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By Aron U. Raskas | June 7, 2009
As the Obama administration moves to transform Palestinian arguments about Israeli settlements into U.S. policy, an examination of the facts underlying these issues is appropriate. There may be no better place to begin than the swimming pool at Rimonim, a Jewish settlement in the heart of the West Bank. The scene is a familiar one. Families picnicking together. Mothers yelling at children to be careful. Young children calling out to moms to watch them do dangerous things. But it is the view from the hilltop pool that is striking.
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By Liz F. Kay | October 28, 2007
A 400-year-old Torah, saved from the sands of Iraq, has found its way to a synagogue in western Howard County. The scroll of Hebrew scripture, containing the first five books of the Bible, was found by U.S. soldiers among the ruins of a synagogue in Mosul, Iraq. A Jewish expert in Torahs who leads a worldwide effort to rescue scrolls like this got it out of the country and repaired it. Now, that piece of history has landed in Fulton, housed in an ark at Temple Isaiah. The Reform congregation plans a year of educational events centered on this Torah and the Jews of Arab nations, beginning today with presentations by Rabbi Menachem Youlus, who is a sofer, someone trained in the transcription of Torahs.
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By Jacques Kelly | May 24, 2007
Eleanor Betty Hirsh, an educator who championed preservation of the Lloyd Street Synagogue and was a founder of the Jewish Historical Society, died of cancer Sunday at her Pikesville home. She was 83. Born Eleanor Betty Rosenthal in Baltimore and raised in Mount Washington, she was a 1940 graduate of Forest Park High School and earned a bachelor's degree in education from Goucher College. She was known by her initials, E.B. She joined Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, and in 1975 became the second woman to serve as its president.
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By Dahleen Glanton | January 2, 2005
CHARLESTON, S.C. - The sign in the window of Max's Clothing Store is a symbol of a dying tradition in the South. The clothing shop, opened by the owner's Jewish immigrant father 70 years ago, is going out of business. It wasn't supposed to happen so soon. Maurice Krawcheck, 68, had planned to pass the company to his sons, just as his father, Max, had done. But one of his boys became a lawyer and the other, a clothing manufacturer. There was no one left to mind the store. Family-owned retail stores, many started by Jews who settled in the South as peddlers, have helped fuel the economies of Southern towns for 300 years.
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January 9, 2004
The Historical Society of Carroll County is displaying We Call This Place Home: Jewish Life in Maryland's Small Towns, an exhibit produced by the Jewish Museum of Maryland. The exhibit tells the story of Jewish merchants and other Jewish residents who established roots in small communities across Maryland. Stories and artifacts from several of Carroll County's Jewish merchants and families are featured, including pieces from the former Kann's Department Store, the Rosenstock Store, artifacts from Beth Shalom Congregation in Taylorsville, and items on loan from the Weiner and Holniker families in Eldersburg.
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December 5, 2003
Handel's `Messiah' to be performed in Ellicott City Handel's Messiah will be performed with soloists and orchestra at 6 p.m. Sunday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4100 St. Johns Lane, Ellicott City. Sheet music will be provided for anyone who would like to sing along. A free, outdoor Christmas pageant, which includes a live Nativity scene and display of more than 100 creches from around the world, will start at 6 p.m. Dec. 13 at the church. The Mormon Choir of Washington will give free performances from 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and from 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 13. Information: 410-715-4544.
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October 23, 2002
William J. Clothier II, 86, a former tennis star, international spy and grandson of the co-founder of the Strawbridge & Clothier department stores, died of leukemia Saturday at his home in Valley Forge, Pa. While Mr. Clothier won national tennis titles, he also was secretly working as a special agent for the FBI and later worked for the CIA. Mr. Clothier, whose father, William J. Clothier, was a national singles champion, toured on the grass-court circuit...
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By Rona S. Hirsch | June 28, 2002
For the next three weeks, observant Jews will not marry, listen to music, buy or wear new clothing, take a pleasure trip, cut their hair or shave. During the last nine days of the period, they also will refrain from consuming meat, fowl or wine (except on the Sabbath), sending gifts, doing laundry, bathing for pleasure and swimming. And on the final day of the three weeks, they will not eat, drink, bathe, wear leather shoes or engage in sexual relations. Instead, they will spend that evening sitting on a low chair or on the floor of their dimly lighted synagogues as the Book of Lamentations is mournfully chanted.
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By Rona S. Hirsch | June 28, 2002
For the next three weeks, observant Jews will not marry, listen to music, buy or wear new clothing, take a pleasure trip, cut their hair or shave. During the last nine days of the period, they also will refrain from consuming meat, fowl or wine (except on the Sabbath), sending gifts, doing laundry, bathing for pleasure and swimming. And on the final day of the three weeks, they will not eat, drink, bathe, wear leather shoes or engage in sexual relations. Instead, they will spend that evening sitting on a low chair or on the floor of their dimly lighted synagogues as the Book of Lamentations is mournfully chanted.
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By Special to the Sun | May 19, 2002
A Memorable Place In Berlin, a place of deep emotion By Sibylle Ehrlich SPECIAL TO THE SUN My daughter Marion and I flew to Berlin on Sept. 6 for the opening of the Jewish Museum. Two years ago, I had donated many letters, documents, photos and objects to the museum that I felt were of historical value. My husband, a Holocaust survivor, had lived "underground" in Berlin after his family had been deported to Auschwitz. Of particular interest to the museum was a leather briefcase he took with him as he crawled across the Swiss border at night; in it he had taken, among other things, a poetry book belonging to his mother, her silk scarf and a place setting of the family silver.