NYJW Opinion

While one has to have a great deal of
sympathy for Ms. Bobs-Waksberg (“On Campus, An Assault On The Status Quo,” Feb. 6), one
has to believe that the abuse of
drugs and alcohol has an awful lot to
deal with the situation that created
date rape [or other forms of sexual assault]. Often both parties are
so high or intoxicated […]

Andrew Fretwell misrepresents the position of Mordecai Kaplan on mixed
marriage in his online op-ed piece, “Intermarriage, Sledding And That Big, Scary Tree” (posted online). In 1956, Kaplan wrote as follows in “Questions Jews Ask”: “Since Jews are a minority and Judaism is exposed to tremendous disintegrating
forces from the non-Jewish environment, and since Reconstructionism is
concerned with […]