I am appalled that you would make light of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s recovery in your Purim spoof section (“Gabby Giffords Recovering, Developing New Powers,” March 18). What were you thinking? Bad taste does not begin to describe your use of her injuries as material for a joke. RITA ROSEN POLEY Elkins Park, Pa.
I am a Jewish Wisconsinite, a member of the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Madison, a public employee and a union member. I have been deeply disappointed that Wisconsin’s Jewish federations are not standing with me as I struggle to preserve (and now restore) my rights (“In Madison, Only Some Jewish Voices…
Few clichés are more mischievous or responsible for more deaths than the one that is the unfortunate set-up for your editorial: One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter (“A Question of Loyalty,” March 18). Repudiating that cliché has been a centerpiece of Jewish communal activism for more than 40 years. As the United States…
The essay on Pope Benedict XVI’s second volume of “Jesus of Nazareth” by Rabbi Eugene Korn evinces a mature understanding of the pope’s philosophy and theology (“Benedict’s ‘Jesus’ and the Jews,” March 18). Sadly, this is something often missed by Catholics, so it is especially gratifying that Rabbi Korn nicely captured the essence of the…
In his March 11 column “What the Civil War Meant to American Jews,” Jonathan Sarna argues correctly for the war’s significance to the Jewish community. He is right to bemoan the fact that Jewish organizations today have largely foregone the opportunity presented by the war’s sesquicentennial to commemorate its historic impact on Jewish life. However,…
Contrary to what Lenore Skenazy wrote in her March 4 column “Were JAP Jokes a Justification for Intermarriage?” the JAP stereotype is hardly a thing of the past. In fact, JAP jokes are alive and well among today’s young people. Look no further than “University of Michigan Pursuit of Jappiness,” a parody video of Kid…
The crisis in the liberal streams of Judaism is twofold (“Liberal Denominations Face Crisis as Rabbis Rebel, Numbers Shrink,” February 18). The decline of 14% of Conservative families in a decade is jaw-dropping. Yet demography is only one part of the crisis. There is also a crisis of meaning in the larger denominations of American…
Your February 4 editorial “Who Isn’t a Jew?” rightly identified the discrepancy between the Jewish community’s embrace of Gabrielle Giffords as a Jew and its ongoing discomfort welcoming intermarried and patrilineal Jews. But the editorial ends by suggesting that there is still a need to disprove the notion that “opening the tent too wide will…
Deborah Lipstadt is wrong to suggest any equivalence between the left and the right when it comes to using Nazi analogies to attack political opponents (“Glenn Beck Isn’t the Only Offender,” February 11). The leftists Lipstadt cites as using Nazi comparisons do not have a major media outlet at their every beck (pun intended) and…
Organ donation for the saving of a life or for the restoration of some major biological function seems to me to be quite a humanitarian and moral gesture (“Case for Organ Donation Remains Solid,” February 11). Halachists continue to consult learned scholars of ancient texts for answers. In keeping with the medical realities of 21st-century…
Your February 25 article, “Top Genocide Scholars Battle Over How To Characterize Israel’s Actions,” refers to the establishment of the International Network of Genocide Scholars as a “rival” organization to International Association of Genocide Scholars that in 2005 “broke away” from the latter. This is misleading. There was never a “split” from IAGS, as INoGS…
100% of profits support our journalism
