Siddur Returned To Owners
Kol hakavod to The Jewish Press for helping us locate the owner of a siddur that had been missing for more than 15 years.
Last week you ran my letter in which I said I’d recently come across a siddur with an inscription from a husband to his wife that at some point had been left in my house. I gave the names of the couple and asked that any readers with contact information give me a call.
It didn’t take long for the rightful owners to turn up and they are so grateful. And we are thankful to have a publication with a wide readership like The Jewish Press that cares enough to provide an opportunity for hashavas aveidah by someone who wants to fulfill the mitzvah.
We couldn’t have fulfilled it without you. Again, kol hakavod and thank you.
Carol Pearlman
(Via E-Mail)
Appreciates Assemblymember Bichotte
Thank you, Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte (“How to Tell Friend from Foe,” op-ed, June 12). We are happy with the voice in Albany you provide for residents of the 42nd AD.
We hope the Almighty will continue to bless you with unlimited wisdom so that you can continue your advocacy on behalf of the neediest and the voiceless among us.
Gerard J Cadet
(Via JewishPress.com)
Love Of Judaism And Israel
“A Father’s Shining Life” (op-ed, June 5) was a beautifully written and eternally meaningful remembrance of Cantor Zechariah Schwarzberg, z”l.
It was uplifting to read of Cantor Schwarzberg’s heartfelt appreciation of the miraculous rebirth of the state of Israel, his delight in Israel’s young Jewish soldiers, his vicarious involvement in the events of the miraculous Six-Day War, and his understandably emotional reaction to the Entebbe rescue, no doubt thinking of the Jews murdered by the Nazis and what could have been had a sovereign Israel existed seventy-five years ago.
With clear insight and justification he realized that love of Judaism and love of the state of Israel are inextricably bound. I am certain that when Cantor Schwarzberg davened he deeply felt and understood that the Land of Israel was given to us by Hashem to dwell in forever. We must be imbued with this awareness every step of the way, miracle by miracle, a true Hodu Lashem.
Ann Greenfield
(Via E-Mail)
Passport Case
So the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the administration in its refusal to allow a passport designation of “Jerusalem, Israel” as one’s birthplace (front-page news story, June 12). Surely that would be descriptive, not prescriptive, nor in any way reflective of any U.S. recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over that city.
Could it really be that the now invalidated law was “unconstitutional”? Has Congress no role whatsoever in establishing American foreign policy? However politically inspired or even unwise it may have been, the law displayed no obvious overreach.
This decision will have many ramifications. How will future passport requests from those born in the now dividing and subdividing Middle East states be handled? Will references to Iraq, Syria, etc. be proscribed if, at the time of issuance, the sovereignty status of one’s birthplace is in question?
Richard D. Wilkins
Syracuse, NY
FDR And The Holocaust
Obligation To Bomb The Camps
Reader Albert Goodman (Letters, June 5) praised Franklin Delano Roosevelt in glowing terms for many things, but failed to address what will always be the salient issue: How many Jewish lives could have been saved by a vigorous air assault by the U.S. and the United Kingdom on Auschwitz and other death camps?
Goodman opined that even if the camps had been bombed, the Jews would have been killed anyway, by other means.