PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The recent Pew Research Center study finding that about half of Israeli Jews favor transferring Arabs from Israel reveals the fear, frustration and misery that Israeli Jews feel after being subjected to decades of Arab terrorist...
Showing respectI would like to commend the Jewish Light on its journalistic language with regard to the March 9 article about Leo Wolf. In the article, each and every time the Light cited Leo Wolf’s name, they prefaced his last name with the honorific...
Response to rebuttalCharles L. Klotzer’s March 2 letter of rebuttal to Professor J. Martin Rochester’s Feb. 24 commentary in the Jewish Light (“Waiting for the political center to coalesce”) takes umbrage with Rochester’s calling Hillary Clinton...
Another Academy Awards season is over. I am always struck by how the film industry has no shame. Dozens of Oscar presenters or award winners predictably trot onto the stage to utter liberal pieties about inequality, Wall Street greed and other sins of...
As March makes its entrance into 2016, we may feel as if we are walking on eggshells. Our minds are ready for spring: park that parka, kick off the boots, hide the hats and toss the turtlenecks! However, the month of March is much like a political...
With Super Bloated Tuesday 2016 now relegated to the dustbin of history, the key presidential campaign questions confronting Republicans and Democrats are fewer and clearer.On the Republican side, party leadership, if such a thing still exists, has to...
By Rabbi Yaakov Menken & Rabbi Pesach Lerner
• Published March 2, 2016
Responding to a dramatic decline in membership, the Conservative Jewish movement’s congregational arm has hired the Good Omen PR agency to survey hundreds of its members and “develop a new ‘position statement’ for The United Synagogue of Conservative...
Rabbis Menken and Lerner, thank you. You’re right. Conservative Jews do deserve more than PR. And more is exactly the point of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism’s (USCJ) current branding initiative. Unfortunately, as your op-ed (“Conservative...
Clinton-Trump comparison faulty Readers expect columnists to offer controversial fare. Such messages frequently reveal more about the writer’s ideology than the subject explored. Whether they agree or not, readers accept such revelation as the honest...
President Barack Obama at a White House reception marking the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, July 20, 2015. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)(JTA) — In her victory speech after the Nevada primaries, Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton...
By Cathleen Kronemer
• Published February 26, 2016
Many avid gym-goers exercise because they enjoy it. Some even love it! There, I said it, and yes, it’s quite true. There are individuals in the world who wake up anticipating the day’s workout, and whose last thought as eyes are closing and...
I recall long ago reading Louis Hartz’s classic 1955 work “The Liberal Tradition in America,” which argued that the United States has been blessed with a relatively consensus-based political culture grounded in the liberal democratic principles...
