Is This Your Siddur?
I recently came across a siddur that was left in my house with an inscription from a husband to his wife.
The name in the siddur is Hindel Rivka Scheinberger and her husband is Chezki. I am not familiar with them and don’t know how their siddur came to my home, but I would like to return it to its proper owner.
I can be contacted at 516-295-7711.
Carol Pearlman
(Via E-Mail)
A Father’s Shining Life (I)
I read with much delight Jason Maoz’s article commemorating the 15th yahrzeit of his father, Cantor Zechariah Schwarzberg, of blessed memory (“A Father’s Shining Life,” op-ed, June 5).
I knew Cantor Schwarzberg quite well and had a number of engaging conversations with him. He told me about the great chazzanim he was privileged to hear in Warsaw when he was a child. He was a delightful and fascinating individual, full of life, and a wonderful chazzan as well.
Cantor Bernard Beer
Director
Belz School of Jewish Music
Yeshiva University
A Father’s Shining Life (II)
I was truly moved by Jason Maoz’s tribute to his father. My late zaidie was also a Holocaust survivor and a chazzan, and Mr. Maoz’s article reminded me of him. While I only met him once in Eretz Yisrael, when I was just six years old, he made quite an impression on me.
Thank you to Mr. Maoz for sharing his family’s story with readers.
Gisele Strauch
(Via E-Mail)
Rochelle Shoretz, A”H
I was so saddened to read about the death of Rochelle Shoretz (news story, June 5).
I have very fond memories of my lengthy interviews with her and her associates when I was preparing the definitive Jewish Press story about Sharsheret that helped put the organization on the map.
May her memory be a blessing.
Helen Zegerman Schwimmer
Brooklyn, NY
Tuition Relief Movement
Re “Parents and School Children Call on City Council to Pass School Safety Bill” (news story, June 5):
First, we have to change the conversation about federal money to non-public schools. It’s not about greed or particularism; it’s about equal opportunity. It’s about treating the children who attend yeshivas and Jewish day schools (and private schools and other parochial schools) as citizens equal to every other child in the city.
Our children are citizens too, and we will not stand by quietly while their civil rights are violated.
Second, how about this language when we call our state senator and assemblymember: “This is literally the only decision that will determine whether I vote for you in your next election.”
Third, we need to be better informed. The advocacy organizations must do a better job of advertising these rallies. Had I known about it, I would have been there in a heartbeat. How about an ad in The Jewish Press?
One last thing: Some have expressed concern that if and when a bill does pass, a lot of the benefit will go to the yeshivas and not trickle down to the parents who pay tuition. If Agudah, the OU, and the other advocates want to make sure the broader Jewish community remains committed to these measures, parents – who have been crushed by yeshiva tuition prices in the last two decades – must personally “feel” a good portion of the benefits.
I know some yeshivas are struggling as well, but we must all be in this together.
Barbara T. Klein
(Via E-Mail)
Meeks’s Stand On Iran
Your May 29 editorial on Congressman Gregory Meeks omitted an important and significant fact; namely, that the congressman signed the so-called Royce-Engel letter in March of this year.