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Hitting a Sour Notes Bradley Cooper portrays Leonard Bernstein in the new film "Maestro." (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images, via JTA)

Sorry, ‘Maestro’ Misses the Mark

December 26, 2023December 26, 2023 Michael Olesker

Bradley Cooper’s new film treatment of the life of conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein drops the baton, writes Michael Olesker.

The Pikesville Community Mural will be featured on a prominent sidewall of Zips Cleaners, at 1220 Reisterstown Road in the heart of "downtown" Pikesville. (Staff photo)

Community Local Maryland

Local Artists Encouraged to Apply for Pikesville Community Mural Project

December 22, 2023December 24, 2023 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Civic leaders hope the Northwest Baltimore suburb’s first publicly funded mural, on a sidewall of Zips Cleaners in the “Main Street” corridor, will be completed by May 30, 2024.

Ira Ackerman: "I enjoyed what I did because it was rewarding. So many people counted on you, whether it was in cardiac surgery, the intensive care unit, or labor and delivery. Doctors repair patients and we repair the equipment they use to repair patients." (Provided photo)

Community Health Care

Sinai Employee Ira Ackerman Retires After 45 Years at Hospital, Becomes Professional ‘Tinkerer’

December 22, 2023December 20, 2023 Anna Lippe

A Northwest Baltimore native and resident, Ira Ackerman has invented a game called Gridiron Golf that incorporates the rules of football for scoring with miniature golf.

Among Sandy Shapiro's communal endeavors was serving on the board of directors of The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore. In 2010, he served as chair of The Associated's annual campaign. (Photo courtesy of Sol Levinson & Bros.)

Community Local Maryland Obituaries

Community and Scrap Industry Leader Sanford ‘Sandy’ Shapiro Dies at 83

December 20, 2023December 20, 2023 JMORE Staff

Shapiro was the president of Cambridge Iron & Metal Co. in Baltimore, a family business started in 1909 by his Latvian-born grandfather, Isaac “Ike” Shapiro.

Warren and Fran Gould, who have been married for 14 years, met through the Jewish dating site JDate. (Photo by David Stuck)

Community

Aging Gratefully: Warren and Fran Gould

December 20, 2023December 21, 2023 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Warren and Fran Gould are a familiar sight around Chizuk Amuno, where Warren oversees the congregation’s American Red Cross blood drive — the largest Jewish institution-sponsored blood drive in the nation.

Shown baking here are (left to right) Sunny Diamond, Shana Leibowitz, Rowan Adler, Ella Glick, Lea Silverman and Shalhevet Leichter of BT's Women Empowerment Club. (Provided photo)

Community Education

Beth Tfiloh Students Spearhead Fundraising Efforts for Women Living with Financial Hardships

December 19, 2023December 15, 2023 Caryn R. Sagal

For members of Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School’s Women Empowerment Club, a bake sale for the group Dignity Grows was a way to help repair the world.

Ben Dubin: “You’ve got to get up and find your niche.” (Photo by David Stuck)

Community

Aging Gratefully: Ben Dubin

December 15, 2023December 21, 2023 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

“You can’t stay down for too long,” says Ben Dubin, a longtime member of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. “You’ve got to get up and find your niche.”

Dr. Dov Frankel (right) recently traveled to Israel to work at the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. (Provided Photo)

Community SPONSORED The Associated

Stepping Up

December 15, 2023December 20, 2023 The Associated

The Associated spotlights four members of the Baltimore Jewish community who have stepped up in various ways to help with humanitarian needs in Israel and to address the new wave of antisemitism surging in our country.

Baltimore Hebrew Congregation president Gary Aiken unveils the synagogue's new signs stating its support for Israel and the release of hostages abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7

Chanukah Community Israel Local Maryland News

Baltimore Hebrew Replaces Pro-Israel Signs Vandalized Last Weekend

December 14, 2023December 14, 2023 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

A cross-section of civic and Jewish communal leaders were on hand at a ceremony to show support for BHC and denounce the destruction of property.

Opened in September of 1960, the Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Congregation building was designed by Sheldon I. Leavitt in consultation with famed German-American architect and Bauhaus School founder Walter Gropius, a pioneer of the modernist movement. (Photo by Solomon Swerling, Jmore)

Community Local Maryland National

Baltimore Heritage Group Offers a Look at Charm City’s Modernist Synagogues

December 14, 2023December 13, 2023 JMORE Staff

In honor of the Festival of Freedom, the nonprofit preservation group takes a look at five Northwest Baltimore shuls embracing modernist architecture.

As First Lady of Maryland, Barbara "Bootsie" Mandel particularly took an active interest in the restoration of Government House, the historic 54-room official residence of the governor in downtown Annapolis. (Photo courtesy of Sol Levinson & Bros.)

Community Local Maryland National News Obituaries

Former Maryland First Lady Barbara Oberfeld Mandel Dies at 103

December 13, 2023December 13, 2023 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Mrs. Mandel, known as “Bootsie,” was remembered by her family for her “kindness, courage, integrity and unrelenting optimism.”

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