Letters To The Editor

Posted on: August 30th, 2003

Remembering GidoneWhen people read of my late son Gidone Busch, they have this image of an emotionally disturbed man with a hammer (which was small and weighed approximately eight ounces).Gidone was no threat either before or when he was surrounded and shot by several police officers on that terrible evening in August 1999. He had been [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: August 15th, 2003

Blame Tenet For PollardThe revelation that CIA Director George Tenet offered questionable information to President Bush concerning Iraq and uranium brings to mind how strongly Tenet opposed President Clinton’s promise at the Wye River Conference to release Jonathan Pollard as a goodwill gesture to Israel.At that time Tenet declared that he would resign his position [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: August 8th, 2003

Joe On JoeThe June issue of Reader’s Digest featured an interview with actor Harrison Ford. He was asked, “Your father was Roman Catholic, your mother Jewish. Which faith were you raised in?” Ford responded, “I was raised Democratic.” Harrison affirmed that he too shares thepolitics of his father, and went on to say that being [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: August 1st, 2003

Angry In The HeartlandI realize this will be offensive to some of your readers. As a Christian, I must say it for those Jews who refuse to believe. (This is for bonehead Christians as well.)Islam is the ‘religion of peace’ – and its followers will kill you to prove it. I must admit I’ve never [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: July 26th, 2003

’Refreshing Counterpoint’I moved to New York City in January 2002 and have found The Jewish Press to be a refreshing counterpoint to the daily anti-Semitic propaganda being fostered by the mainstream print and TV media. I buy The Jewish Press faithfully every week and have found your religious Zionist perspective to be spiritually and emotionally [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: July 18th, 2003

Don’t Blame Bush I’ve received a number of e-mails recently blaming President Bush for Israel’s problems. This line of thinking is dangerous as well as silly, because it ignores the real reasons for Israel’s predicament. Israelis are getting killed because Israel refuses to defend itself. It’s not because of Bush or Powell. It’s because Sharon [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: July 11th, 2003

Hatred’s RootsLeon Wieseltier’s commentary on anti-Semitism (‘The Village Is Not Burning,’ June 6) is erudite and elegant. Simpler, I suggest anti-Semitism’s bared roots are envious hostility andfear. Anti-Semitism is a primal, visceral result of antagonism to Torah truth.The Commandments to the world come through us. Being number two is a very difficult position, especially when [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: July 4th, 2003

Road Map To JordanOriginally, today’s “Palestinians” were nomadic, itinerant laborers who were imported into the Jordan River region by the Ottoman Turks in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Ottomans tried to settle these nomads into this area as a source of cheap labor. Today, the population of Jordan is approximately 65 percent Palestinian. This [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: June 27th, 2003

Friedman An ‘Arrogant Windbag’I greatly appreciated the two op-ed articles castigating Thomas Friedman that appeared in last week’s Jewish Press. Anyone who’s ever had the displeasure of viewing Friedman, either live or on television, knows the man is a windbag of almost incomprehensible arrogance. It’s painfully obvious that this is a man deeply in love [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: June 20th, 2003

Gesture Of BrotherhoodIn honor of last month’s Holocaust Remembrance Day and in exceeding gratitude and love for the contributions Jewish people have given humanity, please find attached a manuscript copy of an article I would like your newspaper to add to its archives and to distribute to interested colleagues and groups.The manuscript is titled “The [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: June 13th, 2003

Beyond The PaleI resent the language used by columnist Emanuel Winston in last week’s Jewish Press. However one feels about the so-called ‘road map’ for Middle East peace, to imply, as Winston did, that President Bush is knowingly, and with hostile intent, pushing Israel to disaster goes beyond the pale of civilized discourse.Harvey LembergNew York, [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: June 6th, 2003

Editor’s Note: This week the entire Letters section is devoted to comments on Shlomo Mostofsky’s April 25 front-page essay, “Modern Orthodoxy in a Changing World.” Reaction to the article – as well as to last week’s first batch of reader responses -has been unusually heavy and heated.No Apology NeededI feel that Mr. Mostofsky was way [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: May 30th, 2003

No Fan Of Joe’sI wish to praise The Jewish Press for its refusal to give Sen. Joseph Lieberman a free pass simply because he identifies himself as an “observant” Jew (on the advice of his politicaladvisers, he stopped using the term “Orthodox” when he ran for vice president in 2000). As reflected in your recent [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: May 21st, 2003

Put Weasels To WorkI loath the French as much as a person lawfully can, but I think we should let them have a part in post-war Iraq, as long as they pay a price. Make French, German and Russian soldiers clean up the remaining Ba’ath party rabble so our soldiers can come home to a [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: May 14th, 2003

Steely DeterminationAs I watch the amazing resoluteness and steely determination displayed by our president in the face of vociferous domestic opposition and international condemnation, I can’t help thinking that had George W. Bush been in the White House in the late 1930′s and early 1940′s, far fewer Jews would have perished at the hands of [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: May 9th, 2003

A Place At The SederHis Eminence HaRav Mordecai Eliyahu, the former chief rabbi of Israel, has given his blessing to a proposal by Rabbi Shlomo Aviner calling on all Jews to set a place at the table for Jonathan Pollard on Seder night. His empty chair symbolizes the longing and hope of the nation to [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: May 2nd, 2003

Exposing The TimesThe expose by Tom Gross that you carried on your front page last week (“Distortions andDouble Standards: How the New York Times Routinely Misreports Israel”) makes an iron-clad case against the journalism of what he calls the world’s most important paper. Gross’s work is especially important as the mainstream media by and large [...]

Letters To The Editor

Posted on: June 28th, 2002

Our Own Worst EnemyMy mother works in accounts receivables for an auto-parts company in Tel Aviv. Recently, one of the company’s Arab customers from Hebron bounced a check. After a few weeks my mother finally got hold of him and he apologized for the bounced check, explaining that due to all the closures on the [...]