Letters to the Editor

Congrats to Katz’s Delicatessen!

Dear Editor:

Congratulations to Katz’s Delicatessen on your 132nd Anniversary! Eating at Katz’s is a religious experience for those who enjoy great deli. Forget the fancy tablecloths, waiters and sparkling bottled water in other restaurants. Now that most of us have been vaccinated from COVID-19, why not return to the Manhattan Lower Eastside of our ancestors to enjoy authentic New York food eaten by generations of Big Apple residents. Your bubbee would be proud. Take a day free from worrying about cholesterol and your weight to enjoy life!

When out-of-town friends or family come to visit, they always insist we go to Katz’s for a great lunch. There is no equivalent to Katz’s deli-style good grub. Don’t forget to stuff a dollar in the tip cup for the counterman serving you. Your reward will be a great sample of what’s to come. In front of your eyes while you salivate in anticipation, he will build a sandwich requiring two hands to eat.

The restaurant is a trip down memory lane, with photographs of celebrities from different eras. You can learn more about our past history at Katz’s than visiting any local museum. The list of all the famous customers who have visited Katz’s over the decades is amazing. Look closely at the back of some chairs. Perhaps a former president or some other famous individual used the same seat. Every winning politician in decades has made a campaign stop at Katz’s!

The portions and quality continue to be one of the best buys in New York today. Anyone still hungry after dining there must have a tapeworm! Let’s hope the continuing redevelopment of this neighborhood doesn’t also overrun Katz’s as well!

Sincerely,
Larry Penner

(Editor’s Note: Katz’s Delicatessen is NOT KOSHER & The Jewish Voice does not endorse patronizing this establishment for any reason)

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Ron DeSantis for President

Dear Editor:

Ron DeSantis, Gov. of Florida is an attorney, is well educated, articulate, a good listener, is honest-what you see and hear is what you get with DeSantis. He has the integrity to represent all of us with assertiveness, respect and dignity, as our next President. We are longing for someone to lead us, who will, as JFK did, demand of us, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” We are desperate for a Republican Party who will appoint a well spoken, articulate statesman, a dynamic educated leader who can speak to, and unite all of us, left and right, all ethnic groups, who can entertain some needed changes, while restoring respect for America’s values and history.

DeSantis would be well advised to steer clear of Donald Trump and run his own fresh campaign. If winning is the goal, like it or not, Trump has baggage, some negative associations and controversy. Many held their noses and voted for Biden just to get rid of Trump. DeSantis will need to appeal to Independents, moderate to conservative Republicans and Democrats alike. His campaign’s faces should be eager young people, and wise older ones, of every ethnic and religious group, of everyone who lives in America.

The hard core far left and hard core far right, shrill voices do not represent most communities and families who essentially want the same things: law abiding citizens; respect for, and full funding for our police and first responders; clean streets where the homeless addicts and mentally ill are not neglected, living in tents, doing drugs and defecating on the sidewalks; where peaceful protests are held but violent ones are not tolerated; where schools are well funded, with quality educators; where the virtues of hard work, achievement, taking initiative and advantage of the wide range of opportunities open to all are applauded, as uniquely American values; where our Congress begins talking respectfully with each other, problem solving, negotiating, and compromising…where we are once again a proud and united America, hopeful, determined, eager to ask what each of us can do for our country.

Sincerely
Marion Schwarz

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Poetic Justice for Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

Dear Editor:

“Musician Roger Waters slammed Mark Zuckerberg after rejecting Facebook’s offer to use a Pink Floyd song, ‘Another Brick in the Wall’. Waters then called Zuckerberg a “little p——k” who became “one of the most powerful idiots in the world.” Mark considers himself to be a global citizen and not particularly Jewish, is silent when Jews are being attacked, here and abroad, and despite being the smallest minority in the world, are the recipients of more hate crimes than any other group.

Yet in true progressive fashion, out of all the musicians in the world to choose from, he chooses Waters, one of the most active malignant Jew haters. Morton Klein, ZOA, “Roger Waters is an unapologetic Jew hater and hater of the Jewish State of Israel, supports the anti-Semitic BDS movement against Israel, urges other recording artists not to perform in Israel, falsely and outrageously compares Israel to Nazi Germany, has falsely accused Israel of being “racist” and “apartheid”. For global citizen Zuckerberg to have even approached Jew hater Waters, only to be rejected and called “a little p——k” is true poetic justice, wouldn’t you agree.

You may want to reject being a Jew in favor of secular global citizenship but history teaches us, when they hear the very Jewish name, Zuckerberg, like it or not, you will be a Jew, treated like a Jew, and never ever allowed to truly assimilate. Just ask the good Jews of 1930’s Germany if their assimilation stopped them from being rounded up and butchered. You think to yourself, well its 2021, not 1930. So in 2021 they are now assaulting us in the streets, attacking our synagogues, smearing us with being a racist if you are a Zionist, stopping Jewish owned, Israeli cargo ships from docking. Huh? What’s that you say about history not repeating itself? You can run but you can’t hide if you are a Jew, like it or not. Zuckerbeg is lucky that is all Waters is doing to him for now.

Sincerely
Sol Pietrokovsky

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Through the Looking Glass: Part II

Dear Editor:

Alice is still desperately lost in the Looking Glass world of nonsensical illogic. Today she found out that you no longer have to use correct grammar. Why? Because if you think schools are failing to teach, do you…take some of the millions given to BLM, work towards better funding, smaller classroom size, more one-on-one mentoring of Black and inner city students? No, you declare troublesome English grammar “racist white supremacy” and discard it. “Rutgers English Dept. to deemphasize traditional grammar in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.” I guess offering remedial courses to bring students up to even minimal standards is out. Double negatives are in. Ball State Univ, “Professor says grading, good grammar are examples of white supremacy.” “Scholars defend ‘African American English,’ from Ebonics to slang to improper grammar. A documentary being screened on campuses nationwide promotes the role white supremacy and oppression played in deciding what is proper grammar.”

Sincerely
James Alwerth