Ideas

To the Editor: In ancient times there were communities called Soboumanoi, God fearers, who accreted to Judaism, accepting the Law, except for one thing: the adult men did not undergo circumcision. They circumcised their children and over time this became an accepted conversion. Their wives, being married to Jews before the determination of matrilineal descent, […]

To the Editor: Mayor Koch, have you forgotten your roots and the people who put Barack Obama in office? Mr. Mayor, you do not see the folly of the Tea Party and the effect it is going to have on the financial status of the United States. Ike Semaya Miami, Fla.