Relevance missing

I, like your correspondents (Letters, 15/5), was taken by Antony Loewenstein’s article and his struggle against the wrath of the Jewish community, until I got to his description of Jerusalem’s Haradim Jews ‘‘bearing all the hallmarks of a 19th-century Eastern European ghetto’’ (Good Weekend, 13/5). But how is that relevant to Loewenstein’s criticisms of the Jewish community here, Israel or the plight of the Palestinians, and why the Haradim Jews? Perhaps Loewenstein is suggesting that they all go back to where his family members escaped from?

Henry Herzog, St Kilda East