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Hundreds gather in New York City to protest against migrant detention camps and impending raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, July 12, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Spencer Platt-Getty Images)

Letters

Letters: migrants, murals, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism

Standing against hate I have been reading with great interest Gabe Stutman’s recent articles in J. noting similarities between conflicts and problems at…
By J. Readers Jul 26, 2019
Immigrants apprehended by Border Patrol seen at the Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, June 17, 2018. (Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

Letters

Letters: Flags, immigrants, Holocaust, etc.

Fly Israeli flag with pride Lois Pearlman suggested not bringing a rainbow version of the Israeli flag to a gay pride march, out of sensitivity to…
By J. Readers Jul 14, 2019
Marchers holding Jewish pride flags debate with marshals of the 2019 DC Dyke March. The marchers were allowed in after being blocked. (Screenshot from Twitter)

Letters

Anti-Zionism on the left; anti-Zionism on the left; Yiddish is great

Keeping Yiddish alive Thanks to Andrew Muchin for shining a spotlight on the San Francisco Jewish Folk Chorus’ June 23 concert. For me as a script-writer…
By J. Readers Jun 27, 2019
Holocaust Memorial at the California Legion of Honor in San Francisco (Photo/Library of Congress-Carol M. Highsmith)

Letters

Jewish Pride flag is actually an Israeli Pride flag; KPFA is unfair on Israel; etc.

To flag or not to flag There was a lot of squawk about the D. C. Dyke March banning the so-called Jewish gay pride flag (“The controversy over Jewish and…
By J. Readers Jun 15, 2019
Through June 1, the recently renovated Oakland Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is open to the public for the first time in 55 years,  (Photo/Courtesy Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

Letters

East Bay community slipping away; inventing anti-Semites; etc.

Community slipping away Two recent articles in your great newspaper showcase how change is taking over our lives. The first was about the Reutlinger…
By J. Readers May 31, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar at a news conference on prescription drugs at the Capitol, Jan. 10, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Alex Wong-Getty Images)

Letters

We’re silent on hate crime; Eli Valley is no good; hope in the Negev

J. silent on local hate crime? On April 1, an “elderly Jewish man” was attacked in a Palo Alto Starbucks. He was called a Nazi and threatened with mob…
By J. Readers May 17, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar at a news conference on prescription drugs at the Capitol, Jan. 10, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Alex Wong-Getty Images)

Letters

Insights on the Pharisees; anti-Semitism on the left; etc.

Insightful words lift all of us Thank you, Rami, for sharing your Torah with us (“I do not speak, but I am listening. Talking about others hurts us all,”…
By J. Readers May 3, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, greet supporters during his victory speech in Tel Aviv, April 10, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Amir Levy-Getty Images)

Letters

Bibi's re-election; Nazis and bacon bagels; etc.

Eloquent words speak truth Thanks so much for publishing the thoughtful, well written and moving opinion piece by Rami Kripke-Ludwig, “I do not speak, but…
By J. Readers Apr 18, 2019
a man walks on a rocky dirt road next to a small red-roofed house

Letters

Airbnb isn't boycotting Israel; Trump right about Golan; etc.

Airbnb not boycotting Israel Rob Gloster quotes Gerald Steinberg as saying that Airbnb’s announcement that it was delisting 200 property listings in West…
By J. Readers Apr 5, 2019
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