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Birthday snub

I FEEL it necessary to comment on last week's rambling and disjointed letter from Z Lebovitz.

Perhaps a more rational view on why charedi Jews did not celebrate Israel's 60th birthday is that Israel's true birth goes back to the time of Abraham.

Lebovitz contradicts himself/herself when he/she states that 'there is a complete indifference to the State of Israel and its history" and then goes on to write "they justify their existence in Israel by saying that the Torah they learn merits Israel's existence and security".

I was also educated under a charedi regime but nevertheless we were encouraged to give our pennies to support Israel in the 1940s.

Mrs M Gould,
4 Oakdene Way,
Leeds.

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