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Contents

October 12, 2012 Vol. 328 No. 6 Candle lighting 6:14 p.m.

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Opinion Opening oughts, Editorials, From is View, Your Say …

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Local News Go Green Conference Jewish Federations of North America is working to reduce the 2012 GA’s carbon footprint

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In Our Own Backyard Maryland/Israel Development Center event will highlight local Israeli-owned companies

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Petition drive is launched to halt Solo Cup plant redevelopment

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Keep On Truckin’ — Elsewhere Restrictions along Brooks Robinson Drive ease residents’ concerns

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Nine Area Schools Focus On Energy Efficiency

National & International News Taking To The Streets Israelis rally in support of America at U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv

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Turmoil In The Middle East

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‘The Voice of The Yard’ Speaks

Justin Tsucalas

David Stuck

ree recent challenges shake Israeli society

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Down At The Pawn Shop

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Arts & Life Worth The Schlep

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Coming Up Rosi Eutaw Place music series will open new season on Oct. 18

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Les Is More Detroit pawnshop owner transitions to national celebrity

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Beyond George Costanza Jason Alexander will perform at Jewish Recovery Houses’ annual fundraiser on Nov. 3

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Style Spy

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Recipes: Got Leftovers?

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Comment: The ABCs of TBIs

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Community

Health & Nutrition

Beshert, Milestones, Obituaries David Stuck

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Gymnast Aly Raisman, 18, wowed the world this summer with her performances at the 2012 Olympics in London. Earning a gold medal for her floor exercise to Hava Nagila and a bronze medal for her routine on the balance beam, Raisman is one of eight athletes who will be inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum this coming April in Commack, N.Y. She will be inducted alongside David Berger, who is being honored posthumously. He was one of the Munich 11 killed by terrorists at the 1972 Olympic games.

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Canadian singer Alanis Morissette will close her Guardian Angel tour at Tel Aviv’s Nokia Arena on Dec. 3. e 38-year-old launched her world tour in August aer releasing her seventh album entitled “Havoc and Bright Lights.” is will be Morissette’s first performance in Israel since 2000.

Richard Belzer

Belzer Behaves Badly “Law & Order” star Richard Belzer exhibited some bad behavior when he appeared on Fox 5 in New York earlier this week for what was supposed to be a friendly interview.

After making a number of lewd jokes about the anchors of the morning show, Belzer turned to the camera and raised his arm in the Nazi salute,

saying “say ‘Heil!’ to all your colleagues at the other division.” A rep for the actor explained that Belzer’s Nazi joke was “a satirical gesture toward Fox News ... whose ideology he is opposed to.” This isn’t the first time Belzer has performed the offensive arm gesture; he gave the salute at a red-carpet event in June.

Only a superstar like Madonna could force an entire building of Kabbalists to await her arrival before starting Kol Nidre services at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.

“Madonna was the last to arrive, and it seemed like they were holding up the ceremony to wait for her,” the New York Post reported.

Wearing a bright purple sweat suit, the 54-year-old singer brought her daughter, Lourdes, and boyfriend, Brahim Zaibat, to the services.

“She came through a back entrance with her daughter and was seated in the front row.

Once she was seated, it could begin. All the men were in white, but Madonna had a loud track suit on. Also, there was her younger boyfriend who arrived wearing cream,” the New York Post source continued. “Madonna definitely set herself apart from everyone else. She is like the queen of Kabbalah.”

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Opening oughts Phil Jacobs

A Magical Season Yes, there are many more important events and issues to talk about rather than sports. the presidential debates have started. ere’s just so much going on. the other day, though, when I brought the newspaper in the house and the Baltimore Sun’s headline read “O’s In,” which meant they had qualified for the playoffs, my wife and I had tears in our eyes.

Maybe by the time this column has been read, the Orioles will have been eliminated from the playoffs. Better yet, they will be on their way to further glory.

Whatever happens, I just want to say thank you to the entire Orioles organization. there is something to “Orioles magic.” I’ve seen it uplift the entire city in a wonderful spirit. so many Shabbosim this summer, I would run downstairs early to greet the newspaper delivery man. My entire disposition could be determined by a win or a loss.

Kenneth Lasson, a University of Baltimore law professor and Jt contributor, has been my kindred spirit this summer. We both learned that when the O’s lose, we don’t read the paper, and we try to avoid any sports programming that involves going over the scoreboard.

We also learned another similar characteristic. When the O’s are behind in the game, most of the time we don’t want to watch. ere are just times when it was so excruciating to watch those one-run games that it was easier on the nerves to find out aer the game just how good the news was.

But whenever I was too timid to turn on the television, my phone would ring and it would be Ken. “Did you just see that play?” he asked me.

Ken and I have something else in common, the very real paternal pull to make sure that our grandchildren

are O’s fans. Ken has already had the joy of taking grandchildren to Camden Yards. When my grandson, Nani, is a little older than 21/2, his Nana Lisa and Poppy plan to take him to the Yards. We’ll make sure that he knows one day who Brooks robinson, Cal ripken, Frank robinson, earl Weaver and eddie Murray are. We’ve already gotten him his O’s hat, PJs and the orange-and-black t-shirt that reads “start them young, raise them right.”

There is something to “Orioles magic.” and yes, his Nana and Poppy have already provided him his first baseball mitt.

Our only challenge is that he lives in Connecticut, which is a hybrid of Yankees and red sox nations. It’s kind of like the fault line of Major League Baseball.

But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised of all the magic that this season has brought to us. It was in the fall of 1983 that I brought home the mother of my grandson from the hospital in a onesie, an orange-and-black onesie with an Oriole logo on it. e year — 1983. Just a few weeks before DeDe came to us as the world’s newest Orioles fan, the Birds had won the World series. ere was magic then. It has returned.

During the first days of sukkoth, so much conversation in the sukkah with our guests was about the Orioles. But win or lose, I think we’ll be talking about this team. their play on the field will make the winter that much warmer. JT

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Rabbi Ari Hart (left) and his friend, Muslim Anan Farooqui, protest anti-Islam attack ads in New York’s Times Square subway station.

Savage Ads e design of the ad is stark. Its message is simplistic.

Its potential consequences are incendiary: Muslims are savages. Muslims threaten Israel. “Civilized man” is at war with “them.” “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.

Support Israel. Defeat Jihad,” it reads.

This gratuitous attack on perhaps 1.6 billion people illustrates clearly what is wrong with extremism: It feeds its need for notoriety, but does nothing to solve the ill it purports to address.

These hateful attack ads do nothing to serve Israel’s security. Instead, they threaten to co-opt the rest of the Jewish community into the suffocating, black-and-white world of extremism.

The anti-Islam attack ads are part of blogger Pamela Geller and her American Freedom Defense Initiative’s “anti-jihad jihad.” The ads are scheduled to be displayed in Washington’s Metro system after federal court Judge Rosemary Collyer ruled last Friday that Metro cannot delay running them.

The ad has already been displayed in New York’s subway system, after a judge there also ruled them protected speech. But while the 1st Amendment and the law of the marketplace may allow the ads to be displayed, that result doesn’t have to be a victory for extremists — Jewish or otherwise.

Some see the “savage ad controversy” as an opportunity for opponents of both the ads and the ideology behind them to turn out and offer a counter message

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wherever the ads are displayed. Adding a human dimension next to each ad could make a statement for conciliation between people who oppose extremism. But that’s a reaction, not a solution.

Others see the importance of these ads only in the controversy they generate, believing that they are largely ignored, since Metro riders aren’t interested in ads – they want to get home. That’s a rationalization, not an answer.

And still others argue that the Jewish community doesn’t need to mobilize over a few attention-seeking haters. at’s a cop out.

We don’t purport to have an answer, but we offer the following observations: First, it will infringe on no one’s rights for Metro to place a disclaimer next to each ad. While hate speech may be legal within certain parameters, it doesn’t have to be embraced. Second, if Metro had a set of clear guidelines about extreme speech, it could limit the damage these kinds of ad controversies cause in the future. As it stands, Metro’s guidelines merely say that “advertising will not be accepted which is false, misleading or deceptive.” Experience tells us that isn’t enough. is time, the hate target is the Muslim community. Last time, the hate target was Israel. We simply see no reason to encourage any hate group to throw rhetorical bombs in our public transportation system.

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The Millennial Promise A new survey on Jews in their late teens and 20s is adding to the literature suggesting that the “millennials” may have stronger Jewish and pro-Israel identities than had been assumed. Among the findings of “Next Generation Advocacy: A Study of Young Israel Advocates,” released by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, is that young Jewish adults are tolerant in defining proIsrael activism and are well spread out along the political spectrum.

According to the researchers for the project, young millennial activists are more motivated by a strong Jewish identity than any political ideology.

And, as reported by Research Success Technologies in Israel, that identity is formed by family experiences, childhood education and Israel travel. Early interest in Israel is converted into what the study calls “Israel advocacy” by a young Jew’s participation in Israelrelated programs.

The study looked at Jews ages 17-30, a period when a young person moves from high school to college to post-degree life. It noted that, historically, Jewish organizations weren’t doing a good enough job inviting a young Jew’s participation each time he or she crossed into a new phase, and posits that more contacts at these crucial transitional junctures would lead to higher participation rates.

“Next Generation Advocacy” also pointed to a relatively high correlation between Israel activism and participation in Birthright Israel, the wildly popular and successful free 10-day trip to Israel for young adults. This appears to be another confirmation of the efficacy of the “Birthright Bump,” identified by a poll released in July by Workmen’s Circle. That survey also found that non-Orthodox Jews younger than 35 are substantially more attached to Israel than those of any other age group.

A third study, commissioned by Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, found that the Jewish consciousness of the millennial generation is rising, rather than falling. It, too, found a strong correlation between Jewish activity participation and connection to Israel.

While the focus of each of the three studies was somewhat different, the common theme in their results is compelling: The millennials are, indeed, our future, and we would do well to cultivate them, encourage them and to welcome their full participation in all aspects of Jewish life. These optimistic reports are good news. And we know our local and national communal organizations will take notice.

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From is View Robert O. Freedman

What To Do About the Sinai Since the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty, the Sinai Peninsula has been transformed from a buffer zone between Israel and Egypt with a limited Egyptian military presence into a major jihadist center that poses problems both for Israel and for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s government.

Besides Egypt and Israel, a third factor with an interest in the Sinai is the Multinational Force & Observers. It was initially established as a confidence-building instrument between Egypt and Israel, aimed at checking on violations. Now, it is an institution with a new role.

One of the problems facing Egyptian control in the Sinai lies in the fact that most of its inhabitants are not of Egyptian blood, but Bedouin, who have their origin in what is now Saudi Arabia. In addition, after recovering the Sinai

completely in 1982, Egypt invested in it very little, considering it a security problem. e one exception was the area around Sharm el-Sheikh, which earned significant foreign exchange for the Egyptian government. One of the grievances of the Sinai Bedouin was that they did not profit from the tourist trade. en, following the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007, Bedouin tribes in Sinai engaged in a profitable arms smuggling trade with Hamas. ey were involved in human trafficking, especially of Africans seeking to enter Israel illegally in search of work, and in drug smuggling as well. e Egyptian revolution of 2011 that led to the fall of the Mubarak government virtually eliminated the Egyptian security presence in the Sinai. This enabled jihadist groups to develop their networks in Sinai, in alliance with some

of the Bedouin tribes. ese groups then launched a series of attacks against Israel, killing a number of Israelis and also 16 Egyptian soldiers. e question is what to do about these attacks. If Israel, possibly with drones, seeks to kill the terrorists in the Sinai, that would be a violation of Egyptian sovereignty, and it would likely worsen their already deteriorating relations. e alternative would be for Egypt to crack down on the terrorists. is would require more military forces than are currently permitted in Sinai according to the 1979 treaty. Israel already has permitted Egypt to increase its forces in Sinai, but the Egyptians still have far too few military forces to deal with the Jihadists.

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If it weren’t for the Hebrew exit sign above the entrance to Ramle, I would have thought I wasn’t in Israel — or rather the Israel I’d always known. It was my first time in an Arab high school. I had come, as a component of my gap-year program, to attempt to build relationships with Arab students and engage in dialogue that hopefully would better our understanding of one another.

Each year, a significant number of Jewish high school graduates from all over the world spend a year studying in Israel. I was fortunate to be chosen to participate in “Kivunim: New Directions” through which I was able to live in Jerusalem and study history, politics, Hebrew and Arabic. We also visited many Jewish Diaspora communities in North Africa, Europe and Asia to learn more about their history and modern status and, as North American Jews, extend our support.

I had visited Israel before but had never been exposed to its largest minority. I had spent two summers living with my cousins, returning home believing I’d fully experienced life in Israel. I was excited, yet anxious, to be part of the first meaningful interaction these Arab high school students would ever have with their Jewish peers. There kids were Israeli citizens, but most had never had any kind of relationship with another Jew — Israeli or foreign-born. Awkward at first, our conversations soon turned amiable and uninhibited.

In January, I visited the Neve Shalom School in Casablanca. During a discussion about anti-Semitism in Morocco, Rabbi Jacquy Sebag drew our attention to a faint scar that divided his face into two. While walking down the street, he had been attacked by a person holding an axe — targeted because he was Jewish. Rabbi Sebag continues to attend to the daily needs of the school. I

couldn’t believe that he was willing to resume his leadership role in the Jewish community aer almost dying as a victim of a hate crime.

A minority in a Muslim country, Rabbi Sebag still views himself as Moroccan first. Despite the acrimonious Jewish-Muslim relations that permeate much of the world, he persists in engaging with the Muslim community. Reaching out as the majority to the minority, how different was it for me to channel Rabbi Sebag’s dedication to working toward living peacefully with his neighbors into my own life? How could I better connect with the Ramle students who viewed themselves, rightly or wrongly, as victims of discrimination and distrust?

I returned to my regular Ramle visits with newfound energy. While we still conversed about the generics — hobbies, school, movies — we also discussed the Arab-Israeli conflict. I still identify as pro-Israel, but I listened to the students, hoping the Ramle students would acquire a new outlook on Jewish youth, knowing there was someone who wanted to listen. is past year, I saw more than I could ever hope to in such a short time. I learned lessons that altered the way I see the world, discussed issues I didn’t know affect me. I developed new skills.

Most significantly, I learned that connecting with others begins with dialogue, which can generate more understanding and tolerance and hopefully increase the possibility of coexistence.

I never realized just how eye-opening my year in Israel would be. My a dvice to those taking a gap year: Enjoy every moment — and remember to keep an open mind. You never know who you might meet and, most importantly, what they will teach you. JT Ariel Schnitzer lives in Baltimore, where she continues to volunteer. She plans to enroll in college next fall.

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Your Say… e following letters reflect the opinions of our readers. e BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES strives to run all letters to the editor, as space provides. e publication edits only for grammar and clarity. Please send your letters to editor@jewishtimes.com.

Keep Schools Bully-Free In response to “Beth Jacob Building is Flourishing With Four Jewish Day Schools as Occupants” (Sept. 28), I certainly hope that care is taken to provide the students with a safe, bullyfree environment. My grandsons were the victims of bullying last spring.

They attended one of Baltimore’s Orthodox Jewish day schools! The boys’ parents made a formal complaint to the principal, teacher and board of the school. Within a week (with no forewarning) my grandsons were expelled from the school. The bullies were not punished in any way.

The school principal told the boys’ parents that the boys could not return to school until they, the parents, wrote a letter of apology. They were to apologize for their complaint!

Our daughter and her husband also wrote a complaint to the governor’s office. They were told that private religious schools are exempt from state bullying laws. That’s a shame.

The boys are now safe and secure in a bully-free zone. They are being home schooled by their mother.

Glenda Campbell Florida

B’nai B’rith Misrepresented Your story, “Federal Takeover of B’nai B’rith Pension Raises Questions on Group’s Future” (Sept. 28), misrepresented our situation. There are no questions about our future — it is strong, as it has been for nearly 170 years.

Yes, B’nai B’rith International chose to seek assistance from the Pension

Benefit Guaranty Corporation in order to fulfill our core mission of helping others. But the ability to meet pension obligations is wholly separate from our capability to fully continue with our programs and projects at home and around the world.

With the help of the PBGC, B’nai B’rith is now on sound financial footing to move forward with our mission.

The world economic situation dating to 2008 took a toll on the B’nai B’rith pension plan and countless other nonprofit organizations. That, coupled with new Pension Protection Act regulations that inadvertently placed an insurmountable burden on many organizations, meant we had to act.

We were relieved when the PBGC accepted our claim, freeing us up to better focus on doing what we do best.

Our work in pro-Israel advocacy, human rights, public policy, senior issues and disaster and humanitarian assistance continues.

It was not an easy decision to ask the PBGC for help. But the request was made for a greater good — to continue the good works we do and to ensure former employees and current pension-eligible employees will have their pensions when they need them.

The economy worldwide is still struggling. That has impacted charitable giving across the board — suppressing giving while increasing need.

B’nai B’rith, the oldest and most widely known Jewish humanitarian, human rights and advocacy organization, is launching its 170th year of service. We move forward with a strong sense of purpose, and knowing that, our tough decision on the pension has led to long-term greater stability.

Allan J. Jacobs President, B’nai B’rith International Washington, D.C.

Still A Strong Voice B’nai B’rith, with a presence in over 50 countries, continues its core mission

of helping Jewish interest and humanity. It’s easy to dwell on negative news (“Federal Takeover of B’nai B’rith Pension Raises Questions on Group’s Future,” Sept. 28), but B’nai B’rith, celebrating 170 years of service to the Jewish people, is still functioning with its volunteers and financial supporters adjusting to current times and conditions. Its work is still important and meaningful. I would strongly suggest a visit to the B’nai B’rith website to learn about its senior advocacy work, its 38 nonsectarian senior houses with over 7,000 tenants of modest means, its NGO status at the United Nations and its global political activities. You will also see its connection to a younger group who will become our future leaders. Sure, B’nai B’rith welcomes financial support to help continue its important and meaningful work, as it is proud of its record of 170 years of continuous support of the Jewish people and its work on behalf of Israel. The Jewish community should be thankful there is a B’nai B’rith and should be encouraged to help continue its viability as a very strong global voice on Jewish concerns.

Kent E. Schiner Honorary B’nai B’rith International Past President Baltimore

Where’s Michael?

What happened to Michael Olesker? I miss his articles.

Judy Stern Baltimore

A Question Of Ethics Shlugging kaporos is a higglety-pigglelty innovation: It is peasant folklore, not “tradition.” Also, waving a chicken around one’s head might well be viewed as torture and hence a breech of Jewish ethics regarding concern for animal life (tzaar baalei chayim). Moreover, the Shulchan Aruch denounces the practice as

pagan (darke ha-amori).

With regard to segregated seating, there is no basis for this practice in either the Written (Tanach) or Oral (Talmud) Law. Indeed, the first attested reference to a mechitza is in the (medieval) Tosaphot. In addition, the Kohain Gadol conducted the Day of Atonement rites in the mixed-gender area of the temple called the Ezrat Nashim. Likewise, on Simchat Torah and Simchat Beit Ha-Shuevah, there was mixed seating in this area as well.

There is authentic rabbinic Judaism and then there is ish-kabibble psychobabble. Rabbi Goldberg’s “antilust” argument is limp (“At Last, Answers To What We Really Want to Know,” Sept. 14). The Roman Catholic Church fixates more on the threat posed to males by woman’s sexuality than even ultra-Orthodox Judaism does, yet churches have mixed seating. Given Catholicism’s traditional anti-sex obsession, in pragmatic terms, shouldn’t the temptation provided by mixed seating be more of a concern for church officials? Yet it isn’t.

If people come to shul to pray, they will do so. If that is not their primary reason for being there, they will find things to distract them, one way or another. Whether women are sitting next to men, or up in a balcony, the outcome is the same. Or is that Catholic men are brought up to control their hormones (and women to dress modestly) in a house of worship and thus mixed seating is no problem, while Jewish males are prisoners of their lust and Jewish women don’t know any better than to dress scantily in shul, and therefore, there must be segregated seating according to gender? In point of fact, in the synagogue services which I have attended, precisely because the women were walled off, guys kept looking in their direction.

Finally, as to segregated seating in jewishtimes.com

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Issachar Freedmann Baltimore

Truly Beautiful And Inspiring Executive Editor Phil Jacobs has outdone himself. What a truly beautiful and inspiring message for your issue heading into Yom Kippur (“Celebrating a Woman of Valor,” Sept. 21), the Day of Atonement and most holy of the year. Let us be forgiven for the ways in which we have been unkind to one another. Let us all try to be better people than we were in the previous year.

Shoshana S. Cardin is indeed a precious jewel in our midst, one who understands the true nature and beauty of the Jewish people. Our strength lies in our diversity, and differences should be embraced. From that simple premise, a pluralist Jewish high school was born. Students of Shoshana S. Cardin School not only “talk the talk,” but also “walk the walk” each and every day by learning together, eating together, celebrating together, and yes, even praying together.

Trust me, it is a spectacular sight to behold.

“How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy dwellings, O Israel!”

Cheryl Taragin Director of Recruitment and Alumni Relations Shoshana S. Cardin SchoolBaltimore

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Owings Mills Mall Made No Effort The mall is in a great location and is very accessible by the Metro and bus lines. Why it doesn’t use this to its advantage is beyond me. I do agree with the older posting of not having the movie theater attached to the mall.

In recent months the Solo plant (just around the corner) has closed and is now going to be torn down, and new stores will boast a vintage look; Wegmans will be one of the major anchors.

The Owings Mills Mall more than likely made no effort to try to entice a company like Wegmans or Whole Foods or Cost Plus World Market into the mall as well as other stores of diversity into its location. Even if they were to try to support an “outdoor market” feeling before the new shopping center is to open, they might have a chance.

Cheri Vail Pikesville

No To Question 7 This question is being costing us a lot of money. This question should have been on two separate ballots: table games, yes or no ; another casino, yes or no. Perryville is already having trouble since Arundel Mills opened. They want to return 500 machines. The casino to be opened in Baltimore City near the M&T stadium will definitely draw from Perryville and Arundel Mills, so another casino is not needed.

This will make it look like Atlantic City — a lot of casinos and not a lot of business. Table games at existing casinos — Yes! Another casino in Prince George’s County — No! If you vote the way the ballot is written you’ll be making a big mistake.

Frank F. Braunstein Pikesville

Why Obama?

Recently, several letters to the editor have equated support for President Obama with the persecution of Jews

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social settings: Rabbi Dr. Moses D. Tendler, senior Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University’s RIETS (and professor of Jewish medical ethics and professor of biology at Yeshiva College) met his wife at a mixed-seating Young Israel lecture — a woman who was the daughter of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. Reb Moshe was the definitive decisor for (American) Orthodox Jewry in the latter half of the 20th century. An arrangement that Reb Moshe viewed as satisfactory should be “orthodox’” enough for everyone.

in history, indicating that because the Democratic Party did not initially include the Jerusalem plank in its platform, that equated to a lack of support for Israel, and by extension, the Jewish people by the president.

As a student of history, I know that persecution of any minority group, including the Jewish people, comes when a society loses its values.

Personally, I value individual difference, so I support President Obama. I value each of us paying our fair share to support our government, so I will vote for President Obama. I value Medicare and Medicaid being guaranteed programs, not a voucher system, so I will vote for President Obama. I value the right for each person to have his/her religious beliefs, but I do not want those beliefs forced on me, so I will vote for President Obama. I value the government staying out of my bedroom, my decisions about my own body, and my right to health care independent of what my employer’s beliefs are, so I will vote for President Obama. I value minority rights, whether those minorities are racial, religious or sexual orientation, so I will vote for President Obama. I want my country to be a citizen of the world, not the bully of the world, so I will vote for President Obama. I value each person in this richest country on Earth having basic health care, so I will vote for President Obama. I value immigrants — my grandparents were

immigrants. I value a path to citizenship for people who are hard-working and will do hard work even if they got here illegally through desperation, so I will vote for President Obama. I value all people regardless of their economic status, I don’t think the rich are better, just better off, so I will vote for President Obama.

I value being an American. I am a Jewish American. I believe my Jewishness is best protected when I do whatever I can to extend and support American values, so I will vote for President Obama.

Linda J. Jacobs Randallstown

Foolish Letters My goodness, another passel of foolish letters trashing President Obama..

I wish these folks would cease insulting our intelligence by suggesting that we support Gov. Romney’s party that has allowed itself to be hijacked by the Tea Party, today’s version of the Ku Klux Klan.

Jack Kinstlinger Pikesville

Making Friends With The Enemy Rest assured, if Barack Obama wins this November, he’ll have four years to do whatever he wants, including making better friends with Israel’s enemies and the Islamists. There will be no election to curb his appetite. The Arabs smell blood because they know the U.S. is in

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retreat mode. That’s his foreign policy: retreat and apologetics to our adversaries.

Meanwhile, his policy of spending our way to economic “recovery” will further push the U.S. to third-world status.

This election is a “no-brainer.”

Joe Falk Baltimore

Time To Talk Taklis I fully understand that our tribe is in love with the Democratic Party. But, it’s not the same as “your father’s Democratic Party.” Surely, no selfrespecting Democrat can be happy with the state of the economy, the state of the middle class or that of the poor, the deterioration of foreign relationships and the distaste in which our country is held and the polarization of our discourse.

It is really time to practice the JFK dictum: “Ask not what your country can do for you …”

I have consistently heard, “Well, I certainly couldn’t vote for that man” (or previously that woman). But this is never followed by specifics as to why. Instead it is assumed to be selfevident and results in the discussant walking away in a huff.

Well, help me understand. Let’s talk about what is perceived wrong with that man.

He’s rich? Many are. Many presidents were. The wealth in the Congress (on both sides) is immense.

He’s Mormon? Well, OK. At least it’s an obviously peaceful religion.

We’ve had a Catholic president, bornagain Christian [presidents] and who knows what else. The group elected to the Congress is similarly diverse. In this country of tolerance, the idea that we have racism is not correct. Moreover, the truly great gains in emancipation and civil rights were due to the Republican Party, not the Democrats.

He’s not for the poor? Surely you can’t be happy with their state with “all this country has done for them.”

We have immense numbers on food stamps, hordes who pay no taxes at all and multigenerational welfare

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recipients. In fact, we have institutionalized poverty (and everything that goes with it like poor education, Etc).

“We know so little of his background” and “he has no experience in being president.” Yes, I guess that could be said about many people. He gives no specifics? That from a Senate that has refused to pass a budget. The many bills they have just sat on contained many specifics.

He’s boring! Well, I hope we are not electing an “entertainer-in-chief.”

Let me state very clearly as a member of a clear “minority” (I am a Republican in an alien world) that Mr. Romney was not my first choice as a candidate.

But he’s head and shoulders better than the incumbent.

Oh, I almost forgot, the abortion issue. While I too am “against abortion” (or more correctly the government intruding into private areas), I can assure you that no one is about to reverse Rowe vs. Wade.

Dr. Morton M. Mower Baltimore

The People Are Worried I have just returned from Israel, and the people there are very, very worried. They feel isolated with no one to rely on but themselves.

They have never felt as discouraged as they feel right now. I am talking about people who are brave and caring, who love the United States, who feel that they are a part of it. When we are happy, they are happy; when we suffer, they feel the pain, too. Everyone, even the taxi drivers, begged me to spread the word.

They truly believe that their Jewish “family” here will have them in mind when they enter the voting booth.

This is all they are asking for.

It is easy for us to sit here in our living rooms, far away from horrific dangers that they are facing and tell them that nothing will happen to them. They don’t see any indication that anyone is going to help them when they need it. Time is running out for them while the threat of being

annihilated is looming above. They are preparing their gas masks and supplies in the bunkers with the hope of protecting their little children when attacks come.

And, Mr. Koch from New Jersey, in his letter to the editor (“I Support Obama,” Sept. 21), states mistakenly that because Netanyahu is being treated disrespectfully, it does not reflect on his little country.

We beg to differ in a big way.

Because it does reflect on his people.

They are watching how their desperate leader is being treated while others are getting the ‘red carpet’ treatment.

Netanyahu represents them just like whatever Obama says or does reflect on us. And for a Jewish man to state that the head of the only Jewish country has no right to try and save his country from destruction in any way he can is very wrong.

My mother always said: “The man who is full does not understand the hungry.”

The Middle East is on fire, and fire can spread while Israel is right in the middle of it.

We suggest that this Yom Kippur week, we contemplate their plight and have a little compassion for what they are going through. Let’s think of a way to help them survive before it’s too late.

Ada Grodzinsky Pikesville

President Obama Is Bad For Israel In the Sept. 21 Baltimore Jewish Times, Mark Jeffery Koch writes that President Obama is the best for Israel, but he does not know the facts. I worked in Israel’s major defense industry as a engineering department head for three years, and I been back to visit 15 times. The best U.S. president for Israel was Nixon. During the U.S.-Israel embargo, Nixon ordered three U.S. fighter planes each week to be sent to Israel in secret, and I watched them land. Also, when the ‘73 war started and Israel was running out of ammunition and Kissinger said let’s wait a

week and see what happens, Nixon said to Kissinger, “If this list of ammunitions is not on airplanes in 24 hours and heading for Israel, you are fired.” Israel got the ammunitions and won the ‘73 war.

My friends in Israel helped unload the airplanes. Obama has said lots of words but has never initiated one thing. Anything that has happened between the U.S. and Israel was started and continued long before Obama’s time. Obama meets with Israel’s enemies but never with Israel to help Israel. The one time when he met with Prime Minister Netanyahu he was almost anti-Israel. My many friends in Israel who know what is happening between our two countries are telling me that Obama is putting Israel at risk [with its] Muslim neighbors. The problem with you (Koch) and other Baltimore Jews, you believe what other people say on NBC and do not know firsthand what is happening. A Jew voting for Obama is a vote for the possible elimination of the State of Israel. If Israel loses one time, six million Jews are dead, and there is no Israel. Two to six times a day, rockets are fired from Gaza into Israel. I was visiting a moshav at the Gaza border when one blew up a house 1 1/2 blocks from where I was eating. If you keep believing that Obama is good for Israel, then you must also believe the moon is made of cheese.

Koch, your little knowledge of Israel and its neighbors is a dangerous thing, and that goes for any Jew voting for Obama!

Stanley Bush Florida

Thanks, JT! I usually don’t respond to attacks (“Humor: ‘Eastwooding’ in Bawlmer,” Sept. 21). However, I offer “thanks” to the JT and am “not embarrassed” in the slightest, even if the writer considered my letter to be a “hysterical rant.”

Those who know me understand that I am not that sort of person, and the last I heard is that free speech is still

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permitted by the Constitution. I understand that the issue of Obama’s suitability as president of the United States is an emotional issue for many Jews, but it is not an issue for which there is no data.

The point that Clint Eastwood was making with the empty chair is that he was “missing in action” for his entire term instead being in perpetual campaign mode (with our tax dollars) rather than being available and leading our country. This is not your father’s Democratic Party.

With regard to Obama’s non-visits to Israel, the writer is entirely correct, and I stand corrected.

Nevertheless, the actions of our president in his handling of foreign affairs with Israel and the countries that surround it are greatly suspect. Either he is malevolent or incompetent. Take your choice.

Toby Mower Baltimore

Not The Face Of Mormonism Mitt Romney “is not the face of Mormonism,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says, adding the former Massachusetts governor has “sullied” his faith.

“He’s coming to a state, where there are a lot of members of the LDS Church,” Reid said in advance of Romney’s to Nevada. “They understand that he is not the face of Mormonism.”

This is a new low for Sen. Reid and the Democratic Party. It would be equally wrong for one Jewish candidate to call another Jew not Jewish enough — or for one Christian to call the president not Christian enough.

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even in America.

Israel is like the Second Amendment to us. We don’t have to whip it out, but it’s good to know it’s there.

For reasons that boggle my mind, the bulk of American Jews are clinging to liberally social values and sticking with Obama. They are defending a woman’s right to choose over their own right to exist. Topic for another time, defending a woman’s right to choose has de-evolved to defending the wanton, capricious destruction of millions and millions of babies. Sound familiar? If not, scroll back to the first paragraph.

There is nothing Jewish about supporting abortion. Rape is why we changed Jewish law in order for the mother to determine that a child born of a Jewish mother is Jewish. If we wanted to invent abortion back then, we would have. We invented everything else, didn’t we?

I digress. Israel is usually on the brink, and for the first time America does not have its back. Even more shocking, American Jews appear ready to rubberstamp this into continuation. Prime Minister Netanyahu, I think, will wait as long as he can, in the hopes we in the U.S. will awaken from our stupor, spit the free birth control from our mouths and run the usurper off.

But know this, PM Netanyahu will not allow the destruction of Israel, even if the liberal Jews of America will. And here’s another fact to consider. If Israel attacks Iran prior to Nov. 6 and Obama does the right thing and supports this action, he will win in a landslide. And on Nov. 7, Obama will withdraw the support.

Amy Lidster Arizona

Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg New Jersey

Hat Tip To @DrMartyFox The Second Amendment exists to protect us from tyranny; an armed populace is tough to take over. One need look no further back than Nazi Germany for proof. And one may look to the same era to see a safe and secure Israel is critical for the continued safety of Jews everywhere,

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We Cannot Afford To Be Boastful A national treasure — dare I say a global treasure — is in danger of being overrun, lost and forgotten if we don’t rise up and take a stand for God, His people and this nation. That treasure is America, under God.

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For way too long, we have allowed the founding principles of our nation — God’s principles, instructions and wisdom — to suffer abuse, so-called correction and even abandonment.

Political correctness, diluted halftruths and blatant misrepresentations have infiltrated public reason and debate. Over the course of 75 years, common sense and praiseworthy traits of character have been beaten into shapes that no longer represent the essence of their former selves. Gone are the inspiring speeches of leaders past whose words proved they had spent time in the presence of God. Today, the essence of God’s message and our purpose as a people and nation of God has been nearly lost.

We must begin now to give less attention to our political affiliations and zombie-like love affairs with leaders who have lost their way. We must reconsider the wisdom, teachings and lessons from days gone by to find our moral compass, to unite as one nation under God and fulfill our God-given destiny.

Until those of us still possessing common sense find the nerve to call things as we see them, bad behavior by elected leaders will continue and eventually become acceptable behavior: chaos.

We are not far from it.

While no other nation in history has given more to the needy and the suffering, acts of compassion that are indeed attributes of God, we cannot afford to be boastful, satisfied or haughty. We must first seek to understand God’s will, then become of one accord in this understanding and work together toward fulfilling His purpose for all mankind, not just our nation. “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who labor to build it, do so in vain” (Psalms 127:1).

America, as a world leader, must rise again in the strength of her people to lead with integrity, honor and righteousness.

Does this sound impossibly hard and naïve? Perhaps. But not impossible,

because, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26).

We Christians and God-fearing patriots who have had enough of the madness invoked by a corrupt and ineffective government — one that has either forgotten why God is critical to our success or one that is committed to methodically removing God from our schools, communities, society and daily life — must sound a call to action.

We must call back the presence of God and the wisdom of His Word to rule once again in the hearts and minds of those with whom we have entrusted this nation. It’s time to replace those who wish to serve only the demands of their constituencies and those that benefit from favors. It’s time to call ‘em as we see ‘em — and then fix ‘em.

We must call all zombies to order: Democrats, Republicans, independents, liberals and Unitarians. It’s time to put our petty differences aside and unite as one people, dedicated to saving this nation and all she stands for.

Without the moral compass of solid biblical understanding and application, we as a nation have no chance of accomplishing our objectives.

Many will oppose us, especially as some will be hurt in the short run.

Many more will admire us. Given God’s favor and a collective effort of unwavering persistence, most will come to honor our courage.

To those who know God to be love and how to identify His attributes, I call you to a higher standard. I urge you to humble and rededicate yourselves to more fervent and vigilant prayer on behalf of this nation and all nations of the world.

Where are you, the mighty men and women of faith and character?

Stand up and begin calling ‘em like you see ‘em.

Let us hear your voices.

David C. Hammond Colorado

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Go Green Conference Jewish Federations of North America is working to reduce the 2012 GA’s carbon footprint

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By Maayan Jaffe

“There’s an app for that.” It’s a common phrase, and most people think of it as a way to make life easier and more efficient — or just more fun.

But how about more … green?

At this year’s Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly, the app will serve as one of the multiple ways JFNA is working to reduce

GOING G REEN IN BALTIMORE Highlights of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore’s sustainability initiatives: • The Associated receives“Green Nonprofit of the Year” award from The Baltimore Business Journal (2008) • The first Baltimore synagogue signs the Covenant of Commitment to create a more sustainable congregation (2008); today, Baltimore has 14 green synagogues • Launch of the Green Loan Fund • CHAI building receives LEED silver certification Source: associated.org/sustain ability, where you can learn more about these and other efforts.

the carbon footprint of its largest national gathering of the year. “ere is a big push to do that throughout the Jewish community, and the GA should be no different,” said Susie Baumohl, director of the GA. Baumohl said there are a number of “green projects and programs” that JFNA is working on ahead of the Nov. 11-14 conference. ese include making an app (for the second year in a row) to reduce the amount of paper printed for schedules and handouts. In addition, JFNA is offering people the opportunity to create their own online schedule through the GA website, general assembly.org/. Baumohl said this means attendees will only have to print what interests them and not the entire schedule.

Other steps: All handouts and paper goods (plates, cups, etc.) will be made of compostable paper. The JFNA is exploring opportunities to acquire carbon offsets. Bags and other giveaways — when possible — will be eco-friendly. And, the JFNA will utilize the Baltimore Convention Center’s strong recycling program.

(The GA will take place at the center.)

The Pearlstone Center will receive the GA’s compost, said Pearlstone

Executive Director Jakir Manela, who added that it will be taken to an offsite composting facility and then delivered for use on Kayam Farm.

“We are really excited to receive the compost!” he said. “It’s a radical, huge step forward — greening the GA.” Baumohl said the JFNA is also working on some hands-on greening activities.

“I don’t know what those are yet,” she said. “But we may have people plant something or have something planted afterward in Baltimore.”

The lead sponsor behind this year’s greening initiatives is the Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds. Rafi M. Rone, director of Israel and Jewish initiatives for the funds, said the Meyerhoffs have been interested and invested in sustainability for many years. e funds have been involved on the local, national and international levels.

Rone said the Meyerhoffs look at greening both through communal and Jewish lenses.

“You can get it [the importance] right from the creation story. We are not here to use and abuse the land.

God grants the world to Adam and

Eve and says, ‘take care of it, nurture it and grow it,’” he said.

Trustee Zohara Hieronimus takes this Jewish value very seriously, and she has been hands on with many local greening projects. “The community is interested in having sustainability [at the GA] as one of the hallmark themes of being here in Baltimore. … e community is trying to model sustainability in the sense of environmental justice from a Jewish perspective — we are commanded to do it,” she said.

“All of us know we live in a shared world, regardless of our religion, race, socioeconomic status. One thing that can unite us all and bring all people together is this focus on the sustainability of our planet. … It is something no one can say no to nor should we,” she added.

As the GA gets closer, you will be able to learn about other unique opportunities on our website, jewishtimes.com/countdown-GA. Complete GA details and a schedule can be found on the JFNA GA website, noted above. To register, go to generalassembly.org/registration. JT Maayan Jaffe is JT managing editor mjaffe@jewishtimes.com

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make me a match,â&#x20AC;? goes the famous â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fiddler on the Roof â&#x20AC;? refrain. And making shidduchim is exactly what one local organization is doing. But the matches arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t between man and woman. î&#x201A;&#x160;eyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re between companies in Israel and companies here in Maryland.

The Maryland/Israel Development Center (MIDC) will showcase some of its best work at an event next week, In Our Own Backyard at Howard County Community College. Ten to 15 of Marylandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 Israeli-owned companies will be present to talk about their technologies.

A poster session, an Israeli wine tasting and a keynote address by technology entrepreneur, investor and author Roni Einav will complete the evening.

MIDC Executive Director Barry Bogage said this is the second year the MIDC is hosting such an event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have been hosting delegations of Israeli entrepreneurs every year for the past 10 years,â&#x20AC;? he said, referencing the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MarketReach American program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought we should give the Israeli companies that

are already here exposure to the Maryland business community.â&#x20AC;?

Last year, a deal was signed following In Our Own Backyard between one Israeli medical device company and the Veterans Administration.

The event comes just one month after the grand opening of ELTA North America in its new facility in Fulton. MIDC helped broker that deal last spring. ELTA North America is a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd.; the company plans to create 100 new high-technology jobs over the next four years.

On hand to participate in the Elta event were Maryland Gov. Martin Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malley, Senators Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin and the Israel ambassador to the United States, Dr. Michael Oren. î&#x201A;&#x160;e opening of ELTA in Fulton, said Sen. Mikulski in a statement, â&#x20AC;&#x153;shows the partnership between the United States and our strong ally Israel.â&#x20AC;?

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that question for nearly 20 years. e MIDC, a public-private partnership of e Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor and the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, helps to create jobs in both communities by promoting trade and investment. It also serves as a window behind Israel’s political headlines.

“Israel is a powerhouse when it comes to innovation,” said Bogage.

“Global tech giants like Microsoft, Apple, Intel, IBM — they all have R&D centers in Israel.”

And Maryland knows this innovation is good for the state.

“Maryland and Israel share many strengths and are leaders in industries like life sciences, IT and cyber security and aerospace and defense. With these synergies, we see tremendous opportunities for collaboration with our Israeli partners,” said Christian S. Johansson, Maryland secretary of business and economic development. He said the government does offer a full range of financial support programs for new

companies extending from start-up grants to larger financial incentives.

“We are always looking for fast-growing companies so we can support their growth in Maryland,” Johansson said.

“We always look to find fast-growing companies so we can support their growth in Maryland.”

— Christian S. Johansson

Bogage noted that for Israeli companies Maryland provides a so landing.

With more scientists and engineers than any other state, as well as the country’s most highly ranked universities four years in a row, Maryland is a place where these companies can find talented employees. In addition, he said, Maryland is right next door to the largest See In Our Own Backyard on page 20

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consumer of high-tech products, the federal government.

“There’s no better place for a hightech company to locate,” said Bogage.

“There’s a large Israeli and Jewish community in Maryland, so Israeli entrepreneurs can feel right at home.”

Making an Investment Company RBtec in Rockville, whose owners had plans to attend In Our Own Backyard but recently were called for another commitment, said the security company is 26 years old and only managed to penetrate the U.S. market when it opened in Maryland.

“The bottom line is, it is impossible to sell direct to the U.S. market and the government if you don’t have local representative that the American people can pick up the phone and call,” said Dor Ribak, business development manager of the local branch. Ribak’s parents own the company in Israel.

He said that some Americans could not understand how to make international calls, were frustrated by the time difference and did not want a delay in the delivery of products. From Rockville, Ribak can handle customer needs quickly and seamlessly.

RBtec has five people operating out of the Rockville office, and Ribak, 26,

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said it’s working. e company does business across the U.S. from Texas in the south, Kansas in the Midwest, and Wyoming and California in the West.

However, there have been some cultural idiosyncrasies to which he has had to adjust.

“The business atmosphere in Israel — everything is very fast, no one has time. In the U.S., you have to have a lot of patience. ... We’ve also needed to learn the language. I thought I knew English, but now I know that some words have a sub-context, they mean something else than you think,” Ribak explained. “In Israel, you see U.S. shows on the TV and you think you understand the culture. But moving here, I find that Americans are not one kind of people — Texas, Kansas, Idaho, Wyoming, California, Minnesota — these are all different people with different cultures.”

Still, he said, the move and the learning curve has been worth the investment.

Jimmy Berg of Owings Mills said he feels the same way. A local who invested in and now serves as director of business development for the local branch of Israel’s Pango, pay-by-phone parking solutions, learned about the company through connections he made with MIDC. Berg sits on MIDC’s Maryland/Israel Trendlines Fund investment committee and on the organization’s board. He said even prior to Pango he was interested in the matchmaking work of the MIDC. “Why I find interesting is that instead of just giving tzedakah, you can help businesses. If [Israeli] businesses sign deals and are successful, they hire more people and that helps the economy of Israel,” he said. “I am a Zionist at heart, but I am also a business guy.

Looking at businesses coming out of Israel — there’s a lot of innovative thinking. A lot of these companies have the potential to be very successful.” JT Maayan Jaffe is JT managing editor mjaffe@jewishtimes.com

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Gov. Martin O'Malley, pictured here at the grand opening of ELTA North America, will again visit Israel on a trade mission.

Gov. O’Malley Heading To e Holy Land The Maryland/Israel Development Center will be facilitating a trip to Israel and Jordan for Gov. Martin O’Malley and other local government leaders. The economic development mission was announced last month at the grand opening of Elta North America.

According to Barry Bogage, MIDC executive director, the itinerary is still being developed. What is known is that the governor will travel to Eilat to speak at the Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy and Innovation Conference alongside Israel’s chief scientist Avi Hasson. In addition, he will meet with leading Israeli politicians, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

This is the governor’s second economic development mission; he traveled to Israel in 2008.

Maryland Secretary of Business and Economic Development Christian S. Johansson, who also will be traveling as part of the mission, told the JT that “you need to spend more time developing personal relationships with people before you sign a busi-ness deal. We need to make those connections and build those relationships that will bare fruit down the road.”

Said MIDC Chairman Abba David Poliakoff in a statement: “Israel has been called ‘the startup nation.’ … We look forward to an exciting and productive trade mission … with Gov. O’Malley.”

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Developer Wars Continue Petition drive launched to halt Solo Cup plant redevelopment

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By Ron Snyder

Local developers and several community groups say they are launching a counterattack to combat a referendum drive by two rivals, which could impact several high-profile projects, including the $140 million redevelopment of the former Solo Cup plant in Owings Mills.

Brian J. Gibbons, CEO of the Owings Mills-based Greenberg Gibbons Commercial Corp., said he is continuing to move forward with the development of Foundry Row, which will be anchored by a Wegmans grocery store. His dev-elopment group, which also includes Baltimore-based Vanguard, won zoning approval in August for the project, located at the intersection of Painters Mill and Reisterstown roads.

“This project went through the proper vetting process and was overwhelmingly approved by community groups, the [Baltimore] County Planning Board and ultimately by the County Council itself,” Gibbons said. “e people of the county have spoken, despite what some other developers might have you think.”

What Gibbons was referring to is a new organization called Committee for Zoning Integrity Inc., which is seeking to gather the nearly 29,000 signatures needed by mid-November to force a November 2014 referendum that could overturn the votes from the county’s Comprehensive Zoning Mapping Process. e County Council approved the Solo Cup zoning request with a 6-1 vote.

e Committee for Zoning Inte-grity also recently launched a website, fixthemaps.com, urging people to sign the petition to overturn the land-use vote. e name listed on the authority line of the website is Lee N. Sachs, the general counsel of David S. Brown Enterprises Ltd., the developer of Metro Centre, a project located only blocks from the Solo Cup site.

Howard S. Brown, the Owings Mills-based company’s chairman, has been a vocal opponent of Foundry Row.

“There’s no question just who is behind this petition-drive effort.”

— Developer Brian J. Gibbons

Sachs did not return several calls seeking comment.

Gibbons said the petition drive is nothing more than Brown trying to usurp the will of the people.

He points to fixthemaps.com, which he says includes the ironic headline “Public Interests Should Set the Vision for Zoning Decisions, Not Developers.” Gibbons added that since most community groups have supported the project, opponents have hired out-of-state companies to help gather signatures. Gibbons’ group has launched a Facebook page, facebook.com/ SupportFoundryRow, along

with distributing promotional material to counter any attacks.

“There’s no question just who is behind this petition-drive effort,” Gibbons said. “Brown is upset over not getting Wegmans and is blaming developers, when it’s them who are trying to reverse zoning decisions that came aer countless community meetings and transparent votes by the county.”

Should the petition drive succeed, it is hard to determine what impact it may have on Foundry Row — along with all of the other land-use issues decided during CZMP by the Council in the 2nd district — as the county has never had a referendum drive that sought to overturn zoning decisions, Gibbons said. Right now, he added, the Foundry Row project is moving forward. is includes starting on the demolition of the Solo Cup plant and other related cleanup efforts.

“We have the zoning in place and are moving forward with the project,” Gibbons said. “It’s a sad state of affairs that a developer thinks [he] can overthrow the whole process.”

Compounding Gibbons’ efforts is the apparent alliance of David S. Brown and the Cordish Co. for the referendum effort. Cordish has its own issues over the CZMP process, namely the redevelopment of the Middle River Depot, located along Eastern Boulevard in the county’s 6th district, County Councilwoman Cathy Bevins said.

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future of the Carroll Island Shopping Center, located about a mile from the Depot site. The Cordish-owned shopping center is home to a WalMart, which could close if the retailer moves forward with plans of building a new store at the Depot site.

But, Bevins said Wal-Mart is still likely to build a supercenter store somewhere else in Middle River should the referendum effort be successful.

The partnership between Brown and Cordish led representatives from several community associations to join together Monday at a news conference in Towson to announce their Don’t Sign It! initiative. The group has also called for County Executive Kevin Kamenetz to take a stance on the issue, but his representative said it is too early in the process to get involved.

“If the referendum is successful it will set a precedent whereby communities will work hard to achieve council support only to have the dissatisfied developer undermined that process,” said Cheryl Aaron a Don’t Sign It! co-coordinator, A Cordish representative did not return calls or emails seeking comment.

Like with Solo Cup, the council also approved mixed-use zoning for the Middle River Depot, a 55-acre property that includes a 1.9-million-square-foot facility, once used to manufacture aircraft during World War II. “The redevelopment of the Middle River Depot and the Solo Cup plant will bring jobs to Baltimore County,” Bevins said. “This is a case of rich men with money trying to influence the process.”

Vanguard Chief Operating Officer Bradley S. Glaser said his company is feeling the brunt of the battle. Along with working on Foundry Row, Vanguard is hopes develop a 15-acre site adjacent to the Middle River Depot.

“There’s just so much misinformation being spread out there,” Glaser said. “It’s very frustrating .” JT Ron Snyder is a JT staff reporter rsnyder@jewishtimes.com

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Keep On Truckin’ — Elsewhere Restrictions along Brooks Robinson Drive ease residents’ concerns

By Ron Snyder

Brooks Robinson Drive in Pikesville say new regulations that limit when motorists, especially truckers, can park there have improved conditions along the road.

Brad Feig, who lives in nearby Annen Woods, said Brooks Robinson Drive had become a de facto truck stop, where truckers would park along the wide shoulder for 24 hours or more. The road, he added, became unsightly and often was littered with trash.

“It was so crazy with all of those trucks parked along the road,” Feig said. “People were just parking there with no regard for the community.”

State and local officials took notice due to complaints from residents and took several steps to alleviate the problem. The first came in June when the Maryland State Highway Administration posted signs that reduced the time allowed to park along the one-mile road, which connects Park Heights and Stevenson roads, from 48 to 24 hours.

Then, beginning Aug. 31, additional parking restrictions were put in place that now forbid motorists from parking on the road between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. This was done to ensure motorists didn’t sleep there, which became one of the biggest concerns

of residents, Feig said.

“Putting those restrictions at night made a huge difference,” Feig said.

“Nothing really worked before that.

That road had been used as a parkand-ride for years, but it had only become a problem the last few years with all the trucks that parked there for days on end.

“It had really gotten to be annoying.

We started complaining about a year ago, and it was difficult to find out who to turn to for help. But in the end, I’m glad everyone was able to come together and work the issue out.”

Councilwoman Vicki Almond (2nd District) said parking concerns along Brooks Robinson Drive quickly developed into one of the hottest topics in her district over the last year. She added that it took several months to address the concerns because it’s a state road, where the county would be in charge of traffic enforcement.

“It was just a matter of getting all the right people on the same page,” Almond said. “I don’t think residents would have been too concerned about parking if it had just been a truck here or there, but over time, truckers took advantage of the road.”

Almond also said the latest restrictions have definitely made a huge difference in terms of traffic and

Night restrictions have helped ease residents’ concerns.

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trash along the road. Along with the signs, she added, additional enforcement by county police during the night also helped clear the road. “e signage and restrictions by SHA has been effective at reducing the number of residential complaints,” said Baltimore County Police Lt. Michael DiCara of the Pikesville precinct. “It makes it easier to enforce when you have

definitive no-parking rules compared to time limitations.”

Added Almond: “It was getting to be a real fiasco to ticket all of those trucks at first, but I believe those taking advantage of the road finally got the message.” JT Ron Snyder is a JT staff reporter rsnyder@jewishtimes.com

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The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore recently was awarded a $90,000 two-year grant from the AVI CHAI Foundation to assist nine area day schools in becoming more energy efficient.

The funds, which were applied for last May, will be used to conduct comprehensive energy audits, which will prioritize and implement energyefficiency projects. Participating schools include Bais Hamedrash and Mesivta of Baltimore, Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, Day School at Baltimore Hebrew, Bnos Yisroel, Krieger Schechter Day School, Ner Israel Rabbinical College, Shoshana S. Cardin School, Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim-Talmudical Academy and Torah Institute of Baltimore. The schools already are participating in an energy consortium managed by The Associated.

Aleeza Oshry, manager of e Associated’s sustainability initiative, told the JT that this will be a multiphase, multistep process and that she hopes to get started with the process later this year.

She said the audits are performed by engineers who look at utility data, equipment age, maintenance issues and the building envelope — windows,

doors and insulation. She explained that once audits are complete, a report yielding a prioritized list of projects based on energy-saving opportunities will be generated.

“Some improvements might be no or low cost, and some will involve larger capital improvements,” Oshry predicted.

Oshry also said that this project is not solely about “being green” but about saving money.

“The more recent hard economic times has brought to light the need for efficiency in our buildings, and this [energy inefficiency] cumulatively adds up to be a significant cost,” she said. “This information will inform stakeholders, schools and the community at large of the importance of making sure our buildings are running efficiently, so we can maximize the dollars going toward programs that benefit our children. …

We won’t see our tuition dollars going out the door on utility bills.” e results and best practices from this project will be shared with other Jewish day schools around the country.

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Special Care Baltimore’s newest website is working with the Jewish community to benefit families and children with disabilities

By Simone Ellin | Photos by David Stuck

“When your child first gets diagnosed with a disability, you don’t even know what you need to know,” said Alison J. Magat.

Magat, who serves on The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore’s Disabilities Task Force and chairs one of its committees, knows this all too well. She and her husband, Dr. Aaron Magat, have three children, and their 19-year-old son, Josh, has autism.

“When Josh was first diagnosed, I was fortunate to have lots of people who were a couple of years ahead of me on this journey. I got most of my information by word of mouth and just being in the right place at the right time. It can be very overwhelming to access information about the services your child will need,” Magat said.

Janet Livingston, who co-chairs The Associated’s Caring Commission, had a similar experience when her son, Sam, was diagnosed with autism about 15 years ago.

“When Sam was first diagnosed, I was in shock,” Livingston recalled.

“There were resources at that time but not as many, and it was a maze going from one person to another trying to find services. Eventually, I found things through The Associated and Kennedy Krieger, but it wasn’t easy. There were opportunities I missed, things other parents knew about.

I’d say, ‘How did you find out about that?’”

Alison Magat says that when a child is diagnosed with a disability, "you don't even know what you need to know." Pictured here with her family, including oldest son Josh (right), who lives with autism, she says the Baltimore Jewish Abilities Alliance is what she would have wanted when her son was a child.

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Stacy Israel (left) is working with Jen Erez to move the Baltimore Jewish Abilities Alliance forward.

How Many People In Jewish Baltimore Struggle With a Disability?

8 percent — Baltimore area Jewish households that sought help for a physical or mental disability

21 percent — Baltimore area Jewish households that sought help for a child with a learning disability

Source: Greater Baltimore Jewish Community Study

Magat and Livingston believe that accessing help for children with disabilities will soon be significantly less overwhelming thanks to the launch of the Baltimore Jewish Abilities Alliance (BJAA), a new initiative that offers online and personal support and resources for parents of children with special needs.

In 2010, when the results of the Baltimore Jewish Community Study were released, they revealed some startling information. According to Renee Dain, director of community services for e Associated, the

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study showed that 2,793 Jewish households with children sought help for a child with a learning disability, and nearly 1,400 sought that help from a Jewish agency.

In addition, said Dain, 3,400 Jewish households sought assistance for a physical or developmental disability, 2,754 of which sought a Jewish agency for support.

To learn more about this population, The Associated’s Commission for a Caring Community established the Disabilities Task Force. e task force, chaired by lay leaders Marcy K. Kolodny and Suzanne Lapides, longtime advocates for children with special needs, began by gathering information about existing programs and services in the Jewish and Greater Baltimore communities. ey also held meetings with experts in the field from across the country.

Based on their findings, said Dain, the task force broke into three groups with different focuses. One group dealt with early identification and intervention, another with transitions for young adults with disabilities, and the other focused on increasing connections, improving access to information and services and raising awareness of the needs of individuals with disabilities and their families. e committees found that the Jewish and Greater Baltimore communities already offered a great many services for children with disabilities. What was needed, they believed, was a central place and person through which community members could access these resources.

Jointly, the three committees created the BJAA, a

two-pronged approach to address the needs of families coping with the disability of a child or young adult. e BJAA strategy included the development of the BJAA website, a revolutionary online tool for parents of children with special needs of all types.

“From the onset, parents will be able to use the website to map out a plan for their families; they’ll be able to access information and connect to others who’ve been down that path,” said Magat. “Initially, when I learned that Josh was autistic, I didn’t want to talk with anyone. It was too difficult. I couldn’t even articulate what I wanted to know. Some people will appreciate being able to get information anonymously, through the website.”

“At a time when a parent feels like a deer in the headlights, it will be wonderful to go to one website to find so many therapies, information about IEPs (Individualized Education Programs), a plethora of resources in and out of the Jewish community. It’s one-stop shopping,” said Livingston. e BJAA website will have a resource section with information about 500 different organizations; this constitutes one of the largest resource directories on the subject in Maryland. It has a community calendar, where organizations throughout the community can list their events, information about the county school system, wheelchair services, information about insurance, a glossary of terms and diagnoses and much more.

“If your child is newly diagnosed, it provides very

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For the Livingstons, finding out that their son Sam was autistic was shocking. It was a maze trying to find the right services.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH A DISABILITY GROW UP? Increasingly, parents of older teenagers and young adults are seeking assistance for transitioning to adulthood, and adults who have grown up with a disability or who may be newly diagnosed are facing challenges with employment, social relationships and daily living.

Here are some tips from the Baltimore Jewish Abilities Alliance for creating a full life as you enter adulthood:

specific information — forms, contacts, 10 things you need to do to get services,” said Stacy Israel, the JCC’s special needs coordinator.

Depending upon their child’s age, parents can click on one of four categories: early years (5 and younger), school years (5 to 21), transition years (14 to 21), adulthood (over 18).

“We are not trying to reinvent the wheel here, we want this to be the one site where everyone in the community can find what they need,” said Israel.

With the support of a grant from the Harry Weinberg Family Foundation, the BJAA was able to hire Jen Erez, a part-time coordinator based at the Owings Mills JCC, and the human face behind the BJAA’s online presence.

“We wanted all the bells and whistles on the website,” said Israel, “but we still needed an actual person.

Jen can provide one-on-one support and will help parents who don’t know where to turn. She has been researching all the organizations in the area, so she has gotten to know the contacts.”

Erez also will monitor and update the website, talk to parents and intervene between parents and agencies. ere is also an interactive component to the website, so parents can share information with one and other, Israel explained.

“For example,” suggested Israel, “say a parent has an autistic teen who needs a haircut. She can use the message board to ask other parents for referrals about haircutting studios that will work well with her child. e same goes for dentists, restaurants and all kinds of resources. ese are issues that parents of typical children wouldn’t understand. If parents are posting questions about handling temper tantrums, Jen will see the posts and decide, ‘maybe we need a workshop on dealing with temper tantrums.’ en she can work

with agencies of The Associated and the greater community to organize them,” Israel added.

“There is nothing better than parent-to-parent networking. ‘I’ve been there, and this is what I did.’

Parents who have kids with disabilities are the most informed and the best advocates for themselves and their children,” said Lapides. “They go above and beyond every day.”

Lapides and Kolodny believe the website and the BJAA’s concept may become a model for other communities across the country.

“Baltimore’s Jewish community is at the forefront in trying to meet the needs of this population,” said Kolodny. “Other communities should follow suit. It is so important for parents and children. It gives them hope for a brighter future, lets them know we care about them. We won’t give up on them.”

“We’re becoming a more supportive community,” said Magat. “As a parent, I feel good knowing we’re looking for the best out there and bringing it to Baltimore.”

On Sunday, Oct. 14, om 6 to 8 p.m., the BJAA will hold a kickoff event to celebrate the launch of its new comprehensive resource for individuals with different needs and their families. e event will take place at the Gordon Center for Performing Arts, 3506 Gwynnbrook Ave. in Owings Mills and will include a reception showcasing music and art exhibitions by those with different abilities.

Light fare will be served at 6 p.m., followed by a keynote presentation by nationally renowned comic Brett Leake.

Admission is ee, but RSVPs are required. For more information and to reply, visit jewishabilities.org. JT

Establish clear short-term and long-term goals.

Set goals for the next few years. Then, with your key support system, decide how you can reach these goals. Realize that these goals may change over time, but make them as clear and concise as possible. Revisit them annually.

Realize which t hings you have cont rol over and which you do not.

You have control over your family’s individual and collective goal. You have no direct control over the economy or the funding guidelines put into place by the systems in power. Work within existing structures, laws and benefits.

Plan how you are going to reach your goals.

Find like-minded people who have the same goals.

Other people have gone through this — and are going through it now. Find peers to talk with to get ideas. Why reinvent the wheel?

Take care of yourself.

Whether you are a family member or an adult with a disability, there is only one ‘you.’ Make sure you are taking good care of your physical health by maintaining a good diet and getting exercise. Your mental health can benefit from taking time for yourself and keeping your brain active. Don’t lose what makes ‘you’ special in the process In addition, there is a new resource in Baltimore for adults with disabilities — Itineris. According to the organization’s website, the mission of Itineris is to provide “opportunities for individuals with autism to participate meaningfully in all aspects of adult life.” Learn more about Itineris at itinerisbaltimore.org.

For more, see “Welcome Home” on page 10.

Simone Ellin is a JT staff reporter — sellin@jewishtimes.com

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TAKING TO THE STREETS Israelis rally in support of America at U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv

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and elsewhere from North Africa to Southeast Asia, apparently fanned by a crudely produced antiIslamic video. German and British embassies also have been attacked. In Sudan, the German Embassy was set on fire and significantly damaged.

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A small group of Israelis, many of them university students, gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv last Monday evening in a show of support and friendship with America.

The rally, organized by the pro-Israel student movement Im Tirzu, came in response to the recent attacks on U.S. embassies across the Middle East. The attacks first began in Cairo, when the American Embassy was stormed two weeks ago, and then in Benghazi, when a U.S. Consulate was penetrated by armed jihadists who killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other employees.

Im Tirzu Director Ronen Shoval explained that he and his team organized the rally in order to show that in Israel “we are behind America.”

“Israel and the United States share many important values including those of freedom and liberty,” said Shoval. “It is crucial that we show America that there is one country in the Middle East that will always stand with her no matter what.”

Anti-U.S. demonstrations also have taken place in Yemen, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, Afghanistan

“Israel and the United States share many important values.”

— Im Tirzu Director Ronen Shoval

At the Tel Aviv rally, protestor Tani Zarelli, a visitor from Washington State, stood with the other Israeli demonstrators. He said he was moved

by the enthusiastic support. “is means a lot to us,” Zarelli told the crowd, which chanted “freedom,” “democracy” and “liberty” while waving Israeli and American flags. Several Israelis even sang “e Star-Spangled Banner.”

“University students have come from all over Israel to be here at the U.S. Embassy today to show their pride in the special friendship between the United States and Israel. No matter who attacks the values of freedom that define Western society, America can always count on Israel to be her friend,” Shoval said. JT Anav Silverman writes for the Tazpit News Agency.

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Security, Economic ‘Upheavals’ Force Early Israeli Elections In a news conference Tuesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced that elections for the 19th Knesset will be held a year early. ough a date has not yet been announced, it is expected that the vote will be held in early 2013, most likely in February.

Netanyahu held meetings last week and again on Tuesday with the heads of the other parties in his government coalition to decide whether to work to pass the 2013 budget or go to early elections. If the government cannot agree on a budget, it is grounds to go to elections.

Going to elections without an approved budget means that the ministries will operate on the 2012 budget allocations. A new budget would have seen deep cuts in many ministries.

In a statement issued Tuesday evening, Netanyahu said: “Today, I finished a round of consultations with the heads of the coalition parties, and I came to the conclusion that it is not possible at this time to pass a responsible budget.

We are on the threshold of an election year, and to my regret, in an election year it is difficult for parties to place the national interest ahead of the party interest. e result of this is liable to be a budgetary breach and a massive increase in the deficit, which would very quickly put us in the situation of the crumbling economies of Europe. I will not allow this to happen here.

“At this time, in light of the two great upheavals around us, the security and the economic, my obligation as prime minister is to put the national interest above everything, and therefore, I have decided that the good of the State of Israel requires going to elections now, as soon as possible.”

“The country has actually been in election mode for over six months, which is unhealthy and should be stopped as soon as possible,” opposition Labor Party head Shelly Yachimovich said.

“The public must remember that Netanyahu is going to elections in order to immediately afterward pass a brutal and difficult budget that will harm the life of almost every citizen

in the country, except for the very wealthy,” she told reporters.

Next week, the JT will offer an in-depth analysis on what early elections mean for Israel.

— JTA Wire Service

Barrage of Rockets Fired from Gaza Strike Israel A new barrage of rockets slammed Israel over the end of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

More than 50 rockets and mortars were fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israeli towns in just over a 24-hour period. The rockets damaged an apartment building and killed several animals in a petting zoo.

This represented the largest barrage from Gaza since the end of June 2012, when more than 80 rockets were fired over a four-day period.

The barrage of rockets came a day after the Israel Air Force targeted a motorcycle carrying two Palestinians that the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement had been planning an attack against Israel on the Sinai border. One was killed, and the other seriously wounded. e dead terrorist, Abdullah Muhammad Hassan Maqawai, was identified as a member of the Mujahedeen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC), the same group that executed a terrorist attack along Israel’s southern border on June 18, killing Sayed Fashafsheh, 36, an Arab citizen of Israel from the northern port city of Haifa.

The wounded terrorist was identified as Tala’at Halil Muhammad Jarbi, a senior Jihad operative, also a member of MSC and one of the planners of the June 18 attack.

Eleven others were wounded in the attack, including five children, according to Israeli news reports.

Residents of three communities in southern Israel on Monday were instructed to remain within 15 seconds of a safe room or shelter. Children were not in school due to the Simchat Torah holiday.

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Sigal Ariely, director of the Baltimore-Ashkelon Partnership in Israel, said her community was spared from the early-week terror.

“If you don’t hear a siren, you feel out of the action,” she said. “Sderot and Eshkol had a horrible holiday.”

Ariely, however, said that she is acutely aware that the community’s situation could shift in a heartbeat and that prior to this round of rockets, the city was clouded in a sense of nervousness.

“A few hours before the rockets started, the IDF killed the two terrorists, and they were high-level terrorists working on an attack. The minute I heard the news, I knew there was going to be a reaction. We were all walking around nervous. But when the reaction started, it was clear they [Hamas] was concentrating on one area, and it was not us this time,” she said. “It is only a matter, of course, of what they decide. It could have been us.”

Ariely’s husband owns a restaurant right outside the town of Sderot, which was among the hardest hit on Monday. She said business is once again waning, as people don’t want to go out to eat when they are afraid.

Instead, she said, they stay home, where they feel safe.

Hamas claimed responsibility for Monday’s rocket attacks, saying it was in response for Israel’s strike. According to a statement by e Israel Project (TIP), Hamas is re-creating the conditions that led up to Israel’s December 2008 ground war against the group.

Israel responded Monday to the Hamas rocket attacks, targeting with tanks and planes what the IDF called “Hamas terror activity sites and terrorist squads responsible for the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.”

This included a mosque known to house explosives and rocket launchers; Hamas has returned to militarizing mosques and other civilian buildings.

According to TIP, during the 2008 war, Hamas transformed up to 100 mosques into depots and bases.

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ROSI Eutaw Place music series will open new season on Oct. 18

By Simone Ellin

Last April, the Baltimore Jewish Times reported on the premiere of a new live music series to be held at the Louis L. Kaplan Social Hall at Beth Am Synagogue in Reservoir Hill. e series, known as Eutaw Place and founded by Beth Am members Ellen Kahan Zager, her husband Jack Zager and cocongregant Betty Chemers, will open its 2012-2013 season with a concert by singer/songwriter Rosi Golan, who will perform Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. e Zagers first discovered Golan when opened for Ari Hess (the inaugural artist at Eutaw Place’s first concert last spring) at a venue in Vienna, Va. “We were blown away,” said Kahan Zager. “Jack and I love music. We try to be sophisticated and in the know. Eutaw Place is open to the public, and we offer very high-caliber talent.”

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“Eutaw Place is the only cultural institution in Reservoir Hill, so the Beth Am community, as well as the Reservoir Hill community, is very excited about it,” she said. As a matter of fact, the final concert of this year’s season, featuring singer/songwriter Vance Gilbert, will be co-sponsored by the Reservoir Hill Improvement Council.

Neighborhood restaurants and shops also have gotten on board with the music series, with some sponsoring concerts. Sponsors for the Rosi Golan concert include Vineyards Elite, High Grounds Coffee Roasters and Donna’s Café, Coffee and Bar, the latter which will offer pre-concert diners a 20-percent discount the night of the show. The intimate venue serves coffee and tea, wine, beer and desserts.

Golan was born in Israel, grew up in Los Angeles and now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. About 10 years ago, grappling with the horror of 9/11, as well as a significant personal loss, she found herself inexplicably drawn to the guitar. Golan taught herself to play and began singing and writing songs. Her first album, “e Drier & the Gypsy,” released in 2009, included several songs that were featured on television shows and movies. Her second album, “Lead Balloon,” was released in 2011 to overwhelmingly positive reviews. Recently, Golan, who was traveling abroad, spoke with the Baltimore Jewish Times:

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GOLAN: I have definitely always been

a fan. My mother used to say that if I was as good at homework as I was at memorizing lyrics from songs from the radio, then I would be a straightA student. I also played violin for a couple years when I was in junior high.

How has your life changed since you decided to pick up a guitar?

I have a definite passion, drive and focus in life, which is wonderful. I know not everyone always knows exactly what they want to do, and I am so grateful to love what I do so much.

Where do you come up with your ideas for songs?

I write from experience, so everything I write is very personal and from my life.

What are your artistic and personal goals?

Artistically, my goals are to continue to be able to make records and stay creative. Personally, I would love to get a farm, grow some veggies, all that fun organic stuff. But also, I really want to start doing some volunteering as well. There are a few volunteer organizations I have been looking into that I am really excited about getting involved with.

Do you visit Israel much?

I do visit Israel. I was just there last week and played my first show in Tel Aviv, which was a very special moment for me. A lot of my family was there.

Does your Judaism impact your music?

I suppose if you want to look at it from the perspective that everything I am is shaped by how I grew up and Judaism was a part of that. But I am traditional, not religious. I celebrate the holidays, because that is how I was raised, and it keeps me connected to that part of myself.

Eutaw Place is located in the Louis L. Kaplan Social Hall at Beth Am Synagogue in Reservoir Hill, 2501 Eutaw Place, Baltimore. For information about Eutaw Place and to purchase tickets for Rosi Golan, call 410-484-9110 or visit eutawplace.org. JT

Who are your favorite artists?

There are so many! Right now, I am loving Shovels Rope.

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Owner of Greenmount Jewelry and Loan since 1987, Gordy Lifson (center) enjoys having his son Aaron Lifson (left) and son-in-law Pat Ebling working by his side.

Down At The Pawn Shop

By David Snyder

One could say that Aaron Lifson started interning for his current position when he was 7 years old.

Soon after his father, Gordy Lifson, opened Greenmount Jewelry and Loan in 1987, young Aaron tagged along. He passed out fliers at the front of the Waverly store and spent time polishing jewelry. With three generations before him entrenched in the pawnshop business, Aaron’s intrigue in the industry came naturally.

Now 30 years old, with six years working full time at Greenmount, Aaron is steadily following in his father’s footsteps.

The Lifsons are not alone. When it comes to Baltimore’s Jewish pawnshop history, more often than not, it’s all in the family.

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“As you can imagine in this business, honesty is job one. ...I’m not concerned about the honesty component,” said Gordy Lifson, who also employs his son-in-law, Pat Ebling.

“In the pawn business, where there’s just so many different scenarios — so many different things occur in here — I need my guys to have my best interest at heart, and who better than your son, or blood, to trust and count on. I feel very comfortable in my son and my sonin-law, in addition to my longtime employees, to look out for my best interests.”

Richard Herskovitz, who owns Champion Pawnbrokers in Hamilton, struggles to put his finger on what exactly makes the pawnshop life so infectious between family members.

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Along with his older brother, Herskovitz, 51, first got involved through his uncle’s Light Street pawnshop.

Now, his own children have expressed interest in working at his store.

“I’m really not sure why,” Herskovitz said. “Kids tend to come in and start working for you, and it just kind of spreads. It’s a hands-on business, and I’m not sure why it sticks generation to generation, but it just kind of gets in the blood.”

Limited Opportunities Local historians chalk up Baltimore’s Jewish imprint on pawnshops to one central theme: discrimination.

Dating back centuries in Europe, and more recently to early 20th century America, Jews were not permitted to

Baltimore's Jewish pawn brokers talk family ties, security and sales enter craft guilds, become artisans or, in some cases, own land.

As a result, Jews found niches as middlemen in the money-lending business, often in the form of pawnbrokers. They became skilled at the art of buying cheap and selling dear.

“It’s just a reflection of the industriousness of the Jewish people,” said historian M. Hirsh Goldberg. “They did whatever they could to make a living and support their families.

When they made transitions from Europe to America, many of them had to come down in their lifestyle to make it work.”

One of the first to set up shop in Baltimore was Rick Sussman’s grandfather, Joseph Sussman, who opened Northwestern Loan Company on

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Made for TV? When Sussman’s grandfather opened Northwestern Loan nearly a century ago, he probably had no idea that pawnshops would become so popular.

Today, pawnshops serve as backdrops for several prominent television shows.

In recent years, programs like e History Channel’s “Pawn Stars” and truTV’s “Hardcore Pawn” have become household names among reality TV audiences. ey’ve led to offshoot shows like “Cajun Pawn Stars,” “Pawn Queens” and “Combat Pawn.”

Baltimore’s Jewish pawnshop owners find both positives and negatives in television’s portrayal of the daily pawnshop life.

Herskovitz points out that the shows only highlight the rarest and most compelling items that find their

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way into the shops. He takes exception that on “Pawn Stars”customers bring in an item and sometimes wait up to a week for an expert appraiser to estimate its price.

“The type of stuff that comes in that you see on ‘Pawn Stars’ is not the kind of stuff that comes into a pawnshop,”Herskovitz said. “People want the money there; they don’t want to make an appointment and come back a week from Tuesday when they have the expert there. You have to be your own expert.”

But, pawnshop owners do say that the shows, despite their sensationalism at times, provide an accurate sample of the kinds of people that frequent their shops. The shows help to dismiss the misconception that only low-end individuals patronize pawnshops.

“I think these shows have done a lot to help educate the public about the wide range of clientele that uses pawnshops,” Sussman said. “I think most pawnshops are of a clientele that’s probably a representative sample of the world at large. Everything from the down-and-out person to very successful people who just have temporary cash-flow issues.”

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Modern Challenges Still, local stores are working to dismiss general fallacies about their businesses.

Sussman said many people are under the impression that the majority of items stocked on shelves are no more than stolen goods, when in fact pawnshops work directly with police to ensure that this is not the case.

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Pennsylvania Avenue in 1919. “e family lore is that when my grandfather was a young immigrant from Eastern Europe, as a Jewish person, discrimination really made it tough for him to get into most professions, which is a big reason why he apprenticed himself to a pawnbroker,” Sussman said.

Despite spending ample amounts of time in his family’s store throughout his childhood, Sussman appeared to be destined for a life outside the pawnshop upon earning his law degree — an opportunity that his ancestors were not afforded.

But the power of the pawnshop eventually lured him back, something he is very much grateful for today.

“I’ve been able to work 5-6 days a week with my father for almost my entire adult life. I think very few people are lucky enough to have that opportunity,” said Sussman, president of the Maryland Pawnbrokers Association. “It’s the last thing I thought I would do growing up.”

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Pawn Shop from Page 41 for 10 days. In that time, the pawnshops are required to provide police with a detailed description of the item with its serial or model number. î&#x201A;&#x160;ey also make a copy of their customerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license.

All the information is inputted into an electronic database that is shared with police. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes in our industry we get the blame for property-crime issues, where police and people in the know understand that, historically, far less stolen merchandise ends up in pawn because real thieves know that if an item goes to a pawnshop it will be discovered, and they will be apprehended,â&#x20AC;?

Sussman said.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that level of accountability, Sussman said, that gives pawnshops an advantage over online competition like eBay and Craigslist, where there is no relationship with law enforcement.

Additionally, pawn shops benefit from the fact that customers can enter the store and view and pick up their items in person.

With customers engaging in what is largely a cash business, pawnshop owners pay a good amount of attention to

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safety measures. Security cameras and buzzer doors are standard examples.

Herskovitz, who trains police protection dogs on the side, keeps his personal canine with him behind the counter at all times. Another owner, who preferred to remain nameless, said that his store is equipped with about a dozen firearms stashed in various locations behind the counters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have absolutely no fear,â&#x20AC;? Gordy Lifson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re protected, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a bad neighborhood. Waverly is an up-and-coming area.â&#x20AC;?

Confident in his choice of location, Lifson said one of the main challenges for him and his kin is keeping work-related conversations at the pawnshop and away from home.

With a son and a son-in-law with him at the shop, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easier said than done. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a rule,â&#x20AC;? Lifson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t discus domestic issues at work, and we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t discuss work at family functions. That only works half the time.â&#x20AC;? JT David Snyder is a JT staff reporter dsnyder@jewishtimes.com

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to work 5-6 days a week with my father for almost my entire adult life.

I think very few people are lucky enough to have that opportunity.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rick Sussman

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Detroit pawnshop owner Les Gold is the star of the truTV hit program “Hardcore Pawn.”

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Les Is More Detroit pawnshop owner transitions to national celebrity When Les Gold signed on to have his pawnshop’s daily brouhaha televised for a weekly truTV series, the 62-year-old Detroit lifer never thought he would become a celebrity.

He thought wrong.

Debuting on the small screen in 2010, Gold, along with his two constantly quarreling children, Ashley Broad and Seth Gold, has turned “Hardcore Pawn” (Tuesdays, 9 p.m.) into an instant sensation. The show’s sixth season averaged more than 2.7 million viewers per episode.

Gold and his shop, American Jewelry and Loan, play host to an array of colorful characters from his own children to customers who will do anything (and bring in anything) to walk away with the almighty dollar.

Gold spoke with the Baltimore Jewish Times on the authenticity of the reality show and what he hopes it will do for pawnshops across the country and more.

By David Snyder

pawnshop. Ever since that second I knew it was for me.

What are some of the key factors for running a successful, efficient pawnshop?

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You want to take care of your customers. You want to try and be courteous, give them the respect and the decency that each one of them deserves. You want to help out as many people as you possibly can.

You show a lot of intensity on the show — and you say it is authentic.

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Les Is More from Page 43 Most of the customers we see on the show are confrontational, violent and abusive. Are most people like that, or is it just edited that way?

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I was approached by a production company because they were in the city, and they came into the store and they saw those people in line. ey saw me as a pretty good character, my children and the issues that we have sometimes in the family, which a lot of people do. ey called Seth and they said, “We think you guys would be good doing a TV show.” He goes, “I don’t think so.”

[When I found out] I said, “Heck, yes, let’s do it!” So we had some family issues, family discussion, and finally, four months aer that, I said, “Listen guys, with or without you, I’m going to do it.”

If you watch the show, Seth is very conservative. He didn’t want to be out there, he didn’t want to be a celebrity.

When we began the show, none of us thought we’d ever be celebrities. To me, I’m still just a regular kind of pawnbroking guy. People come up to us and make us out to be celebrities.

We sign autographs, shirts, people take pictures with us, but we’re just regular down-to-earth people. at’s what Seth needed to understand. He gets it now.

How has being on TV affected business?

My theory was that pawnbrokers have

always been theorized as dealing with crack-heads, drug dealers and thieves.

What I wanted to do was open up the doors to the world and have them see that actually it’s a legitimate functioning store. I wanted to take the stigma away from what everyone thought it was. Now, there are even more people coming in.

What do you think makes the show so appealing?

You see the desperation of people and then you see the dynamics of a nice Jewish family that has some issues and a lot of people relate to that. I’m the father, and then you have two children that are fighting like cats and dogs and trying to dominate a store that I’ve made successful. It makes for good TV. Do competitors like eBay and Craigslist affect business?

ey must. I can’t give you a definitive answer, but you’d imagine that people buying stuff over the Internet will limit them to coming into your store. But a lot of people don’t like the Internet because they can’t touch and see [items]. ere are a lot of unscrupulous dealers that deal on the Internet, so it’s tough. You have to keep your eye on the prize, and you have to stay with the times. So when the Internet has these sites to shop at, you have to beat their prices when the people come — then, you’ll do business.

There have been episodes where customers bring up your Jewish heritage and connect it with negative stereotypes. You really lose it when that happens. Why?

I don’t like racial slurs. And I for sure don’t like Jewish slurs. I’m not Orthodox, I’m not real religious, I’m Reform, but you don’t talk about my religion, period. I don’t talk about yours, you don’t talk about mine. at’s the stereotype of Jewish pawnshop owners. When you see old pawnshop cartoons it’s always a Jewish guy with money falling out of his pockets with a big nose. A stereotype cartoon. I’m trying to break that perception. JT

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‘THE VOICE OF THE YARD’ SPEAKS

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“After all the arrangements were made,” said Ethan, “Uncle Ken called Ryan and asked him to ‘be nice to my nephew.’”

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“BECAUSE OF [RYAN’S] THEATER EXPERIENCE, HE KNOWS HOW TO BE ON CAMERA AND IS INTERVIEW SAVVY.”

was helped, however, by Steve Yeager, actor, director, filmmaker and co-founder of Young Filmmaker’s Workshop, a summer program for kids ages 11 to 17.

Ethan had taken part in the summer program for three years and realized he wanted to try his hand at documentary filmmaking. He asked Yeager if he would be willing to provide guidance. “‘You come up with an idea, and I’ll help you,’ Steve told me,” said Ethan.

“So, I contacted Ryan on Facebook, and aer a few days, he responded. He said he was interested, and we began to make plans.”

After Ethan’s interviews were completed, Yeager helped with the music and editing.

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knew about his theater background.

I thought it was interesting for a guy who works in sports to be an actor.

Because of his theater experience, he knows how to be on camera and is interview savvy,” Ethan said.

He prepared for his interviews with Wagner by watching a lot of the announcer’s previous interviews. “I’d ask myself, what do I still want to know about him,” Ethan said.

Although the 11th-grader, who attends Franklin High School, has no plans to make another film right now, he remains busy with related projects.

Recently, he began an internship with sports-talk radio station WNST. In addition, Ethan helps photographer Larry Bridge of Larmar Video on

photography shoots at weddings and bar mitzvahs. He hopes to study media production in college.

Would he like a job like Ryan Wagner’s?

“I don’t know. Eighty-one days a year talking about baseball. … But Ryan loves it. It’s great to see someone with a passion for his job,” said Ethan.

“The Voice of the Yard” will be screened, along with other films made by campers in last summer’s Young Filmmaker’s Workshop, on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 9 a.m. at the Landmark Theatres in Harbor East. JT Simone Ellin is a JT staff reporter sellin@jewishtimes.com

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BEYOND GEORGE COSTANZA

Jason Alexander will perform at Jewish Recovery Houses’ annual fundraiser on Nov. 3

By Simone Ellin

JT: There is so much on the Internet about your career, tell us something we might not already know about you.

ALEXANDER: If I have somehow managed to retain any privacy, I think I’ll protect it now by saying, “Nope, there’s nothing you don’t know.” en, I’ll smile disarmingly and hope everybody is satisfied with that.

[Sigh…] Before and after you played “George,” you performed on Broadway and in many regional theater productions. How do you feel about the fact that Broadway actors get so much less recognition than TV and film actors?

I’m not sure I agree that they get “less” recognition. ey get the recognition from their audience, which is, perforce, a much smaller audience than one would have by doing a major film or a television series. But Broadway audiences, or theater audiences in general, are voracious and loyal fans.

You put Bernadette Peters’ name or Nathan Lane’s name on a theater marquee and your box office will start doing business before you even announce the name of the show. So I think people do get appropriate recognition for their work on stage.

What I think is askew is their compensation. Again, it is determined by box-office capacity and profit potentials, but when you think of what a theater actor is called upon to do — I think they should be compensated far beyond what a guy makes to show up on a sitcom every week. These people must dedicate themselves 24/7 to the show they are in on stage.

You can’t come to work at 8 p.m. tired from your day. You can’t come in having overused your voice. You can’t be sick. You can’t be unenthusiastic. And you must work at your

Jason Alexander is coming to Baltimore next month for the Jewish Recovery Houses’ Laughter for Recovery fundraiser.

artistic peak every time. It’s not one take and done. It takes extraordinary cra to re-create a fresh performance day aer day, eight times a week for months on end. It’s not for the weak of spirit or small of ability. It takes commitment and talent, and unfortunately, we can’t pay our theater actors the kinds of salaries we generate on screen.

If not for his Italian name, viewers might have assumed George was Jewish. Would you have played him differently if he were Jewish?

Jewishness was never a factor on Seinfeld. Clearly, Jewish characters, intonations and even situations run throughout our show. But they were almost never considered for inclusion or not due to their “Jewishness.” … I wouldn’t have played George any differently. My first instinct about George was Woody Allen. I thought the cadences of the Seinfeld pilot script had similarities to Mr. Allen’s particular musicality. So he inspired me to wear the glasses and to the rather broad N.Y. accent. But once I was on the show, it quickly became

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The JT caught up with him via email, and this is what he had to say:

apparent that the true model of the character was Larry David. Fortunately for me, Larry was right there every week, and I began to study his mannerisms and inflections, and within a few episodes I was building George from the Larry model. If Larry had been Greek or Italian or African-American or Martian, I don’t think it would have made any difference to me. He was the right model, and I stole everything I could from him.

In 2003, there was an article that appeared in the Forward about a Jewish Museum, N.Y. exhibition called Entertaining America. The exhibit, which showed here in Baltimore at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, closes with a section on “Seinfeld.” That article said the following, “… ‘Seinfeld’ is the last stage in ‘Woody-Allen-ism,’ a metaphor for urban Jewish angst, for a sense of drift, for a lack of meaning. ‘Seinfeld’ is the representation of the virtually complete loss of the minimal tools of functional literacy necessary to articulate questions about Jewishness, and it signifies a coming to an end in

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Beyond George Costanza om page 47 some ways of Jewish identity via Jewish literacy. The show represents an identity that has been so watered down in terms of Jewish substance that only the form remains.’

Reaction, please?

Sure, Woody Allen and Seinfeld do share a certain kind of “angst.” It seems to come from the tension between fulfilling one’s personal desires simply because they exist and the potential higher meanings of life. The result is a funny “push-pull” between ego and selflessness that embodies a lot of Jewish humor. And the result is a sense of purposelessness. … As for the rest of Mr. Grossman’s conjecture that it has something to do with Jewish identity via Jewish literacy — that sounds to me like a guy who writes for a living but doesn’t have a terribly large audience. So rather than look at what he’s writing, he blames it on growing illiteracy. I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but it feels like “term-paper conjecture” to me. Jewishness is a strange thing and an ever-changing identity. I am an almost completely secular Jew. My involvement with the religious aspect of Judaism is pretty minimal and has been for a long time. But Jewishness is infused into every cell of my body and mind — my morals, my sense of humor and my world view. To say I am defined positively or negatively by my Jewish literacy just strikes me as inane.

If you had to choose three of your favorite episodes, what would they be?

There were several that were really important to us in the arc of success the show enjoyed. One is “The Chinese Restaurant.” This was special because the show was not yet a hit and the network did not understand or appreciate the episode. ey didn’t want Jerry and Larry to do it. But in 48

typical Seinfeld fashion, we did it anyway — because it was funny and good.

I remember when we did, that I suddenly had a feeling of pride about the show. I thought it was a brave decision, and it’s when the show really started to feel important to me.

“The Parking Garage” was a big one for us because it was when we really started breaking away from the traditional four-camera sitcom format. We actually shot that episode more the way one would shoot a movie — no audience, over several shooting days. That became a signature style for us — filming several scenes traditionally in front of a live audience, but also taking our world onto the real streets and capturing it like a film. It was audacious at the time and very successful.

And lastly, “The Contest” was the episode that really put us on the map.

The show had a loyal fan base, and it was growing, but the fact that we took a subject as dicey as masturbation and found a way to deal with it maturely and hysterically — well, it had never been done before. And the next day, [our show] became what is now called a “water cooler” show. …

We became appointment television.

And it catapulted us from a solid show to a phenomenon.

Do you like George Costanza?

Yes, I like George very much. I also like Larry David very much, and he is as meshuga a person as George. But there is a real sweetness about George. Yes, his ego is out of control.

He lies, he’s lazy, he tries to get away with doing as little as possible — but he is also agonizingly aware that he is not living up to his potential. He knows he is a little man in a big world and that he is usually spitting into the wind. And yet, he keeps dreaming and trying. I love how

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seriously he takes little things and how not seriously he takes big things.

George makes me laugh. And I love that people all over the world enjoy him so much.

I always think acting is such a selfish profession. No one ever actually needs an actor to get through a situation.

You need doctors, lawyers, sanitation workers — not actors. But George and “Seinfeld” have had profound meaning to people. I have met people who have experience horrible things — illness, death, war, poverty — who found our show to be their primary source of comfort and laughter. It has brought solace and healing and companionship to people. And they are so excited to share their experience with me. … I’m very grateful to George and to Jerry and Larry and the gang.

Please tell us about your work for Palestinian-Israeli peace.

Well, we do what we can, which is, unfortunately, never enough. I am associated with a remarkable organization called OneVoice. It was founded by one of my heroes, Daniel Lubetzsky. The mission of OneVoice is to engage the moderates in Israeli society and Palestinian society to come together and seek resolution of their conflict with discussion and mutual respect and understanding. It seeks, very pointedly, to find the path to a two-state solution, because we feel very strongly that that is the only solution that will provide long-term security, dignity and sovereignty to both peoples. … [rough the organization], I travel to the Middle East with some frequency. I meet with members of the organization on both sides and feel very honored to be invited into parts of the Territories where most Americans, most Jews, and even most Israelis, do not

often get to go. It gives me a very unique perspective on how the struggle is experienced by both sides. And I do my best to understand and share the experience with those who are willing to incorporate it into their thinking on the struggle.

Are you playing poker lately?

As oen as I can. I am still a sponsored player by the PokerStars Company. I love the game, and I really enjoy most of the people I meet in playing it. My reputation far exceeds my actual ability. Or maybe I’m bluffing when I say that — wink, wink.

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What the Internet Has To Say Jason Alexander was born Jay Scott Greenspan in 1959 in Newark N.J., to Ruth Minnie, a nurse and health-care administrator, and Alexander B. Greenspan, an accounting manager. He grew up in the suburban community of Livingston, N.J., where he graduated from Livingston High School.

Alexander attended Boston University but did not graduate because he left college early to pursue acting opportunities in N.Y.C. Alexander’s first love was magic but realized he was more likely to succeed as an actor.

Even so, he was named “Parlor Magician of the Year” by the Academy of Magical Arts Inc. in 2006.

Alexander first appeared on Broadway in Steven Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” (1981). He also performed in Broadway shows such as Kander & Ebb’s “The Rink” (1984) and Neil Simon’s “Broadway Bound” (1986). In 1989, Alexander won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway.”

Off Broadway, Alexander appeared in “Forbidden Broadway” (1982) and “Personals” (1985). He also starred in a Los Angeles production of Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” (2003) and in a musical version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” (2004). Alexander became artistic director of the Reprise Theatre Company in Los Angeles in 2007. At Reprise, Alexander directed “Sunday in the Park with George” (2007) and “The Odd Couple” (2008). Earlier this year, the company canceled its spring productions citing low subscription and ticket sales.

Alexander’s film debut was in “The Burning” in 1981. Additional bigscreen credits include “Pretty Woman” (1990), “Love, Valour and Compassion” (1997), “Shallow Hal” (2001) and “A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up Timmy Turner” (2011).

The actor has played a variety of roles in television sitcoms, specials and cartoons including two sitcoms with brief runs in which he starred, “Bob Patterson” (2001) and “Listen Up” (2005). Alexander also appeared in the show “Dinosaurs” (1991-1993), a 1995 TV version of “Bye Bye Birdie,” and voiced the lead character in “Duckman” from 1994 to 1997.

Additionally he has guest starred on countless shows including “ Friends,” “Monk,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect.”

Alexander is a champion poker player and has appeared on “Celebrity Poker Showdown,” “Poker After Dark” and on the online poker show, “Hollywood Poker.”

He has been married to Daena Title for 30 years, and the couple has two sons, ages 16 and 20. In recent years, Alexander has become involved with the OneVoice Initiative, which seeks to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

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What projects are currently in the works for you?

I’m all over the map. I recently finished performing in a little musical comedy film called “Lucky Stiff.” I’m hoping that will come out strong. I am developing several television projects as a producer, in many different genres. I have a wonderful British series that I am working to adapt for American TV and that I would costar in if we can pull it together. I direct stage and television and the occasional film project. I am the artistic director of a wonderful theater company in L.A. called e Reprise

eater Company. I have several oneman shows that I do around the country, one of which brings me to Baltimore. I teach acting around the country and other parts of the globe.

And as soon as my youngest son graduates high school in two years, I hope to spend some time back in New York, acting and directing for the theater again. at is where I began this journey. It is why I became an actor, and it never stops calling to me. So if you see my name on the marquee, come on in and enjoy. JT Simone Ellin is a JT staff reporter sellin@jewishtimes.com

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RECIPES

tiPS & triCKS ✧ Leftover brisket? Add gravy, a box of frozen mixed vegetables and pie crust to make brisket pot pie. Or shred the meat for a pulled brisket sandwich. Mix together leftover gravy with a little ketchup and liquid smoke for the sauce.

✧ Use hummus to stuff chicken cutlets, as a sandwich or veggie burger spread or in place of mayo in deviled eggs.

✧ Seasonal fresh figs and/or pomegranate seeds add pizzazz to any salad.

✧ Make a healthy horseradish egg white omelet

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by adding white horseradish to taste before cooking.

GOT LEFTOVERS? Knowing Thanksgiving turkey is just around the corner, my freezer is already “stuffed” with leftovers from Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. I try to use everything to recycle and reinvent new recipes.

Besides French toast, use challah for croutons, herbed bread crumbs (delish in meatballs or meatloaf) or bread pudding.

Leftover kishka can turn into my new “mock” cream of kishka soup.

Even pieces of gefilte fish can be reconstructed into a fantastic dip.

My hostess gifts of port wine and balsamic vinegar were reduced to a rich, sweet drizzle garnishing many foods from meat and pasta to strawberries.

The last ingredient to this column is “a huge hunk of gratitude.” Thank you to all those who wrote, emailed and phoned the Baltimore Jewish Times to say they missed my articles! I really appreciate the support and will continue monthly columns to bring you the best of Baltimore’s Jewish recipes and cooking tips. JT

By Ilene Spector

“Mock” Cream Of Kishka Soup

Dilled Gefilte Fish Dip

(Pareve) 1 envelope Lipton’s kosher chicken noodle soup

2 large or 4 small pieces of homemade or gefilte fish from a jar, including jelled broth

1 full cup kishka, crumbled

Small carrots from fish, optional

Baked herbed challah or bagel croutons for garnish

4 ounces pareve Tofutti cream cheese, room temperature

Prepare soup according to directions on the box. Cool. add the soup and kishka to a blender and blend until smooth. e noodles make the soup “creamy,” and some bits of noodles will resemble small pasta/barley.

Garnish with croutons, if desired.

Cut leover challah or bagels into small crouton squares. Shake in a plastic bag with some olive oil and dry herbs of your choice. Bake at 300 degrees on lightly oiled foil until hard crouton texture. reheat soup, stirring, on low to serve.

Four servings. You can use a piece of vegetarian homemade kishka as well.

1 to 2 teaspoons white horseradish or white pepper, to taste

(Pareve)

Dry dill, to taste and garnish

Place fish, broth, cream cheese and horseradish or pepper in a blender and puree to smooth consistency. Stir in some dill if desired, and save some to garnish when serving. refrigerate and serve with crackers or raw vegetables. adding the carrots gives color to the dip, but without them the dip is whiter. about 2 cups.

Ice Cream Casserole With A Cowboy Kick (Pareve/Dairy) 8 ice cream sandwich bars ⁄2 cup Kahlua, or any coffee flavor liqueur

1

⁄2 cup toffee bits

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1 8-ounce container frozen whipped topping, thawed Chocolate ice cream syrup ⁄2 cup chopped walnuts, pecans or even salted peanuts, optional 1

Place the ice cream sandwiches in a 9-by-13-inch pan, cutting to fit them all. Drizzle with the Kahlua and sprinkle with toffee bits. Spread the whipped topping over all, covering completely.

Drizzle with the chocolate in a decorative design and sprinkle with the nuts, if desired. Freeze until ready to serve. (Cover tightly after it is frozen solid.)

Can be prepared 24-48 hours in advance. Serves 12-15.

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Eating pizza and playing catch are two of life’s simple pleasures that most of us take for granted. However, for someone who has suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI), these once casual, enjoyable activities can become a real challenge.

Falls (especially in the elderly population), car accidents, sports collisions and assaults are among the most common causes of TBI. A TBI occurs when the brain is jarred by a violent movement or when someone suffers a direct blow to the head.

Depending on the location and severity of the damage, physical, behavioral and/or thought-processing deficits can result.

While it’s important to remember that not all blows to the head cause TBIs, knowing the symptoms that indicate trouble is vital.

Symptoms of a concussion, considered a mild TBI, can include nausea, vomiting, headaches, disorientation, sleep disturbances, vision changes and balance problems.

In more severe cases of brain injury, individuals could experience a loss of consciousness, paralysis, difficulty speaking and understanding and even death. It’s therefore crucial to get medical attention immediately.

These scenarios sound scary, but there’s hope for recovery, and help is available to return to an independent lifestyle. Rehabilitation provides treatment to show patients how to regain lost skills or compensate for functions that cannot be restored. Physical, occupational, speech and recreation therapies work to retrain the brain to perform daily tasks.

For instance, if individuals are having difficulty sitting at the table and eating, they may avoid being with friends in social dining situations.

In such cases, sitting balance can be improved through muscle retraining and with proper seating surfaces.

Depending on severity, patients can be taught techniques for swallowing

to prevent choking, such as pureeing favorite foods or thickening liquids and taking small sips and bites. If fine motor skills are affected, special utensils can be used to eat independently.

TBI sufferers also face thought-processing challenges. Imagine being unable to calculate the amount of money needed to buy groceries, when and how much medication to take or even how to assign values to playing cards. Rehabilitation professionals have strategies to assist people with these circumstances and countless others.

Life after a traumatic brain injury can be frustrating not only for the person who has the TBI, but also for his or her family members.

Safety can become an issue if a loved one forgets to turn off the stove or needs reminding to shut the front door. Reconciling that a once independent person now needs extra attention can be daunting.

Household responsibilities may shift if the injured person used to pay bills or mow the lawn but no longer can complete these tasks. Other family members will take on those duties, in addition to pre-existing responsibilities, all while adjusting to a new care-giving role.

Despite a temporary or permanent change in family dynamic, there is always help and hope. Medical and rehabilitation services, as well as emotional aid and support groups for TBI sufferers and the people who love them, are essential and readily available in the area.

The best advice for families coping with TBI is to advocate for your family member, use the many community resources, and most importantly, stick together as a family to support each other and the injured loved one throughout the recovery process.

After all, that’s what mishpacha is for. JT Eva Warschawski-Gonsher, PT, DPT, NCS, CBIS TBI, works in neuro-rehabilitation at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore.

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e Jewish View Rabbi Miriam Cotzin Burg Parashat Bereshit

Love at First Sight The night my husband and I went on our first date, the earth moved — literally. We were living in Los Angeles and in the middle of the night there was an earthquake. But there was also a kind of movement in my soul that, to this day, I do not understand.

I called my parents when the date ended and told them that I had met the man I was going to marry. Somehow, I knew something in my soul that could not yet be known any other way.

The rabbis teach that 40 days before a child is conceived, a voice from heaven announces who the child will ultimately marry (Sotah 2a). This is the Jewish concept of “beshert,” meaning “fated,” but the term is most commonly used when talking about finding one’s soulmate. The difficulty of this task was recognized by the rabbis. In a famous story, a Roman matron asks Rabbi Yossi how long it took to create the world. He answers, “six days.” She then asks what God has been doing since then.

Rabbi Yossi replies, “Making matches.” In disbelief, the Roman matron says, “Is that all? Anyone can do that!” She goes home, lines up all her man servants and maid servants and pairs them off. The next morning, they all come back to her injured and complaining. She is forced to recognize that what Rabbi Yossi said is true, “Making good matches is, for God, as difficult as was parting the Red Sea” (BereshitRabbah 68 and Vayikra Rabbah 8).

This week, we read the story of creation. After God creates Adam, God identifies the first thing in creation that is “not good.” “It is not good for man to be alone” (Gen. 2:18). Adam looks at all of the animals and does not find a partner.

God then causes him to fall into a

B’Teavon!

deep sleep. God takes a part of Adam’s body and shapes that into Eve. When Adam wakes up, he declares: “This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one shall be called Woman for from man was she taken” (Gen. 2:23). I always find this statement to be quite astonishing. Adam was, as it were, under Divine anesthesia and could not know that she was, quite literally, taken from his body. One might think that this was simply an expression, a declaration of gratitude that there was someone else like him, but he could have expressed that in many different ways. No, he recognizes something that he could not have known.

Somehow, I knew something in my soul that could not yet be known any other way.

Now serving recipes, restaurants, This was the first experience of “love at first sight.” Whether one believes in fate or not, there is in this moment — and perhaps some critical moments in our own lives — a kind of mysterious soul wisdom.

Whether those moments are about love or friendship or vocation or something else entirely, we are blessed that there are some things that are true, that we might never understand. Instead, we stand in awe. JT

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Rabbi Miriam Cotzin Burg is the director of educational engagement at the Center for Jewish Education.

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When Sarah Mandel, living in Overland Park, Kan., spoke to her cousins in Baltimore, she heard all about the new guy they had met. Sarah and Ilan Goldberg were introduced by phone in 1999, and the next time she visited Maryland, which her family did often, they met in person.

They were all of 14 years old back then but established a friendship that continued by phone. Each time the Mandels traveled east, Sarah saw Ilan.

As the years passed, they talked often for hours at a time. Both dated through high school, with a few serious relationships, but nothing materialized.

“I went on dates, but I felt like I was always waiting for him to come around,” said Sarah, 27, a marketing account executive for The Associated. “I always felt we were meant to be together.”

At 19, Sarah and the Mandels took a cruise out of Baltimore. e trip preceded a reconnection with Ilan aer two years. It was New Year’s 2005, and they had their first official date at Edo Sushi.

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By then, both had cell phones, free long distance and Internet. But Sarah was off to the University of Kansas, studying communications and psychology, and Ilan, also 27, had become a real estate entrepreneur in Baltimore. Sarah didn’t really date in college and stayed in to talk to him by phone when her friends went out.

Ilan admits to being “on the same track. I always knew; I had a feeling in the back of my mind,” he said.

The distance certainly was a factor.

“I always had a feeling when I saw her,” he says. “I always had a broken, empty feeling when she left.”

Things changed during Sarah’s senior year, when Ilan visited over Labor Day weekend. They then committed to regular visits. After her graduation in the spring of 2007, Sarah moved to Washington to work for a law firm, knowing that the East Coast and its faster pace was for her. It also gave the couple an opportunity to spend more time together, and they did several times each week.

In July 2011, a friend invited Sarah

First Meeting: Towson Town Center, Summer 1999 Wedding Date: Sept. 2, 2012 Locale: The Tremont Grand, Baltimore Current Residence: Fells Point Favorite Activities: Dining out and traveling

to New York City to help with her wedding plans. Ilan sent a car to pick her up, and Sarah was driven to a dock at the boat basin on 79th Street. ere he waited, holding a ring containing his grandmother’s diamond. ey sailed for a few hours on the Hudson River before joining their parents Heidi and Paul Goldberg and Hannah Harris and the late Larry Mandel about 40 other friends for a surprise party.

They were married Sept. 2, 2012 at the Tremont Grand while wrapped in Larry’s tallit.

“Larry was one of my best friends,” recalled Ilan. “That moment, when we put the tallis around us, was special, and feeling his presence and thinking about him meant a lot.” JT Linda L. Esterson is a freelance writer in Owings Mills. For “Beshert,” call 410-902-2305 or email Linda.Esterson@verizon.net.

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Rave for the Cure: Zach Marks (right), a senior at Franklin High School in Reisterstown, and Sam Minkin, a senior at McDonogh School in Owings Mills, spent last weekend “raving” for a cure — for lung cancer. The two friends, who run a DJ business outside of school hours, raised around $2,539 by hosting a dance at the Mitchell David Teen Center. They played the tunes and set the scene, and charged $10 a head; 175 people attended. In addition, the teens opened an online donation page. Funds are being donated to the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation in honor of Marks’ grandmother, who died from the disease last year. “We are using our passion but twisting it to give back — to give to a cause,” said Marks. “We are just trying to do good.”

Irwin and Janice Waranch and Jay and Elizabeth Schiner are pleased to announce the engagement of their children, Genna and Nick.

Nick graduated from Towson University with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in instructional technology and is a fourthgrade teacher/technology integration specialist in the Baltimore County Public Schools.

Genna graduated from York College of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s

degree in behavioral science. She holds a master’s degree in human resource development from Towson University and a post-baccalaureate graduate certificate in management and leadership development. Genna works for the Department of Defense.

Genna is the granddaughter of Hilda Silver and the late Irving Silver and Joseph and Dora Waranch.

Nick is the grandson of Barbara and Kent Schiner and Ray Farrow and the late Marge Farrow.

A June 2013 wedding is planned.

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when as a son, you cannot recall any memories where you would have wanted to have had your dad act or react differently than he did,” said Steven Hurwitz, his middle son. “He was a remarkable father and mentor.”

Rabbi Wohlberg said what separated Hurwitz from others was that he was much more than a businessman. He cared about his community and ensuring his family stayed true to its Jewish roots.

“Zell may no longer be inscribed in the ‘Book of Life,’ but who and what he was will live on in the lives of his family, and what a wonderful family it is,” Rabbi Wohlberg said.

Hurwitz enjoyed reading from the Torah and had helped lead services at Beth Tfiloh, Rabbi Wohlberg said. A past president at Ner Talmud Congregation, Hurwitz was also a big supporter of Israel and raised funds for the country through the sale of Israeli bonds. In addition, he also was a former president of the Zionist Organization of America — Baltimore District, now known as the Baltimore Zionist District.

“My father had a kind and gentle soul and did everything with a smile on his face,” said son Marc Hurwitz.

“He never forgot his roots or where he came from so many years ago.”

Linda Hurwitz, his daughterin-law, said he loved everyone in his life and just as equally loved everything about being Jewish. Along with his support of Israel, Hurwitz never shied away from donating to

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Zell Hurwitz is being remembered as a devoted spouse and father and a compassionate philanthropist.

Baltimore-area Jewish day schools or helping others in the community with any number of charitable causes, she added.

“It was a privilege to be his daughter-in-law and see the goodness he had not only for his loved ones, but for the Jewish community as a whole,” she said. “He made no bones about being Jewish and understood what that entailed. He gave so much to charity, not because he had to, but because it was just who he was. “e motto of his bank was: ‘We share your dreams.’ at’s how he lived his life. He wanted to help as many people as possible make their dreams become a reality. at will always be a big part of his lasting legacy.”

Survivors include Myrna Hurwitz (nee Wagner), his wife of 58 years. In addition, Hurwitz was beloved father of Marc and Suzanne Hurwitz,

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The lifelong Baltimore resident was 82.

Hurwitz was well-known in Baltimore’s Jewish and business community but preferred that his work stayed behind the scenes, said Beth Tfiloh Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg at Hurwitz’s memorial service.

“He was not the type who sought honors or drew attention to himself,” Rabbi Wohlberg said. “He was kind, giving and generous out of the limelight.”

Hurwitz graduated from Forest Park High School in 1948 and then earned a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and a law degree from the University of Maryland. roughout his career, Hurwitz worked as a certified public accountant, licensed real estate broker and a banker.

Most of Hurwitz’s work life centered on family-owned businesses, beginning with Sharon Savings & Loan, which his father and grandfather founded in the back room of a dry goods store during the Great Depression. e bank eventually grew to include 10 branches throughout the Baltimore area before being sold 23 years ago.

Hurwitz then worked with his sons to found Trisun Financial Group.

“It’s quite a tribute and reflection of the relationship with your father,

Steven and Linda Hurwitz and David and Cheri Hurwitz; grandfather of Lauren and David Braunstein and Michael, Andrew, Lindsay, Hallie, Jared and Zachary Hurwitz. His parents, Benjamin and Sarah Hurwitz, and brother, Lee Hurwitz, preceded him in death.

Funeral services were held Sept. 23 at Sol Levinson & Bros. in Pikesville followed by interment at Beth Tfiloh Cemetery. In lieu of flowers contributions in his memory may be made to the Beth Tfiloh Hurwitz Education Fund, 3300 Old Court Road, Baltimore, MD 21208 or the Levindale Hurwitz Synagogue Fund, c/o LifeBridge Health, Department of Development, 2401 W. Belvedere Ave., Baltimore, MD 21215. JT Ron Snyder is a JT staff reporter rsnyder@jewishtimes.com

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PLOTKIN — On September 28, 2012, BRADLEY ADAM; loving son of Cindi and Henry Meyers and Michael and Lauren Plotkin; beloved brother of Corey Plotkin; adored

ROSNER — On September 28, 2012, KATHY (nee Vaile), 45, of Owings Mills; beloved wife of Joel Ira Rosner; loving mother of Brett Nicole, Madison Katelyn and Ashley Rose Rosner; daughter of Donald and Kathryn Vaile; dear sister of Susan and Ron Chiodi, Amy and Ira Ackerman, Ernest and Valerie Vaile, Duffy and Jill Vaile and Jenny and Russell Tyler, James Baldwin and the late Laura Baldwin; daughter-in-law of Rubin and the late Judith Rosner; sister-in-law of Paulette and Michael Baron and Joanne and Michael Cohen. Also beloved by many nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Kathy’s honor can be made to the Baltimore Humane Society at bmorehumane.org.

SCHREIBER — On September 28, 2012, FLORENCE (nee Hurwitz); beloved wife of the late Benjamin Schreiber and Lester Sallerson; cherished daughter of the late Sidney and Rebecca Hurwitz; devoted mother of Seymour (Marlene) Sallerson, Sandra German, Alan (Marge) Schreiber and Norman (Debbie) Schreiber; loving sister of Marlene (Ronald) Rubin, the late Isador Hurwitz, Milton Hurwitz, Mary Jacobs and Bessie Caplan; See Obituaries on page 58

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SEGALL — On September 28, 2012, CYRIL BLOCK KIRSON (nee Mogol); beloved wife of the late Benjamin Block, Abraham Kirson and Karl Heinz Segall; loving mother of Barbara (Donald) Novicki, Sidney (Martha) Block and Jay Block; devoted stepmother of Marilyn (Donald) Goldman, John (Gloria) Segall, Jeffrey (Sandy) Segall and Frank ( Jackie) Segall; beloved sister of Betty Berlin and the late Jesse Mogol, Leonard Mogol, Irving Mogul, Ruth Rudo and Judy Hurwitz; loving grandmother of Phillip (Rebecca) Novicki, Benjamin Block and Katie Block ( Jay O’Toole). Also survived by many other loving family members. Interment at Hebrew Young Mens Cemetery, 5800 Windsor Mill Road. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to the Shriners Hospitals for Children, C/O Boumi Shriners, 5050 King Ave., Rosedale, MD 21237.

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TAND — On September 28, 2012, GlLEN ALAN; beloved husband of Wendy Tand (nee Keiser) and the late Nancy Tand (nee Gaby); loving father of Rachel (Adam) Scherr, Andy (Hilary) Fink and Stephen ( Jessica) Fink; devoted brother of Jeffrey ( Joy) Tand; beloved brother-inlaw of Dr. Mark (Beth) Keiser; loving grandfather of Gabrielle and Kylie Scherr. Also survived by many loving nieces and nephews. Interment at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Berrymans Lane. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to the National Parkinson Foundation, Gift Processing Center, P.O. Box 5018, Hagerstown, MD 21741 or the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 100 Painters Mill Road, Suite 800, Owings Mills, MD 21117.

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LEGAL NOTICES Small Estate Notice of Appointment Notice to Creditors Notice To Unknown Heirs to all Persons Interested in the

Bruce E. Kauffman, Esquire 406 W. Pennsylvania Avenue Towson, Maryland 21204

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Notice is given that LYNDA SCHOENFELD, 37 Sima Road, Holland, Pennsylvania 18966, was on October 3, 2012 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Carl Harris Robinson who died on September 7, 2012, with a will.

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 3rd day of April 2013.

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.

Notice is given that BERNARD J. SACHS, 111 N. Charles Street, 7th Floor, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, was on September 24, 2012 appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Vada M. Johnston who died on July 4, 2000, with a will.

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 24th day of March 2013.

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.

LYNDA SCHOENFELD Personal Representative GRACE G. CONNOLLY Register of Wills for Baltimore County, Courts Building 401 Bosley Avenue, Towson, Maryland 21204-4403.

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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 shall file their objections with the Register of Wills within 30 days after the date of publication of this Notice. All persons having an objection to the probate of the will shall file their objections with the Register of Wills within six months after the date of publication of this Notice.

All persons having claims against the decedent must serve their claims on the undersigned personal representative or file them 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) Thirty days 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 thirty days from the mailing or other delivery of the notice. Any claim not served or filed within that time, or any extension provided by law, is unenforceable thereafter.

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STEVENSON $449,900 (WOO) 4BR/2.5BA Contemporary w/eat-in kit, 1st fl FR, big LR & DR, 2 car garage.

elebrating 25 years!

410-653-SOLD(7653)

Dmitry Fayer

Rebecca Conway

Realtor

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Anna Yashnyk

Gennady Fayer

Realtor, ABR, CDPE Certified Distressed Property Expert

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Updated 2BR/2BA on 1.48 lush acres! Granite kit, beaut 6' walk-in shower, hdwd flrs. Balcony w/stunning view. Agent/ Owner.

VELVET VALLEY $290,000 (PAR)

Ida Volkomich

Aaron Pearlman

Marina Shwartz

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410-961-5773

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VILLAGE AT WOODHOLME $275,000 (MEA)

SUBURBIA $235,000 (BRA)

3BRgarageTownhousew/graniteeat-inkit,SSappls.

1stflMBRw/gardenbath,hdwds,sunroom&more!

3BR/3.5BA Townhouse w/eat-in kit, MBR suite, hdwd flrs, fin'd walkout LL w/FP. Backs to trees.

UNDER CONTRACT

PRESERVE AT MANOR WOODS $189,900 (HID)

BELLE FARM ESTATES $169,900 (BON)

FOREST GREEN $224,900 (FOR)

CANTON $209,900 (HUD)

3BR/1.5BA Rancher w/many updates! Custom kit, hdwd flrs, vaulted ceilings, huge FR. Private yard.

Updated 2BR Rowhome w/eat-in kit, sep DR, lrg BRs. Central air, exposed brick, 2 blks off the Square!

GREENSPRING VALLEY $154,900 (SPR)

ANNEN WOODS $154,900 (COB)

SLADE AVE $150,000 (SLA)

FALLS GABLE $149,900 (TYL)

JONES VALLEY $149,900 (JON)

Updated 2BR Colonial on 1/2 acre! Eat-in kit, 1st fl laundry. New carpet, freshly painted.

2BR/2BA Townhouse w/updated eat-in kit, hdwd flrs, large MBR suite, 2 patios.

Complete shop, ready to go, for beauty, nail or massage! Just under 1000SF. High visibility!

2BR/2BA mid-level Condo w/eat-in kit, sep DR, MBR suite, whirlpool tub, hdwd flrs.

2BR mid-lvl Condo w/updated kit & floors, fresh paint, fireplace, balcony & corner location!

OLD COURT ESTATES $199,900 (MAR)

4BR/3BA Rancher w/eat-in kit, 1st fl FR, MBR suite Brick Townhouse w/eat-in kit, 2 MBR w/masterbath.Fin'dwalkoutLL,hdwdfloors&more! suites, loft. Fin’d bsmt, deck, 2–car garage.

3BR/2BA Rancher w/granite eat-in kit, hdwd flrs, fin'd LL w/bath. Enclosed rear porch.

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UNDER CONTRACT

TIMBERGROVE $149,900 (WIC)

ANNEN WOODS $125,000 (CAN)

Stunning 2BR 1st fl Condo w/granite kit, upgraded baths, hdwd flrs, new HVAC. Private setting.

2BR+Den top fl Condo w/eat-in kit, master suite, laundryinunit.Largermodel.Balcony.Gatedcomm.

GARRISON RIDGE $89,900 (GAR)

SHELBOURNE COURT $49,900 (PAR)

2BR/1.5BA Townhouse w//remodeled kit, 1BR/1BAtopfloorCondow/eat-inkit,sepDR,MBRw/lrg closet.W/Dinunit,extrastorageinbldg.Balcony. sep DR, 1st fl powder rm, fin'd LL.

STEVENSON $2700 (BIR) 5BR/3BA Contemporary. Over 3500SF. Nice 1/2 acre property.

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1930 JORDANS RETREAT RD. $449,944 Mini horse farm ... Idyllic 7 acres buffered by a forest of trees.

Charming home with bright sunroom, central air, gas cooking granite kitchen! A bit of paradise to live and enjoy nature. 3 car garage, workshop. So much charm and so much beauty! Horses, people and pet friendly! When would you like a tour? www.homerome.com

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COUNTRY LIVING ONE MILE FROM THE BELTWAY 415 SOUTH RD. 21208 $424,944

18 STIRRUP CT, ANNEN WOODS $194.944

TT Annen Woods townhome in SE move–in condition. Private location surrounded by lush landscaping. First floor family room with cathedral ceilings. Spacious living/dining room with two sets of new sliders to enclosed patio perfect for entertaining, relaxing and container gardening. Large bedrooms with master walk–in closet/dressing room, double vanities and separate shower. Ft Garrison School system in Gated community with tennis and pool. www.homerome.com

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Unique solid masonry brick custom home on 3 acres buffered by Woodholme County Club. Gated secluded private retreat in Pikesville… convenient to everything.

First floor master suite, open floor plan and a guest suite with kitchen. High ceilings and brick fireplace. Drive the golf cart home! www.homerome.com

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Four level Pickwick split rarely available with a very large family room, with room for fourth bedroom. Beautiful level park–like backyard and patio. Large living room, formal dining room and eat–in kitchen with window over sink. Extra long and wide driveway for plenty of off street parking. Central air, gas heat. www.homerome.com

6811 CHEROKEE DR. $394,944

The Towers #102 C $149,944

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Very special open floor plan with huge great room addition. Luxury master bedroom suite, soaking tub, sep shower, to skylit -walk-in closet room.

Gleaming hardwood floors, cathedral ceilings, sliders to deck and fenced rear yard. Gourmet granite kitchen w stainless appliances. Four finished levels with an amazing amount of space!

One car garage! Immaculate move in now. WOW! www.homerome.com

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3303 Northbrook Rd. $299,944

SELL YOUR HOME WITH MARGARET ROME FALLS ROAD CORRIDOR 12325 FALLS RD. $589,944

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3703 CLARINTH RD. $169,944

R Eleven Slade OO FL P $49,944 H -O 8T CO Bright spacious one bedroom and den 8th floor Co-op near the elevator. Wide windows bathe the space with light. Tree top views from all rooms. Updated eat kitchen, 3 walk in closets. Move in condition. Full service with doorman and receptionist. Monthly fee includes, heat, air conditioning and taxes. Cash only contracts.

All stone semi with front and rear porch- level back yard and a one–car garage. Large rooms throughout. Separate dining room, fireplace in spacious living room. Eat–in kitchen. 3 Bedrooms and two full baths upstairs. Finished lower level paneled recreation room with fireplace, full bath and an abundant amount of storage. All new windows and doors.

Needs some TLC...so help me be beautiful again! www.homerome.com

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Contemporary 3500' sprawling Rancher with sunroom and dressing room in the master bedroom suite. Luxury marble and glass brick master bath with walk in shower and jetted tub. Floor to ceiling Stacked stone fireplace divides the living and family rooms. Huge eat in kitchen with expanse of corian counters, center island and greenhouse window overlooking the large deck and in ground pool. Cathedral ceilings and skylights. Perfect home for entertaining with abundant parking. Please call for more details.

I HAVE QUALIFIED BUYERS FOR THESE HOMES • NEEDED...CHARMING HOME WITH CHARACTER, ACREAGE, GARAGE AND FIREPLACES (ONE IN MBR WOULD BE PERFECT) • NEEDED... GREY ROCK TOWNHOUSE WITH FIRST FLOOR MASTER, NO BASEMENT AND GOOD PARKING. • CASH BUYER FOR LARGE 4 PLUS BEDROOM HOME IN THE PICKWICK/SMITH AVE AREA. • NEEDED...ANNEN WOODS TOWNHOUSE, IMMEDIATE SETTLEMENT. • NEEDED...LARGE HOME IN FALLSTAFF OR DUMBARTON AREA. MOVE–IN CONDITION A MUST. • NEEDED...ELDERSBURG OR SYKESVILLE HOME WITH PUBLIC UTILITIES AND GAS HEAT UP TO $500K • NEEDED...2 STORY W/ LARGE YARD IN FRANKLIN OR FORT GARRISON SCHOOL DISTRICT. UP TO $500K

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STILL LOCALLY OWNED. NOW NATIONALLY KNOWN. CAVES VALLEY

WORTHINGTON

GREENSPRING VALLEY

VALLEY HI

3208caves.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “22079” to 79564

12210worthington.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “288144” to 79564

2202aridge.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “3378” to 79564

13valleyhi.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “879083” to 79564

$1,995,000 3208A Caves Rd Michael Yerman 410-583-0400

$1,675,000 12210 Worthington Rd Michael Yerman 410-583-0400

$1,199,900 2202A Ridge Rd Marc Witman 410-583-0400

$849,900 13 Valley Hi Ct Marc Witman 410-583-0400

GREENWOOD

GREENSPRING

REISTERSTOWN

VELVET VALLEY

19mansel.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “2099” to 79564

Rare Opportunity for Wooded Lot in the Heart of Greenspring Valley

oldcourt.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “737144” to 79564

2419velvetridge.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “876740” to 79564

$739,000 19 Mansel Dr Michael Yerman 410-583-0400

$275,000 11405 Woodland Dr Michael Yerman 410-583-0400

$595,000 2601 Od Court Rd Michael Yerman 410-583-0400

$549,900 2419 Velvet Ridge Dr Marc Witman 410-583-0400

HARPER HOUSE

DUMBARTON HEIGHTS

VILLAGES AT WOODHOLME

MAYS CHAPEL

625strandhill.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “7384” to 79564

111hamlethill107.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “987862” to 79564

3410deepwillow.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “907835” to 79564

4207chastetree.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “308346” to 79564

$469,500 625 Strandhill Ct Michael Yerman 410-583-0400

$415,000 111 Hamlet Hill Rd #107 Peter/Alex Bulkley 443-742-3520

$414,900 3410 Deep Willow Ave Nanci Diamond 410-274-8466

$414,000 4207 Chastetree Ct #4207 Beth McDaniels Stevens 410-916-4974

THE RISTEAU

VELVET HILLS

12oakhill.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “456713” to 79564

2331oldcourt506.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “162885” to 79564

VILLAGES AT WOODHOLME

8516meadowsweet.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “298317” to 79564

FALLSTAFF CROSSING

$379,900 12 Oak Hill Ct Marc Witman 410-583-0400

$325,000 2331 Old Court Rd #506 Michael Yerman 410-583-0400

$309,900 8516 Meadowsweet Rd #8516 Marc Witman 410-583-0400

Priced from $219,900 360712 Seven Mile Ln Janice Strauss 410-627-6283

Community of 10 homes New Construction

WINTHROP HOUSE

HIGHFIELD HOUSE

SOLD

SOLD

$179,000 4100 N Charles St #210 Stanley Zerden 443-838-0138

$125,000 4000 N Charles St #503 Stanley Zerden 443-838-0138

MAYS CHAPEL

STEVENSON VILLAGE

29stonehenge.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “571068” to 79564

660straffan.ywgc.info For more info TEXT “93528” to 79564

$124,900 29 Stonehenge Cir # 2 Dolly Rosoff 443-255-9810

$269,900 660 Straffan Dr #401 Beth McDaniels Stevens 410-916-4974

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