2: Jewish Daily Forward editor’s response, 1941.

2: Jewish Daily Forward editor’s response, 1941.

Suggested activity: Read the editor’s response and discuss. Was the editor right? Is his answer—is the question, for that matter—relevant today?

Source: Isaac Metzker, ed., A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward (New York: Schocken Books, 1971), 168-169.