Editor's Note Archives - Page 2 of 13

(JTA illustration by Grace Yagel)

The Specter of Fear

January 16, 2025 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Jmore Editor-in-Chief Alan Feiler has noticed a disturbing trend around the world and right here in our own backyard.

An artistic rendering of the future Pikesville Armory campus. (Provided image)

Breathing Much Needed Life Back into Pikesville

January 10, 2025 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Pikesville Armory redevelopment supporters believe their ambitious plans represent a “once-in-a-generation opportunity,” writes Editor-in-Chief Alan Feiler.

People visit the tomb of Christopher Columbus at the Cathedral of Seville. (Cristina Quicler/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

Hello, Columbus

November 27, 2024 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Jmore Editor-in-Chief Alan Feiler wonders why Jews love uncovering history’s secret Jews.

Old Bay/Oy Vey!

October 30, 2024 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Jmore Editor-in-Chief Alan Feiler writes about Philly’s National Museum of American Jewish History and its mission.

A survivor of the Nova music festival, Shirel Golan committed suicide last Sunday, Oct. 20, on her 22nd birthday. (Facebook)

Please, No More Shirel Golans

October 23, 2024 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

The recent suicide of an Israeli survivor of Oct. 7th demonstrates the importance of this community’s emergency campaign to raise funds for the Israel Trauma Coalition Resiliency Center in Ashkelon, writes Editor-in-Chief Alan Feiler.

Protesters argue along Greenspring Avenue about the Israel-Hamas conflict. (Photo by Robyn Stevens Brody)

It’s a Mad, Mad World

September 18, 2024 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Jmore Editor-in-Chief Alan Feiler can’t recall another time when antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiments and actions have been trotted out so brazenly.

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Worth the Juice

July 2, 2024 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Traveling creates experiences you simply can’t get by reading a book or watching a documentary, writes Jmore Editor-in-Chief Alan Feiler. You have to be there.

(Left to right) Zion Karasenti, Yitzhak Yifat and Haim Oshri hold the David Rubinger photo in 2017. (Photo by Scott David)

Every Picture Tells a Story

June 6, 2024 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Jmore Editor-in-Chief Alan Feiler reflects on that famous Six Day War photo and how it still resonates today.

Hollywood, The Last Frontier and ‘One Love’

May 8, 2024 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Rewatching “Northern Exposure” has Jmore Editor-in-Chief Alan Feiler wondering what Dr. Joel Fleischman would think of today’s turmoil in the Middle East.

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Best of Times, Worst of Times

February 16, 2024 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Over the past few months, Jmore Editor-in-Chief Alan Feiler has been struck by how Baltimore’s Jewish community has responded to the Middle East crisis.

In the shadow of the "Male/Female" sculpture outside of Penn Station, Israel supporters gathered to voice their outrage about the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and call for the elimination of the terrorist group, while demanding the release of all hostages. (Photo by Robyn Stevens Brody)

Chuckling No More

January 31, 2024 Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief

Sometimes it feels there was the world before Oct. 7th and the world after, writes Jmore Editor-in-Chief Alan Feiler.