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Jerusalem Report Letter

The latest issue of The Jerusalem Report has published a letter from me, but oddly it does not appear on their website. The magazine edited the letter I submitted, most notably by changing my references to "charedi" to "ultra-Orthodox." I don't like the term "ultra-Orthodox." In fact I don't like the term "Orthodox."

Anyway, here's the letter as it appears in The Jerusalem Report:

Ami Pedahzur claims that support for the Kahane ideology is growing substantially, particularly within the ultra-Orthodox community (Back Page, July 14). As proof, he states that "most of those who voted last January for the radical right-wing Herut party" were ultra-Orthodox.

Herut, however, did not even receive enough votes to join the Knesset. Only 36,202 Israelis voted for Herut, while the two ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, received 258,879 and 135,087 votes, respectively, for 11 and five Knesset seats. Clearly, only a tiny minority of religious Israelis supported Herut.

Joseph Schick
New York

On June 30, I wrote a more detailed post about this issue, which can be read here.
posted on 8/03/2003