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From the early 1960s on, Miller's Deli was a magnet for some of the area's most illustrious characters. (Provided photo)
Alan Feiler says Charm City remains a great haven to grab a bite and see an old friend, with amazing culinary options contributing tremendously to the fabric of our town and its cultural life.
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A view of the northwestern tip of Aruba taken from the top of the historic California Lighthouse near Arashi Beach. (Photo courtesy of Alan Feiler)
Alan Feiler discovers a Jewish cemetery on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.
Read More“Without going out of your door/You can know all things on earth … The farther one travels/The less one knows.”–George Harrison
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The author's maternal grandfather, Morris Hoffzimmer (top, left), as a young man with his family in New York, circa 1912. Also pictured: Morris' parents, Herschel and Sarah Leah, his younger sister, Pauline, and his older brother (center), Mark. (Photo courtesy Alan Feiler)
The past is always with us, like it or not. That inescapable point recently came to mind when I heard the actual voice of one of my deceased family members for the first time in decades.
Read MoreIsraelis know how to make a damned good television show. In fact, we might be living in the golden age of Israeli TV.
Read MoreRepeatedly, I saw this quirky side of human nature, where people – more often than not young men – came over and took scores of pictures of my car like it was a sideshow attraction.
Read MoreHere are just a few of things in life Jmore staff members love most.
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It Figures: Among the author's collection of tchotchkes, or knickknacks, are an army of Mr. Peanuts and Nipper the RCA Dogs, as well as a rabbinical figurine "rescued" recently in Ellicott City. (Provided photo)
I don’t know when or where my own personal love affair – my wife would call it an “unhealthy obsession” – with tchotchkes began.
Read MoreClassic stories of great characters like Attman, Schaefer, Jack Pollack, Blaze, Mr. Diz, Eli Hanover, Abe Sherman — it never seemed to end.
Read MoreSitting on a table in a dignified fashion, Baby stared at me with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen.
Read MoreThe penitentiary is massive and byzantine, located on about 11 acres, featuring an imposing, gothic fortress with foreboding battlements and 30-foot stone walls.
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