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Jilly’s Bar & Grill in Pikesville Collapses in Three-Alarm Blaze

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Oct 28, 2020 | Business, Community, Maryland, News, Pikesville

A veritable Pikesville culinary institution for nearly four decades, Jilly’s Bar & Grill partially collapsed in a three-alarm fire this morning, Oct. 28. At 3:55 a.m., a passerby alerted firefighters of the Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company and the Baltimore...

Noted Baltimore Philanthropist Lillian Patz Hackerman Dies at 100

by Staff Report | Oct 19, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Community Resources, Local, Maryland, News, Pikesville

Known as one of Baltimore’s most generous and dedicated philanthropists along with her late husband, Willard, Lillian Patz Hackerman died of natural causes on Sunday, Oct. 18. She was 100. “My parents were a team and a force,” said Nancy Hackerman, a resident of...

Community Leader and Real Estate Developer Samuel K. Himmelrich Sr. Dies at 89

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Oct 12, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Community Resources, Local, Maryland, News, Pikesville

“He was a mensch in every sense of the word.” That’s how Marc B. Terrill, president and CEO of The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore, sums up the life and character of Samuel K. Himmelrich Sr. A prominent commercial real estate developer,...

Suspect Timothy Callanan Arrested in the Murder of Mason Moldoven

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Sep 14, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Local, Maryland, News

Towson resident Timothy Patrick Callanan, 26, was arrested on Saturday evening, Sept. 12, in southeastern Georgia in connection to the homicide case of Mason Leigh Moldoven. An outstanding arrest warrant had been issued for the suspect last week by the Baltimore...

Community-Wide Virtual Program Offers High Holiday Preparation and Insights

by Staff Report | Aug 18, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Community Resources, Coronavirus News, Coronavirus News And Resources, Education, Local, Maryland, Pikesville, Religion, Spirituality, Spirituality During The Pandemic

Looking to get spiritually connected and mentally prepared for the High Holiday season, while maintaining the social distancing requirements of this pandemic era? A new, free, community-wide virtual program might be just what you’re looking for. Starting this...

Emergency Fund Created for Rebuilding Efforts from Deadly Gas Explosion in Fallstaff

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Aug 12, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Community Resources, Local, Maryland, News

CHAI and The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore announced they have established an emergency fund to support rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of the gas explosion on Aug. 10 in Northwest Baltimore’s Fallstaff neighborhood. The explosion, at the 4200...

Memories of Freddie Gray and those Fiery ‘Five Days’ of Reckoning in Baltimore

by Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg | Aug 11, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Education, High Holidays, Local, Maryland, National, Religion, Spirituality

In his new book “Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City” (One World), Wes Moore describes his experience on Apr. 27, 2015, the day Freddie Gray was laid to rest. Moore had attended the funeral but left early to catch a plane to Boston for a speech he was...

City Council President Brandon M. Scott Appears on ‘The Upside’

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Jul 28, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Community Resources, Coronavirus News, Elections, Local, Local Politics, Maryland, News

Baltimore City Council President Brandon M. Scott has a message for the Jewish community living throughout the Baltimore metropolitan area. “Step up,” said Scott, who won the city’s Democratic mayoral primary in June, while appearing on the July 28...

Person of Interest Taken into Custody in Bias-Related Robbery at Towson Town Center

by Staff Report | Jul 13, 2020 | Baltimore, Business, Community, Local, Maryland, News

Anti-Semitism reportedly played a role in the robbery of four Jewish teenagers at the Towson Town Center on Thursday, July 9, according to Baltimore County Police Department officials and various media outlets. Police officials said on July 14 that a person of...

Chizuk Amuno Places Banners on its Campus Supporting Black Lives Matter

by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Jul 10, 2020 | Baltimore, Community, Local, Maryland, National, News, Pikesville, Religion, Spirituality

Chizuk Amuno, one of the Baltimore metropolitan area’s oldest and most prominent Jewish congregations, recently placed banners on its Pikesville campus reading “Black Lives Matter” and “If Not Now, When?” to demonstrate solidarity with the new civil rights movement....