Opinion

Lyn Julius

Opinion | Jews vanish from Iraq, but still have no closure

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By Lyn Julius The oldest Jewish Diaspora in the world, that of Iraq, edged closer to extinction on March 15, with the death of 61-year-old...

Maryland’s nonpublic schools need nurses, too

By Yehuda Neuberger, Jerry Wolasky, Karen Paiken Barall, Aryeh Gross, Yanky Statman, Sam Melamed and Edwin Zaghi It’s the middle of a busy day when...

Don’t forget Jordan

Amid the hoopla surrounding the Abraham Accords, the fireworks accompanying the U.S. Embassy’s move to Jerusalem, the frustrating stalemate with the Palestinians and the...
Jonathan S. Tobin

Opinion | Ignore Jonathan Pollard’s terrible advice

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By Jonathan S. Tobin It was probably inevitable that we hadn’t heard the last of Jonathan Pollard. When the convicted spy landed in Israel last...

Another ‘Other’

In the last year, Asian Americans have suffered at least 3,795 hate incidents. The upsurge in this disturbing trend seems to stem from some...

Israel in stalemate

One week after Israel’s fourth national election in two years, the country remains in political gridlock. As in previous rounds, in addition to the...

Letters to the editor: April 2

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Bet Chaverim is here The 75 families of Howard County’s 8-year-old Bet Chaverim Congregation, a full-service Conservative congregation with a successful and growing religious school,...
Rabbi Neil Tow

Passover: Singing the Song of the Sea … again

By Rabbi Neil Tow Every Friday night, we sing Shiru L’Ado — nai Shir Chadash (Psalm 96) “Sing to God a new song,” and many...
Rabbi Linda Joseph

Parshat Tzav: Tending to the fire of prayer

By Rabbi Linda Joseph Here comes the rabbi’s confession: I struggle with prayer on Zoom. Because I must manage slide sharing, silencing congregants and other...

What if the sea waters had not parted?

The problem is severe. In the four months from October 2020 through February of this year, 29,792 unaccompanied minors have crossed the southern U.S....