Letters to the Editor: Yid Parenting
Dear Editor:
I am writing in response to Rabbi Yitzie Ross’ Yid Parenting article where he discusses the notion of parents spanking their children. In his article, Rabbi Ross expresses...
More Comments From Readers About Woodmere Club Development
Let’s Compromise
Dear Editor,
I don’t live anywhere near the club, but this project has occupied our conversation at our Shabbat table for two years. I personally think the project is...
Letters to the Editor: What’s in a Name?
Dear Editor,
Here is the explanation for Larry Gordon’s puzzlement in “Bar Mitzvah Trifecta” (“Heard in the Bagel Store,” August 17), as to why the owners (“brothers”) of the Empire...
Letters to the Editor: The Midwife’s Midwife
Worldly In Williamsburg
Dear Editor,
Judy Ribner’s article about her experience as an assistant midwife at a birth in Williamsburg was interesting and informative.
I was moved and uplifted by her...
Letters to the Editor: Singles, Impeachment and More
Singles Must Look Out for Each Other
Dear Michele,
About once a week, I Google to see if there are new articles written about the “shidduch crisis.” To my pleasant surprise,...
Letters to the Editor: Catskills and Kashrus
Thriving In The Catskills
Dear Editor,
In the Heard in the Bagel Store column (“Catskills Diary,” July 10) you wrote, “Most of them — except in Woodbourne — are rundown...
Letters to the Editor: Chilul Hashem
Dear Editor:
I am writing in regard to your editorial Heard in the Bagel Store: Not A Smart Move regarding the chilul Hashem that the Satmar Chassidim caused a week...
Letters to the Editor
Senator Gillibrand, Support Your Constituents
Dear Editor,
Two days before I wrote this letter, the Senate overwhelmingly voted against the disgusting, hateful BDS movement. But 17 Democratic senators voted in favor...
Letters to the Editor: The Left Is Livid
The Wrong Side Of The Issue
Dear Editor,
As I was reading the names Schumer, Feinstein, Nader, and Blumenthal in “The Left is Livid” (From the Editor, October 12), I actually...
Letters to the Editor: Heartbroken
The Bagel Store: Heartbroken
This article is so touching in so many ways. My husband, Yaakov, worked for Moshe, a’h, for a few years now, and there was not one...
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OU Responds To Jewish Danger At Columbia University
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This morning, the following guidance was shared with the students in our...
Are We Midgets or Giants
Moshe Taragin
More than two centuries of Egyptian persecution and oppression had shuttered the Jewish imagination. We couldn’t imagine anything beyond the squalor and misery...