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Marci Messick of Just So Sweet!: "People love sweets, and it just makes me really happy to know that my baking makes people happy, gives them pleasure." (Provided photo)
A byproduct of the pandemic, Just So Sweet! has proven to be a popular business among local cake and mandelbrod aficionados.
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Baltimore Hebrew congregant Helene H. Waranch presents a congregational Torah scroll to UNIVRI president Jorge Crestani at a ceremony in Jerusalem. (Photo courtesy of Helene H. Waranch)
One of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation’s Torahs was recently repaired and transported to the Israelite Union of the Itajai Valley.
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Rabbi Yerachmiel Shapiro (center): “When I’m on the bimah, I’m in the zone. I’m the person everyone’s looking toward to help them. If I’m not in a spiritual place, I can’t do that. (Provided photo)
With so much on their plates, how do local rabbis and cantors recharge their spiritual batteries?
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Dr. Barry M. Gittlen: "Archaeology is one tool in the toolbox that helps us understand people. Contrary to popular opinion, we’re not ‘treasure hunters.’" (Photo by Kanji Takeno/Towson University)
A noted archaeologist and fixture at Baltimore Hebrew Institute at Towson University, Dr. Gittlen recently retired from academia.
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Kathy Shapiro recently hosted a meeting of The Soul Center's P.O.D. (Podcasts Over Drinks) series in her Pikesville backyard. (Photo by Steve Ruark)
The P.O.D. series offers participants the opportunity to talk about a shared listening experience in a manner similar to that of book clubs.
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“Confronting Hate: The Untold Story of the Rabbi Who Stood Up for Human Rights, Racial Justice and Religious Reconciliation” (Skyhorse Publishing).
Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum was a seminal figure in the human rights movement.
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Holocaust survivor Charles Ota Heller: “For most of my young life, I had been running and hiding. Now finally, I had struck back." (Photo by Steve Ruark)
Dr. Charles Ota Heller remembers a childhood traumatized by the Nazi occupation of his homeland.
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The Rev. Chris Tang, left, rector of the Church of the Holy Comforter, and Rabbi Geoff Basik, of Kol HaLev, embrace during a joint Sukkot celebration on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. (Photo by Steve Ruark)
The relationship between Kol HaLev and Church of the Holy Comforter exceeds that of landlord and renter.
Read More“In our culture, old age often indicates invisibility,” says Wilderness Sarchild, who speaks at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Nov. 4 for a Wise Aging workshop.
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Adam Gopnik: "Liberal, for me, is a positive, constructive, aggressive term that refers to a radical set of beliefs, including the belief that you can have genuine disagreement, passionate, profound disagreement within a broad fabric of tolerance." (Handout photo)
Adam Gopnik believes there’s more than one way to rationally examine the world around us.
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On April 26, 1916, Houdini dazzled an estimated 50,000 people with one of his signature death-defying escape acts, dangling upside down in a straitjacket at the old Sun Square in downtown Baltimore, an estimated 60 feet above the sidewalk. (Courtesy of Maryland Historical Society)
In its six sections, the JMM exhibition, which will run until Jan. 21, 2019, includes photographs, magic tricks, escape artist paraphernalia and other artifacts, including a rare recording of the great illusionist’s voice.
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