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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Ralph Waldo Emerson, it’s always Sunny in Hebron

" , , , Eshman, here is the question I have for you: Brother can you spare a dime? . . . "

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The will of the people, the light of Chabad, the gift of ‘The Goldbergs’

" . . . If we left it to the 'will of the people,' would we ever have ended segregation in this country? . . "

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Prop H8, gratuitous, immature, Islam

" . . . Now that a mensch will be moving into the White House, I hope that Judea Pearl's words are brought to his attention . . . "

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Satire, Hitchens, Rotbart and fear

" , , , Frightening, yes, but what an exciting time to be living. I applaud the diversity of your publication . . ."

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

The spirit of Jonathan Swift, Rotbart should apologize

" . . . Rotbart wants us to feel guilt, regret and fear; the very emotions that the conservative party and our past presidential party have been trying to make us feel for years now. I'm happy to say that we voted for change, and the days of Jews being stuck in an uninformed past are over . . . "

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Begone, bygones! Green is the new blue and white

" . . . It is troubling that some Orthodox rabbis have joined with the Christian right to eliminate same-sex civil marriage. Banning same-sex civil marriage is about as relevant to Orthodox Judaism as banning the sale of shellfish . . . "

Thursday, November 6, 2008

The RJC is Republican, sure, but Jewish?

" . . . It is time for the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) to drop the "Jewish" part of their name . . . "

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Ratner and Diddy, Wolpe and Hitchens, the pocketbook and the soul

" . . . The Journal, simply put, is more enamored with shallow Hollywood power, pretension and materialism than the writer of this piece is . . . "

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Alan shrugged, Bouskila wrote,  Suissa puffed

" . . . The Great Schlep of young Jews to Florida for the express and only purpose of convincing their elderly grandparents to vote for Barack Obama is a disgusting display of the arrogance, the chutzpah, of some of our young Jews . . . "

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Politics, rabbis, gotcha

" . . . So can a Jew remain true to the Talmud and Torah while simultaneously voting Republican? He not only should not -- he cannot . . . "

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Israel flag flies,  a Czech surprise, voter fraud, bridge to understanding

" . . . The blue and white now waves proudly on prestigious Wilshire, along with the Stars and Stripes. And we are all the more enriched for it. Kol hakavod! . . "

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Shame on Rabbis for Obama, hooray for Amy Klein, thanks for Marty Kaplan

" . . .The separation of church and state is the foundation for religious freedom in our great country. Shame on you Rabbis for Obama . . ."

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Puff the magic Palin, Chabad hockey moms, Playboy singles

" . . . How insulting to equate Sarah Palin with the women of Chabad. How many of these women would welcome pregnant Bristol Palin's boyfriend into their family when he calls himself a 'f----in' redneck' and talks about how if anyone messes with him he'll 'kick their f---in' ass' . . . "

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Who you calling rebbetzin, why you dissing Palin, what college anti-Semitism?

" . . . I am just an average person that fits the person you describe in "Post-Palin Depression." I do not have a therapist, but I have been in depression for almost two weeks now . . . "

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Campus hate—while down —is still a problem, wailin’ on Palin

" . . .If insulting community organizers, making snide remarks about Sen. Barack Obama's popularity and mocking the location of Obama's acceptance speech make her [Palin] presidential material, then America is in serious trouble . . ."

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

That campus anti-Semitism thing, you say it’s your birthday

" . . . Jews are an ethnic group, sharing an ancestry, a heritage, traditions, language, homeland and culture. Not protecting them from anti-Semitism on college campuses means that a national problem may go unaddressed, because colleges and universities need not answer for their conduct . . ."

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Saving by remembering, first impression

" . . . The World Trade Center has been attacked more than once. Was America more popular in the eyes of the Muslim world before Sept. 11? . . "

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Awakening schmawakening, Darfur’s hope is grass-roots action

" . . . It is the grassroots work that will, more likely than not, serve as the impetus for and foundation of whatever action our government takes in response to genocides like the one in Darfur . . ."

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Eating Bambi, Zell again, Bergson, broken heart

" . . . Isn't it time that every Jewish child take at least one course in Herzl? If he isn't the modern father of the Jewish People, who is? For without Herzl's many contributions, the Holocaust would have excluded any chance of a Jewish state in Israel . . ."

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Zell it, Sam; Cool it, Orit; 40 million Frenchmen

" . . . In Fairfax High School, I had a brilliant and wise instructor of advanced placement European History who used to say: 'Do not put all your faith in one man. For surely he will disappoint you.' And he also said: '40 million Frenchmen can be wrong' . . ."

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Butt flag fever, Orthodox crawl, what to expect, propaganda

" . . .A single written word can be a very powerful tool in educating and liberating, but it can do quite the opposite as well. . . ."

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Green transit, Hollywood Jew, New Yorker cover

" . . . In the field of education, we already have a monstrous, corrupt, money-squandering, dysfunctional bureaucracy known as the public school system, which robs parents of control over their children's education and leaves them powerless and defenseless against the colossus of the state. The last thing we need is to create a similar monstrous bureaucracy to deliver health care . . . "

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Kaplan, Eshman, Carlin and Tom

" . . . Yes, there are times when it is a judgment call and a good one to make: Carlin was the exception to the rule. Though he was not Jewish, he was Jewish enough to be included in The Jewish Journal. I enjoyed the article . . ."

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Antonio’s ‘touch,‘ Fairfax grads, Beta Israel

" . . .I cannot believe that the front page of The Jewish Journal has a picture of the Los Angeles mayor touching the sacred wall and your headline in large yellow letters, "Touched." I think looking closer at the picture you will see a man to his left with an expression of "What in the world do we have here?" or is it just plain amazement, like the one I had in seeing this picture. . . ."