Supporting Jewish Faculty At CUNY
Dear Editor:
Kol hakavod for front-paging Dr. Fred Naider’s “Fighting Antisemitism At CUNY: The CAFI Initiative.”
Imagine being a Jewishly identifying faculty member in CUNY today, very well having to face backlash or ostracism by anti-Israel colleagues, harassment by some students, and trying to comfort pro-Israel students under attack by their peers and professors. CAFI’s work, and that of other faculty members supporting Israel, needs our full assistance.
Glenn Richter
Queens College graduate
Thank You For Honoring America
Dear Editor:
I want to thank the Queens Jewish Link and their team of writers for dedicating their commentary to celebrating this occasion and acknowledging what this country has done for the Jewish people. Also, a shout-out to Rabbi Garber for placing a U.S. flag in the courtyard of Kesser Torah and expressing hakoras hatov during his d’var Torah on Shabbos day. Also, thank you to Rabbi Dovid Hirsch for his beautiful flag display by his house, and to others in the KGH neighborhood who proudly displayed the flag yesterday.
Alan Fenster
Flushing, NY
Stop Complaining
Dear Editor:
Stop complaining! Oh, yeah, I forgot; we’re Jews. It’s part of our DNA, and if you’ve been following Sefer Bamidbar, you’d understand. Yes, it’s hot, but remember how you were jealous of all your friends who moved to Florida? What do they say? If it’s very hot, you simply go from one air-conditioned venue to another.
The Three Weeks aren’t at the top of everyone’s wish list. However, think about all the money that you save. Gone are the trips to T.J. Maxx or Boro Park to pick up the same clothes you bought last year. So you miss Toy Story 5. Don’t worry. There will be a Toy Story 6, 7, and 8 to catch. Try a museum. There can’t be a lot of enjoyment in that.
Now, look around your house. Why is it so quiet? Oh, yeah. Your kids are safely living a million miles away in camp. It’s time for you to clean the walls, the floor, do some laundry, and clean out the detritus from their knapsacks. I remember my kids’ backpacks were growing algae, and they looked like Trump’s reflecting pool.
Don’t worry! If you miss your kids, Visiting Day is like two days after they have left for camp. The lesson, though, of the summer season is to stop complaining and use the eight weeks to get to know your spouse.
Debbie Horowitz
The Democratic Party’s Leftward Turn
Dear Editor:
Out of 209,000 eligible Democratic voters in the 6th District, only 18,000 voted for Grace Meng. Brad Lander got over 30,000 votes in his district. NBC did a poll in early June. Only 12% of Kamala Harris voters are proud to be American. That is precisely linked to the indoctrination of American youth in colleges and universities. The sickle/hammer-crescent/moon alliance is real and is completely taking over the donkey. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says the Democratic Party has a big tent. The tent is about to fall down. Like our pathetic senator, Chuck Schumer, Jeffries will move hard left just to preserve his seat in Congress. Mr. Hecht, you have no idea what you’re talking about!
There were three huge Supreme Court cases this term. Chief Justice Roberts will go down as one of the worst jurists in history. His law clerks write his opinions based on the outcome he is looking for. Obamacare? It’s a tax. No problem. I’m still waiting for someone to show me where in the Constitution healthcare is written. Now, we have birthright citizenship. A complete eradication of our sovereignty. Roberts didn’t have the guts to vote against it. There were no leaks and no fencing put up around the Court in the days leading up to the decision. A dead giveaway of what the outcome would be.
We have had No Kings protests for months on end. Democrats are still calling the president a “dictator.” Yet Roberts cites English common law and allegiance to none other than the king as proof that we have birthright citizenship. We fought a war with 25,000 casualties to get rid of a king. That didn’t seem to get through the chief justice’s skull. A UN diplomat from another country, who is subject to his home country’s jurisdiction, has a child in a New York hospital, and that child is a U.S. citizen! It makes no sense.
Roberts does it again in the Election Day opinion as well. How can you have fair elections if ballots are received after Election Day? There is no way to prove that the person who voted is a U.S. citizen and has a right to vote. Yet Roberts rules that ballots with a postmark of Election Day must be counted. I remember, as a little boy, going into a booth with my father. He pulled a big lever to close the curtain and pushed down little levers for whom he wanted to vote. When he was finished, he pulled the big lever again, the curtain behind us opened, and his vote was recorded. Primitive, but it worked.
You can’t get them all wrong. At least the chief justice knows what a girl is. Unlike Democrats in Congress, the chief justice stood up for morality. The man who helped an ideological revolution in the country at least had the courage to uphold a biological reality.
Shalom Markowitz
The DSA Is Not The Fringe
Dear Editor:
Warren Hecht still doesn’t get it. He states that the DSA is on the fringe of the Democratic Party. The DSA is not the fringe of the Democratic Party; the DSA is the Democratic Party! The election of three radical anti-Semitic politicians in the recent Democratic primary seals the deal. Adam Schiff, whom Warren Hecht praises, has stated that he admires Mamdani because he has a lot of charisma. It reminds me of a certain Austrian who was responsible for 80 million deaths in World War II. Elizabeth Warren has praised Platner as “my kind of guy.” Apparently, she has a thing for Nazis. This is the radical Democratic Party that Warren Hecht supports. Everyone should do what they can and donate to the campaigns of Republicans in close House and Senate races. And we must daven for the Republicans to win. We must do what we can and rely on Hashem to do the rest.
Martin Berkowitz