Your article about Avi Berkowitz (“Who is Avi Berkowitz, the Kushner adviser stepping in to work on Israeli-Palestinian peace? Sept. 12) points out quite clearly why so many Orthodox Jews are supporting Trump and Netanyahu. They have a strong belief that the West Bank is part of “lands that religious Jews believe were part of the whole of Israel that was given to the Jewish people, starting with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob going back to the times of the Bible.”
How different are they from evangelicals who are voting for Trump because of his stand on abortion? Evidently it’s OK to vote for a pathological liar and con artist, womanizer and white racist if that person is in line with your beliefs about Israel and abortion. No wonder more and more people are turning away from organized religions.
Marvin Fremerman
Springfield, Missouri
