06 Feb SPEAK YOUR VUES WITH THE VUES MASTER

JV CHAYALIM LETTER CAMPAIGN
Dear Vues Master
My 3rd grade class two weeks ago wrote letters for the
Chayalim in the Jewish Vues letter campaign. I just wanted
to thank you for delivering them directly to the chayalim.
The kids enjoyed making them very much. We love the
Jewish Vues!
Vues Master’s Note: We were overwhelmed with the response
that we received to the letter campaign. We received over
2500 letters in just one week. What made us extra happy was
how many different types of yeshivas sent in letters. Acheinu
Kol Beis Yisrael. We received letters from over 30 yeshivas
including: Torah Vodaath, Mir, Chaim Berlin, Maagen
David, Shulamith etc. The chayalim appreciated them very
much. Thank you Jewish Vues readers for your amazing
response!

INSPECTOR RICHIE TAYLOR
Is it possible?
Is it possible that there was a week that Inspector Richie
Taylor’s picture was not in The Jewish Vues? My family
counts every week how many pictures there are in the Jewish
Vues of Inspector Richie Taylor & last week we couldn’t find
any. It’s been years since that happened. Everything ok?
GS
Vues Master’s Note: Good question. Maybe the Inspector
was on vacation. You have to ask him yourself.

RUN FOR THEIR LIVES
Dear Vues Master:
We are slowly going back to our day-to-day, while the lives
of our kidnapped brothers and sisters have halted, while the
lives of their loved ones have been left shattered. Their lives
cannot be forgotten. We need to ACTIVELY do something.
But what!? I opened a local chapter of the now global
initiative called Run For Their Lives. Just 18 minutes of your
Sunday morning dedicated to continue raising awareness to
the hostages. This is not a rally or a protest. It is a weekly
gathering in Marine Park where we walk together in the name
of those kidnapped. Everyone is welcome. Men, women and
children (and pets). Bring a friend, bring a flag and help raise
awareness to Bring Them Home Now!
MPW
Vues Master’s Note: “Anu Ratzim! Ve’Hem Ratzim!”

KOL HAKAVOD
Dear Vues Master
I just wanted to tell you how much my family has appreciated
the Eretz Yisrael coverage in the Jewish Vues since the war

started. The Jewish Vues is the only local paper that has
consistently great articles from great authors about the latest
news in Israel. Keep up the good work.
Vues Master’s Note: We love compliments. Thanks.

CHOICE OF WORDS
Dear Vues Master:
Just in case the pro Israel group have any doubt for even
a split second that they’re on the right side of history, you
don’t have to look too far to remind yourself who stands by
Hamas and who stands by Israel. A good place to start is
the internet. Sentences you’ll see in the feed of a pro Israel
activist: “Bring our women and children home.” “Free
Gaza from Hamas.” “We want peace, but not a fake peace,
a sustainable one.” “Every innocent death, on both sides,
is a tragedy.” “Rape is never ok and neither is pedophilia
or beheading babies.” Sentences you’ll see in the feed of a
pro-Palestinian activist: “Hitler was right.” “Wipe Israel off
the map.” “Gas the Jews.” “The Jews have big noses.” “The
Jews did 9/11.” “Jews are the new Nazis.” I can go on. If
the internet wasn’t enough to convince you which side is the
moral side, then consider going to a protest of both sides. A
pro Palestinian protest looks something like this. Violence.
Yelling. Calling for genocide. Tons of masks. Flags of
terrorist organizations. Harassing innocent bystanders. A pro
Israel protest looks something like this. Singing. Hugging.
Crying. Calling for the return of innocent hostages. Calling
for a terrorist organization to surrender so the war can end.
Flags of the only democracy in the Middle East. You really
don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see it. Those who support
Israel support freedom. They support human rights. They
support peace. They support people who were persecuted
for thousands of years. Those who support Hamas support
terrorism. They support rape. They support pedophilia by
calling it resistance. They support the beheading of babies,
the denial of the holocaust and the kidnapping of holocaust
survivors. This isn’t a nuanced decision. There is no grey
area here. There is no ‘if’s or ‘but’s. This is good vs evil.
This is radical fundamentalist jihadis against the free world
and basic human freedom. If you can’t see the distinction
clearly, if you still think the two sides in this war are equal,
if you compare October 7th to the retaliation of the IDF, if
you can’t differentiate between one side that does everything
to minimize civilian death and the other that does everything
to maximize civilian death, I don’t know how to say this
nicely so I’m just gonna say it. You are an immoral human
being who has lost all sense of right and wrong. I am deeply
sorry for you that you have proven your moral bankruptcy
and have sided with the side Hitler would have sided with.

That should tell you all you need to know.
Choose morality, choose justice, choose Israel.
Historically, it’s just the smart thing to do.
Hillel Fuld
Vues Master’s Note: It’s time to take action!

GAZA WAR
Dear Vues Master:
A very simple question. Maybe the simplest
of questions. How many terrorists has Israel
eliminated? It’s a very simple question. A
number please. If you can’t answer it, ask
yourself why not. If you’re claiming Israel
has killed tens of thousands of people, how
many of them were Hamas terrorists? The
numbers you are quoting are from Hamas.
According to them, everyone killed was
innocent. Not a single terrorist was eliminated
by Israel in this war. Does that sound logical
to you? So… If you’re quoting their numbers,
you’re either disconnected from reality and
have an intelligence level of… Or… even
worse, you’re an actual terror sympathizer
who knows that they’re quoting Hamas and
doesn’t care, as long as it makes the Jews
look bad. Either way, it’s not a good look and
you should reevaluate your opinion on this
war. And for the sake of clarity and so there
are no mistakes, Israel has eliminated the
majority of Hamas’ terrorist infrastructure and
thousands of terrorists. Israel has done more,
OBJECTIVELY, than any army in history, to
minimize civilian deaths. Every single civilian
death in Gaza, and the numbers are not even
remotely close to the numbers that Hamas is
saying, is on Hamas. They use them as human
shields so that you, yes you, can tell your
friends how horrible Israel is. Hamas fires
tens of thousands of deadly rockets into dense
Israeli cities and they do it from within homes,
kindergartens, mosques, and schools. Israel
retaliates, but not before dropping pamphlets
warning the civilian population to evacuate
the area. Let that sink in. Israel announces
when it’s going to attack and where. If Israel
didn’t do that, Hamas would have been a thing
of the past long ago. The only reason Hamas
still exists is because they know full well just
how moral the IDF is and they know full well
that when they fire from within a nursery; that
Israel won’t retaliate. And they’re right. Israel
won’t. If Israel wasn’t the moral army it is,
Gaza would be flattened and Hamas would
be obliterated. The reality though is that the
only figures available about Gaza casualties
are from Hamas. And forget the fact that they
claim that not one terrorist was eliminated,
how about the fact that Israel is still identifying
bodies from October 7th all these months later,
but somehow, Hamas is able to declare that
tens of thousands were killed? They must be
magicians or something. So let’s just say this
loud and clear. Israel has not killed tens of
thousands of innocent Gazans. That is a lie and
a blood libel. But every single innocent death
is a tragedy, and that tragedy is on Hamas.
They bank on dead Gazans. It’s their best PR
tool. And you buy right into it. And one cannot
talk about Gazans without mentioning that
even the so-called innocent people celebrated

October 7th. According to all polls, the vast
majority (according to some, up to 90%)
support Hamas. So even those innocents who
were killed were far from innocent (There are
of course actual innocent people in Gaza. They
are the minority and they are silent, thereby

deeming them completely irrelevant.) The so-
called journalists who died in Gaza were not

journalists. They were terrorists with a vest that
said press. The UN employees killed in Gaza?
Full blown terrorists with a UN costume.
Even the teenagers in Gaza can be seen with
machine guns and Hamas headbands. The
most tragic of all are the kids. The kids of
Gaza are indoctrinated from day one to hate
and murder Jews. And again, Hamas uses them
as a pawn so the world will say that Israel is
killing kids. So let’s just sum this up. Not only
are the numbers you’re quoting ridiculous
and clearly false, but by quoting them, you
are literally acting as Hamas’ PR team. They
try to maximize civilian deaths so that people
like you, and publications like CNN will talk
about all the innocent deaths. Stop working
for Hamas. Stop spreading blood libels. Israel
hasn’t killed thousands or tens of thousands of
innocents. Israel has done everything to avoid
civilian deaths. That is the truth. Those are
the facts. The rest is propaganda. In a moral
society, when a mother loses her child, she
mourns. In Palestinian society, she celebrates
the death assuming his death led to dead Jews.
And if it did, the mother celebrates, and the
streets of Gaza celebrate. They celebrate with
fireworks, with candies, with marches, and
with more violence. It’s a society rotten to the
core and the sooner the world internalizes that,
the sooner the world can denazify Palestinian
society. It’s not a question of ‘If’. Palestinian
society must be denazified, and hopefully
sooner than later so that October 7th doesn’t
come to a theater near you because make
no mistake, that is Hamas’ intention. When
someone says they want to kill you and your
family, it’s probably a good idea to believe
them. Just sayin.
Hillel Fuld
Vues Master’s Note: Let’s be zocheh to
Moshiach!

HASHEM
Dear Vues Master:
Hillel Fuld wrote last week about the Holocaust
and the repeat of Oct. 7 and how Never Again
did happen again. He says there is one
difference and that is that today we have the
IDF. I am sure he did not realize the way he
expressed himself is Kochi V’Otzem Yadi. If
Hashem is not behind the IDF, then the IDF has
no strength whatsoever, which is what played
out on Oct. 7, where the evil Hamas was able
to do what they did. Binyamin Netanyahu has
been peppering all his talks “with Hashem’s
help”. It behooves Hillel Fuld to remember to
do the same!!!
BL
Vues Master’s Note: Who knows why this war
is taking so long? Maybe Hashem is teaching
us that there should not be Kochi Ve’Otzem
Yadi”

YELLING KILL THE JEWS
Dear Vues Master:
Should college students have a right to shout
“Kill the Jews” on campus? The director of a
prominent Center for the Study of Hate thinks
so. Kenneth Stern, director of Bard College’s
hate studies center, explained his controversial
position during a January 31 webinar sponsored
by the University of London’s Birkbeck
Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. “If
a student merely expresses something, like ‘I
think all Jews should be killed,’ it should be
condemned, but to say ‘you can’t say it,’ is a
problem on many levels,” Stern asserted. In
his view, universities should have rules only
“about harassment, intimidation, and bullying,
not political statements about Israel.” He also
argued that “There’s a difference between
saying it with a bunch of folks with baseball
bats next to you, or just expressing it.” There
are three serious problems with Stern’s
position. The first is that he implicitly puts
slogans about killing Jews or “Zionists” in the
category of “political statements about Israel.”
But in the real world, chanting in support
“more Intifadas” means calling for more
suicide bombings, shootings, and stabbings of
Jews. Chanting in support of “liberating all of
Palestine” means urging the destruction of the
State of Israel and the mass murder of Israeli
Jews. October 7 has demonstrated that beyond
any doubt. Such rhetoric is not “political.” It’s
anti-Jewish hate. The second problem is that
Stern seems to think a hater needs to be flanked
by comrades who are armed with deadly
weapons in order for his hateful expressions
to constitute a threat. That underestimates the
danger posed by lone wolf haters. The third
problem with Stern’s formulation is that he is
speaking in the abstract, instead of recognizing
the reality at many universities today. He
depicts those who are mouthing anti-Jewish
hatred on campuses as isolated individuals,
when in fact they often are part of mobs that
are marching, threatening, and besieging
Jewish students. From a legal standpoint,
Stern portrays this as a free speech issue, but
it’s not. Every university has a code of conduct
to which students must adhere. All such codes
require students to refrain from taking actions
that make other students feel threatened. Thus
a university administration does not even
have to regard “Kill the Jews” (or “More
Intifadas!” Or “From the River to the Sea!”)
as antisemitic in order to penalize students for
yelling it—it’s sufficient that the slogan makes
Jewish students feel threatened. The broader
problem with Stern’s perspective on “Kill
the Jews” rhetoric is that he does not believe
Jewish college students in America today are
facing any serious or imminent danger. He
said in the webinar that incidents of Jewish
college students being physically assaulted are
“not ubiquitous, although one is too many.”
They may or may not be ubiquitous, depending
on how many attacks it takes to qualify for that
designation. But Stern’s choice of words, and
his overall tone, created the impression that the
number of such incidents is not significant. In
reality, there have been many reported attacks,

and undoubtedly others that have not been
reported. Pro-Hamas students at Ohio State
University spat upon Jewish students (Oct.18),
threw pennies at Jewish students (Oct.20),
assaulted two Jewish students while calling
them “kike Zionists” (Nov. 10), and hurled
bottles at a Jewish fraternity house while
shouting antisemitic slogans (Dec. 3). Hamas
supporters surrounded and pushed a Jewish
student outside the Harvard Business School
(Oct. 18) and beat up three Jewish students
near the Tulane University campus (Oct. 26).
They wrecked a hostages information table
at the City College of New York, seizing its
pamphlets and destroying its posters (Nov.2).
At the University of Massachusetts-Amherst
on November 3, a Jewish student was setting
up a symbolic Shabbat table at a vigil to call
attention to the Israeli hostages. A pro-Hamas
student in a nearby building began shouting
vulgarities at him. “Then he charged out of the
building and punched me in the head several
times,” the Jewish student recounted.“I put my
hands up to protect my face and he grabbed the
flag and kicked me in the chest several times
and shoved me.” The attacker then took out a
foot-long knife, and “kept stabbing the Israeli
flag until it was completely destroyed.” In
Manhattan, pro-Hamas students physically
trapped Jewish students in a room at the
Cooper Union library, and surrounded and
taunted a Jewish student at the New School.
They blocked a library entrance at the City
College of New York and shoved a cell phone
into the face of a Jewish student passing by,
to record her against her protests. At Rutgers,
Hamas supporters disrupted classes, study
sessions, and meals, and at the University of
California at Berkeley, they grabbed a Jewish
student by the neck and tried to steal his Israeli
flag. At a George Mason University fraternity
house, they assaulted a Jewish student, ripping
his Star of David necklace from his neck.
The list goes on and on—and all of these
incidents go far beyond “expressions.” They
are physical manifestations of the “Kill the
Jews” sentiment that Stern believes all colleges
universities should permit. Numerous
universities are now under investigation by the
Biden administration because of the spread of
antisemitism on their campuses. Regardless
of their findings, it is clear that yelling “Kill
the Jews,” or slogans which in practice mean
the same thing, such as “More Intifadas!” and
“From the River to the Sea!,” violate campus
codes of conduct. The real-world impact of
hate speech matters.
Rafael Medoff
Vues Master’s Note: I wonder if the same would
apply to a white guy saying kill the blacks? Or a
straight guy saying kill the Mishkav Zochor’niks!

WHITE LIE
Dear Vues Master:
An Arab bought a blue dress for his wife from
a Jewish merchant. After the first washing, the
dress lost its color and turned white. The Arab
sought a refund, but the merchant refused.
The Arab took him to court, where the Judge
heard testimony and examined the garment.

“It appears that you have deceived your
customer,” the Judge said. “No, Your Honor,”
responded the merchant. “It is the work of
G-d. My beard proves it. G-d gave it to me
black and now His work has turned fully
white.”
RW
Vues Master’s Note: Just don’t put bleach in
the wash!

MITZVOS
Dear Vues Master:
A miser who never gave tzedakah or let an עני
into his home was once overcome by a feeling
of mercy for a beggar who looked like he
would die of hunger. He had the beggar enter
his home and gave him moldy bread and food
that was past its time. No sooner had the ינע
finished eating when he grabbed his stomach,
which was stricken by food poisoning. The
הבית בעל gave him a place to lie down and
periodically checked up on him. But that
same night he died. The people of the town
observed that the קמצן in one day and at one
time was מקיים three מצוות which don’t have
a שיעור. The three were
“.הכנסת אורחים, ביקור חולים, ולויית המת
TS
Vues Master’s Note: On this guy it says in the
passuk “Al Tehi Tzaddik Harbeh!”

YOUNG AMERICANS HATING
ISRAEL
Dear Vues Master:
Young Americans are turning against Israel,
and that’s Israel’s fault, says New York Times
columnist Ezra Klein. Is he right? In a
major January 27 op-ed, Klein pointed to a
recent poll showing only 27% of Americans
aged 18 to 29—known as “Gen Z”—are more
sympathetic to Israel than to the Palestinian
Arabs, as compared to 63% of Americans
who are 65 or older. According to Klein, that’s
because of the policies of Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, since young Americans
“know only Netanyahu’s Israel.” Does that
mean all Gen Zers were pro-Israel when the
left-of-center Yair Lapid was prime minister
fourteen months ago? Hardly. The real reason
for hostility toward Israel among that age
bracket is their ignorance of the history and
facts of the Arab-Israeli conflict, not the specific
polices of a particular prime minister. Israel
is not to blame if many young people choose
to base their views on misleading Instagram
photos, biased college professors, and radical
ideologies that falsely paint Israel as a “white
supremacist” state. Nor is ignorance among
the younger generation about foreign affairs a
new problem in America. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt was bothered by it, too. In the
1930s, polls found 63% of college students
favored unilateral American disarmament
and many thousands of them signed a public
pledge declaring, “We will not support the
U.S. government in any war it may conduct.”
They couldn’t be bothered to read up on what
was happening in Nazi Germany and the
threat Hitler posed to world peace. They were
worried about being drafted. They preferred

sweet fantasies of peace to the reality of a
world headed for war. And some just wanted
to mimic “what the cool kids were doing”—
they saw that many British university students
were signing the Oxford Pledge, vowing that
“under no circumstances” would they “fight for
[their] king and country.” In 1934, 25,000

American college students took part in a one-
hour walkout from classes to demonstrate their

opposition to U.S. involvement in any war. The
strike mushroomed to 175,000 participants in
1935, then 500,000 in 1936— nearly half the
national college student population. The
student anti war movement began to crack when
communist-aligned students changed their
position—again and again—not as a result of
studying the facts but out of obedience to their
party. For them, ignorance was truly bliss. In
the early 1930s, the Soviet Union preferred that
America keep out of European affairs, so their
followers on U.S. college campuses promoted
the antiwar strike. But when the Spanish civil
war erupted in 1936 and the Kremlin backed
Spain’s leftwing government, its campus
sympathizers suddenly dropped their calls
for American isolationism. Then when the
Soviets signed their nonaggression pact with
Nazi Germany three years later, their followers
all went back to urging America to stay out
of Europe’s conflicts. When the Soviets
invaded Finland in November 1939, American
communist college students defended the
attack and denounced President Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s proposal for modest financial aid
to the Finns. Not long afterwards, FDR gave
a previously-scheduled address to thousands of
activists from the American Youth Congress—
including many of his communist critics.
He decided to give them a piece of his mind.
The students’ claim that aid to Finland would
“force America into an imperialistic war” was,
the president said, “unadulterated twaddle.”
He repeated that slap for emphasis. Roosevelt
called their position “about the silliest thing
that I have ever heard in my fifty-eight years of
life.” Note the contrast between Roosevelt’s
response to his youthful critics and the recent
responses by President Joe Biden to pro-Hamas
protesters. On two occasions when hecklers
shouted at Biden over Gaza, he responded
that he was pressuring Israel to slow down its
actions against Hamas and to withdraw from
Gaza. He treated the protesters’ shouts as
reasonable, persuasive arguments and sought
to convince them he was already doing his best
to implement their demands. Not Roosevelt.
He considered his pro-Soviet student critics
to be ignoramuses, and told them so. Despite
audible boos from the crowd, he admonished
the students that their positions were “based
perhaps on sincerity, but, at the same time,
on 90 per cent ignorance” of the subject
matter. “There is room for improvement in
common-sense thinking and definite room for
improvement in the art of not passing resolutions
concerning things one doesn’t know anything
about,” the president said. He characterized
his student critics as “young people [who]
get a smattering of the subject from two or
three speakers who themselves have but a

smattering on the subject.” Has the political
climate on America’s campuses changed very
much since then? Whether Communist Party
members then or Israel-haters now, campus
political activity is often steered by a handful
of ideologically-driven militants. Particular
social, economic, or political circumstances
create opportunities to attract sympathetic
students—not because many students are
deeply acquainted with the relevant history, but
precisely because they are not. Probably very
few American college students in the 1930s
had read Mein Kampf; probably very few

today are aware of the discovery of Arabic-
language copies of Mein Kampf in Gaza.

Those members of Gen Z who are marching for
Hamas or telling pollsters they oppose Israel
are driven by a variety of motives. For many,
old fashioned ignorance or personal factors
such as a desire to join a popular cause may
determine whether they march against Israel,
as their predecessors marched for isolationism
in the 1930s. Whatever their motives, however,
the real-world impact of their activities must be
considered. Their actions back then contributed
to America’s aloofness in the face of Hitler’s
outrages against the Jews and fascist aggression
in Spain, Ethiopia, and China. Their actions
today are undermining America’s support for
an ally fighting for its very survival.
Rafael Medoff
Vues Master’s Note: I think they all hate the
Jew just some hide it better!

ROUND AND ROUND
Dear Vues Master:
Everyone in town was invited to a wedding
celebration, but the poor were seated in a
corner of the hall, where they were paid little
attention. At one point, the רב rose to speak
and told the newly married couple that they
should always remember that what goes
around comes around. “It’s not true,” one עני
said to another. “Look, the waiters are going
around with platters of food, but they’re not
coming around to us.”
AK
Vues Master’s Note: I guess that is why
the rich are rolling in dough! They are well
rounded!

LEFT BEHIND
Dear Vues Master:
Although there is an Avrohom Fried album
titled “No Jew will be left Behind”, when
the Yiden left Mitzrayim four-fifths got
left behind. One of them was a man named
Nochum as it says at the beginning of Parshas
Beshalach “Va’yehi Be’shalach Paroah
es Ha’um ve’loi Nochum”. Many of you
may have heard this but do you know why
he couldn’t leave? During the mako of
Choshech, he sold candles to the Mitzrayim.
In addition to him staying in Mitzrayim,
he was punished by having his candles
permanently boycotted from being used
for Shabbos. For those who say Ba’meh
Madlikin, we see that it mentions all those
types of candles that cannot be used. Among
them is “Cheilev Nochum”. It happened

once in a public forum that a prominent
person named Nochum was called out by a
speaker during Shabbos Parshas Beshalach.
He retorted “Derech Eretz, Pelishtim!”. The
Yidden got the Toirah in the Midbar. But you
may have wondered that in order to study it
and learn all the mitzvos, they had to have
seforim. In Mitzrayim there were methods of
printing books using hieroglyphics but in the
midbar there were no printing presses. Where
did they get sefarim? Well, it says in the
next posuk, “va’Chamushim ulu bnei Yisroel
mei’eretz Mitzrayim”. Greece is known in the
secular world as the “Cradle of Democracy”.
However, the real cradle was when the
Yiden left Mitzrayim they camped in a place
formerly called Pisoim. Now, it was where
they were able to practice their religion; where
freedom of speech and other first amendment
rights were guaranteed . It became known as
“Pi Hacheruth”. It is commonly accepted that
the learning of Daf Yomi began on the first
day of Rosh Hashanah 5684 (11 September
1923)over a hundred years ago. However, not
only did the Yidden leaving Mitzraim have
Chamushim, but they also learnt Daf Yomi.
It says in posuk “Loi yumish amud ha’unun
yoimum v’amud hu’aish lailu lifnei hu’um”.
The Yidden learnt an amud by day and were
mashlim the daf with an amud by night.
They also learnt Rambam. Pharaoh would
say “nevuchim heim ba’ertez” but he didn’t
know that Moshe was the original “Moreh
Nevuchim”. How did Pharaoh know that
the Yiden weren’t coming back? They were
supposed to go to the midbar for 3 days to
serve Hashem. He sent a drone to keep them
under surveillance. It says, he was told “ki
baruch ha’um”. The Yidden, after bringing
korbanois had a seudah and they bentched. If
they weren’t returning after bentching, Paraoh
knew they weren’t returning. So Pharaoh
chased after them. The Yidden were frantic
as they saw the Mitzriyim behind them and
Yam in the distance in front of them. Moshe
reassured them. “Don’t worry. We will cross
the Yam when we get to it.” Why did the
Yidden cross the Yam? To get to the SAME
side. As a postscript to the first story, the one
(a liberal) who was called Pelishtim, went to
an Eretz NochRiya called New York and sued
Nochum for defamation of character. He won
$83.5 million dollars from the jury.
DF
Vues Master’s Note: The courts of Sodom and
Amorah!