Letters, Jul. 25, 1977

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The Jewish answer is to bring every Jew back home to his people.

Roy S. Neuberger North Woodmere, N. Y.

I was born into a Jewish home and accepted Jesus as my Messiah at the age of 22. Despite what other Jews might say, I am still a Jew. Becoming a Christian does not destroy your Jewish identity, it only fulfills it.

Joel Steinhauser Rio Rancho, N. Mex.

Why shouldn't young Jews, or older Jews for that matter, become Christians if they think this is the way to go? Why shouldn't the Establishment Protestants become Orthodox Jews if they want to? Freedom lives on a two-way street, and the last I heard we still had religious freedom in this country.

Catherine Damato Los Angeles

The enigma and paradox of the so-called Messianic Jews are that they have apparently rejected their own (and Jesus') Judaism, of which many seem to be quite ignorant, in favor of someone else's (Paul's) Christianity.

Ronald Rutzky Richton Park, Ill.

I was quoted in the article "Yeshua Is the Messiah" [July 4] as having said that young Jews who become Christians "are not looking for Jewish rap groups. They are looking for God."

To pit Jewish rap groups against looking for God is foolhardy for the obvious reason that it implies that God is not to be found inside the rap groups specifically because they are Jewish. This is not true.

What I did say, and continue to believe, is that many Jewish young people's spiritual needs are not met in a purely cultural interpretation of the Jewish religious tradition. In this sense, a Jewish rap group does not touch the religiously meaningful core required by today's young people.

Donald LaMagdeleine Mundelein, Ill.