In today’s Yated:
Dear Editor:
The subject matter of this letter is the nasi shidduch program, but that is not what this letter is really about. Rather I would like to comment about how we interact in discourse and criticism.
I do not know whether nasi will succeed or not. But I do believe that I now know that nasi is a serious project, undertaken by serious and honorable people working lesheim Shamayim. I asked a question, seeing that my internet-based research included lashon hara, and was told that it was permitted for me to read it given a legitimate toeless. But there is no legitimate toeless to write it. My document to nasi was blunt and strongly worded. Being critical is not the issue. On the contrary, a program involving such far-reaching implications must be closely questioned and be made to justify itself. All who care about Torah-Judaism have an obligation to do that. But we also have an obligation to do it properly. Empty complaints are not only improper, but also useless as no one, nasi included, can be expected to respond to such material.
Kol tuv,
M. E. (in the paper it has the full name)