Where What When - Baltimore's Jewish Magazine
August 2008 Issue Table of Contents Are you planning to start an exercise routine “tomorrow”? Taking care of our bodies with regular exercise will contribute overall to our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.All exercise can be categorized in one of the three types...The first type is aerobic exercise, also known as cardiovascular, or endurance. .Some examples are walking, jogging, swimming, and biking. The next category is strengthening, or resistance, exercises, which involves training with weights. . The third type is flexibility, stretching, or range-of-motion exercises. ............Read More Summer is here and we find ourselves at the conclusion of our second year since making aliya. Summer is here and we are amazed to suddenly find ourselves nearly at the conclusion of our second year since making aliya.Although in the U.S., people are insistent upon proper line etiquette but don’t take jaywalking too seriously, in Israel it is quite the opposite. Only “friars” (loosely translated as the pathologically naďve) actually wait in line, yet, for some strange reason, everyone is quite rigid about not crossing the street against the light, even when there is nary a car in sight. ............Read More By David Blass Our former house had many good memories, but it was old, large, and quite expensive to maintain Why would we elect to move to a mostly secular neighborhood a mile away?When we moved out of our house in the Seven Mile Lane area, our friends and neighbors were genuinely shocked. ............Read More By Galia Berry Soon my brother David and I were registered in T.A., which was located on Cottage and Springhill Avenue, a far mehalech (distance) from East Baltimore.My father opted to live in Baltimore because there was a cantorial position available in the Bais Hamedresh Hagodol, a prominent shul in East Baltimore. ............Read More By I. Kinek Heroes of the Sandwich Generation The term sandwich generation, coined in 1981, refers primarily to the Baby Boomers, Americans between the ages of 44 to 62, who are part of the huge population bulge of people born after World War II.As I write these words, in July 2008, it is officially National Sandwich Generation Month. Registered in the National Special Events Registry as an annual national observance ............Read More Thoughts on the Parnassa Dilemma I would like to see frum yeshiva students get good jobs. I am dealing with young people who are short on time and money. Yet I want to focus on the student who may be willing to make a handful of calculated decisions in order to set him or her self up for long-term career success.What is even sadder is that many of them have been led to believe that their seminary- and yeshiva-aided BAs qualify them to enter the world of work, only to find, when they apply for jobs, that they lack the qualities employers are looking for. ............Read More Rav Amram Taub, zt”l A Daughter’s Memories As a daughter whose life and essence drew its source and spiritual sustenance from Rav Taub, I am now faced by a daunting task. My father was unique in many ways:A year has passed, but the sorrow is fresh. The yearning for the presence of our father, Rav Taub, zt”l, was our constant companion over the past 13 months. ............Read More By Naomi Oshry Back-to-School! From the Other Side of the Desk As a teacher, though, I learned that first days can sometimes turn out to be a little too exciting. What do I mean by that? Allow me to share with you a few of my more “exciting” back-to-school memories.We tend to think about the first day of school in terms of the children. But what about the teachers – those starched people standing on the other side of the desk? Do they also get excited to begin the same thing all over again? After all, a teacher can spend 20 years and never even graduate third grade! ............Read More By Naomi Wolf My parents were good enough to send me to seminary. The whole community, it seems, regards seminary girls as needing to be in the States for a while before dating in order to “detox,” meaning to undo all the beautiful ways we learned in seminary.Since my wife and I were engaged, and continuing through our marriage, the following recurring issue has been bothering me and is on my mind a lot. Every time my wife’s brothers see her, they have to give her a hug and a kiss. ............Read More How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It I was shocked when she called me a few weeks later and told me her that her marriage had drastically improved.About a year ago I received a call from a woman who was interested in couples counseling. There was one problem: her husband refused to come. ............Read More Copyright © Where What When |
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