rosen@inmet.UUCP (03/06/85)
If you have to ask what is wrong with applying taxes as credit against charitable contributions, you are missing the point of tzedaka. Tzedaka (often, though incorrectly, translated as charity) is more accurately defined as justice. It should be given from an understanding of the importance of, need to, and obligation to help other Jews. It should not be viewed as a trap, to find loopholes out of.
ldr292@uiucuxa.Uiuc.ARPA (09/13/85)
In response to B.Peters note # 57 about teaching the Mac hebrew, I believe that
there is company out of Tel-Aviv that supplies (for about $100.00) a Hebrew word
processor. It includes modern fonts and a right to left cursor. At the moment
I don't have the name or address of the company, but I believe that an ad for it
was posted in a back issue of MacWorld. Let me know what happens
Leonard Rosenthol
Student at Univ. of Ill. U-C
and Mac owner.spector@acf4.UUCP (David HM Spector) (09/19/85)
There is also a company that advertises in MacWrold that sells a desk accesory that will allow you to use MacWrite right to left. They also supply a Hebrew font... David Spector NYU/acf Systems Group
wkp@lanl.ARPA (09/24/85)
Sorry for the delay in responding to this, but I was in Jerusalem during the past couple of weeks visiting my family. In response to Leonard Rosenthal, a Hebrew word-processing program is available for the Mac from: Gabi Miro 7 Imber Street. 58410 Holon, Israel 972-3-802-764 I have not personally tried it, but hear it is well done. In response to David Spector, the new right-to-left desk accessory advertised in Macworld seems promising, but I would like to warn people that it is not yet available for the Laserwriter, only the Imagewriter. Finally, I have not yet seen the Hebrew font that comes with it, and many vendor fonts of Hebrew tend to be somewhat substandard. (Example: the Fantastic Fonts Hebrew font is horrendous.). I would be interested to hear of anyone's personal experiences with any of these utilities. The above technical opinions are of course my own, and not necessarily those of the United States government, or the University of California. -- bill peter ihnp4!lanl!wkp