July 2, 2009
Following traditional Jewish practice, Hillside has never, does not and will never perform a cremation.
"If peace is ever to come between the Palestinians and Israel it won’t be from speeches like Netenyahu’s and a speech Abbas didn’t give"
"President Obama’s false friendship with Israel is a shofar call to all American Jewry and friends of Israel, to open our eyes to the fact that Obama is ready to sacrifice Israel for the sake of being loved by the Arabs and Muslims."
"Ever since President Obama linked dealing with Iran’s nuke industry and the Israeli settlements, I felt as if I am in the twilight zone."
"I am continuously impressed with the intellectual quality of the contents of The Jewish Journal. Especially for a free newspaper."
"There is no greater desecration of a Jewish neshama (soul) than cremation, and there is no greater mitzvah than a kosher burial."
I find it most strange that an article about a D-list cable TV celebrity is important enough for front-page coverage.
Rob Eshman is exactly right when he writes, “If we want more Jews in office — and it is in our interest — we have to help make it happen,”
Honest people differ on whether certain interrogation techniques constitute torture, but empirically these techniques prevented at least one major attack against the country.
"I left and saw the world for myself. Indeed, seeing the world opened my eyes and forced me to openly challenge ideas poured into my head as a child."
Rob Eshman, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, suggests that Israel should maintain the bedrock of shared values with the United States in order to avoid “quickly put[ting] Israel at odds with the administration of Barack Obama” (“Two Words,” April 10)
Marty Kaplan once again goes where others fear to tread (“The Virtue of Hate,” April 10). His article makes us realize that hate is not a monolithic concept whose fire singes all those who come too close to its flame.
Forgive the cliché, but what we have here is old-fashioned anti-Semitism, loud and clear and heartbreaking, and it happens here in our city.
Torah Slam 2
During the 37 years I have been a member of the Jewish communal service field...
Jewish Divorce
Get rid of the get (“Community Rallies for Woman’s Jewish Divorce,” March 13). Women are not slaves, and women are not property. Power which continues in the hands of husbands and with the men who wrote the laws and continue to carry them out, corrupts.
When will women be accepted as human beings, the same as their male counterparts? Why aren’t the men considered agunah (anchored)? When will Jewish women be given the respect they rightfully deserve?
Ethics Certificate
I heartily agree with David Suissa and his reservations about the new certificate indicating that Jewish businesses uphold labor laws (“Laboring for Ethics,” March 6). If the Rubashkin scandal [Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse] is what prompted the certification idea, it is hardly the most noxious scandal in the Jewish community.
I was not happy when I saw your Purim cover with Bernard Madoff and the octomom. I am willing to laugh at many things, but not this time. Madoff has become the poster boy of the new Fagin. He has brought the old canards of anti-Semitism back to Page 1 and also has hurt many, many Jews and Jewish organizations, deeply.
I’ve had just about enough of Rob Eshman’s self-serving and ego-feeding editorials. Yes, I’m very happy for Eshman, who was treated to a private concert and who uses all these small gatherings to prove to himself that he wasn’t and isn’t wrong about the willingness of the Arabs to make peace with us.
"If the library is moved to the American Jewish University campus, it is highly unlikely we will ever visit it again, as the AJU is quite inaccessible. A community library is for the community to use, just as I use my public library. To move it out of the community it serves, to let its volumes collect dust, seems to violate the spirit and purpose of the library."
"If the library is moved to the American Jewish University campus, it is highly unlikely we will ever visit it again, as the AJU is quite inaccessible. A community library is for the community to use, just as I use my public library. To move it out of the community it serves, to let its volumes collect dust, seems to violate the spirit and purpose of the library."
“The Rose is a cultural and an artistic legacy of post-World War II Jewry, who got over the shock of Hitler and World War II...and pulled themselves up and made money and became philanthropic and culturally inclined; so they collected art, supported the university and gave it art. It’s a beautiful legacy.”
Regardless of one’s political or religious identity, the cold truth is for many of us, the ability to simply disagree as menschen, without ad hominem, often mean-spirited attacks, no longer, if ever, exists.
"Like two boxers, Dennis Prager and Alan Dershowitz stepped into the ring of The Jewish Journal..."
"There is another battle going on, one that is not seen. It goes on in blog sites for the hearts and the minds of those who bring them up on their computers. Though it is a silent war, it has its casualties. Those casualties wind up misinformed and confused."
"The most outstanding feature of the Jewish anti-Israel protesters at the Israeli Consulate is their ignorance. They are defending Hamas, not Palestinians."
"...Israel must be mindful at all times both of her enemies and their capacity for doing harm..."
" . . . We do not discriminate between Jews and Arabs when violence is directed against innocents; we mourn the loss of life on both sides . . . "
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