Inclusiveness and activism are needed at congregations I read with interest a commentary on how to recruit new young members to the St. Louis Jewish community by a well known Rabbi in this community (Toward Thriving, Oct. 14 Light). What is missing from...

Recent stories in The New York Times and The New York Jewish Week about alleged child molestation and attempts to use rabbinical courts to block investigations or even cover up crimes are, to say the least, extremely disturbing. The sexual and physical...

Saint Louis University rejects David Horowitz as a speaker. Schnucks' new downtown store allows a manager to display a crucifix in a visible area. And the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod agrees to sell KFUO to a company that owns Christian music stations,...

Planning for the future is risky business. Barry Rosenberg's paper on the future of the Jewish community in St. Louis is therefore an act of courage. Someone needs to take the first step, and who better, than the person who provides the professional leadership...

I remember exactly what I was doing: watching television, quietly weeping. There, in brilliant September sunlight outside the White House in 1993, I saw Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat extend their right arms in...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL The moral repugnance exhibited by the characters in Steven Soderbergh's stunning indie film sex, lies and videotape is reflected in recent events affecting Israel. The baseless charges that Israel is guilty of war crimes and the...

In the lewdly satiric film Team America, North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il and U.N. inspector Hans Blix have this fictional dialogue about weapons of mass destruction: Blix: I'm sorry, but the U.N. must be firm with you. Let me see your whole palace...

Podhoretz editorial I believe that Norman Podhoretz was right 30 years ago and is right today as regards Israel. The entire Western world's attacks on Israel and its very right to exist as an independent nation are led by and consist of the left and liberal...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL We all should be alarmed over recent events involving the theocratic regime in Iran, where things have gone from bad to worse since the rigged June "re-election" of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The potential of a possible new...

Podhoretz editorial At the end of the editorial "Is the Neocon Right?" [Sept. 9], the writer states that "the peace process did not advance one iota" during the tenure of President George W. Bush. This is untrue. During this time, Israel withdrew from...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL Unlike the repressive regime in Iran, Americans and our leaders take free speech quite seriously. We at the Jewish Light are committed to publishing a wide variety of viewpoints in our newspaper and online. Yet several recent letters,...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL As the shofar sounds on Rosh Hashana to open the Gates to Heaven, we have a duty on Earth, to open our hearts and minds to the great potential of working together in lovingkindness. Such is the weighty obligation upon us as a Jewish...