Letters

I must take issue with certain assumptions that Jewish Week Editor and Publisher Gary Rosenblatt makes concerning Modern Orthodoxy and our leaders, (“Hail to the Chief,” Between The Lines, April 20).

In “Rally Here Slams Obama and Jewish Democrats” (April 30), The Jewish Week minimized and mischaracterized my organization, Manhigut Yehudit (the Jewish Leadership Movement).

We are the largest faction inside Israel’s ruling Likud party, as opposed to simply “an Israeli organization,” and we are the main opposition to Israeli leaders as they attempt to give away more of the Land of Israel.

Notwithstanding Elie Wiesel’s rosy assessment of American/Israeli relations, there is nothing to suggest that President Barack Obama’s rapprochement with the Islamic world at the expense of Israel has significantly changed  (“Taking Wiesel’s Advice,” Editorial, May 14).

I congratulate The Jewish Week on your article, “Childhood Obesity Hits Israel” (Healthcare, May 7).
The Israel Heart Fund promotes programs to prevent heart disease. In 1999 we initiated a partnership with The Childhood Obesity center at Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, Israel.

In the title of Gary Rosenblatt’s column, “Rethinking, And Rejecting, The ‘Peace Process’” (April 30), he places the words “peace process” in quotation marks. I conclude that to Rosenblatt, the “peace process” is a sham, can never achieve peace and therefore should be set aside. What replaces it?

I strongly disagree with the Obama administration’s excessive posture about settlements in Israel (“What About The Arab States?” Editorial, April 30). It’s time to reduce the rhetoric and reset the agenda.

The article on Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s meeting with Jewish leaders (“Dolan Steers Clear Of Troubling Issues,” April 30) raised the question why Dolan didn’t discuss the Inquisition or the Crusades.

I am writing in response to your article about the Professional Leaders Project (“Scholarships Passed Over,” April 2).
I would like to take this opportunity to provide your readers with additional facts and context that did not appear in the original article.

I have been reading with great interest the discussions between advocates of independent minyanim and the establishment synagogues (“Minyans, Synagogues In New Dynamic,” April 30).

The story of women’s roles within Orthodoxy has appeared on the front page of The Jewish Week five times in the last eight weeks, including four consecutive weeks (March 5, 12, 19, 26 and again April 23).