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2 weeks ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Alan H. Feiler
Jordan or LeBron? Beatles or Stones? Brando or DeNiro? Lincoln or FDR? “The Babe” or “The Georgia Peach”? Americans seem to immerse themselves in endless loops of discourse about who is the greatest of all time – the “G.O.A.T.,” if you will — whether the topic is sports, medicine, entertainment or even municipalities.
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2 weeks ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Alan H. Feiler
By Philissa CramerTwo months after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, a man with a gun walked up the steps of a synagogue in Albany, New York, and fired into the air while shouting, “Free Palestine.”Children were inside the building. It was a nightmare scenario for those anxious about how protests against Israel’s war in Gaza could lead to antisemitic violence. In that case, no one was harmed before the man was arrested. But on Wednesday night, May 21, the nightmare came true.
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2 weeks ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Alan H. Feiler
Today, I made a stranger cry. Well, not a complete, random stranger. This was someone I’ve spoken to over the phone and via email several times over the past couple of years. I won’t identify her or the organization she represents because I don’t want to embarrass her in any way. Let me get this out of the way: the woman is not Jewish. Nor does she work for a Jewish organization. Just a nice, middle-aged, non-Jewish woman who lives in this area.
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1 month ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Alan H. Feiler
Boxes. Andrew Cushnir is constantly surrounded by boxes. Can’t seem to get away from them. It’s late March, and boxes are everywhere he turns – at his new office at the Park Heights headquarters of The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore, and at his new residence in the North Baltimore neighborhood of Guilford that he shares with his wife, Sharon.
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1 month ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Alan H. Feiler
Can music help you overcome any hardship or obstacle in life? That question lies at the heart of “How Saba Kept Singing.”This Thursday, May 8, at 6:45 p.m., the award-winning documentary will be screened at Third Space at Shaarei Tfiloh, at 2001 Liberty Heights Avenue. The film shares the story of the late Cantor David S. Wisnia, a Holocaust survivor and military veteran who spent his later years traveling and performing with his grandson and musical accompanist, Avi Wisnia.
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1 month ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Alan H. Feiler
Bring your appetite and funny bone, advises Chef Einat Admony. And it’s hard to argue with someone who unabashedly calls herself “the ultimate balaboosta.”A three-time James Beard Award nominee and trailblazer in New York’s Israeli food scene, Admony will headline this year’s “LeadHERship” event presented by The Associated’s Jewish Professional Women. The gathering will be held on Wednesday, May 14, at 6 p.m. at Chizuk Amuno Congregation, 8100 Stevenson Road in Pikesville.
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1 month ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Alan H. Feiler
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.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
