Where What When - Baltimore's Jewish Magazine
July 2006 Issue Table of Contents Did you know that about 318 Americans die every year of heat-related illnesses? The sad fact is that most of these deaths are preventable – if the victims understood the realities of dehydration and heat-related illness more clearly. ............Read More The Protocols of the Elders of Harvard A bit more than 100 years ago, the Czar’s secret police claimed to have discovered The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. The Protocols purported to be the minutes of a meeting of secret Jewish cabal that controlled the world. ............Read More A Look at the Evils of Gambling Why in the world would I write an article about gambling? It’s not an activity that frum people engage in, right? Well, actually, some of us do gamble, and some of us are addicted to it. ............Read More By Eli Pollock Getting the Best Deal on Credit CardsCredit cards are ubiquitous in our society. You are actually forced to use them – for instance, when to want to rent a car, buy something online, or purchase an airline ticket. ............Read More By Fred Weiss Revisiting my Birthplace: Bremen, GermanyI visited Germany in November 2005 upon personal invitation by the German government. The purpose of the trip was to meet and talk to “living” people of today’s generation. ............Read More The Loss of a Great NeshamaThe Wednesday before Shavuos, was just an ordinary school day for Dov Klugerman, a 14-year-old student at the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, in Silver Spring. Just as he did every other day, he left school, and crossed Arcola Avenue, to his house directly across the street. ............Read More By Judy Mehlman Thank you Gevuras Yarden for the meals you provided On May 9, my son Moshe Eisenberg had ear surgery at Johns Hopkins. While he was recuperating at his group home, my wife was able to spend a couple of days in Baltimore to be with him. I am sorry for the delay, but I wish to say thank you to the families who were kind enough to make sure that my wife was well taken care of while she was in Baltimore. Thank you Gevuras Yarden for the meals you provided during Moshe’s recovery, and also to being part of Moshe’s Shabbos meal plan. ............Read More t’s 8:03 on a Tuesday morning. Your mind races as you slather peanut butter and jelly on bread at top speed. The good news: You do have enough bread to make a sandwich for each child. The bad news: only if you count the end pieces. ............Read More A Tuition Assistance Organization to the Rescue A special organization, which has been quietly operating for the past two years, is ready to assume a more public profile. Kol Hane’arim, the Marvin and Helen Roth Children’s Fund, Inc., founded by Mr. Nisan Jaffee, takes over where the tuition committee leaves off. It provides financial grants on behalf of those who have been granted the maximum tuition break by the schools but who are unable to pay even the minimum requested amount. ............Read More By WWW We just heard the terrible news of Eliyahu Asheri’s murder. We didn’t know this young boy with the beautiful smile. He was just another teenager, doing what teenagers do, until a sadistic gang of terrorists kidnapped him and the news reached us here in Baltimore. He was the oldest in a religious family living in Itamar. Why was he so viciously cut down before he had even started to live? ............Read More By WWW rime Minister Menachem Begin’s military secretary, Brigadier General. Ephraim Poran – otherwise known as Freuka – was an unexcitable, soft-spoken soldier who had a reputation for keeping his head while others about him were losing theirs. ............Read More By Yehuda Avner Dear Mr. Weisbord, Something has been bothering me for a while. I’m a person who knows what’s going on in the world. I know that bad things happen in the general society, and that our frum community is not immune. This in itself is worrisome, but my question is more personal. ............Read More “I couldn’t believe it! I just couldn’t believe it! There I was, praying to Hashem to help me overcome the obstacles to meeting my bashert, and there was Shmuel Yaakov, coming into shul to answer to my prayers.” ............Read More Contrary to my previous belief that the only suitable places for school field trips were Fort McHenry, the Maryland Historical Society, the Science Center, or, if we were feeling really adventurous, Patapsco State Park (for the 15th time) – I have now discovered an entirely new venue for a relaxing, math-free, school outing. ............Read More I recently did some hashgacha work for Ester’s Catering, and it occurred to me that she would be a wonderful resource for some delicious recipes. Many of you know Ester Matyas, and you know I speak emes here. So here are some of her favorite recipes that we hope you will enjoy. ............Read More Protecting Kids from the Dangers of the InternetYeshivas Chofetz Chaim/Talmudical Academy (TA) parents gathered on June 6th to learn about the spiritual and physical dangers of unsupervised internet usage for today’s kids. Speaking to the assembled were a community rav, two TA principals, and an internet-crime expert from the FBI. ............Read More On this third “Shadchan in You” page, we are profiling three single men and one woman. We continue to field inquiries about the singles presented in the previous issues. Anyone who calls about one of our profiled singles is referred to that person’s shadchan, who works on that individual’s behalf with respect and sensitivity. ............Read More By WWW Copyright © Where What When |
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