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Aug 13, 2020, 9:25 PM

Black Lives Matter – But so do Jewish sensitivities

It didn't begin, and it won't end, with Nick Cannon. Black-Jewish relations, and the dialogues in between, has been a multiculturalism of hope more than an embrace of mutual affection and shared expectations. However, once again, as if the...

Dec 2, 2019, 12:20 AM

Netanyahu and Trump: What is going on here ?

A little over a week ago, Israel's attorney general publicly declared on Israeli TV that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should stand trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. Let it not be forgotten that Attorney General Avichai...

Mar 24, 2019, 2:08 PM

Anti-Semitism Sucks — The Need for a Powerful Response:

Last week, Jews worldwide celebrated the Jewish festival of Purim. This is a festival of joy, celebrating the attempt of Prime Minister Haman who, in the then country of Persia over a thousand years ago, attempted to wipe out...

Mar 21, 2019, 1:57 PM

The American Love of the Four-Letter Word

As an Anglophile with a traditional British education, we were raised on the sacred texts of Chaucer and Shakespeare, Keats and Shelley; the holy writings of Donne, Milton and Spencer; the hallowed historians of Asa Briggs, Sir Robert Ensor,...

Oct 3, 2018, 8:06 AM

Judge Brett Kavanaugh: Did He or Didn’t He ?

The current sex-circus surrounding Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the American Supreme Court makes the Clarence Thomas affair look like Walt Disney by comparison. And the huge elephant in the judicial court is : Does it really matter, and...

Aug 30, 2018, 12:50 AM

President Trump: To be or not to be…That is the question!

I have a huge admission to make and I can't find the means to do anything but to sit on a fence, which, I must admit, is nowhere to be when the stakes are so sharp!! And that is: I...

Oct 19, 2017, 7:07 PM

The Power Of The Powerfully Wealthy

The revelations of Howard Weinstein's sexual misadventures within the orbit of Hollywood is shocking, sad, and just downright disgraceful. As had been the lack of responses from the liberal - based Hollywood community who would have preferred to have...

May 20, 2017, 5:25 AM

Musings from a concerned citizen

Do you remember that unforgettable opening scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet where a couple of guards, Horatio and Marcellus, are filling in their rotation in protecting a castle in Denmark, only to view a ghost walking around. They are afraid,...

Feb 14, 2017, 7:24 PM

Are Female Orthodox Rabbis A Threat to Jewish Tradition – Or Is It the OU Itself ?

A little over a week ago the Orthodox Union, that orthodox administrative body which overseas nearly everything Jewish - related in America, called together a seven - man rabbinic panel to answer the question whether synagogues under the aegis...

Oct 17, 2016, 8:21 AM

Is Sexual Assault the New Normal in America Today ?

"Words, not deeds" was the quote of Donald Trump as he attempted to compare his somewhat strange divide between himself and President Clinton regarding their infidelities towards women, during the Second Debate with Hillary Clinton. Problem with making a statement...

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About Me

Rabbi Chaim Landau is Emeritus Rabbi and President of the Baltimore Board of Rabbis. He served the Bnai Jacob Congregation and later Ner Tamid Congregation in Baltimore. He was born in the UK, graduated Jews College with Bachelors Degree in Jewish Studies, has Smichah from Israel.