In his July 17 column “Who Is an Israeli?” Leonard Fein states that “Israelis haven’t a clue as to how to think about, let alone deal with, their society’s diversity.” I would submit that there is indeed a clue, and it comes from a time and place where the proverbial shoe was on the proverbial…
This They Call Leadership? It was more than a little dismaying to read of the meeting between a delegation of representatives of Jewish organizations and President Obama (“Jewish Leaders Give Obama No Push-Back on Settlement Freeze,” July 24). Not one person there had the courage to point out that Israeli settlements have never been a…
A Price Paid in Terror for Prisoner Releases Haim Watzman correctly observes that there are terrible dilemmas involved in seeking to secure the freedom of kidnapped Israelis like serviceman Gilad Shalit (‘Gilad Shalit’s Plight, and Israel’s Dilemma,’ July 10). At the end of the day, however, logic and experience have shown that freeing Palestinian terrorists…
The Real Revelations Of the AIPAC Case How truly sad the circumstances to which Larry Franklin has now been reduced (“Once Labeled An AIPAC Spy, Larry Franklin Tells His Story,” July 10). He, and especially AIPAC staffers Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, have been victims of completely unwarranted, and unprecedented, prosecution. Antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiments…
Blaming the Victims Of the Mullahs’ Hate Leonard Fein’s attempts to rationalize the hatred of the Islamic Republic of Iran toward Israel in “After the Uprising, Whither Iran?” is perplexing (July 3). Fein mocks Prime Minister Netanyahu’s assertion that “there is no conflict between the Iranian people and the people of Israel.” But the prime…
Nonprofit Salaries, and ‘Sharing the Pain’ I wish to congratulate you for your June 19 article “As Layoffs Mount, which Jewish Executives Shared the Pain?” and the corresponding editorial “CEOs Should Lead.” You have brought to the attention of the public the huge sums of money being paid to the chief executives of too many…
‘Triumphalists’ Don’t Have ‘Heavy Hearts’ Predicting the future of the Jewish community can be a dangerous exercise, as historian Jonathan Sarna correctly points out (“Saying Kaddish Too Soon,” June 5). However, when you look at the intermarriage statistics and the resulting loss of Jews, and then apply these numbers to future generations, it’s hard to…
Settlement Growth Is Legitimate, Natural Your June 12 editorial “Unnatural Growth” contends that there’s “nothing natural, or acceptable, about ‘natural growth’” of Jewish communities in the West Bank, and that, in focusing on this issue, President Obama isn’t being unreasonable, whereas Prime Minister Netanyahu is. Not so. There are communities of between 10,000 and 35,000…
On Judaism, Israelis Are Pro-Choice There are a couple of points worth noting with regard to your important article about the fight for religious pluralism in Israel and for fair treatment for the Masorti (or Conservative) and Reform movements (“Conservative Jews Decry Bias in IDF,” May 29). While you suggest there are only 40,000 Conservative…
Secret Ballot Remains As the rabbinic student intern for the Jewish Labor Committee this year (and an attorney for 25 years), I have carefully studied the provisions of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) and the labor legislation it would amend. It puzzles me to repeatedly hear the inaccurate contention that EFCA would eliminate the…
At Home in the South I felt obliged to respond to Allison Gaudet Yarrow’s article “Southern Fried Jewish Bride” in your May 1 edition. I am a Jewish woman living in Macon, Ga., the city where Yarrow was raised. I have lived in this city for 35 years, having moved here from the Midwest. My…
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