Where What When - Baltimore's Jewish Magazine
May 2009 Issue Table of Contents Our Third Year Since Making Aliya With so many interesting and inspiring aspects of living in Israel, I felt it was time again to share with our dear friends and family back in Baltimore some of our family's experiences ............Read More By David Blass College Ways in the Good Old Days "So where did you study after graduating from high school?" asked a friend. "I went to Israel and attempted to enroll in the Hebrew University," I answered. ............Read More By I. Kinek David "Buddy" Schuman, a"h, was a humble person, yet he made an indelible impression upon those who were privileged to know him. ............Read More I know he won't go to counseling. My husband is a hard worker and a good provider. He is well-meaning, too, but he doesn't communicate well, and has a tendency to blurt things out without thinking. ............Read More Much Ado About Garbage - One Plus One One Plus One would allow for a "mixed trash" pick-up just once a week, along with a once-a-week, unlimited recycling pick-up.Many members of our community were first alerted to the City's impending trash collection changes by the letter written by Isaiah Cox in the Where What When's Pesach issue. ............Read More The health savings account (HSA) The HSA also corrects the flaw in the "cafeteria plan," in which an employee sets aside some of his salary for that year's medical expenses, tax free ............Read More By Eli Pollock How I Once Requested Rebuke from my Rabbi, Rabbi B.C. Shloime Twerski, zt"l The Where What When recently received a letter describing an incident at a kiddush in a Baltimore shul, in which tochacha (rebuke) was given in a most insensitive way, causing the one rebuked to feel humiliated. ............Read More By Rebbetzin Bracha Goldberger "My mother is a Holocaust survivor; she's a fighter," Musia Bibliowicz told the blue-masked doctor in the pulmonary care uni"I was in the Holocaust," she told the doctor in a high-pitched, accented voice. ............Read More A Chupas Mein - The chassan and kalla were accompanied by the wedding guests bearing torches and singing nigunim; I hadn't heard one of the nigunim since childhood ............Read More Should I spend Shabbos and the first day of Pesach in this isolated community in the Jordan Valley area with people I didn't know and try leading a Seder in my broken, heavily American-accented Hebrew to soldiers who didn't want to be there? ............Read More By Sam Finkel The Journey from Love to Relationship There is no better time to talk about love relationships than Pesach. It is spring time, chodesh ha'aviv (spring), and love is in the air. ............Read More Copyright © Where What When |
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