The Disaster Between Our Ears

According to the article "The Disaster Between Our Ears", the writer claims that people who eat healthy food, become relaxed, and their mental performance improves. The writer's opinion was proved by a research which was conducted on students in school and even prisoners in jail.

In my opinion, manufacturers are not responsible for what we eat (Wait a minute! How did you get here? How is this statement related to what you've written in your 1st paragraph?). Thus, people are responsible for their health and their mental abilities. If they want to be much healthier, improve their mental abilities and even become less aggressive, they have to eat healthy food. The people are responsible for their money, and their money buys their food

Moreover, the people who buy their food can see what the food that they buy(phr. - it) includes. According to the law, the manufacturers have to publish the nutrients in the food that they sell. So all the people have to do is to check and choose if they want to buy it or not and decide if the nutrients in the product are healthy enough for them

To sum up, in my opinion the people are responsible for the food they buy, because they have the choice to buy their food and the choice to spend their money on what they want. All they have to do is check the product before buying it.

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Daphna

Dirty Places

132 Fleetwood Street

Ashvile

September 12, 2009

The Editor

Around Town

P.O Box 52

Ashvile

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Dear Editor,

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Concerning the article "Dirty Places" I would like to express my point of view. In my opinion, people in Israel really take care of the environment. To begin with(מיותר), in the article you wrote that Israelis don't take care of the environment and all they do is throw their garbage anywhere they want.

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In my opinion, you're wrong. Today there are a lot of people in Israel that volunteer for free. Those people join cleaning groups and together they clean dirty places and rivers. As for the people who throw their garbage anywhere they want, I think that you can't say that about everyone, the awareness about this subject is very high today. A lot of people know that plastics pollute the environment. So, today most of the people throw their garbage into the nearest garbage can and not on the floor.

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To sum up, I think that you are wrong, Israelis take care of the environment. moreover, some of them also volunteer and clean dirty places for free.

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Yours Truly,

Mor Bar

It's better, but it's still too short.

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Daphna

Losing Jewish Identity

link:http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3774133,00.html


In Israel some of the people join the army and some of them don't. It is every citizen's right to choose whether to join the army or not. The Arabs don't have to join the army because they have the right to choose between fighting with other Arab armies or do nothing to help Israel win wars. We can understand the Arabs. But what about the orthodox jews? The Haredim don't have to join the army according to Israel's army's rules. According to the article, Yair lapid said that they fear the(מיותר) death. The explanation they gave was "we don't fear death, We fear losing our Jewish identity".

In my opinion, they shouldn't have the right to choose whether to join the army or not.orthodox jews use the money of the country, eat from the food of the country(phr.) and worst of all is the fact that every citizen in the country pays taxes and the orthodox jews take some of the money from our taxes(phr.), why? Because they study the Torah. Well, this is what they do for the rest of their lives, can't they serve the country by protecting it's people just for 3 years? (Start a new sentence)then they can do whatever they want and people will not have any objection for giving their money to the orthodox jews.

However, none of the orthodox jews have a sufficient explanation. According to the article, their explanation was: "We fear losing our Jewish identity". This excuse is unacceptable. I have never heard about people who lost their Jewish identity while serving in the army. People can choose by themselves if they want to lose their Jewish identity or keep it, the army doesn't do that work, they do that. This is why their reason is unacceptable, if they want to keep their Jewish identity no one is standing in their way, including the army.

To sum up, orthodox jews have many reasons not to join the army, but none of them are acceptable. In my opinion, every man and woman in this country has to join the army. If they choose to study the Torah, that's fine, but they have to serve the country before. And as a punishment, if they don't do that, they shouldn't be allowed to get the taxpayers' money.

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Daphna

Haredim-Hasidic Jews