by Talya Knable | 3 hours ago | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, The Parenting Place
It’s all about perspective. In the world of social media sharing and reality TV, it’s impossible not to pay attention to what everyone around you seems to be doing. After all, they are constantly putting it in our faces. And while there is of course value in these... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 22, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
“Jojo Rabbit” plays like a spiritual descendant of “The Producers.” I saw the new film — written and directed by New Zealand-born filmmaker Taika Waititi, a Maori Jew — at The Charles this week, in one of the smaller theaters, so completely packed with... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 20, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
In its heady, bustling, muscular heyday, the Baltimore Sun newsroom had more than 400 reporters, editors, photographers and such. Now, like so many American newspapers, they’re a skin-and-bones operation with a newsroom body count reportedly under 100 people. And... read more
by Deborah Walike | Jan 20, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, The Balagan
Maimonides, the great Jewish philosopher and scholar, wrote that there are eight levels of charity, each greater than the next one. The greatest is to help out a fellow Jew, and the list goes on to the less impressive gestures of “giving inadequately but cheerfully”... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 16, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Around Baltimore, they call this week’s exclusion of the late Art Modell from the Pro Football Hall of Fame an outrage. Around Cleveland, they say it would have felt like a “sucker punch” if the Ravens owner had finally been elected. On this particular matter, I stand... read more
by Talya Knable | Jan 16, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, The Parenting Place
On the weekend in between Christmas and New Year’s Day, I attended a fitness class at my gym, like I do most weekends. As a family, we enjoy an active lifestyle and going to the gym has always been a part of that. Before the class even started, the instructor was... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 15, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Sometimes the offenses of President Donald Trump are impeachable, and sometimes they’re just loathsome, dangerous and un-American. This week, they’re all of the above. The president offends us on religious grounds, re-tweeting a doctored image of the Jewish U.S.... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 13, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
When we speak of the true carnage of this past weekend, we do not mean the game involving Baltimore’s Ravens. Let’s move on, shall we? We mean Baltimore’s shooting victims, of whom there were at least a dozen over the weekend, five of whom died.... read more
by Michael Olesker | Jan 10, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Jack Garfein’s life was so bountiful that the obituary writers overlooked a fundamental piece of it when this great man of the American theater died the other day at age 89. Garfein was a director and producer who helped found the legendary Actors Studio West. He... read more
by Talya Knable | Jan 9, 2020 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, The Parenting Place
I was so excited to share a post with you all today about taking care of yourself in the new year without focusing on changing your body (yes, it is possible!). But Jack got sick, Leigh quickly followed and I had no time to get anything done. (#momlife, right?) Given... read more
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