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Helping The Homeless
Is A Great Mitzvah
Thank you for publishing Sharon
Luckerman's article "Disproving
Stereotypes" (Sept. 11, page 50).
Veronika Scott is performing a great
mitzvah by employing homeless people
while producing a great product also for
homeless people — in spite of her diffi-
cult childhood and the discouragement
that she encountered.
It shows that determination and
greater goals can overcome so many
obstacles. We should all take pride in
her accomplishments.
Harvey S. Bronstein
Southfield
40-year-old men cry openly because
they have been denied their children.
These fathers are still legally bound to
pay child support, although the mother
denies the father the right to be with
the children or the children refuse to
see the father because of their systemic
hatred caused by the mother.
This is not hearsay — it is real.
Unfortunately, the general public
has no perception of this tragedy for
children who have been deprived of
their fathers and grandparents and how
they are used as tools to "punish" their
fathers.
This is proven, documented child
abuse and it is legal.
Ed Kohl
West Bloomfield
Alienated Grandparents
A Widespread Problem
Regarding "The Champion Of
Grandparents' Rights" (Sept. 4, page
16), the real tragedy is the robbing of
children of their fathers and grandpar-
ents due to the deliberate alienation of
children by a parent.
The proven, relentless, tactical war on
(usually) fathers by the ex-wife/mother
of the children that robs the children of
their father through child alienation is
widespread.
Fathers continually challenging this
deliberate alienation in court to enforce
their time-share agreement is an appall-
ing and heartbreaking waste of money
and always futile.
There are fathers and grandparents
that have not seen their children in
years. Not because they don't want to
but because the children have been poi-
soned against them.
The courts are complicit in this trag-
edy. The documentary movie Divorce
Corp shows the practices seen daily in
family courts targeted against fathers.
A legacy organization battling
this issue is Alienated Grandparents
Anonymous, aga-fl.org.
I've been to the local meetings of
Dads and Moms of Michigan where
Former CSZ Member
Happy At Other Shul
I read with some puzzlement the let-
ter concerning Congregation Shaarey
Zedek in the Sept. 11 IN (page 5).
The letter, "CSZ Moving Forward;
stated that it wished "to present facts
and thoughts not addressed" in the JN
article of Sept. 4. I was puzzled because
the letter contained no facts and shed
no further light on the situation.
I wish to commend the JN for its hon-
est, thorough and fair reporting of the
unfortunate situation between CSZ and
Rabbi Krakoff. It should be understood
that the IN owes an obligation to its
readers to fairly and accurately report
a story as newsworthy as the current
situation concerning CSZ and how its
decision to terminate Rabbi Krakoff's
contract has divided the membership.
It is not the function of the JN to act
as a defense attorney or cheerleader for
the executive committee of CSZ for the
manner in which it handled the situa-
tion regarding Rabbi Krakoff.
I was a member of CSZ from 1977 to
2009 until it sold the B'nai Israel build-
ing in West Bloomfield in an equally
divisive manner. I wish CSZ the best,
Yiddish Audio Books
Now Accessible Online
An extensive collection of Yiddish-
language audio books is now available
for free listening and downloading
through a project of the Yiddish Book
Center in Amherst, Mass., preserving
the distinct and irreplaceable voices of
the last generation of European-born
native Yiddish speakers.
The Sami Rohr Library of Recorded
Yiddish Books comprises some 150
titles, including novels, short stories,
nonfiction works, memoirs, essays
and poetry, by both major and lesser-
known Yiddish writers.
"The recordings are the last chance
most of us will ever have to hear
Yiddish literature read aloud in the
voices of its original readers:' said
Aaron Lansky, founder and president
of the Yiddish Book Center.
The recordings were made at the
Jewish Public Library of Montreal
in the 1980s and '90s, after a patron
requested Yiddish audio books for his
wife, whose failing eyesight prevented
her from reading the literature she
loved.
The collection grew over the years
WE MAKE
HOME
SELLERS
HAPPY
Yiddish Limerick
Rosh Hashanah
Far tzvey gantze teg* mir davn ** in
shul.
Mir shteyen un zitzn,*** we pray by
the rule.
Un hob a gut yohr**** far dir
un far mir*****
A brokha****** we say for the
Jewish New Year.
I love Rosh Hashanah, a
yonte.r****** so cool.
* Far tzvey gantze teg — For two
full days
** mir davn — we pray
*** Mir shteyen un zitzn — we
stand and sit
**** Un hob a gut yohr — And
have a good year
***** Far dir un far mir — for you
and for me
****** brokha — a blessing
******* yontef — holiday
— Rachel Kapen
but they who do not learn from history
are condemned to repeat it.
I am presently a member of B'nai
Israel Synagogue and could not be hap-
pier with our egalitarian manner of
dealing with all issues. Every member
has an equal voice and decisions are
made with complete transparency.
Michael Golob
Bloomfield Hills
thanks to dedicated volunteers —
some of them professional actors,
many of them laymen, all of them
native Yiddish speakers — who
devoted hours of their time to reading
and recording the books in a makeshift
studio in the library's basement.
The Yiddish Book Center, in partner-
ship with the library, digitally remas-
tered those recordings. Now, the entire
collection is accessible on the center's
website www.yiddishbookcenter.org/
sami-rohr-library, where the recordings
can be listened to or downloaded to
mobile devices, free of charge.
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