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From: abeles@mhuxi.UUCP (Joe Abeles (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ))
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Subject: Re: Quoting Mr. Feinstein and The Jewish Press
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 18:22:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 18:22:30 1985
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> >    As a postscript to this, I would like to bring up the recent psak
> >    halacha decided on by Rev Moshe Feinstein and the North American
> >    Rabbinate (all males, of course) regarding the ban on husbands
> >    accompanying their wives into birthing rooms. ...

> 	Where did you see this BS about what R. Moshe Feinstein said?
> I read an article in the Jewish Press which quoted him as publishing in
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  <--- GIVE US A BREAK!
> Igrot Moshe that it is proper for a husband to be present at the delivery
> time. I also checked things out with the Feinstein family and found that 
> Rav Moshe's grandson was present at the birth of his own child. 
 
The Jewish Press is the biggest embarrassment to the American Orthodox
Jewish Community that could be imagined by an anti-semite.  One can't
believe anything written there--but in order to not believe it, first
you have to try and understand it.  That isn't too easy 'cause the
writers can't speak English, and the typographers are on LSD (yes, I
really think so!).  My suggestion to anyone reading this is that they
stop reading The Jewish Press (if they do), otherwise their brain may
begin playing tricks on them and their command of English may deteriorate.
The Jewish Week is also published in New York and is one of the best
Jewish newspapers in the world.  If you want something with a more religious
slant, I suggest reading either the Algemeiner Zhurnal (in Yiddish),
the Talmud (in Aramaic), or the Prophets (in Hebrew).  Particularly this
last one, because it will tell you more about current events than The
Jewish Press ever will.

You read it here first!

--J. Abeles