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Bar-Ilan University opens first medical school in the Galilee - a national priority according to Israeli President Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu

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A New Light Arises Ohr Chadash, a successor to Yeshivat Rambam, is having a solid start.

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Being ‘Israel-Centric’ Howard County’s Jason Shapiro has become a JNF star.

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Israel’s New Export: Fashion Tel Aviv Fashion Week might bring big revenue.

Features Girls from Safed present President Peres, Prime Minister Netanyahu, and BIU President Kaveh with the scissors to perform the Oct. 30 ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Medical School’s temporary site.

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The Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee will change the face of the State of Israel.

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Beastie Boy emcee Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz will collaborate with his dad, acclaimed playwright Israel Horovitz, on a new off-Broadway play.

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Your Say… Dealing With Dyslexia It was most gratifying to read the important Nov. 18 article “Dylsexia: No Problem” about the Meisel family.

So many individuals and families are reluctant to speak about their struggles with dyslexia and so many myths persist about this reading challenge. e JEWISH TIMES has provided a public ser-vice with its empathic, knowledgeable presentation of this.

SHEMESH reading specialists see the effects of dyslexia every day, as they provide services in Baltimore’s Jewish day schools to many dyslexic children, as well as those with other learning differences. Because of this, we have chosen dyslexia as our focus for professional development and community awareness this year. We invite community members, lay and professional alike, to join us Dec. 12, 7 p.m., at the Weinberg Park Heights JCC for “Facts and Myths About Dyslexia.”

Martha Sweeney, head of school at the Odyssey School, and Jennifer Penn, Odyssey’s middle school head, will address the challenges of dyslexia, highlighting the opportunities available for academic achievement. They will demonstrate that, with the right help, numerous adults who have dyslexia (Charles Schwab is a prime example!) were not deterred from fulfilling their intellectual and social potential.

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I was reading Arthur Shefrin’s Nov. 25 letter “Cain Unqualified,” but when I read the second paragraph, I honestly thought he was talking about President Obama. If Mr. Obama shows any support for Israel, it’s only to covet the few Jewish voters who still believe he is not an enemy of Israel and the United States. Mr. Cain may not be the right man for the job, but we can all say that Mr. Obama is way out of his league in his

present and, most of us hope, shortlived job. Unqualified = Obama.

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Shouting At Kissinger Neil Rubin’s Nov. 25 column “Kissinger’s Jewish Problem” took me back to that day in January 1973, when this U.S. Navy petty officer 3rd class was sitting in the TV lounge of my barracks at Subic Bay Naval Base, Philippines, watching the news reports of the peace agreement that Kissinger had negotiated with his North Vietnamese counterpart, Le Duc Tho. The day before I had worked as a crew member on a P-3 on a 12-hour flight skirting the coast of North Vietnam, electronically eavesdropping on the North Vietnamese navy and air force, and I would be doing the same tomorrow, but that day I had the day off. I watched with horror and growing anger as Henry Kissinger spoke — the agreement, he intoned, would provide a “decent interval” before South Vietnam fell to the Communists. I started to shout at the television, “This is why 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam, for a ‘decent interval?’ ” e Paris peace talks had been dragging on since May of 1968. By May of 1968, about half of those who would be killed in Vietnam had already been killed, but nearly 30,000 Americans would die through January of 1973.

In 1954, the Viet Minh and the French had agreed to a gradual, scheduled French withdrawal over 18 months. During this period the French army relocated from North to South Vietnam nearly 1 million Vietnamese who had collaborated with the French. On the day the last French soldiers withdrew, the French, with great dignity, lowered their flag to a 21-gun salute, while the band played the “Marsellaise.” We could have gotten the same deal back in

May of 1968, but that would have been a surrender, and tough guys like Nixon and Kissinger who sent Americans like me into harm’s way to fight their wars do not surrender.

So tens of thousands of my comrades had to die so that Kissinger could get his “decent interval.”

A few years before he died, Robert McNamara apologized, and this veteran was willing to accept. If Henry Kissinger were to apologize, I would accept his apology. But should he go to his grave without doing so to the families of my 58,000 comrades who did not return, and to the tens of thousands more who returned scarred both physically and emotionally, then as far as I am concerned, he can rot in hell.

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The GOP is not alone in its ties to big business and both sides agree that some form of immigration reform is needed. On abortion, GOP candidates do skew pro-life, but I can’t see any of them pursuing the overturning of Roe v. Wade. As for their environmental aspirations, if the choice was presented between a project that might provide 5,000 jobs but endanger the mating territory of the spotted owl, I know what side I’d pull for.

Michael Kinstlinger Baltimore

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recently decided to breed geese in non-industrialized pasture lands. They didn’t fatten the geese — often the method — but gave them natural food, The farmers tasted the first chunk of goose liver and were amazed. “It tastes like pork,” they cried out.

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This, however, might be big for Israel’s large Russian-speaking population, many of whom regularly enjoyed pork in their native country.

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Looks like pork. Smells like pork. And yes, tastes like pork.

But it’s kosher.

Israeli Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger has announced the discovery of a special goose species, which tastes exactly like pork and may soon be imported to Israel, according to the Yediot Acharonot newspaper.

In his remarks at a culinary conference, the rabbi was “tantalizing the taste buds of every kashrut observer in Israel,” the newspaper reported.

The obvious question: How do those taste buds know?

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ONE OF My FIRST memories of returning to Jewish Baltimore in 1997 was being approached at the annual Jewish federation convention by a community leader.

She frantically pulled me aside on my way to lunch. She just had to speak with me right then about an urgent matter.

This sincere philanthropist urged me to change our editorial policy allowing couples intermarrying to run their announcements in the JEWISh TIMES. She felt we were condoning this as the Jewish world reeled from studies revealing that 50 percent of our kids were marrying non-Jews.

A solution to this challenge, she believed, was to shun those who intermarried, punishing them for their blatant disregard of Judaism by falling in love with a Christian.

Under previous editors, we didn’t allow intermarriage engagement or wedding announcements. The policy changed before I came home, and I agreed with that shift. After all, I thought, if someone wants to be in the publication of record for Jewish Baltimore, we should encourage that, welcome them and do all we can to help them lead Jewish lives and raise Jewish children. We should be opening doors, not closing them.

This week, we open another door.

We are running our first same-sex marriage announcement. We did this with great forethought. We had not allowed them in the past because two gay people really couldn’t be legally married. Now, they can in many states; we need to reflect that.

This doesn’t mean that we approve or disapprove of gay marriage. We don’t condone intermarriage but it’s legal, and we want those families in our community, which is facing 111111

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serious demographic challenges. I know some will be discomforted by this, believing running these announcements will lead to more homosexuality. We respect the painful emotions this brings up. We ask you to remember that we reflect the entire community, giving every person and every view a place on our pages.

Personally, I don’t understand why gay marriage is illegal. Maryland law currently doesn’t allow it. This is in large part due to the pressure some African-American church leaders and other religious social conservatives put on state legislators during this past General Assembly. I find this sad, given that only a generation ago blacks and whites couldn’t marry.

Now, some people want to shut the door on other minority groups who want those same rights. It boggles my mind to think that 40 years ago my African-American children would have been prevented from marrying someone who looks like me.

In a generation, no one will think twice about gay marriage announcements in the JT, and many gay members of our synagogues and their children will be (are in) our day and hebrew schools.

As Michael Olesker writes in his column this week, the world and the Jewish community are a mosaic. As adoption, gay marriage and intermarriage become more prevalent, all sorts of Jews are sitting next to us in shul. Judging from the immense warmth that enveloped my own black children at Beth El during the high holidays, these new pieces of the mosaic will be a welcome addition to our community.

That’s why I want the JT to help respectfully foster inclusion, not exclusion, in Jewish Baltimore. JT

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diplomatic efforts to restart peace talks between the governments of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appears to indicate that the peace talks will not be renewed for a long time.

Israel demands that the talks be restarted without conditions, while Abbas rejects negotiations unless Israel stops housing construction in East Jerusalem (har homa) and on the West Bank (Maalei Adumim). At the same time, Abbas is seeking diplomatic recognition for a Palestinian state at the United Nations and is pursuing reconciliation with hamas, which governs Gaza. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is accelerating East Jerusalem and West Bank construction.

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Clearly, neither side seems to be willing to negotiate now, both apparently feeling “time is on their side.”

The Palestinians appear to feel with the “Arab Spring,” popular pressure will force both Egypt’s new government and Jordan’s King Abdullah II to toughen policies toward Israel.

In addition, the rising influence of Islamic parties, seen in recent elections in Tunisia and Morocco, ensures that the issues of Jerusalem and Palestine will remain high on the Arab agenda. Finally, the closer Iran gets to acquiring nuclear weapons, the stronger will be its influence in the Arab world — irrespective of its current support for Syria’s heavy-handed Assad regime.

All of this bodes ill for Israel, given Iran’s virulently anti-Israeli position,

and the anti-Israeli stances of such Islamic groups as Egypt’s Moslem Brotherhood and Jordan’s Islamic Action Front.

The Palestinians can cite all this as working in their favor, but Netanyahu appears to see other factors as helping Israel. First is the belief that a genuine reconciliation between Abbas’s Fatah and hamas will never occur, given the personal animosity between the leaders of the two factions. Second is the assumption that whichever regimes take office in the Arab world, they will be more preoccupied with domestic problems than seriously pressuring Israel. Finally, Israel continues to hope the United States will take action against Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program.

On balance, it would appear the Palestinian assumptions about the Arab Spring are correct and the Israeli government’s unwillingness to recognize this may cost the Jewish state dearly.

The U.S. is unlikely to attack Iran and one can imagine the Arab world’s new regimes might well seek to divert the attention of their populations with anti-Israeli policies.

Whether or not the hamas-Fatah reconciliation works out, Israel should move now to strengthen its position by agreeing to another settlement freeze to restart negotiations. JT Dr. Robert O. Freedman is Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Baltimore Hebrew University and visiting professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University.

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about an outbreak of hostilities between Iran and the United States or Israel has overlooked a critical issue — the security implications at home for the American Jewish community. hezbollah’s threats of a regional war if the Americans or Israelis use force against Iran has been widely reported. What may not be understood clearly is that the Iranians, with hezbollah and their allies, consider Jewish communities around the world as legitimate targets.

In fact, it is widely believed that hezbollah, under Iranian orders, conducted the 1994 terrorist attack on the Jewish community’s AMIA building in Buenos Aires, which claimed 85 lives and devastated Argentinian Jewry. Interpol still has outstanding “red notices” on six Iranians thought to be involved, most infamously Iran’s current defense minister, Ahmad Valid.

Moreover, in the event of a Middle Eastern war, the American Jewish community is likely to face threats from a host of other groups and unaffiliated individuals, as tragically demonstrated by the Seattle Jewish federation shooting during the 2006 Second lebanon War. Our nation’s law enforcement and government agencies clearly recognize the risk. For example, the Department of homeland Security’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program is overwhelmingly directed toward assisting vulnerable Jewish institutions, accounting for 80 percent of 2011’s total funds alone.

Similarly, it is no coincidence that DhS’s first faith-based security partnership was with two key Jewish organizations — the Jewish Federations of North America and the Secure Community Network. This resulted in a version of DhS’s “If you See Something, Say Something” public awareness campaign specifically

designed and developed for the American Jewish community. however, a central element in building a holistic communal response to security is what is referred to as “operational security.” is concerns the security personnel at a location during high-risk times who serve as the “eyes” and “ears” for law enforcement, as well as first responders in emergencies.

In this aspect, the community is woefully underprepared, with many synagogues and institutions having minimally trained security guards or nothing. Typically, communities hastily hire protection when a terrorist incident occurs somewhere before scaling back when nothing happens in the succeeding months. is approach is short-sighted and dangerous. e nonprofit Community Security Service (CSS) provides a uniquely sustainable means to meet this challenge by training — at no charge — community members in professional operational security techniques. In addition to cost-effectiveness, this provides security that is qualitatively superior to hired security because community members are both more committed to the safety of their friends and family and have the cultural familiarity to better identify suspicious behavior and out-of-place objects.

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Thanksgiving having come and gone, we officially enter that festive time of year known across America as the Chanukah Shopping Season — although I understand that, in certain isolated parts of the country, this is actually known as the lead-up to a holiday that is called “Christmas.”

Who knew?

Over Thanksgiving, my wife and I took an out-of-town visitor on a little tour of Baltimore. As we drove down to lombard Street, the disc jockey on the car radio got right into the holiday spirit — although he inexplicably skipped past the dreidel song and all other Chanukah numbers that usually flood the airwaves this time of year, and instead played a traditional Christmas number invoking the deep spiritual message of the season, called “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree.” Go figure.

“This neighborhood was the original heart of 20th-century Jewish Baltimore,” we said, pointing to the lloyd Street Synagogue and the B’nai Israel Congregation.

Now you could see Christmas decorations already brightening nearby homes. And I was reminded, as always this time of year, of a sense of cultural isolation: No, they will not be playing Chanukah songs on the radio. And those Christmas lights are reminders that this is not America’s Chanukah Shopping Season.

“Just a few blocks south of here,” my wife said, “is little Italy.”

“Was every Baltimore neighborhood always broken down by ethnic groups?” our visitor asked.

Not quite, though Baltimoreans did tend to settle down in packs for a lot of generations. Some of this was imposed by unfortunate social custom, if not actual law. But I remembered a

time I attended Shabbat services at B’nai Israel. I noticed a Moroccan man, an Asian man and several AfricanAmericans. Each, I was told, was a member of the congregation. Then, a little Chinese girl sat next to me.

“What’s your name?” I whispered.

“Jade,” she said.

“That’s a pretty name. What’s your last name?”

“Shapiro,” she said. And she proceeded to daven with everyone else.

America being the great melting pot, we do tend to mix when we give each other a chance.

When we took our visitor through little Italy, we pointed out the house where the Democratic house leader Nancy Pelosi grew up. her father, Tommy D’Alesandro, ventured out of the neighborhood and discovered lombard Street when he was a young man, and thus commenced great friendships and political alliances.

Accompanying D’Alesandro on these treks to lombard Street was his pal, the late John Pica Sr., who reveled in the mixing of the ethnic cultures.

When Pica’s daughter, Maria, grew up and wanted to marry a young man, she reluctantly told her father, “Daddy, he’s not Catholic. he’s Protestant.” “you can’t do that,” John Pica replied. “you have to marry in the faith — a Catholic or a Jew.” Well, that’s America for you. No, they’re not playing Chanukah songs on the radio. And, in a season where Christmas music and Christmas TV shows and Christmas advertising can sometimes make us feel a little isolated, it’s a reminder: In America, we’re the minority religion.

But it doesn’t mean we’re not part of the great national mix. It just means America is sometimes a mosaic instead of a melting pot. JT Michael Olesker, a local author, writes every other week for the BALTIMORE J EWISH TIMES.

Designs For The Devils Harvey Cohen cruised around the Jewish state on last month’s Israel Ride.

A Peddler For Peace After six visits to Israel, 65-year-old Harvey Cohen of Owings Mills wasn’t satisfied with the typical tourist experience. He eventually came up with an intriguing idea — a 200-300 mile week-long bike tour from Jerusalem to Eilat to benefit the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and the U.S.-based environmental Jewish group Hazon.

Cohen — who says his previous biking experience was limited to riding with his wife on the NCR Trail — began a five-and-a-half month training period, including private workouts with Lifebridge Health and Fitness trainer John Vargo and challenging rides with the Baltimore Bike Club.

While in Israel, riders chose from three routes designed for bikers of all levels, did some sightseeing, swam in the Red and Mediterranean seas, observed Shabbat, crossed the Negev Desert, and visited kibbutzim.

“It was a marvelous experience,” says Cohen.

To participate, bikers had to raise or pay at least $3,600. One of the top fundraisers, Cohen brought in $14,000.

Calling the Arava Institute “a jewel on Kibbutz Ketura,” he described it as “an intentional community of students working to build peace and create relationships between Arabs and Jews.”

Indeed, about one-third of the students are Arabs, one-third Jewish and the other one-third from European countries.

“They are doing something that could be replicated, and could eventually bring peace,” says the Baltimore Hebrew congregant. “Even if we don’t see peace in our generation, maybe they will see it in the next one.”

— Simone Ellin

Shopping locally has certainly emerged as a popular trend for holiday shopping, but when it comes to meaningful gifts for Chanukah, one local Jewish artist has come up with a gift that supports both local artisans and the families of those afflicted with breast cancer.

Randie Schoenberg-McConnell, owner and designer of handcrafted jewelry and the bridal couture company Faye Daniel Designs, has recently launched a new collection to benefit the Red Devils, a Baltimore-based nonprofit assisting breast cancer patients and their families as they go through treatment.

The line, called the “horny hearts Collection,” features many pieces with a signature heart with devil’s horns and tail, including several necklaces and bracelets, like the Byzantine bracelet and a Red Devils charm.

Other pieces, McConnell says,

are not specific to the Red Devils, but will still benefit the organization. A portion of each online sale will be donated to the Red Devils.

Though McConnell and her Bel Air-based design company have done charitable work for various organizations in the past, including the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure organization, this is the first time she’s worked so extensively with one group. “I liked the fact that they were local,” she says.

“They’re here in our state, and the money stays here.”

McConnell says she’s close to the cause of Breast Cancer awareness and research because her mother is a survivor, as are two of her employees. “It’s important to give back so we can find a cure,” she says.

Photos and descriptions of the pieces can be found at fayedaniel designs.com . To learn more about the Red Devils, visit thereddevils md.org .

— Ashley Tedesco

Fighting Online Hate University of Maryland Law School professor Danielle Citron stood before Great Britain’s House of Commons and made her case.

She was testifying in October for a task force against anti-Semitism and Internet hate-mongering, an effort that joins governmental officials and academics from around the world.

For her part, Citron focuses on information privacy and cyber law.

In England, she testified before the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism Task Force

on Internet Hate.

A New York native, Citron has been involved with cyber law for several years and is working on a book about cyber harassment.

Combating it, she says, is about more than turning off the computer screen.

“It has a profound economic impact on people’s [professional] lives,” she says, noting that 80 percent of employers conduct Internet searches of potential new hires, and while they may not necessarily believe all that is written online, they can be wary of hiring someone

with a poor online reputation.

Indeed, she notes that 70 percent of employer searches turn up negative results.

As Citron says of her work, which also centers around misogyny and gender or sexual orientation issues, “It’s sort of a devastating but important project.”

— Ashley Tedesco Danielle Citron: “…a profound economic impact on people’s [professional] lives.”

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Embracing Judaism, technology and enthusiasm seem to mark Ohr Chadash’s first year.

“Part of the goal is for [our students] to contribute to the society at large when they enter the workforce,” she says. “We educate children with the intent to contribute to society with the kedushah [sanctity] of Torah.”

As with Rambam — plagued in its final years with crippling and ultimately fatal financial missteps — a particular philosophical emphasis at the school is the religious significance of the Land of Israel. Reflecting that, both modern Hebrew and biblical

Hebrew are taught. In the modern Hebrew classes, teachers conduct their lessons entirely in Hebrew in a style known as Ivrit B’Ivrit, or “Hebrew in Hebrew.”

Co-curricular activities between the secular and Judaic disciplines also are encouraged to further foster the seamless blend of being Jewishly observant in a modern context. One way this respect for modernity is revealed is through the use of iPads in the classroom in grades 4-6.

“Our hashkafah [perspective] informs our decisions as to how to approach technology,” Ziffer explains. “Students are taught how to use them in ways that benefit educational growth, and not only teach them the difference between right and wrong, but also how to identify the right.”

When it comes to the high-level technology in use, adds secular studies principal Janet Forsythe, “[Giving iPads] also teaches responsibility and how to handle expensive equipment. Students learn how to care for property and be good citizens.”

So far, the educators report, the iPads have been wildly successful in all kinds of ways.

For example, former Mir Yeshiva student Rabbi Dovid Meyer recently showed the fourth-grade class a live broadcast of the huge funeral of Mir Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel. Throughout, he illustrated from a firsthand perspective the impact the rabbi had upon his personal life.

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from Ford’s Theatre, enabling his peers to access the material during his oral presentation about Abraham Lincoln.

The school sits in the second-floor wing of the Park Heights Jewish Community Center, where Yeshivat Rambam’s boys high school was located until last year. Thanks to the venue, the students have access to JCC facilities ranging from the gymnasium to the art studio. Having the Center for Jewish Education’s library on the same floor provides an additional boost for faculty.

Aer school, activities from Zumba to swimming are available for Ohr Chadash students.

Ohr Chadash also has made sure that it has classes and a resource center for children with special needs through Shemesh, an Associated program that strives to help Jewish children with learning differences.

But the real story behind the school is how a group of volunteers — mainly parents of students — came together quickly to set the foundation.

“All of this was put together over the summer [so that we could have a school] with strong Torah and secular studies, as well as a realization and appreciation of Israel,” says Ari Taragin, the school’s communications

director and a school parent.

Much of the faculty is familiar to parents whose children were at Yeshivat Rambam, but the school also attracted staff from Bnos Yisrael, Bais Yaakov and some other area day schools.

As a recent visit to the classrooms showed, the cohesion between the parents, teachers and staff seems to be working.

Becky Reeves, who is one of many parent volunteers and works in the office, says she sees the impact of the effort every day.

“This is the first year that my son hasn’t begged to be home-schooled,” she says. “They’re doing so many things right educationally. They hired fabulous teachers with heart and experience beyond words.” JT

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Although Shapiro largely led this project by himself, he credited help in fundraising techniques to DiamentCohen and fellow Howard County activists Harry and Deborah Adler, the latter being the Jewish Federation of Howard County’s immediate past director.

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“It was the trip of a lifetime,” he says. “My good feelings for Israel were magnified several times over.”

He was so inspired that he wrote to every charity that is involved with Israel, from advocacy to helping individual communities. Although he was placed on many mailing lists, he was not offered any kind of volunteer position by any organization except for the JNF. The woman with whom he spoke came down from New York with her boss to discuss exactly how he could

get involved and truly tailor a position that was right for him.

“Howard Country had 20-25,000 Jews — and no JNF,” he says.

So he felt it was time for him to do something. Next came a meeting with local JNF representative Stuart Diamant-Cohen, and the two figured out what project would work best in Howard County. Eventually, they chose to focus on helping Israel’s fire department, which was in dire need.

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Nearly a year after the devastating Carmel fire in Northern Israel that took 44 lives, Maale Adumim became the venue last week for the dedication of several pieces of firefighting equipment, including two impressive crane trucks — one of which was donated by Baltimore area JNF supporters.

At a dedication ceremony attended by about 125 people, and attended by Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom, people could see what would finally replace an old and outdated large truck, which from the old station took an excruciating 25 minutes to get to the heart of the Jerusalem-area community’s heart.

Having to climb the many steep streets, unable to move quickly, the old truck was adequate and dependable and chugged along as quickly as possible. The new truck is a state of the art piece of equipment with an excellence apparent to anyone.

More importantly, this new crane truck can now reach the highest story of any apartment building in Maale Adumim. The old one could not reach beyond a third floor.

One speaker pointed out that today is Rosh Chodesh Kislev, and this first day of the new month reminded us that we have begun the month containing Chanukah and is therefore a month of miracles. This new place, with this new equipment, will help create not only routine rescues, but also the miraculous ones.

I took personal pride in the midafternoon ceremony. As a former Baltimorean, I knew that one of the cranes was made possible by the generosity of Baltimoreans.

And I sat near Suzie Diamond Ben-David, another former Baltimorean, whose family in Baltimore continues to support the JNF. JT

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Arthur J. Magida found layer upon layer of intrigue in the life of Erik Jan Hanussen.

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ago, Arthur J. Magida was heavily invested in a book called “The Rise Of The Indian Rope Trick” when he read a paragraph about a man who thought he had figured out that legendary illusion — Erik Jan Hanussen, identified as “Hitler’s Jewish clairvoyant.”

“That was startling,” Magida says, leaning forward in his ever-engaging style, a cup of morning Joe to his right, at the Mount Washington Starbucks.

“So the next day, literally, I started doing research on Hanussen,” says the author, also known around town as the writer in residence for the University of Baltimore. “I found it truly more bizarre and insane than any story should be — and also tragic. Some of the tragedy emerged from Hanussen’s overwhelming ambition, that he was going

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to fool audiences and even Nazis — and as we now know, nobody fooled the Nazis.”

Now, several years later and following three trips to Europe, poring through dozens of books and paring down the massively complicated backdrop of 1920s and 1930s Berlin, the result is the recently released “The Nazi Seance: The Strange Story Of The Jewish Psychic In Hitler’s Circle” (Palgrave Macmillan).

If Hanussen’s name rings familiar to some, it is likely from the 2001 Werner Herzog film “Invincible,” starring Tim Roth. But Magida warns that work and others are at least as much fiction as reality.

“A lot of what’s out there about this guy is totally false,” he says.

“Don’t believe it. I know the degree of research that I did, and I know the fallacies that are out there.”

So Magida, a former BAlTIMORE JEWISH TIMES senior editor, went out to set the historical record straight while telling a remarkable tale in his enjoyably written, well-researched style.

Along the way, he learned that Hanussen had a now-90-year-old daughter — a child of his second failed marriage — still living in Merano in northern Italy. Off he went to meet Erika Steinschneider-Fuchs.

“Her room is a shrine to her father” whom she barely knew, Magida says, due to her parents’ divorce when she was a little girl. “In many ways, it made it more real because until then he was a distant historical character,” he says.

In Berlin, he met with the “robust 99-year-old” Martin Schaaf, an expert on Germany’s circuses and vaudeville — and likely the last living person to have seen Hanussen perform.

“How blessed and lucky I was that some of these people were still alive, and through sheer doggedness I was

able to talk to them,” Magida says. “at was especially true with Erika. With her, my book became much sadder.”

Magida found he needed to write much more than an interesting biography. Take, for example, the 1933 Reichstag fire, which featured prominently into Hitler’s solidifying power, as well as Hanussen’s demise for his apparently hinting at it to audiences.

“I had assumed, ‘Who doesn’t know about the Reichstag fire?’”

Magida asks. But when mentioning it to people that he “thought were welleducated and knew about history and the Nazi era,” he learned otherwise.

“The whole story is bizarrely insane.”

— Arthur J. Magida

“I was stunned,” he says. “I began to realize that this story, because of its quirkiness, would attract people who were not necessarily interested in the Nazis or even European history, but it might attract those more interested in the occult and mysticism and magic, and that it could be a vehicle to inform people about this history.”

Indeed, Hanussen’s story alone is remarkable, delving into the history of magic, the occult, European circuses, power struggles within the Nazi movement, pre-Nazi Berlin’s chaotic political battles between democrats, socialists, communists and Nazis, and more.

For his part, Hanussen was born in

Austria as Hermann Steinschneider.

In his own biography, he writes of running away, having affairs with older women, and realizing he had a gift.

By the 1920s, he was a celebrated mentalist and clairvoyant — even using those powers to dramatically win a court trial against him. He toured Europe and eventually the United States. But despite the ability to leave Germany as the Nazis cemented their power, he ironically returned to Berlin — the one place he felt best protected.

That’s because Hanussen had been lending money to high-ranking Nazis who were in turn his protectors, particularly Count Wolf-Henrich von Helldorf, an early SS leader and organizer of pogroms against Berlin’s Jews, and someone eventually executed for participating in a plot to kill Hitler.

But what about Hitler and Hanussen? Stories abound, starting back in the early 1920s when Hanussen allegedly taught the future Fuhrer how to captivate audiences. But Magida’s research showed their meeting in mid-1932, back when Hanussen turned his private newspaper into a pro-Nazi organ.

“I do have accounts of Hitler and Hanussen having these whispered conversations in the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin that Hitler had turned into his unofficial headquarters, and I have accounts from Hanussen’s associates that Hitler and Hanussen often spoke on the phone,” Magida says.

Hanussen had a secret — that he was a Jew — and German socialists, seeking to discredit the Nazis, let the world know it in their own newspaper.

Still, Nazis such as Helldorf continued to associate with Hanussen.

Eventually, however, the Nazi internal power struggles were too much

and Nazi IOUs written out to Hanussen were more of liability than a protection. So one night, the oncecelebrated entertainer’s body had three bullets pumped into it and was then dumped in a forest. It was March 1933. He was 43.

It’s all part of the complicated, fascinating weave that forms a life simultaneously tragic, pathetic and fascinating.

Magida’s final judgment on his subject: “This guy was foolish enough that eventually he believed he was not an actor, he was truly a conjurer and one who could manipulate forces beyond the control of the rest of us.

“Who could foretell [what the Nazis would do to him and others]?

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create a bit of a hubbub and make some noise.”

And, of course, to generate orders and positive media coverage. But does Tel Aviv have any chance of becoming a major stop on the fashion circuit? lev says he’s already planning another Fashion Week for next April.

He’s intent on getting Israeli-American Elie Tahari as well as Ralph lauren, Calvin Klein, Italian designer Miuccia Prada and fashion luxury house Dolce & Gabbana on board. Everyone is just “two phone calls away,” lev says.

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The challenge is to get everyone to Israel, and the country’s reputation as a dangerous place — albeit undeserved — makes it an uphill fight.

“We have to battle with a Wild West existence,” says designer Dorit Frankfurt, who heads a well-established Israeli label that exports overseas.

Frankfurt, who has manufactured her collection since 1983 at her own factory in Tel Aviv, showcased her spring collection during Fashion Week.

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women who also served as a mentor on the one season of “Project Runway Israel,” says Tel Aviv Fashion Week — referred to here as TlV FW, in Fashion TV style — was an opportunity to show the world that “we’re not just about bombs.”

“We’re very clever,” Kedem says, referring to his fellow design colleagues.

“But we are different because of this place. We have passion, and we have to grab our opportunities because no one can take our inspiration from us.” lev and his partner Motty Reif, a

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last week’s inaugural Tel Aviv Fashion Week proved what they’ve known for years: Israeli fashion is creative, current and worthy of worldwide attention — and, hopefully, sales.

“I wanted to help my business and help my country,” says organizer Ofir lev, deputy CEO of the Israel Textile and Fashion Association and a former model. “I wanted to show that there is fashion and creativity in Israel.” lev drew on his extensive contacts abroad to bring together foreign fashion writers and Italian star designer Roberto Cavalli in Tel Aviv for the three-day fashion fest.

While the Israeli fashion scene has been around for decades, starting with lea Gottlieb and her Gottex swimwear empire, it has been many years since there was any kind of public fashion extravaganza.

In the 1970s, a fashion week was held twice a year at the Tel Aviv Hilton, recalls designer Gideon Oberson, who is also known for his swimsuits, and buyers came from the United States and Europe. But the Israeli manufacturing industry then was quite different, with at least a dozen fashion companies manufacturing entire collections for export.

“Now we don’t have companies doing fashion, but we have solo designers, at least four or five talented ones emerging each year,” Oberson says. “I think this fashion week was created to offer information, to

producer known for Beverly Hills Fashion Week, say Israel’s security situation is part of what encourages Israeli fashion creativity.

“It’s not an easy life here; it pushes us to be very creative, makes us think differently and improvise,” lev says.

“We’re brave because of the situation we live in.”

Designers had to spend some $7,000 each on runway shows, and some of the younger designers split the costs, with each sharing a halfhour show with one or two others. lev estimated thas the week cost about $2 million, including costs for flying in Cavalli and the fashion writers, and putting them up at Tel Aviv hotels. He did snare some sponsorship, including from Maybelline USA and several Israeli companies, such as the women’s magazine HaIsha and retailer Renuar.

Still, it wasn’t easy. The city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa did not offer any financial assistance, except for free space at HaTachana, the recently refurbished Ottoman-era train station in Jaffa. lev likes to compare Israel to Denmark, a similarly sized country that sponsors a 2 million euro fashion week each year. “The growth of the Israeli design industry was 8 per-cent last year; that’s something,” he says. “That’s a lot and I want to show it off.” J T

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rowing up in Pikesville, David Israel tended to be more interested in becoming a rock star than being involved in space exploration.

But now, Israel, 44, finds himself as the principal investigator for a $200 million National Aeronautics and Space Administration project called the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration. According to NASA, the project gives scientists what they have long wanted — high-speed data rates and the potential streaming of highdefinition video from distances beyond the moon.

The LCRD project will offer numerous benefits to space exploration, according to Israel.

“The main benefit that we can get from laser communications is increasing the bandwidth of the data rate, and that’s where people can relate to that if you think about how your Internet connection has increased in your home or your workplace,” he says. “Suddenly, things that used to

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“With his wealth of experience with communication systems and his extensive knowledge of network architectures and systems, Dave is blazing the trail for how NASA will enable future communication capabilities using optical laser systems.”

— Michael Weiss, on David Israel

take forever to do happen instantaneously. Streaming TV straight to your cellphone, which seemed impossible, is now suddenly possible and exists. Those sorts of benefits have increased with data rates.

“Another part of it is that it is the same data rate as the existing communication system as the user or spacecraft

or satellite — the term we use is SWaP, size, weight and power,” he continues. “If someone wants to stay at a fixed data rate but use something smaller, that would be a benefit. It’s kind of like the basic cellphone, how the size has come down over the years, or laptop computers where there has been a reduction in the size weight power.

“Another aspect of the communication is using the light and laser that requires the precision timing operating at a higher wavelength and helps operate the spacecraft more efficiently. It will help you better know where your position is by communicating over the laser.”

For Israel, talking in such “data speak” and spewing wonky NASA jargon is now like rolling off a log.

Joining NASA as a civil service employee in 1989, Israel is currently a space communications manager. He was originally part of a group that submitted a proposal for project funding, competing against many other bids.

“Last March, there was a call for proposals that came out,” he says. “The origin of the idea for this was not mine. There are other people on the project who have been working on communications for much longer than I have, but I ended up as the principal investigator.

“It was a combination of circumstances,” Israel says.

“One is the division I am in, and the other is there will be other experiments with laser communications. The goal of this experiment and mission is to be more than just about the laser communications itself. That’s the part that gets most of the press, and it’s kind of cool. We even made a video. There’s other parts — operating relays and how we would go about using them, that’s more in line with what I have been doing over the years than the laser stuff itself. There was a team of us that worked on the proposal and as the [principal investigator] I was the lead for the team. But it was quite a group of people who had to come together quickly to put together the proposal.”

December 2016 is when a spacecraft is due to launch carrying the fruits of Israel’s and his team’s labors. “We’ll be flying on a commercial satellite. Once we get in orbit, we plan to have at least two years of operation and that’s when we’ll be doing all the experiments,” he says.

Five years seems like substantial lead time for a project, but Israel says he still has concerns.

“If anything, we’re worried about the schedule,” he admits. “The way these projects work, they take a number of years, especially when there is some technology being developed that’s needed. We have to build the test

facilities, infrastructure and technology itself. It’s all part of it. After three years, we’ll have a ground-based demonstration. We’ll show it working in a lab at Goddard Space Flight Center [in Greenbelt]. At that point, we’ll take two years to produce the space flight hardware. We’ll test it all out for the environment of space flight conditions and integrate it all onto the spacecra before it gets launched.”

The David Israel File • Age: 44 • Lives in Elkridge with his wife, Karen, and son, Isaac • Members of Oseh Shalom Synagogue in Laurel • Pikesville High School Class of 1985 • Bachelor of science degree from Johns Hopkins University, 1989 • Master’s degree from George Washington University, 1996 • Space communications manager for NASA • Principal investigator for Laser Communications Relay Demonstration project • Specialties include spacecraft transponders and communications systems, satellite communications ground terminals, spread spectrum systems, and the extension of Internet protocols to space • Received Space Flight Awareness Honoree award for the lead of a shuttle return link system in 1995

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“A lot of people I work with have a background as ham radio operators. I kind of have a dream job for ham radio operators, but I was never one of them.”

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Israel will get to work closely on this project with Bernie Edwards, a friend, colleague and previous classmate.

“Bernie is the co-investigator. He’s actually the one who came up with the idea,” Israel says. “He’s also the chief engineer on the project. He’s been working with flight demonstrations for over 10 years. The interesting thing about Bernie is that we actually met as freshmen at [ Johns] Hopkins [University] in the fall of ’85. We were lab partners back then, so he was the one who actually talked me into applying for NASA. He was in the Air Force ROTC so he had to go into the Air Force. He’s the one who said, ‘David, you should really go to work for NASA.’ We sort of lost touch, then he tracked me down 10 years later and I was able to recruit him back to NASA.”

A Perfect Fit

While a student at Pikesville High School, Israel, a 1985 graduate, demonstrated a proficiency in math and science, and he also enjoyed tinkering.

“I was always good at math and science,” he says.

“What’s interesting to me is, I remember knowing I was interested in computers when they first came out. I wrote some basic software for a friend in high school whose dad had a clothing store. I wrote some software to help him keep his inventory and stuff like that.

“The thing was, I didn’t know what engineers were until it became time to apply for college,” Israel says. “I’m different from a lot of the people I work with in that I always thought that what NASA did was cool, but I wasn’t the type of kid whose dream it was to be an astronaut.

I was a kid whose dream it was to be a rock star. A lot

of people I work with have a background as ham radio operators. I kind of have a dream job for ham radio operators, but I was never one of them. When I was a kid in high school, I was taking apart pieces of stereo equipment and trying to put it together to try and build a home studio sort of thing.”

After graduating from high school, Israel attended Hopkins and earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, as well as a master’s degree in electrical engineering/satellite communications from George Washington University. His career with NASA to date has suitably prepared him to be the principal investigator for the LCRD. “Since I started, I’ve always been working in the area related to space communications and satellite communications,” Israel says. “I was the P.I. [principal investigator] for a different experiment for the Columbia mission in 2003. A big area of my work has been in the area of space Internet and networking, understanding how the Internet works and applying them to our mission.”

LCRD project manager Michael Weiss says Israel is an ideal fit for this job.

“David is just the right person to define the communication systems of the future and lay out the development path that gets us there,” Weiss says. “With his wealth of experience with communication systems and his extensive knowledge of network architectures and systems, Dave is blazing the trail for how NASA will enable future communication capabilities using optical laser systems.”

Israel notes that some other interesting highlights and projects in which he has been involved were helping to connect the South Pole with the rest of the world over the

Internet. “The system we put in was the one when the doctor [ Jerri Nelson in 2009] down there diagnosed herself with breast cancer,” he says. “They were using that link to do that. I designed other com systems that have been used at the North Pole and South Pole, and various places I’ve traveled around. The common denominator is it’s all related to satellite communications.”

Israel’s travels have taken him to Antarctica and Australia. His new project will include short visits to Huntsville, Ala. and Boston, and once the ground stations are built in a few years, he will venture to California and Hawaii.

While his day job pays the bills, Israel says he still enjoys writing and performing music. He is adept at playing the guitar, mandolin, dobro and accordion. But as a married father to a nearly 2-year-old son, Isaac, Israel says he doesn’t get to play music as much as he used to while in his punk rock group, called National Razor FDIC. “Until two years ago, and for the previous 20 years, I was living on Fort Avenue in South Baltimore,” Israel says. “There was a long stretch of time, beginning in 2003, when every other Sunday a group of us would get together and play music at a corner bar. Those don’t happen as often as they used to. Periodically, we’ll do it at someone’s house or Captain Larry’s down there.”

As far as his lingering rock star aspirations, Israel says, “I definitely enjoy being a NASA engineer. I did enough to understand how hard it is to make it in music. Having a kid and a good day job is a good thing. I do enjoy playing and plan on continuing playing. It would be nice to be a successful singer/songwriter, but I’m not so sure I’m into the idea of being a stadium rock star anymore.”

(He notes that he is co-writing a rock opera based on the Battle of Fort McHenry and is pursuing grant funding for performances tied to the upcoming 200th anniversary.)

For the past two years, Israel and his wife, Karen, have lived in Elkridge, and they recently joined the Oseh Shalom Congregation in Laurel.

“This was a pretty big deal, particularly for me, because my family has been longtime members of Chizuk Amuno, and that’s where my wife and I got married and where I was bar mitzvah- ed,” Israel said.

The Big Payload

Because of the duration of the LCRD project, Israel says he is fairly certain that he will be employed for many years. Even if a project like the LCRD becomes subject to a budget cut at some point in the future, a person with his knowledge and experience would be in great demand.

David Israel is co-writing a rock opera based on the Battle of Fort McHenry and is pursuing grant funding for performances tied to the upcoming 200th anniversary.

“I’ve been fortunate in that there has been no shortage of job security,” Israel says. “The great thing about being in the communications business is, it doesn’t matter whether you’re going to the moon or we want to send telescopes to look at black holes or we want to send science missions to look at global warming, no matter what, they all need a communications link.

“If you’re kind of part of that, you kind of have some built-in security. Everyone needs to communicate, no matter where they are going.”

When the payload lifts off in 2016, Israel says it will be exciting, but the feeling will be short-lived.

“In a lot of ways, it’s a big milestone when it launches, but the few years in operation when the whole new phase of the work will just be starting is the main thing,” he says.

“When we get the payload off the ground, when I was the P.I. for the shuttle experiment, I remember very well the moment the shuttle launched and it was exciting and I was

elated when it went into space. There was a brief moment of celebration, but then it was time to get back to work. In this case, it will be very exciting to get it up on orbit, and then there will be at least two years of work after that to operate it and do all the experiments.

“That should be plenty exciting, and then when we get to 2019 or 2020 and I realize what it’s done, I hope it’s the experience. This is why I like working for NASA, that I can point to it and say this is something I was able to contribute, what I’ve been a part of.” JT Stacy Karten is a local freelance writer.

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returned home from a business trip and his wife, Lynn, pointed out a notice in Temple Isaiah’s monthly bulletin that the synagogue was looking for a new choir director. at that point, the Kohens, who live in ellicott City, had only belonged to the Fulton temple for three years, but Marshall had directed choirs in the past as well as been involved with other musical endeavors.

“It’s a passion for me,” Kohen, a senior program manager for the nuclear regulatory Commission in rockville, says of his avocation. “I’ve always been a musical person.”

What he found was a strong shidduch, or match, between himself and the members of the choir, which he has grown from 11 to 23 lay people. “right from the get-go, they bought into my philosophy,” he says.

“I think I’ve pushed them way past where they were. They had a great choir director before, but they had been singing mostly in unison. I wanted them to sing three- and fourpart harmonies. I wanted something more complex. ... These folks have been so phenomenal to me. no egos or prima donnas. They love it all, too, and the congregation has wrapped its arms around them.”

That’s why, for the culmination event of Isaiah’s yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary, Kohen wanted to do something special —

and musical, of course. Tomorrow night, Dec. 3, he and Shir Isaiah, the shul’s choir, will be among the performers at “From Then To Tomorrow: a Musical Celebration of Temple Isaiah’s 40 years.”

The gathering, to be held in the temple’s sanctuary, also will feature Isaiah’s cantorial soloist, Becca grad; Kol Sasson, an a cappella group from the University of Maryland, College Park; professional new york City singer, actor and filmmaker (and former Isaiah congregant) Josh Davis; and local musicians Tim adams and elizabeth gillespie. The musical segments will include Broadway selections, old-style choral pieces and samplings of other genres.

four-movement piece, each dealing with a theme of each decade of the synagogue. What I wanted to do was honor the past but also envision the future. I’m not sure I’d call it a history, but I wanted to hit on the prevalent aspects of the congregation over the decades.”

The work — which will be video recorded — will be performed by Shir Isaiah with accompaniment by a pianist, cellist and violinist, all of whom are local college and high school students.

“I’ve always felt it’s important to involve kids in our services, to show the future and to give them experience,” says Kohen, a native of Columbus, ohio, who grew up in Harrisonburg, va.

“From Then To Tomorrow” is largely a classical and liturgical piece, with flourishes of east european folk music and some modern elements.

“It’s got a little bit of everything for

everyone,” says Kohen, who will conduct the performance.

The first movement, titled “Beginnings,” evokes Isaiah’s early days during the infancy of the planned community of Columbia. e temple, which currently has a membership of approximately 420 families, back then held services in an interfaith meeting house facility, as envisioned for congregations by Columbia’s Utopian-minded founders.

“Beginnings” employs Torah passages and images throughout the piece, and Kohen occasionally turned for help on such matters (and Hebrew grammar issues) to his sister, rabbi elissa Sachs-Kohen of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. The bulk of the movement involves biblical passages that can be considered “beginnings,” including the aftermath of noah and the flood, the death of See e Song of Isaiah on page 36

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Kohen also discovered a poem about journeys online, penned by an anonymous writer, and converted it into a solo for grad.

The second movement, “growth,” deals with the temple’s development in membership and mission, its adolescence, if you will. “That phrase p’ru u’rvu, be fruitful and multiply, drives the movement,” Kohen says. “It has a tribal feel.”

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The third movement, “L’chu V’naaleh,” borrows its title from Isaiah 2:3, which translates as, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the god of Jacob.” That biblical allusion was etched into an inscription that hangs over the ner tamid, or eternal light, on the temple’s bimah, as directed by rabbi Mark J. Panoff, spiritual leader of Temple Isaiah for the past 27 years.

“It’s a ballad about going up to the mountain,” Kohen says of the third movement. “It’s about the ’90s, which were a transitional period here at Temple Isaiah.”

The fourth movement, “Beiteinu,” or “our House,” deals with Isaiah’s 2004 relocation to its own 23-acre campus in Fulton, on the southern tip of Howard County. “I wanted

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to talk not only about the building we built but what it means to us as a house of worship, a house of community, a house of study and a house of compassion,” Kohen says of the movement.

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“I remember when I finished the last note and I held my hands on my head,” Kohen says. “It was such a great feeling of satisfaction. I think when [the choir] perform[s] it, it sounds great. We have put considerably more time into this piece than others we’ve done.” at the same time, he says he wanted the program in general to have an eclectic feel. The evening’s second portion will feature performances of songs by the greatest Jewish Broadway tunesmiths of the past four decades — Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz and andrew Lippa — sung by Kohen, grad, Davis, adams and gillespie.

The final component of the program will feature Kol Sasson. “I saw them live about six or eight months ago at adas Israel [Synagogue in Washington, D.C.] at a Jewish collegiate a cappella sing-off,” says Kohen.

“They’re pretty amazing and came in second place. I expect a wide variety of styles from them.” emceed by congregant Jeff Kudisch, the musical celebration will be preceded by a short Havdalah service — led by rabbi Panoff and rachel Petroff-Kessler, Isaiah’s family educator — and followed by a dessert reception. although the evening is a celebration of Isaiah’s milestone, Kohen says he hopes the Jewish and Howard County communities at large will

attend. “is is a night of music that’s accessible for everyone,” he says. “at’s why I told the choir members and others to tell their friends. I think we’ve done that, spread the word.”

With rabbi Panoff retiring next June — and a new spiritual leader expected to be hired by the start of next month — Kohen says he wants the concert to leave fellow congregants contemplating the future. Like the Children of Israel, they’ve reached a certain place after 40 years of journeying in the wilderness, but now enter a period of uncertainty without a familiar, trusted and beloved leader. “rabbi Panoff has been instrumental and irreplaceable in getting us where we are,” he says. “But what are we going to do for the next 40 years, to build and grow? That’s something our membership needs to figure out.”

With its prime location in a rural but rapidly developing community between Baltimore and Washington, and the sizable number of unaffiliated Jewish families living in Howard County, Kohen says Isaiah must continue to build on reaching out to prospective congregants.

“We have to keep our sense of being Temple Isaiah but attract people to help us grow and build a broader sense of community,” he says. “We have a lot to recommend us, but we also have to reach people where they live. There are a lot of opportunities here.” JT

“From Then To Tomorrow: A Musical Celebration Of Temple Isaiah’s 40 Years” will be held tomorrow, Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Isaiah, 12200 Scaggsville Road in Fulton. Tickets in advance are $36, $40 at the door, and $20 for students. All proceeds benefit the temple’s cultural arts fund.

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“She is one of those kids who has something special,” says young, who manages union and non-union talent from her Silver Spring office. “She’s a gorgeous little kid and she’s so expressive.”

Her strongest feature, young says, are her “dancing eyes — look at them and you can see the energy that she wants this more than anything in the world.” young has booked Madelyn for print advertisements just by showing her picture. But she also has a resume with experience in print, movies and on stage, young says.

“She’s definitely a strong little actress,” says young. “anything in [Madelyn’s] age range, or if not, I get them to stretch it to be included.”

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As far as I can tell, there have never been two popular Jewish rap acts operating at the same time.

You had the Beastie Boys, and then you had Drake, and now there’s Drake and Mac Miller, at the same time, together.

Beyond religion, there’s not much to compare. One (Drake) is a mixed-race Canadian rapper signed to the New Orleans label Young Money, which is run by Lil Wayne; the other (Miller) is a teenage white kid from Pittsburgh signed to his friend’s local label, Rostrum Records. Thanks to the now-fractured nature of music, the two have been able to become fantastically successful without ever encountering each other on their journeys to the top.

Drake, an oft-maligned but commercially and creatively successful prodigy of the Lil Wayne Star Academy, has been a fixture between the worlds of R&B and rap since his first single, “Best I Ever Had,” dropped in 2009. That song was downloaded more than 2 million times and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Drake has

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won BET Awards, should have won Grammys, and is nothing but a star, straddling a dozen markets like only a handful of contemporaries — Rick Ross, Kanye, Lil Wayne — can. He just released “Take Care,” only his second record, which is projected, by MTV anyway, to sell 725,000 copies.

In the other corner, you’ve got Mac Miller. Only 19, Miller has risen through a vastly different network.

Given an entry point via fellow Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa, Miller’s march to success has been intertwined with social media, post-MySpace, and he’s played that game as well as anyone.

Starting with 2010’s mix tape “K.I.D.S,” he’s been seen on singles charts, garnering a massive following on Facebook and Twitter. In a year, he went from 30,000 Facebook fans to 1.2 million, and those fans turned out to be the type who bought records.

He released a mix tape called “I Love You, ank You” to celebrate when he reached 1 million Twitter followers, and his “Blue Slide Park” has sold 144,000 copies, making it recently the No. 1 album in America.

Miller’s music is entirely different from Drake’s; his songs are consistently earnest attempts at partying with the occasional choral keyboard beats like in his first hit, “Donald Trump.” It’s “Frat Rap,” a genre that includes the music of contemporaries like Sam Adams, Hoodie Allen and a dozen other rappers known only to select segments of the Internet

population. He’s the kind of songwriter who believes it’s charming to say how successful you are, and to describe your success vaguely enough that someone could apply anything you say to nearly any situation.

Miller is all about the rise, a seemingly never-ending quest that flows through nearly every song he’s recorded, certainly every song on “Blue Slide Park.” e constant striving seems to fit with the ever-expanding number of social followers, the ability to chart his own growth numerically, one follower at a time. On “Party On Fifth Ave,” far and away “Slide Park’s” best track, Miller uses electronic beats and mixes soul samples, as Drake does on “Take Care,” but he filters them down to their lightest elements.

Most of Miller’s other tracks are so light they’re practically weightless, bouncing off each other with a joyful abandon that can quickly become tiresome. He’s said that he’s wanted to “appeal to hip-hop heads and people who grew up listening to the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and the Sex Pistols,” although there is nothing on this album that would lead you to believe he had ever heard a single track off of “Never Mind the Bollocks,” let alone “Houses of the Holy.”

deeply personal Marvin of “Here, My Dear.”

An album chronicling an excoriating divorce, “Here, My Dear” shows the pain of a man pushed to the edge by his own weaknesses and celebrity. Even though, as far as we know, Drake hasn’t suffered any pain similar or equivalent to Gaye’s, his “Take Care” works because it feels so honest and raw. On a track

Most of Miller’s other tracks are so light they’re practically weightless, bouncing off each other with a joyful abandon that can quickly become tiresome.

Channeling Marvin Drake, on the other hand, has been propelled by people like West and Wayne into creating “Take Care,” a record so momentous it feels like it could transform an entire genre.

Since 2003, with Kanye’s “Slow Jamz,” a certain segment of rap has been undergoing a Marvin-ification, combining modern electronic beats with the soul instrumentals of Marvin Gaye and Luther Vandross, with violins and choral voices layered on top. A bookend to West’s masterpiece “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” Drake’s latest is a massive leap forward for an already talented artist. Drake successfully combines Gaye and rap, but he has chosen the least-known version of Gaye, the depressed and

rightly titled “Marvin’s Room,” he recounts drunk-dialing an old girlfriend just to rub his success in her face and try to sleep with her, with no real resolution.

Heavy drums and light electronic bloops play underneath, like a steady heartbeat, operating without any knowledge of what’s being said. He has collapsed in the song, needing any sort of validation, and it just drifts into an ending piano riff, lost in celebrity. Drake isn’tthe first person to talk about such a situation, but he doesn’t break into anger, embracing but never seeming at home with fame. In “Lord Knows,” jumping off a lightning

On one of his tracks, Mac Miller drops a Holocaust reference.

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But Jewishness never seems to define or concern them. They seem equally earnest, yet they never manage to mention a problem similar to the other’s, despite coming from similar socio-economic backgrounds and cities, Pittsburgh and Toronto, with the same chips on their shoulders.

They’ve used completely different means to attain the same wattage, with completely different audiences.

That’s how the Golden Age of Jewish Rap is going to play out: divided, with its stars on opposite sides of the spectrum. It’d be a surprise to see either artist leaving the persona he has carved out, incessantly flirty partier or tortured playboy. It’d be easy to concede the trophy to Drake at this point, but Miller has room to grow.

If there has to be a King of Frat Rap, let it be him, the one with the best flow and most energy. “Take Care” is a modern-day think piece, designed to poke and prod its creator while simultaneously appeasing his ego. Miller’s “Blue Slide Park” is a pretty bad album with occasional moments of hope, and is guaranteed to be a financial success.

One for the soul, and one for the bank. Not bad, as far as golden ages go. JT,

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Kinigopoulos heard from the rapper’s management team, much to his shock and delight. Although they apologized for the late notice, they wanted to know if he could make a documentary about Matisyahu — in a day.

“We shot for the whole day,” says Kinigopoulos. “We picked him up at 1 [in the afternoon], and he left at 12:30 [in the morning].”

The film focuses on a typical day in the life of Matisyahu, warts and all. For a film crew, Kinigopoulos recruited his sister, Alexa, who is a prop assistant in the film industry; his roommate, Anthony Hart, who oversaw cinematography; two camera operators, Josef Hensgens and Jules Bactad; and soundman Clay Smith.

“We just all just happened to be fans who were aspiring filmmakers with an opportunity of a lifetime,” says Kinigopoulos. “I felt like this was our time to kind of make that jump from amateurs to pros. It was a big opportunity, and we needed to deliver.”

Kinigopoulos describes Matisyahu as a unique artist, one who touches him on a personal level.

“The thing that attracts me to Matis is his message,” he says. “His music is crafted in the light. It’s thought-provoking. When I first started exploring my spiritual nature, I heard him for the first time. ‘Warrior’ was playing. I was on a balcony at York College as my friend, Russell, played it on an iPod stereo. It was very moving for me at the time. I was really trying to get to know myself on all phases and what I wanted out of this life. The song soothed me. It spoke to me. Ever since that day, I have been listening to Matisyahu.” e filmmaker says he got to know the 32-year-old rapper fairly well during their all too brief time together. He says the film has a “kind of a dark undertone” that shows Matisyahu’s occasional fatigue from the touring grind.

“When Matis would speak, I felt

like everyone would get real quiet to hear him,” Kinigopoulos says. “He was a very humble man with a strong presence. We did interact a lot. I even picked him up from the airport.

When I met him, the first thing he said to me was, ‘Nice to meet you. Do you have room in your car?’ So that, too, was a surreal experience, driving Matis from the airport to the House of Blues. On the way to the House of Blues, we talked about other music that we liked, such as the Icelandic band Sigur Ros.” The 15-minute film, titled “One Day With Matisyahu,” has been completely shot and edited and is set to be released on Matisyahu’s website (matisyahuworld.com) this month. “[Matisyahu’s production company] wanted it to be a short so we could possibly enter it into the short category at film festivals,” says Kinigopoulos.

Right now, Kinigopoulos, who lists “Black Swan” director Darren Aronofsky as a major influence, is working on his second music video for the Baton Rouge-based rock band England In 1819. For the first time in his life, he feels that his future is limitless.

“These past few months have made me proud,” says Kinigopoulos, who plans to relocate either in Maryland or New Mexico in the near future. “I believe in what I do. I see my own potential. In my school years, I was kind of talked down to. My teachers were sometimes really mean and not helpful. It was awful. It made me not want to ever speak in class. Now, I realize I was just misunderstood. I’m an artist, not a test taker. I have a different intelligence. One is not inferior to the other. Just different.” JT To see the trailer for “One Day With Matisyahu,” visit youtube. com/watch?v=WU1Oz0Re4M4 .

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God Revealed RABBI LAWRENCE Kushner relates a wonderful story about his book, “God Was In is Place And I, I Did Not Know” (1991, Jewish Lights). e title was so lengthy that when the first prepublication proofs arrived in the mail, the only words that fit on the box were, “God Proofs.”

Wouldn’t we all like to receive a box like this? — Proof of God’s existence, the answers to life’s most elusive questions all tied up with packing twine?

But evidence of a sort did present itself last week as I was trying to find a minyan to say Kaddish. We spent the anksgiving holiday in Ann Arbor with my in-laws. My father’s yahrzeit began ursday evening as Michiganders near Detroit were mourning yet another anksgiving Day football loss, the Ravens were lacing up their spikes for an exciting win and the entire country was sitting down to turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce. e previous day we had called around to research davening possibilities. ere were basically two Ann Arbor options. e first was the combined Orthodox Hillel/Chabad daily minyan. But with most students heading home for the holiday and the Chabadniks descending on Crown Heights, N.Y., for their annual shluchim convention, Hillel was a no-go. is le the Conservative shul.

According to their office staff, services J101 The earliest parts of the siddur, or Jewish prayer book, come from the Torah itself, such as the Shema Yisroel (Deut. 6:4) and the Priestly Blessing (Num. 6:24-26). The Amidah, or Shemoneh Esrei (once 18, now 19 blessings), was compiled by the rabbis in the 2nd century C.E.

were to be held at 7:30 on ursday night. So with a belly full of Empire kosher turkey and feeling a bit nervous and skeptical that we would assemble the requisite 10 Jews in the middle of anksgiving dinner, I strapped my 6-year-old daughter into the minivan and she, Miriam and I headed to Beth Israel Congregation.

As we pulled into the parking lot, we saw a number of other cars doing the same. Some of the attendees were saying Kaddish themselves. Others were regulars. Multiple vehicles boasted Jews of several generations who had piled into their vehicles, interrupting their family time to make sure there would be a minyan. At final count, 20 of us filed into the small chapel. It was a perfunctory service with few flashy melodies and little ceremony.

Our hosts were warm but not effusive. It was mitzvah-doing at its finest.

And as I glanced about the room at men, women, teenagers, seniors, a woman sporting a prominent nose ring holding her toddler, I thought of my father gone seven years and how much he liked people of all stripes. And I had a stirring feeling that God was in this place and the Kadosh Baruch Hu was showing me exactly what I had to be thankful for.

Kushner’s book takes its title from this week’s Torah portion in which Jacob, fleeing his brother Esau, dreams of a ladder and angels and famously asserts his utter surprise that God would be present in such an unremarkable place (Gen. 28:16). Jacob’s epiphany is an invitation to us all.

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ROtHMan—iliFF Harold and elaine Rothman are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, amy, to Christina iliff, daughter of terri Krysiak. amy and Christina currently reside in

new Jersey. amy is a graduate of University of Pittsburgh and is the director of retail operations for aerosoles.

Christina attended trenton state College and is a communications officer for the Princeton township Police Department. amy is the granddaughter of the late Herbert and Doris scherr, the late sydney a. esterson and the late sam and Helen Rothman.

Christina is the granddaughter of the late Barbara and Charles C. iliff Jr. and the late Fredrick Fountain and Dena thomas. an October 2012 wedding is being planned.

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Maid of honor was Jenifer sirkis, sister of the bride. Bridesmaids were Melissa and Michelle Dorich, sisters of the groom, Dara Blatt, Rachel Klein, nicole Patton, lacie simpson, Cari white, Melissa Zaba and Rachel Zemel. Junior bridesmaid was Berlynn Matthews, cousin of the groom.

Best men were Brian Mueller and John Vogel. Groomsmen were John evans, Frank trionfo and Jeremy artigliere. Junior groomsman was Cole Katz, cousin of the bride. Ring bearers were Colton Givens-Grevey and Mats Kaustel, cousin of the bride. aer a honeymoon to the Bahamas, shelby and Jay reside in Pikesville.

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sinai seeks Volunteers Sinai Hospital is looking for volunteers for the gift shop and throughout the hospital. Flexible times are available. For more information, call 410-601-5023.

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sCHReiBeR Rick and lisa (nee Fineman) happily announce the birth of their son, evan Daniel, on Oct. 9, 2011. Proud big brother is adam Howard. evan’s Hebrew name is israel Baruch in loving memory of his paternal great-grandmother, lee Davis, and maternal great-grandmother, Beatrice Bodner. evan Daniel is also named for his paternal greatgrandmother, Dorothy schreiber. Proud grandparents are Mari and Kenny schreiber of Pikesville and Barbara and Murray Fineman of Cherry Hill, n.J. Send submissions on births, engagements, weddings, anniversaries and deaths via e-mail to plevin@jewishtimes.com or mail to Phyllis Levin, BJT, 1040 Park Ave., Suite 200, Baltimore, Md., 21201. Please send a stamped, selfaddressed envelope for returning photos. Items will be selected and edited at the discretion of the editors.

March in honor of the late civil rights activist and humanitarian, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts is seeking participants for the 12th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade, presented by Forman Mills, on Monday, Jan.16, 2012 at noon. Eligible applicants include regional honor/color guards, equestrian units, marching bands, cheer/dance squads, floats, military groups and civic organizations. Acceptance is based on experience, performance history, space availability and how the group reflects the legacy and mission of Dr. King. Deadline for submissions is Thursday, Dec.15, by 5 p.m. Applications are online at promotionandarts.com, located under the Events and Festivals link. For more information, visit the website or call 1-877-BALTIMORE.

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Sharpen your Spanish/English skills while having stimulating conversations about art and artists in Intercambio: Artful Language Exchange, a new series of bilingual gallery experiences held at the Walters Art Museum. Each session is conversational, and beginners as well as fluent speakers are invited to participate. The next meeting will be held on Sunday, Dec. 11 from 3-4 p.m. in the museum’s Centre Street lobby. For more information, call 410-547-9000, ext. 323 or visit thewalters.org .

COHen — On november 22, 2011, JeROMe, beloved husband of lillian Cohen (nee weiner), devoted father of Barry and Cathy Cohen and Benn Cohen, loving brother of the late lillian levinsky, Minna Kirsh and Ben samuel Cohen. also survived by six loving grandchildren. interment in arlington Cemetery, Chizuk amuno Congregation. Contributions to levindale Hebrew Home, 2434 w. Belvedere ave., Baltimore, Md., 21215.

HaMiltOn — On november 26, 2011, sOPHie elena, beloved daughter of sharon Benzil and Roque Gerald, loving sister of Benzil Hamilton. Cherished granddaughter of Philip and naomi Benzil, adored niece of Randy Benzil, Deborah Benzil and Paul Finch, dear cousin of Dina Benzil and Daniel Finch. interment in Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery. Contributions to washingtonians for Children.

HaRRis — On november 28, 2011, GeRtRUDe (nee Koren), beloved wife of the late Martin Harris, loving mother of Bryna and Jeff Gollin, cherished sister of the late eleanor Hoffman, Ruth Hartz, sarah Glin, norman Koren and Gerald “Jerry” Koren. adored grandmother of stuart Gollin and Juanita alicia and Daniel and Jaíaina Gollin, loving great-grandmother of Josh Gollin. interment in arlington Cemetery, Chizuk amuno Congregation. Contributions to Meridian Hospice Division of Meridian Health, 1350 Campus Parkway, neptune, n.J., 07753.

KUPeRMan — On november 28, 2011, CyntHia (nee Chaiet), beloved wife of lee Kuperman, cherished mother of scott and annette Kuperman, Michelle and Michael Caplan, devoted sister of Melvin and ann Chaiet. loving grandmother of eli Kuperman, ariella Caplan and shoshana Caplan, also survived by

other loving family and many dear friends. interment in Beth Jacob Cemetery. Contributions to talmudical academy, 4445 Old Court Road, Baltimore, Md., 21208 or american Friends of Magen David adom, 352 seventh ave., suite 400, new york, n.y., 10001 MaRGUlis — On november 27, 2011, DORis (nee Crane), loving wife of the late ira Margulis, beloved mother of shelly and alberto Reyes, Russell Margulis and fiancee nancy sachs, and the late Robert Margulis, cherished sister of aaron and lillian Crane and the late irvin Crane, Charles Crane and Freda emmer. adored grandmother of James and Kate Villone, abigail and Paul Herman and Zachary Margulis, dear great-grandmother of louis Villone, Henry Villone and elijah wolfe Herman. interment in Ohel yakov Beth israel Cemetery. nUssBaUM — On november 27, 2011, ReBa (nee Cohen), daughter of the late aaron and Mary Cohen, mother of Diane Bark of Baltimore and audrey Hunt of iowa, motherin-law of Benjamin Bark and David Hunt, sister of sylvia shapiro and the late Ruth Kronengold. Grandmother of Maxwell Bark and stephen, emily and amanda Hunt. Contributions to nF inc. Mid-atlantic, 3600 Clipper Mill Road, suite 240, Baltimore, Md., 21211.

ReisMan — On nov. 21, 2011, BeRnaRD, former resident of newton, Mass., husband of elaine (nee sokol) Reisman, father of Joel and Debby Reisman of newton, sharon and stephen Conway of Hartford, Mass., eric and sheryl Cooper Reisman of Baltimore, Robin and Richard Maltz of newton. Grandfather of sarah, Jacob, nomi, Kayla, lianna, Rachel, lily and Jeremy, brother of Donald and Harriet Reisman of Bayside, n.y., also survived by many nieces, See Obituaries on page 62

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silVeR — On november 24, 2011, stanley, beloved husband of Harriet silver (nee Cohen), devoted father of eileen and Harvey lillywhite, alan and Jodie silver, devoted brother of sigmund and Dorothy silver and the late Paul and natalie silver. loving grandfather of Jacob and andrew lillywhite, Jamie and Brian silver. interment in Beth tfiloh Cemetery. Contributions to Mildred Mindell Cancer Fund, 17 Branchwood Court, Baltimore, Md., 21208. stOne — On november 16, 2011, Jeanette BRanDleR, loving wife of Herbert stone, devoted mother of Michael and esty stone of israel, Richard stone and Brigitte Fredy of new Orleans and Carol Madow and Mark Diamond of Baltimore. loving grandmother of alan stone, naamah and schlomo Biton, lauren and Michael setzer, sagi stone, evan Madow, Rakefet stone and tuval stone, delighted greatgrandmother of shaked Biton, sister of albert Brandler of Brooklyn, n.y.

tRewiK — On november 22, 2011, saMUel, beloved husband of the late sara trewik (nee Zeller), dear brother of Frania tyk trzewik, Judel and Barek trzewik, loving uncle of Beatrice and Ronald shapiro, steven and Jessica Zeller, also survived by other loving great-nieces, great-nephews and friends. interment in Chevra ahavas Chesed.

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Further information can be obtained by reviewing the estate file in the office of the Register of Wills or by contacting the personal representative or the attorney.

All persons having any objection to the appointment (or to the probate of the decedent’s will) shall file their objections with the Register of Wills on or before the 7th day of May 2012.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim to the undersigned personal representative or file it with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned on or before the earlier of the following dates: (1) Six months from the date of the decedent’s death, except if the decedent died before October 1, 1992, nine months from the date of the decedent’s death; or (2) Two months after the personal representative mails or otherwise delivers to the creditor a copy of this published notice or other written notice, notifying the creditor that the claims will be barred unless the creditor presents the claim within two months from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. A claim not presented or filed on or before that date, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter. Claim forms may be obtained from the Register of Wills.

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Get lost … in yonkers The Jewish Theatre Workshop will present Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers” in February 2012. Auditions will be held at the Weinberg Park Heights JCC, 5700 Park Heights Ave., on the following dates: Sunday, Dec. 4, 1-4 p.m. in Straus Auditorium; Monday , Dec. 5, 7-8 p.m. in Community Meeting Room; Tuesday, Dec. 6, 7-8 p.m. in Room B-03; and Wednesday, Dec. 7, 7-8 p.m. in Room B-03. For more information call the JTW Hotline at 410-709-8589 or visit jewishtheatreworkshop.org .

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