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...

Norman Podhoretz, former editor of Commentary magazine, and unofficial senior member of the American neoconservative movement, has not modified his criticism of his fellow Jews for being on the political left. In an interview with Hillel Italie of the...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL The passing of United States Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy reminded us of the terrible incident in 1969 that claimed the life of campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne at age 28. When then 37-year-old Kennedy drove off the bridge at Chappaquiddick...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL Scotland's ill-advised decision to release the Libyan agent convicted in the 1988 terrorist bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland was made in the name of mercy. Unfortunately, it creates an entirely different and venomous result instead....

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL "Come, let us reason together," is a quotation from the Hebrew Prophet Isaiah which was often cited by the late President Lyndon B. Johnson, a master of the legislative process. In the current, raucous "debate" over the health care...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL Last week's inauguration of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was nothing more that a continuation of the horribly tragic farce that has been unfolding since the obviously rigged elections of June 12. This ceremony should point...

In the lofty ideals of his "Fourteen Points," President Woodrow Wilson included "Open covenants, openly arrived at" among his bedrock principles to assure that the lethal First World War would indeed be "the War to End All Wars," and that the "world would...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL Jewish and Israeli leaders are clearly in the right as they "expressed dismay," according to the JTA, at Germany's decision (that's right, Germany!) to honor attorney Felicia Langer with the nation's "Order of Merit, First Class."...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL The recent unanimous election of former Soviet Jewish Prisoner of Zion Natan Sharansky to be the new Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) should be welcomed by world Jewry. His incredibly impressive life credentials suggest...

Federation allocations Thank you for your comprehensive article on the Federation allocation process. I commend you for taking on such a complex subject, one of great import to our community. As you report, several of our sister Federations are moving...