Dear Editor, I am delighted that an eminent legal scholar has responded to my piece, but I am baffled by most of his criticisms. Mr. Dane seems to think that I am arguing against the idea of the Christian Bible as a crucial text in the history of the American experiment. But I didn’t write…
To the Editor: I have not yet visited the new Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC., and have no strong views about it one way or the other. But I am a scholar of religion and law, and I can say that Gordon Haber’s article about the museum in the January 2018 issue of…
Dear Mr. Letzler, Many thanks returned for your thoughtful, informative letter in response to my article on Mrs. Maisel. First of all, yes, of course you are correct: It’s a rimshot! I stand corrected. Second, when I see your location is Germany, your thoughts and opinions are all the more meaningful to me. ( As…
To the Editor: Many thanks to Susan Silver for an interesting article. More interesting would be her own stories, stories she alludes to but omits: her memories of Lenny Bruce, her memories of her acquaintance with Lenny Bruce’s mother, her memories of Simon Wiesenthal, about whom so little has been written by comediennes and her…
To the Editor, Thank you for lifting the veil on how much some CEOs in the Jewish community are paid. Most if not all of the highly paid CEOs are outstanding professionals — and every day I am grateful that they bring their brilliance, passion and skills to the Jewish people and its institutions. But…
Dear Editor, As an Observant Jew who has known and been a coworker and peer of Tom Markle, Ms. Markle’s father, since 1982, I can tell you neither Tom nor her mother are Jewish. She was raised Catholic and I am not sure she even practices any religion at this time. Being married to a…
Dear Editor, In your interesting article on P is for Palestine, you described the First and Second Intifadas as violent uprisings. They were also nonviolent. Indeed, Palestinians have long engaged in the nonviolent protest of Zionism, from petitioning the King Crane Commission to engaging in BDS. In the First Intifada, experts in nonviolent, non-cooperation such…
Dear Editor, In his op-ed on legislation that counters the BDS movement, JStreet’s Jeremy Ben-Ami gets it right when he describes the odious BDS movement, but wrong when he describes legislation that responds to it. Ben-Ami is correct to note the “one-sided and unbalanced politics” that inform the BDS movement and its failure to acknowledge…
We are appalled and outraged by the events at the Kotel this week, when Reform rabbis and lay leaders were physically attacked by Kotel security guards. The Reform leaders were engaged in an act of civil disobedience to push for implementation of the Kotel agreement, which the Netanyahu government disavowed after months of negotiation. One…
Dear Editor, Regarding your “Sexiest Jewish Intellectual” list: it is beyond an appalling and tone deaf use of column inches to have this list. We are in the throes of a near constant stream of conversations about sexual harassment and assault and calling intellectualism sexy is not cute and is a mystifying objectification of women…
Dear Editor, At the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) annual gala held in Manhattan last Sunday evening, I had a conversation with the Forward’s opinion editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon. Ungar-Sargon proceeded to reference some of our conversation in an article she wrote covering the event. However, her piece is missing context. First, she wrote that I…
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