require states to solve unfunded pension obligations • Lower corporate tax rate to 25 percent • Permit businesses to write off 2010 and 2011 capital investments • Keep defense spending as is but increase efficiencies to add 100,000 soldiers • Eradicate Obamacare • Shift Medicaid, housing vouchers and food stamps to states; provide vouchers for Medicare for those turning 65 in/after 2023 (will save $100 billion) Sources: MittRomney.com and other websites
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In Their Words Sen. Ben Cardin knows there are several hot-button topics that have voters talking this election season. Some are concerned about the Middle East, while others are worried about Social Security and Medicare or passionate about social issues like same-sex marriage and immigration reform. However, Cardin said he believes that in the end, there is one main issue at the top of the list for most voters, as he seeks to win a second Senate term : the economy. How to improve the economy and create jobs is a centerpiece of Cardin’s re-election campaign. The 69-year-old Pikesville Democrat, who first won election to the Senate in 2006, is in essentially a three-man race for the job with Republican newcomer Daniel Bongino and independent Rob Sobhani. Also running is Dean Ahmad of Montgomery County, who will be on the ballot representing the Libertarian Party. Cardin said four years after the country was shedding jobs at the rate of 757,000 a month, the economy once again is moving in the right direction. For example, there was a 7.8 percent unemployment rate in September, the lowest rate since President Barack Obama took office in 2009. Cardin said he shares the president’s view of how the country can return to economic prosperity, a vision he believes is shared by voters who will help him to a re-election victory on Nov. 6. “Creating jobs is the number one priority,” Cardin said. “It’s the matter we spend the most time on and the matter we get the most questions on relating to the economy. Clearly, we have turned the economy back on a path of growth, and that is extremely important. “[T]here was a real fear we would go off the economic abyss, and now we find we are creating jobs — not fast enough — but we’re creating jobs. ... Investing in education, infrastructure, energy and research … will help us with job growth.” Cardin, who has held elected office at
some level continuously since 1967, is a prohibitive favorite to win re-election. A September poll by Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies Inc. showed that 50 percent of those surveyed said they planned to vote for Cardin. Most of the remaining support is split between Bongino and Sobhani, a twotime former GOP Senate candidate. Bongino was polling at 22 percent to 21 percent for Sobhani at the time of the Gonzales survey. Ahmad did not register on the Gonzales poll.
A Fresh Perspective Bongino, 37, a former Secret Service agent, said he believes his experience in law enforcement — he also spent time with the New York City Police Department —and as a small businessman running a website-design company would help provide Maryland voters with a fresh perspective on how to improve the country. Bongino, who lives in Severna Park with his wife and two children, said, if elected, he would push for greater school choices, would not increase taxes, would work to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, push for increased immigration reform and would work to ensure Medicare benefits are not cut for those 55 and older. Despite running for elected office for the first time, many high-profile Republicans at the local, state and national levels have rallied support for Bongino. Among those that have endorsed him are former Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Florida Rep. Allen West. “People are endorsing me because they see my passion and believe I have the ideas to move Maryland and the country as a whole back on the right path,” Bongino said. “Having an economy driven by the government will not endure. Taking tax dollars away from small businesses that won’t be able to reinvest in the business is not efficient but, more importantly, does not help the economy grow.”
Maryland Senate candidates explain their stances on key issues From health care to the federal deficit to the Middle East, whoever wins the race for the Senate will face plenty of challenges in Washington. Here is where the three major candidates — Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin, Republican Daniel Bongino and independent Rob Sobhani — stand on four key issues:
Reducing the Federal Deficit Cardin: “There’s a blueprint for [deficit-reduction] — Bowles-Simpson — that has credibility: It’s bipartisan, and it’s one in which we think we can get the necessary political support to pass. … The Bowles-Simpson report pointed out we needed to do $4 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years. Bowles-Simpson said we should take a trillion of that for revenue and the rest was in spending cuts. That’s the right balance.” B ongin o: “We need to simplify the tax code, close loopholes and reduce spending in order to be a pro-growth economy. The more businesses are encouraged to reinvest and hire workers, the more people we have spending money in the economy and paying taxes into the system. It’s very simple.” Sobhani: “We need to look the American people straight in the face and tell them we spent all their money and that we’re broke. I would then tell the public there will have to be a national sacrifice and that it will take several years until we get our financial house in order. It will take a balanced approach that includes spending cuts and revenue increases and not the gimmicks being set forth by the two major parties.”
Immigration Cardin: “Immigration reform starts with border security and dealing with a certain number of people who are allowed to come into this country. We need to get people out of the shadows and give them a venue for acknowledging their status. I also strongly support the DREAM Act at the state and national level [to allow children of illegal immigrants the right to pay in-state tuition for college]. Why are we denying them an opportunity to contribute to this country? It makes no sense. They should be able to get an education, pay taxes and help make a positive difference. For many, the United States is the only country they have ever known.” B ongino: “Legal immigration is the lifeblood of our country and something we need to import ideas and capital. But illegal immigration should not be rewarded, which is what the DREAM Act does. We must streamline the process for those who come here legally, secure our borders and utilize systems like E-verify on a national level to ensure employers are hiring legal citizens.” Sobhani: “Our failed immigration policy is due to our failed foreign policy. We’ve failed to engage those countries in the southern hemisphere and help them develop vibrant economies. I also support the DREAM Act but believe there should be a service requirement attached to it whereas students return to their home country for a few years after college and work there to help develop those countries and build good will.”
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Health Care Reform Cardin: “The American people will not put up with losing the right of parents to insure their children up to the age of 26 and going back to being denied coverage due to pre-existing conditions. The Affordable Care Act will lead to a stronger emphasis on primary care, wellness programs and rewarding employers who provide wellness opportunities for their employees. This approach will help increase the numbers of those who have insurance while lowering the volume of health-care services utilized per capita. There is direct reduction of cost by having a more efficient health-care system.” Bongino: “The health-care system is broken, and I would push to replace the current reforms. The current approach by Medicaid provides inadequate or even nonexistent care. I would seek to push for a block grant approach to Medicaid, where the states would be free to provide efficient health care to those in need in ways they deem to be fit for their particular state.” Sobhani: “The current reforms have many great aspects, such as ensuring those with pre-existing conditions have coverage and caps aren’t placed on policies. But the reforms are also very cumbersome to those in the medical field and offer little incentive for people wanting to become doctors. We need to reduce the bureaucracy and regulation, or the quality of care will suffer.”
Israel and the Middle East Cardin: “The United States and Israel share information, and there is no question where Iran is in its nuclear ambitions. The United States has said pretty definitively that a nuclear Iran would be a game-changer in the Middle East. It would go against U.S. security interests and our friends in the Middle East, most notably Israel. The U.N. Security Council has passed sanctions against Iran. We are effectively isolating Iran unless it agrees to abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions.” B on gino: “Israel must be our number one ally in the Middle East. We must also examine how we distribute foreign aid with the notion that certain national security benchmarks be attached to it. … It’s also vital that we streamline our intelligence-gathering process that can bog down our various law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. We must also stop the current administration’s ‘lead-frombehind’ approach to foreign policy. No one knows where we stand and we have lost our standing in the world because of that.” Sobhani: “We have the opportunity to change the course of history in Iran, but we need to reach out directly to the people of that country. We need to convince the Iranians that it should want to improve ties with Israel because a positive relationship can benefit both countries. A military option of dealing with Iran should not be an option. That would quickly evolve into a dangerous scenario for the entire region.”
— Ron Snyder
“I HAVE THE BENEFIT OF NOT BEING BEHOLDEN TO EITHER OF THE PARTIES.” — Independent Senatorial candidate Rob Sobhani
An Independent Voice? While Bongino’s support has come in part from a grass-roots campaign of crisscrossing the state, knocking on doors, attending community meetings and doing dozens of interviews, Sobhani has burst on the scene through a mainly self financed campaign. Last month, television campaign ads began appearing across the state featuring Sobhani, as he talked about job creation and how he is the only candidate with ideas on how to move Maryland’s economy forward. So far, Sobhani reports that he has spent $4.4 million on the race, more than the other two campaigns combined. Of that, more than $144,000 was used to pay various firms to collect signatures in order to have Sobhani’s name placed on the ballot. Sobhani said he decided to run as an independent because he became disillusioned with the country’s two major political parties. He said his experience as a businessman and college professor — he has a Ph.D. in political economics — and his background working with Middle Eastern countries makes him an ideal candidate. The 52-year-old married father of two from Montgomery County added that, if elected, he would be able to stimulate the state economy through a variety of public-private partnerships. is would include working to lure ship repairs and building contracts to Maryland, investing $3 billion to add an upper deck to the Baltimore and Washington,
D.C. beltways, encouraging nonprofits to commit $150 million to develop an internship program for 15,000 underprivileged youths in Baltimore City and trying to secure $500 million for cancer research. “I have the benefit of not being beholden to either of the parties,” said Sobhani, who runs an energy company, Caspian Group Holdings. “I’m willing to work with those on both sides of the aisle to get the job done.
Race to the Finish Bongino said Sobhani’s polling numbers came just after Sobhani’s TV spots aired and before Bongoni’s hit the market. Bongino added that he believes Sobhani’s entrance into the race will hurt Cardin more than him. “It’s easier to win a plurality than a majority,” Bongino said. “[Sobhani’s] numbers came after he spent $2 million in two weeks. “We are going to keep moving forward to let people hear our message of lower taxes, building the economy and taking a tougher stance on national security.” Cardin noted that his experience, along with his willingness to work alongside Republicans, makes him the best choice for voters concerned about the economy, the federal deficit, health care and foreign affairs. See related editorial, “For Senate in Md., Ben Cardin,” page 8. JT
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IN THE DISTRICT
Baltimoreans will have a say about four congressional seats
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DISTRICT 1 This district encompasses the entire Eastern Shore, including Salisbury and parts of Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Harford counties. Re p. Andy Harris (R) John L aFerla (D — write-in) Wen dy Rosen (D) Muir Wayn e B oda (L) Harris, 55, a physician, is seeking his second term representing the district. Harris favors health-care reform that increases competition between insurance companies and allows 100 percent of medical costs to be tax deductible. Harris also favors a balanced budget and reducing government regulations on businesses to spur economic growth. LaFerla, 63, was selected by the Democratic Central Committee to run in Rosen’s place. However, LaFerla, who lost to Rosen in the primaries by just 57 votes, will have to run as a write-in candidate. He favors fixing the economy through passing a long-term payroll tax and making it easier for small businesses to get loans. The Eastern Shore resident is also a big supporter of improving the Chesapeake Bay. He believes more needs to be done to prevent urban sprawl and said that if elected he will strengthen penalties for the worst polluters. Rosen, 57, will still have her name on the ballot despite withdrawing from the race amid allegations she voted in both Maryland and Florida in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Prior to dropping out, Rosen touted her small business experience and proposed several ideas to help grow the economy, including implementing a “buy local” initiative and diverting a minimum of 15 percent of Small Business Administration loans to micro-manufacturers and startups. Boda, 39, lives in Salisbury and is an asset protection manager for Wal-Mart. Among his views, Boda favors simplifying the tax code through such plans as a flat tax or a national sales tax and proposes $900 billion in annual spending cuts to help reduce the national deficit. JT
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Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberge r (D) St ate Sen. Nancy Jacobs (R) Le o Wayne Dy mowski (L)
Two veteran politicians headline this district’s race. Ruppersberger, 66, who is seeking his sixth term in the House, has developed into an expert on national security. In 2011, he was named the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, a position he cites as vital given that the district includes Fort George G. Meade, Aberdeen Proving Grounds and the National Security Agency. Jacobs, 60, who has represented parts of Harford and Cecil counties in the state
Leo Wayne Dymowski
Senate since 1999, has been an outspoken advocate for tougher sexual predator laws and says he will advocate against recently proposed toll hikes on state tunnels and bridges. Dymowski, 55, of Dundalk, favors bringing home most of our servicemen from overseas and decriminalizing illegal drug use. JT
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Sarbanes, 50, is seeking his fourth term in the House. He is a staunch supporter of improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay, and an advocate of finding ways to address the nation’s shortage of primary-care physicians. He recently introduced the Grassroots Democracy Act in an attempt to encourage candidates to cultivate a network of grassroots supporters rather than rely on big money from super political action committees. Knowles, 34, is an Air Force veteran who lives in Churchton. The first-time congressional candidate favors health-care reform
Rep. John Sarbanes (D) Eric Delano Knowles (R) Paul W. Drgos Jr. (L) that includes allowing insurance companies to sell policies over state lines to encourage competition, streamlining the path toward legal immigration and working to strengthen civil liberties through efforts such as repealing the Patriot Act. Drgos, 37, is a computer programmer from Pasadena and a single father of four. Drgos favors abolishing the national income tax in favor of a national sales tax, bringing home all troops from overseas and strengthening rights for gun owners. JT
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Recent negotiations with the German government have allowed the Claims Conference to expand eligibility for pension programs. According to these criteria, Jewish Holocaust survivors may be eligible for Claims Conference pensions if they were in: (i) Concentration camps; or (ii) Ghettos for at least 3 months; or (iii) Hiding for at least 6 months without access to the outside world, or lived under false identity for at least 6 months, in Nazi-occupied territory. The comprehensive criteria and application forms are available on the Claims Conference website on www.claimscon.org.
There is no cost to apply. Applications can be obtained online and ¿led with the Claims Conference FREE OF CHARGE. NOTE: Claims Conference pensions may only be paid to survivors who do not already receive a pension from a German source (Article 2 Fund, CEEF, German Federal Indemnification Law – BEG – Bundesentschaedigungsgesetz, PRVG, Austrian OFG – Opferfßrsorgegesetz, Israeli Ministry of Finance under the Nazi Persecution Disabled Persons law 5717-1957) and who meet all other criteria, including the income and asset criteria, of the Article 2 Fund. For information contact: Claims Conference, 1359 Broadway, Room 2000 New York, NY 10018 Tel: 646-536-9100 Email: info@claimscon.org www.claimscon.org
Rep. Elijah C ummings (D) Frank Mirabile (R) Ronald M. Owens-Bey (L) Cummings, 60, is seeking his ninth terms in office. The ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Cummings is a staunch supporter of health-care reform, including an eventual singlepayer system, and he supports working with homeowners to avoid foreclosure. Mirabile, 48, a Howard County small-business owner, is running for the seat for a second time. Mirabile said he would work toward a balanced budget amendment, repealing the Affordable Health Care Act and simplifying the tax code through a 15-percent flat tax or a two-tiered tax of 15 and 25 percent. Owens-Bey is a social worker from Baltimore. He is seeking elected office for the fifth time, having run as a Democrat, Republican and Populist. He has run for the House of Delegates and the Baltimore City Council, among his previous bids for public office. He believes the key to improving the economy, especially in impoverished communities, is education. JT
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FROM THE ECONOMY TO H EALTH CARE TO I SRAEL Rep. C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger insists he is a centrist Democrat who is willing to work across party lines to help improve national security and address the looming national debt. State Sen. Nancy Jacobs, a Republican, believes Ruppersberger is more concerned about party than politics and has become out of touch with voters since first being elected to Congress in 2002 after eight years as Baltimore County executive. And that’s why Jacobs is challenging Ruppersberger for the right to represent Maryland in the state’s 2nd Congressional District. Ruppersberger, 66, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, is seeking his sixth term representing the district, which includes parts of Baltimore, Harford, Howard and Anne Arundel counties. Jacobs, 60, has served in the Maryland General Assembly, representing parts of Harford and Cecil counties, since 1995 and in the state Senate 38
since 1999. The candidates debated Oct. 22 at Warren Elementary School in Cockeysville, offering their views on everything from the economy to the national deficit to the United States’ relationship with Israel. Here are their responses to questions about some of the key issues: H ow sh ou ld the U.S. move forward in protect ing t he world from Iran?
RUp pER SB ERGER : Iran is a very dangerous country that exports terrorism [and] sends out hit men to kill people. [But] they have good scientists, and it would be difficult for Israel to just go in there and attack. We don’t want to ... go to war [with Iran]. We have learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, through all our men and women who were killed. The sanctions we have against [Iran] right now have put them in a very difficult position. Their economy is down 50 percent, and they have a real problem
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because the sanctions are working. There are a lot of people in Israel who don’t want to go to war unless it’s absolutely necessary. JACOB S: The president of Iran [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] is one of the most dangerous and unstable [leaders] in the world today. It doesn’t require intercontinental missiles to attack the U.S. or Israel. All it takes is enriched uranium and a suitcase. Iran is not playing by the same rules as we are. When it comes to Israel and protecting Israel, we need to draw a line in the sand and stick to it. We have not done that. The world sees America as being unsure. ... We look like we are unwilling to stop Iran and protect Israel, and that’s wrong. H o w w o u l d yo u a d d r e s s t h e f e d e r a l gove rnme nt’s t ax struc ture?
RUppERSB ERGER : I believe the entire tax system needs to be restructured.
Ruppersberger, Jacobs take on the issues By Ron Snyder
First, we need to eliminate the estate tax, which would help small businesses. ... Second, we need to decrease the capital-gain tax [rate]; we need people to invest in business. ird, we need to decrease corporate taxes so our businesses can grow, hire people and be competitive at an international level. JACO B S: The tax system is broken. The problems are too complicated to come up with one fix. The problem is that the tax system has been revised over and over and over again. When that happens, you have too many loopholes and too many exemptions. We need to change that approach so that we don’t have the loopholes and the exemptions. Wh at e ffort s do y ou su pport on th e national de bt?
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this, they would be in jail. We need to reform the tax structure and start doing what we say we’re going to do. What do you believe the future of health care holds following the passage of the Affordable Care Act?
RUpp eR sb eRgeR : The health-care systems needed to be addressed because if we did nothing, in 10 years the average premium cost for families would be $25,000 a year, and we could not sustain that as a country. Right now, $1,000 a year from every person who pays a health-insurance premium goes to pay for the uninsured. ... I’m also glad we were able to protect small businesses with 50 employees or fewer who wouldn’t get penalized should they not offer health insurance. It was a bill that had too much in it, and people didn’t understand it, but it wasn’t all doom and gloom. For example, only once in the last 13 years have premiums gone up
at a slower rate. also, many of the unemployed today are just out of college, and being able to stay on their parents’ plan until they are 26 really helps tackle the uninsured problem. JaCobs : Do we need to tweak our health care? absolutely. but we need to do it in a bipartisan way and get rid of the over-reaching parts of it. I do agree with parts [of the affordable Care act], like ensuring that people with pre-existing conditions can’t be denied coverage and that children can stay on their parents’ plan until they’re 26. I would rather have parents paying for that than have a young person have a catastrophic accident and we the people are stuck paying for it. but I also don’t like the $716 billion they took out of Medicare, because that I believe gives hospitals incentive not to provide quality care for seniors.
I s t here anyt hin g t hat can be done to re duce t he amount of partis an politics on Capitol Hill?
RUppeRsb eRgeR: I’m one of the few centrist Democrats left in Congress, as many got wiped out by the Tea party movement. The key is to keep doing what I’m doing now. You have to reach across the aisle and build relationship and trust. I’m not afraid to vote against my party. JaCo b s : one of the things that is wrong in Washington is that those in Congress — both Republicans and Democrats — are basically told how to vote by their parties. That’s wrong. both parties are guilty, and if elected, I won’t be beholden to any party, even if that means a lesser committee assignment. We need more in Congress who feel free to vote according to their conscience. JT Ron Snyder is a JT staff reporter rsnyder@jewishtimes.com
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what we cut won’t put us back into a recession. ... For example, we on the Intelligence Committee have cut $1 billion in spending without impacting our mission. ... We need to freeze federal pay through 2014. We need to cut $11 billion in unnecessary programs, [and we need to cut] overseas budgets by 10 percent, contributions to the U.N. by 10 percent and foreign aid by 10 percent by 2015. ... e deficit reduction plan must be a combination of spending cuts, entitlement reforms, tax reforms and revenues.
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The DREAM Act, Question 4 The DREAM Act is a bipartisan legislative proposal that would allow undocumented immigrants to pay in-state or in-county tuition at Maryland colleges. However, in order to qualify, students are required to have attended a Maryland high school for three years, as well as prove that their parents or themselves filed taxes.
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Hot election issues that push Jewish Baltimoreans’s social buttons e JT asked. is is what you said:
Same-Sex Marriage Referendum, Question 6
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The Same-Sex Marriage Referendum is in response to the passing of the Civil Marriage Protection Act on March 1, which will allow same-sex couples to obtain a civil marriage license in the state beginning Jan. 1, 2013 and protect clergy from having to perform any particular marriage ceremony in violation of their religious beliefs.
YES “Everybody that immigrates to Israel gets the same benefits as somebody who was born there. I think the people who made the commitment to work here, pay taxes and raise their families should get the same benefits as everybody else.”
Rena Levine
Caryn Andrews Pikesville
Michael Gonik
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couples] have the right [to marry]. … If individuals are voting against it on the pretense that their faith doesn’t allow it to be the case, I don’t accept that as valid in that just because your religion doesn’t necessarily agree with it, doesn’t mean that it’s not right for another individual who doesn’t have the same beliefs or priorities.”
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YES “As long as they haven’t been involved in any criminal act, … they are here, and most of them came as a result of being dragged here by their parents. They were too young to make a choice. Once they got here, the ones that went to school and obey the law, they have every right to have the opportunity to move forward in the United States.” Henry Greenberg Owings Mills
NO Rabbi Mendy Rivkin
YES “It’s a really important thing to be able to get an education. Jewish law dictates that … you can’t punish a kid for his or her parents’ sins. Regardless of how legal or illegal the situation the parents had, regardless of how many problems we have with our immigration system, we can’t take it out on the kids. If they can run a good program, and it will help them get an education, it’s a good thing.” Rabbi Mendy Rivkin Towson
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“As a Torah-observant JewI agree with the [Vaad HaRabbonim] statement. I respect the guidance that my rabbis have given me on this matter and will vote accordingly. There are legal mechanisms in place to give people the right to buy property together, to advocate medically and to be insurance beneficiaries. … Through the millennia, marriage has historically been [for a] man and a woman. Why redefine marriage? I’m not into social engineering.” Rena Levine Upper Park Heights
YES “I think that the bill is worded pretty well and it doesn’t impose on any religious institutions. I believe[gay
Jakob Lurman
NO “I don’t believe in other institutions or other marriage agreements. It’s how I was brought up. Things are changing rapidly, but I’m not always in favor of them. … I feel the institution of marriage is between a man and a woman, and that’s the way it should be.” Jakob Lurman Eldersburg
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recreational purposes is permissible under Jewish law. I’m thrilled to be the chairman of the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces’ casino night and to provide wholesome entertainment to benefit our brave soldiers. Yitzy Shnidman Pikesville
YES “Even though I really don’t like gambling, I don’t think it’s a good idea, and I don’t think people should do anything to encourage others to gamble, people gamble anyway. [These people] may as well do it in Maryland so the money stays here and gets spent on our schools. It reminds me of long ago when Volvo made its first
Ed Kefas Pikesville
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“I’m for expanded gambling from a religious perspective. One who is a professional gambler and derives their Yitzy income solely Shnidman from gambling is invalidated as a legal witness, however, a casino operator is not. Hence, we see that occasional gambling for
few cars, it didn’t put cup holders because it didn’t think people should be drinking while driving. But then Volvo realized people were driving and holding their drinks anyway. You can’t change behavior, so you may as well mold it [to benefit society most].” Lynn S. Dopkin Mount Washington
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“People will gamble if they want to gamble. … I’m against them giving all that money to education; every year they give money to education and every year the public schools seem to get worse. Money isn’t the answer. … I want [the gambling revenue] to be used for something productive.”
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Democrat Martin Lavender says we need a more balanced approach to improve our economy. He will be voting for President Barack Obama.
LEANING TO THE LEFT Despite GOP efforts, Jews mostly remain loyal to Democratic Party
ANDREW LEAN registered as a Republican when he turned 18 years old. At the time, the Pikesville native considered former President Dwight Eisenhower among his role models. But on Nov. 6, Lean, 25 will vote — without hesitation — for President Barack Obama. “Growing up, I shared the ideals of many Republicans,” said Lean, who works in sales. “But over the last few years, the Tea Party has taken over the Republican Party, and their views have shifted so far to the right that I just can’t relate with them anymore.” Lean’s sentiment is shared by other Jews. A Gallup daily tracking poll between July 1 and Sept. 10 found that 70 percent of Jews surveyed planned to vote for Obama; 25 percent for Republican candidate Mitt Romney. In this hotly contested presidential race, both candidates are doing all they can to court Jewish voters, despite Jews making up only about two percent of the population. The Republican Jewish Coalition, for example, has spent more than $6 mil-
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lion on an ad campaign targeted at Jewish voters. Whether Republicans make successful inroads within the Jewish community by Nov. 6 remains to be seen. In interviews, many Baltimoreans expressed difficulty in relating to the GOP, in part because of the party’s close connection with the Evangelical Christian Right. In addition, some feel that the Republican Party’s position on same-sex marriage, abortion rights and the DREAM Act are counter to their values. “President Obama just seems to want to reach out to a broader segment of the population,” said Alex Lewin, a 60-something Democrat and a member of Har Sinai Congregation in Owings Mills. “Mitt Romney appears willing to say anything to get elected. In the primaries, he came across as far right, and now he’s trying to display himself as a moderate.” Fellow Har Sinai member Martin Lavender expressed similar sentiments. e 81-year-old retired business teacher from Mount Washington said Romney just doesn’t connect with Jews from either a social or economic perspective.
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He said he does not believe the GOP candidate’s plan for tax and spending cuts, along with closing tax loopholes, is the answer to the national debt. “We need a balanced approach, not just a tax cut that would only benefit the rich,” Lavender said. “Republicans don’t seem willing to discuss any plans that include any type of revenue enhancements. We’re never going to get on the right path as a country until the parties can come to some sort of consensus.”
Republicans Making Headway Despite an uphill battle and indications that Jewish voting patterns have not shifted substantially, many Republicans believe they can narrow the deficit among Jewish voters, which could prove vital in some key battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida. GOP elected officials and strategists believe that many Jews have become disillusioned with the Democratic Party, especially when it comes to Israel. Critics point out that
Obama has a strained relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. In addition, some Jews were turned off when the Democratic National Committee removed language from its platform that called Jerusalem the capital of Israel. Casino mogul and Jewish bussinessman Sheldon Adelson, a staunch supporter of Israel, has pledged millions to help defeat Obama. There is also one poll that suggests Jewish support for the Democrats is wavering, albeit slightly. The poll, conducted by Investors Business Daily/Christian Science Monitor/TIPP, had Obama with a 59-35 percent advantage over Romney among Jewish voters. Compare this to the 2008 election, when the president received 78 percent of the Jewish vote against Sen. John McCain. Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg, the leader of the conservative Beth El-Edison Congregation in New Jersey, said Jewish voters today are much more concerned about social issues such as same-sex marriage, abortion and about the economy, and continue to move further to the le of the political aisle. A registered Democrat, Rabbi
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Rosenberg said his party has shifted from the more centrist views it held during the 1990s under President Bill Clinton. He noted that he is deeply concerned over what he described as “Obama’s apologetic approach to foreign policy,” especially as it pertains to the Middle East. “The Democrats of today are not the same as the Democrats of yesterday,” Rabbi Rosenberg said. “I voted for President Clinton twice but cannot vote for Obama, because he scares me on his views of Israel. Young Jews today just don’t have an understanding of how issues overseas can impact the Jewish community as a whole.” Locally, some Jewish Republicans are actively trying to show that Jews can and should vote for the GOP, which has never captured more than 39 percent of the Jewish vote (Ronald Reagan in 1980).
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Among them is Rudy Stoler. e 23year-old Pikesville resident represents District 2 in the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee.
won’t be heard because Maryland always goes for the Democrat,” Stoler said. “We’re not just looking to establish a voice now but [a voice] for
“THE DEMOCRATS OF TODAY ARE NOT THE SAME AS THE DEMOCRATS OF YESTERDAY.” — Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg
Stoler recently helped form the Pikesville Republican Network, which he said has about 40 people. The group has been actively campaigning for Republican senatorial candidate Dan Bongino and hopes to show that Democrats should not take the Jewish vote for granted. “Many Republican Jews in Maryland don’t take voting for president too seriously; they believe their vote
future elections as well.” Stoler added: “Establishing small businesses is the backbone of Jewish society in the United States. The Democrats have not put forward policies that will help businesses grow. When a party knows votes are guaranteed — like the Democrats [with] Jews — then they feel they don’t have to listen. … That needs to change.”
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Even with efforts being made at the local, state and national levels, the chances of Republicans making any significant headway among Jewish voters is likely slim, according to at least one political analyst. In his new book” The Jewish Vote: Obama vs. Romney, A Jewish Voter’s Guide,” author Shmuel Rosner concludes that most Jews do not consider the GOP a viable political option as long as the party continues to emphasize religion and social conservatism. “This game of pandering to evangelicals, a game of political necessity for Romney, is a killer when Jewish voters are concerned,” Rosner wrote. “When it comes to domestic issues of debate, Jews are one of, if not the most, liberal groups in America.” JT
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By Robert Frier
As a Jewish American and strong supporter
joined every other developed nation in the
military cooperation and funded Israel’s Iron
would
of Israel, I support the re-election of Presi-
world in guaranteeing access to compre-
Dome. He is committed to promoting a
Israel, as would Mitt Romney, if elected.
continue
to
strongly
support
dent Barack Obama. I believe that the
hensive health care for all of its citizens.
two-state solution with the Palestinians.
However, what is most distressing to me
president’s domestic agenda aligns best
Republicans are adamant about res-
This is the same principle that Prime Minis-
as a supporter of Israel is the length to
with our Jewish values, and his support of
tricting reproductive rights, gay rights and
ter Binyamin Netanyahu subscribed to in his
which Mitt Romney and the Republicans
Israel has been, in the words of Israeli
even stem-cell research because they con-
address at Bar Ilan University in 2009. This
are willing to go to make Israel a wedge
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, “more than
flicts with their religious values. As Jews, I
peace process will be necessary for Israel to
issue to split our community. In the past,
anything that I can remember in the past.”
think we need to be wary when politicians
remain both Jewish and democratic. Regard-
support of Israel was bipartisan. Harry Tru-
As Jews, we believe in tikkun olam, re-
insert their religious beliefs into policy and
ing peace with the Palestinians, Gov. Mitt
man was the president who first provided a
pairing the world. Taking this literally, the
legislation. Many such issues may reach the
Romney recently said, “There’s just no way.”
life line to Israel in 1948, and Barack Obama
president supports regulation for a clean
Supreme Court to which the next president
On Iran, the president has strengthened
environment, and he believes (as we do) in
may appoint a justice or two. I believe that
international sanctions. There are signs that
As Americans, we can better trust Pres-
the dangers of global warming. As such, he
Jews always benefit from an open society that
this appears to be working. While remain-
ident Obama to address the debt while pro-
promotes incentives for renewable energy
promotes the separation of church and state
ing unrelenting on Iran, he has not allowed
tecting the middle class and investing in the
research and passed legislation to dramat-
and protects equal rights for all its citizens.
Prime Minister Netanyahu to nail him down
future. As Jews, we can support Israel and
is the president who currently maintains it.
ically increase the fuel efficiency of cars. In
With respect to Israel, I served in the IDF
to a red line beyond which the United
maintain our traditional commitment to reli-
the more general sense of tikkun olam, he
for two years and have visited Israel dozens
States would commit to attacking Iran.
gious freedom, social justice and tikkun
has passed, and will implement, the most
of times since. I am convinced, by his
Even within Israel there has been great
olam. As Jewish Americans, we should
significant social justice legislation in gen-
words and actions, that the president is
debate as to whether the “red line” is the
support Barack Obama on Nov. 6. JT
erations — the Affordable Care Act or Oba-
committed to Israel’s security. He has main-
best approach.
macare.
tained a high level of aid to Israel, increased
Finally, the United States has
I am confident that President Obama
Why I Am Voting For Mitt Romney
Robert Frier is president of MET Laboratories, Inc. He lives in Owings Mills.
Dr. Edward Levanthal
government tells you what you can eat,
guarantor of success, but must be the
be at less than 5 percent unemployment;
tant election of our generation. The deci-
how much insurance you need and how
guarantor of an equal chance of success.
we are at 8 percent. There are 23 million
sion to vote for one candidate or another
to teach your children. It can tell you that
The practical decision is perhaps the
un/under-employed people in our coun-
comes down to the theoretical and the
you must pay taxes so that everyone can
easier one to make. Throughout his entire
try. Forty seven percent of our country
practical.
get free contraception. It can show you a
life, Gov. Mitt Romney has been suc-
depend one way or another on govern-
The theoretical decision is based upon two
comic video of a person named Julia
cessful at most everything he has at-
mental largesse. His foreign policy is
fundamental ideas of government and citi-
whose life is continually impacted by the
tempted. He is a moral person with an
falling apart in front of us. Israel is at seri-
zenry. It is a choice between staying a free
government, all the way down to her de-
impeccable background. He is a highly
ous risk while the president of the United
market democracy and meritocracy, ver-
cision to bear children despite not being
successful businessman who knows and
States is openly hostile and derisive to its
married.
understands the workings of an economy.
prime minister. And the cover-up of the Benghazi debacle continues on.
The election of 2012 is the most impor-
sus traveling down the road of social
In my opinion, this is not the type of
He turned the Olympics from a potential
John F. Kennedy said, “ask not what
government that was envisioned by the
embarrassment to the U.S. into an eco-
Theoretical and practical make up the
your country can do for you, but what you
founders of our country. I believe that the
nomic and geopolitical success. And
dynamics of this terribly important elec-
can do for your country.” The Democratic
people control the government and not
finally, he has been the successful Rep-
tion. In every measure of life, Romney has
Party of my parents was JFK’s. The Dem-
the other way around. To me, the highest
ublican governor of a state that is almost
been a success. In far too many measures
ocratic Party today is entirely different. It
ideal is that of individual liberty. The
all Democrat. He has shown time and time
over the past four years, this President has
is based upon the supposition that the
liberty to fail and to succeed, but most
again the ability to negotiate political bound-
been an abject failure.
government is smarter than the individual
importantly, the liberty to make my own
aries to craft legislation.
and that it is the government’s responsi-
decisions.
democracy.
The President has failed by almost
bility to make decisions for the individual
The government is there to build the
every measure that can be applied. He
because they can no longer be trusted to
roads, defend the nation and ensure to
promised to half the deficit. Instead he
make decisions for him or herself.
the best of its ability that everyone has a
added nearly $6 trillion to it. He promised
chance to succeed. It cannot be the
that with his stimulus plan we would now
In President Obama’s America, the
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This is why I am voting for Mitt Romney and praying for his success. JT
Dr. Edward Leventhal has been a Baltimore physician for 15 years. He lives in Upper Park Heights.
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Why I Support President Obama
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International News
By Aryeh Savir
Photots Courtesy of Tamir Orbaum/ Tamir 360
Israel In Pictures
New photography project puts Jewish Jerusalem back on the map
A new Google Street-style project documenting the streets of Jerusalem has been launched online, enabling anyone in the world to take a virtual tour of Jerusalem. The project, which took two years, was launched a few days ago. The starting point of the tour is on Har Hazaitim, the Mount of Olives, providing a panoramic view of the Old City of Jerusalem. One can take a tour of the various Jewish sites in the Old City and its vicinity, which are visible for Har Hazaitim. These sites begin in the east with the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus and go through the Yemin Moshe neighborhood in the west. e tour offers a 360-degree view of the various sites, and some 40,000 people from around the world already have taken it. Tamir Orbaum, who created and executed the project, explained that the idea came as a result of Google Earth’s imbalanced representation of
Jerusalem’s holy site, setting the primary focus on Christian sites and churches. “I took a camera and began to photograph the Jewish Quarter in the Old City and Jewish heritage sites,” he said. “The project developed, and today anyone in Israel or abroad can walk through the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem, experiencing the city through their computer screen.” Orbaum said he hopes this project will be a first of many. He would like to document the concentration and death camps in Poland. “I have invested myself entirely in this project, it has become somewhat of an obsession.” He said. “I purchased the equipment and developed the project without any assistance from official or governmental bodies. It’s my true passion.” JT Take a tour at 360vr.Orbaumor.com/ mtzeitim_en. Aryeh Savir writes for the Tazpit News Agency.
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Rescued from Kristallnacht
By Edmon J. Rodman
A family Torah reaches a new generation LOS ANGELES — IT WAS the “Night of Broken Glass” in Germany, Kristallnacht — a national pogrom of death and destruction of Jewish property and the rounding up of Jews — and Dietrich (David) Hamburger was in hiding. Hamburger was the leader of a small congregation that met in his home in Fuerstenau, a countryside village in what now is the province of Niedersachsen. Someone had warned him about the coming onslaught, and on Nov. 9, 1938 he went into hiding in the local Catholic hospital. “The cover story was that he was in for a hernia,” said Edith Strauss Kodmur, his granddaughter and the family’s historian.
This spring — 75 years later and a continent away at a Californian winery — Kodmur’s granddaughter will have her bat mitzvah. And Charlotte Ruth Smith on that day will read from the Torah scroll that her greatgreat-grandfather rescued soon after that tragic night. But Hamburger would need to escape Germany and the Torah would need to find its way back to his family. “By prior arrangement, one of his hired hands met him in the hospital garden while the nuns were at Mass,” Kodmur recalled from detailed notes. “He drove Dietrich back to his home where he packed, taking an oil portrait of wife Rosa [he was a widower] and the community Torah with him.”
Kodmur thought Hamburger had removed the rollers, or etz chaim, to make the Torah easier to transport. “He then boarded the train to Holland, to Winterswijk, to his daughter Bette,” said Kodmur, whose family as well as her uncle Siegried, Hamburger’s son, had left Germany for the United States in 1938. Kodmur as a small child had visited her grandfather frequently, she said, recalling that he would sit in the garden with his children on the Sabbath, reading to them and discussing the Bible. “He was very adventuresome, and well-dressed. Involved with the horse and cattle trade business,” she said. A memorial book for the Holocaust
victims of Winterswijk titled “We Once Knew Them All” uses quotes from the people who lived in the eastern Holland town to tell what happened to Hamburger and his family. “My parents had a Jewish person in hiding during the last year of the war, a Mr. Hamburger. We called him by his alias, ‘Uncle Derk,’ “ a community member recalls in the book. “His daughter, son-in-law and their children died in the concentration camps. He also had a son in America. “Once we were threatened by a posting of German soldiers at our home. Uncle Derk hid behind a wardrobe. Obviously we noticed that Mr. Hamburger was very afraid of
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Charlotte Smith and Rabbi Jerry Levy at the dedication of the family Torah scroll rescued by her great-great-grandfather, at the AlmaVia senior residence community in San Rafael, Calif.
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Dietrich (David) Hamburger, who rescued the community Torah of Fuerstenau, Germany, days after Kristallnacht in 1938, is shown in a 1948 photo taken in Winterswijk, the Dutch town in which he hid from the Nazis.
being discovered. My father told Uncle Derk to act differently, otherwise everyone might be arrested. “On the morning of liberation, I woke up Uncle Derk. He was so shaken by my excited talk that his false teeth fell out: into the chamber pot!” From another community member: “Father Hamburger stayed a while in Winterswijk after the war. My, my how that man cried over his grandchildren.” After the war, while Siegfried was visiting his father in Holland, Hamburger gave him the Torah scroll to bring back to his home in Redwood City, Calif. It stayed there until Siegfried died. Kodmur, who lives in the San Diego area, knew that Siegfried had given the Torah to his son Steven. But she had lost touch with that part of the family and was uncertain of its whereabouts. In 1996, Kodmur’s daughter Julie Ann and her fiance, Stuart Smith, attended a pre-wedding counseling session with Rabbi Jerry Winston in San Anselmo, Calif. The rabbi mentioned that he had officiated at the marriage of Julie Ann’s cousin. Julie Ann had heard the stories of her great-grandfather’s escape with the Torah and its unknown whereabouts, and in the whirr of Jewish ge-
ography and family history that ensued, both Julie Ann and Winston soon realized that Steven Hamburger had given the rescued Torah to the rabbi. “I didn’t even think to ask him for it,” said Julie Ann, thinking back on that meeting. In 2000, Rabbi Winston officiated at the baby naming for her daughter Charlotte, but Julie Ann and the rabbi would lose touch. It was more than a decade later, when Julie Ann began thinking about her daughter’s bat mitzvah, that her thoughts again turned to the Torah. Beginning a search last year, she soon discovered that Rabbi Winston had died and the small congregation he led had disbanded. Could he have given the Torah to another synagogue? She called the big synagogue in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Marin County, Rodef Shalom, and the historic synagogue in San Francisco, Temple Emanu-El and left messages with many others. Then she received a call back. “The woman had a German accent and said she was a friend of Rabbi Winston’s. She told me that his sons had given the Torah away, to Rabbi Alan Levinson of Sausalito,” remembered Julie Ann, who lives with her
now-husband, Stuart, and Charlotte in St. Helena, Calif., near the familyowned Smith-Madrone Winery. After contacting Levinson, who had been a longtime friend of Rabbi Winston’s, they quickly exchanged what each knew of the provenance of the scroll. It was the one. “His plan was to give it to another synagogue,” Julie Ann said. Meanwhile, Julie Ann also was looking for a rabbi to prepare Charlotte for her bat mitzvah. She connected with Rabbi Jerry Levy, who worked with students via Skype. She had known Levy growing up in San Diego; he had been the rabbi at her brother David’s bar mitzvah. Levy also was the chaplain at AlmaVia, a faith-based elder care community in San Rafael, Calif., where the rabbi said, 18 to 20 of the 120 residents are Jewish. Julie Ann inquired if Levinson would consider giving the Torah to Levy for use in his community. Levinson agreed and this month, Levy held a dedication at AlmaVia. With Levinson, Julie Ann and Charlotte present — she helped roll the scroll to the correct reading — the scroll to be known as the Hamburger/Fuerstenau Torah was dedicated. “They were kvelling,” said Levy of the AlmaVia residents on hand. Speaking at the ceremony, Char-
lotte recounted her great-greatgrandfather’s escape on Kristallnacht and the Torah’s travels. “We found it, and not only would I be able to use it for my bat mitzvah, we could give it a home here at AlmaVia,” she said. “is coming spring, I will borrow the Torah from all of you here at AlmaVia for my bat mitzvah. And the story will continue.” JT
Kristallnacht: The November Pogrom 2012 Commemoration Sunday, Nov. 11 2 – 3:30 p.m. Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion Congregation 6602 Park Heights Avenue How do you teach the lessons of the Shoah? Join the Baltimore Jewish Council for an in-depth look at the educational work being done by BJC and the Jewish Museum of Maryland to ensure that, “we will never forget.” Dessert reception. Dietary laws observed. RSVP to Jasmine Estes at jestes@baltjc.org or 410-542-4850 or to Laure Gutman at 410-358-0412.
Edmon J. Rodman writes for the JTA Wire Service.
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A Reform Rabbi in the Knesset? Gilad Kariv, head of Israeli Reform, is mulling a run
JERUSALEM – Growing up secular in Tel Aviv, Gilad Kariv often would spend Saturdays hiking around rural Israel with his family, appreciating its nature and telling its history. But one Shabbat early in his childhood, Kariv decided to go to his neighborhood’s Orthodox synagogue. “To the place my heart loves, there my legs take me,” Kariv said, quoting Rabbi Hillel of the Talmud.. Soon Kariv became a regular. Even as he attended secular schools and youth groups, Kariv continued going to the synagogue, teaching himself Jewish texts for much of his adolescence. On one Shavuot, the synagogue’s rabbi delivered a talk that struck the wrong chord. “Instead of talking about the giving of the Torah, he attacked kibbutzim for their values,” Kariv recalled during an interview from his office in the Jerusalem headquarters of Israel’s Reform movement, where he sat in front of a bookshelf lined with religious journals and a compilation of foundational Zionist writings. The synagogue’s non-egalitarianism and strict adherence to halachah, or Jewish law, made Kariv feel out of place, and eventually he began to learn more about liberal Judaism. Now a Reform rabbi and the CEO of Israel’s Reform movement, Kariv, 39, is mulling yet another life-altering shift: Just as he went from secular to religious, and from Orthodox to Reform, he is deciding whether to move from the synagogue — the “beit ha-knesset” in Hebrew — to the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament. Kariv is the standout figure in a growing turn toward politics in Israeli Reform and Conservative circles. The movements were part of a
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recent conference on liberal Jewish political involvement and hope to break Orthodoxy’s traditional dominance of religion in Israel. Kariv says he’s unsure whether he will run in Israel’s elections, scheduled for Jan. 22, but if he does, he’ll compete for a spot in the center-left Labor Party. At the moment, Kariv is the only prominent liberal religious leader actively contemplating a run for office.
“If we say this is the state of the Jewish people, we need to respect the Jewish people, and there is more than one way to be Jewish.” — Yizhar Hess, executive director of Israel’s Masorti movement
Conservative and Reform officials here say it’s vital to have a pluralist voice to counter the Orthodox presence in the Knesset, which is growing along with the haredi Orthodox population in Israel. Kariv says he’s concerned with a range of issues, from the economy to security, but that he would focus on religious pluralism if he wins a Knesset seat. Getting in, though, is no small matter. With elections in three months, Kariv would have to campaign and establish a base of support
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in Labor and beat out other candidates for a spot on the party’s Knesset list. e Knesset has never had a Reform rabbi in its ranks. Kariv says increasing greater religious and racial pluralism in Israel is more important than advancing the rights of Reform Jews specifically. Israel’s Rabbinate, which is supported by the government, funds Orthodox rabbis and insti- Gilad Kariv is mulling another life-altering tutions almost exclusively. move: running for the Knesset. The scant funding provided run, as he would present an alternative to Reform and Conservative rabbis is to the Orthodox regardless of whether the result of a suit won this year by Is- he succeeds in passing legislation. rael’s Reform movement that requires “He needs to make his voice heard the government to fund the salaries and say there are different versions of of non-Orthodox rabbis in rural Judaism,” Ben-Simon said. “He doescommunities. n’t need to change the law. I’d be “I think the state doesn’t need to happy for another presence here so get involved in religious communal we can know that the whole world is life,” Kariv said. “I don’t ask for the not Orthodox.” Reform movement to have a governSome of Kariv’s allies, though, note ment position like the Orthodox. that entering politics can complicate Communal religious life needs to be a religious leader’s image and princiorganized voluntarily.” ples. Uri Regev, president and CEO When he talks about policy, Kariv of the Israeli pluralism organization, skips his usual frequent quotation of Hiddush, says Kariv may have to comthe traditional Jewish canon and promise if he joins the Knesset and starts to speak like a politician. Labor decides not to tackle religious “I have a fear of parties that come pluralism legislation. and go,” he said. “This phenomenon “For the last 65 years, coalition happens in the liberal camp in Israel. parties have not advanced the cause That’s why this camp has trouble of religious pluralism,” Regev said. gaining influence or taking the reins “Are we going to have Reform and of leadership. In the Labor Party Conservative rabbis subject themacross the years, there was the ability selves to the manipulative cause of to join together.” coalition work, which basically subIn the Knesset, Kariv would face a verts the values of religious freedom formidable opponent in the solid and equality?” bloc of Orthodox parties. Labor But Kariv says that although politiKnesset member Daniel Ben-Simon cal involvement comes with sacrifices, says he’d be happy if Kariv decides to “the choice not to go into politics
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also has a price.â&#x20AC;? Non-Orthodox Jews â&#x20AC;&#x153;gave up a feeling of ownership in the Jewish world,â&#x20AC;? Kariv said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Too many years we lived in peace with this deal that Orthodox people guard our Judaism, and we paid a great price.â&#x20AC;? Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Reform population is small, with only 30 congregations. But Kariv points to a recent survey by the Israel Democracy Institute and the Avi Chai Foundation showing that 8 percent of Jewish Israelis consider themselves Reform or Conservative. Religiously liberal candidates may expect financial support from the large Reform and Conservative bases in the United States. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we say this is the state of the Jewish people, we need to respect the Jewish people, and there is more than one way to be Jewish,â&#x20AC;? said Yizhar Hess, executive director of Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Masorti, or Conservative, movement. Hess is not running for Knesset. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is
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more than natural for American Jewry to be involved in the discourse.â&#x20AC;? That discourse animates Karivâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passion for Judaism. Despite being a Reform leader, he is a member of an unaffiliated Modern Orthodox minyan in Tel Aviv and praised such independent communities as â&#x20AC;&#x153;important players in the Jewish renaissance.â&#x20AC;? On his head he wears a large knit kipah, typical of Modern Orthodox Jews in Israel, and he keeps kosher and Shabbat in addition to praying every day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe in cooperative work with other movements, including Orthodox,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a need to build a broad front from Modern Orthodoxy to secular Israelis. My home is the Reform movement. But I leave my home sometimes.â&#x20AC;? Kariv says politics is a marathon, and he harbors no illusions about the difficulties of succeeding if he does decide to run for Knesset. But,
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passage in Pirkei Avot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like a long race, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t build the Jewish state.â&#x20AC;? JT Ben Sales writes for JTA Wire Service.
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Fridays After Five: Through March, Baltimore guests to the National Aquarium pay $12 after 5 p.m. 501 E. Pratt St., Baltimore. Contact: 410-5763800 or aqua.org.
Kreiger Schecht er Art Auction: More than 150 works of art are up for bid in this charity event. 8 p.m., 8100 Stevenson Road, Pikesville. Cost: $18. Contact Michele Shenk-Cooper at 410340-3233, Amy Steinberg 410-913-6012 or ksds.edu.
Free to Breat he Yogat hon: Help support the National Lung Cancer Partnership’s research, education and awareness programs. 1 p.m., 7401 Park Heights Ave., Pikesville. Cost $35. Contact: FreetoBreat he.org/ B alt imore.
Ner Tamid Sist erhood Dinner: Linda Hurwitz will speak on the theme: “Our lives are shaped by the choices we make.” 6 p.m., 6214 Pimlico Road, Baltimore. Cost: $8 for members; $12 for guests. Contact: 410-486-6129.
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Resume Writing Seminar: Learn the latest resume techniques. 10-11:30 a.m., JCS Building, 5750 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore. Prior registration and membership required. Contact: 410-466-9200 or info@jcsbaltimore.org.
Linda Eder Performs: The Broadway star will appear at the Music Center at Strathmore. 8 p.m., 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. Cost: $28 to $90. Contact: 410-783-8000 or B S Omusic.org.
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Many Happy Returns New book features Baltimore’s bygone department stores
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To the average Baltimorean, their names are merely reminiscent of the past. For Michael J. Lisicky, these stores are a passion. Hutzler’s, Hecht’s, Hochschild’s and Stewart’s were Baltimore’s largest department stores for more than 100 years. And while the stores have long since closed, their memories — or rather the memories locals have of shopping at them — remain. Lisicky, through meticulous research and interviews, has culled together a stunning portrait of Baltimore in days gone by. A fifth book in a series on the history of department stores — in Baltimore and elsewhere, “Baltimore’s Bygone Department Stores: Many Happy Returns” — was published this past August. Lisicky, 48, who resides in Fells Point with his wife and daughter, will discuss his new book later this month at talks at area libraries. The Baltimore Jewish Times caught up with Lisicky ahead of his lectures: JT: Your full-time job is as an oboist for t he Baltimore Sy mphon y. How did the passion for department stores st art?
LISICKY:: I really can’t explain the passion. It is something that was instilled in me as a kid. This was part of my mother’s life and part of me spending time with mom. … She loved being in the car and she loved shopping. We would drive an hour [in New Jersey] and go to really different locations. Each store had its own identity and as a kid I was just fascinated by it.
And you are sad th e stores are gone?
Today, society is very disposable and homogenous. I am at the age where I saw the demise [of the department stores] and that intrigued me more to capture those places. I never thought they would go away, but once they left, I wondered if anyone still cared. I have been happy that is not the case. How do you find your facts?
I have always loved going through newspaper microfilm. Even as kid, I loved going to the local library and going through old advertisements. While this newest book — and my older books — is classified as a history book, it is also a nostalgia book. I didn’t only use newspapers, but I used a lot of newspapers. If a store closes, big or small, there is some type of eulogy [in the paper]. And the books are popular.
They have all achieved best-seller status with Amazon. “Hutzler’s” was the No. 1 Maryland History Book for seven months when it came out in 2009. And I have given lectures all over — the New York public libraries, the Boston public libraries, in Pittsburgh. I love sitting down and talking about these places with anyone who will listen. Are these conversations what spawned the next Baltimore book?
After “Hutzler’s” came out, people were like, ‘What’s next?’ I never had an intention to a next. People kept contacting me, wanting to tell me their stories, and that is what I incorporated into this book. Hutzler’s was more just facts; this one is more stories, more personal. I had a lot more fun writing this one.
Talk abou t how t hese depart ment stores impacted Baltimore.
[The department stores] were not just about shopping. It was a social thing. It was an outing, spending time with family and friends, getting in the car — or the streetcar — and going down to Howard Street to spend the day shopping or browsing or eating. Technology — online shopping, for example — has really entered our lives in many, many ways, and this was a time when technology was not really a factor. You had people who were hired just to write condolence letters to people who had charge accounts [at the store]. People felt more like a family. … Each store had its role. Each store had strong family connections in Baltimore with prominent family members, especially in the Jewish community. These owners were all very community-minded people, and they helped them become pillars of society. C an y ou offer some book high lights? Tell JT readers what you learned.
I learned so much more about integration. I never knew that if you were African-American, you needed a note in order to shop in these department stores in the main floor and above. I never knew that in the former Hecht’s building at Howard and Lexington streets there was a major sixalarm fire on the fih and sixth floors. It was a case of arson that was never solved. ree fires were set simultaneously in the late 40s, the biggest fire since the Baltimore fire of 1904.
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Church on Cathedral Street. He had a hiring ad that said, “non-Catholics need not apply.” In 1964, Hazel Croner, a prolific fashion illustrator who sketched for Baltimore’s department stores, had a huge fight with e Baltimore Sun because the publication refused to print a drawing of a woman in a swimsuit with her belly button showing. And on a sad note, it is how people were in such denial over the demise of Hutzler’s. at was heart-wrenching stuff. JT
Get An Inside Look — Hear From Michael Lisicky Lisicky will discuss his newest book at the following places: * Enoch Pratt Free Library, Roland Park Branch Nov. 10 at 2 p.m. * Enoch Pratt Free Library, Light Street Branch Nov. 17 at 3 p.m. Lisicky will also offer a talk at the Jewish Museum of Maryland later this winter
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Maayan Jaffe is JT managing editor mjaffe@jewishtimes.com
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1. ATTEND – Discounted rates are available for the full conference and for one-day only. 2.VOLUNTEER – Show our guests why Baltimore is called “Charm City.” Three-hour shifts available. 3. TELL YOUR STORY – With ASSOCIATED Women for the annual National Women’s Philanthropy Luncheon, on Monday, November 12 at 12:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore. Event is open to all women; $75 to attend.
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Way Back When M. Hirsh Goldberg
Remembering Pikesville’s Airport I still remember my excitement when in the early
1950s I was riding with my parents along Smith Avenue in Pikesville and saw a small plane swoop out of the sky and glide onto an airfield next to the street. In recent years, I have met others who have memories of that long-ago airfield. Eli Schlossberg, a long-time resident of the area, has reminisced in articles about the facility. Pinchus Seidel, who lives near the site, discovered a remnant of a landing strip under the grass in his backyard. Benjamin Adler, who grew up in the area and still lives on Bancroft Road, which once bordered the field, had close views of its daily activities.
“… Because there was no fence around the airport until the 1940s, we could touch the planes. It was the thing to do.” — Benjamin Adler
These memories are about the Curtiss-Wright Airport, an important private airfield for its day. It covered 260 acres that spanned from the intersection of Smith and Greenspring avenues in Baltimore County down to the Cheswolde neighborhood in the city. Today, houses, apartments and a shopping
center are located there. Curtiss-Wright — a merger of companies formed by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers — was a leading manufacturer of airplanes and a builder of airplane facilities in the early days of flying. After Lindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 energized interest in flying, Curtiss-Wright built a dozen airfields around the country. The first was in 1929, when they began operations in Pikesville. The Greenspring area proved an appropriate site for an airfield because the topography is flat and the land then was largely undeveloped. Brian Sacks, a county business consultant, remembers the farm with cows that is now the location of Pikesville High School. Today’s Cross Country Apartments occupy what was then woods. Dubbed the “Million Dollar Airport,” possibly for the large construction outlay for its day, Pikesville’s facility featured a four-runway grass landing area that was 4,000 feet by 4,000 feet. Two concrete hangars (100 feet by 120 feet) provided space for pilots, mechanics and the maintenance of aircraft. Private individuals could park their planes on-site. During the 1930s, the airport was actively used by operators of small single-engine planes, such as piper cubs and biplanes with open cockpits. “It was fun to go and watch them,” says Adler. “There was a lot of activity on the weekends, and because there was no fence around the airport until the 1940s, we could touch the planes. It was the thing to do.”
An aerial view: In the early to mid-1900s, Curtiss-Wright Airfield was a site not to be missed.
Adler recalls when one plane made an emergency landing on Har Sinai’s lawn on Park Heights Avenue. The airfield also offered events for the public. The Thunderbird Flying Club, formed at the airport in 1933, put on aerial shows that thrilled spectators. And flying was promoted in Pikesville in other ways. The Park Heights Flying School operated blocks away, its landing field formed by Stevenson Road and Park Heights Avenue. By 1941, according to one history, Pikesville’s Curtiss-Wright Airport had become “Baltimore’s largest private flying center.” During World War II, Bendix bought the facility, closed it to civilian operations and utilized the field for radar and electronics work. In 1946, Knipp Aviation Industries purchased the site and renamed it Pimlico Airport, but by 1953 there was little sign of an airport, with homes and streets starting to replace it. In 1963, a local weekly reported that, “a retail complex was proposed for the property.” Construction soon began, and by 1966, much of the site of the airfield was covered with what is now the Greenspring Shopping Center. There is no trace today of Pikesville’s airfield — except in fond memories. JT M. Hirsh Goldberg writes a monthly history column for the JT. He is a public-relations and book-writing consultant, lecturer and author of five nationally-published books. He also writes commissioned family biographies. mhgoldberg@comcast.net
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while it is certainly an adult “toy,” my kids are having at least as much fun with it — particularly with siri — its “virtual assistant.” they have asked her such wide-ranging questions as “what’s your favorite color?” and “how do you fit in the phone?” the clever computer programmers at Apple were prepared for questions like these and siri has some snappy pre-programmed repartee. But lest you think children alone can be captivated by her spell, I too have had my moments. For example, the other day I was driving home and wanted to call my mother in Chicago. Dutifully following Maryland law (and common sense) I did not look up her number while driving. Instead, I cheerfully instructed my new virtual assistant: “siri, call mom!” And siri, in her deadpan robotic way, responded: “I don’t know who your mom is.” I had a good laugh right there in the car. siri, alas, didn’t get the joke. of course a computer can only “know” so much, and without my telling her my mother’s name is Phyllis, she simply could not discern which of my “contacts” had brought me into the world! this week’s parsha begins with an enigmatic scene – that of god (represented by three men) visiting Avram. Rashi explains that god comes “to visit the sick,” explaining, “this was the third day after his circumcision, and the Kadosh Baruch Hu came to see how he was feeling.’” one might ask why god, who was known to Avram at this point, would choose to be made manifest in the presence of three strangers. some
have observed that Avraham (as he would soon come to be known) is given the opportunity to do hachnasat orchim, the mitzvah of welcoming guests. Many of us know the midrash about Avraham and sarah’s tent that was open on four sides so they could see visitors coming from afar and run out to greet them. what, though, is the role of the stranger in visiting the sick? Most of us understand the need to visit our relatives and friends when they’re seriously ill. similarly, most of us welcome visitors from our innermost circle when we, ourselves, are laid up. the Jewish value of bikkur cholim, though, is meant to apply also to strangers like the ones who came to visit Avram. In Israel, for example, it’s not uncommon for volunteers to walk to a hospital on shabbat afternoon, wish patients well, bring a small gift or just get to know them. siri, my virtual assistant, cannot “know” me; even if I reveal my mother’s name she cannot “know” her either. siri and I have a “virtual” relationship. But torah reminds us there are actual relationships to be had with virtual strangers; there are moments to expand the circle of concern and build relationships, perhaps especially with those previously unknown to us. It was surely within god’s power to pay a personal visit. Instead, the Kadosh Baruch Hu was didactic, challenging us, the followers of Abraham, to move beyond our comfort zone. Illness knows no boundaries, no surname, race or religion. why should our response to illness be any more provincial? JT Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg is the spiritual leader of Beth Am Synagogue.
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Second Chances Friends arranged for Glenda Soble and Harvey Scherr to meet at the AZA Sweetheart Dance in 1955. She was 14, he was 16, and Glenda admits they had a “lousy time together.” “There was no chemistry,” echoes Harvey. Fast forward seven years, after Harvey’s discharge from the Air Force. In February 1961 at the Richmond Jewish Community Center, they were reunited on the volleyball court. Glenda had gone to the game with a friend with the understanding that if she met someone there she wasn’t obligated to leave with him. Harvey invited her for dessert and coffee. She went and aerwards he took her home. “It was a gradual love affair,” says Glenda, now 72, whose aunt told her not to “hurt the really nice guy.” They went out to eat, to see movies and to schmooze with friends. After a few bad experiences, it took a while for Glenda to be convinced Harvey really cared about her. She was convinced when she appeared at his mother and stepfather’s home one day in November 1961. Roy Gottlieb, who worked for a jeweler, had brought home ring settings and stones. When Glenda liked a particular ring, Rae Gottlieb told her future
daughter-in-law to keep it on her finger. An astonished Harvey didn’t know what to say. “We knew we were going to get married,” says Harvey, now 74. Glenda kept the ring and called her parents, Ben and Fagie Soble, to share the news. They were married June 10, 1962 at Temple Kenneseth Beth Israel in Richmond. At least 300 guests witnessed the Orthodox ceremony and sampled the hors d’oeuvre feast. They lived in Richmond, Blacksburg, Va., and then New York City. Daughter Beth was born in New York in January 1966, and Mitch joined the family in May 1967 in Baltimore. Harvey worked in consumer electronics for 11 years before returning to Westinghouse, which ultimately transferred him to South Carolina in 1993. Glenda stayed in Baltimore with the children while Harvey came home each weekend to see Beth’s daughters, Megan, now 16; Ashley, 15; and Shelby, 11. In 1998, he returned home and worked in Washington, then in Baltimore, before retiring “for real” in 2006. Today, after several hospital volunteer positions, he works part time for a Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon. Glenda, meanwhile, worked for The
First Date: AZA Sweetheart Dance, 1955 Wedding: June 10, 1962 Venue: Temple Kenneseth Beth Israel Richmond, Va. Current Residence: Quarry Lake, Pikesville Favorite Activity: Going out to dinner and playing Canasta
Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore for nine years and retired in 2005. She then was a volunteer reader to elementary school children until health issues forced her to stop. And after a long career playing club tennis, she has immersed herself in bridge at Bluffs at Quarry Lake, where they moved one month ago. ey celebrated their 50th anniversary on a cruise with Beth and her girls, and Mitch and his longtime girlfriend. Today, they watch different television shows and have different interests, but there’s still romance. Harvey brings home flowers, and they always kiss when departing each other’s company and before bed. “There’s a lot of love between us,” Glenda says. JT Linda L. Esterson is a freelance writer in Owings Mills. For “Beshert,” call 410-902-2305 or email Linda.Esterson@verizon.net.
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The family of Ruth Levin happily celebrated her 90th birthday on Oct. 30, 2012. Ruth was born in Ludmir, Poland and came to Baltimore at age 15 with her parents and younger brother Moshe, z”l. She graduated from Eastern High School, the Baltimore Hebrew High School and the Baltimore Hebrew College. Ruth worked for many years in Baltimore City Public Schools and was fortunate to teach Hebrew School at Baltimore Hebrew and Beth Israel congregations. Ruth celebrated her birthday with Barbara and Ted Levin, Susie and Fred Weinblatt, grandchildren Tammy and Josh Levin, Elana and Ben Levin and Jonathan, Rachel, Daniel and Sarah Weinblatt. Ruth is especially proud of her first great-grandson, Eli Yaakov Levin.
Debra (nee Knopf ) and Seth Weisleder of West Orange, N.J., are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Danielle Farah, on March 10, 2012. Danielle is named in loving memory of her paternal great-grandmothers, Doris Weisleder Urman and Florence Koons. Her Hebrew name is Devorah Faiga. Proud big sister is Jordyn Ava, elated grandparents are Toby and David Knopf of Columbia and Cammy and Harry Weisleder of Harrisburg, Pa. Excited great-grandmothers are Anne Gordon of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., and Ida Shankman of Ellicott City. Danielle is also the granddaughter of the late Judith Koons Feldman.
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stantial accomplishments and dedication of the “Green Synagogues” in our community. These synagogues agreed to and fulfilled three objectives: performing an energy audit; adopting/integrating an environmental educational component into operations; and a signature project exemplifying the commitment of Jewish environmental stewardship. Pictured (back row, left): Gary Felser, Rabbi John Franken and Doug CarreyBeaver, Bolton Street Synagogue; (front row, left): Steve Silverman and Donna Brown, Beth El Congregation; David and Robin Kantor, Beit Tikvah; Mindy and Jon Sperling, Beth Shalom in Columbia; Rabbi Avram Reisner, Chevrei Tzedek; Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin, Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network/Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Sustainability Committee; Stuart Stainman, Beth Am; Aaron Max, Chizuk Amuno Congregation/Associated Sustainability Committee; Aleeza Oshry, Associated Sustainability Initiative manager; Susan Coleman, Aaron and Abbe Zuckerberg, Netivot Shalom; and Dori Grasso, Chevrei Tzedek.
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DOCHINGER — On October 24, 2012, LEON STANLEY; beloved husband of the late Joan Dochinger (nee Chomsky); loving father of Eric (Dr. Michele Laboda) Dochinger and Beth Dochinger; beloved grandfather. Interment at Wellwood Cemetery, Pinelawn, N.Y. Please omit flowers. DRAGON — On October 22, 2012, LINDA; beloved daughter of the late Morris and Dorothy Herman (nee Schnitzer); devoted sister of the late Barry Herman. Interment at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, 2100 Belair Road. FALCK — On October 24, 2012, DAVID; cherished husband of Matilda Falck (nee Wolpert); beloved
father of Robert Falck and Martin (Myra) Falck; beloved brother of Allan (Audrey) Falck and the late Rita ( Joseph) Rayvis and Sylvan (Alice) Falck; adored grandfather of Sara Falck and Jeremy Falck. Also survived by many loving nieces and nephews. Interment at Beth Tfiloh Cemetery, 5800 Windsor Mill Road. Please omit flowers. FELDMAN — On October 28, 2012, EDYTHE RIETTE (nee Gross); beloved wife of the late Frank Feldman; cherished mother of Dr. Irwin “Buddy” (Marilyn) Feldman, Dr. Marvin Jack (late Ina) Feldman, Roberta (Dr. Robert) Liebenberg and Dr. Lawrence (Dr. Orly Korat) Feldman; dear sister of Ruth Berger, Sidney Gross and the late Melvin Gross and Esther Gamm; devoted sister-in-law of Barbara Gross, Sylvia Levin and Dorothy Jacobs; loving grandmother of Jennifer (Sam) Block, Melissa Feldman, Dr. Seth (Dr. Leslie Frieden) Feldman, Dr. Dorianne (Brian Shulman) Feldman, Dr. Darren (Dr. Jennifer Leong) Feldman, Julie ( James) Pearl, Dr. Kathryn (David Falkenstein) Liebenberg, David Liebenberg, Dr. Erika (Matt Friedman) Feldman, Samuel Feldman and Eric (Dr. Alanna Nattis-Rosenberg) Rosenberg. Also survived by eight loving great-grandchildren. Interment at King David Memorial
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FRIBUSH — On Tuesday, October 16, 2012, LEONA GOODMAN, a native of Baltimore, MD. Beloved wife of the late Stanley “Babe” Fribush; loving mother of Stuart Fribush of Rockville and Gail Fribush of Bethesda; mother-in-law of Andrea Fribush and Rabbi William Rudolph; beloved sister of Florence Miller; adored grandmother of Rebecca Fribush (Vincent Broz), Lisa Lacritz (Robert) and Marc Rudolph; proud great-grandmother of Casey Lacritz. Interment at B’nai Israel Cemetery, Baltimore. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, B’nai B’rith Homecrest House or the charity of your choice. GLICK — On October 27, 2012, SIDNEy; beloved husband of the late Shirley Glick (nee Meyers); devoted father of Stanley Glick (Francesca Heller); loving brother of Jamie Glick. Interment at Mikro Kodesh Beth Israel Cemetery, 6700 Bowleys Lane. HEIL — On October 22, 2012, FRONA ZELDA (nee Glaser); beloved wife of the late Charles Heil; devoted mother of Rebecca (Mark) Morusiewicz and Aaron Heil; dear sister of Meir “Mark” (Hannah) Glaser; loving grandmother of Courtney and Tristan Morusiewicz; also survived by other loving family and many dear friends. Interment at Hebrew young Men’s Cemetery, 5800 Windsor Mill Road. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to the animal rescue charity of your choice or to The House of Love and Prayer: www.carlebach.intzfat.info. ISAAC — On October 24, 2012, F. MORTON, 84, of Baltimore passed
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away peacefully at his home, surrounded by his family. Morton was born July 5, 1928 in Baltimore to Rae and Louis Isaac. He is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Sonia (nee Shulman), after 54 years of marriage. He is also survived by his loving children Lisa Winer, Marcy Isaac, Steven and Julie Isaac and David Winer. Morton was dearly loved by his five grandchildren Adam, Andrew and Allyson Winer and Daniel and Derek Isaac. Interment at Arlington Cemetery, Chizuk Amuno Congregation. Memorial donations in Morton’s name can be made to the American Kidney Fund (www.kid neyfund.org). KLEIMAN — On October 24, 2012, HARRy I.; devoted husband of the late Marcia Levy Kleiman (nee Griebler); beloved brother of Marjorie (Israel) Herman; also survived by his loving aunt Bernice Sachs. Interment at Beth Tfiloh Cemetery, 5800 Windsor Mill Road. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to the charity of your choice.
brother of the late Dorothy Gorman, Hy Morris, Morris W. Morris and Shimon Warshofsky. Interment at Anshe Emunah Aitz Chaim Cemetery, 3901 Washington Blvd. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to e Chabad Jewish Center, 11299 Owings Mills Blvd., Owings Mills, MD 21117. ROSENSTEIN — On October 27, 2012, CAROLyN (nee Stein); beloved wife of Dr. Beryl Rosenstein; devoted mother of Susan (Larry) Slabotsky and Jonathan (Lisa) Rosenstein; loving sister of the late Charles Stein; adored grandmother of Zachary, Ariel and Anne Slabotsky and Matthew, Amanda, Benjamin and Samantha Rosenstein. Interment at Beth El Memorial Park, Randallstown. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to The Women’s Board of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Billings Administration, Room 221, 600 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21287.
LUBLINSKy — On October 23, 2012, MARTIN; beloved husband of the late Lillian Lublinsky (nee Charikofsky); loving father of Harvey Paul (Myra) Lublinsky; devoted brother of the late Fannie Rosenberg and Sam Lubin; cherished grandfather of Adam (Kristen) Lublinsky, Rebecca (Hal) Fero and David (Mindy) Kramer; adored great-grandfather of Izabella, Conor and Logan Lublinsky, Emily, Samantha and Noah Fero and Jacob, Haley and Dylan Kramer. Interment at Beth El Memorial Park, Randallstown. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to Weinberg Park Assisted Living 5833 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore, MD 21215.
SNyDER — On October 27, 2012, DAVID R.; dear father of Ethan Craft; beloved son of Stuart Deyanira) Snyder and Maryette Snyder-French; loving step-son of Carmen Kimball-Gillis; adored grandson of Louise G. Snyder and the late Bernard Ben-Zion Snyder; cherished step-brother of Henry Kimball, Manny Gillis, Vonda Stafford and Pedro, yeny, Beny and Judile Castro; also survived by other loving family and friends. Interment at Oheb Shalom Memorial Park, Berrymans Lane. Please omit flowers. Contributions made in memory of David Snyder may be sent to Sinai Hospital, Addiction Recovery Program, Dept. of Development, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., Baltimore, MD 21205.
MORRIS — On October 23, 2012, VICTOR W.; beloved husband of the late Marian Morris (nee Sampson); devoted father of Jamie Morris (Elliot H. Gertel) and Harriet Morris; dear
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Notice is given that DONALD F STUP JR, 537 Woodside Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21208, In the Estate of (170132) was on October 5, 2012 appointed Personal Eula A. Witherspoon Representative of the estate of Madeline M Stup who died on August 2, 2012, without a will. Notice of Judicial Probate To all Persons InterFurther information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Regis- ested in the above estate: You are hereby notified that a petition has ter of Wills or by contacting the personal been filed by MICHELE THOMPSON for judirepresentative or the attorney. All persons having any objection to the ap- cial probate and for the appointment of a perpointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s sonal representative. A hearing will be held at will) shall file their objections with the Register ofOrphans’ Court, Fifth Floor, 401 Bosley Avenue, County Courts Building, Towson, Maryland Wills on or before the 5th day of April 2013. Any person having a claim against the dece- 21204 on November 27, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. dent must present the claim to the undersigned This hearing may be transferred or postponed to personal representative or file it with the Registera subsequent time. Further information may be of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or be-obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills. fore the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s GRACE G. CONNOLLY death, except if the decedent died before OctoRegister of Wills for Baltimore County, ber 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the Courts Building decedent’s death; or 401 Bosley Avenue, (2) Two months after the personal representaTowson, Maryland 21204-4403. tive mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claims will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.
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Four level Pickwick split rarely available with a very large family room, with room for fourth bedroom. Beautiful level park–like backyard and patio. Large living room, formal dining room and eat–in kitchen with window over sink. Extra long and wide driveway for plenty of off street parking. Central air, gas heat. www.homerome.com
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Panoramic River Views A home for living, for vacationing and for entertaining. 4-5 bedrooms (2 on main level with full accessible bath) Dock, decks, hot tub, sauna, casita/lanai. Move in ready! www.homerome.com
COUNTRY LIVING ONE MILE FROM THE BELTWAY. UNDER $425,000 415 SOUTH RD. 21208
18 STIRRUP CT, ANNEN WOODS UNDER $200,000
TT Annen Woods townhome in SE move–in condition. Private location surrounded by lush landscaping. First floor family room with cathedral ceilings. Spacious living/dining room with two sets of new sliders to enclosed patio perfect for entertaining, relaxing and container gardening. Large bedrooms with master walk–in closet/dressing room, double vanities and separate shower. Ft Garrison School system in Gated community with tennis and pool. www.homerome.com
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Unique solid masonry brick custom home on 3 acres buffered by Woodholme County Club. Gated secluded private retreat in Pikesville… convenient to everything. First floor master suite, open floor plan and a guest suite with kitchen. High ceilings and brick fireplace. Drive the golf cart home! www.homerome.com
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1930 JORDANS RETREAT RD. UNDER $450,000 Mini horse farm ... Idyllic 7 acres buffered by a forest of trees. Charming home with bright sunroom, central air, gas cooking granite kitchen! A bit of paradise to live and enjoy nature. 3 car garage, workshop. So much charm and so much beauty! Horses, people and pet friendly! When would you like a tour? www.homerome.com
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R Eleven Slade OO FL P H -O Bright spacious one 8T CO bedroom and den 8th floor Co-op near the elevator. Wide windows bathe the space with light. Tree top views from all rooms. Updated eat kitchen, 3 walk in closets. Move in condition. Full service with doorman and receptionist. Monthly fee includes, heat, air conditioning and taxes. Cash only contracts.
All stone semi with front and rear porch- level back yard and a one–car garage. Large rooms throughout. Separate dining room, fireplace in spacious living room. Eat–in kitchen. 3 Bedrooms and two full baths upstairs. Finished lower level paneled recreation room with fireplace, full bath and an abundant amount of storage. All new windows and doors. www.homerome.com
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Contemporary 3500' sprawling Rancher with sunroom and dressing room in the master bedroom suite. Luxury marble and glass brick master bath with walk in shower and jetted tub. Floor to ceiling Stacked stone fireplace divides the living and family rooms. Huge eat in kitchen with expanse of corian counters, center island and greenhouse window overlooking the large deck and in ground pool. Cathedral ceilings and skylights. Perfect home for entertaining with abundant parking. Please call for more details.
I HAVE QUALIFIED BUYERS FOR THESE HOMES • NEEDED...CHARMING OLDER HOME WITH CHARACTER, ACREAGE, GARAGES AND MULTIPLE FIREPLACES (ONE IN THE MASTER WOULD BE IDEAL) • NEEDED... GREY ROCK TOWNHOUSE WITH FIRST FLOOR MASTER, NO BASEMENT AND GOOD PARKING. • CASH BUYER FOR LARGE 4 PLUS BEDROOM HOME IN THE PICKWICK/SMITH AVE AREA. • NEEDED...ANNEN WOODS TOWNHOUSE, IMMEDIATE SETTLEMENT. • NEEDED...LARGE HOME IN FALLSTAFF OR DUMBARTON AREA. MOVE–IN CONDITION A MUST. • NEEDED...ELDERSBURG OR SYKESVILLE HOME WITH PUBLIC UTILITIES AND GAS HEAT UP TO $500K • NEEDED...2 STORY W/ LARGE YARD IN SUMMIT PARK, FRANKLIN OR FORT GARRISON DISTRICT. UP TO $500K
THINKING ABOUT SELLING YOUR HOME PLEASE CALL MARGARET ROME.
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