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It’s Rough Out There
Three of this Jewish community’s most beloved and dynamic agency directors met with the Baltimore Jewish Times last week. Typically, meetings such as these involve strategic planning for the marketing or coverage of a community event, a rally for Israel, a neighborhood cleanup day or a festival with a Jewish flair.
This meeting, however, was hardly festive. Instead, it was based on raw reality. The economic downturn facing just about everyone in this country hasn’t spared the services offered by the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of…
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Lives of Alan and Naomi Scherr Celebrated With Words, Tears and Prayer
Alan Scherr and his daughter Naomi were able to accomplish what many of us will never understand. They could find spirituality in its most obvious and sometimes its most hidden places. And that these pursuers of peace and tranquility left this world as victims of violence and hatred has left that those that know them or know of them from all over the world in sorrow.
On a…
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Mumbai Tragedy Hits Close to Home
First an immediate detail:
A memorial service for Alan Scherr and his daughter, Naomi, both murdered by terrorists in the recent attack on India’s financial district, will be held Sunday, November 30, 7 p.m. at the Etz Chaim Center for Jewish Studies, 3702 Fords Lane. Mr. Scherr’s sister and brother-in-law Soozie and Kurt Seiden are members of Tiferes Yisroel Bais Dovid, Rabbi Goldberger’s Shul.
Mr. Seiden’s sorrow and…
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Local Jews On Obama Team
President-elect Barack Obama recently appointed two local Jewish community leaders to serve in leadership positions on the Obama-Biden transition team.
Alan H. Fleischmann was named team leader of the Inter-American Development Bank Review. Gary Gensler was named co-team leader of the Securities and Exchange Commission Review.
Both Mr. Fleischmann and Mr. Gensler are members of Beth El Congregation in Pikesville.
A Baltimore native, Mr. Fleischmann was chief of…
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Alternative To Nursing Homes
Ron Rothstein pulls out the blueprints and lays them on the long conference table in his office. They detail the plans for Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital’s ambitious expansion to break ground this January on the facility’s campus in Northwest Baltimore.
What makes the expansion — which comes with a $31 million price tag — so intriguing is it will be built as an Eden Alternative. This…
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