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Frosh Start
Sen. Brian Frosh says attorney general is “the job I want.” (Dayna Smith/ImageSmith Media) Early last week, state Sen. Brian Frosh (D-Montgomery County) threw his hat into the ring of candidates...
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Always Thinking of Others
Rabbi Hirsch Diskind will be remembered as personable, warm, compassionate and straightforward. (Provided) Often when people refer to someone as a “legend,” it is assumed that the person is...
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Inquiring Minds
From left: Marcie Nathan, Sherry Altura, Dr. Jeffrey Kahn, Dr. Josh Schroeder and Rabbi Avram Reisner take on bioethical questions at Hadassah’s annual meeting in Baltimore. (Provided) Who should be...
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Super Kids
Teens assist seniors at Weinberg Woods, part of the Summer in the City project. From left: Jessica Katz, Leah Szmidt, Danny Gross, Sylvia Shapiro, Andrew Lebovitz and Doris Caplan. (David Stuck) Like...
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Mining A Medical Mystery
Miryam Magaziner was diagnosed with primary hyperoxaluria at 6 months old. Since then, parents Lori and Jake have been fighting to keep her healthy. (Jacqueline Hannah) Last June, when 2-year-old...
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Take Two
After meeting in their late 60s, Ben Marks and Sally Bormel shared nearly two decades together. Sally Bormel was congenial, down-to-earth and genuine. Eating breakfast at Fields one morning in the...
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The Kosher Machine
An OU mashgiach offers kosher supervision to a local factory. The OU operates in 50 states and in 80 countries.(Courtesy of the OU) Kosher products started finding their way into the American...
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Plum Tomatoes With Cumin-Cornbread Crumbs
8 medium plum tomatoes salt and freshly ground pepper Topping: 3⁄4 cup cornbread stuffing mix, crumbled with fingers 1⁄4 cup finely chopped pecans 11⁄2 teaspoons chopped dried basil 3⁄4 teaspoon ground...
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Masterpiece Theater
The late Rene Gimpel will be memorialized in a new documentary, “Pentimento.” Love, war, art, celebrity, heroism and intrigue. “Diary of an Art Dealer,” a journal by the late Rene Gimpel, has all the...
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Never Too Early …
It’s not too early to start planning for the High Holidays — or to think about Chanukah. Yes, I said Chanukah. This year, Chanukah is so early, it falls on Thanksgiving Day. This calendar event will...
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College freshmen are essentially high school seniors without their parents there to guide them. Many families are now in the midst of preparing their college-bound students to go away to school, and...
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Aggressive Moves
A nuclear power plant in Bushehr, southern Iran. (EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh) Politicians, whether hardliners or conciliators, are using last weekend’s swearing in of Iran’s new president, Hassan Rohani,...
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Between Green And Red
It is virtually impossible to eat a watermelon by yourself. The juicy red fruit begs to be shared, and in a large vacant lot just outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, all kinds of people are...
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Best Music Festival
Brad Selko (left) started Hot August Blues and Roots Festival 21 years ago in his backyard. Rich Barnstein (right) helps promote the festival, which now brings around 5,000 people to Oregon Ridge Park...
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Yiddish Genesis
Brick House Books, Inc., 2012, 90 pages Richard J. Fein, poet, essayist and Yiddishkeit maven, has published a compilation of his work related to the first book of Torah, Genesis. There is a play on...
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$5 For A Sounder Night’s Sleep
Israeli techies have developed an app to show snorers just how often and how loud their nighttime habit is. According to an article published by “Israel21c,” Snoring U is a $5 application you can...
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What does it mean to keep kosher?
Tammy Bass: I know that meat and dairy are separate. The animals are also killed in a very specific way. Mervyn Brown: I don’t observe kosher. But, for those who do, they have a very good reason,...
View ArticleBusy year for Rabbi Weinblatt
Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt, Congregation B’nai Tzedek’s spiritual leader, sat in his study on a warm early summer day. He had recently completed his duties as chair of the Jewish Federations of North...
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Florida Congresswoman Leads Delegation to Israel
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, quarterbacked a Congressional delegation, along with Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.), to Israel....
View ArticleKOGAN
On August 11, 2013, GLORIA ELLEN (nee Cohen); beloved wife of the late Sylvan Kogan; devoted mother of Todd (Kori) Kogan and Fern (Dr. Martin) Sugar; cherished grandmother of Melissa Sugar, Stacey...
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