Assisting A Hero’s Family
While all Jews everywhere should contribute to assist the families of the kedoshim of Har Nof, I hope a charity fund has been established for the wife and four-month-old child of Druze police officer Sergeant-Major Zidan Saif, a true hero (“Rabbi: Slain Druze Police Officer ‘Saved Many Jewish Lives,” news story, Nov. 28).
If anyone knows of such a fund I urge him or her to share the information with Jewish Press readers so that we can contribute.
May his family too be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Yerushalayim.
Joseph M. Varon
West Hempstead, NY
Sad Truth About Abbas
Re your Nov. 28 front-page news story about Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas being seen by Israeli and American officials as preferable to any possible alternative:
If that is indeed the case, it is very sad. Prime Minister Netanyahu has repeatedly said that Abbas is inciting an uprising and that he is not a partner for peace. I think the events of the past few weeks have definitely proven that point.
If indeed there is no “partner for peace,” Israel should act accordingly and annex Judea and Samaria. The world will condemn Israel no matter what it does, but at least let Israel finally take a decisive stand.
Sometimes Jews have to jump in and then let the Almighty do the rest, as when Bnei Yisrael stood before the Sea of Reeds.
Nachum Myers
(Via E-Mail)
‘One For The Books’
Kudos on “Of The Book,” a fine addition to The Jewish Press (supplement, Nov. 28). I only wish you’d put it out on a more frequent basis.
The mix of reviews, profiles, and articles adds up to a real delight for any committed reader of books, particularly books dealing with Judaism and Israel. At the risk of sounding hopelessly corny, the supplement is really “one for the books.”
Jerome Scherman
(Via E-Mail)
Talks Extension Benefits Iran
Unfortunately, the U.S. and Iran’s decision to extend nuclear talks with a new deadline of June 30 will only give Iran the opportunity to further its nuclear and ballistic missile programs unhindered (“Iran Nuclear Talks Extended Until June 30,” news story, Nov. 28).
The next seven months will allow Iran to get closer to developing nuclear weapons and at the same time profit from the partial lifting of sanctions – some $700 million a month in unfrozen assets.
Iran is stringing us along to the dismay of our allies in the region. Israel will have no option but to try to impede the Iranian nuclear and missile program, while Arab states that feel threatened will be tempted to initiate their own nuclear programs or else purchase nuclear weapons elsewhere.
Nelson Marans
Silver Spring, MD
Tribute To Rabbi Twersky (I)
Rabbi Raphael Fuchs’s Nov. 21 tribute article “Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Z”TL: An Angel of Hashem”was one was one of the most moving articles I’ve read over the course of many years.
As one of the kedoshim so cruelly murdered by Arab terrorists in Har Nof last month, Rabbi Twersky will always have a special place in all of our hearts.
The lives he and his fellow victims lived, coupled with the animalistic manner in which those lives were ended, illustrate beyond any argument the difference between our beliefs and way of life and those of our enemies.
Gail Stockman
(Via E-Mail)
Tribute To Rabbi Twersky (II)
So much Torah lost – and at the hands of subhuman trash whose lives and deaths as seem from our perspective had absolutely no value.
Not only did Rabbi Twersky, a man of outstanding middos, die (along with three other wonderful Torah Jews), but everything he would still have written, every student he would still have taught, everything only he knew, died with him.