Letters
Doctors, Too
This is not intended to be criti-
cal of the practice of medicine or
medical doctors. We chiroprac-
tors appreciate the many fine
things they do in treatment and
surgery. We often ask their help
for our patients and ourselves.
It's just that chiropractors
dance to a different tune.
M.D.s are beginning to recog-
nize there is more to health care
than drugs and surgery and are
including other non-drug meth-
ods by use and referral
("Alternative Medicine Dec. 1,
page 21). They refer to them-
selves as "alternative medicine
practitioners." This is wonderful;
we love it.
But who are some kidding,
other than themselves, when
they mention the many other
methods they use and recognize
but leave out the largest of them
all, chiropractic?
Dr. Sidney Leitson
West Bloomfield
Music Support
As a choir performer and friend
of the family, I was delighted to
see the Doer Profile (Nov. 24, p.
14) about Cantor Sholom Kalib's
important project for recording
synagogue music otherwise at
risk of disappearing.
The article does not state,
however, that Cantor Kalib is
seeking financial support for the
project. Nonprofit status has
been applied for and an employ-
ee I.D. number has already been
issued for tax purposes. All
donations are recognized pub-
licly on a Wall of Honor, which
can be seen on the Web'site,
www.jmhp.org.
Donations of any amount
would be appreciated to help
Jewish.com
finance the project. Checks can
be made out to the Jewish Music
Heritage Foundation, 2513 Hal
Circle, Baltimore, MD 21209.
Lori Liner
West Bloomfield
Bush Is Right
How embarrassing for Jews to
have the Union for Reform
Judaism, one of our largest
organizations, take such a stand
against an administration dedi-
cated to defending us and the
State of Israel ("Exit Iraq:' Nov.
24, page 36) despite relentless
politically motivated criticism
from the news media and dissi-
dents typified by anti-Zionists
like Cindy Sheehan, who blames
Israel in part for the Iraq War.
The resolution calls the war
"untenable" and claims that
President Bush did not exercise
all his options before going to
war. How many times was Bush
to go to the United Nations for
help? Never-mind that Secretary-
General Kofi Annan's son, Kojo,
had received exorbitant fees
under the oil-for-food scam with
at least $17 billion grafted out of
a U.N. relief program for Iraq.
And how naive would one have
to be to not believe that the
father was not intimately
involved?
Never mind, that the French,
the Russians and allegedly at
least one Britisher, George
Galloway, who yells about the
rape of Jerusalem by Zionism,
were knee-deep in the Iraqi oil-
for-food scandal. These were the
nations and people President
Bush was supposed to convince
to help us in Iraq against
Saddam Hussein, their payer!
As to Rabbi Eric Yoffie's hyper-
bolic statement that "American
dotCOM SURVEY
Jews, and all Americans, are pro-
foundly critical of the war and
want the administration to tell
us how to bring our troops
home." I don't think so.
What Americans do want is
for our armed forces to defeat
our enemies and to maintain the
marvelously free world with
which God has blessed us.
Jerome S. Kaufman
Helen Hicks
Bloomfield Hills
Big Brothers Big Sisters of
Metropolitan Detroit
Thanks To Bigs
This season of kindness and
compassion, Big Brothers Big
Sisters \you'd like to thank the
Jewish community for its many
acts of volunteerism and philan-
thropy.
Many of your readers are our
adult mentors (Bigs), who spend
countless hours with boys and
who girls ages 7-14. This year we
have spent considerable time
pairing children whose parents
are incarcerated with adult men-
tors. Studies show that a child
whose parent is incarcerated is
70 percent more likely to follow
in that person's path than a child
whose parents are not impris-
oned. What compassion and
patience it must take on the part
of the mentor to filter through
the loneliness and the pain.
I recently spoke to Rick
Loewenstein of the Cranbrook
Educational Community in
Bloomfield Hills. His past years
as a mentor was one of the most
positive experiences of his life.
His memories symbolize most of
the feelings that Bigs experience
as a result of the match.
We thank those readers who
contribute annually and monthly
to our charity. It takes an enor-
mous financial investment to
screen each volunteer ensuring
Last Week's Results
Narnia Film Debated
As Narnia film hits theaters,
Jews uneasy with strong
Christian theme.
Will your take your children to
see the movie The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe?
Should Israel retaliate after the
Dec. 5 terrorist attack in
Netanya?
Read about it on Jewish.com .
To vote, click on
JliOnline.com/Opinion
Yes 69%
No 31%
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December 15 • 2005
that every child will be safe and
secure once the match is made.
The Jewish community is a
friend to so many charities from
shelters to food banks to those
serving children. We, like so
many others, send our gratitude
and thanks and wish everyone a
happy Chanukah and successful
new year.
Southfield
Religious Respect
Hurrah to Columnists Harry
Kirsbaum ("Happy Whatever','
Dec. 8, page 110) and George
Cantor ("Seasons Bleatings," Dec.
8, page 40) for bringing some
needed common sense to the
annual "Christmas angst" in the
Jewish community.
If one is secure in one's
Judaism, those Christmas dis-
plays cannot be upsetting. And I
am thankful that in this great
country, we can practice our reli-
gion alongside one another with
respect and good will.
Walter M. Stark
and growing problem in much of
the Muslim world, in part
because it often enjoys govern-
ment sponsorship.
In recent months, the
Egyptian government daily Al-
Ahram al-Massai published an
article by Editor-In-Chief Mursi
Atallah about what he called "the
claims and lies of Israel and
1,vorld Jewry about the number
of Jews exterminated by Nazi
Germany"; Saudi Arabia's Al-
Ikhbariya TV featured remarks
by a professor who said "the
Holbcaust is a myth with a cer-
tain political agenda"; the Syrian
government hosted Holocaust-
denier and former Ku Klux Klan
leader David Duke; and, most
recently, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he
doubts that the Holocaust
occurred.
There has been considerable
international criticism of the
Iranian leader's statement. By con-
trast, Robert Sklar is one of the
very few Jewish newspaper editors
— perhaps the only one — to
protest Sheik Mudeiris' speech in
Gaza. Hopefully, others will be
inspired by him to speak out.
Bloomfield Hills
Dr. Rafael Medoff
Expose Deniers
Robert Sklar's Editor's Letter ("A
Disquieting Sermon," Dec. 1,
page 5) called attention to the
fact that Palestinian Authority
television earlier this year aired
a sermon by Sheik Ibrahim
Ivludeiris in a Gaza mosque in
which he claimed that "the Jews
brought Nazism" and that Jews
exaggerate the number of
Holocaust victims in order to
gain world sympathy
But Holocaust-denial is not
limited to Gaza. It is a serious
Director
Benyamin Korn
Associate Director
David S. Wyman
Institute for Holocaust Studies
Melrose Park, Pa.
Correction
• The name of Manny
Mittelman was misspelled_` -
in some references-in the
story "Strong'
(Dec. 8, paqe i9).
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