by Jonathan Shorr | Jul 25, 2019 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Religion, Spirituality
Jen Grossman initially didn’t like Alex Blumberg’s podcast interview with his former boss, Ira Glass, the Baltimore-born host/producer of the popular radio show, “This American Life.” But then Grossman attended a recent session of Podcasts Over Drinks, aka The P.O.D.,... read more
by Jonathan Shorr | Jun 14, 2019 | Arts & Life, Books, The Arts
Even at a tender age, Abby Scherr says she always knew that her uncle, Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, was a special person. “I admired Uncle Marc because I knew he was doing something important, even though I didn’t know exactly what he did,” says Scherr, a Pikesville... read more
by Jonathan Shorr | May 2, 2019 | Community, Community Resources, Education
When Charles Ota Heller was only 9, he shot a random stranger whom he thought was a Nazi soldier. The memory of that day still haunts him, more than seven decades later. “I had taken revenge for everything the Nazis had done — for taking my family from me, for... read more
by Jonathan Shorr | Dec 6, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Family, Religion, Spirituality
“How good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.” (Psalm 133) On a quiet Sunday morning last year, Lutherville’s Church of the Holy Comforter held a worship service at which the congregation’s rector, the Rev. Chris Tang, baptized a baby girl... read more
by Jonathan Shorr | Oct 16, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Elderly, Family, Spirituality
When approaching her 60th birthday, poet and playwright Wilderness Sarchild says she found herself anxious and “full of dread. My mother got dementia when she was in her 70s, and that was the biggest reason, I think, for my own fear of aging.” That fear served as the... read more
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