Preparing Kahane Tribute
In memory of Rabbi Meir Kahane I am preparing, for his upcoming yahrzeit on 18 Cheshvan, a YouTube channel with his videos and audios.
Readers who have videos or audios they would like to have featured on the channel should contact me at [email protected].
Michael Miller
Jerusalem
Nadler’s True Colors
The vote on the Iran deal is a defining moment for those politicians who in the past have found it so easy to indulge in the usual rhetoric supporting Israel. Our elected representatives who support the agreement can be classified either as political opportunists currying favors from the president or fair-weather friends of Israel.
By backing the Iran deal, Rep. Jerrold Nadler has shown his true colors. His lengthy and detailed defense of the Iran deal appears to have come straight out of the Obama administration’s playbook.
Hopefully, voters in his congressional district will render him a former representative for his actions.
Nelson Marans
Silver Spring, MD
Calamitous Deal
Of course the State Department is, as the headline of your Aug. 28 front-page news story put it, “mum on inspection of nuclear site,” which is only one of the many extremely troubling aspects of the calamitous Iran deal.
With Iran’s powerful Supreme Leader Ali Khameini disavowing virtually every contentious aspect of the agreement, it is incomprehensible that the administration is still arguing that war will ensue if the deal is voted down by Congress.
The complicity of the IAEA in this charade is doubly regrettable in view of its prior reputation for neutrality and impartiality.
Fay Dicker
Lakewood, NJ
Preserving Sefarim
I enjoyed reading “A Passion for Rare Sefarim,” the informative Aug. 28 front-page wraparound.
Before Pesach, trucks are parked in Jewish neighborhoods to collect shamus for disposal. I am always outraged when I see so many sefarim still in good condition being discarded for the landfill. There should be a library or repository for unwanted sefarim to be given away.
Sefarim should be kept away from sunlight, which makes the pages yellow and brittle. And in the beit hamidrash, sefarim should not be shelved tightly together so that when one wants to remove a sefer he does not have to place a finger on the inside of the top of the spine, thereby slowly tearing it.
Jacob Mendlovic
Toronto, Canada
Keeping The Covenant
Thank you for the very informative and inspirational article by D. Tzvi Trenk, “Torah: ‘Religion’ or Relationship?” (op-ed, Aug. 28).
Indeed the Torah is a practical covenant, a declaration for the Jewish nation. As the article states, the core of the Torah is the principle of “love your neighbor as yourself,” and based on that principle the nation was established in absolute unity and mutual responsibility.
On top of that, the Jews were tasked with becoming a “light unto the nations,” facilitating the same principle in human society through their own positive example.
Today, as human society is headed for a global meltdown with no idea of how to overcome our inherently self-serving nature, it is time the Nation of Israel started supplying the only available life-saving remedy to the world.
This will only happen if Jews dedicate and rededicate themselves to putting into practice the pledges they made and acted on at Sinai.
Zsolti Hermann
(Via JewishPress.com)
Thumping Trump
We Can Do Better
I share reader Alan Howard’s concerns (Letters, Aug. 28) about the early lead in the polls, at least among a relatively small percentage (25-30 percent) of Republican voters, currently enjoyed by Donald Trump,
What is it about Trump that seems to attract middle-aged men in particular? Do they wish they could trade in their current wives every few years for newer models? Do they think he’s a “real man” because he’s made demeaning remarks about women?