Last week you gave your readers reasons to see this fascinating and very well-made TV series. However, you omitted a warning to them on other matters.
By JERUSALEM POST READERSLetters 370(photo credit: REUTERS/Handout )Warning needed Sir, – In “The magical success of ‘Game of Thrones’” (Cover, June 6), you gave your readers reasons to see this fascinating and very well-made TV series. However, you omitted a warning to them on other matters.To see what all the fuss is about, I viewed the first episode.In addition to a clever and convoluted story of immoral adults plotting and scheming for power, the following is also on view: full-frontal female nudity; a 15-year-old girl forced into marriage with a barbarous adult; a pagan gang-bang sex orgy (no other way to describe it); and finally, full sexual intercourse between an adult brother and sister followed by the murder of the eight-year-old boy who happened to see them.You did your readers no favor by praising the show’s production values. You could have included a sidebar relating to these other aspects of the series that seem to make it so popular.DAVID ROTENBERGJerusalemWorthy of support Sir, – I was delighted to read the article by Gloria Deutsch about Chana Simon and the work she does for Re-Specs (“Seeing clearly,” Veterans, June 6).I am one of her volunteers. I am always amazed at her expertise with glasses and frames, and the wonderful way she is organizing the recycling clinic for the needy.This is a unique project, and deserves all the support it can get.DOREEN MALKINSONRa’ananaEnough is enoughSir, – In “Peres for president” (Grumpy Old Man, June 6), Lawrence Rifkin sparks possible responses from the wingnut I might be: 1) There is no fool like an old fool. 2) Are you kidding? 3) Enough is enough.As to his question “Waddaya say, Shimi?” about an additional term for Peres, is it truly possible there could ever be a negative reply?ESTER ZEITLINJerusalemSir, – Shimon Peres has unfinished business he should attend to after he retires. It was on his watch as prime minister that the US arrested Jonathan Pollard.Peres did not order a full legal investigation. Nor did he demand a full investigation at the Pentagon, which had reneged on a written agreement to provide Israel with satellite photos of sensitive Arab military targets.US Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger and his senior staff were caught and Pollard was excessively punished because of Weinberger’s pre-sentencing letter to the judge.Only Peres knows the whole story. He can reveal the truth and bring Pollard home.DAVID GOSHENKiryat OnoAbsurd rejoinderSir, – In “Where the rabbis went wrong” (The Postman Knocks Twice, June 6), Avraham Avi-Hai begins with a scene at the airport where a bearded gentleman called out to him, “Come put on tefillin,” and he snapped back: “Have you asked anyone whether he has cheated someone today?” While he obviously feels that people’s honesty is far more important than putting on tefillin, it is equally obvious that his rejoinder was totally absurd! Can our imaginations suffer a scenario wherein a bearded gentleman in black garb approaches a stranger in an airport and asks if he was honest or had cheated someone that day? The most natural response would be: “Who the hell do you think you are? What gives you the right to question my honesty?” What Avi-Hai fails to appreciate is the fact that he was approached by a member of Chabad, whose operational raison d’etre is respect for the infinite worth of every individual.Being asked to put on tefillin is a magnificent expression of the respect for your merit within the larger Jewish framework, no matter how far you might have strayed.The above is indeed a powerful message. If extensively adopted, it could go a long way toward mending many of the rents in the fabric of our society that Avi-Hai finds so troubling.ZEV CHAMUDOTPetah Tikva
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