Long Lost Books
A number of years ago there was a shul on Stockton Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, called Ahavas Achim Anshei Sefard of Austria/Cong. Love of Brothers, which no longer exists.
I have a number of books from that shul which have names in them whose descendents I would like to find. If any of these names are familiar, please contact me at [email protected]. I will provide a picture of any book that has a name in it that sounds familiar.
* Rabbi Rubin (Reuven) Kerner
* Moshe Pincus
* Rabbi Moses Laufer, 109 Clymer St. 11211
* Reverend Elya Steinz?sh? (shamash)
* Yechezkel Spira, 188 Keap St.
* Malke Berkovitz, 125 Taylor St., 6C
* Gad Alberstein (Senno)
* Harry Goldberg
* Harry Blumenfeld
* Mendy Banda
* A. Simons
* Mrs. Louis Lustig
Esther Michelson
Brooklyn, NY
The Futility Of ‘Dialogue’
The pope is friendly and apparently loves people. He certainly made that impression in Washington, New York and elsewhere. However, he was so low key that it seems the message of being a shepherd to his people and protecting his flock never got heard in Washington. The message of “dialogue” was what people heard.
But how does one dialogue with ISIS? ISIS loves to behead people, including Christians. Has the pope given any thought as to how one dialogues with ISIS? How does one dialogue with Palestinians who throw rocks and Molotov cocktails at innocent pilgrims on the Temple Mount?
Do we tell them they cannot maim people in the interest of religion? How do you dialogue with people who want to exterminate Christians and Jews and make the world Islamic? Innocence cannot be an answer.
Toby Willig
Jerusalem
Syrian Refugees
What to do about the Syrian refugee crisis, which has overwhelmed the country’s poorer neighbors like Jordan and Lebanon and caused a crisis in European countries?
Caution must be urged here at home when it comes to dealing with the crisis; we must remind lawmakers and other Americans about the national security threat the situation presents to the U.S.
Al Qaeda has exploited similar crises in the past and ISIS plans to do the same now.
We are a compassionate nation, and this is a tragic situation, but we have to be concerned about the safety of Americans in this country. The concern I have – and that the FBI has testified to – is that we don’t really have the proper databases to ensure that there are no terrorists among the refugees we allow into this country. Until we have that assurance we cannot support a program that could potentially bring jihadists into the United States.
The U.S. doesn’t have the systems in place through Homeland Security or the FBI to properly vet refugees coming from the terrorist hotspots of Syria and Iraq.
It is heartbreaking to watch innocent Syrians fleeing the violence in their country, and we certainly can do more to help. But the best way to solve this crisis is at the source.
The president needs to develop a real strategy to defeat ISIS and remove Assad from power, which is the root cause of the problem. The humanitarian crisis we now have on our hands is the culmination of a failed foreign policy.
Brian J. Goldenfeld
Woodland Hills, CA
Revisiting The ‘Yale Five’
I have been following with interest Rabbi Hanoch Teller’s series of articles on the “Yale Five.” At the request of then-publisher Irene Klass, I wrote an in-depth article on the controversy, “The Yale Five: Divinity v. Diversity,” which ran in the Sept. 19, 1997 issue of The Jewish Press.
