Sir, – “Gone but not forgotten” (July 15) was bleak and hopeful and heartbreaking all at the same time. It also reaffirmed why I am a Zionist, though a very liberal one. It reminded me of some of my other favorite Zionist voices, like Amos Oz (in his A Tale of Love and Darkness) and Daniel Gordis (in his If a Country Can Make You Cry – Dispatches from an Anxious State).

We may differ in our politics, but the piece conveyed a sense of the tragedy of the Jewish people – and of its unbreakable fortitude; and also of the individual human being carrying on, tenaciously.

Those old slings and arrows of (all too often outrageous) fortune affect us all, but we work through our losses because, as Judy Montagu pointed out, we simply have no choice.

JAMES ADLER
Cambridge, Massachusetts

P.S. Judy’s column, Gone but Not Forgotten,”  is at

www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443809176&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter