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Volunteer Spotlight on Rena Rotenberg!

Rena Rotenberg has been a front desk volunteer at the Jewish Museum of Maryland for the past two months. She rightly describes herself as “a very knowledgeable Jew.”  Rena grew up in Brooklyn, NY, but moved to Baltimore in 1960 …

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Volunteer Spotlight on Lois Fekete!

Lois Fekete has been a Volunteer Docent at the JMM for around 8 years. She is a proud 5th generation Baltimorean and is retired after teaching for 35 years, mostly in Jewish day schools. She taught students ranging from pre-k …

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Volunteer Spotlight On: Nancy Kutler!

Nancy Kutler has been a Volunteer Docent at the JMM for 9 months. She recently retired from working 32 years at the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. She has been married to her husband Ed for 40 years and …

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Volunteer Spotlight on Margie Simon!

Margie Simon has been a volunteer docent at the Jewish Museum of Maryland since March. She retired in June 2016 from Baltimore County Public Schools. She was a librarian at Perry Hall High School for 16 years. Prior to that, …

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Volunteer Spotlight on Erika Rief!

Erika Rief has been a volunteer docent at the JMM for two months. She is currently in graduate school at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and MICS pursing an MBA/MA in design Leadership. Erika was an education and programming intern …

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Volunteer Spotlight on Shelly Mintz!

Shelly Mintz has been a Front Desk Volunteer for about a month at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. While growing up in New Jersey, Shelly has spent most of her life in Maryland. Shelly shared with me that her mom …

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Volunteer Spotlight on Carol Buckman!

Carol Buckman has been a shop volunteer at the Jewish Museum of Maryland for about two years. Her husband, Marty Buckman, who she has been married to for 29 years, is also a volunteer at the JMM (read up on …

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Volunteer Spotlight on Josef Rosenblatt!

Josef Rosenblatt has been a volunteer docent at the Jewish Museum of Maryland for two years. Josef is a native Baltimorean, but his ancestors are from Russia, Eastern Europe and France. His father was the rabbi of Beth Tfiloh Congregation for …

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Volunteer Spotlight on Vera Kestenberg!

Vera Kestenberg has been an Archives/library volunteer at the Jewish Museum of Maryland for around five years. Vera was born in Hungary and came to Baltimore in 1959. She and her husband are Holocaust survivors. She has shared her story …