Pikesville
Pikesville Girls Team Wins 1st State Basketball Championship in School’s History
The Pikesville High School girls team won the first basketball state championship in the school’s 55-year history when defeating Smithsburg High School 61-31 on March 16 in the Class 1A title game at Towson University’s SECU Arena. The team never made the state final...
Har Sinai, Oheb Shalom Renew Merger Talks
In the March issue of Har Sinai’s monthly newsletter The Connection, congregational president Kenneth R. Bell announced that the Owings Mills synagogue and Pikesville’s Temple Oheb Shalom have renewed merger talks. “We have held two meetings to date, one on February 4...
Dr. Barry S. Lever, Preserver of the Exodus 1947 Legacy, Dies
Dr. Barry S. Lever, a retired periodontist known for his passion for the story of the Exodus 1947, the Chesapeake Bay freight passenger ship forever linked to the founding of Israel, died on Feb. 24. A Pikesville resident and Chizuk Amuno congregant, he was 84. Lever,...
Gilbert Sandler, the Bard of Jewish Baltimore, Dies at 95
Gilbert Sandler — author, history columnist, folklorist, radio personality, advertising exec, journalist, city life advocate, raconteur, bon vivant and the great chronicler of Jewish Baltimore — passed away Dec. 19 after a lengthy illness. He was 95 and...
Baltimore Interfaith Service Honors Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Victims
For Marc B. Terrill, president of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, the massacre of 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27 was deeply personal. Speaking to approximately 200 Jewish communal leaders, elected...
Baltimore Jewry Gathers to Mourn the Pittsburgh Massacre
As she made her way into Baltimore Hebrew Congregation’s sanctuary on Oct. 28, a somber Tammy Routman Heyman greeted friends and acquaintances at the community memorial service for the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting massacre that left 11 worshipers dead the previous...
Oheb Shalom Congregants Vote to Terminate Rabbi Steven Fink
By a vote of 515 to 91, Temple Oheb Shalom’s congregation decided at an Oct. 21 meeting to terminate its spiritual leader of 19 years, Rabbi Steven M. Fink. On Aug. 22 and Sept. 26, the 165-year-old Pikesville temple’s board of trustees voted unanimously...
Rabbi Steven Fink Appeals to Oheb Shalom Members to Save his Job
In a letter emailed to a large group of supporters over the weekend, Rabbi Steven M. Fink, Temple Oheb Shalom’s spiritual leader for the past 19 years, called on members to vote against removing him from the pulpit at a special Oct. 21 congregational meeting.... Rabbi Steven Fink Plans to Challenge Termination Process at Oheb Shalom
Temple Oheb Shalom’s board of directors voted unanimously on Aug. 22 to begin termination proceedings against the congregation’s spiritual leader of 19 years, Rabbi Steven M. Fink, due to allegations of sexual misconduct and ethical violations. In...Upcoming Events
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6:00 pm Salon Series: Women’s Voices @ Everyman Theatre
Salon Series: Women’s Voices @ Everyman Theatre
Apr 29 @ 6:00 pm
Enjoy intimate staged play readings (with cocktails!) by emerging women playwrights and directed by the women of Everyman Theatre’s Resident Acting Company (Dawn Ursula, Beth Hylton, Deborah Hazlett, Paige Hernandez and Megan Anderson) in the[...]
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all-day Play-A-Role Series @ Everyman Theatre
Play-A-Role Series @ Everyman Theatre
May 3 all-day
Play-A-Role events at the theater include a meal and play reading, and are enhanced with props, costume pieces and backstage stories from your Resident Company host about the recent Everyman productions of these beloved plays.[...]
8:00 pm The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa @ Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric
The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa @ Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric 
May 3 @ 8:00 pm
This hologram tour from Eyellusion includes former Zappa bandmates guitarists Ray White and Mike Keneally, bassist Scott Thunes, multi-instrumentalist Robert Martin, percussionist Ed Mann, and drummer and Zappa archivist Joe “Vaultmeister” Travers. It also promises[...]
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