The Archdiocese Didn’t Take This Window I used to live at 3060 Hull Avenue in the Bronx, right next door to the Mosholu Jewish Center (“A Bronx Tale: What Did the Archdiocese Do With Those Stained-Glass Windows?” May 30). My family and I were members from the early 1940s up until it closed. Rabbi Hershel…
What Zechariah Foresaw Yehezkel Dror’s May 23 opinion article was spot on target (“When Survival of the Jewish People Is at Stake, There’s No Place for Morals”). He correctly maintains that “if the threat is sufficiently grave, the use of weapons of mass destruction by Israel would be justified if likely to be necessary for…
Problems With Postville Go Beyond Meat Prices Federal agents raid the AgriProcessors plant and all the Forward chooses to focus on a possible shortage of kosher meat (“Raid on Kosher Slaughterhouse Sparks Fears of Meat Shortage,” May 23)? Where is your sense of indignation? Where is your sense of rage? Isn’t the Forward offended by…
The Survivor Who Made Schindler Film Happen An April 25 article neglected to mention the person who was the catalyst for getting author Thomas Keneally interested in the story of Oskar Schindler: the late Leopold Pfefferberg, later known as Leopold Page (“Schindler’s 100th Birthday Is Private Affair for Survivors”). A Schindler Jew, Leo urged my…
Rabbi Stands By Words A May 9 editorial compares me to Reverend Jeremiah Wright by accusing me of “inflammatory rhetoric” and of publicly hurling “strong epithets” in 1995 at then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, including calling his government “the Rabin Judenrat” (“Wright and Wrong”). The latter accusation is false. Here is some of my “inflammatory rhetoric,”…
Hold China Accountable Opinion writers Antoine Halff and Shalom Solomon Ward question why China should bear the brunt of the Jewish community’s ire when India, Russia and Japan also import their share of oil from Sudan (“Enough Misguided Maligning of China,” May 2). But facts are facts. China is Sudan’s largest customer. According to records…
‘Peoplehood’ Has Utility As a Descriptive Term The descriptor “peoplehood,” as a term purporting to collect all Jews under one umbrella, always seemed like a hopeful way of asserting that I have something in common with a Satmar Hasid in Kiryas Joel (“Peoplehood: There’s No There There,” April 25). Now Arts & Culture columnist Jay…
Make Seder for Adults I enjoyed the East Village Mamele’s April 11 Fast Forward column, but it raises some issues that she probably did not intend to raise (“A Kid-Friendly Seder”). Being a regular at our local Conservative synagogue and having belonged to several other synagogues over the years, I have become very concerned about…
Both Clinton, Obama Reached Out in Pa. As one of the rabbis who attended separate meetings in Philadelphia earlier this month with Senator Hillary Clinton’s surrogates and those of Senator Barack Obama, I thought an April 11 article on how the campaigns are engaging the Pennsylvania rabbinical community was incomplete (“Obama Takes Campaign Into Pa….
Aliyah for Millionaires The idea of giving financial breaks to millionaires in order to encourage their aliyah is sickening in the extreme (“Israel Targets Millionaires in Bid to Up Aliyah,” April 4). These people need tax breaks? Talk about class warfare. I am constantly bombarded by charities who claim they need money for Israeli kids…
Spitzer Story Was No More Than Tribalism Boy am I relieved; it turns out that Eliot Spitzer wasn’t really Jewish after all (“Fallen Eliot Spitzer Was a Favorite Son of a Tribe He Never Quite Embraced,” March 21). Thank you to the Forward for publicly kicking him out of the community, so that now we…
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