Has the Light run out of material or have you lost your way? Space is usually at a premium in the Light. Why are you using valuable space to promote church activities? The article, "Family Friendly Fry-day Night," (March 30) is an outrage to be printed...

 Why I continue to be surprised when The St. Louis Jewish Light seeks community viewpoints only from men is beyond me. After all, it is 2011, not 1911; women do have the vote, are educated, own businesses, raise families and are as capable of having...

The editorial "Standing Up to Fear Mongering" appropriately and eloquently takes the Missouri House of Representatives to task for wasting time on a proposal to amend the Missouri Constitution to prohibit Missouri courts from applying Sharia law. JCRC...

Thank you for the wonderfully comprehensive article, by Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus St. Louis Jewish Light, in the March 9th edition of the Jewish Light. The article, with great clarity, conveyed the answers to those important questions,...

A recent story in the Light that the Israeli Chief Rabbinate refused a Jewish convert aliyah because his Canadian Orthodox conversion was not Jewish enough reminds me of earlier disputes between R. Hillel and R. Shammai, also Jew against Jew. The disputes...

I saw the article about the six blind men and the elephant in the Jewish Light (March 2). Beautiful story, probably originating in the Indian subcontinent as I have been taught, used by the 13th century Sufi poet Rumi in a sensitive way and other poets...

Speaking of "Who's Jewish at the Oscars?" (News & Shmooze, Feb. 23), who's Jewish at the Jewish Light? By which I mean who has some Jewish soul or Yiddishkeit? I am thinking of Ellen Futterman's list of Oscar nominees who are Jewish (movie people...

The Aish HaTorah event featuring Col. Bentzi Gruber of the Israeli Defense Forces was informative and eye opening. I am sorry one gentleman felt part of the presentation was misleading (Letters, Feb. 23). I believe there was a misunderstanding. Col. Gruber...

The other evening, after the paid book festival event with Harlan Steinbaum and other business personalities, in the "beautiful new building" of the Jewish Community Center, we went home real crabby.The event was not held in the theater with the graduated...

While preparing for a discussion by our Temple's Men's group, I ran across the essay by Abby Abrams on "The Myth of a Good Jew" you recently published (Ohr Chadash Teen Page, Feb. 9).It is an outstanding  and mature commentary on a question often raised...

I attended the lecture of Col. Bentzi Gruber of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Aish HaTorah because I wanted to learn the truth about what had happened during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. I admire very much Col. Gruber's service to Israel and the...

The Greeks had words for Jeff Klayman's use of assassinations to parallel his feelings on Pratzel's closing [Letter to the editor, Feb. 2]: eironeia (irony) and hyperbole. Your publishing his letter in that form is chutzpah. Shame on every member of the...