Baltimore Hebrew Congregation

FESTIVAL OF INDIA Celebrate the Indian Festival of Chariots at Baltimore's fifth annual Hare Krishna Rathayatra Chariot Parade downtown Saturday. The parade and the Festival of India will celebrate Indian culture with live music, drama, art and a free vegetarian feast. Parade participants will pull a 30-foot-high chariot down Light Street by hand alongside musicians and dancers until they reach McKeldin Square, where the Festival of India will take place. .................... The parade runs noon-2 p.m. Saturday, beginning at Key Highway and Light Street at the Inner Harbor, and proceeds to McKeldin Square at Pratt and Light streets.

There was no point, and maybe not enough time, in listing all of Jerold C. Hoffberger's accomplishments, Rabbi Rex D. Perlmeter said, leading off the eulogies at the former Orioles owner's funeral yesterday."

Martin Caplan, 73, singer, owned cleaning agencyMartin L. Caplan, owner of a Baltimore employment and cleaning services agency and a singer, died of cancer Wednesday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Bolton Hill resident was 73.Mr. Caplan was president and owner of A-1 Household Service Inc., a business he established in 1964. Earlier, he had worked for his father's real estate management firm.He performed for years on stage at Bolton Hill Dinner Theater and in the Paint and Powder Club's annual productions.

The political potshots came fast and furious -- courtesy of the comedy troupe Capitol Steps -- in an evening of musical political satire at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. After the show, 500 ticket holders were invited to a reception to meet cast members, and to congratulate U.S. Rep. Ben Cardin and his wife, Myrna, and Constance and Ramon Getzov, recipients of the congregation's Tzedek and Keter Shem Tov awards. The Cardins were honored for their efforts in social justice and service to the community; the Getzovs for their participation in and generosity to the congregation.

Julius Gordon, a combat medic who worehis World War II decorations on his deathbed, died Wednesday of respiratory failure at Cherrywood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Centre in Reisterstown. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 79.Mr. Gordon, known as Jules, enlisted in the Army in 1940. In 1942, he was shipped overseas to the Pacific Theater of operations where he was assigned as a medic to a Marine Corps unit and saw action at Guadalcanal and Bougainville Island.After being discharged in 1945, he returned to Baltimore and owned and operated a wholesale produce business until opening Gordon's Package Goods at Carey and Mosher streets.

Baltimore is one of the nation's most racially segregated cities -- a product of historical housing patterns that have barely changed for generations, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said last night."

Etta C. Plowden, 83, school cafeteria workerEtta C. Plowden, a former Baltimore County public school employee, died Sept. 25 of Alzheimer's disease at her Cockeysville home. She was 83.A native of Ditchley, Va., the former Etta Carter moved to Maryland in 1941 and married Isaac Plowden that year. Mr. Plowden died in 1985.She was a homemaker and a maintenance and cafeteria worker at Lutherville Elementary School from 1954 to 1987.She enjoyed cooking and doing missionary work for Berean Baptist Church in Northwest Baltimore, where she was a member.

A city police officer who was charged with assaulting two men and a deputy sheriff in Harford County early Sunday was stripped of his police powers yesterday and assigned to a desk job, a Police Department spokesman said.Officer James Lamonte Price, 37, of the Northeastern District will remain in the communications division until the criminal charges are resolved and possible administrative action is taken, said spokesman Robert W. Weinhold Jr.Price was arrested about 2 a.m. after he allegedly pointed a handgun at two men and struck Deputy Sheriff 1st Class Edward Keplin during a melee outside the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in Perryman, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said.

David Fried, a Baltimore-born painter and graduate of the Maryland Institute, College of Art, frequently centers his work on family members and his native city. In his current show at the Hoffberger Gallery of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, the largest of his oils, called "Looking Back," is a self-portrait that shows him sitting on the steps of a Bolton Hill house.Other works recall the North Avenue of the 1950s, when Nates and Leon's delicatessen and the Rialto movie theater were fixtures on the scene.

Gladys K. Sauber, an artist who designed the Holocaust memorial at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Cemetery in Reisterstown, died Sunday of lymphoma at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was 76 and lived in Pikesville.Her 1981 design showed a circular granite concrete memorial 45 feet in diameter, featuring six columns to represent the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust."She was a very loyal and dedicated member of the synagogue and responded graciously when the synagogue asked her to do the memorial," said Rabbi Rex Perlmeter.

On August 4, 2009, Theodore Klein, Service at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Cemetary on Berrymans Lane to be held Friday, August 14 at 2 P.M. Family will receive visitors at 3007 Susanne Court, Owings Mills, Md 21117 immediately following the service. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be sent to the Dr. Michael Feinglass Foundation at 1 Oak Hollow Court, Pikesville, Md. 21208.

Members of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, forced out of their landmark Baltimore building, will take temporary refuge at Temple Oheb Shalom, the spiritual leaders of the two congregations said Wednesday. A week after lightning struck the steeple of the church on Druid Hill Avenue, the Rev. Frank M. Reid III and Rabbi Steven M. Fink announced that the Christian congregation would hold Sunday services at the Reform Jewish synagogue in Park Heights through Labor Day. Fink called Reid after learning of the July 1 fire to offer Oheb Shalom's 900-seat sanctuary to the church.

Michael J. Michael donated his body to the Maryland Anatomy Board. No immediate funeral; memorial service to be held at a later date. The family suggests donations in Michael's name to the Baltimore Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, 701 Wyman Park Dr., Baltimore, MD 21211 or Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, 7401 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore, MD 21208. Inquiries can be made to cprinc1 juno.com; please sign the online Guest Book.

A 19-year-old member of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation was being held yesterday after being charged in connection with the spray-painting of a swastika and the word "Nazis" at the synagogue in Pikesville. Matthew Ian Saunders, whose family worships at the temple, and two other young Jewish men - Daniel Alexander Diaz, 19, and a 17-year-old who was not identified by police - were charged with two counts of destruction of property and damaging the property of a religious entity. The charges involve spraying offensive graffiti early Sunday on a sign at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation on Park Heights Avenue and at another Pikesville institution, Beth Tfiloh Congregation High School on Old Court Road.

City shootings kill 2, injure 3, including boy A man and a boy were wounded Monday night in Southwest Baltimore - part of a spate of shootings that left two men dead and three others injured by gunfire, police said. A 30-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy who were shot were found by police about 10 p.m. in the 200 block of S. Smallwood St., police said. The man had been shot in both legs and in the buttocks, and the boy was shot in his back and buttocks, police said. Both were taken to a hospital.

William A. "Doc" Layden, a retired pharmacist and country club founder, died Monday of kidney and heart failure at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The longtime Pikesville resident was 98. Mr. Layden was born in Baltimore and raised on Whittier Avenue near Druid Hill Park. He was a 1928 graduate of City College and earned his degree from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in 1933. He managed a Read Drug & Chemical Co. drugstore on Linden Avenue before establishing Layden's Pharmacy in the 2100 block of W. Baltimore St., in 1939.

Tracy Morgan The lowdown -- Tracy Morgan got his start as a stand-up comic, and after being discovered, he went onto his well-known roles on Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock. See how it all started Saturday as he brings his brassy stand-up style to the Lisner Auditorium. If you go -- The Lisner Auditorium is on the George Washington University campus, 730 21st St. N.W., Washington. The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $29.50. Call 202-994-6800 or go to lisne r.org. Comedy show The lowdown -- The unlikely comedy trio of Rabbi Bob Alper, Muslim Azhar Usman and Christian Nazareth will be at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Saturday.

On January 28, 2008, DR. EDWARD F. LEWISON. Survived by his beloved wife of 59 years, Betty (nee Fleischmann). Loving father of John E., and his wife Wendy of Larchmont, NY, Edward M., and his wife Dana, Robert S., of Cherry Hill, NJ, and the late Richard Jay Lewison; grandfather of Elizabeth L. Malvino and her husband Robert, and David Lewison; great-grandfather of Josh Malvino; dear brother of Ethel Mae Katz and her husband Harold of Glencoe, IL, and...

Arthur L. Kramer, a tennis enthusiast who once hosted the likes of Grand Slam champions Rod Laver and Roy Emerson in his Baltimore home, died of pneumonia Wednesday at Winkler Court hospice care in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 87. Mr. Kramer grew up in Baltimore and graduated from City College in 1936. He went into the Army Air Forces in 1941 and was a pilot during World War II, leaving the service in 1945. When he returned to Baltimore, he joined his family's business, the Pilot Blouse Co. He married Rose Marie Porcaro in 1958.

On July 30, 2007, WILMA C. HELLER, beloved daughter of the late Benjamin and Margaret Heller, dear sister of Ira B. Heller, Ben K. Heller and the late Robert H. Heller. Also survived by nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26A) Towson, MD., Wednesday 4 to 8 P.M. A Graveside Service will be held Thursday 10 A.M. at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Cemetery (Belair Rd.). In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to The Hospice of Baltimore-Gilchrist Center, 6601 N. Charles St., Towson, MD 21204 or Glen Meadows Health Care Benevolent Fund, 11630 Glen Arm Rd., Glen Arm, MD. 21057-9470