http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en jkrznaric@alteryourview.com Copyright 2008 2008-09-07T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/faith_and_politics/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/faith_and_politics/#When:03:00:00Z A recent Pew Center survey found that Americans are rethinking the role of religion in public life. For a decade, a majority of Americans have favored organized religious involvement in the political arena. Now, a narrow majority believe the nation would be better off if religious leaders stayed out of the political discourse, says Pew, a leader in… Opinion - Comment 2008-09-05T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/hear_o_israel/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/hear_o_israel/#When:03:00:01Z As travelers to Israel, we spend so much of our time peering through the viewfinder of a camera, trying to record every visual image to carry home and keep in our scrapbooks or hard drives. On my most recent trip (my sixth) with colleagues from the Krieger Schechter Day School, I tried to listen to Israel. … Opinion - Comment 2008-08-29T03:00:01-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/zen_of_beijing/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/zen_of_beijing/#When:03:00:00Z Although it’s been 30 years, it’s always stuck with me. Back in the 1978 television miniseries “Holocaust” (our answer to “Roots”), the brother who survived did so because he was stronger. The other, weaker one, played by James Woods, perished. In some ways, their brotherhood is a microcosm of the ongoing, universal, yin-yang in all Jews… Opinion - Comment 2008-08-22T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/bad_parents/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/bad_parents/#When:19:00:00Z I’ve organized the basics of my daughter’s bat mitzvah, but I haven’t lined up security. Have you heard this is the latest “must have” for b’nai mitzvah? They’re not being hired to keep bad guys out, but to keep an eye on the kids. I was hoping these were rumors, but friends in the throes of… Opinion - Comment 2008-08-14T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/basebaltimore/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/basebaltimore/#When:03:00:00Z Perhaps it’s an unknown fact to a vast majority of our readership, but something quite significant happened last week: baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline passed. As usual our heroes, the Orioles, did nothing to disturb their millionaire’s club. Not a single bum departed, nor a messiah come. Perhaps team management is hoping to extend its Ripken-like streak… Opinion - Comment 2008-08-08T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/fighting_words/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/fighting_words/#When:03:00:01Z Think The Sun lacks a certain degree of excellence? Try reading The Capital, Annapolis’ daily fish wrap. It’s a journalistic disaster zone — simplistic, unimaginative and, worst of all, factually unreliable. I know better than to depend upon a paper whose franchise is local news for information on Israel. What little news space it devotes to… Opinion - Comment 2008-08-01T03:00:01-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/wall_e_world/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/wall_e_world/#When:03:00:00Z In recent years, we’ve seen our world destroyed in a wave of dystopian, post-apocalyptic depictions via fiction, documentary and currently computer generated imagery (CGI) with “Wall-E.” In 2007, the Pulitzer Prize for literature went to “The Road,” Cormac McCarthy’s hauntingly beautiful, but dark as night, novel about a father and son traipsing across a scorched, barren… Opinion - Comment 2008-07-25T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/camp_camp/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/camp_camp/#When:03:00:00Z Let’s see … the third weekend in July puts us deeply in the midst of Parents Visiting Day at sleepaway camps. Two summers ago, when visiting my daughter Sofie at sleep-away camp for the first time, we were not prepared. We had arrived on time with the requested homemade chocolate chip cake, fresh Archie comics and… Opinion - Comment 2008-07-18T03:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/pro_estrogen/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/pro_estrogen/#When:19:00:00Z There’s no use denying it. When I first went into the business of manufacturing babies my goal was to produce as many of one model as I could: I wanted five raucous Jewish boys, just like the Marx Bros. I got off to a good start, with a very manly prototype. Unfortunately soon after those in… Opinion - Comment 2008-07-10T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/catskill_memories/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/opinion/jt/comment/catskill_memories/#When:03:00:00Z Summers were special for me growing up in New York City in the decades following World War II. Until my middle teens — when I was put to work in the family schmatah business — it meant a season of charmed days at a Catskill Mountains bungalow colony. I discovered my inner Thoreau wandering the thickly… Opinion - Comment 2008-07-04T03:00:00-05:00