Editorial & Opinion | Gary Rosenblatt

11/06/2013 | | Editor and Publisher | Gary Rosenblatt

I wish everyone who bemoans the fate and future of journalism in general, and Jewish journalism in particular, could have sat in on the first Jewish Scholastic Press Conference in Los Angeles two weeks ago.

10/23/2013 | | Editor and Publisher | Gary Rosenblatt

One of the unintended highlights of this year’s Conversation — the annual Jewish Week-sponsored two-day retreat for a wide variety of Jewish leaders and future leaders from around the country — was the emerging friendship between two participants with seemingly little in common besides their names. Actually, their name.

10/15/2013 | | Editor & Publisher | Gary Rosenblatt

While most Jews around the world took pride in the recent news that three co-religionists had won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and that two were from the Jewish state, the bittersweet reality is that those two winners left Israel long ago to do their research, and therein lies a troubling trend.

10/09/2013 | | Editor And Publisher | Gary Rosenblatt

Not surprisingly, there has already been a large wave of reactions to the first major national survey of American Jews in more than a decade, with its sobering, if not bleak, portrait of a community on the fast track toward assimilation.

10/02/2013 | | Letters

Regarding Gary Rosenblatt’s column, “In The Big Inning” (Sept. 27): Ah! Would that the moment of joy and togetherness could continue and endure day after day.

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10/02/2013 | | Letters

In response to Gary Rosenblatt’s column, “Not Too Late To Push In-Marriage?” (Sept. 13), [and Rabbi Jack Wertheimer’s call for aggressively advocating for in-marriage]: Does anyone seriously believe that a serious, committed Jew loses his or her commitment to Judaism because he or she intermarries?

What is happening is the opposite of what people like Wertheimer are saying: people don’t intermarry and then lose their commitment to Judaism. They lose their commitment and then have no reason not to intermarry.