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Regarding “In Germany, several churches have perverse antisemitic sculptures” (June 28), the images of the Judensau are perhaps among the most egregious but not the only antisemitic sculptures still placed prominently throughout Europe. The Cathedral in Strasbourg, France, is still faced by a huge sculpture depicting the Jew as blindfolded and downcast. What is hard to fathom is the resistance to the removal of the horribly offensive pig images, which unquestionably helped pave the way to the Holocaust by dehumanizing Jews.

In spite of the murder of six million Jews in Europe just decades ago, is it still is not on the European radar that “Jewish Lives Matter,” too?

MARION REISS Beit Shemesh

In “California synagogue replaces name of Confederacy supporter after protests” (June 28) we learn that Reform Peninsula Temple Sholom is removing the name of “Judah Benjamin” from a list of names on a window in its religious school. Benjamin was a US senator who is reviled by many because he later served in the South during the US Civil War.

Fair enough. Now when will European churches remove viscerally repulsive Judensau and other anti-Jewish artwork from their premises?

When pigs have wings.

RINA AUERBACH Jerusalem

Regarding the “California synagogue replaces name of Confederacy supporter after protests” article, we find your headline misleading as protests on this particular matter never occurred and were not in the original article.

We suggest alternatives, such as, “Bay Area synagogue replaces concerning names originally etched in glass window.” Or, “Bay Area synagogue