Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief, Author at JMORE

Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Hires Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi as Inaugural Senior Rabbi

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Jan 13, 2021 | Baltimore, Community, Local, Maryland, News, Pikesville

At a special congregational meeting on Jan. 11, Pikesville’s Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom voted to approve Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi as the Reform temple’s senior rabbi. The vote was preceded by the recommendation of the congregation’s board of...

Dr. Aviva Weisbord, Head of Shemesh, Dies at 72, Remembered as ‘Woman of Valor’

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Dec 27, 2020 | Community, Coronavirus News And Resources, News

Dr. Aviva Weisbord, executive director of Shemesh, a local program that provides educational support for Jewish children with learning differences, passed away Dec. 25 after a battle with COVID-19. She was 72. In a statement, Shemesh called Dr. Weisbord “our...

Celebrated Local Math Teacher Paul P. Miller Dies at 104

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Dec 22, 2020 | Community, News

Paul P. Miller, who for more than eight decades taught mathematics to generations of students at 20 different institutions in the Baltimore metropolitan area, died on Dec. 22. He was 104. Miller — who attended a teachers college and then received graduate...

The True Power of Giving

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Dec 15, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, The Balagan

When considering the word tzedakah, we tend to think of it in terms of the Almighty Dollar. After all, many of us have an array of “tzedakah boxes” — from ubiquitous blue tin pushkes to glitter-covered coffee cans made by children, to unique works of art — lining the...

Local Holocaust Survivor Morris Rosen Dies at 98

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Dec 14, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Local, Maryland, Pikesville

Dr. Steve Salzberg recalls occasionally running into Morris Rosen at a local gym and asking the nonagenarian how he was doing. “He always told me how he was slowing down,” Salzberg said with a laugh, “that he was only taking two Zumbas and a...