TIMES OF ISRAEL
by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
April 29, 2015

The streets of Baltimore were quiet overnight Tuesday-Wednesday, with a curfew imposing a fragile calm in a city that once held the dubious title of America’s murder capital. Famous in better days for its location by the Chesapeake Bay and more ominously as the setting for the gritty TV crime series “The Wire,” Baltimore also has one of the largest concentrations of Jews in the United States. While the majority of the city’s Jewish population – estimated at some 30,000 – live in the northwest corner, Jewish Baltimoreans are all being impacted by the foment in a city notorious for its stark boundaries of race and class. READ MORE