Opinion | What it’s like to celebrate Passover in prison
By Christopher Blackwell
Over the past few years, I have been honored and blessed to experience — with good friends — some Jewish traditions and...
Opinion | Jews vanish from Iraq, but still have no closure
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...
Opinion | Ignore Jonathan Pollard’s terrible advice
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
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,...
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...
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...