18 Jul
HATZALAH IS THERE FOR US
Dear Editor:
I’m glad you let every one know in last weeks “Help Hatzalah Help Klal Yisrael” article last week by Ari Hirsch that Hatzalah is not having a specific Shabbos Hatzalah this summer. Shabbos Hatzalah is every Shabbos and if your colony would like to make an appeal, please make it on a busy Shabbos. Hatzalah is always there for us, we should be there for them. Tizku Lmitzvos!
A Catskill Hatzalah member
Editor’s Note: Hatzalah comes within minutes of a call, the community should respond to their plea for funds just as quickly!
SUMMER CONCERTS
Dear Editor:
Just wondering is the Country Vues making any concerts this summer upstate?
A big Country Vues & Jewish music fan.
Editor’s Note: Stay tuned. If we do make a concert, it will definitely be publicized in our magazine!
SMART SHOPPING
Dear Editor:
I’m glad Ari Hirsch asked Rabbi Genack in his interview last week about buying hot coffee at Dunkin Donuts. There are a lot of Dunkin Donuts upstate and I see frum people purchasing coffee in them all the time. I wonder if people know what they are allowed to purchase in non-kosher Dunkin Donuts.
Sheindel Weiss
Editors Note: Thanks for your feedback. As always, speak to your local Orthodox Rav regarding shaalos. We cannot pasken out of a magazine. Every situation is different and needs to be dealt with separately.
FLY ON THE WALL
Dear Editor:
In your fun question last week, you asked if you could be a fly on the wall for any time period in history, when would it be, I have 3 questions. 1)For the people that say Maimid Har sinai- Arent we to believe that all of Klal Yisrael was there? 2) Eli Gerstner answered -in the Bais Hamikdash during the Simchas Beis Hosheava-How could you be a fly in the Beis Hamikdash? 3) For Rabbi Gil Student’s answer – when the Beis Yosef received Smicha-what was so special about that? Looking forward to your answer. By the way my family loves the Country Vues’
fun questions.
Yakov Lamm
Editor’s Note: The term “fly on the wall” is a figurative term that you took to mean literally. Would you think that when one tells a performer, “break a leg” they mean so literally? So lighten up and learn how to understand the English language in its literal and figurative sense.
WHEEL OF MAZEL ARCHIVES
Dear Editor:
I teach high school English and on occasion bring word games to class.
Would it be possible to get back copies of the “Wheel of Mazel” page?
If possible, I’d like word games from as far back as are available.
Thank you.
Mrs. Tzirl Goldman
Editors note: If you go jewishvues.com and go to the wheel of mazel page you can see all the wheel of mazels and their answers for the last couple of
years.
PUZZLED
Dear Editor:
I am somewhat puzzled by the letter written in the new Vues (July 15-July21) complimenting Rabbi Shay Schachter’s article about his father, Harav Hershel Schachter, shlita. I and my wife have looked over last week’s edition (July8-July 14) several times this morning and do not see any article about the Rosh Hayeshiva. Even if the article had been in the magazine the week before that , my wife would probably have seen it and pointed it out to me.
I look forward to your answer.
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Shmuel Plafker
Editor’s Note: There are actually two separate magazines published. The article may have been published in the Country Vues and not in the City Vues. You may want to periodically check out our website jewishvues.com to see both editions each week. That way you are sure not to miss out on any interesting articles!
JURY DUTY
Dear Editor:
Recently a large English language Jewish newspaper had an article about jury duty. The article stated that adult yeshiva students and a woman one month away from her marriage felt that being forced to do jury duty is “abusive”. The article quoted Agudath Yisroel as agreeing that forcing these people to serve on juries is abusive. I admit I am no Talmid Chacham. I am not even that religious. BUT I do know that if yeshiva bochurim were on Sheldon Silver’s corrupt jury the situation for the Orthodox community in NY would be better. Ditto for the sham arrest and targeted prosecution of the builders of Bloomingburg. I bet those in Lakewood wish the yeshiva bochurim would use their Yiddeshe kups to fight to serve on juries and not fight to get out of serving on juries. You can be sure that Jew haters drool at the prospect of working with biased Federal or local investigators and self hating atheistic ‘jewish’ prosecutors. These Jew haters fight to serve on juries and send innocent Jews to prison. I always understood that one of the biggest mitzvas is pidyon shvuyim. So why do these talmidei chachamim try to get out of jury duty? Even more importantly, why does a religious Jewish group like Agudah refer to a Jew being told to do his/her civic responsibility as ‘abusive’? You know what’s abusive? When an innocent Jew is sent to prison and has his/her kosher food stolen by the gentile orderly tasked with distributing the food. Abusive is when Jews are arrested and murdered in prison by Nazis and the FBI and prison authorities work with the murderers and rule the murder is suicide as they did when JDL head Irv Rubin zt”l was murdered. Or when the other head of the JDL Earl Kugel zt”l was murdered in prison by Nazis even though the prison is run by the govenrment and the government is obligated to protect the lives of prisoners. Read what Jon Pollard went through and continues to go through at the hands of gentile Jew haters and their Jewish kapos. I would hope after reading my plea that Jews fight to serve on juries and that Agudah would use their yiddeshe kup to save Jews, not to throw Jews to the lions!
Harry Tabor
Editor’s Note: Not to make light of what you wrote, I happen to agree with you; however, your letter reminded me of a line my friend used to say. “I do not want to be tried by a jury who was not smart enough to get out of Jury Duty!” On a more serious note, unfortunately most people do not realize the importance of Civic Duty.
COUNTRY VUES VS. CITY VUES
Dear Editor:
It bothers me a little that lately, that almost all of the letters printed in the City Vues refer to the Country Vues. I suppose that that is because people in the city aren’t writing.
But what really bugs me is that you have a letter in the City Vues that refers to an article that wasn’t in the City Vues at all. Even worse, why wasn’t it in the City Vues? I read it online and it was a very nice article, indeed, about Rabbi Krohn, SHLITA.
ZF
Editor’s Note: Please see the response to the letter PUZZLED. We will print all letters in both editions. We encourage our readership from both editions to write in and communicate!