Opinion: Write the Collection of Memories of the Woman You Are
Mother and child.
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Lihi Lapid
After more than a decade of writing a women’s column, I decided that it was time to...
Opinion: Antisemitism Is Not a Referendum on Israel
David J. Butler
That reflex is at the heart of an open letter Rabbi Arthur Green recently published on Substack, addressed to New York Times columnist Bret...
Opinion: Why New York Must Not Honor Pétain and Laval
Gerard Leval
On July 10, 1916, my great-uncle, a young French army lieutenant only 24 years old, was killed in battle as he defended the...
Opinion: Unmasking Israel’s Mental Health Crisis
By Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander
Beginning on Oct. 7, 2023, hundreds of alumni, students and faculty I work with experienced personal loss — leaving their...
Letter to the Editor: ‘A Commission’s Reset, After the Hijack’ (Editorial, Feb. 20)
In commenting on the recent fiasco at a public meeting of the White House Religious Liberty Commission, the Baltimore Jewish Times is on target...
D’var Torah: Know When to Lead and When to Listen
Madelyn Klein
This week’s Torah portion is Tetzaveh: Exodus 27:20 — 30:10
This week’s Torah portion is Tetzaveh. In Tetzaveh we read about the specific clothing...
Opinion: A Double-Edged Defense of ‘Brit Milah’
Rav Hayim Leiter
In an escalation of diplomatic tension, Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, recently demanded that charges be dropped against multiple mohelim...
Opinion: A Constitution That Cannot Bring Itself to Mention ‘Israel’
Stephen M. Flatow
A constitution is the moment a national movement decides what it will leave behind — and what it intends to carry forward.
When...
Opinion: Jewish Unity Is Existential
Rabbi Steven Burg
I was walking out of the Old City recently, and my mind turned to Rabbi Reuven Biermacher. He taught three classes at...
Opinion: The Republican Party Struggles With Antisemitism
Solomon D. Stevens
Vice President JD Vance is a very intelligent man, so we have to assume that it was no accident that his Holocaust...
