Shomrim: Win Tickets, Catering, Skybox to Orioles vs. Yankees

The baseball raffle fundraiser is being held so that the neighborhood watch group can buy radios.

ICYMI: Dispatcher Helps Woman Across Continent

Yitzy Schleifer was dispatcher when he received a call from a woman who was trapped in a storage unit with her children—in San Francisco—but she didn't know the address. He helped police rescue them.

Shomrim of Baltimore Dispatcher Honored by San Francisco Police

Yitzy Schleifer was dispatcher when he received a call from a woman who was trapped in a storage unit with her children—in San Francisco—but she didn't know the address. He helped police rescue them.

Shomrim of Baltimore member Yitzy Schleifer received a certificate of appreciation from the San Francisco Police Department. The certificate, shared with Pikesville Patch by the group's president Ronnie Rosenbluth, was for his work last month—during Chanukah—when he helped San Francisco police find a woman and her children who were trapped in a storage unit in that California jurisdiction. "In deepest gratitude for your outstanding performance of duty in helping an individual in San Francisco who was trapped in a lock storage facility with her children," the certificate, signed by Chief of Police Gregory P. Suhr, states. "Such an example of dedication is worthy of the highest esteem by the City of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police…

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Emergency Services Groups Light Menorah

Members of Northwest Baltimore and Pikesville area groups Hatzalah, Chaverim, Shomrim and CERT, participated in the ceremony marking the fourth night of the eight-night Festival of Lights.

During the fourth night of the Festival of Lights, four volunteer, emergency responder groups participated in the menorah lighting ceremony at The Chanukah House. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, the Jewish Caring Network will help light the menorah at the house, 6721 Greenspring Ave., Pikesville. The Yeshiva Ahavas Torah school's bake sale will be held at Chanukah House from 6:30-9:30 p.m., selling freshly baked challahs, kugels, cakes, cookies cupcakes and more, the website states. Following are the groups that participated in the menorah lighting Tuesday: Thanks to BaltimoreJewishLife.com for sending in photos from the ceremony. Read more about The Chanukah House 2012

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Shomrim of Baltimore Helps Rescue Woman, Children Locked in Calif. Storage Unit

Representatives of the neighborhood watch group doesn't know how the Spanish-speaking woman got the number for the mostly Orthodox Jewish group's emergency hotline—thousands of miles away.

It was 12:01 a.m. Tuesday when Shomrim of Baltimore neighborhood watch group received a call from a frantic woman, who was locked with two children in a storage unit—far away in San Francisco. "We don't know how she got our number," said Ron Rosenbluth, Shomrim vice president, noting that she may have misdialed one number when calling for help, and ended up getting Shomrim's hotline number: 410-358-9999. But, the group that patrols the neighborhoods and helps find missing people in the northwest Baltimore, Upper Park Heights, Pikesville and Greenspring areas, helped coordinate the search effort from thousands of miles away. They contacted the San Francisco Police Department, spoke with the mostly Spanish-speaking woman to get information …

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MarkSindone

2:02 am on Wednesday, April 17, 2013

I wonder how the woman could have misdialed the neighbourhood watch group’s hotline. It is obviously more complicated than the 911 hotline. Perhaps it was on speed dial? Nonetheless, it is definitely beyond the call of duty for the members to continue helping the woman. Hopefully after this incident, the woman and her two children will be more careful about getting locked in a storage unit. I can…   more ›

NAACP: Shomrim Facebook Posts 'Disgusting,' 'Prejudiced'

The president of the NAACP's Baltimore chapter told Patch that the Jewish neighborhood watch group should use better judgment.

The president of NAACP's Baltimore chapter on Friday called Shomrim of Baltimore's Facebook page "disgusting" and said its depiction of black people displays a "prejudice" that she believes was also seen during a criminal trial this summer involving a member of the Jewish neighborhood watch group. However, a Shomrim leader said that the group's Facebook postings are only meant to help police solve crimes. On Tuesday Shomrim published a photo of a young, black male riding a bicycle in Upper Park Heights while towing another, riderless bike beside him. It was posted without an explanation as to why it was posted between Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. Some of Shomrim's Facebook readers' comments joked or implied that the male had stolen the …

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B Allen

3:43 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Jackie, have you finally found out the truth with all the lies being thrown out by the left and their sounding board, the left wing media? Maybe you need to find out the truth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpezudbbZMA   more ›

Shomrim Explains Facebook Photo of Black Man

Within the same hour that Pikesville Patch published an article about a controversial photo posted on Shomrim's Facebook page, the group posted an explanation about why the picture was posted.

The Shomrim of Baltimore neighborhood watch group published an explanation on Thursday about why it has been featuring a photo on its Facebook page since Tuesday that shows a black male riding a bike and towing another. The photo garned several critical comments on Facebook that the picture implied that the man was stealing the bike—a racially charged accusation by a group that recently was the center of an incident that heightened tensions between Jews and blacks in Northwest Baltimore. The explanation on the group's Facebook page—whose stated mission is to "gather intelligence on security and safety issues affecting our community"—said the photo is not meant to indicate the man is involved in wrongdoing. "As always all photos are taken …

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Werdesheim Gets Probation—and Homework—for Assaulting Teen

Baltimore Circuit Judge Pamela White sentenced the former member of Shomrim of Baltimore to probation, with the condition that he research and write about Baltimore City's diverse neighborhoods and special interest groups.

A Baltimore judge on Wednesday sentenced a Jewish former neighborhood watch member to three years of probation for assaulting and illegally detaining a black teenager in the fall of 2010. But the judge also tacked on an unusual form of punishment for Eliyahu Werdesheim: homework. Werdesheim, 24, must read, research and write about Baltimore City's special interest groups and the strengths and weaknesses of its neighborhoods. "I'm not contemplating any incarceration," Baltimore City Circuit Judge Pamela White said Wednesday afternoon as she declared her sentence. "You need to broaden your sense of community." White advised Werdesheim that he could find the publications he needed for his research at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, where she …

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Eliyahu Werdesheim Convicted in Assault of Teenager

Baltimore Circuit Judge Pamela White gave her verdict Thursday afternoon, convicting Eliyahu Werdesheim of false imprisonment and second degree assault, but clearing his brother Avi Werdesheim of all charges.