Misplaced priorities The Missouri Senate is about to put Missouri last in the country when it comes to supporting working parents’ need for child care. Why? So we can continue to let corporations and private citizens get away with not paying their taxes. ...

Religion and electability No doubt, religion plays a major part in the everyday lives of millions of Americans, and the political arena is no exception. Take this year’s GOP presidential candidates, for example, all of whom are trying to curry favor...

Affordable Care Act is crucial The Affordable Care Act provides a significant opportunity to help hundreds of thousands of Missourians, including many in the Jewish Community, get, afford and keep high quality health insurance.  At Jewish Family &...

Gender separation I enjoyed reading about the young ladies who staged a musical for their mothers and other female friends. Norman Pressman (Letter to the editor, Feb. 29) took great umbrage at the teenage thespians. Some might consider his letter vitriolic...

Letter provokes responses Norman Pressman raises an interesting point in his objection to the all-girls musical productions of Block Yeshiva and Bais Yaakov (Letter to the editor, Feb. 29). He is correct that I will not be able to attend my own daughter’s...

Iran rhetoric Once again, we see Neoconservatism raise its ugly head. Gene Carton’s Feb. 15 letter sounds too familiar in its cry for Israel to attack Iran “NOW.” Most people know the horrible human and financial repercussions of, “Weapons of...

Author leaves lasting memories for St. Louisan After the tragic and untimely death of author Jeffrey Zaslow, as possibly the person in St. Louis who has known Jeff the longest, he is compelling me to write for a newspaper-again. The last and only other...

‘Way of Heaven' was outstanding NJT play I am disappointed that I have not seen any positive reviews of the play "Way to Heaven" performed by the New Jewish Theatre. In my opinion, the production at the NJT was outstanding and is in fact one of the...

Photo ID bills We should all be grateful to State Rep. Stacey Newman (Commentary, "Photo ID bills endanger voters' rights," Jan. 18) for her continuing efforts to oppose voter photo ID bills. In 2006, when the Missouri Legislature passed a bill that would...

The danger of Iran Western leaders recognize that a nuclear Iran poses a grave danger to the entire world. More than 30 percent of the world's oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz, over which a nuclear Iran would exercise unchallenged control....

Responses to P-D story on security grants Many of you saw a recent article on the front page of the Post-Dispatch (Jan. 2), "Jewish Groups Favored for Aid," regarding federal security grants to local Jewish organizations. Jewish Federation of St. Louis...

Rabbinical Council statement on Beit Shemesh We, the undersigned pulpit Rabbis of the Rabbinical Council of St. Louis, strongly and unambiguously condemn the recent violence and intimidation committed by a group of misguided individuals in the Jewish...