Family

Sol Levinson & Bros. Marks 125 Years of ‘Helping People at a Difficult Time’

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Jul 21, 2017 | Community, Community Resources, Family, Milestones, Obituaries

Matt Levinson gets the question all the time: “Did you always want to work in your family’s funeral home business?” The fifth generation of his family to work at Sol Levinson & Bros., he says it wasn’t initially a slam-dunk. “I worked here in the summers during...

Pikesville Tourney Reunites Basketball Players for a Good Cause

by Jeff Seidel | Jul 12, 2017 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Family

It all started in 1995 as an unusual backyard basketball tournament. A bunch of Jewish kids got together and played two-on-two games, then hopped on their bikes and rode to several other locations in Pikesville, and went at it some more. Slowly, the details and...

Shabbat in the Park!

by Staff Report | Jul 10, 2017 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Family, Parenting, Spirituality

Approximately 30 local Jewish families with kids under 4 gathered at Meadowood Regional Park on July 8, for a “Shabbat in the Park” event. The Community Connector gathering was organized by Laurie Rosen, Community Connector for the Pikesville and Mount...

Playground Fun for Community Connector Kids and Parents

by Staff Report | Jul 3, 2017 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Education, Family, Parenting

What better way to spend a Saturday morning than being with friends and having some fun? That’s what 30 kids under the age of four and their parents did last Saturday morning, July 1, at a Community Connector event at Bubala Indoor Playground in Pikesville. The...

ShareBaby and La Food Marketa Team Up for ‘Tacopalooza’

by Aliza Friedlander | Jun 19, 2017 | Community, Family

The nonprofit and the restaurant are joining forces to help Baltimore families with diaper needs and other essentials for children. Approximately 25,000. That’s how many diaper-age children are estimated to be living in poverty in Baltimore and whose parents struggle...

Hold On To Those Mouse (Y)ears!

by Dana Hemelt | Jun 15, 2017 | Children, Community, Family, Parenting

Disney World visits are something to savor with older children, too. We’re a family of late sleepers. It’s not unusual for the four of us to be pajama-clad and bed-headed at 11 on weekend mornings. But under rare circumstances, my teenagers do pop out of bed before...

Israeli Support for Gay Marriage Found to be at All-Time High

by JTA | Jun 9, 2017 | Community, Family, Religion, Weddings

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Ahead of Tel Aviv Pride, 79 percent of Israeli Jews told pollsters they support allowing same-sex marriage or civil unions for gay couples. According to Hiddush, the religious pluralism group that commissioned the poll released Thursday, public...

Young Families Enjoy ‘Shabbat in the Park’

by Staff Report | Jun 6, 2017 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Education, Family

Fifteen young Jewish families came together on June 2 at Meadowood Regional Park in Brooklandville for “Shabbat in the Park,” presented by the Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Center for Jewish Education. The families — all with children under the age of 4 and who...

JCC Block Party Draws Thousands

by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Jun 5, 2017 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Family

On Sunday, June 4, the Owings Mills Jewish Community Center hosted more than 3,500 people for its fourth annual Community Block Party. The five-hour indoor-outdoor event featured food trucks, arts and crafts, carnival games, moon-bounces, face-painting and...

Keeper of a Forgotten Community

by Rafael Alvarez | Jun 2, 2017 | Community, Family

This is a Greek story. And a Jewish story. And a Baltimore story. Let’s start with the Baltimore angle since, more often than not, the Charm City lens provides the most humorous view. Back in 1956 when Rachel Velelli Glaser was 8, her family from the Greek city of...