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Letters July 21, 2006
Hospitality Watchdog Is A Labor Union Spin-off In a July 7 opinion article, Jerome Epstein, Carl Sheingold and David Saperstein write that the Informed Meetings Exchange, or Inmex, is an “independent organization that provides objective information on working conditions within the hospitality industry” (“Check Out Working Conditions Before Checking In for Business”). Inmex is actually…
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Opinion Stems of Life
Congress showed courage and independence in passing legislation that would have significantly eased conditions for federal funding of stem-cell research. Sadly, President Bush yielded to his own worst instincts, both political and moralistic, in choosing to veto the bill. It was the first veto of his presidency, allowing him to please his rightwing base and…
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Israel News Looking Back
100 YEARS AGO IN THE FORWARD In a surprise move, more than 1,200 neckwear makers from a number of Lower East Side sweatshops went on strike this week. Making this strike different from others is the fact that most of the striking workers are children, some of them as young as 9 years old and…
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Israel News Tab Flubs Cop Scoop
The New York Post is famed for its loud, brash and occasionally hilarious headlines. It is also famous for sometimes getting the story dead wrong. (See, for instance, the paper’s July 6, 2004 “exclusive” declaring Dick Gephardt “Kerry’s Choice” for vice president.) The Post goofed again this week with a lead story touting the New…
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Israel News Einstein’s Theory of Infidelity
The Hebrew University this week released a treasure-trove of letters written by Albert Einstein between 1912 and 1955, the year of the physicist’s death. The correspondence shows that in addition to his knack for unlocking the secrets of the universe, Einstein was also a supremely prolific philanderer. Remarkable also is the candor with which he…
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Israel News Actor Gets Lesson in History — and Crankiness
Actor Jeff Goldblum made his first-ever visit to Israel last week in preparation for his role in the upcoming Holocaust-themed film “Adam Resurrected,” which is based on a novel of the same name by Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk. At a July 10 press conference featuring the actor, the author and the film’s director, Paul Schrader,…
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Opinion The Second Front
The sudden escalation on Israel’s northern front this week added a disturbing complication to the three-week-old crisis in Gaza, but it also served, in the curious way of the Middle East, as a clarifying development. It was a reminder that there is, in the final analysis, no such thing as unilateral action. One may act…
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News DER YIDDISH-VINKL
As readers of Der Vinkl know so well, Stanley Siegelman and Joan Braman are two of the column’s most prolific contributors, but this week’s entry is different from all their previous ones; it is a joint effort. Siegelman explained why. “My usual procedure is to compose in Yiddish and then translate into English. For the…
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