Ideas

To the Editor: Under the circumstances of the Cologne ruling on circumcision, I could understand general hospitals not allowing religious circumcisions. But a so-called Jewish hospital going along with that — in of all places Berlin, Germany — I find alarming, disturbing and highly disappointing. What’s so Jewish about this Jewish hospital, and from whom […]

To the Editor: Re the Syrians mistakenly shooting down a Turkish jet: If it were an Israeli jet, they would not have been able to shoot it down. Bruce S. Bevitz Longwood, Fla.