Missed Kashrus Article
Let me congratulate you on the highly interesting content and professional standards of The Jewish Homemaker. As director of the Achva organization, which works with Russian-speaking Jewish families in Brooklyn, I find your magazine to be a most attractive and efficacious medium for fostering Jewish values and awareness of kashrus among Jews who, for so many generations, have been denied access to their Jewish heritage.

I was surprised that a recent issue had no articles on kashrus, especially from Rabbi Don Yoel Levy. Such articles serve an important educational function, explaining the many practical complications that can arise in kosher food supervision. The articles are especially helpful for the Jews with whom we work. These articles help us encourage them to observe kashrus (and also enable us to explain why kosher products sometimes cost more).

Your kashrus articles are also of vital importance even to Jews who already observe kashrus and are well informed about its rules. Without such articles, most of the kosher-observing public could not imagine the mind-boggling practical difficulties involved in actual supervision, and how, in the realities of today’s food processing environment, products believed to present no challenge can be highly problematic.

Shia Friedman
Director, Achva
Brooklyn, NY

Positive Feedback
Your South Africa article (Dec. 2000) was enjoyable. Yiddishkeit can flourish anywhere in the world. One question. The picture at the beginning of the article looked a bit funny. What happened?

Shira Smith
Brooklyn, NY

Thank you for including a Torah article in every issue. Rabbi Yisroel Rubin has a very fine grasp of the thoughts of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, zt’l, and expresses these thoughts in a language we all can understand. The artwork accompanying the article is always exquisite.

Name Withheld Upon Request

Divine Providence
I was quite moved by “Three Days” (Dec. 2000). The evidence of hashgachah pratis (individual Divine Providence) in how Debbie Shapiro was able to attend her father’s funeral was very striking. We don’t always see G-d’s presence in our day-to-day activities. Sometimes it takes a remarkable story such as Debbie’s to bring this element to light. But in truth He is there, caring for us every step of the way.

Shmuel Marcus
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