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Tana Hicken, a Baltimore actress and teacher who deftly portrayed a wide variety of characters during a professional career that spanned more than four decades, died Aug. 17 at her Sparks home of myositis, an autoimmune disorder. She was 70. -
- Anti-Israel activists aren't helping the Palestinian cause in Gaza
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- Nixon's biggest mistake was thinking he could get away with what other politicians had done, but forgetting that the rules are different for Republicans
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- Israel's violations of human rights are routinely ignored.
- I am a Jewish American and have always considered myself a Zionist. As someone born shortly after World War II, I know how great a difference the founding of Israel, an independent Jewish state embodying Jewish values, made for all Jews everywhere. We all walked a little taller, felt a little safer. The disappearance of Israel would be a disaster of incalculable proportions, not just for the Israelis, but for all of us. Israel is still fighting yesterday's war, however. It cannot win this way,
- What can be done to one person can be done to any person.
- Three hundred American rabbis have called on President Barack Obama to secure the immediate release of former State Department contractor Alan Gross as family members and advocates expressed growing concern for his physical and emotional health.
- Thousands of American Jews have signed up to fight for Israel since the creation of the modern state in 1948. The Israel Defense Forces puts the number now on active duty at about 1,000, including 20 from Baltimore.
- The Aigburth Manor Association of Towson recently formed a three-person committee to serve as the liaison with the Chabad of Towson, at 14 Aigburth Road, as it undergoes an expansion.
- Hamas' tactic is not only to turn the world against Israel, but against all Jews. One need only look at the disturbing proliferation of anti-Semitic riots across Europe to see that this tactic is succeeding. Israel is expected to tolerate what no state on Earth would.
- With very little notice being taken in Harford County, one of the most widely-observed holidays on earth was celebrated this week: Eid ul-Fitr.
- Supports of Israel and Palestine took to Baltimore's streets Wednesday evening to voice their displeasure with the situation in the Middle East
- Leslie Hayes, formally of Baltimore and now living in the United Kingdom, was in search of the recipe for the sticky buns that were served at Camp Louise located in the Catoctin Mountains in Western Maryland.
- Arabs will never accept Israel's right to exist
- Burton J. "Burt" Shapiro, who was associated with WBJC-FM for more than 30 years and was an acknowledged jazz and film expert, died July 20 of respiratory failure at Sinai hospital. He was 68.
- The Hamas rockets and Israeli bombs falling around Gaza are reverberating a world away in Maryland, where many have close family ties or personal history with the region.
- America has a moral responsibility to victims of persecution and violence
- This summer I am in Israel, as part of an outdoor teen "camp" with Israeli scouts. Although I've visited Israel several times, the purpose of this trip was to experience Israel in a different way. For reasons never anticipated when I signed up for this program, I most certainly am experiencing Israel in a different way.
- Harford County's new office building in Bel Air was formally dedicated this week in 1964. The ceremony, which featured a historical address by C. Milton Wright, had an estimated 500 people in attendance.
- Israel is a failed state that should be dismantled
- Gov. Martin O'Malley and a group of faith leaders agreed Monday that thousands of immigrant children who have poured into the United States should be housed in foster homes and other small settings, not large centers as the federal government has proposed.
- On Monday, the Northwest Baltimore couple and their sons, ages 13 and 11, will board a New York flight to Tel Aviv and head for a Jewish settlement of about 700 families in a rural, mountainous patch some 20 miles south of Jerusalem. It's a place they already have begun to think of as home, where neighbors are welcoming and look out for each others' children.
- Esther F. Dubin, a retired coronary care nurse whose career spanned more than four decades, died Sunday of Alzheimer's disease at her Mount Washington home. She was 69.
- An aquatics instructor at a summer camp for youngsters at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore has been charged with sexual solicitation of a minor, police said.
- An aquatics instructor at a summer camp for youngsters at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore has been charged with sexual solicitation of a minor, police said.
- Bash Pharoan has been trying for years to get Baltimore County schools to close on Muslim holy days. So far, he has not succeeded.
- The Sun's description of the present conflict creates a false equivalency between Israelis and Palestinians.
- The Sun is biased, unethical and hypocritical in coverage of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Middle East conflict stems from opposition to Jewish state and desire for a war against Israel
- Pain of grieving parents is the same -- and should be reported that way
- Religious extremists are scuttling prospects for Mideast peace
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Monday with the teenager who allegedly was beaten by Israeli police last week, and Jewish leaders in Baltimore condemned the alleged abduction and killing of his cousin by several Israelis.
- The conflict in Israel is turning increasingly personal as calls for revenge flourish after the killings of innocent teens on both sides.
- In utter horror and profound grief we learned of the murders of the martyrs in the holy land of Israel, Yaakov Naftali Frankel, Gilad Michoel Shaar and Eyal Yifrach.
- The grisly discovery Monday of the bodies of three Israeli teens who had been abducted June 12 as they hitchhiked home from a West Bank settlement yeshiva set off a week of mounting violence in the region.
- Lobbying (and praying for) Congress can be a job for ordinary citizens
- Edwin Cohen, a retired city and university educator who served as executive director of Camps Airy and Louise, died June 21 of complications following surgery at Northwest Hospital in Randallstown. He was 87.
- The Republicans have their own version: ¿If a mistake was made in drawing national boundary lines in the Middle East after World War I without due regard for tribal groupings and religious differences, is it still President Obama¿s fault?¿
- Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians break down
