Give them a round of applause

Ah, the Suburbanite's Opinion section... Where else can you soak up the flavor of the Teaneck of sixty years ago, sink your teeth into secretive post-election intrigues, and follow the latest development in the playgroup saga all on one tabloid page? You have to admire an editor who can cobble together such fine content week after week. Take a bow, Suburbanite staff.

But before we lavish all the praise on the first rate professionals who bring us our local weekly, let us remember those who help make the paper not only a pleasure to read, but also an educational experience week after week. I'm referring to you, local hatemongers. No, they could not have done it without you. You, too, deserve a pat in the back, not only for deftly linking the sketchy details of some playgroup spat with Zionist transgressions in the Middle East a couple of weeks ago, but also for this week's diagnosis of a "climate of Jewish clannishness so evident in Teaneck and elsewhere" and for the superb explication of how it is that "segregation whether race (sic) or religious breeds fear and contempt." How else would the poor benighted souls of Teaneck learn that "our public school children are exposed to this with the Asian population" who "lack the will to assimilate?"

Hopefully, action will be taken against this "clannishness" and faculty at the local schools will wake up to the fact that they are failing non-Asian students thanks to these wonderful letters. Thank you to the Suburbanite for printing such worthy correspondence and thank you to the esteemed letter writers from Teaneck and River Edge for their enlightening comments.