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As a group of artists travel around Baltimore this summer, painting some of the Jewish community’s historic synagogues, it seemed worth a look back at where at least one congregation moved when it left downtown Baltimore. Last week, the artists gathered to paint the former Temple Oheb Shalom on Eutaw Place in the Bolton Hill… Read More
November 1920 saw a U.S. presidential election attracting nationwide attention and engagement, as a Republican from Ohio, Sen. Warren G. Harding, beat Democratic Gov. James M. Cox, also of Ohio, for the presidency. Nevertheless, here in Baltimore the big headline just 10 days after the election wasn’t Harding and Cox, but news of a giant… Read More
Take a peek into the JT’s July 4th issue from half a century ago and you might be surprised (or not) to see many familiar issues shouting from the headlines. The July 4, 1969, cover, although in black-and-white, had a definite red-white-and-blue patriotic feel, with a graphic of the Liberty Bell over a copy of… Read More
“Can Judaism Survive in America?” was the question posed by Dr. Seymour Lachman in the July 2, 1976, edition of the JT, as the country prepared to celebrate its 200th birthday. “From its beginnings, America has been a liberating experience for Jews. Yet there have always been paradoxes in this remarkable story. For alongside the… Read More
Just three days after the coordinated U.S. and allied invasion hit the beaches of France on June 6, 1944, to be forever after known as D-Day, the cover of the June 9, 1944, edition of the Jewish Times offered an “Invasion Prayer” by Mrs. Harry G. Samson. The prayer asks God for forgiveness of sins… Read More
“Girls Clubs Begin Season With Much Spirit,” reads the subhead on a roundup of Jewish Educational Alliance news in the Oct. 2, 1925, Jewish Times. “Much spirit is being shown by the girls’ clubs which have begun the season with rehearsing of functions both for the Jewish Educational Alliance and outside agencies,” the article says…. Read More
When you think of where Jews might live you might think of Brooklyn, Israel or Baltimore. A city that certainly didn’t come to mind is Seoul, South Korea. Yet in an April 1989 issue of the Jewish Times, writer Gabriel Levenson covered just that. Of the 200 or so Jews living in Seoul in 1989,… Read More
In the May 4, 1934 edition of the Jewish Times, then-U.S. Sen. Phillips Lee Goldsborough wrote a letter to the community announcing his support of the “Save the ‘Y’” campaign, an effort to fund the services offered at the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association in Baltimore. “The information is given me briefly that… Read More
If The Jewish Times ran the headline “Embracing Millennial Shabbat,” in 2019, odds are the story would be about post-college-age Jews exploring new ways to observe Shabbos. But in the JT’s final issue of last millennium, Friday December 31, 1999 — or Tevet 22, 5760 by the Jewish calendar — Rabbi Brad Hirschfield provided an… Read More
“Can it happen here?” asks a July 1983 Jewish Times column, referring to the Holocaust and anti-Jewish sentiment. In light of growing anti-Semitic acts, including last month’s shooting in Poway, California, this 36-year-old article seems prescient. In 1964, the article explains, a study found that 48 percent of non-Jews answered “yes” to the statement “Jews… Read More
