Shalom, Pilgrim
Rafael Alvarez remembers Pope John Paul II’s visit to Baltimore, wise words from Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and his own pilgrimages.
Read moreRafael Alvarez remembers Pope John Paul II’s visit to Baltimore, wise words from Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and his own pilgrimages.
Read moreKeystone Korner Baltimore attracts some of jazz’s leading lights to the hometown of Billie Holiday and Eubie Blake.
Read moreHelping Up’s headquarters are directly across from the facade of the old Hendler Creamery building.
Read moreHolzman counts a pair of Emmys among his honors, awarded in 1996 for “Survivors of the Holocaust,” a Steven Spielberg documentary.
Read more“I’ve had a pretty tough life,” says Morris Zwagil, born in February of 1926 at the old Sinai Hospital. “I grew up on Broadway, just below Baltimore Street. I quit school when I was 14 because I couldn’t take being poor any more. I had to make a living.”
Read moreAt Penn Station, Oz patiently answered my questions while making ardent observations of an Orthodox family nearby.
Read moreThe Judaica I inherited (the books, not the strong possibility of Jews in my Old Country family tree in Espana) was intact but tattered.
Read moreSadly, Gil, you only gave us 95 years. Not nearly enough.
Read more“I’ve been doing it for 12 years, and there’s still a ton for me to learn,” said DJ Greg Roche. “I hope the same is true for DC101’s non-Jewish listeners.”
Read more“People forget things to death in this town,” Burger said on one of our walks with a notebook and camera. “And when those things finally fall over, they say, ‘Gee, whatever happened to that place?’”
Read moreMost synagogues have a room or designated closet called genizot, from the Hebrew “to hide” or “put away,” now defined as “storage.”
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