Deborah Walike, Author at JMORE

How Can We Not?

by Deborah Walike | Jan 20, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, The Balagan

Maimonides, the great Jewish philosopher and scholar, wrote that there are eight levels of charity, each greater than the next one. The greatest is to help out a fellow Jew, and the list goes on to the less impressive gestures of “giving inadequately but cheerfully”...

Author Daniel Mendelsohn to Speak at Annual Cardin Memorial Lecture

by Deborah Walike | Oct 11, 2019 | Community, Community Resources, Religion, Spirituality

The Holocaust is arguably the most documented event in human history. But most people don’t know that Jews and non-Jews in Europe frequently enjoyed good relations prior to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi regime. Daniel Mendelsohn wants to change that perception. On...

Israeli Soldiers Participate in Fort Meade Competition

by Deborah Walike | May 16, 2019 | Community, Community Resources

For the first time ever, Israel Defense Forces soldiers participated recently in a combat photography competition at Fort Meade. The IDF military photographers competed in obstacle courses, marches and target practice during the seventh annual Spc. Hilda I. Clayton...

Comedian Richard Lewis Remains the ‘Prince of Pain’

by Deborah Walike | Mar 28, 2019 | Arts & Life, Film & TV

Richard Lewis is worried. But that’s nothing new. The 71-year-old stand-up comedian, actor and writer – dubbed “the Franz Kafka of modern-day comedy” by no less than Mel Brooks – is legendary for his elevated anxiety levels. But for nearly a half-century, he’s been...

Remembering Yevgeny Yevtushenko

by Deborah Walike | Apr 7, 2017 | Blogs

When hearing the news that Yevgeny Yevtushenko died on Apr. 1, I was immediately transported back to June 22, 2000, and my profoundly visceral memory of one seemingly endless, twisting line of people throughout the lobby of Baltimore’s Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. ...