Alan H. Feiler

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On my first visit to Israel — a young adults’ mission with the local chapter of the Zionist Organization of America (now the Baltimore Zionist District) — I remember many of us walking up to the Kotel, the Western Wall, with a sense of awe and disbelief. Like so many others, we simply couldn’t believe we were approaching Judaism’s holiest site, an opportunity not afforded to generations of Jews before us.

1 week ago | jmoreliving.com | Alan H. Feiler

Northwest Baltimore resident Jeffrey Ira Amdur was a genuine renaissance man who had three primary passions in life: education, sports and … Millard Fillmore. “To those of you who cavalierly ask, ‘Why Millard Fillmore?’ I respond, ‘Why not Millard Fillmore?’” Amdur wrote in a whimsical 2019 Jmore tribute to the 19th-century statesman known as the “Rodney Dangerfield of U.S. presidents” on the occasion of his 219th birthday.

2 weeks ago | jmoreliving.com | Alan H. Feiler

Longtime attorney and community leader Herbert Joseph Belgrad, who served as the first head of the Maryland Stadium Authority, died on Sunday, Apr. 6, while on his usual morning walk route. The Canton resident was 90. Belgrad was born in Washington, D.C, to Harold S. Belgrad, a haberdasher, and Selma Gundersheimer Belgrad, a homemaker. He attended Baltimore City College and Johns Hopkins University, the latter of which he graduated cum laude in 1956.

1 month ago | jmoreliving.com | Alan H. Feiler

Rabbi Eliyahu “Eli” Fink, a prominent voice and writer on contemporary issues in Orthodox circles, died last Friday morning, Mar. 21, in a car accident on the Garden State Parkway near East Orange, New Jersey. A 2004 alumnus of Baltimore’s Ner Israel Rabbinical College, he was 43. A native and resident of Monsey, New York, Rabbi Fink was an attorney and the former spiritual leader of the Pacific Jewish Center in Venice Beach, California.

1 month ago | jmoreliving.com | Alan H. Feiler

Boonsboro — the tranquil, picturesque hamlet in Washington County located about an hour from Baltimore and nestled at the foot of South Mountain — is not known for being a Jewish mecca. In fact, I’ve never heard of any “members of the tribe” living there or of any shuls operating in Boonsboro (although nearby Frederick has had a thriving Jewish community for more than a century).