Eban’s Eloquent UN Speech
I am glad The Jewish Press published Abba Eban’s great speech to the United Nations Security Council during the Six-Day War (“Peril For Israel Wherever It Looked,” front page essay, June 3).
At the time of that address, my father, Sidney Solomon, z”l, said it was the greatest speech he’d ever heard. A friend of mine pronounced Abba Eban the greatest spokesman for any cause.
In addition to his eloquent defense of Israel before the international community, Eban did more than any other person to try to prevent the Six-Day War. Please read his book Personal Witness: Israel Through My Eyes.
Reuven Solomon
Forest Hills, NY
‘Angry Man In The Baseball Cap’
Reader Myron Hecker is entitled to his rosy view of Donald Trump (Letters, June 3) but day after day the angry man in the ridiculous red baseball cap demonstrates anew his ignorance, instability, and dishonesty.
When I hear Mr. Hecker and others of like mind wax rhapsodic about trusting Trump or about how Trump tells it like it is, I can only respond: what hour of the day are you referring to, since the man changes his positions in the blink of an eye and then denies he ever said anything at all different from the position he just adopted ten minutes ago.
Just last week he was caught holding back on the money he’d promised America’s veterans. Many of the checks started going out to veterans’ groups only when the Washington Post published an expose revealing that none of those groups had seen any of the promised money in the months since Trump’s much publicized “fundraiser” on their behalf.
And when the press called him out on this, Trump nastily assailed reporters for daring to tell the truth.
As if that weren’t enough, he not only attacked the legitimacy of the U.S. district judge presiding over the “Trump University” case but tried to denigrate him as “Mexican.” (The judge, Gonzalo Curiel, was born in Indiana.)
I just can’t comprehend the mindset of anyone who has watched this man over the past year and still supports him.
Michael Buchsbaum
(Via E-Mail)
Kudos To Gov. Cuomo
Governor Andrew Cuomo should be praised for issuing an executive order directing New York state agencies under his control to oppose companies and organizations aligned with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Mr. Cuomo described the BDS movement as an “economic attack” on Israel.
“We cannot allow that to happen,” the governor said, adding that “If you boycott Israel, New York will boycott you.”
According to the executive order, Gov. Cuomo has directed the commissioner of the Office of General Services to devise a list over the next six months of businesses and groups engaged in any “boycott, divestment or sanctions activity targeting Israel, either directly or through a parent or subsidiary.”
The list will be compiled from “credible information available to the public,” according to the order, and subject to appeal by the companies and entities included on it. Once the designation process is completed, however, all executive-branch agencies and departments (which make up a large portion of state government) as well as public boards, authorities, commissions, and all public-benefit corporations will be required to divest themselves of any company on the list.
The New York Jewish community applauds the leadership taken by Gov. Cuomo.
Rabbi Mendy Mirocznik
Executive Director
Rabbinical Alliance of America
…………………………………………………………..
Orthodox Jews Behaving Badly
Not An Image To Be Proud Of
Re Avi Ciment’s unflinchingly honest June 3 op-ed article “The Power of a Kippah, for Better or Worse”: