26 Jul Your Turn to Speak
RESPONSES
Dear Editor:
Last week a writer was complaining that storeowners have to pay a fine of 250 dollars for keeping the doors open when the air conditioner is on and you responded, let them keep the doors closed.
A while back another person wrote that Boro Park has 400 school buses a day and the children have to inhale the air pollution from these buses and you responded that you wish there were 800 school buses a day.
Are you trying to entertain with you sarcastic humorless answers? Are you being funny because it does not affect you personally? You remind me of my chavrusa in the yeshiva who had the same attitude as you as long it did not touch him. Are you the same person as he?
Simcha Feld
Editor’s Note: It could be I’m your chavrusa. When and where did we learn together?
CHILLUL HASHEM
Dear Editor:
This Summer seems to have a bumper crop of Orthodox not following traffic laws and becoming shondas for the goyim. There seems to be many accidents involving Orthodox, a huge number of tickets being given out and a large number of Orthodox drivers driving around as if they are semi-retarded, lost and the only one on the road, swerving from lane to lane, slowing down in the left lane of the Quickway while they figure out which exit they want to get off. Whatever the reason for this problem is, do you really believe putting up signs in Yiddish telling the morons to drive carefully will solve the problem? It would be interesting to tally the number of tickets and accidents the Orthodox get during the two months they spend in the Country, to see if Orthodox get into a disproportionate number of accidents or tickets while they are here or if it just EVERYONE’s imagination.
Harry Tabor
Editor’s Note: You make a very good point; that we all have to drive more carefully. If those signs help at least one person improve their driving, it will be all worth it.
RABBI MEIR KAHANE
Dear Editor:
This week would have been Rabbi Meir Kahane’s 84th birthday. What do you think he would have thought about the presidential election in America?
R. Mann
Editor’s Note: I think he would have said that everyone should move to Israel. And I believe he would have said that during any election.
MINGLING WITH GOYIM
Dear Editor:
In a recent letter which you printed, a writer referring to the lack of modesty in dress some women are exhibiting while in the mountains said they are asking for it. This sounds more in line with sharia thought!
I had and still have non-Jewish friends. I visited their homes & they visited mine with the understanding I kept kosher. Indeed when at the 1964 World’s Fair, rather than have me eat alone at the only stand offering kosher food and rejoining them later they opted to eat with me and pay the significant difference between what they would have paid for non-kosher food. You wrote: “We are not allowed to honor a non-Jew”-I guess such thinking would exclude Wallenberg & Mother Teresa!
Martin Boxer
Editor’s Note: I don’t think anyone ever mentioned the term asking for it. When we discuss modesty for women, it is not so much for the woman’s benefit, than it is for the men’s benefit and no one would excuse any immoral behavior by men and or women. Regarding honoring a non-Jew, if a person helps society he should be honored. We were discussing sports figures who do not help society. They are just occupied playing games and are therefore off the streets. They should not be honored.
FIX IT ALREADY
Dear Editor:
When are they going to fix the parking lot next to the Woodbourne shul already? Every week I see another car getting stuck getting in or out of that parking lot.
F.R.N.
Editor’s Note: I would suggest you speak to the DOT of Woodbourne. They may have an answer for you.
GREAT INTERVIEW
Dear Editor:
I really loved the interview that Ari Hirsch did with Avraham Fried. I really liked his question about Elie Weisel. Please have Ari do more interviews with Jewish musicians.
Editor’s Note: I agree with you. Interviews with Rabbanim and Jewish singers are probably more beneficial than interviews with sports figures.