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Israeli Grad Is An
MJI Success Story
Regarding the Oct. 24 cover story "A
Non-Traditional Worldwide Campus:'
as a graduate of the Michigan Jewish
Institute, I appreciated your positive
article regarding the college.
My MJI experience serves as a case
study in how MJI can provide an acces-
sible path toward a successful academic
and occupational career.
I am a non-U.S. citizen and thus
did not qualify for U.S. government
funds. Despite that fact, it was still
more financially viable for me to do an
online B.A. through MJI than through a
regular Israeli university. Additionally,
MJI was able to award me private schol-
arship funds to help me afford their
tuition.
Graduating with a B.A. in Jewish
studies from MJI granted me educa-
tional and occupational opportunities
— admission to an MA program in
information and library sciences in an
Israeli university and a job as a cata-
loger in an academic university library.
If the mission of a college is to pre-
pare its students for the future, then for
me, MJI — mission accomplished.

Daniel Price
Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel

NY Times Is Anti-Semitic
Responding to the letter "We Need
Diplomacy, Not Inflammatory Rhetoric"
(page 5, Oct. 31), the reason that Berle
Falbaum accuses the New York Times of
being anti-Semitic is because it is anti-
Semitic.
I would suggest that the author of this
letter access the Committee of Accuracy
in Middle East Reporting in America
(CAMERA). There are thousands of
instances. The latest occurred Oct. 28
when the paper describes Israel's prime
minister and cabinet ministers with the
following adjectives: "shrill," "abrasive
"stubborn" "cynical" and "strident" This

appeared in news articles.
Then there were the editorialists who
offered other adjectives such as "aggres-
sive "combative "sarcastic" "eager for
a fight" and "sabotaging diplomacy"
The letter writer then mentions how
the New York Times has reported on
Netanayu's recent address to the United
Nations, saying that it "has made him,
as well as Israel, a pariah among those
nations for crying wolf repeatedly"
He goes on to mention Rouhani as
if this man is to be trusted. This is the
same Rouhani who boasted "by creating
a calm environment, we were able to
complete the work on Isfahan" (Isfahan
is where Iran has four nuclear reac-
tors.) Are these the words of a man who
wants to end Iran's nuclear program?
Perhaps the most disturbing part of
the letter occurs in the last paragraph
when the author uses the adjective
"uncomfortable" to express disapproval
of Israel's friends on the right. He
and those on the left continue their
campaign to delegitimize them. He
accomplishes that by naming them
and attempting to place those people
in a bad light. Notice how he calls
them "reflexively pro-Israel friends"
This is shameful. They are not faux
friends. They are friends upon whom
Israel can count.

Dr. Edward Goldberg
West Bloomfield

Expert Help On Hot Flashes

Attention to health issues in the Jewish
News is always appreciated. However, I
was surprised to see an article in which
local doctors were interviewed about a
menopausal concern ("Hope For Hot
Flashes" Oct. 31) without the benefit of
input from Dr. Jerrold Weinberg.
Dr. Weinberg began to focus his prac-
tice on menopause over 10 years ago and
since that time has become a nationally
recognized expert and lecturer on the
subject. His compassion and knowledge
have been a gift to me and many of my
friends as we have gone from having
babies to having hot flashes.

Karen Colby Weiner, J.D., Ph.D.
West Bloomfield

Kosher Distributors
Provide Fair Pricing
We find it ironic and unfortunate that
in his letter to the editor published
Oct. 31, ("One Stop Kosher Serves the
Community" page 5), Mr. Daniel Gorin
stated false information about local
companies, Morris Kosher Poultry and
Dairy Fresh Foods Inc.

Firstly, we operate local, multi-genera-
tion, Jewish-owned and -run, brick-and-
mortar businesses of precisely the type
that the letter writer advocates supporting.
This is in direct contrast to KC Kosher
Co-op and other distant food distributors
serving our community.
Secondly, we have demonstrated per-
sonal and corporate histories of support-
ing both local community and all of our
independently owned customers, their
employees and families — regardless of
their owners' religions — for reasons simi-
lar to those provincial arguments raised by
the letter writer.
Most importantly, and contrary to his
incendiary and baseless assertion, we
make no practice of favoring national
chains over locally owned businesses. Mr.
Gorin has no reason to know if his state-
ment was factually correct, lacking access
to data that might either support or refute
his claim, which in this case is false.
We note that Mr. Gorin is an employee
of One Stop Kosher. This paper published
his opinions as if it voiced those of Shlomo
Goldman, his employer, who did not
know of nor endorse Mr. Goriris letter.
Mr. Goldman agrees that we have long
supported One Stop Kosher with favorably
low pricing plus numerous intangible and
free services.
The letter writer also failed to check his
facts with Hiller's Markets, for example, or
numerous other businesses that we also
support and treat fairly, and with far more
accuracy and respect than the letter writer
shows toward us.

Leslie Kleiman,
Chief Executive, Morris Kosher Poultry
Alan Must,
President, Dairy Fresh Foods Inc.

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