26 Mar SPEAK YOUR VUES WITH THE VUES MASTER

THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN
Dear Vues Master
Please thank Councilwoman Inna Vernikov for her op-ed.
So many people appreciate her efforts, even though they do
so quietly. Chazak!
PB
Vues Master’s Note:

It is nice to see a leader in the city council that is not anti-
semitic!

HOSTAGES
Dear Vues Master
Every American should understand what happened this
past Monday – if G-d forbid you are ever taken hostage
by terrorists, your government is prepared to abandon you
rather than defeat those who are holding you. Don’t be deeply
disturbed, disappointed and outraged at the US vote in the
UN today calling for a ceasefire without mentioning Hamas
only because you support Israel. Be outraged because you
are an American and there are 6 Americans still being held
hostage in Gaza – Edan Alexander, 19. Itay Chen, 19. Omer
Neutra, 22. Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23. Sagui Dekel-Chen,
35 and Keith Siegel, 64. They deserve elected leaders who
help Israel do everything and anything to get them back and
to defeat Hamas, not call for a ceasefire.
REG
Vues Master’s Note: America can not be relied on anymore.
They are pandering to the Moslem vote!

WE ARE SAFE WITH THE CHIEF
Dear Vues Master
I’m so glad that you received a quote last week from Chief
Richie Taylor about the cancellation of the Israel real estate
event in Brooklyn. We all knew that the cops never told
anyone in Flatbush not to hold the event. It was just a few
“askanim” that made up the whole thing. We are very proud
of our men in blue and feel confident that they can do their
jobs properly & protect us. I was telling everyone last week
that being in Richie Taylor’s neighborhood, we will always
get adequate protection. Between the NYPD & the Flatbush
Shomrim I feel safe in Flatbush.
MT
Vues Master’s Note: We are only safe when we follow
Hashem.

CHAREDI EXEMPTIONS
Dear Vues Master
The Netanyahu government decided this past Monday to

remove an element of its outline for a chareidi conscription

law due to an objection by Attorney General Gali Baharav-
Miara, who argued that it would interfere with their basic

right to pursue employment. The outline would raise the
age at which chareidi men are exempt from military service
from 26 to 35. Chareidim receive annual exemptions from
military service so long as they are studying in a yeshivah or
kollel. In a March 24 letter to Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs,
Baharav-Miara argued that “postponement of the exemption
age raises considerable constitutional difficulties, including
from the view of equality and freedom of occupation.” She
cited Israel’s Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation, adopted
in 1994, which states: “Every citizen or inhabitant of the
State is entitled to engage in any occupation, profession or
trade.”
CD
Vues Master’s Note: As we always say and know that the
army does not want a bunch of Na Nachs running to the
mikvah all the time!!

COUNCILPERSON
Dear Vues Master
My family loved Councilwomans Inna Vernikovs OP-ED
in last week’s edition. Someone needed to say it & Inna said
it. Thank you Inna!
LP
Vues Master’s Note: We need some more outspoken people
on the city council!

MISHLOACH MANOS
Dear Vues Master
Last week’s quote of the week by Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
was great. I took a picture of it & sent it to all my friends.
People overdo it when it comes to Mishloach Manos these
days.
PD
Vues Master’s Note: As long as it is in good spirit and fun
why not over do it! We overdo it when it comes to Pesach
also!

SCHUMER NO SHOMER
Dear Vues Master
Schumer is no shomer yisroel. He is a self hating Jew. I
can’t believe he gave that speech last week. I am so glad
the Jewish Vues made a bashing Schumer section last week.
LR
Vues Master’s Note: Whatever we did, it was not enough!

ES BRENT IT IS BURNING
Dear Vues Master
I am finding great difficulty in finding the
words that can best express my views on
the applicable timing today of this song.
The song was prompted by one Mordechai
Gebirtig due to the pogrom in 1936 in the
Polish city of Przytyk. I hope to have the
time for the next issue to explain my take
on today’s relevance of this sad Yiddish
song. In the meantime I implore all the
readers to pay attention to the words of
the late Gebirtig. Those of my generation
remember well the sad words – and those
who are fortunate not to have lived through
the Gehenom of those times- try looking up
this sad sad song . To be continued…..
RLF
Vues Master’s Note: We always knew that if
it hurts we scream and we need to scream
big-time we have Hostages needing our
help!!

HITLER
Dear Vues Master
Last week a letter was printed that said,
“Hitler reacted by making the Jews go on
the streets and lick the sidewalks.” In my
opinion this is vulgar and מאוס and not
worthy of being printed. Our yiddishe
neshama is harmed by reading evil things.
LC
Vues Master’s Note: Oh! So should we
forget about the Holocaust? Our neshama
must truly feel what our ancestors suffered!!

PURIM TORAH
Dear Vues Master
King Achashverosh was *Finnish* with
his disobedient wife Vashti. “You *Congo*
now!” he ordered her. After she had
*Ghana* way, the king’s messengers went
*Roman* the land to find a new queen.
*Iran* around all over and *India* end, the
beautiful Esther won the crown. Meanwhile,
Mordechai sat outside the palace, where the
*Chile* Haman would *Czech* up on him
daily. “I *Haiti* you because you refuse to
bow to me!” Haman scolded Mordechai.
“*USA* very stubborn man. You Jews
are such *Bahamas*! If you keep this up,
*Denmark* my words! I will have all your
people killed! Just *Kuwait* and see, you
*Turkey*! “ Mordechai went into mourning
and tore his clothes–a custom known as
*Korea*. He urged Esther to plead with the
king. The Jews fasted for three days and
grew very *Hungary*. Esther approached
the king and asked, ‘*Kenya* *Belize*
come to a banquet I’ve prepared for you and
Haman?” At the feast, she invited her guests
to a second banquet to eat *Samoa*. The
king asked, “Esther, why *Jamaica* big
meal like this? Just tell me what you want.

Up to half my *United Kingdom* will I give
you.” Esther replied, “*Spain* full for me to
say this, but Haman is *Russian* to kill my
people.” Haman’s loud *Wales* could be
heard as he carried *Honduran* this scene.
“*Oman*!” Haman cried bitterly. “*Iraq*
my brains in an effort to destroy the Jews.
But that sneaky Mordechai – *Egypt* me!
“ Haman and his ten sons were hanged and
went immediately to the *Netherlands*.
And to *Sweden* the deal, the Jews were
allowed to *Polish* off the rest of their
foes as well. “You lost your enemies and
*Uganda* friend,” the king smiled. And
that is why the Purim story Israeli a miracle.
G-d decided to *China* light on His chosen
people. So now, let’s celebrate! Forget all
your *Syria’s* business and just be happy!
*Serb* up some wine and **Taiwan**on !!
Happy Purim!!!
Country Yossi
Vues Master’s Note: Great Purim Torah

DAF YOMI & SOLUTIONS TO
HUMANITARIAN & MILITARY
CRISES IN GAZA
Dear Vues Master
Notwithstanding the United Nations
Security Council vote of this past Monday,
Shushan Purim, whose full or even partial
compliance is still far from guaranteed as
this issue went to press, there is pressure for
the Israelis not only to stop fighting (without
even getting any hostages back at that time
– let alone all of them, as required by the
resolution), and not only to allow more
humanitarian help to reach the “civilians” in
Gaza, but even to pay for the humanitarian
aid, either directly or indirectly, even though
many of these civilians voted for Hamas
to take power, supported what happened
on October 7th, and continue to harbor
hostages. The daf yomi in the Gemarah
that was studied through the world as this
paper went into press (Baba Metzia 28)
discusses what happens if a person finds
lost property that works and eats, such as
an animal that can be harnessed to pull a
plough which pulls in income. In that case,
the finder should maintain the animal while
trying to ascertain who lost it; however, if
the lost and found property is an animal that
just eats without producing any revenue,
the animal should not be retained while
the search for the owner continues but
should be sold — not even that it may be
sold; but it shall be sold. The reasoning, as
per the Shitah Mekubetzet, cited by Rabbi
Rosner in his Daf Yomi shiur, is drachehah
darkhei noam, the ways of G-d are ways
of pleasantness. There is a limit to the
“impositions” expected of a good Samaritan
– or of a good Gemarah-following Jew, to
care for any of G-d’s creatures, but only if

they cannot care for themselves, or pay their
own way, one way or another. (There are
always enough people in this world in need
of assistance who do not have rich relatives
or big brothers in rich governments or
international aid entities, and these people
who have nobody else to help them and no
other government or U.N. assistance should
presumably get priority.) So what is the
relevance of this discussion in the Gemara
to the poor now- homeless Arabs in Gaza?
In a sane and fair world, Israel might – or
might not — be expected to cooperate even
more than they already are in transporting
humanitarian aid and assistance to civilians
in Gaza while these civilians are in limbo
like the lost and found animal referred to in
the Gemara ; but in a sane and fair world,
Hamas-controlled Arabs in Gaza should not
be harboring hostages; Hamas-controlled
Gazans should not be attacking convoys
bearing humanitarian aid; and Hamas itself
should not be launching missiles against the
Israelis (including, in effect, against fellow
Arabs who find themselves in harm’s way
and range). Arab civilians in Gaza should
have been earning money invested in
industry and farming from the millions of
dollars sent to them for assistance over the
years; and neighboring Arabs with unlimited
petrodollars should be expected to provide
assistance and refuge, and to reimburse
the Israelis for their assistance to fellow
Arabs. But in the world we live in, most
of the “humanitarian” assistance sent to
the Arabs in Gaza since the Israelis handed
the region back to the Arabs about 20 years
ago has been spent on destructive tunnels
instead of constructive infrastructure to
enable the Gazans to support themselves
and to have money left over to give to the
Israelis to help transport humanitarian aid
to them. Actually, the Israelis did leave
very productive greenhouses behind, nearly
20 years ago, but the Gazans cut their
respective noses to spite their contorted
faces by burning the greenhouses to the
ground until they were charred and black,
eliminating sources of support given to them
on a silver platter, thoughts of repercussions
not to matter. There is a simple solution to
the problem. The world should insist on (1)
capturing or “neutralizing” or helping Israel
to capture or “neutralize” the terrorists
including the leaders that they follow who
stole much of the “humanitarian” aid over
the past 20 years, through to the present,
and who converted it to destructive tunnels
and weapons, (2) recovering the money
skimmed off by the upper echelons of the
terrorists now living in luxury in Qatar and
elsewhere, and stashed away in Swiss bank
accounts or other locations and investments,
and (3) providing the means and assistance

for Gazans to work for their sustenance,
with no more raw materials that can be
utilized to construct tunnels and weapons.
Drachehah darchei noam. The ways of G-d
are ways of pleasantness. If only the ways
of more politicians, diplomats, and other
decision-makers throughout the world, let
alone ordinary citizens, would follow the
ways of G-d more closely. The writer is
an attorney who devoted some time, as a
student, volunteering in a religious kibbutz
near the Gaza border, and knows from
experience how productive this area can be,
notwithstanding the proximity of Jews to
Arabs in the region.
Rabbi Aaron I. Reichel, Esq.
Vues Master’s Note: History repeats itself
and it is all in the Torah!

SOCIOLOGIST ON THE
WARPATH—AGAINST ISRAEL
Dear Vues Master
October 7 and its aftermath should be prime
material for America’s tens of thousands
of sociologists. Those who study the
factors that shape social behavior should
be keenly interested in questions such as:
What moves people to join terrorist groups
that fire rockets into kindergartens? What
influences civilians to accompany and
assist gangs of killers on a cross-border
murder-and-rape spree? What inspires
people around the world to deny or justify
ghastly atrocities against Jews? Yet instead
of examining these important questions,
a number of extremists in the world of
sociology are promoting a resolution about
Gaza that pretends the October 7 attack
never happened and claims Israel launched
a genocidal campaign against the people of
Gaza for no apparent reason. The process
leading up to the proposed resolution began
ten days after the October 7 pogrom, when
2,000 sociologists released a statement
accusing Israel of committing genocide in
Gaza. That was nearly two weeks before
a single Israeli soldier had set foot there.
The sociologists’ statement did not contain
a single word condemning the October
7 massacre. It was just a tirade against
what it called “75 years of settler colonial
occupation and European empire,” that is,
75 years of Israel existing. In the weeks
to follow, a number of the signatories on
that statement established “Sociologists for
Palestine,” which, according to its website,
was created in order to “support and amplify
the work of Faculty for Justice in Palestine
[and] Students for Justice in Palestine.”
FJP and SJP are the organizers of the
extreme and often violent anti-Israel rallies
that are taking place on American college
campuses. They oppose Israel’s existence
and defend the October 7 pogrom. Recently,

573 of these anti-Israel sociologists asked
the American Sociological Association
(ASA) to adopt a virulently anti-Israel
resolution. The ASA’s general membership
will vote on the text in the weeks to
come. The drafters of the resolution were
trained in a profession that emphasizes
dispassionate, scholarly objectivity. Yet
their resolution is a wild anti-Israel screed
that does not even pretend to be objective
or evenhanded. Like last year’s statement,
the proposed resolution does not condemn
the October 7 pogrom. In fact, it does not
even mention the Hamas attack. It depicts
the Mideast events of the past few months
as an unprovoked genocidal aggression
against Gaza by bloodthirsty Israelis. The
resolution compares Israel’s actions in
Gaza to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
If the Ukrainian government had sent an
army of several thousand heavily-armed
soldiers across the Russian border, to
slaughter 1200 Russian civilians, behead
babies, and gang-rape and sexually torture
scores of Russian women, and the Russians
responded by invading Ukraine in pursuit
of the killers, the sociologists’ analogy
would make sense. But since Ukraine did
not do any of that, what the resolution is
saying is that Israel, like Russia, is guilty
of unprovoked aggression against its
peaceful neighbor. Significantly, the draft
resolution invokes an earlier statement by
the American Sociological Association
praising “the hundreds of Indigenous
Nations who continue to resist, live, and
uphold their sacred relations across their
lands.” Since that resolution had nothing
whatsoever to do with Israel or Gaza,
the drafters seem to have brought it into
the resolution in order to suggest that the
Arab residents of Gaza are an indigenous
nation who have the right to “resist.”
That euphemism has been widely used by
pro-Hamas groups to justify the October
7 massacre. Remarkably, the proposed
resolution does not mention Hamas. The
text does cite wildly implausible statistics
from Hamas about civilian casualties
in Gaza, but since the resolution calls
the source of those numbers “the Gaza
Ministry of Health,” those who vote on it
will not know that the information actually

comes from a division of a Holocaust-
denying terrorist organization—not the

kind of source most reasonable people
would consider reliable. As is typical of
contemporary pro-Hamas activists, the
radical sociologists wrap themselves in
fake victimhood. They claim that those
who “support Palestine” have been
“silenced, intimidated, punished, and
harassed” and “often misrepresented as
anti-semitic.” Note the vague terminology

and passive tense; no actual proof of
those charges is provided—because
none exists. In reality, “supporters of

Palestine” are amply represented on op-
ed pages, television shows, podcasts and

countless university podiums. The draft
resolution concludes with a superfluous
declaration of the right of ASA members
“to speak out against Zionist occupation.”
Of course, the United States Constitution
already protects their right to speak out
against anything they choose. But it does
not compel the rest of us to pretend that
“Zionist occupation” is anything but a
thinly-disguised codeword for “Jews.”
Sociologists who are interested in fulfilling
the principles of their profession have
their work cut out for them. If they are as
concerned about women’s rights as they
claim to be, they should be studying the
mental and social factors influencing the
Hamas gang-rapes and sexual mutilations.
If they are as interested in the welfare of
children as they say they are, they should
be analyzing the factors that motivated
Hamas’s decapitation of babies. The
proposed resolution, which in effect
justifies the atrocities as “resistance” to
“genocide,” represents a betrayal of basic
sociological principles and a giant step
backward for the profession.
Rafael Medoff
Vues Master’s Note: Thanks for your
history lesson as always you are right on!

UNMENTIONABLE JEW
Dear Vues Master:
A college dean’s demand that Jewish
students remove the word “Jewish”
from their event honoring the victims of
October 7 has sparked outrage, and rightly
so. Sadly, however, the dean’s action was
not unprecedented. On October 10,
2023, students at Middlebury College,
in Vermont, showed Dean of Students
Derek Doucet their poster for an upcoming
vigil honoring the 1,200 Jews massacred,
tortured, raped and beheaded by Palestinian
Arab terrorists three days earlier. The
poster’s headline read, “Stand in Solidarity
with the Jewish People.” That was too
much for Dean Doucet, according to emails
obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
He told the students to stop focusing so
much on the Jews and be “more inclusive.”
The vigil should “honor all the innocent
lives lost,” the dean asserted. It should
refer to “tragedies that have struck Israel
and Gaza.” The dean added a dark note:
calling for solidarity with the Jews might
cause “unhelpful reactions,” he warned.
Doucet does not seem to have objected
when the Muslim Students Association at
Middlebury held a “Vigil for Palestine.” It

does not appear to have been a particularly
inclusive event, according to the extensive
coverage by the student newspaper, The
Middlebury Campus. The vigil attendees
did not mourn for the Jews slaughtered
by Hamas. To add insult to injury,
Middlebury’s Vice President of Equity
and Inclusion, Khuram Hussain, attended
the “Vigil for Palestine” but did not attend
the Jewish vigil. There was a troubling
precedent for Dean Doucet’s actions during
the Nazi years, when President Franklin
D. Roosevelt and his administration
repeatedly downplayed or denied the
Jewish identity of Hitler’s victims. In
September 1933, Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
visited the White House to request a public
statement about the persecution of Jews
in Nazi Germany. FDR told Morgenthau,
his longtime friend and soon-to-be
Treasury Secretary, that he preferred to
say something about human rights abuses
in Germany in general, without focusing
on the Jews. In the end, however, the
president made no statement at all. In
the eighty-two press conferences President
Roosevelt held in 1933, the subject of the
oppression of Jews in Europe arose just
once, and not at Roosevelt’s initiative.
It would be five more years, and another
348 presidential press conferences,
before FDR would again say anything
publicly about the Jews. Even at the
peak of the Holocaust, Roosevelt and his
administration avoided mentioning that
Jews were being targeted by the Nazis. The
U.S. statement announcing a conference
in Bermuda in 1943 to discuss the Jewish
refugee crisis emphasized: “The refugee
problem should not be considered as being
confined to persons of any particular race
or faith.” Senior American, British, and
Soviet officials, meeting in Moscow in
late 1943, issued a statement threatening
postwar punishment for Nazi war crimes
against “French, Dutch, Belgian or
Norwegian hostages…Cretan peasants…
[and] the people of Poland”—but not
Jews. President Roosevelt did not use the
word “Jews” even in his 1944 statement
commemorating the anniversary of the
Warsaw Ghetto revolt. Early in 1944,
officials of the U.S. War Refugee Board
drafted a proposed presidential message
to the people of Axis-occupied countries,
warning them not to collaborate in
atrocities against Jews. White House
aides informed the Board that President
Roosevelt “wanted the statement rewritten
so as to be aimed less directly at the
atrocities against the Jews.” The final
version deleted the reference to Jews
being murdered “solely because they were
Jews.” It removed three of the statement’s

six references to Jews. And it added
three opening paragraphs naming various
other nationalities who were suffering
because of the war. In September of that
year, the War Refugee Board ran into a
similar problem with General Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the
Allied forces in Europe. The Board drafted
a leaflet which it wanted U.S. planes to
drop over Europe, warning civilians to
refrain from participating in Nazi atrocities
against Jews. Eisenhower insisted on
deleting the leaflet’s reference to Jews. The
final version urged readers not to “molest,
harm or persecute” any of the “great
many men” being held by the German
authorities, “no matter what their religion
or nationality may be.” Arthur Szyk, the
famous artist and Jewish activist, charged
that the persecution of Europe’s Jews was
being “treated as a pornographical subject-
-you cannot discuss it in polite society.”
There was a reason behind the Roosevelt
administration’s policy of downplaying
or denying the Jewish identity of Hitler’s
victims. The president and his advisers were
concerned that if they publicly recognized
that the Jews were being singled out, then
“the various [Allied] Governments would
expose themselves to increased pressure
from all sides to do something more
specific in order to aid these people,” as
one State Department official explained
in an internal discussion. The action by
the Middlebury College dean stems from
a similar mindset. Focusing attention on
the Jews who were murdered and raped
on October 7 could increase pressure
on the dean to do something about the
campus extremists who are cheering the
murderers and rapists—just as focusing
attention on the Jewish victims during the
Holocaust risked creating pressure to do
something about their plight. Eighty years
have passed, and the names and places
have changed, but it seems the tragic
phenomenon of “the unmentionable Jew”
is still with us.
RM
Vues Master’s Note: How history repeats
itself!