Jerusalem Post - Letters

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/23/2013 23:34

But before looking at Israel and criticizing it, should Erdogan not look over at his own country?

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/22/2013 23:34

Netanyahu himself doesn't control the purse-strings that compensate him for the effort he makes on behalf of his nation.

May 22: Cruelty and deceit

By JPOST READERS05/21/2013 21:55

Thanks to Isi Leibler for his reports, outrage at embezzlement of millions of dollars earmarked for Holocaust survivors.

May 21: Prayer prerogatives

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/20/2013 22:40

Democracies flourish under the rule of law. The courts have rendered the verdict. No further delay is necessary. Act on it.

May 20: Haredi ire

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/19/2013 21:00

I was sorry to read that thousands of haredim protested on Thursday evening against being drafted into the army.

May 19: Budget pains

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/18/2013 23:00

How can a country allow prices to be posted without any intention of giving change?

May 17: Dirty mind?

By JPOST READERS05/16/2013 23:24

"I hope it is forgivable to say that Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg has a dirty mind in slandering Ruth, Boaz and their greatgrandson David".

May 16: Who is interfering?

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/15/2013 22:41

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said last week that Ankara would not allow Israel to interfere in the affairs of Muslim countries, including Syria.

Clarification

By JPOST.COM STAFF05/15/2013 18:16

"France 2 is ready to help Mr. Jamal al-Dura in any way in exhuming the body of his son (Muhammad) from his grave for a pathological examination, including if necessary a DNA test to clarify the circumstances of the incident."

May 14: Readers respond to Women of the Wall

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/13/2013 23:06

I believe that God gave us mouths to use. The fact that this group turned to violence was horrifying.

May 13: Deri’s return

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/12/2013 21:48

I may not agree with everything Deri says and certainly not with how Shas acted during the Oslo era, but the hatred dripping from this article makes Weinberg as much a purveyor of hate as he accuses Deri of being.

May 12: Budget Pains

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/11/2013 22:34

Finance Minister Yair Lapid could offer us a few sweeteners to help the medicine go down.

May 10: Friends like her

By JPOST READERS05/09/2013 23:44

"The Inheritance of Abraham" dismisses Jewish belief in a biblical right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel.

May 8: Pre-1950 borders

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/08/2013 21:19

Can we now call for an independent Tibetan state based on the pre-1950 borders with its capital in Lhasa, and security for China?

May 7: Tensions up north

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/07/2013 22:02

Recalling the heady days of demonstrations against giving back the Golan Heights, I breathed a sigh of relief.

May 7: Non-Orthodox streams

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/06/2013 22:21

Why should Reform or Conservative religions be dealt with any differently from, the Greek Orthodox or Coptic communities?

May 6: Unproven Risks

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/05/2013 21:16

There should be no doubt in 2013 that the benefits to dental health, especially that of children, outweigh the worries about unproven risks.

May 5: Coming to Terms

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/04/2013 23:04

Islam must come to terms with the fact that Israel is here to stay and it is much better and more rewarding to live in peace with it than in war.

May 3: Changed game

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/02/2013 23:39

"Remote-control action against Hezbollah [in Syria] would have the potential to send a message to the ayatollah regime in Tehran".

May 2: NY conference

By JERUSALEM POST READERS05/01/2013 22:13

Alan Dershowitz (“Dershowitz presents plan at ‘Post’ conference for restarting peace talks,” April 30) was booed loudly after telling audience members that they were “part of the problem” for laughing at his new framework for negotiations.

May 1: Do as we say

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/30/2013 23:07

PM's, Transportation Minister's claims to reduce cost of living not reflected in their actions.

April 30: Haredi contribution

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/29/2013 21:02

The founders of the State of Israel knew that without Torah study in the Land of Israel the state had no merit to exist.

April 29: He should know

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/29/2013 08:38

It is not surprising that Uri Savir equates the needs of both Israelis and Palestinians to embrace each other in order to bring about peace.

April 28: Baskin’s world

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/27/2013 21:27

In that world, the Arabs and Muslims are not dependent on Jew-hating and -baiting for their daily bread.

April 26: End the Denial

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/25/2013 21:53

Harris rehashes and replays the same hackneyed leftist claim that what we need is real, bold leadership to make peace with our Arab neighbors.

April 25: Kerry's comparison

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/24/2013 22:32

I rubbed my eyes and then read again the headline “Kerry compares victims of Boston blasts to activists aboard ‘Mavi Marmara.’”

April 24: Open skies

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/23/2013 23:11

It is one thing for a union to strike over wages. It is quite another to strike over the policy of a democratically elected government.

April 23: Learn from Boston

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/22/2013 23:24

Moscow must have had enormous suspicions regarding the Tsarnaev brothers who are suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.

April 22: Part-time Sundays

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/21/2013 22:16

For the months of July, August and part of September, how about a true Saturday and Sunday weekend?

April 20: Collective thanks

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/20/2013 23:07

Apparently MK Michal Roisin never had a religious education and therefore doesn’t comprehend the importance of the Temple Mount in Jewish life.

April 19: Yankee chicken

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/18/2013 22:53

I was preparing for Jerusalem Emunah’s B’simcha book swap and I happened upon a book titled Chicken Licken where, in fact, Chicken Licken, and not Chicken Little, is hit on the head with an acorn and proceeds to run around exclaiming, “The sky is falling!”

April 18: Hurtful accusation

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/18/2013 02:09

The implied accusation is for me particularly hurtful. For many years I have been a close political friend and ally of Israel, and for over 10 years I have been vice president of the German- Israeli Association.

April 17: Soldiers all

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/16/2013 21:48

We skip class to rally for peace because if we are not for ourselves, who will be for us?

April 14: Readers weigh in on the Women of the Wall

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/14/2013 22:22

Why can’t women congregate there monthly, don tallitot (prayer shawls), sing the Hallel prayer and chant from the Torah?

Letters: Driving records

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/13/2013 22:47

My question is: Does it take six people to die and many more be injured in order for a person to lose his license?

April 12: Mourn, don’t copy

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/11/2013 23:29

By the time Thatcher's Conservative Party was kicked out of office, hospitals and schools across the country were in decay and disrepair after years of under-investment.

April 11: ‘St. Louis’ truth

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/10/2013 21:29

The question as to who gave the order to turn the St. Louis back to Europe is answered in the Roosevelt Library Archive in Hyde Park, New York.

April 10: Hollow words

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/09/2013 23:21

Words of PM "ring hollow"; "Where is the pride in shameful neglect with which Holocaust survivors have been treated".

April 9: Street names

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/08/2013 23:09

The continuing failure of the Jerusalem city council to name a street in honor of another great personality of our times, the late Dr. Yosef Burg is shameful.

April 7: Start at home

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/06/2013 22:45

We should concentrate on improving ourselves as loyal Jews instead of trying to “fix the world” at our nation’s expense.

April 5: Just a Jew in Israel

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/04/2013 23:26

Many of the so-called Orthodox rules are absurdities not rooted in halachic traditions. The wide-brimmed black hat is one that readily comes to mind.

April 4: Brickbats, not bouquets

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/03/2013 21:54

I was astounded and shocked when I read Ben Caspit’s articles about Gilad Schalit.

April 3: Schalit series

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/02/2013 23:07

I am shocked that the military censor allowed Ben Caspit’s two-part series to be published, and most disappointed that The Jerusalem Post grabbed the opportunity.

April 2: Cut for growth

By JERUSALEM POST READERS04/02/2013 00:21

Every attempt should be made to avoid the concept that cuts are made without any thought as to how to generate growth in the economy.

March 31: Turkey and apologies

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/30/2013 23:41

Is it normal to apologize for a defensive action even if death results? Yitzhak Shamir would never have caved in.

March 29: Comments on Passover Supplement

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/28/2013 23:31

My great grandfather, Levy Wetherhorn, was one of the Jewish soldiers on the Confederate side. He and his four brothers all fought for the South, and all survived the war.

March 28: Talking Turkey, Obama and Pollard

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/27/2013 22:53

If Obama had given that speech to a group of Palestinian Arab students in Ramallah, what kind of a reception do you think he would have gotten?

Letters: Readers weigh in on President Obama’s visit

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/26/2013 21:49

100 years of brutal, violent Arab rejection have taught us that our dream will have to be deferred indefinitely.

March 25: Turn to Plants

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/24/2013 22:53

As president of Jewish Vegetarians of North America I was very pleased to read “Meuhedet turns to health promotion and disease prevention.”

March 24: Not so fast

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/23/2013 21:31

I am very disturbed by the prospect of giving Jonathan Pollard a hero’s welcome in Israel. It seems to me that he is far from being a hero.

March 22: No provocations

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/22/2013 00:30

I ask those who wish to protest to reconsider their decision. I see no good reason to needlessly provoke the president.

Letters: Dream on

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/20/2013 23:23

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did not have an easy time building his government.

Letters: Plea to a president

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/19/2013 21:35

Not since the Dreyfus Affair in 1894 has the Jewish community been so embroiled in a cause célèbre as the Pollard Affair.

March 19: Running death

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/18/2013 23:36

Why was the medical advice ignored – or was it a financial decision to go ahead with the half marathon?

March 18: Unhealthy sign

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/17/2013 22:12

Sad that the conclusion of each round of voting for pope was indicated by pollution. They could have chosen the ringing of church bells.

March 17: Waiting for Obama

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/16/2013 22:59

“Does this look like an apartheid state?”

March 14: Biblical 'treif'

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/14/2013 23:43

The issue concerning the kashrut of locusts is very much in question. And even if they were kosher for everyone, cooking them by dropping them – while still alive – into boiling oil must certainly render them treif (unkosher)!

March 14: Obama is coming

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/13/2013 23:57

I welcome US President Barack Obama to Israel, even though as an American citizen I did not vote for him.

Letters: Get down to work

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/12/2013 22:52

I would like to remind our lawmakers of Parkinson’s Law, which states: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

March 12: Readers react to haredi politics

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/11/2013 22:42

If haredim are suffering from poverty, can’t it be blamed on their leaders, who discourage them from learning basic skills in their schools and from entering the workforce?

March 10: Releasing Pollard

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/09/2013 21:59

A positive PR suggestion: The speaker of the Knesset should start each daily session with the number of days Pollard has been in prison.

March 8: Bunny bash

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/08/2013 03:55

Please forgive me for losing my appetite upon reading that Playboy magazine will now be available on Israeli newsstands in a Hebrew version.

March 7: Coalition pains

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/06/2013 23:57

The current “negotiations” to form a new coalition remind me of a suggested etymology of the word “politics.”

March 5: Coalition talks

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/05/2013 23:23

It’s a good bet that Bayit Yehudi voters did not expect or welcome the partnership with Yair Lapid.

Letters: Elusive coalition

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/04/2013 20:58

Last time, Netanyahu took his time to merely congratulate Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett for his election success.

March 4: An exception

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/03/2013 22:07

The reference to Hollywood’s failures regarding the Holocaust are, in general, correct. However, there is an exception.

March 3: Contempt for voters

By JERUSALEM POST READERS03/02/2013 23:13

“Sharing the burden” of national service and other civic responsibilities is not an “emotive” issue – it is an existential issue and the only way to keep our country from coming apart at the seams.

March 1: Freeing Pollard

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/28/2013 23:28

Our government should simply tell Obama that any further demand for “conciliatory gestures” to the Palestinians depends on one such gesture by him to Israel, namely the release of Pollard.

27 February: Strike in kind

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/26/2013 22:08

Why not respond with a hunger strike by their victims? I am certain that thousands of supporters would be proud to join in this effort.

February 25: Coalition talks

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/25/2013 22:36

Politics, purim and 'The Jerusalem Roast': should the news really be taken seriously?

February 25: Not Lapid Fan

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/24/2013 23:22

I long for a leader like Menachem Begin. When asked what kind of prime minister he planned to be he answered simply, “A good Jew.”

February 24: What of Zeresh?

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/23/2013 22:06

What of Haman’s wife, Zeresh, and her deeds? Haman is troubled by a Jew and turns to his wife for advice, with disastrous results.

February 22: Papered over?

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/21/2013 21:15

It should be obvious from the acid tone and, indeed, vulgar nature of Hagel’s past hostile pronouncements that he is emotionally antagonistic to Israel.

February 21: Lost in translation

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/20/2013 23:32

Shmulik Kraus will be dead for a long time, so the Post could have taken another day and find correct translations for the titles of his songs.

February 20: Dastardly Duo

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/19/2013 23:24

PM Netanyahu should stop trying to break the cooperation between Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid. It is none of his business.

February 19: Always defensive

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/18/2013 22:39

Turkey is the one that should be apologizing for the Mavi Marmara episode, so why have we not put this episode behind us?

February 18: A better place

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/17/2013 22:03

There is nothing like driving an all-electric car. It is a smooth, quiet, comfortable drive.

February 17: Their own bias

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/16/2013 22:05

In a society where two people have three opinions, opinionating by journalists is to be expected.

February 15: A friend’s name

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/14/2013 23:36

Hans Jürgen Kitzinger is a man who should be mentioned by name, especially at a time when anti-Semitism is again on the rise in Christian religious circles.

Pro-Palestinian protesters hold a banner

Did Brooklyn College violate the First Amendment?

By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ02/14/2013 22:45

The sword of co-sponsorship may have become a shield to protect the First Amendment rights of students who were prevented from handing out anti-BDS leaflets.

February 14: Kotel arrests

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/14/2013 03:21

Is there any halachic difference between a man’s tallit and a woman’s tallit?

February 13: No intrigues, please

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/12/2013 21:53

The Tzohar rabbis have brought much needed status to the rabbinic role.

February 12: Praise for treatment

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/11/2013 22:31

I was treated in Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem and the treatment I received was anything but "impersonal, bureaucratic and inconvenient."

February 11: No to racism

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/10/2013 23:29

I focus on the parents who taught these perpetrators or did not stop them when they espoused racist hatred.

February 10: Painful Read

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/09/2013 21:12

Alan Dershowitz’s piece on the Political Science Department at Brooklyn College backing the student boycott of Israel was painful for me to read.

February 8: Trial and error

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/07/2013 23:02

You need to be a super optimist or masochist in this country after all these years to think that our undemocratic, dysfunctional electoral system will ever be reformed.

February 7: Livni’s record

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/06/2013 21:15

Livni’s judgement in any position of authority regarding the peace process is therefore highly questionable.

February 6: And they're off

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/05/2013 23:12

We read “Name power” on the bus from Beit Shemesh to Jerusalem. We are sure that our busmates could not imagine what these loud Americans were guffawing about. We don’t think we have laughed so out loud in many years.

February 5: Preventive health

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/04/2013 21:54

If the Health Ministry invested a small amount of money in an advertising campaign and changed its attitude, the hospitals would be at less than fullcapacity come next winter.

OVERVIEW OF the Human Rights Council at the UNHRC

February 4: Lost compass

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/03/2013 21:43

The moral compass that was the UN’s byword has been lost.

February 3: That Cartoon

By JERUSALEM POST READERS02/02/2013 21:58

“Vulgar” does not imply disagreement with Gerald Scarfe’s opinion, only of its style of expression.

February 1: No bias found

By JERUSALEM POST READERS01/31/2013 23:29

Dr. Gilad Natan’s research was checked by professionals who found it to be impeccable and of the highest standards.

January 31: Last straw

By JERUSALEM POST READERS01/31/2013 00:00

The word “Jewier” is the last straw for me, even if it was in quotes.

January 29: Dual deceit

By JERUSALEM POST READERS01/28/2013 22:42

What will a dual citizen do when his second country is at war and calls its citizens to the flag?

January 28: Bias showing

By JERUSALEM POST READERS01/27/2013 22:06

I think Hoffman needs to reevaluate the way he pushes his own opinions into news articles.

January 27: Look outward

By JERUSALEM POST READERS01/26/2013 21:29

In the same period 90 grants for democracy and human rights projects were provided to fund projects submitted by Israeli civil society organizations.

January 25: Strong win

By JERUSALEM POST READERS01/24/2013 21:51

When will the media stop calling this election a tie? Out of 120 seats in the Knesset, 60 were won by the Right and 48 were won by the Left.

January 24: Readers react to the outcome of elections

By JERUSALEM POST READERS01/23/2013 23:04

I hope and pray that the leadership of the various political parties will be able to put aside the vindictiveness, divisiveness and often heated rhetoric of the past several months and work together for the good of the Israeli public.

January 23: Kahlon at ILA

By JERUSALEM POST READERS01/23/2013 00:14

The anguished cries of those who prefer manipulation and government control to straightforward solutions is music to my ears.

January 22: Readers voice last-minute thoughts on election

By JERUSALEM POST READERS01/21/2013 22:54

If the Palestinians get statehood, Putin & Co. will be lining up to arm the fledgling state.

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