Har Sinai

On Sunday, April 25, 2004, HERMAN (Hy) GOLD; beloved husband of Janice Gold (nee Cohen); devoted father of Linda Gutin, of Denver, CO, Marjorie Meyer, of Washington, NJ and Sandy Gold, of Denver, CO; dear father-in-law of Dr. Raymond Gutin and John Meyer; devoted brother of the late Benjamin Gold, Donald Gold, Leah London and Pearl Wiesen; loving grandfather of Alissa Crowley and Gregory Gutin; loving great-grandfather of Hannah and Walker Crowley....

On March 14, 2004, CECILE B. TAUBMAN (nee Bloch); beloved wife of the late Edward H. Taubman; beloved mother of David Taubman, of Mt. Laurel, NJ, Jill Lane, of Marriottsville, MD and the late Cathi Taubman; devoted mother-in-law of Denise Taubman; devoted sister-in-law of Ruth and Robert Taubman; loving grandmother of Tim Ensor, Donna Huslinger, Blake, Ashley, Brandon and Tara Taubman; loving great-grandmother of four; loving cousin of Edie Young....

When members of Beth Tfiloh Congregation bought 43 acres in Glyndon in 1998, they set off a series of court cases, zoning battles and traffic studies that has lingered for years in the leafy northwestern Baltimore County community of old Victorian homes and narrow streets. The dispute between residents of the historic village and the Jewish congregation stems from the construction of an elementary school, part of the Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, which will open in September on land that once was a camp for diabetic children.

On March 17, 2003, SEYMOUR JOSEPH BRASH; beloved husband of Linda Brash (nee Jacobson); beloved father of E. Lawrence Brash and Sharon Brash both of Baltimore and Jodie Rittenberg of Wynnewood, PA; devoted father-in-law of Phyllis Brash and David Rittenberg; devoted brother of Selma Smulyan and the late Lee Brash; loving uncle of William and Mollie Smulyan and Jane Smulyan; loving grandfather of Andrew and Michael Brash, Alison, Emily and Rebecca Rittenberg....

Some of the interior doors still lack handles, landscaping has yet to be completed and the 120-pupil preschool won't be filled with the sound of children until next year, but Har Sinai Congregation is ready to dedicate its new synagogue in the Worthington Valley area of Owings Mills this weekend. The 61,150-square-foot building, set on 17 wooded acres off Greenspring Avenue, was completed this summer, and the Reform Jewish synagogue moved in July from its former Park Heights home in Baltimore.

If you're craving chamber music, consider Troy Kenneth Stuart this weekend. The young, prize-winning cellist has chosen sonatas by Beethoven and Barber, as well as a work by noted Baltimore composer Vivian Adelberg Rudow from 1998 - The Bare Smooth Stone of Your Love. Stuart will be joined by pianist Michael Adcock in these works, and violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins will join him in a duo by Kodaly. This program will be the last Peggy and Yale Gordon Concert held in the sanctuary of Har Sinai Congregation, 6300 Park Heights Ave. The performance is at 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Jean Hamburger Wetzler, an artist and volunteer, died Wednesday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care of complications from injuries she suffered in a car accident. She was 93. "She was a great person," said Dorothy Fox of Pikesville, a friend with whom Mrs. Wetzler traveled to Europe several years ago. "We had a wonderful time. We went out to dinner on Saturday nights, and we used to have dinner at our apartments. I'd have to say we were active until she had her accident a year ago. Socially, we kept very busy."

Two temples present classical concerts Two area temples will be hosting music of great substance. Har Sinai Congregation celebrates 65 years on Park Heights Avenue with a concert featuring the Chesapeake Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Silberschlag. The program, sponsored by the Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust, has a 20th/21st century flair. Ernest Bloch's Spring and Darius Milhaud's The Creation of the World are slated, along with Simon Lazar's The Hands of Time for oboe and strings (with soloist Vladimir Lande)

Henry Cooper, a former cantor and painter whose portraits hang in Baltimore, New York and the Middle East, died of heart failure Saturday at Sinai Hospital. The Pikesville resident was 96. "He was a hardworking and ambitious artist who wanted very much to make a contribution to the world of art, and he managed to make a living doing it," said Rabbi Mark G. Loeb of Beth El Congregation, where Mr. Cooper attended services. Born Gregor Kipermann in Ukraine, Mr. Cooper arrived in Philadelphia in 1912 with his parents, five brothers and a sister.

In Baltimore City Man serving term for attempted rape indicted in 1989 death A man serving a 25-year prison sentence for attempted rape was indicted yesterday by a city grand jury on first-degree murder charges in the 1989 rape and killing of a Northeast Baltimore woman, officials said. Anthony Mitchell, 38, who is confined at the state's Eastern Correctional Institution, is accused of killing Charlene A. Hardin, 20, who was found dead - beaten and raped - in a locker room at the abandoned Kirk Athletic Field that December.