Elderly

Bubbe Lives in the Path of Hurricane Irma. Now What?

by Ben Sales, JTA | Sep 6, 2017 | Community, Community Resources, Elderly

(JTA) — Beatrice Marks’ one-story home might flood this week. But she laughs off the threat. “It doesn’t faze me one bit. Not anymore,” said Marks, 86, whose community of seniors lies in the path of Hurricane Irma, which is set to make landfall in Florida at the...

Food on the 15th Helps Needy Howard County Seniors

by Doug Miller | Mar 31, 2017 | Community, Community Resources, Elderly

It’s a Saturday in mid-February at the Tiber Hudson senior apartment community in Ellicott City, and about 35 people are buzzing around the long tables in the multipurpose room. Julie Rosenthal and her volunteers are setting up for the arrival of the seniors lined up...

Respect and Honesty are the Key to their Wedded Bliss

by Linda L. Esterson | Feb 8, 2017 | Community, Elderly, Family, Milestones, ONLINE ONLY, Weddings

At her sister’s engagement party in their parents’ Forest Park home in late 1939, Blooma Mazur noticed when Philip Marcus walked in the room. “He was awfully cute,” she recalls. Blooma didn’t miss Philip’s attention either. “She looked awfully good to me,” he says....

Program Offers Insights Into Helping Holocaust Survivors

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Sep 21, 2016 | Community, Elderly, Local, News, ONLINE ONLY

Although elderly and dwindling in numbers, Holocaust survivors still need help from the organized Jewish community in dealing with psychological and physical issues, financial assistance, and war-related traumas exacerbated by the passage of time. That was the message...