Tisha B’Av Minchah At The UN
Jewish Press readers are terrific. Each year they make their Tisha B’Av meaningful and join our annual outdoor Minchah at the famed Isaiah Wall opposite the UN, praying for the security of our beloved Israel and on behalf of threatened Jewish communities worldwide.
On this Tisha B’Av, Sunday, August 14, at 2 pm, we’ll again gather at the Isaiah Wall, First Avenue and 43rd Street, Manhattan.
We’ll be led by Rabbi Avi Weiss and are honored to have among our speakers Shimon Mercer-Wood, the eloquent dati spokesperson for the Israeli Consulate. Please bring your siddur (men bring tallit and tefillin as needed.
For more information, please contact [email protected] or call (212) 663-5784.
Glenn Richter
Amcha-Coalition for Jewish Concerns
A Mother’s Love For The Jewish Press
My mother, Zelda bat Hersh Zvi, passed away two weeks ago. She loved The Jewish Press and couldn’t have an enjoyable Shabbat without it.
When I started writing articles for the paper in the 1980s, she beamed with joy and pride and made sure all her friends went out to buy copies.
My father, who died forty years ago to the week of the Entebbe raid, had introduced The Jewish Press to our family when I was a little boy.
Thank you for giving so much joy to my ima and for all the help The Jewish Press has given to me and to my work.
When I was a rabbi in Long Island and when I worked in various venues as a youth and educational director, I always made sure copies of The Jewish Press were readily available to as many people as possible.
Rabbi Gary Moskowitz
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Disliked Editorial
Your July 22 editorial berating Hillary Clinton for putting Bernie Sanders’s people on the Democratic platform committee was not in tune with your usually solid editorials.
Hillary had to deal with Sanders’s strength with the large segment of the electorate who supported him. Sanders tapped into a real spirit of discontent among many Americans, especially among the so-called millennials, who do not want to go into lifelong debt for attending college and would like affordable medical care.
I do not agree with all of Sanders’s views regarding Israel. But he did live on a kibbutz for a time, and much of his family was murdered in the Holocaust. Sanders voted against the disastrous Iraq war, in which thousands of Americans and countless Iraqis were killed in a quest to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction that never existed. The Iraq war also led to the emergence of ISIS.
Reuven S. Solomon
Forest Hills, NY
Trump Will Pay The Price
Donald Trump will pay the price in November for his arrogant and pretentious attitudes, his insults and mockery of rivals and colleagues, and his presumption of infallibility.
I am one Republican who, while agreeing with a few of his positions, will refrain from voting for Trump because of his insolent and outlandish gestalt.
He boasts that only he is fit to rule because everybody else is either “a loser” or not strong, good looking, or rich enough. Only he can fix our problems. Only he has the right to hide his income tax returns and only he can babble endlessly about how he’ll make America great again without giving any substantive details.
Before I would even think of supporting him, he’d have to absorb 100 lessons in humility, ask for forgiveness from a host of people, and begin to learn how to serve others.
Ray Kestenbaum
Rego Park, NY
Israel’s Peaceful Example
Israel is constantly working to establish cordial relationships with other countries. That’s a good way to encourage peace on earth. Now imagine if only Arab countries were to do likewise…