Letters to the Editor: Cleveland Kidnappings, Hawking, Mount Zion Cemetery

Published on May 22, 2013

This is a thought-provoking article about our own responsibility as neighbors (“We Must Be Our Brother’s Keeper,” May 17). How do we strike the balance between being intrusive and being helpful?

I've got your back

By Steve Greenberg
Published on September 27, 2012

Editorial Cartoon: The Endless Relay Race

By Steve Greenberg
Published on July 25, 2012

Israel’s Torah Scholars Then and Now

By Steve Greenberg
Published on July 19, 2012

Editorial Cartoon: Term Limits

By Steve Greenberg
Published on May 30, 2012

Letters to the Editor: Dennis Prager, Jewish Service Corps, Conservative Congregants

Published on May 9, 2012

Dennis Prager was given the opportunity to respond to a letter sent by a reader (Letters, April 27). I’d like to respond to his response. He asserts, “It was racists in the Democratic Party, not conservatives or Republicans, who blocked civil rights for blacks.” I’ve been a long-time listener and reader of Mr. Prager’s, and while I disagree with him on almost every issue, I have always respected his integrity. However, I must say that in this case, he is veering dangerously close to a purposeful distortion of the truth.

Frogs in hot water

By Steve Greenberg
Published on April 18, 2012

Looking forward to the end of Pass-over

By Steve Greenberg
Published on April 11, 2012

Letters to the Editor: ADL, Sex-Ed in Orthodox high schools

Published on April 4, 2012

Rob Eshman dismisses the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) polling on anti-Semitic attitudes with one word — “junk” — and suggests that American Jews are deluding themselves about the level of anti-Semitism in society, which he would have us believe is virtually non-existent (“Again,” March 30). Yet the facts tell a far different story.

The Church of Latter-Day Aints*

By Steve Greenberg
Published on February 29, 2012

Editorial cartoons: Greenberg’s year in review

Published on January 4, 2012

Editorial cartoons

Eight (pricey) nights

By Steve Greenberg
Published on December 14, 2011

editorial cartoon

The Face of Israel

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 29, 2011

When the thousands of delegates, journalists and observers drive to the United Nations this September for the General Assembly, I’d like to suggest that on their way they swing by the intersection of 10th Avenue and 35th Street.

Purple Eyes

By Gina Nahai
Published on March 30, 2011

It’s four o’clock in the afternoon, and I’m walking down a busy sidewalk in an upscale neighborhood in Tehran. My mother and her friend have picked me up from school and driven me here without saying what we’re going to do or why we can’t stop at home first so I can change out of my uniform.

A novel cure for Jewish baby boomers

Published on March 23, 2011

Innovation has been the Jewish response to societal change and spiritual longin

Talking with progressives about Israel

Published on March 23, 2011

For years, liberal Zionists have been writing about the need to renew the traditional progressive-Zionist alliance, inspired by the civil rights and labor movements, and the importance of using these partnerships to maintain left-leaning allies for Israel.

A little late, Pope Benedict

Published on March 9, 2011

Editorial cartoon

Keeping it fair and balanced at the Los Angeles Times

By Amy Klein
Published on January 31, 2008

As the Los Angeles Times' editor of the Op-Ed page and Sunday Opinion section, Nicholas Goldberg oversees publication of about four opinion pieces per day and eight to twelve on Sundays. The most volatile topic on those pages by far -- even more than the war in Iraq, the election campaigns or immigration -- is the Middle East and Israel.

And now the ‘Jewish primary’  begins . . .

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on January 31, 2008

When California moved its presidential primary to Feb. 5, and other big states followed suit, the strategic role of Jewish voters in the nominating process was greatly enhanced.

Should Israel care what we think? Should we care what Israel thinks? If not now, when?

Published on January 31, 2008

Should Israel Care?

The four pieces addressing the cover story have missed one aspect of the debate ("Why Should Israel Care What We Think About Jerusalem?" Jan. 25). The government of Israel, in making decisions on the fate of Jerusalem, is not operating in a vacuum. It is subject to enormous pressures by the international community that is acting in its own interest.

Almost every Arab country attended the Annapolis conference last November to influence and voice their interest in the ultimate outcome of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and on the issue of Jerusalem. Thus, decisions on the fate of Jerusalem are influenced by a large group of players whose considerations are not always aligned with Israel's.

A Curious Thing

Published on March 30, 2000

A curious thing happened in the pages of The Jewish Journal the week of Nov. 20. During a period when a host of issues of major importance to the American Jewish community were occuring that commanded front page attention elsewhere, The Journal chose to devote the cover story and an editorial in the Nov. 20 issue to the complaints of a disgruntled documentary director and his co-writer against Moriah Films of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. In spite of The Journal's claims that it was not "picking on the Wiesenthal Center," one wonders what the editorial staff's true motives were in giving an inordinate amount of space to the attempt by these individuals to politicize what was for all intents and purposes a dispute over the best creative approach to a film about Israel's first 50 years.

Comment

Published on March 2, 1999

A curious thing happened in the pages of The Jewish Journal the week of Nov. 20.

Recapturing the Dream

Published on November 26, 1998

A curious thing happened in the pages of The Jewish Journal the week of Nov. 20. During a period when a host of issues of major importance to the American Jewish community were occuring that commanded front page attention elsewhere, The Journal chose to devote the cover story and an editorial in the Nov. 20 issue to the complaints of a disgruntled documentary director and his co-writer against Moriah Films of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. In spite of The Journal's claims that it was not "picking on the Wiesenthal Center," one wonders what the editorial staff's true motives were in giving an inordinate amount of space to the attempt by these individuals to politicize what was for all intents and purposes a dispute over the best creative approach to a film about Israel's first 50 years.

Editorial

Published on March 12, 1998

Last weekend, I was at a gathering of maybe 80 people, brought together to listen to a prominent Israeli intellectual who proceeded to dazzle us with his accounts of political, military and religious life in the Mideast. Actually, it was more than dazzling. He was informative; he was insightful; he was witty.