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Council Member James F. Gennaro responds to Schumer’s Israel Remarks

Dear Editor:

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer read straight from the Hamas playbook today (3/14) from the floor of the Senate, proclaiming that he sees Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an “obstacle to peace” in the country’s war with Hamas, and said it was time for the country to hold new elections. How dare he? Further, he stated, “Prime Minister Netanyahu has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel.” He also said, “Were Netanyahu to remain in power, it would jeopardize global support for Israel at a critical juncture,” and “Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah,” and he said Israel needs to make “some serious course corrections,” blah, blah, blah. You get the idea…

Response to Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg’s Op-Ed in This Week’s Issue

Dear Editor:

 Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg and I have always enjoyed a mutually respectful relationship. We would often partner with each other in inter-shul events such as Yom HaShoah and Yom Yerushalayim. This despite our hashkafos (religious outlooks) being quite different.

Rabbi Sladowsky Remembered

Dear Editor:

After the tribute in last week’s paper to Rabbi Yitzchak Sladowsky z”l, his esteemed wife Fay reached out to thank us for giving her husband the posthumous recognition he so rightfully deserves. In conversation, it came out that I may have not been clear in stating that at the height of their spiritual leadership at Forest Park Jewish Center, there were over 350 families that regularly participated in the array of programming organized by their shul.

Dear Editor:

 It is rare that I find common ground with Warren Hecht on anything, but his observation that the only functional branch of government is judicial is spot on. Mr. Hecht, however, failed to note the obvious reason why this is so: It’s because it is the only branch of government where there’s a clear majority of conservative and intelligent people running it.

Dear Editor:

 In an Op-Ed in last week’s paper, Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg took Rabbi Schonfeld to task for praising Rabbi Kahane a”h.

Dear Editor:

 In his critique of Senator Cotton’s grilling of TikTok executives, Sergei Kadinsky sideswiped President Trump, insinuating that he used racist language in calling the coronavirus the “Wuhan Virus.” I understand it’s 2024 and woke culture has seeped into everything, but this is stretching it a bit too far. No one thought West Nile Virus, Ebola Virus, and the Spanish Flu were racist terminology because the viruses were named after the points of origin. Same deal here. It’s okay to say “Wuhan Virus” guilt-free, for the virus everyone sans Anthony Fauci now admits originated in a Wuhan Lab.