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A Love Letter to Maryland
I’m not trying to look at the proverbial glass half-empty, but there’s precious little coming out of this pandemic that I’d personally characterize as a so-called “positive.” After all, hundreds of thousands of lives have been snuffed out by COVID-19 in our country...
Kindness Should Never be Weaponized in the Struggle for Equality
My family and I were recently volunteering for the nonpartisan group Baltimore Votes at the Highlandtown Pratt Library early voting site. A Black man walked out of the polling place, and we offered him some refreshments and a sign to put in his window. He declined,...
Takeaways from this Year’s Elections from a Stateside and Local Perspective
Exactly one year ago, the Baltimore Jewish Council hosted an event aimed at strengthening and unifying the Park Heights community. It was a cold, dark night, but nearly 200 residents from across Northwest Baltimore joined us. One of our featured guests was Park...
Turns Out the Master of Trash is a Mentsch
If John Waters isn’t careful, he’ll wind up blowing his whole lowlife reputation. He’s spent decades convincing the entire civilized world he’s Baltimore’s unrepentant bad boy of cinema. He practically drove the old Maryland Censor Board out of their uptight little...
American Greatness
It’s the morning after the presidential election when I write this commentary. I don’t know yet who won. Hopefully, by the time you read this, you’ll know what I do not. Is our four-year foray into isolationism and divisiveness over? Do I have to listen to the smarmy...
Organic Wine is Something to ‘Be-leaf’ In
We live in an age where the word “organic” is viewed with a mixture of interest and suspicion, since many of us know the term is often bandied about with little regulation. As it applies to wine, you’ll see varying terms such as “organic,” “biodynamic,” and “natural.”...
How the Election of 2020 Helped Preserve American Democracy as We Know It
It was not a blue political tsunami giving the Democrats control of both houses of Congress with large majorities, nor the presidency with a decisive popular and Electoral College mandate. It was not even a large blue wave as the Democrats lost seats in the House of...
Raking Leaves, Kate Smith and Winning the War on Decency
On Saturday evening, hours after America’s rejection of Donald Trump was finally made official, we slipped over to our next door neighbor’s big front porch to share our emotional relief. It felt as if we were getting our country back. My wife, Suzy, brought a bottle...
Today’s Headlines are a Stark Reminder of the Horrific Past
This is not a fairy tale. How far my family has come from Novy-Dror, my grandparents’ shtetl in Poland, a district of Warsaw 31 kilometers from the city’s center. Granny told me her story. She remembered her own granny hiding her under a haystack during the pogroms....Upcoming Events
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@ Weinberg Park Heights JCC
JVC’S CASSEROLE CHALLENGE
@ Weinberg Park Heights JCC
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JVC will be collecting hundreds of frozen casseroles and donating them to organizations that support families and children in Baltimore. Join us in making one (or more) casseroles. This is a great opportunity to gather[...]
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