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

Published on April 4, 2013

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 ‘Top Rabbis’ List,” March 29). Prager complains that the Newsweek ranking brings the cult of celebrity to the fragile institution of the rabbinate, inflicting “gratuitous pain” on those rabbis who don’t make the cut and inflating the egos of those who do.

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

Published on December 12, 2012

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 Bill Maher,” the words of Joseph Welch came to mind when he said to despicable Sen. Joe McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

Letters to the Editor: Ayn Rand, Romney, Obama, Rachel Corrie

Published on September 5, 2012

In “Rand … Rosenbaum?” (Aug. 17), Rob Eshman tries to convince us (or himself) that Ayn Rand’s support of Israel confirms her Jewishness and contradicts her philosophy. Neither is true.

How much is Jewish innovation worth?

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 14, 2012

On May 8, in a very cool space in Culver City, I listened to a hundred very cool people talk about their very cool vision for the Jewish future.

Letters to the Editor: Peter Beinart, Dennis Prager and ADL

Published on April 11, 2012

From the Editor: Getting that giving is getting

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on October 21, 2011

When Eli Tene, co-chair of the Israeli Leadership Council (ILC), first called to tell me about a new initiative they had cooked up, I knew it was something big. I could hear it in his voice.

New York Times’ new editor: Jill Abramson, world’s most powerful Jewish woman?

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on June 2, 2011

We are family

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on March 16, 2011

How do you define family? A father, a mother and two children? A single mom raising two girls? A divorced mom and a stepfather, two stepkids and a half-sister? Two sisters, one half-sister from the same mother, and a half-brother and half-sister from the same father?

Morally Kosher; Defending the Dennis; <BR>Teddy the Great; Jane Ulman means ‘brilliant writing

Published on January 11, 2007

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Israeli-Palestinian Confederation; CAIR; Borat; Elections; More JewQ questions

Published on November 16, 2006

Josef Avesar says of the Israelis and Palestinian Arabs that "each side demands that the other relinquish crucial aspects of its identity," and that therefore, some form of confederation would be a "pragmatic" solution to their problems ("Mideast Solution: A Confederation," Nov. 3). Both Avesar's diagnosis and prescription are wrong.

Cluster bombs; again with the ‘Dumb Jews;’  Democrats vs Republicans one more time; Jews in Space!

Published on November 9, 2006

Calling for condemnation of the IDF's use of cluster bombs against Hezbollah would degrade Israel's ability to defend herself, thus encouraging Hezbollah to again employ their vast rocket and missile inventory to terrorize and murder Israeli civilians and to damage Israel's economy ("Cluster Silence," Oct. 31).

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Published on September 14, 2006

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Published on August 17, 2006

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Risks, Rewards of the Jewish Angle

By Tom Tugend
Published on June 29, 2006

When I started moonlighting for a Jewish weekly in the late 1950s, I often encountered sneers that implied that if I were any good, why wasn't I working for a "real" newspaper?

The Lichtenstein Formula for a Jewish Paper

By Tom Tugend
Published on June 29, 2006

The role of a Jewish newspaper is to connect the Jewish community, not to unify it," said Gene Lichtenstein, founding editor of The Journal.
During his nearly 15-year tenure, which ended in 2000, Lichtenstein's formula was to hire good, independent writers and columnists who could produce articles that raised the interest, and frequently the hackles, of both professional and peripheral Jews.

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Published on March 23, 2006

The funniest part of your recent Purim issue was the article on Rabbi Aron Tendler's departure from Shaarey Zedek Congregation ("Tendler Resigns Under Cloud," March 10). In lieu of any substance, it was filled with rumors and speculation -- a hilarious send-up of real journalism!

This Week - Not Our Movie

By Rob Eshman
Published on March 9, 2006

By launching a public, pre-Oscar campaign against the movie "Paradise Now," Jewish activists all but guaranteed that people who might not otherwise see the movie would now be curious to give it a chance.I was among the curious.

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Published on March 9, 2006

Without reading a word of the inside article, I write because I am distressed about the depiction on the front page ("An Ugly Day in the Neighborhood," March 3).

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Published on February 23, 2006

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Published on December 29, 2005

Kudos to Darcy Vebber for her evocative account of childhood Christmases in the Arizona desert and her spiritual journey to Judaism as an adult ("A Midnight Clear," Dec. 23), particularly fitting this year, when Christmas Day and the first night of Chanukah happen to coincide. The "surrender of her past," as she terms it, is described with poetic grace and an open heart exquisitely attuned to the feelings that underlie most religious experience: "the longing for peace and the connection to something holy."

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Published on December 15, 2005

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Published on December 8, 2005

As Rabbi Harold Schulweis wrote ("Interfaith Dialogue Can Bring Change," Nov. 25), interfaith dialogue is indispensable for countering mainline Christian divest-from-Israel campaigns. But dialogue alone simply has not and cannot turn the tide, much as we wish it could.

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Published on December 1, 2005

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Published on November 24, 2005

Letters to the editor. Tookie: Live or Die?

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Published on November 17, 2005

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The Conversation

By Rob Eshman
Published on October 20, 2005

The United Airlines agent informed us our flight from Denver to Aspen was over sold -- not everyone with a valid ticket was going to get on board.

Dozens of passengers were trying to be the ones past the gate.

Among them, lots of Jews.

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Published on October 20, 2005

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Tribe

By Julie G Fax
Published on October 6, 2005

Tribe

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Published on July 14, 2005

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Published on June 9, 2005

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Published on May 12, 2005

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Published on March 10, 2005

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Published on March 3, 2005

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Published on February 17, 2005

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Published on February 3, 2005

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Published on January 20, 2005

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Inadequate Response

By Rob Eshman
Published on January 6, 2005

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Published on December 30, 2004

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Published on December 2, 2004

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Published on November 25, 2004

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Published on October 7, 2004

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Myra Waldo Schwartz

By Jill Holzman
Published on August 5, 2004

Myra Waldo Schwartz, travel writer, food editor and critic died July 25.

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Published on July 29, 2004

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Published on July 22, 2004

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Published on July 15, 2004

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Published on June 10, 2004

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Published on June 3, 2004

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‘Red Emma’ Doc Lacks Activist’s Fire

By Tom Tugend
Published on April 8, 2004

"The Hebrew Anarchist Comes to Town" a 1893 New York Times article alarmingly proclaimed. To other reporters, she was "Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists."

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Published on April 8, 2004

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Published on March 25, 2004

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Published on March 4, 2004

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Truthbusters

By Rob Eshman
Published on March 4, 2004

The current March/April issue of Adbusters magazine features a lead-in piece by editor Kalle Lasn titled, "Why won't anyone say they are Jewish?" In it, Lasn points out the fact that of the 50 or so neocons influencing United States diplomatic and defense policy either within government or in media and think tanks, about half are Jewish.

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Published on February 19, 2004

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Published on February 12, 2004

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Published on February 5, 2004

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Published on January 29, 2004

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Published on January 8, 2004

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Published on January 1, 2004

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