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A 92-year-old Owings Mills resident, Frieda Henig Stern is shown here at Attman's Deli on Lombard Street in August of 2018.
(Photo courtesy of Macon Street Books)
“We lived on the third floor of the deli,” said Frieda, noting that the family for whom the store remains named — also Holocaust survivors — had sponsored the Sterns’ arrival and lived on the second floor.
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As a boy growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., Peter M. Semel was thrilled by the sight of Jackie Robinson playing for the Dodgers and breaking the color barrier.
(Photos courtesy of Semel Family)
Peter Semel was the son of a textile merchant. The two great historical events of his 1940s Brooklyn childhood were the ballgame at age 5 when he watched Jackie Robinson play the national pastime, and the creation of the State of Israel.
Read MoreIn Reservoir Hill — one of the Jewish community’s early jumps after dropping anchor in East Baltimore — stands one of those oversized birdhouses called a Little Free Library.
Read MoreAharon Appelfeld once said that while the Holocaust hovered over virtually all of his work, a more pervasive theme was loneliness.
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Leonard Schleider's favorite treat: Sliced hard-boiled egg with lettuce and mayonnaise on toast (Photo courtesy of Macon Street Books)
A proud and still tough (though not gruff) ex-Marine, Lenny Schleider, 81, once self-published a book of poetry so his loved ones would know how deeply he felt about them in case he hadn’t made it explicit.
Read MoreThe narrow diner at 353 North Calvert St. – slammed every weekday afternoon with patrons eating real crab soup, stuffed green peppers and turkey clubs from birds roasted onsite – did business between a florist and a shingle-over-the-front-door law office.
Read More“The Haggadah is absolutely about sharing our history with the next generation,” said B’nai Israel’s Rabbi Mintz. “And it’s a good idea to personalize it with stories of a family’s ups and downs.”
Read MoreAbel Wolman, who died 29 years ago last month at age 96, brought about the standardization of chlorinated drinking water (with chemist Linn H. Enslow), advised more than 50 foreign governments on public water policy and in 1975 was awarded a National Medal of Science.
Read MoreWhile the once-and-future Baltimore will always be as real as a broken water main on your way home, the time in which this drippy love story is set might be as good as it ever gets in our fair and stubborn town.
Read MoreOver the years, the possibility of intelligent life on other planets has fired up the disciplined imaginations of Jewish thinkers from Maimonides to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Read MoreBittersweet chestnuts await when I search for an idea vaguely remembered from journals long deposited in the china closet: The signatures and well-wishes – for health, for happiness, for peace — of those no longer with us, a simple schoolbook transformed into a tome of blessed memory.
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