Where What When - Baltimore's Jewish Magazine
September 2008 Issue Table of Contents Why do we worry? How does worry affect us? And how can we effectively deal with it? Worry can include being concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy about something – or about everything. Negative thoughts can become repetitious and hard to change.One of the most prevalent problems I see in my office is anxiety and the effect it has on a person’s mind and body. Patients may experience sleep problems, eating imbalances, various aches, and pains and dysfunction throughout the body, as well as decreased performance in school or work. ............Read More I am a frum young woman who is looking to find my bashert as you are The secular world defines beauty as the way someone looks on the outside. As Jews, we believe in looking deeperI’m trying to lose weight. I consider carefully what I eat, and I exercise regularly. ............Read More By E.G. Edelson Listening to Shiurim: Which MP3 Player Should You Buy? The MP3 player,Typically used to store and listen to music, it can hold anywhere from a hundred to many thousands of shiurim.The advantage to listening to the shiur on the MP3 player, of course, is that you can listen while on the go. So, which one should you buy that is both economical and practical in terms of listening to shiurim? ............Read More By Joseph Berry Baltimore Hires a Full-Time Shadchan Why not employ a full-time shadchan to look after Baltimore’s singles?Baltimore has joined the ranks of cities like Passaic, Chicago, Toronto, and Los Angeles, who have hired or are in the process of hiring a shadchan. ............Read More The author, a visitor to Chevron since the1980s, wrote the Washington Post’s “Hebron: Jewish All Along,” a rebuttal response to the newspaper’s Hebron series portraying the city’s solely Arab character.In Israel this summer, we yearned to revisit David Hamelech’s first capital ............Read More When Zeidy and Bubby Were Young How then to put into perspective their great grandparents’ role in the rebirth of Torah in Baltimore and beyond? To them, a spiritual giant is someone you read about in an ArtScroll biography. How can I show them the absolute spiritual heroism of their great ancestors?The Adas was the love of my life. We spent hours there. One day, when my father was still alive, I came into the house and heard him talking to my mother about moving uptown. I started to cry, I told them that I only would move if we moved next door to the Adas ............Read More Actually, the year 1850 is not that far in the past. Rabbi Berel Wein describes his family Seder like this: His elderly father is present. This father remembers his grandfather, who saw Rabbi Chaim Volozhiner (1749-1821), a disciple of the Vilna Gaon. Also at the table are Rabbi Wein’s grandchildren, who will live well into the 21st century. Says Rabbi Wein, that is a 300-year span seated at one table. It would take only 10 such tables to go back to the time of King David.The vast majority – I mean, something like 99 percent – of the descendents of famous people are not aware of who their ancestors were. Are you surprised? ............Read More By Eli Pollock Why is it that the reality of family life is not like the stories of the warm, close-knit, loving extended family around the Shabbos table? ............Read More As a court reporter, you are an accurate witness, recording exactly what was said and creating word-for-word transcripts of conversations, meetings, speeches, legal proceedings, and other events. Whenever a secure, legal record is needed, a court reporter provides one. ............Read More I have a friend who has gone into a depression from being single. ............Read More Copyright © Where What When |
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