Where What When - Baltimore's Jewish Magazine
February 2006 Issue Table of Contents In a recent Where What When, Rebbetzin Chana Weinberg implored us to reconnect to one another. There are three women in our community who epitomize that ideal and do it in a phenomenal way. I am speaking of the musical trio, Ayelet HaShachar. These three women inspire us with their creative, original pieces. The total effect is to educate each listener with themes and insights from sacred texts and draw us closer to Hashem. ............Read More Try this questionnaire: What do you do when you’re really hungry? a) Make a sandwich b) Take a bowl of cereal c) Make an emergency trip to the supermarket d) Order pizza What does it mean when your kids complain, “There’s nothing to eat around here”? a) I want milchigs not fleishigs (or vice versa) b) Who finished the chips?! c) We’re out of bagel pizzas and knishes d) Macaroni again? ............Read More Dear Dr. Weisbord, My youngest child, a five-year-old, has always been sweet and good-natured. If fact, he is rather timid. Recently, however, he has developed a bad temper. If he doesn’t get his way about something, he gets furious. He yells, kicks, and slams doors. If I say to him “That’s not a nice way to behave,” he just says, “S-o-r-r-y” in a flippant way. ............Read More Maximizing Your Post-Retirement Assets You’ve worked hard all your life, and finally reached the age when you don’t have to rush off to work each morning. As you have told your children and grandchildren, a strong work ethic, along with a prudent, penny-wise life style, has enabled you and your spouse to accumulate enough assets to live fairly comfortably during your retirement years. ............Read More A Unique and Wholesome Approach to Summer CampRabbi Noach Weinberg of Aish HaTorah teaches an important lesson. He says there are two kinds of pleasure in the world: genuine pleasure and counterfeit pleasure. And Judaism offers the real stuff. ............Read More By Eli Pollock A Nostalgic Look at Kosher Culinary Baltimore, 1950 to 2006When Liebes Delicatessen, a Baltimore kosher “institution,” was sold recently, it got me thinking about the “good old days” of Baltimore eating. ............Read More Soon after the arrival of the first settlers to the barren sand dunes of what would become the settlement of Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif, several muchtars (local Arab leaders) of Khan Yunis and surrounding areas, greeted them with bread and salt. ............Read More By Eta Kushner The Scoop on Wholesale ClubsThe word shopping is defined in the dictionary as “a hunt through a market in search of the best buy,” yet many people simply pick items off the shelf without even examining the price. Shopping is a skill that can help us all, from newlyweds on a tight budget to large families to retirees and everything in between. ............Read More By Fred Weiss Purim mishloach manos to soldiers in the Israeli Army To the Editor, Over the past five years, our shul has had the good fortune to serve as a shaliach (agent) for members of our community to send some six to seven thousand Purim mishloach manos to young men and women serving in the Israeli army. ............Read More Tu B’Shevat, the New Year of Trees, is right around the corner. How appropriate it would be, I thought, to ask some health conscious friends and neighbors about their natural diet and lifestyle. ............Read More I recall one of the initial weeks into our move, when, overcome by intense hunger (possibly induced by 115-degree weather) I gratefully entered the air-conditioned pizza shop across the street from my building. ............Read More A Cheese Doodle by Any Other Name After consuming one latke too many this past Chanukah, I had a great moment of personal revelation – I do not have good eating habits. ............Read More I look at the Jewish Community Center’s group fitness schedule. So many classes, and their names sound like French to me. The menu choices include aerobics (land and water), body sculpting, fit dance, interval challenge, hi/low step sculpt, jazzercise, kickboxing, Pilates, step/fit mix, and yoga. ............Read More Curried Squash Soup 1 T. olive oil 1 c. chopped yellow onions 1 tsp. minced garlic 2 tsp. curry powder ............Read More The Truth Shall Spring Forth from the Earth Remembering the Heroes of Mazkeret BatyaIt has been two years of touring and learning about our little Land of Israel in tour guide school. Every Sunday morning we boarded a chartered bus and made our way to another destination. ............Read More By Sam Finkel Master Kriah SkillsIn this age of access to vast quantities of information and instant communication via the internet, it’s easy to forget that the foundation of it all is the ability to read. The alphabet – the alef-bais, in our case – is the oldest communication instrument of all. ............Read More Dear Rebbetzin Weinberg, I have neighbors who let their kids do very dangerous things. They are four, five, and six years old, and I see them using lawn equipment, running across the street, or riding bicycles in the street. ............Read More Secular Ideals Meet Frum Dating by An Anonymous ObserverI have always dabbled in shidduchim, but last Rosh Hashana I made a resolution to really concentrate on helping people try to get married. I started getting more involved in shidduch meetings, lectures, and internet dating sites. ............Read More By WWW Organizing Every Room in Your House Last month, we talked about why it has been hard for you to get organized in the PAST. Remember, P stands for Clutter Personality types. A is for the attitudes that work against us. S is our society, pressuring us to buy more and more things. And T equals the technical difficulties of time and space that prevent us from being more organized. ............Read More Copyright © Where What When |
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