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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community Retired Major General Gershon Hacohen, commander of the Gush Katif Disengagement, now admits that...
I guess this article can be considered a Public Service Announcement. Last Wednesday, I was scheduled to move from my house in Kew Gardens Hills to Baltimore. A few weeks before, I was gathering information on potential movers.
Last week, I received a text message from someone I know asking for a friend if I knew of a major organization that fights anti-Semitism. This person claims he and his business were victims of a hit piece by a publication that was allegedly laced with thinly disguised anti-Semitic tropes. They had an agenda and they stuck with it, despite some obvious misrepresentations.
I really should not be writing this article, or anything else for that matter. Tomorrow we will be moving to Baltimore, im yirtzeh Hashem, and I should be spending my time with last-minute packing. But the matter I intend on writing about, however briefly, is upsetting as it is urgent.
Warren Hecht called me last week and asked me if he could come by my house and have a picture taken of the two of us. Although he did not tell me that it was for an article he was going to write about us, I suspected it was for that reason, and was glad to oblige.
The Modern Orthodox world is in a serious state of crisis. They have reached a crossroads and are having a hard time negotiating that challenge.
I would like to begin this article with an apology. In last week’s article, “Where Is Our Al Sharpton?” I concluded with a short list of organizations that can be relied upon to speak up about issues facing Jews in the United States and Israel. I received several communications asking why I did not mention the Zionist Organization of America, led by Mort Klein.
