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

Published on January 2, 2013

It is quite something to read Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion dean Joshua Holo’s caricature Dennis Prager as reckless, heedless, gratuitously hostile and a provocateur “painting in broad strokes of facile caricature” (Letters, Dec. 21), when that is precisely what he, not Prager, does.

Letters to the Editor: Berman will be missed, Fight for life, Seeking survivors

Published on November 16, 2012

Last week’s election was incredibly emotional for me. With the support of my community, a kid from Pacoima won a seat in the United States House of Representatives.

Letters to the Editor: Prager’s Politics, Bassoonist Has Storied Career

Published on November 8, 2012

Dennis Prager has again conveniently and simplistically divided his world into good and bad, conservative Republicans being good, liberal Democrats being bad (“A Jew Tours for Romney,” Nov. 2). He then uses this formulation to claim that the conservative Republicans more ardently favor Jews and Israel, than do the liberal Democrats.

Letters to the Editor: Cantor’s Kavanah, Homeland, Kol Nidre LIVE

Published on October 10, 2012

We are grateful for the lovely profile on our immensely talented chazzan, Hillel Tigay (“The Rock Cantor,” Sept. 21).

Letters to the Editor: Kol Nidre Live, Obama, Mitt

Published on October 3, 2012

I’m watching you live from my house. I couldn’t get access to any synagogue here in Nairobi and had no idea how to go about Yom Kippur, but thank God I got you on Google. I’m now attending the first Yom Kippur in my life via the Internet. Thank you. You have no idea what this means to me.

Father and son

Published on September 5, 2012

On these High Holy Days, there will be empty seats in our synagogues. This is a letter found on one of those seats …

Letters to the Editor: Milk, languages, kindergarten, breakfast, philanthropy

Published on June 27, 2012

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz is restirring a tempest in a glass of milk (“How Kosher Is Your Milk,” June 22). This issue was addressed in great detail in the fall 2007 issue of the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society in the article “The Kashrut of Commercially Sold Milk” by Rabbi Michoel Zylberman.

Letters to the Editor: Voter initiatives, immigration and Israel, outreach, teen philanthropy

Published on June 20, 2012

Does Raphael Sonenshein really think that one of the top three cures for what ails us is to correct voter initiatives, or that what we really need is longer careered politicians (“California: Can This Patient Be Saved?” June 15)? Instead of looking to successful states for comparison, Sonenshein kept his focus intra-California, citing three primary reasons for our state's political and fiscal troubles: voter initiatives (“surgery done by amateurs”), term limits (“starving the legislature of durable careers”) and Proposition 13.

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

Published on April 11, 2012

Letters to the Editor: Gilad Shalit, United Nations, Gelson’s Ad

Published on October 26, 2011

Steven M. Goldberg’s article “The Shame in Surrendering to Evil” (Oct. 21) exhibits the consummate hypocrisy of the World Zionist Organization. I believe that their credo has always been to give 100 percent support for the actions of any Israeli government. They have reversed themselves even though the Israeli populace, intelligence and defense forces, and the Cabinet, were heavily in favor of the deal to release Gilad Shalit.

10 things I love and understand

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 25, 2011

Letters to the Editor: Prager, Settlements, Chevy Volt

Published on December 15, 2010

Rob Eshman needs to do his homework (“The Home Front,” Dec. 10). A road test by edmunds.com pegs Chevrolet Volt’s range at about 300 miles, and in extended range mode it only averages 31.4 miles per gallon. That’s a huge scale-back from Eshman’s 235 mpg. If 9.2 seconds for the zero to 60 feels like “it takes off like a beast” and [has the] “handling of a muscle car,” in my humble opinion, Mr. Eshman is prone to irresponsible editorial exaggeration, especially where he writes [electric vehicles] “... are — finally — Detroit’s way of telling the Saudis to shove it.” Now there’s a line that’s going to embrace peace with the Saudis, shut down the Taliban’s opium profits and stop Sunni terrorist groups.

LETTERS: Torah Battle, Mormon Official, Ethics

Published on March 18, 2009

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.

Purim Spoof, Jacob and Esau, Chasidic Movements, Wagner Cover, Origins of Alphabet

Published on March 11, 2009

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.

Small Mac attack, Wright flap, too much tolerance

Published on May 15, 2008

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Shoah, McCain, Ziman vs. Lee, Obama, Pope

Published on April 17, 2008

CAMERA, Sabeel and The Jewish Journal

By Andrea Levin
Published on January 31, 2008

Rob Eshman's peculiar attack on CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America ("Butt Out," Jan. 25, 2008), for alerting some of its Los Angeles area members and friends to the pernicious activity of an anti-Israel group called the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center and its spokesman, Naim Ateek, is wrong and distorted on many levels.

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.

Rabbi Cooper; Enough with the Spinka; Tuskeegee Airmen

Published on January 24, 2008

Readers respond to The Jewish Journal articles.

Not so awful being green, honorable menschen

Published on January 10, 2008

The Tribe, eating meat, mah-jongg, MPAC

Published on January 3, 2008

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Annapolis, Chanukah, Jerusalem, Not So Weird

Published on December 13, 2007

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OneVoice, one heart, one mind

Published on December 6, 2007

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Cake is taken; happiness is not a warm gun; go veg, young man!

Published on September 20, 2007

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Jefferson was Jewish?

Published on March 22, 2007

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Shutting Jewish mouths; A civil tone of voice

Published on March 1, 2007

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

Published on January 11, 2007

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Santa Claus; Uri Geller; Jimmy Carter

Published on December 28, 2006

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What do Dennis Prager, Jimmy Carter, Mel Gibson and General Motors have in common?

Published on December 21, 2006

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Attention, menschen! CAIR; Michael Richards; Shoah survivors

Published on December 7, 2006

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Published on November 30, 2006

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).

Democrats and Republicans again; Suissa’s Pico-Robertson ‘hood; A correction

Published on October 19, 2006

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Illegal aliens; Dems and Reps; Shocked, just shocked!

Published on September 21, 2006

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Published on September 14, 2006

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Published on August 31, 2006

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Published on August 17, 2006

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How YOU Can Help Israel; Electronic Devices

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on July 27, 2006

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Published on July 27, 2006

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Published on July 6, 2006

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Published on June 29, 2006

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Beth Emet Works to Save a Mother’s Life

By Jane Ulman
Published on June 8, 2006

The 200 closely knit families of Burbank's Temple Beth Emet, heeding the precept that all Jews are responsible for one another, are accustomed to providing aid and comfort quietly and inconspicuously. But the congregation has been galvanized to very public action by news that the mother of fellow congregant Roni Razankova's mother, a citizen of Macedonia, has contracted liver cancer and needs urgent medical attention in the United States.

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Published on June 8, 2006

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Drive Sends Love, ‘Gratitude’ to Troops

By Laura Birnbaum
Published on June 1, 2006

Carolyn Blashek is a Jewish mother in Encino who, like most Americans, was horrified by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. However, her reaction was slightly different than that of the average Jewish mother -- she tried to enlist in the military.

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Published on May 18, 2006

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Published on May 11, 2006

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Published on May 4, 2006

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Published on April 27, 2006

The article in this week's Journal about Poland and the March of the Living was accurate, on target and, quite frankly, overdue ("March of the Living Dead?" April 21). For quite some time now I have been troubled by the misguided attempts of some in the Jewish community to exploit our people's tragedy for the purpose of giving young Jews a renewed sense of identity.

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Published on April 13, 2006

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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!

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Published on March 2, 2006

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Published on February 9, 2006

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Drawn to Controversy

By Rob Eshman
Published on February 9, 2006

The letter writers wanted The Journal to reprint cartoons of the prophet Muhammed that first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September. The cartoons have sparked international outrage among Muslims, including riots, kidnapping, diplomatic reprisals and death threats.

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Published on February 2, 2006

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