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Conversion
Attitudes

As a convert, "Jews by Choice"
(March22) stirred up many
memories of when I went through
the process years ago. Since then,
my experiences have led me to be-
lieve that natural Jews look at
converts through disdaining eyes.
The few people who know I am a
convert use Yiddish phrases quite
often around me. I find this quite
rude as this excludes me from the
conversation.
When I was in college studying
with the campus rabbi for conver-
sion, I was early for my session
one week. While waiting, I was
surrounded by several Jewish
students and interrogated with
such questions as "What right do
you have to horn in on our terri-
tory?" and "Don't you know that
only born Jews are real Jews?"

Sheila Lipschuts
Mildred Winston

And then I have to deal with my
family — "How was your Easter?"
or "Haven't you had enough of
that Jewish business already?"
Before my husband's grand-
mother died, every time we would
visit her the entire conversation
was in Yiddish. The only word I
understood was shiksa, and it oc-
curred quite often .. .

Reverse anti-Semitism does
exist in our society. To me,
Judaism is the easiest part of my
being Jewish. Years of study and
commitment doesn't begin to
compare to the psychological tor-
ture I'm put through. Maybe it's
time natural Jews took a good
hard look at what being Jewish
really means.

Barbara Fischer

Yiddish Paper
Was Ignored

The March 22 article entitled
"Yiddish Papers Show Gain" ig-
nored a fourth Yiddish weekly
called Der Yid. I have subscribed
to this paper for several years and
assure you it is alive and well. -
Perhaps ZINS (Zionist Informa-
tion News Service) ignored re-
porting on this paper because of
its ultra-Orthodox editorial pol-
icy. If so, such censorship only de-
tracts from their own credibility.
Why didn't they leave out the
Morning Freiheit? Did they forget
that only a few weeks ago, when
the Soviet News agency TASS re-
ported that Zionists in Europe
helped elect Hitler and main-

tained ties with the Nazis
throughout the war, that it was
only the Communist Party in Is-
rael that came out suggesting
possible credence to this slander
— and they did it through this
newspaper.
It was also the Jewish Com-
munists in Russia that, through
the Yevseksia, closed down
yeshivahs in Russia and pushed
for Russificaton (read "goyifica-
tion") of Russian Jewry. If any
group deserves being ignored and
ostracized, it's the Jewish Com-
munists, not the ultra-religious.

Joe Berman

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Jerusalem (JTA) — Israeli and
American diplomats and techni-
cians began disussions last week
on the radio transmitter the U.S.
wants to erect in Israel to relay
Voice of America broadcasts be-
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The initial talks concerned the
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