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• Entertainment

Weill's 'Street Scene' offers incisive slice of urban life

Kurt Weill's "Street Scene," a blend of opera and musical, will be staged with a Baltimore twist by Peabody Opera Theatre at the Modell-Lyric Performing Arts Center.

• Baltimore City Paper

Potential Gallery CA art exhibit causes controversy with its culturally insensitive message, critics say

• Sun Investigates

Donors increased gifts to big Maryland charities

Goodwill, Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, Catholic Relief Services, The Associated received millions in private donations in 2013

By Doug Donovan

Nov 2, 2014

• Features

Wedded: Carly Hamburger and Joe Ornstein

They may have moved to Michigan, but this couple's story begins in D.C.

• Concerts

Datebook

Howard County datebook

• Columnists

The holidays loom

• Baltimore County

Police search Towson U office of rabbi

Police searching the Towson University office of a prominent Georgetown rabbi accused of secretly recording women in a ritual bath found a backpack with an assortment of tiny cameras hidden in everyday household objects, including a computer charger, a clock and a tissue box, according to a warrant filed in a Maryland court.

By Peter Hermann

Oct 25, 2014

• Movies

East Columbia 50+ offers caregiver support group

events at Howard county senior centers

• Opinion

Why Israel isn't rushing to fight ISIS

Why Israel isn't rushing to fight ISIS

• Opinion

Why African-Americans don't support Israel

Why African-Americans don't support Israel

• Howard County

Datebook

Howard County datebook

• Baltimore County

Heartlights hosted at Towson Presbyterian Church meets weekly

Heartlights, an interdemominational religion class for special needs adults, has been going on for more than 50 years at Towson Presbyterian Church

• Judaism

Worship Briefs

News and events from religious institutions around Baltimore County

• Terrorism

Protest and praise for 'The Death of Klinghoffer' at the Metropolitan Opera

The Met's first performance of 1991 opera by John Adams about the hijacking of a cruise ship and murder of wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer sparks fresh controversy.

• Education

Towson associate professor suspended amid voyeurism charges in D.C.

A Washington, D.C., rabbi who serves as an associate professor at Towson University has been suspended with pay by the school after being arrested and charged by D.C. police last week with voyeurism, school officials said on Tuesday.

By Joe Burris

Oct 21, 2014

• Opinion

Why aren't more African Americans supporting Israel?

I have recently had several spirited conversations with an old friend from high school over the Israel and Hamas conflict and the larger questions surrounding Israeli settlements, the Palestinian Intifadas and a dual state solution. My friend, a self-proclaimed Zionist and American Israel Public Affairs Committee member, often lamented that Israel was misunderstood and could not figure out why more African Americans were not vocal supporters of it.

• Obituaries

Sol Hirsch

Sol Hirsch, a former National Weather Service forecaster whose career spanned three decades, died Oct. 5 at his Pikesville home of complications from heart disease. He was 91.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 17, 2014

• Entertainment

Exhibit of forgeries shows off unprecedented collection at Peabody Library

Newly acquired collection makes Baltimore the epicenter of forgery research worldwide

• Howard County

Datebook

Howard County datebook

• Howard County

East Columbia 50+ offers caregiver support group

events at Howard county senior centers

• Judaism

Worship Briefs

Events and news from religious organizations around Baltimore County

• Opinion

Insensitive festival schedule [Letter]

Insensitive festival schedule

• Judaism

Worship Brief

Events from around Baltimore County

• Obituaries

Ida Goldberg, school fundraiser

Ida Goldberg, who raised funds for Jewish schools and had an award given out in her honor at the Talmudical Academy, died of renal failure Sept. 27 at the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital. The former Mount Washington resident was 104.

• Entertainment

Former 'Seinfeld' writer publishes first novel

University of Maryland grad Peter Mehlman's debut explores the minor irritations and curiosities of daily life

• Baltimore City Paper

Wandering Eye: Checking in with David Simon, 3-D printed guns, and the benefits of being a Jewish Orioles fan

• Maryland

Carroll's Yesteryears: Origins of former names for present-day Marston

• Opinion

High Holidays finances [Letter]

High-priced High Holidays?

• Opinion

'Jews, Jews, Jews' [Editorial]

Recent anti-Semitic incident demonstrates only that Baltimore County is populated by at least one moron with a BB gun

• Opinion

Sometimes the gaffe police go to far [Commentary]

The media gaffe police have a legitimate role in uncovering serious misstatements of elected officials, but they can take their job to ludicrous and petty levels

• Museums

Anne Arundel County Digest

Anne Arundel County Briefs

• Judaism

Worship Briefs

Events and news from religious organizations around Baltimore County

• Opinion

Tolerance in the new year [Commentary]

I encourage all who stand for peace and goodwill to join The Associated and the countless other organizations in Baltimore and the world in making tomorrow better than today. As put forth by Rabbi Hillel who was one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmudic era, "…and if not now, when?"

• Harford

13th HdG community yard sale is Saturday

The Havre de Grace Community-wide Yard Sale is coming 8 a.m. to 4 p.m

• Maryland

High Holy Days services set

The Eldersburg Jewish Congregation and Rabbi David Greenspoon will be having High Holy Days services.

• Maryland

History of traditions proves self-serving [Letter]

• Baltimore City Paper

Best Reason to Schlep to the Beach

• Obituaries

Jon B. Singer, House of Hope founder

Jon B. Singer, a Baltimore businessman who was active in Jewish philanthropic charities, died Aug. 31 at his Pikesville home of pancreatic cancer. He was 71.

• Opinion

Is the Islamic State really un-Islamic? [Commentary]

Instead of Americans trying to persuade Muslims of the world that terrorism is un-Islamic, why shouldn't Muslims be working harder to convince us?

• Obituaries

Philip Filner, molecular biologist

Philip Filner, a retired molecular biologist and community activist, died of pancreatic cancer Sept. 6 at his Lutherville home. He was 75.

• Colleges and Universities

Hebrew Orphan Asylum moves closer to redevelopment

The University System of Maryland Board of Regents voted Thursday to sell the vacant and deteriorated former Hebrew Orphan Asylum in West Baltimore to the Coppin Heights Community Development Corp. for redevelopment as a community health center, according to a university spokesman.

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore City sheriff candidate David Wiggins wigs out over Ray Rice domestic violence

• Maryland

Walter Reich: Video exposes grotesque ideology

• Maryland

Hebrew school classes offered

Registrations are being accepted for Hebrew school in Carroll County, with classes starting Sept. 4 at the Eldersburg branch of Carroll County Public Library.

• Howard County

East Columbia 50+ offers caregiver support group

events at howard county senior centers

• Opinion

Why Jews don't support the GOP [Letter]

Why Jews don't support the GOP

• Judaism

Worship Briefs

News and events at religious organizations around Baltimore County.

• Opinion

Why Jews don't vote for GOP presidential candidates [Letter]

Why Jews don't vote for GOP presidential candidates

• Obituaries

Bernard I.H. "Bernie" Kramer, city educator

Bernard I.H. Kramer, a retired Baltimore public school vice principal who earlier had been an English department chairman, died Aug. 14 at Autumn Ridge Nursing Center in Pikesville of complications from a stroke. He was 92.

• Iraq

Baltimore Basilica stages Interfaith service for Peace in Iraq

As people of different faiths gathered Sunday at the Baltimore Basilica for a prayer service for peace in Iraq, Archbishop William E. Lori implored the crowd to keep praying after news of the crisis no longer dominates headlines.