To the Editor: I must register my disappointment with your blurb concerning the article on Yeshiva University’s basketball coach, Jonathan Halpert (“Bad News Maccabees”), in the Daily Briefing of Feb. 21. Read More »

To the Editor: Regarding the recent controversy over the contraception mandate , the Jewish organizations are missing the fundamental issue. This has nothing to do with the contraceptives and everything to do with the ability of the federal government to mandate activities that violate religious tenets. Read More »

To the Editor: Re the new European Jewish Parliament: I have no idea who these so-called parliamentarians are. Their website lists two supposed representatives from Austria, but I have no idea who selected them. Read More »

To the Editor: Two million entries online is commendable, however the apparent complete lack of source listings for the archive material is to be lamented. A document without a source is rendered trivial, and the Holocaust hardly seems to be a topic to be treated with such disregard for standard minimums of historical methodology. Read More »

To the Editor: I would like to clarify my words that were misinterpreted in the JTA article of Jan. 30, “Alexander Levin’s got a name (and cash), but does he have a plan? ” by Uriel Heilman. I was taken out of context regarding the political power of Russian Jewry. Read More »

To the Editor: Thank you for Hillel Kuttler’s article, “Seeking Kin: Man hidden as baby hopes to honor father-rescuer.” It is especially timely given that March 24, 2012 marks the 70th anniversary of the first deportations of Jews to Auschwitz, which began in Poprad, Slovakia, just a few miles from Kezmarok, where Peter Nürnberger grew up. Read More »

To the Editor: As a Torah Jew, I am deeply distressed by the harassment and violence in Beit Shemesh — all of which is diametrically opposed to the teachings of our Holy Torah. Lest our silence be misconstrued as passive acceptance of this behavior, we condemn it in the strongest terms, as does the overwhelming majority of Torah Jews worldwide. Read More »

To the Editor: I write in response to your story on a report implying that Hadassah Medical Center, owned by Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of American (HWZOA), was late on payments to some of its suppliers. There is actually less to this story than has been alleged. Without context, these allegations are meaningless. Read More »

To the Editor: It is sad to see Kadima Party members of the Knesset trying to pass a bill forbidding the use of Shoah-associated words in discourse in Israel. Read More »

To the Editor: Thomas Friedman has an obsession that bashing the Israeli government will make it change and listen to what he says or writes. Wake up Friedman: Netanyahu will never be listening to your left-wing suggestions. Why don’t you listen and learn and come more toward the center? You might garner some respect. Read More »

To the Editor: The article “In a remote New Mexico valley, a Jewish skiing legacy at Taos ” was great. I had the article forwarded to me just after I finished booking airfare for a family trip to Taos. My wife is from Taos and knows the Blake family and the mountain very well. Great place to visit and an amazing place to ski. Read More »

To the Editor: As a Seventh-day Adventist we have in common with the Jews the keeping of the seventh day for the Shabbat. I understand that in Samoa the change to west of the International Date Line will cause a jump from Thursday to Saturday, so there will be no loss of a Shabbat in the change. Read More »

To the Editor: In a recent article, the JTA inaccurately stated that “Combined Jewish Philanthropies in Boston has hired a gay rabbi as its first interfaith ambassador, a role in which he runs interfaith parenting workshops and presides at interfaith marriages”. Read More »

To the Editor: Tom Friedman cannot accept the reality that a strong majority of Americans and an even stronger majority of their elected representatives value the shared priorities, determination and cultural ties we share with Israel. Read More »

To the Editor: If the Reform movement truly wants to make an impact at the grass-roots level, it should provide active and meaningful support to Reform day schools. While the movement supports Reform camps, it hardly embraces Reform day schools, which some say drains membership from already struggling congregations. Read More »

To the Editor: Is there no dog-do in the world that Newt Gingrich won’t step into? Add his hilarious remarks about the Palestinians being an invented people to his call for young, poor blacks to be hired to clean the toilets in public schools and his Read More »

To the Editor: Why all the fuss about what Gingrich said? The “Palestinians” are indeed an invented people , created in 1964 by the PLO Charter. It’s about time some people in positions of responsibility spoke out to burst the Arab propaganda bubble. Read More »

To the Editor: Sorry to say, Israel, but you reacted to our American Jewish anger by wimping out. Yes, you portrayed us as ignorant and foolish. You suggested that we have no ties to our homeland and that our children are growing up in a desert wasteland. No, it was not very nice; in fact it was rather insensitive. Read More »

To the Editor: Re “Anger over ad campaign missed the point” and “Why are some U.S. Jews so offended by the Israeli ads aimed at expats?” on JTA’s Telegraph blog: I am being told that I am not Jewish if I happen to agree with Mr. Goldberg that these ads are the epitome of disrespect to American Jews. Read More »

To the Editor: Re the furor over Israeli ads aimed at expats : I am dismayed at Israel for pulling the ads and angry at the Jewish Federations of North America for its implications and criticisms. Read More »