Letters To The Editor

Posted on: December 1st, 2004

Right GesturesThe Israeli government has decided to once again make ‘good will’ gestures by pulling the army back and releasing many terrorists. This has been done dozens of times in the past with disastrous results.Mr. Sharon, how about good will gestures to the Jewish people for a change? These can include: reasserting control over har [...]

Letters to the Editor

Posted on: November 24th, 2004

Misguided EndorsementYour endorsement of George W. Bush for a second term is misguided.Have you forgotten that from the beginning of 2001, the administration has taken a laissez faire position with regard to Israel? This exacerbated the tension of September 2000 when Sharon went to the wall and Arafat began his Intifada while the attention of [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: November 24th, 2004

Best Of Times, Worst Of TimesThis November, American Jews have an extra reason for thanksgiving as we happily participate in numerous celebratory events to mark the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in the United States – a venerable and wonderful milestone. Simultaneously, Israelis despondently disengage from their nine-times-older history. Despite Arab attacks, Israel finalizes its [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: November 17th, 2004

Jewish Apathy (I)The vehement, sometimes violent, reaction Mr. Ishmael Khaldi experienced in response to his support for Israel (“Israeli Bedouin: American Jewish Apathy Shocks Me,” op-ed, Oct. 15) is, unfortunately, not limited to college campuses.Articles I had put up on my website, which did nothing more than support Israel, received an avalanche of condemnations and [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: November 17th, 2004

Life Of LiesIt was fitting that the terrorist Arafat was the leader of the so-called Palestinian people. Arafat lied his whole life about being born in Israel when in fact he was born in Cairo. He lied just like most of the Muslim world is lying when they say the Jewish land of Israel is [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: November 12th, 2004

When Sharon Was SharonSome words from Ariel Sharon’s 1995 eulogy for Ofrah Felix, who was murdered by terrorists:“I remember her as a little girl in the Shomron horizons, one of the followers of this beautiful and difficult land. How can we eulogize a 19 year old girl? A girl who is a sacrifice to concessions [...]

Letters to the Editor

Posted on: November 10th, 2004

True ContritionI recently received three 100-dollar bills in the mail from ‘Ploni Almoni.’ Enclosed was a note from the sender, who confessed that many years ago he accidentally dented my car. He asked to be pardoned for that act.I vaguely remembered the incident, but most impressive to me was that this gentleman did real teshuvah. [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: November 10th, 2004

Unite Behind The WinnerDuring a Thursday morning interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Boston Red Sox pitching star Curt Schilling looked into the camera and said, “Tell everybody to vote, and vote Bush next week.” Many were excited to hear this beloved pitcher endorse President Bush. Well, the people have spoken. Our democratic electoral process [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: November 3rd, 2004

Dej? VuThe story of the abandonment of the Jews during the Holocaust, retold in Marvin Kalb’s marvelous front-page essay (“Misreporting the Holocaust,” Oct. 22), is of course a sad one. Kalb reminds us how Franklin Roosevelt, an aristocratic blue-blood, and The New York Times with its weak Jewish owners, cared little about the Jews.It should [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: October 27th, 2004

Selective And DeceptiveI thought your readers would be interested in the following letter that I sent to The New York Times.Ed KochNew York, NYTo the Editor:In today’s [Sept. 21] article reporting the decapitation by terrorists in Iraq of American civilian Eugene Armstrong, The Times reporter wrote:“In the video of the beheading, an insurgent wearing a [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: October 20th, 2004

Rather Lame ApologyIt’s ironic that Dan Rather’s mea culpa concerning the forged memos has come amidst the aseret yemei teshuva. But when one considers Mr. Rather’s admission of guilt, one crucial component was strikingly absent – no apology was given to President Bush.Halacha is unequivocal: anyone who wishes to repent after committing a sin against [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: October 13th, 2004

Tentacles Of DestructionThe tentacles of death and destruction are seen in print on the front page every day. The world is now getting a taste of the intifada.Death and destruction are being caused by the spread of Islamism worldwide. Do we nip it in the bud, Bush style, or cut and run and appease the [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: October 8th, 2004

Free Yom Tov SeatingIn these difficult economic times, when families are struggling with yeshiva tuition and other expenses, Kehilas Mevakshai Hashem of Midwood, Brooklyn, is proud to offer free seats for the Yomim Noraim as a public service to the community.Anyone in walking distance of our shul, whether adult or mature (non-noisy) child, is welcome [...]

Letters to the Editor

Posted on: October 1st, 2004

Federation Follies It was nice, in an ironic way, to read Arlene Peck’s op-ed column “Not One More Dime For Federation,” Aug. 20).Just three days before I received the issue of The Jewish Press containing Ms. Peck’s article, I got a call from the New Mexico Federation asking for a donation. I told the woman [...]

Letters to the Editor

Posted on: September 22nd, 2004

Special Thanks To HatzolahWe wish to thank all of the members of Hatzolah who helped rescue my son and his two passengers from his overturned car on the Palisades Parkway on August 17. Not only did the Hatzolah team help with the rescue and give immediate medical attention, they helped gather the luggage, seforim and [...]

Letters to the Editor

Posted on: September 15th, 2004

Beware The GreensThe article on Ralph Nader (“Ralph Nader’s Curious New Allies,” front page essay, Aug. 13) comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with the Green Party, from which Nader now pretends to distance himself. The Green platform is Judeophobic and pro-Palestinian and Muslim. It calls for the withdrawal of Jews from liberated territory [...]

Letters to the Editor

Posted on: September 8th, 2004

Lost And Hopefully FoundAt our annual Tisha b’Av prayer service for Jewish communities in danger on July 27 outside the UN, someone – perhaps a faithful Jewish Press reader – left behind a black hardcover Rosenfeld edition of kinot and Tisha b’Av tefilot. There’s a Hebrew name inscribed inside the cover. Interested parties should please [...]

Letters to the Editor

Posted on: September 1st, 2004

Liberal LogicDoesn’t the liberal view of the world seem so alien? A genocidal madman like Saddam Hussein is beaten and captured, yet liberals are calling for George Bush’s head. Huh? Islamic terrorists blow up busloads of Jewish children and liberals vilify the Israelis and sympathize with the Arabs. This obsession with moral equivalence is so [...]

Letters to the Editor

Posted on: August 25th, 2004

‘This Is Our Land’We stood together, well over 100,000 strong, bearing witness to our commitment to our land. Many of us held hands. Many of us spent the time reciting Tehillim. Many of us sang. At the Kotel, the sounds of the chazozrot, the trumpets, resounded.For two hours we stood at our chosen points along [...]

Letters to the Editor

Posted on: August 18th, 2004

Return To Cafe HillelAfter sitting shiva for my brother, Dr. David Applebaum, my family and I returned twice to the very spot where he and his daughter were blown up by a suicide bomber in Cafe Hillel. With tears in our eyes we lit two yahrzeit candles.Within three months we again visited Cafe Hillel, this [...]