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Virtual Service to be held for Those Who Died since Pandemic’s Start

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | May 8, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Coronavirus News And Resources, Local, Maryland, News, Pikesville

“Comfort ye, comfort ye my people.” (Isaiah 40:1) For many local Jews, one of the most heartbreaking and agonizing aspects of the coronavirus pandemic has been the inability to hold a proper communal funeral service and observe a traditional shiva period...

Pet Adoptions Increase at Baltimore Humane Society during Pandemic

by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | May 5, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Coronavirus News, Local, News

In early March, Christine DeCorse began preparing her staff for a dramatic increase in animal intakes at the Baltimore Humane Society due to the coronavirus pandemic. “We were concerned many people would be surrendering their pets if they became sick or lost their...

Gourmet Girls to Open in Pikesville in June or July

by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Apr 29, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Coronavirus News, Local, Maryland, News, Pikesville

Now that no one is dining out (except for carryout) and most of us are limiting our trips to the supermarket, what’s the future for restaurants and specialty grocers in our neighborhoods? While no one knows for certain, Barbara Collurafici and Lisa Honick, co-owners...

JCC Furloughs More than 350 Employees Due to COVID-19 Pandemic

by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Apr 27, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Coronavirus News, Local, Maryland, News

The Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore recently announced it has furloughed more than 350 full-time and part-time employees at its Park Heights and Owings Mills campuses due to the coronavirus pandemic. In a video released to the the center’s...

Former ZOA Baltimore Leader Isaiah Kuperstein Dies of COVID-19

by Staff Report | Apr 17, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Coronavirus News, Local, Maryland, National, News, Pikesville

Isaiah Kuperstein, who served as executive director of the Baltimore District chapter of the Zionist Organization of America (now known as the Baltimore Zionist District) from 1990 to 1993, died on Apr. 4 after a 10-day battle with the coronavirus. A resident of...

Yom HaShoah Programs to Remember the Liberation of Auschwitz

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Apr 17, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Community Resources, Education, Howard County, Local, Maryland, News, Pikesville

When returning to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex last January to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp in southern Poland, more than 100 Jewish former prisoners called on the world – yet once again — to never forget. Remembrance of...

Temple Emanuel Cantor Emeritus Alvin Donald Dies of Coronavirus-Related Infection

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Apr 16, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Coronavirus News, Local, Maryland, News, Pikesville

‌Cindi Topolski vividly remembers attending High Holiday services as a child at Temple Emanuel in the Milford Mill area and being roused by the booming baritone of Cantor Alvin Donald. “He had that wonderful, loud voice,” she said. “He really woke you up when he...

Cantor Thom King and Family to Host Beth El’s Second Night Virtual Seder

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Apr 3, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Community Resources, Education, Family, Local, Maryland, News, Passover During The Pandemic, Pikesville, Religion, Spirituality

At the conclusion of his second night seder this Passover season, Beth El’s Cantor Thom King plans to supplant the traditional closing phrase “Next year in Jerusalem!” with a triumphant exultation of “Next year in the Offit Auditorium!” He also jokes that he will...

Four Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Reported at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center & Hospital

by Staff Report | Apr 2, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Community Resources, Coronavirus News, Elderly, Local, Maryland, News, Pikesville

LifeBridge Health reported there are now four confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital in Northwest Baltimore. Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital (Facebook) “As of today, we have four confirmed cases of...

Associated Agencies Step Up To Help Community during Pandemic

by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Mar 27, 2020 | Baltimore, Children, Community, Community Resources, Coronavirus Resources, Elderly, Family, Local, Maryland, News, Pikesville

Communities around the globe are confronting unprecedented challenges and highly painful circumstances in the coronavirus pandemic. But in particular, the toll of the virus is unimaginable for older adults, the medically fragile, the economically vulnerable and the...