LETTERS

HEARING AIDS

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Several years ago, I counseled my
patients not to wear their hearing
aids in restaurants or at weddings. I
still counsel them with caution. But
many times, I am surprised by the
various listening conditions in which
they can use the hearing aids and
tolerate background noise. It is the
development of programmable and
digital hearing aids that allowed the
majority of these patients to tolerate
and communicate in these adverse
listening conditions.

Rosalind Leiser
Clinical audiologist
Oakland Audiology
Waterford

tinue o evolve. This requires a plural-
ism of thought, ranging from ultra-
Orthodox to secular Humanistic
Judaism and all the streams in
between.
Regarding the incident in the Dan
Panorama Hotel on Oct. 9, the mash-
giach.5'- responsibility is limited to the
kashrut of the food in the restaurant.
He is not responsible for the behavior
of the diners. For instance, none of
the males wore head coverings, which,
along with the lighting of candles after
sunet. in no way affects the kashrut
of the Food. Incidentally, the mash-
giach's prevailing upon us to extin-
guish the candles after sunset is a
direct violation of Halachah.

Edward J. Klein
Member, North - American Federation of
Secular Humanistic Jews

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a campaign to try to win her back, ini-
tiating school improvements and
expanding popular programs.
Today, most Michigan voters sup-
port choice; on a recent statewide sur-
vey, 64 percent said they would vote
yes to create a program similar to
Cleveland's in Michigan. The highest
support came from Detroit, where
supporters outnumbered opponents 3-
to-1.
In the Jewish community, we have
additional reasons to support choice.
That's because of the freedom it would
give many Jewish parents to choose a
school that reflects the values they
Mordechai Kaplan, the founder of
want for their child: whether Conserv-
Reconstructionism, defined Judaism as
ative, Reform, Orthodox or complete-
"the evolving religious civilization of
ly secular. And few things could do as
the Jewish people."
much to advance Jewish continuity
The two words that Willard
than to make it affordable, particularly
Simkovitz ("Religion vs. Belief"
for those who can't afford it now.
Dec. 4) does not seem to understand
Opponents say that violates the
is "evolving" and "civilization." It is
separation of church and state. But let
a civilization since it consists of
them argue with Harvard's Larry
much more than a religion. The
Tribe. He says U.S. Supreme Court
Jewish civilization includes land,
precedents would support most choice
programs so long as parents are free to
Customs and ceremonies, a literature
(prose and poetry), art, music and
choose the school and the dollars fol-
languages. It has been evolving since
low the child. After all, that's just how
scholarships and tax credits now fol-
When Orthodox Jews fail to under-
low college students to whatever
stand the word "evolve," the religion
school they choose, whether it's the
stops breathing and growing and
University of Michigan or the Univer-
begins to ossify. If Orthodoxy was the
sity of Detroit Mercy or the Lubavitch
only form of Judaism available today, I
Institute. Families vote with their feet
submit that most of us would have
— and there's nothing more democra-
nothing to do with it. Judaism, to
tic than that.
continue to live and g.row, must con-

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Does Evolve

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