You may have noticed crews hard at work, this summer, building decks and other construction projects around town. Perhaps you took a double-take upon noticing their tzitzis T-shirts bearing a large Star-K logo. Those young men were part of Project Build, a summer program of the year-round Chananya Backer Memorial Institute (CBMI).

  CBMI, one of the few programs of its kind in the nation, is an innovative teen mentoring initiative that perpetuates the memory of Chananya Backer, a”h, a 16-year-old Baltimorean who died tragically five years ago from injuries sustained in a car crash. The program aims to avert

Walk through the streets of downtown Baltimore, and you will find endless streets of narrow row houses. Walk down the 500 block of North Washington Street, and you may notice a beautifully renovated building. Behind the doors of 529 North Washington Street, lies a beacon of hope and an oasis in time and space- a structure dedicated to serving Jewish families of seriously ill patients at the nearby world-famous Johns Hopkins Hospital. Welcome to the Tikva House.

Binyamin Kaufman*, a resident of a New Jersey Jewish community, had just received a frightening diagnosis, and needed surgery – soon. The appropriate research

Burglary is always a serious issue, but if it does happen, we all hope we are not at home at the time. In a recent rash of burglaries in our area, some of the break-ins occurred in the middle of the night while the homeowners were asleep! Pretty terrifying!

As with many problems, the main pain stems from the recognition that perhaps it could have been prevented. Let’s see what we can do to protect ourselves and minimize any damage. In this article, I will first discuss thwarting a burglar who gets in. Next, I will suggest ways to keep him out in the first place.