Deborah Walike, Author at JMORE

Don’t Rain on My Parade

by Deborah Walike | Jan 20, 2021 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion

I love Inauguration Day. Even though in my lifetime of voting I’ve only been on the “winning side” five times — including this one — the day and ceremony are truly magnificent. No matter what’s been happening around the country, no matter how deep the...

In the Post-Trump Era, Making Nice Might Not Be So Easy

by Deborah Walike | Jan 14, 2021 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion

In the spirit of “healing and unity” promoted by our soon-to-be President Biden, I’ve decided to try a little unscientific experiment. On myself. Here is the hypothesis: can a left-leaning, American-Jewish Baby Boomer such as myself shed enough of her frame of...

Just Imagine

by Deborah Walike | Oct 30, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion

I’m a complete sap. Name the maudlin, tear-jerking film, song, book or even TV commercial, and you’ll find me weeping. Maybe this should be embarrassing, but I also fall completely for whatever idealistic or perhaps even naïve plotline unfolds. I’m thrilled when Harry...

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...