05 Jul
FREE PAPER
Dear Editor:
I just picked up my first copy of The Vues today and I loved it! So many great ads and stories and sources of information!
However, please, if possible add the word “FREE” onto the front cover. I know that the magazine is considered free especially due to the way it is being distributed but I’d like to be extra careful about issues of theft so please add that word to the front like MetroNews for instance did.
Have a great week!
Editor’s Note: Your suggestion is a good one; however it would be cheapening our paper.
EMBARRASSING SITUATION
Dear Editor:
I was in front of a store upstate and someone who wasn’t even wearing a shirt started yelling at me. I think he really doesn’t want us coming up for the summer. Maybe we should stop coming upstate and stay where we live so we will avoid another embarrassment (like your pimples are ugly.)
Simcha Dicker
Editor’s Note: I’m not sure what your pimples have to do with you’re being embarrassed… The other guy should probably be embarrassed since he wasn’t wearing a shirt. You have to know where insults are coming from and just be proud you are a frum Jew.
COUNTRY VUES
Dear Editor:
My family loves your question of the week page. For last week’s question about the 3 dinner guests my entire colony was discussing it the entire weekend. We all loved Reb Dovid Feinstein’s response the most that he would invite 3 aniyim. It is a typical response of Reb Dovid.
Editors Note: The posuk says, “V’yihiyu aniyim bnei vaisecha.”
DINNER GUESTS
Dear Editor:
My entire family was discussing your 3 dinner guest question page. We loved all the answers that were given, but why did Benny Friedman say Sandy Koufax?
Editor’s Note: I think you will have to ask Benny Friedman himself. I couldn’t answer on his behalf.
POPULATION EXPLOSION
Dear Editor:
I haven’t been to the mountains in a few years and I am amazed at how busy and how large the grocery stores are. There must be over 100,000 Jews that come to the Catskills over the summer.
Editor’s Note: Kein Yirbu. I hope we all go up together en masse to Yerushalayim with Moshiach.
JACKET OR NO JACKET
Dear Editor:
I just wanted to tell you that last week I sent in a letter that you published about not wearing a jacket to Viznitz and how someone came over to me and told me that the rebbe requested that I should wear a jacket to davening. Well this person read the letter in last weeks Country Vues and knew that it was me that wrote the letter. He came over and apologized and gave me an aliyah this past Thursday, (even though I still wasn’t wearing a jacket).
Editor’s Note: Glad that your jacket issue is reconciled. We are hopeful that in the future all segments of Klal Yisroel will get along. As long as you’re not in a straight jacket we’re good.
REMEMBERING LOBO
Dear Editor:
This past Sunday was the first game that the LOBO team from Green Tree
Acres played without their captain Chaim LOBO Silber. It was a very emotional game and we are looking forward to the Country Vues’ special tribute edition to LOBO at the end of the summer. He was a very special person.
Editor’s Note: True, he was a great person and a big Ba’al Tzedaka. He is sorely missed.
KOSHER POPCORN?
Dear Editor:
I recently attended a movie at the David Marcus playground that was organized by Councilman Greenfield. It was advertised that there would be “free kosher popcorn”. When attending I noticed that the popcorn was being served and provided by the Parks Department out of a machine which they owned and operated. In addition to that I noticed that there was NO supervision or Kosher certification. As a religious Jew and former mashgiach I find this incredibly concerning. I highly suggest that we all take extra precaution the next time this is
advertised and organized.
Sincerely,
Meyer Stern
A concerned Midwood resident
Editor’s Note: You make a very good point. Kosher should be kosher. A side point; is going to a movie kosher?