Area congregations join in nightly menorah-lightings for residents
Members of several synagogues in the Baltimore area spent time this past week at Lorien Harmony Hall, an assisted-living facility in Columbia, to light...
Elder abuse: Never let your guard down!
Bob Roth | Special to the JT
I will never forget the feeling of leaving our baby with a sitter for the first time. It...
Older, better, not faster, yet smarter
By Bob Roth
After dining at a restaurant recently, I was nearly giddy with excitement. I called my dad, immediately sharing my enthusiasm for the...
At 95, this Jewish singer is getting recognized
By Victor Wishna | JTA
Madeline Millman was just 17 when she took center stage at the Adams Theatre in downtown Newark, N.J., stepping into...
Surviving the Holocaust through a child’s eyes
When she was a child, Sabina Katz was in one of the last groups of children to safely leave Danzig, Germany, on a Kindertransport...
Dean Malissa wanted to be an actor. He ended up as George Washington
By Jarrad Saffren
George Washington’s legacy is quite literally the United States of America.
So when Daniel Shippey became the nation’s foremost Washington impersonator at Mount...
Character actor Nehemiah Persoff looks back at 102 years
By Tom Tugend
When actor, painter and writer Nehemiah Persoff, at times dubbed “the last survivor of Hollywood’s golden age,” was a 3 year old...
100-year-old WWII veteran reflects on his life
Just before 8 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, destroying or damaging...
Legacy giving ensures support for years to come
What kind of world do you want to leave for your children, and your children’s children?
That is a question often asked by potential donors...
What the pandemic can teach us about loneliness
By Bob Roth
During the pandemic, we have collectively increased awareness of what the experts in their fields had on their radar all along. The...