Dear Editor,
L'shana tova! I received a thoughtful and generous gift for a year's subscription to your magazine. Many thanks to the anonymous person who paid for this. It was a surprise and appreciated.
Your article on "Making Marriage Work" by Ira Axelrod was very interesting. Is there some way I can get a copy of his previous article, "The Baal Teshuvah Marriage Dilemma" or can you reprint it in an upcoming issue of the magazine?
Bronx, NY
Editor's Note: Due to the many requests for Ira Axelrod's article, "The Baal Teshuvah Marriage Dilemma," we are happy to offer reprints. Please send your request with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The Jewish Homemaker, 391 Troy Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11213.
Clarification
Regarding an item featured in a recipe in the Rosh Hashanah issue of The Jewish Homemaker, a person who claims to be an expert on fish told me the following:
Orange Roughy is a fish of numerous subspecies, all of which are fished very deep. One of the species is not kosher as it never has any scales. All Orange Roughy fish have to be filleted on board the fishing vessel, since there is a poison under the skin which would leach into the flesh if held until the ship docks. All Orange Roughy fillets are identical. Therefore, it is very questionable whether one may eat Orange Roughy fillets bought in any market (unless it has a hechsher which states that the product was supervised on the boat.)
Rabbi Leizer Teitelbaum
OK Labs
In your Tishrei issue, on page 45, you feature a picture of "pickled salmon." Please note that it is a minhag in some communities not to pickle food during Rosh Hashanah as mentioned in the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (where fish is specifically mentioned).
Kol tuv,
Rabbi Yisroel Frankforter
Miami Beach, FL
In the Tishrei 5758 issue of The Jewish Homemaker, a reader writes: Regarding the title of your cover story (Shavuos 5757), "The Healer: An Interview with Meir Abehsera", to call Mr. Abehsera "The Healer" is a serious error. "The Healer" is Hashem and only Hashem...
Please note, the word in Hebrew for doctor (which in this case can include natural or alternative healers) is rofeh, which is accurately translated into English as "healer." It is clearly stated in the Shulchan Aruch that a doctor is allowed, indeed, it is a mitzvah, to heal another person as an agent for Hashem.
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