Sony ‘R’ Us
Marty Kaplan
December 15, 2014
The most shocking thing about the digital disemboweling of Sony Pictures’ computer data is that anyone would actually find it shocking.
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Letters to the editor: Har Nof attack, Jewish journalism, Obama and more
Jewish Journal
November 25, 2014
No debate: The heinous slaughter in a Jerusalem synagogue was an example of unmitigated evil (“Celebrating the Murder of Jews,” Nov. 21).
Letters to the editor: The Berlin Wall, Maher/Affleck/Harris II, voting and more
Jewish Journal
November 19, 2014
Thank you so very much for the excellent description of the celebration (“Lessons From a Wall,” Nov. 14).
The secret of Warren Bennis’s success
Marty Kaplan
August 6, 2014
Though the size of Warren Bennis’s obituary in the New York Times was epic – all six columns across, filling most of the space above the fold on the back page of the A section – its text made no mention of something about him I always thought inextricable from who he was and the success he achieved.
If Norman Lear at 92 is what 92 is, I’ll have what he’s having
Marty Kaplan
July 23, 2014
It is not widely known that Norman Lear and I have the same mother.
Letters to the editor: Garcetti’s gaffe, Sar-El, revenge and more
Jewish Journal
July 9, 2014
Excellent piece, David Suissa (“Revenge is Not Enough,” July 4). Shame and humiliation are indeed useful weapons in that region, and it must be part of the political arsenal, same as the appropriate military options.
Letters to the editor: Mount Athos ethics, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Michelle K. Wolf
Jewish Journal
June 25, 2014
My late mother-in-law, Betty Lipsman, stood before Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz and when asked if she was Jewish, and, with life and death on the line, replied, “Yes.”
Five doubting dudes and the holy relics of Mount Mortality
Marty Kaplan
June 16, 2014
“Protestant,” I lied, not for the first time, when the Holy Mount Athos Pilgrims Bureau officer asked me my religion.
What if we really knew what media does to us
Marty Kaplan
May 5, 2014
What if we knew that the fictional rapes in HBO’s mega-hit “Game of Thrones” caused real rapes in the real world? What if we knew that the portrayals of gay characters in “Modern Family” caused actual states to legalize same-sex marriage?
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