Michael Olesker
Trump’s Message to Suburban Voters Recalls Words of Racist Politicians Who Came Before Him
Once more, President Trump tries to make America the most divided nation in history, and a people most frightened by our fellow citizens. Not satisfied with dividing us by our current troubles — his indifference to the coronavirus victims, his sending of the...
Playing Mind Games
Not to brag or anything, but it appears that the president of the United States and I just scored back-to-back aces on pretty much the same test. The difference is Donald Trump, a man who’s described himself as a “very stable genius,” has chosen to boast about his...
Bret Stephens, John Lewis and ‘the Baltimore Model’
The city of Baltimore got through this past weekend with only a few shots, killing three and wounding six, plus an editorial shot from Bret Stephens, the smart New York Times columnist, in a piece headlined, “American Crime and the Baltimore Model.” Stephens gets most...
Now 40, Harborplace Needs a Do-Over
On Oct. 6, 1991, as the Baltimore Orioles and Detroit Tigers played the final Major League Baseball game ever at Memorial Stadium, I sat in the upper deck with a young social worker named Suzy Ricklen, who looked around the old ballpark and tried to put a hold on...
Nobody Did It Better than Carl Reiner
If you want to know how good Carl Reiner was, just go to YouTube and find the old Sid Caesar Show from the 1950s and a skit they called “This Is Your Story,” which turned the sentimental “This Is Your Life” inside out. If you don’t think it’s the funniest 11 minutes...
Goodbye, Columbus?
I still recall that sunlit afternoon the telephone rang and on the other end was the immortal Baltimore City Councilman Dominic “Mimi” DiPietro, a man who broke new linguistic ground whenever he surrounded an idea with the English language. Mimi, for example, thought...
Swinging for the Fences and Knocking Bigots out of the Park
Professional sports may soon return to the virus-ridden American landscape, but certain sports bigots will not. So long, George Preston Marshall. Now, can Marshall’s old football team please give up its awful nickname? As America purges itself of lingering vestiges of...
A Simple, Shocking Case of Murdered Innocence
The Ouzo Bay restaurant video that’s now gone viral is one of the saddest sights in circulation because it shows there’s more than one way to commit murder. Around the nation these days, we’re reminded with sickening regularity of black people killed by white police...
The Sad Ballad of Catherine Pugh
Somewhere in her shame and humiliation, Catherine Pugh begins to pack her bags. She leaves for federal prison this week, leaving behind a city that once elected her mayor and still misses a leader with her political experience and skills. But greed got in Pugh’s...Upcoming Events
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Jewish Museums Across the Seas: ...
@ Jewish Museum of Maryland Online
Jewish Museums Across the Seas: ...
@ Jewish Museum of Maryland Online
Aug 16 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
This presentation with Gavin Morris, Director of the South African Jewish Museum, will provide a brief history of South African Jewry – a uniquely homogenous community within the Diaspora. From its Litvak roots, through the[...]
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Kosher BBQ Food Truck Drive up –...
@ Beth Shalom Congregation
Kosher BBQ Food Truck Drive up –...
@ Beth Shalom Congregation
Aug 16 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Join Beth Shalom Congregation and Char Bar DC for Kosher BBQ Drive Up! Order dinner for Sunday night, or food for the next day. Kosher BBQ Drive up is on Sunday, August 16. Food can[...]
7:00 pm
BZD’s Interactive Israeli Cookin...
@ Virtual
BZD’s Interactive Israeli Cookin...
@ Virtual
Aug 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Join Baltimore Zionist District as we cook with Huppit Bartov Miller to bring you Israeli summer-inspired dishes. Huppit Bartov Miller is a cook, a food blogger, a food instructor, and the founder of Afooda. She[...]
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