"Why are we forcing these girls to date? Why are we rushing a process that is the biggest and most important decision of a person’s life?"
Your cover story on Naftali Bennet was an example of true journalism, a story told with color and detail. Unlike so many of the political pieces we read, there was no bias and you weren’t forcing us to think one way or another, but rather, respecting our ability to draw conclusions.
One detail that meant a lot to me was that, as a child, Bennet was influenced by Chabad, which led his family to shemiras hamitzvos. From places of blessing, curses do not come. If Hashem opened his heart as a child to emunah, He can continue to do so and show us that, wary as we may be, we have every reason to hope.
Hershel P.,
Crown Heights
Reading the Double Take story about the camp director who rejected the sister of an at-risk former camper, my heart went out to all the people in this story who are suffering: Kaila and her mother, the camp director, and especially Chani, the younger sister, and the innocent girls in camp whose exposure to foreign influences can never be completely undone.
It seems the experience could have turned out somewhat better had the camp director been more open to communicating with the parents. If a camp needs to send a camper home in the middle of a trip, how could the director just instruct her secretary to call the parents and tell them they were sending her home? Granted it would be an uncomfortable call to make, but that is part of her responsibility.
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