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Tikkun Article
Reminds Of Korach

I read the Media Monitor
column in your March 17 edi-
tion with a sick feeling in my
stomach and came away with
one conclusion. The reason
the "Orthodox" rabbi who
wrote the Tikkun article
would not sign his name was
because he did not want us to
know that his name is
Korach.
We learn from the Torah
and Midrash that Korach was
a leader among the Jews at
the time of Moses, an
educated man (an "Orthodox
rabbi"?) who tried to
challenge the leadership of
Moses by taking certain
Torah laws and subtly
twisting their meaning to
make them sound foolish or
cruel. His purpose was not to
promote learning or debate: it
was to attract attention to
himself and take power by
creating dissent among the
people.
Living under Torah law is
not a dark "senario." Those of
us who do cling to the Torah
find that "all its ways are
pleasant." The rabbi who
wrote this article is not real-
ly interested in "horrifying
possibilities"; he is interested
in power through dissent.
Was what your interest in
reprinting it?

Yehudis Rabinowitz
Oak Park

New Improved
Blood Libel

For centuries, Jews around
the world were tormented by
the blood libel. Around
Passover time practically in
every country in Europe,
rumors sprang that Jews
allegedly killed a Christian
child supposedly to use the
blood in making matzahs for
Passover.
Now, when these rumors
subside and killing of one
child would not make a great
news, a liberal-leftist Jewish
magazine Tikkun introduced
a new improved and revised
murder libel. The article
"The Problem With Halachic
Ethics" in its March/April
issue was extensively review-
ed in the last issue of The
Jewish News under a title
"Tikkun Chides Jewish Law
As Problematic and In-
tolerant."
In the Tikkun article, an
anonymous Orthodox rabbi il-
lustrates a future scenario
when a brilliant surgeon at
Jerusalem's Hospital driven
by a halachic fervour alleged-
ly killed or let die more than
800 of his patients.
This accusation is not brand
new. In national socialist Ger-
many and the socialist Soviet

Union, Jewish doctors were
customarily accused of harm-
ing or murdering their pa-
tients .. .
editors
Tikkun
The
rightfully realized that the
outside world would not trust
secular, Reform and Conser-
vative rabbis in matters of
Jewish law. Therefore, these
allegations are brought in the
name of an Orthodox rabbi.
This rabbi calls for a public
trial of the huge body of
Jewish law. This progressive
call returns us to a grim
medieval practice of the
"Tournaments for God" and
numerous Talmud trials .. .
Another insult to the
Jewish community at large is
the anonymity of the author.
Our great rabbis of old as well
as our contemporary rabbis
have never been afraid to
stand for their causes .. .
With due respect to freedom
of the press and different opi-
nions for every walk of life, I
would request The Jewish
News not publish or circulate
the anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish,
anti-Israel and anti-humane
materials without thorough
editorial comment. Leave the
distribution of such materials
to publishers like Tikkun.

Alexander Y. Gopp
Ann Arbor

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us thought your insertion of
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March 17 issue to be in ex-
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