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{weblog_name} - Rabbi Herman Neuberger, a Hall of Famer
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One of the outstanding honors that our Jewish Community Center gives in recognition to community service is the Baltimore Jewish Hall of Fame. There are some names who have been inducted to this Hall of Fame who have saved lives, literally kept people from starving, helped cure disease and made Baltimore a major center for what can be right about the human spirit. There are names such as Shoshana Cardin, Henrietta Szold, Zanvyl Krieger, Joseph Meyerhoff and so many others. So it pains me to learn that when the nominating committee came up with the name of the late Rabbi Herman Neuberger, they were basically told “no” by the Ner Israel powers that be. I’m sure Ner Israel had their own reasons for that decision. What a powerfully wrong call by Ner Israel. Since 1997, I have heard Ner… read more