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should be able to believe in whatever or whomever they want, because being Jewish is first and foremost an ethnicity and not necessarily connected to the religion unless a Jewish-born individual so chooses to observe that religion.

Mr. Friedman errs when he states that Messianic Jews are all missionaries desiring to achieve the conversion of Jews. That is a sweeping claim based on nothing but his own biases. As a Messianic Jew, I am not involved in any missionary activity. I happily and proudly remain a Jew and a good citizen of Israel, as do all of my Messianic Jewish friends who live in this country.

If people ask me what I believe and why, I surely tell them, as would anyone else, but that is not missionary activity – at least not the kind I see on street corners as Orthodox Jews hand out their literature and seek to enlarge their own numbers.

Each to his own. Live and let live – but the real crime here is denying a born-Jew the right to live in the homeland of his or her ethnicity by spreading blatant lies. NAME WITHHELD

With regard to “Nearly 60% say PM’s ability to run country has been harmed by probes” (February 16), will we see a front-page spread in a coming edition of The Jerusalem Post showing the results of a poll taken among “552 respondents” proving that a majority of Israelis feel the prime minister should be investigated for returning an ill-begotten gift to Iran (Case 9999)? AVRAHAM FRIEDMAN

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