Jewish News Letters
Intolerance Dressed As Human Rights
Dear Sir
The opinion piece you published by Nicholas Saphir, chairman of the New Israel Fund (Jewish News, 19 August) should have come with the following health warning: "What you are about to read is intolerant, abusive, sanctimonious hypocrisy and an attack on Judaism."
In Orwellian fashion, his article was dressed up in the language of human rights, tolerance, and freedom.
You should also have explained the nature of the "No Israel Fund". It is an organisation that allegedly backs a wide variety of leftist groups and is used by the European Union to channel funds to Jewish groups working against the best interests of Israel and the Jewish people.
This article was all too typical of the left. The only permissible views, opinions and morality are liberal. Everything else should be smeared and suppressed.
The irony is that if NIF policies and views were ever adopted Israel, Judaism and the Jewish people would cease to exist.
Perhaps this is their intended agenda. Ever since the days of Karl Marx many leftists especially Jews have held Jewish existence to be an aberration that needs correcting through disappearance.
Dr Levi Sokolic
By email
Religion Pointless Without Belief
Dear Sir
So your letter writer Mr Kenton from Stanmore is looking for a more meaningful life by finding a religion "without dogma" (Jewish News, 19 August).
Bearing in mind that dogma means "belief", this would be the equivalent of playing football, or any other game, without playing by the rules quite a pointless and empty exercise.
I suggest Mr Kenton sets aside time to learn with an Orthodox Jewish teacher who is capable of explaining the wisdom behind the Torah and its applications in the modern world and how it enhances and fulfils life¹s true purpose.
I would warn him against taking a non-Orthodox teacher as he will have an agenda which undermines deep spiritual Torah values and replaces them with shallow man-made ideologies where the will of God is replaced by the will of man.
The non-Orthodox practise a form of idol worship with emphasis on the letter "I' rather than God. Rather than thinking, "What can I do for God?", the non-Orthodox expect Him to follow them.
Just remember dogma spelt backward is "Am God".
Good luck and Shana Tova.
Zvi Halevi
London
Why Let Silly Ruby Wax Lyrical?
Dear Sir
I write in response to Ruby¹s question in your Ask The Rabbi column (Jewish News, 12 August) about waxing her legs. I think she is on another planet to ask a question like that.
There are disasters in the world and people dying of cancer, yet she asks such a stupid question about whether heating her wax for her legs in the microwave is kosher or not!
Whatever next? "When I get my nails done, is the polish kosher?" Ruby is a very lucky woman if that¹s all she has to worry about.
Sidney Landesberg
Golders Green
Past Letters' pages
- - Thursday 12th 2010f August 2010
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- Wednesday 4th 2010f August 2010 - The facts behind the israel stats
- Dear Sir
Regarding the recent Institute for Jewish Policy Research survey of British Jews and their attitudes towards Israel (Jewish News 15 July), I’d like to caution that these kind of opinion polls are not always reliable. - Thursday 29th 2010f July 2010 - - Thursday 22nd 2010f July 2010
- - Thursday 15th 2010f July 2010
- - Thursday 8th 2010f July 2010
- - Thursday 1st 2010f July 2010
- Call for concerted action on shechita
- Dear Sir
I read with dismay the article "Shechita blow" on 18 June. I immediately
telephoned Syed Kamall, a London MEP, who represents the area in which I
live.
- Thursday 24th 2010f June 2010 - Double Standards Over Flotilla
- Dear Sir
International condemnation of the action taken by Israel to enforce a naval blockade reveals the usual high level of double standards, without establishing any facts.
- Thursday 17th 2010f June 2010
