Opinion

Eli Spiegelman

Parshat Vayechi: Getting along like Ephraim and Manasseh

By Eli Spiegelman This week’s parshah is Vayechi. In Vayechi, Jacob blesses his 12 children, now adults. In this portion, Jacob also meets with Joseph’s...
Ben Cohen

Opinion | The perils of broadcasting in Arabic

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By Ben Cohen Last week was a lousy one for the taxpayer-funded German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle, bookended by no less than two antisemitism scandals...
Charlotte Seeleman Shlenker

Opinion | My Jewish ancestors owned slaves. That’s why I’m a rabbi for racial...

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Rabbi Barry H. Block In “The Social Justice Torah Commentary,” Rabbi Brian Stoller describes a turtle-shaped dinner bell that his great-grandmother used to summon a...
Solomon Stevens

Opinion | Rethinking fundraising for Jewish education

By Solomon D. Stevens I get requests for donations to Jewish organizations almost every day. And there is no doubt about it: Almost every request...

Letters to the editor: Dec. 17

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A superb d’var Torah The d’var Torah appearing in last week’s Baltimore Jewish Times (“Supporting gender equality,” Dec. 10) was superbly written by Jillian Potler,...

A French shande 

Recently announced French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour is an ultranationalist, right-wing pundit, who is anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and pro-fascist. He is also Jewish. Without that last...

Separation of church and school?

In largely rural Maine, some school districts don’t have enough students to justify creating a public high school. So, in order to guarantee that...
James Sinkinson

Opinion | How the Mizrahi Jewish story defeats anti-Zionist mythology

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By James Sinkinson Anti-Zionists are fond of claiming that Israel is a colonial enterprise of white Ashkenazi Jews — as though Jews exiled to Europe...
Jillian Potler

Rosh Chodesh: Supporting gender equality

By Jillian Potler Last week we celebrated Rosh Chodesh Tevet, the beginning of the Hebrew month of Tevet. One interesting fact about Rosh Chodesh is...
Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm

Opinion | Larry David has never been more Jewish than in this season’s ‘Curb’

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By Andrew Silow-Carroll “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has always been a Jewy show, but this season it is downright Jewish. On the HBO sitcom, now in its...