Community

Jewish Summer: From Mourning to Celebration

by Rabbi Joshua Z. Gruenberg | May 13, 2019 | Community, Community Resources, High Holidays, Religion

The Jewish summer starts in the doldrums and is lifted slowly as the summer ebbs to a conclusion with the onset of the Jewish new year. The calendar bears this out in the days that are remembered or marked through ritual in the three summer Hebrew months of Tammuz, Av...

Water Safety for Youngsters is Top Priority at Local Aquatics Facilities

by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | May 11, 2019 | Children, Community, Community Resources, Education

With summer approaching, many of us dream of spending long, lazy, sun-drenched days at our community or backyard pools. But daydreams can quickly turn into nightmares when we fail to take water safety precautions. According to the Centers for Disease Control and...

KSDS Teacher Honored for her Commitment to Jewish Education

by JMORE Staff | May 10, 2019 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Schools, Spirituality

Sally W. Grobani, a lower school Hebrew and Judaics teacher at Pikesville’s Krieger Schechter Day School, was recently named the 2019 recipient of the Sam Kahan Distinguished Educator Award/Grinspoon Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. The award honors...

Bracha Strimber and Middle Schoolers Sew Pillowcases for Troops

by Ron Snyder | May 10, 2019 | Community, Community Resources, Milestones

Bracha Strimber’s passion for supporting American military personnel dates back to a life-changing experience more than four decades ago. A Pikesville resident, widow, mother of two and grandmother, Strimber was attending Temple University and living in her native...

Society for Humanistic Judaism Leader Speaks About Movement’s Decidedly Nontheistic Perspective

by Peter Arnold | May 9, 2019 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Religion, Spirituality

Can Judaism exist without espousing a belief in a higher power? Paul Golin believes it can. Golin, executive director of the Society for Humanistic Judaism, will speak May 19 at 2:30 p.m. at the Pikesville branch of the Baltimore County Public Library, 1301...

At Beth Tfiloh Lecture, Authors Advocate ‘Separation’ Plan for Israelis, Palestinians

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | May 8, 2019 | Community, Community Resources, Education

In the opening pages of his new book “Be Strong and of Good Courage,” Ambassador Dennis Ross describes eating lunch with Ariel Sharon around the time that the late Israeli prime minister was orchestrating Israel’s unilateral disengagement from Gaza. “He was a...

Dr. Nancy Aiken to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award for Work with CHANA

by Aliza Friedlander | May 7, 2019 | Community, Milestones

Working at CHANA wasn’t something Dr. Nancy Aiken was necessarily looking for back in 2001. She happened to notice a newspaper advertisement for the executive director position at the Counseling, Helpline and Aid Network. It turned out to be a perfect fit. “When I...

Howard County Holds Holocaust Remembrance Program

by JMORE Staff | May 3, 2019 | Community, Education, Elderly

More than 400 people attended the Jewish Federation of Howard County’s annual Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) service May 1 at Beth Shalom Congregation in Columbia. The event was co-sponsored by the Howard County Board of Rabbis. Keynote speaker for the...

Softening the Boundaries

by Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg | May 3, 2019 | Community, Religion, Spirituality

It seems seams are better than borders on the path to Baltimore’s salvation. “I don’t go below Northern Parkway.” It’s a statement and/or sentiment I’ve heard numerous times from some Jewish residents of Baltimore County. Northern Parkway is what visionary author Jane...

Holocaust Survivor Speaks at Towson University Gathering

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...