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.

Suddenly Sukkah

By Susan Esther Barnes
Published on October 3, 2012

Death in the Hood

By David Suissa
Published on February 22, 2007

The service was heartfelt, but it was also unsettling. There was a kind of emotional chaos in the air -- almost a reluctance to accept that a beautiful life could be taken away from someone so God-fearing and life-giving.

David Mamet has one question—for the wicked son

By Tom Teicholz
Published on November 9, 2006

David Mamet has written a book, "The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred and the Jews" (Shocken/Nextbook), that is by turns bold, courageous, and outrageous -- it is a book that calls Diaspora Jews to the table and asks: "In or Out?"

Mixed Message

By Julie Wiener
Published on August 9, 2001

Results of the two new studies are mixed enough that translating them into policy recommendations will not be easy.

To Go or Not to Go?

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 21, 2001

Our phone calls and e-mails and dinner-table conversations echo the larger debate taking place between America and Israel. Is it safe? Does canceling demonstrate a lack of support to family and friends? Do we have the right to take our children to potentially dangerous areas to demonstrate that support?