Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Monty Hall, Anne Frank, Boston Hero, Syria

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Hagel, Prager, Woody Allen

Oh, yes, Hagel was bad for Israel — now he’s OK (“Hagel, Obama, Bibi and Red Lines,” April 26). Kerry was good for Israel — now he’s bad.. . .

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Letters to the Editor: JFS, Jackie Robinson, Doheny Meats

How terribly unfortunate that a Jewish communal professional who has done more than anyone else to raise awareness about domestic violence and abuse. . .

Friday, April 19, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Holocaust, Holocaust Memorial Museum

It is too simplistic and too misleading to say that Nazism, not Christianity, built Auschwitz (“Lessons of the Holocaust,” April 12).

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Doheny Meat Scandal, Newsweek’s list, Obama’s speech

Much has been written and spoken about the Doheny Meat scandal. I have not seen or heard anything regarding gratitude to Eric Agaki for his efforts. . .

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Prager on Newsweek’s Top Rabbi list, Slavin Library closure, AEPi

I have an answer to Dennis Prager’s column criticizing the annual list of 50 top rabbis published by Newsweek/Daily Beast (“Time to End the. . .

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Settlements, Rice, Jewlicious, Secularism

David Suissa has been writing a brilliant monologue, telling Los Angeles Jews that Israel’s settlements are legal and Israel’s enemies are so. . .

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Settlements, Response Policy, Secularism

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Schulweis, God’s Road Rage, JCCs

Thank you for today’s column. I wish I could have heard it [Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis’ speech], but reading about it was wonderful (“Because. . .

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Oscars, LimmudLA, Prager

As a working lawyer and a practicing comic, I have to remark at the irony that on the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking “The. . .

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Prager, vocational skills, BDS movement, SpaceIL

In a recent article, Dennis Prager wrote an oversimplified and sweeping criticism of self-esteem (“Behavior Matters Most,” Feb. 15). He claims. . .

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Peace process, Dennis Prager, Ad placement

Rabbi Marvin Hier blindly toes the Likud, right-wing line (“Palestinian’s Fantasy World,” Feb. 15).

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Military rape, second amendment, slain doctor, Chuck Hagel

I’ve taught sexual harassment prevention in the private and public sectors as an outside trainer for 20 years (“A visible war against military. . .

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Bill Kristol and his Emergency, Bigotry in AJU Ad?

Congratulations to Rob Eshman on a superb piece explaining clearly why Bill Kristol and his Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) not only do not help. . .

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Israeli elections, Rabbi Brous, Hebrew charter concerns

I found David Suissa’s column enlightening (“Israelis Voting for Reality,” Jan. 25). Given the intransigent Jew-hatred in the Arab world, the. . .

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Nazis, Shabbat, Torah

At the risk of engaging Dennis Prager’s considerable wrath, I find it necessary to defend Michael Tolkin’s comments regarding Prager’s. . .

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Zionism, Elliott Broidy, Chuck Hagel, Howard Berman

Thank you for the wonderful article by Tom Doran (“Why I Am a Zionist,” Jan. 11) in which he explains how one can leave the hate-filled,. . .

Friday, January 11, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Murder, USAID, Menches

The reason I can’t accept the foundation for Dennis Prager’s argument is that it relies exclusively on secondhand testimony (“Why Is Murder. . .

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Letters to the Editor: Prager on murder, Spiritual care, Christmas Mitzvah, Seeking former students

It is quite something to read Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion dean Joshua Holo’s caricature Dennis Prager as reckless, heedless,. . .

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Letters to the Editor: New Israel Fund, murder, two-state solution

I’ve spent 20-plus years as a working peacenik on the board of the New Israel Fund and Israel Policy Forum and even served as president of. . .

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Letters to the Editor: Bill Maher, Witold Pilecki, ‘Lincoln’

I didn’t get around to reading the Dec. 7 issue of the Jewish Journal until late last night, and when I saw the Danielle Berrin column, “Q&A With. . .

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Letters to the Editor: Gordis, Brous, Fiscal Cliff

I think that the strongest refutation of Rabbi Daniel Gordis (“When Balance Becomes Betrayal,” Nov. 30) and also of David Suissa (“War and. . .

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Letter to the Editor: Town hall on religious pluralism

I want to thank Rob Eshman for his review of the important Town Hall on Religious Pluralism that took place at Temple Emanuel last week and for his. . .

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Rabbi Wolpe on Gordis vs. Brous: Don’t judge the rabbis’ Torah

By Rabbi David Wolpe

Rabbis Daniel Gordis and Rabbi Sharon Brous are both friends of mine, good friends, long time friends.