Letters to the Editor

Open-mindedness does not mean that we form our beliefs in a world without curation or filtration. Few Jews (or anyone, for that matter) have such an anarchistic view of knowledge. Prager (“How Open-Minded Are Jewish Liberals?” July 30) sets up this false dichotomy when he makes such narrow definitions. We have seen that there is a world beyond our own; we choose to embrace and explore it and to assert the importance of our people in it.

I appreciate your recent article about the changed meaning of “schmuck” used in the movie being released July 30, 2010 (“Springtime for Schmucks,” July 9). Given my family name going back generations from southern Germany, I have another set of concerns about its use.

Prager vs. Grater\n\nMy response to “Dennis Prager Responds” (“Rabbi Responds to Prager’s column on Problems With the Left,” June 11) to Rabbi Grater is simple. Mr. Prager has learned the lesson of Munich, but he has not learned the lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis.\n

I read with some discomfort David Suissa’s article titled “In Praise of Disunity” (June 18). This article was a reply to Rabbi Sharon Brous’ earlier article titled “A Narrowing of Heart and Mind: The American Jewish Response to the Flotilla” (June 11).

A recent Jewish Journal article describes The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles’ evaluation of the Fed Up With Hunger program (“Food Deserts Exposed,” May 21).