Readers weigh in on previous issues of the 'Magazine.'
By JPOST.COM STAFFEnvelope(photo credit: ING IMAGE/ASAP)Can’t see the merit With regard to “A home away from home” (Homes, April 9), why are six pages of the magazine devoted to boring photographs of somebody’s designer home? I really can’t see the merit in photographing a holiday home designed by a professional for people with bottomless pockets.Or is it publicity to showcase the designer’s work? Do people really find this interesting? What would be more interesting is to see novel ways in which people have made their own homes unique and beautiful by themselves, on a budget, using creativity and ingenuity.Most of the homes you show look the same, with the same “clean lines,” a phrase that has been so over-worked, and similar gray and brown color schemes.Isn’t it a little in-your-face to show the money spent on a holiday home by wealthy people who live abroad, when a huge proportion of people in this country, especially young couples, cannot afford to buy one home, never mind a second?LINDA SILVERSTONEHerzliya Pituah Good guys In “A sleuth for history” (Books, April 9), Seth J.Frantzman reviews Historiography of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia.The discussion is centered around conflicting and subjective narratives accepted in various parts of the former country.Mr. Frantzman states: “In some countries, this is not an easy subject. Whether it is the Armenians in Turkey or the Palestinians in Israel, there are sometimes official histories that don’t want to accept multiple narratives.”Indeed. Turkey goes to great lengths to quash any mention of its very real crimes against humanity.We can take a lesson from this. If people will do so much to defend a lie, should Israel not do just a little to defend the truth? Should we not only prove the Palestinian narrative as the big lie it is, but finally expose Palestinian crimes against their own and against us for what they are? Or are we still afraid of losing our “peace partner”? Think of the benefit. Our children might actually think that we are the good guys.SHALOM POLLACKJerusalemDefinitely a bias I was amused by the comments of Jerusalem Post CEO Ronit Hasin-Hochman, as reported in the Grapevine feature that appeared in the daily edition of the Post on April 1, that this newspaper does not show any political bias. Readers’ letters reflect very much a rightwing bias.In the Magazine section, there has been damnation (“Envy in the gutter,” March 27; “PET sounds,” April 10), but no praise for Lawrence Rifkin’s sane columns about the elections (“The un-Bibi,” March 13; “Flip, flop and fly,” March 27).While there was praise (“Refreshing read,” March 13) for Naomi Ragen’s gushy “A professional woman” (One on One, February 27), which portrayed the prime minister’s wife as Mary Poppins, there was not one letter of praise for Laura Kelly’s much more professional article showing us Michal Herzog as a refined, dignified, elegant, highly educated and socially-minded woman (“It’s not about ‘them,’ it’s about all of us,” One on One, March 6).No bias at all? I don’t think so.WENDY BLUMFIELDHaifaWrite to: maglet@jpost.com Only a selection of letters can be published. Priority goes to those that are brief and topical. Letters may be edited, and must bear the name and address of the writer.
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