A brief simple question
I went to visit friends and family a number of times in various hospitals. I went not as a physician but
as a normal regular citizen.
The procedure varied but the end point was the same
A photo-idea or a drivers license. one even took a photo of each visitor.
I saw individuals of every race and color, of every economic status stand in line as I and my wife did.
NO ONE YELLED "RACISM"!
WHY SHOULD THE SAME SAFEGUARDS AT THE BALLOT BOX BE DIFFERENT?
TRY GETTING ON A PLANE WITHOUT IDENTIFICATION !
The voter suppression screaming is mainly a sham!
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Sunday, October 28, 2018
UNDERSTANDING INCIVILITY AND THE CAUSE OF MOB RULE
NOW I UNDERSTAND!
Thank you NY Times. CNN , MSNBC and the Washington Post for making it all clear to me.
LET'S SEE IF I HAVE IT RIGHT
This whole incivility and violence emanates from election night 2016 . Had Trump not won, ( and lost ) the way he was supposed to, there would be no need for incivility. For this victory. the progressive world can never forgive him!
LET US EXAMINE 2016 TO THE PRESENT.
Violence at Berkeley should they ever invite a pro-conservative speaker. "One should never allow those kind to spread alternate thoughts." Trump might be praised and conservative ideas discussed!
Antifa mobs roam Portland-why stop them- just stop calling them a mob- think of cowboys with masks but no horses. We'll teach Trump a lesson for thinking he is our President.
Cong Scalise is shot by a Sanders supporter. If there had been no Trump, the shooter would not have been agitated.
HILLARY REAFFIRMS NO CIVILITY UNTIL WE REGAIN POWER
Holder- "kick them'
Waters- get them in the face
question-if the restaurant patron who confronted the Majority Leader in the restaurant had a gun and used it-would it look bad that he fired and killed a Trump supporter because the shooter was agitated over the Pres? I guess his plea would be "TRUMP MADE ME DO IT!
The cries from Dem leaders that Trump is a traitor- Isn't it time they formalized those charges?
The NYT publishing a end to Trump by assassination
Kathy Griffin holding a decapitated Trump head-I GUESS IT WAS A SILLY AD FOR A BEAUTY SALON!
Trump inspired illegal SA caravan-silly man !
KHOSSEGGI IS KILLED- not sure if Trump pulled the trigger.Why is he trying to deal with Saudi Prince to stabilize the Middle East? He's not really the Pres!
A crazy who likes Trump sends pipe bombs- see this is proof!
A crazy who hates Trump kill 11 at a synagogue- Trump must have been sending him sub rosa signals - Trump made everybody CRAZY
Sen Booker-"your silence is complicity"- DOES HE PLAN TO REMAIN SILENT ONTHE ANONYMOUS complaints against him-or will he turn it over to the FBI?
I think we can sum it up -everything bad in the world is Trump's fault-anything good such as the economy is a result of Obama's leadership.
Before I conclude -may I interest you in a beautiful bridge I have for sale in Brooklyn.?
Thank you NY Times. CNN , MSNBC and the Washington Post for making it all clear to me.
LET'S SEE IF I HAVE IT RIGHT
This whole incivility and violence emanates from election night 2016 . Had Trump not won, ( and lost ) the way he was supposed to, there would be no need for incivility. For this victory. the progressive world can never forgive him!
LET US EXAMINE 2016 TO THE PRESENT.
Violence at Berkeley should they ever invite a pro-conservative speaker. "One should never allow those kind to spread alternate thoughts." Trump might be praised and conservative ideas discussed!
Antifa mobs roam Portland-why stop them- just stop calling them a mob- think of cowboys with masks but no horses. We'll teach Trump a lesson for thinking he is our President.
Cong Scalise is shot by a Sanders supporter. If there had been no Trump, the shooter would not have been agitated.
HILLARY REAFFIRMS NO CIVILITY UNTIL WE REGAIN POWER
Holder- "kick them'
Waters- get them in the face
question-if the restaurant patron who confronted the Majority Leader in the restaurant had a gun and used it-would it look bad that he fired and killed a Trump supporter because the shooter was agitated over the Pres? I guess his plea would be "TRUMP MADE ME DO IT!
The cries from Dem leaders that Trump is a traitor- Isn't it time they formalized those charges?
The NYT publishing a end to Trump by assassination
Kathy Griffin holding a decapitated Trump head-I GUESS IT WAS A SILLY AD FOR A BEAUTY SALON!
Trump inspired illegal SA caravan-silly man !
KHOSSEGGI IS KILLED- not sure if Trump pulled the trigger.Why is he trying to deal with Saudi Prince to stabilize the Middle East? He's not really the Pres!
A crazy who likes Trump sends pipe bombs- see this is proof!
A crazy who hates Trump kill 11 at a synagogue- Trump must have been sending him sub rosa signals - Trump made everybody CRAZY
Sen Booker-"your silence is complicity"- DOES HE PLAN TO REMAIN SILENT ONTHE ANONYMOUS complaints against him-or will he turn it over to the FBI?
I think we can sum it up -everything bad in the world is Trump's fault-anything good such as the economy is a result of Obama's leadership.
Before I conclude -may I interest you in a beautiful bridge I have for sale in Brooklyn.?
Thursday, October 18, 2018
YARMULKES AT YESHIVA COLLEGE
If there is one consistency in my weltaanschung these past 60 years ( since I graduated YC ) it is my devotion to TORAH UMADDAH as a guiding force.
Thus in Sept 2005 , when the YU administration tried to change the school emblem by deleting Torah Umadda and replacing it with a generic candelabra , I successfully led the battle to prevent that from happening.
My YC history now comprises many generations of graduates and students. Brothers, my wife (SC-'62) 3 children and grandchildren. My father z"l even graduated TA on the lower East side before there was a YC .
Thus it came as a shock to me this past week while visiting the campus to have dinner with 3 grandchildren ( 1-SC, 1-YC and 1-a smicha student) to read the excellent editorial by Benjamin Koslowe . He noted that a large number of students enrolled in campus programs DO NOT WEAR YARMULKES IN CLASS OR ON THE CAMPUS ENVIRONS.
To me it is not a simple question of a " dress code".YC , part of YU is an orthodox institution. The yarmulke announces publicly who you are , while showing a sign of respect for our traditions and your fellow students. Those who for cultural reasons, cannot conform should feel free to switch to Columbia or Fordham etc. The statement a kippah makes is simple-" I am an orthodox student, studying in an orthodox college and I believe in a Torah education".
In my surgical practice I wore a yarmulke.
As President ( starting in 1982- for 21 years) of then the largest pro-Israel Political Action Committee, and an AIPAC leader, I wore my kippah whether in the White House, Congress or with meetings with world leaders around the world.
"KASE ROSHCHA VEYEHE MORAH SHAMAYIM ALECHA"
Cover your head to acknowledge that there is a g-d above you.
I recall a gentile patient who looked up from the examining table and proclaimed "I am so happy that my physician is a G-d fearing individual"
To Sephardic or secular students we care not how you conduct yourself in the privacy of your home.In Yeshiva we should have rules-obey or leave==period
Many years ago I served on the RIETS Board and was active in the alumni Assoc.This is a perfect issue to have these groups and the student body become involved in with a petition drive.to correct this problem
There could be a transition time for new students to follow the new rules.\
Last year, my grandson Jack announced the YC basketball games. I often watched on internet. How proud I was to see clean cut young men wearing their kippot on the court.
There should never be a time when the public or alumni doubt our full commitment to our values--TORAH UMADDAH
respectfully submitted
Mendy Ganchrow M.D. (BTA-'54-YC-'58)
Dr Ganchrow was President of the OU from 1994-2000
Thus in Sept 2005 , when the YU administration tried to change the school emblem by deleting Torah Umadda and replacing it with a generic candelabra , I successfully led the battle to prevent that from happening.
My YC history now comprises many generations of graduates and students. Brothers, my wife (SC-'62) 3 children and grandchildren. My father z"l even graduated TA on the lower East side before there was a YC .
Thus it came as a shock to me this past week while visiting the campus to have dinner with 3 grandchildren ( 1-SC, 1-YC and 1-a smicha student) to read the excellent editorial by Benjamin Koslowe . He noted that a large number of students enrolled in campus programs DO NOT WEAR YARMULKES IN CLASS OR ON THE CAMPUS ENVIRONS.
To me it is not a simple question of a " dress code".YC , part of YU is an orthodox institution. The yarmulke announces publicly who you are , while showing a sign of respect for our traditions and your fellow students. Those who for cultural reasons, cannot conform should feel free to switch to Columbia or Fordham etc. The statement a kippah makes is simple-" I am an orthodox student, studying in an orthodox college and I believe in a Torah education".
In my surgical practice I wore a yarmulke.
As President ( starting in 1982- for 21 years) of then the largest pro-Israel Political Action Committee, and an AIPAC leader, I wore my kippah whether in the White House, Congress or with meetings with world leaders around the world.
"KASE ROSHCHA VEYEHE MORAH SHAMAYIM ALECHA"
Cover your head to acknowledge that there is a g-d above you.
I recall a gentile patient who looked up from the examining table and proclaimed "I am so happy that my physician is a G-d fearing individual"
To Sephardic or secular students we care not how you conduct yourself in the privacy of your home.In Yeshiva we should have rules-obey or leave==period
Many years ago I served on the RIETS Board and was active in the alumni Assoc.This is a perfect issue to have these groups and the student body become involved in with a petition drive.to correct this problem
There could be a transition time for new students to follow the new rules.\
Last year, my grandson Jack announced the YC basketball games. I often watched on internet. How proud I was to see clean cut young men wearing their kippot on the court.
There should never be a time when the public or alumni doubt our full commitment to our values--TORAH UMADDAH
respectfully submitted
Mendy Ganchrow M.D. (BTA-'54-YC-'58)
Dr Ganchrow was President of the OU from 1994-2000
Monday, October 15, 2018
MA NISHTANA ? SAUDI ARABIA SHOWS ITS COLORS
The apparent murder of a Saudi "columnist" in the Turkish embassy building of SA has the world in turmoil.
There is no question of the horrific nature of the alleged torture, assassination and butchering. Khashoggi was lured into the embassy to correct a personal problem.
Much of the verbal attacks on SA involve a world that views such behavior as outside the realm of HUMAN.
Some of the verbal attacks are simply anti-Trump , by those who wish to undermine his Middle East foreign policy.
Absent in this discussion is the role of dictators, tyrants, despots and mass murderers world wide
.
Three critics of Putin have been killed in England.The KGB , perhaps with a new name is alive well. How many more critics have met a similar fate in the motherland?
China where perhaps millions over the decades have been imprisoned or disappeared is now holding hundreds of thousands of Muslims in "re-education camps " against their will. What happens to dissenters?
N. Korea sent killers to Europe to kill relatives of Kim. They famously kidnapped Japanese women.
Look at the "Palestinian" culture where terrorists are not only honored , but mothers are proud that their children became martyrs killing Jews..
Venezuela and Cuba partners in violence to subdue opponents.
Iran has devoted itself to mayhem and terrorism. Whatever billions Obama shipped to them have been put to "good" use in support of anti-Sunni , anti-Israel and anti-American causes.
Syria has used poison gas on their own citizens ,
AND SO SADLY IS THE WAY OF THE WORLD
The problem with SA, is they got caught!
Why would they need a 15 man squad to simply sedate or tranquilize their subject, and take him back to SA.
What a terrible outcome
The hit squad should either be publicly eliminated and accused of being renegades or they should be sent back to take further "hit-squad" lessons from MS-13 or some old Mafia pro.
How to deal with SA now?
If we were consistent, we would break off all relations with the above mentioned dictatorships, until they come around to our standards.
Of course we would lose mega jobs and bite our own faces. We don't wat SA to purchase military equipment from Russia, nor do we wish to allow Iran to benefit from this situation.
Colleges, museums mosques and other such group should now reject Saudi funding. It is proper to avoid participation in Saudi economic conferences at this time. We can delay military sales and keep demanding the Saudis come to face with the role of critics in a free society. We can curtail tourism to SA and avoid industry making economic commitments to them at this time.
We live in an evil world-populated by those whose standards of civil rights are nil.
When Democrats resort to mob rule and incivility -a-la Hillary, they weaken our ability to stand out united against the "MOBS of the WORLD"
There is no question of the horrific nature of the alleged torture, assassination and butchering. Khashoggi was lured into the embassy to correct a personal problem.
Much of the verbal attacks on SA involve a world that views such behavior as outside the realm of HUMAN.
Some of the verbal attacks are simply anti-Trump , by those who wish to undermine his Middle East foreign policy.
Absent in this discussion is the role of dictators, tyrants, despots and mass murderers world wide
.
Three critics of Putin have been killed in England.The KGB , perhaps with a new name is alive well. How many more critics have met a similar fate in the motherland?
China where perhaps millions over the decades have been imprisoned or disappeared is now holding hundreds of thousands of Muslims in "re-education camps " against their will. What happens to dissenters?
N. Korea sent killers to Europe to kill relatives of Kim. They famously kidnapped Japanese women.
Look at the "Palestinian" culture where terrorists are not only honored , but mothers are proud that their children became martyrs killing Jews..
Venezuela and Cuba partners in violence to subdue opponents.
Iran has devoted itself to mayhem and terrorism. Whatever billions Obama shipped to them have been put to "good" use in support of anti-Sunni , anti-Israel and anti-American causes.
Syria has used poison gas on their own citizens ,
AND SO SADLY IS THE WAY OF THE WORLD
The problem with SA, is they got caught!
Why would they need a 15 man squad to simply sedate or tranquilize their subject, and take him back to SA.
What a terrible outcome
The hit squad should either be publicly eliminated and accused of being renegades or they should be sent back to take further "hit-squad" lessons from MS-13 or some old Mafia pro.
How to deal with SA now?
If we were consistent, we would break off all relations with the above mentioned dictatorships, until they come around to our standards.
Of course we would lose mega jobs and bite our own faces. We don't wat SA to purchase military equipment from Russia, nor do we wish to allow Iran to benefit from this situation.
Colleges, museums mosques and other such group should now reject Saudi funding. It is proper to avoid participation in Saudi economic conferences at this time. We can delay military sales and keep demanding the Saudis come to face with the role of critics in a free society. We can curtail tourism to SA and avoid industry making economic commitments to them at this time.
We live in an evil world-populated by those whose standards of civil rights are nil.
When Democrats resort to mob rule and incivility -a-la Hillary, they weaken our ability to stand out united against the "MOBS of the WORLD"
Monday, October 08, 2018
SPIRITUALITY
It was the first day Rosh Hashonah some 4 weeks ago. I was given the honor of opening the huge Torah Ark ( with a 2nd individual) for The Nesane Tokef prayer..
As I stood facing the 30 or so Torah scrolls , I turned to examine the mass of individuals who had come to join the Jerusalem Great Synagogue service. All of the 850 mens seats and the 550 womens pews were occupied. In addition about 100 men and a similar number of women stood against the back walls of their respective sections
All were focused on the magnificent Cantor Zvi Weiss and the 30 plus members of the choir.. led by maestro Elli Sacks .
Not a word could be heard from the congregants as the prayer with all its traditional "NUSACH" was slowly and methodically dissected so that the true meaning of the prayers could be absorbed into ones soul.
The chief Rabbi stood in the corner by his pew, adding dignity and grace to the tfilot
For me, this represented a hi-point of spirituality. Through my career I have been part of moving events in Russia, Ukraine ,Israel and of course the US.
I can recall presenting a Torah scroll to the Navy at Ashdod from my Talmud shiur, or the wedding of 2 Yachad individuals, and conducting services in Vietnam for Jewish GI's among dozens of spititual events,
Within my neshama ( soul ) nothing could match that moment in Jerusalem.
It spoke to me as a symbol that Jewish unity and renaissance is not beyond a possibility.
The growth of the Orthodox community in the US and Israel ,speaks to a future that despite the current and future loss of assimilated Jews, Jewish history will repeat itself with the growth of a Torah community that will be vibrant, learned and committed.
As I stood facing the 30 or so Torah scrolls , I turned to examine the mass of individuals who had come to join the Jerusalem Great Synagogue service. All of the 850 mens seats and the 550 womens pews were occupied. In addition about 100 men and a similar number of women stood against the back walls of their respective sections
All were focused on the magnificent Cantor Zvi Weiss and the 30 plus members of the choir.. led by maestro Elli Sacks .
Not a word could be heard from the congregants as the prayer with all its traditional "NUSACH" was slowly and methodically dissected so that the true meaning of the prayers could be absorbed into ones soul.
The chief Rabbi stood in the corner by his pew, adding dignity and grace to the tfilot
For me, this represented a hi-point of spirituality. Through my career I have been part of moving events in Russia, Ukraine ,Israel and of course the US.
I can recall presenting a Torah scroll to the Navy at Ashdod from my Talmud shiur, or the wedding of 2 Yachad individuals, and conducting services in Vietnam for Jewish GI's among dozens of spititual events,
Within my neshama ( soul ) nothing could match that moment in Jerusalem.
It spoke to me as a symbol that Jewish unity and renaissance is not beyond a possibility.
The growth of the Orthodox community in the US and Israel ,speaks to a future that despite the current and future loss of assimilated Jews, Jewish history will repeat itself with the growth of a Torah community that will be vibrant, learned and committed.
Sunday, October 07, 2018
SENATOR COLLINS TELLS IT THE WAY IT IS
There is no reason for me to analyze the eloquent and thoughtful speech of Senator Collins on the Senate floor Friday. It speaks for itself!
She took the sails out of the disgraceful attacks on Judge Cavanaugh, and specifically Feinstein and Murkowski
I only feel that there was one great omission
The Law students at Yale and Harvard, as well as the left wing law professors who left class to proclaim "Guilty until prove innocent" ( my quote) should be ashamed of themselves-is this the best that these legal minds could come up with in analyzing a critical moment in American history?
I would love to have the high school college and graduate school antics of these students, professors and the Schumers of the Congress undergo such a public examination of their personal lives..
By their standards probably most would have to drop out (alcohol,drugs, shoplifting, sexual "aggression", telling off- color or racist jokes and so on)
One last thought-as a Vietnam veteran I don"t know how the Senator from Connecticut can stand up and criticize any other human being? or Pocahantas who refuses to take a DNA test , but used her "HERITAGE" to the full extent of the law.
She took the sails out of the disgraceful attacks on Judge Cavanaugh, and specifically Feinstein and Murkowski
I only feel that there was one great omission
The Law students at Yale and Harvard, as well as the left wing law professors who left class to proclaim "Guilty until prove innocent" ( my quote) should be ashamed of themselves-is this the best that these legal minds could come up with in analyzing a critical moment in American history?
I would love to have the high school college and graduate school antics of these students, professors and the Schumers of the Congress undergo such a public examination of their personal lives..
By their standards probably most would have to drop out (alcohol,drugs, shoplifting, sexual "aggression", telling off- color or racist jokes and so on)
One last thought-as a Vietnam veteran I don"t know how the Senator from Connecticut can stand up and criticize any other human being? or Pocahantas who refuses to take a DNA test , but used her "HERITAGE" to the full extent of the law.
Thursday, October 04, 2018
THE NYT WITH A NEW ANTI-TRUMP HIT JOB
Yesterday, in a page one (1/2 page) ,followed by 8 full pages of "suspect"charges , the NYT attempted to do what it does best=attack Trump.
The theme was he is NOT a self-made billionaire but inherited 413 million dollars from his father.
How?
"Suspect schemes" used to avoid taxes which Donald was part of.
I know very little about the finances of billionaires , but they and their families were tough in business, and hired the best legal and accounting minds to interpret the tax laws to their advantages.
Did the Times ever run such an expose on Rockefeller ? Romney ? Kennedy?
By the way, Sheila and I were in Cape Cod a few weeks ago and visited the Kennedy Museum beautiful pictures of a "Camelot" family.
Oh YES! did not see any pictures of Marilyn Monroe.= wonder why? the WH pool parties -?
OF COURSE =THE MEDIA DOES NOT EMBARRESS THEIR FAVORITES
I did not vote for Trump because he was a squeaky clean businessman- but as the only alternative to Hillary and the left-Progressives who seek to change America.
Despite what NYT op-ed writers claim, I am not anti-female, or anti-immigrant.etc
I love America , the land of opportunity- based on your talents and hard work- -
Trump the businessman -self-made or not has changed the tax laws, moved the US Embassy, kicked out the PA, opened the door to N Korea, renegotiated NAFTA, pulled out of the Iran deal, putting the screws on Russia and China and so on.
If at the end of his 2 terms, the government says he owes back taxes -let him defend himself and if needed pay up.
For the present-TWEETS and all-he still makes the DEMS look like monkeys.
The theme was he is NOT a self-made billionaire but inherited 413 million dollars from his father.
How?
"Suspect schemes" used to avoid taxes which Donald was part of.
I know very little about the finances of billionaires , but they and their families were tough in business, and hired the best legal and accounting minds to interpret the tax laws to their advantages.
Did the Times ever run such an expose on Rockefeller ? Romney ? Kennedy?
By the way, Sheila and I were in Cape Cod a few weeks ago and visited the Kennedy Museum beautiful pictures of a "Camelot" family.
Oh YES! did not see any pictures of Marilyn Monroe.= wonder why? the WH pool parties -?
OF COURSE =THE MEDIA DOES NOT EMBARRESS THEIR FAVORITES
I did not vote for Trump because he was a squeaky clean businessman- but as the only alternative to Hillary and the left-Progressives who seek to change America.
Despite what NYT op-ed writers claim, I am not anti-female, or anti-immigrant.etc
I love America , the land of opportunity- based on your talents and hard work- -
Trump the businessman -self-made or not has changed the tax laws, moved the US Embassy, kicked out the PA, opened the door to N Korea, renegotiated NAFTA, pulled out of the Iran deal, putting the screws on Russia and China and so on.
If at the end of his 2 terms, the government says he owes back taxes -let him defend himself and if needed pay up.
For the present-TWEETS and all-he still makes the DEMS look like monkeys.
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