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Looking at the Colchester story from all sides
By N. Richard Greenfield, Publisher ~ The Ledger was pleased that our article on the problems surrounding the Colchester Jewish cemetery (“Dispute over interfaith cemetery in Colchester gains national attention,”… Read more
J Street U doesn’t belong in Berkley’s Jewish Student Union
By Brian Maissy Free speech is once again under attack at the University of California, Berkeley, this time regarding Israel dialogue on campus. Or so the press would have you… Read more
Difficult times for Israel
By N. Richard Greenfield, Publisher ~ Sometimes things come in threes. Last week for Israel that was the case. First there was the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium lecturing a… Read more
Jewish Book Month is every month
By N. Richard Greenfield ~ Jewish Book Month begins Nov. 21 and runs through Dec. 21. Not long ago, book fairs all took place during this month. In fact, Hartford… Read more
Changing Jewish opinion and the Jewish Vote
By N. Richard Greenfield – First there was the poll by Frank Luntz sponsored by CAMERA. Then there was Dick Morris’ poll. And now there is the poll done by… Read more
Blessing and Curse: Israel’s new energy resources.
By N. Richard Greenfield Jewish lore has long defined Jewish misfortune as beginning when Moses took the Jewish people into the land of Canaan instead of east of the Jordan… Read more
Publishing other opinions
Every serious publication establishes a set of principles, in concert with the norms of the community it serves, to determine what news and views it deems “fit to print.” We… Read more
Yale and the study of Antisemitism
Peter Salovey, Yale University’s Provost, sent out a brief ‘Dear Friends’ note Sunday that announced the end of the Yale Interdisciplinary Initiative for the Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) and the… Read more
Allow Israelis to chart their own course
This past Monday, the Hartford area Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) co-sponsored an event with J Street, a self-proclaimed ‘pro-Israel’ organization that lobbies against the Israeli government both here and… Read more
Supporting J Street harms Israel
A few years ago the Ledger started running advertisements for a national service organization that is a key responder in disaster relief as well as a facilitator for individuals with… Read more
