Rand Paul, the unrepentant hypocrite
For the pro-Israel community, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been a recurring problem. He opposes foreign aid and seeks to block or limit it...
Banging our heads against a wall
Diaspora Jewry is frustrated by the Israeli government’s recurring delay in implementing the Kotel compromise. Like a driver pushing on the gas pedal of...
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...
Opinion | The perils of broadcasting in Arabic
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...
Opinion | My Jewish ancestors owned slaves. That’s why I’m a rabbi for racial...
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...
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
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...
Opinion | How the Mizrahi Jewish story defeats anti-Zionist mythology
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...