Ideas

To the Editor: Jewish education and religious freedom are both vital to the American Jewish community, but it would be a mistake to sacrifice one for the other, as advocated by Shai Franklin. We are in agreement that Jewish education is essential to strengthening the community and countering assimilation. My June 29 op-ed highlighted the […]

To the Editor: In his JTA Op-Ed, Rabbi Kenneth Cohen dismissed the Palestinian nonviolence movement as irrelevant as “a Flat Earth Society in Gaza” and opposed an alleged overconcentration on that movement by Churches for Middle East Peace and by Quakers.  As a Quaker lobbyist representing the Friends Committee on National Legislation on the CMEP […]