If only the next to last line hadn’t come true. Last Monday, Feb. 1, Megan Estey, the 16-year-old author of this and many other poems and an accomplished photographer, passed away.

She was born Aug. 4, 1993, in Baltimore, the daughter of Joanne and Jerry Eisenstadt of Finksburg.

Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-4th) — who last year was accused by some Jewish groups in the Washington, D.C., area of refusing to meet with them — addressed Baltimore Jewish leaders this week, both defending her calls to improve the lot of Gazan Palestinians and criticizing Iran’s “deception” in…
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Irene Siegel recalls standing in the cluttered Jewish Bookstore of Greater Washington last year, listening closely as her husband, Bernard, told the Wheaton shop’s co-owner, Rabbi Menachem Youlus, about his family’s roots in the Ukrainian village of Vasilkov.

“Menachem said, `Oh, I’ve been there,’ and mentioned some names…
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Last Sunday afternoon, Roland Park’s Bolton Street Synagogue hosted New York-based musician Shira Kline and her band ShirLaLa for what was billed as an “outrageously hip” children’s concert. More than 100 people attended the gathering. Ms. Kline is a performer and music educator who travels around the country…
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