Letters to Dear Editor, My children loved Naomi Nachman’s marshmallow streusel topping for challah this week! I only tried it on two loaves this past Shabbos, but based on their fighting over the last remaining pieces, I guess I’ll be using it to grace the tops of all my challah loaves this Shabbos. Delicious! Thanks, Rachel Z. Dear Editor, Please support small retailers by joining your neighbors on Third Annual National Small Business Saturday, this coming November 30 and on the following Sunday. Do the same as often as possible during the other 364 days a year. Skip the national chain stores’ annual Black Friday madness, which now starts early Thursday at most large retail stores. Only PC Richards is closed. They allow their employees to stay home with family. Enjoy your Thanksgiving meal. Get a good night’s sleep and come out and support Small Business by shopping local. In these difficult economic times, it is especially important to patronize your neighborhood businesses. There are so
many great options. These people are our neighbors. They work long hours, pay taxes and provide local employment. If we don’t patronize our local community stores and restaurants to shop and eat, they don’t eat, either. Please join me and your neighbors in continuing to support our Jewish Home publication. Patronize their advertisers; they provide the necessary revenues to help keep them in business. Let them know you saw their ad. This helps keep our neighbors employed and the local economy growing. Sincerely, Larry Penner Dear Editor, When I read about Iran I can’t help but think about the 1980s and the terror that Communism wreaked upon the free world. It was a true fear in American’s hearts that one day the crazed leaders of Russia would pick up the phone to send a missile over the ocean to America’s heartland. We knew that it could happen and that our lives could be shattered in an instant. And yet, that instant never came. G-d in His infinite wisdom orchestrated events and the strong Soviet Union im-
the Editor ploded in a plume of dust. Nowadays it’s hard to envision the strength Communism had over the American people. It’s hard to see that the country held such power. But remember that just as G-d dismantled the Soviet Union in one blow, Iran’s power is only here by the whim of the One of Above. If G-d wishes Rouhani, Khamenei and their people to disappear off the face of the earth along with all their nuclear devices, it will be so. Just look at the Chanukah story to see how strong nations can be decimated in an instant. Chaim R. Werner Dear Editor, Every year I face a certain topic that I find to be an interesting issue regarding school programs and parenting. We all know how important the mitzvah of tzedakah is. It is something that is not only a mitzvah but a general concept that we want to give over to our children, to teach them the value in seeing the needs of others and helping in whatever way we can. We want to teach them how beautiful giving is, and how special it is to help a fellow Yid. In every school, they have different
tzedakah programs and contests happening throughout the year. Along with a beautiful pushka comes a high-gloss colorful pamphlet filled with prizes galore. In many cases the front cover is of a boy or girl with a huge grin and bulging eyes. Before or after receiving this temping booklet of toys galore, there is usually an “inspirational” assembly to promote devotion, encouragement, and intense importance to this cause. As a parent I have many issues that come up during this time. To start off, many times whoever is giving over the motivation gives the kids a false sense of reality. I understand they want the kids to believe that they can collect more than just one or two dollars, but to tell them that they have the opportunity to get some of the very big prizes as a motivational tool to help give them the drive to keep collecting more and more is wrong. My second issue I have is the high gloss booklets with the boy’s eyes coming out of his head. It hurts me tremendously that we have brought ourselves to a point where it is accepted to go to such lengths to justify the mitzvah. It goes against everything that we are taught as Yidden. The cover of these booklets picture a child who is overwhelmed by the
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