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Posted by: Gil Student in Legacy, Posts Apr 9, 11 4 Comments

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A roundup of many of the editorials and op-eds in US Jewish weeklies.

  • Everyone beats up Goldstone and the UN
    (Jewish Week, 5TJT, Jewish Star, NJJN, Ron Lauder in NJJN, IJN, Jewish Times, WJW, Jewish Standard, JTA, Alan Dershowitz in Forward, Forward, Shmuley Boteach in Jewish Press, Jewish Press)
  • Jessica Montell of B’tzelem takes a contrarian view and says that despite Goldstone’s retraction there are humanitarian concerns (Forward)
  • We need substantive discussion of Israel policies in 2012 campaign (Jewish Week). I think that will only drive Democrats left and Republicans right.
  • Remembering Geraldine Ferraro (Jewish Week)
  • Remembering R. Arthur Hertzberg (Jewish Standard)
  • Poland needs to properly address issues of property stolen during the Holocaust (Jewish Week). 65 years later?!
  • R. Brad Hirschfield offers Passover words of inspiration (Jewish Week)
  • Gary Rosenblatt says Israel must act toward peace before Palestinians declare a state (Jewish Week). Dr. Gilbert Kahn agrees (NJJN)
  • Call for a Living Wage In memory of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination (Jewish Week). If Rev. King were alive today, would he be concerned with the impact on small business owners?
  • Reacting to recent studies about youth and organized religion (NJJN). Personally, I believe the children are our future…
  • Don’t believe everything you read online (IJN). Or in the newspaper! Or in UN reports.
  • Report on war in Israel (Jewish Times)
  • Pro and con movie reviews of Defamation (WJW, WJW)
  • American and Jewish concerns in Latin America (WJW)
  • A call for interfaith civility (Jewish Standard)
  • Exploring the connection between US slave freedom and the Exodus (but doesn’t mention R. Kenneth Chelst’s book) (Forward). Interfaith dialogue without the formal dialogue.
  • Denounces Israel’s deporting foreign-born children (Forward)
  • Against NY’s new TAP funding to yeshivas (Forward). I agree with the sentiment but would this create an incentive for illegal aliens to have children?
  • Rafael Medoff says Obama has learned from past US mistakes to defend civilians from their murderous governments (Jewish Press). Doesn’t this assume that Obama has a consistent policy?
  • Miral is a bad and dangerous movie (Jewish Press)
  • Against American pressure on Israel to respond “with caution” to terrorism (Jewish Press)
  • Federation’s troubling generosity to left-wing activists (Jewish Press)

    • About Gil Student

    Rabbi Gil Student is the Editor of TorahMusings.com, a leading website on Orthodox Jewish scholarly subjects, and the Book Editor of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Action magazine. He writes a popular column on issues of Jewish law and thought featured in newspapers and magazines, including The Jewish Link, The Jewish Echo and The Vues. In the past, he has served as the President of the small Jewish publisher Yashar Books and as the Managing Editor of OU Press. Rabbi Student has served two terms on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America and currently serves as the Director of the Halacha Commission of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Jewish Action magazine, the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society and the Achieve Journal of Behavioral Health, Religion & Community, as well as the Board of OU Press. He has published five English books, the most recent titled Search Engine volume 2: Finding Meaning in Jewish Texts -- Jewish Leadership, and served as the American editor for Morasha Kehillat Yaakov: Essays in Honour of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.

    4 comments

    1. mycroft
      Apr 10, 11 at 10:05 am

      “We need substantive discussion of Israel policies in 2012 campaign (Jewish Week). I think that will only drive Democrats left and Republicans right.”

      The last thing in the world that Israel needs is a discussion of its policies in the US and a fortiori in a political campaign.

    2. mycroft
      Apr 10, 11 at 7:02 pm

      ” If Rev. King were alive today, would he be concerned with the impact on small business owners? ”

      How much net income does one have before one ceases to be a small business owner?

    3. emma
      Apr 11, 11 at 10:02 am

      “•Against NY’s new TAP funding to yeshivas (Forward). I agree with the sentiment but would this create an incentive for illegal aliens to have children?”

      Huh? (Or am I missing a joke.)

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