Around the Town, Week of April 8th
Baseball’s Jewish themes: Sunday, April 11 Batter up! The community is invited to participate in an engaging Zoom program at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 11, that makes the case that…
The preparation and baking of matzah for Passover in Fort Worth, Texas. Photos by Ben Torres
Building a shmura matzo factory took a village
Photos: Ben Torres for Chabad.orgMasked and ready to lend a hand is Debby Rice, pictured in the black shirt, in Fort Worth’s shmura matzo bakery. By Sharon Wisch-Ray I was…
Volunteers feed MedStar team members
B’nai B’rith volunteers, MedStar team, Fort Worth Chief of Police Neil Noakes, Dr. Brian Byrd, chairman of the MedStar Board together when the B’nai B’rith Isadore Garsek Lodge delivered home-cooked…
Pharmacist Gratch talks about COVID-19
By Hannah Simon Steven Gratch is a member of Congregation Ahavath Sholom. While he was attending morning minyan one day last week, Rabbi Andrew Bloom asked him to speak to…
Tarrant County Hanukkah celebrations
Photo: Courtesy Lil Goldman Early Childhood CenterHanukkah is always a highlight for students at the Lil Goldman Early Learning Center as evidenced by this 2019 photo. This year COVID-19 restrictions…
Pandemic bride felled by 1918 Spanish flu
Photo: Courtesy Fort Worth Jewish ArchivesThe headstone of Pearl Brown Linett, who died from the Spanish flu during the 1918 global pandemic By Hollace Ava Weiner Editor’s note: This sad…
Around the Town: Matt Schneider,
Matt Schneider heads to grad school at Northern Illinois University Matt Schneider, grandson of Corrine Jacobson of Fort Worth and son of Dallasites Diane and Mike Schneider, is in graduate…
Ethel and Arnold Schectman celebrate 69 years of marriage
ThenNow A belated mazal tov to Ethel and Arnold Schectman, who celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary June 17. The Schectmans met in 1940 at a B’nai B’rith dance at the…
Meagan Moses has a passion for jewelry design
Photo: Jeri ElkinsMeagan Moses designs original jewelry pieces. By Hannah SimonMeagan Moses, 25, recently started her own handmade jewelry making business. She crafts bracelets, rings, necklaces and earrings. Meagan grew…
Fort Worthians make memories and mitzvahs
Photo: Courtesy Rich HollanderRich Hollander, center, pictured with his wife Terri, children and grandchildren, believes his new business, A Sweet Goodbye, will bring comfort to those who have lost a…