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community to help them achieve their navigating another city and making new The Baltimore
goals for a meaningful Torah life along friends is enough independence and a Chesed League is
with a parnassa tova (good livelihood). good transition into the real world of up and running!
We are always looking for ways to adulthood. When we sat in on a U.S.
enhance and grow our program, and are seminary presentation, the advantages The Baltimore Chesed League is up and running!
now in the planning stages to meet the slowly started to emerge: She gets to
future needs of the community. I would come home often enough for Shabbos. If you or your son(s)If you or your son(s) are interested in being a part of
like to extend an invitation to all in the She gets to come home for simchas. are interested inthe BCL, please email davidziffer@gmail.com
community who would like to share We’re in the same time zone. We can go being a part of the
their ideas to contact us, and to inform ourselves to visit and talk to the BCL, please email
us whether the need for a first-year local mechanchim. (I know that there are davidziffer@gmail.com
seminary is now on the horizon. some who take it for granted that they ©WWW
will go visit their children in Israel, but
ETTIE ROSENBAUM for many it’s not feasible.) And it’s half
Menaheles, WITS/MAALOT the price! When there is no guarantee
that a young lady will have an amazing
TO THE EDITOR, year, in my opinion, that’s an expensive
We are extremely happy with our risk. Those points, coupled with the
focus on hashkafa at this particular
decision to send our daughter to an institution, made our decision pretty
American seminary next year (Margie easy. There was a certain degree of relief
Pensak’s article). As much as Israel is in that we really don’t have to send our
“our land,” to a young person it can be budding young adult 6,000 miles away.
daunting to consider traveling to what is Shocking, isn’t it? When she is ready to
essentially a foreign country, where go to Israel, she will go with a great
everything works differently. We saw the appreciation of what Eretz Yisrael is all
hesitation she felt when discussing sem- about.
inary options and certainly did not push
either way. Not every kid is ready to be DEBBIE LOWENSTEIN
super-independent. In her case, just
Menucha This PURIM...
SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
& THEIR FAMILIES Don’t stuff your friends’ waistlines,
Don’t stuff envelopes,
- Send your friends and family the CUTEST
kids in town!
$2.00 each or SAVE! $18.00 for a pack of 10!
MENUCHA Purim postcards to benefit children with special needs here in Baltimore.
May be purchased at the following locations:
Adina B – 2935 Bartol Avenue, rear entrance
Orna Wigs - 708 Reisterstown Road
Hats to Hose - 7002 Reisterstown Road
Ellen Edinger – 410-358-0854
Shira Schacter – 410-585-0340
Malka Waldman - 410-358-0458
Leah Klein - 410-358-2311 MENUCHA
2934 Bartol Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21209
Phone: 410-764-2955
www.menuchainc.org
32 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
goals for a meaningful Torah life along friends is enough independence and a Chesed League is
with a parnassa tova (good livelihood). good transition into the real world of up and running!
We are always looking for ways to adulthood. When we sat in on a U.S.
enhance and grow our program, and are seminary presentation, the advantages The Baltimore Chesed League is up and running!
now in the planning stages to meet the slowly started to emerge: She gets to
future needs of the community. I would come home often enough for Shabbos. If you or your son(s)If you or your son(s) are interested in being a part of
like to extend an invitation to all in the She gets to come home for simchas. are interested inthe BCL, please email davidziffer@gmail.com
community who would like to share We’re in the same time zone. We can go being a part of the
their ideas to contact us, and to inform ourselves to visit and talk to the BCL, please email
us whether the need for a first-year local mechanchim. (I know that there are davidziffer@gmail.com
seminary is now on the horizon. some who take it for granted that they ©WWW
will go visit their children in Israel, but
ETTIE ROSENBAUM for many it’s not feasible.) And it’s half
Menaheles, WITS/MAALOT the price! When there is no guarantee
that a young lady will have an amazing
TO THE EDITOR, year, in my opinion, that’s an expensive
We are extremely happy with our risk. Those points, coupled with the
focus on hashkafa at this particular
decision to send our daughter to an institution, made our decision pretty
American seminary next year (Margie easy. There was a certain degree of relief
Pensak’s article). As much as Israel is in that we really don’t have to send our
“our land,” to a young person it can be budding young adult 6,000 miles away.
daunting to consider traveling to what is Shocking, isn’t it? When she is ready to
essentially a foreign country, where go to Israel, she will go with a great
everything works differently. We saw the appreciation of what Eretz Yisrael is all
hesitation she felt when discussing sem- about.
inary options and certainly did not push
either way. Not every kid is ready to be DEBBIE LOWENSTEIN
super-independent. In her case, just
Menucha This PURIM...
SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
& THEIR FAMILIES Don’t stuff your friends’ waistlines,
Don’t stuff envelopes,
- Send your friends and family the CUTEST
kids in town!
$2.00 each or SAVE! $18.00 for a pack of 10!
MENUCHA Purim postcards to benefit children with special needs here in Baltimore.
May be purchased at the following locations:
Adina B – 2935 Bartol Avenue, rear entrance
Orna Wigs - 708 Reisterstown Road
Hats to Hose - 7002 Reisterstown Road
Ellen Edinger – 410-358-0854
Shira Schacter – 410-585-0340
Malka Waldman - 410-358-0458
Leah Klein - 410-358-2311 MENUCHA
2934 Bartol Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21209
Phone: 410-764-2955
www.menuchainc.org
32 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
