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Abel 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 MoreIt’s February and that means love is in the air – and how! Here at Jmore our entire February issue is devoted to this thing called Love.
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Jim Burger and his second wife, Sue, before their wedding ceremony as Jim sends a text to some of his uninvited guests. (Photo by Kevin Lynch, courtesy Jim Burger)
Anne is a dear friend. The day our divorce was finalized, we went out to lunch together.
Read MoreThe food delivery guy winks as he knowingly hands me my extra-large, three-topping pizza. Oh, he knows I’m in for a romantic evening for two – just me and my ‘za – snuggled on the couch.
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.
Read MoreSeveral school systems are closed. Temperatures are below freezing. And you’re stuck inside.
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Is the American Dream sailing away? The national median income has risen only modestly since the Reagan administration, while the income of the richest 0.1 percent of the population has quadrupled. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
In this issue, we profile four notable Jewish Baltimoreans whose stories of immigration helped define their lives and contributed to the fabric of America.
Read More“Growing up in a Christian neighborhood gave me a [bigger] outlook on the richness of life,” said Ben. “My Dundalk was old Dundalk,” modeled on the “garden city” philosophy of Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
Read MoreIn his 50 years at his family’s East Baltimore bakery, the good-natured Irv made scores of holiday cakes for goyim upon which edible Christmas trees were fashioned from upside-down ice cream cones.
Read MoreWhile we know the meaning of The Festival of Lights is NOT to collect presents for eight nights, we’re still human. We like giving and getting!
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