Letters (Page 9)

By Akiva Kenny Segan, , Seattle As a regular visitor to Israel to guest teach (six trips since 1999 — my next is this April) and as an American Jewish artist and educator whose educational artworks on the Holocaust have been exhibited around the region, editor Joel Magalnick’s article (“ProvocativeContinue Reading

By Josh Basson, , Seattle I commend Joel Magalnick for his insighful article (“Provocative bus ads go to highest levels of county government,” Dec. 24). Edward Mast’s bus ads are misleading and factually in error. Refusing hate speech is not censorship but a matter of common decency. This means theContinue Reading

By Emily Weisberg, , Olympia Since a resolution in favor of divesting from the Israeli occupation of Palestine passed at Evergreen last year, tensions have run high. I understand it may be difficult for those who disagree to speak up. I have been in many positions where my opinion isContinue Reading

By Hilda Maggie Weisberg, , Bellingham I am the grandmother of Emily Weisberg, whom you recently dubbed the “enemy,” (“Letter to the enemy,” Dec. 24) I am appalled you believe that someone who protests Israeli policy must be anti-Israel, brainwashed or an “apostate.” Since when is critical thinking and compassionContinue Reading

By Richard Fruchter, President, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Ron Leibsohn, Board Chair, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, As we all know, the economy is taking its toll on every segment of our community. We all hear or read daily about the needs of Jewish people locally, in Israel andContinue Reading

By Edward Alexander, , Seattle The most pertinent comment on the slanderous accusation approved by Metro for display on some of its buses was made by Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, in his testimony earlier this year before the UN Human Rights Council investigating IsraeliContinue Reading

By Carolyn Hathaway, Co-Chair, StandWithUs Northwest, Bellevue Your article on “The hard conversation” at Evergreen State College is important (“Evergreen: The hard conversation not taking place,” Dec. 10). Anti-Israel rhetoric is so pervasive at Evergreen that intellectual discourse is not possible. Steve Niva, quoted in your article, heads a MiddleContinue Reading

By Robert Kaufman, , Seattle I am glad to see the JTNews giving the Evergreen issue the coverage it deserves (“Evergreen: The hard conversation not taking place about Israel,” Dec. 10). In an op-ed I wrote (“The tragic indoctrination of Rachel Corrie,” June 25), I referred to a student whoContinue Reading

By Sheryl Kipnis, , Seattle “Jewelry is something which can make even an ugly one beautiful.” Seriously? I must be missing something here. Is this the best you can cull from the wisdom of the Ladinos (Ladino Lesson, Nov. 19)? I am appalled that something so trite and offensive wouldContinue Reading

By Carole Glickfeld, , Seattle While Robert Wilkes is entitled to his opinion, it is incumbent upon JTNews to correct the misinformation and falsehoods in his column (“Epiphanies and the search for truth,” Oct. 29). I looked all through that issue and could find nothing to counter the outrageous claimsContinue Reading

By Josh Basson, , Seattle News reports indicate that the Obama administration would like Israel to cede most of the West Bank and East Jerusalem to the Palestinians to achieve a peace agreement. Palestinian leaders have made no secret they will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state and continueContinue Reading

By Fredric Tobis, , Mercer Island I write to respond to a blatant distortion of Senator Patty Murray’s support for the State of Israel published in an ad paid for by the Republican Jewish Coalition (Oct. 15). I have been an activist supporting the U.S.-Israel relationship for 25 years. IContinue Reading

By David S. Frockt, , Seattle Recently, the National Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) sponsored a full-page advertisement in the JTNews (Oct. 15) charging that Senator Patty Murray was not a friend and supporter of the State of Israel. The RJC’s charge is false. Patty Murray has been and remains aContinue Reading

By Miriam Schwartz Stuart and family, , Redmond Thank you for your article about our congregation (“Woodinville congregation holds its own through hard times,” Oct. 15). Let me encourage all those in search of a Jewish “home” in the area to stop by. My family and I moved here severalContinue Reading

By Akiva K. Segan, , Seattle In response to Mr. Basson’s claim that I “do not realize that both Hamas and Fatah’s charters call for the destruction of Israel in its text,” (Letters, Oct. 15) I wonder why Mr. Basson wrote such a claim as to what I know andContinue Reading

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Re: “Partner or not, we need to talk“ (Letters, Oct.1), Akiva K. Segan writes, urging Israel to just keep talking whether they have a credible “partner for peace” or not. What Segan and others fail to realize is that both Hamas and Fatah’s charters callContinue Reading

By Leonard Kashner, , Seattle Zach Duitch, left, Andor Schvarcz and Congressman Dave Reichert The following will sound like a candidate endorsement but it is not. I do not live in the 8th Congressional district and I do not favor either candidate. Since retiring from the Seattle Public Schools, IContinue Reading

By Maurice Friedlander-Shaw, , Seattle ADL responded appropriately (Sept. 17) to Mr. John Rothschild’s letter (“Blatant discrimination,” Sept. 3), which advocated disruption of its organization. Rothschild’s approach is certainly not a way to “win friends and influence people.” Needless to say, Mr. Rothschild is unaware of the potential religious conflictsContinue Reading

By Jack Greenberg, , Seattle I personally, together with help from others in our own community and the Port Townsend Jewish community and an Edmonds non-Jewish high school teacher, for seven days handed out in front of the Port Townsend Co-op well over a thousand pieces of literature to refuteContinue Reading