http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en lgeldzahler@jewishtimes.com Copyright 2010 2010-03-20T12:00:45+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/super_seders/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/super_seders/#When:19:00:13Z I can’t look at the boxes of matzoh on the supermarket shelves. Or the jars of gefilte fish or boxes of chocolate candy. I just can’t. I’m tired. Whoever thought of the “clean all the chametz out of your kitchen and replace all the kitchen items with special Passover-only stuff” was not a working mom.  Actually, probably… Opinion - Comment 2010-03-18T19:00:13+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/darkness_and_light/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/darkness_and_light/#When:19:00:14Z Each year, at our Passover Seder, as my family retells the story that is central to our Jewish history, we examine the themes found in the exodus from Egypt and find similarities to the challenges we face currently — locally and throughout the world. This past year certainly offered its own tales of hardship and recovery. In… Opinion - Comment 2010-03-11T19:00:14+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/remembering_ann_r_cohen/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/remembering_ann_r_cohen/#When:18:59:49Z So this isn’t easy. That we are going to have to move on without Ann R. Cohen’s maternal strength and love for our Jewish community is almost unthinkable. If there was one woman to select who understood this community, who helped build it, it was our dearly beloved friend Ann Cohen. We may know her as the woman… Opinion - Comment 2010-03-11T18:59:49+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/from_the_blogs12/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/from_the_blogs12/#When:19:00:17Z Some Sages At a time when Orthodox Jews with names like Rubashkin, Kolko, Tropper, Elon, Dwek and Eisenmann and so many others don’t get this sort of condemnation. Leave it to the “Council of Torah Sages” to come down hard as if their world is going to become unrecognizable should a woman be given rabbinic ordination. …… Opinion - Comment 2010-03-04T19:00:17+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/all_fall_down/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/all_fall_down/#When:20:00:14Z “A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.” — Thomas Mann, “The Magic Mountain” In 1924, between the wars, Thomas Mann published one of that century’s three great novels, “The Magic Mountain.” Along with James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Marcel Proust’s “Remembrance… Opinion - Comment 2010-02-25T20:00:14+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/drop-in_time/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/drop-in_time/#When:20:00:48Z How do you get 1,000 adults to spend a Sunday learning about Judaism? It’s not a joke. This is actually an assignment I’ve been given by the Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning (the agency that oversees all aspects of Jewish education in the Greater Washington area). The partnership is planning Routes — a day of Jewish learning,… Opinion - Comment 2010-02-18T20:00:48+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/18_minutes/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/18_minutes/#When:20:00:04Z What can you do in 18 minutes? You can make a sound investment in the future of our Baltimore Jewish community. Later this month, calls will begin for the 2010 Greater Baltimore Jewish Community Study, spearheaded every 10 years by the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. The average call will last just 18 minutes but will yield… Opinion - Comment 2010-02-11T20:00:04+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/from_the_blogs11/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/from_the_blogs11/#When:20:00:21Z A look at some local offerings at blogs.jewishtimes.com Hudi’s Half Marathon So getting a recent paper out was a week of difficulty as we looked at the horrible tragedy of the earthquake and Haiti. Then I met this remarkable young woman named Hudi Arieh. On Sunday, Jan. 31, she and a teammate are going to participate in… Opinion - Comment 2010-02-04T20:00:21+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/darkly_google/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/darkly_google/#When:20:00:45Z The letters are like colorful playthings on Google’s home page. They look like candy. They’re shaped like toys. But as Google grows ever more ubiquitous worldwide, and as it enters areas beyond search with its acquisition of YouTube and now mobile communications with its new Nexus One, those playful letters stand as a larger cultural marker in the… Opinion - Comment 2010-01-28T20:00:45+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/from_the_blogs10/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/from_the_blogs10/#When:20:00:54Z A look at some local offerings at http://blogs.jewishtimes.com/ Haiti’s Light In the wake of the horrific images coming from Haiti, there was something I felt I could withdraw from all of this as a positive. … We are doing what God has mandated for us as Jews. We are watching out for fellow man, feeding him and… Opinion - Comment 2010-01-21T20:00:54+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/fringe_thoughts/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/fringe_thoughts/#When:20:00:45Z I just started needlepointing an atarah (the embroidered part) for my son’s tallit. His bar mitzvah is two years away, so I’m giving myself plenty of time. Yes, I could have bought one with a beautiful collar, but as I sew I imagine him wearing this tallit as a grown man, perhaps at his son’s bar mitzvah, perhaps… Opinion - Comment 2010-01-14T20:00:45+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/promises_kept/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/promises_kept/#When:03:00:11Z
]]>Ninety years ago, the wise leaders of our community brought together two organizations serving Jewish Baltimore to form what would later become the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. What these forward-thinking men and women knew then was that by working together on behalf of all Jews in Baltimore, they could provide the programs and services necessary to… Opinion - Comment 2010-01-08T03:00:11+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/from_the_blogs9/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/from_the_blogs9/#When:03:00:46Z Who’s OK? Since the molestation stories have come out over the years. I wonder about those teens on the corner, those rejected kids. Maybe the reason for self-medication was to hide a pain that nobody was able to discuss in 1999. Next time someone sees me talking to so-called “rejected” teens on a corner in the middle of… Opinion - Comment 2010-01-01T03:00:46+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/celebrigods/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/celebrigods/#When:20:00:01Z In January of 2009, with the aid of in vitro fertilization, Octomom gained international attention when she bore octuplets. Aided by science, she became an overnight worldwide celebrity. Like a global traffic accident, we all slowed down to view this quasi-virgin birth. Now, as 2009 closes, Tiger Woods, a superstar and truly amazing sports celebrity,… Opinion - Comment 2009-12-24T20:00:01+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/granddaughter_remembers_cantor_hammerman/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/granddaughter_remembers_cantor_hammerman/#When:14:42:56Z The following was written by the granddaughter of Beth El Cantor Saul Z. Hammerman, whose one-year yahrzeit is tomorrow, Dec. 15. The congregants grew silent in anticipation of the artistic prayer they were about to witness. Although the setting was a sanctuary, the audience waited as if a brilliant concert was just commencing. The seats were filled with… Opinion - Comment 2009-12-14T14:42:56+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/from_the_blogs5/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/from_the_blogs5/#When:16:44:42Z Saudi Excuses I have this overwhelming urge to blurt out, “You lie!” But, after all, I believe in the saying, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” I want greater civility, so I won’t do it. Still, I’m incensed by the Sunday New York Times Op-Ed by Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi Ambassador to… Opinion - Comment 2009-10-01T16:44:42+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/stop_settlements/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/stop_settlements/#When:19:00:00Z We have raised funds, walked in solidarity, visited whenever possible and prayed for the safety of the Jewish state since its inception. But surely, if we want what’s best for the Jewish state, we must tell the leadership of our spiritual home the truth. And the truth is, President Obama is right when he says that settlement building… Opinion - Comment 2009-07-30T19:00:00+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/the_handyman/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/the_handyman/#When:03:00:58Z
]]>For some reason the gentiles appreciate the value of a good Jewish handyman a lot more than we do. Why, I don’t know. But that’s how it is. I knew Steve Rosen, who died on Yom Kippur. He was my brother’s best friend, and I knew him since I was nine. He left behind an extremely sweet wife… Opinion - Comment 2008-11-14T03:00:58+00:00