Desmond Tutu Was Not Wrong About Israel In your September 18 editorial “Despairing Words,” you take Desmond Tutu to task for “implying that Israel resembles apartheid.” Under the South African apartheid policy, blacks had to present identification periodically to legitimize a presence or activity. Today, in the West Bank, there are dozens of internal Israeli…
With Ehud Olmert, What Could Have Been Your September 11 article “Hidden in Olmert Indictment Are Charges That He Swindled U.S. Jews” reported that pro-Israel organizations allegedly “unwittingly ponied up tens of thousands of dollars in false travel expenses for Olmert that he used as a personal travel fund for himself and for his friends…
Where Are the Reform Outreach Centers? In your September 4 article “Largest Outreach Effort for Alums of Birthright Raises Concerns,” Reform rabbis Eric Yoffie and Andrew Bachman express concern over what is being taught at the Jewish Enrichment Center, which is staffed by Orthodox rabbis, and call for greater pluralism in Jewish outreach efforts. What…
‘Crazy Eddie’ Cousin Slurs Syrian Jews We at the Sephardic Community Federation were shocked and appalled by the Forward’s decision to print Sam Antar’s slanderous comments about our Sephardic community without any substantiation (“‘Crazy’ Eddie’s Cousin, a Former Fraudster, Speaks Out on Syrian ‘Subculture of Crime,’” September 4). To run a prominent article alleging in…
Sudan Still Needs the Jewish Community Your August 14 editorial “Save Sudan” explained in great nuance the complexities of the situation in Darfur. The Forward is correct in noting the importance of looking beyond semantics and recognizing the fact that, unless the comprehensive peace agreement between North and South Sudan is effectively implemented, the entire…
Those Who Wish To Receive Organs Must Also Give The issues relating to Jews and organ transplants are indeed troublesome (“How Kidneys Are Bought and Sold on Black Market,” August 7). There is a significant halachic issue for some rabbis regarding whether organs can be removed from brain dead patients. Those Jews who feel that…
Let’s Not Let Norway Off Too Easy Your August 7 editorial “Norway and the Holocaust” cites Norway’s condemnation of Knut Hamsun, its pro-Nazi Nobel laureate in literature, in responding to critics of Norway’s chairmanship of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Rebirth. But the history of Norway’s relationship to Jews…
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…
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