Your article stating that Michael Staenberg was leaving early as President of the Jewish Community Center was misleading. The headline should have read that Michael Staenberg had served longer than any president of the JCC and was stepping down after...

[In response to the Feb. 2 article "Unrest in Egypt could lead to Israel's worst nightmare"] Many Americans (I am a political independent), regard President Barack Obama similar to Jimmy Carter -namely, that he's a rather weak person. However, the criticism...

My parents were able to rent an apartment at 710 Eastgate in 1948. Those were good years, with wonderful friends and neighbors, gathering on the front walk of the apartment building's wooden benches to kibbitz, in the summer evenings.I was just 10 years...

I remember.When I heard President Kennedy was shot, I was playing hearts in adorm room at Mizzou.When I heard Martin Luther King had been assassinated, I was busyin my office at the Air Base in Saigon.But now, the worst of all news possible - Pratzel's...

Over the course of the last several years, it seems that discourse in almost any form has become fragmented and polarized. Civility is no longer the norm. Violence has become all too common. The volume heard from the extremes seems to have drowned out...

That Sen. Christopher S. "Kit" Bond retired from the U.S. Senate at the end of 2010 after four illustrious terms is sad for all Missourians, regardless of political affiliation. (See tribute, page 9, Jan. 12, 2011 issue.)Bond represented everything good...

Thank you for the beautiful obituary and celebration of the life and music of Debbie Friedman (Jan. 12). This simple, untrained folk singer left a legacy that will long remain in our synagogues and prayer services. Her "Mi Sheberach" was sung in Tucson...

Dan Goldberg makes light of his having received Communion at his friend's Catholic Church on Christmas (Jan. 5). The editors at JTA and the Light, who carried his narrative, seem not to think much of it either. Goldberg, who now fancies himself an expert...

Faith Comensky’s recent letter about the cost of joining the Jewish Community Center deserves a response from a longtime J member who is neither a board member nor employee.I’m not aware of anyone in our community who has demonstrated a need for a...

Regardless how one views overall President Barack Obama's Israeli foreign policies, unarguably past and recent decisions have painted him in an unfavorable light. His comprehensive Arab-Israel peace proposal requiring a freeze on West Bank and East Jerusalem...

Both Archie Gottesman (Commentary, Dec. 8) and Meredith Musen-Johns (Letter to the Editor, Dec. 22) express concern for Judaism's future. That's good news. But they seem slightly lost when they reject the notion of G-d as central to Judaism and in Ms....

[In response to the Dec. 8 commentary, "A new 10 Commandments for Jews" by Archie Gottesman]Toward the end of Ms. Gottesman's op-ed she says, "You probably have an issue with one commandment or another." As a Jewish parent of two young daughters, I not...