Letters to the Editor

Kudos for Hebrew column and its words

To the Editor:
I have been enjoying the Hebrew articles by Rabbi Noam Himelstein---a very nice addition to the paper.  I recently also experienced the emotions which Rabbi Himelstein so eloquently expressed in last week’s article about the Siyum on Sefer Vayikra by second graders in the Old City (at Yeshivat Hakotel) as my grandson from Alon Shvut also participated.  What a beautiful event: it was truly a zechut to be have been there!
Thank you, Rabbi Himelstein for enabling us, once again, to feel that pride!

Bobbee Feiner
Lawrence

Dershowitz interview on target

To the Editor:
I read your interview with Alan Dershowitz with great interest. My higher education was at Columbia, but I follow the rest of the Ivy League very carefully as well. As a result, when I read that Yale had given up its Interdisciplinary Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism after only a year, I was thoroughly disgusted.
It was an excellent interview.  There was one aspect of the situation, however, that was not covered:  Yale has a Jewish President, Richard C. Levin, who is the longest tenured Ivy League president, serving since 1993.  Given his success on the job, it is disquieting that he was silent.  Could he have exerted himself to save the Institute?  Did he try and fail?
  As you might know, the Orthodox Union has had a branch of its JLIC Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Yale for more than a decade. JLIC is on 15 major campuses around North America (including Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and Penn in the Ivies, besides Yale) with the aim to empower the Orthodox student community by recreating the atmosphere of the yeshiva on the secular campus. 
 Your paper is very good and both you and Sergey are doing a top-notch job.
Please keep in touch on this all-important issue.
 
Stephen Steiner
Director of Public Relations
Orthodox Union