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Editor: Your letter entitled "Voices of our community; Should the Jewish Bulletin be a PR magazine or reflect reality?" (Bulletin cover, July 5) is quite patronizing and even insulting. Please credit us with more intelligence than this.

The Jewish community does not get its political education from the Jewish Bulletin. We do not need to have the Jewish Bulletin give open forum to the enemies of Israel, such as Yasser Arafat or Svend Robinson, both despicable to the utmost. The "goy" media already does a thorough job of broadcasting and distributing articles from people we deplore and continually presenting skewed news to reflect badly on Israel and the Jewish people.

The stance of the Jewish Bulletin during the past months has finally drawn my attention to the sad fact that the Jewish Bulletin is privately owned and that the new editors and writers are forcing upon the Jewish community the views of heretics, giving them space and open forums in the only B.C. Jewish paper, considered by all as being the voice of the Jewish community.

For your information, members of the Jewish community who buy or read your paper want to know of family and community events, Jewish holidays, special news and highlights regarding Israel (facts, not opinions of heretics or people who criticize the government of Israel; as said before this is already done in the mainstraim goy media). We do not care and do not want to read what Robinson, Rabbi David Mivasair or other heretics think or say.

I do hope that you care what your customers want (readership and payers of the advertising that sustains your paper).

The Jewish Bulletin is being dragged in a direction not representative of the community and many of us regret the fact that it is privately owned. Can the editors of the Jewish Bulletin keep the paper aligned with the mood and philosophies of the community and Judaism itself?

Are you and your reporters aware that Israel (and by extension, Jews all over the world) is in the gravest danger right now? Have you not witnessed enough death and maiming? Can you not see that it is only now that the Israeli government has exercised control that the instances of mass murders have been curtailed? If you and some others disagree with the policy of the government of Israel, write directly to the prime minister of Israel but do not, repeat, do not use the only Jewish paper of this community to speak of the rights of the murderers and terrorists.

We do not need "education" from the Jewish Bulletin. The only education we really need is about Judaism, such as covered in Shlomo Riskin's columns. This is what your readership expects – more Judaism and not letters and articles that aim to obliterate Judaism and Israeli nationhood.

Claire
Vancouver

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