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No Free Parking

A front page story and an editorial also? The bank provides parking for its customers to conduct their business at the bank. It owns the lot, it pays taxes on the lot and cleans and repairs the lot. If they were smart they would fence off the lot on every day that they are closed and also on all the other times they are closed.
No one who shops any place on Harvard Street has any right to use that space at any time except customers of the bank. Why should any of us think otherwise? Where is the privilege we seek? To shop for Passover? To take that which is some one else’s property for our own or our business use is selfish, illegal and morally wrong.
To defend it is just as wrong. Can I park my car at the Advocate’s place of business and go shopping some place else? If I fall and break something or if I hit another car and no one sees it happen will the Advocate pay my medical bills or repair my car?
If the customers at The Butcherie do not want their cars towed they should not park there. The need to shop for kosher for Passover products is not a permit to park on some one else’s property without an invitation.

Philip A. Robinson
Framingham

If Senator Obama Calls …

Regarding Cameron Kerry’s column stating that Barack Obama is calling to Jews, one certainly hopes that the Jews will be smart enough to hang up and refuse all charges.
Barack Obama is seriously bad for Jews (and bad for America too, but that’s another story).
First of all there is the ranting, racist, deadly anti-Semite, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, of the huge Trinity United Church of Christ. Obama, a 20-year member of this church, last year donated more than $25,000 to it. Wright married Obama, baptized his children, and provided the title for his book, “The Audacity of Hope.”
Wright maniacally rails (his sermons are for sale in his church and are accessible to all on line) in loud, primitive screams of hate against this country and Israel. Obama’s “separation” from Wright has not convinced anyone, least of all Wright, who told the National Press Club last week with a wink that that’s what politicians do.
Jews should not be deceived either. Obama’s close ties to the terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, both viciously anti-American and pro-Palestinian, in whose home Obama’s career was launched, should never be forgotten.
But more important are the people whom Obama has chosen as his political advisors in this campaign: Every one of the following names should raise red flags for the Jewish community: Gen. Merrill “Tony” McPeak, Zbigniew Brzezinsky, Robert Malley, Dan Kurzer, and the reluctantly dismissed Samantha Power.
As Caroline Glick writes, Obama has a pathological messiah complex. “Jews have always had a weakness for messianic leaders,” she writes, but “American Jews, like all their fellow Americans, would be wise to consider if they are truly ready to accept Obama as their savior.”

Janet Tassel
Lexington

A Good Laugh

Thanks for making me laugh, Jack Nusan Porter. I found the “evidence” of your statement made in the column “Another View” that Obama is good for the Jews laughable, especially this one: “Obama even lives across the street from a synagogue.”
Your comments certainly represent ANOTHER VIEW.

Ary Rotman
Brookline

More Columns On Candidates

In March you published Alan Solomont’s article on why Barack Obama is the best candidate for president from a Jewish standpoint; you then published my letter praising this angle and asking for more articles looking at the other candidates through the same Jewish lens.
Since that letter you’ve published one article on the topic a few weeks ago, and then one more this time by Cameron Kerry. This is an improvement over the past, except for one small detail: they all support Obama.
Now that there are fewer candidates than there were in March, and thus the task is easier, please publish articles from McCain and Clinton supporters as well, on what these remaining candidates would do on Jewish issues. Inquiring Boston Jewish minds want to know.

David A. Sherman
Needham

Film Gets It Wrong

Apparently James Carroll has become spokesperson for the Catholic Church’s history. A drop-out priest is not going to be fair or balanced on relating history.
This film “Constantine’s Sword” will be a false portrayal of the why’s of historical necessities. It is so easy for today’s generation to look into the past making critical remarks not knowing the circumstances of the times for crusades.
One day history will look back at the crusades going on in the Middle East and be amazed at how nothing was done to stop the killing of thousands of civilians, who happened to be in the crossfire.
In my opinion this movie is simply another attempt to convince the ignorant public that the Vatican is some kind of villain. This is propaganda at its worst.

Anne
Vancouver, BC

Israel Should Boycott

Jews often have been cruelly oppressed. We survived, sometimes barely. The People’s Republic of China is cruelly oppressing the people of Tibet. We may hope that the Tibetan people, their religion, culture and land, will survive. Moreover, the people of Tibet, as human beings, are entitled to democracy, liberty and independence.
Israel, more than any other country, should boycott the Olympic games in Beijing.

Steven K. Ross
Brookline

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