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Contents
December 21, 2012 Vol. 329 No. 8 Candle lighting 4:29 p.m. 7
Opinion Opening oughts, Editorials, From is View, Your Say …
Local News 15
Briefs
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Hyatt ‘Not Kosher’ Rabbis, union push for reform
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Shomrim To The Rescue Midnight response from an unusual location
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Maccabi Spirit Israeli teens bring symbolic torch to light menorahs
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Unforeseen Encounter IDF soldier surprises Aly Raisman at FIDF Gala
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Life of CHAI Executive Director Ken Gelula steps down, leaving a legacy of leadership
National & International News 31
Massacre Town is turned upside down with mass murder of 20 elementary school students
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When Will The NIF Take Responsibility?: Im Tirzu Brings A Lie To America
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In Good Faith CIA assessment sheds new light on Pollard’s sentencing, intelligence gathering
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Justin Tsucalas
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Still Going Strong Despite concerns over pensions, B’nai B’rith remains active in the community
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Unlikely Reunion 67yearslater,Holocaustsurvivorreuniteswithrescuer
Business 45
Comment: How Portable Are Your Skills?
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Briefs
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A Sweet Life Chef flourishing aer Food Network appearance
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A Conservative Approach Vanguard helps revitalize neighborhoods one development at a time
Arts & Life 52
Worth The Schlep Community calendar for Dec. 21 to Dec. 28
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Whole Child Education Bais Yaakov Exhibit Week gives every child a chance to shine
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Community Beshert, Milestones, Out & About, Obituaries
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Amazing Marketplace
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Land Of Milk and Honey Boo Boo
Are Israel’s recent publicity problems finally over? Or did they just get worse? In the wake of the vote granting the Palestinians upgraded status at the United Nations and just days aer “Sesame Street” actress Sonia Manzano called Israelis “bullies,” Honey Boo Alana “Honey Boo Boo of TLC reality-show fame Boo” Thompson offered a respite. Adi Segal, an Israeli fan of the “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” star, sent her a letter from a bomb shelter during the recent Gaza conflict. “We watch your show every time we feel terrorized and threatened, and you light up our faces,” wrote Segal, a college student. “We watch it in our bomb shelters and panic rooms and rejoice in the happiness and joy you spread. When you are playing redneck games, eating sketti or dumpster diving, we feel like we are dumpster diving along your side and forget the sad reality that is outside. Your family is a shining beautimous beacon of hope for the Middle East.” In response, the toddler in tiara took a photo of herself with the letter and an inflatable hammer emblazoned with the Israeli flag and posted it on her Facebook page. Is this the next step in Israeli hasbarah? Is it connected to the recent firing of the Israeli deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon? Maybe next year we’ll be able to watch “Land of Milk and Honey Boo Boo.”
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Lena Dunham Book Leaks The book proposal that landed “Girls” creator Lena Dunham a $3.7 million publishing deal was leaked online on Monday. The 66-page proposal explains the ideas behind the book, “Not That Kind of Girl,” and reveals it will be divided into six sections: work, friendship, body, sex, love and the big picture, the Christian Science Monitor reported. The structure of the book by the Jewish actress, writer and director is inspired by the late Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown’s “Having It All.” “I’ve never kept a diary,” Dunham wrote in the introduction. “I remember being given a journal around age 6, penning a long paragraph about my
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massive crush on Colin Bliss (what a name!) and then leaving it casually strewn open on the kitchen counter for my parents to ‘find.’ Here was my feeling: If a girl writes in her diary and no one’s there to read it, did she really write at all?” Some notable quotes from the proposal include: “Every ice pop I ate, every movie I watched, every poem I wrote was tinged with a fearful loss,” and “I’ve been in therapy since I was 7.” The leaked proposal was posted on various blogs and websites, but was taken down when Dunham’s attorney intervened.
There’s nothing quite like discovering new branches of the Jewish family tree, especially when that branch reaches all the way to failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Zach Braff, the Jewish star best known for the film “Garden State” and the TV show “Scrubs,” recently discovered that he’s related to the ex-governor of Massachusetts through a common ancestor. And not just any ancestor, but one accused of witchcraft in the 17th
century, according to a report from MSN. “It’s very bizarre because, believe it or not, I thought it was another prank on the Internet, because I’ve been killed off on the Internet, I came out of the closet on the Internet, a lot of things have happened to me on the Web, and I start getting wind that I was related to Mitt Romney through a witch!” Braff said during an appearance on “Rove L.A.,” “That sounds like a joke, but this genealogist, who I guess has way
too much time on his hands, went and tracked my mother’s maiden name and figured out she grew up in Rhode Island and discovered that Mitt Romney and I are related through the very last woman who was killed through the Salem witch trials. “And I thought it was like a tabloid thing, [but] it was a reputable genealogy journal, so yeah, Mitt and I are related through a witch!”
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Unbearable into our routines. But somehow, we must remember, when the TV trucks and reporters leave Newtown, dozens of families and an entire town will still be there, left to pick up the pieces. In a matter of minutes, not only were lives taken, but families were destroyed and the innocence of hundreds of other children was taken forever. The survivors, too, will be emotionally and mentally scared, and visions will haunt them for years, if not for the rest of their lives.
The thought of losing my entire family in an instant like that is just unbearable. I will hesitate sending my kids back to school for a long time; I wonder when the next attack will strike. One only needs to look at the recent shooting of a special-needs student at Perry Hall High School and the averted shooting not long after at Stemmers Run Middle School — both in Baltimore County — to realize what happened in Newtown could happen anywhere, even here. Is gun control the answer? I don’t know. As a friend of mine recently posted on Facebook, you could wipe all of the guns off the planet and the madman who orchestrated that attack last week would have found another way to unleash his terror. What I do know is that I will take a moment each day to reflect on what I have, to tell my wife and kids, “I love you� before I leave them and to learn to live life to the fullest. I urge you to do the same. JT For another, related perspective, see “A Mother’s Fear� by Meredith Jacobs on page 11. Also see “Massacre� page 31. Ron Snyder is a JT staff reporter rsnyder@jewishtimes.com
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Like millions of others, I watched with horror last Friday as news spread following arguably the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Within minutes, 28 people were dead, including 20 elementary school students. Questions will be asked for years to come about what drove Adam Lanza to blast his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and take the lives of so many innocent children, teachers and administrators. I shed many tears and hugged my children a little tighter that night. All I could do was imagine the pain those families were going through. Even worse, the sheer terror those children must have felt in the ďŹ nal minutes of their lives. I quickly realized how lucky I am to have my family with me. My twin daughters, Megan and Marissa, are 6, which is the same age as many of the victims. My wife, Lori, is the nurse at their school, which my son William, 9, also attends. The thought of losing my entire family in an instant like that is just unbearable. Unfortunately, the scene at Sandy Hook has become an all-too-familiar scene in our country. Newtown is now linked for all time with such communities as Columbine and Aurora in Colorado and Blacksburg, Va., which tragically experienced their own mass shootings in recent years. The country’s response has also been all too familiar. There have been moments of reflection, prayer and talk about the need to unite as a country, treat our fellow man with respect and appreciate every moment we have on this earth. Then, the discussion quickly moves on to gun control, issues over mental health and other divisive topics. Finally, life will return to normal ... until the next time. We’ll be back
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How To Do Better As the funerals continue for the 20 small children and six adults murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last Friday, we believe it is time for a real national discussion about gun violence. The shock of the massacre perpetrated by one young man with an automatic weapon has led to a groundswell in support of sensible gun legislation — banning the sales of military-style weapons and highcapacity magazines, and closing the background check loophole for arms bought at gun shows. Such legislation is long overdue. America is in a class by itself in having lots of guns and lots of gun violence. While sensible legislation can mitigate the problem, it will not cure it. Sen. Joe Lieberman was looking at the bigger picture when he floated the idea of a national commission that would also look at the effects of violent video games and the question of the mentally ill having access to weapons. We believe that such a broader conversation about the role of weapons in American society is a good thing, providing it doesn’t lead to easy scapegoating. Many have argued that we can reduce gun violence
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by weeding out people with mental illnesses or other cognitive impairments. That too, is an approach, but not a cure. For the very clear fact is that every day, tens of millions of Americans with such conditions go about their business and do not kill people. So while we need to be forthright in our calls for action, we need to be humble about what we don’t know. And there is a lot that we don’t know. For example, for several years homicide rates in this country have been dropping — to the point where they are at rates not seen since the 1960s. But we don’t know exactly why. Similarly, we don’t know why we are in an epidemic of mass shootings. What we do know is that mass shootings are like plane crashes: they are horrendous, gut-wrenching and shocking and fill everyone with fear, sorrow and apprehension. But at the same time, while mass shootings are horrific, they are also relatively rare. So, how do we deal with the problem? As noted by President Barack Obama in his recent remarks about Newtown, we know that we must do better. And, we believe that we will do better through multiple approaches designed to address the problem, rather than through a single, expedient solution.
After months of increasing violence, many expect that the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad will soon fall. This latest domino in the Arab Spring is another troubling hot spot for both the United States and Israel. While we await the end of the Assad regime, history dictates that the uncertainty of his replacement should also give us pause. But amid the chaos, there are some heartening developments. First, the U.S. and the Europeans, with Israeli involvement, are coordinating efforts to make sure Syria’s chemical weapons are not used by Assad’s forces and not made available to terrorist groups. Second, the U.S. and Europe have recognized the groups they believe to be the legitimate opposition to the Assad government, while declaring others as terrorist groups. These are both important developments, which ease some concern in the region — particularly for Israel — for the consequences of the expected regime change. And. of course, there are Syria’s neighbors — Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey — whose importance in the region is increasing daily. Turkey has perhaps even more reason than Israel to be concerned about a new and unstable Syrian regime or an increasingly desperate Assad. The U.S. is clearly aware of those concerns and has delivered protective anti-missile systems to Turkey. Russian support may be the last prop holding up the Assad regime. Last week, the Russian deputy foreign minister indicated that Assad was on the way out and then appeared to back away from that statement. Further deterioration of Russian support could end the game for Assad. For the moment, Syria appears to present the trickiest situation in the Mideast — eclipsing Iran and Egypt, if only for a short time. Although President Barack Obama is heavily focused on resolution of fiscal cliff issues on the domestic side and replacing outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the international side, the Syrian powder keg presents an ongoing concern and threat that warrants continued careful monitoring and vigilance. We commend the diplomatic balancing and positioning pursued by the Obama administration and hope it will help lead to a prompt and sensible resolution.
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state status for “Palestine.” Fifty states withstood considerable diplomatic pressure to go along, 41 of them abstaining and nine voting against. Particular credit goes to the United States, whose U.N. ambassador Susan Rice stressed that peace “cannot be made by pressing a green voting button here in this hall.” Canada, which has become a staunch supporter of democratic Israel, the Czech Republic, the only European Union nation to buck the tide, and Panama, the sole Latin American country to put conscience over expediency, also voted against. The resolution’s passage changes no facts on the ground, since Israel rightfully insists on direct negotiations with the Palestinians before granting any form of recognition; in fact, the resolution’s passage encourages the Palestinians to stay away from the negotiating table. With its new status, the PA could further poison the atmosphere by bringing trumped-up charges of war crimes against Israel, and possibly the U.S., before the International Criminal Court. If Abbas pursues that path of confrontation, it will make the goal of attaining two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace, even more elusive. Many countries, including the Europeans who backed the resolution, sought to explain their “yes” votes as expressions of support for a two-state solution. If truly committed to peace, those countries must now press Abbas to fulfill his pledge to resume negotiations with Israel. Aer all, in the real world the only path to sustainable peace is direct talks, without layer upon layer of preconditions. Abbas walked away from the table four years ago. Israel awaits his return. JT Melanie Maron Pell is director of the AJC Washington Regional Office and a member of the Baltimore Israel Coalition. Her views do not necessarily reflect the views of the BIC or its members.
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From î‚Šis View Meredith Jacobs
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teacher had no patience for very young children and would hit students with a ruler when they “misbehaved.â€? i don’t remember being afraid of her. My memories are of dancing in the classroom to alvin and the Chipmunks’ records, going to arts-and-craî†?s class and doing ips on the monkey bars at recess. i must have been afraid though, because my mother helped organize the other parents to have our teacher removed from our classroom. i remember being questioned at a meeting at the Board of education. My mother bought us comic books to read while we waited for our turn. i remember reading one about scamp the dog. in the end, the teacher was sent to teach at the middle school.
When i was in the early grades of elementary school, a ďŹ î†?h-grader, the older sister of one of my friends, walked us to and from home. We were taught not to talk to strangers, especially strangers who wanted to lure us into their cars. i was never approached by a stranger. When i was a child, i remember being afraid of cults — of “Mooniesâ€? who would “brainwashâ€? me. i remember being afraid that russia would drop a nuclear bomb on us. i was afraid i wouldn’t have friends or wouldn’t make good grades. i wasn’t afraid of being gunned down. When it came time for my oldest child to get on a bus to take her to ďŹ rst grade, i “jokedâ€? about following the bus to make certain it arrived safely. My children attended our synagogue school from 3 years old to kindergarten. First grade was the ďŹ rst time they went
to public school — the ďŹ rst time they would leave the safe cocoon of the tiny preschool, where the teachers hugged them and called them mamelah and tatelah. i wanted to follow them because i was the one having trouble separating. i knew they would be safe. i wasn’t afraid of them being gunned down. since then, children were killed at Columbine High school, students were killed at Virginia tech University, and children were killed at a midnight showing of a superhero movie in aurora, Colo. and now, children — too young to have completed the ďŹ rst half of their ďŹ rst year of school — have been killed at sandy Hook elementary school. since when did our children become targets? i don’t know if it’s our culture of
violence or our culture of loneliness. i don’t believe god being in or out of our classrooms has anything to do with it. i know they say “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.â€? But people kill people with guns. and the easier it is to obtain and to ďŹ re the guns, the easier it is for people to kill people. î‚Še time has come to ban civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons. î‚Še time has come to provide better access to mental-health care. i hear people saying our grief will raise cries for change. But then, like with Columbine, Virginia tech and aurora, our grief will ease, and we‘ll move on. Nothing will have changed. î‚Šis is what i am afraid of. For a related perspective, see “Unbearableâ€? by Ron Snyder on page 7. Also see “Massacreâ€? on page 31. Meredith Jacobs is managing editor of JT’s sister publication, Washington Jewish Week.
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Your Say … that our member Don Franklin was unable to attend the interview and photo op. Former schoolmates may contact Norm schrum at 410-363-4332 or Joan levin at 410-486-2213 for more information. Albert “Avi” Harris Joan Warner Levin Baltimore
Congratulations, Buddy as a colleague and friend of Buddy sapolsky, i wanted to thank you for last week’s inspiring article about Buddy’s retirement (“still everybody’s Buddy,” Dec. 14). he deserves the special recognition he has received, and your coverage did a great job of capturing his professionalism and community commitment. it also went a long way to reinforcing the reasons that Baltimore is so unique and fortunate in having a JCC that tries (sometimes against difficult odds and in sensitive situations) to unify rather than divide our community. Lawrence M. Ziffer Executive Vice President Macks Center for Jewish Education Baltimore
Rockin’ Down Memory Lane the article by Jerry solomon about rock and roll music (“rock of ages,” Dec. 7) was wonderful. i, too, grew up with the same music and, in fact, continue to listen to present day rock and roll. however, i must make a correction to the article. if Bill haley ever said, “rock and roll is here to stay, it will never die,” i hope he gave credit to David white who wrote the song “rock and roll is here to stay” and to Danny and the Juniors who recorded it. Jan K. Guben Baltimore
What’s Next? Myerberg Is Growing we enjoyed maayan Jaffe’s article on myerberg’s new executive director, David Golaner (“David Golaner Plans to take e myerberg Center to e Next level,” Nov. 29). anks to the initiative David has shown in just five months, the myerberg is evolving into a destination for three generations of mature adults who seek stimulating and meaningful activities in a friendly, attractive setting. all are welcome! Carol Sandler President, Board of Directors The Edward A. Myerberg Senior Center
Dedicated Alumni the reunion Committee of louisa may alcott school #59 wishes to thank David snyder and David stuck for their fine article and photograph concerning our school reunion, which is scheduled for may 5, 2013 (“Dedicated alumni,” Dec. 7). we would add
with regard to the “make Your own Chanukah house and win” (Briefs, Nov. 30): when i first saw the manischewitz package advertised i thought it was a joke. Could this be for real? is this the Jewish version of Christmas’ gingerbread house? Next year, don’t be too surprised if Chanukah holiday trees appear in stores. Roslyn Zozzie Golden Baltimore
Artistic Controversy how sad that a few Ultra orthodox, highly vocal religious fanatics could cause the coverup of one “disturbing” photo in an otherwise stunning exhibit at the weinberg Park heights JCC that attempts to educate the role of Jews aiding those in Bosnia during the siege of sarajevo. the photo shows a man in a bikini bottom and woman in a full bikini innocently and lovingly sunning on the beach. a
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moment of calm before the chaos and atrocities of a brutal war. we’ve come a long way since the 1990s when the orthodox religious community would not admit that there was domestic violence in its community and ask for help combating it or admit that there were orthodox Jews who were gay and attempt to include them. Please tell me that there will be no retreat from the inclusion of those previously marginalized groups. or that censorship of any kind — artistic, personal or otherwise — will insinuate itself into Baltimore’s outstanding model of a well-functioning, fully inclusive Jewish community. Fanaticism can have no place in a civilized society. we’ve seen the destruction it causes. Please, not here. Rosellen Fleishman Baltimore
Abbas Is Dreaming regarding the online article, “abbas seeks talks if israel halts west Bank Construction” (Dec. 10): as mentioned in the article, [Palestinian President mahmoud] abbas also wants the talks to begin with concessions made by ehud olmert to be already in place and then ring further ones from the israeli government. what he conveniently forgets is that
ehud olmert was voted out of office by the israeli electorate, appalled by the plan to evacuate all of east Jerusalem, including the 200,000 israelis who live there, and the west Bank’s 250,000 Jewish residents. abbas is in a dream world if he thinks that the olmert plan would be a starting point for future israeli concessions. Nelson Marans Maryland
Still Worried About Obama Barack obama’s re-election will cause numerous and big problems for israel and for Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. it is now very unlikely that israel can count on obama and the U.s., because the obama administration has been taking a stand against israel from the beginning and has been on the side of the Palestinians from the start. the administration is simply ignoring the fact that the Palestinians continue a terrorist war against israel and that their aims and goals continue to be the eventual and total elimination of the state of israel. … however, the more serious issue that continues to exist is iran’s continued nuclear ambitions to obtain nuclear missiles, with which they want to intimidate and threaten israel, as well as the whole middle east. the jewishtimes.com
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Insight into Determinants of Exceptional Aging and Longevity Obama administration wants to avoid a conflict and wants to compromise and appease, which is not the way to deal with this clear and present danger. … Yes, Obama’s second term is bad news for the safety and security of Israel, which is … the only friend the United States has in the Middle East. Israel needs strong support and a solid alliance from the United States, which is now slowly fading away with the current liberal do-nothing policies of our administration.
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Nearly 240 rabbis have signed a letter in support of the president’s proposal to allow tax cuts to expire at the end of the year for those making above $250,000 annually. The letter was written by Bend the Arc Jewish Action, which bills itself as the largest Jewish social justice organization devoted to domestic policy issues. Making $250,000 in the tri-state area does not make one wealthy. is was signed by Reform and Conservative rabbis. How many of them live in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut? How many of them pay exorbitant tuitions to day schools and yeshivas beginning at age 4 for their children? Most people do not spend this type of money until college. In many cases, college is cheaper. I hope none of these rabbis will tell me that sending my children and grandchildren to day schools or yeshivas is a luxury. As an observant Jew, I have no choice, nor do the majority of young observant families, who, even though they may make a combined salary of $250,000, are struggling. e choice to live in a religious community is based upon the need to educate our families in the ways of Torah observance. It is a sacrifice we all make. Who are these rabbis to tell us that we have so much money that we can afford the luxury of higher taxes? Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg Edison, N.J.
A Gift For Veterans On behalf of the employees and volunteers at the VA Maryland Health Care System, I’d like to thank our veterans for their military service and wish them and their families a wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year. We also wish those who are currently serving overseas a safe and happy holiday season, even though they are far from friends and family. Without their service and sacrifice, our lives would be much different. We owe our veterans — who represent less than 1 percent of our entire society — a debt of gratitude that can never adequately be repaid. e holiday season fills our schedule with hustle and bustle as we strive to find the perfect gis. As we prepare for the holidays, please remember the greatest gi of all is good health. If you know a veteran who is not yet enrolled for VA health care, please encourage them to do so. ere are three ways veterans can enroll for VA health care: online, by phone and in person. … To enroll, veterans can visit maryland.va.gov and click on the blue “Become a Patient” button near the top of the page. If you know a veteran who is struggling, the VA Maryland Health Care System can help, whether it’s to lose weight, quit smoking, kick a drug habit, manage diabetes or achieve any of the markers of good health. During this holiday season, telling a veteran about VA health care may be the greatest gift of all. Dennis H. Smith Director VA Maryland Health Care System
Correction With regard to the article, “Whose Next?” (Dec. 14), Barak Hermann has three sons and not two, as was reported. The Baltimore Jewish Times regrets the error.
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Jewish and looking for something special to do this Christmas Day? The Jewish Museum of Maryland will hold its annual Christmas Day program, and this year’s theme is “Dragons and Dreidels.” The Dec. 25 program has become a veritable tradition, and this year visitors can pair that with another Jewish Christmas tradition — Chinese food. This is the second year in a row that the museum has served Chinese food at a Christmas event in conjunction with its exhibition, “Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture and Jewish Identity.” The exhibition, which will close on Dec. 30, explores the role of food in Jewish life and culture. Following the exhibition’s run in Baltimore, “Chosen Food” will travel to the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta. In exchange, the Breman Museum’s exhibition, “Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 19381950,” will visit the Jewish Museum of Maryland, where it will be on display from Jan. 27 to Aug. 18.
On Christmas Day, said Rachel Cylus, JMM program director, visitors will have an opportunity to bid farewell to “Chosen Food,” as well as tour the museum’s other exhibitions, “Voices of Lombard Street: A Century of Change in East Baltimore” and “The Synagogue Speaks.” There will be tours of the museum’s historic synagogues, Lloyd Street and B’nai Israel throughout the day. In addition, Baltimore Jewish Times’ food writer Ilene Spector will offer a dumpling-making workshop between 1 and 3 p.m. “We’ll be frying, steaming and tasting Chinese dumplings,” said Cylus. Mahjong devotees can play their favorite Chinese/Jewish game, and children can stay busy with dragon-themed craft activities. And if the dumplings don’t fill you up, kosher Chinese food from David Chu’s China Bistro is also on the menu. “It should be a great day,” said Cylus. — Simone Ellin
Closing Its Doors
Good Will At Last After years of negotiations, Lithuanian Jews who were victims of totalitarian regimes during World War II now will be eligible to receive “symbolic” payment from The Goodwill Foundation. The foundation, established jointly by the Lithuanian Jewish Communities and the World Jewish Restitution Organization, is responsible for distributing the payments of several hundred dollars per applicant. The actual amount survivors will receive depends upon how many people apply for a portion of the approximately $1.1 million total. The one-time payments are part of a much larger sum to be paid incrementally for the next 10 years that will fund institutions in Lithuania’s existing and hopeful future Jewish community. Founded in 1992, the WJRO is an umbrella organization of Jewish groups that advocates restitution for Holocaust survivors whose assets were illegally seized by the Nazis during World War II. According to Rabbi Andrew Baker, director of international Jewish affairs at the American Jewish Committee who led negotiations on behalf of the WJRO along with local Jewish community groups in Lithuania, all Lithuanian Jews whose names are in the data of the Jewish Claims Conference will receive a letter
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by Dec. 31 from the Claims Conference alerting them that they may be eligible. Lithuanian Jews, whose names are not in the data, can apply by submitting an application and documentation confirming they are Jewish or that one of their parents was Jewish, proving they were born in or resided in Lithuanian territories during WWII, or showing that they were forced to leave the country after the commencement of WWII. The deadline for submitting applications is June 30, and the goal of the Goodwill Foundation is to distribute payments by Dec. 31, 2013. Rabbi Baker stressed that payments are open to all Lithuanian Jewish survivors. The payments come as a result of a 2011 law known as the Good Will Compensation for the Immovable Property of Jewish Religious Communities of the Republic of Lithuania, which alludes to the illegal occupation of synagogues, schools, libraries and other Jewish communal properties by the Nazi and Soviet regimes. Since restitution to victims is not possible in many cases, Rabbi Baker said that “much of the money will support communal, social welfare and heritage organizations.”
— Simone Ellin
Aer more than a decade of providing sober living services for the Baltimore community, Jewish Recovery Houses announced last week that it will be shutting down its two extended-care facilities, effective immediately. “e fact is, running an operation like this is incredibly expensive,” said JRH Executive Director Martha Meehan-Cohen. “We have yet to be able to find the right mix in terms of client fees, fundraising events and grants to keep it financially sustainable.” Whether or not the closure will be temporary is still undecided. JRH’s board of directors will now embark on a two- to three-month comprehensive assessment to determine if the organization can reopen its Tova House and House of Hope. In the interim, Meehan-Cohen said that JRH’s main role will be continuing its confidential care, which includes providing treatment options and locating other extendedcare residences for people battling alcohol addiction. (She noted that all existing clients were relocated to other facilities as of last Friday aernoon.)
Formed in 2004 by the merger of the House of Hope (founded in 1996) and the Tova House (founded in 2002), JRH offered sober living facilities for Jewish men and women from Baltimore and the mid-Atlantic region. e houses provided residents a recovery program rooted in the 12step methodology pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous. Spirituality classes based in Jewish law and tradition were also part of the recovery program. For Meehan-Cohen, who has been involved with JRH since 2006, the decision to close is an emotional one. “My heart is breaking, as is the heart of the collective board membership,” Meehan-Cohen said. “is was a very, very long, difficult debate and not at all an easy decision. It wasn’t something that was ‘oh well, we don’t feel like doing this anymore.’ It was pretty much ‘what do we have to do to ensure that we can do something going forward?’ at was the best decision we could come to at this time. It’s very difficult not to be doing residential care at the moment.” — David Snyder jewishtimes.com
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Manager Gail Smith-Howard (front) poses with staff in front of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
HYATT ‘NOT KOSHER’ Rabbis, union push for reform R ABBIS and Jewish organizations are calling Hyatt Hotels Corporation “unkosher” for what they say are unfair labor practices. e Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, among others, recently released a report entitled “Open the Gates of Justice: A Clergy Report on Working Conditions at Hyatt Hotels.” In this document, the authors call upon the public to honor workers’ boycotts and “not to eat, sleep or patronize boycotted Hyatt hotels, treating Hyatt as “not kosher until a fair settlement is reached.” It requested the Hyatt take five actions, including bargaining in good faith with their workers. That report said, “We have watched with deep dismay in recent years, as Hyatt, a multibillion-dollar corporation, has eliminated jobs, 16
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replaced career housekeepers with minimum-wage temporary workers and imposed dangerous workloads on those who remain. The most vivid dramatization of Hyatt’s actions came one day in August 2009, when Hyatt summarily fired nearly 100 housekeepers from three Boston-area hotels, replacing longtime housekeepers with new ones from a temporary agency at far lower rates of pay.” (See the report at justiceathyatt.org.) Union organizers and their supporters demonstrated in front of Baltimore’s Hyatt Regency last week, the latest protest in a series of actions nationwide against Hyatt. e federal government is weighing in locally through the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). “Nationally, Hyatt has singled itself out as the worst employer in the hotel industry by abusing its housekeepers, replacing longtime employees with
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minimum-wage temporary workers and imposing health-threatening workloads on those who remain,” said UNITE HERE Local 7’s Tracy Lingo in a news release. UNITE HERE is the local representative of the international service workers union taking the lead in supporting Hyatt’s workers. Its website, HyattHurts.org, profiles the mistreatment of Hyatt employees and their many grievances. Hyatt officials counter by pointing to a 2012 Gallup Great Workplace Award based on independent employee surveys and honors from the Human Rights Campaign, Hispanic Business magazine and the NAACP for supporting employees. “By any measure,” Hyatt reports on its website, the hotel “maintains an outstanding safety record, provides industry-leading wage-and-benefits packages and is a recognized leader in promoting a diverse workforce.”
The site points out that Hyatt Regency Baltimore was ranked No. 2 in the midsize business category in the Baltimore Sun’s Top Places to Work 2011 survey. Gail Smith-Howard, general manager of the Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, who was in a hotel meeting with employees as the demonstration occurred outside, said, “I don’t think it’s about creating a better or more diverse workforce. It’s an ongoing professional union building a campaign to drive membership and through a non-democratic process that is often intimidating from what I hear from my employees. It is disappointing that the union does not want to allow Hyatt employees to decide this through a secret ballot.” She added that, “It’s happening at other Hyatt hotels, too.” Smith-Howard, whose property employs about 225 employees, noted
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that, “I believe that employees have the right to vote in a secret, democratic process rather than a card-check or neutrality agreement, which really could be intimidating.” UNITE HERE counters that, “nearly a third of the non-management employees working in the hotel are employed by temporary labor companies.” UNITE HERE explained that these temporary jobs pay poverty wages and provide no benefits. UNITE HERE is pressing for employee representation on Hyatt’s board of directors. “It’s impressive how much Jewish support there is for this campaign, which I think is certainly at least in part due to the fact that Hyatt is a Jewish-owned company,” said Matthew Weinstein, president of the Maryland Chapter of the American Jewish Congress. “Frankly, it’s an embarrassment that a Jewish-owned company would treat its workers so poorly.” Hyatt was founded by Jay Pritzker in 1957, and, as of Dec. 31, 2011, its worldwide portfolio consisted of 483 properties — 132,727 rooms and units — with approximately
$3.7 billion in annual revenue. The company is predominantly owned by Pritzker family members, including Penny Pritzker, who was a key figure in fundraising for the election of President Barack Obama. Her campaign involvement and personal wealth, estimated at $1.7 billion, was a source of controversy and the subject of a July 15, 2012 New York Times article, which stated that “her high-profile backing of Mr. Obama came at an unexpectedly bitter cost. Their relationship made her a punching bag for the labor movement, which targeted her for what union officials call exploitative practices toward housekeepers by the Hyatt hotels.” Lingo said her union is fighting for a fair way for Hyatt workers to get union representation. The union is providing legal support for four Hyatt Regency Baltimore service workers who each accused Hyatt of firing them for publicly supporting the union, or in legalese, “collective concerted worker activity.” These complaints will be heard by the NLRB Region Five (Baltimore) in
January. “They are at the forefront of a pretty disturbing trend in the industry to hire temp workers” said Lingo. “In the housekeeping department, which five years ago had 45 employed workers, there are now nine and at least 35 temp workers.” Lingo said Baltimore’s Hyatt Regency “was part of the initial Inner Harbor redevelopment, and everybody knows the whole reason that happened was we were losing good jobs.” According to Lingo, Hyatt got about $30 million in public money, mainly in the form of loans that they repaid to the city. “As far as we can tell, the Hyatt Corporation invested about half a million, and the rest was city money,” she said. “Thirty years out and there is a kind of a referendum … because the ideal was we were getting good family jobs. Some of these temporary workers have been there for eight years with lower wages and no benefits, whereas permanent workers receive more pay and benefits.” Howard-Smith countered that sentiment. She said, “It’s untrue that $30 million of public money was used to develop the hotel. It was less than $20 million in the form of a loan with interest and was repaid.” Smith-Howard called UNITE HERE’s recent demonstration “a publicity stunt” that is “trying to force our associates into union membership through non-democratic and intimidating tactics. Union leadership is upset because Hyatt is committed to protecting our associates right to freely choose union representation through secret-ballot elections, a core American principle.” Furthermore, it claims UNITE HERE is making “false accusations about Hyatt’s workplace environment in Baltimore and elsewhere.” Rabbi Doug Heifetz of Laurel’s Oseh Shalom, who is in contact with other area rabbis through the newly
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Excerpts from the new “Baltimore Green and Just Celebrations Guide”
“Within the workers’ organization, which is formed for the purpose of guarding and protecting the work condition, there is an aspect of righteousness and uprightness and tikkun olam.” — Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel What You Can Do: Look for hotels where employees have a voice and avoid hotels engaged in a labor dispute. You may be looking to hold your event at a hotel or simply reserve a block of rooms for out-of-town guests. If possible, choose a hotel where employees have a say in their wages and working conditions. Union hotels are listed at hotelworkersrising.org. This site also lists hotels with employees who are seeking public support during disputes over compensation or conditions. In the Jewish community, the Conservative, Reconstructionist and Reform movements work with the Informed Meetings Exchange (inmex.org), a resource for conference planners, to ensure their conventions don’t patronize hotels involved in labor disputes to send a message of support for low-wage workers. Learn more at bmoregreenandjust.org.
formed Interfaith Worker Justice of Maryland, frames the debate in a religious light. He said, “To me, it’s that everybody is created in the image of God, and we are entitled to dignified treatment and a say in determining what our lives are like. … Our tradition is built on the legacy of Exodus, of moving from slavery to freedom. It is still our duty to seek liberation and particularly when those in power are abusive.” JT Paul Foer is JT senior news reporter pfoer@jewishtimes.com
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Shomrim To The Rescue Midnight response from an unusual location By Paul Foer | Photo by David Stuck
It could have been a scene from a Hollywood action thriller. It’s just past midnight and a woman and her children somehow get locked in a storage unit. As her cell phone battery is dying, she frantically manages a call for help to a community volunteer rescue unit. They spring into action, but the woman speaks little English and the rescue team quickly tries to piece together the facts.
“We have no idea how we got this call, but a person in need is somebody we’re going to help, regardless of where they are located or who they are.” — Shomrim’s Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer
To make matters worse, she is not exactly sure of her location, but she might know the name of the storage facility and a nearby road. The volunteer rescuers go on high alert. Police are contacted, and together they try to track down her location. Fortunately all ended on a happy note, as the police found the hapless victims and set them free less than a half-hour later. It’s all in a night’s work for the vigilant Baltimore Shomrim volunteers who staff its 24-hour emergency line.
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That night it was answered by Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer. He and the other volunteers are used to responding to security problems in Upper Park Heights, Greenspring and Pikesville and work closely with Baltimore City and Baltimore County police. But this one was … unusual. It turns out the woman and her children were locked in a storage facility 2,500 miles away — in San Francisco. Nobody is quite sure why she contacted the Baltimore Shomrim. Schleifer said it was like many calls they get with kids screaming and a woman crying. He first had trouble making out the words because she was “pretty hysterical,” and, of course, he does not speak Spanish. Somehow he was able to piece together that she was definitely not in Baltimore or even Maryland but on the West Coast. She knew she was in a facility of Extra Storage and had a possible location on Cesar Chavez Street. Instead of contacting local police as usual, he contacted the San Francisco Police Department, which sent officers out to the possible locations, found the locked persons and set them free. e call came in just aer midnight on Dec. 11. “She was yelling for help and she was crying hysterically. I heard kids screaming in the background,” said Schleifer. “I calmed her down and realized she was speaking in Spanish. She spoke some English and said, ‘Extra Space Storage,’ and so I searched online and there are a bunch. I tried to find out if she was
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Shomrim dispatcher Isaac Schleifer responded to a call last week and rescued a woman and her children … in San Francisco.
in Towson, Pikesville or Owings Mills. She did not understand. She started yelling out in English that her battery was dying and she was yelling, “help! help!” Schleifer said Shomrim members are trained to first ask if 911 was called. In this instance, however, he felt the need to understand her location was paramount. She kept repeating “Chavez.” There are no streets by that name locally. “‘Are you located in Maryland?’ I asked her. She says, ‘San Francisco,’” Schleifer recalled. Schleifer quickly got other Shomrim members involved. They started calling various Extra Space Storage facilities in San Francisco. “We all kick in with every call that goes on,” said Schleifer, 23, who has personally been involved with more than 1,000 of Shomrim’s roughly 7,300 calls.
“We have no idea how we got this call, but a person in need is somebody we’re going to help, regardless of where they are located or who they are,” he said. “We get many calls from out of town, usually calling on behalf of someone in town, for example a missing person or to assist in situations out of own. For example, we sent some units to help out in New York after Hurricane Sandy,” he said. Schleifer is just looking at this as “another incident.” As a dispatcher, he did not see it as extraordinary, noting that he did not even mention it to his wife until news outlets started reporting about it and she asked. “I jumped up from bed, picked up the phone, took care of the call, and as soon as I got the call back from the police, I went back to bed,” he said. JT Paul Foer is JT senior news reporter pfoer@jewishtimes.com
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Jewish Museum of Maryland 15 Lloyd Street, Baltimore The Jewish Museum of Maryland presents its annual Christmas Day extravaganza, featuring food writer, Ilene Spector, and Aliza Friedman’s workshop “Making Dumplings...with Jewish Panache!� Enjoy delicious kosher Chinese food, learn to play mahjong and make crafts. Cost: $5 members, $10 non-members, $10 member families, $18 non-member families For more information, visit www.jewishmuseummd.org.
Baltimore-Ashkelon Partnership Book Club Monday, January 7, 2013; 7:30 p.m. Private home in the Pikesville area In collaboration with the Macks Center for Jewish Education, the Baltimore-Ashkelon Partnership will be joining together to dine and discuss, "My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir," by Meir Shalev. This charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping and the sport of storytelling is set in Nahalal, the village of the author’s birth. The Book Club will also meet to discuss "Homesick" by Eshkol Nevo on March 6, 2013 and a book voted on during the first gathering on May 2, 2013. For more information, email Stephanie Hague at shague@associated.org or call 410-369-9294.
The Baltimore Board of Rabbis’ Introduction to Judaism
Sundays, January 6, 13, 27, 2013; 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Weinberg Village 5 3420 Associated Way, Owings Mills High school students are invited to help lead cooking classes with residents at Weinberg Village (knowledge of cooking is not necessary). This project is coordinated and led by the Diller Baltimore Teen Fellows. Space is limited. For more information and to register, email Megan Goldsmith at mgoldsmith@associated.org or call 410-843-7477.
Bookworms at Fallstaff Elementary School Wednesdays, January 9, February 6, March 13, April 10, May 8, 2013; 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Fallstaff Elementary School 3801 Fallstaff Road, Baltimore Spend one morning each month reading to first grade students. Bring a new or gently-used book to read and donate to the class. Participate as often as you are available. For more information and to register, email Dayna Leder at dleder@associated.org or call 410-843-7491.
January 7 – June 3, 2013; 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Baltimore Hebrew Congregation 7401 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore While Judaism is regarded as one of the world’s great religions, it is much more than a composite of religious beliefs and practices; it is an evolving religious civilization. This 16-week course explores the rich heritage and religious traditions of the Jewish people through the weekly study of sacred texts, animated classroom discussions and stimulating reading assignments. Faculty consists of a cross-section of the community’s leading rabbis representing diverse religious perspectives. Cost: $350 To register, visit www.baltboardofrabbis.org.
Tech Happy Hour at Talara Thursday, January 31, 2013; 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Talara 615 South President Street, Baltimore Talk tech, startups and have a beer. This is the place for the emerging technology community to relax and network. Meet with Jewish professionals in your field, schmooze over technological innovations, grow your business and your team! Cash bar and happy hour specials until 7:00 p.m. include $5 mojitos and cocktails, $4 wine, $3 beer and $5 special tapas. No registration required. For more information on THE ASSOCIATED Business & Professionals Group and our Tech Division, email Renee von Gonten at rvongonten@associated.org or call 410-369-9220.
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SPIRIT Israeli teens bring symbolic torch to light menorahs By Paul Foer | Photos by Justin Tsucalas
Ofir Shinhertz helps Danielle Karpa across the rope challenge during a visit to Pikesville High School.
“BALTIMORE IS AN AMAZING JEWISH COMMUNITY. YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF DIFFERENCES, AND IT’S A LOVELY CITY.” — Ofir Shinhertz, visiting Israeli teen
YOU COULD SAY THAT THE two teenagers who flew into Dulles Airport from the Middle East just before Chanukah traveled “light.” And they managed to avert trouble with authorities even though they came to spread some flames in America. Merav Zamir from Gedera and Ofir Shinhertz from Rishon Le Zion, both 18, carried with them a symbolic torch lit just days before at the graves of the Maccabees in Modi’in, in the presence of Israeli dignitaries and public figures. Zamir and Shinhertz are part of the Maccabi Tzair youth movement. They came to meet the people of Baltimore and to help them kindle their Chanukah candles with the torch that carries the Maccabi values: the continuity of the Jewish people, a love for Israel, and a desire for freedom and independence. The two teenagers were carrying not only a torch, but also a tradition started in 1944. ey came under the auspices of the Maccabi World Union,
Baltimore Zionist District and the Macks Center for Jewish Education and were chaperoned by BZD’s Senior Israeli Shaliach Roey Tshuva. Zamir and Shinhertz helped light the menorah at Gov. Martin O’Malley’s Chanukah party in Annapolis and presented him with a framed flag commemorating the torch lighting. They did the same with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on the steps of City Hall and visited local Jewish and secular schools and synagogues. They met with people of all ages but especially youth, such as the Hebrew school students at Beth Israel Congregation. After lighting the candles for the third night of the festival of lights, Zamir and Shinhertz, dressed in their khaki Maccabi uniforms — complete with scarves bedecked with pins and medallions — were peppered with questions. “How did you get the torch on the plane?” asked a boy named Ryan. “How long was the flight?” asked another. “Is the torch always lit?”
Merav Zamir and Ofir Shinhertz lead classroom exercises while visiting Pikesville High School during their Baltimore tour.
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When asked “What did you do on the flight?” Zamir’s response that she watched the animated movie “‘Madagascar’ for the fourth time” got more than a few giggles. Zamir and Shinhertz, who have traveled widely and visited the U.S. before, stayed with the family of Jory Parsons, a junior at Pikesville High School who went on the BZD’s Ultimate Israel Experience trip last summer. “Baltimore is an amazing Jewish community. You can see a lot of differences, and it’s a lovely city,” said Shinhertz. He was not too excited about the weather, however. I’m turning into an ice cube slowly,” he joked. Both visitors agreed that the candle lighting with Gov. O’Malley, where the blessings were said with “such passion,” is among the moments they will most remember. “It was very touching” said Zamir. Tshuva noted that singing the Hatikvah with the children of the Krieger Schechter Day School was among the many inspiring highlights of the trip. Both teens returned to Israel on Dec. 17. Next year, Shinhertz will enter the IDF’s “Garin Nachal,” a special unit. A part of his service will be to go to Kiriat Gat and do more social work. The Israeli teens’ mission was also, in part, to whet the appetites of area teens for the BZD summer trip. Kids from across Jewish Baltimore take part in the experience, which is heavily subsidized and run in conjunction with the Greater Baltimore Jewish Community Center. The trip involves a mifgash, a meeting between the U.S. teens and Israelis their age. Said BZD Executive Director Fran Sonnenschein: “The kids go and actually live with an Israeli family for a weekend.” JT Paul Foer is JT senior news reporter pfoer@jewishtimes.com
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IDF lone soldier Alex Simone lights the chanukiah at Beth Tfiloh Congregation.
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Orna Luft, who lost her husband during the Second Lebanon War, addresses an enthralled crowd at last week's FIDF gala.
UNFORESEEN ENCOUNTER IDF soldier surprises Aly Raisman at FIDF Gala By David Snyder | Photos by Justin Tsucalas
IDF officer Dan Yagudin presents Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman with a distinguished IDF medal.
When Israeli soldier Dan Yagudin presented Aly Raisman with a medal on behalf of the IDF, as well as honorary dog tags, he joked with the Olympic gymnast: “I know there are a lot of medals in your life. This is the most important one.” As soon as Raisman, the speaker at this year’s FIDF Midatlantic Region’s fourth annual gala, got her hands on the microphone, she wasted no time agreeing. “I’m basically speechless after that,” she said, “This does mean more to me than my gold medal.” e unlikely and touching encounter
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between Yagudin and Raisman provided the pinnacle moment at the event, which took place last week at Beth Tfiloh Congregation. Aer the Olympics, Yagudin wrote a letter to Raisman thanking her for honoring Jews throughout the world by dedicating her performance in London to the Jewish athletes killed 40 years ago at the 1972 Munich Games — a tribute the International Olympic Committee deliberately omitted. Yagudin’s letter went viral on the internet. In the Beth Tfiloh sanctuary, he was given the chance to commend her in person.
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Event emcee Deborah Weiner began reading the letter to Raisman, then, unexpectedly, Yagudin emerged from behind the bima and continued the recitation of his own words. “For so long we’ve had to apologize for who we are, for how we dress, for our beliefs, for the way we look. It seems like the International Olympic Committee wanted to keep that tradition. ‘Quiet, Jews. Keep your tragedy on the sidelines. Don’t disturb our party.’ They didn’t count on an 18-year-old girl in a leotard,” Yagudin said. He then put the letter down and
looked Raisman in the eyes and said: “Thank you for standing up to an injustice that was done to our people.” Yagudin and Raisman’s moment wasn’t the only instance that spurred a crowd of about 600 to its feet in applause. The event also included appearances by IDF solider Yoni Asraf, who earned the Medal of Courage for his bravery and cunning in a battle during the Second Lebanon War, and Orna Luft, whose husband, helicopter pilot Zvika Luft, was killed in action in July 2006. Both spoke about the significance of the FIDF
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Earlier this month, Ken Gelula won the Legacy Award from the Maryland Asset Building and Community Development Network, Inc. e award recognizes an individual who has made substantial contributions in the field of community development in ways that will leave an impact for years to come. is certainly defines Gelula, who last month announced his retirement from his post of executive director of Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc., CHAI, and will culminate a 29-and-a-half-year tenure with the organization at the end of December. e award serves as a celebration of an era. Gelula helped establish CHAI and has over the years turned it from a fledgling idea to stabilize a community to a major developer, provider and operator of community-based services and programs and affordable senior housing. “Ken’s legacy will be a unique one that will combine
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Ken Gelula (center) worked with a cross-section of the community to raise funds for and build a new playground at Fallstaff Elementary School.
both bricks and mortar and the direct, positive impact on human beings that happens inside those buildings every day,” said Bruce Sholk, who worked with Gelula through his lay involvement with e Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. “ere are very few people in our community who will leave such a legacy.” CHAI was founded in 1969 as Comprehensive Housing for the Aging, Inc. with a mission reflecting its name: to provide housing for the elderly. CHAI’s first project was the establishment of Concord Apartments on Belvedere Avenue, which provides seniors with an affordable home, recreational and social opportunities. However, in the early ‘80s, community leaders recognized the need to address larger issues of neighborhood change and racial succession in Northwest Baltimore. “ere was a real concern that the community
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would collapse,” recalled former University of Baltimore Law School Dean Lawrence M. Katz, who noted how devastating that suburban flight had been to areas like Forest Park and Pimlico, from which Jews had migrated a decade earlier. “What happened elsewhere in Baltimore City was absolutely devastating — block-busting and white flight,” said Gelula. “ey wanted to see what they could do to invest in the area, to ensure that this would not be the next community that the Jewish community left behind.” e Associated — and the Jewish community at large — had major investments along Park Heights Avenue. Many synagogues, the Jewish Community Center and what was then Jewish Family Services were all located there, and the cost of moving these institutions would be substantial. A task force was convened to examine the issue. The group concluded that e Associated would need to put resources into a comprehensive effort to stabilize the area. CHAI already existed. Gelula, a part of e Associated’s planning department, was already heading the task force. e Associated asked CHAI to assume responsibility for neighborhood stabilization in addition to continuing its services for seniors. It asked Gelula to take on his current post. “Believe me, there were people who, when we started, felt it might already be too late,” said Gelula, standing in front of CHAI’s now state-of-the-art, silver LEED-certified building on Park Heights Avenue. He said many of the leaders involved in the planning process were dubious and concerned that Jewish-sponsored programs would cause resentment and tension between the black and Jewish communities. “As it turned out, many African-Americans were pleased that the organized Jewish community was standing up for these neighborhoods. And they realized that some of the proposed neighborhood improvement projects would help African-American homeowners, as well as their Jewish neighbors,” he said. When CHAI in its new formation started out, Gelula said he and his lay committee would walk the streets to determine next steps. Unlike an urban revitalization strategy that focuses first on the weakest parts of a neighborhood, CHAI was focused on a neighborhood conservation strategy. “We wanted to embrace that which was an asset and work out from there,” said Gelula on a recent tour of the area, pointing to the vast lots and sprawling homes on Menlo Drive. One of CHAI’s first projects was a September 1983 interfaith Sukkah tour to which CHAI invited thenmayor William Donald Schaefer, then-congresswoman Barbara Mikulski and other elected officials.
The event received a fair amount of media coverage, but it also built a new interest in the Park Heights corridor. “People got up close to the houses, and it helped affirm that young Jewish families were still buying and living in this area,” Gelula said. A second street CHAI worked on was Jonquil Avenue. Gelula recalled that when the organization started he would push for block meetings. It was tough securing attendance; no one believed CHAI was seriously going to make a difference. So he knocked on every door. At multiple houses on Jonquil Avenue, Gelula said, people complained that their water pressure was really poor. CHAI got a plumber to evaluate the situation and then solicited proposals from different plumbers to replace the lines from the street to the house — about 25 separate units. “When they saw the work was actually happening, people started pouring out of their houses saying, ‘We want to participate in your work, too.’ It was amazing,” he said. Just recently, CHAI worked with the neighborhood and the local Healthy Neighborhoods program to install about 150 solar lamp posts in the area.
Building Attraction Gelula recognized, said Del. Sandy Rosenberg, that you could not have one well-maintained property in the midst of properties that are not well-maintained, and he recognized the necessity of a Park Heights Avenue that is an attractive gateway to the community. Gelula’s work in securing nice benches for the bus stops, in keeping synagogue and apartment laws manicured and in ensuring the city cared for the road has had a ripple effect on the homes. Today, more than ever, Gelula is seeing the fruits of that labor. Case in point: Bancro Village. CHAI worked closely with the owners of Bancro Village to provide a certain amount of money to be used as loans for settlement costs by Bancro Village buyers; as of earlier this month, Bancro Village sold the last of its 43 town houses. “Bancro Village was an amazing project because they started at the worst possible time, right aer the real-estate marketing submerged. … ey went ahead with the project, and they proved to be right,” said Gelula, who noted he takes a lot of pride in the community, located between Bancro and Clarks Lane. “I was at CHAI for 25 years and we didn’t see any new developments like this. So when you ask, ‘Is this neighborhood stable? Will the community continue to hold?’ I have tremendous confidence because we keep seeing more and more signs of investment here.” jewishtimes.com
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Ken Gelula (center) helped create the now silver LEED-certified building CHAI occupies. Here he converses with lay leader Todd Tilson and new CHAI Executive Director Mitch Posner.
Gelula said the owner of Bancro Village recently purchased separate property on which he plans to build an additional 24 units. Another investor purchased a block of multifamily apartment homes, which he plans to refurbish and market. CHAI’s home loans, of course, will play a role in the success of these properties. What started out as a $48,000 investment by e Associated has become a $1.5 million fund. A lot of it is lent out, said Gelula, “But it revolves, so it keeps coming back to us to make other loans.”
Helping Seniors Age in Place Of course, while young families were moving in, there were still seniors aging in their homes. Without proper support, those homes risked falling into disrepair — and their residents losing their dignity and pride. Under Gelula’s direction, CHAI worked aggressively on two fronts to secure federal and private grants to ensure lower-income older adults could live in comfort. e results are approximately 1,500 rooms in 13 senior housing facilities (a 14th is under way) and another approximately 200 elder adults per year who benefit from CHAI’s senior home-repair services. Like with the neighborhood stabilization portfolio, said Ellen Jarrett, who has worked with CHAI for more than 20 years, “People doubted the success of these projects. But Ken and I always believed.” e senior housing facility idea — building more units beyond those at Concord Apartments — started in the 1990s. Around that time, Harry Weinberg passed way and his foundation began to really ramp up and become much more proactive. e foundation was very interested in the elderly and the poor, and also in capital projects. Of course, it had an affinity for the
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Baltimore community. “We were perfectly situated so our projects became beneficiaries of Weinberg funds,” said Gelula. Weinberg funds make up about 20 percent of each building’s project cost. e rest of the financing comes from public sources in the form of state and federal grants. But the Weinberg Foundation funding, he said, makes the difference in terms of the quality of the work CHAI does in the buildings. Architect Cass Gottlieb, principal partner with KANN Partners, has designed four of the Weinberg senior buildings and is in the process of designing a fih building, which CHAI hopes also will be a Weinberg facility. She said the philosophy behind the design of the buildings is to help residents age in place with dignity. For her part, that means grab bars in the bathrooms, lower countertops in the kitchens and lower cabinets on the walls. It involves windows that open more easily and hardware on doors and cabinets that is easy to use. It also translates to common areas and amenity spaces, a laundry on each floor, a common dining room and multipurpose rooms — ways for the residents to convene and socialize. In addition, depending on where the buildings are located, CHAI strives to partner with other local organizations to ensure additional amenities. For example, Weinberg Woods is situated alongside the Myerberg Center, and when Weinberg Woods was built CHAI included an indoor walkway to connect the two facilities. Weinberg Woods residents take advantage of the Myerberg’s classes. Weinberg Village, just off the Rosenbloom Owings Mills JCC campus, has similar advantages. Seniors pay rent, but the rent is subsidized and connected to their level of income.
“We’ve been able to take this to a really great level,” said Gelula. “Harry Weinberg wanted to make sure poor people toward the last part of their lives were treated with dignity and respect, and that is what we have done with our buildings.” In addition to these units, CHAI’s Senior Home Repair Program assists low- to moderate-income homeowners ages 62 and older and homeowners who have physical disabilities. Homeowners may qualify for a variety of repairs including roof, gutter and chimney
“People doubted the success of these projects. But Ken and I always believed.” — CHAI’s Ellen Jarrett
repairs, plumbing and electrical work, railing installation, grab bars and other bathroom modifications, wheelchair ramps, smoke detectors, handyman jobs and more. is program costs CHAI about $150,000 per year. e work is done largely by home improvement professionals, but there are also two days per year where hundreds of volunteers from across the Jewish and non-Jewish spectrum turnout to help out. Senior Home Repair Day in the spring and CHAI Good Neighbor Day in the fall, rally up community members to serve those in the area in need and to beautify Northwest Baltimore. is last year was one of the largest turnouts ever, with nearly 500 volunteers taking part, including all of the cadets from the police
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said Bridges. “If this is one of Ken’s last initiatives while leading CHAI, it will be one that I feel has a lasting effect on bringing the community together in a very positive way, despite the borders defined by streets, homes or community associations.” In his remarks at an event in his honor earlier this week, Gelula said, “We face the challenge, but also the exciting opportunity to live together in this microcosm of America, ... to learn to share geography and our community resources.”
The Man Behind The Miracle
Rabbi Aryeh Goetz and Ken Gelula have been working together for more than a decade.
training center on the corner of Northern Parkway and Park Heights Avenue. CHAI was the catalyst behind the Fallstaff Elementary School community playground, which brought hundreds of area residents together to erect a new play facility, used by day for the students and a t nights and on weekends by the entire community. Currently, CHAI is working a similar project for Cross Country Elementary School. In addition, said Councilwoman Rochelle “Rikki” Spector, Gelula and CHAI have been supportive of and instrumental in bringing formal volunteer groups to the city. “ere is no other area in all of the city that has the volunteerism I have, with Northwest Citizens Patrol, Shomrim, Hatzalah, Chaverim — totally free emergency responders,” she said. “ey get there [to emergencies] before the city does.”
Pulling Community Together Bringing people together has been another important aspect of Gelula’s work. CHAI acts as a convener for five neighborhood associations: Fallstaff, Cross Country, Glen, Cheswolde and Mount Washington. Under the organization’s auspices, the associations’ presidents meet on a regular basis. Sandy Johnson, head of the Fallstaff Improvement Association, Inc., credits Gelula and CHAI with shepherding the presidents through the process of becoming one of only six Baltimore City communities to obtain Strategic Neighborhood Action Plan (SNAP) designation, creating a comprehensive plan that neighborhoods can use to implement positive changes. e five associations, collectively termed
Northwest Presidents Forum, achieved SNAP in 2003. Today, they are working on finalizing an updated plan for the coming five years. e Northwest Presidents Forum not only serves as a catalyst for improving land use, open space, recreation, environment, transportation, streetscape, education and public safety, it also encourages stronger community relations. ese relationships were tested in 2011 when a violent incident occurred between a Shomrim volunteer and an African-American teen. Gelula said the heads of the community associations got together — three Jewish presidents and two African American presidents. ey were all very angry and felt that people outside the community had hijacked the issue and were representing the community in an unfair way. “We talked about it and we decided that we felt even though the relationships were good … that if you drill down, the relationships were not as good as they could be. People didn’t have very much contact with one another,” said Gelula. As a result, CHAI spearheaded what is now called “Community Conversations.” Tony Bridges, chief of staff for the Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives, explained that between March 21, 2011 and March 23, 2011 approximately 125 people, representing a cross-section of each communities’ residents, participated in 13 focus groups, facilitated by an outside consultant. As a result, a leadership committee was established, and the Community Conversations program formed. “I believe the group is at a point where people will begin to hear and see more based on the recommendations of members [of Community Conversations],”
It takes a special person to make all of this happen — and in only 30 years. e choice was made to put Gelula in charge of this project; at the time, no one knew where it would go or what a good choice that would be. “I don’t know if [the decision to choose Gelula] was due to the wisdom of the people involved or just luck,” said Gottlieb. “But it certainly was the right choice.” Avrahom D. Sauer, president of the Cross Country Improvement Association, said Gelula is a doer. “A lot of people in that capacity would talk about issues without getting answers or making things happen. Ken … gets the right people in a room, on the phone or in an email chain and makes it happen,” he said. “For Ken Gelula, professional leadership in the Jewish community and, specifically for CHAI, has not been a job or a vocation. It’s been a calling. Not only did Ken possess the skill set to take CHAI to new levels of achievement each and every year, but he also had the passion to nurture every aspect of his agency’s ... work,” said Marc B. Terrill, Associated president. is work, for Gelula, is a living legacy. “In this instance, the Jewish community stayed,” said Rosenberg. What happens next while Gelula travels to Israel to visit his children and grandchildren and then decides on what role he would like to play in the community? CHAI has hired Mitch Posner, 57, to serve as its new executive director. Posner comes from Govans Ecumenical Development Corp., which provides housing and services to frail and low-income seniors, as well as other vulnerable and disadvantaged adults in north Baltimore City. “I would hope that Mitch understands the shoes he is filling and that he only grows within those shoes and grows out of those shoes,” said Sauer. Said Mark Sissman, president of Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc., “Good leaders make their organizations strong. Ken has done that. The staff, board and community are well prepared to continue moving CHAI’s mission forward.” JT Maayan Jaffe is JT managing editor — mjaffe@jewishtimes.com
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Massacre Town is turned upside down with mass murder of 20 elementary school students By Paul Foer, Maayan Jaffe and Ron Snyder
unerals for the 20 6- and 7-year-old victims of the Newtown, Conn., shooting took place this week, beginning on Monday with the burial of Noah Pozner. Pozner, the youngest and only reported Jewish victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, was gunned down alongside his classmates and six school employees last Friday, when Adam Lanza, 20, infiltrated the school. Lanza killed himself at the school. The event was termed an “unconscionable evil” by President Barack Obama. roughout the week, scores of supporters from across the country and around the world expressed their
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condolences. Israeli President Shimon Peres wrote in a statement that on behalf of the people of Israel, “we stand with you … in contemplation and grief over the atrocious, incomprehensible massacre. … No experience with death can be likened to that of a parents’ loss of their child. No crime is more heinous than the killing of a child.” On Twitter, young people nationwide, called on their classmates to wear green and white this week, the colors of Sandy Hook Elementary School. At the time of this writing, investigators were examining forensic evidence and scouring the crime scene in a process likely to extend for weeks. Reports did indicate that evidence found on Lanza’s computer could provide a
motive. Friends and acquaintances of the family have indicated that Lanza was mentally ill and had Asperger’s, and many are noting they are not surprised that he was the culprit of this heinous crime. As of Monday afternoon, the facts that are known are these: On Friday morning, Dec. 14, Lanza shot Nancy Lanza in the face at the home they shared in Newton. He then drove her car to the elementary school. Clothed in black combat gear, he blasted into the school and gunned down his victims. Police reported that he used a Bushmaster semiautomatic assaultstyle rifle to kill his victims and a handgun to take his own life.
Twenty-six wooden angels representing the 26 victims have been staked at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The school had recently installed a new security system.
What If … Sandy Hook’s security system could not stop Lanza. Forever, Jewish day schools in Baltimore have had plans and procedures in place to handle emergencies. But until tragedy strikes, it is hard to know just how solid those security measures really are. Whether last Friday’s massacre will result in upgrades or tightening of any of Baltimore’s systems remains to be seen. Still, leaders of several local schools stressed that the Sandy Hook tragedy reinforced the need to always be prepared for the worst.
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Gerry Chizeck, head of The Day School at Baltimore Hebrew, said her school has systems in place to deal with everything from acts of violence to natural disasters. At the same time, she added, the school is always exploring ways of improving the security and safety of its students. Chizeck sent out an email to parents on the day of the attack to assure them the school has a plan in place to handle such situations. “Our building does have a lot of locked doors and security codes, so having emergency plans in addition to security and lockdown is important,” Chizeck said. “Just as we have plans for earthquake and fire and things of that nature, disaster plans have to be in place for such a horrific possibility.” Chizeck said The Day School held a meeting between area police and school faculty while the event was still fresh in their minds. David Prashker, head of school at e Shoshana S. Cardin High School, said they are constantly working on both evacuation and lockdown drills; the school is based at Oheb Shalom Congregation in Pikesville. “It could be an intruder, a letter that arrived through the mail or a parcel, so we don’t talk about fire drills,” Prashker said. “We talk about evacuation drills recognizing there are many reasons you might leave.” At Bais Yaakov School for Girls, Chief Operating Officer Sandy Nissel said his school tries to keep a low profile but has certainly checked in with police. “We have consulted with security experts in law enforcement for strategies regarding what we can do to make our school as safe as possible. Our actions are geared to providing the highest level of safety and security for our students and staff,” said Nissel. At Talmudical Academy, parents received an email following the attack assuring them of their children’s safety. “We have been, and will continue 32
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to be, diligent about monitoring our campus security at all times,” wrote Ari Krupp, chairman of the board at TA. “We regularly review all of our safety procedures with both staff and students. We also have lockdown procedures in place with periodic drills performed. … As well, we have been in contact with local law enforcement agencies and have asked for and been granted additional monitoring of our campus, especially during the high traffic periods of arrival and dismissal.”
Push For Gun Control As area schools are working to ensure their students’ safety, local Jewish organizations have joined lawmakers in the push for tougher gun-control legislation. Lanza reportedly used a Bushmaster .223 rifle and two handguns — a Glock 9mm and a SIG Sauer — during the attack. The guns were legally purchased by Lanza’s mother. Baltimore Jewish Council Executive Director Dr. Arthur C. Abramson said his organization will lobby elected state and federal officials hard over the coming months on legislation that will ban assault rifles and weapons that contain high-volume magazine clips. In addition, the BJC will also advocate for sufficient access and availability to mental health care facilities for those who need them. “Stopping the tragedy in Newtown would have been very difficult given
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the weapons the shooter used to blast his way through the school,” Abramson said. “Security measures appear to have been taken at the school, but all of that is useless if someone has that type of firepower. We need to start holding lawmakers accountable … with legislation to help minimize the chances of a similar event like this occurring.” Karen Paikin Barell, director of community and government relations for the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, echoed those concerns and said her organization has advocated for stringent gun-control laws at the federal level for about 20 years. The JCRC hosted a security briefing Thursday, which allowed members of Washington-area schools, synagogues and other Jewish organizations to speak with police, receive additional security training and hear from a mental health professional on ways to detect whether someone is on the path of potential violence. That briefing came on the same day that the Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Center for Jewish Education held a similar briefing for educators in Baltimore at the Weinberg Park Heights JCC. That event included presentations from social workers and security experts seeking to help teachers deal with the emotional toll of the attack. “Security is an issue of constant
concern among Jewish organizations,” Barell said. “What happened in Connecticut is horrible, and we need to be mindful about exploring every way we can to stop it from happening again.” Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz is among those who are willing to fight for tougher gun-control laws. Kamenetz’s jurisdiction has increased patrols at all Baltimore County public schools since September following the shooting of a special-needs student at Perry Hall High School and another incident in which a boy brought a gun into Stemmers Run Middle School in Essex. At a news conference with Baltimore County Police Chief Jim Johnson on Monday, Kamenetz announced that he wrote an open letter to all Maryland’s state and federal officials urging they take immediate action on gun-safety measures. is would include eliminating exceptions to national background checks, halting the sale of militarygrade assault weapons and ending the sale of high-capacity magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. “Why does any person need access to assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” Kamenetz wrote. “These are weapons of war, not for personal use … Let’s make something clear right from the beginning: Such a discussion is not an assault on the Second Amendment. It is an assault on assault weapons.”
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Preparation Is Key The Jewish Federations of North America is not willing to wait. JFNA is pushing for additional security funds and training opportunities for those within the Jewish community. Earlier this year, JFNA helped secure $9.7 million in grants through the Department of Homeland Security’s Non-Profit Security Grant Program. Of that, more than $300,000 went to Maryland Jewish groups. “We feel a great sense of loss for those families in Newtown,” said Robert Goldberg, senior director of legislative affairs for JFNA. “Incidents like this are something the Jewish community across the world is all too familiar with, which is why the issue of security is something we are always beating the drum about to lawmakers.” JFNA also funds the Security Community Network, which addresses matters of communal safety and security on a national level. In September, SCN coordinated an event with the Department of Homeland Security that included more than 80 top Jewish leaders. There, participants took part in exercises that simulated terrorist attacks while also being briefed on security policies and strategies to prevent and respond to an attack. SCN is also set to release a tool kit that will allow Jewish organizations within the Federation system to conduct security simulations at their own facilities. “We want to empower our communities to help them remain open for business,” said Goldenberg. “We are about providing resources and tools through training and how to identify and report potential threats. Technology is great, but it means nothing if you don’t have a plan in place.” JT On Dec. 19, a press conference was held to announce a push for new gun law legislation in the state of Maryland. For updates, visit jewishtimes.com. Paul Foer is JT senior news reporter; Maayan Jaffe is JT managing editor; and Ron Snyder is a JT staff reporter
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Spiritual Guidance Rabbis offer comfort and support in sermons following Newtown shooting
What kind of reaction does the heinous murder of 20 school children require? How do we make peace with what happened last Friday and how do we move on? Area rabbis addressed these questions and others in sermons last Shabbat. The following are excerpts from their talks:
order that you and your children can live! (Deuteronomy 30:19). It is up to us now to choose life! To put a stop to random violence, to not stand idly as powerless victims, but rather to become activists who take matters into our own hands to change the world for the better.
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Parents ask me how to respond. What should we tell our children? Hug your children close, I answer first. Assure them they are safe, as necessary and depending on their ages. Tell them how much they are loved, how truly precious they are. Embrace your children with a love of life and goodness, a love of learning and light, a love of right and meaning. As for the more difficult, larger questions as to why, my instinct is to redirect kids, and adults, too. Let’s focus on what we can control, not on what we can’t. Since we know there are some people out there who do evil, we have to do good. Since we know that sometimes people are hurt by other people, we have to be kind and caring to everyone we meet. We have to live the values we believe in and let those ideals be more important to us, and to the world, than the bad ones. … I would acknowledge that all of us are sad. We feel so deeply for the victims and their families. Help your children express those feelings, too. Let them say what they are thinking. Hear them, comfort them, and assure them. It may be useful to make a card or write a note or a prayer with your children to send to Newtown. It depends on what you sense your kids need. I always believe in telling children the truth, but also sharing only what seems directly relevant to what they are asking or saying. Less is more, as long as it is honest and coming from a place of caring for them. Responding to this sorrow, we must
Rabbi Ronald Shuman As rabbis, we work hard to feel the pulse of a community when our community is suffering. We try to figure out what message to deliver, what it is that we can offer that will provide answers or insights or hope. But this time, it feels different. This time, we’re back in that very same place that we’ve been before — too many times. And we know — I would imagine that all of us know this time — it’s not about God. It’s not about God’s intervention, it’s not about the question of whether people are fundamentally good or evil, and it’s not about waiting for some person or day to come — a messianic appearance — to transform the world that we are living into a better world. No, the message is this…. It’s time. It’s time for the U.S. to learn the lessons of the Maccabees. … For the real miracles, we need to not only pray for them but to work toward them. Just as the brave and valiant Maccabees took up the challenge by putting together an army that through their strength, passion and dedication, and with the help of the Almighty, defeated the large Assyrian or Greek army, and just as in 1948 an assortment of individuals from various war-torn lands joined the pioneers in the land of Israel and fought together for their shared dream, which they miraculously made a miracle, we too have the power to help perform miracles. But the opposite also holds true: God tells us in the Torah that we have before us the choice of blessing and curse, life and death … choose life in
raise ourselves up, lifting up our culture and our children out of the depths. It has to be possible.
Rabbi John Franken Bolton Street Synagogue Our response must be to blot out the darkness that time and again swallows whole the lives of teachers, principals, psychologists, aides and countless children. The darkness needs to be exposed and the forces behind it shamed. There simply is no place in a civilized country for laws that permit the sale and distribution of weapons of mass destruction. Let us pray for the victims, to be sure. But let us also act for life and justice by demanding a ban on the kind of weapons that just took at least 26 precious lives. Ours is a complicated time. [On Friday] we saw a tragedy. But every day, too, we see miracles. If thereís some lesson to be drawn from the story of our people, it’s that we refuse to let the light go out. We don’t give in to darkness. We insist on a world illuminated by justice, hope and peace. And so, even today, the lights will shine brightly.
Rabbi Elizabeth B olton Congregation Beit Tikvah It is distressing to try to figure out in which category to place this howl of outrage and pain regarding the desperate need we have for limits on access to firearms in the United States. I felt it earlier this fall when a friend was murdered outside his home — and received much news coverage for it — and again, more recently, when two 16-year-olds were shot in separate incidents, one in broad daylight. … I [am] praying that the day will soon come when no more adults or children, white or black, urban or rural, in any public or private setting, need fall victim to the lack of leadership that translates into rampant American gun violence. — Maayan Jaffe
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“YOU NEED TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT STAYING WITH THEM, AND NOT GIVING THEM MORE INFORMATION THAN THEY NEED.” — Joan Grayson Cohen, Jewish Community Services
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What Do We Say? Experts advise parents on how to talk to their children about the Newtown tragedies By Simone Ellin HERE WE ARE AGAIN — dealing with
a national tragedy so horrific that it is almost impossible to imagine. And if we adults can’t fathom the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, how can we discuss them with our children? Ideally, said Dr. Abram Sterne, a psychologist in private practice in Silver Spring, we wouldn’t discuss the events of last Friday at all. “Until the age of 8 or 9, children are fairly oblivious, and the line between fantasy and reality is blurry. There tends to be a culture in America, and elsewhere, that young children should know about things they shouldn’t know about,” he said. However, Sterne acknowledged there is a possibility that young children will hear about the shootings. In that event, he said, “Parents should acknowledge the tremendous sadness and pain associated with the loss of lives. Children are aware of death and loss and know there are things that can hurt us. We can say, ‘Yes, terrible things can happen, but they are rare.’ Our job is to
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reassure them that they are safe, that we will protect them, and we must do it authentically. Children can sense when we are inauthentic. “Try to be brief and concise, and remember that even when they ask questions, what they want is comfort, not rational responses. The emotional content is what needs to be addressed.” Joan Grayson Cohen, LCSW-C, senior manager of access services for Jewish Community Services, agrees that parents should aim to make their children feel as safe as possible. But in the case of the Sandy Hook shootings, she said, it is especially challenging. “This is a hard one in some ways,” Cohen said. “You really can’t 100 percent assure your child. We can never guarantee their security, but somehow before this happened there was some sense of security; we hadn’t been really concerned about sending our kids to school, especially the young ones. This felt different, because there were so many victims, and they were so young.”
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In Cohen’s view it is unlikely that children — even young ones — are completely oblivious to the events in Connecticut. “Even if they don’t know what happened, children sense something’s going on,” she said. Cohen advised that parents should observe their children to see if they are talking about the shooting. If so, try to determine how much they seem to know. “You need to be careful about staying with them and not giving them more information than they need,” she said. Cohen recommends that when possible parents take some time to cope with their own emotions about the tragedy before talking with their children about it. They should choose the right time and setting to have the conversation and consider talking to each of their children individually. If children are not talking about the tragedy, Cohen advised parents ask an open-ended question such as, “Have you heard anything in the news?” If the answer is “no,” she said, decide how to
proceed based upon the emotional makeup of your child. For some children, it may be best not to raise the subject at all. Instead, offer general assurances about their safety, and let them know that if they do have questions and concerns they can turn to you for help. Above all, Cohen stressed the importance of knowing your own children and being able to anticipate how they will respond and what they will be able to absorb. “Kids aren’t always good at expressing themselves. You must be sensitive to when a child needs to communicate,” said Sterne. “Try not to ignore the signs, and be open to talking about this; don’t push it down because of your own discomfort with the topic.” “Communication is really important,” said Cohen. “It’s an opportunity to talk to kids about who they can go to when they are upset about something. Keep in mind that a child’s first reaction to the conversation may change over time. They may come back to you, so keep the door open.” However, she cautioned, once children have talked about their concerns, they should move on with their lives and continue with their routines. If your child knows about the tragedy but isn’t talking about it, Cohen recommended that parents be on the lookout for signals that their children may be struggling. Sleep disturbances like insomnia or nightmares, not eating and the appearance of new fears may be signs that a child is harboring anxieties about the Sandy Hook shootings. As always, if your children seem to need more help than you can provide, Cohen urged parents to seek support from a trained counselor. For more information or to speak with a mental health professional, contact JCS at jcsb alt imo re. or g or call 410466-9200. JT Simone Ellin is a JT staff reporter sellin@jewishtimes.com
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Asperger’s and Violence Local experts say there is no universally accepted link between Asperger’s syndrome and violent acts By Eric Hal Schwartz
onjecture about the role of mental illness in Friday’s tragedy in Connecticut filled articles and blog posts almost immediately, fueled in part by an anonymous law enforcement official who informed the Associated Press that the shooter, Adam Lanza, had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. Asperger’s syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder often characterized by difficulties with social cues and communications, referred to as social cognition by specialists. “There’s no evidence of any linkage between having Asperger’s disorder and a propensity for violence,” said Dr. Eve Band, a clinical psychologist in Owings Mill, who has worked with children and adults with Asperger’s and autism spectrum disorder for more than two decades. “Having Asperger’s doesn’t raise the risk of their being violent more than anyone else,” she said. People seeking an answer to what led to the attack might spark an unjust vilification of people with Asperger’s disorder, Band added, so it is vitally important that people understand that there is really no link from having Asperger’s to any violent behavior. However, there have been some published reports that state there could
be a link between Asperger’s and criminal behavior. A report by the “Journal of American Psychiatry and the Law Online,” jaapl.org, explains that “features of such persons may heighten their risks for engaging in criminal behavior. Both Theory of Mind deficits and a predilection for intense narrow interests, when coupled with deficient social awareness of salient interpersonal and social constraints on behavior, can result in criminal acts.” The study does indicate that males have greater violent tendencies — and more males are diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. It also notes that the study is inconclusive and more research is needed. Mental illness in general and its role in violence grew quickly in the media and online with the publication soon after the attack of a column on the Blue Review, penned by blogger Liza Long, about her own difficulties raising a mentally ill and sometimes violent son. The piece, titled “I am Adam Lanza’s Mom,” quickly spread all over the Web, cycling rapidly through the standard lauding, backlash and analysis until it became almost inextricably linked to the tragedy that inspired Long to write it. Discussing mental illness and its treatment in the U.S. makes sense, said
Governor on Gun Safety To listen to Gov. Martin O’Malley, Maryland is in great shape in a variety of areas. And he had the color graphs and charts and statistics Tuesday to back him up, as he addressed a large gathering of reporters in Annapolis at his “2012: The Year in Review.” But he knew what the reporters wanted to talk about most: The recent shootings in Connecticut was first on his and the reporters’ minds. In answering President Barack Obama’s call to do more and to do better to protect our children, he already had met with his cabinet and staff to discuss three broad areas of law, mental health and school safety.
Band. “There is no universally accepted scientific link between the specific disorder of Asperger’s to violent tendencies. There is evidence to link some other mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety disorders to violent behavior, and it’s possible that Lanza had more than just Asperger’s disorder. “He could have had a dual diagnosis,” she said. In recent years, bullying and its consequences have drawn more scrutiny and analysis than ever before. Depression, anger and destructive or self-destructive acts have all been connected to feelings of social ostracism and disconnection, feelings that could very easily have played a role in Lanza’s actions as they did for other school shooters. There are efforts by communities and schools to eliminate and discourage the isolation and ridicule students with intellectual and learning disabilities often face. “Students with disabilities are more prone to issues of self-esteem,” said Rochelle Wertenteil, president and chairman of the board for the Sulam program. The Sulam program is integrated into local Jewish day schools and works to support students who suffer from a variety of learning and intellectual disabilities, including Asperger’s and autism spectrum
disorders, within the Jewish school setting. Children can thus be included in the community, valued and brought to their full potential, she said. “They deserve to be accepted, not just tolerated,” Wertenteil said. Until now listed as an individual disorder, the new edition of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” coming out this spring will fold Asperger’s under the larger heading of autism spectrum disorders on the higher functioning end of the spectrum. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in 88 children at age 8 will fall somewhere on the autism disorder spectrum, although this includes the entire range of possible manifestations. Lanza’s motives and reasoning may never be fully known, but there can’t ultimately be a real connection to anything on the autism spectrum, Band concluded. “Most who have Asperger’s are actually very rule bound and rule abiding,” she said. JT Next week: Dr. Mark S. Konrad discusses his new book, “You Need Help: A Step-By-Step Plan to Convince a Loved One to Get Counseling.” Eric Hal Schwartz writes for our sister publication, Washington Jewish Week.
O’Malley addresses reporters, calls for legislation
O’Malley said he wants to see stronger restrictions on certain types of guns, especially assault rifles, and the capacity of their clips. And he wants to see stronger restrictions on certain types of ammunition. A task force on standards for school safety will soon release a report, and a taskforce on mental health and access will be released in the coming weeks. His big-screen presentation recounted his official story on progress and success in education, in job growth and in what he termed “dignity” issues such as the DREAM Act and the Civil Marriage Protection Act, whereupon he was subjected to a rapid-fire assault on gun-control issues.
He downplayed the influence of the National Rifle Association, which he said has “little effect on public policy.” When asked about the idea of arming school staff, his reply was quite clear: “I think we have too many guns.” However, after Sandy Hook, O’Malley said he now “senses a greater willingness ... change of heart and greater open-mindedness” about gun control. “I think we’ve all been changed by the loss of innocent lives,” he said. O’Malley has been a longtime advocate of an assault-weapons ban, and he said he would sign such legislation if presented to him. The governor noted that
ever since he was mayor of Baltimore, he has been focused daily on Maryland violence, beginning each morning with an email report on public safety. Turning to another area of violence — or an area where violence is at a temporary cease-fire — the governor said that he is bound to the Middle East in April, his third trip to Israel. He will also visit Jordan on that mission. “The mission is to recruit [Israeli companies to Maryland] and to foster jobs and business,” he said, noting that Maryland is the only state to have a Middle Eastern Commission.
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An Open Letter to Brian Lurie, President of the New Israel Fund, From Concerned Israelis
When Will The NIF Take Responsibility? By Ronen Shoval There is by now a familiar pattern whenever the New Israel Fund is criticized: The critic is attacked as a right-wing extremist, a liar, an enemy of human rights, democracy and open dialogue. This, of course, is exactly how NIF has responded to a letter my organization, Im Tirtzu, a Zionist student group in Israel, has published in American Jewish newspapers. Our ad asserts that NIF-funded groups are once again accusing Israel of war crimes after we defended ourselves against relentless Hamas rocket attacks. And then our ad asks a simple question: Does the new president of NIF, Brian Lurie, stand by these false accusations? And if he doesn’t, what will he do to assure Israelis that he will be an agent of reform at the New Israel Fund? In response to this perfectly legitimate question, NIF flatly denies the central role its groups played in supplying “evidence” of Israeli wrongdoing to the Goldstone Commission (more than 100 footnotes in the Goldstone Report cite NIF groups); claims that none of its groups are accusing Israel of war crimes today; and proclaims itself the victim of an attempt by my organization, whose budget and influence are a miniscule fraction of NIF’s, to suppress the “right to dissent.” The claim that a small student organization that questions the New Israel Fund is attempting to curtail debate is an accusation worthy of [George] Orwell. Im Tirtzu isn’t suppressing debate — we are participating in it. And the fact that NIF cannot respond honestly to the questions we pose should be a warning to its donors and supporters about NIF’s actual commitment to open, democratic dialogue. After Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel’s latest attempt to stop terrorist attacks on its civilians, we watched to see if NIF had learned any lessons from the role that its funders played in creating and promoting the ruthlessly biased Goldstone Report. Unfortunately, it has not. NIF first
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claimed in a statement to reporters that “not one of the human rights organizations Im Tirtzu attacks accused Israel of war crimes in the recent Gaza action.” It now concedes that Adalah has accused Israel of “a serious violation of the laws of war.” And the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel co-signed a letter saying that there is “concrete evidence indicating the commission of war crimes by both parties.” If words have meaning, then NIFfunded groups have accused Israel of committing war crimes in Operation Pillar of Defense. The reason we posed the question we did to Lurie and the New Israel Fund is because we wanted to hear from NIF’s leaders about whether they stood by the accusations of the groups they fund. We are tired of the game that NIF plays: funding organizations in Israel that slander and delegitimize the Jewish state, while insisting to donors and journalists in America that nothing untoward is taking place. It’s time for this game to end. It’s time for NIF to be held accountable — and to hold itself accountable — for the terrible campaigns of accusation carried out by the groups that it funds in Israel. Unfortunately, what we have seen from this latest episode is that the NIF is still not taking responsibility for the extremism it funds and still thinks it can attack its critics into submission. NIF’s new president has yet to respond to our letter. If he genuinely believes in the talking points NIF often cites — that NIF is committed to open debate, transparency and accountability — he will take this opportunity to show that those values begin at home. He can say whether the New Israel Fund will continue promoting baseless accusations against Israel or whether NIF will begin a much-needed process of reform. NIF’s critics are watching, and we are not going away. JT Ronen Shoval is the founder and chairman of Im Tirtzu. This column was originally published by the JTA Wire Service.
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Dear Mr. Lurie: We write to ask a simple question: Do you stand by the latest are making against Israel?
accusations NIF-funded groups
NIF led a campaign that sought After Operation Cast Lead in 2009, groups funded by the That campaign culminated in to portray Israel as a war criminal and human rights violator. cited NIF groups hundreds of that the Goldstone Report, a ruthlessly biased attack on Israel times. Even Judge Goldstone himself has disowned it. Now, in the weeks after the latest conflict in Gaza, NIF groups misleading and unfounded accusations against the IDF.
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Torture in Israel are claiming B’tselem, Adalah, Gisha, and the Public Committee Against nal law, and is perpetrating that the IDF targeted journalists and civilians, violated internatio ns. “collective punishment,” a war crime under the Geneva Conventio forced thousands of Israelis In the weeks leading up to Israel’s response, as terrorist rockets or stood up for Israel’s right – into bomb shelters, none of these groups criticized the attacks defend itself. its human right, and its right under international law – to as the new president of Despite this troubling record, we hold out hope for your leadership fund responsible for the veracity the New Israel Fund. We ask that you hold the groups you ility from them as they do of their accusations, and that you demand just as much accountab from the IDF. deserve to know: And if you do not stand by their latest false accusations, Israelis What will you do to reform the New Israel Fund? Sincerely, Im Tirtzu The Zionist Student Movement
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Im Tirtzu Brings A Lie To America By Daniel Sokatch
It took only a few days for truth to become a casualty of Israel’s latest military operation in Gaza. It is clear that the IDF sought to avoid civilian casualties under difficult circumstances. It is equally obvious that, as in every conflict, Israeli human rights groups monitored and reported, called attention to international law and criticized both Hamas and some aspects of the IDF operation. And, just as with Operation Cast Lead in Gaza four years ago, Israel’s extreme right wing almost immediately exploited an atmosphere of patriotism and fear to attack progressives and Israel’s vibrant human rights community. A full-page ad, signed by municipal leaders in southern Israel, appeared in the Jerusalem Post calling on my organization, the New Israel Fund, to eschew what they called “blood libels” against the IDF. NGO Monitor, which somehow only manages to monitor progressive human rights and social justice NGOs, issued
the predictable press release claiming that human rights organizations somehow “insinuated” this and that about Israel. Last week, another concerted attempt to repress dissent washed up on American shores. Im Tirtzu, an Israeli group infamous for its attacks on human rights organizations, Arab Israelis and BenGurion University, placed an advertisement in some American Jewish papers condemning the New Israel Fund and the human rights organizations we support. Im Tirtzu claims on its website that NIF-supported human rights groups are calling Israeli soldiers war criminals. Completely untrue. It alleges in the ad that our organizations have concluded that IDF conduct was a clear violation of international law. The truth is that, with one exception, all these organizations are asking is that the Israeli army investigate harm suffered by vulnerable civilian sectors, including journalists, medical personnel and children, who have special protection under international law. One organization signed a letter asking for U.N. investigation of possible breaches of the Geneva Convention by both sides in the
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And yet the Israeli army paid attention to what the human rights community reported. The IDF acknowledged changing its operational procedures, based on reports from human rights groups, to better protect civilian lives and property. The army’s spokesperson said, “Between the military and various human rights organizations there is constant dialogue.â€? Other Israeli authorities, too, recognized the values at stake. The attorney general refused to investigate human rights groups named as contributing to the Goldstone Report and the deputy state prosecutor said, â€œâ€Ś in a democratic regime, organizations may cooperate freely with official international organizations even if they oppose government policy.â€? American Jewish leaders also spoke out against the dismaying spectacle of a democracy’s politicians attempting to suppress its human rights community. We welcome those voices. Our position is clear, and it is shared by everyone at the New Israel Fund. We believe that the work of human rights organizations is critically important. Their job is to hold a mirror up to society, carefully inspect the behavior of powerful institutions in their own society, remind us of the humanity of civilians during wartime and hold us to civilized behavior even in adverse circumstances. Israelis who equate human rights with treason are not protecting their army, they are undermining their democracy. Israel’s friends should remember that the Jewish homeland’s strength lies not only with its army, but with its democracy, civil society, tradition of free speech and its ability to self-examine and improve. When Israel is under attack, the desire to stand with it against its foes is a natural reaction. But those of us who care about an Israel that reflects its founding values should insist that the principles of universal human rights become embedded in the conscience of the country. We all are thankful that the current violence ended with far fewer casualties than were suffered four years ago. Let us also hope that Israel remembers that it wins hearts and minds around the world, and lives up to its own ideals, by exemplifying the democratic and humane values so foreign to most of its enemies and by striving for justice and for peace. JT Daniel Sokatch is the CEO of the New Israel Fund. This column was originally published by the JTA Wire Service.
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conflict. And one organization did declare that the bombing of a civilian media center in Gaza violates the laws of war. In demanding that we stop funding the organizations that have expressed our core values for more than 30 years, Im Tirtzu is again using a military operation as justification for repressing dissent from its definition of Zionism. We understand why they think this might work. The Cast Lead operation four years ago damaged Israel’s international reputation considerably. Afterward, the Israeli government refused to engage in a postwar inquiry. The investigation led by U.N. Judge Richard Goldstone erroneously concluded that the Israeli army had deliberately targeted civilians in Gaza — though the judge eventually recanted that error. Elected soon after the war, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared the threat from delegitimization efforts like the Goldstone Report on Cast Lead as one of three threats Israel faced — along with missiles and an Iranian nuclear weapon. And, as Israel found itself on the losing end of worldwide opinion, human rights defenders became the domestic scapegoat. After 45 years of occupation and the inevitable abuses it entails, it goes without saying that human rights groups, often the bearers of challenging truths, are not beloved in Israel. Right-wing leaders claim that the routine monitoring and reporting of human rights violations somehow “delegitimizes� Israel rather than, as we Americans know, legitimizing its status as a democracy. They also point to Hamas’ terrible record on human rights, as if the fact that human rights are not respected in Gaza means that Israel should not worry about them, either. Directed by members of the governing coalition, the anger felt by many Israelis after Cast Lead was thus turned on their fellow Israelis. Im Tirtzu first made its name launching an expensive ad campaign falsely claiming that most of the Goldstone Report was based on information from Israeli human rights organizations. Legislation was introduced in the Knesset to defund, constrict and penalize these groups in ways more common to autocracies like Russia and Egypt. Dissent was stigmatized as treason, and organizations like ours were viciously attacked for providing financial support for human rights monitors.
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In Good Faith CIA assessment sheds new light on Pollard’s sentencing, intelligence gathering By Jacob Kamaras
According to a newly declassified CIA assessment, jailed spy Jonathan Pollard received a life sentence because of an unauthorized interview he gave Wolf Blitzer for the Jerusalem Post. The assessment also reveals that the intelligence Pollard conveyed to his Israeli handlers was limited to information on Pakistan, Arab states and the Soviet Union and did not pertain to U.S. national security. Rabbi Pesach Lerner, who has been visiting Jonathan Pollard in federal prison for years, is accustomed to tight security to the point that he “can’t bring in a pen.” It surprised Lerner, then, to find out from newly declassified CIA documents that an interview with Wolf Blitzer — “with tape recorders, and cameras and books” on hand — would have flown under the radar. Pollard, the only person in U.S. history to receive a life sentence for spying for an American ally, received a sentence of that magnitude because of an unauthorized 1986 interview he gave Blitzer — the current CNN television anchor who at the time was working for the Jerusalem Post — in 1986, according to a CIA damage assessment on Pollard’s case. The National Security Archive at George Washington University published the documents Dec. 14. “They had to apply for permits [to conduct the interview], you had to walk into a top-security prison,” Lerner, the former executive vice president of the National Council of Young Israel, said. “Jonathan got those permits. [Blitzer] walked into a 38
federal prison. ... You don’t just walk in through the back door, you walk up to the front door. Everything has to be inspected.” “So to say that Jonathan had an interview without permission?” Lerner asked. “It was under your nose, what do you mean without permission? Of course he had permission. Blitzer couldn’t have come in and the interview wouldn’t have happened [without permission]. So to say that the prosecution and the judge penalized him for that is, I hate to say it, is — if it would be true — it would be hilarious.” Pollard, who on Nov. 21 entered his 28th year in prison following a conviction of spying for Israel without intent to harm the U.S., cooperated with prosecutors in 1987 in return for an assurance that he would not receive a life sentence. But according to the CIA, Pollard’s interview with Blitzer violated that deal. In the interview on Nov. 20, 1986, Pollard provided “extensive information on his motives and objectives in conducting espionage for Israel” and also gave Blitzer “a general account with important examples of intelligence he passed to the Israelis, and emphasized that the Israeli government must have been aware of and approved of his activities,” the declassified CIA assessment said. e fact that Pollard gave the interview with Blitzer “without obtaining advance approval of the resulting text from the Justice Department,” the assessment said, representing a violation of his plea bargain.
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However, the assessment also said Pollard cooperated “in good faith” while he was in custody. “It says very clearly in these documents that he fully cooperated,” Lerner said. The documents also revealed that the intelligence Pollard conveyed to his handlers was limited to information on Pakistan, Arab states and the Soviet Union — specifically, the handlers — “did not request or receive from Pollard intelligence concerning some of the most sensitive U.S. national security resources.” That new information on the intelligence gathered by Pollard “certainly raises a lot of questions” because it was previously presumed that his crime involved compromising American national security, said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of President of Major American Jewish Organizations. “Some say that [Pollard’s] actions were inappropriate, but perhaps of less severity in terms of the way it has been presented” from a U.S. security perspective, Hoenlein said. However, Hoenlein cautioned against rushing to conclusions on the CIA’s damage assessment on Pollard because it is 166 pages and still under review. “We’re still reading the document, it’s very long, and we have people who are reviewing it [for the Conference of Presidents], and we’ll be meeting with attorneys and others about it,” he said. On Dec. 10, the Conference of Presidents commended a bipartisan
congressional letter urging President Barack Obama to commute Pollard’s sentence. The letter was circulated by U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and signed by 42 representatives. Pollard’s advocates in Congress and elsewhere have long said that his life sentence is disproportionate to his crime. When he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom last June, Israeli President Shimon Peres reportedly asked Obama in a private meeting to grant Pollard clemency. But the White House, at the time, said it would not change its position on Pollard. Lerner said the declassified CIA documents re-emphasize “that there’s no rationalization for putting somebody away for 28 years, seven years of solitary confinement” for what Pollard did. “Our hope and prayer is that these documents will force everybody in the [U.S.] administration to take a second look, and hopefully the president, with a stroke of a pen, will be able to correct this serious injustice,” Lerner added. In addition to Pollard’s Jerusalem Post interview with Blitzer, the CIA assessment said Pollard’s wife at the time, Anne, also gave an unauthorized interview with the CBS “60 Minutes” program, three days before Pollard’s sentencing. Esther Pollard, Jonathan’s current wife, told the Jerusalem Post that the U.S. government “did something highly suspicious by forgetting to send anyone to monitor these interviews.”
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Still Going Strong henever there was a major world disaster, Bruce Pascal’s grandmother would say, “I have to send a check to B’nai B’rith.” But for Pascal, who served as B’nai B’rith International senior vice president, this 170th year brought potential disaster to the doors of his beloved organization. In late September, both JTA and the Baltimore Jewish Times reported that the federal government’s Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. would assume control of B’nai B’rith’s pension.
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Both articles speculated on the future of the organization, with one unnamed source asking, “When was the last time someone you know joined B’nai B’rith?” But in a recent interview, top executives painted a different picture, one of health and strength, albeit reflecting 21st-century membership patterns. Pascal said B’nai B’rith International has just less than 20,000 traditional members but has approximately 200,000 supporters (donors). Its magazine, the oldest continuous Jewish magazine in the
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Despite concerns over pensions, B’nai B’rith remains active in the community By Meredith Jacobs
world, boasts a circulation of 100,000. The decrease in its once massmembership structure is more a sign of the times than a comment on the organization’s relevancy. With today’s two-income households, supporters are more likely to write checks than find time for Lodge meetings or bowling leagues (although some of these still exist). However, when discussing current significance, Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin, B’nai B’rith International’s top executive officer,
argues, “B’nai B’rith in every case can answer ‘yes.’” He references not only its status as a first responder in worldwide disaster relief with staff and constituents on the ground in more than 50 countries, but also BBI’s unique status at the United Nations and his ability to make statements on behalf of the organization from the floor of the U.N. Human Rights Council. “And how do you address the issue of living longer?” Mariaschin asks of yet another pinnacle of B’nai B’rith
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International. “We respond with housing and real time in debate with health-care and Social Security reform.” The pension issue, BBI argues, was the result of a change in the Pension Protection Act. “We were always fully funded, always in compliance,” said Mark D. Olshan, associate executive vice president of BBI. B’nai B’rith offered its employees a traditional benefits plan also known as a “defined benefit plan.” A defined benefit plan is one in which the employer pools all money, and when an employee leaves, the retiree receives a defined amount, regardless of the market, based on a formulation using such factors as number of years worked, salary earned and employee age. In 2006, the Pension Protection Act required organizations to be 80 percent funded, up from the previous requirement of 60 percent. Olshan holds his hands one over the other separated by about six inches as he explains. Factor in the market crash and a drop in asset value and the actual money required to make up the difference between the 60 percent and 80 percent causes Olshan’s hands to separate even farther apart. Asking the federal government’s Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. to assume the liability “was not something we were happy to have to do,” said Mariaschin, who noted “we are fortunate to have the federal agency.” Mariaschin added that there is nothing in any public document that claims that BBI’s “future is in doubt.” To the contrary, he claims, the organization did it the right way and “had no choice” in order to protect the 500 current and previous employees on the pension plan. He believes the PBGC would not have stepped in had it not believed in the future viability of the organization. “Removing the multimillion dollar
liability from our books ensures that our organization has a future,” Pascal said. Mariaschin emphasized that everyone will receive their full pension, up to the legal limit of $54,000 per year. Only a very few employees would have qualified for more, and they have agreed to accept the PBGC allocation. “All these folks who put in decades, they are going to get their pensions,” he continued. “There is no disruption in their lives. To have a system in this country that can provide for that, we must take note of.” New employees of BBI are now part of a 401(k). Now having moved beyond this issue, Mariaschin says, “Our bottom line looks very, very good.” Mariaschin added: “I think B’nai B’rith is still probably the best-known name in American Jewish life. People know the work we do.” He believes there was a lot of interest in the PBGC issue because B’nai B’rith “is almost like the communal trust.” Pascal describes them as “170 [years old] with a new heart transplant going forward. Not 170 with a stroke.” He likes to begin talks to various groups by asking those in the room to raise their hands if they had ever been a member of BBYO. Or had gone to Hillel. Or Perlman sleepaway camp. “By the end of the list, everyone in the room has their hands up,” Mariaschin said. That, he said, is his way of illustrating the incredible reach of the venerable Jewish institution. For Mariaschin, the illustration is of the recent White House reception for Jewish Heritage Month. President Obama spoke about General Grant’s Order No. 11 during the Civil War (the expulsion of all Jews in his military district, comprising areas of Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky). See Still Going Strong on page 42
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The president was using it as an example of anti-Semitism and made reference to a Jewish organization that protested the order. “It was us,” Mariaschin said. And sure enough, when the guests le the room, there, on display in the White House, was General Order No. 11 and a letter from the Missouri Lodge of B’nai B’rith dated January 1863. As Pascal tells: In 1843, 12 German-Jewish immigrants gathered inSinsheimer’s Café on New York’s Lower East Side with the purpose not only to create a social club, like the ones they, as Jews, were not allowed to join, but also to donate some money to create a type of insurance policy that when any one of the men died, their widows would be able to bury them, and their children would be able to be educated. As time went on, B’nai B’rith (children of the covenant) took on more issues. e original New York members wrote letters to friends, other German
Jewish immigrants living in other parts of the United States. Branches took off in the Midwest. “They had secret handshakes like the Masons and other similar groups,” said Pascal of the men who built the first library in New York and the first hospital in Denver. “When there were pogroms in Russia, it was Simon Wolfe, a member of B’nai B’rith, who lobbied Congress about what was happening.” The first secretary of the 1888 B’nai B’rith lodge in Palestine was Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew. And it was Kansas B’nai B’rith member Eddie Jacobson who convinced his friend, President Harry S. Truman, to meet with Chaim Weitzmann, which led to the U.S. becoming the first nation to grant diplomatic recognition to the new state of Israel. B’nai B’rith preceded the American Red Cross, and its work on behalf of victims of the Baltimore flood and the New Orleans and Memphis yellow fever outbreaks created the
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being part of the creation of the United Nations in 1945 and acquiring NGO status in 1947. Current international work includes assisting with the rebirth of the Cuban Jewish community and partnering with Brother’s Brother, a Pittsburgh-based international charity, to bring pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to Cuba and Argentina. B’nai B’rith’s work domestically includes housing the elderly, growing from its first home for low-income seniors in Wilkes Barre, Pa., built in 1971, to 38 properties made up of 6,000 units housing 8,000 people from California to New York and Michigan to Alabama. “We’ve watched people age in place,” said Olshan, who also serves as director of the BBI Center for Senior Services. “ey are now more involved in advocating for issues of aging, income protection, Medicare and health care.” With the Jewish community among the highest proportion of seniors, according to Mariaschin, it is essential that B’nai B’rith be the place for a national seniors advocacy program. All of this, he says, connects the dots from 1843 and the indigent widow who received $27 from 12 guys in New York to today and relief for tsunami victims. And aer 170 years, there’s still more work to do. Said Pascal, “If you come back in 10 years, you’ll be able to refer to milestones we had in 2014. at’s why I’m involved.” JT
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Chavie Lieber
Shoshana Golan, left, a Holocaust survivor who changed her name from Rozia Beiman, reunites in New York with Wladyslawa Dudziak, a Pole who passed her off as a family member during the Holocaust.
Unlikely Reunion
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67 years later, Holocaust survivor reunites with rescuer
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Even though 67 years had passed since they last saw each other, Wladyslawa Dudziak and Rozia Beiman reunited as if they hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t missed a moment. Dudziak, 85, was flown to New York last week from Poland to meet with Beiman, whom she had saved from the Nazis more than a halfcentury before. Dudziak lived in Lublin during World War II and asked her family to look after Beiman when Beimanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents went missing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; presumably sent to the nearby Majdanek concentration camp. Although extremely poor, the family hid Beiman in its home and pretended she was a niece until the city was liberated in 1944. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I still feel like sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my sister, even though I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen her in so long,â&#x20AC;? Beiman told JTA. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think about her all the time. I trusted their family wholeheartedly during the war. I knew they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give me up because they loved my parents.â&#x20AC;? On Nov. 21, at Kennedy Airport, Beiman greeted Dudziak and her daughter with flowers. Dudziak, who had never been on a plane, cried
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when she saw Beiman. The reunion was arranged by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, a New York organization that provides financial support to hundreds of non-Jews who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Speaking in Polish, Dudziak said though she felt too old to travel, she wanted to see Beiman and give her one last hug. She said it was dangerous to hide Jews during the war but that her mother insisted they keep Beiman safe. In 1945, Beiman immigrated to Israel with a group of orphaned children and changed her name to Shoshana Golan aî&#x2020;?er meeting her husband, Micha, in the army. î&#x201A;&#x160;e couple married in 1945 and live on Kibbutz Gal On, in the northern Negev. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we met in 1953, Shoshana never told me about her past, even though I knew she lost her whole family,â&#x20AC;? Micha Golan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I remember she used to have nightmares, and only later did she tell me how a Polish family hid her. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to describe how grateful I am, but I want Wladyslawa to know that our
family, our four children, would not be here if it werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for them.â&#x20AC;? Beiman said that even though she was only 6 when she was hidden, she understood the dangers faced by the Dudziak family in keeping her alive. After she moved to Israel, she kept in contact with the family, sending them packages with basic foods such as coffee, sugar and fruit. î&#x201A;&#x160;e easiest way to remember the Dudziak family during their time apart was to go to church, Beiman said, since the family taught her Catholic prayers and regularly attended services. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My mother reminded me to never forget that I was Jewish, and it was difficult to live with that since I was pretending to be Catholic,â&#x20AC;? Beiman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I struggled with understanding God, and still do, but church was a comforting place for me at the time, and still is.â&#x20AC;? Along with her husband and a son, Beiman will spend 10 days in the United States with Dudziak and her daughter before they again go their separate ways. JT Chavie Lieber writes for the JTA Wire Service.
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How Portable Are Your Skills? 5 Must-Haves
O cc upational l y rel e vant te chnic al skil l s: Research within your vocational area to determine what these are. Your previous or current job may not have exposed you to what is current or emerging. While you may have done well in performing the required tasks at your previous company, employers are looking at your resume for experience that will be of value to them now. Carefully read job descriptions for posted jobs that are of interest and look for common threads. Then, see where you fall short. You don’t want to be underskilled or obsolete. Fill in any gaps with a training class, certification or internship. QuickBooks is an example of a program used not only by accountants and bookkeepers, but also in other business settings. Be social : Social skills are primarily learned at home. And part of this is based on emotional intelligence and life experience. When dealing with others in your job search, always express graciousness and gratitude. Know your place and exhibit appropriate interpersonal and intrapersonal boundaries when dealing with employers. Be patient, as the schedule of your job
search is not always consistent with that of the company. Basic dig ital : Maintain currency with basic digital technology including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Be able to navigate the Internet with at least some social media such as LinkedIn. An obvious prerequisite is consistent technological access at home or at a public library. Email : is sounds a bit basic, but your initial email is a critical component in making a positive first impression. e basics are an informative subject line, no typos and remembering the attachments. You should also address the target person appropriately and politely and write in complete sentences. Review and see how many abbreviations, contractions or text lingo you have just used to the hiring manager. is is professional communication and not a status update or blog post. Your emails don’t have to be nominees for the Nobel Prize for literature. But, you might want to hire an editor before going with, “Hey, I saw this job on FB. Dream job, interested in applying. anx. G2G … Mike T.” Phone : While everyone today has a cell phone and is accessible all of the time, many people use the devices for all but communicating verbally in real time. Today’s smartphones are used as personal secretaries and messaging devices. In fact, many people would prefer to use them in this manner rather than actually initiate a call to the other party. It is important that you be willing and able to make an initial or follow-up call to an employer and carry on a reasonable conversation. JT
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e Orthodox Union Job Board has announced its app for Android users. e new feature allows direct access to the Job Board’s most up-to-date information on employment opportunities, resumes, eclasses, seminars, blogs, tips and more. e press of one button directs users to links for the Job Board’s website and accounts for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo. e app can be downloaded from the Google online store.
Julie Ellen Landau, a principal of the Law Offices of Julie Ellen Landau, has been selected as a winner of the 2012 Leadership in Law Award. “It is such an honor to be recognized for doing something I am so passionate about,” said Landau. “Our firm meets many of our clients during a difficult time in their lives, and our goal has always been to provide caring, personal representation for each individual.” An attorney for more than 30 years, Landau’s practice focuses on matrimonial and family law, representing individuals in negotiation, litigation and asset distribution for all types of domestic matters, including prenuptial agreements, divorce and custody issues, mediation and litigation.
In The Air Air Force airman Joshua Burke, a 2007 graduate of Pikesville High School, has graduated from basic training at Lackland Air Force Base (San Antonio) by completing an intensive eightweek program that included physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
New Adventure Rabbi Miriam Cotzin Burg has been named director of Jewish life for the Capital Camps & Retreat Center in Rockville, Md. Rabbi Burg, who most recently served as director of educational engagement for the Center for Jewish Education in Baltimore, brings an impressive slate of professional experience to Capital Camps. Her career has included teaching at Jewish day schools, teaching Melton adult education courses, directing Jewish studies programs and rabbinic fellowships and developing a variety of Jewish programming curricula.
Kam goes ‘Global’ Laura Kam has launched Kam Global Strategies, which is a one-stop shop for policy and industry leaders from the United States, China, India and other countries who want to do business in Israel, and for international organizational leaders and Israeli companies who want to see strategic communications results globally. Kam, who pioneered TIP’s work for seven years in China, India, Russia, Europe and on the issue of Iran as executive director for global affairs, has spent decades working with politicians, diplomats and think tanks. Kam Global Strategies’ team and partners consist of highly connected professionals in Israel, the U.S., China and India, all of whom have extensive media relations experience with the world’s top-tier media outlets. Kam previously worked as a media officer at the Israeli Consulate in New York.
Top Lister Long & Foster’s Pikesville office has announced David Desser as both its top lister and top producer for October.
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Two For One Attorneys Victor Berger and Tom Burns have joined forces to provide
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comprehensive legal service to individuals and businesses in Maryland. Aer working together in another Maryland law firm, Berger and Burns have teamed up to build their own practice and now have office space in old Ellicott City. Together, Berger & Burns’ legal services include family law, traditional divorce, collaborative divorce, child custody, visitation and child support, mediation, estate and estate planning, wills, DUI and landlord/tenant law and contracts.
Super Lawyers Ten Adelberg, Rudow, Dorf & Hendler, LLC attorneys have been selected for inclusion on the 2013 Maryland Super Lawyers and Rising Stars (young attorneys) lists. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only 5 percent of Maryland attorneys are chosen annually for these lists. e ARD&H selectees are as follows: Super Lawyers: David B. Applefeld, construction litigation; Michael G. Hendler, family law; omas D. Kohn, business/corporate; F. Kirk Kolodner, family law; Jerald B. Lurie, business/corporate; Marc B. Noren, family law; Andrew Radding, criminal defense-white collar; David B. Rudow, business/corporate; and Oren D. Saltzman, business/corporate. Rising Star : Robert M. Horne, estate planning and probate.
BABC tabs Kolodner Adelberg, Rudow, Dorf & Hendler, LLC member and litigation section chair F. Kirk Kolodner was appointed to the family law committee of the Bar Association of Baltimore City. With
30 of years litigation and transactional experience, Kolodner focuses on family and divorce law, marital settlement agreements, guardianships, estate and trust litigation and general civil litigation. Kolodner has been listed in Maryland Super Lawyers (family law section) for many years and had the distinction of being listed among the top 100 Maryland lawyers in the 2012 edition. In addition to his role at ARD&H, Kolodner works pro bono for Maryland Volunteer Legal Services for those who cannot afford legal services. For more than 25 years, he has served as pro bono legal counsel to Learning Independence ru Computers, Inc., a Baltimore-based non-profit that provides opportunities for people with disabilities.
WYPR Board Adds Kohn Adelberg, Rudow, Dorf & Hendler, LLC member omas D. Kohn was appointed to WYPR 88.1 FM’s Community Advisory Board, which advises WYPR and its affiliates on programming and other matters affecting the community. During the past two years, the board has held a series of meetings between the WYPR news department and members of the community to inform the former about important issues in the community and the views of its residents. Bringing more than 25 years of legal experience, Kohn focuses his practice on business and corporate law, civil and commercial litigation and franchise law. Active in the community, Kohn serves on the Baltimore Jewish Community Center’s Board of Directors and chairs its Arts & Culture Council.
New NCSJ Chairman e National Council of Soviet Jewry’s Board of Governors elected
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Stephen M. Greenberg of New York as the organization’s new chairman at its annual meeting on Dec. 11. He succeeds Richard M. Stone. “e Jewish communities of the former Soviet region are partners with U.S. Jewry, part of an international Diaspora that is obligated to preserve Jewish values and free the world from anti-Semitism,” Greenberg said. “Our effort to realize this future will shape our identity as part of Jewish history. ...I am very proud to serve as the new chairman of NCSJ. We have great work to do.” Greenberg has been an NCSJ vice president for three years and an executive committee member since 2007. He also serves on the boards of Hillel International and the Beit Hatfutsot Museum of the Jewish People.
Carroll’s Crane Honored Emergency medicine physician David Crane has been chosen as Carroll Hospital Center’s December Physician of the Month. Affiliated with Carroll Hospital Center for 16 years, Dr. Crane was nominated by a patient for his compassion and exceptional care in the hospital’s emergency department. “Dr. Crane is an extraordinary physician whose expertise and compassion allows his patients to feel confident in their care. We are fortunate to have such a caring physician on our medical staff,” said Dr. Kevin Smothers, chief medical officer and senior vice president of medical affairs. For information on how to nominate a Carroll Hospital Center medical professional, call 410-871-6899.
Carroll’s Knatz Honored Betty Knatz, environmental services team leader, has been honored as Carroll Hospital Center’s December Associate of the Month. A member of Carroll Hospital Center’s staff for
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eight years, Knatz was nominated for an act of generosity and kindness toward a staff member. “[It’s] just one example of how Betty goes above and beyond her job description,” said Alvin Rich, manager of environmental services at Carroll Hospital Center. “She is an outstanding associate who never hesitates to offer a lending hand.” For information on how to nominate a Carroll Hospital Center staff member, call 410-871-6833.
UMMC Among The Best e University of Maryland Medical Center ranks among the nation’s top hospitals for the seventh year in a row, according to the annual Leapfrog Group survey, an analysis of patient safety and quality performance from nearly 1,200 hospitals. UMMC is one of only two hospitals in the country — and the only hospital on the East Coast — to make the list every year since its inception in 2006. “e Leapfrog Group’s recognition of UMMC as a top hospital for seven continuous years is a testament to our employees who work together every day to give the very best care for our patients. Our amazing teams of health-care providers — physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, technicians and support staff — remain committed to providing quality and compassionate care to all of our patients and their families,” said Jeffrey A. Rivest, president and chief executive officer.
DoubleTree’s New Look DoubleTree by Hilton announced the opening of the newly renovated, upscale, full-service, 171-room DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Baltimore North — Pikesville. Formerly a Hilton, the hotel is owned and operated by Pikesville Hotel Limited Partnership,
a division of the Mangione Family Enterprise under a franchise license agreement with a subsidiary of Hilton Worldwide. As part of the brand transformation, renovations have been completed in all areas of the DoubleTree by Hilton Baltimore North — Pikesville. Guest rooms now feature new carpeting, window treatments, furniture and bedding, as well as Wolfgang Puck in-room gourmet coffee and tea service. Guests now can enjoy the hotel’s resort-style amenities including complimentary use of the newly renovated, state-of-the-art Baltimore Fitness and Tennis Center that is adjacent to the hotel. Public space upgrades entail new carpets, lighting and window treatments in the hotel’s 11,800 square feet of meeting space, including the 6,860square-foot Preakness Ballroom. Learn more at DoubleTree.com.
$40,000 Grant For JA Making its largest investment in the area of education funding and workforce development this year in the Baltimore area, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation has awarded a $40,000 grant to Junior Achievement of Central Maryland. e grant is part of Bank of America’s effort to help underserved middle- and high-school students stay on the path to academic success through high school graduation. With this funding, JA will provide financial education and career exploration programs to up to 1,250 youths in a cohort of K-8 Baltimore City schools, where students follow a continuum of JA programs to foster and track on-time grade promotion.
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New Grant For BSO anks to a grant of $900,000 from e Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce an expanded BSO Academy program. is grant will support the orchestra’s efforts to develop and grow the Academy program over the next three years, including the addition of year-round educational opportunities. e Mellon Foundation awarded an additional $50,000 to support diversity scholarships, making the program more inclusive of individuals from all backgrounds. “e Mellon Foundation has been extremely generous. We are very grateful to them for fueling the BSO’s growth, as we chart the course for the orchestra’s expanded role in the 21st century,” said BSO President and CEO Paul Meecham.
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Josh Rosen says winning “Sweet Genius” helped strengthen his mindset and grow his business.
A SWEET LIFE By David Snyder | Photo by Justin Tsucalas
Summer isn’t normally the most booming time for dessert companies. However, it was in early July that chef Josh Rosen may have caught his biggest break and experienced his utmost confidence boost all in one fell swoop. Just weeks aer launching his Reisterstown-based Charm School Chocolates, which specializes solely in dairy-free treats, Rosen was at a pastry event when he unknowingly chatted with a couple of casting agents for the Food Network’s “Sweet Genius.” e reality show features four pastry chefs and challenges each to make creative and tasty dishes based on specific ingredients and stipulations, while accomplished judges narrow down the 48
contestants round by round before a winner is chosen. Intrigued by his innovative dessert line and his path to becoming a chef, the casting agents offered Rosen, 30, a spot on the show. Rosen’s episode aired Dec. 6, and his friends, family and co-workers finally learned what he had been contractually obligated to conceal for more than five months. He had won the title of Sweet Genius. For Rosen, on top of the $10,000 prize, the experience benefited him twofold. In terms of exposure, the show’s airdate coincided perfectly with the holiday rush. And, the result helped validate the chance he took launching his own business.
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Chef’s business flourishing after Food Network appearance
“I had just opened, I’m getting a bunch of things out there, and next thing you know I’m filming a TV show and I’m trying to get myself situated and started as a company. It was a lot all at once,” said Rosen, a Reisterstown native and McDonogh School graduate. “On a personal level, it’s been scary at times having to say, ‘this is where I’m going to go’ and ‘this is what I’m going to do,’ and I don’t know if people are going to like it, but, I’m going to try. The show was a huge weight off my shoulders and somebody telling me, ‘OK, you are ready for this.’” While Charm School Chocolates had only been open a few weeks when
Rosen filmed the show, the idea for a company that featured only vegan indulgences had been percolating in his mind for years. A chef at multiple venues around the world, Rosen has always appreciated dessert the most. He marvels at the amount of joy that biting into a shrewdly structured confection can bring. However, it also frustrated him when patrons couldn’t take pleasure in a menu item because of certain food allergies. “I couldn’t in good conscience let them leave unhappy, so I would always try to come up with something last minute to make it work,” Rosen said. “Basically, that idea planted the seed. … I want somebody
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working as a sous chef on a residential cruise ship. Rosen then returned to New York to accept a job at Del Posto, an award-winning Mario Batali restaurant. It was aer that stint that he finally decided to venture out on his own. “I thought ... I’ve been sort of doing it for everybody else, it’s time I do it for myself,” Rosen said. He applied that same attitude toward “Sweet Genius,” and his open-mindedness is already paying dividends. “It kind of fell into my lap. I’ve had a series of really wonderful surprises throughout my life, and with every weird and unusual opportunity I’ve said, ‘This sounds like a great idea, I should try it,’” Rosen said. “I’ve become very lucky with the way the show’s airing has timed with the holidays. That has been amazing. It sort of been this very unexpected but wonderful buildup throughout the year. … Just when I feel like the foundation is there, boom, the show hits and all of a sudden everything’s kind of grown.” JT
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Leonard Weinberg (left) and Bradley Glaser have developed nearly 1.7 million square feet in the Baltimore area.
A CONSERVATIVE APPROACH
By Ron Snyder Photo by David Stuck
Vanguard helps revitalize neighborhoods one development at a time For Len Weinberg and Bradley Glaser, less is more. That’s the approach the Baltimore men have taken over the past 25 years while developing projects in Baltimore and the mid-Atlantic region through their retail development company, Vanguard. Vanguard’s impact can be felt across both Baltimore County and Baltimore City. From the development of Nacho Mamas in Canton to the revitalization of the Pikesville Giant in Centre Court, Vanguard has built a reputation of helping breathe new life into aging communities. “There’s nothing more satisfying from a business perspective than seeing an area that was once desolate and in disrepair transform into a vibrant 50
part of the community, helping to generate jobs for the area,” Weinberg said. The Baltimore area is home to many retail developers that have sought out large-scale projects, companies like Greenberg Gibbons and David S. Brown Enterprises Ltd. that have developed projects like the Annapolis Town Center and Metro Center in Owings Mills, respectively. Vanguard, on the other hand, has purposely kept its projects small in scale. Their projects have ranged in size from the 7,000-square-foot development of a Papa John’s, Subway and Medicine Shoppe at the Arbutus Plaza to the 105,000-square-foot redevelopment of the Giant and related Centre Court stores in Pikesville. Over the past 25 years, Vanguard has
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developed more than 40 retail complexes. Combined, those projects have encompassed nearly 1.7 million square feet and are valued at about $350 million. In addition to just developing projects, Glaser and Weinberg said they try to remain active in the communities where they build. This includes supporting the Pikesville Chamber of Commerce and working to bring attention to the Jewish Museum of Maryland. “When you look around Pikesville and see all of the revitalization, Vanguard has been a big part of that,” said Baltimore County Councilwoman Vicki Almond (D-2). “They engage the community and work to ensure their projects provide the best benefit possible to the neighborhoods where
they build.” Glaser said their measured approach was done to ensure Vanguard’s ability to remain successful during times of economic prosperity and hardships alike, while also allowing Weinberg and Glaser to spend as much time with as possible with their children during their formative years. “We are conservative by nature when it comes to business,” Glaser said. “When the real estate market crashed four years ago we weathered it better than most because we hadn’t over-extended ourselves like many other developers had. Keeping a low profile is just our style.” Recently, Vanguard explored taking on some larger projects. At the top of that list is the $140 million
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planned redevelopment of the former Solo Cup plant in Owings Mills. In typical Vanguard fashion, they took a measured approach to the project and partnered with Greenberg Gibbons Commercial Corp. Both companies are currently working to stave off efforts by rival developers David S. Brown Enterprises Ltd. and The Cordish Co., which have launched a petition drive to have the zoning decisions regarding the Solo Cup project, to be named Foundry Row and anchored by a Wegmans grocery store, reversed through a referendum. “Greenberg Gibbons has a history dealing with larger projects and was the perfect partner for Foundry Row,” Weinberg said. “Plus, the risk is lessened for both and the reward great for a project of this scale.” Greenberg Gibbons CEO Brian Gibbons said while he has never worked with Vanguard directly prior
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to Foundry Row, he was aware of their work and reputation and was excited when the opportunity presented itself.
Beach Democrat (6th District) has seen Vanguard’s work firsthand through such projects as Rossville
“ey engage the community and work to ensure their projects provide the best benefit possible to the neighborhoods where they build.” — Baltimore County Councilwoman Vicki Almond
“Vanguard has been a consistent presence in the Baltimore community for so many years,” Gibbons said. “They are very professional and have a great vision and understanding of what communities want before they develop in an area.” Baltimore County Councilwoman Cathy Bevins agrees. The Oliver
Commons, an 84,000-square-foot shopping center in Rosedale that includes an Ashley Furniture Store and a Planet Fitness. The center was developed on the site of a former Circuit City store, which had been vacant for years before Vanguard came into the picture. Bevins also is working with Van-
guard, as it seeks to develop a 15-acre site adjacent to the Middle River Depot. Like with Foundry Row, it is being targeted for a referendum vote as Cordish fears that a Wal-Mart Supercenter will be developed on the site, which could endanger the future of its nearby Carroll Island Shopping Center, where a Wal-Mart is already present. “That Circuit City site was an eyesore and really made the area look desolate,” Bevins said. “Vanguard came in, saw the potential and now that site is thriving. When it came to the Depot site, Len and Brad went out in the community, listening to what residents wanted and what concerns they had, and ensured that the community’s voice was heard loud and clear. That’s all you can ask for from a developer.” JT Ron Snyder is a JT staff reporter rsnyder@jewishtimes.com
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Winter Break Art Activities: Winterinspired art activities and more. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (through Dec. 23), the Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore. Free. Contact Amy Mannarino at 410-547-9000, ext. 277 or amannarino@thewalters.org.
The Nut cr acke r: Holiday classic performed by local groups. 2 and 7:30 p.m., the Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric, 110 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore. lyricoperahouse.com.
LE G O Display: LEGO holiday landscapes abound. Noon to 5 p.m., Classic Plastic Bricks, 8197 Main St., Ellicott City. Free. classicplastictoystore.com.
F I DF You ng L eade rship Part y: Free Chinese food, open bar and a DJ spinning all night. 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Hilton Garden Inn, 1726 Reisterstown Road, Pikesville. Space is limited. RSVP at fidf.org/soldierball.
Guit ar Concert: Listen to Rabbi Shuviel Maaravi, the Polak Family and a special guest. 8 p.m., Guitars of Pikesville, 806 Reisterstown Road. Free. guitarsofpikesville.com.
Towson University Women’s B asketball: The Tigers host Delaware State. 7 p.m., Towson Center, 8000 York Road, Towson. Cost: $3 to $5. Contact 1-855-8884437 or visit t icket master.com.
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Jewish Volunteer Connection Community Mitzvah Day: Help the homeless and socialize with seniors. Weinberg Park Heights JCC, 5700 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore. Contact 410-843-7490 or jv cbaltimore.org/jvc -programs/ communit y-mitzvah-day.
Winter Wonderland Day Off Camp: Explore the outdoors, animal habitats and trails. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Irvine Nature Center, 11201 Garrison Forest Road, Owings Mills. Ages 6 to 10. Cost: $50 members, $60 non-members.
Diadem and Dagger: Jewish Silversmiths of Yemen: Explores Jewish art in the Islamic world. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., the Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore. thewalters.org.
Holiday Train Garden: Model trains and more. 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., The Shops at Kenilworth, 800 Kenilworth Drive, Towson.
Dragons & Dreidels/Chinese Food Extravaganza: Enjoy the food and learn the meaning behind many Chinese food traditions. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Jewish Museum of Maryland, 15 Lloyd St., Baltimore. Cost: $5 to $18. Contact 410-732-6400, ext. 215 or rcylus@jewishmuseummd.org. 52
Monday Night Social Club: Open jam session for area musicians. 8 p.m., Recher Theatre, 512 York Road, Towson. Free. rechertheatre.com.
Great Jewish Books: Discussion of the influential volumes of Jewish thought. Noon to 1 p.m., Chizuk Amuno Congregation, 8100 Stevenson Road, Pikesville. Free. Contact 410-486-6100.
Mother Goose on the Loose: Nursery rhyme program for ages 3 and under. 10 a.m., Rosenbloom Owings Mills JCC, 3506 Gwynnbrook Ave., Owings Mills.
The Wedding Crashers Ball: Mingle, dance and sample food. 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., The Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave., Baltimore. Cost: $10. Contact 410-241-5661.
For a complete calendar listing, visit jewishtimes.com. Please send calendar submissions to rsnyder@jewishtimes.com.
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Whole Child Education Bais Yaakov Exhibit Week gives every child a chance to shine By Maayan Jaffe | Photo by David Stuck
Imagine a classroom transformed into a work of art. Now picture a hallway, several classrooms and stairwells. Vivid colors. Deep and intricate Torah concepts. Engaging design. You won’t have to go far to discover the fanciful. You’ll just have to travel up Smith Avenue to Bais Yaakov of Baltimore’s High School Exhibit Week. is year’s theme: e Tapestry of Time. is year’s location: the entire second floor of the high school campus. e Bais Yaakov Exhibit started 17 years ago, when the school determined to put on an event to showcase itself to attendees of the national Bais Yaakov Convention. e first one, called “Triumph of Torah in the Twentieth Century,” was a huge success. e school determined to run it about every five years, each time they hosted a convention. en, about four years ago, some parents suggested it would be nice to pull it off without the pressure of hosting the convention, too. e school did that, and now, plans are to host Exhibit Week every four years. Wolf said 96 percent of the high school student body participates — they learn, they bond, and they grow, as individuals and as a school. “It is a project where all of these girls become like a family,” said Rivka Sherman, a senior who is co-chairing the event with senior Aviva Hurvitz. “We’re all working toward the same goal, and it brings a sense of achdus, of cohesiveness.” e goal is to create a museum-like display based on Torah learning and sources. With this year’s theme centering on the Jewish calendar, the girls are building 12 rooms correlating to the 12 months of the year, plus a special room for Rosh Chodesh, the start of the Jewish month. Special will be a cantata on the same theme. A walk through the second floor one week until go-live and it is clear the hundreds of hours spent on the project. Work that began over the summer and on some evenings keeps the students at school until midnight. In the Hebrew month of Teves, for example, there is a large wooden structure depicting the four entrances to Avraham’s tent; they have a resident carpenter — one of the alumna.
The young women of Bais Yaakov have created stunning works of art — out of any number of materials. Shown here, one group has constructed a crab from Twizzlers.
In another month, Tammuz, there is a crab made entirely out of Twizzlers; the crab is the mazal, or sign of the month. is was also the month in which the evil Apostamus burned a Sefer Torah. e girls created a Torah scroll … out of matches. ere is a mural sewn of recycled costumes. ere is a mosaic glittering with colorful pieces of glass. Each month, according to Jewish teachings, has a different sense or emotion (taste, touch, sleep, anger). Each month has a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Each classroom has delved deeply into these teachings to create their masterpieces. “ey are learning a lot about the calendar from a historical angle, a religious angle and a mystical angle,” said Rabbi Yechezkel Zweig, high school principal. But the lessons learned beyond the books are equally as meaningful. “They learn leadership, budgeting, about working together, collaboration, compromise,” he said. “No one is posturing here. No one student gets the limelight. No one is looking to shine. They just want it to work out.” The project, whose cost to the school is substantial, according to Rabbi Ephraim Blumenkrantz, vice president of development, creates well-rounded girls. Young women who may not find their niche in the classroom can find it in decoupage, in sequins or ceramics. “We want to build the whole person,” Rabbi Blumenkrantz said. “Chazal [our Sages] say, ‘Ein chochmat nashim eleh b’pelech’ (‘e primary talent of women [over men] is through their handiwork’),” explained Rabbi Zweig, noting that what this means is women have innate connection to the works of their hands. e exhibit is a
form of education, he said, that taps into that power, and it is something one does not have the ability to do inside a typical classroom setting. e girls do get a little bit behind on their studies. ey do have a certain amount of pressure. ey do have to learn time-management skills to make the exhibit — and their schooling — a success. e school is expecting 2,000 visitors from within the Baltimore community and from various Orthodox day schools across the mid-Atlantic region and New York, who will take class trips to examine the students’ fascinating work. “Every room has a different twist of creativity. … ey are all amazing!” said Co-chair Hurvitz. “You can’t imagine how much work and effort we all put into this. … “I’m just very, very proud.” JT
Bais Yaakov Exhibit Week Dec. 25 through Jan. 1 7 to 10 p.m. weeknights Additional viewings: Dec. 25, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.; 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 28, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Dec. 30, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; 3:30 to 5 p.m. (men only) Dec. 31 & Jan. 1, 1 to 4 p.m. Admission: $12 per person; $45 per family For alternative times and dates, or to schedule an appointment, contact 443-548-7700, ext. 11 or exhibit@baisyaakov.net For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Rabbi Ephraim Blumenkrantz at 410-363-3300, ext. 202 or eblumenkrantz@baisyaakov.net Maayan Jaffe is JT managing editor — mjaffe@jewishtimes.com
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better at saying “I’m sorry” than saying “I forgive you.” This week we read about an incredible moment in the life of a family, in the life of our people. Sobbing, Joseph reveals himself to his brothers. It is the first time that Joseph has the opportunity to honestly face the brothers who sold him into slavery. he has good reason to be more than furious — but he is not. Instead, he says, “... I am your brother Joseph whom you sold into egypt. Now, do not be distressed or reproach yourselves because you sold me hither ...” (Genesis 45:4-5) and, just a few verses later, “he kissed all his brothers ...” (Genesis 45:15). even beyond the observation that he is not angry at them, Joseph speaks and acts in a way intended to comfort his brothers, should they be afraid of Joseph retaliating against them. Surprising. Incredible. Though certainly on a different scale, the brothers too have reason to be mad at Joseph. abravanel asks, “Why is it that Judah did not criticize Joseph for falsely accusing him and his brothers of being spies?” But the brothers do not express any anger either. Instead, they all seem to reconcile almost immediately. In our community, we speak a lot about repentance, even beyond Yom Kippur. In the Talmud, rabbi eliezer teaches, “repent one day before your death.’ his disciples asked him, “But does a person know on what day he is going to die?” “all the more reason, therefore, to repent today, lest one die tomorrow. In this manner, one’s whole life will be spent in repentance” (Shabbat 153a). Our traditional daily bedtime prayers include the vidui, the confessional prayer. If each night we reflect on the mistakes we made that day, we
have the opportunity to correct them, to be better, the next day. however, we do not speak as much about the essential partner to repentance: forgiveness. It too is a Jewish value held in high esteem. raba teaches in the Talmud, “he who forgives ... will himself be forgiven” (Yoma 23a). and asher ben Yechiel taught, “each night before going to sleep, forgive whoever wronged you” (Hanhaga, c. 1320). Now, in my head, this d’var Torah had an intended direction and, writing it, I was headed there. But my deadline for this column is Friday afternoon of the week previous. and though you are reading this a week later, right now, as I write, it is Friday, Dec.14. and I have just heard about
If each night we reflect on the mistakes we made that day, we have the opportunity to correct them, to be better, the next day. the tragedy at the elementary school in connecticut. It is difficult at a moment like this to reflect on the redemptive power of forgiveness and impossible to imagine asking the parent of one of the murdered children to “forgive whoever wronged you.” There are, clearly, some things that are simply unforgivable. If that is true, then perhaps the challenge for each of us is to accurately discern between those things that are forgivable and those that are not — and to practice forgiveness whenever it is possible. JT Rabbi Miriam Cotzin Burg is the director of Jewish Life at Capital Camps and Retreat Center.
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| Beshert Linda L. Esterson
AMY & BEN GOLDBERG
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First Date: May 2010 at Blue Agave in Federal Hill Wedding Date: Dec. 1, 2012
Current Residence: Upper Fells Point
Class-y Match During the fall of 2009, BEIT-RJ Executive Director Karen Sober hired Ben Goldberg as a substitute teacher for the Reform Hebrew High School program. She also told teacher Amy Steinberg she had hired her husband. Ben and Amy became friends, as he did with the rest of the BEIT-RJ staff. Amy took over during Karen’s maternity leave and called Ben to substitute. She also invited him to the school’s Chanukah party after strong encouragement from her co-workers. By spring, Ben was hired full time, and he and Amy became closer. He was hesitant to ask her on a date, not wanting to affect their friendship. But after prodding from several of their associates, Ben asked Amy to dinner in May 2010. “I realized how oen I thought about her and wanted to hang out with her,” says Ben, 28, a native of Rockaway, N.J., and assistant director of off-campus student services at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. By then, Amy’s interest had waned,
but she agreed to give him a chance. They enjoyed a long dinner full of good conversation. It was easy, since they were already friends. Ben walked Amy to her door, and they shared a goodnight kiss. They dated that summer but spent time apart as well. Amy visited family in Memphis, where she had moved during middle school, and Ben traveled home, too. By fall, however, their relationship had grown serious. Over winter break, they spent time with each other’s families. After meeting them briefly in Baltimore, Ben got to know Lorraine and Barry Steinberg in Memphis, and Amy met Michael and Gayle Goldberg and Marcia Goldberg and fiance Greg Payne. On the return trip from New Jersey, the couple’s conversation turned to their future and children. Amy graduated from the Baltimore Hebrew Institute at Towson University in May 2011 with two master’s degrees, and they agreed she should job search in Baltimore. Today, she’s teen program associate for the Jewish Volunteer Connection.
Favorite Activity: Cooking together
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After a nice dinner in October, they returned to Ben’s Fells Point row home. He handed Amy a keepsake c eramic box depicting a bride and groom under a chuppah and inside was his grandmother’s engagement ring. The next day, he took Amy to a jeweler to design her own ring. ey chose to wed at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, which had become home for both in 2008. Rabbi Andrew Busch officiated at the personalized ceremony, which featured their written vows, sheva brachot recited by the wedding party and a havdallah service. e lively Horah ahavah solidified everything” for Ben, as did circling each other three times and joining together for the last bracha for Amy. “We get each other,” says Amy, also 28. “We know things about each other, and we don’t have to say them.” They are looking forward to their upcoming honeymoon cruise to the western Caribbean. 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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Karen and Michael Norman happily announce the engagement of their daughter, Jessica, to Lewis Temple, son of Debra and Jeffrey Temple of Downingtown, Pa. Jessica graduated cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in psychology from James Madison University. She received a master of science degree in clinical psychology from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and a master of arts degree in clinical psychology from La Salle University. She will complete her doctorate in clinical psychology with a
focus in neuropsychology from La Salle in May. She is a pre-doctoral intern at the Coatesville (Pa.) VA Medical Center. Lewis graduated with honors with an associate of arts degree from Delaware County Community College. He will complete his bachelor of science in horticulture at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, Pa., in May. Jessica is the granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Kasik and the late Joan and Paul Norman. Lewis is the grandson of Lois and John Temple and Jean and Stanley Einsohn. A July 2013 wedding is planned.
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Brown Todd and Nancy (nee Salabes) Brown proudly announce the birth of their son, Cole Foster, on March 8, 2012. Cole's Hebrew name is Gidon Fishel. He is named in loving memory of his maternal grandfather, Geroge S. Salabes, Jr., and his paternal great-grandmother, Florence Sternberg. Proud big sister is Piper Brown, 8, and proud grandparents are Rhoda and Stanley Brown of Boca Raton, Fla., and Stanford and Audrey Gann of Baltimore. Send submissions of births, engagements, weddings and anniversaries via email to sellin@jewishtimes.com or mail to Simone Ellin, BJT, 11459 Cronhill Drive, Suite A, Owings Mills, MD 21117. Please send a stamped, selfaddressed envelope for returning photos. Items will be selected and edited at the discretion of the editors.
Happy Chanukah! On Wednesday, Dec. 12, residents at the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital celebrated the festival of lights with a fun-filled Chanukah celebration. Entertainment for the event was provided by the Beth El Congregation Choir.
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1,004 Menorahs: Baltimore-based Atlantic Seaboard NCSY, together with New York NCSY, helped set a Guinness World Record this Chanukah, when they united for the world’s largest menorah lighting event in history. Held at the Stamford Hilton in Connecticut, 1,004 menorahs were simultaneously lit on the first night of Chanukah. According to Rabbi Jonah Lerner, regional director of Baltimore-based Atlantic Seaboard NCSY, “There are no words to describe how meaningful and inspiring it was to watch more than 600 high school teens light Chanukah candles together — many of them for their first time.”
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BOXMAN — On December 16, 2012, YETTA (nee Bornstein); beloved wife of Edward Boxman; devoted mother of Francine (Gerry) Zell, Ellen (Bill) Bemis, Jeffrey (Cynthia) Stern, Cindy (Rodney) Bloom, Rabbi Bradd (Linda) Boxman, Larry (Gayle) Boxman and Kenneth (Martha) Boxman; loving sister of Sheldon Bornstein and Mildred Gersenson; cherished grandmother of Max Stern, David Zell and Rabbi Ariel, Talia, Ashira, Jessica and Arianna Boxman. Interment at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Adelphi, Md. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to the Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation, 2001 Medical Parkway, Sajak Pavilion #550, Annapolis, MD 21401 or Temple Solel, 2901 Mitchellville Road, Bowie, MD 20716. DASHEFF — On December 11, 2012, ALBERT; beloved husband of Hilda Dasheff (nee Barr); cherished father of Carol Westheimer, Bruce and Ellen Gerber, Ellen Segall, Neil and Sharon Gerber and Chaim and Faigie Dasheff; devoted brother of the late Irene Levinson and Ann Franklin. Also survived by 20 loving grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Interment at Beth Jacob Anshe Veshear Cemetery, Rosedale. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs
(check payable to: Maryland Veterans Trust Fund), Attn: Grant Administrator, 16 Francis St., 4th Floor, Annapolis, MD 21401 or Ner Israel Rabbinical College, 400 Mt. Wilson Lane, Baltimore, MD 21208. FADER — On December 15, 2012, RUTH L. (nee Levitt) beloved wife of the late Bernard Fader; loving mother of Mark, Ronald and Barry Fader. Interment at Arlington Cemetery, Chizuk Amuno Congregation, North Rogers Avenue. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to the Alzheimer’s Association, 1850 York Road, Suite D, Timonium, MD 21093. FORD — On December 14, 2012, DAVID LEE; beloved husband of Jane Beverly Ford (nee Shapiro); devoted father of Kathryn (Bart) Mathews, Charles Ford, Melinda Martin and Patrick (Vicki) Ford; loving grandfather of Brittany Langgartner, Faith Ford, Mitchell Mathews, Hope Ford, Rebecca Mathews and Abigail Martin. Interment at Harford Jewish Center Cemetery, Rosedale. Please omit flowers.
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cherished father of Alex (Liliya) Gertsenov and Irina Gertsenova; devoted brother of Marina Gertsenova; loving grandfather of Edward Gertsenov, Rachel Gertsenov, Marina Hoffberger and Diana Meyerson. Interment at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Berrymans Lane. GLASSMAN — On December 14, 2012, PHYLLIS HENDLER; beloved wife of Leonard Glassman; devoted mother of Ron (Randee) Glassman, Dr. Seth (Debbie and the late Caron) Glassman, and Mitchell (Dr. Stephanie) Glassman; loving daughter of the late Samuel W. and Naomi Hendler; loving daughter-in-law of the late Simon and Esther Glassman; dear sister of the late Frederick Hendler; survived by 11 grandchildren: Adam Glassman, Chelsea ( Justin) Acree, Joshua Glassman, Samantha Glassman, Melissa (Kevin) Mako, Nina (Brett) Ungar, Matthew Glassman, Jerri Glassman, Stephanie ( Joe) Pellegrini, Brian Glassman and Jocelyn Glassman of blessed memory; also remembered by six adoring great-grandchildren. Interment at Arlington Cemetery, Chizuk Amuno Congregation, North Rogers Avenue. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to the Jocelyn Sara Glassman Scholarship and Endowment Fund, 1403 Highview Drive, Lutherville, MD 21093 or the Covenant Guild Inc., c/o Ellen Gottfried, 7 Par-ree Way, Baltimore, MD 21209. GOODMAN — On December 15, 2012, ALAN J.; beloved husband of Mary Goodman (nee Blake); loving father of Marci Goodman and Heather Goodman; devoted brother of Joel (Ilene) Goodman and Bruce (Andrea) Goodman; cherished son of Jerome L. and Sonya (nee Ziporkin) Goodman and the late Florence R. Goodman (nee Jetter). Interment at Beth El Memorial Park, Randallstown. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to the Sonya & Jerome Good58
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man Adult Hebrew Reading Fund, c/o Beth El Congregation, 8101 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore, MD 21208. KALMANSON — On December 15, 2012, LOUIS; beloved husband of the late Goldie Kalmanson (nee Friedman); devoted father of Martin (Carol) Kalmanson and Bonnie (Richard) Kind; loving brother of the late Arthur Kalmanson; cherished grandfather of Justin Kind, Ryan Kind, Myles (Michelle) Kalmanson, Heath Kalmanson and Cori Keckler; dear step-grandfather of Dr. Benjamin (Lauren) Kleinman, Jonathan Oliner and Ian Oliner; adored greatgrandfather of Heidi Keckler, Brendan Keckler and Chase Kalmanson. Interment at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Berrymans Lane. Please omit flowers. KAPLAN — On December 14, 2012, EDWARD; beloved husband of the late Miriam Kaplan (nee Feldman); devoted father of Barry Kaplan and Barbara Asner; dear father-in-law of Michael Asner and the late Brenda Kaplan; loving grandfather of Christopher and Lisa Kaplan, Matthew and Delia Kaplan, Corey and Gordon Kaplan, Karen Armstrong and Daniel and John Asner; also survived by eight loving greatgrandchildren. Interment at Oheb Shalom Memorial Park, Berrymans Lane. Please omit flowers. KLYOTSKIN — On December 17, 2012, YELENA; beloved mother of Mikhail (Yanina) Klyotskin and Alina (Fakhry) Rasoulov; dear sister of Raisa Kolker and the late Mikhail Orenbach; devoted grandmother of Monica and Gabriella Klyotskin and Sabina and Emma Rasoulov. Interment at Har Sinai Cemetery, Garrison Forest. LIPMAN — On December 12, 2012, THELMA (nee Cohen); cherished wife of the late Melvin Lipman; dear mother of Stanley (Karen) Lipman and Bonnie (late Alvin)
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(Mitchel Herckis) and Cheryl Samuelson; adored great-grandmother of Benjamin King, Samantha King and Karsyn Lazarus; dear friend of Melvin Gary. Interment at Forband Cemetery, Rosedale. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to the American Cancer Society, 8219 Town Center Drive, Baltimore, MD 21236. RIVKIN — On December 15, 2012, MOSEY; beloved husband of Ludmila Rivkin; loving mother of Natalie (Yuri) Hankin; devoted brother of Ethel Reznik; loving grandfather Yan and Asya Hankin. Interment at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Berrymans Lane. Please omit flowers. RUBENSTEIN — On December 14, 2012, ROBERT; beloved husband of Bettie Rubenstein (nee Deutsch); loving father of David (Alice) Rubenstein; dear brother of Beatrice Damsky and the late Myer Rubinstein, Albert Rubinstein, Mary Luria, Mildred Jacobs and Norma Green; devoted grandfather of Alexandra (Evan) Rachlin, Gabrielle Rubenstein and Andrew Rubenstein. Interment at Mikro Kodesh Beth Israel Cemetery. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Attn: Linda Smeyne, 100 N. Charles St., Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21201. SALKIN — On December 12, 2012, GLORIA G. (nee Barrash); beloved wife of James S. Salkin; beloved mother of Scott Levenson and Elyse (Andrew) Carignano; loving daughter of Lawrence and Evelyn (nee Abramovitz) Barrash; devoted daughter-in-law of the late Norman and Zelda Salkin; devoted sister of Michael ( Jerry Newton) Barrash and Barbara (late William M.) Monfried; loving grandmother of Logan Carignano and Lauren Carignano. Interment at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Berrymans Lane. Please omit flowers. Contribu-
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tions in her memory may be sent to the American Cancer Society, 8219 Town Center Drive, Baltimore, MD 21236. SAVAL — On December 15, 2012, ALBERT E.; beloved husband of the late Shirley Saval (nee Kaplan); beloved father of Paul (Ellen) Saval, Steven Saval and Jeffrey (Cindy) Saval; devoted brother of Howard (Sheila) Saval, Murray (Leah) Saval and the late Leonard Saval; loving grandfather of Neil (Nicole) Saval, Brian, Gary, Justin, Kaitlyn, Lauren, Kevin and Cara Saval; special friend of Barbara Blumberg. Interment at Arlington Cemetery, Chizuk Amuno Congregation, North Rogers Avenue. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to the Mildred Mindell Cancer Fund, c/o Marian Shuman, 17 Branchwood Court, Baltimore, MD 21208 or Beth El Congregation, 8101 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore, MD 21208. SCHEVITZ — On December 10, 2012, HOWARD J.; beloved husband of Muriel Schevitz (nee Perin); cherished father of Harvey (Pami) Schevitz, Chuck (Pam) Schevitz and Bruce (Silvana) Schevitz; devoted brother of the late Joan Schevitz; loving grandfather of Hal ( Jena) Schevitz, Sean Schevitz and Kelly Schevitz. Interment at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Berrymans Lane. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to the charity of your choice.
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Jewish Legal Services At JCS Owings Mills Jewish Legal Services, a program of Jewish Community Services, has expanded its monthly clinics to the JCS Owings Mills office for this winter. Volunteer community lawyers provide free legal information, advice and referral services for Jewish individuals with limited income. Clinics will be held at 3506 Gwynnbrook Ave. by appointment only on Jan. 23, Feb. 20 and March 20. Walk-in clinics will continue on the second Monday of each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the JCS main office, 5750 Park Heights Ave. Jewish Legal Services is also seeking lawyers to volunteer their expertise at the monthly clinics. For eligibility, appointments and more information, call 410-843-7305 or visit jcsbaltimore.org.
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LEGAL NOTICES Yale M. Ginsburg, Esq. Adelberg, Rudow, Dorf & Hendler, LLC 7 St. Paul Street, Suite 600 Baltimore, MD 21202
Phillip L Potts 201 N. Charles Street Suite 501 Balitmore, MD 21202 Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice to Unknown Heirs to all Persons Interested in the
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Estate of (170132) Eula A. Witherspoon
Estate of (171073) Veronica Udzinski
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MICHELE THOMPSON Personal Representative Register of Wills for Baltimore County, Courts Building 401 Bosley Avenue, Room 500 Towson, Maryland 21204
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MARY K THOMAS DEBRA M. BARCIKOWSKI CHARLES A. UDZINSKI, JR. Personal Representative(s) Register of Wills for Baltimore County, Courts Building 401 Bosley Avenue, Towson, Maryland 21204-4403.
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Notice is given that Michele Thompson, 3713 Oak Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21207, was on December 10, 2012 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Eula A. Witherspoon who died on September 17, 2012, without a will. Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney. All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 10th day of June 2013. Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative 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.
Notice is given that Mary K. Thomas, 1210 Narcissus Ave. Baltimore, MD 21237 and Debra M. Barcikowski, 1311 Grandview Ct., Fallston, MD 21047 and Charles A. Udzinski Jr., 61 S Main St., Stewartstown, PA 17363, were on December 6, 2012 appointed Co-Personal Representative of the estate of Veronica Udzinski who died on September 5, 2012, with a will. Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney. All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 6th day of June 2013. Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative 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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FURNITURE
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ARTIST HOME IMPROVEMENT painting interior/exterior, Powerwashing, drywall repair, carpentry work. License#19441. 410-282-1579 IRV’S HANDYMAN SERVICE No job too small. Free estimates, prompt service. MHIC# 77548. 410-486-7454
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I AM LOOKING FOR WORK AS A PRIVATE DUTY HOMECARE NURSE OR COMPANION CAREGIVER FOR SICK OR ELDERLY. 8 OR 12 HOUR NIGHT SHIFTS. DRIVES. GREAT LOCAL REFERENCES. PIKESVILLE, SLADE, OWINGS MILLS ETC. SERIOUS CALLS ONLY. 410-523-4840
BONDED/INSURED NURSING-ASSISTANT AVAILABLE FOR SHIFTWORK/ERRANDS. 7 DAYS PER WEEK. 443-559-2987 SEEKING PRIVATE DUTY POSITION. 24/7 availability. Reasonable rates. Errands/Housekeeping/ Appointments.Kim: 410-900-9998 GOLDEN DAYS HOME CARE LLC. Companion care and errand services. Licensed, bonded & insured. See our ad in the Service Directory! 410-679-0942
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HAULING & MOVING LIONEL’S HAULING. YARD/ basement/ garage cleaning. Reasonable rates. 410-484-8614/ 443-604-4002 HAUL AWAY: Prompt professional affordable. Residential/ commercial. Insured/ bonded. Free estimates. SEE OUR AD IN THE SERVICE DIRECTORY. 410-526-6000 www.haulawaymd.com PROMPT HAULING. Estate clean-outs, apartments, basements, and attics. Gary 443-564-8487 WILLY’S JUNK REMOVAL: SAME-DAY OR NEXT-DAY SERVICE GAURANTEED! REASONABLE RATES! 410-984-7032
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Rebecca Conway
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BLUE GRASS MANOR $349,900 (BLU)
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4BR/2.5BA Contemporary w/eat-in kit, 1st fl FR, big LR & DR, 2 car garage.
4BR/2.5BA Colonial on 1.99 acres! Granite kit, MBR suite w/lux BA, 1st fl FR w/FP, hdwd flrs.
4BR/2.5BA Cape Cod on over 3 acres w/pool! Eat-in kit, 1st fl FR w/FP. MBR suite w/walkin. 2 car garage.
Updated 2BR/2BA on 1.48 lush acres! Granite kit, beaut 6' walk-in shower, hdwd flrs. Balcony w/stunning view. Agent/ Owner.
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WESTON $269,900 (MEA) 3BR/2.5BA Contemp w/1st fl MBR suite & jacuzzi tub, eat-in kit, fin'd LL. Gated community w/pool.
REISTERSTOWN VLG $254,900 (BEN) 4BR/3.5BAendTownhousew/eat-inkit,2-storyfoyer,wood floors.MBRsuite,fin'd walkoutLL.Deckoverlookstrees.
ASPEN MILL $254,900 (SIL)
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3BR/3.5BA brick EOG w/eat-in kit, sep DR, MBR w/cath ceiling. Fin'd walkout LL.
Renovated 3-4BR Townhouse w/eat-in kit, cathedral ceilings, fin'd walkout LL & more!
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OWINGS MILLS $219,900 (BRA) 4BR/2BA Split Foyer w/eat-in kit, sep DR, fin'd LL w/FP. Deck and corner lot..
FOREST GREEN $199,900 (FOR)
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3BR/1.5BA Rancher w/many updates! Custom kit, 3BR/2/@BA Townhouse w/eat-in kit, hdwd hdwd flrs, vaulted ceilings, huge FR. Private yard. floors, fin'd walkout LL w/FP & half BA.
BELLE FARM ESTATES $164,900 (BON) 3BR/2BA Rancher w/granite eat-in kit, hdwd flrs, fin'd LL w/bath. Enclosed rear porch.
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Harriet Charkatz, VALLEY HEIGHTS
NEW LISTING ANNEN WOODS PENTHOUSE
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WILLIAMSBURG Custom 4-5 BR/3.5 BA contemporary w/ TWO 1st floor dens!! Lge MBR w/ luxury BA, 3 fin lvls, screened patio, ingrd pool and Cabana. All on over 2 acres backing to woods.
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Large 5BR/3.5BA Colonial with New Windows+Garage Doors. MBR Suite w/Walk-in Closet & Super Bath w/Jacuzzi. $379,900. Cliff
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4BR/2.5BA Remodeled Townhome. Immediate Occupancy. $1650/mo. Cliff
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Ron Osher
Associate Broker 410-952-8311
David Desser
Beautifully Remodeled 4BR/2.5BA Rancher. New Roof, Kitchen, S/S Appls. Huge Finished Clubroom. $234,888. Cliff
Lochern
Renovated & Expanded 4B$/3BA Cape with Large MBR Suite. Everything New-Shows Great! $199,888. Cliff
Brett Miller
Magnificent 8BR/8.5BA Home ON 2.6 Acres Adjacent To The Loch Raven Watershed! 7,000 SQ.FT. Main Residence PLUS Attached 3BR Guest Home. $989,000. Ron.
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4BR/3BA Rancher with Full Basement. New Windows, Updated Kitchen. Brett. $399,900
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6 BR/3.5BA Rancher on 3+ Acre Private Setting. 2 Car Garage, In- Ground Pool. $450,000 Ron
Renovated Bungalow 1 Block from the Water. Brett $119,000
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Luxury 4BR/2.5BA Townhome. Updated Kitchen w/Granite Counters, Hardwoods, Backs to Woods. $299,900 David
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Custom Built 4BR/4.5BA , 5500SF Contemporary w/1st Floor MBR Suite. Tons of Upgrades, Private 1 Acre Lot. $895,000. David
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Freshly Painted 1 Bedroom+Den Mid Level Unit Next to the Pool. $99,900. Ron
Reisterstown Spacious 3BR/3BA Colonial. Huge Kitchen, Huge MBR Suite. Shows Great. $250,000 David
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Beautifully Renovated 5Br/3BA Cape on Private Wooded Lot. New Kitchen, Baths Window, Roof+more. $185,000 David Beautfully Remodeled 3BR Rancher. New Roof, Windows, Bath, Carpet, Paint. Large Private Yard. $249,900. David
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Bright spacious one bedroom and den 8th floor Coop 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.
Under $40,000
Eleven Slade
Beautiful bright 5th floor condo close to elevator overlooks the pool. Spacious 2 bed 2 bath Updated custom white eat in kitchen with loads of cabinets, counters and drawers. 4 closets in master bedroom. Bosch washer and dryer. Balcony and pool. 2nd bedroom built in desk/storage is perfect for office or den. Elegant Move In !
Under $75,000
Seven Slade
Master bedroom with His and Hers Bathrooms and THREE walk in closets plus another closet for shoes. Modern decor with mirrors on the walls and ceilings. Lots of custom built -ins. Open plan with marble floors in foyer, dining room, living room and 2nd bedroom(now used as a den) Bright white eat in kitchen with pantry. Convenient laundry inside the unit. Garage parking and full service luxury!
Under $140,000
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Custom Built Waterfront Home. 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
6831 South River Under $500,000
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17 Oak Hill Court Under $400,000 2 story contemporary on .42 acre. 4 BR 3 1/2 baths. 3 finished levels. gorgeous lot with park like views from the oversized deck. Gourmet granite, stainless, and ceramic kitchen. Stone fireplace in great room. Luxury Master with double vanities, separate jetted tub and stall shower.1st floor laundry. Mancave with wet bar, fridge and full bath. Sliders for easy outside access. This one is special. www.homerome.com
COUNTRY LIVING ONE MILE FROM THE BELTWAY. UNDER $425,000 415 SOUTH RD. 21208
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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Large rancher with plenty of parking could be the perfect place. This large one level home with easy access, lots of open space, a huge kitchen and glass doors to the spacious deck, would make an ideal home for someone who needed handicapped accessibility or an assisted living facility. Main road with lots of parking. In ground pool. Perfect for summer therapy and relaxation.The lower level has a full bath and door to the outside...perfect for staff or live-in caregiver.
I HAVE QUALIFIED BUYERS FOR THESE HOMES • NEEDED SMALL SINGLE FAMILY OR TOWNHOUSE IN PET FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD. UP TO $125,000 • NEEDED: HOMES ‘ANY CONDITION FOR CASH INVESTORS FAST CLOSINGS. • NEEDED...CHARMING OLDER HOME WITH CHARACTER, ACREAGE, GARAGES AND MULTIPLE FIREPLACES (ONE IN THE MASTER WOULD BE IDEAL) • NEEDED ... GREENE TREE TOWNHOUSE ASCOTT MODEL QUICK SETTLEMENT! • 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
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