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

Although I generally enjoy my writing assignments, this one came with a downside. Each time I sat down at my computer to work, I began to itch, and it did not stop until I was done working. For most of us, the mere mention of lice invites an itching sensation that’s hard to suppress. I remember as a kid reading a list of cute quirks within the English language, such as “Why do Americans drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?” Another was, “If the plural of mouse is mice and the plural of louse is lice, then

This morning, as I was learning Chumash with Rashi in the bais medrash of Ner Israel, the passage we were studying and the ambiance in the room brought back pleasant memories. Several years ago, Isaac Kinek, a frequent contributor to the Where What When, asked me to learn with him any subject of my choosing. I immediately responded that I would love to learn Chumash and Rashi, without any pressure to finish, and to be able to delve into Rashi’s beautiful words, which have inspired generations of students. Since I first learned a little modern Hebrew in Yeshiva University High

Did you ever wonder why the difficulty of putting a shidduch together is compared to the difficulty of splitting the Red Sea apart? Why do we use a comparison of splitting when talking about putting together? There may be several reasons. But, consider this: Isn’t finding the right one also about staying apart from the ones who aren’t right?

Although, as we know, everything that has already happened has happened for a reason, that doesn’t mean that, going forward, we shouldn’t be doing what we can to ensure that our marriages are happy, long-lasting ones. This means understanding how to

By Mimi Rohr

The community of Baltimore shared our family’s shock at the sudden passing of our father, Reb Yaakov Shlomo Weinberg, z”l, on the 19th of Av, 5773. Many people contacted us in the weeks after the petira to let us know how inspired and uplifted they felt during the shiva, where they heard of our father’s allencompassing ahavas haTorah (love of Torah), his intense yiras Shamayim (fear of Heaven), and his deep love for other Yidden. We, his family, knew all of this to be true, yet it was camouflaged by his laid-back, friendly nature, his jokes and stories

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

I have a wonderful daughter-in-law. Everybody says so, and actually, I also think she is wonderful. She is very warm and friendly and always willing to help anyone. She invites people for meals, cooks for the sick, and welcomes guests to sleep at her home. In fact, she extends herself to everyone – everyone, that is, who is not in her family.

I don’t want to sound like the mother-in-law who is complaining about a daughter-in-law. I have always treated all my daughters and daughters-in-law the same in every way. If my daughter were treating her husband this way, I would