Melissa Gerr

Just a few weeks before she passed away in September of 2017 at age 94, Elaine K. Winik said to her son–in-law, Kenneth I. Helphand, “I wish I could keep the collection together,” recalls Margot Helphand, Winik’s daughter and Kenneth ‘s wife. Kenneth Helphand took Winik’s words to heart and began the fastidious research culminating in the traveling exhibit, “Upon Thy Gates: The Elaine K.

Gazing around the hall at a roomful of about 80 energetic high school students last Wednesday night at Liberty Grace Church, Dr. Harriett Wimms offered thoughts of praise. “I’m looking at the future — literally,” said Wimms, founder and executive director of Baltimore’s Jews of Color Mishpacha Project. That evening, the future included Black, white, Jewish, Arab, Druze, Muslim and Christian youth. The “Unity Supper” at Liberty Grace, in the Ashburton community, was held in the midst of the Oct.

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