Silencer

By Steve Greenberg
Published on May 8, 2013

Editorial cartoon

Choose Life: The New Right to Life Movement

By Aryeh Cohen
Published on May 7, 2013

Jewish groups urge Senate to pass gun control legislation

Published on April 11, 2013

Twenty-three national Jewish organizations signed on to a letter to the U.S. Senate urging members to pass gun control legislation.

After Newtown, some gun owners ready to consider control measures

Published on December 31, 2012

The day Eric Schaefer learned that a .233 caliber semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle -- a type of weapon he owned -- was used to kill 26 people in Newtown, Conn., he sold his rifle to local law enforcement near his home in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Jewish groups push for action on gun control

Published on December 18, 2012

In the wake of the shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn., Jewish groups are looking to build alliances and back legislation to strengthen gun control laws.

Sandy Hook: The cultural phenomenon behind mass shootings

Published on December 16, 2012

It has been 13 years since the murders at Columbine High School, when two teenagers killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. Since that time, ABC reports, there have been 31 school shootings.

The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre has the blood of Connecticut students on his hands

Published on December 16, 2012

Looking for ways to explain America’s epidemic of mass shootings -- including Friday’s murder of 27 people, including 20 children, at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school – many pundits are blaming the country’s “culture of violence” and its preference for “protecting guns over children.” But the majority of Americans favor strict gun control laws. No, let's not burden Americans with collective guilt. The problem is more narrow -- and more fixable -- than that.

Who will protect us from the NRA?

By Rob Eshman
Published on July 25, 2012

The National Rifle Association (NRA) claims it exists to protect our rights. My question is this: Who will protect us from the NRA?

Let’s Finally Stop Sweeping the Guns Under the Rug

By Misha Henckel
Published on January 25, 2011

ANALYSIS: Sarah Palin . . . and the Jews

By Rob Eshman
Published on August 29, 2008

For Jews who are not necessarily Israel Firsters, she carries some positives and negatives. Positives: she is a crusader for good government and a fiscal conservative. She is smart and successful and patriotic. Jews like all these things.

Letters

Published on October 6, 2005

Letters to the Editor

Letters

Published on September 29, 2005

I support Rabbi David Wolpe's position entirely ("We Must Condemn Heartless Bilge," Sept. 16). Rav Ovadiah Yosef has made Israel look very bad.

Joining the NRA

By Jane Ulman
Published on July 20, 2000

"I can't wait until I'm older so that I can join the NRA," my son Danny, 9, announces.The National Rifle Association? My son?
"Danny," I ask, "don't you know that guns hurt people?'

"Mom," he answers, staring at me incredulously, "they're supposed to."

Looking for Charlton Heston

Published on December 9, 1999

Everyone knows Charlton Heston; or at least who he is: movie star and president of the National Rifle Association. It was the inability to separate one persona from the other that made some patrons unhappy last week when he gave a reading (Dec. 2) at the Skirball Cultural Center.