by Michael Olesker | 25 mins ago | Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Remember that infamous scene from “The Graduate” where Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) tells Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?” Of course she was. And if you’ve seen the movie, then you remember not only that... read more
by Michael Olesker | Dec 6, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
I like the op-ed piece Rikki Spector wrote in The Sun on Wednesday, Dec. 4. She told some painful truths about crime and political indifference in the city of Baltimore. I like the piece, also, for something Spector left unsaid but should resonate with voters. Spector... read more
by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Dec 6, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, The Balagan
Virtually everyone in Jewish Baltimore — well, everyone over a certain age — knows that Cass Elliot, the late singer from The Mamas and The Papas, grew up as Ellen Naomi Cohen in Forest Park. Folks here also know that such musical icons as Frank Zappa, Cab Calloway,... read more
by Talya Knable | Dec 5, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, The Parenting Place
The above picture of my son was taken during my daughter’s newborn photo shoot in our home. He was not interested in posing for the long list of adorable sibling moments I was interested in capturing. My husband took him into the kitchen and allowed him to engage in... read more
by Scott Rifkin, MD | Dec 5, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Publisher's Note
Dear Readers, Time moves so fast. My grandson, Aaron, is a marvel at 20 months old. I remember his father at that age and realize how much I missed due to my medical residency. Every new ability is a wonder. He says my name and I light up. I sat on a Southwest... read more
by Michael Olesker | Dec 4, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Imagine the gall of Jonathan Turley, the brilliant law professor and legal scholar who helps open impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump by willfully misreading history. I write this on Wednesday morning, Dec. 4, before Turley, a GOP witness, has even sat... read more
by Michael Olesker | Dec 2, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
In the Baltimore Ravens’ 20-17 victory in the rain on Sunday, Dec. 1, the most compelling moment for me wasn’t Justin Tucker’s 49-yard field goal at the last second but Lamar Jackson’s fumble in the third quarter. Tucker, you expect such things. Jackson, you don’t.... read more
by Michael Olesker | Nov 29, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Just off the Northwest Baltimore neighborhood where I did most of my growing up, we had a massive wooded area that ran from the Chizuk Amuno Arlington Cemetery off of Rogers Avenue all the way over to Patterson Avenue, not far from the Reisterstown Road Plaza. The... read more
by Michael Olesker | Nov 29, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker, The Balagan
You know who I miss? I miss Sam Moss, who had a radio program around here, but only for about 35 years. On Sunday mornings, when the gentiles were in church, Sam was on the radio kibitzing with the Jews. In Sam’s inflections came echoes of Borscht Belt merriment, of... read more
by Jessica Anya Blau | Nov 28, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, The Balagan
“You’re Jewish?!” two girls asked while stopping me on the sidewalk near our homes. It was sometime in the second grade. “Yes.” Had their parents been talking about my family, the only Jews in this Southern California suburb? “You killed Jesus!” one of... read more
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