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LETTERS To the Editor: I wait each morning for moment Magazine. I love the stories by Marc Gellman. I love the pictures too! I'm ten years old, and I like most (good) stories, which I don't have...
...Fein, are "irrelevant...
...Robert C. Shluker Van Nuys, California 4/Moment JEWS FOR JESUS To the Editor: Exposes and reports on movements written with the intent of discrediting them not infrequently have the opposite effect...
...But which parts of the "Jewish worid" are sufficiently insulated from the "public arena" to meet with the author's satisfaction...
...Breira has been dismayed to find that the Jewish community is not so worm-eaten with liberalism as it had supposed...
...Fein has made the Isaacs' subtle Midstream critique of the sadly confused inner condition of Breira's rabbis into an occasion for the display of small and untidy passions rather than rational rebuttal...
...The writer failed to grasp the enormous amount of participation by thousands of people in the Federation community...
...One could go on and on about Mr...
...Actually, the reader of moment who has not read my pamphlet (Breira: Counsel for Judaism) must be quite confused by the contrary descriptions in three consecutive issues...
...I'm ten years old, and I like most (good) stories, which I don't have to write for school work...
...The distinctions and extremes outlined in the article do not apply when it comes to numerous agency boards...
...Gordon's statement that Temple Emanu-El is a "monument to the time when Reform Jews made their temples look like churches...
...By that time the teacher had noticed what was going on and then went into a long speech...
...George Glauberman Chicago, Illinois...
...To Kenneth Ben-Avraham Jones, my friend, I say...
...I'm a Jew and I'm proud of it...
...Fein would presumably tell us that warning her concerning the fate of the five previous ladies who followed the advice was an irrelevance...
...After correctly noting the absurd reaction to Breira on the "seamy battlefield of American Jewish journalism," Leonard Fein proceeds to react in similar fashion by attacking the three so-called "assumptions" of Breira: that dissent from official Israeli foreign policy is discouraged within the organized Jewish community...
...Philip Hochstein The Jewish Week New York, New York To the Editor: Thank you for the article on Breira in the April issue...
...It is, of course, true that there are a few well known Jewish leaders who are extremely important to the San Francisco Jewish community...
...Of course, Mr...
...But if it is McCarthyism to suppose that a lifetime devoted to anti-Israel causes might have some bearing on a man's fitness to run an allegedly Zionist organization, then it must also be McCarthyism to suppose that a man's running a euthanasia program might have some bearing on his fitness for the directorship of an old-age home...
...Novak found the tone "vitriolic" and Mr...
...Fein, after all, who thinks the pamphlet has a "vitriolic scholarly tone...
...For example, potential hijackers and terrorists are influenced to imitate hijackers and terrorists on whose activities the papers and media report...
...The Isaacs are held to be guilty of McCar-thyism—a word calculated to strike terror in the hearts of Jewish liberals—because they have stressed the "background and motive" of the founders and leaders of Breira...
...nice people, American pacifists as well as Israeli doves simply cannot comprehend that many people are not very nice, and indeed, may hate their neighbors passionately...
...Suzanne Gordon will have as difficult a time finding a good pastrami sandwich among the Se-phardim of Seattle as she will among the German-origin Jews of San Francisco for whom pastrami and latkes are simply not a fundamental dimension of their Jewish cultural background...
...If he had, he would surely be aware what Dayan said of the idea of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria, Breira's central axiom for the solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict: "I am ready to shout and fight that such a state shall not come into being...
...Rabbi Neil Kominsky South Windsor, Connecticut CONVERTING To the Editor: I have just finished reading, for the tenth time (and this is not an exaggeration) Kenneth Jones' article on converting in Israel (May...
...Outside of those attacks...
...Barry Rubin could have explained this delay to you...
...All this by way of introduction to my comments on Stan Luxenberg's reportage "The Soul Snatchers of Long Island" in your May issue...
...Ron Kaufman San Francisco, California To the Editor: Suzanne Gordon's article on "The Jews of San Francisco" (May) was surely one of the most unworthy pieces that has appeared in what has become one of our finest Jewish magazines...
...In one matter Mr...
...The rule of law and morality extends no further that one's own clan, village or ethnic group)—and this is especially so in Third World countries...
...The Israeli public has spoken...
...He acknowledges that discussion within the Jewish community of Israeli foreign policy is "inadequate"' but then goes on to blame "the dissenters" themselves for the situation, apparently assuming that if they wished to do so, the members of Breira could join the American Jewish Committee, B'nai B'rith, or the Rabbinical Assembly, where all are free to express their opinions...
...The famous wooden synagogues of the shtetls of Eastern Europe, by the way, were identical to the country churches of Russia and Poland...
...I think not—at least not until they, individually, suffer similar horrors of war in a fight for existence...
...The writer seemed to be a newcomer to San Francisco who skimmed over the surface and reported the highlights of a few interviews at both extremes of the spectrum...
...But if American Jewry is be asked for its help and support, and if, as Fein acknowledges, we need not be "mindless followers of Israel's lead," then his suggestion that dissenters put-up or shut-up publicly is seriously flawed...
...Pucker would arrange home hospitality for hundreds of military personnel who served in the many Army and Air Force installations throughout Kansas and Missouri...
...But when I say that Bob Loeb asserted in The Peacemaker on October 20, 1973, that CONAME, the organization of which he was field director, would work to stop arms going to the Middle East, this is not guilt by association...
...The Committee of 100 (which meticulously reviews allocations and agency programs), the massive fundraising drives (J.W.F,, Bonds, etc...
...second, his letter included a statement concerning The Jewish Week that he later agreed was in error factually...
...In fact, the description of Bernie's and Sue's Seder reminded me very much of the Seder in the Pucker household in Kansas City...
...An exhaustive list of the false observations and misrepresentations in the article would be a new article in itself...
...But my assumption that two different editors were responsible for two different interpretations was shaken when I found that in an article under Mr...
...Fein that "the issue of background and motive is irrelevant...
...These, according to Dr...
...I suppose we must be contemporaries—I too grew up during World War II—and, similarly, I have since had those feelings of not wanting anything to do with Germany or Germans...
...On this point, I suggest that Fein not rely solely on self-serving assertions regarding his own ability to be part of the "establishment" as well as a critic of Israeli policy...
...Pucker was the area chairman for the Jewish Welfare Board...
...The Jewish community can either actively debate or be silent about matters concerning Israel's borders, but if we choose to debate, we do not have the luxury of keeping it amongst ourselves...
...Fein...
...Kol HaKavod L'char Ian Lovestock Alamo Heights, Texas CHINA To the Editor: I was fortunate to accidently find the "sequel" to your splendid article "Jews of China...
...I can recall little criticism, except from Arthur Waskow and the Breira staff, both of whom threatened legal harrassment and apparently regained their legal acumen only when I made it plain that they would get no consideration whatsoever on account of threats, but would have to rely solely on the commitment of The Jewish Week to sharing freedom of press...
...Her own Seder each Passover always had room for me to send stray soldiers who had no place to go for Passover...
...Public endorsement, in America, for alternatives in Israeli policy simply contributes a much needed boost to public awareness that American Jews are not stooges subject to the whims of whoever is in control of the Israeli government...
...Fein that the policies of Breira are dangerous...
...Like the Christian missionaries, we must "broadcast the Good News," our Good News that there is no such thing as "original sin" and the need for "salvation" from the burden of the "guilt incurred by Adam and Eve in Paradise," that the belief in the Christian "son of God" is a mythology for the de-mythologing of which such Christian New Testament scholars as Bultmann have consistently appealed...
...Fein does concede that the question of motive regarding Loeb, Waskow, etc., may be relevant, but only after their policies "have been shown to be dangerous...
...None of these issues can be discussed quietly, or even outside the New York Times, unless 'quietly' means that decisions shall be made by the leadership elite, without open discussion in the press...
...Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, Editor The Jewish Spectator New York, New York GERMANY To the Editor: As a subscriber to moment since its inception, I have enjoyed every issue, although some more than others...
...continuing Jewish education and maintaining the rich Jewish heritage and knowledge is...
...portrait of such an important aspect of our existence...
...Werner Dannhauser Ithaca, New York To the Editor: As regards Leonard Fein's defense (?) of Breira (May...
...Not only did I find the articles on both San Francisco and Brookline of great interest because I have family in both places, but I was deeply moved, as well, by Ms...
...I am embarrassed to have to define guilt by association for a professor of political science but it refers to the attempt to attribute guilt to an individual because he associated in an innocent capacity with an individual guilty of some offense...
...Coffee houses and even Chabad Houses will not enable them to refute the Christological Bible interpretations...
...In other words, Fein stands for the pursuit of truth even though the heavens fall, but neglects to tell us what we (or rather the Israelis) will do after the heavens fall...
...Fein's advice and confines its criticisms to the Israeli public, will have its work cut out for it...
...Can America's Jews ever understand Israel in the way that people such as Ken Jones do...
...is the height of ignorance...
...The Moorish-Byzantine grandeur of that sanctuary represents the best of an architectural form which was used throughout the early twentieth century by every segment of American Jewry, based, as it was, on motifs and designs which were believed to evoke a uniquely Oriental and antique "Jewish" mood...
...And what pray tell is an organization but the individuals who make it up, including most pertinently their backgrounds and motives...
...The question is, how can Jewish values be maintained in the future among children and parents...
...I had met the elder Mrs...
...Fein, is more radical than Breira: he has suggested Israel talk to the PLO without making Breira's prior requirement that there be mutual recognition...
...The fact is that I did have an encounter with Joe McCarthy which led to litigation...
...Gordon has cast inaccurate and unjust aspersions on an entire community...
...Fein's signature in April it is said that I rest my case against Breira on the fact that "it invites criticism of Israel" and in the May issue in an article under Mr...
...It is a reportage which is far from being negative...
...For example, you apologize for the role of women in the Federation campaign structure rather than deal with any problems in your articles on women's division or young leadership...
...Even if such a thing were possible, and given the nature of American society it is not, it would still be undesirable for the Jewish community to solve its problems without discussion in the general press...
...Israeli leaders who speak on foreign policy are heard, and want to be heard, not only by their own constituents, but by Mr...
...Imagine, eight hundred million to one...
...no one questions that...
...And the signal that that peace may come will be when Arabs sit together with Israeli civil authority and discuss, not non-belligerance (which is no more than a return to the status quo ante 1967) but peace, not in the next generation, but in our time...
...Apparently, she is as ill-informed about synagogue architecture as she is about San Francisco...
...Mark B. Rotenberg New York, New York To the Editor: Although Leonard Fein offers cogent and damaging criticisms of Breira in May's moment, his animus towards Rael and Erich Isaac leads to some confusion— sophisticated confusion, but confusion nevertheless...
...Could it be that it is Mr...
...What is the weather forecast...
...It is simply not true that Israeli politicians speak only to those who "share their commitment" to the Jewish State, while American Jewish leaders do not...
...I wonder why he is so willing to speculate on other people's motives, like those of the Isaacs, and of Barry Rubin, whose activities are called "childish errors" even though the ones which are discussed were all perpetrated when he was a man...
...Breira, if it follows Mr...
...In March, the pamphlet was "vitriolic...
...Apparently Bernie and Sue are preserving that wonderful lady's Jewish values and humane concern for people...
...If, to take Miss Syrkin's example, Bluebeard were to suggest to a lady a vacation in a secluded retreat, Mr...
...Horowitz's article about Germany...
...in one fell swoop, she has defamed the Reform Movement and one of this country's most important examples of Jewish artistic creativity...
...Neither Americans nor Israelis can afford any illusions that peace must be secured soon...
...that endorsement of alternatives currently espoused within the Israeli polity is not evidence of American Jewish disloyalty to Israel...
...I do not acquiesce in losing even one lone young person to the Christian missionaries...
...It is difficult to believe that American social history will record that, in the year 1977, the American Jewish community saw fit to establish a "separate but equal" young leadership division for women rather than integrate the men's division...
...she expressed my own feelings so thoroughly...
...I don't like the way non-Jews criticize Jews...
...Fein 1 s consistent—and thoroughly wrong— for two months in a row: he says my chief form of argument is "guilt by association...
...Luxenberg writes: "The Jews for Jesus, for example, hold that the New Testament is simply the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies...
...My children don't understand why I won't consider a VW or Mercedes, especially since Israel is full of them...
...The disappearance of Israel...
...But enough...
...Its response to so much opposition has been to claim that it is being "suppressed...
...Orthodox and Reform, was designed in the Byzantine mold with local variations...
...But the question of motive is nonetheless irrelevant...
...I wonder why, then, the article gives us so much information about his background and motive...
...At the same time, I have been too inhibited to state my own strong objections to Breira's activities...
...But did the message so eloquently stated come across...
...I found it offensive when the writer implied that San Francisco is finally beginning to do what hundreds of other Jewish communities across the country have done...
...Your magazine is an outstanding example of American Jewish journalism...
...However, I believe that many of the Jews of this beautiful city have responded deeply and with great commitment to our heritage, and in the end, reflect the same strengths and weaknesses that are part of American Jewry in general...
...Fein's byline it is said that the essential point of my article is that Breira is "an ally of the PLO, a front for Fatah...
...Most of this she had baked herself...
...The fact that Emanu-El's architects drew upon the Spanish mission motifs of California's past, and very successfully incorporated some of these elements into the temple's design, represents the best traditions of synagogue architecture, reflecting the local cultural environment...
...Tz'dakah is an old Jewish mitzvah, yet giving money by itself is not our salvation...
...Nahum Goldmann's article "Jewish Leadership, Now and Then," spell it all...
...Haim Eliachar Boston, Massachusetts To the Editor: Your issue on Jewish philanthropy (June) was greatly disappointing in its tone...
...Whenever a Yom Tov occurred, Mrs...
...Since the article contains adverse reflections on the morality of the Isaacs, Fein was morally bound to refute rather than to attack them...
...The fact is that Rep...
...In this article, Raskas reports that there is only one male Jew remaining in the Shanghai area of Red China, and he is reported to be quite elderly...
...Fein to keep up with his subject...
...Surely an issue of this magnitude deserves a more critical treatment than it receives...
...Thus far I haven't yet come across a Christian missionary who could refute me on the ground of Christian Bible scholarship, except to say that "Christian belief" is superior to scholarship, an argument that never goes over with Jewish audiences...
...But apparently guilt by action and guilt by association in any case need not be distinguished, for we are told by Mr...
...third, not realizing that he had mis-addressed the letter, he appealed to The Jewish Press Association to mediate...
...No, I don't hate the Germans today—I just reject any relationship with them...
...The Isaacs argue not that Judaism should be indifferent to "the social and political condition of mankind" but that the universalistic "mission" theology is a travesty of genuine Jewish universalism, which, as Cynthia Ozick writes, means that the God of Israel is the God of all mankind, not that the idols of all mankind must be the God of Israel...
...I would not bother to recount them, but for the fact that the recounting will show how unfair you have been to link us by atmospheric innuendo with the JDL and various other critics of Breira...
...Indian Moslems and Hindus, Turks and Greeks, Croats and Serbs have feuded for centuries, continuing their mutual slaughter to this day...
...Your repeated derogatory references to The Jewish Week in an article over-shadowed by photographs of JDL posters calls to my mind a letter to us from Meir Kahane in which he called the undersigned a journalistic "prostitute"—which we proudly published, as well as a letter from William Novak, in which he highly praised this "facsimile" newspaper for outstanding journalistic leadership in opening up the subject of Russian emigration dropouts...
...In the worst kind of sensationalism, she has focused on those extreme elements of San Francisco Jewry, the most negative assimilationists on one hand, and the most narrow parochialists on the other, which are surely, if unfortunately, to be found in every Jewish community— and has based her "study" on these unrepresentative minority factions...
...And when we got to Jews, this girl shouted, "There are no Jews in this class...
...In a most blatant display of in-sensitivity...
...A moment's reflection reveals that the problems of American Jewry range from the fights between the Lubavitch and the Satmarer Hassidim in Brooklyn, to the issue of reverse discrimination, to the proportion of Federation money going to day schools...
...Regrettably, Mr...
...I am certain that where the Inquisition and the Laws of Expulsion didn't succeed, the Jews for Jesus will not be able to triumph...
...The end of an era, for a story of Jewish life which unfolded over 800 years...
...However, one particularly annoying point should not be allowed to go unchallenged...
...I wonder why Fein fails to deal with the information on Waskow contained in Rael Isaac's pamphlet, and other such information that goes well beyond "background and motives...
...Marion Shulevitz Miami...
...And what will prove to Mr...
...If Bob Loeb, Breira's executive director, played tennis with someone who advocated that Israel not receive arms during the Yom Kippur War and I then accused Bob Loeb of hostility to Israel, I should be using the technique of "guilt by association...
...Luxenberg's account is so appreciative of the amenities and facilities of the 12-acre B'nai Yeshua estate in Stony Brook that it wouldn't surprise me at all if it would lead some young people to attempt to "crash" there...
...Finally, Fein suggests that American critics of Israeli foreign policy should restrict their comments to the Israeli press or to other Jewish circles which would presumably be outside the "public arena...
...Leonard Fein's letter to "D," on having assumed the presidency of the Federation, and Dr...
...Invariably, when I am lecturing on "Judaism and Christianity: The Differences," missionaries and Jews for Jesus are in the audience...
...Keren Chaya Faigle Rockland Brookline, Massachusetts FEDERATION To the Editor: My flight from Boston to Dallas today was spent reading the June issue of moment and reflec ing on what I believe was the me sage you wanted to convey regarding American Jewish philanthropy...
...It seems clear that most of your audience starts with a fair understanding of the significance of Federation's work within the general Jewish enterprise in today's world...
...Throughout the issue, problems are raised, only to be papered over...
...It is the beginning of the end of the State of Israel...
...Ever since Paul, some nineteen centuries ago, this type of "fulfillment" of the Hebrew promises in Jesus has been preached to Jews—and just as in Paul's time, few Jews were persuaded...
...This belief is not peculiar to the 'Jews for Jesus' but to Christianity—to all Christian denominations except the small fringe groups of Universal-ists...
...And when, during the following discussion, they quote the New Testament interpretations of the Hebrew Bible, I refer to the Oxford Annotated Bible, recognized by Christian scholars as authoritative...
...Similarly, Aryeh Nesher's "how to do it" piece on campaign soliciting is a fascinating study in a set of values, but surely does not deserve to stand unexamined and unchallenged as the only thing moment has to say on the subject...
...The only time Fein abstains from moral judgment is when he writes about Arthur Waskow, who is described as "an exceedingly controversial person," a description that would apply equally as well to Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt...
...Fein "scholarly," for whatever pride I may take in my style I cannot believe I achieve anything so remarkable as a "vitriolic, scholarly tone...
...Of course only the Israelis can or should decide which risks to take and which policies are wisest for the preservation of a Jewish State...
...Your treatment of The Jewish Week innuendo without even mentioning our basic criticism of Breira—that it enabled the New York Times and the Washington Post to give a false impression that the American Jewish community is split open over support of the Israeli consensus—reminds me of other attacks on the alleged low standards of journalism encompassed in a career of more than half a century...
...Instead of wringing their hands over the millions of copies of missionary tracts distributed on the college campuses and also in high schools, Jewish organizations should publish readable, popular pamphlets and books on why Jesus has no place in the Jewish tradition and why the Hebrew prophets cannot be pressed into the service of missionary campaigns...
...Then nobody said anything for a few seconds, until we said, "Wanna make something of it...
...Rael Jean Isaac Irvington, New York To the Editor: Rael and Erich Isaac, whose work I admire, do not need me to defend them, but I am impelled to speak out against Leonard Fein's criticism of their work in your May issue...
...It is quite discouraging to find most of the Jewish community, both "establishment" and "anti-establishment," embarked on passionate crusades unemcumbered by sanity or intelligence...
...Their involvement with all that is good in the Boston Jewish community and their warmth and hospitality are very much in the tradition of Bernie's mother...
...These "assumptions" may or may not be the actual foundations of Breira (I have never been a member of the organization), but if they are they certainly haven't been shaken by Fein's critique...
...For two months, I have corresponded with one of the major vitriolic critics of Breira...
...and that discussion of alternative foreign policies for Israel may make a positive contribution to peace in the Middle East...
...I assumed Mr...
...Anyway, I really like Marc Gellman's stories and I hope he keeps writing them...
...Instead of profiling the B'nai Yeshua and similar Jews for Jesus groups, and instead of convening conferences on "the danger" inherent in their efforts—to say nothing of task forces on Missionary Activities under the auspices of Jewish Community Relations Councils, there is needed a Jewish counter-missionary effort concentrating on disproving the misinterpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament...
...fourth, that an attorney had undertaken to assist him and that he had written The Jewish Week, disavowing the attorney, apologizing for having needlessly appealed to The Jewish Press Association, and asking that we ignore his letter for a corrected substitute he would mail...
...in April it made "reckless charges...
...However, the amount of copy they received, and their attitudes, do not necessarily reflect the real situation...
...Charity forbids my thinking he lacked the willingness and demands my assuming he lacked the ability...
...We should discuss the issues...
...and, fifth, that his corrected letter appeared promptly in The Jewish Week on being received...
...The issue did an admirable job of covering the various aspects of Federation's undertakings, but could as well have been written as a yearbook by the UJA's Public Relations Department rather than by a magazine which prides itself on taking a constructively critical stance with regard to the American Jewish community...
...If I say well-intentioned people in the organization have been fooled, this is also not guilt by association...
...Please, keep up the good work...
...in May it was sinister because of its "scholarly tone...
...Luxenberg fails in understanding what makes such groups as B'nai Yeshua tick and how they make converts, in the very same manner Christians ever since Paul have propagated their faith...
...ignorance, shabby sociology, and even worse, journalism...
...Although I do not consider the contemporary "apostles" the type of menace many regard them, I stand four-square on the Talmu-dic principle that "preserving even one lone Jew is equivalent to preserving the entire Jewish people...
...The piece took me back to what was perhaps the most horrible of experiences (October 1973-April 1974) when I was a reservist tank driver with the Israel Defense Forces stationed, with Jones, in the muvla'at (captured area of land) of the Golan Heights...
...But no, by the time we get to the end of the article we discover that Mr...
...Moshe Dayan, according to Mr...
...Fein already thinks the policy of Breira in addressing itself to an American audience is dangerous...
...Sadat, President Carter, Congressmen, Senators, and the American public at large...
...He could have told you that: first, he mis-addressed the letter to the Washington Jewish Week, for whom it was not intended, and lost a number of days...
...Is the retreat attractively furnished...
...Florida SAN FRANCISCO To the Editor: A few personal comments on "The Jews of San Francisco" (May...
...In fact, what Breira wants is not merely the right to go its own way, but to do so with no questions asked...
...Incidentally, of the six "safe and thoroughly respectable Jews" you mention as Breira's "halo-affording stars," three, Joachim Prinz, Jacob Neusner and Robert Gordis resigned, two of them well before the recent adverse publicity...
...Further, is it irrelevant to know that while Fein emphasizes that "Breira has never said more than that Israel should talk with any Arab group, including the PLO, that is willing to acknowledge Israel's legitimacy as a Jewish state," that Arthur Waskow and Max Ticktin met with PLO members in 1976...
...did not publish a letter from Barry Rubin until six weeks after he had mailed it...
...Fein's ill-tempered and error-ridden attack...
...You have stated most of my feelings better than I can—and restored some of my faith...
...In fact, Mr...
...Fein's second point may be logical but it is also utterly false...
...Ken's article made me laugh, made me cry, but, mostly, it made me remember...
...Judea B. Miller Rochester, New York BRERA To the Editor: Interestingly enough, the editors of moment have emerged as the chief apologists for Breira: executive editor (and Breira executive board member) William Novak and now editor Leonard Fein...
...Each month I would visit her when I drove to Kansas City to pick up kosher foods for Jewish families in the military...
...In the Hadassah Magazine (June-July), I found the article, "The First Rabbi in Red China," by Bernard S. Raskas...
...the upsurge of Jewish consciousness throughout the Bay Area, and the many hundreds of new people in leadership positions...
...This is an assertion of innocence in spite of association...
...Fein once wrote quite a good book on Israeli politics, but perhaps the requirements of journalism have not enabled Mr...
...if what they say in English is the voice of moderation, what must they be saying among themselves...
...Fred Hartley of Taft-Hartley fame sued me and attacked me on radio and TV as if I were his opponent...
...When in Israel, listen to the radios of the surrounding Arab countries...
...Meanwhile, there must be very tough bargaining, in the full realization that territory is not really the issue, as much as is Israel's right to exist, within any boundaries...
...It is guilt by action...
...Psychologists are agreed that violence and terror on TV and in the movies have substantially contributed to the escalation of violence and terror in the streets...
...the issue of background and motive is irrelevant...
...Every important synagogue of that period...
...It may be chauvinistic on my part, but I believe you will find many innovations from San Francisco are being studied with interest by the rest of the country...
...Still, I have never gotten so much pleasure and substance out of any issue as I have out of May...
...Conversions to Christianity are not being effected by the amenities of 12-acre estates but by "preaching the good news" of the fulfillment of the promises of the Hebrew prophets in Jesus...
...In a recent demonstration of such 'toleration,' the Rabbinical Assembly, one of the more moderate of "establishment" Jewish organizations, disgraced itself by rejecting, in unprecedented fashion, the nominees for its executive positions who had Breira "connections...
...Menahem Begin is Prime Minister of Israel...
...And it is the actions and statements of individuals active in Breira, as well as the actions and statements of Breira as an organization, that I document in the pamphlet...
...Harold Wershow Birmingham, Alabama To the Editor: "The Assault on Breira" (May) was as myopic and foolish in its conclusion as it was insightful and wise in its beginning...
...Marie Syrkin points out in the April Midstream that for the remedying of any ill we want to know both the nature of the prescription and who wrote it...
...Edward Alexander Seattle, Washington To the Editor: You complain in "The Assault on Breira" (May 1977) that The Jewish Week, characterized with impotent malice as "New York's facsimile of a Jewish newspaper...
...I believe this should be the theme of moment for the future...
...Pucker would always provide me with huge packages of pastry to take back to serve at the Onegei-Shabbat of our military congregation...
...But I want today's Jews "to know what to answer" (da mah shetasheev) to the missionaries...
...The fact is that the German-American Bund and various racketeers, some of whom blamed me for their downfall, railed against my "yellow journalism" and sought redress in the courts...
...We all started talking about religion and color...
...Pucker many years ago when I served as chaplain at Fort Riley, Kansas...
...What your readers deserve, however, is a sensitive and concerned exposition of some of the issues which are or should be under debate rather than an all-right-nik P.R...
...By no stretch of the imagination can it be said that he did this...
...And me and my friend Melissa didn't like that, so we stood up and said "Wanna make a bet...
...Particularly, I am impressed with Horowitz's application of the mitzvah "You shall henceforth return no more that way," as it answers the question "why"—why continue an old hatred, especially since we have so many new and deadly enemies these days...
...Instead, he should consult Rabbis Albert Axelrad, Arnold J. Wolfe, Max Ticktin, or David Silverman about their experiences in being accepted by the "establishment" as dissenters...
...Fein does grudgingly finally say, "If the question of motive is ever relevant, it is relevant only after, and not before, the policies of the people whose motives we examine have been shown to be dangerous...
...Like when I was in school today, Melissa and I are the only Jews in our class...
...According to Dr...
...The settlements of Gush Emunim will shortly be approved government settlements...
...Howard Berman New York, New York MASTERS OF ART To the Editor: I was delighted to read your article about the directors of the Pucker/Safrai Gallery, Bernard and Sue Pucker (moment, May, 1977...
Vol. 2 • September 1977 • No. 9
